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TEST CASE
The Suez Canal, long famed as the “life-line” of
the now disintegrated British Empire, may be no less
esential today to the free nations that are standing off
Communism. But Gen. Naguib, dictator of Egypt, has
told the British to get out. The British have said they
will defend themselves, and Naguib has retaliated
with an embargo shutting off supplies from the garri
son of 80,000 men on this largest military base in
the world.
A few days earlier, following a conference with
Naguib, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles re
ported from Cairo that he and the General had fixed
everything up. There was to be a “phased withdrawal”
of the British, but the base would be kept in working
order and available to the free nations “in the event
of future hostilities.”
It looks now as though those hostilities are not
very far in the future—even if the belligerents are
not the ones Mr. Dulles had in mind. And since no
one else seems to know what to do, we suggest the
matter be turned over to the United Nations. This
case should be made to order for it. And it’s about
time we found out what this outfit really can do if
they take hold before the shooting starts.*
Gov. Heintzleman
Boosts Roads For
Interior Alaska
CORDOVA, 'The All-Alaska
Chamber of Commerce, given a
boost Friday by Gov. B. Frank
Heintzleman, was expected to of
ficially become a “going concern”
here this weekend.
Fourteen of the 19 Alaska city
chambers of commerce were rep
resented either by delegations or
proxy at the opening morning ses
sion of the All-Alaska Chamber’s
two day semi-annual meeting.
President Cecil Wells of Fair
banks said the main order of bus
iness would be to ratify the All
Alaska Chamber’s incorporation
and by-laws.
He said that Alaska as a whole
“from Ketchikan to Kotzebue”
will be able to give Congress an
integrated picture of the terri
tory’s needs through the All-Al
aska Chamber.
Fills Long-Felt Need
Gov. Heintzleman told delegates
the territorial chamber would fill
a long-felt need for a central or
ganization representing all of Al
aska. As an example of territorial
problems the chamber could help
solve, he cited what he called the
need for gas tax legislation to help
bring four to eight million dollars
in federal matching funds for Al
aska road development.
He appealed for cooperation be
tween the individual chambers of
commerce and various govern
ment agencies and legislative
groups in attaining desired goals.
Heintzleman pointed out the need
for such organizations in present
ing one Alaskan viewpoint to Con
gressional committees. The gov
ernor said much needs to be done
in the Second, Third and Fourth
Divisions by way of economic de
Italian General Election
Ends Without Disorder
ROME, (J*)—Balloting in Italy’s
crucial general elections ended to
day without major disorders.
Most areas reported a big turn
out expected to favor Prime Min
ister Alcide de Gasperi’s Center
Coalition.
Just as the polls closed Interior
Minister Mario Scelba issued a
telegraphic order to police thru
out the country, banning public
meetings or demonstrations.
The voters had turned out yes
terday and today to choose be
tween de Gasperi’s bloc of four
middle-of-the-road parties, Com
munism and right-wing National
ism.
First returns are not expected
until later today with no signifi
cant trends developing before to
morrow.
velopment to take up slack fol
lowing completion of military
construction.
Interior Needs Roads
He stressed cheaper transpor
tation as the key to Alaskan de
velopment, citing the possibility
of railcar, barge and ferry service
with a return haul of timber pro
ducts.
“The interior cannot develop
without roads,” Heintzleman told
the members of the chamber in
pointing to the need for additional
gasoline tax revenues and four to
eight million in federal funds.'
The recent legislative session
failed to pass the gas tax trill.
President Wells said the legis
lature also had failed to provide
tax incentives that would lure in
vestment capital to the territory.
Transportation is needed before
industry can be attracted. This, he
said, calls for unified action which
the chamber is fitted particularly
to provide.
LOOKING
AHEAD
GEORGE S. BENSON
President—Harding College
Searcy. Arkansas
The New “Mr. Housing”
WASHINGTON—If you live in
America and want to own your
own home or improve the one
you’ve got, the federal govern
ment is developing a plan to pro
vide more help toward making
your dream come true.
If you are a tenant and your
yearning i§ merely for better
housing, plans are afoot in Wash
ington that will help you too,
through the promotion of more
and better rental housing through
out the nation.
But the Big Idea of the federal
government becoming “Mr. Land
lord” for a substantial portion of
the population is withering on the
vine.
These facts were gathered in
talks I’ve just had with officials
in charge of federal housing ac
tivities for the Eisenhower admin
istration. The key interview was
with Albert M. Cole, administra
tor of the Housing and Home Fi
nance Agency, in which the prin
cipal housing aid programs are
centered. He is the new “Mr.
Housing” in Washington. He
seems to be a man with vision but
with his feet on the ground.
A New Concept
The biggest news Mr. Cole gave
me concerns a thorough-going
study which his agency is making
at the request of President Eisen
hower. The study is for the pur
pose of developing a plan through
which the government can pro
mote the building of more homes
and better rental housing without
upsetting basic governmental and
economic principles that have
made our people free and our na
tion the most prosperous in the
world. The plan will be submitted
to Mr. Eisenhower within a few
months and likely will become his
administration’s conception of the
government’s proper role in the
field of housing.
“There is a great job to be
done,” said Mr. Cole with enthusi
asm. “I believe that not enough
people 'have been assisted in the
housing activities of the past. I
think we can develop a compre
hensive program through this in
tensive study we’re making, which
will give more people better hous
ing than if we limit it to a few
privileged people who gain access
through political consideration or
the like. All of us engaged in this
study are tremendously interested
in establishing a progressive hous
ing policy which will promote
decent housing without restricting
4he personal liberties of our citi
zens.”
No "Bureaucrat"
Mr. Cole is from Kansas. He has
a background of legislative and
Congressional experience, having
served several terms in the House
of Representatives. He thus has a
healthy respect for the preroga
tives of Congress as representing
the rightful power of the people.
“Our basic job,” he said, “is
to carry out such housing policies
as Congress decrees.” Top housing
authorities of Congress will be
participating in Cole’s study now
under way, and he makes ft clear
that any forthcoming plan, if ap
proved by President Eisenhower,
will be in the form of a recom
mendation for the consideration
of Congress.
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Last Stumbling Block to
Korea Peace Swept Aside
(Continued from Page One)
ure was revised downward from
a 48,500 total.
ROK "Required" Accept Terms
A last - minute message from
President Eisenhower to Rhee
said he felt the U.N. and South
Korea were “required” to accept
the present terms and warned
Rhee against any “reckless adven
ture” by South Korea’s armed
might.
The news of the prisoner agree
ment spread swiftly to' Allied
troops in the trenches and fox
holes along the 155-mile front.
Their immediate reaction:
“When do we go home?” U. N.
troops won’t be leaving Korea,
however, until peace comes to
this land—months, maybe years
away.
Cease-Fire Only Prelude to Peace
Only minor administrative mat
ters now stand in the way of an
armistice and there was little
doubt at Panmunjom that an his
toric truce would be reached
shortly. However, that’s only a
cease-fire prelude to peace—nego
tiations which* may take many
months, or years.
Under the agreement, a neutral
nation commission of India, Po
land Czechoslovakia, Sweden and
Switzerland would take custody
of the 46,380 captives in Allied
hands who refuse to return to
their Communist homelands.
Red agents will be permitted to
“make explanations” to those pri
soners about returning home.
Captives who still refuse repat
riation after 90 days of explana
tions will be turned over to a
political conference of belligerent
nations.
After 30 days discussion by the
conference, those who still spurn
Communism will then be given
civilian status and opportunity to
go to a neutral nation.
STATUE HAS TOUGH WAR
KALISPELL, Mont., UPI — It’s
still a rough war for a battered
Kalispell doughboy.
A statue of a World War I sol
dier with steel helmet, rifle and
bayonet was knocked over for the
fourth time by a reckless driver.
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Six Killed in Two
Fireworks Blasts
SCHENECTADY, N.Y., UPC-An
explosion leveled the main build
ing of a fireworks factory near
here Saturday, killing two men
and injuring a third.
The blast destroyed a 20-by-30
foot one - story, cement block
building at the North American
Fireworks Co. factory about four
miles east of the city, along the
Mohawk waterfront.
Windows were shattered in
homes a mile away. Cement
blocks and 2-by-10 wooden beams
from the plant were blown over
the land and into trees.
HOUSTON, UP) — More than
40,000 pounds of holiday fire
works blew up Friday in a spout
of flame, killing four persons in
a nearby cottage and injuring 75
others in the neighborhood.
Damage was estimated at 3
million dollars. Most of the in
jured were in nearby small cot
tages and apartment houses. Only
two men were in the fireworks
warehouse and both escaped with
minor injuries, running outside as
soon as a spark touched off the
blaze that resulted in the explo
sion.
The explosion smashed nearly
everything in the block surround
ing the Alco Fireworks and Spe
cialty Co. warehouse. At least a
dozen homes blazed. Other homes
gaped openly, their windows shat
tered, roofs stripped and sides
sheared away.
Streetcar Conductor Killed At
Controls In Collision with Truck
LOS ANGELES, UP)—A street
car with a dead man at the con
trols carried terrified passengers
a block yesterday after a violent
collision with a heavy truck.
The impact killed the conduc
tor-motorman, P. E. Sederquist,
44, of South San Gabriel. He
slumped to the floor but the car
continued for a block before his
foot fell from the control pedal,
automatically braking the car.
The truck driver, Pete Shubin,
42, of Montebello, was booked on
suspicion of manslaughter. Nine
streetcar passengers were injured,
none seriously.
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