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Robertson Reports
Korean Armistice
Now Up To Reds
WASHINGTON, UP — Assistant
Secretary of State Walter S. Rob
ertson after a conference with
President Eisenhower today said
that an armistice in Korea now is
squarely up to the Communists.
Robertson made the statement
to newsmen immediately after
giving Eisenhower a personal re
port on his mission to win the
support of South Korean Presi
dent Syngman Rhee for a truce.
Accompanied >by Secretary of
State Dulles who met him at the
airport, Robertson checked in at
the White House a little over an
hour after his arrival from the
Orient.
Robertson said Rhee “has not
changed his objections” to an ar
mistice, “but has agreed to col
laborate with us” in an effort to
achieve unification of Korea by
peaceful means.
The Korean leader had been
holding out for an agreement to
renew the war if nefcessary to'
reach unification.
Powerful New U.S.
Flare Cause Of
“Saucer” Stories
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Air
Force anounced today a powerful
new flare for night photography
and said the device has been re
sponsible for some of the reports
of flying saucers in the past two
years.
“Police and field officials were
besieged with phone calls report
ing flying saucers or planes going
down in flames” when the 10
million candlepower flare was
first tested secretly in 1951 near
Windsor Locks, Conn., the Air
Force said in a statement.
Essentially the device is a giant
magnesium flare, attached to the
wing of a reconnaissance plane
and controlled by the pilot.
Its designers—a group of scien
tists and engineers at Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Conn.—
named it the “hell roarer” for the
tremendous flood of sound ^emitted
in the burning of finely-pulver
ized magnesium powder at ex
tremely high temperatures.
The powder is contained in a
torpedo-like cylinder 12 feet long.
The intense light will burn for
more than four minutes, and the
pilot can turn it on and off as
needed.
The purpose is to make it pos
sible to take pictures of enemy
activity at night at low altitudes
and at high speed.
JUNE REVOLT IN EAST
GERMANY COST 587 LIVES
BERLIN, UD—A Hamburg news
paper said Wednesday that the
June 17 East German revolt claim
ed 587 lives, including 141 exe
cuted by Soviet firing squads.
The paper, Die Welt, said 1,870
other persons were wounded dur
ing the uprising.
These figures, far exceeding any
previous estimates, have been con
firmed by Gen. Wilhelm Zaisser,
East German minister for state
security, Die Welt said.
Glenn L. Emmons, New
Mexico Banker, Named
Indian Commissioner
WASHINGTON, OP) — President
Eisenhower today nominated
Glenn L. Emmons, Gallup, N.M.,
banker, to be Commissioner of
Indian Affairs.
Emmons would succeed Dillon
S. Myer, resigned.
Emmons, 57, is president and
board chairman of the First State
Bank of Gallup.
He is a veteran of World War I
and a former member of the
board of regents of the University
of New Mexico.
Eisenhower told a news confer
ence a week ago he was trying to
find the best man available for
the job of Indian Commissioner,
and that as he promised during
his campaign, he would consult
with various Indian tribes before
making his choice.
Big Three Present Notes
To Russia Proposing Big
Four Meeting In Autumn
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
United States, Britain and France
today presented notes to Russia
formally proposing a Big Four
foreign ministers meeting on Ger
man unification.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White said the United
States note had been delivered to
the Soviet embassy here this
morning and similar steps had
been taken by the Allied govern
ments of London and Paris.
This was in accord with agree
ments worked out by the Big
Three western foreign ministers
at a five-day conference ending
last night. The Big Three decided
to take the initiative in demand
ing action on reuniting East and
West Germany and on completing
an Austrian peace treaty. Their
communique called for the session
in the autumn.
MARCIANO TO FIGHT
LA STARZA SEPT. ON 24
NEW ^fORK, (£)—Heavyweight
champion Rocky Marciano today
signed to defend his title against
Roland La Starza of New York at
the Polo Grounds, New York, on
Sept. 24. It will be Marciano’s sec-;
ond defense of the title he won
from Jersey Joe Walcott last
September.
Marciano will receive 42 Vz per
cent of the gate receipts and La
Starza IIV2 per cent. The contract
has a six - month return bout
clause.
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Jabara Bags 15th MIG On
95th Mission Over Korea
SEOUL, UP)—Maj. James Jabara,
America’s first jet ace, bagged his
15th Communist MIG today to be
come the world’s second-ranking
jet ace.
Jabara scored his victory on the
95th combat mission of his second
Korean tour. It also made him the
second triple jet ace in history.
Today’s victory puts Jabara
within one MIG of the all-time
record held by Capt. Joseph Mc
Connell of Apple Valley, Calif.,
who bagged 16 MIGs.
Jabara is within five missions
of returning to the United States
at the end of his present 100
mission tour.
Bodies Recovered
As Hope Fades for
Crash Survivors
HONOLULU, UP) — Rescuers
Tuesday pulled -burned and muti
lated bodies from shark-infested
waters 350 miles east of Wake
Island where a Transocean Air
lines passenger plane crashed Sat
urday night with 58 abroad.
Fifty passengers—nine of them
children—and eight crewmen pre
sumably perished in the crash.
The Navy transport: Barrett re
covered 11 bodies, two of them
children, before dark Monday
night and had sighted three others.
The bodies recovered included
a boy, a girl, four women and
two men. The sex and age of
the others had not been deter
mined.
Hope for survivors faded rapid
ly as the Barrett reported sight
ing the fifth and last raft carried
by the ill-fated DC-6B plane. The
raft was empty.
The Barrett’s medical officer
aboard the Navy transport said
after viewing the scorched and
mutilated bodies:
“There is little hope of any sur
vivors.”
Dispatches from the Barrett in
dicated the water was churning
with sharks. The rescuers re
ported they could not retrieve the
last three bodies sighted “be
cause of sharks.”
The airlines, -bound from Guam
to Oakland, Calif., was last heard
from at 10:20 p.m. Honolulu time
Saturday, when it reported its
position as 325 miles east of
Wake. It apparently plunged into
the sea minutes later without a
chance to send out a distress sig
nal.
Sex-Strangler of Notting
Hill, London, Is Hanged
LONDON, Iff) — John Reginald
Halliday Christie, the Notting Hill
sex strangler who confessed he
killed seven women but might
have murdered more, was hanged
today in Pentpnville Prison.
Even as he died, a controversy
raged over whether the mild-ap
pearing transport worker and
wartime auxilliary cop was guilty
of a baby’s murder for which an
other man was hanged three years
ago.
The case of the insanity-plead
ing wholesaler in killing, who
walled up his victim’s bodies in
his apartment or buried them in
his garden, had shocked Britain
as no other murder spree since
Jack the Ripper’s.
The sentence was carried out
by Albert Pierrepont, England’s
chief hangman, who' keeps a York
shire pub called “Help the Poor
Struggler” when not at his offi
cial duties.
Put A Head On The Water?
NEW HARTFORD, Conn., (ff)—
Water company officials were
wondering what they would have
done if the trailer truck that
crashed through a retaining wall
yesterday had rolled a few feet
more and plunged into the area
reservoir.
The truck was loaded with 800
cases of beer.
Tourists Cancel Travel
To Valley 10,000 Smokes
Fearing Volcanic Eruption
ANCHORAGE, UPi—Alaska tour
ists have been cancelling travel
reservations to the Katmai camps
in the Valley of 10,000 Smokes be
cause of the fear of volcanic erup
tion, Ray Petersen, airlines offi
cial, said yesterday.
Peterson, president of Northern
Consolidated Airlines, flew to' Se
attle last night. He said he wanted
to publicize the fact that there is
no such danger. The recent Mount
Spurr eruptions were some 300
miles to the northwest of the Kat
mai area.
Tourists Flock To View
Mount Spurr Volcano
ANCHORAGE, Iff)—A new erup
tion at Mount Spurr, mild in com
parison with last week’s blowup,
was confirmed Tuesday.
Volcano experts at the 11,050
foot mountain 78 miles west of
here said a steam eruption oc
curred at 2 p.m. Monday, causing
static electricity and thunder
storms in the area.
Meantime, a brisk tourist busi
ness developed as a result of last
week’s eruption which showered
volcanic ash over a wide area.
Northern Consolidated Airlines re
ported more than 250/tourists had
been flown to Mount Spurr since
last Friday.
Float planes have been landing
on a new lake created by the first
eruption. The lake, named Lake
Spurr by local pilots, is five miles
long and a mile wide. It was
formed by waters of the Chak
chatna River, backed up by silt
and ash deposited in the channel.
Dr. Werner Juhle and Henry
Colter, Geological Survey ‘experts
now at Mount Spurr, reported
they moved their camp higher on
the mountain after bears de
stroyed their headquarters and ate
their food.
U.S. Destroyer Hits School
Of Whales In The Pacific
TOKYO, iff) — The Navy today
said the U. S. Destroyer Blue
bumped into two or three whales
while enroute to a Pacific island.
“We were going along nice and
smooth,” said Merle Fisher, sea
man from Cook, Neb., “when all
of a sudden we felt a couple of
bumps.”
Chief Yeoman Andrew Falej,
Perth Amboy, N.J., said “In the
ten years I’ve been in the Navy,
I’ve only heard of this happening
once or twice.”
George Wagner, of Memphis,
Mo., added:
“When we got back to the spot
where we hit the whale we found
a large red stain in the ocean with
two whales thrashing around. We
must have hit a whole school of
whales.”
The destroyer was not damaged.
TUESDAY SCORES
All-Star Game
National League 5, American
League 1
Coast League
Hollywood 2-2, Portland 0-1
San Francisco 8-3, Seattle 4-1
Oakland 2-d2, Sacramento 1-0
Los Angeles 6, San Diego 1
Showdown Coming
Will Make or Break
The Truce Talks
PANMUNJOM, l/P)—An authori
tative source said tonight a show
down is coming between Allied
and Communist truce negotiators
tomorrow in a secret session
which will “make or break the
talks.”
“There is a very distinct pos
sibility of another breakdown in
the talks,” the source said. He
added that the veil of secrecy will
be lifted from the negotiations if
there is a breakdown.
There were strong indications
the showdown would come over
Red demands for the recapture of
non-Communist Korean prisoners
freed last month and iron - clad
guarantees from the U. N. that
South Korea would honor a truce.
The source, who could not be
identified, gave his estimate of the
truce situation after the Chinese
Communist radio claimed the U.N.
Command negotiators '‘walked
out” of Wednesday’s truce meet
ing. But Peiping radio made it
clear there would be another
meeting at the customary hour of
11 a.m. on Thursday.
Chinese Open
New Drive
SEOUL, Thursday, UP — Fresh
Chinese Communist troops sup
ported by tanks and thunderous
artillery opened a new drive at
dusk Wednesday south of Kum
song cm the Korean east-central
front, ending a brief lull in the
biggest Red offensive in more
than two years.
Fighting was described by of
ficers as heavy where the Reds
hit the line.
There was no immediate report
of fighting along the rest of the
20 mile front between Kumhwa
and the Pukhan River which
80,000 Reds rolled back an undis
closed distance Monday and Tues
day.
A combination of stubborn
South Korean resistance, driving
rain and a blistering curtain of
Allied artillery fire had stalled
the massive Red drive by 11 a.m.
Tuesday along the front.
Lt. Gen. Chung 11 Kwon, com
mander of a Republic of Korea
army corps with several ROK div
isions under him said Wednesday
night he is confident his men
would be able to push back to
the Kumsong River.
Chung’s statement passed thru
Strict U.N. Command censorship
which would not permit disclos
ure of how far south the Chinese
drive has reached, beyond an an
nounced four-mile penetration.
16 CASES POLIO REPORTED
IN ALASKA SINCE JAN. 1
JUNEAU, (51—Alaska has had
a total of 16 polio cases since
January 1. Two new cases were
reported yesterday to the Terri
torial Health Department. One
was a mild attack, suffered July
10 by a 10-year-old boy who
lives on the Glacier Highway near
Juneau. The other was an 11
year-old boy at Moose Pass. He
was stricken July 3 with paralytic
polio.