SATURDAY. M 'I Y 17, 1958 Cha oun Support in Lebanon Gain ebanon (IP)—Pro-Western President Camille erday won the first round in a bitter fight opponents who tried to break him. of a week of turmoil, Chamoun seems to be ,I th hourly and his opposition is becoming BEIRUT, II Chamoun yesi against riotin: At the eni gaining stren France For Sol ropes tion To Major rims e signs of wide ave begun to ap ropes for a solu rst crisis since PARIS (/1 3 )—T spread anxiety pear as France tion to the w, World War 11. Gold prices Paris Bourse, a ble in a countr zens buy gold i hot up on the ure sign of trou tyhere the citi ! times of stress. egan crowding p on canned food !her indicator of Housewives stores to stock and sugar—ano trouble. Dark-uniform d security troops patrolled its ti ee-lined avenues under heavy, gray skies. The 20,000-m. n Paris police force was stren ithened by 15,000 security troope s. A special unit of the mobile gendarmierie de ployed its vehicles on the out skitts of the capital. The government banned all demonstrations and parades in public places. Future 'Cops' Beware-- Don't Pass Bad Checks HACKENSACK, N.J (. 1 P) A man walked into police headquar ters Thursday and applied for a job on the force. Detective Sgt. Leo Liberali gave him an application to fill out. The man wrote down James P. Stagg, 30. That sounded familiar. Liberali looked over a batch of warrants and found the same name. Stagg was wanted for passing a bad check for $7O. He was released in $lOO bail for a hearing. surErt,-musToxWO PRODUCTIONS PREMIUM "IN THE SOUP demoralized. An anti-government general strike has lost its punch and most cities are tranquil again after destructive rioting. Security forces drove rioters from the streets of Beirut and other key cities. Lebanese pla nes strafed a donkey caravan carrying weap- ons and ammu nition from the direction of Syr ia, the govern- Camille Chamoun ment said Chamoun's Cabinet rejected feelers from the opposition for a compromise settlement. Opposi tion leader Saeb Salam, who sup ports President Nasser of the United Arab Republic, has found many of his colleagues weaken ing Christian elements in the op position feared Salam intended to turn Lebanon into a Moslem dominated republic and destroy the delicate power balance be tween Moslems and Christians. Since last Saturday rioters have periodically surged through - Bei rut streets, touched off explosions, battled with police, sniped at peo ple from building tops. Salon Strongly ALGIERS, ALGERIA (A)) Gen. Raoul Salan, French com mander in Algeria, is strongly backing Gen. Charles de Gaulle and is working with Algeria's re bellious Committee of Public Safety, a committee spokesman said yesterday. The statement by Leon Del beque dashed speculation rippl ing through Paris that Salan was THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA USW to Seek Wage Increase CHICAGO VP) The United Steelworkers Union, says its pres ident, will seek "substantial" wage increases this year for some 200,060 workers, mostly employes in fabricating plants. President David J. McDonald said that the union's 170-member wage policy committee, after a 2-day meeting had agreed un animously to seek at least a 13.1 cent an hour increase for member employes in fabricating plants. McDonald said more than 1000 contracts covering the workers in fabricating plants throughout the country and Canada terminate this year. The 13.1 increase for big steel employes on July 1 was written into three-year wage con tracts which have another year to run. Algerian Natives Support de Gaulle ALGIERS (. 1 P) Swarms of robed Algerians and veiled Mos lem women trooped down from the Casbah—native quarter—yes terday shouting suppor t for French Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Their parade to Government House in a column more than a mile long numbered about 20,000. They carried DeGaulle plac ards written in French. Som e said, "Long live Salan." Powell Pleads Innocent To Tax Evasion Charge NEW YORK VP) Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Dem.-NY) pleaded innocent yesterday to an income tax revision charge and pleadged a fight against Tam many Hall for re-election this fal4. ids de Gaulle standing by Premier Pierre Pflimlin—now newly armed with emergency powers—and oppos ing the committee, which wants De Gaulle in power. "All here, including Salan, in the present situation consider that the only man capable of sat isfying legality and a just vindi cation of claims is Gen. de Gaulle," Delbeque said in an in terview. House committee Approves Defense Reorganization Bill WASHINGTON (/1 3 ) The Elouse Armed Services Com mittee yesterday approved a defense reorganization bill giv ing President Eisenhower most of the m iiit ar y command streamlining he asked, but less than he wanted in administra tive control. Eisenhower ser v e d notice that he will try to have the bill reshaped on the House floor to conform more closely with the recommendations he sent Con gress two months ago. He did this in a letter commending the committee's product "by and large." Stock Market Volume Drops NEW YORK 011—An uncertain stock market produced an irreg-1 ular price pattern yesterday. Vol-1 ume sank to the lowest since' April 10. 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