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Israel Parades
Air Strength on
National Holiday
TEL AVIV, Israel, Iff—Twelve
French-type Ouragan jet planes
spearheaded an air parade of Is
rael’s military strength at Inde
pendence Day celebrations in Hai
fa today.
Highly placed Israeli military
sources reported yesterday a new
er jet plane, the French Mystere,
would make its appearance. But
none was on display and there
was no official confirmation of
the report 12 of these planes ac
tually had been delivered.
The Mysteres, the military
sources indicated Sunday, would
somewhat balance Egypt’s acquis
ition of Soviet Mig-15 jets.^lrom
Czechoslavakia.
The Ouragans, never displayed
publicly in Israeli before, along
with British-made meteor jets,
took part in the aviation section of
a two-hour military parade re
viewed by top Israeli officials, in
cluding Premier David Ben Gur
ion, and thousands of spectators.
The show marked Israeli’s 8th
anniversary as an independent
Jewish state at a moment when
many fear some shot across the
troubled frontiers might set off a j
second round of war with the Ar
ab states.
An Egyptian spokesman charged
Israel had violated Dag Hammar
skjold’s newly-invoked cease-fire
eight times in the past 48 hours.
The Egyptian said Israelis fired
into the Egyptian-held Gaza strip
five times Sunday and two Israeli
planes had flown over the strip
for five minutes Saturday.
“We kept our word to U.N.
Secretary Dag Hammarskjold and
refused to return one single shot,”
he said.
Old Hand Predicts
Late Breakup
Of lee at Nenana
Charlie Wilson, who has seen
the ice come and go at Nenana
since 1922, says he’s never seen so
little water around the Tanana
River this time of year. The river
ice is 40 inches thick, he says, and
he can’t see it breaking up before
May 10 at the very earliest, and
possibly not until May 15.
Yesterday, 75 workers started
counting and sorting the thou
sands of guesses made before the
April 7 deadline. Wilson served
on the Nenana Classic committee
12 years, but is just a spectator
this year—a very interested one,
because he is sure one of his 208
guesses is a winner.
POLICE RESCUE WOMAN
TRAPPED IN PHONE BOOTH
PATTERSON, N.J., Iff—Police
got a call Saturday that a woman
was upside down in a restaurant
telephone booth and please come
get her out.
The cops said the woman told
them she had dropped a coin on
the floor of the booth, bent over
to pick it up, and her feet went
out from under her, leaving her
trapped head down .
Bids For New Nome
Post Office Will Be
Opened On Mafv 8
A bulletin of the Associated
General Contractors of Anchor
age, announces that the bids for
the construction of the new Nome
Federal building, will be opened
on May 8.
The new building, known as
General Services Administration
project 50-502. a post office and
court house for Nome, will con
tain 335,500 cut. ft. of space, and
will be two stories of reinforced
concrete with a full basement.
Further specifications include
non-bearing partitions of wood,
frame and gypsum board, wood
sash, vinyl tile, linoleum and
ceramic floor coverings.
The bid opening is set for 3
o’clock the afternoon of Tuesday,
May 8,. room 126 in the Federal
Office Building, Anchorage.
Navy Seabee Relates
Narrow Escape on
Antarctic Icecap
DAVISVILLE, R. I., (>PV— Two
Seabees back from the Antarctic
this week had a story to tell how
“Cavendish in front and God be
hind’’ savgd a small Seabee party
caught without warning in a flash
blizzard and 60-mile wind on the
Antarctic’s continental icecap last
month.
The Cavendish referred to is
Lt. L*. M. Cavendish of Charleston,
W.Va. and his exploit was related
by Cmdr. Arthur F. Meeks of Port
Hucneme, Calif.
The survey party had started
out to explore a site on the Wind
mill Islands where a 25-man
group of scientists will be estab
lished during the International
Geophysical Year, 1957-58.
When the foot party was two
miles from the ice breaker Glacier
the blizzard struck. Visibility was
blotted out in the 60-mile winds,
and the men slipped and skidded
on ice.
Roping themselves together, the
men started for a rocky area to
wait out the storm. After waiting
an hour, Cavendish decided to
risk a push back to the ship rather
than freeze to death on the ice.
They reached the ship just as
the four-hour storm ended.
PLANE DROPS BOMB
ON OFFICIALS CLUB.
KILLING 27 PERSONS
BANGKOK, Thailand, (£*—A
royal Thai air force plane was re
ported today to have dropped a
bomb on an officiafls’ club near
the city of Prachuap Khiri Khan,
killing 27 persons and injuring 32.
Dispatches from Prachap Khiri
Khan, a port on the Gulf of Siam
150 miles south of Bangkok, said
military officers, government
authorities and members of their
families were celebrating the
Songkran (Water Festival) Sunday
when the explosive fell from a
Thai Bearcat fighter-bomber.
These accounts said the Bearcat
was being flown by a flight ser
geant on a practice flight to a
bombing range a few miles south
of the club.
Some government officials were
reported among the casualties.
President Vetoes Farm Bill
I Search Is On for
Alaska Bush Pilot on
Trip to Fort St. John
EDMONTON, UP>—Four RCAF
and two civilian planes today
were searching northern Alberta
and British Columbia for an Al
askan pilot who failed to reach
Fort St. John, B.C., Saturday af
ternoon on a 350-mile flight from
here to the B.C. air base.
Pilot R. E. Williams of Ellison
air base, Alaska, is a veteran flier
and experienced bushman. Weath
er in the area has been sunny and
mild since his disappearance and
it is believed he has an excellent
chance of being found unharmed.
Sen. Kefauver Delivers
't-Minute Political Talk
From Telephone Booth
VINELAND, N.J., UP—You've
heard the old gag about holding a
conversation in a phone ‘booth?
Well, Sen. Estes Kefauver yester
day addressed the Railway Broth
erhood Political League in a
phone booth.
The league was meeting in
Newark, and the Tennessee sena
tor, making a last minute swing
through New Jersey before to
morrow’s primary, read a five
minute address to the delegates
over the telephone from here.
An aide lit the darkened booth
with a cigaret lighter while the
senator spoke.•
Grace and Prince
Rehearse for
Royal Wedding
MONTE CARLO, Iff—G race
Kelly and a nervous Prince Rain
ier went through a rehearsal to
day for their marriage ceremony.
The American film star had a
strained look on her beautiful
face and Rainier bit his finger
nails during the rehearsal for. the
religious ceremony which will
take place Thursday.
The couple will take part in a
civil ceremony Wednesday, in
which Grace will automatically
become a citizen of Monaco.
The Prince’s American chaplain,
the Rev. Francis Tucker, has pre
dicted Grace’s marriage will “last
forever."
Marcel Portanier, Monaco’s jus
tice minister who will officiate at
the civil ceremony, said: “We are
certainly not expecting it, but
should Miss Kelly or the Prince
ever want a divorce thy’ll have to
apply for it in Monaco.
Father Tucker raised the ques
tion of divorce from his pulpit in
St. Charles Church yesterday, ap
pealing to all people to “end this
nightmare of disbelief.”
In contrast to the booing that
Grace and the Prince received last
night from thwarted photograph
ers trying to take their pictures
under difficulties, the pair were
applauded by a crowd of tourists,
Monacans and newsmen as they
walked down the center aisle at
the end of the rehearsal
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Bulgaria Premier
Rt'signs After
Denunciation
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, G'P)—
Communist Bulgaria’s Premier
Vulko Chervenkov, a Moscow
trained strongman denounced by
his party last week as a little
Stalin, submitted his resignation
in Sofia today.
A change in the premiership
should help improve relations be
tween Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
Chervenkov was a sparkplug of
the Soviet bloc’s campaign against
President Tito’s government after
the Stalin-Tito break of 1948. He
had also dragged his feet in the
moves for reconciliation instituted
by Soyiet leaders Bulganin and
Khrushchev last spring.
It was not clear whether Cher
venkov would remain in the gov
ernment. There was a possibility
he would be made a deputy pre
mier with limited responsibilities.
Crippled Boy Scout
Hikes Twenty Miles
To Earn Eagle Badge
CHICAGO, (4*1—A crippled Boy
Scout hobbled 20 miles along the
historic Lincoln Trail yesterday to
win the highest rank in Scouting
and to make his mother “the
proudest woman in Chicago.”
Joel Schaeffer, 13, his legs with
ered by polio, said he was a “little
tired” after the 13V£-hour hike on
crutches. He won a hiking merit
badge, the only one he needed to
merit Scouting’s Eagle award.
Joel, an eighth grade student in
a school for crippled children,
made his hike over the trail which
runs from New Salem to Spring
field, 111., a trail used by Abraham
Lincoln as a young man.
A Scout official walked with
the polio-stricken boy.
TAIPEH STREET SCENES
CHANGED BY NEW LAW
TAIPEH, Formosa, Wt—New
traffic rules issued here forbid
automobiles and pedicabs from
parking on sidewalks—a common
sight in Taiipeh.
Sidewalks also may no longer
be used—as they often are—as j
drying grounds for clothes, open |
air carpenter shops or for storing i
building construction.
Allied Commander Warns
Russian Submarine Fleet
Increasing By 85 a Year
BONN, Germany, OP)—The So
viet Union is increasing its fleet
of 400 submarines by about 85 a
year, Adm. Jerauld Wright said
today.
The supreme Allied commander
in the Atlantic told a news con
ference: “There is no reason to
believe they (Russian submarines)
are not first class ships. They are
all fully manned. None is in moth
balls.”
Adm. Wright said he had “no
information whatsoever” that the
Russians are building atomic
powered submarines.
> WASHINGTON, UPt—President
Eisenhower vetoed the farm bill
today.
He will go on the air at 10 p.m.
EST to explain his rejection of the
measure which becomes, through
his veto, a sure major issue in the
election campaign.
In his veto message, Eisenhower
told the lawmakers the high price
support bill “would do harm to
every agricultural region of the
country and also to the interests
of consumers.”
The bill would return farm
price supports to 90 percent of
parity for one year, junking the
administration’s flexible support
system.
Congressional backers of the
measure conceded there was no
chance for enactment of the bill
over the veto. To override the
President would require a two
thirds vote.
To Improve Farm Incomes
Eisenhower’s message announced
the administration is taking three
actions under existing law “to im
prove farm income now.”
1. * Price supports on five “basic”
crops—wheat, corn, cotton, rice
and peanuts—will be set at a leveL
of at least 82Vi percent of parity.
2. For this year, the support
price of manufacturing milk will
be increased to $3.25 per 100 lbs.
The support price of butterfat will
be increased to 58.6 cents a pound.
3. More than $400 dollars oC
Agriculture Department funds
“where assistance will be con
structive,” will" be used to
strengthen the prices of perish
able farm commodities for the
year beginning July 1.
Urges a Soil Bank Bill
Additionally, Eisenhower urged
the lawmakers to enact his soil
bank plan “as promptly as possi
ble . . . before next fall’s seeding
for next year’s crops.”
The veto unquestionably will
have far-reaching significance in.
this year’s political campaign.
For one thing, it gives Demo
crats, who have been reluctant to
attack Eisenhower personally, an
issue on which they can hammer
at the President.
Republicans Opposed Veto
Although the bill was pushed by
the Democratic majority in Con
gress, it won support from many
farm state Republicans. Some said
a veto in the light of falling agri
culture prices would hurt Eisen
hower and other GOP candidates
in the November election.
Only this morning the Republi
can governors of Kansas, Iowa
and South Dakota urged Eisen
hower to sign the measure even
though it contained features Sec
retary of Agriculture Benson had
called “unacceptable.”
TEETOTALER MONKEYSHINES
DALLAS Wi—Two pet monkeys
opened the door of their cage in
a locked liquor store yesterday,
triggered a burglar alarm and en
tertained passersby.
They upset a bottle of gfn, but
did no harm, owner J. A. Pierce
said. They are both teetotalers,”
he explained.