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Russian Troops Crush
Hungarian Rebellion
By LYNN HEINZERLING
VIENNA, lift—Hungarian rebel
remnants fought on in isolated
actions today against the Soviet
military tide that has flooded out
the flames of anti-Russian revolt
across most of the country.
A Soviet ultimatum demanding
that the remaining freedom fight
ers give up their arms by 6 p.m.
(12 noon EST) or face court-mar
tial apparently was ignored.
Communist and rebel radio
broadcasts alike told of continued
shooting in the warfare set off by
the lightning Soviet attack that
deposed Premier Imre Nagy’s na
tional-minded coalition govern
ment Sunday.
Via radio Rakoczy, in southwest
Hungary, the rebels announced
the battle of Budapest continued
and that there was street fighting
in the Russian-held city of Kocs
kemet, 50 miles southeast of the
Wild British Crowds
Protest British Armed
Intervention in Egypt
LONDON, Opt—Clamoring crowds
tied up famed Trafalgar Square i
for hours Sunday in the wildest.
demonstrations seen in London in
years. Cries of “No war!” and de
mands Prime Minister Eden re
sign marked the demonstrations.
About 35 persons were arrested.
Some appeared in magistrate’s
court this morning, where they
received light fines on charges of
insulting behavior.
Labor Party orators egged the
crowd on with anti-Eden slogans.
They assailed the government for
the armed intervention in Egypt
and cried, “Eden must go!”
capital.
Rebel units hold the Budapest
island of Csepel, a big industrial
center in Danube, it said adding:
. “Russian tanks dare to move
only in formation. In many places
they have built barricades along
the road. Desperate fighting is go
ing on.”
Radio Pecs, now in Russian
hands, reported late today that
rebels were still fighting for the
uranium mines of Mecsek, not far
from the Yugoslav border. It de
manded the rebels be given no
refuge in public buildings or in
apartments and said anyone mo
lesting Russian soldiers would be
shot on the spot.
The Budapest station, again
firmly under Russian control,
sought to win over Hungarians
with all sorts of promises of polit
ical and.economic reforms.
“First it is necessary to restore
order,” it warned. The Soviet
troops will be withdrawn only
after order has been restored.”
The new regime, it said, will
start negotiations for the with
drawal after peace returns.
Only Saturday, radio Budapest,
then in rebel hands, announced a
Soviet military delegation had
promised that no further Russian
reinforcements would cross the
border into Hungary.
Generals of the Soviet and
Hungarian armies had begun dis
cussing what a Hungarian gov
ernment spokesman called “tech
nical details of the withdrawal of
Russian troops from Hungary."
Premier Nagy, who held his
post Saturday, sent his second
appeal in two days to the U.N.,
urging action on his request that
the world body guarantee Hun
garian independence. The next
day the Russians seized power,
and Nagy was deposed.
ODDS FAVOR EISENHOWER AS
NATION PREPARES TO VOTE
IN TIME OF DOUBLE CRISIS
By DONALD SANDERS
Associated Press Staff Writer
An America newly concerned
with bloodshed in Hungary and
shooting in the Middle East will
choose tomorrow a President to
guide the nation’s affairs for the
next four years.
An estimated 71 million or
more voters will decide whether
to continue President Eisenhower
in the White House or replace him
with Adlai Stevenson.
They will decide, too, which
party shall control Congress in
the next two years.
Such signposts as the public
opinion polls and the pulse-taking
of political reporters and com
mentators point almost unani
mously to Eisenhower’s re-elec
tion. But the polls have been
proved fallible at times in the
past.
The same signs point to a close
battle for control of Congress,
now held by the Democrats.
Thirty-five senators will toe
elected from 33 states. All tout
three of the 435 seats in the U.S.
House of Representatives will be
filled. Maine elected two Repub
licans and one Democrat Sept. 10.
Voters in 29 states will elect
governors. A host of other state
and local officials will also be
chosen.
An election eve survey of polit
ical leaders, reporters and others
by the Associated Press indicated
that if these observers read the
signs correctly, Eisenhower will
get four times as many electoral
votes as Stevenson.
With 266 electoral votes needed
to win, Eisenhower captured 442
to Stevenson’s 89 in their 1952
race. The popular vote was 33,
936,252 for Eisenhower and 27,
314,992 for Stevenson, who took
just nine southern and border
states.
New Eskimo Housing
In Alaska May Cost
A« Much as $1 Million
WASHINGTON Iff!—A proposal
to build and rehabilitate Eskimo
housing in Alaska may involve an
expenditures of as much as a
million dollars.
Altho such a proposal is under
active consideration. Department
of the Interior officials have been
hesitant to discuss details of the
program.
A department source said today,
however, that as originally pro
posed the program might involve
construction of 2,200 new homes
and rehabilitation of possibly
2,000 others.
The purpose of the program
would be to raise Eskimo housing
standards. It is understood there
is general department agreement
of the need for such a move.
One possible result of the pro
gram might be a cut in the heavy
tuberculosis toll among Alaska’s
natives.
BULLETIN
LONDON Iff)—The Soviet Un
ion called tonight for joint
American-Soviet intervention—
backed by the United Nations—
to slop British-French "aggres
sion in the Middle East.
Secretary of State
Will Be Laid Up
For Six Weeks
WASHINGTON (JV-Cancer had
infected a section of intestine re
moved from Secretary of State
Dulles, it was disclosed yesterday.
A State Department announce
ment said an examination at the
time of the emergency operation
Saturday, and X rays later, indi
cated the malignancy had not
spread beyond the diseased por
tions.
Dulles’ condition was described
as “good” in the wake of the 2V4
hour operation at the Army’s
Walter Reed Hospital.
Doctors said they expect the
secretary to spend about six
weeks in recuperation, some three
weeks of that time in the hospital.
This means Dulles will be im
I mobilized at a time when the
United States is grappling with
crisis in eastern Europe and the
Middle East. In his absence, the
State Department is headed by
Undersecretary --of State Herbert
Hoover Jr.
Dulles returned Friday from
New York City where he called
for, and won, a United Nations
General Assembly vote urging an
end to fighting in the Middle East.
BETTER OFF IN BED
FORT WORTH, Texas UV—L. E.
Schmidt, 69, was in bed today and
thinks he should have stayed
there Saturday.
Schmidt’s glasses slipped off as
he ran thru a hard rain to catch a
bus. He caught them before they
hit the sidewalk but he slipped
and cut his knee.
He also missed the bus.
Back home, Schmidt went into
the bathroom to bandage the cut.
He slipped again and cut his arm
on a hair tonic bottle.
Schmidt gave up and went to
a hospital.
British Win Control
Of Suez Terminal
LONDON, UR—Waves of British
and French parachutists landed in
the Port Said area at the north
end of the Suez Canal today. With
j in hours, the British announced,
the Egyptian commander there
began discussing surrender terms
with the invaders. A cease-fire
! was declared.
The cease-fire was announced
to cheers in the House of Com
mons by Prime Minister Eden.
The developments meant the
situation of Egyptian President
Nasser was becoming more pre
carious by the hour. Last week,
the Egyptians lost their vast Sinai
Peninsula, east of the canal, to
invading Israeli forces.
The announced purpose cf the
British-French invasion is to safe
guard the canal—now closed to
shipping—and to separte the bel
ligerents in the Israeli-Egyptian
fighting. The British say they are
willing to turn over control of the
canal to U.N. forces, once the
situation is stabilized.
The parachute troops landed in
the Canal Zone only four months
and 22 days after the British sur
rendered to Egypt the military
bases they long had occupied
there. In the meantime, on July
26, Nasser nationalized the Suez
Canal.
The invasion came shortly after
the U.N. General Assembly, seek
ing to restore peace in both Hun
gary and the Middle East, ordered
an international police command
set up to establish and supervise
a cease-fire in Egypt.
The British and French govern
ments had gone ahead with their
long-heralded invasion, but said
they would welcome the U.N. po
lice force as a shield between
warring Egypt and Israel as soon
as the two Middle East govern
ments accepted U.N. proposals for
peace, and there was a settlement
of the Suez question.
The first Egyptian announce
ments on the invasion claimed the
first wave of 3,000 paratroopers
was annihilated by soldiers, police
and civilian fighters and that a
second wave was being wiped out.
This was subject to question
since last week Egypt had an
nounced it was annihilating Is
raeli forces in Sinai.
Nehru Rebukes
Moscow for Use of
‘Superior Might’
NEW DELHI, UFl— Prime Minis
ter Nehru said today “superior
might” is being used to crush
freedom movements in Hungary
and Egypt.
Addressing the opening session
of the general conference of
UNESCO (the U.N. Economic, So
cial and Cultural Organization),
Nehru added "Human dignity is
being outraged” by events in these
two countries.
The Indian leader did not men
tion Russia by name but his
words definitely were a rebuke to
Moscow as well as London anti
Paris.
It was the first time Nehru had
voiced any public criticism— im
plied or otherwise—of Russia's
actions in Hungary. He has been
bitterly critical of the British
French attack on Egypt.
SMALL WORLD DEPT.
SEATTLE, Of)—Vice President
Harold A. Oslon of Pacific North
ern Airlines and his wife have re
turned here after a whirlwind,
17-day tour of western Europe.
And Olson is more convinced
than ever that it is a small world.
“I checked in at Schiphog Air
port, Amsterdam,” he explained,
“and who was one of the first
persons I saw?
“None other than Sigfried Wien,
head of Wien Alaska Airlines.
The last time I saw Sig was in
the spring in Anchorage.”
League of Alaska Cities Adopts
39 - Point Legislative Program
KETCHIKAN, tfl—The League
of Alaska Cities ended its 6th an
nual convention here Saturday
with election of officers, selection
of Anchorage as host city for the
1957 convention, adoption of a
39-point legislative program and
16 resolutions.
Mayor James Coding of Ketch
ikan was elected president. Other
officials included Mayor Antone
Anderson of Anchorage, vice pres
ident; and Mrs. Lucy Mick of
Palmer, reappointed executive
secretary.
New members of the Executive
Board include retiring president
Douglas Preston, mayor of Fair
banks; Mayor Steffen Andersen,
Nome; and Mrs. Emelie St. Pierre,
city clerk at Valdez.
Sitka and Juneau joined the
league during its convention here.
bringing its membership to 72
cities. Petersburg, Douglas, Skag
way, Wrangell, and Haines indi
cated they will join soon and
when they do the league will rep
resent 98 percent of Alaska’s pop
ulation.
The legislative program calls
for a refund of one cent of the
existing five-cent motor fuel tax
on highway users to cities, such
funds to be used for roads.
Repeal of the act establishing
detailed examination procedure of
police officers; revision of exist
ing liquor laws with license pow
ers for establishment within cities
to be vested in city councils.
Revision of the Juvenile Code
with responsibility for enforcment
and financing vested in the terri
torial government.
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