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“Bloody” Fighting
Rages "All Fronts”
In Guatemala
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, UP)
—The Guatemala rebel command
said last night its forces were
massed for a full-scale attack on
Chiquimula and that “bloody”
fighting already raged there. But
government military leaders,
boasting advances on “all fronts,”
vowed to bring the invasion to
a speedy end.
A communique from the inva
sion headquarters of Guatemalan
exile leader Col. Carlos Castillo
Armas said a major battle was
shaping up at Chiquimula, less
than 70 miles northeast of the
Guatemalan capital.
The announcement said that as
the rebels pressed in to attack, the
government hastily reinforced the
Chiquimula garrison with artil
lery, mortars and machine guns.
The communique said the garri
son commander had deserted to
the rebels.
Castillo Armas claimed his rebel
forces now hold 16 Guatemalan
towns, seized since the invaderfe
moved in from the Honduras bor
der last Friday in a bid to un
seat President Jacobo Arbenz
Guzman’s Communist - supported
regime.
On the diplomatic front, the
strained relations between Guate
mala and neighboring Honduras
appeared near the breaking point.
Senate Declares
Soviets Must Keep
Out of The West
WASHINGTON, [ff\—The Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
looking straight at Guatemala, to
day approved unanimously a reso
lution declaring the “international
Communist movement” must be
kept out of this hemisphere.
Although the resolution carries
no legal force, its adoption by the
Senate and House would make it
an expression of the view of
Congress and strengthen the ad
ministration’s hand in whatever
moves it makes to combat Com
munism in Latin America.
As approved by the committee,
the resolution is a revised version
of one introduced by Sen. Lyn
don Johnson of Texas, the Demo
cratic leader.
The committee substituted the
“international Communist move
ment” for references Johnson
made to the Soviet Union, and re
phrased Johnson’s language call
ing for “direct and appropriate
action” to bar Soviet interfer
ence in this hemisphere.
The word “direct’ was dropped.
Sen. Alexander Smith CR-NJ) act
ing chairman, told reporters it
was stricken so as to leave no
possible implication that the U.S.
government was being asked by
Congress to take “direct” military
action in Guatemala.
Smith told newsmen the resolu
tion “serves a Monroe Doctrine
notice on the world that we don’t
want any Communist infiltration
in this hemisphere.”
Nationalist China
Seizes Red Tanker
Off Formosa
TAIPBH, Formosa, UP)—Nation
alist China announced Friday
night that one of its warships
seized the Russian tanker Tuapse
Wednesday off Formosa and in
dicated the vessel and its cargo
might be confiscated.
Word that the Tuapse was in
Nationalist hands came hours
after the Soviet Union, in a stiff
note made public in Moscow
earlier in the day, accused the
United States of seizing the tank
er.
The Soviet note said the Tuapse
was seized in waters between For
mosa and the Philippines “by a
warship of the destroyer type
which threatened to open fire.”
The note threatened ‘*appropri
ate measures for safeguarding the
security of Soviet merchant ships
sailing in that area.”
In Washington, State Depart
ment officials were drafting a
prompt rejection of the Soviet
protest.
The U.S. note was expected to
go out today in a move to take
the edge off whatever propaganda
value the Russians sought to gain
from their accusation that the
U.S. navy had seized the tanker.
In announcing that the tanker
was in custody the Nationalists
said tersely that the matter was
“being disposed' of,” indicating
the Tuapse might be confiscated,
as were two ships to which Po
land claims title.
The Nationalists said the tanker
was carrying oil to the “Commun
ist bandit” port of Shanghai on
the Red-held mainland in viola
tion of a U.N. embargo on such
shipments.
The Nationalist navy which
harrasses the Red co'ast operates
destroyers and patrol craft loan
ed by the United States.
Mass Evacuation
Practice Fizzles
At Bremerton
BREMERTON, Wash., 151 — A
scheduled mass evacuation of this
navy yard city fizzled slightly
Thursday as fewer than half its
35,000 residents took part.
Civil Defense officials, conced
ing that public participation was
“very poor,” said, however, that
it was not a cause for gloom.
They pointed to the smooth
evacuation of the 16,200 persons
who did participate, the complete
absence of any accidents and the
generally orderly flow of traffic
from the city into five loop high
ways leading away from the city.
The evacuation started official
ly at 5:30 p.m. when sirens were
sounded to herald the approach of
an imaginary enemy with an im
aginary atomic bomb. Unofficial-'
ly, however, hundreds of cars had
started wheeling out of the city
a half hour or more in advance of
the sirens. So many left early,
in fact, that observers said traffic
was heavier in advance o’f the
test than during it.
France and China
Prepare Negotiate
“Far East Munich”
WASHINGTON, (UP) — Senator
Knowland (R - Calif) said today
French Premier Mendes-France
and Premier Chou En - Lai of
Communist China “are prepared
to negotiate a Far Eastern Mun
ich.”
China at the very least will de
mand “all of the Tonkin delta”
in Viet Nam, Knowland said,
adding:
“This ... is going to be a
tremendous victory for Commun
ism in Asia.
“The psychological and military
advantages from any such settle
ment will make it almost certain
that the balance of Viet Nam will
fall like a ripe plum.”
Knowland said the Western
allies might get “lip service” pro
mises from the Communists that
Laos and Cambodia, the two other
associated states of Indochina, will
remain independent. But any
“settlement,” he said, will leave
these two nations “disarmed and
helpless.”
Air Force Academy
To Be Built Near
Colorado Springs
WASHINGTON, to — The West
Point of the air, training school
for the young men who will man
America’s air armadas of the fu
ture, will be built near Colorado
Springs, Colo.
Secretary of the Air Force Tal
bott announced his selection of
that site late yesterday, ending
years of bidding by rival sites
which originally numbered in the
hundreds but had been narrowed
down to three by a special selec
tion board.
Some 15,000 acres of rolling
country which curves up to the
wooded foothills of the Rocky
Mountain chain dominated by
14,109-foot Pikes Peak will be the
locale of the Air Force academy,
on which Congress has authorized
the expenditure of 136 million
dollars. The eventual cost may be
much higher.
The academy is not expected to
be ready for use before mid-1957.
A temporary home will be es
tablished at Denver. Talbott’s an
nouncement did not say precisely
where, but presumably it will be
at Lowry Field, a big Air Force
installation.
Truman Spends Restless
Night After Operation
KANSAS CITY, (ffl — Harry S.
Truman spent a second restless
night at the hospital where he is
recovering from an emergency
operation.
A special nurse said he was
running a little temperature but
his condition remained good. This
morning the former President
told a resident physician that he
slept only about four hours dur
ing the night.
However, this morning the pa
tient sat up in a chair, his long
time barber and friend, Frank
Spina, shaved him and cut his
hair.
Momentous Meetings Take Place
Between Nehru and Chou En-Lai
And Eisenhower and Churchill
NEW DELHI, UP) — The Com
munist premier of 500 million
Chinese and the prime minister
of democratic India’s 350 mil
lion opened a weekend of talks
in New Delhi today which could
change the history of Asia.
Prime Minister Nehru greeted
Red China’s Chou En-Lai with a
red carpet reception on his ar
rival at the capital’s Palam air
field. The Indian Communist
party politburo ordered “peace”
demonstrations throughout Chou’s
three-day visit, but a Red-organ
ized cheering section could arouse
only feeble enthusiasm from the
airport crowd of about 2,500 per
sons.
The meeting of Asia’s two pow
erful government chiefs came as
a climax to months of East-West
tension in which India, trying to
play a neutral note, appeared
drawn closer and closer to her
powerful Communist neighbor.
Chou’s dramatic flight from the
Geneva conference to meet Nehru
appeared a direct challenge to
draw world attention from the
Washington conference this week
end of Prime Minister Churchill
and President Eisenhower.
28 Billion Dollar Bill To
Finance Armed Services
Sent To Pres. Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senate
passage today sent to President
Eisenhower a $28,800,125,486 com
promise money bill to finance the
armed services in the new fiscal
year starting July 1.
The legislation, by far the larg
est of all the appropriations mea
sures, is the fifth of the 11 reg
ular money bills on which Con
gress has completed action this
session.
The bill carries about 11 bil
lion for the Air Force, 10 billion
for the Navy and 7 Vz billion for
the Army which was required to
absorb almost all of the 5V6 bil
lion cut under last year’s allot
ments. The total in the measure
is about one billion less than the
President asked for next year’s
defense budget.
In general the new bill carries
out the administration’s “new
look” military policy, of emphasis
upon air power and new weapons
with a cutback in other forces for
an expected “long pull” against
Communist forces led by Russia.
Decline In Military
Spending In Alaska
Should Not Be Dangerous
JUNEAU, UP)—The decline in
military spending in Alaska
should not bring great economic
danger to the territory, Alexander
Baird, Alaska Development Bo'ard
director, said here yesterday.
Baird told the Kiwanis Club the
time has arrived to study the “in
flow of true investment capital.”
Proposed new business sources
alone should bring in a minimum
of $50 million annually to the
territory, he said.
WASHINGTON, CP) — Prime
Minister Churchill met w ith
President Eisenhower today to
see whether they can wipe out
in intimate talks any “misunder
standing,” as Churchill put it,
between the two major powers of
the anti-Communist world.
Portentous decisions, particu
larly on the Far East, hang in the
balance on the week-end confer
ences between the President and
his White House guest.
Churchill appeared to be in
buoyant spirits on his arrival by
plane and seemingly sought to de
preciate the rift between Ameri
can and British policies. He spoke
of the difficulties as “family mat
ters” and suggested that what
ever troubles the United States
and Britain may have, those in
the Communist world are “even
greater.”
On the American side, there
was an absence o'f any public ex
pression of confidence and hope
about the talks as such, more
often than not, as contained in
welcoming statements on such oc
casions.
Diplomats here, in fact, hold a
great doubt that anything to im
prove the situation actually can
come out of the talks.
Eisenhower greeted Churchill
with a warm handshake at the
White House steps. The British,
leader had been escorted there by
Vice President Nixon and Secre
tary of State Dulles who met him
and his party at the airport.
NOEL WIEN APPOINTED
4TH DIVISION MEMBER OF
ALASKA AVIATION COMM.
JUNEAU, (A — Gov. Heintzle
man yesterday announced ap
pointment of Noel Wien, pioneer
Alaska aviator and head of Wien,
Alaska Airlines of Fairbanks, to
the Alaska Aeronautics and Com
munications Commission.
Wien will represent the Fourth
Division on the board and re
places Alvin Polet, also of Fair
banks, whose term has expired.
THE STANDINGS
American League
W L Pet.
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Chicago .43 22 .662
New York .*....42 25 .627
Detroit .28 34 .452
Washington .27 37 .422
Philadelphia .25 37 .413
Boston .22 39 .361
Baltimore .23 42 .354
National League
New York .42 23 .646
Brooklyn .41 24 .631
Philadelphia .32 29 .525
Milwaukee .32 30 .516
St. Louis .32 32 .500
Cincinnati .31 33 .484
Chicago .23 39 .371
Pittsburgh ....21 44 .323
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood .50 31 .617
San Diego .45 35 .653
Oakland .44 38 .537
San Francisco .40 41 .494
Seattle ..37 41 .474
Sacramento ..38 43 .469
Los Angeles .34 45 .430
Portland .32 46 .410