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Senate Committee To Inquire
Into Latin-American Violence
Toward Vice President Nixon
WASHINGTON, iff! — The Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
decided today to inquire into the
background of Latin-American
violence toward Vice President
Nixon and also the anti-American
rioting in Lebanon.
The full committee, headed by
Sen. Francis Green (D-RI\ agreed
unanimously to take over the pre
liminary stages of the inquiry
on the motion of Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore).
After conclusion of this pre
liminary inquiry, Green said,
“the committee will decide on a
course of action to be taken with
respect to further studies of
United States policy in relation
to Latin America.”
Morse heads a subcommittee on
Latin-American affairs, and had
proposed yesterday to conduct
an inquiry into the violence Nix
on encountered in Peru and Ven
ezuela on his Latin-American
good will tour.'
But the full committee decided
to broaden the scope of the study
to include the events in Lebanon
where U. S. Information Agency
libraries were burned.
Green said the study would
also embrace “recent incidents
elsewhere” without specifying
what these were.
He said representatives of the
State Department and Central
Intelligence Agency will be called
for testimony on the background
of the attacks on Nixon.
Morse had said he wanted to
learn whether these agencies
were “ignorant or knowingly un
dertaking a gamble” in view of
the dangers that developed on
Nixon’s tour.
Nationalism In
Canada Threat
To U. S. Relations
WASHINGTON, UR — U. S.
Ambassador Livingston Merchant
told Congress today nationalism
is growing in Canada and any
implication that Canada is “sort
of a 49th state” infuriates the
people.
U. S.-Canadian relations are
basically sound, the envoy to
Ottawa said, but went on:
“The growing nationalism in
Canada can result in difficulties,
particularly if knowingly or un
knowingly the United States or
its representatives act in ways
which appear to Canadians to
infringe on their sovereignty or
appear to overlook economic in
terests which Canadians regard
as vital.”
Merchant made a particular
appeal, in testimony before the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, for extension of the Trade
Agreements Act under which
the government negotiates recip
rocal tariff reductions.
The United States and Canada,
he said, are each other’s best
customers, and failure of the ex
tension bill to pass Congress
would be disaster for the two
countries’ relations.
“I do not believe that we can
expect to hold our position there
unless the United States govern
ment pursues liberal trading pol
icies,” Merchant said in a state
ment notable for frank comment
on U. S.-Canadian problems.
Prime Minister John Diefen
baker, who will play host to
President Eisenhower , in Ottawa
in July, was described by Mer
chant as a persistent advocate
of “vigorous remedies and strong
approaches to the United States”
in finding solutions for Canada’s
economic problems.
Merchant told the Senators
that Canada buys far more goods
from this country than it sells
here. He said Canadians are
worried over mounting U. S.
ownership in Canada, that they
fear protectionist trade measures
here, that they are upset by U. S.
surplus wheat disposal abroad,
and that they want no limits on
U. S. imports of Canadian oil.
Compromise
Reorganization
Bill Approved
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
House Armed Services Commit
tee today unanimously approved
a compromise bill to reorganize
the Defense Department. Prsi
dent Eisenhower objected to two
key features of it.
The bill largely followed Eisen
hower’s recommendations as to i
command over military forces
made up of more than one ser
vice. It contains two major pro
visions to help establish a clear
line of command from the Presi
dent through the Secretary of
Defense to the forces in the field.
It does this by providing an
operational joint staff of up to
400 members for the Joint Chiefs
of Staff and by limiting com
mand powers of the Individual
service chiefs.
But the committee refused to
go as far as Eisenhower wished
In authorizing the Secretary of
Defense to reassign military
functions among the services. It
wrote in provisions saying the
head of any one of the separate!
services—the Chief of Staff of
the Army or Air Force or the
Chief of Naval Operations—can
object to such a transfer and in
effect refer the question to Con
gress for determination.
Congress could then block the
change by a simple resolution in
both houses, not requiring the
President’s signature. As sub
mitted by the administration,
Eisenhower’s proposal would
have required only that ^uch
changes be submitted to Con
gress. The lawmakers then
could stop it only by passing a
bill.
The President could veto such
a measure and a two-thirds vote
in both houses would be re
quired to override the veto.
Thus, in the language of a
committee announcement, ' the
group preserved “to the Con
gress its Constitutional respon
sibility to provide for an Army,
Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps.”
French Assembly
Moves To Prevent
Coup By de Gaulle
PARIS, UP)—Parliament moved
today toward putting France un
der a virtual state of siege to
cope with the threat of civil
war and avert any attempt by
Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s follow
ers to seize power.
Bitter debate shook the Nation
al Assembly, considering a bill
giving emergency powers to
Premier Pierre Pflimlin.
With 1,000 armed special se
curity troops on guard outside,
deputies defended or assailed de
Gaulle, whose offer to assume
full power had plunged France
deeper into its blackest postwar
crisis.
Former Premier Georges Bi
dault declared it was intoler
able that de Gaulle should be
accused of being the enemy of the
republic he restored after World
War II.
Social Republican Raymond
Triboulet accused the deputies of
following the Communists in sup
pressing French liberties. He
declared: “It’s thanks to him (de
Gaulle) that you are sitting here
on those benches.”
Conservative Deputy Jacques
Isorni opened the attack on de
Gaulle by accusing the World
War II hero of aspiring to dic
tatorship.
Pflimlin, whose country villa at
Hendaye outside Paris was
bombed and considerably dam
aged last night, was cheered by
all but the extreme right.
DOGNAPERS!
DALLAS, UP) — Mrs. Julia
Thompson told police a dog
naper has her German shepherd
and is asking $125 ransom. She
said the dog, Rex, was stolen and
three weeks later she received
a call demanding $100. Mrs.
Thompson told officers someone
left the animal’s chain, dog tag
and rabies tag at her front door
as proof he had the dog. Later
she said, tl\e price went up to
$125 and the caller threatened
to kill Rex if the money is not
paid.
Warehouse Strike In
Seattle Reflected In
Higher Vegetable Prices
SEATTLE, UP) — Restaurateurs
here were reported today to be
paying twice the usual cost for
fresh vegetables as produce
warehouses continued to be
picketed by striking warehouse
workers.
Frank Brewster, acting presi
dent of the Western Conference
of Teamsters, has been partici
pating in negotiations between
employers and representatives of
the striking local 117, Ware
house Workers and Drivers Union.
Thursday, Brewster flew to
to Phoenix, Ariz., for a national
Teamsters Conference on the
union’s dealings with Safeway
Stores.
This caused speculation that
the Seattle strike, which includes
Safeway and Tradewell stores,
was being tied into the Teamsters
Union’s national strategy.
The warehousemen walked out
14 days ago to back demands
for a 35-cent hourly pay boost.
They now receive $1.91 to $1.95
Employers have offered a 22
cent increase, spread over a
three- year period.
Russia Orbits 3,000 lb. Sputnik III
Part Of Vanguard I
Is Lost In Space
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Ufl —
Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob
servatory scientists tracking Rus
sia’s new giant Sputnik III, today
said the finaj stage rocket that
fired the United States’ high
est satellite into orbit is lost in
space.
The scientists asked moon
watch teams to try to find the
five-foot tube tumbling in an or
bit at times possibly 2,000 miles
or more from the earth. It’s the
final rocket section that tossed
America’s so-called “grapefruit
satellite,” Vanguard I, into an or
bit so high that it may continue
circling the earth for two cen
turies.
The Smithsonian scientists, re
ceiving more than a dozen moon
watch reports from Florida to
California during the night on
Sputnik III and its accompanying
final-stage rocket, meanwhile
worked on precise orbit com
putations.
Vanguard I is earth’s highest
man-made satellite, reaching to
2,461 miles in space in its high
point and 408 miles at its low
point.
Scientists have not detected
any loss in altitude since its
launching. They are able to
keep track of the sphere, despite
its small size, because its solar
batteries broadcast radio signals.
The astrophysicists consider
final stage rockets to be true
satellites if they go into orbit and
point out that both Explorer I
and Explorer III are final stage
rockets carrying instruments, as
well as Sputnik II which ended
its career last month.
Smithsonian astrophysicists con
sider that there are six man
made satellites now orbiting the
earth—four American and two
parts of Sputnik III.
Mailman Sits By As His
Dog Biles Substitute Carrier
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., UP>—
A substitute mailman yesterday
said he was bitten by a mailman’s
dog*
The substitute said the dog
bit him as he tried to deliver
a letter to the home of the man
for whom he was working.
All the while, the substitute
said, the regular mailman sat on
the porch and watched the dog
bite.
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Nasser Returns
From Russia With
Pledge For Help
CAIRO, Egypt, Iffl — Presi
dent Nasser returned home today
from an 18-day state visit in the
Soviet Union. He brought with
him Premier Khrushchev’s pledge
of “all the help you need from
us” to unite the Arab world.
“The Soviet government wants
solidarity of the Arab people
under your leadership,” Khrush
chev told the head of the United
Arab Republic. He described
Nasser as “the outstanding lead
er of all the Arab peoples.”
Speaking at a Kremlin banquet
last night, Khrushchev made his
remarks pointedly anti-Western
by adding that Arab unity under
Nasser would guarantee that
“colonifers will never return to
your sacred soil again.”
He did not specify what Rus
sia might offer.
> MOSCOW, UFi — Prof. Eugene
Fyederov, head of the Soviet
Union’s Sputnik program, said
today the Russians will launch
animals again into space in the
future but that Sputnik III car
ried no passengers—animal or
human.
He predicted the third Soviet
artificial earth satellite, launched
yesterday, would last a little
longer than Sputnik II but that
it too would disintegrate before
falling back to earth.
Soviet scientists, he said, have
not yet solved the problem of
re-entry — bringing a satellite
back to earth intact. But, he
said, “sooner or later this prob
lem will be solved.”
The Soviet International Geo
physical Year Committee called
a news conference that estab
lished several negative factors
about the latest Soviet earth
satellite:
Atomic energy was not used to
launch it;
' No new fuel—just common
chemical fuel—was used;
There were no dogs or other
animals aboard;
Sputnik III will not return to
earth.
Fyederov said the Soviet cos
mic research program was broad
er in scope than the American
program and Sputnik III car
ried all the instruments that
American earth satellite’s car
ried—“and much more.”
Sputnik III Statistics
LONDON, UPl — Statistics of
Sputnik III as broadcast by Mos
cow radio:
Total weight—2,919.53 pounds.
, Length—11 feet 8V£ inches.
This does not count protruding
aerials.
Diameter—5 feet 8Vfe inches
Shape—conical. „
Weight of instruments—2,133
pounds. ,
Time of orbit—106 minutes.
Angle of orbit—65 degrees to
the Equator.
Height of orbit—1,168 miles.
Asian Cities Make Bid
For 1964 Olympic Games
TOKYO, UPI — The Internation
al Olympic Committee will meet
in Munich, West Germany, next
year to decide the site of the
1964 Olympic games, IOC presi
dent Avery Brundage of Chi
cago said today.
Brundage made the announce
ment at the close of the IOC’s
four - day general assembly. He
said the Munich session probably
will be set for the end of May,
1959.
He pointed out that several
Asian nations had suggested it
would be appropriate to hold the
games in the East. Japan al
ready has made a bid. The
1960 games will be held in Rome.
That’s Telling ’Em!
TOKYO, UPi — The Japanese
government today rejected as
“political propaganda “a Rus
sian inquiry about reports that
American aircraft in Japan carry
atomic weapons.
“Prime Minister Nobusuke Ki
shi and other responsible officials
have repeatedly declared that Ja
pan will not maintain nuclear
armaments and will not allow
nuclear weapons to be brought to
Japan,” the foreign office’s chief
spokesman said.