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Try and Stop AAe -By BENNETT CERF- . TFf ANDA LEE, of Boston, writes about a Hong Kong matron V who engaged a new houseboy, though she gravely sus pected he just had sneaked over from the Communist main land. 'Til try you," she said dubiously, "but that pet cat of yours will have to go. There will be no Peiping toms around my house!" r ' - , Lou Calhern, late Broadway and Hollywood star, often re assured young actors. "The best of us have' blundered. Don't let a mistake throw you. In one of my own first ap pearances, my single line came when the star made his en trance. I was supposed to say. -we ioo ks like a Greek god!' Want to know how it came' ' out opening night? He looks like a Greek god!' " ' - v - - Ray.Washburne, of Williamstown, Mass., tells'of a pair of cement mixers who eloped three years ago. Now they have a little sidewalk running around the house. ... .' ; i ,0 1359. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Gestures Syndicate Whale Washes Up On Lincoln Beach Depoe Bay - (LTD - A whale washed up on Lincoln Beach about three . miles north of here Sunday night and drew several hundred Labor Day spectators.. , The 20-foot long mammal was identified as a blue nose whale. '" Matter of a Fact m auoP hoi DANGEB GRAVE" AND URGENT ' Vientiane, Laos -i The dan ger, created by the Renewed Communist aggression against Laos , is cer tainly grave and m a y be very urgent gtmJ tOO. . ed aggression I w - took the form of an invasion of Laos by not more than Joi-ph Alsnp ,auu troops from Communist North Viet Nam. In a normal country it would be outrageous but hardly dangerous. Laos, how ever, is far from being a nor mal country. ' Laos's small army of 25, 000 men, almost devoid of heavy weapons of -any sort, with no reliable or rapid com munications system, is not a normal national army, even although it is generally 1 tough and courageous army. Laos's terrain, mountainous, jungle-clad, and almost whol ly without roads, is not a nor mal national landscape, Laos's population, almost 50 per cent composed of tribal peoples doubtfully attached to Laos, is not a normal national population. ' ' All of these abnormalities are very heavy initial handi caps in a war like this strange war in Laos -. a war against local Communist dissidents fighting in the jungle as gue rilla units, with- the -strong support of invading Commu nist : units from North Viet Nam. The first important thing to note about this war is that the invasion . from North Viet Nam is. 'the key fact. Until the first border crossings occurred on July 15, the Lao government and .army; were making good prog ress in unifying the 'country and liquidating all Commu nist influence. . ' THE first border crossings in July had immediate effects. They crt ited an acute military problem in the. two northern provinces, Phong Saly and Samneua. The first effect, therefore, was to drive the Lao army to strip all the other provinces, in order to reinforce - the two invaded provinces. Meanwhile, of course; the remaining Communist under grounds in the rest of the country, went over into open rebellion as guerillas. . The second effect of the invasion : in the North was to leave the Laos army with insufficient resources in , the .rest of the country to stamp out the suddenly- created centers of guerilla activity. Thus some thing like six -fairly impor tant areas of Communist gue rilla power came into being, including an important area in Luang - Prabang province, on the approaches to the roy al capital.; v. - . - ' The first invasion ' might have done the job,-in fact, if the Laos government had not intercepted a general order from the Communist Execu tive , Committee for ; Laos, signed by the military mem ber Col. Sing Rapo. This or der, intercepted in May, gave the detailed program of. the present aggression. As a re sult th e gov ernm ent moved preventativelyv J I - . ONE of the two Communist battalions in 'the " Ii a o s army, left over - from Laos' neutralist period, was quickly disarmed. , (The other, unfor tunately, escaped to play a big role in the present fight ing.) The provincial under grounds were also greatly weakened by preventive ar rests and executions of the better known terrorists. . Quite largely for this rea son, the initial aggression on July 15 did riot produce the expected results. The . north ern provinces did not imme diately fall to the invaders. Phong Saly, in fact, had been just about cleaned up again when the renewed invasion occurred. The guerrillas in the other provinces, although they could 'hot be stamped out, also failed to spread their influence and cause gerferal panic. Just before getting the news of the second invasion of Laos, the commander of the Lao 'army, the tough and brave Gen. Rathikoune, told me: . ,. "The army is stretched to the utmost, but I am sure we can win this war if no more units come in from North Viet , Nam. Everything de pends on that." When the General said this, the second invasion . of Laos had already occurred,,- al though his lack of communi cations had kept ' the grim news from him. With the Laos army ... already "stretched to the utmost," i'le design of the second invasion is obviously to stretch the limited military resources of Laos beyond the snapping point. .It is easy to see, moreover; how this de sign can. succeed: : TWENTY - FIVE hundred men with heavy '.weapons may not . seem like : a great many men. But this small number is a serious threat to the government's limited local forces with few heavy weap ons and sharply restricted possibilities of .reinforcement. . Thus the invaders may per haps take Samneua province at least, for example. If Sam neua falls, the effect all over the country will . be terrible and instantaneous. Fence sitters will flock to the guer rilla centers. As another ex ample, the guerrilla forces in neighboring Luang Prabang province, strengthened by new recruits, now having Samneau as a rear base area, may perhaps gain enough power to threaten, the King's city of Luang Prabang. In short this can be a very bad business indeed. Although the new invasion of Laos has taken place in remote moun tains and all but impenetrable jungles, it is still aggression, as naked, as flagrant as a Soviet-East German attack on Western Germany. (c) 1959 New .York Herald Tribune Inc. KILLED BY ACCIDENT New York -ttJH- A 22-year-old woman . sitting on her. doorstep was killed Monday by a policeman's bullet fired at a fleeing car theft suspect. The death was ruled acci dental. Police said Miss De light Crawford was killed by Patrolman James O'Connell as he chased down Irving Moore, 30. O'Connell had seen Moore tinkering with the ig nition of a truck, apparently in an attempt to steal it. O'Connell captured Moore aft er a scuffle, but was unaware of Miss Crawford's death un til after he returned to the police station. , Still standing and carefully preserved at Dan vers, Mass., is the home of Rebecca Nourse, who was executed for witchcraft in1: the 17th century. " Ex-Convict Uses Gun To Get Police - Los Angeles-OiPD-A 44-year-old ex-convict walked into a liquor store with a gun and announced, "this is not a hold up, "call police," officers re ported today. James Macklin, paroled from San Quentin prison, told police two " ex-convicts kid naped him, held him prisoner f or ' 12 hours and beat and burned him with cigarettes to force him into the robbery. He said the men wanted him to rob the store so he could repay a $75 debt he owed them. . "They drove me here, forced the gun into my hands and made me come in here to hold up the store," said Mack lin. "I just couldn't go through with it. I don't like that San Quentin jailhouse and I don't want to go back there." Police a short time later on Sunday night arrested Harris Dibbles, 34; and Anthony Hart, 24, on suspicion of rob bery and kidnaping. Both de nied any knowledge of the scheme. AMPUTATION TOO MUCH Los Angeles-fllPD-A 69-year-old man who had one leg am putated - after an. auto acci dent apparently committed suicide Monday when told he faced" the loss of his other leg. Ira Wiggs swallowed poison at a rest home where he had been a patient since the acci dent last Dec. 10, police said. Doctors said he was told re cently his remaining leg had failed to heal properly and probably would be amputated. Pilot Rock Man Held for Assault Pilot Rock, Ore. flJPD One man was being held in the Umatilla county jail in Pen dleton today and another was reported in satisfactory condi tion in a Pendleton hospital after a shooting here Monday night. ; . Anthony Gordon Johnson, 35, Pilot Rock, was booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the shooting. Adolph Sandreth, 34, a Pi lot Rock millworker, who was wounded, was in the hospital. Officers said Sandreth was wounded during an argument at the home of Johnson's for mer wife here. 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