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Gov. Lons Puts on
'Demonstration* In
Juarez NigSit Spot
EL PASO, Tex., UP) — Gov. Earl
K. Long of Louisiana spent the
night in Juarez, Mexico, after
creating a riotous incident with
international overtones.
The colorful governor managed
to evade newsmen after a shout
ing tirade in a Juarez night club
just before midnight Thursday,
then ostensibly headed back to his
El Paso hotel.
Some time later, however, he
and other members of his party
returned to the Mexican border
city.
Long went to a Juarez estab
ishment widely known for its en
tertainment, where he surrounded
himself with a Mexican musical
unit and at one time upward of
a dozen female entertainers.
Earlier Long had disturbed a
group of Mexican waiters and a
number of patrons in the Juarez
night club in a cursing, shout
ing demonstration over being fol
lowed there by photographers.
On returning to his El Paso
hotel, Long pounded on the door
of his suite in an attempt to gain
entrance and, losing patience,
started started shouting ’’Wake
up.” ,
Louisiana State Police Capt. D.
L. Durrett also had hotel key
•trouble and was pounding on a
door. He exclaimed at one time:
“That Earl Long is as good as
50 men.”
It was in general an early
morning of hotel-door pounding
as members of Long’s party came
drifting back to his hotel.
TV Equal Time Rule
Cuts off Sen. Humphrey
From Scheduled Program
WASHINGTON, UP— A partial
blackout from one of his favorite
media—television—brought a de
mand from Sep. Hubert H. Hum
phrey (D-Minn) today for speedy
congressional revision of the
radio-TV equal time rule.
Because his friends put him
into the race for the 1960 Demo
cratic presidential nomination this
week, Humphrey said his sched
uled appearance on CBS’ “Face
the Nation” next Sunday had
been cancelled.
Humphrey said CBS attorneys
had ruled he was officially a can
didate and that the network
would have t& give other aspirants
equal time on news programs on
which he appeared.
On the other hand he was in
vited and promptly accepted an
invitation to appear today on
NBC’s “Today” show.
In New York, Sig Mickelson
CBS vice president in charge of
news, confirmed that the net
' work’s attorneys had advised that
the invitation to Humphrey be
withdrawn.
Humphrey contended that he is
no more an official candidate than
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass)
and other hopefuls, despite the
fanfare of an announcement by
Gov. Orville Freeman of Min
nesota and Sen. Eugene J. Mc
Carthy (D-Minn) they were put
ting him up for nomination.
Humphrey said he had con
sulted Senate Democratic leader
Lyndon Johnson and had been
promised that a bill revising the
equal time provision will be
brought up next week for Senate
action.
Tacoma Indian
Hospital To Close
OLYMPIA, Washington, UP) —
The Public Health Service an
nounced Thursday it will close
i.s 350 - bed Indian tuberculosis
hospital at Tacoma Sept. 1 and
the state requested it for use in
its juvenile delinquencq pro
gram.
The federal agency, in Wash
ington, D.C., reported there now
is a surplus of beds for tubercul
osis patients in Alaska and the
Pacific Nox’thwest.
A PHS spokesman said the de
clining patient load at the Ta
coma hospital makes continued
operation impracticable. He said
patients not ready for discharge
prior to the Septal closing will
be transferred to other hospitals
near their homes.
Dr. Garret Heyns, director of
the State Department of Insti
tutions, said that the Tacoma in
stitution would be ideal for care
of juveniles.
U.S. Plans Chimj )S
To 4Man’ Next
Moon Orbiter
ALAMOGORDO, N. M., UPi —
One or more chimpanzees will be
put in orbit around the earth this
fall as the next step in the United
States space program, says the
Alamogordo News.
Quoting unnamed missile ex
perts the News outlined a detailed
space program Thursday in a
copyrighted story by reporter
Hal Wills.
After orbiting the chimpanzees,
the next step will be the firing
of the first moon rocket, the Sat
urn, in 1962 or 1963, the news
paper said.
In 1965 or 1966, the News said
the United States will fire the
Nova if the Saturn rocket project
is successful. The News decribed
the Nova as a seven-stage space
ship designed to land on the moon
and return to earth.
A successful space flight of the
X15 rocket plane will be a side
line to the actual program, sig
nificant only because it will be
the first time man will have left
the earth’s atmosphere under
rocket power, the News said.
“ . . . The first true step to
ward placing man on another
planet will be the huge and dra
matic Vega rocket, America’s
maiden man-carrying space ve
hicle,” it said.
It described the Vega as a
three-stage vehicle, with the At
las rocket as its first stage.
Castro Resigns
Premiership
Of Cuba
HAVANA, OP)—Fidel Castro is
resigning as premier today, the
newspaper of his 26th of July
movement announced.
His action appeared based on a
desire to seek an expression of
confidence from his government
and the Cuban people in the face
of criticism from both inside and
outside Cuba.
The movement’s newspaper,
Revolution, said:
“This newspaper has learned
that the prime minister has in the
last few hours taken the decision
to resign his post that he accepted
because of national necessity some
months ago.
“It is known also that without
doi^bt that public opinion will be
greatly moved by this action
which Fidel Castro will explain
in a news conference later to
day . . . ’
Sources close to Castro said the
revolutionary leader’s action ap
peared to be a political maneuver
aimed at provoking renewed sup
port.
There was no indication in Ha
vana that Castro’s a.ction was the
result of any anti-revolutionary
movement.
Political quarters expressed be
lief Castro’s absence from the
prime ministry would be brief.
There was no particular excite
ment in Havana beyond a rush
of office-goers for copies of the
Castro party newspapers. Other
newspapers did not have the an
nouncement.
The development came not long
after Foreign Minister Roa charg
ed the former Batista officials in
the United States who have “of
ficial connections” in Congress
are planning an invasion of Cuba
with 6,000 mercenaries based in
the Dominican Republic.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
National League
Chioago 4, Milwaukee 2
Philadelphia 6-0, San Francisco
4-1
Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 3
American League
Chicago 4-4, Boston 3-5
New York 7-4, Cleveland 5-0
Kansas City 4, Baltimore 3
Washington 5, Detroit 2
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 6, San Diego 1
Sacramento 4, Salt Lake City 2
Vancouver 1, Seattle 0
Portland 3, Spokane 1
FOREIGN MINISTERS FAIL AGAIN
TO MAKE PROGRESS AT GENEVA
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, UP)—The,foreign min
isters of Russia and the Western
power failed today to make any
progress in narrowing their dif
ferences over a possible Berlin
truce agreement.
Secretary of State Herter, Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Lloyd, For
eign Minister Couve De Murville
of France and Andrei Gromyko
debated the terms of a Berlin
standstill deal in a three - hour
luncheon meeting at Couve de
Murville’s villa.
The session was covered by a
secrecy agreement and Western
officials would say afterward only
that “no progress was achieved
in the meeting.”
The four agreed to another sec
ret meeting with Lloyd on Mon
day and arranged a formal ses
sion—at Gromyko’s request—at
the Palace of Nations Tuesday.
The three Western ministers
and Foreign Minister Heinrich
von Brentano of West Germany
will hold a strategy session to
morrow.
Herter, Lloyd and Couve de
Murville were understood to have
made a new effort at today’s
meeting to get Gromyko to break
the link between the proposal for
an 18-month truce in the Berlin
crisis and his proposal for an all
German committee to negotiate
on German reunification and a
peace treaty. Apparently they fail
ed again, as they had in public
sessions earlier this week.
NO END IN SIGHT YET OF
CRIPPLING STEEL STRIKE
Eisenhower and Labor
Secretary Mitchell
Discuss Steel Strike
WASHINGTON, M— President
Eisenhower and Secretary of La
bor James Mitchell discussed the
steel strike situation today for an
hour and 45 minutes.
The White House declined to
provide any details regarding the
long session. The President and
Mitchell conferred alone after the
regular weekly meeting of Eisen
hower’s cabinet.
Joseph Finnegan, chief of the
Federal Mediation and Concilia
tion Service, returned to Wash
ington Thursday to report to
Mitchell on talks in New York
with representatives of both sides
of the steel dispute.
House Recommends
$2 Billion More For
The AEC Program
WASHINGTON, OP)—An allot
ment of $2,629,114,000 in new
funds for the Atomic Energy
Commission was recommended
today by the House Appropria
tions Committee.
The money, for "use during the
current fiscal year, includes 65
million dollars for continuation of
the AEC program to develop a
nuclear-powered airplane. It will
be used in cooperation with the
Defense Department, which pre
viously was given 75 million for
work on the aircraft reactor pro
gram.
Th total in the bill is 58 mil
lion less than what President
Eisenhower requested.
Great-Grandmother Enjoys
Her Walk — Missouri to
Portland, Oregon
BOISE, iffi — Mrs. Emma Gate
wood, 71-year-old great-grand
mother of six, stopped here over
night on her trip from Indepen
dence, Mo., to Portland, Ore.
on foot.
She bought a new pair of shoes.
“People have been trying to
scare me out of this for a long
time,” said Mrs. Gatewood, who
lives in Lallipolis, Ohio. “But I
haven’t had any trouble. I just
take things as they come.”
She says she is enjoying the
trip, making about 25 or 26 miles
a day, turning down all offers of
rides and staying overnight us
ually in a motel.
She carries some spare cloth
ing, food, water and a blanket in
a 14-pound pack. She also carries
an umbrella.
Mrs. Gatewood is a widow. She
has 11 children, 27 grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren.
She started the 2,000-mile trek
on - May 4.
U.S. HOUSE FINALLY GETS
ITS OWN 49-STAR FLAG
WASHINGTON, (A>»—'The House
of Representatives finally has a
49-star flag for its standard in
the chamber.
Since 1901 it has been tradi
tional for the Daughters of the
American' Revolution to furnish
the flag for the House chamber.
Yesterday the DAR got around to
delivering one to House Speaker
Sam Rayburn.
The 49-star flag became of
ficial July 4th.
PITTSBURGH, UP»—Steel pro
duction loss mounted toward 100
million dollars today in the third
day of the nationwide steel strike.
No end to the crippling shutdown
is in sight.
Many more millions in wages
have been lost by 500,000 strik
ing United Steelworkers, quietly
manning picket lines at darkened
mills.
Losses on both sides will grow
steadily. The negotiations front is
static.
There’s little optimism on the
part of strikers, the steel industry
or the government that the con
tract statement can be resolved
quickly. Neither the industry nor
the union has given any sign of
retreating from its stand.
Federal mediation efforts in
the dispute will be renewed in
New York Monday.
David J. McDonald, president
of the steelworkers, told pickets
at the Bethlehem Steel plant in
Bethlehem, Pa., “We meet with
the government on Monday, but
I don’t know whether it will do
any good. Up to this point, we
have been meeting nothing but
messenger boys.”
Negotiations foundered on the
union’s demand for increased
wages and improved fringe bene
fits, the industry’s steadfast re
fusal to make any concessions
that would raise labor costs.
Steelworkers had been averag
ing $3.10 an hour before the
strike.
Fire Set In Home Detroit
Teamsters Union Official
DETROIT, m—Fire, which po
lice said was set deliberately, de
stroyed the interior of the home
of Teamster Union business agent
Charles O’Brien Thursday night
in suburban Bloomfield. Damage
was estimated at $35,000.
The family was not at home.
O’Brien was reported out of the
state with his wife and two chil
dren. He is business agent for
Teamsters Local 299, which is the
Detroit home local of Teamster
President James R. Hoffa.
Police said the living room of
the eight - room house and two
second-floor bedrooms had been
soaked with fuel oil.
O’Brien’s mother, Sylvia Paris
of Detroit, blamed her son’s; union
activities. She told police “He got
many threats. He laughed them
off but they scared me.”
Ballistic Missile Warning
Equipment Ready to Qo
ROME, N.Y., WPt—Much elec
tronic equipment for the United
States’ Ballistic Missile Early
Warning System will be funneled
to sites in Alaska and Greenland
from Griffiss Air Force Base here.
Radio Corp. of America, prime
contractor for BMEWS, will lo
cate 125 key men at Griffiss to
coordinate logistics for the proj
ect.
BEMWS is designed to detect
the launching of missiles several
thousand miles away. It will aug
ment the present Distant Early
Warning Line.
Radar equipment will be
mounted on three 16-story tow
ers 1,000 miles apart.
Work on the concrete founda
tions, two in Greenland and one
in Alaska, was begun last year.