West-East German
Police Engage in
Tear Gas Battle
BEHUN Iff) — West Berlin po
lice and East German border
guards engaged in a tear gas
battle today as West Berlin
workmen tore down a 300-yard
Communist-built wire fence along
the border.
The exchange started after die
workmen, accompanied by 12
West Berlin policemen and a
French officer, resfused the East
German guards’ order to leave
the fence, which was a foot in
side Western territory.
West Berlin police said the East
Germans then started throwing
tear gas grenades and brought up
two _ artftflfsd.,. personnel carriers
and border guards. Another
200 East German guards could be
seen in reserve.
I The West Berlbi police return
ed the hail of tear gas grenades,
and under the cover of the gas
barrage, the workmen went about
their task. About 150 grenades
were thrown, an equal number
by each side. .
The wire fence had been put
up long before the Communists
erected a second fence on their
side in building the barricade
was reported
the two fences
back to the Com
night a refugee
^birtman
California Gov. Edmund Brown
last week called the Minute Men
guerrilla bands and estimated
they have 2,500 members in Cali
DePugh said at his home In
Norborne, Mo., he will hold meet
ings this week in Los Angeles,
San Diego, San Francisco, Port
land, Seattle, Tucson and Phoenix.
“Fire Storm” Sweeps
Down on Hollywood
Hills Residential Area
LOS ANGELES Uh — A dread
ed “fire storm” swept down the
slope of the Hollywood hills into
an exclusive residential area to
day. setting half a dozen or more
homes* ablaze.
The flames broke out this morn
ing near the edge of the swank
Belair district, where many movie
stars live.
Feeding on tinder-dry brush
and fanned by hot desert winds,
the fire suddenly converted itself
into a fire storm: A cyclonic in
ferno in which intense heat cre
ates its own fierce winds.
“Send help,” battalion chief
Oliver Howard radioed from the
center of the blaze in Stone Can
yon.
Fire storms are rare and offi
cials said this was the first ever
to occur in the city of Los Ange
les.
The scene was the area sepa
rating Los Angeles from the San
Fernando Valley.
Such celebrities as Jack Lemon,
Marlon Brando, Maureen O’Hara,
Greer Garson, Steve Cochran
and Bobby Darin and Sandra Lee
live in the general area.
The fire department called.it a
major emergency and sent all
available men and equipment to
the scene.
RICK**!*) NIXON FORCED
TO LEAVE HOME
i BY UL "FTEE STORM"
LOS ANGELES (N — A giant
brush lire today forced former
Vice President Richard Nixon to
evacuate his rented home in the
Hollywood Hills. Firemen found
him up on top watering its roof
with a hose as flames neared.
Flames were with 200 yards
When uremen ordered him to
lexva, along with other residents
« me area. ^
Nixon’s wife, Pat. was not home
St the time. His daughters, Tricia I
and Julie, wees at school.
Nehru Arrives to Start
Series of Talks with JFK
NEWPORT, BX m — Prime
Minister Nehru at India flew here
today to open a series of talks
with President Kennedy on world
problems and on the divergent
views of the United States and
India toward nuclear testing.
Nehru landed at Quonset Point
Naval Air Station after a flight
Radiation Level
Moves to a Record
High in Juneau
JUNEAU UR — The State De
partment of Health and Welfare
said today the radiation level
moved to a record level for Ju~
neau at 10.09 micromJcrocuries
during the 24-hour period ending
last Saturday morning.
Normally, the radiation level in
Juneau has remained .4 and 3.0
micromicrocuries per cubic meter
of air, Miss Bea Sheppard of the
Department’s Radiation Labor
atory said.
The radiation reading during
the 24-hour period ending last
Friday morning at 8 am. was 7.39.
Yesterday’s reading was 2.36.
The previous high reading for
Juneau was 8,1 micromicrocuries
on Oct. M, Miss Sheppard said.
The Public Health Service said
that over the weekend the highest
levels of radioactivity recorded in
this country were in Santa Fe,
N/M., and Phoenix, Ariz.
However, all readings in the
nation were far below previously
reported levels which the service
has said are undesirable but no
cause for undue public concern.
The Friday reading at Santa Fe i
was 39 micromicrocuries per cu
debris back over the Soviet Union
later in the day and thus com
plete a circling of the globe.
The cloud was expected to
move well north of Moscow, but
Leningrad was within its path.
From its origin In the Novaya
Zemlya area of Siberia a week
ago, it has drifted across the Pa
citiC' and^over^much^of Alaska,
Moat of the nuclear debris from
the Soviet test is believed to have
been muled high into the strato
sphere from which it may not
descend until next spring.
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British Newspaper
Predicts Shortage of Tin
LONDON W — There will be a
serious shortage of tin in the new
year unless the U.S. Congress
agrees to release part of the mas
sive American stockpile, the Fi
nancial Times predicted today.
"The time when there will be
an actual shortage instead of just
a future shortage is rapidly
drawing near,” the newspaper
added.
Hie Financial Times, Britain’s
leading business and commercial
daily, added:
"As no one knows how much
metal is in speculative hands, or
when the reserves building up in
the Congo are going to become
freely available, it is impossible
to forecast exactly when users
will find it difficult to purchase
the tin they require. Much also
depends on the general level of
economic activity.
Gen. Clay Says Berlin
Wall Must Come Down
BERLIN m — Gen. Lucius <D.
Clay said today the Communist
wall dividing this city "Is some
thing we must never forget nor
forgive until man is free again |
everywhere.”
“We shall neither forget the
wall nor abandon hope for the day
when it comes down and Berlin
te united again," President Ken
nedy’s representative in Berlin
sponsored photographic exhibit.
the briS: and*barbed ^wire bottler
between East and West Berlin.
They were put on display Ip a
former reading room of Amerika
Hans, tbe UJ3. information center
in West Berlin.
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Liquor Board to
Hold Hearing
Here on Dec. 6
JUNEAU (J» — A series of four
public hearings to deal primarily
with the shipment of liquor into
dry areas of the state was sched
uled today by the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board.
ABC Board Chairman Bill Ray
said the hearings have been slated
Dec. 5 at Anchorage, Dec. 6 at
Nome, Dec. 8 at Fairbanks and
Dec. 13 at Juneau.
The Board indicated last week
that it would hold a series of in
formal, fact-finding hearings on
the liquor shipment problem next
month, but Ray said today the
coming sessions would he formal
hearings under the provisions of
the Administrative Procedures
Act.
The implication appeared to be
that the Board planned to clarify
the situation immediately, through
the adoption of new regulations or
the revision of existing regula
tions.
Superior Court Judge Hubert
Gilbert said recently that the only
legal Hquor sale was one made
in a liquor store, although many
dealers in fire westward have long
shipped liquor on a retail basis
ti» other areas, including dry
afoag.
Ray said the Board would wel
coift HHIl oral and written state
ments, both on the liquor
pint problem Ornd on other sub*
jieti to be diecuamd.
Ray mid the hearings would
also be concerned with regula
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Soviets May
Prolong Their
Nuclear Tests
MOSCOW — The Soviets
have issued a veiled warning that
further nuclear testing by die
United States and it* allies may
compel the Soviet Union to pro
long its .program of tests, still
numerically behind the West.
President Kennedy’s announce
ment last Thursday that the Unit
ed States is getting ready for pos
sible resumption of atmospheric
tests was the target of a state
ment issued Sunday by die offi
cial Soviet news agency Tass.
“The statement by the United
States (President does not meet
half way the desires of those who
are sincerely pressing tar an end
to die nuclear arms race,” Tass
said. “To the underground tests
of nuclear weapons which are
already being staged in the Unit
ed States, nuclear tests in the
atmosphere are to be add*d as
soon as the U.S. government re
gards this as neoessary.
“In die case of continuation of
nuclear tests by the United States
z£ *—-ir-a and its allies, all the
more In the case of resumption
of American nuclear tests in the
| atmosphere, the other side will
watch these military .preparations,
primarily the stops tn improving. A
nuclear weapons, because ft can
not permit the occurrence of such
a situation in which the Intarostg
of its security would not he re
liably insured.
“This other side again will have
to draw toe appropriate conclu
sions for itself with regard to nu
clear weapons tests.”
the warning was coupled with
another call fM* a general and
complete disarmament treaty, long
proposed by Premier Khrushchev,
and a reiteration that the Soviet
Union is ready to ditch all its nu
clear weapons if other nations do
I the seme.
Secret Slipped Out . . .
. STERLING, Scotland UK —
Every Tuesday lor the peat five
years Peter Robertson has push
ed a wheelbarrow through the
streets from the old Kirk to the
bank. • •
Last Tuesday the barrow over
turned rounding a corner and the
secret was out—under the trash
was the congregation’s donation
for the previous Sunday. In tide
case the total was 541 pounds—
$1,514.80—much of it in silver.
Robertson is church treasurer.
"The church members asp so
generous—and there am 2,500 of
them—that I reach the paint some
years ago where I couldn't heft
the stuff to the bank,” Robert
son explained. "So I started car
rying it in tiie wheelbarrow with
a bit of trash on top for camou
flage.4
“Now that the secret ha* leak
ed I'll have to hire a taxi.”