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.
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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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With relatively minor excep
tions, the committee bill would
make the changes in the struc
ture of the military establish
ment which Eisenhower and
administration witnesses said
were necessary to tighten up
and simplify command over
the kind of forces that will
fight any future wars.
The objective, they said, was
In uncluttered line of command
from the President and secre
tary of defense to officers in
the field who will give orders
to fighting teams that usually
will be made up of units of
more than one service.
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