Southern Cal Athlete
Wins Olympic Discus
Crown with Record Throw
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By TED SMITS
HELSINKI, (/P)—Sim Iness of
Southern California won the
Olympic discus throw champion
ship Tuesday with a record heave
of 55.03 meters (180 feet, 6.85 in
ches). He broke the mark of 173
feet 2 inches made by Adolfo Con
solini of Italy in the 1948 games
at London.
Iness was the second American
track and field champion crowned
Tuesday and the seventh in three
days of competition.
A few minutes before the discus
was completed, Mai Whitfield of
Columbus, O., retained his Olym
pic 800 meters title with a record
equalling ’ time of 1:49.2.
. The eighth record fell a few
minutes later when Herbert
Schade, an effortless German run
ner, won his qualifying heat in
the 5,000 meters run in 14:15.4.
This bettered the old Olympic
mark of 14:17.6 set by Gaston
Reiff of Belgium in 1948.
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! Eisenhower and Nixon
Book Major Speeches
To Start GOP Campaign
(By the Associated Press)
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The Republican presidential
campaign will get under way
within two weeks.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is
booked for a major speech at the
national convention of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars Aug. 3rd in
Los Angeles. And Sen. Richard M.
Nixon of California, his vice pres
idential running mate, will ad
dress the Ohio Republican con
vention in Columbus, July 31.
Eisenhower headquarters in
Denver announced that it will
have no comment on any “propa
ganda statements” from the Dem
ocratic national convention in
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Chicago.
The announcement followed a
request for the general’s comment
on the convention speech of Sen.
Paul H. Douglas of Illinois sug
gesting that Eisenhower, as for
mer army chief of staff, must
share in any Republican criticism
of United States Korean policy.
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Alaska RR Employes Sue
For Back Overtime Pay
From 1934 to 1945
ANCHORAGE, (A>) — Charges
that Alaska Railroad time records
subpoened for employes’ back pay
hearings were “deliberately de
stroyed” were made by attorneys
at a hearing session Tuesday.
Elrcfy Hinman, asssitant to the
line’s general manager, testified
he had destroyed records having
to do with time put in by operat
ing employes from 1934 to 1945.
He said, however, that his action
was merely the routine destruc
tion o*f materials of no further
use and that it had nothing to
do with the suits for overtime pay
during those years filed against
the railroads. He said he would
take the sole responsibility for his
act.
Line employes contend the gov
ernment owes them thousands of
dollars in overtime pay since
1934. Final decision will be made
in Washington by the Court of
Claims after a transcript of the
proceedings here are sent to the
court.
World War III Cost Estimated
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (JP) — A
Navy economics expert estimates
it would cost the United States al
most four trillion dollars to. fight
an all-out third World War.
Comdr. John W. Seager of the
Navy Supply Corps, who is a
member of the Industrial College
in Washington, said in a recent
interview here that each major
war the United States has fought
has cost roughly 10 times more
than the previous one. World War
II cost 382 billion dollars, Seager
says.
The apparent reluctance of
the Administration to tangle
with striking unions indicates
there are still not enough Fed
eral employees to carry an
election.
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Egyptian Army General
Forces Premier To Resign
CAIRO, {JP) — Egyptian Gen.
Mohammed Naguib took control
of Cairo in a military coup Wed
nesday and Premier Ahmed Hil
aly resigned.
Troops with machine guns
moved into the heart of Cairo.
Tanks and armored * cars sur
rounded main business buildings,
government structures and the
Abdin royal palace as Naguib,
whose appointment as war minis
ter was vetoed by King Farouk
last week, announced he was tak
ing command of the army.
King Farouk accepted Hilaly’s
resignation and asked Aly Maher
Pasha to form a new cabinet.
Maher Pasha was premier in
January but resigned March 1,
saying “mysterious influences”
prevented him from carrying on.
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Anchorage 66 Cloudy
Fairbanks 62 Cloudy
Whitehorse 67 Cloudy
Edmonton 67 Cloudy
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South Refuses To
Accept “Loyalty
Rule” At Chicago
CONVENTION HALL, Chicago,
(/P) — Southerners angered by a
“loyalty rule” adopted by the
Democratic national 'convention
were reported Tuesday to be in
clined to refuse to take it, but sit
tight in the convention.
That would put up to the Tru
man ‘‘Fair Deal” wing of the
party, which slammed the rule
through early Tuesday morning,
the question of whether to throw
the objectors out of the 31st Dem
ocratic convention.
The great North-South battle
threatened to tear the Democratic
conclave apart. It overshadowed
for the moment the question of
the presidential nomination—one
that many delegates were saying
would be answered finally by the
growing draft movement for Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois.
Some of the top men from five
southern states—Georgia, Louisi
ana, Mississippi, South Carolina
and Virginia—contend that state
laws, or state party rules, stand
in the way of their delegations
pledging to back the convention’s
nominees as the rightful Demo
cratic candidates in their states.
As delegates began trooping
back to this big hall for their
second day’s session, southern
delegates were holding caucuses
in downtown hotels.
Frank Ellis, Louisiana national
committeeman, said the attitude
of his delegation' was to refuse
the pledge but “stay (in the con
vention) until we are kicked out.”
Despite Stevenson’s continued
disavowal of interest in the presi
dential nomination, reporters
were following him about as if
he were already the nominee.
The draft winds for Stevenson
were reported to be one reason
why Vice President Alben W.
Barkley pulled out of the presi
dential contest Monday night.
. Mr. and Mrs. Don McLean and
children, of Gamble, departed for
the States with Pan American
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tovey, new
teachers for Gamble are here, en
route to assume their work on the
island for the ANS.
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