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Russia Charges
Hammarskjold Is
Pro-American
MOSCOW, UP—In its strongest
attack yet on the U.N. Secretary
General, Pravda charged today
that Dag Hammarskjold was act
ing in the Congo as a pro-Ameri
can agent.
The Communist party newspa
per said Hammarskjold was play
ing a “strange role” in Belgium’s
former African colony. It said the
authority of the United Nations
was being “trampled in the dirt”
as a result.
Pravda said the United States
is the mastermind behind “aggres
sion” in the new African republic.
“What function is Mr. Ham
marskjold fulfilling? asked Prav
da. “Whose interests is he de
fending in the Congo at a time
when he is supposedly trying to
secure implementation of the Se
curty Council resolution on the
removal of Belgium troops and
take measures to provide for the
integrity of the Congo republic?”
Moskvitch Dealer In U.S.
Takes Cars of the Market
Until Powers Is Released
SYRACUSE, N. Y., IJO — The
Soviet - made Moskvitch automo
bile will not be sold in the United
States until U2 pilot Francis Gary
Powers is freed, auto dealer Rob-1
ert Castle says.
The Moskvitch is in mothballs
until Soviet Premier Khrushchev
sends Powers home driving one,
Castle said in announcing suspen
sion of the sale of the small cars.
Castle said he expected to get
$1,400 each for the 10,000 cars he
had contracted to import.
He said fewer than 100 were
in this country. He had expected
to receive 500 more in June but
cancelled the order because of the
collapse of the summit confer
ence, he said.
Contributions Exceed
Payment Into ESC
Fund Last Month
JUNEAU, (.ft — Contributions to
the Unemployment Compensation
Fund exceeded payments last
month and the fund balance on
July 31 was $1,832,000, Employ
ment Security Director Merrill E.
Weir said today.
The cash balance of the Unem
ployment Compensation Fund
does not reflect $8,765,000 owed
the federal government.
The cash balance at the close of
business on July 31 represented
an increase of $301,000 over the
cash balance on June 30.
Weir said $131,000 was paid out
in benefits during the month of
July, compared to $211,000 in the
preceding month and $213,000 in
July, 1959.
90 DEGREE TEMPERATURE
RECORDED IN NORWAY 300
MILES ABOVE ARCTIC CIRCLE
ALTA, Norway, (TP)—A 60-year
old man died of a heat stroke 300
miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Olaf Groette was stricken while
bicycling in this northernmost
province, Finmark, where the
mercury has hit 90 degrees the
last few days.
While southern Norway has
shivered in rain and cold weather
most of the summer, the northern
most provinces beyond the Arc
tic Circle have had blistering
heat. j
Nixon Flies to Hawaii
To Start His Campaign
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon headed to
day for a campaign tour of the
Hawaiian Islands, leaving in his
wake a flurry over a plane bomb
bomb scare.
The Republican presidential
nominee visited Nevada and Cali
fornia yesterday for rallies and
speeches. And this morning the
FBI arrested a tattooed ex-wrest
ler and accused him of falsely
saying that a bomb was aboard
Nixon’s chartered plane when his
party left Reno.
Leonard Dale Sage was arraign
en in Reno on the charge. Agents
said he told the pilot of Nixon’s
plane: “Your plane is not going
out today. I just put a bomb on
it.” Then he drove away in a cab,
through which he was traced. No
bomb was found.
Nixon’s history-making trip to
the mid-Pacific islands that make
up the 50th state capped a busy
day of politicking highlighted by
his allegation that his opposition
paid with the Democratic plat
form for the support of labor
union leaders.
Nixon will be the first presi
dential candidate to seek votes in
Hawaii. Sen. John F. Kennedy,
the Democratic contender, plans
to visit Hawaii and Alaska in
September.
Nixon was accorded a return
ing hero’s welcome at Whittier
College, his alma mater. Hun
dreds of townspeople applauded
as Nixon’s motorcade went by and
a crowd of at least 16,000 packed
the little stadium where Nixon
played on Whittier’s football
squad as a substitute tackle.
Detroit and Cleveland
Trade Managers
NEW YORK, UP) — Detroit and
Cleveland of the American
League swapped managers today
in a deal probably unprecedented
in baseball.
Manager Jimmy Dykes of the
Detroit Tigers went to the Cleve
land Indians, replacing manager
Joe Gordon who moves over to
Detroit.
Both teams have been disap
pointments this season. Cleveland
currently is in fourth place. The
Indians had expected to be pen
nant contenders. Detroit is in
sixth, 12VS games behind.
The deal affecting the manag
ers was similar to one the two
teams pulled before the season
started. In that, swap, Harvey
Kuenn, hard-hitting outfielder of
Detroit, was swapped to Cleve
land for Rocky Colavito, a home
run slugger.
Huge Russian Fleet
Fishing Off Coast
Of Newfoundland
OTTAWA, UP)—A Russian fish
ing fleet of possibly 160 ships is
operating 100 to 150 miles off the
northeast coast of Newfoundland,
Fisheries Minister J. Angus Mac
Lean said today in the House of
Commons.
He was replying to a member
who said there are more Russians
— 25,000—than Newfoundlanders:
in the area.
MacLean said the report was I
substantially correct. The fleet in- I
eluded supply and factory ships, j
It was fishing for rosefish and j
was not in or near Canada terri
torial waters.
Votes Musi Be
I
Counted Biglit
After Balloting
JUNEAU, UP) — The results of
next Tuesday’s primary election
—and all Alaska elections to come
—should be known much faster
than results of elections in the
past, under the provisions of the
new state election code.
The new code, passed by the
1960 legislature, makes it manda
tory that the counting of ballots
start immediately after the last
ballot has been cast and con
tinue uninterrupted until the
count has been completed.
Section 3.33 of the election code
states:
“Immediate commencement of
canvass. When the polls are closed
and the last vote has been cast,
the election board and clerks or
counters shall immediately pro
ceed to open the ballot box and
canvass the votes cast. The elec
tion board shall cause the canvass
to be continued without adjourn
ment until the canvass is com
plete.”
FAA Asks Cooperation
Of Public During
Operation Sky Shield
WASHINGTON, UP) —The Fed
eral Aviation Agency asked today
tor public understanding and ac
ceptance of the need to ground all
civil aircrart for six hours on Sep
tember 10.
The sky will be swept clear of
civilian aircraft during that per
iod for a large-scale training exer
cise of the North American Air
Defense Command.
The FAA said that normally
during a six - hour period 1,000
commercial flights would carry
37,000 passengers, and about 700
general aviation aircraft also
would be flying.
E.R. Quesada, FAA administra
tor, appealed to the public, the
airlines, and the thousands of pri
vate and business pilots for sup
port of the Sky Shield exercise
which will ground civil aircraft
from 1:00 to 7:00 a.m. EDT.
He described the exercise as a
“vital training requirement for
our entire air defense system.”
Quesada said the time for the
exercise was picked to meet mili
tary need and result in a mini
mum disturbance of airlines
schedules.
English Channel Too
Tough For Alaskan
DOVER, England, UP) — A 25
year-old Alaskan air pilot, Don E.
Jonz, today abandoned an attempt
to swim the English Channel after
12 hours in the water.
He set out from Calais last
night and got to within 5 miles
of the English coast.
Two weeks ago Jonz failed on
an England-to-France attempt.
He also made an unsuccessful
channel swim last year.
NOW FIGHT FIRE WATER
PORTLAND, Ore., UP) — Some
400 men returned to Portland’s
Skid Row after more than a week
of fighting eastern Oregon forest
fires. More than a third were in
jail today, the morning after.
The fire fighters turned up in
their favorite taverns after up to
10 days of eating smoke and j
drinking water. Some had up to j
$180 in their pockets. They lined I
up six deep.
Walter Reuther Says
Democratic Ticket Merits
Organized Labor’s Support
HYANNIS PORT, Mass., UP —
Walter P. Reuther, president of
the politically powerful United
Auto Workers Union, said today
Sen. Lyndon Johnson has won the
right to have organized labor’s
support for election as Vice Presi
dent.
Reuther spoke out after a talk
with Sen. John Kennedy who
smiled widely at Reuther’s words.
They stood side by side on the
lawn of Kennedy’s summer home
to address a news conference.
Reuther had been one of the
earlier Kennedy - for - President
supporters. Friends, however, said
Reuther, like some other labor
leaders, was dismayed when Ken
nedy chose Johnson.
He said he can speak only for
himself but he believes organized
labor “will make clear shortly”
its support of the Democratic
ticket’s “two excellent candi
dates.”
A reporter told Kennedy that
Vice President Nixon has stated
that Kennedy “paid the price for
labor’s support.”
“I wonder what he meant?”
Kennedy said.
Reuther at this point said he’d
like to comment that “the Ameri
can labor movement is going to
work hard for this ticket—we’re
going to support Kennedy and
Johnson. Sen. Kennedy is suport
ing the things America needs. He
hasn’t had to pay a price,”
Young Korean Flier
Lands MIG in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea, Iff) — A
handsome, young North Korean
airman defected to South Korea
today in a MIG15 jet fighter.
“I came because 1 longed for
freedom,” said Lt. Chung Nakh
yun, 24, after he safely brought
his speedy, Soviet-designed fight
er down on a tiny, sandy airstrip
40 miles south of the truce line.
Air Force men called it a mir
aculous landing on the 4,000-foot
strip used by small propeller
driven craft.
It was the third aerial defec
tion to South Korea by members
of the North Korean air force.
EISENHOWER WILL END
HIS VACATION SUNDAY
NEWPORT, R.I., Iff) — Presi
dent Eisenhower will end his sea
side vacation Sunday evening and
fly back to Washington.
The President and his wife
came to Newport July 7. They in
terrupted their stay for six days
last week to attend the Republi
can convention in Chicago and
visit the first lady’s ailing mother
in Denver, Colo.
The President returns to Wash
ington the night before reconven
ing of the Senate. The House re
turns Aug. 15.
U.S. CALLS ON KHRUSHCHEV
TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS
WASHINGTON, (fft—The United
States challenged Soviet Premier
Khrushchev today to resume ser
ious disarmament discussions with j
the Western powers instead of
trying to “distract and confuse”
world opinion with propaganda.
That was the U. S. reply to a
Khrushchev message to the leftist |
“world conference against atomic ,
and hydrogen bombs” which is
meeting in Tokyo.
Katanga Threatens
To Fight If U.N.
Forces Enter
ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo,
M—A threat of warfare built up
today over United Nations plans
to move U.N. troops into seces
sionist Katanga province Satur
day.
Katanga Premier Tshombe an
nounced his government has or
dered mobilization of all able
bodied men among the province’s
1,250,000 people and would use
force to oppose their entry.
In Leopoldville, a U.N. spokes
man declared the troops will en
ter Katanga regardless of the
provincial regime’s stand.
“They will have to fight their
way in,” Tshombe told newsmen
after hearing a broadcast of U.N.
Secretary-General Dag Hammar
skjold’s announcement that U.N.
forces will take over from Bel
gian soldiers keeping order in this
rich mining province.
Belgian officials in Elisabeth
ville did not take this threat ser
iously. A fact of military life is
Tshombe does not have the means
to put up any real fight.
Belgian Foreign Minister
Accuses U.N. of Meddling
In Congo Internal Affairs
BRUSSELS, UP) — Premier Gas
ton Eyskens and Foreign Minister
Wignv tonight accused U.N. Sec
retary General Dag Hammar
skjold of risking anarchy, chaos
and misery in Katanga province.
Speaking at a news confer
ence Wigny called the U.N. de
cision to send troops into Katanga
“untimely and unnecessarily
hasty.”
“The United Nations cannot in
terfere in the Congo’s internal af
fairs,” he said. “The United Na
tions is there to ensure security.
The United Nations should con
tact the Katanga government to
discuss the guarantees of security
that Katanga requests.”
Arkansas Weatherman
Likes It In Antarctic
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., UP)—When
the temperature rose to an official
95 degrees here Tuesday, weath
erman C. D. McKenney was both
ered by heat and his hay fever.
But he’s going to get a respite.
He’s going to the South Pole,
where the temperature yesterday
was 93 degrees below zero.
McKenney will join a 16-man
weather team in the Antarctic.
He has spent more than half of
his time in polar regions during
the past four years.
Down at the pole, he says,
“There’s no sickness, no colds and
my hay fever doesn’t bother me.”
Col. James J. Roberts Named
CAP Pacific Liaison Officer
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Col.
James J. Roberts, former 4th Air
Force chief of staff, was appointed
liaison officer for the Civil Air
Patrol’s Pacific region yesterday.
The region embraces Oregon,
Washington, Alaska, California,
Nevada and Hawaii. Its headquar
ters are at the Presidio here, but
liaison headquarters are located
at Hamilton Air Force Base, 40
miles north of here.
HYANNIS PORT, Mass., UP) —
Sen. John Kennedy said today he
would continue J. Edgar Hoover
as director of the FBI, if he wins
the presidential election.