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Nasser Will Accept
International
Suez Supervision
Wants a ‘Peaceful
And Happy Solution'
LONDON, {JPt—Pakistan’s for
eign minister said today President
Nasser of Egypt told him that he
would accept international super
vision over the Suez Canal but
insisted “it is the sovereign right
of Egypt to run the canal.”
Foreign Minister Hamidul Haq
Chowdry, arriving for the Suez
Canal crisis conference from pri
vate talks with Nasser, told re
porters at the airport:
“The Egyptian President wants
a peaceful and happy solution to
the problem.
“He is not adverse to the setting
up of a body representing the
users of the canal to advise the
organization which he has set up
to manage and administrate it.
He still believes it is the sover
eign right of Egypt to run the
canal.”
A few hours earlier, Secretary
of State Dulles arrived for the
conference opening tomorrow. He
expressed hope for a solution “so
vital to the preservation and well
being of the entire world.’
Britain, France and the United
States are insisting on interna
tionalizing the vital 103-mile
waterway under guarantees more
binding than the system envis
aged by Nasser.
TOP NAZI WAR CRIMINAL
DIES OF HEART ATTACK
STUTTGART, Germany, UPt—
Baron von Neurath, 83, Hitler’s
foreign minister for a time and
“protector” of occupied Czecho
slavakia, died yesterday of a
heart ailment.
Von Neurath was freed from
Spandau Prison in Nov. 1954 after
serving 8 years of a 15-year sen
tence as a top Nazi war criminal.
Russians Deny
They Are Holding
U.S. Servicemen
MOSCOW, WV-The Soviet gov
ernment said Tuesday a “careful
investigation” shows no U.S. ser
vicemen are detained in this
country.
The foreign ministry rejected a
U. S. charge Russia is holding
American air force and navy
fliers shot down by Soviet pilots.
The denial note, delivered to
the American 'embassy, replied to
a U.S. note of July 16. The U.S.
note referred specifically to the
crews of two American planes—
a navy Privateer lost over the
Baltic April 8, 1950 with 10 men
aboard and an Air Force B-29
that went down with 12 aboard
June 13, 1952, off Siberia.
The U. S. note quoted persons
released from detention in the So
viet Union as saying they had
been confined with Americans.
It also suggested the Soviet
government might be holding
crewmen from other aircraft,
especially men who fought for
the U.N. Command in Korea.
Platform Drafters Ask
Pledge for Immediate
Statehood for Territories
CHICAGO (£>—The Democratic
platform drafters asked their na
tional convention yesterday to
“pledge immediate statehood" for
Alaska and Hawaii.
The stand was included in a
catchall plank on “government
operations.”
“We condemn the Republican
Administration for its utter dis
regard of the rights to statehood
of both Alaska and Hawaii,” the
tentative plank stated, adding.
“These territories have contrib
uted greatly to our national eco
nomic and cultural life and are
vital to our national defense.
"They are part of America and
should be recognized as such. We
of the Democratic Party, there
fore, pledge immediate statehood
to these two territories. . . .”
Speaker Rayburn Hits Republican
Actions At Home and Abroad
CHICAGO, MV-The top Demo
crat in the House of Representa
tives said the Eisenhower Admin
istartion hasn’t produced “a sin
gle new effective contribution
toward peace.”
Taking over as permanent
chairman of the Democratic Na
tional Convention, House Speaker
Sam Rayburn, Texas, last night
hit at the Republicans for “mis
handling” foreign policy and tak
ing “the most serious risks” with
the lives, fortunes and honor of
the American people.
At home, Rayburn said, the Re
publicans have practiced a back
ward labor policy, taken income
“out of the pockets” of farm fam
ilies, and allowed many small
businesses to go “to the wall.”
Rayburn’s induction as perman
ent chairman was the signal for a
boisterous demonstration by the
speaker’s fellow Texans in the big
hall. Other state standards waved
to and fro in salute to the man
who has presided over the nation
al House longer than any man in
history.
Rayburn said “the end result of
your years of Republican mis
handling of our foreign affairs is
such that we have fewer friends
than ever before, and we have
made enemies of many that were
our friends . . .”
Rayburn aimed several of hjp
thrusts at Eisenhower. “The man
primarily responsible . . . for the
conduct of foreign policy simply
is not handling the job.” '
At another point he charged
that under Eisenhower “we have
an administration that has devel
oped the classic Army buck-pass
ing game to new heights.” Admin
istration subordinates, Rayburn
said, should not be absolved for
what he termed their “grievous
failures." The ultimate blame, he
said, “belongs on the shoulders of
the President . . ."
56-Ship Flotilla Breaks
Through Ice Barrier
With DEW Line Supplies
SEATTLE, UP — The Military
Sea Transportation Service office
here said Monday that the 1956
Arctic supply mission to the Dis
tant Early Warning line has
broken its way through an ice
barrier to clear waters east of
Point Barrow.
Several ships in the 56 - ship
flotilla received minor damage
breaking through the 75-mile ice
barrier, MSTS said, but are now
in a position to land supplies to
DEW line stations along the
northern rim of the continent.
The 56 ships and the 6,800 men
they carried left Seattle between
July 15 and July 20.
Capt. Dynamite
Blows Self Up
In Coffin He Made
WATERLOO, Iowa, UP—While
2,000 spectators watched, Captain
Dynamite climbed into his wood
en “coffin” last night and deto
nated the eight sticks of dynamite
attached to it.
As usual in Captain Dynamite’s
thrill show act, the explosion
shattered the coffin into splinters.
But this time Alfred R. Baken,
24, Jacksonville, Fla., didn’t arise
from the debris ti> take his bow.
Captain Dynamite was dead.
The crowd at Tunis speedway
didn’t know that Baken had been
fatally injured. But a close friend
quickly summoned an ambulance
and the show went on.
“He never knew what hit him,”
the friend said.
Baken had been doing the act
for three years. Officials of the
show said they did not know what
went wrong. Baken always built
his own coffin and attached and
wired the dynamite. His method
was his own trade secret.
Morse Defies
GOP and Effort
To Un-Seat Him
CHICAGO, Itfl—Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon headed west to
day to try to make good his pre
diction that what he called a
White House effort to purge him
from the Senate would “fall flat
on its face.”
Breathing defiance at the Re
publican Party he left in 1952,
Morse last night made his debut
before the Democratic National
Convention with a speech that
was a big success.
A standard-waving demonstra
tion led by Oregon delegates wel
comed him to the hall where four
years ago he cheered President
Eisenhower. His biggest ovation
came when he declared he had
“no regrets” ovir leaving the Re
publican Party.
Morse’s Senate seat is being
contested by Douglas McKay, who
resigned as Eisenhower’s secre
tary of Interior to make the race
against him.
Morse said Oregon voters “have
no intention of letting the White
House handpick their senator for
them.”
Stevenson Nomination Effort Wins
Important Support in Delegate Votes
Civil Rights Plank
Battle Expected Tonite
Tonight the delegates will look
over and pass on the platform
proposed by a committee which
has been sweating over it for two
weeks.
The big battle in the committee
has been over the question of
what to say about civil rights and
racial segregation; more particu
larly, whether to say anything
specific about the Supreme
Court’s decision that race segre
gation in public schools is uncon
stitutional.
Southerners fought against any
mention of the Supreme Court.
The drafting subcommittee fi
nally came thru today with a
plank it hoped would be accept
able all around. This said;
“Recent decisions of the Su
preme Court of the United States
relating to segregation in publicly
supported schools and elsewhere
have brought consequences to
communities directly affected. We
reject all proposals for the use of
force to interfere with the orderly
determination of these matters by
the courts.
“The Democratic Party emphat
ically reaffirms its support of the
historic principle that ours is a
government of laws and not of
men; it recognizes the Supreme
Court of the United States as one
of the three constitutional and co
ordinated branches of the federal
government, superior to and sep
arate from any political party, the
decisions of which are part of the
law of the land. We condemn the
efforts of the Republican Party to
make it appear that this tribunal
is a part of the Republican Party."
This last sentence was an obvi
ous (Oblique reference to a state
ment Nixon made several months
ago to the effect that the court’s
unanimous public school desegre
gation decision had been rendered
under “a great Republican chief
justice”—Earl Warren.
Harriman Backers
All But Admit Defeat
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
and JACK BELL
CHICAGO, un—Adlai Steven
son, picking up important support
from New Jersey and Michigan,
today all but clinched the Demo
cratic presidential nomination. A
remaining hazard was a possible
battle over a suggested civil rights
platform plank saying the Su
preme Court’s decisions against
racial segregation had “brought
consequences of vast importance”
to the nation.
Stevenson scored his gains de
spite a bitter 11th hour battle that
former President Harry Truman
was waging for Averell Harriman.
Truman called a news confer
ence and characterized Stevenson
as a candidate who “lacks the
kind of fighting spirit we need t»
win.” He said he’d support Harri
man “until the last dog dies.”
But even as Truman was punch
ing away, the New Jersey delega
tion caucused and voted to give
all of its 36 votes to Stevenson on
the first ballot tomorrow night.
Earlier, Gov. Mennen Williams
of Michigan had thrown his sup
port to the 1952 nominee, and a
poll of the 44-vote Michigan dele
gation produced 33V4 votes for
Stevenson.
When word of New Jersey’s
move reached them, some mem
bers of the Truman team agreed
the fight was all over.
The whole drive had been con
centrated on keeping enough “fa
vorite sons” in the field to pre
vent Stevenson’s nomination on
an early ballot.
Altho Truman said yesterday
Stevenson couldn’t win if nomin
ated, he backtracked on that to
day. He said Stevenson could win
with help from “the old man from ,
Missouri”—meaning himself.
Stevenson’s own reaction to the
news as to Jersey and Michigan
was a smile and the comment:
“Things are breaking very well.”
Passenger Dies On
Plane Enroute From
Anchorage To Seattle
SEATTLE, UTI — Henry M.
Throndson, 56, Bellingham, died
of a heart attack aboard an air
line plane enroute from Anchor
age, to Seattle Tuesday.
Coroner John P. Brill said
Throndon became ill soon after
the plane left Anchorage. A
stewardess administered oxygen
to Throndson, who told her he
was coming to Seattle to enter a
hospital.
A physician aboard the plane
also treated Throndson, but he
died soon afterward.
Prince Rainier and Princess
Grace To Visit U.S. In September
MONTE CARLO, l* — Palace
officials confirmed today Prince
Rainier III and Princess Grace
will leave Le Havre Sept. 7
aboard the liner United States for
a visit of several weeks in the
United States.
Alaska Delegation Voted
Unanimously To Support
Stevenson For President
CHICAGO, un — The Alaska
delegation to the Democratic na
tional convention voted unani
mously Monday to support Adlai
Stevenson for the presidential
nomination.
Ernest Gruening, former gover
nor of Alaska and chairman of
the 6-vote, 12-member delegation,
said the delegation also voted un
animous support to Sen. Estes
Kefauver for the vice presidential
nomination.
“The Alaska delegation takes
this stand not merely because it
considers Stevenson and Ke
fauver supremely qualified, but
also because both have demon
strated their firm faith in the
most basic American principle —
that of government by the con
sent of the governed—and have,
accordingly, pledged all out sup
port for immediate statehood for
Alaska,” Gruening said.
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