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182 Intrd tcond claw mattar Port Offic, Tucion, Artaona TUCSON, ARIZONA; TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 1958 THIRTY-TWO PAGES run UVJ Seauforf Poi'nf Barrow Borrow f. Umiof ALASKA Artf'c Ocean srL Insurgents Seize Two Americans Cuba Rebels Hold 41 Prisoner Now HAVANA, June 30 Two more Americans were Promoter Plans To Sue Adams For $1 Million Fox Casually Announces Libel Action Against Ike Aide As Hearing Ends WASHINGTON, June 30 US) Business Promoter I WRANGH u. s. r. Arctic Cird Uelon SIBERIA Anadry 3 -5 i FAIRBANKS I Dwlon Njv-r like Expected To Sign Bill For 49th Star Territory Still Must Vote On Terms Of Measure; Delegates Predict Passage WASHINGTON, June 30 W-The Senate voted 64-20 Monday night to make Alaska the 49th state.

President Eisenhower has long advocated statehood for the territory. If he signs the bill, as expected, and Alaska accepts its terms, the new state might join the union by winter or early fall in time for its two senators and lone House member to take their seats in Congress in January as the first new state since the admission of Arizona in 1912. This accomplished, the United States will have extended its boundries to within 55 miles of Russia. Proponents of statehood had sought since 1916 to get the territory admitted to the union, John Fox casually announced Monday he is starting a million dollar libel suit against presidential assistant IMMSMBV tetottMCHft.v JMsBHSiasSlI charged him" with lying and KODIAK UNAIASKA 0 Pacffic UNIMAK 1 JIo' KISKA ATTA AMCHITKA The territory was acquired by the United States in 1867 from Russia for $7,200,000. The purchase was mside through the determined energy of Secretary of State William H.

Seward and for known as "Seward's Follv." many years afterward was or "Seward's Icebox." 'Seward's Folly1 To Join Union? This map of Alaska shows its proximity to Russia and Canada. The territory, which was approved by the Senate Monday to become the nation's 49th state, is Ufa times the size of Texas. It has 18,000 square miles of glaciers yet Anchorage, with weather comparable to Chicago a heat wave last winter. Now the problem of statehood is up to the people of Alaska. Most observers think they will approve the action by at least a 2 to I margin.

For the most part Monday the Alaskans reacted just the way you'd think they should they whooped it up. Huge flags with 49 stars were put on display in the territory's capital Juneau. Fire trucks raced through the streets of Fairbanks with sirens screaming. Drinks were on the house in Sitka. There was a spontaneous parade in the port city of Seward.

But there was the other side, too. The anti-statehood residents said, "Our school tax is $10 a year now. We will be lucky if it's no more than $50 this time next year. Said another: "That bell may be ringing for you. It's tolling for me." But the saddest voice of all came from a school girl.

She said, "It would have to happen in the summertime. We'll never get a day' off from school now." (AP Wirephoto) Passage of the legislation was greeted with exuberance by Alaskans in Washington. Gov. Mike Stepovlch said; "Thank God for everything that's happened here. We will show the people of the United States they not made a mistake." Delegate E.

L. (Bob) Bartlett, the Democrat who represents Alaska in the House of Representatives, predicted Alaskans will accept terms of statehood by possibly as much as 8-1 margins. On Way To Join Next Steps For Before Alaska could become a state, its residents would have to cast separate ballots endorsing immediate statehood, accepting boundaries of the state and Both of Arizona's senators, Goldwater (R), voted to admit Rockefeller Runs For Governor Scions Of Wealth May Vie In N.Y. NEW YORK, June 30 Ift-Nelson A. Rockefeller announced Monday he will seek the Republican nomi nation for governor.

His candidacy posed the possibility of a battle of millionaires in the fall political campaign. Rockefeller has been an unde clared candidate for weeks. Unofficial polls have depicted him as the party's strongest political candidate. In his announce ment, said: "The people of the state of New York are entitled to government of the highest Quality. ROCKEFELLER I believe that the government they are getting is inadequate to meet the needs of our times, the changing facts of modern life and the insecurities of the present day." The only candidate in the field against Rockefeller as of now is Leonard Hall, former Republican national chairman.

He said he welcomed Rockefeller as a rival and suggested a series of debates on issues. Rockefeller's nomination, if he can obtain it at the Aug. 25-26 state GOP convention, would pit two scions of vast wealth in the political arena of the Empire State. The prize would be not only the governorship but national stature within the winner's party. Democratic Gov.

Averell Harri-man plans to run for a second term. Like Rockefeller, he inherited a fortune from his father. Harriman's wealth stems from railroads, Rockefeller's from oil. Rebuttal Begins In Colo. River Suit Today SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 (fl Arizona will open its rebuttal case before Special Master Simon H.

Rifkind in San Francisco Tuesday morning in what may be the conclusion of the long drawn-out suit over Colorado River water. Charles Reed, chief counsel for Arizona, said the length of the rebuttal will depend to a large extent on the questioning of Call' fornia attorneys. He said Arizona-hopes to conclude its testimony in a few weeks. The suit was filed to determine how much Colorado River water Arizona and other lower basin states are entitled to divert from the river. The suit began in 1952, After See-Saw WASHINGTON, June 30 IB-Even though Congress now has sent the Alaska statehood bill to President Eisenhower, it probably will be five or six months before the 49th state officially enters the union.

Here is a step-by-step listing of the procedures which must be followed before the admission takes place: 1. Eisenhower must certify to Alaska Gov. Mike Stepovich, by this Thursday, that the statehood bill has been enacted. 2. Stepovich must issue, not later than Aug.

1, a proclamation fixing dates for the holding of primary and general elections in Alaska. 3. The people of Alaska must vote affirmatively in an election AieltTlAN ISLANDS U.S. on three propositions set out in the statehood bill: (1) Shall Alaska immediately be admitted to the union as a state? (2) Are the state boundaries as set out in the bill approved? and (3) Are the provisions of the bill authorizing the President to make national defense withdrawals in northwest Alaska approved? This referendum is expected to be conducted at the primary. 4.

The Primary election must be held not less than 40 nor more than 90 days after the proclamation issued by the governor. At this election, candidates for two United States senators, a United States representative, and the governor, secretary of state and state legislators shall be nominated. The primary is expected to be held in August. others received minor cuts. First aid was administered by sheriff's deputies.

Original reports were that a minor tornado had hit, but it was learned later the freak mishaps were caused by an old-fashioned "dust-devil." Glass fragments gouged a 30-foot trail into Goodman's. Adding to the confusion, rain water poured into the It stood 8 to 10 inches deep in the aisles. Flood waters all caused traffic tie-ups in front of the center. The storm which raised Tucson's rainfall total for the year to 3.S8 inches, or .82 above normal, also damaged a trailer and a approving a provision empowering the President to make future national defense withdrawals in certain areas. Rejection of any of the three propositions would defeat statehood.

In other comments, Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif) declared that "Alaska is destined to become one of the greatest states of the American Union." But, Knowland said, "we've done only half the job tonight." 'He said that both the major parties had pledged statehood also for Hawaii, and urged that the Senate Democratic leadership quickly bring up the bill to grant statehood for the islands. As the roll was called in the Senate and the count of those in favor kept piling up, some among the Whitehorst' VoldeiL Ocean 40( MILES Alaska S. The general election must be held not less than 90 days after the primary election, but not later than Dec.

1. This is expected to be held in November. I. After the general election, the governor must certify the election results to the President. He also shall certify that the people of Alaska have voted affirmatively on the three propositions.

7. Upon receiving the necessary certifications from the governor, the President issues a proclamation announcing the election results. Issuance of this proclamation will mark the official entry of Alaska into the union. The 49th star may be added to the flag by December. patio wall at about the same time at 6077 E.

Beverly home of Mr. and Mrs. David Moore. Moore said an unoccupied three-bedroom, two-story trailer belonging to a sister, Mrs. Martha Don- ny, blew over, knocking down 50 feet of a five-foot concrete block patio wall.

He estimated damage to the trailer at $2,000. Earlier in the day winds clocked up to 69 m.p.h. caused considerable havoc at Davis-Monthan AFB, destroying TV antennae, blowing shingles off roofs and damaging the base service station. Although nearly a quarter of an (Continued from Page One) r. in Tucson limits, IB 7x I Charlotte CAPTURED to shortcut procedures on 3D Topics 8C 8C Sports 4D Weather 4A 7C Women 1-2C 1 kidnaped by Fidel Castro's rebels Monday, boosting the total now held by in surgents to 41 Americans and three Canadians.

Two U. S. consular offi cials were striving in rebel mountain country of east ern Cuba to free the prisoners. une official made contact with rebel leaders, but was reported awaiting word from the insureent nign command on their release, U.S. embassy sources in Havana indicated the two officials might have some report on the missing men Tuesday.

While the. rebel kidnaping cam paign went on, there were reports of new flareup of violence by the dissident forces seeking to over throw Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Dispatches from Cienfuegos on Cuba's south coast said 8 rebels and 2 soldiers were killed in a With the seizure of the two Americans in Cuba Monday, there are now at least 65 Americans being held against their will In various parts of the world. Other than the prisoners in Cuba, another 22 are being detained in Communist countries nine each in Soviet Armenia and East Germany these are the crew of an Air Force transport and an Army helicopter and four in Red China. clash in that area Saturday.

Several soldiers were reported wounded. Another report said a rebel band surprised an Army detachment in a ravine on a farm near Guan tanamo and killed a lieutenant and five soldiers. Six other sol diers were wounded. Carried off in a fast swoop on a work camn in eastern Cuba were Sherman Avery White, about 52. of New York, general man ager of the big U.S.

Duiit Nicaro Nickel oiant. and his assistant, J. Andrew Poll, 45, of Grand Rap ids, Mich. The latest strike in Castro's campaign to draw attention to his sputtering rebellion, was carried out by eight rebels the U.S. em bassy said.

U.N. Studies Report On Lebanon UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.. June ll im Sprrptarv General Dae Hammarskjold told the Security Council Monday the U.N. watchdog team in Lebanon is about ready to submit its first tinaings on alleged outside aid to Lebanese rebels.

In a progress report to the 16-nation council, Hammarskjold said captured rebels alleged by the Lebanese government to be Syrians are being questioned by the U.N. observer group. He said other evidence of inter ference by the United Arab Re- nuhlic also is being examined, U.N. officials said the report will be submitted within two or throe days. Halted Trremilars helping the secur itv forces blocked roads and Doroaches to Kayfoun and' Chemlan to choke off the rebel advance.

Security forces claimed they suffered no casualties and said many rebels were killed. The size of the attacking force was not given. However, Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Socialist political organization, controls a large area south and east of Beirut. His followers are largely Druse mountain tribesmen. Sherman Adams who has malicious accusations.

Fox also promised million-dollar suits against others who have been criticizing him. This sudden development came just before Fox concluded three days of testimony to a House subcommittee. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told reporters: "Mr. Adams will have no comment on that.

How silly can this whole thing get?" The Fox testimony exploded sensations and uproars, accusations and denials, involving Adams, his wealthy Boston friend and benefactor, Bernard Goldfine, and 'the Boston Herald and Traveler and their publisher, Robert Choate. Fox said he has instructed his lawyers to file suits for a million dollars each against Choate, the Herald-Traveler its attorney, William J. Dempsey, and Goldfine's attorneys, Roger Robb and Samuel Sears. He didn't spell out the grounds for the suits. Yelling and gavel banging brought the subcommittee session to a noisy close.

Dempsey was on his feet, among ipecators in the big House caucus room, shouting that he wanted to put Fox on notice that "we propose to prove Mr. Fox is a liar, a welsher and a cheat." Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark) smothered some of Dempsey's words with a crashing gavel and thundered: "Take your seat." With denials coming quickly, Fox last week had depicted Adams as using his weight with government agencies to help Gold-fine, a former friend and now a business foe of Fox. 1 And, to the accompaniment of more denials, Fox had testified that his Boston Post collapsed in 1956 under powerful pressures from within the Eisenhower administration, which he linked to enmity of Choate and Goldfine. Alone the way, Fox quoted Goldfine as having told him that Adams had promised to help Goldfine out of trouble with the Federal Trade Commission over mislabeling of textiles. Whether or not it was the target of the projected libel suit, Adams fired back with a formal state ment he personally read to re porters last Thursday night.

It ac cused Fox of making malicious accusations and added: "It is difficult to separate the many falsehoods in Mr. Fox in credible testimony. Virtually everything he said about me in one way or another is false. Fox stuck bv his euns Monday, He took back nothing. He said he hadn't stretched a thing.

In fact, he added something that Adams had obviously ordered Goldfine to "keep his mouth shut" when, Fox said, Goldfine proposed a toast to Adams on May 10, 1955 and remarked that "he never let's his friends down and he Isn't letting me down at this time." At this time, Goldfine was in difficulty with FTC. Adams has conceded that he ac cepted gifts and payment of hotel bills from Goldfine but only on a basis of friendship. Fox is immune from any libel suit for testimony before the subcommittee. Goldfine's lawyers also blasted Fox last Thursday. They said he has a "dedicated will to ruin," that he is "an irresponsible and malicious individual who is bent upon defaming Mr.

Goldfine by reckless accusations." Goldfine himself will take the witness stand Wednesday without, Hagerty said, the White House "calling the shots." Newsmen inquired of Hagerty about word that the White House has been calling the shots, attributed by the Washington Post to a Goldfine lawyer in Boston. Hagerty said: "That is not true at ail I deny it flatly." Tucsonan In 'Cast' "The Senate Rackets Committee announced a "cast of characters" Monday who will figure In its hearings on an alleged criminal syndicate operating in the fields of labor unions and business. Included in the "cast" was Pete Licavoli, above, who has a ranch on eastside Tucson. The committee said Licavoli was linked with Cleveland, Detroit and Canadian gambling. The probers said he had been arrested for robbery, rum running, kidnaping, carrying concealed weapon, murder, extortion, gambling and assault.

Licavoli Named In Probe Apalachin Meeting Linked To Mafia WASHINGTON, June 30 UV-A secret agent for the Federal Nar cotics Bureau testified Monday the mysterious gathering last fall of racketeers at Apalachin, N. bore earmarks of a Mafia Black Hand convention. The testimony came from Mar tin F. Pera, a 10-year veteran of the Narcotics Bureau, as the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee launched public hearings on an alleged crime syndicate operating in this country. "The Apalachin meeting fol lowed the Mafia pattern," Pera said.

He described the alleged secret criminal society as one ruled by a grand council in this country and in Sicily, its reported birthplace. He said it commands an army of hoodlums who may win rewards for such, missions as an efficient murder. Pera said the Narcotics Bureau's investigations indicate the Mafia has made a concerted effort to penetrate the labor-management relations fieid. Robert F. Kennedy, committee counsel, told reporters he will ask Pera to expand on this when the witness resumes his testimony Tuesday.

The committee placed in evidence a list of 147 individuals which bore a caption "Individuals at Apalachin and names of some of their contacts and associates. Included in the list was Pete Licavoli of Tucson. The committee said these names and others will figure in the in vestigation it now estimates will run four or four and a half months, off and on. It has 100 witnesses under subpoena now. Battle ored cars and 81-mm.

artillery. The rebels, apparently shaken by the heavier firepower, fell back from two hills. Security troops surrounded a four-story building that had been turned into a fortress and the insurgents inside came out with their hands up. Rebels on another bill then swept across the valley in an attempt to relieve their comrades. They were driven back by machine guns and mortar fire.

Carl Hayden (D) and Barry Alaska to the Union. to Alaska would add to the time would be permitted to national Senate and House Tucson Chamber of Commerce salutes Alaska statehood with 49 starred flag. (See photo on page IB) Five Tucsonans Injured In Wild Wind Storm handful of Alaskans who have sat in the Senate galleries throughout the six-day debate dabbed nervously at their eyes with their handkerchiefs despite a smile on their faces. When the vote was announced, the several hundred spectators in the gallery broke into applause. Although it is against the Senate rules, there was no effort to stop it by Sen.

Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore) who was presiding. Extension of statehood United States an area roughly one-fifth the size of the 48 existing states and 2y2 times that of Texas. Alaskans for the first cast their vote for President and Vice President, have voting representation in the and to elect their own governor, and state officers. Passage of the bill came over the opposition'of a determined group of senators, largely from the South, who argued that Alaska was not prepared for statehood either from the standpoint of economy or pop Glass Fragments Spray Shoppers A wild rain and duststorm swept around Tucson yesterday and sent five persons to the hospital.

The five Tucsonans were in jured when heavy gusts shattered three huge plate glass windows at the County Fair Shopping Plaza at S. Craycroft and E. 22nd St. Rushed by ambulance to Tuc son Medical Center for emergency treatment were Darlene Robart, 20, of 5626 E. 6th a clerk in the Bentz Variety Store, 5534 E.

22nd Mrs. James Chapel, 1617 S. Avenida Regulos, a custom er at the time in Goodman's Market; her two sons, Terry, 17 months old, and James eight months, and Delia Mendoz, 19, who lives with the Chapels. Sheriff's deputies said two 8x16-foot windows in Goodman's and one 10xl4-foot window in Bentz' were smashed by the freak winds about 7:25 p.m. Glass splinters sprayed shoppers.

Besides those hospitalized, several Ike, Mamie To Note 42ndv Anniversary WASHINGTON, June 30 -Tuesday is the 42nd wedding anniversary of President and Mrs. Eisenhower. They were married in Denver in 1916. In reply to reporters' Questions, White House Press Secretary James Hagerty said he had no information on celebration plans by the President and Mrs. Today's News index vi ctieu gunman uapimeu auer fatally injuring two policemen, 7A ri i i Cost of building home greater than outside city Lebanon Rebels Reconditioning of AF at Marana Air Base, IB Irish elect lady mayor for ulation.

They pointed also to Alaska's geographical location and said the overstepping of Canada to extend statehood to a non-contiguous area would be a precedent for admission of other offshore areas such as Hawaii, Puerto Rico or Guam. Thirteen Democrats and seven Republicans voted against passage of the statehood bill. All of the Democrats except Sen. A. S.

(Mike) Monroney of Okla-homa were from southern states. Voting to make Alaska the 49th state were 51 Democrats and 33 Republicans. Reports linking southern opposition to the civil rights issue and fears that Alaska's admission would lead to election of senators unfriendly to the southern stand were denied by Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) in one of the final appeals made against the bill.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, 30 Hi Government forces and mountain tribesmen fought a see-saw battle in the hills overlooking Beirut Monday after the rebels drove closer to the capital than ever before. Followers of young rebel leader Kamal Jublatt made a surprise dawn push into hills between Chemlan and Kayfoun, only five miles from Beirut International airport Government forces counterattacked with Jet planes, arm Dublin, 5A A Dram of Poison, by Armstrong, 3C Supreme Court refuses Little Rock integration, 8A Comics I-7C Movies Crossword 2B Obituaries Editorial 8D Pub. Rec Financial 4-SC Radio-TV.