In The-
Day's km
By FRANK JENKINS
The Big Four foreign ministers
conference resumes its sessions in
Geneva this morning after a three
week "cooling off" period. 1
When the session opened, it was
reported around the Palace of Na
tions, where the meetings are held,
that Russia's Gromyko had indi
cated to the Western delegations
that he did not wish to speak until
after hearing what the West had to
say. So America's Secretary of
State Herter led off with a flat
statement to Gromyko that the
West will NOT negotiate under an
ultimatum, duress or the continued
threat of a new Berlin crisis.
So-
He told Gromyko
If you want a summit meeting,
call off your hatchet men. And
he said in effect it would be bet
ter if you put it in writing. What
Gromyko replied has not come
over the wires as this is written.'
A bit of advice:
. Don't pay too much attention to
what is SAID at Geneva. We must
remember that what is eoine on
lere is a poker game a poker
game with IMMENSE stakes.
You can't tell what a poker play
er is going to DO by what he
SAYS.
Our people in Geneva are said
to hope that Russian First Deputy
Premier Kozlov, who has been
scouting the United States for
whatever information he can pick
up, will take home to Mr. K a
clearer picture of the real pur
pose and tough determination of
the U.S. in the Berlin crisis.
What will he tell his boss?
Well, he left for home this morn-
Ing. He wound up his tour of our
country with a press conference
yesterday at which he spoke in
complimentary terms of our high
ly developed technology, and add
ed that he has been impressed
by "the desire of the American
people to preserve peace."
But, he told reporters at the air
port this morning: "I AM STILL
CONVINCED THAT PRESIDENT
EISENHOWER'S - GRANDCHIL
DREN WILL LIVE TO SEE A
COMMUNIST AMERICA."
What did he mean by that?
Nobody knows what a communist
means by what he says. A com-
niunist lies as readily as a my-
pah bird talks.
am let s no a nine supposing.
Suppose Kozlov WAS impressed by
America's might and America's
determination. Suppose he reports
to Mr. K that America is too
tough to tackle now, but IF GIVEN
TIME ENOUGH is certain to be
destroyed by communists working
from within as a building is de
stroyed by termites boring from
within.
. That could be a FACE SAVING
move. It could provide Mr. K with
an excuse to BACK OFF at Ge
neva in the belief lhat if given
time enough America will be weak
ened and eventually destroyed by
communist infiltration.
This, of course, is only guess
workand wild guesswork, at that.
But the ways of diplomacy espe
cially communist diplomacy are
devious. And there are times when
ways to save face become im
mensely important. .We'll see what
we'll see.
Anyway, our course at Geneva
is clear.
We must s.tand firm.
If we run, we're goners.
Demo Chief
In Effort To
WASHINGTON (AP)-PauI M.
Butler says some Democrats want
to replace him with a member
of Congress as Democratic na
tional chairman so they can con
trol the party's I960 convention.
He doesn't think they will succeed.
Butler said he will continue to
urge a more "positive and ag
gressive" legislative program in
Congress. He considers it his job,
he said, to express "what I feel
to be the majority point of view."
In a news conference Saturday
and in a television interview Sun
day, Butler insisted he's only re
porting the sentiment he finds and
not directly criticizing such lead
ers as Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and
House Speaker Sam Rayburn D
Tex I.
Butler in turn has come in for
criticism in Congress since he said
a week ago the party faces trouble
In the 1960 elections unless its
leadership in Congress moves
more in the direction-he advo
cates. He said Sunday there are re
ports his Capitol Hill critic al
ready have agreed to support a
Western senator as his successor.
Other discounted his report.
Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Montl,
the assistant Democratic leader,
aid he knew of no move to re-i
Fire Chief
Rips Officials
Of NY Airport
NEW YORK (AP) "Ignorance
and confusion" ruled at Idlewild
Airport while a crippled jet air-
liner with 113 persons aboard
circled the field, the city fire com
missioner charges.
Fire Commissioner Edward F.
Cavanagh Jr. said Sunday that
city firemen got little or no co
operation from Port of New York
Authority personnel who run the
airport. Instead, he said, they en
countered an arrogant attitude.
The Pan American World Air
ways plane, which dropped part
of its landing gear just after tak
ing off for London, circled the
field for four hours before mak
ing a safe emergency landing
early Sunday.
Austin 'J. Tobin, executive di
rector of the Port Authority, re
sponded hotly to Cavanagh's crit
icism. He said the lire commis
sioner had made an attempt "to
besmirch a magnificent feat."
The rescue efforts were severely
hampered by thrill seekers throng
ing to the airport by car and on
foot. Some tramped across the
meadows. Some went across Ja
maica Bay by boat.
Airport authorities said there
were 50,000 of them, knocking over
barriers, spilling onto the field,
jamming roads so fire equipment
couldn't get through.
Meanwhile, the pilot circled, a
mile up in the 'night sky, waiting
to make an emergency landing.
He worried about the more than
100 tons of airplane, with a land
ing speed of 530 miles an hour,
crunching down on the broken
landing gear.
He was afraid the plane might
slew off the runway, or catch fire
as the broken gear struck sparks
from the concrete.
He circled to burn up fuel and
to give firemen time to spread
antifire foam over the runway.
He didn't know it at the time,
but a greater danager awaited
him on the ground. At least 4,000
persons lined the runway.
Gunman Kills
Worshiper
TULSA, Okla. (AP) A burst
of automatic gunfire broke the
Sunday calm at the Tulsa Baptist
Temple. One person -was killed
and three were wounded.
J. R. Swarb, 34, a self-service
laundry operator, threw down his
.25 caliber automatic pistol when
cornered by a traffic policeman.
The berserk gunman fired at
ieast six shots into the congrega
tion just before the start of morn
ing worship. Services resumed
with a visiting minister in the
pulpit.
Police Commissioner Robert L
Mawhinney said Swarb tried to
kill his ex-wife's husband,. Ken
neth Starnes, 33. Instead he fatal
ly wounded his ex-wife's mother,
Viola. M. Bridges. 49.
Starnes was critically wounded.
His wife, Earlene Starnes, 31, was
shot in a leg. Cornelia Bragg,
58, wife of the U.S. commissioner
in Tulsa, was also wounded in a
leg.
Mawhinney quoted Swarb as
saying he would have killed the
Temple's minister, the Rev. Clif
ford Clark, "if I had seen him."
The commissioner said the
slight, angry, gunman was mad
at the pastor because he believed
he had given his former wife
church approval to remarry.
Sees Failure
Replace Him
place Butler with a Western sen
ator. "I would like to see Butler stay
on and do just a little bit better
job than he has been doing,'
Mansfield told a reporter.
Without reference to Butler's
talk of an ouster move, Sen.
Stuart Symington (D-Mo) said he
was not suggesting at this time
that Butler should resign.
Any ouster move probably would
come up at a mid-September meet
ing of the Democratic National
Committee. Butler said he has no
plan to resign unless a majority
of the committee thinks he should
quit.
Butler said that only two com
mittee members from whom he
has heard have criticized his
stand. He named them as Sen,
Theodore Francis Green (D-RI)
and Byron Skelton of Temple
Tex.
A third member spoke out Sun
day. In St. Louis. Mark R. Hollo
ran said he thinks Butler should
resign for the good of the party.
"I think Butler is wrong and is
stirring up tt lot of unnecessary
trouble." said Holloran, national
committeeman from Missouri.
Butler told his news conference
that "we can't win the elections
of 1960 if we are to ape the Re
publican party and try to outdo
the Republican party in some of
the things it stands for.
KLAMATH
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Price Five Crnti
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PROBLEMS OF STATE were the principal topic of discussion at this luncheon meeting
Saturday at the Airport Cafe at Kingsley Field. Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr.
mot with city and Air Force officers. Shown here, left to right, are Councilman Walter
Fleet, acting mayor; Mr. and Mrs. Howell Appling Jr.; Mrs Eugene Hollway; Maj. Eugene
Hollway; Fred Heard, and Lt. Col. John J. Scott. Appling's appearance in Klamath Falls
was his first since taking the state post. He was principal speaker at the Sunday picnic
at Malm Park sponsored by
Howell Appling
Republican Urges Attack
On Demo Tax Handling
"We must destroy for all time
the false face of an unprincipled
opponent who has masqueraded
for so long as the friend of the
so-called 'little-man' even while de
stroying his life's savings through
inflation, confiscating his wage in
creases through higher and high
er taxation, and doing irreparable
harm to the genuineness of the
labor movement by encouraging
and exaggerating class hatreds."
With this challenge. Secretary of
State Howell Appling urged Repub
licans Sunday at Malin Park to
conduct a "factual and frontal at
tack" on the vulnerable areas of
thei opposition party. a'-?.;:X:p)!' .
Secretary Appling spoke to the
Klamath County annual Republican
picnic following a series Of week
end meetings with party commit
tees and local officials..
It is neither mathematically or
socially possible to help anybody
by paying them more and more
in watered-down currency that will
buy less and less," the secretary'
said. "Among those who have
learned this cruel lesson," he said,
"are pensioners, war-bond holders,
disabled veterans, and parents who
have scrimped to give their chil
dren a college education." Mil
lions who are on relatively fixed
incomes are learning the lesson of
inflation the hard way, he said.
"We must have a dollar that will
buy beefsteak instead of baloney,"
he added.
Appling accused left-wing Demo-
World News
In Brief
United Press International
STEEL New York Steel con
tract talks broke off Sunday night
in New York and the industry is
beginning to shut down the blast
furnaces in expectation df a strike
at midnight Tuesday.
KOZLOV New York Soviet
First Deputy Premier Kozlov
leaves New York for home.
CONFERENCE Geneva The
East-West foreign ministers con
ference resumes in Geneva.
DEFENSE Washington Sen
ate opens defense money bill de
bate: Eisenhower" reported to have
his hackles up over plan to in
crease Marine Corps.
RACKETS Washington Sen
ate investigators call Hoffa back
to witness chair to testify on
charges of wrongdoing in Team
sters Union.
TRIAL San Diego, Calif.
Plain, plump Wanda Brogdon, 33,
and her lover go on trial today
on charges of strangling her two
small sons because "they were a
bother."
Red Radio Says
Dogs Up, Back
LONDON (AP) - The Soviet
Union rocketed two dogs into
space July 10 and brought them
back to earth, Moscow radio said
today. ;
The broadcast said the dogs
were carried aloft in a ballistic
rocket weighing 2,200 kilograms-r-4.845
pounds.
Quoting an official Tasa dis
patch, the radio said a quantity of
equipment was also parachuted
back to earth.
The first announcement gave no
details of the height attained by
the rocket.
FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 13. 1959
Telephone TU 4-8111
Klamath County Republicans.
cratic leaders of "making political
hay by playing the Robin Hood
game of taking from the rich and
giving to, the poor." The dilemma
they face now, he said, is that
"they have run out of rich people
to take from ... if they confis
cated the total earnings of every
rich man in Oregon, they still
couldn't finance their vole-pur
chasing spree."
Tax increases, he indicated, are
now coming out of "the hide of
the middle and lower income
groups." He expressed concern
about recent tax increases of 12
million dollars in the Oregon Dem
ocrat-controlled . Legjjslature, add;
ing. . . . and now, lo and be
hold, they tell us to get . ready
to cough up 70 million - dollars
more in the 1961 session. The re
ward they promise us if we again
elect them to office is a 40 per
cent income tax increase."
Outlining the "Challenge of 1960"
Secretary Appling called for a
campaign between elections. "We
will never lay hold of our problem
adequately until we collect and
spend most of our money, plan
our program, organize our pre
cincts, and select our candidates
long before the actual campaign
gets underway," he said. -
Appling called for more compe
tence in politics and government.
"The end purpose of all political
action," he said, "should be good,
competent government. We must,
above all, provide qualified can
didates that can do the job. Ca
pable, responsible performance in
office is the best politics.
Expressing optimism for a re
turn to responsible government in
the 1960 elections, the secretary
detailed his views on political ac
tivity. He indicated the party must
be objective and critical in select
ing candidates; active in helping
them become known; and effective
in getting out the vote. "Elections
by the score have been lost by
candidates who had a majority
that never got to the polls," he
said.
Moulding public opinion is a vi
tal function of political organiza
tion, he said. "Public opinion is
not shaped in one crisp, clear
stroke of a candidate's campaign
speech," he emphasized.
"Public issues and personalities
have a way of seeming vague and
somewhat remote to the large body
of the electorate who are not really
very interested in politics and
government except, perhaps, for a
few weeks around election time,"
the secretary said. To translate the
issues into terms that make them
"well known, local, specific and
personal" is an important job for
party worker! he indicated.
"We must stand tor the pro
grams that are truly in the best
long-range interests of all the peo
ple," Appling said, "and the is
sues must be interpreted in terms
of the well being of the typical
citizen."
Appling insisted that fiscal re
sponsibility be uppermost in t h e
Republican program, and offered
firm support for "the free market
processes as opposed to a social
istic organization of our economy."
'We must realize that our high
er standard of living comes, not
from government handouts, b u t
from the opportunity for man to
produce more of the things he
needs more efficiently," he laid.
He called for a program of em
ployment, education and recreation
rather than emphasis on "relief
checks, listless minds and Idle
bodie."
No. WIS
FOREST FIRE
DANGER TODAY
KEEP OREGON GREEN
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Generally fair with vari
able afternoon clouds. Low tonight
43-4S; high Tuesday 80-8S.
High yesterday 91
Low last night ' 56
Precip. last 24 hours 0
Since Oct. 1 ..- .5.82
Same period last year 19.03
Northern ' California . Fair
through Tuesday except coastal
overcast. Winds offshore .north
westerly, 15-30 miles aa hour.
Damage Set
At $2 Million
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - The la
test fire department report on loss
es in the disastrous Laurel Can
yon blaze listed today 38 homes
destroyed, two houses with major
damage and 300 acres blackened.
Damage was estimated at two
million dollars.
Cause of the four-hour fire which
roared through the area Friday
still was undetermined. But fire
men said there was no indication
that it was deliberately set.
Properties destroyed had an av
erage value of $22,000, according
to a Red Cross survey. They
ranged in loss from $9,000 to $150,
000. '
Firemen, posted lo keep a close
watch over the smoldering em
bers, were recalled from the area
Sunday with only a few mountain
patrol units remaining.
"We will watch it very carefully
the next two or three days," said
battalion chief Walter C. Runyan.
"But we believe there is little
likelihood of a new outbreak."
Girl Admits
Killing Seven
ELMIRA, N.Y. (UPI)-An at
tractive 15-year-old girl was un
able today to explain why she
deliberately set fire lo her home,
killing six of her sisters and a
brother whom she loved "very
dearly," police reported.
Psychiatric tests were sched
uled for sandy-haired Jane Shu
sko, one of 10 children, who ad
mitted she threw a lighted match
on some papers in a clothes clos
et late Saturday night. The ensu
ing fire swept her family's half
of a two-story, two-family house
in a middle-class neighborhood,
resulting in the asphyxiation of
her sisters and brother, ranging
in age from 2 to 12 years.
The girl's mother, Mrs. Lillian
Shusko, 39, who was sitting on
the front porch when the fire
broke out, escaped uninjured. A
sister, Catherine, 13, rescued the
other child, 11 months, with the
assistance of a neighbor. The fa
ther, Michael, 41, was at work at
a cooperative milk plant where
he ii a farming machine opera
tor. .
Authorities said the fire swept
the home so rapidly that rescue
of the ttven victims was impos
sible. U .
Progress Hopes Outlined
By Herter To Red Leaders
GENEVA (AP) Russia'! An
drei A. Gromyko unexpectedly de
manded today that German ad
visers be Included In secret meet
ings of the Big Four foreign min
Uteri conference. The demand
blocked agreement on a secret
session Tuesday and threw the
conference procedure into confu
sion. The Soviet maneuver appeared
to be a determined new bid to
give greater recognition In the
conference to East Germany.
GENEVA (AP) The West
called today for immediate resort
to secret diplomacy in the second
round of the Big Four conference
here in an effort to shelve the
Berlin crisis and clear the way for
a summit conference.
U.S. Secretary of State Christian
A. Herter told Russia the United
States hopes for sufficient East-
West agreement at Geneva to
warrant a heads of government
meeting.
He said the best way to seek
this agreement would be in small
private meetings, of the foreign
ministers beginning Tuesday.
The foreign ministers met just
13 minutes short of four hours,
the longest meeting since they be
gan their conference May 11.
Herter challenged Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko
to provide spcific assurances for
the protection of Western rights in
West Berlin during a Soviet-pro
posed moratorium in the Berlin
crisis.
The Big Four conference re
sumed meetings at the Palace of
Nations after a three-week recess,
with Herter as chairman for the
day.
He recalled that during the first
round of the conference the West
and the Soviet Union had proposed
plans for the future of Berlin and
each side had rejected the other s
proposal. He specifically cited
Gromyko's proposal of June 10 for
a one-year standstill agreement on
Klamath Gl
Mishap Victim
A Klamath Falls youth, pfc.
Gerald- Thomson,' was fatally in
jured while riding as a passen
ger in a military vehicle in Ko
rea recently, according to United
Stales Army officials. There were
no further details.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Thomson, 2157 Recla
mation Street, and died June 9.
He was a native of Minnesota
and a resident of this city for
two and one-half years. Thomson
graduated from Klamath Union
High School in June, 1958 and en
tered the service the same month.
Survivors Include his parents;
paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ber
nice Thomson, Waseca, Minnesota
and maternal grandmother, Mrs
L. B. Lynn, Eugene.
The family is now awaiting fur
ther information as to when the
body will be shipped to Klamath
Falls for burial.
State Demos
Slate Meet
"Democrats from every Oregon
county will meet in Portland on
Saturday, August 1, in a statewide
tribute to the sacrificial work of
Dave Epps, our late state chair
man," according to Rep. Robert
Duncan, Mcdford, chairman of the
Dave Epps memorial dinner.
"Guests of honor at the banquet
will be Sen. John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, and Congresswom -
an Edith Green of Oregon's Third
District. Duncan is speaker of,
the Oregon House of Representa
tives.
The banquet is scheduled for the
Neighbors of Woodcraft Hall in
Portland, according to Itate Rep.
Beulah Hand, Milwaukie, vice
chairman and now the ranking of
ficer of the state committee.
"We expect this memorial din
ner to be one of the largest gath
erings in the history of Oregon
Democracy," Speaker Duncan con
tinued. "We are all pitching in our
time and talent because it launches
the drive of Oregon' majority par
ty to win again in 1960. We expect
every elected Democratic official
to attend, and the door i of course
open to citizen generally.
Tickets are to be $10 each, ac
cording to- Professor Frank Rob
erts of Portland State College,
chairman of the ticket committee,
and are available through, each
county committee.
KING IN SWITZERLAND
MONTREAUX. Switzerland
(UPI) - King Mohammed V of
Morocco arrived by car from
Pari Sunday for a three week
vacation. A whole floor with 30
room wa reserved at the pluih
Palace Hotel for the King and his
entourage,
Berlin and recalled that the time
limit was later extended by anoth
er Soviet plan to 18 months.
In a reversal of their earlier
stand, U.S. Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter and his British
and French colleagues were re
po.'.cd ready to negotiate with So
viet Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko on his offer of a Berlin
standstill agreement.
But they want the proposed
moratorium to run for at least 30
Rebs Smashed
In Honduras
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
State Department reports that for
the second time in t w o months
the Honduran government has
crushed an armed revolt led by
the same man.
The department quoted the U.S.
Embassy in Tegucigalpa as say
ing Sunday's revolt was short
lived but that there was heavy
firing in the area around police
headquarters in Tegucigalpa.
The embassy said government
troops and police beat back the
attack, launched with a few pieces
of field artillery as well as rifles
and pistols.
The reports named the leader
of the revolt as Armando Veleas-
quez Ccrrato, former army chief
of staff, and said by agreement
he was permitted to leave the
Central American country again.
(The Associated Press has re
ceived no direct word from Tegu
cigalpa since early Sunday night.
That dispatch, delayed some hours
in transmission, said firing was
continuing throughout the city but
centered around the police head
quarters, "which seems to be the
center of the revolt.")
The State Department received
no information on the number of
troops involved in the fighting,
nor of the casualties.
But travelers arriving in Nica-j
racua from Honduras Sundav'.' - m
night said more than 100 persons
were killed in Tegucigalpa. They
said police, cadets of the Military
Academy and troops at the San
Francisco barracks took part in
the revolt.
Veleasquez led an attack by 500
rebels last May 11 on Gracias,
a state capital in western Hondur
as. Those rebels were driven into
the mountains and Veleasquez
reportedly took refuge ; in Costa
Rica.
Railroads Mull
Strike Insurance
NEW YORK (AP) The . Wall
Street Journal said today that the
nation'i railroads are considering
a plan to blunt the threat of labor
disputes with strike insurance.
The program consists, in effect.
of pooling industry funds in case
of a strike against any participat
ing carrier, according to the news
paper. The agreement, an eight-page
document, has been mailed to 300
railroads, members of the Assn.
of American Railroads,
Three-year labor contracts cov
ering 840,000 railroad workers ex
pire this fall. Earlier this year
the railroad industry served. no
tice on 23 unions it planned dras
tic revisions of work rules and
pay scales in the new contracts.
Steel Strike
Peace Talks
1 NEW YORK (AP) Stalled
steel negotiations got under way
again today at White House bid
ding but with scant prospect of an
agreement to avert a strike at
midnight Tuesday.
The union promised lo make "an
all-American try" at negotiating a
strike-saving settlement!
R. Conrad Cooper, chief indus
try negotiator, threw cold water
on settlement prospect and
showed irritation in posing with
union President David J. McDon
ald for photographers.
Cooper said there was only one
possible way a strike could be
avoided for the union to .again
extend It contract.
McDonald, however, ruled out
any further delay in a showdown,
The union earlier had granted a
two-week truce but it expires at
midnight Tuesday
Cooper said the union already
has caused the industry Injury by
the fact that many firms have had
to close down some facilities in
the costly preparation for an or
derly industry shutdown.
The union and industry negotia
tors agreed to resume peace talks
at noon in an effort to avert a
strike at midnight Tuesday.
The bargaining talks had broken
off Sunday with no further nego
tiating Sessions scheduled.
President Eisenhower this morn-
ing: urged both tides to resume
months, instead of the 18 months
offered by Gromyko, and they
want a pledge of Soviet respect
for Western rights in Berlin.
Herter was designated in a
Western strategy meeting to lead
the Western campaign when the
Big Four conference reopened aft
er a three-week recess.
Western diplomats said that In
his leadoff speech Herter would
offer certain inducements such as
a cut in troop strength in West
Berlin.
Herter and his colleagues want
to know whether in accepting a
moratorium with a deadline they
would, in the Soviet view, be
agreeing to give up their rights
when the deadline expires.
If a Berlin compromise can be
arranged, an East-West agree
ment on a summit conference to
be held in the next two or three
months seems certain.
In the first round of the confer
ence the Western ministers re-
fused even to discuss Gromyko's
proposal to maintain the status
quo in West Berlin for 18 months.
They insisted the U.S.S.R must
guarantee Western access to West
Berlin until Germany was reuni
fied. During the conference recess the
Western ministers have shed much
of their pessimism about finding a
way out of the Berlin stalemate.
Their cautious optimism apparent
ly grew out of Soviet denials that
the Gromyko proposal for a stand
still agreement was a trick to de
prive them of their rights in Ber
lin when the agreement expired.
Although I do not come here
with high hopes," Herter said on
his return Sunday, "I believe it
is possible, with good will on both
sides, to- reach an agreement."
. French Foreign Minister Mau
rice Couve de Murville declared
that "this time perhaps it will be
possible to arrive at a limited con
crete arrangement on the prob
lems before us."
ID HI VAN I A3flC
VI 1 1 VI I bVUVM
Odd-Ball Race
LONDON (AP)-A Britlsh'lrmV '
captain traveling by motorcycle.
helicopter and jet led the field
today in the opening of an odd-ball
race from. London's Marble Arch
to Paris' Arch of Triumph.
Capt. R. N. B. Walker made
the 210-mile trip in a sizz!;jie 57
minutes 48 seconds as the' 10-day
contest was launched by a Lon
don newspaper to show how mucb
time air-travelers waste on crowd
ed roads between cities and air
port. ,
Capt. Walker made the return
trip in an hour and 15 seconds,
traveling by the same means. -
During the next 10 day, con
testants for the $14,000 top. prize
offered by the Daily Mail, can
make as many trips as they like.
They are allowed to travel by air
or ground but must cross the Eng
lish Channel by air.
The race celebrates Louis Ble-
riot's first air channel crossing 50
years ago.
A navy officer used roller skates
to weave through the London traf
fic to a waiting Thames-side hell
copter. The lone American entry i U.S.
Army Cpl. George Weckerle of
Llndenhurst. N.Y.
Scheduled;
To Resume
the meetings to try to reach a
strike-saving solution.
David J. McDonald, union presi
dent, met briefly with the union's
executive board and then tele
phoned R. Conrad Cooper, chief
industry negotiator, to arrange the 1
resumption of talks. .
The industry, prior to today's
developments, had already started
banking furnaces and slowing pro
duction. Three days are normally
required for a big plant to shut
down without damaging equip
ment.
Three days are normally re
quired for a big steel plant to
make an orderly shutdown without
damaging equipment. .
The Steelworker Union reject
ed a renewed proposal by the in
dustry that the contract be ex
tended beyond Tuesday midnight.
After President Eisenhower had
intervened, the industry and union
agreed to a two-week extension
beyond the original June 30 ex
piration date.
I McDonald said, ."The Industry
- does not "want to negotiate and
does not want to make an agree-
ment." In view of that, he said.
a further contract extension would
be pointless.
The industry said a new and In
definite contract extension would
he "the only practical way" U
'prevent a itrikt.
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