President Eisenhower, flying in a helicopter - for the first time since Nineteen Fifty Two - when he was Ida ~~~~ head of llato, The President, ualng one o ~ l l l o ~ 8 N - acquired by the White House. He was picked up on the White House lawn - during today's simulated H bomb attack on Washington. The helicopter, piloted by Major Joe Barrett, of Rule, Texas. The only other occupant - Jim Rowley, of the Secret Service. Major Barrett flew to the Secret Bllergency Headquarters of the President, where he set his whirly bird down so - " - J gently, that he was congratulated by the President. Mr. Eisenhower went 1Jllllediately to his headqWlrtera - where he delivered a mock order - declaring a national i& emergency. By that time, ow National Capital was under the ,A simulated attack - hit by five mythical hydrogen bombs. The President will remain at his emergency headquaitlrs ovem!Jtht. Tomorrow, he and Mrs. lisenhower will drive to thel:P Gettysl>urg farm. RID ARMY Tonight we have a rumor of another strange twist in the Soviet Union. The rumor, reaching London from Behind 'ftte Iron Curtain. Stating - that the Red Army has been split by that struggle for power 1n the Kremlin. Ve are now told that when Marshal Zhukov supported ' Khrushchev - Marshal Vaaailievski, stood by the Staliniata. Vassilievski, often called the " brains., of · the Russian victories over Hitler. This Marshal, rose wtder Stalin - bec1119 Director or the Defense Ministry. 'lbat was when Stalin se nt Zhu k ov to a min I" ost on tn e B l a c k ., e~ . After the Dictator's death, Zhukov came back to power. He was supported by the iQ Army. But Vass1lievak1 objected to the anti-Stalin campaign. llaJ& He's now described as opposed to Khrushchev - opposed to any softer policy towards the• West. The dispatch adds, Zhukov 1s almost sure to win u against Vass111evsk1. Zhukov, boss of the Red Army - backed IIR AIIII - 2 by ■oat ot the other Bed Marshals. The guea1 ia that - to Va11ilie1ki will be transferred/- guess where - an !ray poet in Siberia. Zhukov, bani1hing his rival to Siberia, just aa lhruahche• banished lalenkoY. KBRUSBCRBV Today Czechoslovakia g o t ~ more of the same - - tr, from t~~ Soviet visitor. Khrushchev, barn storming through the countryside - talking at every stop. StlMl{kl smiles - but talking tough. One reason for Khrushchev's visit to Caechoalovak1a d ~ aeeu clear from one the■e ,__he keeps haaer1ng.-. He s- devot,t 110at ot h1a reurka to the question of West Ge1'118DJ. Khruahchev, ob ~ ioualy playine on the · old Czech fear of a .5 ' resurgent Ge1'1118ny. E ~ Alaerica wants to •ke the Gel'IIW ~" /\ aggreaaive again._. he mentioned the Jll.8aacre at tidice " during VorldWar Two. L1d1ce, where the lazia killed all the men, and carried oft the WOll8n and children - 1n retaliation tor the au assassination of Hitler's Satrap. Khrushchev - telling the Czechs they can be sate from German attack - only if they remain strongly allied with the Soviet Union. point There's one peculia~--Aabout Khrushchev's speech A yesterday, the Czech press, carrying every word, ~ p t hat A IBRUSHCHEV - 2 attack on Presid e nt Eisenhower. The Prague newapapera, deleting his refernece to Mr. Eisenhower as " stupid" for talking about a " clean hydrogen bo■b. " That puticular passage did get into the broadcast by the Prague radio. - - Asked about it, a Czech official said the paragraph stayed Why are the Czecha censoring the Khrushchev attack on President Eisenhower? And why do they dare to - with the Soviet boas there to keep an eye on th•? 'nloae are interesting queationa - and weatem d1pl011&ta would like to know the answers. DISARJIANIIIT At the disarmament conference 1n London - the western line delegates are now sure that the Krellll.1n/\~ has hardened - since the Khrushchev victory. Russian delegate Zorin, retuaing anything that might lead to a real agreeMnt. Zorin, C0111)lalning that the United States doesn't really want an agre-nt. That -:~ Uncle Su 11 presenting his country w'th an ultiatum. A ..S-o II• N~Staaser~,and his Prench and Br1t11h STRID That walkout by members of the United Cement~ Li.119 and Oypaum union - has tied up construction projects 1n the East and South. By tomorrow, about twenty thousand conatruct1on workers will be idle. Hardest hit - the great highway system. Work haa already stopped on the Connecticut Tumpike and the Jackaonv1lle Expressway 1n Florida. The New York State Thruway, to lay ott ~ thirteen thousand ~ .... within a week~ ,.. So tar, the White House 1a keeping hands ott. President liaenhower, taking the view that th1a dispute 11 strictly between aanage•nt and labor. Mr. Biaenhower, • hoping an agree•nt can be reached without the Adllinlatration taking part 1n the talks. Tonight we have the usual dispute about tobacco. That question, does smoking cause cancer of the lung1 The United States P ublic Health Service - aaya, •yea•. According to Surgeon General, Lelo7 Burney, txperi ■enta haYe proYed the relationship between a ■ oting and cancer. The proof, •beyond a reasonable doubt•, iw the way Surgeon General Burney put, it. An exp•~t repreaentln& the tobacco induatr7 - •• 7ou would expect - ••Y•, •no.• He's a ■ edic too. Doctor Clarence .flttle, repeating that in hia opinion, t.re i1 no eYidence to ahow \bat tobacco cause• cancer. Dr. Little 1ay1 the report by the Public Health SerYice - add1 nothing new to the diacuaaion. ORANGEMEN In Belfast, northern Ireland - the qui::-s==:,, .,_.in many years. Loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen - marching through the city, without incident. Thia, following f . ~ 4hl\-crack-down on the I.ft.A. - both North and South or the " border. The total nwaber or extremists picked up by the police - As a result, one hundred thousand Orange- -t:J... )to .,.e..oe. R,, "-~ 11-0 ~ I men •rched-~without even e· fist fight7'Ahead or th•, ' over a hundred bands, - ll"'nllYl"'lwn1ia11a-~ The marchers , 1n derby hats and bright orange 1taahea. All, 1n C011111e110ration or the battle or the Boyne - when William or Orange deteated ~ James the Second, 1n Sixteen ninety. - AMERICA . l l l, J a o business m a n ar i v es back in the free o Conununist China. Donald Blackwood, ' .i re d la s t pril. He left the Po rtuguese ~ n his wife. Nobody has been q uite aumiJl sure since ten - Just JUl&XU what happened to the Blackwooda. Today, they turned up in Hong Kon g . Expell d from Mao Tse Tung's domain - after being held prisoner for two months. Newsmen in Hong Kong asked Blackwood how he managed . to get into Red China in the first place? He replied - "Richshaw boy, a sampan man, and one hundred US dollars." The sampan, carrying him across from Macao. The richshaw boy, taking him - d i k ~ ~ inland. Total cost - a hundred bucks. ,. Elackwood says he was Just curious to see China. He adds - he's disappointed by what he saw. The trip, not worth the trouble. . ' . res a surpr1 e: - it's neither Al y han nor his rat her Sudd ru din - the successor to the Aga 1a n - his nineteen year ld r n d son. rince Ka rim, son of A ly Khan . S o rev e ale d w e n the Ag a · an ' s • i 11 wa s read today, in eneva, •i tzerl a nd. The A a Kh an's decision a surprise. Most of those close to the family thought Aly would be named. But the will says - the leader of the lsmaili Moslem& should be a young man educated for the atoaic age. P rince Karim seeme to fit this descri p tion. He went to Harvard, and has lived in all of the great nations of the West. So tonight ns rince Karim, is the new leader of the lsmaili•i and head of the vast tinancial empire left by his grandfather. ICEBERGS ________ ,... re's a follow up to a story we had earlier in the week. About iceberg in the North Atlantic; disru tin th sea 1 nes. The ice atrol, ordered to stay on all summer. Today, ships sailing the North Atlantic - were ordered to take a route south of the iceberg area. The number, so big - they can't all be tracked. articularly dangerous are those called •growlers• - vast masses of ice just below the surface. The only way to avoid the ■ - follow a more southerly route. The skipper of the Queen Elizabeth - told newsmen today he has never seen a worse year for icebergs in all his fifty years at sea! Says Sir Ivan Tho ■pson: •It's worse than the year of the Titanic.• BALLOON Weather Bureau officials in Chicago have identified the W4 strange object that flew across the city yesterd~y. The / \ object, drawin dozens of reports from people who saw it. Many of them, sure it was a flying saucer. One witness said it had a long flowing tall. Another, who looked at it through J a pair of binoculars - report that he saw "little men" running around on it. Another observer phoned the sheriff, saying, " repent, this is the end of the world~" - Jet fighters at O'Hare Field were ordered to be ready - to investigate the strange object. Now, the Weather Bureau identifies it - as a weather balloon. The balloon, getting loose from its mooring, floating across Chicago at sixty thousand feet. Its flowing tail, caused by reflection of the sun. The Weather Bureau expJ.a1n1ng everything - except those u "little men · ~ seen running around on it. DUKE -- I say here's an item! In fact I'd say, quite! The British royal family is boycotting the Duke of Bedford. ueen Eliza b eth, refusing to attend tonight's coming out party - for the Duke's stepdaughter. No one else from Buckingham alace will be there either. The reason - lier Majesty the Queen doesn't ap p rove what is going on at the ancestral home of the Bedfords. As we have so often heard the owner a o f g reat a es tat es in Britain, have been ha v in . , ' r u11•d time, what with taxes and upkeep. The Dute of Bedford one of these. So the noble Lord had a bright idea. ihy not turn his home into a tourist attraction? He even installed a juke-box, a soda fountain, a ool, and, a small ZDO. Every Saturday night, a jazz band plays in the mmsuon fll of the Bedfords, one of the palatial homes in Britain. ilis Grace the Duke, l say - the Duke lays in the band - strums the guitar - when the joint is jumping. DUKE - 2 ----- 1 e 1 , t l es e she n a n i a ns , on the a 1 t of t h e D uk e of edford - don't o o wn at all well at Bu c k in g ham ' alace. And ten, as a final straw; the nobl e lord, mem ber of the British p eerage - annou nce d th a t he was thinkin of a k in g a nudist conventi o n to mee t on his estate. H e remark e d at the time, •1 say will th a t bring in the customers.• Rightho your Grace! lndeed he says he's been doing better business - since he made that s tatement. So, at the coming out party for the Duke's stepdaughter; Her Majesty the Queen will not be there. CAVE MEN In the Orlmey Isl ands of the northern tip of S otland - the caveman is back. And the cave-woman too. 5 ~ - Meanin, a band of students from berdeen University - are livi ng - like their ancestors of four thousand years ago. The point of this - the finest of all stone a g e villages - has been discovered by archaeologists - at Skarabrae, in the Orkneys. The stone houses erected by the cavemen - still in pretty good shape. So during the summer, students from Aberdeen, men and women, are living at Skarabrae. Dressed in the fashion of the stone age - Bearskins and nothing else. b Living in the stone houses, sleeping on the stone beds. Cooking over the stone-lined pits - that were the ovens of the stone age housewives of Skarabrae. Cave men - back in the Orkneys, Ann o uncer: A nd now L owell Thom as r calls . • T • : - W e ' v e b e en e F. r in g : " l s B u 1 g a n in on the way Ut , c > " H t b h , e seems o e muc in the back g rormd. Well , j ust a yea r a owe were hearing: "ls hrushchev on the way out?" That was after the pa rty in Moscow - attended by our ' eneral Twining, who went over to the Soviet Air Show. Khrushchev, with a few drinks d . h· ,.. belt, became so insulting, so tipsy, that Bulganin sai to him: "Be quiet, you're talking too much!" ¾ e know now that Khrushchev was not on the way oat! So, maybe Bulganin is not on his way out either! ven if he does seem to be overshadowed at the moment. And solong until Monday. LTP.1957.07.12i.pdf LTP.1957.07.12ii.pdf