;aubus L.T.-DELCO. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1957 (be. given by lalter Cronkite) President eisenhower has agreed to meet Arkansas' Governor F aubus on the alsuxaf the Littl e Rock se g re g ation problem. The governor telegraphed the President this afternoon, asking for the confdrence. Said the Governor: "We jointly share great responsibilities under the federal constitution. 11 President Eisenhowe,•s answer was prompt ••• lut not exactly conciliatory. Said the President: He would ~eet with Faubus, at Newport, Rhode Islland, Naval Base, where the President 1s vacationing. And Mr. Eisenhower specified the t1me ••• Friday afternoon or aturday morning. Faubus faces a court action next week as the federal government moves to get his National Guard away from Central Hi g h so inte g ration can begin there. In his telegram to the President, F aubus was not at all defiant. Saying: All citizens must of course obey all proper orders from our courts.• 0 SCHOOL TENlfF.SSEE At Nashville, Tennessee, segretation agitator bail so far d enied. John Kasper - is in Jail tonight,/ Arrested by the authorities, today - on a charge of inciting riot and vi o lence. This - in connection with disturbances when nineteen negro children · were integrated in the first grade at a local school. Today, excitement had subsided in Nashville - but two thouaand children enrolled in six integrated achoola .. re absent from claaaea. Of nlneteen.negroea who entered prevlou111 all white schools on Monday, only seven were in class today. Thirty tour persona have been arrested since Monday, including six negroea, who were found with shotguns and pistols 1n their station wagons. And five white men - charged with dynamiting an integrated school. Governor Clement of TeMessee has offered a five thousand dollar reward - for bringing the Nashville school dynamiters to Justice. FLU - The pub l ic h ealth service is keeping an eye on Louisiana - where there's an outbreak of Asiatic Flu. The fear being - that this may be the beginning of a nationwide epidemic. Louisiana reports about sixty thousand cases - half of them 1n New Orleans. Some twenty thousand others - 1n a parish where the schools opened in August. Which might see■ an indication - that the beginning of the school season •Y promote an epidemic. A dispatch from Gibraltar states that two Brltlah destroyers have been put out or action - because of flu. One hundred a sailors aboard HMS Dainty and Defender - have been stricken. One death - the other cases, mild. TELEPHONE STRIKE A telephone strike, nationwide, has been called for Monday morning. 'ftle connun1cat1on workers of America aunnonlng a walkout of fifty-five thouaand telephone equipment installers. The union says that other telephone employees will respect the picket llnea throughout the country. Which would ••n - a t~lephone tie-up from coast to coast. COMMUNISTS ' 1 i) Today, the U Supreme Court reversed the conspiracy conviction of five Communists. Charging - that the FBI and federal attorneys presented a jury in Net · ork with circumstantial evidence full of gaps. The jury was left to base its verdict on speculation, says the court>II 1111,••i•~ throwing out the conviction. SOVIET BROADCASTS Soviet Russia 1s now seriously considering - the American proposal for an exchange of uncensored radio - television broadcasts. Russian Ambassador Zarubln - having indicated as much to Amer ~an A s1stant Secretary of State William Lacey. The two had a talk on Monday, and it la now revealed that Zarublu Vt. 1 int that t~e radlo-Tv proposal might be acceptable. V1 ' . ~ I--:::11-.:- - - - - - - - : ~ - ~ - - ~ - - - - - ~ - - - - ~ - ~ ~ - - - SYRIA From Syria - more anti-American belligerence. Today, Syrian Prime Minister Assall hailed the Moscow wamlng to the United States - to keep hands off Syria. Assall - thanking the Kremlin, for telling us to stay out. IMMIGRATION President Eisenhower signed the new 1nwn1gration bill, today - - and called it - 0 disappoint1ng". Under the measure more than sixty thousand aliens may enter this country on a "hardship" basis, in the next two years. The bill rejected the President's plea - to change the basic 1nln1grat1on and quota system, / Also - to grant permanent residence to twenty- eight thousand Hungarian refugees 1n this country now. The State Department immediately announced - the adm1aa1on of three European women, refugees coming in from Canada. HURRICANE Hurricane Carrie has turned into a "weak sister". That mighty tropical storm, which was roaring with winds up to one hundred and sixty miles an hour a couple of days ago - ls._ only half as violent. The winds are now something like eighty-five miles an hour. The rotating storm had been moving toward our American coast. But, at last reports, Carrie was at a is standstill - stalled. The weather bureau says• th1s/becauae of a low pressure area p~shing down t'rom the North out of Canada. Which probably will draw Carrie's course northward - across open water. CHAPLIN In London, Charlie Chaplin - says - his new film is not anti-American. " I love America even now, " declared the famous comedian, who has had his troubles with the us a\lthoritles. He said he disagreed with the London reviews, which called the new Chaplin film a bitter attack on the United Sta tea • "I made 1 t for laughter, " he ins la ts • However, the British motion picture critics are • aaylng - that the picture bogs down in a bitter sattre on all things American. Not so fumy - not so 1111ch laughter. • INTRO. TO L . T • Toni t, Lowel l Thomae tells of a s kt ourney to an ce .. lan n the rct c . Where he 1,;; isi ting a scie ntif ic tat on c o nnected with eoph ei al year . So now, Lowell Thomas epea <i n from the Arctic. L.T. Thi~ will be an attempt at a ru nn in r eport as we fly o er the Arctic Ocean. our plane, a C -54 -- the pesonal plane of General Ke n Gib son of the Alas k a Air C ommand, h as warmed up and we are ready to ta e off f or an ice floe near the North Pole A nine h undred an d t hi rt mile fli ht over the Polar sea from here at Point Barrow, farthest north tip of Uncle sam•e domain. The top ~ r Ala tk a, nearl y two thousand miles out and back. W are on our way - will be in a moment - to visit a g r up of yo ung ecienti. .. ts w h o are wor ki n on some of the projects of this Internat i onal Geoph ysic al Year. we are int e air now. Ae we jolted down the runway, nan ic rain , we all c rowded up forward to balance the heavy 1 ad of air ear and suppli es in the tail . L.T. - 2 - Below u .. now 1 t h e f amous bea c h where eince 1 8 o our overnment hae s ent r elie f e x peditions b y sea, and landed euppliee. Even be f ore 1 0 whalin g vessels battled their way to Point Barrow, and on east alon the top of the continent. Our pilot is Captain John Armfield, an Air Force flier who has flown eeveral yearf here in the Arctic. Hie co-pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Bob Short, a west Pointer, making hie firet fli g ht over the Polar Sea, ie being checked out. There are twenty-two of ue aboard. Plane crew of eeven, twelve in our g roup, and a cook and ecientiet who will stay on the ice island. we have climbed above the overcast and rain now. At 1 0 ,000 feet we f ind bri g ht sunshine. On t h e sea below, eo far there is almost no i ce. Si r Hubert Wilkins, who is with ue, h as spent much of hie t i me in the Arctic and Antarcti c for f ort y y ears. He remar ks that there is more open water in A ug ust and earl ~ September, than at an y other time. But he adds that a11 over the Polar sea the ice ie alwa y f crac k in , openin g and iR then f reezin a a i n. T h e con s tant movement of t h e i ce mainl y L.T. - 3 - caused b~ the w ind . An hour out. Below us now scattered cloude and scattered ice. No n 1 ht, of couree. Admiral MacMillan pointe out thatthe sun at this moment is about 5 de rees above the horizon. A ~ we fl on north it will drop almoet to the horizon, then start climbi a ain. 9:15. Three houre north of the Alaskan coaet. Bucking a 30 mile head wind. The sea now nearly covered with ice. The eun low 1n the west and a bit north. The sky full of color - etreaked with orange and pink, and purples and bluee. Admiral MacMillan, who wae on that historic over-the-ice dash for the Pole with Peary in 1909, hae Juet been up in the cockpit with me - on the Jump eeat between the two pilots, whre ou et the moet 1nep1r1n view. It 1 s the only place to see from a plane. He aaye this flight ie one of the major thrille of hie llfe. He keepe contrast in the way we are traveling with the wa y the did 1t fifty years a g o, by sled e and do team over the ice pac k with ite pressure rid es and pen leads. L.T. - 4 If there are an white beare down there - and theee Polar experts a1aure me t h ere are - we can•t see them. MacMillan says that on var ouQ Pea ry treke toward the Pole they never saw a bear on the Arctic ice pack. Not one living thing! But they always traveled during the polar night when there was the least open water. Balchen eays the polar bear eubsiet mainly on seal. Hunt them on the ice, near shore. Says he eaw a bear creeping up on a eeal, put one paw over hie snout to hide the only part of himself that wae not white! MacMillan breaks in to add that polar bear with their stomache full of seal oil, go ashore in Spring and eat graee, aleo eider duck e g gs on low islands where the ducks are not bothered by tee white Arctic fox. Balchen told about a cloee call he had while climbing, alone, over a preeeure ridge. Coming up over a hummoc k he found hi mself face to face with a polar bear. Only 15 feet away! Before the bear g ot over hie surpr · ee Bernt ehot him. And, he onl y had a W i nchester 3 0-30, becauEe he wae out hunt i ng seal. L.T. -5 --- ~ secon one, ue as near, Turning round he found im~elf facing a d j t and ehot him. Balchen is k nown as a mighty hunter - and hae shot man polar bear. He aye there are thoueande of them around the fringe of the Arctic Ocean and that some profeaeional hunters in Sp1tzberger get a hundred or more in a season. Four houre out now and the weather hae cloeed in. How will we ever find a emall white ice floe - eurrounded by other ice floee - with v1e1b111ty nil? ca,tain Armfield eays they have already pick8d the radio e1gnal from the ice ieland now only about 150 m11ee to the north of ue. He eays we•ll "home" on that. But the Rueeiane are known to have 3 campe on ice floes just over the pole. Maybe we 1 11 "home" on one of theirs I That would be an adventure - to land in front of their tentel well, here we are. 11:30, five houre and fifteen minutes o ut from pt.Barrow, zooming down over the tents and h uts of station A . seems like m raculou " navigation and pilot n • to u•. A we taxi alon the ice str ip we eee the loca L.T. inhabitants - Air Force people, and scientists, in their rure, waiting to wel c ome us. Exactl y where are we. Due north of Berin g sea - Longitude 16 8 ° 52' we 0 t. Latitude 8 50° 1 1 North - about one hour fl 1 ht from the Pole. MacMillan saye this means he now hae reached hie farthest Horth - maybe - by approximately one •11e1 On the peary - dash to the Pole, when he got to 850° Ho., his feet were frozen and Peary ordered Mac's Eskimo to take him back to their base c•....,• at the northernmost point in lorth America - cape Columbia, Grant Land, on Ellemere Island. In my ne xt I'll give you a report on this our further north Geophysical baee - this ice floe within an hour ot the Pole. An ice island to which we are the first visitors from thB outside. At C ardiff, Wales, Mag!strate Guy Sixsmith - was t olerant an sympat he tic. H erbert Hooley, h eld on a speeding ch ar g e, sal • h e was unemployed. A reason for leniency - being wlt out a ob. So t h e Judge let Hooley off - with a small fine. Whereup:nHooley walked out of the courtroom, and drove off - to his new twenty-eight thousand dollar home. He was unemployed all right - but he neglected to tell the kindly judge the reason. He had won - a two hundred and nine thousand dollar prize in a lottery. Well, they do come smart - ln Wales.