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’ NUMBER 184
VOLUME XVI
Tuesday, August 30, 1955
Fighting continues on Gaza
front; cease-fire in sight
Egypt agrees to
cease-fire on war
torn front
CAIRO, Egypt (JP) The Egyp
tian government information
announced tonight Egypt has
agreed to a cease fire on the
Egyptian-Israeli front near
Gaza.
It said Egypt accepted the
proposal of Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Burns, the U. <N. chief truce
supervisor for Palestine.
JERUSALEM (JP) Violence
continued without letup last
night and today in the area of
the Gaza strip. Israel charged
the Egyptians with killing four
Jewiish civilians and wounding
10 other Israelis. Egypt accus
ed the Israels of killing an
Egyptian soldier and wounding
four Arab civilians.
(In Cairo, an Egyptian mili
tary spokesman said fighting
broke out near Gaza at 6 a.m.
and was still going on this af
tenoon.)
An Israeli military spokes
man said Egyptian infiltrators
killed the four civilians and
wounded six others in attacks!
last night 12 to 15 miles inside j
Israeli territory north of the |
Gaza strip frontier. He said,
those killed were waylaid as
they returned from work in an
orchard near Beth Vered.
Four Israeli soldiers were in
jured — two seriously — when
an army vehicle struck a mine
near the Tel Tayiim settlement
this morning, the spokesman
said.
He also charged that the
Egyptians directed machine
gun and mortar fire on the
Erel settlement this morning.
The s| poke simian said there
were no casualties on the Is-j
raeli side in a 15 minute ex
change.
V eatchcombing
• Well is won’t he long now
until 600 students arrive to be
gin the new school year at Mt.
Edgecumlbe. Planes will be cir
cling back and forth over town
as the “kidls” return and the
streets will be full of them.
I* -H
• I don’t bowl, but we are
wondering when the bowling
season will get under way?
—I—|—
• If you don’t go hunting this
weekend how are you going to
“stalke-out ” a deer so that you
can lead him to shore next week
or is “herding” outlawed, too?
I •
• After failing for years to
knock over a 'buck — we (broke
down and purchased a
hunting license. I'm no better
hunter than I am ia fisherman
_Ibut Ace wants to go hunting
“like Davy Crocket.”
The Gaza frontier has been
the scene of repeated Israeli
Egytptian clashes in recent
months. Eighteen Israelis and
eight Egyptians have died in
incidents there during the past
week.
Coffee wholesalers
up prices today
NEW YORK (/P) The nation’s
two biggest independent coffee
roasters raised their Wholesale
prices today.
General Foods Corp. increas
ed its Maxwell House brand by
three cents a pound and Stan
dard Brands addled three cents
to the price of Chase & Sanborn
This hrinigs the wholesale price
of both to 91 cents. Trade sou
rces said they expect other
roasters to follow suit.
How long it will be before
the increase is passed on at the
retail level depends to a large
extent on the individual grocer
The boosts reflect increases
in green coffee prices during
the past month. Since late July
both Brazilian and Colombian
types have advanced about
four cents a pound in New York
Dulles says reports
indicate Reds offer
arms to Mid-East
I WASHINGTON (JP) Secre
tary of state Dulles said today
there have ibeen reliable re
ports that Russia has offered
arms to some countries in the
Middle Bast.
Such an action 'by Russia —
the supply of arms to nations
in a troubled area — would
not contribute to the relaxing
otf world tensions, Dulles said.
The secretary made clear to
a news conference that he had
j no official information on the
I reported Russian offers of
j arms.
\ Reports of the offers have
circulated Ifor several weeks
in diplomatic quarters here.
Dulles declined to name any
j country as the target of the
! Soviet offers.
i But he responded to a ques
tion albout whether he knew of
offers to Egypt or other states
in the middle east, and said
simply that there 'are indica
tions that such offers may
have been made.
Dulles said there was no ev
idence tlhiart he knew of that
Soviet equipment was actually
already in Arab hands. Those
countries have been getting
their .military supplies from
nonoommiunist sources, he said
On other subjects, Dailies
told his news conference:
1. The United States has
urged both Israel and Egypt
within the past 48 hours to
refrain from the use of force
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Really lucky
• DAGENHAM, England (/P)
Ernest Victor King phoned the
'boss to say he was quitting the
mechanic’s job (he held ifor.30
years.
| Overnight the 56-year-old
London mian leaped from a 9
pound 16 'shilling 11 pence
($27.57) weekly worker to an
independently wealthy man.
He won 63.271 pounds ($177.
158.80) in a football pool —
the first big winner of the
new soccer season. That’s a
lot of tax free money in this
heavily taxed country.
King won the big sum by
predicting the number of tie
games Saturday. The gamble
cost him six pence (7c cents).
Oil exploration
equipment sent i
to Icy Bay
SEATTLE (TP) A Large lad
en with a big drilling rig, cas
ing and other supplies left Seat
tie last night for the Icy Bay
area in Alaska, where the Phil
lips Petroleum Co. is "'seeking
oil.
The barge was towed by the
tug Agnes Foss.
The Phillips company, opera
tor of the joint properties of
Phillips and Kerr-McGee Oil
Industries, Inc., in the Katalla
Yakataga area, declined to dis
cuss details of the work.
A company spokesman in
Tulsa, Okla., said the supplies
were “for continued explora
tory drilling operations.”
Wreckage of tug
Harold J found
in Bering Sea
FAIRBANKS UP) Searchers
today located pieces of wreck
age from the missing tug Har
old J of Kotzebue and it was
1 presumed that the vessel found
: ered in a Bering Sea storm with
| the loss of all hands .
| The 74th rescue squardon at
> Ladd field here said the name
plate, compass and pieces of
the super-structure of the" tug
were found near Lopp Laigioon,
40 miles north of Shshmareff j
on the Arctic coast. No trace
has been found of the crew-!
men. It is believed that the ves- j
sel had three men aboard when ;
it vanished Wednesday night
during a howling Arctic gale, j
Heavy rains drench
parts of midwest
i by The Associated Press
Near-coludiburst rains delug
ed parts of the midwest late
Monday and early Tuesday as
a cold air mhss from Canada
sent temperatures plunging to
J 20 degrees below normal for
late August.
! The heaviest recorded rain
fall wtas at Windfor, Mo.
. where 7.17 inches fell. Sedialia
i (continued or. page four) |
Eisenhower "undermining
law" claims Horry Truman
GOP devited to
interests of big
business, is charge
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich
(/P) Harry £>. Truman says the
Eisenhower administration is
using the power of the execu
tive branch of the government
to “undermine” the law of the
country “in the interest of
big business ” But he predict
ed the “people will win their
government back from the
forces df special privilege.”
In a “give-’em-ihell” speech
before 800 Michigan Demo
crats last night the former
president accused the admini
stration of “subverting the
laws it is sworn to execute
faithfully”; charged it pur
sued “in stealth and secrecy”
a plan to destroy the Tennes
see Valley Authority, and chid
ed it with failing to balance
the budget.
His speech, the second maj
or one in three days, climax
ed the three-day meeting of
the Michigan Democratic con
AFU return to CIO
approved by
members' vote
SEATTLE (/P) Return of the
Alaska Fishermen’s Union to
the Congress of Industrial Or
ganization has been approved
overwhelmingly by the mem
bership, George Johansen, sec
retary - treasurer, announcced
yesterday.
With only a few scattered
ballots still to come in, the
count was 1,432 to 92 to accept
the CTO invitation to reaffil
iate.
Johansen will start the
wheels rolling at once to
brinjg his 3,700 member un
ion back to the CIO, he said.
It will return under a direct
CIO industrial charter, not as
part of any other internation
al union, and reaiffiliation may
be completed “in a week or
so.”
The AFU was part of the
old International Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union
Ousted by the CIO five years
ago on grounds of alleged com
miunist domination. The AFU
broke off from its parent body
soon afterwards, however, and
this spring, CIO leaders invit
ed it back into membership.
Since then, the salmon fish
ermen members have 'been vot
ing on the issue in various Al
aska areas and the vote was
tabulated yesterday.
“We’re glad we’re going
back in.” Johansen said. “The
CIO had nothing against us
personally. This will give us
representation in Washington
on some matters that had been
pretty hard to take care of.”
ference.
Truman in Shis 'latest attack
described the securities and
exchange commission as “to
prime example” of regulatory
commissions “(packed as never
before with people who came
from the ranks of industries
they are supposed to regulate.”
He said Republican appoin
tees to the national labor re
: lations hoard have “reversed
a number of settled' interpre
tations of the law to the dis
advantage of labor.”
“The secretary of agricul
ture.” Truman said, “cam
paigns against the programs
he is supposed -to administer
— “and then uses their fail
ure to argue that support pric
es ought to be lowered.”
Truman said he thoujght the
record would Show “that this
sanctimonious administration
is having its own troubles
with corruption,” which he
said was the “deliberate use
of the power of the executive
branch to undermine the laws
it is sworn to execute faithful
ly so 'that their (benefits flow
to the privileged few instead
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Stassen gives U. N.
plans for exchange
of inspection teams
NEW YORK (/P) Harold' Stas
sen has submitted to the U. N.
disarmament ‘subcommittee de
tailed recommendations for ex
changing inspection teams with
the Soviet Union. The plan
would provide special safe
guards against any surprise at
tack on the United States.
Stassen, who is President Ei
senhower’s special envoy, made
his recommendations on the
second day of the new sessions
of the subcommittee, which is
made up of the U. S., Britain,
France, Canada and Russia. His
action was a surprise since he
had said* yesterday he would
not submit the paper until lat
er in the week.
Stassen’s1 recommendations
said information must be fur
nished and verified concermnjgi
weapons and delivery systems
suitable for surprise attack,
armed forces and positions of
armed forces, and transporta
tion and telecommunications.
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I Marine forecast from Tues
^ day to Wednesday.
Outside waters Cape Spencer
to Dixon Entrance light vari
able winds less than 12 mph be
coming southwesterly 10 to 20
mph tonight. ,
Fair today, partly cloudy to
i night with patches of fog.