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Adenauer Claims Fresh
Mandate For His
Pro-xlmerican Policy
BONN, Germany, U?)—Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer’s support
ers claimed a fresh mandate to
day from the German people for
his pro - American foreign policy
after the nation’s first political
test of 1954.
But the opposition Socialists
claimed Adenauer’s Christian
Democrats suffered a political set
back in the election of a new 200
member parliament in the state of
North Rhine-Westphalia, home of
the Industrial Ruhr.
The Socialists based their claim
on the fact that the Christian
Democrats and their partners in
the coalition state government,
the Zentrum party, fell two seats
short of an absolute majority.
The Christian Democrats rolled
up 2,855,672 votes, or 41.3 per
cent of the total of 6,921,738 valid
ballots.
The Socialists, bitter opponents
of Adenauer’s European unity
policy, polled 2,387,069 votes (34.5
per cent) and won 76 seats. The
Communists, who had held 12
seats, lost them all.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
National League
New York 3, Chicago 2
Brooklyn 8, St. Louis 6
Philadelphia 4-2, Milwaukee 3-1
* Cincinnati 9-3, Pittsburgh 0-4
American League
Cleveland 4, New York 3
Washington 8, Detroit* 2
Baltimore 4-3, Philadelphia 3-2
Boston 2-1, Chicago 1 9
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4-3, Hollywood 1-2
Los Angeles 8-1, Sacramento
4-5
San Francisco 1-1, San Diego
0-2
Oakland 3-1, Portland 2-2
BARBERS CLIP PRICES
TOKYO, UP)—Barbers are doing
a rush business in Toyokawa, 200
miles south of here. A price war
has slashed haircuts from 50 to
5 cents.
Ike and Churchill
Will Press For
Defense S.W. Asia
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower and Prime Minister
Churchill declared today they
will “press forward with plans for
collective defense” of southeast
Asia, regardless of whether peace
negotiations for Indochina are
successful.
In a communique, they also ex
pressed “conviction that further
delay” in the creation of a Euro
pean defense community and
granting of sovereignty to West
Germany “would damage the sol
idarity of the Atlantic nations.”
This was a prod to France to
get on with the ratification of
EDC.
On another major point, the
American and British leaders
jointly declared that “both our
countries would benefit” from
“technical cooperation” on atomic
energy to the fullest extent per
mitted by United States law.
The communique, issued at the
White House, was the first formal
statement out of the four - day
round of talks here on British
American policy differences.
The communique left unans
swered the critical question of
when an international conference
to create a southeast Asia anti
communist alliance might be
called.
This has been a major issue,
with Britain wanting no such def
inite action pending a conclusion
of present French efforts to nego
tiate peace in Indochina. The
United States on the other hand
desired quick action. The com
munique appeared to bear out re
ports on continued disagreement
by failure to report any agree
ment.
OUTLAW IN CHARGE
YUMA, Ariz., (#)—Jack Outlaw
has been appointed state cattle
inspector to check brands and
stolen stock.
Former Russ Secret Police Commander
Tells “Trojan Horse” Operations That
Deported Millions of Soviet Subjects
MUNICH, Germany, UPi—A for-<
mer Russian secret police com
mander told in chilling detail to
day how he helped betray and de
port a million of Stalin’s subjects
because they, wanted independ
ence from the Kremlin.
Lt. Col. Grigori Stepanovich
Burlitksi, 36, emerged into the
glare of television flodlights to
tell of racial murder in the Soviet
Union. He has been hidden in the
West for a year by U.S. intelli
gence agents. He deserted to the
West last June but it was kept
secret until he testified today be
fore a U.S. congressional commit
tee on Communist aggression,
now in session here.
As the tiny, blue-eyed Cossack
left the crowded committee room
for the lunch recess, chairman
Charles J. Kersten (R-Wis) told
everyone to remain seated for one
minute. This was to allow guards
to whisk Burlitski safely away.
Speaking through on interpret
>
er, Burlitski described how re
bellious non-Russian peoples like
the Checheno - Ingush mountain
people in the Caucasus and the
Tartars of the Crimea were trap
ped by Soviet security forces in
merciless “Trojan horse” opera
tions.
Burlitski said the Kremlin
could not tolerate any independ
ence movements so simply wiped
out whole regions, leaving the
land silent and deserted until new
settlers could be found.
He said the Kremlin during
World War II wiped out the tiny
autonomous state of Cech’eno- In
gush in the Caucasus. Its 500,000
independence-loving people were
deported “to distant and unknown
parts of the Soviet Union,” he
said.
He said the people were round
ed up Sept. 23, 1944, under the
ruse of a festival celebrating Red
army victories.
Passenger Suffers Hand
Burns In Rope Rescue
From Burning Plane
COLUMBUS, Ohio., W — John
G. Rankin ate breakfast today
with just his right hand. His left
hand was still wrapped in heavy
bandages from friction burns re
ceived last night when he and
30 other passengers slid down a
rope from a burning American
Airlines plane that crashlanded
after colliding with a Navy Beech
craft. here.
Two naval reserve officers died
in the crash.
Rankin, 54, slid to safety after
a woman passenger stalled in
front of him, afraid of the 25-foot
rope plunge.
“Lady,” he told her, “We’ve got
to go.”
He said he grabbed her with
his right arm and slid down the
rope by his left hand. He suffered
severe hand burns.
Eyewitnesses on t he ground
said the Navy plane exploded in
a “ball of fire,” spattered burning
debris in the dusk, then crashed
just east of the Port Columbus
airport.
Somewhow Capt. K. C. Pollard,
pilot of the American Airlines
passenger Convair, brought his
ship safely to earth.
A baby was dropped into the
arms of its parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Herrman of Columbus,
when they were unable to take
the child with them down the
rope.
Newly Discovered Tomb
In Egyptian Pyramid
Empty On Opening
CAIRO, Egypt, UP)—The recent
ly uncovered “Sahara Sarcopha
gus” proved to be empty yester
day but its discoverer says he
thinks he will find the real tomb
of an ancient Pharoah deeper
within the pyramid.
Archeologist Zakaria Goneim,
who found the sarcophagus May
31 beneath a step pyramid he had
discovered last December, said
it was a “symbolic tomb” and he
expects “to find the real one
somewhere else in the pyramid.”
The tomb was opened amid
great secrecy yesterday, but a
communique from the Education
Ministry said it was empty. The
ministry said work in the area,
some 20 miles south of Cairo, will
be suspended until late fall.
After Goneim found the seven
ton sarcophagus, he told news
men he hoped to find inside “a
royal mummy inside a wooden
coffin ornated with gold.” He be
lieved it the last resting place of
Sankhet, a third dynasty monarch
who reigned over Egypt about
2,750 years before Christ.
Investigate Crash Of
Giant Strato-tanker
MARCH AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., UP) — Investigation was
under way today into the crash
of a big Air Force refueling plane
on Box Springs Mountains early
yesterday with a loss of 14 lives.
The KC-97 Strato-tanker of the
96th Bomb Wing at Altus, Okla.,
AFB, struck the mountain at the
3,000-foot level while groping
through a heavy overcast for a
landing at Norton AFB at San
Bernardino.
Insurgent Attack Forces Resignation
Arbenz Guatemalan Government And
Army Takes Over To Negotiate Peace
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, UP)
—The anti-communist rebel radio
said today “we do not recognize”
the new Guatemalan government
of Col. Carlos Enrique Diaz.
It warned insurgent war planes
will launch a “general attack” on
military targets in Guatemala
City if the rebel conditions for
peace are not met.
The clandestine insurgent radio
heard here said Col. Diaz would
have until 8 a.m. to reply. But.
the rebel radio was still repeating
the warning at 8:20 a.m. The
Guatemalan government radio
was broadcasting music at 8:20
a.m.
The rebels declared “we fight a
system, not a man,” and said the
same seven conditions “for peace
and order” which they 'broadcast
last Saturday still stand.
The rebels Saturday urged the
army to form a military junta,
arrest Jacobo Arbenz Guzman,
then president, and “all other
Communists” and join the rebels
in forming a new government.
Judge Says Westbrook
Pegler Libeled Quentin
Reynolds in 1949 Column
NEW YORK, W)—Federal Judge
Edward Weinfield told a jury to
day that columnist Westbrook
Pegler clearly had libeled author
Quentin Reynolds in a 1949 col
umn. He said'Reynolds was en
titled to damages.
It will be up to the jury to
determine the amount.
The judge made the statement
in a 90-minute charge to the jury
in Reynolds’ $500,000 libel action
against Pegler, the Hearst Corp.,
and Hearst Consolidated Publica
tions.
“That column read in its en
tirely, as a matter of law, I tell
you, defamatory,” said Weinfield
in winding up a seven-week trial.
Earlier he had explained that
anything was defamatory and
libelous in itself if it tended to
expose a person to public con
tempt and ridicule.
The judge added that there was
“no competent evidence” to sus
tain two specific allegations made
in the disputed column, Reynolds
therefore being entitled to dam
ages for these points alone.
Thus the no-holds-barred bat
tle between the Pulitzer Prize
winning columnist and the authofr
and foreign correspondent went to
the jury. It is the first libel case
against the outspoken Pegler ever
to be fought out in a courtroom.
ONE-WAY TICKET SUPPLIED
CHARLESTON, S.C., C5V-They
really wanted Edward Francis
Dwyer of Washington to leave
town. He was charged with non
support and abandonment.
When Dwyer told Judge Wm.
H. Grimball he hadn’t obeyed the
judge’s order to leave the state
because of lack of money, Judge
Grimball went into action.
Between himself, the sherriff,
clerk of court and a solicitor, the
judge raised $16.
Dwyer was placed on a bus to
Washington.
GUATEMALA, UP) — Leftist
President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
resigned under the pressure of the
army and military reverses last
night. He handed over the govern
ment reins to a military junta
headed by Col. Carlos Enrique
Diaz, 39-year-old army chief of
staff.
Diaz in a broadcast pledged the
army to continue the war against
the invading exiles led by Col.
Carlos Castillo Armas, but the
switch in government appeared to
signal the end of the Communists’
strong influence on the regime
Arbenz had led. Army leaders are
known to have become increas
ingly opposed recently to the
Reds’ strong influence on the gov
ernment.
The ouster of the 41-year-old
Arbenz followed reports of a big
rebel victory at Zacapa, key rail
road center 75 miles northeast of
the capital. Army forces, particu
larly their artillery, were reported
shattered there.
With the rebels reported last
night some 70 miles from the
capital and moving on it, the
battle for Guatemala was expect
ed here to end within 48 hours.
The Communists backed by hast
ily armed and trained labor
groups, were expected to try td
keep up the front, however.
(Diplomats in Washington spec
ulated that the army takeover was
a maneuver to give the military a
chance to negotiate the best terms
it could from Castillo Armas and
his rebel forces. In Tegucigalpa,
capital of neighboring Honduras,
U.S. ambassador Whiting Will
auer said the change looked to
him like “a maneuver to get
themselves into a position where
it will hot be an unconditional
surrender.”.
Rains Swell Rio Grande
To Predicted Greatest
Flood in Its History
DEL RIO, Tex., 13—'While heli
copters shuttled out. stranded
train passengers in South Texas,
the traditionally lazy Rio Grande
awoke and roared today toward
what was predicted would be its
greatest flood in history.
Already it flowed at record
height at Del Rio.
The state Civil Defense head
quarters said the Mexican town
of Cuidad Acuna, across the Rio
Grande from Del Rio was “com
pletely under water” and all resi
dents had been evacuated to
higher ground.
Out of the rain-laden skies of
South Texas, 14 helicopters shut
tled to rescue passengers of a
train stopped by high waters at
Langtry, 60 miles up the river
from Del Rio.
Seventy Pullman passengers
were evacuated by the helicopters
before nightfall, weary but glad
to be safe—the kids jumping with
the excitement of a ’copter ride.
The helicopters flew a thousand
pounds of food to the 196 pas
sengers still left on the train.
Many of them were doctors re
turning from a medical conven
tion in San Francisco.