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Warmer Parlly cloudy, a little warmer. Complete weather on Page 2. VOL. LVII, NO. 87 IDAHO STATE JOURNAL POCATELLO, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1958 BULLETIN MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union announced (onight it is y.ithdra*fing from the July I Geneva conference on nuclear test suspension.

TEN CENTS Flames Flare As Freighter Hits Gas Ship NEW freighter and a gasoline tanker collided in the East River early today setting off a fiery explosion that engulfed the two ships and set Ihe Manhattan Bridge afire. A brilliant flash of igniting gasoline flared over the river seconds after the explosion. Almost immediately cries of help were heard on shore from flame-swept waters where crewmen who jumped overboard against the incoming tide. The Swedish freighter Nebraska moving south rammed Ihe small American gasoline tanker Empress Bay, officials said, just south of the a a a Bridge spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Empress Bay sank about two hours later.

Forty-nine crewmen from the two ships were rescued and most of them hospitalized for treatment of various injuries. A tolal of 44 out of 45 aboard Ihe freighter were accounted for and five ol the seven crew members of the tanker were rescued. Three persons were missing. The ships struck so hard they were locked together. They floated north on the incoming tirle sending a column of flame into the span of the bridge 135 feet overhead.

The Coast Guard banned al. traffic for several miles along the river as dangerous gasoline fumes hung over Ihe water. A flotilla of rescue and firc- figliling craft sped to the scene. The locked ships were pulled apart after Ihe fire was put out. The Empress Bay sank quickly as water flooded through the gaping hole in her side.

The freighter was taken in tow, still afloat. UP Seeks OK TQ. Control Spokane Rail WASHINGTON (UPI) The Un ion Pacific Railroad submitted a new slock exchange proposal Tues day aimed at acquiring control of, the Spokane International Rail road in the Pacific Northwest. Union Pacific asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to authorize an arrangement where by it would deliver 1.4 shares UP stock at S10 par value in exchange ior each of International': outstanding shares. Union Pacific said the exchange plan had been orked out with dissatisfied International stock holders who are now willing to drop a suit brought in New York State courts al Buffalo if the ICC approves the new arrangement The court action challenges an or iginal exchange offer.

This suit and other litigation has held up purposed acqu sition for more than" a year. Southerners Fight Alaska WASHINGTON Sen Henry M. Jackson predicted to day the Alaska statehood bill wil be subjected to a "long, drawn oul" debate in the Senate. But the Washington Democra said he still is confident Ihe Sen ate will make the vasl territory the 49th stale of the Union. Jackson, Democratic floor man ager of the House-passed bill said Kc thinks opponents of slate hood for Alaska, chiefly Southern Democrats, plan lo play a stalling game.

Two Southern Democrats, Sens James 0. Easlland am Strom Thurmond (S.C.), atlcmpl ed to throw wrenches in the fast working Alaskan machinery Tues day. Easlland and Sen. A. Willis Rob crtson (D-Va.) argued today on the floor that Alaskan statehooc woulud "open the flood gales" fo admitting other possessions.

Southerners generally oppose Ih' admission of Alaska as a slale be cause they believe Alaskan sena lors would become part of th northern bloc and dilute southern Influence in Congress. BASEBALL TONIGHT Pocatello Braves 8:00 p.m. PHOTOGRAPHER'S LAST PICTURE This dramatic picture of burning Swedish freighter and tugboat in front of it was taken early today by New York Journal-American pbolograplier William Finn, ft was his last picture. He collapsed nnd died after (aking it. (Associated Press Wirephoto) Sewage Plant Is Turned Down By IF.

Voters Twin Falls voters Tuesday defeated by a whopping majority a $1,600,000 revenue bond issue to finance construction of a sewage treatment plant and other improvements. This was the same sort of project approved recently by voters of Pocatello, Idaho Falls and other cities in fdaho. Pocatellans gave their approval of a $1,250,000 revenue bond issue by a 10-1 majority on February 18 and city officials are preparing to let a contract this summer to begin work on a plant which will, when finished, i end the practice of dumping raw sewage into the Portneuf River wes.t of.the city. Unofficial tallies Twin Falls recorded 1,662 votes against the proposal, wilh only 934 in favor of the project. Pocatello's count was 1,840 for the bonds and 179 against.

The favorable vole enabled Pocatello to take advantage of a $250,000, federal grant for construction of the plant. The bond issue money will be used to pay for the remainder of its cost and to lay 16,000 feet of pipe- from the present outfali to the plant at Rio Vista and Batise Roads and for other sewer system'improvements. Plans for the project have been sent by the city's consulting engineer, Hamilton and Voeller, to Clyde-C. Kennedy Consulting Engineers in San Francisco for study. The Kennedy firm will review the plans because it has had extensive experience in projects of this kind according to City Manager W.

B. Webb. From San Francisco, the plans will be sent for review to the State Health Department in Boise and from there to the regional office of the Department of Health, Educa, lion and Welfare in Denver. Those two agencies must review the plans because they had a part in securing the federal grant. The date for letting the contract will depend on how long it lakes the two agencies to approve the plans.

Lebanon Says It Will Seek U.N. Aid Despite Russian Warning I Lebanon (UPI) Lebanese President Camille Chamoim said today he will call for military aid under the United Nations Charier if his pro-western government "needs help" to cope with the rebel forces. The President said that Lebanon would not ask for military inter- Dag Hammarskjold. vention "outside Ihe framework of the U.N." Chamoun declared his government's attitude towards outside intervention at a press conference. The statement followed a full day of talks between Lebanese leaders and U.N.

Secretary-general ROBERT COLE Cole to Join Chamber Staff Robert M. Cole, an Idaho State College honor graduate in business and pre-law this month, will assume duties Monday as assistant secretary of the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce. Executive Secretary Alvin Reading said Cole's work will center on retail promotion, membership contact, conventions and tourist promotion. Cole, 25, is from Boise. He attended fSC for (wo years and Boise Junior College and four served in the Navy He was president of the senior class, a member of Ihe Student Council, in the public relations committee, a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, was selected for who's who in Amcri- and was a member of the golf team for two years.

Utah Firm Bids Low On Bingham Roads LeGrand Johnson Construction Logan, Utah, submitted Ihe apparent low bid Tuesday for improvements along nearly 15 miles nf State Highway 39 and U.S. 20 in Bingham County, according lo information received by the State Highway office here. The bid amounted to $239,141. The work will consist of placing bituminous pavement on 14 miles of State 30 between Pingrce and Riverside in Bingham County. Abo in the same contract will be a project for raising the grade and placing additional culverts on U.S.

26 west of Moreland. This is a section of the Blackfoot-Arco highway, Russian Mob Shouts Jeers At U. S. Embassy MOSCOW (UPI) A placard- carrying, of" 2,000 Russians shouted insults caused no damage or violence in an anti-American demonstration En front of the U.S. Embassy today.

The demonstration, staged in reprisal for last Sunday's riot by Hungarian refugees at the United Nations Embassy in New York, appeared to be well ordered and well planned, (Tile United States charged today that the demonstrations were "obviously staged" and were "bound to increase international It was the third crowd action against foreign embassies in Moscow in a week, less hectic than but the it was far other two. Moscow mobs rioted against the Danish and West Germany embassies previously, in both cases breaking windows and causing extensive damage. In today's move against the 10- story U.S. Embassy building, the demonstrators threw no bricks, sticks or ink bottles as in the olh- er incidents. The bard core of the crowd, which milled around on the street in front of the embassy for more than two hours, seemed to be a group of about 300 youths.

They made most of the noise, while the "If we need help," Chamoun said, "we will ask for it in accordance with clause 51 of the U. N. Charter, which gives the right of self-defense." Soviet Russia warned Tuesday night that any attempt lo send a U.N. police force into crisis-torn Lebanon would amount to sion" and said it would aggres- be the "duty" of peace-loving states to slop it. Significantly, the warning was addressed to Ihe United States and Britain as well as to the United Nations.

It came as Hammar- skjold was completing i East consultations before Hying back to New York today. In Washington ciels brushed American ofii- as propaganda the Soviet charges of Anglo-American intervention arid said the Kremlin apparently was trying to divert attention from its own troubles in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, Lebanese rebels attacked the American Presbyterian Hospital in Tripoli. The hospital's American staff left several weeks ago. Legislators Call For U.N.

Police Goldfine Paid Hotel Bill of Federal Judge WASHINGTON (UPI)-- The explosive hearings on Sherman Adams' relations wilh millionaire Bernard Goldfine rocked on today wilh the disclosure i paid a SGO hotel bill for a federal judge. The subcommittee skirted the question of whether Goldfine paid expenses for Federal Judge William T. McCarthy of Boston Tuesday. McCarthy presided over an early phase of an SEC suit i i i a in May, 105-1, against two Gold- fine-conlrollcd firms accused of failing to file financial reports wth the SEC. Goldfne to Testify Rep.

John B. Bennett (R-Mich.) tried to question the subcommittee staff about whether Goldfmc ever picked up the tab for hotel bills or a i for McCarthy. Acting Chairman John Bell Williams (D-Miss.) said Bennett would have ample chance to explore the subject wlien Goldfine himself testifies Tuesday. Later Bennett lold reporters he was informed Goldfine had paid hotel hills for McCarthy, a Democratic court appointee, before and after the judge was associated with the court But Goldfinc's lawyer, Samuel P. Sears, said Goldfine paid only one $50 hotel bill for the judge.

Sears told reporters the incident occurred in February, 1954, when McCarthy and his family couldn't fine a hotel room for a visit to New York. Sears said Goldfine or his staff found (he McCarthys room al the Waldorf Astoria, the same hotel where Adams once Goldiine's guest, and stayed that Goldfine took icare of the bill, Former SEC chief J. Sinclair Armstrong defended the agency today before the subcommittee. Armstrong and Subcommittei Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) got into a wrangle and Armstrong's testimony was temporarily cut off. Adams has acknowledged making an inquiry at the SEC about a case involving two of Goldfine's companies.

But he and the SEC have denied he influenced the commission's treatment of Gnldfine. Armstrong told the investigators he objected to statements that the WASHINGTON (UPI) Demo- SEC could be influenced in "some cratic and Republican senators, improper way, recalling shock of the just Korean invasion eight years ago, Armstrong, 42, now is assistant secretary of the Navy. He served called today for United Nations jon the SEC July 1053, police action to quench any sim- May, 1357, and was chairman of the agency for the last two years of that period. The subcommittee called him for questioning about the SEC prosecution of charges a two (Continued on Page 2) ilar spark in Lebanon. They brushed off as "fantastic" and unreal (he Soviet charge that any attempt to send a U.N.

force inlo Lebanon would amount to "aggression." Senate GOP Leader William F. Know-land called Ihe Moscow charge "another case of extortion." Others rest remained passively d- natured. Apparently many people a just happened to be passing by and stopped to walch what was going on. The embassy ordered women employes lo leave Ihe lower floors before Ihe trouble started and had ordered the U.S. Marine Corps guard detachment to stand by with fire hoses should an attempt be made to burn (he building.

It was apparent from Ihe beginning that the Soviet authorities had taken thx greatest care lo prevent incidents and to see that nobody got suggested Ihe Soviets, anlicipating a U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold will recommend assignment of U.N. observers or police i (o Lebanon, were building a propaganda ''backfire" against this event. Sen. H.

Alexander Smith (R- K.J.), a Foreign Relations Com- BOSTON (UPI) -Federal Judge i i a T. McCarthy said today the fact that millionaire industrialist Bernard Goldfine paid his hotel bills in New York City "in no way or prejudiced my impartial judgment in any case before LEBANON TROUBLE LOOMS Korea Was Invaded 8 Years Ago TOKYO (UPI) Today is the eighth anniversary of the Communist attack against Ihe Republic of Korea. And on this anniversary of the surprise attack in the Far East, U.N. troops once again face the possibility of making a stand against aggression this time in Lebanon. The Korean War began at dawn, June 25, 1950, when North Korean Communist troops a a smashed their way south across Ihe 38th Parallel.

It ended July 27, 1053, when Ihe armistice was signed a Communist "volunteers" from China had poured inlo the balllc in much the same way Communists threaten to enler the Middle East trouble zone today. To meet and back Ihe Communist threat in Korea, the United Nations sent manpower and machines to bolster the hrave but poorly trained and ill-equipped Republic of Korea forces. i contributing armed forces lo Ihe U.K. army in Korea included the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Thailand, Philippines, France, Greece, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Colombia, Belgium, Ethiopia, Union of South Africa and Luxembourg. U.N.

troops, fighting with Ihe Republic of Korea forces, suffered 151,728 casualties. These included 23,550 Americans, 717 Turks and 670 United Kingdom personnel killed. Other U.N. units also suffered many dead and wounded. U.S.

defense a sources estimated the North Korean and Chinese Communist a a wounded amounted to more than 1.400.000. Properly damage in both North and South Korea was great, with practically everything destroyed. The U.N. "police action" in Korea bought peace but not total victory. Korea remained divided with many in South.

Korea and elsewhere bitter because the U.N. army had not fought to complete Ihe job of unifying Ihe country under Ihe Republic of Korea -which was created by U.N.-supervised elections in 1WS, He said the bills were paid on one occasion before he considered a case in which Goldfine was involv- mittee member, said a U.N. lice force could po- ed and once after liie said he was informed case. He when he used in Lcb- Iried to pay the bills that Goldfine anon "just as well as in the I had taken care of them, and that racli-Arab troubles." i i i refused repayment. Chief of Probe Wrote to FCC A letter Harris wrote to Chairman John C.

Doerfcr WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. Oren Harris chairman of the subcommittee investigating federal regulatory agencies, wrote a letler to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently asking about a pending Arkansas FCC case. FCC May 1, M5S, was made available lo United Press International today. Harris noted that B. J.

Parrish of radio station KOTO at Pine Bluff, had written the FCC aboul the application of Jefferson County Broadcasting System for a license lo operate a new radio station in Pine Bluff. Parish, whose station is one of two exiling ones in Pine Bluff, protested to (he commission that 'ranting a license to (he new applicant would not be in the public nterest. The matter hau been scheduled for a hearing July 1. Harris, in his letter to Doerfer, said Parris "calls to your atten- i a number of interesting items." He asked for a copy of Doerfer's reply to Parrish. Noting there are already three radio sta- ions in the asked Doerfei area, Harris also about the commission's policy about the number of.

stations in a given trade area. Harris is chairman of the House Commerce Committee which has legislative jurisdiction over FCC. He also is chairman of the 11-man Commerce Subcommittee which has been conducting hearings on possible influence in operations of the FCC and other federal regulatory agencies. The hearings have been replete with testimony that inquiries by congressmen and others to tho and handled on a daily basis. Harris said he wrote the May 7 letter in his capacity as chairman of the Commerce Committee, "I see nothing wrong in that," he told a reporter.

"I was simply asking the policy of the commis- Pocatello to 'Go West' On July 9 for Rodeo By MURIEL RUGGLES Pocatello will be ridin' high starting July when western days and Bomb Blast Rocks Homes On East Carter Remnants of a home-made bomb were found by police Tuesday on doorstep, scene (hat rocked two an East Carter of an explosion bouses the night efore. Jennie Howard, 626 East Carter, said it was the second explosion in two but she didn't report Ihe first. She was awakened by "a terrific explosion" at 11:15 Monday night, she police. Ft shook the house and lighted up the neighborhood, she said. She looked out the window and saw a man of medium height in his twenties or thirties cross in front of her yard, and drive away in an model blue-gray autorrfo- bilc wilh the lights off, she told Officer Alvin Autnick.

He found pieces of string and plastic tape on a corner of the top step of the front porch. The wood was scorched and tar scattered around, he reported. Kenneth E. Cox, next door at 63G East Carter, told the officer he and his wife both heard the explosion, saw their back yard light up and felt the house tremble. Mrs.

Howard said the first explosion about two months ago was on her front sidewalk. She did not report Monday night's Tuesday noon. blast until western ways will take over. At a rodeo directors meeting held Tuesday a full agenda of preliminary events was scheduled for the 1958 Rodeo July 15, 16, and President Elmer Terry presided at meeting (See picture page Kangaroo court, with calaboose and vigilantes, will be put in full operation July 9 by Pocatello Chamber of Conimerce committee on that date. Betler get out the 'western podner.

The rodeo office will open at noon on that date in Ihu lobby of the Hotel Bannock for the sale of reserved and general admission tickets. Grant itowell and Dan Kunz are ticket chairmen. Queen of.the 1958 Rodeo will be elected in the evening with a of western roping and riding cvenls at the rodeo grounds. Bannock County Posse will assist the rodeo committee in staging the con- cst. The rules will conform to the national "Miss Rodeo America 11 contest with a view to entering Pocatello's queen in the state and national competition said Henry Nichols, contest chairman.

The rodeo program also includes iiarticipation in the "Farm conducted by the Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee on July 11. A rousing street dance will keep things a happing on July 1-1. A spectacular weslcrn parade will get the rodeo rolling on the opening day, July 15 at 11 a.m. Terry and John Spanbaucr, parade chairmen, announced that a large number of entries already have been booked, including floats- from every city playground. The chuck wagon dinner will highlight rodeo week following the rodeo parade.

In charge will be Jack Alvord, Bill Carlisle, Rollo Briggs, Slanley Smith. Ralph Swisher, Isaac McDougall and Bill Burden. Pocatelln merchants are planning special sales events to tie-in with rodeo week. BOMB EXPLODED Mrs. Jennie Howard, 626 East Carter, examines spot on her front porch step where a home-made bomb was explo ded Monday nighl.

It shook her house and a neighbor's. She lold police there was similar cxplo sion in of her house two months ago. Mrs. Howard lold officers she has no enemies that the knowi of, has no who Ihe bomber may Carter Named To Kulp Post BOISE (UPt)-- George N. Carler, Boise, today was appointed by Gov.

Robert E. Smylie to fill the post of slate reclamation engineer vacated by the a of Mark R. Kulp, who was killed an auto accident June 9. Carter's appointment becomes effective July 1 "and expires on Ihe first Monday in January, 1961. Carter has been serving as consultant to llu.

Bureau of Reclamation in i and is a civil engineer. He was state reclama- tiqn engineer from 1921 to 1931, Today's Chuckle The difficult age has come and il: I'm (M'lireJ lo work and poor to quit..