1 ~I~-~~1£ Q ~_1] ~ §LX~--~X-~~_jj29._ · · · · ( G iven by . C o lin wood) · G O OD ~ VENING EV E RYBODY: ecret a ry of S . a te Du l les s ounded a cauti usly optimistic note toni g ht b o ut the ~ o s sibilit y of a verting w ar in th e U iddle Eas t. The Russi ns, he said, a ear increasin g ly a w ar e of the d n g ers of rec · less action in th t tr o ubled cros s ro d s of the world, and he a dded there are g rounds for ho p e th a t a settlement may be reached. Mr. D ulles said that the NATO . owers in their recent meeting in Pa ris had agreed th a t the processes of the United Nations ere the best available for dea l ing with the troubling middle eastern situation. After Dag H a m rshold's initial ositive results - and the Soviet ecognition of the angerous results of reckless action there - be thinks it is ossible to maintain the m o mentua e stablished by H a mm a rshold's efforts. But Dulles s truck out at the Russian eaders - a n d at Bul g anin a n d ruschev directly- f or fai l ing to f o low throu hon their pledge to furth e r G e rm a n re- unification. H e a ccused them of •unashamedly c o ntinuing the division of G e rm a ni as th o uih they h d never ag reed to the n rincinle of reunificRtion. L. T. - 8 \ ALGERIA. T od ay 's dispatch from l g eria uses thes e wor ds : "The biggest milit ary o p eration in this ar a since the Americ&n inv asion of rth Af ric a in io rl d W ar Two.'' F rencn forces are st aging a military cam pai of major o roportions - to crush the Terrorist have been carryin~ Insurgents, w ho~•••.ttn8Md11x.l ~n orgy of wholesale murder. Two h undred fifty pe rsons killed - in the last two days. Foreign Legionnaires, Paratroopers, and Navy Commandos were converging, today, upon an area of Western ~;-•w"here the Rebels are in force, The Commander ot the dr1ve'A General Paul Ely, Chief of Staff of the French Army. After a reign of terror on Sunday night in an agricultural region south of the city of Oran, Insurgent bands numbering twenty-five hundred vanished in the hills. But many of them were tra pp ed on a summit, where they were surrounded '!~helico p te r t roo p s, and assailed by fighter lanes hurling rockets. One hundred Rebels killed - sixty-seven c a ptured. L. T. - 2 BEN GURIO • • The Premier of Israel issues another call for a Near Eastern "Sununit" Conference. Top level talks - between Israel and the Arabs. loday, Premier Ben Gurion was interviewed by United Preas Correspondent, Eliav Si on, and stated his bellef that the Arab states really do not want peace. invited :1•tlLtf them to "Swnmit" negotiations. #\ But, at the same time, Last year Ben Gurion made the same proposal, but got nowhere. Nor does he seem likely to have any better success this time. In Cairo, today, Egyptian Officials indicated - a L.t. - 15 FOLLOW BEN GURION. And tod a y brought the same old story - char es of border violations. Israel - accusing E gypt of five offenses y esterday along the G a za strip. Moreover, an Israeli official declares that the UN T ruce Observers fail to act, when these skinnishes occur. L.T. - 13 CYPRUS. The government of reece has sked the nited States to intervene - ■1 . . illli■1illl1 to revent n xecution on the Island of Cyrus. Today, the itish Governor of Cyprus, Sir John Harding, rejected an apoeal for clemency dn behalf of Michael Karaolis, sentenced to hang for killing a Cypriot policeman. And - Andreas Demetriou, convicted of the murder of a British businessman. The government at Athens appeals only in the case ot Karaolis - asking the United States to use its influence with Britain, to prevent the execution. POLAND. Rd Poland ann unces that Anti-Communist sistance Fighters - are now surr ndering. Giving lap - after an underground strug le oing on since th end of the second World W r. The reason - the new Anti-Stalin P.iovement coupled with an easing of Conununist repression. The Resistance Fighters - responding to the new Anti-Stalin • era of sweetness and light. (_An the Red satellites have adopted the new "Go Easy" policy launched in Moscow. Poland - especially. Stalinist bosses have been fired, one after another, and an amnesty nas been declared including the release of JI thirty thousand political prisoners. The Warsaw Red radio reports - that the Anti-Communist Underground is responding to the amnesty. And tells - of nineteen Resistance Fighters coming out of hiding. One is z,g■ unt named especially -jdiliist B1.skuo. Who had been carrying on secret ~;activities for more than ten years, ever since Nineteen Forty- Su. L.T. - 10 progres and threatening an economic breakdown. All of which needs to be straightened out. · L.T. - 4 The interesting thing is that the Red government, by implication, admits - an Anti-Communist Underground has been in existence ever since Poland was given over to Communism. L.T. - 11 tdD INTRODUCTION TO REC RDI G: Tonight, we find Lowell Thomas arriving at his first 4..- destination - o n - trip into remote parts of Asia. He's sending us a recorded travel diary. Tonight's installment pictures his arrival in the secluded Kiagdorn of Nepal at the foot of the Himalayas. ( '' L.T. - 12 FOLWW RECORDING: We can only ho;e, Lowell, that you and you crowd won't have to sleep on the . bare ground, out in the open. L. T. - 9 TURKEY. er e 's an angle of international economics - vivid, as well as important. The Republic of Turkey i one of our staunchest Allies, and so it sounds like a sour note to say - that the Turks are worse off than the Red Satellites of Soviet Russia. Yet, that seems to be the case. This infonnation comes from Salahettin Bayazid, a Turkish Econo~1st who is over here on a mission for his goverment. He makes a comparison between his country and Red Bulgaria - the European Satellite with the lowest standard ot living. The figures show that the Bulgars, under · a Conanunist Regime, are better off than our !)emocratic Allies, the Turks. For example, the people of Turkey get lesssugar than consumers in Bulgaria - b • a ratio of eight to thirteen. Less cotton textiles - ten to eighteen. twenty-five. Less gasoline, nineteen to Salahettin Bayazid points out that, in the past year, Turkey h a s had an unexpected industrial crisis - slowing down L.T. - 5 EMPWYMENT. The government in Washington gives out figures for employment in April. Th~ numbers may sound a bit surprising aft~r the talk about an economic decline in some a reas. Employment shows an increase of nine hundred twelve thousand over March, and set a new record for April. There was, correspondingly, a decline of unemployment. One explanation - a decline of unemployment on the farm. lore jobs - in the all-important business of agr1culbn. Fann employment for April shows a rise of seven hundred and nine thousand, as compared with March. L. T. - 6 POLITICS. The Maryland Primary figures show a narrow marjority for former Senator Tydings - in the comeback of that political veteran. Tydings wins the Democratic nomination to the Senate by one hundred forty thousand votes, as against one hundred thirty-three thousand for Baltimore Contractor George Mahoney. So now, Millard Tydings will run against Republican Senator John Marshall utler - who defeated Tydings in the rough-and-twnble campaign of ineteen Fifty. When Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin, with his charges of COlllllun1sm-1n-ln:•m Government, played a prominent part in the Democratic fefeat. Tydings had then been in the Senate for twenty-four years. His defeat - a surprise. But now he has returned to the political wars, and has won the first battle on the road back to the Senate. The result of the Primary in Texas on Saturday is bei hailed by Congressional Democrats as a sign - that there won't be a Southern bolt this year. The contest concerned the selection of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in L. T. - 7 Chicago. One faction was headed by Sen2tor Lyndon Johnson, campaigning on a olatform of Party Regularity. The other - by Governor Allan Shivers, who bolted the ticket four years ago, and backed General Ike. The defeat of Shivers is taken as - a defeat for bolters.fild, today, Senator Sparkman of Alabama said, "The Texas result seals the doom of any would-be third Party 1n the South." (There's been a danger, all along, that the Southern Democrats might stage a political ,aqAtt:tBPbecause - of the segregation issue. The danger now declining - as a result of the Texas Primary. At any rate, that's what Democrats in Congress were saying jubilantlY, . today. At the same tille, there's talk of - Lyndon Johnson-Po President. The Senator will go to Chicago as a Texas favorite son. He, himself, dismisses the notion that he might be a candidate. But, today, Senator Ellander of Louisiana called Lyndon Johnson - definitely "A strong dark horse oossibility." follow POLITIC . Happy Chandler - is available. The Kentucky Governor says - he'd like to receive the Democratic nomination for President. Happy would be h a py to have it. Makin his declar a tion of availability, he paraphrased and reversed General Sherman - z r I I a the famous Sherman refusal. I\ Happy Chandler said: "If nominated, I would accept. And, if e lee ted, I would serve. ' Well, Happy Chandler seems to be capable of performing political miracles. After a fiasco as the Czar of Baseball, he made a c01Nback and got himself elected Governor of Kentucky. So why not President? L. T. - 1 May 8, 1 956 NORTH CAR O L A. Te coast a l a res of orth Carolina are having a - mosquito eris s. Counties - envelooed in clouds of the ,4 pestilent insect. State intmologist, Harvey Cromroy, declares - mosquito conditions are, in his words, "the worst ever e~perienced." A study made in Dare County gives a count of mosquitos, as they cme to rest on the ground, or dn various objects. The average - one hundred sixty-eight, landing per minute per square toot. Which is a lot of 'skeeters' - especially if they land on the back of your neck - or on too of a bald head. The reason for the plague - the hurricanes of last Swmner and Autumn. The wind blew the waters of coastal marshes inland. 1■2a Pushing the BW8'1p-water - for miles. So, ever since, North Carolina has had a problem of draining the flooded • areas. These are vast breeding grounds for mosquitos - which now appear in clouds • .- ~- ~ ~ c e n t years, modern methods had been eliminating insect oests, but the forces of nature, like a hurricane or two - can throw things out of kilter.