GOOD 'VENING: The Senate a short while a o passed that highly controversial civ 1 ri hts bill. The action in itself was historic. It is the first piece of even similar legislation to get through the Senate in almost a cAntury -- certainly since Reconstruction Daya. A filibuster had been avoided -- thanks to aome amendments that many, including President Eisenhower, think have crippled the whole effect of the measure. Even so, seventeen of the Southern enltors -- after etting their amendments through -- couldn't see their way clear to vote for the bill. The final vote was seventy-two to eighteen -- the eighteen were seventeen outherners and Oregon's enator Wayne Morse, whose reason wa different than the LEAD - 2 o t h er ers•. Morse, a~ ro n e 1 h a voc ate, sad the b 1 raised false hop es. ive ~out h ern v otes for .JU( ow the b ill o es to the House, wh ch snot expected to a ree to the Senate's controversial Jury tr al amendment. And so then, the b ill will o to a conference committee, between House and S enate members. The speculation in Washington 1 s that the 6onference Committee, and finally both Houses, will acept the jury trial amendment. Then the big question -- will President Eisenhower approve or veto this historically si ificant but controversial Civil Rights Bill . The President at his news conference today, a a1n indicated he does not like that jury trial proviso, and a veto has been stron g ly hinted. 'res i den t 1sc owe r•~ choice a t e n e ~ cr etar y f Lefe ns e - eil c ' l r oy of Cincinnati, new t' resi ent of ? rocter a n Gamble . ut before c~lro t ak s ov er, th e re'll be a •hite ou e investi gatio n, which all ro s . ective C a bin e t members must undergo. Then, the a poi ntment must be c ons idered by the S enate. ne of the first pro blems c roy will have to face lies in the "c o nflict of interest law.• Under which retirin g Secretary Charles E. • ilson, former head of General otors, ~ -~~ - DEFEN E ECRETARY - 2 had t o ·ve t h m l f of a hu ge lo o f se u es, bef o re taking o ff e. Reports re that Ne 1 McElroy holds ten to twelve thousand shares of Procter and Gamble stock - and he is, moreover, a director of compan es that have large mil tary contracts. o he may have to get rd of blo ks of securities. As President of Procter and Gamble, he gets a salary of two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars a year. As the Secretary of Defense, h spay would be - twenty-five thousand a year. Which certainly would be - quite a ••••.,,, ~ ~ DI ARMAMEt. T Pres den t Eisenhower po ke tron l y, o day, abou he Westen pr p o sa s t he D sarrnem e t Conferen e n London. Cal ing them - "th e gre ates t ray o f hoe t a t has arr i ved on t h s dark scene, s n e I've been n t he Wh it e House.n He sa'd he had the "utmost hope" that Soviet Russia will agree to the aer i al-ground ns pect on plan - which would help rel eve the world of fear o f a surpr·se atom ic att3ck. CIVIL e E se h wer cam e ou t re ron ly t han ever aga he ury r·a amendmen tote C v 1 R ghts Bi l l, repared b the ena e. He a led ' completely revolutionary" and 'unf a r " the ....., ro s o tha would compel ury tr as in ra 'al cases f ontem f cou r • -:t!*~:iln111e@llli'!IJ,!'1 ... lllf~o1111a111aiee - -itla t , h th er to , had been deeded by a judge. Bu . - meanwhile, i n the Senate, the majority of the legislators were say ng - that the bill was the best that could , be passed. • PY T r I qu te story jn o y•s ca o f headl e esp o nag - w t t he nd ct me nt o f th e he t ran ki ng o v i et o ff cia ev r a u sed o f sp y in n h e U n it ed tates. To begin w i h , U • • o ff cia alm o st let h m get a way. Almost - e .. him away. lr/~ld-~kf"li Y On June Twenty-First, i••6iu2mat1:v/\ o ffic ers arrested a Russian - o n a char e of il le g al en tr ance. Qpee e4Mr, the Qanodd.M boPdeP, 11n'~ptiti.ouaJ at - n1 ne 1ears ago. The Russian_,. 1,n,1 1iheR - operating a "photography" studio in Brooklyn. lJ.su ie he was held for deportation proceedings - and sent along to a place of detent i on in Texas. In the normal course of things, he'd be sent back to Russ i a . ° ; ; ; ; ! . ~ ~ LUa..,t.,. But, meanwh ile, i nvest ig ators were examining his 11 ph tography" stud o . Also - the place where he lived. What they d i scovered i ncluded a short wave radio transmitter and other h i ghly susp cio us articles, including secret c odes. Which caused a q u cancellation of th e deportat i on pro c eedings. Today, the suspect was id entifie d as Colonel Rudolf PY - 2 - Iva o v ich Abe , cl e ov · et e... · o a g • c, used - o f send ng sec e m 1 · , ry i nfonna o t Russia . Con p ring - to enl s t mem er o f t e •• Arme d f orce nan espionage networ . Plott g - o se t u a se ret oviet cent er h s ry, 1 t e e e of war w th ~ov et Russia. Among oth er inc r m n a t· g ts of ev den c e that were found, was the ame of K o rot ko v. Which name also appeared i n the spy case of Mr. and Mrs. Jack and Myra Sobel and Jacob Albam - who have pleaded guilty. Alexander Korotkov - named as the boss in Moscow who direc t ed the espionage. In the spy case of st1:1 another married couple, now Paris - Korotkov is named, again, 1n a sim i lar way. low, once more, in today's headline story. The nd ctment charges that Intelligence Colonel Abel wor ke d under th e d rection of that same mastermind i n Moscow, Korotkov. The name - l nking three spy cas es together·. If convicted, under today 's nd ict men t , Abel might be u 1· ble - to th death penalty. He i s be n brought to New Yor, . for t rial. H U I HEV ----------- T h e t o C o m u n i st - b o ' s of t te m a 11 - N i k i t a hrushchev - g ot col ' rece tion 1n ast Be r l in toni g ht. l e Communist authoriti s mar cbe fifty thousand factory workers a nd g overn ent em _ loy ee s - to reet the visitor from t h e Kremlin. But the Red bosses couldn't make t em applaud. The crowd stood sileat, hostile - with hardly a cheer. ATOMIC T o ay ' o: e plo · o on the ev da deser w u u - for o up l e o f easons . One - because o f a ba l lo on a bl mp - wh i c prov i ded some strange f reworks . in a br d i sp l ay. As th e f r -b 11 s ared aloft - t he balloon bu1 ·st an t f re . And san to ear h - w it h a pyrotechnical Later, the exp l anat i on came - that the bl i mp, with nobody aboard, was i ntended for some photograph ic purpose - equ i pped w th magnes i um flares. These - to provide illumination for picture-ma ki ng. But the plan went awry, because the shock of the atom ic explos i on smashed the fr ont end of the blimp. Which took ad vet o he 0 round - the magnes um flare3 burning brill i antly. The second 1u sual feature f was a prayer meeting held by pac f sts - outs'de the ma· gates o f h eadquarters of t e A omic Ene rgy Comm·ss·on - thirty m·1es away from the ATOMIC - 2 c enter of the bl st . Yes ter day, r otest ng a ainst atom tes s, a g r oup we nt in o t e pr o h· b te d are , and w re arrested ) Later, found i y of tr espassing - and g ven suspended enten es . Today the pr tes t wea t on - w it h a pacifist IS . ye met ng , while the atom c dev ic e was being exploded . ~ FLU --- b e in An o t reak of t e siatic flu - a t a U. . ir foundl nd. Fift service men - stricken. ublic at rin sat t e ba e - banne fort e time being. othing really al r in the ~Eiatic flu being mild. The mal y from across the ~a cific struck the U .S. haval ba eat Argentia, r cently. rovin to be nothin serious. live r a rdy - or w o m t hi 0 s n e v er eemed to o ri 1 1t - in ose extreme y funny fi ms he m de with ta n L urel at le s t - liver a r y i s d ea. The he fty comedi a n pa sed on tod y this o rt Hollywood home - victim of the thir in a series of strokes that be ga n last fall. Hardy was 65 years old. His artner in more th a n 200 movies - tan Laurel imself i ill - al o havin suffered a stroke two years ago. e is 67. Laurel and f ardy were friends to the last - and chief among a world of mourners tonight, is tan Laurel. Tonight, Lowell Tho ■ as tells about for ■er battlefields - going back to the ti ■ e when MacArthur was campaigning against the Japanese, in New Guinea • ., - - - - L.T.: • In r,y last broadcast l told you about arriYing in Bew Guinea and then the first flight acrosa the island, looting down on the Iokoda Trail. That wa1 where oae of the ■ oat deaperate battles in all Australian hietol'J occurred, when the J apaneae were ■ aking their firat all conquering sweep through the South Pacific, right up to the gates of Australia. 1 a■ sure you re ■ eaber how the Auatraliana retreated o•er the Iokoda mountain,, and how the lives of ■ any of the ■ were 1aYed by the tribes ■en. It was a desperate affair. Then•• flew on oYer the Owen Stanley Range, past ao ■e of the higheat peaks in lew Guinea, ao■ e up to 13,000 feet. After which we dropped down to the shores of the Bia ■ arck Sea, to Lae. L. T. - 2 Then the second flight 1 aade here in Kew Guinea was a short one, fro ■ Lae to Madang, up the Martha■ and Ramu BiYers - soae ot it dense jungle country and ao■e of it Yast cocoanut plantations. This is the land of copra. In Madang, our host, John Gil ■ore, is aoaeti••• referred to aa the higheat ranking Auetralian in the Aaeriaan !ray. For forty years a reaident of••• Guiaea and nearby Bew Britain, it ia easy to underatand how Yaluable be waa to MacArthur, and wh7 they quictl7 aoYe4 hia fro■ Captain to Colonel. He and his fa■ il7 ha•• a taaoua inn and pub at Madang and coffee plantation• in the Highlands. Bis aon, John, also played a vital role to our people out here in the Pacific, helping rescue airaen. They sing the praise or the A ■ erican Marines. One chap tells ae an anecdote how a father and son fought alongside the Marines in a brawl in one ot the capital · L. T. - ) cities. John Gil ■ ore, now a 38-year old New G uinea planter thirteen years ago, when he was in his twenties met hi1 first O.S. Marine only a few miles fro ■ here on the island of le• Britain. He and two other Australians, with a radio outfit, were in the Jungle checking on the Jape. Una day o••r their radio theJ heard ao ■e A ■ericana calling tor help and, a ■o ■ ent later, 1till on their radio, the7 heard a plane go into the 1ea. lt was a U.S. Marine plane with a crew of three. lben it hit the wave• of the Bieaarck Sea, the plane flipped o•er at auch •iolence that the tail gunner was thrown right through the tuailage fabric, and rather badly cut up. The air■en 1ot to Bew Britain on their life raft and were picked up by natives. A week or so later the Marine tail gunner, a Corporal Betz fro ■ Michigan, was brought by natives to this secret Australian ca■p in the bus. The Marine wae L . T. - 4 coYered with sores and half delirious. But, when he saw that John Gil ■ ore was a Sergeant, the Marine insisted on standing up, saluting and sa1, •corporal Bet1 of the U.S. Marines, reporting.• And then he tell over. Gilaore tells ■ e that the Corporal, after he recovered his 1trength, joined the ■ and, even sta7ed on in the jungle after the Australians had left lew Britaia. The Marine 1ta7ed there, helping organize the natives to fight againet the Jape. Bis enthuaias ■ for th• U.S. Marines goes back to that incident. He told•• another story that! will relate to Jou in a, next broadcast. It has to do with a tall stor7 that one of our airaen related when he retuned ho ■• fro ■ the Pacific. A story that John Gilmore of Hew Guinea says, tor the ■ at part, just wasn't so. - - - BAHREIN The s land f B ahre i n, i n the Pers i an Gulf, i s a r i ch c e n t e r o f o 1 prod uctio n. But the n ews fr o m Bahre i n, t oday, has n o thing to do w it h o il . Not h i ng - s o modem. Instead - a we i rd, sa v age scene, like somethin g ou t of the Middle Ages. A t Bahre i n, ea c h year, there's a rally of religious fanatics, on August~eventh - the anniversary of the death of Hussein, the great martyr of the Shia branch of Islam. A day - when religious enthusiasm runs wild. elwa,1 wila an~ ea wi14- -as • " • ~e.aay, In a frenzied proceasion~ft1cs lashed their backs with chains. Until their bare backs were a mass of bruises Others slashed their foreheads with swords - the blood streaming Many fell - unconscious from the self torture. There were doctors - on hand, to treat their injuries. S trange doings - at a center of modern o il p r o d ucti on. FOOTNOTE A footnote ton h t on a fel l ow who watched h swat ch stolen, r i ht under h i s startled g aze. T h e fellow s Janos Kere k -Yarto. He 1 s a Hun g arian refu ee, employed now i n Water l oo, Iowa. Well, Janos was sitting n his apartment this afternoon, stripped down a bit, like we all do when the weather gets as warm as it was today in Waterloo. His watch was on the bedside table. And then it happened - a crow flew in the open window, plucked the watch from a table, and flew out again. And, Joe, there is proof to the old legend -- indeed, time does fly. This is Walter Cronkite saying for Lowell Thomas, SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. ' .