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Planes Complete
Supply Drop To
Quemoy Today
By FORREST EDWARDS
TAIPEI, Formosa, UP — Nation
alist cargo planes flew the- supply
run to Little Quemoy again today.
The Defense Ministry said the
airdrop was successful.
The announcement gave no
other details. Presumably the
flight, like the successful one
Sunday, was escorted by U. S. and
Nationalist fighter squadrons.
Little Quemoy, two miles west
of Quemoy, is within easy-range
. of Red jet fighters and probably
the antiaircraft guns bristling on
- Red China’s mainland coast.
Whether- the U. S. planes were
flying in past the three-mile sea
limit was not disclosed. U. S. 7th
Fleet ships guarding Nationalist
sea convoys have remained out
side it.
The supply problem for the out
posts, however, was still obvious
ly a big headache. U. S. Rear
Adm. Paul -P. Blackburn, Formo
sa Strait Patrol commander, told
newsmen the supply situation
“could be better — a helluva lot
better.”
Newsmen werg barred from vis
iting the Pescadores, Matsu and
supply-short Quemoy.
This hint that some sort of
major operation might be under
way came as a new sea convoy
was forming at the Pescadores
island supply base 30 miles from
Formosa and 70 miles from
Quemoy.
N. J. Train Plunges
Thru Open Drawbridge,
Trapping 30 to 40
ELIZABETH, N. J., UP — A Jer
sey entral commuter train
plunged crazily through an open
drawbridge into Newark Bay
today. The Coast Guard reported
15 bodies were recovered from a
depth of 50 feet in the oily waters.
Railroad officials estimate possib
ly another 30 to 40 more passen
gers were trapped in a submerged
coach.
Its two diesel locomotives and
first two passenger coaches fell
50 feet from the open span and
were immediately submerged. A
third car leaned dizily, half in the
water and half out, but two and
one-half hours later slipped com
pletely beneth the surface.
“We estimate that between 30
to 40 persons were trapped in the
bay, mostly in the second car,”
said W. A. Nickel, assistant gen
eral manager of the railroad.
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
'Et/ The Associated Press)
National* League
Los Angeles 5, Milwaukee 2.
Pittsburgh 5-6, Chicago 4-2.
Cincinnati 4-4, San Francisco 3-6.
St. Louis 6, Phiadelphia 3.
American League
New York 5-12, Kansas City 3-7.
Detroit 6-9, Boston 1-3.
Cleveland 7-2, Baltimore 4-4.
Mary Martin Sings
Over AFRS At
Nome Saturday
“My Heart Belongs to Daddy”
is Mary Martin’s favorite song,
and many hearts belong to Mary
Martin in Nome after her visit
here on Saturday.
Due to unfavorable weather,
the traveling show “Music with
Mary Martin,’ scheduled for Kot
zebue, was delayed and the
show, which included a ten-piece
orchestra, dancers, and other fea
tures, remained in Nome over
night.
The Nome Mary Martin fans
who were disappointed because
Mary Martin did not make a per
sonal appearance, did enjoy, how
ever, a half hour of singing of
well-known selections from South
Pacific in a live broadcast over
AFRS Saturday from 6 to 6:30
p.m. The broadcast was made
from the Bering Sea Club. It also
featured an outstanding guitar
player, Luiz Bonfa, who played
some original selections, and al
most stole the broadcast show.
The famous Texas star whose
voice on AFRS was clear and
sparkling, and whose personality
was casual and warm as she made
new friends throughout the com
munity, is expected back again
tomorrow, between shows being
given at the military sites in the
area. It is hoped she will find
time to sing again, and possibly
include some of her new songs
this time.
Hawaiians ‘Tired of
Second Class Status’
NEW YORK, UP) — The citizens
of Hawaii are ready and anxious
for statehood, says the Rev. John
Joyce, a Mary knoll missioner in
Hawaii for the past six years.
The Roman atholic priest said
yesterday that most Hawaiians
are weary of being regarded as
“second-class citizens” and want
to be able to vote in Presidential
elections.
Father Joyce spoke at a .com
munion breakfast held under aus
pices of employes of a New York
department store (Gimbels).
Guards and Police Patrol Central High
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., UP) — A<
few spectators gathered near Cen
tral High School in Little Rock
today shortly before the hour
when the school normally would
have opened. Police radio cars
began circling the grounds.
Automobiles carrying both
whites and Negroes cruised slow
ly in front of the school.
The SGhool, scene of rioting that
brought paratroops to Little Rock
last year, remained closed on or
ders of Gov. Orval Faubus.
A group of white girls in gym
nasium uniforms, went into the
school. They told reporters they
were not going to attend classes.
They are drum majorettes, they
said, practicing for appearances
at the football games.
Special armed guards, employed
>
by the school board, were on duty
at the school. U. S. marshals, also
in cars, appeared from time to
time but stayed in their cars.
State troopers, also armed,
came on duty at Faubus’ official
residence.
A reporter who passed through
the gate and approached the man
sion was ordered to leave..
Mrs. P. C. Bates, regional direc
tor of the National Assn, for the
Advancement of Colored People
had said previously she did not
intend to bring seven Negro pupils
to Central High in the formality
of trying to enroll.
Reports persisted today that the
Department of Justice is prepar
ing some legal action against
Faubus.
Fire Destroys
ANG Armory
At Barrow
BARROW, [Rh—A fire destroyed
an Alaska National Guard armory
here yesterday.
The building, a 60-by-150-foot
quonset-type structure, collapsed
in flames, but 3 nearby houses,
were saved from damage.
No one was injured, even
though oil drums were stored
near^the armory, and ammunition
supplies were inside.
The Rev. John Chamber, Pres
byterian missionary at Barrow,
said the oil drums were rolled to
safety. Some of the small arms
ammunition exploded — a round
at a time — but the infrequent
blasts caused no further damage.
Flames had engulfed the ar
mory roof when the fire was first
noticed by the Rev. Chamber,
who notified Territorial police at
the village.
Fire fighters used village drink
water supplies and gathered other
water in buckets from puddles on
the ground to prevent the flames
from spreading to a next-door
house and to two others nearby.
Eskimo Scout Battalion equip
ment stored in the armory was
lost in the blaze.
The cause of the fire has not
been determined.
Two Marine
Battalions To
Leave Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon, tff) — Two
morq U. S. Marine battalions are
leaving Lebanon and are going
home.
The U. S. Navy announced most
of the 2,012 men of the 1st and
2nd Battalions of the 8th Marine
Regiment would go on shipboard
today.
Their departure will leave one
Marine battalion of about 1,600
men and 8,000 Army men in Le
banon as the rearguard of a force
that began landing here July 15.
One Marine battalion, with
drawn in August on the eve of
an emergency U.N. General As
sembly session of the Middle
East, remained with the U. S.
6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.
But a Navy spokesman said the
1st and 2nd Battalions wjll be
sent back to the United States.
They are being pulled out on the
eve of the regular U.N. General
Assembly session in New York.
Nearly 15,000 Marines and sol
diers were ordered here at the
request of President Camille Cha
moun, who charged that the
United Arab Republic was en
dangering Lebanon’s indepen
dence.
“British” Fail To
Return Fire In
Historic Re-enactment
BALTIMORE, UP) — A huge
crowd had gathered for re-eact
ment of the bombardment of Ft.
McHenry 144 years ago in Balti
more harbor.
A Coast Guard cutter, out in
the harbor, was representing the
British warship.
The first salvo of blanks from
the shore batteries boomed across
the darkness of the water. A
hush came over the crowd. Noth
ing happened. Five minutes
passed and still nothing happened.
Then an announcer’s voice blared
over the public address system:
“Would the British ship please
start firing?
Ike Quote Accuses Democrats Making
Campaign Issue Of Cost-of-Living
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH <<
NEWPORT, R. I., UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower was quoted as
having accused the Democrats to
day of trying to manufacture a
campaign issue on the cost of
living.
The account of the President’s
accusation was given to newsmen
by Rhode Island Republican can
didate^ for Congress and state of
ficers after they had conferred
with Eisenhower for 10 minutes
at the Summer White House.
In reply to questions, the candi
dates reported there was no dis
cussion of the trouncing Repub
licans took last week in the elec
tions in neighboring Maine, and
no talk of the atioal GOP picture.
And they said there was no
mentiori of Sherman Adams, Eis
enhower’s controversial chief
aide. Some GOP candidates
around the country have been de
manding that the President get
rid of Adams. They contend he
has become a major political lia
bility because of his relations with
Boston industrialist Bernard
Goldfine.
Asked whether an^ of the
Rhode Island delegation suggested
to Eisenhower that Adams ought
to go, State Sen. Francis G. Dwy
er, candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, told newsmen: “We thought
about it but we didn’t have the
nerve to bring it up.”
Eisenhower’s views regarding
the possibility of inflation and
the cost of living as campaign is
sues were reported by Christopher
Del Sesto, the GOP candidate for
governor; and Francis E. Martin
eau, who is running for the U. S.
House of Representatives.
“He spoke of the record of his
administration in holding down
the forces of inflatio,” Del Sesto
said.
Then Martineau chimed in: “He
said the Democrats are trying to
manufacture an issue on the cost
of living.”'
Martineau and Del Sesto quoted
Eisenhower as saying that during
the- Truman Administration living
costs rose 47 per cent and that
during the Eisenhower Adminis
tration the increase has been only
an additional 8 per cet.
Red China And
U. S. Resume
Crisis Discussions
By STANLEY JOHNSON
WARSAW, Poland, (jP>—Ambas
sadors of the United States and
Communist China conferred for
two hours and 50 minutes today
on the Far Eastern crisis. They
the scheduled another meeting
for Thursday.
There was no immediate dis
closure as to what occurred in
today’s meeting, the first between
U. S. and Red Chinese envoys
since last December.
U. S. Ambassador Jacob Beam
and Red Chinese Ambassador
Wang Ping-Nan braved a bar
rage of reporters and photogra
phers as they arrived at Mysliwie
cki Palace, 18th-Century hunting
lodge of the kings of Poland.
The negotiators said they would
discuss the crisis in the Far East,
as the world had assumed they
would, but top sources were silent
on the details of any proposals to
be put forward.
The conference here was an
nounced as a resumption of U.S.
Red China discussions held in Ge
neva for 2 Vz years, but broke off
last December 12.
Secret Service Man
“Investigates” Young
Presidential Visitor
NEWPORT, R. I., (ff) — It must
have been a thrill for Johnny
Gallagher, 11, to meet President
Eisenhower today. But he looked
unhappy and finally told the Pres
ident why.
He hadn’t been investigated be
forehand by the Secret Service.
Eisenhower soon fixed that. He
called in a Secret Service agent,
John Campion, who went through
the motions of frisking the young
ster for possible concealed weap
ons — to Johnny’s increasing de
light.
Johnny, from Brooklyn, was
completing a 10,000-mile tour on
behalf of the Sister Elizabeth
Kenny Foundation.^
The President gave Johnny a
pocket knife and a pen. Johnny
gave the President — who doesn’t
smoke — a lighter made in the
form of a cigarette.
‘Unto Caesar That
Which Is Caesar’s —’
ROME, UP> — Tourists may
throw their money away when
they toss coins in those fountains.
But, says Italy’s supreme court, it
is a crime for anyone to try to
fish them out.
An old tradition says a trav
eler pitching a coin in some of
Italy’s old fountains will return to
the scene someday.
Three years ago police in Genoa
caught a man taking coins out of
the fountain in Piazza de Ferrari.
He was charged with theft.
A Genoa court acquitted him.
It ruled that the money had been
thrown away and belonged to
no one.
Over the weekend Italy’s high
est tribunal reversed the acquit
al. It said money tossed into pub
lic fountains belongs to the muni
cipalities concerned.
German Cog Train
Derails, Killing 18
BONN, Germany, lSt — A cog
train carrying sightseers to the
picturesque Dreachenfels Drag
on’s Rock above the Rhine sud- .
denly slipped from its cog Sun
day night and plunged off the
tracks, killing 18 persons and in
juring 60 others.
The train was about an eighth
of the way down its steep mile
descent from the top of the rock
when it left the rails.
This was the first accident on
the railway in the 75 years it has
carried more than a million per
sons to visit the ruined fortress
1,050 feet above the Rhine.
LACK OF QUORUM
CANCELS A-J MEETING
NEW YORK, un — Alaska Ju
neau Gold Mining Co.’s special
meeting of stockholders, called to
vote on the proposed acquisition
of Fletcher Aviation Corp. through
an exchange of stock, was post
poned until Sept. 19 because of
lack of a quorum.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy tonight with rain and
fog Tuesday. Low tonight 42,
high tomorrow 50.