GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: An announcement from Moscow. The oovieta sa7 they have exploded a . . h7dregen bomb. The blast touched off "a few days ago." An experiaental exploaioa, of a power many tiaes that of the atoaic boab. In Washington, air officials refuse to confira or deny the Moscow announceaent. No co■aent. IRAN --- The weeping premier of Iran, M ossadegh, has been overthrown. The news is def i nite, now. This morning, a bul l etin flashed from the P ersian capital,the city of Teheran - announcing a successful Army revolt against that eaotiotjal statea ■ an, Then hours went by; no further news. But, late t h is afternoodn caae a full accojnt fro ■ the United Press ~orreapondent in TeheraD. The Army - in control, after a day of savage fightiDS and blookshed. Mossadegh out - a new military govern- aent in power. All this of course coaes as a wild cli ■ ax, follow- ing a spectacular series of events. Ever since the seizure of Angln-Iranian oil, which he directed, the weeping Premier had risen to an ever increasing doaiD- ~ - ance. Lat w eek, he staged an election, authorizing him to throw out the Persian Parliaaent - the Majlis. Then over the weekend - an attempt by the S hah to oust U ossadegh. But that failed - the monarch - IRAN - 2 - fleeing from his klngdom. Moasadegh supreme - or so it ~~~ seemed.~ was backed by the Communtst Party, the Tudeh; and ~ some though,_ the Reds would seize power. But tt turns out - A .. th other way erou d. Troubl was brewing for Mossadegh in the Army. The Shah, in h s attempt at a coup, had named a premier to take Mossadegh 1 s place - General ZahedL After the f a l l ~ went into hiding, and Mossadegh put a price on his head. But General Zahedi, under cover, .,as lining up the Iranian Army against Mossadegh - ad in support of the King. Plans were laid - and, today, the storm broke. Army un ts, fronl surrounding ba~es, marched on Teheran - 1nfantry, tanks, a r t i l ~ ~ spectacular seizure of the city - supported by royaJist mobs thr ID._iommnOtJam~aa~raged through the streets. Hq1lltls .: 1 2 II ilil!:g "EL JS r., . The principal scene of bloodshed and violence was the residenc of Mossadegh - pow rfully fort1fted. Mobs attacked the plac , nd were met by rnachi e ~un fir. IR - Iossade h 1 gu.Rrds - shoot ng into the crowd, and many fell. ut, th . n, rmy un . ts cam . up - fo r a military siege. Mossadegh's residence captured - after bitter fighting. The building - stormed, wrecked, burned. ~ e d Bu~J\"1ossadegh escaped, getting away through adJo1n1ng houses. There was a search for him, and tonight's dispatch indicates - he may have been captured, and may be held by the Army, to protect him tr011 the rury or the ■ob. Meanwhile, the Army was crushing _ centers or resistance here and there. Attacking buildings held by Moa , sadegh supporters - blasting them with tire tr011 tanks and artillery. Hand-grenades am rockets were used. And, all the while, the Royalist mobs were on the ra■page. Storming newspapers which supported Moasadegh, and assailing his ■ore prominent supporters. ?one report is that they cut to pieces Mossadegh•s Foreign Minister, Hussein Fatemi, who had been the Premier's right hand man in the seizure or Anglo-Iranian 011. The crowds broke into a Communist reading room, operated by IRAN - 4 Soviet Russia. Smashing and destroying - ripping up pictures of soviet leaders. L ~ a i d e d ~ A band of looters ~ x t n ~ the headquarters of the U.S. Point Pour Program - and made oft with the furnishings. !llaXMll Strong Man, aeneral Zehedi, went on the radio, and announced that he was heading a new government - as Premier, named by the Shah in the weekend coup that t-aile Zahedi states that he has sent a meaaage to the 110narch, Rillt Pahlevt, who is in R011e - asking the Shah to return at on~Ji and reawae his throne. In Rome, the King said - he w011ld go back, as soon as he was called. A /J tJ ). .,./!'" ~ ~ ntt, £J To ~.-~ ~ J # J( .,~ All over Iran, the scenes in the capital city lffll ~ to have been repeated - on a suller and less violent scale. The Army taking control. Jubilant scenes are described - crowds rejoicing wildly over the downfall of Mossadegh J These events are being watched with vivid interest in all the capitals of the wo~ld. In the West, san•t there•a a hope that the new Iranian government, firmly in power, IRAN - 5 may settle the dispute over Anglo-Iranian 011. New Pre■ier Zahedi promises the Iranians - better living conditions, and a more prosperous CO\lntry. Which c0'1ld result tr011 an arrange•n that would put - the great o1lt1elds into operation again. 'f11a, Jmglo•:E••t:• p»Otleaot:m, With royalties, that used to give the Iranian governaent so 11Uch or its revenues. EGYPT During the pilgrimage to Mecca, which is now on, Allah the All Merciful was asked - for something most modern. Thousands of pilgrims from all over the world ascenddd the slopes of Mount Arafat. Not Ararat, which 1s different. Mount Arafat, the mountain of me;py, is near Mecca. The place where, according to Moslem legend, Adam and Eve stood after they were expelled fr~m the Garden of Eden. Today, one of the True Believers was Mohammed Ragu1b, President of the new Republic ot Egypt. Wearing the flowing white robes of a pilgrim, the Egyptian Strong Man stood on Mount Arafat amid great throngs or the faithful. There he bowed his head, and prayed to Allah in these words: "Cleanse our country of British troops." That Suez Canal question - brought up during the pilgrimage to Mecca. KOREA - PRISONERS News from Kore a indicates that1ile Red Cross brought about the releaoe of two hundred .American prisoners - whom the R e ds intended to hold back. So stated by returning G.I•s, who say the two hundred were Americans angrily hostile to Red indoctrination. / / CorPoral John fyler of sure were ~ go;,r(s to undsville, let ~ st o hurdred . ;()OSe r ox cars o carry us." I I Other home-comer tell of resistance ovement in I I · the camps - Americans o ; ganizing, / secretly, to check the , I nist 1ndoctrin ion. They used persuasion on comrades who I were weakening, nd took action aga1n,t infonnerSJ. . · · · I ' I e lead rs of the reaistance are being hailed aa I loyd Pate of Columbia, South Carolina, James P. ow of Solsberry, Indiana, and Private Alexander nbury, Connecticut. Kretzer is a Hungarian, / who concentration of / years in a Nazi ,._ ec-,r~"4,F-d..( camp during KOREA - PRISONERS - 2 o. I ,, the press.✓e ' of Red // / r Wi~ , lnt~mar,/411ft IJI / , to use quite a b1i of fist _ rkJ ate Prow. Sergeant PAte add1 • "We ' succ eded in ,-'1ng men out of the rats we wo ed ver hurtiem bad. We kind of disgraced them." over. We Meauwh1le:;:: sixty mo,..e Americans were set free today - ninety Britons, and three hundred South Ko1•eans. But, on the other side of the fence - nothing. Ho Communist prisoners handed over. The reason, a typhoon . A tropical tempest making it 1mposs1bl~ to take Red captives orr South Korean islands. Vessels for transport - not venturing out i~to the typhoon. KOREA - CASUALTIE The Defense Departm e nt g ives the final figures for U.S. casualties in Korea. Called - a "preliminary total." There may be minor changes. But the report brings the figures down through the last day before the ann1st1ce. IN three years, our forces in Korea suffered more than one hundred and forty-two thousand caaullties. Twenty-f1v thousand,six-hundred-and-four - dead. More than one-hundredT""' and-three-thousand wounded. Eigh t-thouaandr f1 ve-hundrecl--am - twenty-nine - missing. In the Second .i/orld War, the J r American ~ casualties in battle111111 - more than one million, one hundred and forty-three thousand. Korea - about twelve per cent ot that. ( rn World War One, the U.S. casualties were nearly ~ three hundre d a nd sixty-five thousand.~out two and a h&lt times the figure for K o re · a.) WET BACKS The Mexican Government has ordered "extreme vi g ilance ' along the border - to stop the awann ot "wet pouring into the United States Mexican Inn1grat1on oft1c1als are instructed to do all they can - supplementing the efforts of U.S. officials. eR •he P■e»ioen ,,de of the herd••· This follows the inspection tour made by Attomey General Brownell, who reported to President Eisenhower - that the U.S. border patrol waa unable to deal with the thousands ot Mexican laborers entering this country illegally. It would seem that the Mexican Governaent waa asked to help - and has responded. Ttle Mexicans are saying that responsibility tor tL3 condition lies largely with ~~ertcan farmers - who employ the 'wet backs." The Mexican laborers attracted by - "tho lure of the American dollar." Anyway, the two gov!"errnents are now collaborating - to stop the swarm of illegal entrants, who splash across the £t, Rio Grande. thev cross th e border, where there is no rive~, but " . are st1 r.R11iar, 11 ,-,a+- l\•,_ ~ ,,~•-"..;._-------------~ RIO GRANDE ~ They,A_re getting ready for big doings, down on the Rio Grande. Presidential doings - doubly so. Two Presidents, American and Mexican, to dedicate a new dam across the river, The Falcon Dam,a-seventy-five miles down stream ..AA; from Laredo~ an international projectrtor irrigation on both Cortines-,rW111 •111 preside - over the double-barrel presidentt~l dedication. Today, President Eisenhows- was attending a dedication in New York - the opening of a housing project named after the father of ~ l ~ B e r n a r d Baruch. He ts also tn the Bi~own to register for the coming primary election. CAVE - In that cave adventure, over in Europe, the perilous task of rescue was completed, today. The last of three trapped cave explorers - brought out. They established a record for descending deep into the earth, and it looked as if they might perish - in the subterranean depths. The cave is the deepest in &.\rope - an ilmenae cavern in the Pyrenees, along the border of France and Spain. eu ttw• tnto thW geptl:la. :t.a1t yeer, one ••11 killecl. 9tneN ftM'e been 1njQNd ift wet1-d ■te•~•en,ea1lTai1 ie•e•• new mark by making their way down to a level of two-thousand,- three-hundred-en<l-seventy-three feet below the surface. They descended on long cables, and something went wrong. Equipment out of gear. aftfl ,ney weN toapped. They were able to climb up to a point a thousand feet ~nderground - and, there were trapped. CAVE - 2 The rescue was a tough job - a long, thin cable sent all the way down, a thousand feet. The height or lew York's &npire State Building. In that way, they were brought out. The last of the three - reaching the surface toda,. BERNHARD A news dispatch discloses that, recently, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands had a narrow escape from death - under water. At the nitch island of Cuaracao, in the Caribbean he was taking under-water pictures. In diving equipment, at the bottom of the bay, he was burdened with photographic equipment - when Lhb diving gear broke. Bernhard of the Netherlands - ldft without oxygen, P it under the water, and there was no way to pull h1.JI up. ait he was helped by companions down there with him, in diving auita - and waa able to squirm out of his own eqaipment. whereupon he ahot up to the surface - Just 1n time. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands nearly lost - her adventurous Prince consort. fi !lllI!!f~i!§ O ne of the Dionne uintu p let s h a s d eci d ed to be- come - a nun. Marie - always the q uietest of the famous five. 8 he was the smallest and w eakest of the quints at birth. Now to enter a convent at uebec, where she will prepare for a religious life. Marie will have two-and-a-half years of probation; then decide whether or ~~t to take the final vows. The Dionne quints were reared in all the piety of Erench Canada, and to d ay Papa Vionne said - that Marie had been thinking of the convent for several So no w the famous five will break up, after having been always together - during their nineteen years. Only three, in fact, will remain at the achoo where they have been studying home economics and musi Yvonne is going to study art in Montreal. 9 yea c s ago - on their 10th birthday, I helped them celebrate - and did a broadcast from their nurse - with the five little girls sitting around me. I J QYllIYfL~!§ - 2 haven't seen them since then - and it seems odd to think of them as grown young ladies, vivacious Yvonne off t o Montre a l to study art and little Marie entering a convent to become a nun. BUS - A Chicago bus driver is trying to figure - how do you keep a lady from riding on a bus? The judge said, he'd have to do it. John Craig wus sued by his wife, who charged - their marriage had been broken up by a mystery woman. Whp,every day, boarded hubby's bus, and rode to the end or the line. She liked to be near the ~~- romance on a bus. )'j;_,, :..W. Jr ..._ ~ ~ ° ' - - - ~ ~ - Judge John Lupe, patched things ut between wttie and hubby. Telling the lattJer: "Keep that woman ott yomft,ua." "But how can I do that?" asked the driver. "She's a paying passenger." H1.s Honor. "Insult her," said the • judge. "I can't, Y 0 ur Honor. She's a lady." "But you can shame her and discourage her," connanded "I• 11 do my level bes~ " promised the husband. So that's his p r o b ~ ~ t o keep the lady fr011 ' .I'- , ~ r1d1ng on that bus/.