IIURRICAIE L.T.-DELCO. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1 57 (Be. given by W a lter Cronkh i te - L.T. !ti New Guinea) Along the Louisiana-Texas coast, t~••• aaa plenty of activity today. People evacuating their homes near the shore - moving inland, taking refuge on higher ground. This time, they are taking heed of the wamlnga - telling of the approach of hurricane Bertha. Re•■berlng what happened six weeks ago - when Hurricane Audrey created so much havoc 1n that sue area. Partly becauae - the people '11~., . I 1n low lying areal!, did not act promptly/ When the Weather Bureau warned against the tropical storm - pushing dqeroua tid•• onto the coast. Tonight, Hurricane Bertha is scheduled to strike near the mouth of the Sabine River - the Loulalana-Teua border. Winds up to eighty miles an hour have been clocked - but the hurricane is now showing signs of losing force. Prospects are that the havoc will be minimized - by the quick evacuation from endangered areas. CIVIL RmH'l'S The Civil Rights battle 1a on -in the House or Representatives. Today, Democratic speaker Sam Rayburn or Texas led off by recommending - that the House okay the Senate version of the bill. With - one possible change. Whereupon, the Democratic leadership endorsed the Senate bill - with ita uendment guaranteeing Jury trials 1n racial cases. They challenged the Republicans to Join in pasalng the measure. But the a o Pleaders rejected that - lnalatlng on a Joint conference to work out what they called, "a l,!!lllim clvll rights bill", as demanded by President Eisenhower. So, it's all snarled up 1n a partisan tight. With the Democrat, charging •. - that the Republicans wowd like to . " : put the c1vll rights issue orr until next year, Congressional election year. Hoping to gain - political advantage. ADD CIVIL RIGHTS Thia evening, the Democratic leaders 1n the House drafted a compr011iae jury trial amendment. - Making an effort to produce a bill that will meet President Eiaenholfer'• views. They hope the President will accept a Jury trial provlao more IIIOderate than the amendment adopted by the Senate. .. A'fOIIIC President Eisenhower won a major victory 1n the House of Representatives, today - when the legislators rejected a Democratic amendment. The Democrats wanted a clause - ordering the Administration to build seven atmlc reactors to produce electricity. The bill, providing three hundred and 11xty-1lx million dollars tor both military and peaceful ataa1c developMnt, brought up the old fight - public veraua private power. The Democrats thinking - the government should go into the atomic power buslnesa. The administration - wantlng a "partnership" arrangeaent with private enterprise. Today's administration vote 1n the House - a victory for that/ view . RACfflS The Senate rackets conunittee, today, had evidence - that a union gave alleged racketeer Johnny Dio sixteen thousand dollars to get out of its New York local} The old AF L auto workers organization - not the pig CI o union. Retiring President Earl Heaton said - Dio had the sixteen thousand dollars coming for expenses. But he llmitted - he never saw any proof or this. The co111111ttee was also told that union secretary Anthony Dorla was paid eightx,, thousand dollars to resign. They wanted him out because he was under tire on charges or corruption. Money due him - as compensation ror the unexpired part or his term. Still another official, Angelo Inciso, head or the Chicago local, was charged with corruption, so they let hill take out of the union - his local and its three hundred thousand dollar treasury. Whereupon committee counsel John KeMedy in fact remarked - that this union official wawhanded three hundred thousand dollars, to get out. S'l'IBL The U S Steel · Corporation denies .. that there was any countrywide agreement between steel • companies for a price raise. On July Pirat, they all hiked the price of steel .. alx dollars a ton. The identical figure tor all the companies, raising suspicions. Today, Roger Blough, Chairman of the U.S. Steel, . told Senator investigators.- he didn't even talk the •tter over with other . producers. He aaid he supposed they arrived , at the ame figure - because all the cOll():nies .have the•- I labor coats. Hence - the same price hike. At the same time, the AF L - CI O ... denying that the lncreaae • in the price of ~teel can be attributed to an increase 1n the cost of labor. SPIIS Two convicted apiea were sentenced 1n N• York, today. Mrs. Myra Soble and Jacob Albam - getting terma of five and a half years 1n prison. The death sentence would have been poaaible - but they pleaded guilty, and got off lightly. The other defendant 1n the cue, Jack Soble, will be sentenced later. Mean'Nhile, 1n the moat recent affair or eaplonqe, Rudolf Ivanovich Abel waa being held without ball - accuaed ot being a Soviet maater spy. Brought from Texas to lew York, he looked aore like a hobo than the kind . of secret agent you see ,n the movies. gull! The White House, today, released a partial schedule - for the visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip 1n October. It includes five formal dinners, a full dress ball - and a football game. The gridiron clash - to be the one between the University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina. Presidential Secretary Jim Hagerty explains - that, with the royal couple stopping at the White House, a nearby game was chosen. Maryland and North Carolina meeting - at College Park, Maryland, not far from Washington. SOVIET POLICY News from the world of diplomacy becomes melodramatic - with a good old theme familiar to mystery stories. Who is Mr. X? In Washington, agencies of US Intelligence have been ordered - find out about a mysterious character in Moscow. Today's dispatch says that President Eisenhower and ' Secretary of State Dullea are puzzled - by the way Moscow diplomacy has been handled or late. Russian diploaatic ndla - unusually well written. Moacow moves on the chessboard ot statecraft - more cl~ver than ever before. So they believe - some new r1gur+ust have arisen behind the dcene in the Moscow Mlniatry ot Foreign Attalra. They're sure the improvement la not the doing or Gromyko, . , the Soviet Foreign M1n1ater 1 Who 1a - a heavy-handed, sour character. There must be somebody - more flexible and alllll'ter. A Mr. X. behind the scenes in l&oscow. ORUSHCHEV u oviet boss Using a term or ahow buainesa ,/Khrushchev played to empty aeata, today. At Leipzig, a "maaa ra l ly" waa called - to give the Russian c01111un1at boaa a blg ovation. Platoona of the Red m111t1a a.ld the Coaaun1at youth organization - wre urched in. But the Lelpzlgera showed no elgn of ••rwtie in ln vut nuabera. The huge atadla will seat a hundred thouaand people. Two thlrda or the aeata - empty. JQaruahchev Mde the uauai kind of b011baatlo 1peeoh. But, u the phrase goea - he played to 911Pty 11eata. MOSCOW - YOUTH Fifteen Americans attending the world youth festivAl 1n Moscow will visit Red China - at the expense of the Chinese c01111un1sta. Twenty five others have been offered a trip - if they'll pay one hundred and sixty dollars each 1n travel expenses. Of course, the United States government has a ban on 1 travel by Americana to Red China. In Moscow today, the U.S • . . HAS Embassy reports - that none of the Americana .._._, ukttd about pusport regulations. Which they'll be violatlrig - lt they go to China. • mJYPT A st ran ge stor y - from Cairo, where the E gy ptian police declare the found a lar g e quantit y of narcotics - in the automobile driven by two Car.adian members of the United Nations Emergency force. The UN outfit - sent over to establish peace, after the British, French, Israeli invasion • of E ypt last year. The Egyptian account says - the two Canadians stopped at a check-point on the highway near Ismailia, in the Suez Canal zone, where police inspected their car, found sixty-eight pounds of opium and eighty-three pounds of hashish. The matter was turned over to top officials of the UN Emergency force, and an investigation is dn. The two Canadian members, we hear, signed statements - admitting that the narcotics were found in their automobile. But they say - they haven't any idea of how the opium and hashish got there. . . ARABIA Britain accuses Russia of suppl y in armament and instructors - to the Yemen. London stating, toda y - that six shiploads of weapons, including tanks and planes, have been landed, together with military men to teach the Yemenites how to use all that war material. London regards this with alarm - as the Yemen has long been feuding with Britain along the vague borders of the protectorate of Aden. On the other side of southern Arabia, skirmishes are now reported between troops of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and rebels of the Imam of Oman. The British, as protectors ot the Sultan, have been conducting air action against the insurgents. Now followed - by ground action. Today's dispatch stating - that sporadic shooting has begun. A later dispatch states that the Sultan's troops are encountering heavy resistance. CUBA - The insurrection in Cuba ls now spreading - to the center of the island. This is revealed in a communique from the Batista government, itself. Telling of clashes with rebels in the Province of Las Villas. Which 1s - in the middle of Cuba. Hitherto, the revolutionary movement, headed by Fidel Castro, had been confined, apparen~ly, to the Province of Oriente, the eaatem tip of Cuba. FOREIGN AID PROGRAM The new head of the foreign aid program - James H. Smith, Jr., a Colorado rancher. Named b y President Eisenhower - to succeed John B. Hollister. New Director Smith was formerly a special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. Recently - the operator of the North Star Ranch near Aspen, Colorado. MEXICAN F ro m an An t onio, T exa s , we ha v e a st or y - o f wisdom wor t h y o f So l omon. O f s a a c i ty - wor t h y of Sher l ock Holmes. R e l a t ed b C arlos Rosales - chie f of t he complaint section of the District Attorne y 's office. He tells how Pedro, a Mexican laborer, came to file a complaint. Pedro lived in a corral occupied by fifteen families. He said he left his wallet, with seventy odollara, in one room. Then, when he came back for it - the wallet was gone. The chief of the complaint section told him - it would be virtually impossible to find the money, among fifteen families in the corral. Whereupon Pedro replied: "I do something about it myself. So what did he do? That's where the wisdom and sagacity come in. Pedro wrote a note, and placed it in the room where his wallet had been swiped. A note that said - MEXICAN - 2 "I know y ou stole my money, but t hat is all ri g ht. It is worth it. I have been making dates with y our wife." Whereupon P edro waited, and presentl y his wife called. ' Pedro, come fUick, Juan ls beating Marla!" So Pedro strolled over - to watch Juan beating Maria. When Juan saw Pedro, he shouted: "You're the scoundrel who has been making dates with my wife!" "And you," replied Pedro, "are the thief who stole my seventy dollars;" An investigation disclosed - that Juan still had the , wallet with the seventy bucks. Which was given back to P.edro. foe Ov-r An~ ,,the echo resounds -A.poor Maria! BASEBALL 11 1,-,,,A At Ponca Cit, Oklahoma, a ~ league baseball game was on. A t eam f rom Ardmore - pla y ing t he local Ponca Cit y nine. F our hundred fans were watchin - as in the top of the second inning Ardmore scored a run. Pla er Mana g er J. c. Dunn crossing the plate. He walked over to the dug out, and there was a sound - of pistol shots. urr- Player Manager Dunn - iitf by two bullets. Which struck him in the leg and the back - injuring him severely. The other ball players hit the dirt - seeing a man with a pistol blazing away. The gunman, arrested at once, turns out to be - a porter at a local hotel - where the Ardmore players were stoppin@ The porter, it seems, had been in a fight with several Ardmore players, and had got into an argument with Dunn. So, in revenge, he attended the ball game - with a gun. This is Walter Cronkite, for Lowell Thomas, saying So Long Until Monday. LTP.1957.08.09i.pdf LTP.1957.08.09ii.pdf