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Hawaii “Freedom” Bell
May Be Tolled Only
Over Radio In L. A.
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — A 3,000
pound bell that rang for hours
yesterday, signalling the ap
proaching end of Congress without
statehood for Hawaii, is back on
the beam today.
Its tones are being beamed on
the hour over radio station
KDAY, which has a sister sta
tion, KOIN, in Honolulu.
Police interfered yesterday af
ter complaints from residents
who'said the pealing was giving
them headaches. So today the
tolling will be confined to the
radio station’s broadcasts instead
of ringing through the neighbor
hood.
The big bell was a gift to
Hawaii from France and is en
route to Washington. Jackson
McBride, a Honolulu citizen,
hopes to ring it to urge the Con
gress to give Hawaii equal status
with recently admitted Alaska.
Nixon Kicks Off
“Operation Coffee Cup”
WASHINGTON, UP) — Vice
President Richard M. Nixon for
mally launched a Republican
“Operation Coffee Cup” cam
paign today by telling GOP
workers to “get up early and
stay up late” if they want to win
this year’s election.
Nixon was guest of honor at
an early morning coffee party
sponsored by the National Fed
. eration of Republican women at
the Capitol Hill Club.
Secretary of Labor Mitchell
and a score of Congressmen also
attended the kick-off affair,
which is supposed to set the pat
tern for neighborhood coffee
meetings throughout the country.
President Eisenhower, in • a
telegram of greetings, said the
“neighborhood session” was “a
“a splendid way for neighbors to
meet their candidates face to face
and discuss personally with them
the issues of the day.”
Seven Girls From
Dixie in Semi-finals
Of Beauty Contest
LONG BEACH, Calif., UP>—Fif
teen beauties carry United States’
hopes forward today toward the
final of the Miss Universe con
test.
The U.S. contingent was cut
one-third last night when the
judges took their first look at
the entries in this year’s beauty
pageant.
The girls from Dixie took seven
of the coveted semi-finalist spots,
with the , judges’ nod going to
representatives of Alabama, Flor
ida, Georgia, Louisiana, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
The others picked were from
California, Montana, South Da
kota, Utah, Washington, Illinois,
Nebraska and New York.
As the curtain fell on the pro
gram, at Long Beach municipal
auditorium radiant smiles
wreathed the faces of the win
ning 15—and tears and sniffles
appeared among the 30 who tried
and failed.
Tonight the 15 will be narrowed
to five and the five to one as
Miss U.S.A.
Whoever wins tonight will com
pete Thursday against the 34
foreign girls in the selection of
15 finalists. Friday the judges
will pick Miss Universe.
Sees No Start
Of World War III
In Lebanon Fracas
BEIRUT, Lebanon, UP) — Adm.
James L. Holloway said today
“I really think we can get out
of Lebanon without any fighting.”
He added he doubts that World
War III will start here.
The over-all commander of
American forces in Lebanon re
corded these statements for radio
and television. He appeared
along with U.S. Ambassador
Robert McClintock.
Both expressed optimism over
the outlook not only in Lebanon
but in respect to repercussions
elsewhere to the arrival of Ameri
can forces in this tiny Middle
East nation.
Reporters asked both men
about the possibility American
forces might be used to assist
Jordan’s King Hussein. Hollo
way did not reply directly but
Raid: “The U.S. Marines and
Army have the capacity for quick
shifts and movements.”
Both emphasized the United
States wants to withdraw its
forces from Lebanon “at the
earliest possible moment coin
cident with the United Nations
position.”
Meanwhile, speaker Abdel Os
seiran postponed parliament’s
election of a new president for
one week. This apparently was
to gain time in the search for
a candidate acceptable to both
the government and rebels.
If agreement is reached be
tween the rebels and loyalists on
a president, Lebanon’s 75-day-old
crisis may soon end. If agree
ment is not reached the cleavage
between the-two groups is likely
to deepen into civil war.
Rayburn Predicts
Congress Will Extend
Reciprocal Trade Act
WASHINGTON, UP) — House
Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex)
today predicted Congress will
extend the reciprocal trade law
longer than the three years voted
by the Senate.
President Eisenhower got a
large measure of support in Sen
ate passage 72-16 last night of a
bill to renew the tarrif-easing
act for three years.
But the administration wants a
five-year extension, as passed by
the House. House and Senate
conferees are slated to work out
a compromise measure.
Rayburn, a staunch reciprocal
trade supporter, said the con
ferees will have “quite an argu
ment over three and five years.”
1,200 Greek Cyrpiols Arrested
NICOSIA, Cyprus, UP) — Brit
ish Gov. Sir Hugh Foot announced
today that more than 1,200 Greek
Cypriots have been arrested
since Monday in an attempt to
prevent communal bloodshed on
Cyprus from developing into
full-scale civil war.
Foot said between 40 and 50
Turkish Cypriots also have been
jailed in the massive, islandwide
sweep.
REAL COOL MAN
GREENSBORO, N.C., UP)—J. L.
Benton has a real cool job.
• He work in the freezer lockers
at W. I. Anderson Co., loading
frozen products for groceries in a
locker where the temperature
stays at zero. He thaws out in
one of the 40-degree rooms before
braving the summer heat.
Two Democrats File For
Office In Aug. 26 Primary
Clerk of the Court, Joe Kron
ipger, calls attention to the new
ruling on filing for the legisla
ture. He reminds candidates that I
their forms must actually be in
the U.S. Clerk’s office by mid
night July 28th.
Heretofore, a postmark of the
deadline date was sufficient for
entry.
To date only two persons, both
Democrats, of Unalakleet, have
filed for the coming state elec
tion:
Bill Beltz for Senator-at-large,
4-year-term; and Frank Degnan,
representative from the 23rd
district.
Rotary Governor Expected
In Nome On Friday
Mentor Boney, district gover
nor of Rotary International will
arrive here on Friday on an of
ficial visit to the Nome Rotary
Club.
The area which the district
governor covers includes part of
Washington, part of British Col
umbia and all of Alaska. He
was elected district governor in
June at the Rotary Convention
which was held in Dallas, Texas.
Rotarians have planned a ban
quet to honor him which will
be held on Friday evening at
7:30 at the North Star Seaview
Room. Preceding the banquet
a hospitality hour will be held
from 6:30 to 7:30 at the Polaris
Cocktail Lounge.
High Winds Fan
B.C. Forest Fires
VANCOUVER, B.C., OR — Rag
ing forest fires are eating into
some of British Columbia’s richest
timber. One olaze threatened
the town of Arrowhead in Eastern
B.C. before being controlled at
least temporarily.
Costs of fighting the fires alone
have already passed the $1,000,000
mark.
The biggest losses at present
are in the Squamish and Alouette
Lake areas north of here, where
timber with a stumpage value
of more than $38,000 an acre is
being burned...
Forestry officials said it is im
possible to estimate the loss, but
it is likely to be extensive
where fires have spread to valu
able timber stands.
A ridge of high pressure was
entrenched off the B.C. coast to
day and weather forecasts called
for a continuation of dry weather.
Nearly 2,500 men are fighting
254 fires in B.C. Winds up to
40 miles an hour have whipped
some 75 fires in the vast Prince
George district into new fury.
Hungarian Composer
Confounds Communists
By Reading from Bible
VIENNA, Ufi—Ordered by Hun
gary’s Communist government to
speak to factory workers about
the “peace campaign of the
socialist camp,” famous Hungary
composer Zoltan Kodaly read
from a Bible instead.
There was dead silence in the
Budapest factory hall, the Vienna
Catholic news agency Kathpress
reported today. The workers ex
pected Kodaly to be arrested im- J
mediately but he finished the
reading unmolested and walked
out.
Moscow Objects to Proposal to Discuss
The Middle East Crisis at U.N. Summit
WASHINGTON, UP) — Moscow
objected sharply today to Western
suggestions for a U.N. summit
meeting to discuss the Middle
East crisis, but stopped short of
saying Premier Khrushchev would
not accept.
The suggestions were made in
varying forms yesterday in the
Western powers’ individual re
plies to Khrushchev’s own sug
gestion fop a five-power summit
meeting outside the United
Nations.
The initial Moscow reaction
came in a commentary by the
government newspaper Izvestia,
which said “everyone knows the
U.S.A. can rely on a mechanical
majority in the Security Council.”
The commentary broadcast by
Moscow radio also accused this
country of trying to prevent the
five-power conference Khrush
chev proposed. But it did not
rule out Russian acceptance of
the Western proposal.
In advance of that, U.S. of
ficials said they expected Khrush
chev to accept, but to attach
conditions which the United
States and its allies may find
unacceptable.
The separate notes they sent
Khrushchev last night showed
that President Eisenhower, Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan of
Britain and French Premier
Charles de Gaulle themselves
were badly divided on the issue
of a meeting.
Eisenhower is reluctant to be
come involved in any kind of
session with Khrushchev at this
time. His letter strongly indi
cated, by several toughly-worded
paragraphs, that he considers the
Soviet Communist leader to be
behind much of the turmoil and
trouble in the Middle East.
But under pressure from Mac
Millan, Eisenhower told Khrush
chev that if a Security Council
meeting involving presidents and
premiers and foreign ministers
“were generally desired, the
United States would join in fol
lowing that orderly procedure.”
Administration officials said
there was no doubt if other gov
ernment chiefs all agreed that they
wanted a summit session in the
Security Council, the President
personally would attend.
It Is Now Up To
Khrushchev To
Accept or Reject
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., W) —
The next step in the Middle East
crisis depends on whether Nikita
Khrushchev accepts the chal
lenge of a summit meeting in the'
U.N. Security Council.
Khrushchev today presumably
was making up his mind whether
to insist on his own plan for a
five-power summit meeting apart
from the U.N., or agree to the
suggestions of President Eisen
hower and British Prime Minister
MacMillan for the high-level
meeting here.
Moscow dispatches said many
diplomats there believed the
Soviet leader would accept the
Eisenhower - MacMillan sugges
tion though he might not like
the setup.
The Security Council adjourned
indefinitely last night after a
second Soviet veto in four days
blocked resolutions aimed at set
ting up conditions for American *
troop withdrawal from Lebanon.
The adjournment was taken to
await the outcome of negotiations
for a summit meeting, and the
implementation of Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskj old’s plan to
reinforce the U.N. observer corps
in Lebanon.
Hammarskj old indicated he
would ask U.N. members for
more men to build up the obser
ver group so they might make it
possible for the United States to
withdraw its 10,000 troops from
Lebanon.
“Alice,” First Typhoon
Of The Season, Leaves
Twelve Dead In Japan
TOKYO, UP) — Dying typhoon
Alice left 12 dead, 54 missing and
injured and thousands tempor
arily homeless today in the Teem
ing Tokyo-Yokohama coastal
plain.
Slackening to a tropical storm,
Alice struck here with drenching
rain and 30-50 m.p.h. winds,
turning Japan’s capitol into a
city of fallen trees and flooded
streets.
It shut down International Air
port, Asia’s busiest, for half a
day and delayed trains up to
four hours. Nearby Yokohama
and parts of Tokyo were without
electric power as the roaring
storm brought activity to a stand
still.
The typhoon then swept out
into the Pacific.
It brought one benefit—an end
to Tokyo’s weeks-old water short
age. A total of 10.3 inches of
rain fell in the capitol during a
13-hour period.
SEATTLE, UP) — A high 1958
price of 86 cents a pound for
4,200 pounds of large red king
salmon was paid at the Seattle
Salmon Exchange Tuesday. The
previous high was 84 cents paid
July.
The Case of The #
Discerning Lips -
Nippon Mystery
TOKYO, UP) — This story is
called “the case of the discerning
lips”, and Sherlock Holmes would
undoubtedly have approved of
the tactics employed by the hero,
a conductor for Japan’s national
railways system.
The railway is cracking down
on fare-evaders. The conductor
—who bashfully remains uniden
tified—was taking tickets from
passengers arriving at Tokyo’s
busy Shinagawa station. A pret
ty girl insisted she had lost her
ticket.
Challenged, she indignantly re
plied she had just come from the
swimming pool at nearby Kora
kuen Stadium, and that her tick
et cost only 20 yen (7.2 cents),
obviously too small a sum to
cheat for.
“See,” she cried, producing a
damp swim suit as a clincher,
“this proves I’ve been to the pool.
I demand an apology.”
The conductor pondered the
matter, then suddenly pressed the
suit to his lips and found a dis
tinctly salty flavor.
The startled girl confessed she
had been swimming at Zushi, a
seaside resort 45 miles south of
Tokyo, and hadn’t bought a ticket.