GOO~ ~VENllG EVERYBODY: Have you been following - the latest hi-Jackin1 of anotherAaerlcan airliner? This t i ■ e a Pan-American jet• worth aix aillion dollars. lt was enroute tro ■ Mexico City to Guateaala - with seventy two passenger• aboa~4. And - a er•• of nine. A gun■aa, entered the cockpit - threatened pilot Carl Bal l ard of Huntaville, Texas. •·orciq bia to flJ - to Havana. Which Captaia Ballard had to do - to protect hi• puae111era. Landing hie plane on the Jet runway - at the Cuban capital. Passengers and Ol'8W - all sate. Preai•ent Kennedy pro ■ ptly forwarded a note to Castro - by way of the Swlaa E ■bas17 in Havana. ~••and- ia■ ediate release - ot the p lane, and those on board. Apart froa that - the freaident had nothin& to ••1• ~iil - 2 Castro'• repl7 •the pilot allowed to take off with everybod7 on board except the hi-jacker. leanwbll• Capitol Hill bas been ringiq with - exaaperated orator7. Suggestion• on how to handle - hijacker•. Man7 ■ eabera of Congreas, calling for a blockade of Cuba - if an1 ■ ore A ■erican plane• are taken over by Castro'• gun■en. And th• aeabera of ~on1r••• are unaniaou1 - that a 1tron1 bill ■ uat be writt••• eettin& a penalt7 of life iapriaon ■ent - poaaibl.J 4eatb - for hl-Jaotln1. RUSK Secre~f S t a t w s not taking Khrushchev - at hi1 word. ~ ~ 1 1 1t.w1 what the Soviet boas said A at the Kremlin reception for Cosmonaut Titov!- Khrushchev, repeating once more - that he definitely wlll sign that separate treaty with ta hla East German puppets. Adding -1(.f he doesn't believe it will lead to war. Secretary Ruak haa many reaaona for feeling - that Khrushchev ian't u confident aa he sounds. One reaaCl'I - the Soviet Dictator apparently hal used up all hla rooa tor dlplO..tlc • maneuvering. j He'• talked 10 long and ao lowtl1 abo11t the treaty - that he 111.1 have closed every escape hitch once open to him. Here's an 1ntere1ttng polnt - supporting the Ruak analy111:- When President Kenn~dy tlrat ude lt plain that the veat would not surrender - - Khrushchev suddenly began to talk softly. Slit now - ))e 1 s aa belligerent aa ever. What happened 1n between? 'l'be gueaa 11 that Khrushchev suddenly realized - he'a gone too far to tum back. He hu to algn RUSK - 2 the treaty now - whether he likes it or not. So he ■lght aa well lnalat - that he llkea lt. At any rate, Dean Rusk la wamlng the Weat to get ready for a showdown on Berlin - thla fall. EAST GERMANY FOLLOW RUSK Today an East German refugee arriving 1n West Berlin remarked:- "the C01111unlat1 are aa bad as the Nazla." Thia, a reference to - the anti-refugee measures taken by East Germany. Remember how Mazl Geruny harrassed those - who wanted to get out? 1111, Khrushchev's East Genaan p~ppet1 are ualng - the sue technique. Armed patrols, 110vlng constantly along the routes - to West Berlin. Spie1, reporting to the police on - Bast Gel'IIIUl8 preparing tor a race to f'reedOll. Many ""10 manage to reach the border are belng told harshly - to go h0118. ~ - to But OeN&nJ. Ritt ' ~ ~-,.•lnl thelr _ , and other nluablea - wlth the border patrols. leverthele1a, an tncredlble nUllber ot retupea - continue to get through. Another• record, set today - one thousand nine bundred and twenty alx. Wlthlil twenty tour hours, that many ,,apt• 1n C01111unl1t F.aat Germany - "voted for freedom wlth their feet." DEPOSE The Defense Appropriation Bill okayed by a Joint Senate-House conference today - produced only one disputed point. The question or - civil f■xD defense. President Kennedy ta asking for over two hundred mllllon - to build shelters and improve our warning system. '1'he •PII• conferNa, unable to agree on thla - sending it back for turther study. Thereat of the blll - • • quickly approved. Bal'IIU'klng forty alx bllllon - for everythlng troll rocket, to hellcoptera. MANEUVERS ~ A ;atn battle 1~=s~ back wooda of Carolina - tonigh~. A simulated battle - that ta. "Exercise swift strike" - moving ahead according to plan. - - 4'Lllow~ up yesterday's drop - or five thousand paratrooper,. ,~ /D /\ They aelzed key polnta on the ground - and today were belng •Wiatt aupplled bJ planes arrlvlng at the rate or one a ■ln11te. The General• involved ln "exerctae awltt atrln" - •lntaln - thla 11 one or the .,.t aucce11tul ar - • they've ever aeen. !he U S Arr1J, 1 lllberlnS up • getttng T"4-..i,.~. ready tor the real thing. If a, euzsz ,A WHEAT The Secretary of Agriculture pegs the price support for llheat - at two dollara a bushel. Orville Preeaan, 110vtng the govemaent subsidy up fro■ seventy-five percent of parltJ - to eighty-tour percent. At the aaae tlae, cutting llheat acreage - below the present ••••• · ■tnt■ua of r1rt1-ttve ■tlllon acres. 'l'heae tel'IIIS, to go into etrect - tr our raraera decide to accept the■ at the torthco■lng nterendua. Meanwhile, there•a an lt811 on wheat - fro■ our nelghbora to the North. The Canadlana have bNn ••lllng their ~ ~ grain - behlnd the Iron CurtalnA ~ OM lhlpaen{ ~1caught in - the rivalry betwHn Ruaala and Red China. Nao Tie Tung, bUJlng two ■llllon buahell or Canadian wheat. Ordering deliver, to - Albania. The Dictator or Red China, protecting hla European aatelllte - troll an ecOD011lc blockade by the Soviet Unlon. Another lndlcatlon or how badly split - the Co■11unlat 8111)1re ta. OPERA Aa expected, President Kennedy has 110ved into the nge dispute between- the Met and lta orcheatra. The Prealdent, directing Secretary or Labor Goldberg - to •dlate if he can. Whereupon, Secretary Goldberg phoned the head of the Union - and General Manager Rudolf Bing. Specltlc 1ugge1tlon1 - by Waahlngton? lo word on thla - yet. lllrely an e■phatlc aaaertlon - that President Kennedy wants the Nit to open lta doore thla aeuon. Al do - opera rana,f.n. a••• tbs •••trp. PLOOD 1M -ther 1torr troll ICNa can be Judpd - tNII thl1 ~- Stratton Creel(,. uauallJ narrow enoll&h - to JIIIIP acroa~fallbt f • raging tOl'Nllt - a thoualllld tNt wlde. R-on - a nuh nood cauaed bJ •1••• tncbe1 or nln. Rt•-■ and ■tr-, rlatng hlgh .._ aboY• tlood CNlt - 1...Slng. deluge ower the •urroundlnl COlllltl'Ja14•. !lie tore• or the ,......1.ng •ter, ao great - lt ■wept car■ ott htataa, lht.rtr One near VUhta, Iowa. '1111 - ~ hlplfaJ lt■elt -=,, under two tNt or ater. PD,DUS!IR fem Ollan Lawrence O'Comor - w t fNl mtt 12 relleYed tonlght. After all, lta quite an experl...,e - men ,ou~the obJect ot a tlllbuater on Capitol 1111. A O'Connor, appointed to thl federal power o-lUl• - - to lnternpt SenaM oantlrllatlon - bJ . . . . or • tllllHIIHr. !bl lfbcOlllln DIIIDcrat, ho141i11 the noor - tor t_t,-ab hom'lj /cmatlnl aUl lie . . . •t - bNne, that Ille appolnUllllt would N - • Ylctorr tor* ... and oll la ...... -~lclt- 1be ProalN talkathm, - l t l c • t • but ln Y&la. tM ~ , i , J ~ a .... contlnlllll O'CCIIIIIOI' - llho l a , _ to•• u. _. ot /, the ttl lbuater . . . . . , blll. ODlL In Mdlaon, Vlaconaln, the law finally caught up wlth • "Little Red Robb~ Rood". The young lidJ Who lade a practice or •artna - a red hood, that lhollM noUltng but her •re•. Reuon - no, not tuhlon. It wu robber,. !lie - a d ladr - holdlftl up tulcaba. OlYt.ng u. drlYel'I • look at - nothing but her Nd - k . And her platol. !be . . . . . , IIOl'klftl until one - - oabby retuaed to put hll hlndl up. lnltead, be 3ernd the 11111-, troa bll . , . .... , . . pu1-..r - 11d collared her untll the pollo• arrlwect. tor 1114laon 1 a Llttle Red Rldlng llood - I - •Ltttle led