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Argentina Frees
Political Prisoners
Of Latest Revolt
BUENOS AIRES, Uh— Political
prisoners arrested in connection
with last week’s revolt against the
government of President Juan D.
Peron are being released, the gov
ernment announced today.
The order frees political oppo
nents of the government such as
Crisologo Larralde, leader of the
Radical Party, who were jailed
during and after the revolt.
The rebels themselves—mostly
navy fliers and marine corps per
sonnel — are to be tried by the
Supreme Council of the armed
forces.
The government announcement
said it had been decided to re
lease political prisoners “in the
interests of restoring complete
tranquility throughout the na
tion.”
A communique earlier from
Maj. Gen. Franklin Lucero, army
minister and commander in chief
of the “forces of repression,” re
ported all of Argentina calm.
Troops guarding public buildings
and churches in the capital since
the uprisings last Thursday were
sent back to their barracks today.
Police in Rosario, capital of
Santa Fe province and Argen
tina’s second largest city, an
nounced that 21 Communists had
been arrested there for distribut
ing subversive leaflets and violat
ing the state security decree.
New York Cop Wins
$16,000 In TV Quiz Show
NEW YORK, UP) — Policeman
Redmond O’Hanlon deferred to
his responsibilities as a family
man and took $16,000 in TV quiz
show winnings rather than risk it
trying for $32,000.
O’Hanlon, 39, a spare - time
Shakespeare scholar, had run up
his winnings with correct answers
on the CBS TV program “The
$64,000 Question.”
Last night the New York City
police officer was given a chance
to double his money by taking a
crack at another question. Had he
missed, he would have lost the
money but would have gotten an
expensive automobile as a con
solation prize. Had he known the
answer, he would have won
$32,000 and a chance to try for
$64,000 next week.
O’Hanlon, decided to be satis
fied with $16,000. Later he told
newsmen, “If I was a single man,
I would have gone all the way.”
To the studio audience he ex
plained that his dilemma was that
of “the egotism of a scholar vs.
the conservatism of the father of
five children.”
N.Y. CITY COUNCIL SETS
HIGHEST TAX IN HISTORY
NEW YORK, UP) — The city
council has set a basic real es
tate tax rate of §3.85 for each
$100 of assessed valuation — the
'highest in the city’s history—for
the 1955-56 fiscal year.
The new rate is 17 cents above
the current year’s.
Gunfire Accompanies
Uranium Strike In
California Desert
- BARSTOW, Calif., Uf)—Gunfire
echoed in the desolate foothills
of the Ord .Mountains this week
as California’s newest uranium
rush got underway.
Sheriff’s deputies said last
night that between 1,000 and 2,000
prospectors—some of them ama
teurs who brought their families
along—are searching for uranium
in the furnace-hot, snake-infested
hills.
Sheriff Frank Bland of San
Bernardino County said two doz
en shots were fired Monday in
the area in what was believed to
be a claim-jumping fracas. Depu
ties said no one was hurt. Who
took part in the incident is a
mystery.
Bland told prospectors to leave
children behind and bring plenty
of water. The center of the strike
is in the Mojave Desert 25 miles
southeast of Barstow.
The nearest water is at New
berry, 10 miles to the northwest
on U. S. Highway 66. Tempera
tures reached 106 and 108 degrees
in the area yesterday,
i Deputies said the rush appar
ently started after Donald Ce
derof of Bountiful, Utah, staked
claims in the Ord Mountains last
week. They were reported to con
tained extra high grade ore.
Premier Scelba Resigns
His Italian Government
After Thirteen Months
ROME, (if) — Premier Mario
Scelba today turned in the resig
nation of the coalition govern
ment with which for 13 months
he has battled Italian Commun
ism and backed the West.
Even as Scelba was closeted
with President Giovanni Gronchi
in the Quirinale Palace, a com
munique from this morning’s
heated cabinet session said:
“The council of ministers ag
reed unanimously on the presen
tation to the president of the re
signations of the entire cabinet.”
“I have handed it in,” he told
reporters. “I have done my duty.
I leave with perfect serenity.”
He expressed his hope that “the
crisis may now be soon resolved.”
As usual, there was no im
mediate word whether Gronchi
would accept the resignation.
Scelba’s government came to a
crisis last night when* his own
big Christian Democrat party
walked out on his coalition and
one of his rebelling minor party
allies refused to return, to the
fold.
‘The Body’ Remarries
Her Favorite Allergy
HOLLYWOOD, UR — Actress
Marie (The Body) McDonald has
remarried her favorite allergy.
Her mother said yesterday that
Miss McDonald phoned to say
that she and her ex-husband, shoe
manufacturer Harry Karl, were
married a week ago in Yuma,
Ariz.
After their Las Vegas, Nev.,
divorce last( November the shape
ly actress said that she was al
lergic to Karl. “When I am with
Harry I get sick,” she said.
Robert T. Stevens
Resigned Today
As Army Secretary
WASHINGTON, Robert T.
Stevens resigned today as Secre
tary of the Army and President
Eisenhower nominated Wilbur M.
Brucker, general counsel of the
Defense Department, to succeed
him.
Stevens gave “compelling per
sonal considerations” as his rea
son for quitting. He was a prin
cipal in last year’s row between
Sen. McCarthy and top Pentagon
officials, but neither he nor Eisen
hower, who accepted the resigna
tion today, made any reference
to that spectacular event.
Brucker, a former governor of
Michigan, has been general coun
sel at the Pentagon since April
1954. His home is in Detroit.
The White House announced
Stevens’ resignation and made
public a letter in which the Presi
dent accepted “with deep regret”
just before Eisenhower left on a
six-day tour of New England.
Stevens will leave the Penta
gon the end of July.
Brucker, when asked if his ap
pointment came as ^ surprise,
replied he knew nothing about it
“until an hour ago.”
Brucker made a statement for
television cameras, saying it was
a “great honor” to work for Sec
retary Wilson. To Stevens he said,
“The country has a profound re
spect for you—your honor, integ
rity, and the fact that you are
every bit a man.”
In his letter of resignation
Stevens said he first brought to
the attention of the President “a
few weeks ago” the personal con
siderations he said have dictated
his decision to resign.
Fairbanks Club Owner
Sentenced To 20 Years
On Manslaughter Charge
FAIRBANKS, UP)—Leon Urban,
Fairbanks night club owner, was
sentenced yesterday to the maxi
mum sentence of 20 years in fed
eral prison for the Jan. 31 beat
ing-death of Myrtle Pat Kathey.
Urban, also once an owner of
an Anchorage nightclub, was
found guilty of second degree
murder June 2. Testimony was
given that she died several days
after being beaten and left un
attended in Urban’s club.
Judge Vernon D. Forbes order
ed the maximum imprisonment
following the recommendation of
District Attorney Ted Stevens.
Urban was allowed to remain*
at liberty on $15,000 bail pend
ing an appeal from the decision
to be made tomorrow morning in
District Court.
MOTORIST HONKS HORN AT
MEANDERING POWER MOWER
GLEN BURNIE, Md., UP>—Otis
Morley’s power mower got away
from him and went chugging
across Crain Highway all by it
self.
Morley said a motorist narrow
ly missed hitting the wandering
mower, then reacted in the fash
ion of annoyed motorists around
the globe.
He honked his horn at it.
Forced Landing By
Philip s Helicopter Keep
Queen Elizabeth Waiting
GLASGOW, Scotland, UPL-’The
Duke of Edinburgh’s helicopter
made a forced landing in a field
Wednesday and kept Queen Eliza
beth II waiting anxiously for 20
minutes.
- When he finally caught up later
with his wife, while she was vis
iting a factory, she was visibly
relieved, but pretended impa
tience.
“What in the world happened
to you?” she asked.
“Unavoidably detained, my
dear,” the Duke explained with
a smile.
The Duke’s helicopter, with an
RAF pilot at the controls, drop
ped out of misty sky and landed
in a football' field at Bathgate—30
miles away from where he was
supposed to meet the Queen, wait
ing in the royal train at Udding
ton, just outside Glasgow.
Visibility over the field was
near zero.
The train waited but no heli
copter landed at the field along
side the track. Frantic police calls
went out to all stations along
his flight path.
The air-minded Duke was found
safe. He had landed outside Edin
burgh shortly after taking off
from Eurnohuse airport.
The Duke sent a message to the
Queen saying he would complete
the journey in a police car.
British To Try First
Polar Inter-continental
Flight By Jet Plane
LONDON, UP—The first inter
continental trans-polar jet flight
is set for Thursday, the British
Air Ministry said last night.
A Canberra two - engine jet
bomber of the British RAF will
take off at 9 p.m. local time from
the Royal Norwegian Air Force
Base at Bardufoss, northern Nor
way.
If all goes as planned, the
Aries IV, will arrive at the Ladd
U.S. Air Force Base at Fairbanks,
at 5 p.m. local time the same
night.
The aircraft’s speed across the
meridians will outpace the sun
and permit the jet to arrive—in
terms of local time—four hours
before it started on its 3,210-mile
trip.
General Motors Corp. To
Undertake Half Billion
Dollar Expansion
DETROIT, UP—Harlow H. Cur
tice annonunced today General
Motors Corp. “is undertaking a
new expansion program calling
for capital expenditures of a
half-billion dollars.”
The GM president said the pro
gram “is a measure of our faith
in our country” and will enable
the company “to make its full
contribution to a strong and ex
panding national economy.”
Curtice said the program, in
cluding construction of approxi
mately 6,300,000 square feet of
additional floor space, will be
substantially completed by the
end of the year. He said the
major expenditure will be for
new machine tools, presses and
other facilities.
Russia Expected
Ask All 60 U.N.S
For Peace Pledge
SAN FRANCISCO, (A*—Russia’s
V.M. Molotov was expected to
bring into the open today his de
mands for a United Nations dec
laration pledging all its 60 mem
bers to work for peace.
Western diplomats believed this
would be the center piece of the
foreign policy statement which
the Soviet foreign minister was to
make before the U.N.’s 10th anni
versary session.
Molotov was reported last night
to have given the Western Big
Three foreign ministers a partial
reply to their proposals for set
ting up the summit talks in Gen
eva next month.
Informed quarters said the So
viet foreign minister had made
reservations on only one import
ant point, namely the Western
proposal to limit the talks to four
or six days. He was understood
to have expressed the belief that
no time limit should be placed
on the Geneva talks.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., per
manent U.S. delegate, proposed in
a statement that all nations give
the U.N. information on radiation,
fallout in nuclear tests. Veteran
U. N. observers speculated that
Russia was not yet likely to sub
mit any important data on its
nuclear explosions. Lodge urged
the cooperation so “all nations
can be satisfied that humanity is
not endangered by these tests.”
Woman Sues Young
Grandson For $150,000
In Battery Suit
LOS ANGELES, UP—Four-year
old Teddy Levy, called by his
parents “The Terror,” is the
youngest defendant ever sued for
battery in Los Angeles Superior
Court.
His grandmother, Mrs. Ann
Rubin, complaining she suffered
two fractured vertebrae while
baby sitting with Teddy, asked .
for $150,000 damages yesterday.
She named the boy’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Levy, and an
insurance company as co-defend
ants.
Mrs. Rubin said she required
several weeks of hospitalization
when Teddy vaulted the daven
port and landed on her.
Teddy’s parents said they called
their son “The Terror” because of
the zest with which he portrays
Superman, Dick Tracy and/or
Davy Crockett as fancy strikes
him.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Chicago 6, Washington 1
Cleveland 3, Baltimore 1
New York 6, Kansas City 2
Boston 5, Detroit 4
National League
Brooklyn 7, Chicago 2
Cincinnati 10, New York 1
Philadelphia 10, St. Louis 8
Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 4
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4, Portland 3
Sacramento 5, San Diego 3
Hollywood 3, Oakland 0
San Francisco 5, Los Angeles 2