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. Kefauver Finds Status of U.S.
Missiles Program Worse Than
He Thought After Testimony
WASHINGTON. U5V-Sen. Ke
fauver (D-Tenn) said today three
days of testimony on the status
of the U. S. missiles program
shows the situation “is worse than
I thought it was.”
Kefauver, a member of the Sen
ate Preparedness Subcommittee
conducting the missiles-satellite
probe, said in an interview the
testimony by defense officials, in
telligence specialists and scien
tists added up to “shocking evi
dence of how the country has got
ten behind” Russia in certain
scientific-military fields.
More Money for Missiles
But the Tennessean said, “The
picture is not hopeless,” adding:
“We’ve got to give more money
and attention to missiles, satel
lites and scientific development
and education. We can catch up
and get ahead if wp only put our
will to it.”
Other subcommittee members
who sat in on a closed-door intel
ligence briefing Wednesday said
afterward they heard a “sad and
shocking” story on Russian mili
tary-scientific progress. The brief
ing was given by Allen Dulles,
chief of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
These senators, too, decline to
say just what they learned from
the CIA chief. But it was reported
last night tha^ the subcommittee
was told Russia now has a few
submarines, possibly four, capa
ble of firing a missile with a nu
clear warhead up to 700-900 miles.
Other vessels in Russia’s sub
fleet, estimated at about 450 boats,
were reported being readied for
such missile equipment.
U.S. East Coast Jeapordized
One informant said the report
ed Soviet sub-missile capability
“means they are practically in a
position to wipe out any major
city on the eastern seaboard.”
He did not say, however, that
any of the Russian subs now are
stationed within missile range of
the east coast.
The CIA was quoted by one
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At Least 180 Killed in Uprising
In Spanish Colony of Ifni; King of
Morocco Confers During U.S. Tour
RABAT, Morocco, (1P>—Spanish |
bombers have killed at least 1301
persons in the rebellious colony of ,
Ifni, the newspaper A1 Alam said!
today. Spanish forces launched
attacks by land and sea yesterday
in their effort to crush the upris
ing, it added.
The paper, organ of the Moroc
can lstiqlal (independence) Party,
said 50 persons were killed by
bombs in the village of Fouar and
130 in Uidi Hamed Larouss. ,
Planes and ships bombarded
the Moroccan village of Chira,
north of the Ifni enclave yester
day and the villages of Oum Ifis
sin and Shouikhat, in the south- \
east corner of the enclave, were i
bombed and machinegunned, and !
caused “many casualties,” by A11
Alam’s account.
The paper carried a map of the!
Ifni enclave showing the rebels in
control of three-quarters of the
area after five days of fighting;
all of it except a coastal strip and
a half circle around Sidi Ifni.
Moroccan officials spoke of re
volts in Ifni, implying uprisings
by the Berber tribesmen who live
in the 741-square-mile enclave.
The Spanish said the fighting
arose from raids by the Moroccan
Liberation Army, an irregular
force not directly controlled by
Rabat.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va„ UP>—
King Mohammed V of Morocco
turned his attention today from
an American sightseeing tour to
an irregular war back home over
the Spanish colony of Ifni.
The King was to confer on the
fighting with the chief aide of his
son, who has been running the
Moroccan government since Mo
hammed flew to Washington on
Sunday. The aide, Col. Moulay
Hafid, flew in yesterday from
Rabat.
The King and his party were
scheduled to leave this restored
colonial capital of Virgina at 8
a.m. for a flight to Dallas. His 16
day tour of the United States will
include later stops at Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Omaha and New
York City.
Mohammed flew here on a spe
cial Air Force Constellation after
Vice President Nixon bade him a
warm farewell in Washington.
Aides said the 48-year-old mon
arch was immensely pleased with
results of his talks with Secretary
of State Dulles.
Hafid, aide to Crown Prince
Moulay Hassan, arived later to
brief the King on fighting in the
tiny Spanish colony of Ifni facing
the Atlantic and surrounded by
Morocco on three sides.
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DECISION ON
FREIGHT RATES
MAY COME SOON
WASHINGTON, UP>—Alaskans
may learn today what, i{ any.
freight rate increase may be put
into effect Monday.
Because today the final working
day of the Federal Maritime
Board before Monday, it is the
practical deadline for action by
the board to forestall the 15 per
cent boost asked by the Alaska
Steamship Co. and Coastwise
Lines.
While J^ie board may find the
proposed increase reasonable and
permit it to go into effect as is
scheduled, agency sources said in
view of protests received it is
likely the board will follow one
of several alternate courses.
These include suspending all or
part of the requested increase for
periods up to four months to per
mit an investigation and hearing,*
or permitting all or part of the
increase to become effective sub
ject to refund if later disallowed.
President of Tunisia
Annoucement Throws .. ..
Rebels Into Confusion
TUNIS, Tunisia, —President
Habib Bourguiba claims the Al
gerian National Liberation Front
(FLN) has made a major -revision
in policy in the Algerian rebellion
and no longer is insisting upon
independence before negotiating
with France.
The statement threw FLN head
quarters here into confusion.
In making a recording for his
weekly broadcast in Arabic to the
Tunisian people last night, Bour
guiba said: “The FLN leaders
have abandoned the demand for
a prior grant of inlependence in
response to our appeal.”
The Tunisian ministry of speech
held back the page continuing the
statement. But the ministry is
sued it later in a slightly differ
ent form, with the meaning un
changed. When the tape recording
was finally made in Arabic the
original statement remained.
FLN sources, after hours of dis
cussion, said today Bourguiba pos
sibly had made “a slip of the
tongue.” They did not deny his
statement, however.
CG Cutter Storis Nears
Last Lap in Voyage
Around North America
SAN FRANCISCO, UP>—T h e
Coast Guard cutter Storis has ar
rived enroute to Seattle—the last
leg in the circumnavigation of
North America by way of the
arctic.
The vessel lef£ Seattle last July
1 to seek a deep water channel
thru the arctic. The skipper is
Cmdr. H. L. Wood of Trenton,
N.J. The Storis’ home port is Ko
diak, Alaska.
The route was across the top of
Prince of Wales Strait, then re
turn via the Panama Canal.
Eisenhower Continues to Make
Rapid Recovery From Stroke;
May Attend NATO Meeting Dec. 16
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France to Accept
Moroccan Help
In Algerian Crisis
PARIS (£>—France today reject
ed the mediation offer of Moroc
co and Tunisia but agreed to ac
cept their help in seeking a cease
fire to end the three-year nation
alist rebellion in Algeria.
The French decision was an
nounced by Premier Felix Gail
lard in the National Assembly as
he made a final plea for two gov
ernment bills which are intended
to give Algeria at least partial
home rule once peace has been
restored there.
The bills—one setting up a fed
eral form of government for the
territory’s home affairs and the
other ruling on how elections
should be organized to give fair
representation for both Moslems
and Europeans—were both made
issues of confidence in the three
week-old Gaillard government.
Gaillard told the deputies that
he well understood the uneasiness
of the former French protector
ates of Morocco and Tunisia.
“But,” he added, “the basic
policies of France cannot be
changed. We will never agree to
consider the million Frenchmen
of European origin as foreigners j
in their native territory where
they must keep their rights.”
Gaillard said nothing was pos
sible without a cease-fire. And
there is no need for a conference
for that, he said.
British Opinion Divided Over
U.S. Bombers Carring H-Bombs
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On Training Flights Over Britain
LONDON, Iff)—While Laborites
continued to express misgivings
about U.S. bombers making train
ing flights from Britain with H
bombs aboard, the British press
rallied to the Conservative gov
ernment’s stand today.
The most widely read paper in
the country. The Daily Mirror,
said today East-West tensions
fully justify arming the bombers
with nuclear weapons. The inde
pendent newspaper usually sup
ports the Labor Party.
The carrying of bombs was re
vealed in the House of Commons
Wednesday when Foreign Secre
tary Selwyn Lloyd said he “should
think they do. Prime Minister
MacMillan stepped in yesterday
to allay some of the tension that
was raised.
MacMillan said U.S. authorities
have taken elaborate precautions
to prevent a nuclear blast should
a bomb-carrying plane crash. He
explained that the planes carry
bombs in separate parts that have
to be expertly assembled before
a nuclear explosion is possible.
Some Labor groups reacted to
the news with resolutions oppos
ing the practice of flying H-bombs
around over Englishmen’s heads.
The Laborite Daily Herald
quoted some Britons living near
U.S. bases as expressing fear of
being killed in a nuclear blast.
► WASHINGTON, (*)—President
Eisenhower set out by automobile
today for a weekend or more at
his Pennsylvania farm in a strik
ing new demonstration of speedy
recovery from his mild stroke.
The Chief Executive, piling the
move on top of yesterday’s burst
of activity which included sur
prise attendance at a Thanksgiv
ing church service, went with full
approval from his doctors, the
White House said.
A Cabinet meeting is scheduled
Monday. And on Tuesday, con
gressional leaders of both parties
are coming to the White House
for a briefing on military and de
fense matters and the legislative
program for the new congression
al session.
If the President decides to stay
on at his farm for awhile, he will ^
conduct a limited amount of gov
ernment business from the farm
headquarters. He convalesced at
the farm from his 1955 heart at
tack and his 1956- intestinal ill
ness.
Any forecast last Tuesday that
Eisenhower would be traveling to
Gettysburg today would have
been roundly challenged. It was
then, three days ago, that his doc
tors announced he had suffered a
blockage of a brain artery branch.
Slight stroke is the common term
for that kind of seizure.
There were these other encour
aging developments:
1. The White House physician,
Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder, put
out another medical bulletin re
porting the President was contin
uing to make excellent recovery
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