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I Eisenhower Tells Red China To
Negotiate or be Ready to Fight
By WARREN ROGERS JR. <
WASHINGTON, (#> — President
Eisenhower has drawn the line
against Communist aggression in
the Western Pacific in a momen
tous speech telling Red China to
stop pushing and negotiate or be
prepared to fight.
Immediate bipartisan Congres
sional reaction to his White House i
address last night was strongly
favorable.
It remained to be seen whether
Red China and the Soviet Union j
— accused by Eisenhower of
.“working hand in hand” to en
slave the Western Pacific —■
would take him at his word.
Neither has indicated any need
jto previous warnings by Secre
tary of State Dulles and other
top U. S. officials.
Soviet Premier Krushchev told i
a rally of 100,000 cheering Rus
sians at Stalingrad last night that
any attack on Red China would
be considered an attack on the
Soviet Union.
Eisenhower interrupted his va
cation to make the blunt speech,
.perhaps the strongest of his
career. •
'£ In his nationwide radio-TV ad
dress, beamed around the world
'in 40 languages by the Voice of
-America, he deplored the bom
-bardment of Quemoy. He called
.it a tragic affair which already
^has killed or wounded 1,000 per
sons — mostly civilians.
1 But the issue, he said, was not
nhe defense of the tiny islands.
iHe pledged: “No American boy
will ever be asked by me to fight
tjust for Quemoy.”
Automation Not
pFor This School
c
A ST. LOUIS, l/P> — A noble elec
atronic experiment in education —
C'believed the first of its kind in
Hthe United States — has short
Tcircuited St. Louis’ biggest high
school.
F It was hoped that the first two
todays of school — which began
c<Sept. 4 — could be used for in
struction instead of untangling
tfrjust where everybody belonged.
“ The Board of Education and
{officials of the 2,000-pupil Beau
•nont High School assigned an elec
(tric brain to channel students to !
classrooms and class periods. The
machine gave out cards telling
students which classes to attend.
But seven days later the halls
t0and classrooms are still clogged
cowith about 700 wandering, per
enplexed students.
tn Boys reported to girls’ gym
Bgdasses and vice versa, voice stu
dents found themselves in the
•band, and a study hall with a
th.'capacity of 100 bulged with 160
P^pupils.
Principal Walter Gammeter
'said it was the worst snafu he
wahad seen in 34 years of class pro
da;§ramming.
wo “There evidently were errors
cojon both sides,” said the principal.
botHe explained that his students
probably made a mass of clerical
■^errors last spring when they
^rcfilled out the punch cards the
a^brain lives on.
A reporter visited the school
:na Thursday and saw seven psycho
ir®logy students sitting on the floor
,0 Jof a filled classroom.
“This,” their teacher remarked
11 dryly, “is the result of automa
tion.”
The issue, he said, was: “Shall
we take the position that, sub
mitting to threat, it is better to
surrender pieces of free territory,
in the hope that this will satisfy
the appetite of the aggressor and
we sh^Jl have peace?”
Contending the answer is no,
the President said the free world
must fight if necessary for that
principle.
The democracies tried appease
ment at Munich and failed to
prevent — in fact brought on —
World War II, he said, and “I
never want to see that history
repeated.”
He said the Reds are probing,
testing, and their bluff must be
called or “tragedy after tragedy
would befall us.”
Eisenhower coupled this warn
to the Communists and appeal to
the free world with an urgent
bid for negotiation — between
the United States and Red China
or, if that fails, in the United
Nations.
“There is not going to be any
appeasement,” he said. “I believe
that there is not going to be
any war.”
Adams Convinced
He is Liability
And will Resign
WASHINGTON, UR — Repub
lican campaigners appear con
vinced that Sherman Adams will
bow out of his White House job
as Eisenhower’s chief assistant
within a few days.
Their confidence that President
Eisenhower’s chief assistant will
quit is such that the chairman of
the' Senate and House GOP cam
paign committees have aban
doned plans to Issue a joint state
ment demanding Adams’ ouster.
Instead, Sen. Andrew F. Schoe
pel (R-Kan.) and Rep. Richard M.
Simpson (R-Pa.) are understood
to have agreed to sit tight and
wait developments.
The two chairmen were repre
sented as having received word
that Adams himself has come to
the conclusion he is such a lia
bility to the party that he will
step out shortly after he returns
from a fishing vacation in Canada.
The choice of a successor to
Adams apparently remains up in
the air.
Speculation has centered around
Secretary of the Interior Fred
Seaton and United Nations Am
bassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Seaton has made it . clear he
doesn’t want to leave the cabinet
even to become the President’s
right-hand man.
Lodge apparently would like to
move into the White House set
up, but the international situation
is such that it may preclude any,
change now in 'the U. N. high
command. ~
"WELL-OFF" ECCENTRIC
LOS ANGELES, UR — His cro
nies thought Abraham Greenspan,
a shabbily dressed shoemaker,
was eccentric when he sometimes
showed them a worn money belt
and claimed he was well off.
Greenspan, 70, who lived frugally
in a downtown hotel, died yester
day. In the belt police found
$25,496 in cash and bonds.
National Fidelity
Insurance to do
Business in Alaska
The National Fidelity Insurance
Company of Spartanburg, S. C.,
was licensed to transact business
in Alaska last Wednesday, and
was the first Southern company
to be licensed since the Refer
endum on Statehood was held.
Alaska Insurance Commis
sioner Ross Duncan, upon issuing
the license, stated that he wel
comed the company to Alaska,
and felt that it would afford a
necessary facility for protecting
the growing economy of the 49th
State.
Mr. A. D. Cudd, president, and
Mr.James C. Creal, vice president
and general counsel, are presently
visiting the major towns and ci
ties of Alaska for the purpose of
determining the areas and lines
of insurance in which the com
pany may best serve, meeting
other representatives of the in
dustry, and appointing agents.
They arrived here today via
Wein Airlines.
They said they were highly im
pressed with the people, economy,
modern business facilities, and
growth potential of the Territory.
They are confident that they can'
afford a necessary addition to the
economic life of Alaska, and ad
vised they intend to make avail
able funds for investment in
Alaska.
National Fidelity has appointed
the Preferred General Agency of
Alaska at Anchorage to act for
the company.
Billion Dollar Hike
In Gas Tax, Postal
Rates is Considered
WASHINGTON, UK—The Eisen
hower Administration is weighing
the possibility of a billion-dollar
increase in gasoline taxes and
postal rates. The aim: to help
offset red ink spending that will
push the national debt to a record
peak this year.
Budget Director Maurice H.
Stans said officials will decide
within 60 days whether to ask
Congress for such boosts.
Stans briefed newsmen yester
day on new figures for the big
gest, most unbalanced budget in
peacetime history.'
For the 1959 fiscal year which
began July 1, the Budget Bur
eau’s midyear review forecast a
deficit of $12,223,000,000 — the
highest since World War II.
In announcing the new figure,
Stans said the Administration will
hold up spending of more than a
billion dollars of extra expense
funds voted by Congress for wea
pons procurement over a period
of years.
t
Technical Trouble
Halts ICBM Launching
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UF>
— The Air Force called off a
lauching of its Atlas Interconti
nental range ballistic missile early
today when technical trouble de
veloped just prior to liftoff.
The Atlas, the nation’s most
powerful war missile, sat caught
in the rays of floodlights for sev
eral hours before the malfunction
was detected during the crucial
countdown.
Air Force officials announced
only that technical trouble caused
the scrub. The shoot will be re
scheduled at an early date.
SUPREME COURT DENIES DELAY
IN LITTLE ROCK INTEGRATION
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Su
preme Court today denied the
Little Rock school board any de
lay in integration at Central High
School.
Chief Justice Warren an
nounced before a packed court
room that a requested 2 Vfe-year
delay was refused.
Warren said the decision was
unanimous.
The high tribunal’s ruling af
firmed a decision by the U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals at St.
Louis.
It means seven Negroes who
wish to attend Central High School
now are eligible for immediate
readmission.
The school is scheduled to open
Monday.
But Governor, Orval Faubus
has said repeatedly he will close
the school rather than see it op
erate with forced integration.
Warren said an opinion giving
views of the Justices and support
ing today’s decision, “will be pre
pared and announced in due
course.”
This will give the court time to
set forth in detail its views on
the specific issue of whether dis
order and violence are sufficient
legal grounds for suspending a
plan of integration once it has
been put in operation.
It also will afford the court
the opportunity, if it sees fit, to
elaborate on its 1955 command for
desegregation in public schools
“with all deliberate speed.”
The document thus could lay
down guidelines for federal
judges in dealing with integration
cases.
The Chief Justice stated that the
judgmet of the Supreme Court
“shall be effective immediately,
and shall be communicated forth
with to the District Court for the
Eastern District of Arkansas.”
This refers to U. S. Dist. Judge
Harry J. Lemley who ruled June
21 that integration should be sus
pended until January, 1961. Lem
ley acted on a petition from the
Little Rock School Board.
Robert W. Service,
Bard of the Yukon,
Dies at Age of 84
LANCIEUX, France, UP) —
Robert W. Service, poet of the
Yukon who wrote “The Shooting
of Dan McGrew,” died Thursday
night. He was 84.
The sourdough poet apparently
died of a heart attack. His wife
was with him in their home on
Robert Service Street, in this
little Brittany coastal town.
Service estimated that the 130
lines of his most famous works
brought him $500,000.
He was working in a bank in
the Yukon 'and wrote the verse
to be recited at a church social. It
never was, however, because it
had a few hells and damns.
Service said he sat up all one
night scratching the verse on the
backs of old envelopes. One of
the bank guards, seeing the light
on in the bank, fired at Service,
thinking he was a robber. “And
came pretty damned close.”
He tossed the verse aside for
some time and then, getting a
$100 bonus from the bank, made
arrangements with a publishing
house in Toronto to bring out a
book of verse at his own expense.
“Then I got a letter from the
publishers saying the printers had
been selling “Dan” from galley
proofs and it was so popular they
wanted to bring out the book at
their expense. It sold like wild
fire.”
This was in 1907 and since,
Service said, he had reached the
point where “I hate that verse.”
Service wrote more than 1,000
verses, “Don’t call them poems,”
six novels and a two-volume auto
biography.
Service had lived in Monaco and
France for a number of years.
Several weeks ago he became
ill with what appeared to b6 the
flu.
About 1912 Service left the
Yukon and went to report Balkan
wars for Montreal and Toronto
newspapers. In 1913 he married
a Frenchwoman, and served with
the Red Cross attached to the
French Army in World War I.
After the war, Service stayed
on in France. He spent World War
II in the United States, but re
turned to Monte Carlo afterward.
Next Move Up
To Gov. Faubus
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., UP>—Gov
ernor Orval E. Faubus merely
nodded but said nothing when the
news reached him today of the
Supreme Court decision ordering
integration in Little Rock Central
High School.
There was little immediate re
action either from Negro children
who are affected by the decision,
or by federal and city officials.
Mayor Werner Knoop, head of
the Little Rock Board of Direc
tors, immediately summoned a
meeting of the board to set up
plans for preserving peace in the
city,
U. S. Atty. Osro Cobb and Jus
tice Department aides sent from
Washington said they were study
ing the decision.
The first official reaction came
from Wayne Upton, president of
the board of education.
“Naturally, we will have to try
to operate under it (the decision),”
he said. “We, of course do not
know what Gov. Faubus plans to
do, but if he orders us to close
the school we will close the
school.”
Gen. LeMay Lands
In Washington 32 Min.
Before Takeoff from Tokyo
WASHINGTON, UP) — Gen.
Curtis E. LeMay flew a KC135
jet tanker to a Tokyo-Washington
speed record today.
The vice chief of staff of the
U. S. Air Force flew the 7,100
miles in 12 hours and 28 minutes.
This was about an hour and sev
en minutes faster than a flight
last April by Brig. Gen. William
Eubank, a Strategic Air Command
officer.
LeMay was at the controls of
the big jet as it taxied to a stop
at nearby Andrews Air Force
Base. He lighted his ever-present
cigar as he stepped to the ground.
The average speed was 570
mph. Most of the route was flown
at altitudes between 35,000 and
40,000 feet.
By flying across the interna
tional date line the big shi^*
reached here — so far as the
clock and the calendar are con
cerned — 32 minutes before its
takeoff from Japan.