EISENHOWER At his news conference today, President Eisenhower called Vice President Nixon - 11 an old ~ampaigner". This, in reply to a question - about the coming election. Eisenhower, advising Nixon - not to become complacent. Then ii.t adding z the GOP candidate for President has been 1n politics quite a while. Abd doesn't take anything -for ~ granted. Mr. Eisenhower pledges to u help the Nixon- Lodge ticket - url all he can. But he describes himself as - 11 just a spectator, in a way." - -- The President also ran down the usual subjects. Denying that the United States - is on trial in Moscow. Supporting the UN - on the Congo. And the O.A.S. - on u the Cuban crisis, ~-:&,~:;}.~':~ ~ ban - but !9"\IMIN the Russians w?nr?~:.£.~ . . Q , , ~ a ~ l ,-r7i;;;iriire over our lead - in the exploration of outer space. POWERS The first day of the trial of Francis Gary Powers - seems ~ to have made one thing evident. '9m!' u-2 pilot was not ., A brain-washed -- during his three months in a Soviet prison. -,r;-;,., ~ ~stifying today - he spoke normally. Not like a mindless robot - as did the defendants in Stalin's notorious purge trials. ~ The elder Powers, present in the courtroom~ denies Q,J ~ ~11ilt.vt the notion of brain-washing. Jo does- President Eisenhower. ~puff~l!lr:-a.ne- ~ ecs arL 11"\ in control of hi■ facult~1 he spoke from the witness stand, A Which doesn't mean - this Mosoow trial is on the level. No one knows what the Russians told Powers - when they had him in solitary. No one knows what promises1or threats - they may have made. One part of his testimony seems too pat - to be entirely straight forward. 'lbat was the point when Powers mentioned the political consequenes of his U-2 flight - and said, 11 1 am sorry I had any part in it. 11 Which was Just what Khrushchev - wanted him to say. POW~S - 2 Would he have said that if he had._ been allowed to have his own counsel, as international law provides? In Washington, Senator McGee of Wyoming, callk the trial - 11 rigged 1 • And Congressman Mahon, of Texas - says he doesn't accept the Powers confession,_. that the ) U-2 pilot has been subjected to some very heavy pressure." - o - The prosecutor is conducting his end of it as expected. Questioning Powers in such a way - as to make him confess that he was a spy working for aggressive circles in the United States. The prosecutor, repeating that America is on trial, along with Powers. The pattern of defense - also emerged today. Russian lawyer, Mikhail Greniev, protraying Powers as a simple country boy - who somehow got mixed up in a military operationy-he didn't quite understand. The Russians, of course - are playing n thfi trial for propaganda, playing it - to the hilt. Making it as public _ as possible. Even setting aside - the notorious Russian censorship • .-«flowing newsmen from the West to file their 1 stories - as written. Something unheard of - in Moscow. Khrushchev, obviously feeling - he can get a lot of mileage out of the Powers confession. I guess last night's prophecy was wrong. Khrushchev apparently won't appear as a witness - . after all. He's off - in the Crimea, sailing on the Black Sea, aboard a Soviet warship. Is he keeping in close touch - with the Moscow trial? What do you think? • O.A.S. The President of Costa Rica today greeted the ~rganization of American.!_tates - with a blunt stacement. t£z_ <Jas Mario Echandi, calling on~ - to deal boldly with dictatorships and foreign ideologies. Meaning- thA Venezuela accusation against Trujillo of the Dominican ~ Republic. And - the Cuban-American dispute. 7 The first speeches at th~ 11t1ettng 1n San Joae~ Ml~IP moderate. ~alling for a peaceful solution A>- to all problems ,) involving American states. But~ battle behind the scenes - has begun. Subject- Venezuela's claim that Trujillo plotted to have her President Assassinated. I , ~ '-e. ~ ~ The nations of this hemisphere, I st g to decide - ;\ whether they should take strong action against Trujillo. CONGO The Premier of the Congo Republic - threatens to start a civil war. Lumumba, asserting - he's ready to order his army into Katanga Province. Insisting - he won't wait much longer for the UN to bring Katanga to heel. He th1nka he can settle the problem - "in a week". Which is doubted by - Premier Tshombe of Katanga. At UN headquarters - Dag HaanarakJold is working around the clock to head off Lwnumba. The Secretary-General, who 1s still the object of hostile statements in Leopoldville - realizing that time is running out for the Congo. HaaarskJold trying to line up the Security Council for United u action - when the Congolese delegation arrives. INDIA . ~~. In New Delhi, the Jawaharlal Nehru acc._es - Chou 1, ·~ En-Lai. Nehru, referring to the latest border incident.~ ,) coanunist Chinese patrol - driving acroaa India's Himalayan frontier. ,¥robing the area - before pulling back. ) Nehru today told the Hew Delhi Parliament - thll 1a a violation of Chou En-Lai 1 a pledged word. The Premier of Red China, accepting a Nehru proposal - that all military operations in the border area be held up -- pending a s solution of_. border dispute between China and India. INCOME The Commerce Department announces - Clil■ olJWICPf, solibLQ; a new record for personal income. Americana, recelv four hundred and seven billion dollars last month. An increase of one billion - over June. Partly due to more employment• in the construction industry. The rest, coming from the increase 1n government salaries 'f' that Congress passed over a presidential veto. I i . ' I , " I ,• JERSEY CITY Tonight there are a lot or red races• o:sP in Jersey City. I•~• 1-,:; Reason - the city rathe?forgot all about the city's birthday. And after they had planned - a rousing celebration. Jersey City - three hundred years old. Pounded by the Dutch - in Sixteen Sixty. Called Bergen at the tt■e­ in honor or the Dutch City - Bergen-op-Zoom. So Jersey City decided - a real celebration was in order. The city - raising fifty thousand dollars. Gathering an organization committee - of a hundred. Hiring - a promotl team. Sending a delegate to Bergen Op Zoom in Holland - to carry the felicitations of the daughter city. ~ What happened? RiI, _!!ten the preparations were over - the city u fathers sat back and waited for Jersey City's birthday. Waited so long - they,.._ forgot all about it. a■ t Qt-~ ,,tta,.,_✓ 5q-tl . ~ - 1:J s'omeone remindlll8 Mayor Charles Witkowski.- at /\ ~ ~ w ~ ·- • • • · His Hono1/ frantically t r ~ to get the LIN JERSEY CITY - 2 Tercentenary Committee - to do something. But the head of the committee - was in Holland. The , ... t promotion man, on vacation - - ~ o and couldn't be reached.t:1Ma::::916fAllll.,A Jersey City's three hundredth birthday passing uncommemoratedJ1n Jersey b City. Ah, but they remembered it -- over in Bergen-Op-Zoom~ 1, ~~-"'- ~ ~\._~ ;z ~ ~ r-) ~ . . . CAB - In Rome, Giovanni Spina took a taxi today. Result "- -- he's in a Naples hospital. How he got t h e r e A ~ the story. Giovanni Spina, telling the cab driver to take hi■ to a Rome address - about ten blocks away. The driver - find ii--~ the address all right. But he zoomed right past through Rome ~ , . , . _ ,A -- on out into the country> :&11lli11e tt1• IA south - at sixty / 1, miles an hour. Giovanni, shouting to him - to stop. The driver - stepping on the gas. Whirling through lanes - and acroaa fields. Giovanni, bouncing up and down. Hitting the floor - climbing back onto the seat - trying to signal out the window, The passenger,/\ eternity - since he stepped into that cab. Suddenly, near Naples - a roadblock ahead. The driver, wrenchi . ng the wheel - missing the roadblock - but the cab turned over four times. ~ - 2 The driver and his p assenger - climbing out. The driver - under mental observation tonight. H is passenger - in the hospital. Giovanni Spina, who hailed a taxi in ~o ■ e - found himself riding with a demon cab driver - and endiq ••1 south in Naples.