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Gaza Strip Artillery Duel Subsides
After U.N. Appeal to Cease lire
JERUSALEM, UP>—An artillery'
duel flared between Israeli and
Egyptian forces on the Gaza strip
frontier today but the U.N. cease
fire appeal apparently was in
voked to halt the shooting.
The situation was considered
serious enough to cause the U.N.
truce chief, Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Burns to postpone his departure
for Rome, where he is to meet
with U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold tomorrow.
Hammarskjoicl had summoned
Burns to a conference in Rome as
a preliminary to his mission seek
ing a solution to the Middle East
crisis. Burns issued an urgent ap
peal for a cease-fire when the
Gaza front blazed into action yes
terday. ,
Today’s new artillery exchange
was reported from the Kissufim
sector, where Egyptians claimed
Israeli troops killed 42 civilians
and wounded 110 others, includ
ing seven Egyptian soldiers, yes
terday. Israeli losses were put at
four soldiers and two civilians
wounded.
Both Egypt and Israel blamed
the other for the new outbreak.
The Israelis sent a message to the
chairman of the Mixed Armistice
Commission saying they had is
sued cease-fire orders “in compli
ance with your personal request.”
Burns had set last midnight as
the deadline for compliance with
his cease-fire request.
But an Israeli spokesman said
this morning an Egyptian position
in the Gaza Strip opened up with
heavy machinegun fire at an Is*
raeli unit and that the fire was
returned.
Defense Secretary
To See Pt. Barrow
On DEW Tour
WASHINGTON, UP—Secretary
of Defense Charles E. Wilson and
Secretary of Air Donald Quarles
left today to inspect part of the
Distant Early Warning Line in
northern Canada and Alaska.
They were accompanied on the
tour of the radar “fence” by Earle
E. Partridge, chief of the Air De
fense Command.
At Ottawa, they will be joined
by Canadian government officials.
As he boarded his plane, Wilson
was asked about published reports
that Canadians are displeased
over the heavy influx of United
States military personnel and
bases into the Canadian north. A
reporter wanted to know whether
the Canadians were happy with
this situation.
“As far as I know they are,"
Wilson said. “If they aren’t, this
will be a fine time to clear it up.
We get along fine with the Cana
dians.”
Wilson was asked whether com
pletion of the DEW Line might
mean the United States would
change deployment of defenses
overseas. He explained that the
northern radar warning system is
just one of many “different things
which implement each other,” and
added that “I wouldn’t think” it
would make any difference in the
overseas defense situation.
The plan was for the U.S. and
Canadian officials to include Point
Barrow, Alaska, in their tour next
after Thule, Greenland.
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Bandits Loot Bank of
$75,000 in 5 Minutes
FLINT, Mich. —Four gunmen j
held up the east side branch of;
the Citizens’ Bank shortly after I
11:15 a.m. today and methodically!
looted it of an estimated $75,000. !
There was no shooting as the
four bandits, wearing stocking
masks, took less than five minutes
for the robbery.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED FOR
1 si DIVISION U.S. ATTORNEY
WASHINGTON, (AT—President
Eisenhower today accepted the
resignation of Theodore E. Mun
son as U.S. attorney for Alaska’s
First Division, effective April 14.
Munson is resigning to be avail
able for consideration as an assis
tant U.S. attorney for northern
New York. Any appointment to
that position would be made by
the Justice Department.
Wolverines Loot.
Dexter Camps;
Scout Hike Off
Wolverines have invaded Dex
ter, it was reported yesterday,
when Scoutmaster Bob Emmons,
and Sgt. William Granfield, as
sistant scoutmaster, visited the
Boy Scout camp to prepare for the
overnight Boy Scout hike planned
for this weekend.
They found the main building
had been broken into by the wol
verines. Materials, dishes and sup
plies were strewn all over the
building as well as much snow
inside. It was also reported that
the recreation building was cov
ered with snow and the roof dam
aged.
Other camps that were visible
in the area were also broken into
by both foxes and wolverine. They
estimated about 12 feet of snow in
the area so the camps lower in
the valley were practically cov
ered.
Plans for the overnight encamp
ment were cancelled until repairs
could be made.
Soviet and U.S. Officials
Try to Break Deadlock
In Fur Seal Meeting
WASHINGTON (AV-Soviet Am
bassador Georgi Zarubin met with
U.S. officials yesterday in an ef
fort to break a deadlock at a four
nation conference on North Pacif
ic fur seals.
The conference has been under
way in Washington since last Nov.
28 among the U.S., Russia, Japan
and Canada.
Seal herds breed in the Pribilof
Islands off Alaska, the Command
er Islands off Siberia, and Robben
Island north of Japan.
They used to be prdtected by a
U.S. - British - Japanese - Russian
agreement. But in 1941 there were
so many seals that Japan, acting
under the treaty, began killing off
seals which had become so numer
ous as to interfere with Japanese
fishing.
The United States and Canada
have had an agreement since 1942
to protect the Pribilof herd. Pur
pose of the conference was to get
Russia and Japan to join in this
agreement and extend its protec
tion over all North Pacific fur
seals.
I National Polio Committee
i To Review Program as
Disease Year Begins
WASHINGTON, UP—'The Na- !
I tional Committee on Poliomyelitis
I Vaccine will meet here April 18
j to review the voluntary control
I program as the new “disease
| year” gets under way.
A breakdown of the 1,072 polio
cases reported by the states this
year up through March 31 showed
today that California has had
more than one-third of the total,
or 365 cases. During the similar
1955 period ending April 2, Cal
ifornia listed 203 of the total 1,063.
The Health Serfice said 11 of
the 1,072 cases this year were in
persons who had received the
Salk vaccine.
The national figures for the first
three months of 1956, compared
with those of a year ago through
April 2, include for Alaska 1 this
yeSr, 6 last year.
Lt. Herb Sergeant Has
Name and Rank Trouble
FT. LEONARD WIOD. Mo. UfV—
1st Lt. Herb Sergeant of Sioux
City, Iowa, is having name and
rank trouble.
Sergeant, executive officer of
Company D of the 2nd Battalion,
1st Basic Training Regiment, to
day recalled the worst mixup
from the combination.
“My girl friend tried to call me
here long distance,” he said, “and
the operator told her she must be
mistaken because there’s no such
rank as lieutenant sergeant.”
Residents Escape
Tornado Damage
With Radar Alert
BRYAN, Tex., (/P>—Residents of
this central Texas city of 20,000,
alerted by a radar tornado spotter,
escaped without a single cut or
scratch yesterday as a major
twister destroyed or damaged
more than 200 homes and half a
dozen commercial buildings.
A 15-minute warning from the
Texas A & M College radar torna
do spotter, broadcast by radio,
gave citizens a chance to take
safety measures. A & M was a
pioneer in defelopment of tornado
warnings by radar.
Estimates of damage to homes
and commercial structures ex
ceeded half a million dollars.
The Bryan tornado was a story
of near misses. It missed the
school. It first dipped down near
Bryan AFB but missed it, and
missed A & M College with its
7,000 students.
Ex-Legion Commander
Under Consideration for
Alaska Federal Judge
WASHINGTON, idt—An in
formed capital source said Thurs
day that Col. Raymond J. Kelly,
former national American Legion
commander and Detroit attorney,
is under consideration for nomin
ation as a federal judge in Alaska.
The informant said FBI agents
have been making the customary
check which usually precedes
nomination.
Kelly is now chairman of the
Railroad Retirement Board at
Chicago.
If nominated and confirmed, he
would fill the position left vacant
last year by the death of District
■ Judge George W. Folta at Juneau.
1150,000 Tons of Cargo Will Be
Carried By 50-Ship Flotilla This
Summer In DEW Line Resupply
Stevenson Says
Kef a liver Hurting
Democratic Party
Adlai Stevenson today charged
Sen. Estes Kefauver is hurting the
Democratic Party with his cam
paign tactics.
Stevenson, former Illinois gov
ernor, also charged his opponent
for the Democratic presidential
nomination was absent from the
Senate when a number of major
measures were being voted upon.
In a speech to the Jacksonville,
Florida Bar Assn., Stevenson said
the Tennessee senator “and his
supporters have raised a chorus ol
indignant denunciation of ‘politi
cal bosses’ and ‘machines’ trying
to ‘freeze him out.’ The fact that
he sought the support of so many
of these same people or that they
were on his delegation in 1952
seems to make no difference. A
political boss is evidently anyone
who prefers Stevenson to Kefauv
er for President.”
Stevenson was at Jacksonville
for a one-day campaign in an ef
fort to win Florida’s 28 national
convention votes in the Democrat
ic presidential preferential pri
mary on May 29.
He reiterated his stand on inte
gration, saying it is the “law of
the land” and that he “would only
ask that law abiding citizens com
ply with it in a lawful manner as
the courts find reasonable and
feasible.
“Desegregation cannot be done
by guns and bayonets. It cannot
be done overnight.”
In California, 20,000 signatures
were filed in San Francisco and a
score of counties throughout the
state to qualify Stevenson’s dele
te slate for the June 5 primary
there—the last big direct Kefauv
er-Stevenson clash before the con
vention.
Rumor Leads to
Near Riot Against
Suspected Negro
DETROIT UP)—The white people
on Robson Street today won a
battle against John W. Rouse, 70,
and his family—a wife, daughter,
and two small children.
Rouse agreed last night after a
near race riot to sell his home and
leave the pleasant, normally quiet
street in northwest Detroit and
move elsewhere.
Rumor in the all-white neigh
borhood which set off the racial
demonstration was that Rouse was
a Negro.
Rouse, a retired private police
man, insisted the rumors were
false. “We are not Negroes.’’ he
said.
The rumor was believed to have
started with one of the workmen
moving furniture into the house.
The mob of some 500 people
which assembled before the Rouse
house Wednesday night hurled
bricks through two windows. The
police, in a swift demonstration of
their own, dispersed the crowd.
Rouse said he was part Chero
kee Indian and that his wife was
of Scotch-Irish and French-Cana
dian ancestry.
S’ SEATTLE, OP—Preparations are
under way for movement of 100
million dollars worth of cargo
from Puget Sound this summer
for Distant Early Warning Line
construction in the north.
The Post-Intelligencer said yes
terday a fleet of more than 50
ships will carry between 100,000
and 150,000 tons of cargo as far
as the rim of ice that shuts off the
North Pole from the North Amer
erican Continent.
The volume of this year’s DEW
Line shipment from Seattle will
run a little below last year’s rec
ord-smashing cargo.
But the character of the cargo
is changing. Last year’s cargo was
mostly timber, steel and other
construction materials. This year,
more expensive electronic equip
ment is going north.
The flotilla probably can’t leave
Seattle until July, but two LST
landing ships were dispatched
from Florida to east coast ship
yards this week for “arctic action’*
preparatory to joining the west
coast DEW Line fleet.
The shallow-draft LSTs and
“Knot-type” ships will carry more
of the load this year than they did
in 1955.
Too many of the Victory ships
and other deep-draft freighters in
last year’s fleet ripped their bot
toms open on icebergs and shoals.
So it will be a flotilla of smaller,
more maneuverable ships that will
follow icebreakers, frogmen and
demolition teams this year thru
seas in the arctic ice pack to un
load their cargoes just offshore or
on the beach itself.
Some DEW Line cargo may pass
over commercial docks, but mili
tary folk will keep this year’s
cargo close under their thumbs.
Reason—the classified nature of
much electronic equipment in the
1956 shipment.
Last year’s combined mission
utilized 53 vessels in the move
ment of some 150,000 measure
ment tons to the Arctic. It is es
timated the 1956 mission will call
for as many men and ships as
in 1955.
Gov.-Gen. Massey Asserts
The North Will Support
Thriving Communities
THE PAS, Man., OP)—Governor
General Vincent Massey, on the
last lap of an Arctic flying trip,
said last night northern Canada
is a region where large and thriv
ing communities can be built.
Massey, whose flying exepedi
tion made him the first governor
general in history to cross the
pole, referred in. an address to
the strategic importance of the
north, lying across the air routes
of the world and “between us
and the only other great Arctic
power.*’
“I am ^happy to think, how
ever, that we are not exclusively,
or even principally, concerned
with matters of strategy and de
fense,” he said.