Civil War in South Viet Nam Capital
As Insurgents Attack Palace Army
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All Parliamentary
Hurdles Cleared to
Re-Arm Germany
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, UP>
—The Paris treaties on re-arming
West Germany cleared their last
parliamentary hurdle yesterday.
The Dutch Senate approved the
agreements, which had been rati
fied previously by the parlia
ments of all 14 other countries
involved.
The agreements will allow a
re-armed West Germany to be
come the 15th member of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion.
The final preliminary step is
scheduled for May 5, when Brit
ain and France will go through
the formality of depositing the
treaties at Bonn, the West Ger
man capital. The first NATO
council meeting that West Ger
many can attend will open in
Paris May 8th.
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> SAIGON, Indochina, (j¥)—Flames
burned a square mile of Saigon
last night and hundreds were
killed or wounded in bloody fight
ing for control of South Viet
Nam’s capital.
The ) American - supported Pre
mier Ngo Ninh Diem declared
war to the finish against the reb
el Binh Xuyen Society after a
triple attack on Diem’s palace,
army and police headquarters.
Three battalions of Nationalist
infantrymen and parachute troop
ers, using machineguns and sup
ported by tanks, pressed the at
tack on the society of former
river pirates’ 5,000-man private
army.
At nightfall, with Saigon under
a pall of smoke, the Premier ap
pealed over the government radio
for calm. He said the government
troops had the situation in hand.
He accused Binh Xuyen Gen.
Le Van Vien of touching off a
civil war and disobeying an^ order
from Chief of State Bao Dai to
refrain from violence.
After six hours of fighting, the
army said it had disengaged the
Binh Xuyen from both National
ist army headquarters and the
headquarters of the National Sur
ete, or security police, where
there had been some hand to
hand fighting.
Massed Nationalist forces were
pressing the Binh Xuyen back
toward the bridge which leads to
their territory ih Cho Lon, about j
seven miles from the French resi
dential business area.
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rn NOME NUGGET
Polio Vaccine of
One Manufacturer
May Be Faulty
By FRANK CAREY
Associated Press Science Reporter
WASHINGTON, UPV-P u b 1 i c
health authorities expressed anew
yesterday their confidence in the
Salk polio vaccine, even as they
checked the possibility that some
batches from one of six makers
may have been faulty.
Intensive tests were ordered
after it was reported eight chil
dren had been stricken by polio—
one fatally—within a week of
receiving their first polio shots.
Four other suspected cases of the
disease were reported.
In each case, the vaccine used
was manufactured by the Cutter
Laboratories of Berkley, Calif.,
which said more than 750,000
doses of its product had been
issued.
As a “precautionary measure,”
all further use of Cutter vaccine
was ordered halted immediately,
pending tests, and the inoculation
program was stopped in most of
the West Coast areas where it
was supplied for free use in the
schools.
But Surgeon Keneral Leonard
Scheele of the Public Health Ser
vice called for continuance of the
program in other areas of the
country, where vaccine supplied
by five other drug firms has been
used without reported incident. j
“We believe that the immuni
zation program against poliomye
litis should continue,” he said in
a statement, “and I urge that
parents and children scheduled to
take part in the vaccination pro
gram continue to follow their
plans.”
He said his own 7-year-old son
will receive his first shot as
scheduled early next’month.
Bids Opened for New Air Force Bases
At Kotzebue, Unalakleet, 4 Others
SEATTLE, MP>—Bids for new
Air Force installations at six re
mote Alaska points, costing about
$20 million, were opened here
yesterday by the Army Engineers.
The air bases will be built at
Unalakleet, Chiniak, Kotzebue,
Fort Yukon, Bethel and Homer.
Each project will be similar,
including living quarters, mess
halls, operations offices, recrea
tion buildings, garages, storage
buildings, transmitters, fuel stor
age, utilities, runways, access
roads and tower foundations.
The six installations are to be
ready for use by the end of next
year.
Apparently low among 12 bid
ders on the Unalakleet project
was the Manson-Osberg Con
struction Co., Seattle, at $2,848,
005 on the basic bid and $2,872,
795 on an alternate that included
Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
The most recently discovered
planet is Pluto. It is now moving
slowly in the constellation called
Cancer. Cancer lies midway be
tween the “Twin Stars” called
Gemini and Leo the “Lion.”
This region of the sky is now
visible in the southwestern heav
ens soon after sunset.
Pluto was discovered March
13, 1930 at the Lowell Observa
tory. At the time it was discov
ered it was located in the con
stellation of Gemini. Twenty-five
years have now elapsed since the
discovery and since it takes 2481
years for Pluto to go around the j
sun it has only moved eastward;
into the next constellation, called
Cancer. <
Its slow motion relative to i
neighboring stars proved to the
world that it was a planet. Only
by looking through a 36-inch tel
escope is it possible to see this
planet. Its movement was detect
ed by a series of photographs
taken in January of the year it
was discovered.
The name of Pluto given to the
most recently discovered planet
is interesting. The first two let
ters of the planet’s name are,!
appropriately, the initials of Per- j
cival Lowell, the first astronomer j
to initiate a search for this planet, i
The search lasted for a quarter
of a century.
Small departures in the motion
of Uranus from the calculated
orbit suggested the presence of
a planet oeyond Neptune. From
these departures, Lowell calcu- j
lated the orbit of the planet.
When it was discovered, the posi
tion and motion agreed with the
calculated orbit.
Pluto has a yellowish hue rath
er than the blue-green color of its
neighbors. The planet is too small
to show a disk. Its mass is four
fifths that of the earth.
The orbit of Pluto is more ec
centric and more inclined than
that of any of the other principal
planets.
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extension of the existing airstrip.
Next was Sam Bergesen, Tacoma,
with a basic bid of $3,061,766 and
an alternate bid of $3,144,221.
The government’s estimate was
$2,796,075 on the basic bid and
$2,839,285 on the alternate.
Four bids were submitted for
Chiniak, with Manson-Osberg ap
parently low at $2,097,610.
Manson-Osberg was low among
three bidders on the Kotzebue
project at $3,693,390. This firm
was again low among four bid
ders at $3,061,018 on the Ft. Yu
kon project.
The Morrison-Knudsen ajnd Pe
ter Kiewit Sons combine was low
at $4,053,457 on the Bethel basic
bid, with Manson-Osberg close
behind. M-O was low on the al
ternate bid.
Chris Berg, Inc., Seattle, was
low among eight bidders on the
Homer air base at $1,897,184.
The bidding was complicated
by the fact that three companies
put limits on their offers.
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