THURSDAY 'SEPTEMBER 25, 1958 nalistiDownlOiets Nati In F rmosa Strait Battle , Formosa (/P) Nationalists China's - veteran As shot down 10 Communist Chinese MIGs and others yesterday in one of the biggest air battles ge, the Defense Ministry reported. iu Hon-tu, the Nationalist military spokesman, TAIPE fighter pH possibly si of the jet Adm. Leb • (Continu on-- d from page , one) elected pres dent, succeeding Ca mille Chakniun, a Christian. The gunf :hts developed gen erally betw len Moslems pouring out of their :asta quarter in cele bration of • I hehab's inauguration and Christ an Falangists who support Cha oun and are -resent ful over his retirement under rebel drumfire. American troops took up posi tions between battling factors in the port area and were spotted around the airport and in the residential section where Ameri cans live. There were no reports that any I American forges took part in any' shooting. The 1000 resident U.S. nationals) were told to stay inside their' homes. Chehab ordered antisniper patrols to shoot down anyone il legally carrying weapons and backed it up with a daylight cur few extending to dusk. The clampdown brought an end to the' fighting in four hours. It was the most drastic action taken by the government since the Chamoun regime last May. The Christian Falangists op ened yesterday's fighting. Anti- Chamoun Moslems, who occupy the heavily fortified Basta quar ter near the center of the capital, had been blamed for rioting and sniping attacks earlier this year. The two extremist groups had been clashing sporadically since the alleged kidnaping of a Falan gist newspaper columnist Fuad Haddad /ast week. Navy Rains CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. py-A lightning-fast Navy Polaris test rocket was blown apart high over the Cape -yesterday, raining flaming debris back on the launching area. The sleek rocket was deliberately destroyed by a range safety officer when it strayed off course and.appeared to be heading down the - coast instead of out to sea. No one was hurt. The missile broke into tw, of white smoke against the sky as they plunged back to earth. The larger chunk hit like a bomb only a few yards from -the Polaris launching pad. It's fiery return caused-a violent explosion that blasted white flames and mushrooming brown smoke high in the air. The second section plunged into the Banana River some five miles south of the launching site, splashing a huge spray of mud and water. Banana River is a tidewater inlet separating the Cape from the Florida mainland. i It was the first time, as .far as I known, that a missile explosion bad threaened a populated area outsid the world's largest missile les center., The Cape was opens in 1950. It was le ned the trouble wasj caused by Ei defective program mer, a tiny I electribal device in wide the misile that directs thel flight's cont. .01. , c i d The first ndication of danger came when the Polaris test an-] nouncer bla ovbr a loudspeak er: "All pe onnel on' the Cape take cover, ke cover." The latest Polaris test vehicle, a new m el called the AXI was being fired for the first time. The trim 25-foot Lockheed rocket reportedly is very sim ilar to the final Polaris config uration. The Polar range— 130 ails being- ci s is an intermediate -mile—ballistic mis •veloped for launch- said 32 Nationalist Sabre Jets and more than 100 Russian-made MIG(I7s tangled in the blazing 10-minute fight that ranged more than 400 miles along the Formosa Strait. •A Red plan to lure the Nation alists over the mainland back fired, he said. All of the Sabres and their American-trained and equipped pilots returned safely. The victory ran the Nation alists' string of claimed air kills to 25 MIGs shot down and - six probables without loss of a Na tionalist plane since the Que moy hostilities erupted Aug. 23. The Nationalists at first said 11 Red planes were shot down yesterday but later they advised the figure to 10. Liu told a news conference swarms of the red-starred Com munist fighters suddenly swept down at 10:40 a.m. on patrolling Nationalist Sabres and tried to cut off their retreat toward For mosa. "They tried to forc e our planes over the mainland," he said. "It was an obvious at tempt to manufacture evidence for their claim that the United States and we are responsible for the tension in the Formosa Strait." The spokesman explained that the Red fighters "tried "to force our planes to the west by provid ing an easier exit in hope of shooting one or more down over the mainland. If they had suc ceeded they would have claimed they were attacking the main land." Instead of fleeing to the west, the Sabres roared into the Red formation with their guns blaz ing, Liu said. Polaris Explodes, Flaming Debris s- • . ..o► 0,000 -- . Th.. tr. -d . 1 ing from nuclear-powered subma rines. The shattered section that hit the river landed some 300 yards from the home of Jack Moline in Cocoa Beach. Mrs. Moline, at home with her 11-month-old baby, said "I THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA McGonigle Hits Sneers Of Dems MANHEI M, Pa. (W)—Arthur T. McGonigle, Republican candi date for governor, yesterday ac cused Democrats •of "deceit" in stating he rejoiced at President Eisenhower's veto of the Federal Area Redevelopment Bill. On a campaign swing through Lancaster County, McGonigle de dared any such statement "is a complete falsehood." "Like any Pennsylvanian truly interested in jobs for our people, I'was deeply concerned over the veto itself and so expressed my self publicly at the time," the Reading manufacturer added. INDIANA, Pa. (JP)—Mayor David L. Lawrence, Democratic nominee foe governor, yesterday called for a Pennsylvania educa tion program to "equal the best in the entire United States." "Our children deserve an op portunity for education equal to the best program in the United States," Lawrence told an Indiana County audience. Pro Musica-- (Continued from page two) instruments: and "Dreams and Imavina tions" (Betty Wilson). soprano anti in atruments—both by 'Robert Jones: "I Care 'Not for These Lathes" (Charles Bressler) by Thomas Capmion, tenor and harpsi chord. "In Daikness Let Me Dwell" (Russell Oberlin) by John Dowland, countertenor and haipsiehord "Whither Runneth my Sweetheart." (Russell Oberlin and Charles Bressler) by' John Bartlett: "La Bounette," "La Doune Cella". land "La Shy Myze" dunces from the Mulliner Book, soprano recorder and bai,s viol ; "Touch Me Light ly" (Martha Blackman) by Tobias Hume, bass viol. "And I As Well As Thou" by Michael East, recorders and bass %101; "A Prnion of Mr.tde and the (laDial(' to it" (Paul Mayhard) by William Bryd. imrpsichord• "The Messenger•of the Delightful Spring" by Francis Pilkingtrin, a cappella: "Upon a Rank With Roses" by John Ward a cap pelts; "The Three Ravens" (Bethany Beardslee) by Thomas Ravenscroft, so- Praia,, voices and Idstruments and "Lon ion Street Cries" by Orlando Gibbons, ensemble. heard the missile screaming and saw it flaming as it came down." "I ran to the back of the house, and then I saw it hit the water with a dull thud," she added. "I never was so frightened in my life." NAACP Opposes Private School Plan -LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (i-T)---The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People moved yesterday to block Little Rock's private school plan as scattered violence be tween Negroes and white broke out in this racially tense city. Wiley A. Branton of Pine Bluff. Ark., Negro attorney for the NAACP, filed a petition 'in U.S. District Court asking that the Little Rock School Board be enjoined from leasing school properties to a private corpora tion. The petition asked further that such private schools. if they are opened, be required to ad mit Negro students under the integration plan previously in effeti at Central High School. The school board has asked the court whether it may lease its facilities to a private corporation without being held in contempt. U.S. Dist. Judge John E. Mil ler will hear pleas on both the school board and the NAACP petitions today at Fort Smith, Ark. There were three reported in cidents of Negro-white violence yesterday in the city and its en virons A group of IS Negro youths and six white boys battled near a white junior high school. Three of the whites suffered in juries. Sheriff's deputies organized a manhunt for an armed Negro; youth accused of beating and' choking a white woman in her residence. The youth fled to a ;wooded area and shortly there-1 after the deputies called off their! hunt because they said they knew him and would arrest him later. A 14-year-old white boy, Don Weir, reported he was beaten !Tuesday night by a 16-year-old INegro who also threatened him with a knife. Juvenile authorities took custody of the Negro. Walkouts Hit Auto Industry As Contract Talks Bog Down DETROIT (JP) A wave of walkouts across the country crippled auto production yesterday as contract negotiations bogged down More than 71,000 were idled—about 32,000 in General Motors plants; 18,000 in Ford, and 21,000 in Chrysler. The United Auto Workers Union blamed the unauthorized Strikes on what it said was re fusal of the companies to negioti ate local grievances. But Gen eral Motors repeated a claim that ,UAW leaders in Detroit are die tating strikes to bring pressure in contract bargaining. UAW President Walter Reu ther, said he plans to move per sonally into negotiations , with General Motors, the largest of PENN STATE IN BERMUDA It's wonderful. You've heard all about it, now you can see what Bermuda is really like. • - See our movie ... "WINGS TO BERMUDA" to be shown TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. in McElwain Lounge UNIVERSITY TRAVEL BUREAU "Above the Corner Room" AD 8-6779 Governors Give No Resolutions On Integration LEXINGTON, Ky UM—South ern governors ducked the school integration issue yesterday, clos ing their 24th annual conference without adopting any resolutions on the subject. A governor who asked not to be identified said: "The feeling behind the scenes was that it would be better not to discuss any of the various resolutions on this. Because of the widely vary ing-views of the governors, we felt it would do more harm than good to have an open fight." The executive session w h i c h ended the three-day conference was closed to reporters. A resolut'on proposed by Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin of -Mary land was killed in the Resolutions Committee, the governors said. It would have called for the governors to take a stand in sup port of integration in the South. They would not say how many votes were cast against McKel din's resolution. Govs. Marvin Griffin of Geor gia and Frank Clement of Ten nessee had prepared integration , resolutions but withheld them af ter 4lcKeldin's lost out. the Big Three auto makers, to morrow. GM, less than a week away from a Tuesday strike deadline, became the UAW's prime target when negotiations at Chrysler collapsed yesterday. Reuther walked out of the Chrysler talks at dawn and said the company and the union were too far apart on too many issues. I o warrant continuing their mar athon session. PAGE THREE
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