SUB HURRIC A NE£T-lll?--M. 5 ~ /(J _ ~f. ~~:..&-~~ Here o n the Ea st ~~.A-~,.A waiting for the 4.. hurrican e . The tropical temp e st, with winds up tor - ~ hundred twenty five m iles an hour - ~ raging along the ). Carolina shore. ~ - Due - to hit New York in a few hours. The big town - in for the violent blast of the · gale. ~_, Today, trucks of the Coast Guard were traversingJ hundred mile length of Long Island. ~utting residents on the alert. Three hundred vacationists - evacuated from Fire Island. The Air Force at Mitchell Field getting its planes out of the reach of t~e storm. The Hurricane - due to sweep up into New England tomorrow. Connecticut shore dwellers - told to leave their homes tonight. t the Newport, Rhode Island, Naval Base - forty destroyers an twenty other vessels moved out of an g er. SUB HURIIC E- 2 r Here, on the East Coast, there's always a hurricane threat - in the autumn. This year - exceptional. Last week 1,- we had ·a devastating storm. This week - till anothe~-4; ~ - IIUPPl:e' taking a~ut the same course as the first one, The West Coast hardly knows what it means - millions of people, waiting for the hurricane. HURRICANE - HP ~ The steam hi a i lan "f'i 1A the midal& ef e- Ai.lPl'iel!tfte Aauiga~ ri ht throu h ~ ' ~~ ~ ~ harbor at Miami, apta i n ~ Brown told of_Jinds of one hundred and twenty miles an h o u A freighter - battered .A / ' . That w rd cente - where quie . "We seemed to be in a vacuum, ,;.t:=,~ relates. "The sea was comparatively calm, but there was a solid ua black curtain in fxllJd front of us." The tranquil "eye" surrounded by a black wall of raging tempest. He says there were hundre s of sea bir s - trapped in that calm area within the storm. Swarms of birds - in the "eye" o the hurricane. U N The nite tat es o fer to submit its c ase to the Internat1on 1 v ourt of Ju tice -in the shooting down of an American plane last week. So stated at the UN today, by American delegate Henry Cabot Lode. Moscow delegate Vishinsky ignored the American offer. There was the usual back and forth of debate. The American delegate admitting - that in our first note to Moscow, we made an error in placing the plane at a point - East of Valdivostok. Which point would actually be - over Russian territory. But he contended that the Navy bomber was never nearer than forty-three miles to Siberia. Vishinsky - repeating the Soviet contention that the plane had violated Russiw1 territory. DE There s a str a n e riv · 1 - n ris to ay. No rowds, no cheers - n 4 · laim. tet, it wa General DeCa tries, hero of Dien Bien Phu, commander - of that eptc efense 1~ In o Chin a . Under an assume name. Weal'ing - a rumple grey suit, instead of his military uniform. Half di guised - by a pair of dark eye glasses. His presence - kept so secret that hardly anybody knew. Even his wife was not there to g reet him at the airport. She arrived later, and they went to a nearby cafe - to elebrate their reunion with hampagne. Several hours later, the arrival of General DeCastries was ma e publl~ewsmen swarme to the DeCastrles home. But the hero of Jien Bien hu remaine in strict seclusion. like th ome-cOlll1n~~n c / ?.:; / ~ em: y. h n u r ~ e ~ - DE C ASTRI E - he plana · on o 1 th i i to b e oun in tatements ma e by Gen e al De ~ t r i e s, h en h e a r elease a week ago - in that In d a Ch i n a p r isoner e x han g e . s pa tches of what he ai were heavily ensore, but they i d c onvey an opinion - that the Communists of In o China were mostly 'Nationalists". · Retaining - their independence· of Re China. De c larations made by DeCastries displeased the government in Paris - and chilled the wel c ome home. MCCARTHY In W shin ton, th e M earthy c ensure committee has a reed - they'll take a look at that mysterious ocument - containing - secret FBI information. Which - Senator McCarthy says he got from an unname intelligence officer. At the Army-McCarthy hearings, the big television show, the document was a subject of uproarious argument. But not one of the comittee members would look at it - so secret, sacrosanct. In the present censure hearings, one charge - is - that McCarthy procured forbidden FBI information. So he, in his own defense. demanded - that the committee tudy the document. Which they now agree to do -- but it will not be made pl public. Attorney General Brownell informing the committee - that some of the material still remains classified, secret Another~• development is a letter - from committee member Senator Johnson of Colorado, to Senaor McCarthy. Explainin - the interview with Johnson, printed in the MCCARTHY - 2 Denver Post. uoti.n g him a s saying - the Democratic leaders "loath Mc C arthy.If In the letter, Senator John s on refers back to Lincol?:;1- daf speeches made by McCabthy. Remember - "twenty years of treason?" Senator Johnson calling these - "appalling and venomous castigations. 11 Writing to McCarthy he says, "it would be strange, indeed, if, following a series of such bitter and vicious attacks, they (the Democeatic leaders) loath you." ~ But the Colorado Senator adds~~,... e completely /\. fair and 1mpa~t1al, sitting as a Judge in the censure case against McCarthy. DAMASCUS-CINERAMA The St a te De ~a p ~ and lat rea d me a w ire,A: j u s t bcsA re c eived from -- the American Minister to Syria, a w i re f rom Damascus 1, • ~~ The 1nformat1on~s so s tartli ng that I am going to devote a considerable part o~'firoadcast to it. But, A before I read the wire, let me give you M J I a ltt,~ OJI the background. At first you may be inclined to think --• this is a plug for Cinerama: W JJli I assure you it is nothing or the sort. It is far too important for that. Four years ago, my associate Frank S■1th and 1 1 discovered something buried in an indoor tennis court ~ . out on Long Island. ~inventor 1 Fred Waller1 had been working on it for f ourteen years. The . entertainment and the motion picture world had seen it but didn't know what to do about it. MPJI When I saw · it, I was st a rtled by it s possibilities. Maybe this•• was because I had spent so much of my l ife in f•2i f orei g n l an d s. it s eem(to DAMASCUS CINERAMA - 2 me that here wa~• was a new me i wn that might be of aKamutalbl overwhelmi importance in this pe11ent era when we ~ Americans have-"such vast world-wide z■J responsibilities suddenly placed upon our shoulders. I brought Cinerama world upside down. It caused all sorts of other processes to be brought out by p e o ~ J;;i-::::f!i-titJ at~ offset Cinerama. But none of them areKike it. Meanwhile in fourteen cities Cinerama has broken every known recordj and this, our first production i's nothing more SD than a demonstration of what Cinerama c an do.~hat has this to do with the State Department? w... 1:r;::ttei@PotD.,adll I 8. r::r1-= 0 ~ h a t . This s~me Cinerama show, without ~ any c han e, i s till runnin g s·tron g - ~ . , l . 1,; fo u r teen DAMASCUS CINERAMA - 3 cities where it has been launched so far. It will enter its t~d year here in New Y o rk city on September Thirtieth. It opens in L o ndon on that same date. Several months ago the State Department asked us, Si · we. ""'-,A.u?e .. ~i~ ... -t::k c-,e:c .. ~ Fabian, ~azard Reeves, ~1111 assoc-tat,e , 1,-• 11! of ~ o . ~ ~ ~ -"1'-'', .... .:t, Cinerama could be flown to Damascus and the production · put on I'- , . there, out of doors at the big aMual Syrian Fair. Out of doors it had never been tried. But, ·a11 or the equipment could ~ . be packed in one big plane. So out ~ the Near East by Pan American it went. Since then nill we've all been wondering what had happened. Yesterday the first rumors began to come in, press reports to the effect that it was a sensation, and something more, a rumor~~ riots. But now the State Department has the full story and has Just now rel a yed it to me from Washington. Before I read it to you - and it concerns all of us - I'd like to tell you how when I saw the first C inerama tests at Oyster Bay, the thin g that interest~d DAMACSUS CINERAMA - 4 ~~a-'P Me ,ne~wa that I el t here w a ~ a comp letely new medium) C\ 91o1....-.~ s o potent that it mi ht even c hange the history of the world. That's pretty strong. But, listen to this tele g ram to the State Department fr o m the AmerJcan Minister 1n Damascus, the oldest city in the world. nt11xa - ~ Oh yea, I should have explained~he State Department 1:c ~a•e-c.t-t-. tfe .. ~.r,..~ wanted to send Cinerama ou~ ,k1r~in t e hope that it might Cl 1n some way help ....itaumlla offset~ tremendous propaganda campaign being put ori by the Russians at the big Syrian ~~o open 0 tfl 9-eeH, ~ ~ That's the key to the ulx whole thing. £re's the ~ ~ ,, ~ ~ l..f,.t- 'Ut• ...., telegram from Damas c us to the State Department~- /'- DAMASCUS TELEG RAM es o Ci nerama reatly beyond or! inal expe tations. Not only oes C iner a ma warf all other exhibits but their offi c ial privately say that American exhibition greatly responsible for c ontinued ~igh fair USIS has been under state of siege for over week with those attempting ovta1n tickets. To preserve building it became necessary shift ticket booth to regular cinemas. Demand of government officials and private organizations di& have made it difficult to hold any seats ~ ;:I-,, ... ----.. ---•,1 " ff for them. ~rowds of two thousand or more line up at each " theater in hope as obtaining - one of one hundred tickets given out there. Pressure or crowds even greater at Cinerama theater espite c ontinued publicity that admission 1s by ticket o ly. Squad of thirty poli c emen prove mmlJ wholly unable to vontrol c rowd attemptin to swarm in. USIS finally arran . e for pecial militar y squa which now •• maintains or er espite t up to two thousan d persons DAMASCUS TELFSRAM - 2 stan d outside wall> an han from a■&Q eu c alyptus trees to see upper hal f of screen only. O ne inch steel g uard rails aroun entran c e bent like solder wire and are being replaced by heavier rails. Some tickets are being •••tt•• scalped for as much as ten Syrian pounds more than New York ~ ~ ~ ~ ,,,,_.~,.._,# ~ ,.~ JIii-- tM' ,, ''N . price." ewspapers continually reporting arrival personages frcxn all over Arab world and Europe coming primarily to see Cinerama. la dvertisments in cities of northern Syria 1nv1t1ng citizens there to send self-stamped a nvelope for Cinerama tickets has resulted in deluge mail thousand or letters a day. Embassy and USIS officials and their wives continually besie g ed f r tickets whenever and wherever they appear in public. S udl Arabian Minister found quein g up outsi d e USIS, where no tickets being g iven, in hopes obtaining pair. Syri a n Prime Minister who missed official opening attend- ing tonight with family. D ele ga tion of one hundred newspaper from L ebanon atten d e last ni ht. Aleppo bank ( leppo DAMASCUS TELEGRAM - 3 is~ city many miles from mascus) ha chartered three busses to bring all employees for Cinerama showin g . Streets rife with rumors that Communist s will attempt u stop Cin ~ rama by sabotage. Co11111unists only line thus far is that Cinerama ,, is •unfair competition.• ;- -----:.....--------- ---- ------------- ~-~ 1r:er' ·. So ~he wire from the American Minister in Syria to t)le State Department in Washington. And it seems that at last my prediction is comµlg true. The power of Cinerama is provµlg to be what I thought it yet was. So far as I know the President has not seen it~lllld - or his cabinet. I hope they do soon. 'lbat Wire from Damascus indicates why. There · are still so• who confuae Cinerama with BW ef its imitators. But there is nothing like it! Ask the Russians. They say it's unfair to them!