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EISENHOWER SHAPES PUNS FOR
ASSURING McMILUN OF U.S. AID
IN ATOMIC ARMY STREAMLINING
TUCKER’S TOWN, Bermuda, Utf'
—President Eisenhower called on
his top military and diplomatic
advisers today to shape plans
for assuring Prime Minister Mac
Millan that the United States will
help Britain develop a stream
lined army with atomic striking
power.
Officials said the military is- j
sues iboil down to how much Bri- j
tain is going to cut its forces and 1
what can be done to increase the I
power of those remaining in uni
form by prvoiding them with
atomic age weapons.
Eisenhower was expected to as
sure MacMillan of U. S. help to
developing a mightier force with
fewer men under arms.
After four hours of negotiations
in two sessions on the Middle East,
spokesmen for the President and
Prime Minister announced they
had discovered a “gratifying meas
ure of agreement” on the whole
range of thorny issues.
U. S. officials stressed, how
ever, that for the moment the
United States is backing U. S.
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjld fully in his Cairo talks with
Egyptian president Nasser and
that no final decision will be made
until Hammarskjold has reported
to the United Nations.
The Middle East ground cov
ered in yesterday’s opening ses
sions of the Big Two Bermuda
meeting included consideration of
a suggested formula for resolving
, the immediate problem of the Gaza
Strip by getting,U. N. Emergency
Force (UNEF) troops spotted at
key points on both sides of the
Israeli-Gaza brder. The plan also
would make the U. N. force re
sponsible for security inside the
strip, with Egypt retainnig civilian
administration of the area.
Israel has in the past refused
to agree to proposals for putting
U. N. troops on its soil and has
said the way must not be left
open for Egypt to use Gaza again
as a base for raids into Israel.
The two leaders also agreed a
joint committee of experts would
study a British proposal for pro
moting construction of an Iraq
Iran-Turkey pipeline, with the
prime purpose of lessening the de
pendence of oil producing and
consuming countries on the Suez
Canal.
Also discussed were steps which
may have to be taken in regard
to the payment of Suez Canal
tolls, a prime issue in the Ham
marskjlod-Nasser talks. Western
nations using the canal had pro
posed that half the canal tolls be
paid to an international agency
for development and maintenance
of the waterway. Nasser replied
Egypt demands all the money but
might be willing to put some of
it into a development fund.
The two officials also blocked
out in principle possible moves to
establish the international nature
of the Strait of Tiran to assure
free passage of all ships into the
Gulf of Aqaba.
It was indicated that the issue
might be taken to the World Court
or some other international agen
cy. Egyptian guns kept Israel
ships ut of the Aqaba area prior
to Israel’s October-November in
vasion of Egypt; U. N. trops nw
are occupying the gulf shore and
Israeli-chartered ships are using
the waterway.
Britain Faces
Industrial and
Shipping Strikes
LONDON, (fl). — Ocean liners
streamed into the vast port of
Southampton today and berthed
without tugs or mooring crews
in a growing “beat the strike”
campaign.
Government mediators mean
while intensified a last-ditch at
tempt to crack a nationwide ship
yard strike and head off an al
lied walkout of Va million indus
trial workers scheduled to start
at noon tomorrow.
There were signs that Britain’s
other major strike threat, to the*
state-run railway system, might
be averted, by a wage _ compro
mise.
Southampton’s tug operators and
mooring men first blacklisted the
Queen Mary after the shipyard
strikers charged the Cunard Line
had taken the big ship unfinished
from a strike-idled repair yard.
The strike was ordered through
out the port when navy tugs
helped the liner sail for America
early yesterday.
—
Air Force Accused j
Of Waste in Use
Of Public Lands
WASHINGTON, UP) — The House
Interior Committee today accused
the Air Force of “incalculable
wastefulness” in the use of pub
lic lands for military purposes.
In a report recommending that
Congressional approval be re
quired for withdrawal of more
than 5,000 acres of public land
for military use, the committee
said the Air Force itself came
up with a report that it held
5,700,000 acres not needed for
bombing and gunnery ranges.
The committed asked that the
Defense Department insist on sim
ilar internal surveys by the Army
and Navy before any more public
land withdrawals qre made.
The committee said defense
agencies hold more than 300 mil
lion acres of land in the United
States and Alaska and are request
ing an additional eight million
acres. ,
While the committee conceded
that its jurisdiction is limited to
public domain land surface, it rec
ommended that “continuing eval
uations be made of federal legis
lation and administrative controls
governing the assignment and use
of airspace.”
HALT WASH. TOWN GAS WAR
WHEN CAUSE IS DISCOVERED
ELLENSBURG, Wash., UP) — A
sign proclaiming gasoline at 28.9
cents a gallon went up here.
Next day operators blanketed
the streets with matching signs.
A gas price war was on.
Wednesday prices jumped four
cents; the war was almost over
and faces were red.
The first price cutting sign, it
was discovered, had been placed
by an unknown prankster on an
abandoned service station, long
out of business.
Stratojet Crashes at
Florida Air Force Base
ORANDO, Fla., UP) — A B-47
I Stratojet bomber crashed soon
| after taking off from Pinecastle
Air Force Base shortly before
| dawn today, killing the four
| crewmen aboard.
The plane was taking off on a
| routine training flight when it sud
I denly began to lose altitude and
! crashed in a field about four miles
south of the air ase.
Its left wing struck an cak
tree and the plane spun to earth,
digging a furrow across the field
before it came to a halt in a mass
of wreckage.
NAVY JET SETS
NEW RECORD
ROUND TRIP
LOS ANGELES, (#> — Failing to
set a Los Angeles to New York
speed record, a twin engine Navy
jet bomber turned around and
flew back to Los Angeles, to es
tablish a new round trip record
of 9 hours, 35 minutes, 48 seconds,
and an east-to-west record of 5
hours, 14 minutes, 57.80 seconds.
Piloting the Douglas Skyraider
was Cmdr. Dale W. Cox Jr., Spirit
Lake, Idaho. His crew was Lt. Rus
sell Baum, the copilot, Baltimore,
and Marine T. Sgt. Robert L.
Butts, Mayigle, N. Y.
The former rounl trip record
was 11 hours, 18 minutes, 27 sec
onds, made May 21, 155.
Headwinds ruined Cmdr. Cox’s
hopes of besting the west-to-east
record, but at Floyd Bennett Field
Cox and his crew ate sandwiches
and sipped milk while crewmen
loadel 5,000 gallons of fuel for the
return trip.
Then, with box lunches of fried
chicken under their arms, they
climbed aoard for the .return.
Twenty minutes after arriving in I
New York, the Skyraider was on
its way back to Los Angeles.
Neb. Congressman
Asks Poll of Terr.
In Statehood Issue
WASHINGTON, UP) — Rep. Mil-j
ler (R-Neb.) said Wednesday night
he had asked newspapers and
radio stations in Alaska to con
duct a poll among readers and
listeners on the question “do you
favor immediate statehood for
Alaska?”
Miller, ranking Republican
member of a House Interior Sub
committee which is conducting a
hearing of statehood bills, said
he had sent telegrams to about 15
newspapers and radio stations in
Alaska requesting they conduct
a poll.
He said his telegrams suggested
those who answered the poll on
the single question of whether they
favored immediate statehood for
the territory need not sign their
I names.
“I suggested a poll be conducted
1 as a public service to see how
I many favored immediate statehood
for Alaska,” Miller said.
“I have received a lot of let
, ters from people in Alaska say
! ing they favored statehood even
: tually, but not now. I wanted to
find out the sentiment. I sug
I gested the ballots need not be
signed if desired.”
i Miller said in the past he has
“always favored statehood for
! Alaska, but I am not sure what
i my position is at this time.”
67 AMERICANS FEARED
DOWN IN AIRLINER
OFF COAST OF JAPAN
TOKYO, UPI — One of the great
est air-sea searches the Far East
has ever seen swung into its sec
ond day today for 67 Americans
on a U. S. military transport plane
reaching Japan.
More than 70 planes and about
a dozen Japanese and American
ships were poised to criss-cross
thousands of square miles of the
Pacific Ocean southeast of Japan.
Cloudy skies and rain squalls
which limited visibility yesterday
gave promise of lifting.
Hope dimmed after the first
day’s search failed to find the
plane or survivors in the 120-mile
wide corridor stretching 300 miles
southeast of Tokyo where the
plane was believed to have gone
down early Friday. Nevertheless
the search continued through the
night.
Thirty-foot swells also ham
Arty Chimp Earns $910
From Abstract Paintings
BALTIMORE, UP) — Betsy, Bal
timore’s arty primate, is working
overtime on her abstract painting
these days.
Baltimore zoo director Arthur
Watson said the 7-year-old chim
panzee’s paintings are selling like
hot cakes. In fact, the paintings
are about sold out. Her earnings
to date total $910.
Seattle Firm Submits
Low Bid for NIKE Sites
SEATTLE, UP — A low bid for
constructing four NIKE defense
sites in the Eielson Air Force Base
area, anounced today, was $1,
197,506 under the government es
timate.
The Alaska District Engineer’s
branch office here reported Peter
Kiewit Sons Co., of Seattle, sub
mitted low bids for each installa
tion and the low over-all bid of
$11,953,069.
The government estimate was
$13,150,575.
The apparent second lowest bid
was $12,514,264 by Green Con
struction Co. and S. Birch Co.,
Seattle.
Seven bids were submitted but
some did not bid on all four in
stallations. The engineer’s office
said all but one were under the
government estimates.
The four sites are labeled: Jig,
Tare, Peter and Mike.
Severe Quakes
Reported Again
Near Aleutians
PALISADES, N. Y., UP) — The
Labomnt Observator of Columbia
University today recorded an
earthquake in the vicinity of the
Aleutian Islands.
The observatory described the
shocks as among the most severe
in a three-week sequence in that
area. The first was recorded at
9:33 a. m. and the second at 9:41
a. m. The distance was estimated
at 4,100 miles northwest of here.
Fordhpm University recorded
the shocks at 9:31 a. m. and 9:39
a. m. The Rev. Joseph Lynch, uni
versity seismologist, said another
was recorded at 10:43 a. m.
pered the rescue ships.
The search area was to be ex
panded today to cover approxi
mately 75,000 square miles.
Some Japanese aviation experts
speculated the plane might have
crashed on one of a chain of vol
canic islands in the vicinity. One
of which is Mt. Mihara, a 2,470
foot active volcano into which a
Japan Air Line plane crashed
April 9, 1952, killing all 37 per
sons aboard.
The four-engine C-97, military
version of the Boeing Strato
cruiser, left Wake Island Thurs
day afternoon for Tokyo oh the
laSt leg of a flight from Travis
Air Base near San Francisco,
Calif.
The Air Force said 57 passen
gers end a crew of 10 were
aboard the plane, with the pas
sengers including 27 Air Force
personnel; T7 Army and 10 Navy
men; 2 cilivian government em
ployes, both men, and a Woman
military dependent, presumably
the wife of a serviceman stationed
in Japen.
The crew, which included at
least one woman, all were mem
bers of the Air Force. The plane
was operated by the Military Air
Transport Service (MATS).
One expert said if the plane
did ditch in 30-foot seas, it al
most certainly cracked up and
sank quickly, possibly befroe life
rafts could be launched.
“Only God could ditch success
fully in seas like that,” he said.
Legislature
Rejects Four
Nominations
JUNEAU, UFi — The Alaska
Legislature was in a turn-down
mood yesterday, rejecting four
nominations, incluring a second
term as Territorial Tax Commis
sioner for Karl F. Dewey.
But the territory’s law makers
unanimously confirmed nine other
appointments by Acting Governor
Waino Hendrickson.
They rejected the nomination
of Kenneth McKee of Ketchikan
to a 4-year term as a labor mem
ber of the Employment Security
Commission, succeeding Robert
Dixon of Fairbanks.
Hendrickson’s two nominations
to the Board f Juvenile Institu
tes were turned down. Rejected
on roll-call votes on straight party
lines were Mrs. Emily Boucher of
Nome and Mrs. Patricia Williams
of Seward.
The rejection of Dewey who
came to Juneau as an appointee
of former Governr Frank Heint
zleman, means that Hendrickson
must search elsewhere for a man
to fill the $ll,500-a-year post as
head of the Territorial Tax Office.
The governor can wait at least
20 days. Since the Legislature will
have adjourned, the new appointee
will fill the job on an interim
basis until the 1959 Legislature
meets. Dewey, however, is out.
A rejected appointee cannot be
named to an interim post.
Gubernatorial appointees in
cluded also Mrs. Audry Bayer of
Nome to the Board of Health, for
terms ending in 1961.