GOOD &V~illG £V~RrBO~Y: The west ia areetin& the new SoYiet offer to diacuaa tbe Berlin criaia - 1reetilli it, wltb cautioua • optiaiaa. Cautiou1 with not too ■ ucb optial••· After all, we ha•• bad endl••• di1appointaent1 - in bargaining with the luaaiana. Will Groayko have a real desire, a genuine deaire to succeed - when he aita down with Dean lu1k. Beaidea, the moat dangeroua ied proYocation we've seen 1•t - occurred toda7. A SoYiet MlG tl7iq near an American airliner - along one ot the air corridors over iaat Geraall)'. The iuaaian pilot, not quite bu1&ing the big plane - bu~ it ••e•• be••• tr7in1 to frighten t be passengers. However, Moscow i• asking for talka - and at tb• foreign Miniatera level. lhrushcbev apparentl7 aeetin& ii; A - 2 __ ..__ b as ic conditi n - set by f resident K ennedy. The condition th t there must be some progress in di p lom a tic iscussions - before any summit conference can take lace. This me a ns the allied foreign inisters will confer in our national capital - which should create a fee l ing that the tension has slackened somewhat. OLLOW BERLIN The two Vest German je ts that lan ed 1n Wes t B rlin to ay - were on a training f li ht. The two pilots - non-commissioned o f f icers. L osin their wa y - in bad weather. Trying to fly by - defective instruments. Running out of ga s - making a f orced landing in We st Berlin. 7P * da1ageI·oa lncldant ;;; tieeam, West Berlin aircraft are not allowed to use the air corridors to Berlin. Hence, Chancellor Adenauer's immediate apology to the four-power occupation authorities - British, French, American and Russian. ATOMIC ~ 'l'od:ay oviet scientists explode d the tenth atomic / bomb - o their c u rrent se ries. la ce - the S oviet testin g g roun d in the Arctic . F orce o f the nu c lear blast - equal to millions o tons o f TNT. As usual, the Russians touched o f their bomb in the atmosphere - sending a cloud of f allout hi ~ h into the sk. Throwing the atomic debris into the air • e-i L currents - that will carry it QOI~. ~e Leningrad and Murmansk. A This continued Soviet testing made inevitable today' announcement - by the Chairman o our tomic Energy Commission Dr. G lenn Seabor, revealing that we 1 11 probably resume our own testing - within a ~ ew weeks. Speeding up our development o ~ - taatical nuclear weapons. The f irst explosion, to be a s all one - an sa el er roun. ot in the atmosphere - so here won 1 t b e an an er .rom allout. ATOMIC The Soviets have also started a new series of - rocket launchin s. The big boosters - that Khrushchev has been mentioning in such belligerent terms. One of the biggest flew down the Pacific range - today. CONGO The battle o tan a in t on i ht . The UN · orces, not in c omman o Elizabethville - a ter all. They sto rme d into the city - yeste r day . But today the Katanga army-counterattacke . ed by Bel ien an French mercenary officers - who i g nore d a UN order to leave the secessionist provin~e. The battle , swirling through the streets o f ~ 4" }- Elizabethville - in some of the fiercest f i g h t i n g ~ ' eer1gw NbZ-Qg11o:: The UN forces, de f ending themselves - with mortars, machine guns and hand-grenades. But in some places they were overwhelmed - by greater numbers. The latest reports~l:e victory - to neither side. b The U N holding on in Elizabethville - • • aiCIII'" repeated aSJ11InJ;ts : tontght. Pro:alatug to ataac! tbwtr gfblu,11 • ► a..w~~ - w1tlt'rein f orcements arrive. /\ UN FOLLOW CONGO Meanwhile , D Hammarskjold 1 beln criticized in the West - because o f this UN action. enato rs Javlts o New Yor k n Lausche o f Ohio, askln - whether the Secretary G ener al hasn't 0ver-stepped his authority. enator Dodd o f C onnecti cut, oing f urther - calling the antl-Tschombe campaign ~e rverse f olly. " The British and the ench, openly hostile to what ls happening in Elizabethville. Paris, insisting that the UN Secretary General has no mandate - to coerce Katanga at the behest of the Congo government in Leopoldville. London, expressing 11 g rave concem. 11 Sending Lord Landsdowne to the Congo - to con f er with Hanrnarskjold. DOM INI CAN 'l'he ener 1 st ri ke a ainst the lnican Government - h as collapse . hops ope ni n or business in C tu dad Tru j illo - t wenty our hours short of the e line set by the st rike le ad ers. The mass walkou . en 1 er duress, .aeeording ::t o the QP opposition. By f ree hoice o f the shopkeepers - according to the overnment. The key problem, still unresol ed - the status of the Trujillo f amily. Especially the son or the late Dictator - who wants to remain in his father's shoes, as boss of the Dominican Republic. T RM ----- Tne weather men are now Wlitching - hurricane "Esther", to see w ether she's going to it the mainland. Right now "Esther• is above the Atlant ic a thous a nd miles northe st of - Puerto Rico. £sther, a big hurricane. with a wind radius of over two hundred miles. So it's a matter of some consequence - whether she hea d s for our coast, - hich is where sh e is heading toni g ht. ~ut they say she may veer north - when she hits a low p ressure area created by two previous hurricanes. ~ARLA F O LLO N S T RY -------------- ... ---- Mea n ile th e a f termat h o f "C r l " l it L n ica g o t oda y; com ~ letely d isru p tin g traf f ic. Hundreds of cars - aban d oned in t w o feet of water. Thous a nds of b a s ements - flooded. Rescue crews, evacuating inhabitants in rowboats - in Lhi J ago. ~ ine inches of rain t h is m o nth - for ~hica g o • a record. l n a l ve t n, T e x a s "C r la " i s s till p ro d ucing el a y d r eac t i ns. A orc h ivin g w a y a t h ed Cross h ea d q u art e rs. Too many refu g ees from the hurricane, crowded onto the orch. uddenly, there was a splintering; I the porch sw a yed, then down it went - a mass of ruins. Forty-five hurt. STRIKE To day, the cretary of Lab or made another appeal to labor and management - in the auto strike. Secretary Goldberg warnin both sides that the national economy will be hurt - i f this walkout g oes s■ on much longer. Because it cowd put us back in a recession - when we've just emerged from one. -<-4-, This sentimen~ echoed by both ga General Motors - and the United Auto Workers. Both, pledging an all-out effort ~ -- to u reach a settlement J\ end the strike that is costing eight million dollars a day. Th~ vandal who slashe 1 e p inti in the Montreal Museum o ine Arts - turns out to be n rt stu Hardly the type you'd expect to attack masterpieces - with a kni e. But according to Director Ev n Turner, this one is a disgruntled art student. Failing - his exam. Nrned down - in his application for a scholarship. aking it l out - on the old masters. S omewhere on the roa d to Arizona, there'• a car with - a woman driver. lier naae - Mrs. A lbertine tephan. ~eside her in the front ••at - her teen age daughter. And the mother la a fugitive froa - the law. from her huajand, too. ln her car ahe h e s - the followin1: seventy-one thousand dollar• - troa her i husband'• bank account. ~ixty thouaand of it in thousand dollar bill• and thereat - in ti~• hundreda. Alao her dog - a aoaton terrier, and forty bird• So, Vick, if you happen to see a car with a do1 barking - forty birds chirping, and a wo■ an driwer loaded withll,000 dollar 11111 and 1500. bill1 - whJ it'• probably Mrs. ALbertin• Step h en tr7ing to get•• far awa7 a• possible from her husband. lFE - - S p eaking of women - we were weren't we Uick, how much would you say - your wife is worth? That is - it she doesn't have a job? According to the UP 1 correapondent Gay Pauley - 1he' ■ worth up to Ten Thousand ~ollars a year. She figure• that's what it would coat to replace the average housewife. Maybe a lot more you'd have to have a bouaekeeper wouldn't you? Also an upstairs aaid; and - a cook; and - a chautfeur; and - what• ~ ••• Gay Pauley says aoae aen say - they'd get ao■eoae to do part of it - and do thereat - theaael•••· Habl LTP.1961.09.14i.pdf LTP.1961.09.14ii.pdf