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Herter Challenges Soviets To Bargain
In Good Faith at Geneva Resumption
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, — U. S. Secretary
of State Christian Herter told the j
Soviet Union today the United
States' hopes for sufficient prog
ress in working out an East-West
agreement in the Big Four con
ference here to warrant a summit
conference.
Herter challenged Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Gromyko to
provide specific assurances for the
protection of Western rights in
■ West Berlin during a Soviet-pro
posed moratorium in the Berlin
crisis.
The Big Four conference re
sumed meetings at the Palace of
Nations after a three-week recess,
with Herter as chairman for the
day.
He recalled that during the first
round of the conference the West
and the Soviet Union had pro
posed plans for the future of Ber
lin and each side had rejected the
other’s pi'oposal. He specifically
cited Gromyko’s proposal of June
10 for a one-year standstill agree
ment on Berlin and recalled that
the time limit was later extended
by another Soviet plan to 18
months.
In a reversal of their earlier
stand, Secretary Herter and his
British and French colleagues
were reported ready to negotiate
with Gromyko on his offer of a
Berlin standstill agreement.
But they want the proposed
moratorium to run for at least 30
months, instead of 18 months, and
they want a pledge of Soviet re
spect for Western rights in Berlin.
Moscow Reports 2 !
Space - Dogs Safely
Landed Friday
LONDON, (£1 — The Soviet
Union rocketed two dogs into
space July 10 and brought them
back to earth, Moscow Radio said
today.
The broadcast said the dogs were
carried aloft in a ballistic rocket
weighing 2,200 kilograms — 4,845
pounds.
Quoting an official Tass dis
patch, the radio said a quantity
of equipment was also parachuted
back to earth.
The first announcement gave no
■details of the height attained by
the rocket.
One of the dogs, Daring, was
making its fourth ascent into
space, Tass said.
Daring, another dog named
Snowflake, and a rabbit named
Marfooshka (Little Martha) were
shot up in a 4,009-pound rocket
on July 2 and were recovered,
the Russians announced a week
ago.
The agency said the instru
ments recorded infra-red radia- i
' tion of the earth and the earth’s |
atmosphere, photographing of:
clouds over a vast territory, a
simultaneous analysis of the ion
and neutron composition of the
atmosphere and a measurement of
the electrostatic field.
INTERIOR DEPT. SHIFT
WASHINGTON, DPI — The In
terior Department announced Fri
day that Virgil T. Heath, state su
pervisor at Portland, Ore., was
transferred to Salt Lake City as
program co-ordinateion officer
for the Arizona, Idaho, New Mexi
co and Utah area headquarters.
He replaces Roscoe Bell, who re
signed to become Commissioner of
Public Lands in Alaska.
SUNDAY RESULTS
National League
Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 5.
Chicago 7-1, Philadelphia 6-4.
Milwaukee 4, San Francisco 2.
Cincinnati 5, Los Angeles 3.
American League
Detroit 6-4, Cleveland 2-8.
Boston 7, New York 3.
Baltimore 5, Washington 1.
Chicago 5-9, Kansas City 3-7.
Pacific Coast League
Portland 3, Vancouver 0.
Phoenix 11, Sacramento 4.
Salt Lake 6-5, San Diego 2-7.
Seattle 8, Spokane 4.
! Royal Fishing Party Has
Weekend in Canada
KAMLOOPS, B. C., UPi — Queen
Elizabeth went fishing yesterday
and she and Prince Philip each
pulled in several rainbow trout.
The royal couple was out in a
motor boat for about four hours
and boated trout weighing up to
one pound.
The report from the remote
mountain lodge at Pennask, was
received by Royal Canadian
Mountain Police radio after an
RCMP plane carrying dispatches
from Pennask was unable to land
in Kamloops because of turbu
lence.
The Queen and her husband
were reported enjoying immense
ly their secluded holiday which
is offering a midway break in
their 45-day Canadian tour.
The royal couple also basked
in the sun, with the temperature
rising into the 90’s. They attended
an abbreviated morning prayer
service and communion by Dean
Jolley of St. Paul’s Anglican Ca
thedral in Kamloops, who flew
into the 4,600-foot-high lake re
sort to conduct the service.
i Sheriff, Bloodhound Take
Up Trail of Missing Hiker
JUNEAU, UD — An Oregon sher
| iff with a bloodhound joined Sun
day in the search for a former
Utah football player missing since
he walked away from a drilling
camp last Thursday.
Alaska Coastal Airlines flew
Sheriff Edward W. Elder of Lane
County, Ore., and his dog to the
area of the Boyles Bros. Drilling
Co. camp in rugged country 50
miles southeast of here. Employes
of the company said Larry Amzich
disappeared while on a hike to
a nearby coastal beach.
At Eugene, authorities said El
der was donating his time. They
said his expenses were being paid
by the Salt Lake City drilling
firm.
ALAMEDA, Calif., — The
cavernous hangar dock of the air
craft carrier Midway was the
scene of a reception and farewell
party Sunday night for 130 reserve
midshipmen about to leave on a
30-day training cruise.
All went well until someone
turned on the hangar deck’s
sprinkler system.
Some of the midshipmen, some
of the girls, and some of the brass
got wet.
Industry Heads
Hold Little Hope
At Steel Parley
NEW YORK, UP) — Stalled steel
negotiations got under way again
today at White House bidding but
with scant prospect of an agree
ment to avert a strike at midnight
i Tuesday.
The union promised to make “an
All-American try at negotiating a
strike-saving settlement.
R. Conrad Cooper, chief indus
try negotiator, threw cold water
on settlement prospects and
showed irritation in posing with
union president David J. McDon
ald for photographers.
Cooper said there was only one
possible way a strike could be
avoided — for the union to again
extend its contract.
McDonald, however, ruled out
any further delay in a showdown.
Cooper said the union already
has caused the industry injury by
the fact that many firms have had
to close down some facilities in the
costly. preparation for an orderly
industry shutdown.
The bargaining talks had broken
off Sunday with no further nego
tiating sessions scheduled.
President Eisenhower this morn
ing urged both sides to resume
the meetings to try to reach a
strike-saving solution.
The industry, prior to today’s
developments, had already started
banking furnaces and slowing pro
duction. Three days are normally
required for a big plant to shut
down without damaging equip
ment.
15-Year-Old Girl
Burns up Family —
Wonders Why!
ELMIRA, N. Y., — Fifteen-year
old Jane Shusko admits setting
the fire that killed seven members
of her family, police say, but she
doesn’t know why.
From her statement, the girl
didn’t appear to have been mad
at anyone of the family, nor was
she holding a grudge of any kind.
Jane’s brother and six of her
eight sisters died of asphyxiation
in their second-floor bedrooms
' Saturday night.
Jane escaped with her mother,
i Lillian. The two other daughters
were rescued by a neighbor. Mi
chael Shusko, the father, was at
j work in a milk-processing plant.
Police said Jane had signed a
I statement that she had thrown a
lighted match on a pile of papers
in a first-floor clothes closet. She
a’so admitted having lit two fires
the previous day.
She will be held in jail for
court-ordered psychiatrict tests.
Neighbors described the girl as
a friendly, hard working and well
mannered child.
POPULAR MATADOR GORED
IN. MEXICAN ARENA
TIJUANA, Mexico, U!> — Mata
dor Luis Procuna was gored by a
charging bull Sunday.
The 36-year-old idol of Latin
American bullfight fans is under
treatment at a private clinic. His
condition was described as un
comfortable but not dangerous.
Procuna, known to his follow
ers as “King of the Gypsies,” was
hit from behind by the 850-pound
bull.
Loaded Boeing Jet Circles Idlewild
C
4 Hours; Lands with Broken Gear
NEW YORK, UP) — In a big,
barn-like hangar, federal investi
gators today puzzled over a broken
metal shaft in the wheel assembly
of a huge jet airliner that got back
to earth skittishly but safe.
At the same time, civil officials
tangled over conditions prevailing
at Idlewild Airport while the
damaged plane, with 113 persons
aboard, circled the field for four
hours Saturday night.
It finally edged down to the
runway, sparks flying, on its lop
sided undercarriage.
Civil Aeronautics Board and
Federal Aviation Agency experts
were ‘examining the Pan Amer
ican World Airways Boeing
707, trying to determine what
caused a steel shaft to break.
The break, they said, allowed
the front pair of wheels in the
four-wheel landing gear under the
left wing to drop off on takeoff.
The remaining two left wheels had
to bear the landing impact on that
side.
They sought to determine whe
ther the break resulted from a
manufacturing flaw, or developed
later and was not discovered dur
ing regular inspections of the
aircraft.
They also were checking run
way conditions at all airports
j where such jet airliners operate
to determine whether any obstruc
tions or rough spots could have
contributed to severing the wheel
shaft.
The horizontal steel beam is
about seven inches in diameter,
and is hollow with a wall about
one-quarter-inch thick.
Meanwhile, Austin T. Tobin,
executive director of the New
York Port Authority, fired back a
barbed note to the city fire com
missioner wo had charged that
“ignorance and confusion” reigned
at the airport during the emer
gency.
Hampered by Thrill-Seekers
The rescue efforts were severe
ly hampered by thrill seekers
thronging to the airport by car
and on foot.
Airport authorities said there
were 50,000 of them, knocking
over barriers, spilling onto the
field, jamming roads so fire equip
ment couldn’t get through.
Meanwhile, the pilot circled, a
mile up in the night sky, waiting
to make an emergency landing. He
worried about the more than 100
tons of airplane, with a landing
speed of 150 miles an hour, crunch
ing down on the broken landing
gear.
He was afraid the plane might
slew off the runway, or catch fire
as the broken gear struck sparks
from the c'oncrete.
He didn’t know it at the time,
but a greater danger awaited him
on the ground. At least 4,000 per
sons lined the runway.
Officials said that the 200 air
port and city police on hand were
helpless.
When Capt. Edward Sommers
finally brought the big jet lower
and approached the runway, he
saw the crowds and delayed land
ing. Later he was bitter, saying
they were the “biggest menace”
of the ordeal.
Sommers, a 44-year-old grand
father from Brookside, N. J., is
a veteran of 20 years with Pan
American.
Japanese - British Trade
Relations. Reviewed by
Government Chiefs
LONDON, .UP — Premier Nobu
suke Kishi put Japan’s ideas for
far-reaching changes in Anglo
Japanese trade relations before
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan
in an hour-long meeting today.
Qualified informants said these
ideas included discussion of a mod
ification in British restrictions now
posted on Japanese imports and a
change in Britain’s application of
the international general agree
ment on tariffs and trade to give
Japan most favored nation treat
ment.
On his flight- here from Japan,
he was delayed 14 hours at An
chorage Saturday because of en
gine trouble.
ANCHORAGE MAY SPEAKS AT
MAYORS CONFERENCE
LOS ANGELES, UP — Mayor
Hewitt Lounsbury of Anchorage
was scheduled to address the an
nual meeting of the conference of
mayors today.
Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poul
son presided as conference presi
dent. More than 500 "delegates
were expected.
Mayor Richard Daley of Chi
cago, vice president, said that an
nual meetings have done much to
promote exchange of important
information among city govern
ments on the problems of urban
renewal, housing, transportation,
freeways and other matters.
Alaska Water Projects
Funds Ceiling May Be
Dropped By Interior Dept.
WASHINGTON, UP! — Removal
of a $250,000 annual ceiling on
investigations of water projects in
Alaska has been recommended by
the Interior Department.
Fred J. Aandahl, assistant sec
retary, set forth the department’s
position in a letter to Senator
James E. Murray (D-Mont), chair
man of the Senate Interior Com
mittee.
“The limitation is an arbitrary
one that bears no relationship to
the attainment of an effective pro
gram of investigation in Alaska,”
Aandahl wrote. “There appears to
be no reason why Alaska should be
singled out for such a restriction,
unless it should be considered
justified in view of the preferen
tial treatment afforded Alaska in
granting to it 90 per cent of the
proceeds from coal leases, opera
tion of coal mines and leasing of
public lands.”
He said the limitation had forced
investigations of certain projects
to be extended over several years
at added expense.
SCOFFS AT POLICE INQUIRY
„ ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., —
Thomas Teeter of Albuquerque
jumped into the car, put it out
of gear and rolled downhill into
a car owned by Edward T. Cooney.
Patrolman Joe Cisneros said,
“When I asked to see his driver’s
license he just laughed at me.
Thomas is two years old.