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Soviet Military Might Moves Against
Last Pockets of Hungarian Rebels
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
VIENNA, Wt—The overwhelm
ing power of Russia's huge mili
tary machine moved relentlessly
today against the last pockets of
Hungarian national resistance.
Only a gallant last stand to the
death remained of Hungary’s elec
trifying bid for freedom from
Communist tyranny.
The only major pocket of resis
tance left inside ruined Budapest
was at Csepel Island, site of the
nation’s biggest industrial com
plex. Workers barricaded them
selves in one of the big Danube
island factories and continued to
beat off determined attacks by
Soviet armor.
Elsewhere in the country,
rebel pockets still held out in
the Budapest suburb of Ujpesi.
in Dunapentele (Stalin varos).
south of the Csepel Island area,
and at Pecs, near the Border of
Yugoslavia.
Occasional shooting also broke
out in Gyder Province, especially
along the roads leading to Aus
tria, and in the Vac area north of
Budapest.
The last-stand rebels also
fought cold, hunger and even de
spair. The iron grip of the Rus
sian colossus tightened by the
minute, and virtually all Hungary
was under its domination once
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Of His Automobile
ASHLAND, Ky., WV—A sub
scriber of the Ashland, Ky., Inde
pendent complained last week the
paper should pay the towing
charge for his automobile.
The man said his paperboy
failed to leave him the Wednes
day edition and he didn’t see the
notice that the city would clean
the street in front of his home
that night and tow away parked
cars.
The paper refused to pay the
$3 bill, saying the city didn’t de
pend upon the newspaper notices
about street-cleaning schedules.
again. The first light of freedom
the Hungarians had glimpsed for
15 long years was rapidly dying
out.
The puppet premier installed
by the Russians. Janos Kadar,
admitted in a speech over Buda
pest radio that groups of rebels
still were holding out in cellars
by day, emerging by night in
larger groups for hit and run
attacks. But he said he believed
all Budapest remnants of the
counter revolution will be "li
quidated" in two or three days.
The Russians went about the
liquidation just as systematically
as they went about mowing down
Hungarians thruout a week in
which iMig fighters screamed
overhead, huge Stalin tanks
smashed thru nationalist strong
points, Ilyushin bombers dropped
bombs, and buildings were delib
erately razed.
In the relentless Russian pur
suit of the nationalist remnants,
rows of workers houses were
shattered, a children’s clinic was
wiped out, hospitals were set
afire. It seemed not a building in
the city escaped the furious show
er of Soviet bullets and shells. To
wipe out a single rifleman, the
Russians would turn a full bar
rage of fire from tanks, machine
guns and automatic weapons, and
destroy an entire building.
Correspondents returning from
Budapest said the city was in
the grip of indescribable horror,
more horrifying, even, than
they had seen in the days of
World War II. The Russians
methodically pounded every
sign of resistance.
By the best available estimates,
20,000—or perhaps more— Hun
garians died in the attempt to
break the grip of the Soviet Un
ion and Communism on their
country.
Russian dead were estimated at
from 4,000 to 5,000. Western cor
respondents back from Budapest
brought these figures and said the
wounded numbered 50,000, Rus
sians and Hungarians.
Presidential Wreath Laid at Tomb
Of Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day
WASHINGTON —A presiden
tial wreath was laid at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier in Arling
ton National Cemetery yesterday
as the nation’s capital observed
Veterans Day.
Veterans Administrator Harvey
V. Higley represented President
Eisenhower at the ceremony as
more than 2,000 persons bowed
■their heads in silent reverence
during the sounding of “Taps.”
Film star James Stewart, prin
cipal speaker at the tomb, called
the ceremony a double tribute, to
those who died and to those “who
returned to serve their country
again.”
•'No one desires lasting peace i
more than those who know war,” i
added Stewart, a World War II
bomber pilot and an Air Force
Reserve colonel.
The Defense Department an
nounced meantime that the World
War I shrine will be expanded to
honor an unknown soldier each
from World War II and the Kor
ean War. Tentative plans have
been drawn to complete the
change by Memorial Day 1958.
In Birmingham, Ala., Gen.
Mark Clark received the Distin
guished National Veterans Award
from the Veterans of Foreign
Wars for giving generously of his
time in urging a strong military
establishment for defense against
Communist aggression. The re-1
tired general is now president of |
The Citadel in South Carolina.
In Lakeland, Fla., the Medal of
Honor Winners Society held its
first national convention.
U.N. POLICE FORCE IS READY TO
MOVE INTO EGYPT TOMORROW
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Seven Girls Are
Entered In Tlie
Queen Contest
There are now seven candidates
for “Queen” registered for the
Youth Center Benefit Dance to
be held on Thanksgiving night.
The three newest candidates
are:
Doris Abloogalook, aged 16,
sponsored by Polar Curio Shop;
Mary Jo Swanberg, aged 16,
sponsored by Polaris Hotel, and
Gay Weyer, aged 16, sponsored
by The Theater.
The four girls previously reg
istered were: Suzanne Fager
strom, sponsored by the North
Star Bakery; Alice Glavinovich,
sponsored by Nome Hardware
and U.S. Merc; Madeline Mogg,
sponsored by Nome Taxi; and
Sandra Lou Steele, sponsored by
Wallace Hotel.
The two leading contestants at
press time today were Suzanne
Fagerstrom with 6600 points, and
Mary Jo Swanberg with 6400.
Pan American Airways
Reports Increase of
Passengers in Alaska
SEATTLE, UP)—Pan American
World Airways reported today it
carried 5,665 passengers on Alas
ka flights last month, compared
with 5,110 in Oct. 1955—an in
crease of 11 percent. To date in
1956, PAA’s passengers total 61,
093, an increase of 3 percent over
60,020 carried thru the end of
Oct. 1955.
Harry Bridges Threatens
To Tie Up Shipping When
Senators Hold Hearing
HONOLULU, UP)—Non-military
shipping may be tied up here be
ginning Nov. 27 when Sen. James
O. Eastland (D-Miss) opens a Sen
ate subcommittee hearing on
Communism in Hawaii.
“When Eastland comes down
here,” said longshore leader Har
ry Bridges in a speech Saturday,
“we plan a welcome for him. We
will tell him what we think of
him and we won't be working
when we do."
Bridges charged Eastland was
out to wreck the International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union which Bridges heads.
The Eastland committee has
subpoenaed ILWU officials and
members of its legal counsel.
DUCK MEETS PLANE
JUST FEATHERS FOUND
ST. LOUIS, UP—An American
Airlines plane and a duck had a
territorial dispute high over
Springfield, 111., Wednesday.
The duck rammed into the
wing, and the crew thought it
might have got into an opening
leading to the air-conditioning
equipment of the airliner.
When the plane landed here,
maintenance men made a thoro
inspection. Their report: no duck,
some feathers.
' Dag Hammarskjold and
Maj. Gen. Burns to Talk
With President Nasser
By WATSON SIMS
LONDON Iff!—Egypt has agreed
to permit entry of the United Na
tions police force immediately,
U N. Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold announced today. He
said the first units, now assem
bled at a staging area near Na
ples, Italy, may go in tomorrow.
Canadian Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Bums, commander of the force,
was talking in Cairo with Presi
dent Nasser and Foreign Minister
Fawzi when Hammarskjold made
his announcement in New York.
The secretary general said he
intends to leave by plane tomor
row for Cairo to discuss details
with the Egyptian government
and also will inspect the Italian
staging area, now occupied by
units from Denmark, Norway and
Colombia, with a total of about
200 troops.
Cease-Fire at Stake
The Cairo talks of Bums and
Hammarskjold may determine
whether the shaky cease-fire be
tween the Egyptians and troops
of Britain, France and Israel can
be made permanent.
Eventually, troops of 16 nations
are to be represented in the police
force, from which all of the big
four powers are barred. A 17th,
Burma, withdrew today its offer
to contribute. The Rangoon gov
ernment said it had received no
response to its offer.
Egyptian Sovereignty
The Egyptians had made clear
that respect for their sovereignty
was among several conditions for
admission of the police. They
have also sought assurances that
the British-French and Israeli
forces will withdraw immediately
from the territory they overran
in the hostilities that broke out
two weeks ago and that the police
will be based in Egypt only tem
porarily.
As Burns flew into Cairo from
Israel, the effects of last week’s
British-French invasion of the
Suez Canal zone continued to re
verberate around the world.
World Reverberations
Both Russia and Communist
China issued new threats to send
"volunteers” to help Egypt throw
out the British and French "ag
gressors.”
At Beirut, the heads of five
Arab states met in a top secret
parley to discuss the whole Mid
dle East situation.
Reports said the leaders of Iraq,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi
Arabia would discuss not only the
British-French invasion but the
threat posed by the rapid spread
of Communist influence in the
area.
Asian Leaders Meet
In New Delhi, Indian Prime
Minister Nehru met with the
Prime Ministers of Burma, Indo
nesia and Ceylon to discuss both
the Middle East and Russian re
pression in Hungary.
Both India and Ceylon are im
portant Asian members of the
British Commonwealth, which has
been split by the British invasion
of Egypt.
Israeli Premier David Ben
Gurion has not yet agreed to pull
his conquering forces out of the
Gaza strip, which Egypt has occu
pied since 1948. Meir Argov, the
chairman of Israel’s parliamen
tary security and foreign affairs
committee, said flatly that the
strip would remain part of IsraeL
The legal status of the strip is
still in dispute, and this is one
of the problems Bums has sought
to work out in his continuing dis
cussions with both Nasser and
Ben-Gurion.
Secret Service Nabs Key Figure in
Nation - Wide Counterfeiting Ring
COLUMBUS, Ohio \lf>—A Secret
Service agent said yesterday a
clean-cut, smooth-talking West
Virginian has been arrested here
in connection with a counterfeit
ing operation that stretched all
the way to Washington State.
Ralph Robuek, special agent in
charge of the Secret Service for
the Columbus district, said John
Beckett, 32, a native of East
Lynne, W. Va., is being held and
charged with counterfeiting.
Beckett, a husky Army veteran,
admitted photographically repro
ducing some $75,000 in phoney
checks during the past two years.
Beckett netted $25,000 of this
amount with the other two-thirds
pocketed by some “25 to 30” per
sons who spread the checks from
West Virginia to Seattle, Robuek
said.
Columbus police stumbled on
Beckett’s money - manufacturing
factory Saturday when they ac
companied firemen to a blaze in
a North Columbus apartment
house. They said they found a $20
bill split in two with 11 negatives
of the bill in rinse water.
Robuck said police also found a
printing press, a copy camera,
engraving equipment, a plate for
a postal money order but no ac
tual counterfeit cash.
Robuck said Beckett, who has
served 28 f months in McNeill In
land Federal Penitentiary near
Seattle on a charge of receiving
stolen goods in Alaska, told him
he was the hub of a counterfeiting
system that specialized in repro
ducing company checks, some on
non-existent banks.
Beckett handled the photo
graphing and engraving but never
passed the checks, leaving this to
a crew who smooth-talked tavern
operators and retail dealers, Ro
buck said.