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Standard-Pod Mty Court of inquiry scheduled in strike LONDON (UPI) was set for the beginning of a government court of inquiry Tuesday into the causes of this island nation's IWay-old maritime strike. The striking National Union of Seamen (NUS) and the shipowners Shipping Federation will appear Officers and chairmen of the Eagles Auxiliary will meet tonight at 8 at the home of Mary Duddy, 912 California. Neil O'Keefe, son of Dr. and Mrs. N.

J. O'Keefe of 601 N. Excelsior, will receive his M.D. degree June 1ft at Portland, from the University of Oregon Medical School. before the inquiry board to present evidence to justify their positions in me dispute.

The court of inquiry, headed by Lord Pearson of the appeals court, was appointed last week by Minister of Labor Ray Gunter in an effort to break the deadlock that is slowly strangling Britain's economy. Ford Geddes, chairman the Shipping Federation, and several of his associates spent most of the three-day Whitsun holiday weekend in their office preparing material for the inquiry. Meanwhile, the union announced that the seamen's strike, the first in Britain in 55 years, had already halted 651 of the nation's 2,500 ships and had idled 18,947 seamen. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government has declared a state of emergency because of the strike and has armed the government with sweeping emergency powers. So far, however, the government has not used its emergency powers apparently to avoid prejudicing a settlement.

Crescent of crisis dangerous to peace NEW DELHI, India (AP) The crescent of crisis that is Red China's frontier with non- Communist Asia will be dangerous in the months ahead. From Korea in northeast Asia to India's Ladakh region in the west, China will be watched anxiously by those within reach of its massive power. India, Formosa, Viet Nam. Thailand all are likely to feel mounting Chinese pressure. The crucial question is whether China will be content with just talking about its neighbors while prodding the Norm Vietnamese into action against "Yankee imperialists." A serious, all-out attack on India could trigger a U.S.-China confrontation.

Some China experts feel the U.S. Air Force's bombers and the nuclear-laden American aircraft carriers now in the Pacific. China, these experts say, will harass, nibble, prod, fight the Americans to the last Vietnamese but will avoid a showdown. Others fear that Chinese frustration, brewing since setbacks in Indonesia and Africa, may explode. One dangerous sector in 1966 will be India's Himalayan frontier with Chinese-ruled Tibet.

For China there are cheap, impressive-looking victories to be had in those high mountain passes. And military involvement drives India deeper into economic trouble by forcing it to spend heavily on defense. There also is the possibility that the probes hearten Pakistan, which China has courted for years and which virtually is at war with India. The India-Pakistan quarrel could be a grave threat to peace in 1966, especially if Communist China tries to meddle as it did during the September war between these two nations. Neither Pakistan nor India feels it was badly hurt last time, and both are likely to press small-scale but bloody skirmishing along 1,500 miles of cease- fire line.

One of the biggest battles will be India's fight to ward off famine. India's population, now 480 million, increases about- 12.5 million annually but food production has dropped off. American foodgrains will help cover what threatens to be a 14- millkxi-ton gap between India's production and what its people need. On the China mainland there are indications that Peking has established a solid, if modest, economic base but it still will be importing wheat from Canada. Important changes may come hi Asian political lineups.

Virtually all of China's top-ranking leaders, outwardly united, are in their 70s. Their archenemy, President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China, is 78. There seems little chance that radical policy changes would follow personnel shuffles in either nation. Washington has at least $11 billion of assistance funds invested in India and Pakistan. There will be a temptation to put more in and hope the initial investment can be saved.

The cost of police duties from Singapore north to Seoul already is monumental. Richard Nixon still top GOP contender for 1968 WASHINGTON (AP) Wherever Richard M. Nixon goes, he is asked several times each day: "Mr. Nixon, would you like to run for president again?" Would he? Would a starved lion like a hunk of raw meat? Manfully struggling to conceal his hunger and his eagerness, Nixon will replay: "Any individual in his profession naturally must aspire to be the best, but we can't all be president." slight pause. "I found that out." Slight smile.

"But at the present time I don't expect I'll ever have the chance again." This seems a fair summation that could be accepted even by his critics, who remain numerous, unforgetting and unforgiving. Nixon's answer is not surprising; What else could he say? What is startling is that the question is still being asked. In 1950, after a brutal campaign, Nixon became senator from California. That's the last election he ever won on his own. To be sure, he was twice vice president, but anyone could have won with Dwight D.

Eisenhower heading the ticket. He followed this with what normally is a sure formula for political oblivion: a harrowing defeat for pesident in 1960 and a disastrous licking for governor of io 1962. Yet Nixon remains a leading Republican contender for the White House; he continues to get 300 invitations to speak each week; he still devotes 40 per cent of his time to politics, although he has held neither a government nor a party office for five years. For durability despite adversity, no other public man today can match Richard M. Nixon.

Partly this is a tribute to Nixon's well-honed talents for survival in the political jungles. Partly it reflects a nagging problem that dogs the Republicans. Party leaders talk bravely of their fine stable of potential candidates eager to run against President Johnson in 1968. Privately they admit that few have the stature, as yet, to whip up the required enthusiasm and fury, and that some may be slyly holding back, hoping for 1972 when the prospects of whining may be brighter. So the situation is this again: nearly every poll and survey past Nixon at the top of the list ahead of Gov.

George Romney of Michigan, Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania, Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon, Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller of New York and Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York City. Htuse ifl Cenienrille, vacant, burns down Firemen from two volunteer departments fought a blaze that destroyed a vacant house at 131 E. Agate early Monday evening. Hie fire slightly damaged the exterior of a home at 127 E.

Agate. The alarm at 6:22 brought Centerville firemen to the scene. By 6:35 the Centerville department called for assistance as the fire caught in some trees and it was feared it would spread to nearby homes. Big Butte firemen responded. The cause of the fire was not determined.

GEMINI 9 ASTRONAUTS Tom Stafford (left) and Gene Cernan (right) with astronaut Dek'e Slayton, shield their eyes from bright sun as they watch Atlas-Centaur blast off with Surveyor spacecraft en route to the moon. (UPI Telephoto) Leftist groups involved in clash SANTO DOMINGO (UPI) Police fired automatic weapons and machine guns into the air Monday break up a rock- throwing clash between two leftist groups at a political rally for Wednesday's presidential elections. The fighting erupted when the Castroite 14th of June party tried to raise its banners over a crowd of about 1,000 persons at the Parque Enriquilla, one of the city's major parks. The Revolutionary Social Christian party (PRSC) objected, and the two groups began hurling rocks at each other. Hospital personnel complete seminar Certificates of completion five-day seminar at the University of Montana, Helena, on hospital accounting methods include John Delaney, administrator of Silver Bow General Hospital, and Mrs.

Margaret Sikon- ia of the local hospital's staff. Others listed include Lois B. Owsley of Granite County Memorial Hospital, Philipsburg: Chuck Eckberg of St. Peter Hospital, Helena; Sister Mary William and Sister Macrina of St. John Hospital, Helena; Sister Mary Francine of St.

Ann Hospital, Anaconda; James W. Flynn of Barrett Hospital, Dillon; Robert V. Shannon and Nina M. Nielson of Powell County Memorial Hospital, Deer Lodge. In exercise Army Cpl.

Laurence J. Nash, 20. son of Mrs. Mary J. Nash of 2120 Florence, took part as a 4th Artillery Battalion gunner in a recent five-day training exercise conducted by the Berlin Brigade at Grafenwohr, Germany.

Nash entered the Army in February, 1964, and took basic training at Fort Ord. Calif. He is a 1963 graduate of Butte High School. A bull giraffe unually stands 18 feet high. DEATH Mrs.

Alice (Sweet) Thomas, JO, died Sunday in Spokane. Graveside rites will be in Butte. NEW ARRIVALS Born in St. James Community Hospital Monday: Mr. and Mrs.

Glenn Chrislen- sen. 140 E. Daly, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs.

Richard A. Choquette. 605 S. Wyoming, a daughter. FUNERALS TODAY Jacob Aho, Wayrynen Funeral Home at Mount Moriah Cemetery.

Joe Anzik, Holy Savior Church at Holy Cross Cemetery. Patricia Ann Halvorson, St. Ann Church at Holy Cross Cemetery. AF volunteer is commended Mrs. Robet L.

Gott, wife of First Lt. Robert L. Gott of Butte, has received a letter of appreciation from the Air Force for 36314 hours of service as an Air Force Family Services volunteer. The award was made at Hurlburt Field, Florida. Lt.

Gbtt's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Goft of 322 S. Jackson.

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