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WIATHM-Map, Fa8 51 BAY AREA Light rain likely tomorrow. High today hr Oakland 65. Low tonight 53. West or Southwest winds 10-18 m.p.h. ittieiiTii miss wilt min iiitii pieii micmi imr iewi miiiii iimiii VOL CLXV 1(X DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1956 20 SUNDAY NO.

88 HOME EDITION ll.l'l Jl Ill I III Yi "Ml FAITH BACON U.N. Threatens Action Unless Israel, Arabs Stop Fighting Oaklander Arrested in Sea Chase Fisherman Denies Charges of Robbery, Shooting on Soat Ike Raps Demos on Farm Policy President Looses Sharpest Attack Of His Campaign Two Ships Hit Rocks In Typhoon 140 Persons Periled On Vessels; Waves Hamper Rescuers New Complication irDispute Over Suez as Israel Seeks Part in U.N. Discussions Punitive Raid Near Jerusalem Alarms Hammarskjold After Heavy Casualties Reported Sept. 26-WI-A new compli By th Associated Prats U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold said today he would ask the Security Council to take up Israeli- ordaman clashes in Palestine if the situation is not brought "rapidly under control." The secretary general was clearly alarmed over the srael attacked Jordanian forces last night in what Israel said was a reprisal for Jordan raids.

The -punitive raid situation in Palestine, where Secy. Fires Reply to Stevenson WASHINGTON, Sept 2-J! Secretary of State Dulles, re- ponding to statements by Dem ocratic Presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson, said today hat President Eisenhower's brother Milton has played a highly constructive role in foreign affairs. Dulles told his news confer ence he telt he could depart rom his self-imposed rule gainst being drawn Into politi Suez dispute today when part in Security Council Britain and France squared strength with Egypt at the Dulles Says Egypt Won't Win Dispute WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 Ml Secretary of State Dulles pre dicted today that Egypt will not be able to "get away with" single-handed operation of the Suez Canal.

He appealed to dis puting nations lor "patience and resourcefulness" in dealing with the canal crisis. Liu lies was asKed at a news conference whether he thought there would be Arab efforts to nationalize the great Middle East oil fields "if Egypt gets away with" its seizure of the canal. He replied that he did not ae-1 cept the possibility that Egypt was going to get away with it Dulles then, said that through such things as the loss of tourist revenue and trade, lue to de clining faith this --w-y doing business, Egypt would come tol recognize that it would have to NAHA, Okinawa, Sept. 26 ufi Mountainous waves and 130 mile an hour winds drove two ships aground today as Typhoon Harriet churned across the East China Sea. The storm kept rescue vessels irom reacning iub passengers stranded on the Japanese liner Hakusan Maru and 34 crewmen aboard the battered British freighter Bedford Earl.

The typhoon raked Okinawa and then turned northward toward Japan. The Japanese braced for a heavy blow up their east coast tomorrow. The storm center was 185 miles south southeast of Kagoshima, Japan, today. Harriet is the season's eighth big typhoon and the second to strike Okinawa in less than a month. One Okinawan was re ported hurt.

Only minor property damage was reported in contrast to the more than damage inflicted by Ty phoon Emma on this U.S. island base earlier this month. ANOTHER BREWING Meanwhile, Typhoon Ivy, packing winds 01 73 miles an hour, was spotted 4odfay by a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane 260 miles east-northeast fof-lwd ima. Fleet Weather Cen tral at Guam said the typhoon was moving west at 10 miles an hour.

U.S. Air Force forecasters pre dicted typhoon Harriet would reach a point 150 -miler south southeast of Tokyo by 3 p.m. to morrow. Its winds dropped to about 105 m.p.h. as it traveled northward.

Huge waves were pounding the Bedford Earl to pieces on a coral reef at Ie Islet, cai charges ana counter charges Earlier White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty had referred newsmen to Dulles when they boat the matter. Dulles said he could willingly reply to a reporter's question about statements attributed to UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., cation was injected into the Israel asked permission to discussions. The Israeli request came as off for a preliminary test of start 01 tne aeoate, It also carte as fighting flared between Israel and Jordan. An Israeli spokesman made it clear that Israel would steei clear of this issue and concentrate on the Suez problem, but Western diplomats feared the Israeli request would be.

followed by similar requests from Arab countries, Israeli claimed special inter est on the SuejZ problem because of Egyptian restrictions on Israeli shipping. EXPECTED CLASH The first clash, however, was expected when Britain and France ask the council to block an Egyptian move to place on the agenda a charge that the two European powers threaten world peace by their actions in the Suez crisis. The British-French stand was expected to trigger a sharp pro cedural debate ovei just what! should be on the Council's1 agenda and how it should ap proach the bitter dispute over Egyptian President Nassers nationalization -of the -strategic East-Wesf waterway. By the time the opening round is concluded, there should be some indication which way the Council will lean when it comes to grips with the basic! issues, probably a week from now. PREPARE PROPOSAL British ana French diplomats were busy putting into snape theoreposal-they plan to lay before the Council after the pre limmaries are cleared away.

Thisjiyjll be submitted formally by British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, who are expected here early next week. S. Secretary of State Dulles jflso is expected to join in the later debate but there was no! indication from Moscow whether Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov would come to New York. But with the likelihood of a Soviet veto aringhem tiie British and French already were considering their next step. Eden.

and-Lioy4 were due in Paris today for dis farmer Guy Mollet and Pineau on fu ture policies. Spokesmcjisaidthey would reaffirm sisting-that the-canaHje -jwiMJn- der some -kind of international authority. CALL ON COUNCIL The two Western powers called on the Security Council to intervene after weeks of un take work out a different solution fort Stevenson because the matter miles off Okinawa, where First Fan Dancer in Faith Bacon, self-styled originator of the fan dance and kin of several generations of prom inent Oaklanders, leaped from a Chicago hotel window today. She is reported near death in a hospital after what police describe as a suicide try made be cause she could not find a job press dispatches from Chicago The dancer was the toast of Chicago World's Fair in 1934 and carried on a running battle with Sally Rand over who orig inated the fan dance. ZIEGFELD GIRL Miss Bacon always said that she began the feathered routine while a member of Earl Car roll's Vanities of 1930.

This was a year before she was by the late Florenz Ziegfeld as his most beautiful shew girl in "The Follies of 1931." Miss Bacon appeared Here in 1938 and combmed business with a visit with her uncles, the late Af Wircphato FAITH BACON At Sac Looked in 1936 Thomas P. and Robert Bacon of Oakland. At one time -he disclosed she was a great granddaughter 01 the late Henry D. Bacon, founder of the "old Page-Bacon Bank in Francisco and donor of the site for Oakland's Madison Park and a library, and art gallery at the University of California. Henry D.

Bacon was offered the portfolio of Secre tary of State in President Lin coln's first cabinet, Miss Bacon said. KIN LIVED HERE Her grandfather Frank Page Bacon, was owner of the Bacon Block in Oakland. He died in 1928. Miss Bacon js the daugh ter of Frank Page Bacon Jr. of Pennsylvania.

Her father never Even rOaklanC According to the press reports, the once beautiful Miss qqpnp a -jitim Wnnrip during her heydey had spent three Col. 8 "Maybe they're trying to find a substitute route for the Suez Canal." WHERE TO FIND IT Bridge Scores 23 Calendar 40 Classified Comics Crossword Puzzle Editorial financial 42 24, 25 23, 62 60, 61 Gardens 23 Gereldine 23 Martha lee 20 Music Review Outdoors' Radio and TV Society and Clubs Sports Theaters 53 52 26 21. 55 52, 53 Uncle Wiggily .25 Vitals 54 Weether 52 Leap c9 v- relates to what he called factual matters of U.S. foreign policy. Dulles never 1 1 on Stevenson by name.

APPEASEMENT CHARGED Stevenson, said in a campaign speecn at Miami -iast mgnr mat the Eisenhower administration had appeased ex-dictator Juan Peron of Argentina. The Democratic candidate said member of the President's personal family assumed a spe cial, if informal, responsibility for our relationships with Ar gentina. Stevenson aides said he meant Milton Eisenhower, who has madertrips; toLatia-America special White House repre sentative. Dulles spoke with some heat as ne said tne residents brother had played a highly con- c4iiviuA sin A h-Oi nVM interfered with normal policy atteattie Stated Depart ment. Dulles said some of the pro posals brought back by Milton Eisenhower dealing with trade and-aid for-Latln America, had been adopted An Oakland fisherman's friendly offer to take a tavern acquaintance across the Bay in his fishing boat turned into 'a fight and a police and Coast Guard chase that led to the fish erman's arrest early today eight miles at sea.

He is held on charges of sus picion of robbery and assault with intent to commit murder. The suspect. Nelson W. Spen cer, 63, of 3921 Edgemoor Place, denied the charges, and said his temporary passenger went ber ferk under the Bay Bridge yes terday. as he was heading his 28-foot boat.

Tango, for San Francisco. Spencer said the man, William H. Lummus, 41, a Santa Barbara construction worker, fought wildly for the boat's wheel and then lunged for the pistol Spencer keeps for protection while at'sea. PUT HIM ASHORE The gray-haired Oakland man, who is a crane operator, except during the commercial fishing Reason, said he managed to get the boat to a pier near Fisherman's Wharf and saw Lummus scramble ashore and run off Into the night. He denied Lummus' "Statement that Lummus had been robbed of $40 and said the other man's wound and bruises under the left eye could have come from the fight for control of the Spencer he had not fired anj shots from thi pistol recently.

Police said they found four discharged shells in Spencer's pistol. Lummus was treated at Cem tral and Mission Emergency Hospitals for a minor gunshot wound. He reported to police that he had been shot and robbed by an unidentified boat- man. HELD AS DRUNK Lummus was held overnight as a drunk, but paid $5 bail, this morning and vanished. Spencer tied up at Fishermen's Wharf and telephoned his wife, Helen, at home to tell her what had happened.

He said he fell asleep on the boat and at dawn today telephoned San Francisco police to complain "of the drunk raising heck on my boat." Patrolman Robert Quinn and John Ruggerio listened to his story and thought at first thatj Spencer was another victim of the gunman -neat man -tor wnom police had been searching during the night on rthfib When they returned at 7 a.m.. Continued So They Say CASSANDRA, writing in London Daily Mirror on reception for "He reeks with emetic language that makes grown men long for a- quiet eornerv n-aspidistra, a handkerchief and the old heave-ho." REV. DON WEAVER, address ing rally of integration oppo-. Dents: y- "God didn't want it that way. ANTHONY EDEN sees world pae and--security at Jhe There can be no agreed settlement which leaves the canal the unfettered control of one man or one government." BIRDIE TEBBETTS, Cincinnati manager, sizing up the National League race: "You've got to give Milwaukee the edge.

They have both speed and power." RUTH BISHOP, friend of Faith Bacon, after trying to stop, suicide" attempt of jobless fan dancer: "She would have taken arty kind of work in show business." rHE NEWS METER HURRICANE Strong is 'her wrath in storm paths rubble hilled. Bat stronger still nun's courage to rebuild. "JACK BURROUGHS. X' I By the Associated Press President Eisenhower loosed his most sharply worded cam paign attack to date last night accusing Democrats of "politick ing at the farmers' expense" and of handing farmers a program of "mockery and deceit." Adlai Stevenson, his Demo cratic opponent, in turn called on Eisenhower to say "'whether he has "heard about loose ad ministration-of the "soil bank to pour money into the farm belt" ahead of the November election Eisenhower spoke last night in feoria, presenting ine Republican side of the farm con troversy in a nationally broad cast and televised speech. (See Page 3) Stevenson framed his question in an address ior aenvery in Jacksonville, today, after a busy day of campaigning yesterday in Arkansas, -Louisiana and Florida.

(See Page 5) Eisenhower told the Nation's farmers his Administration will give them "a full share in our country's good times." He said farmers now face "brighter peacetime prospects than they have had for years." SOIL BANK ISSUE Stevenson, speaking of the soil bank created by Congress this year in an effort to reduce crop surpluses, asked: "Is it possible that the Presi dent has not heard about the loose administration of the soil bank to pour money into the farm bank before election? 'Or does the President deny that this is playing politics, and with huge sums of the taxpay ers money? Eisenhower made clear in his oWn address that the Adminis tration is relying mainly on the soil bank to brighten the farm picture. This provides for pay ments to farmers land that otherwise--wwd-ef used in production of basic crops already in surplus. The No. 2 candidates Vice President Nixon and Sen. Estes Kefauverr his Democratic opponentalso were hard at work.

(See Page 4.) Kefauvr, in an address pre pared for delivery today to a young voters organization in Louisville, said the Eisenhower administration-has swept world treses "under the rug.r' Nixon, almost recovered from a threateilmenMhat slowed his campaign progress yesterday, scheduled an afternoon rally in Springfield, and a night rally at Kansas City, across the Missouri River from Kansas City, where Stevenson was scheduled to speak toniehfT" BUTLER'S REPLY In Washington, Demo cratic national chairman, r'aul M. Butler," replied yesterday 6 a recent GOP attack. The" Republicans had listed unflattering commentsby Stevenson and Kefauver about each other when they were opposed for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and by Truman, who opposed both. Butler sent his opposite num ber." GOP Chairman Leonard Hallr a collection of Repybli-4 car. comments about Eisenhower all equally unflattering Samole GOP Quotes on the Democratic lists: "Eisenhower betrayed trust of the American people by agreeing to concrete measures Of appeasement at Geneva.

fSeBarfeCarthy--fcon Our power seekers, try to make, our Chief. Executive into monarch, and our constitu- tional executive branch into a 'g 1 a imperial house hold." (Senator Jenner of In diana.) ANOTHER FRONT Hall, attacking on another front todav, said the GOP will assign a truth squad to Jstev- because of what he called Stevenson's "steadfast reluctance to become acquainted with the facts" "The. plain Hall said "is that Stevenson has been guilty of a long series of mis statements. not only about the issues but abou. President Ei senhower and Vict President Nixon." The "truth GOP Corrgress member.

who had been trailing Kefauver con sists of Senators Barrett (Wyo.) and-Mundt (S.D.) iand Repre-I Continued Page CoL 3 wheretirefi5 the canal. -NO PROSPECT said he did not see any prospect of 1 Egypt making success out of the path it is now traveling. The appeal for "patience and tolerance" came in a iormal stateeftT wtr" opened his news conference the first he has held since he attended an 18-nation conference that agreed at London last week to form a Suez Canal Users Association. In this statement, Dulles ex pressed confidence that with pa tience and tolerance there "will be an agreed settlement." He made these specific points about the canal dispute 1 He personally expects to at tend the United Nations Security Council debate pn the crisis Jnt New York next week. TIGHTER REGULATIONS 2 He reaffirmed his intention to have U-SGoyejaunent jegua lations tightened so that ships under the American flag can no longer pay Suez" Canal tolls di rectly to Egypt.

Dulles said that they could yuclv4olls to-the Risers asso ciation wjuch jn tjirn would pay TSgypt for canal services, 3 Since most American ships! operate under foreign flags, particularly through registration in Panama and Libena, he ex pressed "hope that (hose ships also would follow example tarily. Dulles indicated the users association, would take its -time into Jordan by artillery- backed Israeli infantrymen, set off a seven-hour battle that ended at dawn with heavy casualties on' both sides. Hammarskjold made his an nouncement in an open letter to Cuban Delegate Emilio Nunez- Portuondo, president of the 11- nation council. Earlier the secretary general had called in U.N. delates from Israel, Jordan, the United States, France, Britain and Russia to confer on the latest de velopments in Palestine.

Abdul Monem Rafa'I, the Jor- den delegate, declared after see- Britain Censures Israel LONDON, Sept. 26 Britain publicly censured Israel today for its reprisal raid against Jordan. A formal declaration issued by the Foreign Office ex pressed "sympathy to- Israel because Jordan fired on party of archeologists in Israel last week. But it reiterated that retail ation "cannot be considered as within the limits of 4egiti mat self-defense." in Hammarskjold that the lat est Israeli attack was a flagrant act 0 aggression. He hinted Jordan would talce counteraction if the U.N.

failed Abba Eban. the Israeli dele gate said lie told Hammarskjold, that Israel was willing 10 00 serve cease-fire agreements on the basis of reciprocity." The Jordan and Syrian cabi nets met in emergency sessions at their capitals. pledged to aid Jordan against Israel, re? cently posted a mobile military division near Jordan border, NEWS. OF. BATTLE Israeli" sDokesmen said 50 Jor danians were killed in the raid on army and.

police positions near Husan, six miles southwest of Jerusalem. Israeli acknpwl edged five of the raiders were killed and 19 wounded Jcanianr armyioftrcers'irf Amman, the Arab kingdoms canital. declared 90 or more of the Israelis were killed and tne rest forced to retreat4n disorder after blowing up a police post ancTsome houses. By their ac' count, 21 Jordanmn sldier licemen and national guardsmen lost their lives as the fighting rage through attack and coun EMERGENCY SESSION (Jordan's cabinet also met in emergencysession.XAier -rung Hussein, the 20-year-old monarch, received diplomats -of the other Arab nationsin audience nations have professed unity in frontier differences with Israel.) Jordan said the Israeli attack was made in Brigade strength, meaning perhaps 2,000 or more infantrymen took part in the raid miles inside the armis tice demarcation belede-raid as a warning iabeled -the raid as a warning Continued Page A. CoL 1 standby service, was approved yesterday by the California Public Utilities Commission.

The single ferry willjneet all but two trains7 departing or arriving at the Oakland Mole. The exceptions are the daily arrivals of the El Dorado from Sacramento at 9:15 a.m. and the Owl from Los Angeles at 7:15 p.m. Passengers will be taken to San Francisco by bus. Launching Pag 31 si- on incread creditf successful effort to get Nasserlof-American fla ships -vohm- seeking a showdowt.

withlahis palarp in Amman. TheseL ro j. was killed in the late of World War II. i Capt R. W.

Thompson re ported by radio that the heavy seas made it impossible to launch lifeboats or An Army tug was unable to reach the Bedford Earl. A U.S. Air Force amphibious rescue plane waited for the sea to quiet, somewhat before trying to take the crew off. The, Bedford was en route from Yokohama to Viet Nam to load coal for Europe. DRIVEN AGROUND running oetween Kagoshima, Japan, and Okinawa, was driven aground in shallow -water off Amami Oshima Island, some 120 miles of Okinawa.

The giant seas kept away Japanese- Coast Guard- vessels trying Jo evacuate the Haku- san's passengers in response to a radioed SQS. A U.S. freighter, the Amer ican also ran agrouna farther-north, at a-point-about 15 miles of Nagoya, but its mishap apparently was not caused by the typhoon and the ship' was reported in no imme diate danger. A Japanese Coast Guard tug was trying to pull the American Mail from the reef. Tornado Kills 60, Injures 600 in China HONG KONG, Sept.

26 A tornado killed more than 60 persons and injured 600 in the suburbs of Shanghai Monday TT -PZZ The broadcast said the twister destroyed hundreds of peasant cottages and a four-story tech nical college. LIGHT RAINS FORECAST FOR BAY REGION Light lain is forecast the Weather Bureau tonight over much of the Bay Area -and Northern California coastal section. Clearing weather is expected tomorrow, although it will remain cloudy. Little change in temperature is The low tonight will be in the 51 to 56-degree range. Early morning fog is expected tomorrow along the coast, extending inland but clearing by mid-morning.

in Egyptian President Nasser over the use of association pilots to take ships through the canal LA. Smog Alert LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26 Hr A first-stage smog alert was jfeyafjmirntratiQn, .50 part, per million parts per air in the downtown area. S.P. REQUEST technical aidand-trade, Dulles formed the basis of American foreign -policy toward Latin America In all those respects, Dulles said, the U.S.-elationship with Latin American countries is at a new nign.

TRUMAN AID CITED As far as the U.S. attitude Dulles said, Peron came into power under the Democratic administration in this country and went out of power under Eisen hower's administration. Dulles made no claim, however, that the. administration had done anything to cause utter-also aidtheemos" cratic Truman administration had provided more than 000.000 in aid to Argentina un der Peron's regime. He said the Eisenhower administration had given Peron nothing.

Further, Dulles continued, the newsgathering agencies, including the a newspaper La Prensa at Buenos Aires, had been denied access to news before the Eisenhower administration came to power. One of Milton Eisenhower's first acts. Dulles said, was to see to it that newsgathering agencies could do their work unfettered. And La Prensa has now been restored, he added. Gruenther in Ankara ANKARA, turkey.

Sept. 2t UP Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, retiring supreme allied commander in Europe, landed in Ankara today to pay a farewell visit to the jurkish government and military leaders. to agree to some kind of inter national control to guarantee free use of the waterway to all nations.

They claimed Nasser had acted improperly when he tookj unilateral action to nationalize the canal, whose international character they said was guaran teed by the Constantinople Convention of 1888. Twenty-fou-r hours after they gZ.M-j,.'HR.,w.r Egyplseorateredhfteiraewn complaint. The immediate problem the Council faced was whether it should take up both complaints and. if it did, whether to discuss them together or separately. 5 U.S.

Mariners Arrive For Suez Canal Training CAIRO, Sept. 26 Five U.S. ship captains arrived today to train alongside mariners from Russia and other nations as pi lots on the Suez CapaL They said they agreed with the government to take six weeks training and then decide if they want to stay on. Eevrjt paid their travel ex penses. "We have not signed any con said Gregory Hatch of San Francisco.

"We came to wait and see how it is going to turn out (Officials of the Masters, Mates Continued Page CoL 5 One Ferry Will Ply Bay Waters San Francisco Bay, once dotted with dozens of ferry boats, fill be down to one of the colorful boats next Sunday. Starting on that date, one ferry will ply between the Southern Pacific's Oakland Mole and San Francisco. S.P. request to reduce the service from operation of two ferryboats with one 'in standby status, to operation of a single boat with another in.

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