~.T.-RELcv. To£~. AP@JL Jo, 1957, GOOU EVEBlN G EVERYBODY: Toni g ht, a Thousand U.S. Karinea are ashore in Beirut, L ebanon. Marines froa our Sixth Fleet - just ordered into the Eastern Mediterranean. Admiral Charle• Brown, Fleet Commander, aaya the order for shore leave - came from higher up. Meaning, be was ordered by Washington to send hil Marin•• into Beirut. Our govern■ ent, willing to let our fighting aen be aeen - during the cri1i1 in Jorian. Lebanon, onlJ thirt7-fiv• ■ ilea fro ■ Jordan. Admiral Brown 1a71 he's 1ure thia will have aoae stabilizing influence. That be ■ade th• run to the Eastern ~ editerranean - without incident and he's readJ for trouble, if it co•••· •1 aa sitting on a yolcano - but, 80 far, 1 a■ not feeling arr, heat,• was the wq the Ad iral p ut it. JIJtli Our State Departaent hurls counter-charges at tu•~ia. ~ That it~• the Irealin that ia trying to overthrow Iing Huasein. 1111 Spokeaaan Lincoln lhite saya lloacow has been interferring in the affairs of Jordan. Trying to sew turaoil throughout the lliddle laat. Thi• in reply to Soviet charge• of American interYention. And th is agree• •1th what Iing Hussein • 11•. Th• young ruler of Jordan ha• rejected Soviet charges of Aaetlcaa influence, aaj\iJII: ~•o ba1i1 •ha taoeYer! • Jordads Iing then aclcled that he'll accept the ten aillion in economic aid•• otter. lith no 1trlng1 JORDA~ FOLLQW§.WHlTI Meanwhile, King Hussein says the crisis is about over - the threat of coamunis■ squelched. Jordan nearly back to noraal. Telephone communications restored - and marehal law raised for Twelve houre today. Officials in Amman, today were denying ruaora - ot Leftist riots in the City of Nablus - a center of communist strength in Jordan west of the river Jordan. Hussein ■et n••• aen in the banquet hall of hla palace today. The young king, Juat relurned from a flying visit to hi• ally, Iing Saud ot Saudi Arabia. Hussein appeared cal• and confident during his new• conference. He saya he'll meet with other Arabian leaders, if he finds it necessary. And then he added th a t he had warned Egypt to stop the propa g anda against him, saying, any Nation that tries to stir up trouble ••••x .. zxxaH -----... . for hi ■ will xxxr••••••n••x•~ ~ lQ.RD!LIQLLQ_§ WHl.I~ - 2 strain its relat.i on 5 tith J orda~~n obvious ref e rence to ropaganda broadcasts by Nasser's radio in Cairo • ...-'\. News II en wanted to know -- why Hussein is refusing to receive Am ri~an Envoy, James Richards who wants to talk over the Eisenhower Doctrine with hi ■• y.~;;1i1el;1;s main problH is to combat comauniaa, and he thinks he.can succeed in that qu es ti on about ruported attempts on his life l :l s t week • . He merely said that a Court of Inquiry is investigating-~ its findings to be published soon. !U~AJUIAHEfi T . . . . . . . . . . Russia's l a test disarmament p roposals sound ~ impres s ive -- but the Allies are not taking them seriously. The b a sic idea now suggested by the Irealin -- a modifie, •open skies• sch•••· The Russians say they will let us fly over a vast part ot the Soviet Union -- if we will do likewise with regard - to America. The catch·is that the part of Russia offered ~ for inspection is ■ o ■tly Siberia -- a ~ waste of ice and snow. Almost no factories or military installations in Siberia. But the part of aae r ica the Russians want to see -- would extend from the Mississippi to the Pacific _ _ 1 one of the most vital parts of America. w - A ~ In other words, •~would see almost nothing worth seeing in Siberia. l hile the Rus s ians w oul d g ~ t 1 . can in t · 1lati ons west 0£ the a 80'fM look at vi ta Ame r1 Mississi pp i. The e cretary General of the U N , in a long, private int - rvie r ith the Head of the Catholic Church. Dag Hammarskjold, visiting ope Pius~ Twelfth~ at the Vatican. Hamm rskjold, enroute to Gen e va -- made a detour to t a lk with the aged tontiff. Today, the S ecretary Gene r 1 and his aides drove to the Vatican in a limousine, flying the UN flag. In Saint eter•s Square they passed by a crowd that had assembled -- to see t w o earlier Vatican visitors -- Prince Ranier and incess Gr a ce of Monaco. I , Haa11arskjold ~ A weat into audience with the f ope -- for so■ e Forty..-Five minutes. 'l' o discuss k But surely the crisis in the what -- we don't now. Mi d dle East. And probably the latest w ord from Hungary an d the other satellites. l The Senate Foreign Rel a tions Co m mittee approve s re s ident Eisenhower's nomination for Amb ssador to the hilippines. The Committee, voting ··(w .. unanimously in favor of Charles~Bohlen, our f o r m e r ~ Ambassa d or to Moscow. Bohlen was q uestioned for only a h a lf hour -- and then the Committee agreed that he sboold h a ve the post in Manila. Another Administration appointee bad rough going. Scott McLeod, who has been named as Aabassador ~5~ M-c~ to Ireland • ........_~questioned,..,tor •~g•o hours. The questioning, described as •critical." ,)lb• session went on 80 long that the Committee never got around to making a decision. The showdown on McLeod, to coae tomorrow. 11s11&0111 • • • • • • ♦ • • • President liaenbower fi7ing in fro ■ G1or1la, in th• Coluablne Third, waa ■et b7 S1eretar7 of State Dull••· Tbe7 conterre4 tor twent7-ti•• aln•t••, aD4 then Dull•• took oft tor Bou, Oerun7, tor a IATO · aeettn,. lhil• the Prea14ent, 4ro•• to the lblt• Boa••• Be 11 1 1 ta expeote4 to tat• peraonal obarg• of another 4ri•• - I ~- to get Conar••• to ao4lt7 it• 1laahe1 in th• Adalnl•~r~ QBJECt Tonight, in Britain, they are asking - whether a Soviet p lane whizzed over the English Channel last night. This question was touched off by a peculiar blip that turned up on a British radar screen. Badar picked it up traveling due west over the Channel - seveDil miles from London. Two ot Britain's f&steat jet fighters - were aent up to find out what the a,sterioua object in the sky was. Jets, capable of flying at Seven hundred ■ ilea an hour. But they tailed to ••k• contact. Nobody knows juat what that blip was. But one persistent ruaor is: - a new t1p• of Soviet plane - a new jet. 1 A%9MW . . . . . The Atomic Ener17 Coaai11ion announoea -- plan• for another aerie 8 of at oaic exploa ion1 over the levada desert th is Y• ar. line of which wi 11 be open to newa■ea - as well as staged l>r defense experts. The firat blaat. l&q Fifteenth; the laat, Septellber firat. At least two auclear device, will be touched off fro ■ balloona. These balloona, to be anchored by oablea, ;:p to · th•• fro ■ driftlna. Thel 11 be allowed to soar -- as tar•• their tethers per■it. Then, th• exploalona. Both o~these to be greater than the boab that deatroye4 Hiroah i ■ a. Toda,• s announceaent by th• AEC ••1• nothinc ~ ab out under ground exp 101 ions, al though the re hacl b ••n ~ talk otf etonating ~ in tunnel■ in the ■auive rock foraati on that lies under the levada Proving Ground. No word on that. All•• tno• about thi• coming aerie• of teats -- ia that seven will be touched off fro■ atop ateel towers, and two fro• balloon•• At the W h ite Sands p roving gro u nds in N ew M exico -- a ne w altitu d e r e cord for rockets. An A er~bee, zo o ming to a height of One Hundred and N inety miles. The Aerabee moved at Seven Thous a nd Feet per second. So fast, it burned out its motor less than a minute after it was launched. Even radar lost contact- as the Aerabee climbed up t o almost Two Hundred miles above the surf a ce of the earth. ~ ~:J ti,~~-t.u~ This fligh~ iaportant for our scientists. The Aerobee carried special instruments for use in the earth satellite -- the man-made moon that will be put up into the sky la t er this year. ~l•U . . . . The toraer GoYernor of lew Tort __ tor the pa1t, two 7eara back in pri•ate l i.:' e, ud Ila enjoying it -- was t odaJ aclait ted to practice before our higbeat Tribunal. To ■ Dewey, ••••ral ti•• lepublicaa oaacl14ate for P re1ideat, wae weloo•d toda7 b7 an old friead a ncl runnin, ute, Chief Juatloe larl larre . n. After th• cere■ on7, D1we7 told reporters -- he ha a no case to bring betor e the Supr••• Court. at the ■oae nt. but he plan• to practice aa · • Sup•••• Court, la-,er -- •h•••••r that sort of ca•• co••• h i • ~ •&J• 199AITBJ Senator KcCarth7 la reported OD the ■end. Teaperature noraal tocla,, •11• a aeclical bulletin fro ■ Bethe ■da la•al Boapltal. But, he' ■ tar troa out of tile wood1 with that attack ot hepatitia. -- A r1 is tc + · .1. ro m on g 0 t t -- t re is t · 1 d t ~ s 1 no wo r on ~ " e rican w o vani h e wi t h is ore a n · : ife an d t e 1· b b y. D o n ld B l ack ood, of e, · ort, ~ e nt u cky -- arrived in Uacao wi th his f am ily on Fr i day . ~ ~ Q ~ ~ a 4 < Macao, " ortuguese colony about Forty miles est of ong ' ong -- across the estuary of h e c a nton River. The B la ckwo o ds checked into a hotel -- a nd said they intended to go on to a hote l in Hong Kong. On Saturda, the Blackwoods walked out of the hotel -- leavin their suitcases behind. They ha ven't been seen since. Waiters at the hotel say t a t Donald Bl a ckwood and his Korean wife had a heated argument at dinner on Saturday. A ccording to the aiters, Black ood wanted - ~ ..ri::.;...L ti.v.R .--< --r =.. .,,.. ••• ,, . t.o visit. a gambling house/\ His ife s a ying, •Ro~ W 'dArl,. Then t.hey vanished. -,-t.it J.t:..t ~ J O,..~o-tAo, !§ATBEB to America's weather ... •n/•ili b Ill e a elbowed aside soon1 b y machines -- within ten years. so says Dr. George Cressman, who is high up in the leather Bureau. Today he told the American Meteorological Society that the time is nearly here when weather will be predicted b7 electronic •■Iii computers. The mechanical brain to take over in one more field. A mechanical whiz able to handle and collate thousands of facts on the weather, in a flash. Digest intoraation, aolve complex equation•, and come up with a • weather forecast that probably will be wrong -- as weather forecasts ao often are! Does th ia mean man is obaolete, in ■eteoroloa? llot quite. Merely that electronic• will solve the weather riddle over larger areas -- and over a longer _. period. But, for ocal forecasts of to ■orrow'• weather, that will sti 11 b • up to our old friend, the Weather Man. The \ The Texas Rangers, in wiping out two notorious gunmen, also foiled a bank robbery. The two: Gene Norris and illiam Huaphrey. Desperados of the Southwest, wanted gunmen since the end of W orld Wa r II. often As ~ - happens, the Texas Rangers got a tip. Word that Norris and Hu■phrey intended to rob Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth; kidnap a teller in the ~~ bank, seize ~ payroll of the bank -- and then get away - -- off the Base -- in the teller•• car. So th•J bad been watchiDI lorria and Humphrey farday a. And when th• two turned up on achedul•, the Bangers called on the■ to aurrender. Instead, the d ff Bot P ursuit. Exchange of shot• fro ■ gunmen sp• o • Cars. Thrill• and drama -- like an old-ti•• r as t- movi Di 1 after .il e, across Texas. The gun■ an We stern • r or mi • tl to t he floor, tried to make a at the wheel, throt • rig ht -angle turn• Over went the car. Uninjured, the two ran, ~tll ehooting. GUN Ell - 2 ~ . . Until the Rangers' Tommy guns cut them both down. The way the c aae nearly al• aya ends. Again p roving that crime doesn't pay. - PI PE ---- E ver e ar f tha t in ern tion 1 , nnual fl i p e- smokin con tP.s t? T i s Year, in .. ,o ntr ea , first . rize we nt t o enor 1 ablo Le na of Ua ri o kep t about three rains of tobacco going for lmo at two hours. The aple Le af P i e Club of ontreal, oat at this ipe-smokin marathon - tells us that Pablo is one of the most successful cham p ions on record. How many entrys? That was the diaa pp ointing part. This time only Denmark, Spain and Canada. Last year sixteen nations entered. ls ipe smoking on the decline? Are the cigarette commercials that successful? Us ruddy, absent-minded old p i p e s~okers - who drop ashes all over the place - hope not! Don't we, Henry? END E Just for a change, instead ot r e calliD£, let's anticipate. 1:ve a radio message from the Antarctic from Captain Finn Bonney of the U .S.Navy, Commander of the leddell Sea expedition in the Antarctic. The message reads:•Will arrange a phone aeesion with you when co ndi ti ons favor able. Answer through th is channel, gi Ye ae your nuaber. • This message fro ■ the Antarctic ala add1 that Capt al n Finn lonne7 ia sure he caa get through. So, of course I• a a ending hi ■ mJ telephone nu■b er, and when .. he calla, .idea rill be for all of you to be liat.eniq in -- I hope. And SO LO~ UNTIL TOMORIOI. LTP.1957.04.30i.pdf LTP.1957.04.30ii.pdf