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Assure Chiang
No Change In
U. S. Policies
TAIPEI, Formosa, Iff) — The
United States has reassured Na
tionalist China there is no change
in its policy of refusing to give
ground in the face of continued
Communist attacks on Quemoy
and of demanding a cease-fire.
U. R. Ambassador Everett F.
Drumright relayed this informa
tion from Secretary of State
Dulles to President Chiang Kai
Shek Thursday night.
Chiang’s reaction was not dis
closed but the foreign ministry
rejected again today Dulles’ sug
gestion for reducing Nationalist
military strength on the offshore
islands if the Communists will
stop shooting.
Thi s the two governments held
different policies on ending the
Formosa Strait crisis, now in its
42nd day.
Communist Chinese guns en
circling the Quemoy Islands con
tinued to batter away, firing
1,143 shells during the early
morning hours.
But there was increasing be
lief the artillery blockade was
losing its effectiveness as sea
convoys and air drops kept on un
loading supplies. A massive in
crease in their size is expected
soon, with the help of U. S. equip
ment now being turned over to
the Nationalists.
And Vice Adm. Roland N.
Smoot, head of the U. S. Formosa
Defense Command, said in an in
terview the Quemoys can now
hold out indefinitely under pres
ent conditions.
W. Coast Dock
Workers Seek
Shorter Hours
SAN FRANCISCO, UR — West
Coast longshoremen will seek
shorter hours and more pay.
Members of the International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union and the Ships Clerks
Union in a stop-work meeting
Thursday, were critical of their
present contract because its pro
visions for shorter hours has
meant less take-home pay.
Harry Bridges, ILWU presi
dent proposed the union’s nego
tiating committee try next spring
to win shorter hours and more
pay to give dockers a share of
savings brought about by auto
mtion and mechanization on the
waterfront.
The 3,000 union members at the
five-hour meeting approved par
ticipation with East Coast long
shoremen and the Teamsters
Union in discussions of a merger
of transport unions.
Late Birds — No Worms!
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UR —
The Scandinavian Airlines Sys
tem announced the arrival in
Rome today of Mr. and Mrs.
Swallow and their two little
swallows who had been hatched
somewhere between the Arctic
Circle and Stockholm.
The company said it was asked
by animal lovers to give the swal
low family a free ride after the
insect supply ran out above the
Arctic Circle because of snow
falls.
The parents, SAS explained, ap
parently were on a delayed hon
eymoon in northern parts “when
this thing happened to them.”
“Because of her two eggs, Mrs.
Swallow could not make the
flight on her own,” a spokesman
added.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair tonight. Increasing cloudi
ness Saturday. Low tonight, 20
25. High tomorrow 35-40.
GM Settlement
Reached After
Strike Called
By CHARLES C. CAIN
DETROIT, UFi — General Mo
tors and the United Auto Work
ers reached agreement on a three
year master contract Thursday
night, but GM’s vast industrial
empire remained shut down today
by a strike of its 250,000 UAW
members.
UAW President Walter Reu
ther hailed the new national
agreement as “good for the na
tion, good for the UAW and good
for GM,” but he cautioned that
GM workers at 126 plants across
the country were authorized to
remain on strike to back up local
demands.
A countrywide walkout against
GM preceded the new pact by 12
hours. Before that, there had been
a rash of wildcat strikes. The old
contract ran out four months ago
and tensions had mounted in re
cent weeks under no-contract
operations.
A major complaint at local lev
els has been so-called wage in
equities in GM plants — dif
ferent pay for similarly classi
fied jobs. The national agree
ment establishes a fund into
which the company will pay half
a cent hourly for each worker to
narrow differences.
Station Alpha
Hindered By
Melting Ice
SEATTLE, — Melting causes
more trouble than cold weather
at Arctic research station Alpha,
two Austrian scientists com
mented here today.
The scientists are Dr. Norbert
Untersteiner, 32, meteorologist at
the University of Vienna, and Dr.
Walter Schwarzcker, 33, formerly
of Vienna. They stopped here en
route back to Europe.
They were among 16 scientists
at the Alpha station this sum
mer. Its location is 500 miles
north of Barrow.
Untersteiner said the ice melt
in the past summer was about
twice as great as in 1957. The sci
entists said 20 buildings had to
be moved to another ice floe
last spring when ice started to
crack. Two motorized vehicles
were lost during the summer
when they fell ’ through the ice,
they reported.
Temperatures through the sum
mer stayed near the freezing
mark, the highest being 35 de
grees. Winter temperatures
dropped to 60 below.
Scientists at the station are stu
dying formation and deterioration
of Arctic ice and its relation to
atmospheric factors.
650 UNWANTED CROAKERS
SANTA FE, N. M., OB — An
express company truck pulled up
to Santa Fe High School with a
crate loaded with 650 live, croak
ing, kicking frogs.
“No No!” said Principal Tom
Walsh. “That wasn’t what I or
dered.”
He sent the live frogs right
back where they came from —
North Carolina.
What he really wanted was a
shipment of pickled frogs, for use
in the school’s biology classes.
No Pessimism
For World
Sferies Clinchers
NEW YORK, — Two up and
• wo to go. But there is not a Mil
waukee Braves who thinks it will
be easy.
Two down and four to go. But
there is not a New York Yankee,
who thinks the situation is des
perate.
That was the World Series pic
ture today as the Braves and
Yankees took a 24-hour breather
after Lou Burdette’s 13-5 con
quest of the American League
champions, that gave Milwaukee
a 2-0 edge in the Series.
Despite their crushing defeat,
matching the worst beating they
had ever absorbed in series com
petition, the Yankees were con
fident they could turn the tables
on the Braves, winning at least
two out of the three in Yankee
Stadium.
Bob Rush, 32-year-old right
handed pitcher, was named today
by Manager Fred Haney to pitch
Saturday’s third World Series
game for the Milwaukee Braves
against the New York Yankees’
Don Larsen.
Rush had a 10-6 won-lost rec
ord for the Braves in regular sea
son play. Four of his 10 victories
came after August 27 in the club’s
season drive. This will be his
first World Series appearance al
though he has been in the majors
11 years. He started 20 games this
year, and completed five.
Fireman’s Grief
In Blazing Home
CHICAGO, OR — The sound of
his wife’s voice, gasping over the
direct line to the station, sum
moned fireman William Hughes
to the most heartbreaking blaze
of his life Thursday.
But when he reached his
fire-swept home in suburban Sko
kie, Hughes was thwarted.
Flames and smoke kept him
from breaking through to the
attic apartment where his wife
and two of their children were
trapped.
Overcome by smoke, and near
ly prostrate with grief,' he was
led away to the home of his min
ister, the Rev. Mr. Norman Rob
erts. Later, the bodies of Mari
lyn Hughes, 28, and their two
sons, Ronald, 3, and Robert, 6
months, were recovered.
“Oh, my God, Oh, my God,”
Hughes sobbed. “The other chil
dren?”
David, 6, and Jacqueline, 3,
were at school, a minister told
him.
Fire officials said Mrs. Hughes
apparently died while trying to
rescue the sleeping children. Ron
ald was found cradled in her
arms, and Robert tucked in a
nearby crib.
But before she died, Mrs.
Hughes managed to get to the
phone and gasp out the alarm.
BIOLOGISTS' ANGLING ALIBI
— TO CONSERVE FISH!
SEATTLE, W) — Fifteen men
competing in a salmon derby yes
terday landed a total of one small
salmon and an anemic red
snapper.
The event was the third annual
derby of the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service’s, local biologists.
They fished more than five hours.
One of them, Mark Lunsfoyd,
came up with an apt alibi. “We,”
he said, “are trying to conserve
the salmon.”
Alaska Invited To Join Washington,
Oregon, B. C., In Tourist Promotion
KETCHIKAN, UP) — Washing-*
ton’s Governor Albert D. Rosel
lini has suggested that Alaska
join Washington, Oregon and
British Columbia in a combined
tourist promotion program.
Rosellini spoke here last night
as he and 70 Washington busi
nessmen, civic leaders and news
men concluded a four-day air
tour of the new state.
Rosellini said such a program
has, in effect, already been
started inasmuch as Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia
have previously jointly sponsored
tourist advertisements in na
tional magazines.
To encourage tourists to visit
Alaska, Rosellini said he would
support logical moves for more
direct highway routes and im
proved steamship service between
Washington and the 49th State.
Rosellini said he was impressed
f
by the enthusiasm and energy
of the Alaskans he met at the
stops in Juneau, Anchorage, Fair
banks and Ketchikan.
“They can do anything,” the
Washington governor told a din
ner meeting with Ketchikan busi
nessmen.
Rosellini said he was pleased
with Alaska newspaper editor
ials which commended the Wash
ington good will tour, said Wash
ington had been the traditional
gateway to Alaska, and declared
it should remain that way.
The Governor pledged “every
thing in his power” to keeping
it that way by maintaining the
traditional friendly relationships
between the two states.
He promised to support the eco
nomic growth of the new state
and urged Washington business
men who accompanied him to
do likewise.
Four Russ Tests
Detected In
Arctic Area
MOSCOW, UP) — The Soviet
government said today it has re
sumed testing of its nuclear wea
pons because the United States
and Britain have kept on with
their test shots.
A special announcement made
through the official Tass News
Agency declared the blames falls
on the two Western powers since
they did not follow suit when the
Soviets announced suspension of
test blasts six months ago.
The Soviets, who wound up a
big series of experimental ex
plosions before. swearing off last
spring, are known to have deto
nated four nuclear devices in a
test area north of the Arctic
Circle this week. The U. S. Atomic
Energy Commission announced
in Washington the detection of
two detonations there Tuesday
and two more Thursday.
‘We’d Be Russian’
But For Efforts
Of Mass. Senator
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., 1® — An
Anchorage, Alaska, real estate
dealer said yesterday his state
Undoubtedly would be “an un
friendly Russian satellite” but
for the oratory of a sehator 91
years ago.
Robert A. Dow placed a wreath
on the grave of U. S. Senator
Charles Sumner. He said it is
little known that a speech of
the Massachusettts senator made
the addition of our largest state
possible.
Dow said the “purchase of Alas
ka was obtained at a cost of two
cents an acre.
“Present price of Alaskan real
estate as sold by the Anchorage
Board of Realtors ordinarily
ranges from $250 to $1,500 an
acre,” said Dow. “To date, more
than three billion dollars in gold
and fisheries production have
been realized, while its oil fields
and coal deposits have barely
been tapped.”
FIRST LESSON — FIRE ALARM
MEMPHIS, Tenn., — A first
grader, proud of his new-found
ability to read, obeyed a sign he
saw. It said: “Pull.” Principal
John Crothers said 3,000 students
at Kingsbury School promptly
marched out in their first fire
drill of the year.
Mt. Edgecumbe
Postmaster Given,
Relief From Job
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., UR —
A postmaster in Alaska who
couldn’t get off her job has final
ly gotten results:
The Post Office Department
said yesterday Mrs. Ruth Nelson
has been relieved of her post at
Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska. She
is on her way to join her husband
at Las Cruces, N. M.
The Department advised Sen
ators Anderson and Chavez of
New Mexico, that a clerk in the
office. Alfred L. Cockrell Jr.,
has been appointed acting post
master.
Mrs. Nelson, postmaster since
1947, had written Anderson ask
ing help after she found herself
stymied in attempts to shake off
the job without being held re
sponsible for its operations after
she left to join her husband.
Price High On
Wooden Nickels
MONTCLAIR, N. J., UR — The
cost of wooden nickels has gone
up to 7 cents.
The local chamber of commerce
has been selling 5-cent pieces
made of pine wood to merchants.
They will be handed out free to
customers after October 16, as
part of a promotion scheme.
The nickels are worth a nickel
each to the customers. But what
with the cost of pine wood and
handling, merchants have been
paying $7 for a hundred of the
tokens.
WHAT MAKES A BRITISH
WOMAN HAPPY? ?
LONDON, W) — What makes a
woman happy?
The question was posed at Bri
tain’s “Woman of the Year”
luncheon Thursday.
“Marrying a fine man,” said
Lady Attlee, wife of Britain’s
former Laborite Prime Minister.
“Giving and receiving,”' said
ballerina Beryl Grey.
But most agreed with come
dienne Joyce Grenfell — “Taking
off my girdle at the end of the
day.”
THE WOMAN WHO PAYS!
DETROIT, W! — Jaycee J. King,
a bus driver, found a bullet on
the floor of his bus and won
dered if it would work. He tried
it in a revolver he kept in w*
home. Doctors say Mrs. Kin* wf^
recover from a buH^ “rOUnd in
her cheek.