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PAGE 10 A HERALD AXD NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JULY 16, 1958" Britain, U.S. See Iraq As Dangerous Situation ATHENS IAP) The reaction ol the U.S. and British Envrrnmen to the sudden explosion in Iraq sets up the most dangerous situ ' ation since the end of World War II. The danger of a new global war Is all too apparent, hut it is un likely that such a catastrophe if yet at hand. The United States has inter- Girls Slain; Dad Missing TROY, Pa. (AP) A mother found her three young daughters shot to death last night and her husband missing from their farm home near the New York state border. Mrs. Margaret Pellon, 13, said the had returned to the house aft er a visit and had found Connie, 2. slumped in her stroller, seem ingly asleep. Concerned that the child was up so late, she called out to her husband Paul, 111. There was no answer. She sud denly realized Connie was shot. She ran into the bedroom. Patri cia, 3, was on the bed. Pauline, 5 months, was in a basket. The chil dren were dead. Mrs. Pelton said later she ran out lo the garage where her fa ther Carlton Brion, 45. had just parked the car. She yelled hys terically: "We got to get help quick. The children are dead." Brion had driven his daughter lo Troy Community Hospital ear lier in the evening for a visit with Pauline's Iwin brother Paul, who was critically ill from an asth matic attack. They had been gone about four hours. Their home is just outside Troy, which is about 23 miles south of Elinira. N. Y. A wide police search was on for Pelton. but Coroner Gerald Vickery said there was not much to indicate he did Ihe shooting, beside the facts he was missing and so was his .22-caliher rifle. Police said the children had been shot with a .22, Patricia in the head, and Pauline and Connie In the stomach. 3 Gas Barges Still Burning GRAND LAKE, Ark. (AP) Three gasoline barges still burned at an Esso Standard Oil Co. termi iial on the Mississippi River to day as a result of nn explosion Monday. One barge worker died as a result of the blast. A fourth barge burned itself out yesterday and lay submerged in the river. The body of James Fnlvey Jr., 3ti, of Baton Rouge, La., was found in the water near the sunk en barge. A company spokesman said the blast occurred while 3(i,0UO bar rels of gasoline on t ho barges were being pumped ashore. Olficials have not estimated Ihe loss. Harry Upholds Ike's Decision INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UPD "President Eisenhower had nn other choice" but to send U. S. Marines In the Middle Easl, for mer President Harry S. Truman said Tuesday. Truman, who once called out American troops to intervene against Communism aggression in Korea, said "The peace of the world is at stake" in Ihe Iraqi and Lebanese countryside. He rc jerved any lurlher statement. -ened physically in the Middle East crisis. Undoubtedly the re action from the Soviet Union is going to he violent. But the Sov iets are likelv to avoid measures which might set olf a big inter national conflict. Moscow obviously is already do ing far loo well in Ihe Middle East to risk world war at this juncture. The Soviets probably will make ominous warlike noises for prop aganda purposes while stopping short of overt actions which might precipitate a conflict. The United States landed its Marines in Lebanon despite Ihe known U.S. desire not to inter vene militarily. The intervention was dictated not by events in Leb anon but by what happened in Iraq. The action was not taken to save Lebanese President Camille Cha- moun or any other one man, nor was it necessarily an act to save a specific government from going under. Events in Iraq were bound to give new impetus to the Leb anese revolt, but the main con cern of the United States was the future of the entire Middle East with its vast strategic importance to Western Europe. The United Slates and Britain face Ihe prospect of Ihe entire Middle East being enveloped by the unreasoning anti-Western le- ver President Nasser has fostered so assiduously. Kor Britain it is a matter of life or death. If Ihe Iraq revolt spreads into Kuwait, Britain most likely will light. The oil production nf Iraq and Kuwait is the life blond of British industry. The United Slates, loo, lias a tremendous stake in what happens in this area, and whether these events spill over into Ihe Arabian Peninsula lo threaten the vast American oil holdings there. The situation can bring Ihe world close lo the brink of a new war. But it is unlikely the world is going to topple over that brink at Ihis time. There even might he one slight glimmer of silver lining. The crisis is so deep and so important it apparently has forced Hrilain and Ihe United Stales at long last to consider a common policy for the Middle East. But the struggle for a common policy comes far ton late. It had been a crying need for years in the Middle East, where it had been obvious Western interests could go nowhere but downhill so long as the two great Western powers remained at cross purposes. Now the Middle East is slipping away, and force can do little to halt that process. The sins nf inept and divided Western policies arc catching up with the West. Only a miracle of Soviet blundering can offer anyTinpc of restoring West crn fortunes. Governor Backs Lebanon Landing SACRAMENTO (AP) "I would he ashamed of my heritage of liberty if I had no wish to pre serve it for others," Gov. Knight said yesterday in a statement supporting the sending ol U.a. Marines to Lebanon. "We havo (old Ihe world's ler rorists what wo would do if they toyed with the lives and liberty of free people," he said. "We must pray lo God that those who would conquer and oppress the world will now understand our meaning and be willing lo forego violence and oppression for real peaco in Ihe world." C bf Nil I". T m t,( it i, n. O I4-- 7 I j "I know how to attract their attention let's unpack the lunch!" U.S. Geographic Center Will Shift When Alaska In Bv FRANK CAREY WASHINGTON (AP) When Alas ka comes in as the 4filh stale, the geographic heart of the United States may no longer be in the United States at all. Engle's Vote Total Tabbed SACRAMENTO (AP) Com plete returns yesterday showed Democratic Rep. Clair Engle got 5.r)(i.3.8 more votes for U.S. sen ator in the June 3 primary than Republican Gov. Knight. Engle's two-party total, under Ihe cross-filing system, was 1,732,- 4H7. That included 1.558,622 on the Democratic ticket and 173.B45 on the Republican. Knight polled 1, 1 7B. 1 00 7IO.n3) Republican and 385,170 Democratic. George Christopher, San Fran cisco's Republican mayor, polled 780,028, including 558,245 on the Republican ballot. A question in the Knight-Engle contest in No vember is who will get the. Christ opher votes. The official returns did not change unofficial results in the congressional races. LIBRETTIST ILL NEW YORK (AP) Librettist Oscar Ilammerslein II, 63, in Doctors Hospital with an intestinal disturbance, was reported in good condition today. It may be in southwestern Can ada or even in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere off Ihe coast of Wash ington stale. These were preliminary guesses today of officials of Ihe A.S. Geo logical Survey and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Present position of the center is somewhere near Lebanon, Kan. The geographic center is de fined as "the point at which the United states would balance if it were all Ihe same thickness and were suspended on a pinpoint." One way of figuring it is sim ply to take a map of Ihe United Stales, paste it on a cardboard and then find the center of gravity by placing your map on a pin point. .Sounds easy, but Alaska pre sents complications for such a stunt, because there is no con tinuous land connection between Alaska and the rest of the United States. A portion of Canada pops up in between. A government expert told a re porter one conceivable way of finding the geographic center of a United Slates with Alaska would he to attach the Alaskan area to your U.S. map by means of a light, aluminum wire and then do your balancing. You could also Iigure it out mathematically," he said, "by taking what we call coordinates of points all along various coast lines. But that would take a long lime by ordinary mathematical methods, and might even take days and cost thousands of dollars even with modern high-speed com puting machines." Marine Landing Created Big International Ruckus NEW YORK (AP)-A bunch of Marines landing in Lebanon has created quite an international ruckus. Not too long ago, the same operation would hardly have raised an eyebrow. The peacetime U. S. Corps of Marines has landed, fought and Alert Speeds Wedding Rite PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) A Navy man was married at 2 a.m. today and about an hour later was en route back to his ship without his bride. The unusual hour for Ihe wed ding and the hasty return to duty was in compliance with the alert of Ihe U.S. fleets because of the crisis in Lebanon. Francis A. Theroux. 20. of Paw- tucket, and Ethel Barker, also 20 and of Pawtucket, were lo have been married at 9 a.m. today. Because Theroux was hastily summoned lo duty from a fur lough, he got special permission from the Most Rev. Russell J. Mc- Vinney, Catholic bishop of Provi dence, tor a 2 a.m. wedding at St. Teresa's Church. At 3:45 a.m., Theroux hoarded a train alone to return lo his shio. the USS Salute docked at Charles ton, S.C. PLUNGE LIMA. Peru (UPD Dr. Angel Indacochea, 43, secretary, of the Peruvian committee to the Inter national Geophysical Year, was killed with his wife, two children and a servant when his car plunged into a deep precipice i uesaay. suffered casualties so many times and on so many shores that it's easy to lose count. Thirty-odd years ago Marines were, so common in the Latin American states of Nicaragua. Haiti and the Dominican Republic that knowledge of the Spanish language was almost a prerequi site lo enlistment. And, scarcely a century ago, China and the rest of the Far East seems to have been fairly crawl ing with fighting, sweating and cursing peacetime Leathernecks. The American habit of calling on the Marines doesn't appear to have started at any one precise time. Marines were landing "on Ihe shores of Tripoli" (as their song goes) in the unofficial war against tne Baroary pirates in 1804. They were back for a repeat perform ance in Algiers in 1815. Leathernecks stormed into the Sumatran jungles in 1832, chas ing pirates who killed several American sailors. They fought a pitched battle with the buccaneers and even burned the sizable town of Quallah Battoo. There was hardly any comment even in the local papers when they (aught lessons to natives in the Fijis and Samoa in 1838 and 183!). The natives had a habit of killing American traders and sea farers. In the middle of Ihe last cen tury, American clipper ships car ried on a man-sized 'trade with the Far Easl. Trade brought the protection of the U.S. Navy. And the U.S. Navy brought its Ma rines. As early in 1854, and possibly earlier, the Corps was in Shanghai battling the troops of the Imperial Chinese Army itself to protect the small foreign colony. 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The Marines stormed ashore. captured a supposedly impreg nable fortress called Ihe Citadel and extracted a promise to be gooa. Highpoint of Marine peacetime action in the Orient came during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 when antiforeign feeling ran hich. U.S. Marines and German sol diers stood back to back in the heroic defense of Peiping's foreign compound. Marines and Russian soldiers spearheaded the inter national column that lifted the siege of the enclave. The Marines' peacetime activi ties are probably best known in Latin America where, in an earli er era, nearly every revolt pro- uuiru d marine lanaing lo protect American lives and property and. sometimes, to back a favored cause. They landed in Haiti on July 9. 1!)15 to effect a "quick" settlement of the island republic's century old political chaos. The last Ma rine didn't leave until Aug. 15, l!)34. Marine landings were standard procedure in Nicaragua between 1910 and 1933 and in the Domini. can Republic from 1912 lo 1924. 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