TEMBER 27. 1959 SATURDAY, SE Diplomats Seek cement for Formosa UN Set t TATIONS, N.Y. vp) UN diplomats sought yesterday to work out a formula .ion over the Formosa crisis. .rred in an atmosphere of discouragement stemming mostly from inability to al concession from either the United States or Comunist China. UNITED for easing ten They conf gain substant India 'was among the nations probing Western and Com. I find some way to break the pres-, ent deadlock. V. K. Krishna Men on, India's defense minister, has' rpublicly offered his country' good offices ti aid in easing ten. sions. Secretary of State Dulles sav British Foreigi Secretary Se l i.vyn Lloyd and French' Foreigi Minister Ma u ri c e Couve Murville sepa rately during the day. Kriehna Menon It was assumed that Lloyd filled in Dulles on his talks with Men-, on, and also on conversation held; earlier with Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei Gromyko. Gromyko was reported underl pressure from Britain, Canada and Norway to try to persuade, the Chinese Communists to agree, to a cease-fire. But there was noi indication he had consented. The United States is insistingl on a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait before participating in any talks about the status of the off shore islands of Quemoy and Mat su. House Chairman Makes Apology To Lawrence PITTSBURGH (/P)—The chair man of the House special subcom mittee which has been investigat ing television license grants yes terday telßgraphed an apology to Mayor David L. Lawrence for a staff member's error in present ing infotmation in the Channel 4, Pittsburgh, investigation. In the telegram, Rep. Oren Har ris (D.-Ark.) said he wished to "acknowledge and regret the er ror made by Mr. Oliver East land, staff member." Receipt of the telegram was announced here by Mayor LawVence's office. Harris' message was in reply to a telegram Thursday in which Lawrence, the Democratic nomi nee for governor of Pennsylvania, protested "against the committee procedures which caused news papers throughout Pennsylvania and the nation to say that my name was "linked" with irregu larities in the awarding of Chan nel 4." Quemoy By Nationalist TAIPEI, Formosa (P) The Nationalists cracked the Communist blockade of Quemoy yesterday with another supply landing operation under a hail of Red gunfire. nistry claimed the landing was ships withdrew unharmed. The Nationalist Defense - M completely successful, and al The convoy of big LSTs (Land ing Ships, Tank) steamed to a point about four miles off Liaolo Beach. Then the supplies for the Quemoy defenders were moved in the rest of the way with small amphibious, tracked vehicles that are known as Alligators. Discharged from the LSTs, t.le Alligators plowed through r.aoing breakers with two or .I!rfae tons of cargo each. Com munist shells spattered the beach area, throwing up gey sers of sand, mud and water. Reporters at the scene said there was at least one near miss but no direct hits during the risky operation. Associated Press correspondent Forrest Edwards watched the un loading from a bunker and re ported Communist MIGs wheeled across the sky but did not at tack. Red batteries on the nearby mainland hurled 3,722 rounds at the landing beach and other Quemoy targets on Friday, ac cording to Nationalist count. • This compared with an average of about 10,000 rounds a day since the bombardment .of the offshore island group started 35 days ago. U.S. Supplies to Go For Quemoy Relief WASHINGTON (IP)—The State Department announced yesterday a $lBO,OOO program for shipping civilian relief supplies to Quemoy, and other Nationalist offshore is lands threatened by Red China in the Formosa Strait. No Americans will be involved in the actual on-the-scene deliv ery of the relief supplies. Sen. Wayne Morse (Dem.-Ore.) said, meanwhile, President Eisen hower and Secretary of State Dul les should be impeached if they continue their present course with regard to Quemoy. Block Cracked Landing Hurricane Nearing S. Carolina; Typhoon 'lda' Rages in Japan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Devastation raged in two parts.of the world as Typhoon Ida, in Japan, and Hurricane Helene, on the U.S. Atlantic seaboard, spread havoc and death. CHARLESTON, S.C. Dead ly hurricane Helene, packing 125- mile-an-hour winds, plowed to ward the South Carolina coast last night as hundreds of residents in low-lying areas fled inland. "This is a very dangerous hurricane," the weather bureau. said in a 7 p.m. (EST) advisory, "and all islands, beaches and 2111 1 1111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M11111111111111111111111 1E _ i= El ... LaVie Portraits =, ig. = = AG SENIORS r... 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It carried in its nose a 21 1 - pound satellite equipped to study weather patterns and cloud cover on earth. Five hours after the spectacular launching, Hagan told a news con ference that strong signals from the missile were received at sev eral tracking stations at first but later the satellite transmitter re ported only sporadically. Electric Strike Looms PHILADELPHIA (JP)—The In ternational Union of Electrical Workers c o n vention yesterday approved a change in its consti tution that could circumvent op position to a proposed strike against the General Electric Co. waterfront areas should be 1 TOKYO Typhoon Ida killed evacuated to prevent loss of life 185 persons, injured 183 and left as many escape routes will be 91,000 families homeless on a covered by water . . ." The bureau said "winds will devastating sweep through the become destructive by 10 p.m ,Tokyo area early today. (EST) last night reaching hurry- The full extent of disaster in Cane force near midnight." early morning darkness was still As the bureau issued this emer- not known at daybreak. gency warning, the season's eighth Winds of 80 m.p.h. hit an hour hurricane was centered 120 miles, after Friday midnight amid southeast of this old port city.' continuing downpours. Helene was whirling forward at 12 National police headquarters at miles per hour toward the north- 4 a.m. reported that besides 85 west direction she had followed 1 dead and 183 injured, 9 were practically all day, ; missing and 401,000 homes were The emergency warning was I flooded to some extent. directed to the entire coastline 1 There were no reports of Amer from Savannah, Ga. north. 1 ican casualties. ward to Cape Fear, near North Other reports to police said -21 Carolina's southeastern tip. ' vessels were lost and 11 damaged. Pro-Chamoun Fight Rages BEIRUT, Lebanon (4)) Street fighting spilled more blood in this troubled capital yesterday and armed supporters of former President Camille Chamoun mai(.hed through the streets demanding a new government, The. 4-month battle between the government and the opposition thus turned full circle as militant Phalangists insisted that Premier Rashid Karami re sign Until Chamoun finished out his term on Tues- day, the Phalan 'gists had been standing firm against rebel de mands that the pro-Western Cha moun get out. Karami, wh o was the rebel leader in Tripoli, where the revolt Camille Chamoun broke out May 10, appealed to his comrades to lay down their arms. But arm ed men—some wit nesses said they were former re bels from the Moslem Basta quar ter of the city—tried to disrupt traffic in a residential quarter of the city, apparently with robbery in mind. Security forces fought an hour battle with them and when it was over two civilians were dead. It was the first bloodshed since Kar ami took office Wednesday night. The appointment of Karami, which still must be confirmed by Parliament next Tuesday, was ai clear victory for the rebels. Coup Succeeds in Burma; Army Head Takes Over RANGOON, Burma (W) The army seized power last night in Burma. Gen. Ne Win, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, was asked to head a new government and he agreed The bloodless coup apparently was designed to prevent Burma's shaky government from drifting into Communist hands. Premier U Nu announced No Win had accepted an invitation to head a government and had agreed to hold general elec tions before next April 30. U Nu appealed to the people to give - their support to the gen eral. U. B. A. will refund money for books sold Beginning Monday; - September 29 at 1:30 in Lebanon 'Red Has Vodka, Demands Food MOSCOW (/P) A Soviet ge ologist registered a complaint of the spirit Friday in a letter to the newspaper Komsomol Pravda. He wrote that there is plenty of vodka in the remote Siberian area where he works but no whole some food. I. Cheban said residents of the area get a big laugh from the current campaign against drunk enness. "How can it be otherwise if you see vodka everywhere at all times of the day and night but you can't find good food like oranges, lemons and green vegetables?" Cheban asked. Thor, Jupiter Choice Postponed by McElroy WASHINGTON (A'l-- Secretary of Defense Neal H. McElroy said yesterday he will decide in No vember whether to continue pro duction of the Army Jupiter mis sile or the Air Force's Thor. In a letter to the general, U Nu said he would advise President U Win Mating to summon Parlia ment to meet Oct. 28, at which time U Nu would resign and Ne Win would be named premier. In his reply, Ne Win pledged to follow a neutralist policy in foreign affairs, Ne Win, 48, is strongly anti- Communist. He has been - quoted as saying "we must fight the Reds tooth and nail." He viisted the United States last year for medical treatment and while in Washington con ferred with American military and defense officials. As chief of the armed forces, he haks headed an army of 60,000 to 80,000 men. • until October 3 PAGE THREE
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