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Nasser & Khrushchev Meet In Moscow
Aftermath of U.S. Landing in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon, lffi — Rep
4 ercussions to American and Brit
ish intervention in the Middle
East spread grimly around the
■world today.
It was disclosed that the Sov
iet Union’s Premier Khrushchev
had been in conference with
President Nasser of the United
Arab Republic. London diplo
mats speculated that they talked
of a possible move of Soviet
troops into Syria as a counter
measure to U.S.-British landings
nearby. Syria is Egypt’s part
ner in the U.A.R.
Cairo reported that Nasser
talked eight hours with Khrush
chev yesterday in Moscow. The
secret meeting followed Nasser’s
eight-day meeting with President
Tito of Yugoslavia, who like Nas
ser and Khrushchev has decried
the U.S.-British action. Nasser
is due home tomorrow after talks
in Syria which could give him
the chance to pin down opera
tion details.
The British and American
buildup continued, with additional
Marines pouring into Lebanon
today. More British forces were
alerted to go into Jordan. The
prospect was that the two allies
would have more than 10,000
troops in the Mideast by the
weekend, with many more thou
sands of men lying offshore in
the U.S. 6th Fleet and British
war vessels.
The Soviet Union seemed to be
building toward some sort of dra
matic action. A crowd of 100,000
demonstrated at the U. S. em
bassy in Moscow, broke windows
and pelted the building with ink.
It was the second straight day of
Moscow demonstrations—the sort
of thing that is well organized
in Moscow and often is part of
a campaign to make Russian
minds acknowledge the need of
new sacrifices..
The United Nations, meanwhile,
was moving to find some sort of
solution in the Mideast crisis—
with little prospect of a compro
mise that would meet success.
Some of theUnited States’ usual
supporters were lukewarm to
American actions.
U.A.R. Delegate Tells United Nations
That U.S. Threatened Direct Action
If Arabs Attack Marines In Lebanon
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP) —
The United Arab Republic said
today the United States had
threatened it with direct action
if U.S. Marines in Lebanon are
attacked by troops under U.A.R.
control.
Ambassador Omar Loutfi, the
U.A.R. delegate, said the threat
was made earlier this week by
U.S. Ambassador Raymond Hare
in Cairo. He said Hare had de
clared the Marines would reply
if they were attacked.
“What is important,” Loutfi
said,“ is that the United States
wishes to be the arbiter of what
forces are under our control.
This inherent threat is fraught
with grave consequences.”
Loutfi spoke as the U.N. Se
curity Council neared a vote on a
series of proposals for action in
the Middle East crisis.
Meanwhile, delegates expected
that the council might be power
less to act and that an emer
gency session of the General
Assembly would be called.
Meeting for the fourth consec
utive day, the council had before
it these three resolutions:
1. A U.S. resolution for crea
tion of an international military
ijorce to be sent to Lebanon to
guard its independence.
2. A Soviet resolution demand
ing that the council order Ameri
can troops out of Lebanon and
British troops out of Jordan.
3. A Swedish resolution asking
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjold to suspend activities of
the U.N. observation group while
U.S. troops remain in Lebanon.
Lebanese Try
To Sell Melons
to Landing Marines
JALL EL DIB, Lebanon, (J*—
Seventeen hundred American
Marines landed on this sandy
beach four miles north of Beirut
this morning—without firing a
shot.
The only Lebanese they en
countered were a few civilians
holding beach parties, who im
mediately crowded to the shore
line to watch. Some Lebanese—
traditionally commercial-minded
people—immediately began try
ing to sell watermelons to the
leathernecks.
But the Marines were too busy
fixing machine gun replacements
to pay any attention to the melon
venders.
Completion of this landing
means that 5,100 Marines alto
gether now have landed in Leb
anon.
Marines in today’s operation
comprise the 1st Battalion 8th
Marines, commanded by Lt. Col.
John H. Brickley of Billings,
Mont.
Showers Expected To
Dampen Fires Burning
In Cascade Mountains
SEATTLE, [Eh — A huge, 2,000
acre woodland fire burning on
the east slope of the Cascade
Mountains in Washington was
controlled last night and the
parched Pacific Northwest got
the promise today of some relief
from a prolonged heat wave.
The fire brought to heel was
one of a score burning on grass
lands, brushlands and woodlands
in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
The blaze, finally halted by 100
firefighters, was burning 90 miles
southeast of Seattle.
The Weather Bureau here fore
cast a cooling trend throughout
the three-state area today after
a two-week period in which day
time temperatures have re
mained consistently in the 90’s.
Thundershower's were expected
over Idaho and those portions of
Washington and Oregon east of
the Cascades today.
In Seattle, where there has
been no appreciable rainfall for
the past two months, city officials
have' clamped down on the use of
water for gardens and lawns.
Rules Now Being
Drawn For The
Aug. 26 Election
JUNEAU, UPI — Election rules
and regulations for the Alaska
state balloting in August and No
vember will be set out in an ex
ecutive order by Gov. Stepovich.
The executive order, being
drafted by the attorney general’s
office, is expected to provide for
procedures common to past terri
torial elections.
That means that candidates for
the Aug. 26 primary election' for
state legislative jobs will file
their intentions through clerks of
the U.S. District Courts in the 4
Judicial Divisions.
The printing of ballots and elec
tion notices will be ordered by
the territory without asking for
bids.
The Territorial Board of Re
view Wednesday unanimously ap
proved waiving of bid require
ments so the printing could be
ordered and delivered in time for
the elections.
Probers To Start
2nd Investigation
of Sherman Adams
WASHINGTON, UP) — A sec
ond investigation will begin Mon
day into alleged intervention by
Presidential assistant Sherman,
Adams in government agency af
fairs.
Chairman F. Edward Hebert
(D-La) announced today the House
Armed Services Investigating
Subcommittee will begin hearings
behind closed doors Monday on
the settlement of a penalty against
Raylaine Worsted, Inc., Manches
ter, N.H., for late performance of
an Army cloth contract.
Adams has not been subpoe
naed or invited to testify. But
Hebert said the committee will
be happy to hear Adams if he
wishes to testify.
A penalty, dating back to
World War II years, of approxi
mately $80,000 against Raylaine
was reduced by about half some
12 years later. The former Presi
dent of the now-defunct com
pany has said some letters were
written to Adams about the case,
but that the settlement involved
no pressure or political influence
on the part of anyone.
The White House has said
Adams did no more than routine
ly refer questions and replies
about the status of the case.
Del Kampman Is
Named Alska Airlines
Agent For Nome
SEATTLE, Iff) — Del Kampman,
Alaska Airlines station agent at
Seattle-Tacoma International Air
port, today was named manager
of the Nome station.
Le Roy Peterson, vice presi
dent of traffic and sales here,
made the announcement and said
Kampman will fly to his new
post July 21.
Kampman joined the line in |
December, 1957.
A native of Portland, Oregon,
Kampman served four years in
I the Air Force as an engineer be
I fore beginning his airline career
with West Coast Airlines in 1955.
He subsequently served as station
agent for Western Airlines, and
was sales representative for Fly
ing Tiger Line in Portland, be
fore joining Alaska Airlines in
Seattle.
Unruly Mob of 100,000 Russians
. Smash U.S. Embassy In Moscow
MOSCOW, UPi — An unruly
mob of more than 100,000 Rus
sians smashed 50 windows in the
U.S. embassy today and pelted
the building with bottles con
taining blue and green ink.
The wild demonstration against
the landing of U.S. troops in Leb
anon lasted more than three
hours before Soviet militiamen
made a determined effort to get
the crowd under control.
The smashing of windows and
i the throwing of ink bottles went
on for more than an hour.
. The crowd covered a 10-lane
boulevard in front of the em
bassy and extended for a half a
mile in either direction.
A force of 300 to 400 militia
men finally began pushing the
demonstrators back from the em
bassy to a sidewalk on the fair
side of the street.
By that time every window on
the first three floors had been
smashed and there was a scatter
ing of broken glass on other
floors up to the sixth.
A nearly-spent air gun pellet
hit a window of Ambassador
Llewellyn E. Thompson’s office
on the ninth floor of the 10-story
building but failed to break the
pane.
All embassy personnel had
been ordered by Thompson to
stay well away from the front of
the building and there were no
reports of any injuries to Ameri
cans. Some over-enthusiastic
members of the mob scuffled
with militiamen, but appeared to
have escaped any injury.
Communist Mob In
Potsdam Tears U.S.
Flag From Mission
BERLIN, UP) — A Communist
led mob of 2,500 East Germans
protesting. Western actions in the
Middle East tore down and de
faced the American flag flying
over the U.S. military mission
in Potsdam today.
The mob wrote on the flag
| “Americans go home” and then
! hoisted it again, the official East
! German news agency ADN re
ported.
The mob, made up of workers
released from factories, de
manded that American members
of the mission come out and face
them. But, ADN said, the Amer
ican officers and enlisted men
remained inside the building.
Hawaiian Starts
One-Man “Drive”
For Statehood
|SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — In a
truck carrying a liberty bell rep
lica, Jackson McBride of Hono
lulu plans a one-man motor
march to Washington to promote
support for immediate statehood
for Hawaii.
McBride, 35, begins his drive
with a one-hour appearance with
the Hawaii liberty bell at city hall
today. Police sirens will escort
the bell truck.
McBride, Atlanta-born advertis
j ing and radio executive, said the
Hawaii bell march is supported
by a liberty bell brigade of Hawaii
citizens aroused in protest against
any further delay in Hawaii
statehood.
From San Francisco, McBride
plans to drive the Hawaii bell to
Red Bluff, Calif., home town of
Rep. Clair Engle (D-Calif). En
gel is chairman of the House
committee on Interior and In
sular Affairs in which the Hawaii
statehood bill is lodged.
Tentative plans next are to
sound Hawaii’s freedom bell
down California’s central valley
to Los Angeles and then to start
eastward via Las Vegas, Nev., and
Denver.
McBride explained the bell, a
replica of the cracked liberty bell
in Philadelphia, was resurrected
from dusty storage in Hawaii’s
Territorial Judiciary Building.
John W. Snyder, then Treasury
Secretary, presented the bell to
the territory in 1950 in a gov
ernment bond sale drive.
Russians Start
Maneuvers Near
Iranian Border
TEHRAN, Iran, UP) — Soviet
Army and Air Force maneuvers
near the Iranian border “changed
night into bright day” with heavy
rocket and gunfire, a newsman at
the scene reported today.
He said the Russians began
their large scale maneuvers late
yesterday afternoon.
Reporting by telephone from
Astara, near the Russian border,
the newsman added that since
yesterday noon heavy movements
of Russian forces had been ob
served across the border. Later,
before dusk, Russian guns began
roaring.
“Many different kinds of Rus
sian planes also participated in
the maneuver,” he added.
Throughout the night, heavy
guns', machineguns, tanks and
planes caused such a “horrible”
noise that many people had no
sleep. Rocket firing made the
night as bright as day.
The Soviet border at Astara
is well marked by a thick fence
of electric wire, plowed soft sand
and a military post each mile.
Male Workers In
Hormone Plant
Develop Busts
NOTTINGHAM, England, UP) —
A chemical firm medical advisor
reported today that a hormone
tablet made for women has caused
male workers producing it to
develop excessive busts.
Dr W. K. Moore told an an
ual meeting of provincial doctors
some of the men reported chest
pains and bust enlargement. He
said they recovered after a rest
and other workers given protec
tive clothing did not develop the
symptoms.
Moore reported he had assured
wives of the men there was no
sex change danger confronting
their husbands.
Birthplace of William Seward
Now Just A Barn
FLORIDA, N.Y., UP) — The
birthplace of the man who bought
Alaska from Russia for the
United States in 1867 now is just
a barn.
William Henry Seward, former
Secretary of State, was born in
this Orange County community
in 1801. A marker designates the
barn, at the rear of a house.