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u of ors33s librart coip eugene; ore. Price Five Cfnln 12 Pages In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the drouth that has held the BIG NEWS in its grip (or weeks is broken. It Is hroken in a big way. In a lightning-swift, bloody re volt the government of Iraa. which was the keystone of the arch of pro-Western policy in the explo sive Middle East, is overthrown and the victorious rebel group that en gineered the revolution proclaims its friendship with NASSER'S UNITED AKAR REPUBLIC. From the diplomatic viewpoint, that upsets both the Baghdad Pact and the Eisenhower Doctrine and le.-ves the West with no tools with which to implement a pro-Western policy in the .Middle East. What does it mean? That is hard to say. The only thing that seems cer tain is that Gamel Abdul Nasser has been thrown into the center of the spotlight as the man of th hour. What will Nasser do? That also is obscure at this hour. For weeks. .Nasser has given the Impression of a man in a quan dary. He got himself all tied up with Russia so hadly tied up that he appeared to be nothing more than a tool of the Kremlin. Tito had got himself ap parently on purpose back into the Kremlin doghouse. Nasser VISIT ED TITO and conferred with him and hobnobbed with him in Yu goslavia for a week or more. That led to the suspicion that maybe Nasser was beginning to realize that he had got himself into the position of the smiling young lady of Niger who went for a ride with a tiger and didn t want to come hack on the inside with the smile on the face of the tiger. At any rate, Nasser is at the moment the man to watch. What he does and how he conducts him self in the next few critical days should give us some clues as to what may be in the wind. Bulletin LONDON AP) The Italian fnvernmcnt reported Monday the British Embassy In Baghdad has hren ransacked and set on fire. Hie report said the ambassador And embassy staff were safe. Saddlesore TV Cowpoke Tells All - Face Down PASCO, Wash. (API Bert Wells was a little saddlesore Mon day. In fact, the singing TV cowpoke was taken to a hospital lor a checkup after he claimed a new world's record for ' would you have guessed Marathon horse back riding. Wells' ordeal lasted 121 hours, 14 minutes and 35 seconds. more than five days. His promoters called it "incredible." The old record, they said, was 116 hours, 19 minutes and 55 sec onds set by Jack Henderson of Spokane. Local citizenry had kept close watch on Wells. There were prizes for those who could guess most closely when he would topple off his horse. He was allowed 15- minute rest stops every few hours to get hack down on mother earth Said Wells from his hospital bed (in a face down position course': "After this, pards, I'm sticking to singing. Fishing Boat Tows Raft Lehi Toward Current SAN PEDRO il'PI) The "Redeemer of Israel," a 35-foot fishing boat, made its wr.y out into the Pacific today, towine the raft Lehi IV and its five-man ' Skipper DeVere Baker's newest attempt to float to the Hawaiian Islands, foiled three times before hy had weather and various acci dents, began Sunday shortly be fore noon. After Ihe redeemer tows the $30.oofl rait loo miles to sea. 42- UlAni4nrc mw year-old Baker hopes to cast Off:"lon,wl a Jw ihe tow line and lloat by the Jap-1 M,,-.! CM:J CAlll anese current to Hawaii. !PIUrl JUIQ JXIII Baker, an Elder in Ihe Mormon' -i k i,c i nnut frnm thp BrOOaCG ST IflCj Persian Gulf to Central America! after Ihe shakedown to Ihe is- lands. He wants lo prove ancientl'APi Radio monitors here re-jiran ny ine an nemo conlerence Arah feral Stale wilh Jordan. hich brought bitter condemns-'MM persons. Sixty jets screeched people crossed the ocean on rafts, ported a broadcast on the Baghdad of Allied prime ministers. In 1WI nIrn- hv m, cr)llsln King s.ltu,n from Egypt and Svria. now 'overhead, some of them stream The Lehi was lowed out of the wve length lale Monday saying Emir Feisal was proclaimed king !,,. A week later Ihe rival i linked in Ihe United Arab Itcpub- ing colored smoke Ihe blue, harbor alter Raker had said good-ilraqi Premier Nun Said is still of Iraq and founded the Hashe-,!-(,) Ari,h Republic nf Na.scr:li ; while and red ol Ihe French tri- bve In his wile and two daughters! alive and his men light.ng. mue nnasiy in mi inrmer)W!1i tmmfii and loyalties in Ihe! feisal was regarded as an cn at the San Pedro boat works. Al The wave length was Ihe same,' remier Kashid All became pre-jni,l(in hecame more divided than' lightened monarch. He had also Similar attempt last week failed when a tow line broke. crash kills Minnie COPENHAGEN. 'I'PI' - l'. S. Naval Aoademy 'Midshipman' 3-C Edgar G. Knight. 19. of Jackson. Mich . was killed in. an automobile sceldrnt here Saturday night, the Navy announced Sunday, it I -. m mm mm mm mm r -m n M r f AD0 WW wis I fri U firi I I S,W W W W VI M M U Wl mm W U U mm M fcTl By WALTER LOGAN United Press International The pro-western government of Iraq fell today in a lightning, army-led revolt that may simultan eously have administered a death blow to the Baghdad Pact and the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Mid dle East. Grave fears were felt for the safety of King Feisal, 2.1. staun chest western ally in the Arab world, who failed to appear at scheduled Baghdad Bad con ference in Istanbul. His where abouts were unreported. Baghdad mobs killed Crown Prince Abdul lllah, uncle of the King, and dragged his body through the streets with a rope about the neck. In London, western diplomats feared the Iraq developments could lead to a new threat of gen eral war, particularly if the same fate should befall Jordan. Jordan is Iraq's tiny and impoverished partner in the Arab Federation which was set up to rival the United Arab Republic of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Jordan's King Hussein assumed power as head of the Jordan-Iraq Arab Union in the absence of kin Feisal. Baghdad radio said Gen. Abdul Kerim Kassem, little known army commander who led the pre-dawn coup against feisal, has been in stalled as premier and defense minister of the new government pledged to end imperialist in fluence in the nation. Kassem, a leltist, set up a cabinet that in cluded three other generals. The new regime's first act in foreign relations was to dispatch a message to Nasser. "We are proud to offer our rec ognition of the United Arab Re public." it said. "We pray to God to help us succeed in the service of the Arab people in this heroic struggle and to struggle as a free :teople. Highlights of the day s whirl wind developments: Additional units of the U.S. 6th Fleet, most powerful naval striking force in the world, were scheduled to move into the East ern Mediterranean within 4ft hours. Naval authorities, however, said the move was ordered before eruption of the Iraq crisis. In cluded will be the giant aircraft carrier Saratoga and the fleet's full complement of 3.600 Marines. In Washington, President Ei- isenhower called congressional Headers to an afternoon emergen cy meeting after conlerrmg with Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State John Fosler. Dullef- R,tP",l!lica" sTa,l ors who met with the President earlier said he was, "extremely disturbed." Informed sources dis closed that the State Department's own reports indicated the situa tion in Iraq was even worse than appeared from news dispatches. In. London. Prime .Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd also met in emergency conlerence. Later, Lloyd told the House of Commons that the British Embassy report ed fighting around the Royal Pal ace in Baghdad. He said tiie British ambassador to Baghdad reported "considerable domonstra tions" in the streets. Britain is pledged to defend Iraq against ag gression. In Tehran, the Iranian gov ernment ordered' the border with Iraq closed In Amman, King Hussein's government closed the borders with Lebanon. Syria and Iraq. In a broadcast to the nation, Hussein expressed sadness over the "bagh dad uprising." He blamed the Iraq crisis on "certain hired per sons" and appealed to the people to remain calm. Amman was tense but quiet - In Istanbul, other Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact abandoned plans for a formal summit conlerence. Instead the delegates from Turkey. Iran and I Pakistan Hew to Ankara for in- formal talks, Moscow Radio broadcast news of the Baghdad coup without cmi ment. The broadcast was a fac tual account distributed by tfce 9 U U VTJ MTU U JERUSALEM. Israeli Sectorias awarded a mandate over nne on which a coup d etat wasjmicr in a pro-Axis coup nut wasvor. announced .Monday morning and Ihe oerthrow of King Faisal re ported. There was speculation here whether the radio station had been recaptured hy troops loyal to Fai sal and N'uri's government or whether they were broadcasting elsewhere. KLAMATH FALLS, ORKGON, MONDAY, Jl'tV 14. Jfl.'iR Trlephoni Tl' 4-M11 No. dlii n n n tr - ip 0 i (official Russian Tass news agen cy. Baghdad Radio proclaimed martial law throughout Iraq ef fective immediately. The coup was a disaster for western policy in the Middle East. Iraq was the West's richest. strongest and biggest ally in the area. It was the leading holdout against U.A.R. President Nasser's exploding influence. At the same time, it was a tremendous victory for Nasser whose armies only two years ago were retreating belore invading armies of Israel, Britain and France. With the fall of the Iraqi mon archy today, Nasser emerges as the leader of most of the Arab Middle East. The British Embassy reported all Britons were believed safe in Baghdad. There was no report Eisenhower Calls Emergency Meeting Of Both Parties To Discuss Problem In Mideast " WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Eisenhower summoned a group of congressional Demo crats and Republicans to an emer gency White House meeting Mon day to discuss the turbulent Mid dle Lastern situation. The urgent summons was ; touchofi off by the overthrow of i King Feisal s pro-Western govern ment in Iraq amidst demands in Congress for a reappraisal of U.S. policy in the Mideast. The White House announced the 2:30 p.m. (EDTt meeting after Eisenhower conferred for more Uian an hour. and a, half with Sp.- relary of Slate Duties and Vice President Nixon on the Iraq coup Eisenhower lefl a meeting of the National Security Council for talk with Dulles and Nixon. This, and the sudden summoning of a bipartisan meeting, indicated the administration takes a very grave view of the Iraq development. Those called to the White House on short notice included Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and the Senate Republican leader, William F. Knowland of California. In addition Eisenhower invited representatives of the Senate and House Foreign Relations Commit tees, Armed Services committees and Appropriations committees. The Stale Department would not comment on the Iraq situa tion. However, State Department press officer Lincoln White said some sort of statement would be issued after the emergency White House meeting. The call for a reappraisal of U.S. foreign policy came mostly from Democrats in the Senate, who also demanded United Na tions intervention in Iraq and a senatorial inquiry. Sen. J. William Fulbnght D- Background Shows Iraq To Be Northern Defense Tier By United Press International Iraq, the Mesopotamia of an cient history, is a key member of Ihe Raghdad Pact, one of the West's chief shields against Com munist penetration of the Middle East. With Turkey. Iran and Pakistan it formed (he "northern tier of defenses." It is a land slichllv larger -than California wilh a population of; little more than five million. It is the sixth largest oil - producing country in the world with an annual revenue estimated at more Hk 3M millian dollars. Its ptHtcaJ taslwy is on1 lurbfc'fei'e wee t iays ( m- tiav(? frlsM IVt ;i-ns nf tbei Tigris md ll Kfras porW4 a Mui.ix tl mtrt Ik 30 iiVm A rojar c;m tf the unrest Im . U kr4ish trikes. ;mm 7,iw strong, who have long wanted independence and have been inspired by Mos cow propaganda to seek it. But the population has been fliviaea since null wnen Hrilain crushed by the British. The anti - British hatred built was the long history of ciMl'eaue back to Fatima. daughter of ran youth delegation arrived Sun up during the days of the man- disturbances, long years nf social the prophet Mohammed jday night lo lour Ihe Soviet Un- naie ann alter me war there! were anti - British and anli American riots. In 10.i2 martial law wa proclaimed and all poli- ncai parties were banned lo pulllempled to rae this situation down the riots. In lisj Kinjilbut unrest remained. rj k vi i. rat M Si gm -J from the important oil installa tions at Kirkuk and elsewhere. No information had been re ceived on Americans in Iraq. But a Trans World Airways airliner was prevented from taking off on a scheduled flight from Basra. The coup apparently began at 4 a.m. today when communications with the outside were severed. At 5 a.m., Baghdad Radio came on the air in rebel hands. All direct contact with Baghdad was broken off. but Baghdad ra dio and diplomatic dispatches in dicated the revolution began short ly before dawn and that the reb els quickly won control of the cap ital, and proclaimed a republic. Later broadcasts spoke of "re sistance" but there was no clue to the extent of the fighting. The reb els themselves proclaimed "total victory" and -declared their sup port of President Gamal Abdel Arkl accused the Slate Depart ment of trying to discourage the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee from going ahead with a long projected inquiry into policies in that area. Fulbright a member of the com mittee, spoke out as Sen. Mike Mansfield D-Mnnl told the Sen ate the United Nations should take up the Iraq development as quick ly as possihle. Lanier Sen. Theodore rrancis Green ID-RI), chairman of the foreign policy group, said lraqs over throw demonstrates that "Arab nationalism is a force witli which me United Stales has not learned to cope." Green. Fulbright and Mansfield called for a reappraisal and re- evaluation of American foreign policy in the Middle F.ast. They said the free World has now suf fered a major disasler there and it could spread to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other countries. Sen. Ralph Flanders iR-VU said that while the Iraq developments are "disturbing they should not have caught us by surprise." The Iraq coup appeared to have caught the Eisenhower adminis tration by surprise. Intelligence reports had indicated anli-govern-mcn! plotting, but authorities ac knowledge that none predicted the fury or timing of the revolt. The news, continued by the American Embassy in Baghdad, brought hurried early morning conferences by U.S. officials. Cables from Amhassador Walde- mar Gallman reported that .ran tflili.V idling iidu iiltii n-iiiivcU around the U.S. embassy in Bagh dad to protect the embassy and its personnel. A big crowd gathered in front of the U.S. information office in Baghdad. Gallman ordered it closed for the day. reisal hecame ol age um and ascended the throne. The nation appeared lo thrive under parliamentary rule, but Iraq was a constant target of propaganda campaigns hy the I By United Press International Communists and hy pro - Syrian i King Feisal H of Iraq, over and pro Egyptian elements.! thrown by a coup d'etat today. Prncnfiritv inprnaiinH u-ilh I h p ha hpen kino nf Ihn nil.rir-h MiH. flow of more and more nil and Feisal became staunchly pro - Western. Opposition to Ihe king cnn - tinned and there were riots and Actually, however. Feisal as atlemnleri conns during the next sumnd the nival nreropatives in few vr.irs There were aMi eov - ernment disturbances and a crackdown on Communists. There was a series oi new gn cm - moMs. The rntfiu r,is 4iviM m iU.Fei.sW u ', Priicc Regct Ab "lallegice It ! kieg. .Havd"l III.". nruns mshkhi iib iac-i ini ,iiw-' '" iiiiicmnes wen ineir eel (he Baghdad Pact it wasithrones in Iraq and Jordan to the only Arab nation to do so. Britain. But while Jordan has Many of the populace and manyibli'wn hot and cold -in its rela in the army believed Iraq's al- lions with the British, Feisal has legiance lay wilh President Gamcl been Britain's and the West's zbdel Nasser nf Egypt. slaunchcst ally in the Arab Mid- King reisal. now 2.1. maintained h ljos wh ,he Wevl use lies wilh the West anrt ph H ,,)5J, nrmon thcW.-torn Baghdad Pact, a move Underneath Ihe uncertainty inequality in which rich lanoi - owners kepi vast acreages while Ihnusands nf Arabs worked for Marvalinn wages. Feisal has at - "XiWUUWifyMAii I mm m Xasser of the United Arab Repub lic The British Foreign Office inipernture trend through Wrdnev London said British subjects in Iraq were warned to stay indoors because of the "confused situa tion" in Baghdad. The U.S. Air Force said it had not been asked In evacuate any Americans from the capital. It was clear the action was a calamity lor the West. The Bagh dad Pact is the keystone of west ern defenses in the Middle Fast, a "shield" against any Soviet ag gression from the north. A sched uled meeting of the Moslem mem bers of the pact in Istanbul today was torpedoed. King Feisal and Prime Minister Ks-Said were the West's staunch-1 est friends in the Middle East and their removal would shake Amer ican Mideast policy and endanger the vast supply of oil that now comes from the California-sized nation. Diplomatic sources in London speculated the Iraq take-over was part of a general Middle East of- Icnsive on the part of Nasser. Le banon already was in turmoil and last week Jordan smashed a pro- Nasser military plot against Hus sein. Rebel leaders in Lebanon were jubilant at today's develop ment, and thefe was dancing in the streets of Damascus, Syria. I here had been no reported crackdown in Iraq such as the one in which Hussein arrested 60 army otlicers last week. The reb els moved first against the radio station and began broadcasting their own news while cutting oft all other communications with the oulside world. Unofficial reports reaching Is tanbul said rebel forces stormed the Royal Palace during the night These reports said two bodies were thrown from the palace dur ing the noting. Their identity was unclear. Othi i' reports reaching ..Beirut told of rioting outside Ahdulil- lah's palace and that the 45-year-old uncle and chief adviser to the King was slain and his body dragged through the streets. There have been repeated at tempts against the life of King Hussein and one atlcmpt against Feisal in 11141. Last year Hussein accused Egypt and Syria ol mak ing an all-out eltort to overthrow his government and said they tried In assassinate, him. uvertnrow ol the Iraqi govern ment would change the picture so drastically in the Middle East it would amount to a disaster for the United States and Britain, a mon umental victory for Nasser and a triumph for the Soviet Union. Iraq is one of the four .Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact with Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. Those four nations form a solid link below the southern borders ol Russia, sealing olf the Soviet Ironlier from the rest of the cov- .- ain is a member of the Baghdad Pact, the U.S. an associate member. It also would upset the enlire balance of power in the Middle East with Nasser winning unprec edented power, and endangering little Lebanon even further. Leb anon has been locked in a civil war for in weeks and the pro western government has accused Egypt and Syria of aiding the rebels. King Feisal n n I TICIS Ben KUIGT Since Age Four die East country lor t'l nf his 2.1 .years. He was 'not quite 4 when ins lather. King Ghazi. was killed in an automobile accident in l!);i!l. ' Mav. I9S.1. when hi rearheri his ; I HI h birthday the same day that i his Hashcmite cousin. Hussein. 1 m '-mnun me inrone m .lorann. " inni timim iHWore that. Iraq was ruled bvlstadiiim is void because deed re- die East. , renal linked Iraq wilh , Feisal linked Ihe, hen popular wilh his subjects The Hashcmites trace their lin reisal s greal-grandlalher. I Ins- sein, was sherif of the holy city nf Mecca until Ihe lamily was I The 41 members ol Ihe group will ldnven nut during World War I byviil collective larms. youth or- Ihn baud, who became king nf ISaudl Arabia. , 117 nciiuicr FORECAST Klamath Fall, and vicinity: Hear and fair through Tuesday with warmer weather Tuesday. High Tueiday 17-9!. Low tonight 48-56. High yesterday M Low last night . 55 Precip. last H hours 0 Since Oct. 1 19.(13 Same period last year 15.05 Normal Inr period 12.49 Kive-Day Korerast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eastern Washington, Eastern .Oregon and Northern Idaho No rain Indicated except possible showers In the mountains of north eastern Washington and northern Idaho late Wednesday. Tent peri itures generally below normal with some rising trend at mid-week but cooling again Thursday. Maximums! ! generally in 80s and nilnimums In! 1 50s. Western Washington and West ern Oregon No rain tndlcated. Temperatures averaging above ; normal, except much above nor ma I in coastal areas. Rising t em- day. cooling about Thursday, and rising thereafter. Maximums gen erally In AOs In Western Washing Inn and In nils and 90s in Western Oregon. Mlmimums in 50s. SAN FRANCISCO UPI) Five- day weather forecast for Northern California: No precipitation through Saturday; temperatures nhnve normal; normal minimum- maximum .Sacramento Afl-92, Red Bluff S8-HH), Eureka 52-M. Santa Rosa 49-82, Blue Canyon 58-78. Benson Calls Off Russian Visit In Fall WASHINGTON (API - Secre tary of Agriculture Benson an nounced .Monday indefinite post ponement of plans to visit the Soviet Union and other North Eu ropean countries this summer. He gave the pressure of legislative and administrative matters as his reason. Benson's ollice made public a copy of a cable to the American Embassy in Moscow telling of his decision. The embassy was asked to no tify Russian officials and to con vey the secretary's regrets. The visit had been set up in response to a Russian invitation. Benson had made tentative plans to go during the latter part ot August it his duties permitted. the plans Had called lor hnel visits in Western Germany, Fin land, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and possibly Poland. , The' cable said In pari: "Please convey regrels lo Mr. V. Matskevich, minister of agri culture, that I am unable to visit the Soviet Union this summer as I bad hoped." The United Slates and Russia have arranged In exchange six technical agricultural missions this summer and fall. The first American mission left .10 days ago. Others will leave later, with Russian groups scheduled to begin arriving in this country soon. Tooze Joins Hatfield Unit SALEM (API -Lamar Tooze, Portland lawyer, became chair man Monday of the gubernatorial campaign of Secretary of State Mark Hatfield. Tooze succeeds former Gov. El mo Smith, Albany publisher, who resigned "lor business and per sonal reasons." Tooze is a combat veteran ol both world wars, and is a reserve major general , with the 104th Di vision. He nominated Earl Warren for vice president of the IH4H national Republican convention, and was an Eisenhower delegate lo the 1!W2 convention. Smilh said that Hatfield enntin lies to have his complete support Jack Miller. Salem business man, will continue as campaign director. .Mrs. Robert Ehersnle. Roads End, will remain as secre tary of the campaign commitlee. Chavez Ravine Deal Invalid '()S ANGELES (API A judge , nl1 Monday that Ihe Chavez Ra vlm ccnuraci neiween me i.ns nil- gcii's uoogers anu ine cny is in valid. Superior Judge Arnold Praeger "Phcld contention Of two taxpav s,llls lhitt ln( iy'!' d' 10 1 lhp baseball club acreage in - i strict ions limit use ol the laod to ; public purposes. 1 m v i.-n.-n mn nimn-i mi.,., plans ol Dodger President Kalter O Malley to build a ball park. CELEBRATE PARIS i AP i France sel her I roubles aside Monday lor Bas tille Day. Troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris lo I the cheers ol an estimated .100. color. YOUTH TOURING RUSSIA . - i MOSCOW 1 7 1 ' I An Ameri- inn under provisions nf the U. S Soviet slndent exchange program. .sanitations and institutions nf lhi;her learning. a i gt uraer ui Name Johnson Chief Three hundred and fifty-eight members of the Order of the Ante lope checked in at the Blue Sky Hotel on the slopes of Hart Moun tain for the annual- weekend gath ering of the order, according to Jess Faha. grand secretary. Faha reported from his Lakeview head- Blast Rips Bin Store; Four Dead STREATOR. III. lUPll-An ex plosion blasted a Ihree-story hard ware store in downtown Strealor at mid-day today, and at least lour persons were believed to have perished in the roaring fire which followed. Five persons were hospitalized for burns. Spectators said they heard the screams of persons trapped inside the blazing building immediately alter the explosion. "It was a regular hell down there." a fire department spokes man said, and only a lew lucky customers and employes managed "to escape hy the skin of their teeth." Andy Tkach, a clerk in the store, was one of the lucky ones. He said he was standing at a rear door of the establishment, and the explosion sent him turmbling into the alley. v Tkach said he had just left Nor man Williams, owner of the store. Williams' son. and a clerk. Ray Asbingcr, in the basement of the building. None has been seen since Also missing and presumed dead was Ray Hatala. believed to be a customer. Injured persons were rushed to St. Mary Hospital, where spokes men said the extent ol their injur ies was "terrible." Tkach said the store had been plagued all morning by the smell of sewer gas. "No smoking gas" signs had been posted, he said Heavy rains, which stopped just before the explosion, had Hooded Slreators water system, and aulh nrilies believed sewer gas, trig gered by a spark, set off the blast. Paint and varnish, slored in the upper lloors of the Ihree-story building, fed the fierce lames and sel oil lurther explosions. Missile Shot Called Off CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. lAPI- The launching of an Alias inler contincnlal ballistic missile was postponed Friday because an electronic part failed al the last second, it was learned Monday. A source close lo the ICBM pro gram declined to elaborate, but he indicated that the trouble was minor. Another attempt to fire Ihe Iwn- million-dollar missile, fully pow ered for Ihe first time, is expected some time this week. The R.i-lnol rocket housed the three engines necessary for full intercontinental range. In eight previous tesls only the two boost ers were used over a distance of some 800 miles. After Ihe Friday countdown reached zero, the engines roared lor about 10 seconds before they cut off. "The missile reportedly was In he fired some 2.500 miles lo lest the propulsion system. Iraq's Revolution Could Be Worst Crisis To Date, Says Associated Press Reporter Editor's Note: William L. Ryan has jusl completed a six-week trip to the Middle East. He visited Irag as well as Egypt. Syria. Saudi Arabia, lehanon and Kuwait. By WILLIAM I.. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst BELGRADE 'API Iran'sHo come. revolution can he the beginning of! Ihe worst of all crises for the Middle East. II carries a real"f "us. it is difficult lo believe danger lo world peace. The West had more reason In"" J,lsl '"is wa.V ann ai just mis fear such a development in Iraq ; limp. He has grown fearful of Sn- than in almost any other place in the Middle East. One way nr the other, the events in Baghdad are hound lo spill out inlo other sensi tive areas. If King Hussein nf Jordan is to survive Ihe overthrow ol his Iraqi cnunsin Feisal, he will need mas sive support Irnm the outside. II he gels that support. Ihe Middle East will become a cockpit lor deep world political crisis. Hut if the Iraqi revolution Is marie lo stick, its ellect also will be felt lar beyond Jordan. The turmoil is likelv to reach Kuwait, with ils oil riches, and even Saudi Arabia and the rest nf the Saudi peninsula, where Ihe fever for Arab nationalism, al ways strong, will get new Impetus. What happened in Baghdad ap pears In have been a coup hv desperate men who had been ey ing an opportunity and who leared that opportunity might slip from their hands. The opportunity was nllorded hy Ihe Lebanese rebellion. For ex tremists in Baghdad it must, have been a questinn nf now nr never (ft matter what Gamal Abdel Nas a i Mmeiope quarters Sunday night after whal he termed "one of the most suc cessful" meetings. In addition In a talk hy Dr. Arthur A. Einarson of Oregon State College, there was a demon stration on guns and hunting tech niques by A. .McCallum of Monroe. Oregon. Other speakers included George Elliott and A. Starr. C. Ray Johnson of Tillamook was named Chief Whitetail to succeed Phil Quisenberry of Lakeview. Other officers for the coming year are John i. Meatball) Blair of Lakeview, Grand Jackass Buck aroo; Jess Faha, Lakeview, re elected as Grand Secretary; Ted Leabo, Eugene. Grand Harmoniier: George Burr, Coquille. King of the Desert; Bill Moore, Ukiah. Chief Lookout; Wall Mclntyre, KJamath Falls, Grand Herd Sire; Al Macart ney, Red Bluff, Grand Orator: Stewart Patty, Lakeview, Keeper of the Wampum; Fred Flock. Eugene, Keeper of the Tail: Al Arnsl, Port- 'land. Keeper of the Waterhole: Rill Warren, Medford, Keeper of the Prongs; Walt Carr. Wagon! ire. Sage Jumper, and Wilbur Ostran der, Pistol River, Desert Naviga tor. Faha said a complete list of as sistant Grand Herd Sires will be announced shortly. Flames Raze Business Area VANCOUVER. Wash. (AP-An early morning fire swept through a block of huildings in the indus trial area in the southwest corner of Vancouver Monday. There were no injuries or deaths. Fire Marshal James Brown made a tentative damage estimate of $150,000. The flames destroyed the Wash ington Co-op Farmers' Assn. two story building, hurned down the Columbia Ice and Cold Storage Co., damaged the Ice House Cafe and a garage. The co-operative, which has its main building at Brush Prairie, outside Vancouver, had a five-story-high feed-loading bin at Ihe destroyed building. Several co-op trucks were des troyed, but several others were saved. Harold Becker, a Clark County PUD employe at a substation across the street from the co-op building, sighted the flames and turned in an alarm at 1:20 a.m. Fireman controlled the damn about two hour's later. The block Is bounded by 7th and Slh streets and by Jeffersoa and King streets. Earth Shocks Felt In Juneau JUNEAU, Alaska (AP New earthshocks swayed buildings in Ihe Alaska capital early Sunday but no damage was reported. The first Iremor was followed by a second shock about 20 min utes later. Neither approached Ihe severity of Ihe mighty quake that rallied all of southeastern Alaska last Wednesday and caused the death ol three persons in Yakuiat Bay and two in Liluya Bay. west of here. Search foe the five victims end ed Friday without success. LEAVES MOSCOW i API President An Innin Nnvotny or Czechoslovakia left hy air for Prague Monday alter a stale visit. He was seen olf hy Soviet leaders. ser's own opinion of Ihclr plan might have been. I was last in Baghdad a little more than a month ago. One could feel the tension being generated hy Ihe Lebanese rebel- lion. One could almost see Bagh- ""d bracing ilsell lor the shock Today's developments lore- shadow all sorts of chaos. Because jlhat Nasser wanted it to happen vir-t inlluence in the Middle East, and his lalks here in Yugoslavia wilh President Tito have indicated his desire to remain in the middle between Ihe two world blocs. Bill whether Nasser wanted it this way nr not, he must bear responsibility. The Soviet Union surely will at tempt to seize every advantage ai'rom the developments tn apply pressure against Western interests in Ihe Middle East. The future of Europe lor years to come is bound up with Mideast ' nil resources. The United Stairs can get hy without those re sources. Western Europe cannot. Where interventtnn might have been considered loolhardy in a situation like that which devel oped in Lebanon, Britain and pos sibly even France cannot regard lighllv any threat lo Ihe flow nf Middle East nil. The United States, loo. may lake a second look al the pros and cons of intervention. Events in Iraq ar going In give a big boost tn th forces of extreme and ielf-deslru .live Arab nationalism throughout - jthe entire area. V
