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Accepts Russ Assembly Call President Answers Khrushchev's Sudden New Plan on Mideast BY ROBERT T.HARTMANN Times Washington Bureau Chief 1 '-turn I WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 President Eisenhower tonight swiftly accepted Soviet Premier Khrushchev's surprise tactical switch to throw the Middle East dis pute into the United Nations General Assembly. KI" r.4 4 i4m4 if 1 Survives Fantastic Ordeal A 29-year-old' Hollywood salesman last night battled for three hours high seas and a runaway high-powered motor boat that threatened to cut him to bits during an incredible 10- mile swim to shore. The fantastic adventure centers around Richard Tayler of 1653 Lyman Place. Shortly after 8 p.m.

yester day, Tayler left Cabrillo Beach in his 60 m.p.h. speed boat for the short run to Catalina. He was approximately 10 miles offshore when a heavy swell pitched him from the craft into the sea. The pilotless craft im mediately began to circle Tayler. For three terror-stricken hours, Tayler swam through the heavy seas toward shore while the high-powered craft played with him as a cat would a mouse.

Cries for Help Several times he was forced to dive deep below the surface to avoid the churning propeller which would have cut him to bits. When the craft veered away from him, he cried for help, praying that some other boat in the' vicinity would come to his aid. The high-pitched whine of the motorboat and the cries for help were first heard by some unidentified persons on the Cabrillo Beach breakwater about 9 p.m. They promptly notified lifeguards, still on duty at the beach, and the Coast Guard. Plunges to Rescue Two Coast Guard cutters raced to the scene.

They also heard the cries for help and the whine of the uncontrolled boat which now was racing without running lights, but were unable to locate either Tayler or his low motor boat. Tayler's cries more feeble as dozens of persons crowded on the breakwater and along the shore in Please Turn to Pg. 23, Col. 3 THE WEATHER Light smog in foothill areas and inland valleys today. U.S.

Weather Bureau forecast: Night and early morning low clouds and local fog but mostly sunny after mid-mornings today and tomorrow. Little change in temperatures. High today about 84. High yesterday, 84; low, 66. $1.

Robbery in Four bandits smashed the display window of a Beverly Hills jewelry yesterday, hurled a smoke bomb inside to hold back employees ana got away with jewels valued by the store owner at "from 000 to more than Witnesses said the bandits all wore white T-shirts and had white folded handker chiefs clamped in their teeth to hide the lower parts of their faces. Small Bomb Tossed The daylight robbery was carried out swiftly at the Jewells by Tobias shop, 319 Rodeo Drive. Witnesses said one of the men smashed the thick glass of a small display win dow set in the brick and marble of the store. An other hurled a small but ef fective smoke bomb through the store's on en double doors. "This was a professional, well-planned job," said W.

J. (Bud) Tobias, proprietor of the store. "Four men did it in nothing flat, only a couple of minutes." Large Diamonds Tobias said the window looted was one in which spe cial displays of diamonds are shown. He said the store was opened sharply at 10 a.m. and the robbery occurred at 10:10 a.m., a min ute or so after the diamond display was taken from the vaults and placed in the window for the day.

Among the missing items Tobias said, is an emerald- cut diamond ring and a mar- quise-cut diamond ring. Total value of these two pieces, alone, he said, is $250,000. Also missing are necklaces, bracelets and ear clasps. Tobias said he could not estimate the exact value of the stolen merchandise until a thorough inventory was made. He insisted, however.

it could be in excess of Turn to Pg. 2, Col. 7 Mongolian Quake Shifted Mountain MOSCOW, Aug. 5 W) The giant earthquake that hit Outer Mongolia last Dec. 4 shifted a mountain, gouged a 200-mile-long crack in the earth and killed cattle with flying stones.

This report was given to the International Geophysi cal Year conference by the Mongolian Republic. 000.000 Beverly Hills ZIGGY ELMAN, FAMED JAZZ MAN, MISSING Ziggy Elman, one of the nation's most widely known jazz trumpet players, was reported missing yesterday by his wife Ruby. She told police the 44- year-old musician left his home at 5859 Columbus Van Nuys, Monday night in the family car and has not been seen since. Police said Elman called- his telephone exchange and left instructions to cancel all further calls. Elman became nationally prominent when he played in the Benny Goodman and Harry James orchestras of the late 30s.

He later recorded several tunes with a band under his own name. Gov. Williams Swamps Foe in Michigan Vote BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. G. Mennen Williams swamped his first opposition 10 years in yesterdays Michigan primary to win an unprecedented sixth term Democratic nomination.

Williams, potential candi date for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1960, led William L. Johnson, an Ironwood broadcaster, by 7-1 in results early today. The 47-year-old Governor will be opposed in November by Paul D. Bagwell, a Michigan State University professor on leave. Bagwell won the GOP nomination without challenge.

Kansas, Missouri and West Virginia also had primary elections yesterday. Voting was light. Symington Wins Another Democratic Presidential prospect, Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri, ran away from two opponents to win a second-term nomi nation. Clyde Reed a Parsons (Kas.) publisher, won an easy victory over former Gov.

Fred Hall for the Republican nomination for Governor of Kansas. Democratic Gov George Docking was unop- posed for renominauon. The 44-year-old son of former Kansas Gov. and U.S. Sen.

Reed was conceded the victor by Hall. Two Democratic Senate races in West Virginia had these results: Two-year term: Former Rep. Jennings Randolph was leading ex-Gov. William C.I Marland by 3-2 with half of the precincts reported. The winner will meet Repub lican Sen.

John D. Hoblitzell Please Turn to Pg. 11, Col. 1 MJ He seemed perfectly satis fied, in a special statement issued by the White House, to rest the U.S. cause before the full jury of 81 member nations.

He pointed out that the United States itself proposed such, a step on July 18, but postponed it because of Khrushchev's various bids for a summit meeting. Although the Soviet boss apparently deferred his idea of a face-to-face meeting of government leaders, White House Press Secretary Hag-erty told newsmen he would not rule out a General Assembly appearance by the President. However, such procedure is not normal, and sources close to the Presi dent privately termed it unlikely. Complete Surprise Overnight, the prospect of a summit get-together in- the next few weeks had virtually vanished. By now, however, nobody would guess what Khrushchev may pro- Dose tomorrow.

The prompt pickup of Khrushchev's General As sembly plan was the admin istration's fastest reaction yet in the current exchange of crisis despite the fact that Secretary of State Dulles was in Brazil and the first word of the new Mos cow maneuver reached Presi- dent Eisenhower at Burning Tree Golf Club. After finishing his game, the Chief Executive con ferred for an hour with Vice- President Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, who meanwhile had been on the telephone with Dulles in Rio. The first official indication of the U.S. decision came from Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge at the United Nations. Lodge welcomed the Soviet proposal and pointed out that the first Please Turn to Pg.

22, Col. 3 Khrushchev Bans Talks in Aug. 5 (0 Premier Khrushchev refused tonight to meet President Eisenhower face to face in ta Security Council discussion of the crisis. He demanded instead an emergency session of the 81- nation General Assembly, and left In doubt whether he would attend. He said in a letter to Pres- Txt ol Khrushchcr latter to Elsnhowr begins on Pago 18, Part.

I. ident Eisenhower that he still hopes a summit meeting will not be delayed indefinitely but made clear he wants it held outside the United Nations. The new Khrushchev stand came in the wake of his talks in Peiping with Red China's Mao Tse-tung. These talks delayed Khrushchev's response to President Eisenhowerand may have had some effect upon the content of the response. Khrushchev declared the Security Council, with Formosa delegates representing China, is virtually paralyzed and cannot act independently of the United States.

Khrushchev's stand was set forth also in messages to Prime Minister Macmillan of Britain and Premier De Gaulle of France. At one point the Soviet Please Turn to Pg. 22, Col. 1 Council LAST STAND Dep. Sheriff Robert Beach shakes hands with Mrs.

Lomie Puck-ett after serving writ of assistance on her ending siege of her rental property at 2714 Gleneden St. She displayed guns to hold off workers sent to level house for Golden State Freeway. Minutes after the service the house was bulldozed. Tlmei photo Widow Outfoxed, Ends Freeway House Siege Trojan Horse Tactics Disarm Woman and Gain Possession of Property for Road nimtraltd on Pag 3, Pari 1 Trojan Horse tactics by five Sheriff's deputies yes 1 to the widow of a long-time Hollywood police sergeant. The five deputies who dispossessed Mrs.

Puckett and her son did so at 4:15 p.m. by posing as news reporters and thus gaining her confidence. Det. Lt. Carl Slem, in charge of the operation, said the idea came from Hugh McDonald, chief of the Sheriff's Civil Division.

Slem was one of four deputies who worked their way into the house. The others were Sgts. William Conroy and Sgt. Bob Please Turn to Pg. Col.

terday disarmed and dispossessed Mrs. Lomie Puckett, 51-year-old widow who has sought since last Thursday to prevent the Golden State Freeway from rolling across her Edendale property. Flash Floods Return to Desert Area Thunderstorms returned to the Mojave Desert last evening, sending flash flood runoffs across the trans continental highway near Barstow. San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies said mud and rocks covered U.S. High way 66 at Lenwood.

five miles west of Barstow, after rain water swept down from the hills in the wake of new, heavy showers. Four Fires The same thunderstorm, first of appreciable intensity to strike the area since last week, also caused four light ning-strike fires in timber near Big Bear Lake. U.S. Forest Service rangers said all of the blazes were controlled in less than a half-hour. Earlier yesterday, a thin Please Turn to Pg.

11, Col. 1 LAST-MINUTE NEWS Within minutes after five! deputies disarmed Mrs. Puckett and her son Ross, 23, two bulldozers leveled her income property at 2714 Gleneden St. It took just six minutes from the time that two bull dozers bit into the yellow- painted kitchen for the roof of the house to fall. $70-a-Month Rent Another six minutes and the two D-8 bulldozers were making figure 8s on the site of the property which until June, 1957 had been bringing a monthly income of $70 RETIRED REAR ADM.

DEFREES DIES Rear Adm. Joseph R. Defrees, 82, (USN ret) died early today in his home at 800 East Ocean Long Beach. Death was from natural causes. Defrees served as Chief of Staff of the U.S.

Scouting Force and Commandant of the 11th Naval District before his retirement. 'A.

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