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U. S. Considers Retaliatory Move for
Soviet Expulsion of Embassy Diplomat
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Kremlin Accuses
U. S. Attache of
Spying in Moscow
MOSCOW, (>P> — Soviet sources
said today Russian authorities
caught U. S. Embassy attache Rus
sell Langelle paying a Soviet cit
izen 20,000 rubles ($5,000 at the
official rate) for secret intelli
gence information.
Langelle left Monday for home
with his wife and three children,
having been declared unwelcome
last week by the Soviet govern
ment on spying charges.
Well-informed Soviet journal
ists said the Soviet version of the
Langelle case will be published
here shortly in reply to Wash
ington charges that the youthful
Missourian had been virtually
kidnaped, manhandled and
framed.
These sources said the Soviet
Foreign Ministry had informed
the United States it would not
publish anything about the inci
dent in order to continue the cur
rent friendlier tone of U. S.
Soviet relations. They added that
publication had been decided upon
only because of the publicity
emating from Washington, but a
date to print the Soviet version
here had not yet been set.
The United States dismissed the
accusation as groundless.
California Governor
Refuses Clemency for
Convicted Kidnap-Robber
SACRAMENTO, UR — Governor
Edmund Brown today refused to
grant clemency to Caryl Chess
man.
Chessman, who has been in
Death Row for 11 years, is sched
uled to be executed Friday.
Brown’s statement said the con
victed kidnap-robber has not
sought executive clemency and,
to the contrary, “he has declared
that he seeks only vindication.
“This I cannot give him. The
evidence #of his guilt is over
whelming.”
He said: “The record shows a
deliberate career of robberies and
kidnapings, followed by sexual
assault and acts of perversion ac
complished at the point of a
loaded gun.
“One of his victims, 17 years
old at the time, is still hopelessly
confined in a state mental hos
pital. Competent medical author
ities are of the opinion that her
condition is at least partially the
result of the outrages perpetrated
upon her.”
Swordfish Rams Boat
In California Waters
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., UR
—A 500-pound swordfish smashed
into a 30-foot cabin cruiser Sun
day and almost sank it.
The fish hit the bow of Louis
Warriner’s boat a foot below the
waterline 10 miles off Newport
Beach. The 50-inch bill and upper
jaw of the broadbill swordfish
snapped off in the boat and the
fish disappeared.
Water poured in through the
holes.
A Coast Guard cutter came in
10 minutes and towed the cruiser
to harbor.
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
State Department is reported to
be considering ejecting a Soviet
diplomat from the United States
in retaliation for the Soviet
Union’s ouster of the security
chief of the U. S. Embassy at
Moscow.
The prospect that such a step
will actually be taken is at the
moment highly uncertain. Sena
tor John Shermann Cooper (R-Ky)
called for such a move “in the
absence of an apology” from the
Kremlin.
The uncertainty is due partly
to the fact that some officials
consider direct retaliation in such
cases as an empty gesture. But it
is also the result of great puzzle
ment here about what the Soviet
move itself was supposed to
accomplish.
One theory advanced in diplo
matic quarters is that the Kremlin
wanted to warn the Soviet people
to be wary of friendly contacts
with Americans in spite of the
official policy of the “spirit of
Camp David” preached by Pre
mier Khrushchev.
But this is only a theory and
officials here are waiting to see
how the Soviets themselves
handle the case of 37-year-old
Russell A. Langelle before they
make up their minds what the
maneuver may mean.
The story broke Saturday when
the State Department accused the
Soviets of seizing Langelle Fri
day morning and trying by bri
bery and threats of violence to
make him into a spy for the Soviet
government.
The acting chief of the U. S.
Embassy, Edoard Freers, protested
to the Soviet Foreign Office Fri
day afternoon. The acting chief of
the American section, S. R. Stran
ganov — former Soviet Embassy
counsellor in Washington — in
reply accused Langelle of spying
on the Soviet Union and ordered
him out of the country.
SWEDISH CORRESPONDENT
BARRED FROM MOSCOW
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UR —
j Gustav Svensson, an Associated
I Press correspondent in Moscow
since last November, has been
barred from entering the Soviet
Union.
Svensson was notifed of this ac
tion after applying for exit and
re-entry visas in order to visit
his wife, recovering in a hospital
here. He was told he would not
be permitted to return.
Fairbanks Photographer
Wins Third Place Award
CHICAGO, (J*) — A picture en
; titled “Fishing?” by Jim Young
I of the Fairbanks Daily News
Miner placed third in the color
divsion of the annual meeting of
the Inland Daily Press Associa
tion here today.
A picture of a fireman bearing
the body of a child from a flame
ravaged school won top honors.
The photo, snapped December
1, 1958, by Steve Lasker of Chi
cago’s American during the fire
in Our Lady of the Angels School,
was the sweepstakes winner in
the 19th Annual News Picture
Contest sponsored by the asso
ciation and Northwestern Univer
sity’s Medill School of Journalism.
Hollywood Buries
Errol Flynn,
Famous Movie Idol
HOLLYWOOD, W) — Errol
Flynn, who made and spent mil
lions, returned to Hollywood —
in a plain wooden coffin.
And three of the many women
in the 50-year-old actor’s life
planned to attend his funeral this
morning at Forest Lawn.
In death as in life, the screen
lover stirred controversy. His es
tranged third wife, dancer Pa
trice Wymore, and his 17-year
old protege, blonde Beverly Aad
land, vied over who would handle
the funeral arrangements.
Miss Aadland, who had been
Flynn’s companion for the last
two years, planned to have the
actor’s body flown here from
Vancouver, B. C., where he died,
in a $1,000 coffin.
But she stepped aside as Miss
Wymore and her lawyers gave in
structions to an undertaking firm
in Vancouver.
Flynn’s body was brought south
ward in a traveling casket aboard
a railroad baggage car.
Buster Wiles, Flynn’s movie
stand-in and longtime friend, ac
companied the body on its last
trip.
“I’m going to spend part of the
time in the baggage car with
Errol and have a few drinks,”
Wiles said. “He would have liked
that.”
Nora Eddington, Flynn’s second
wife, plans to pay her final re
spects. The actor’s first wife,
French actress Lili Damita, in
Palm Beach, Fla., didn’t plan to
attend the rites.
Eisenhower Commends
Newsboys for Preparing
For Business Careers
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower says the nation’s 700,
000 newspaper boys and" girls
“strengthen two of our most cher
ished traditions: the freedom of
the American press, and the op
portunities of American citizen
ship.”
In a statement issued Friday in
connection with National News
paper Week, the President told
the newspaper carriers:
“With your help, our news
papers are swiftly distributed to
the homes and working places of
our people. With your earnings
and experience, you are better
able to prepare yourself for ca
reers of your choice.
“I am delighted to wish you
well.”
CHARLES COBURN. 82.
PULLS SURPRISE MARRIAGE
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Actor
Charles Coburn, 82, has brought
home a bride — a widow just
half his age.
He caught the film colory by
surprise Sunday when he flew to
Las Vegas, Nev., and married Win
ifred Jean Clements Natska. She
is 41. They returned home Sun
day night.
NAVY TIMING . . .
PORTLAND, Maine, UP) — When
Governor Clinton A. Clauson ar
rived to deliver the principal ad
dress at Naval ceremonies Sun
day, he found the crowd already
leaving. Quickly, he discovered
the reason for the mixup. “The
invitation said the program would
begin at 1400 hours,” he said. “I
thought that was 4 o’clock.”
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Presidential Mediators ‘Sadly’ Give Up
Attempts at Steel Strike Arbitration
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presiden
tial fact-finders today reported
“with sad hearts” their failure to
settle the nation’s longest steel
strike. President Eisenhower,
however, put off asking for a
court injunction sending the 500,
000 steelworkers back to the mills.
White House Press Secretary
James Hagerty said there is “no
time limit” on the President’s
study of the report of his board
of inquiry which tried for a week
without success to bring agree
ment between industry and the
United Steelworkers.
This apparently left time for
them to make voluntary moves
toward agreement by bargaining.
But Eisenhower’s three-member
fact-finding board gave little
hope for early success in their
37-page report to the White
House.
No Prospect for Settlement
“As we submit this report, the
parties have failed to reach an
agreement and we see no pros
pects for an early cessation of
the strike,” the report said.
The fact-finders, headed by Dr.
George W. Taylor of Philadelphia,
spent one hour and 14 minutes in
Eisenhower’s office with Secre
tary of Labor James Mitchell and
White House staff members. Then
they met reporters in Hagerty’s
office.
Taylor told newsmen the board
reached the end of the mediation
road “with very sad hearts, be
cause we feel this is an extreme
ly critical situation.”
“The parties have a continuing
obligation to resolve these issues,”
Taylor said, after observing that
the board feels the difference can
be resolved.
The board had striven for a
week to combine a last-ditch me
diation effort with its fact find
ing. It got the issues defined —
something the parties had not ac
complished since the dispute
flared in April—and got each side
to make some concessions.
Negotiations Collapsed Sunday
But last night the negotiations
collapsed finally. Chairman Tay
lor said the collapse was a break
down of collective bargaining.”
v The industry said it was re
sisting union wage-benefit de
mands that would “force another
round of disastrous wage infla
tion upon the steel industry and
the country.” The union said the
industry was deliberately forcing
a ‘ “police state” return of 500,000
unwilling workers to their jobs.
Everybody concerned — includ
ing Secretary of Labor Mitchell
— agreed an injunction may get
steel production resumed tem
porarily but will solve nothing
permanently. McDonald grimly
pledged a renewed strike should
an 80-day injunction reach its pre
scribed limit.
That imposed on the nation the
real threat of a new steel strike
in early January.
Two Main Issues Involved
At the root of the steel dispute
are two main issues: 1. Tijie in
dustry wants a freer hand at mak
ing manpower and other econo
mies — a leeway that McDonald
said would come only “over my
dead body.” 2. The union wants
economic concessions that the in
dustry strongly opposes.
Each side gave some ground.
The industry offered to submit
its management perrogative de
mands to arbitration. Even this
the union rejected. The union
pared down its wage-benefit de
mands. But they were still too
high for the steel firms.
When peace efforts folded Sun
day night the union stuck' fast on
a proposal for a two-year con
tract it valued at 19Vfe cents per
hour per man. The industry, say
ing the cost was far more, stood
for a three-year pact of some
thing about half what the union
wanted. Pre-strike workers’ earn
ings averaged $3.11 an hour.
Yellow Is Wrong Hunting
Color, Says Coroner
DOWNEY, Idaho, UP) — A coro
ner says the victim of a deer hunt
er’s bullet might have been spared
if he’d worn red clothing instead
of yellow.
But state fish and game direc
tor Ross Leonard, whose agency
had recommended yellow apparel
for hunters, said tests in Idaho,
California and Washington had
shown it to be more visible than
red in wooded areas.
Coroner Burton John said the
yellow vest worn by the weekend
victim, Nephi A. Hewlett, 26, of
Pocatello, Idaho, failed to show
up in autumn-yellowed foliage.
Hewlett was killed, but the cor
oner absolved the man who fired
the shot.
“At this time of year and in
this type of country,” John said,
“don’t wear yellow when hunt
ing. It blends in perfectly with
the background.”
‘The Drunkard,’ Hit Play,
Ends After Longest Run
In Theatrical History
LOS ANGELES, (JR — The final
curtain has fallen on “The Drunk
ard,” ending the longest run in
theater history.
A champagne toast and the
singing of “Auld Lang Syne” cli
maxed the 9,477th performance
of the Theater Mart Saturday.
When it was over, some of the
cast hardly realized the end had
come.
“Oh well,” said Neely Edwards,
76, who played the bartender in
the melodrama, “they told me this
job wouldn’t last when I took it.”
That was 26 years ago.
Heavy Accident Toll
Marks Opening Days of
Utah Hunting Season
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, UR —
Utah’s deer-hunting season opened
at dawn Saturday, and by the
weekend’s close seven persons
were dead and at least five had
been wounded.
Three men were shot to death
— one as he sat on his front
porch and watched neighbors
load their truck with hunting
gear, including a loaded rifle that
discharged accidentally.
Three other victims died of
heart attacks while hunting and
the seventh was killed when a
pickup truck overturned with a
party of deer hunters.
State officials estimated there
were 150,000 hunters out for deer
over the state.