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U.S. Marines Meet No Opposition
In Landing At Beirut, Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (£> — U.S.
Marines occupied Beirut’s port
area in force today as their num
bers swelled to 3,600 men with
the landing of another battalion.
The move into the city from the
beach area was made in tanks,
half-tracks and amphibious ve
hicles. Eight-inch guns and other
equipment poured from ships off
shore. More men. were on the
"way.
About 2,000 men occupied the
strategic port area.
Rebel leaders fighting to topple
pro-Western President Premier
Camille Chamoun have de
nounced the marine landing. But
there was no opposition as the
marines swung into the capital.
Rebel leader Saed Salam, holed
up in the Moslem quarter of
Beirut, issued a statement urging
Lebanese “to defend your coun
try and safe-guard your free
dom.”
An air of tension gripped the
city.
American civilians were leav
ing the country in bigger num-,
bers. Of about 3,200 Americans
in in Lebanon 220 private citi
zens and 168 dependents of em
bassy personnel have left since
the revolt began 68 days ago.
The United States, which sent
in the marines at Chamoun’s re
quest, described the intervening
here as the creation of a beach
head to assure peace and stabil
ity in the Middle East.
The spotlight appeared likely
to shift rapidly from Lebanon to
neighboring Jordan, the part
ner of Iraq in the Arab feder
ation. A pro-Nasser coup on
Monday overthrew Faisal, king of
Iraq and chief of the federation.
The Iraqi rebels have announced
that Premier Nuri Said and
Crown Prince Abdul Ilah were
killed. Reports were still con
flicting as to the fate of Faisal.
King Hussein of Jordan an
nounced his succession to Faisal as
head of the federation.
The first marine unit to enter
Beirut was headed by U. S.
Ambassador Robert McClintock,
Adm. James L. Holloway, com
mander of the U. S. forces, and
Gen. Fuad Shehdb, commander of
the Lebanese army.
U.S. Embassy
Surrounded By
Iraqi Troops
LONDON, UP) — Pan American
Airways said Tuesday it had re
ceived a radio report from its
Tehran office that the U.S. em
bassy in Baghdad was surrounded
by Iraqi rebels and that no one
was allowed to leave. Pan
American’s London headquarters
said some of its information came
from monitored radio broadcasts
but that it was considered re
liable.
“The rebel government,” the
raio message from Iran said, “has
the American embassy surrounded
to supply protection and also to
prevent departure of the Ameri
can staff.”
FBI Reports
Bank Robberies
t
At Record High
WASHINGTON, UP) — FBI di
rector J. Edgar Hoover said Tues
day more bank robberies oc
curred during the last 12 months
than in any other similar period
since accurate records have been
kept.
In a 1958 fiscal report to Atty.
Gen. Rogers, Hoover said that
for the year ending June 30,
there were 631 violations of the
Federal Bank Robbery Statute.
“Not since the gangster era of
the 1930’s, when in 1932 there
were 606 violations against banks,
has there been such a tremen
dous wave of this type of crime,”
the report said.
Northwestern Alaska to Elect Four
State Senators, Five Representatives
The apportionment schedule
under the constitution of the state
of Alaska provides 24 election
districts instead of the four ju
dicial divisions which the terri
tory has had.
The Second Division will have
5 representatives to be elected as
follows:
From the Barrow district (No.
2D which includes the area
drained by all streams flowing
into the Arctic Ocean from Cape
Lisbourne on the west, to and
including the area drained by
the Kuparuk River an its trib
utaries on the east.
1 from the Kobuk district (No.
22) which is the area drained by
all streams flowing into the Arc
tic Ocean and Kotzebue Sound,
from Cape Lisbourne on the north
to and including the area drained
by the Goodhope River and its
-tributaries on the south.
2 from the Nome area (No. 23)
which is that part of Seward Pen
insula and adjacent areas drained
by all streams flowing into the
Kotzebue Sound, Bering Strait
and Norton Sound, from but not
including the area drained by the
Goodhope River and its tribu
taries on the north, to but not
including the area drained by the
Pastolik River on the south; King,
Little Diomede, St. Lawrence,
Sledge, and Stuart Islands as well
as adjacent off shore islands.
Nome city will elect one repre
sentative and one will be elected
from the Nome area.
1 from the Wade Hampton dis
trict (No. 24) which is the area
drained by the lower Yukon
River and its tributaries, from
Tuckers Slough to the mouth at
the Bering Sea; and the area
drained by all streams flowing
into the Bering Sea and Norton
Sound, from and including Hazen
Bay on the south, to and including
the Pastolik River o the north.
This part of Alaska will be
entitled to 4 senators. Two will
be elected at large from all
Northwest Alaska (Districts 21,
22, 23, 24); one senator from the
Barrow-Kobuk district (21 and 22)
and one from the Nome-Wade
Hampton area (23 and 24).
The Senate of the State of
Alaska will have twenty mem
bers and the House of Sepresenta
tives will have 40 members.
GOV. STEPOVICH SETS DATE FOR
SPECIAL ELECTION ON AUGUST 26
JUNEAU, W> — Alaskans will
decide Whether the great north
ern territory is to become the
49th state of the 'union at a
special election Aug. 26.
Gov. Mike Stepovich issued a
proclamation today fixing the
date of the historic referendum,
required under terms of the Alas
ka statehood act signed 10 days
ago' by Presient Eisenhower.
'The special election—at which
Alaska voters will accept or re
ject three propositions relating
to statehood—will coincide with
the first primary election to nom
inate candidates for state of
fice.
The general election, at which
Alaska’s first state officials will
be chosen if statehood is ap
proved in the referendum, will be
held Nov. 25.
Stepovich predicts approval of
statehood by a 10-1 margin.
The special, primary and gen
eral elections were compressed
into a three-month period to meet
a provision of the statehood act
that requires the general election
to be held not later than Dec. 1.
The deadline will be beat by five
days under the schedule set out
by the govereoor.
To be nominated and elected
are two United States Senators1
and one U.S. Representative, a
governor and a secretary of state,
and 60 members of the first state
legislature—including 20 state
senators and 40 members of the
House.
Candidates will have only 13
days to file for office for the
primary election. The filing
deadline was set at one minute
before midnight, July 28.
Alaska voters, including for
the first time 19 and 20 year olds,
must approve these three propo
sitions in the referendum:
^ Immediate admission of
Alaska into the union.
2 State boundaries as out
lined in the admission bill and
relinquishment of all future
claims to land and sea areas out
side the prescribed boundaries.
The boundaries will be those
which now exist for the territory.
3 Acceptance of all the pro
visions of the Congressional act,
including authority for the Presi
dent to make national defense
land withdrawals in far northern
and western portions of the state.
If any one of the three pro
visions fails to be approved by
a majority of the voters, the
statehood act will be void and
Alaska will remain a territory.
The governor’s proclamation
signed in a brief ceremony in
his office, said territorial laws
will be followed in the first state
elections as much as possible.
Necessary measures and proced
ures setting out election rules
and regulations will be pre
scribed in executive orders that
soon will be issued.
The governor said the election
dates were fixed after 1 confer
ences with leaders of both the
Republican and Democratic par
ties. He said there was agree
ment that the dates set out in the
proclamation would permit time
for filing and campaigning.
Once all the elections have
been completed and the results
of the general election counted,
the governor must certify to the
President the fact that the bal
loting has been completed.
Then the President according to
provisions of the statehood act,
will issue a proclamation admit
ting Alaska to the union.
These procedures are expected
to be completed in January, to
permit the new state’s first sena
j tors and congressman to be
I seated with the 86th Congress.
Photogs Irate
About Treatment
At Naval Review
VICTORIA, B.C. 0?) — Pho
tographers assigned to cover
Princess Margaret’s review of
an international fleet of warships
off Vancouver Island were hop
ping mad today over the treat
ment said they received.
The 13 photographers, from
the United States, England and
Canada, were aboard the Cana
ian estroyer escort Crescent with
Princess Margaret during the
review yesterday, but they said
they were locked in a room be
low decks most of the time.
“I have never been insulted
like that in my life,” snapped
Eric Cable of the Vancouver,
B.C., Province when the Cres
I cent returned to Victoria after the
review.
William Tetlow of Federal
Newsphotos of Canada said it was
“the most undignified treatment
I have received in 25 years of
news photography.”
“I wonder if the princess knew
what was going on below decks/’
Jim Ryan of the Victoria Colo
nist said.
The 13 photographers said they
boarded the Crescent before
Princess Margaret did and were
escorted below decks. They said
they were instructed to leave
their equipment in a handling
room and then they were locked
in the chief petty officers’ mess
room.
They were permitted to shoot
pictures for only six minutes
apiece during the 3V2. / hour stay
aboard the Crescent, they said,
adding that their only refresh
ment during that time was a jug
of cold water. They said they
were only four “dirty” glasses to
serve the 13 men.
U.S. Troops On
Korean Front
Are Alerted *
TOKYO, UP) — American troops I
at the dormant Korean front, in
Japan and on Okinawa quietly
joined today the U.S. global mili
tary alert ordered by President
Eisenhower.
Commanders in Japan and
Korea said Adm. Felix Stump in
alerting his Pacific Command
meant all ground and air forces
as well as the Navy.
Details of how troops sharp
ened their alert for any eventual
ity were secret.
“Every instruction we’ve got
has been classified,” said an of
ficer of a Japan-based air unit.
Seoul radio carried an uncon
firmed report that Communist
North Korea has cancelled all
Army leaves and ordered troops
back to their units.
Stepovich Family
Returns to Juneau
JUNEAU, UP) — The Stepovich
family, tanned and smiling, re
turned home late yesterday and
received a civic welcome extended
to Alaska’s last appointed gover
nor, his wife and their eight
children.
The governor and family,
browned from the California sun
after a vacation, stepped down
from an airliner on which was
painted “49th State Express”.
Gov. Stepovich told question
ers he still had not decided the
course of his own political future.
He is expected to be, however, a
Republican condidate for either
the U.S. Senate or for governor
in the first state elections.
He planned to leave Saturday
for Fairbanks and a visit early
next week to Anchorage for a
series of public appearances
and party conferences. It seemed
probable he would announce his
plans by next week.
Adlai Stevenson
Now In Moscow
MOSOW. U> — Adlai Steven
son called on Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko today,
renewing an acquaintanceship
from the days when they were
members of their countries’ U.N.
delegations.
The two-time Democratic Pres
idential condidate’s busy morn
ing also included a briefing by
U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn
Thompson Jr. and a call on Mos
cow’s mayor.
Stevenson was scheduled to
confer this afternoon with Soviet
Minister of Culture N. A. Mik
hailov to discuss the Soviet
Union’s refusal to pay royalties
to American authors for their
works reprinted in the Soviet
Union. Acting as representa
tive of the Authors League of
America, Stevenson is trying to
arrange for royalty payments.
Goldfine Made 43
Phone Calls to Adams
In 6-Month Period
WASHINGTON, (A — Bernard
Goldfine testified today he made
43 telephone calls to Presidential
aide Sherman Adams in a recent
six month period.
In explanation, the Boston mil
lionaire told House investigators
that Adams is “one of my best
friends . . . and a friend you call
whenever you see fit.”
Goldfine said too that some
times the calls were on such mat
ters as tariff regulations which
were of interest to his textile
firms.
It was Goldfine’s seventh day of
testimony before the House sub
committee digging into charges
that his business interests have
received favored treatment from
federal regulatory agencies be
cause of his friendship with
Adams.