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JIW 4 4 vi -if -r' THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FINAL FINAL 120th' YEAR-No 180 MEMPHIS 1 TENN THURSDAY MORNING JULY 9 48 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS lli Will Pull jits Atom Planes Out Of France Further Cuts Rejected As Senate Approves! Foreign Aid Spending -f i Loses 'Ike' Is Critical Ellender Refusal Of De Gaulle Allow A-Weapons In Nation Is Blamed 200 AIRCRAFT INVOLVED Queen Puts On Duster9TinHat9 Sees Steel Mill SAULT STE MARIE Ontario July (AP) An enthusiastic- crowd in a holiday mood applauded Queen Elisabeth (Wednesday on her four-hour vlvlsit to this Canadian steel TO town Thousands turned out from the Canadian Soo and its twin-named American neighbor city across the St River to watch the Queen and Prince Philip Waving hands and bursts of applause accompanied the royal pair on their auto tour of this "Little Pittsburgh" of Canada which with the American Soo is the site of the famed Soo locks between Lakes Superior and Huron The weather was ideal Highlighting the visit was a stop at Algoma Steel Corp where the royal couple domunl dusters and metal hats for a tour of the milL A bouquet of yellow roses was presented to the -Queen at her second stop by the 9-year-old quadruplet daughters of Mr and Mrs 0 Hargreaves The pair sails next to Port Arthur Ontario then will fly to Canada's West Coast to continue their tour United put in of de atomic they the Withdrawal Will Leave Only 7B Canadian Crafty On french Moving To 'i British German -Bases Of Soviet Boss Threatens Special Session If Congress Cuts Foreign Aid Too Deeply Mj UnlM Ptm InMiMtMnd WASHINGTON July 8 -President Eisenhower Wednesday In effect accused Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev of indulging in irresponsible threats with his talk about the possibility of war over Berlin The President made the statement at his news conference He also threatened Congress with a special session if it cuts his foreign aid program too deeply Not Way To Peace Discussing Khrushchev Elsenhower said he did not think responsible people should indulge in anything that can be even remotely considered ultimatums or threats" He said this waa no way to reach peaceful solutions The President was commenting on recent remark to former Gov Averell Harriman of New York that if highway accident shortly after the West wants war over Ber- lin "you can have it" Khruah-Lhe struck resulted in one chev threatened to unleash his "automatic rockets" in any such war On other issues the Tropical Storm Hits InCarolina Winds Are Below Hurrican One Fatality By Thi Anoetilad Pros CHARLESTON SC July 8 storm Cindy buffeted the South Caroliip coast Wednesday night lacking the hurricane punch that had characterized her earlier movement A death the only known casualty The weakening storm hit the coast at 9:45 pm at Bull Bay By GEORGE M'ARTHUR 1 Annum tnm sutf 1 PARIS July 8 The States decided Wednesday to four of its French air bases mothballs and remove all 200 its fighter-bombers to Britain and West Germany 1 The decision was taken because President Charles Gaulle refuses to let weapons into France unless come under French control About 6000 airmen from four United States bases near the German frontier will be removed i The long considered -decision of the Allied supreme commander In Europe Gen- Laurie Nor-stad was made official in order to get the family quarrel tied before the Western Big Three foreign ministers resume their talks with the Soviet Union UfllOfl Rejects in Geneva Monday Start In Two Weeks The transfer will start within two weeks and be completed this fall Some technical details remain to be settled with the British and Germans but both powers offered no objection to having the planes based on their fields where United States atomic stockpiles are close at hand The shift brought criticism from both British and West German Socialists British Laborites in the House of Commons "shame" when Britain's agreement to receive part of the fighter-bombers was announced They object to having more planes with atomic capability on British soil The French government accepted the news without official comment De Gaulle and his top the talks were getting ministers are touring Madagas- Plea May Start Shutting Down sr tim annum picn NEW YORK July 8 The Steelworkers Union Wednesday rejected a bid from President Eisenhower to delay a ateel strike threat indefinitely beyond the two-week truce already granted by the union The union previously had postponed its strike deadline from July 1 to midnight July 14 Barring an agreement the industry will have to start abutting down this week end Both sides clammed up on what was going on In the negotiating room and declined to anywhere But longer Johnson Helps GOP Fight Off Democratic Attempts: To Slash Bill i Bp Th AnnWM Pnn WASHINGTON July S-Tha Senate Wednesday' night passed a pared down $3543320000 foreign aid bill after rejecting all new efforts to slash deeper the overseas spending authority President Eisenhower asked However it let stand $3835004 000 in cuts voted Tuesday night' The final total waa below the $3909400000 the President asked but above the $3542600-000 voted by the House The Senate acted under the shadow of a broad hint earlier -in the day from Eisenhower that if his foreign aid authority waa cut too deeply he might call Congress back Into special sea- sion later this year to consider hiking it 7- The final vote was 65-26 Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas op 1 posed by a majority of his fellow Democrats helped the Republicans kill efforts to cut the aid bill in the final hours of voting i Billion For Arms The measure provides $1 300000000 for military arms to akl the free world allies and $751500000 in defense economto supports to help them feed clothe and maintain their troops The rest of the $3543 320000 is for various forma of economic aid The military arms aid au thority waa 300 million dollars -under request and the defense economic supports $83500000 below It Before the measure goes to Eisenhower the Senate and House will have to get together on their difiering bills -Johnson told colleagues they should not gamble with the future and should refuse to make any more cuts in the bilL' The first proposed cut rejected Wednesday by a 51-40 vote was offered by Senator Wayne Morse (D Ore) fla wanted to slash economic assistance abroad by $44 620 reducing the total for the fiscal yea which started July 1 from bit which the Russians say made the flight with the dogs Nothing was said of the second dog but Red scientists said it Iso survived the July 2 rocket shot IT'S A SMALL WORLD AGAIN Otvazhnaya ona of the two dogs Russians say thay rocketed into space and back returns to the leash at a Moscow animal clinic The attendant totes the rab AP WlrmhaO about 18 miles north of Charleston with gusts of 60 to 70 miles an hour Hurricane winds are 75 miles ah hour and up Evacuees Csa Return Fifteen minutes after the storm hit Bull Bay the Charleston Weather Bureau advised thousands of evacuees from the Isle of Palms Sullivan's Island and Folly Beach that they could hope steel labor and management' would continue negotiating until a settlement is reached Could Recall Congress that -all else failing he could call a special session of Congress next fall to get enough foreign aid funds especially military assistance Projects Halted By Picket Lines Strike By Laborers Stops Work At St Joseph County Building Labor To Back Chambers Defers Choice On Mayor By LOUIS SILVER Sam Chambers real estate man and former United Auto Workers leader received organized labor's endorsement last night for public works commissioner The endorsement came at the end of an hour-and-a-half debate and roll call of about 400 delegates representing about 100 local unions Meeting in the smoke-filled auditorium pf the Rubber Workers Hall at 1036 Firestone the delegates voted to defer until July 22 (the day after the which the Senate has voted to! return in safety to their homes trim I The Weather Bureau said flood- Defended his vetoes of Dem-jing on those beaches would not ocratic legislation such as the be serious big housing Mil as In the terests of the country He vehe- Laborers struck and all work yesterday at St Joseph new wing and the new Shelby County office building Members of the Constriction and General 1 Laborers Union The Weather Bureau said hurricane warnings had been lowered from Georgetown 1 to south of Cape Hatteras NC Rough seas with tides two to three feet above normal were predicted from -Georgetown to Cape Fear NC Wednesday night subsiding Thursday Cindy was said to have weakened slightly and is now a negotiating sessions and the intentness of both sides seemed to be good omens Letter Misunderstood Eisenhower told his news conference in Washington there had been a misapprehension about hia June 27 letter to union president David McDonald He appealed in the letter for con- car and knew of the probable decision before they left France The unconcerned attitude of French officials underlined their general support for De Gaulle's moves to obtain for Franca a top place in Allied global councils 1 Not Aimed At France The Allied view Is that the with an hassling commissioner Chambers lrcw UP gotjlines at 7 am yesterday in their Canale 14 wage dispute with Alexander 4um and 1 two tropical storm in intensity The $244620000 to 200 millions center of the storm late Wed- Gut Voted Down rasday night was near Mcf (Dl Clellanville SC 35 milei proposed a cut in tills item northeast of Charleston Its of $144620000 but lost mently declared he had no thought of political gain since he will be -finished with politics when he leaves the White House 18 months hence 'Ike Saya Segregation Morally Wrong From The Cnmmmltl Appeal waihtnj ten aunts WASHINGTON July 8 -President Eisenhower said Wednesday he believes racial segregation is morally wrong when it interferes with equal economic and political opportunity It was the first public expression of his own feelings toward segregation He was aiked if he has opinion as to whether racial segregation is morally wrong "Well" the President replied suppose there are certain phases of a segregation you are talking about I suppose segre- line for nominations) a decision on whom to support for mayor Candidate Expected They followed the recommendation of a 30-man screening committee "We expect another strong candidate in toejpijamv Farrisone mayor's race" A Copeland committee secretary and Newspaper delegate explained Minor debate preceded the endorsement of attorney Joseph McCartie for Juvenile Court judge Endorsed without debate were Claude A Armour for fire and police commissioner Stanley Dillard for finance and institutions commissioner and John meeting which began hour of parliamentary In tiie public works toll call Mr received 197 votes Sugarmon Negro candidate 25 votes John Ford A Ahnmam A'W Anderson 'William Pami Old Garbage Is Being But Some Odor dux some uaor As Expressway An old garbage tu Cn IVlarD1C lue Various craft unions painters carpentera lathers plumbers electricians and refused to cross the picket tinea Payment Is Issue Gorman the local said the men struck because of the fail- Dump Sprayed move was forced on Norstadtinued negotiations without a and was not specifically aimed strike until an agreement is at France Faced with a Soviet missile threat the planes no longer can xint 1 on enough warning time to take off from France and load their bomba elsewhere reached The union at that time responded with its two-week truce agreement The President said he'd never proposed any two-week contract by voice vote The Senate then defeated 52-38 another Ellender amendment to cut Eisenhower's contingency fund from 180 to 150 million dollars The Senate also shouted down a move by Ellender to require that at least 75 per cent of the funds authorized for purchases speed the six previous hours was nearly eight miles an hour That rate waa expected to continue over land with a gradual turn more to the north indicated To Lose Intensity The storm was expected to lose intensity gradually McCIellanville just above the company to Py the' necessary prevailing wage rate of 51674 Price hour tJ A Alexander president of dump south the tile firm last night refused Bull Bay appeared to be commodities and machinery la going to suggest extension at all but had sug-that this is i sanction against geted a delay of any strike for the French" British Defense indefinite period Minister Duncan Sandys told questioners In the House of wfd Commons I Plea- Britiih officials would give no specific numbers of planes to go Jally )eeve It to Britain and Germany but most were believed heading for the British bases Removal of the United States planea will leave the Royal Ce pity that we can't all act in accordance with our basic concep- tiona aa to what is good for the Mvintmi ui thmftn nine The Buddy' Dwyer for public serv- of Lamar and Prescott is bemg rince negotiations commissioner all incum- were still in process bents Ray Churchill for judge deodorized Harmon Construction Co is The smells are part of what the general contractor on the orMrm nthVr hardest hit Communications gation by local to other were on an "off and cm according to Robert the words that interfere with the citizens' equality of opportunity be spent to the United States WASHINGTON July 8-APl Senate voted Wednesday for suspension of foreign aid to any country which expropriates United States property without 1 Memphian are enduring to two-million-dollar wing Rooert Acxien tor Division 111 Cl tmmi kih at St Joseph Jackson which to snSnSdrsrs shsjl as? Red mc Ind loe on they had expected to finish about Oct 30 The company ww political fields think to that extent that is morally wrong yea" incumbent tax assessor Others Postponed their expressways Construction crews will don- estimated atoit n'nunTwm Also deferred until the July 22 les idle meeting was action on City than to ipass the quar- Could Get Off Schedule Charleston Cross chapter Cindy waa spotted Tuesday north of the normal hurricane just compensation It adopted breeding grounds It grew tOign amendment by Senator pci icp CRAM UCAT wiUin Bridge (R NH) to nLLIcr rnUM rlLAI UUt hours and began dnving toward the foreign aid bill after a de- President also said he has no further plana to intervene in the contract negotiations McDonald responding to Elsenhower's Washington com- Court Division I the post held ments said all labor negotia- by Traffic Judge John Colton R- De" ar- semm" resident engi-tions must have a terminal point'and on the city School Board and he just couldn't believe the I Malcolm Futhey of the Paint-President Intended "that we ne- era Union presided at last gotiate forever" 'night's three and a half hour for the State of Tennes- said yesterday He spoke at a meeting called by City Commissioner The contractor for the four-neer story one-and-a-half-million-dol-see par county office building at Loeb after his office had oeen had expected to compete tlw Cool Front And Showers Forecast Today The patter of raindrops and arrival of a cool front from first three floors byr 5 Canada are expected to soothe beK'rTiilttZ'Cnixmnd th floor by Nov 1 They re cutting the express- 1 Sept Sam Maury said the work the mainland (Picture on Page 48) Polio Sweeps Des Moines DES MOINES Iowa July 8 A drive to check a serious outbreak of polio to the Des Moines area was under way Wednesday Three more confirmed cases of polio were reported bringing to 70 the number of known afflicted persona Of the total 61 are Des Moines residents and nine live In Polk County stoppage could throw them considerably behind schedule He estimates there are 75 to 83 men out Colonel Memphis' fevered brow today Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and tomorrow la the Weather Bureau a forecast that will be met with sighs of relief by scorched Memphians who have sweltered through a string of shirt-drenching days nadian First Air Division of 75 planes as the major combat air force on French soil aside from the French Air Force itself The Weather a mPAanmiT or comnwci 1 WIATRXK BURBAO FOR MEMPHIS and Vicinity-- Thursday partly cloudy warm and humid with scattered thundershowers High 92 Wlhds- south at 10 to 15 miles per hour becoming northwesterly in afternoon Partly cloudy and cooler Thursday night and Friday Low 65 Bib KM 4: Hi Nil COMFORT INDEX 1 Comfort Index for 82 (a few people are uncomfortable I above 70 about half the people are uncomfortable at 75 and nearly everyone notices when the figure goes above 79) nvc-BAr OUTLOOK rnmnasa n4 twipw-tam will (Venn mm la thn Nirm Maw mill Rilhfr warm Thyt Astignment Pigeon Is Sick Sick Sick Whole AMA Is In Swivet By LYDEL SIMS A militant deplorer of pigeonry took me to task yesterday for what he called a lull in my fearless pigeon-go-home campaign "What has stilled your journalistic guns?" demanded Moran of 4336 Rhodea "Surely you haven't been cooed into submission? way through an old garbage dump" the commissioner explained "But there's no way of completely killing' the odor" until the project is finished Everett Handorf sanitary engineer for the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department said construction workers are spraying deodorizer over the area The decayed garbage is bring covered with fresh dirt as soon as construction crews pass wi 1 "We're covering up every inch "If Memphis is (0 continue marching along a half-million bcng worked" Mr DeWar strong the pigeons have got to go" Mr Moran la right on both counts One way or another tiie whave to p- And 1 ihBitdcnamrot Ttiundu an Fruay i haven been cooed into submis-ASraUnS WPnft wirlalon- Tve Just been sitting back PcWen horror at a re-Nnarrii ta h-avf in acaticM aMaur port on the pigeon menace In the current issue of Today's Nnarral ta hv in anllcM aftarnooi UiHBdmnsaan WHHM Is Bought By Thomas Shipp $200000 Involved In Sale Of Station To Memphian Application for assignment of the WHHM radio franchise to Thomas Shipp of 4704 Kaye was filed with the Federal Communications Commission in Washington yesterday The sale of the station to Mr Shipp by Cy Blumenthal of Washington is for a figure to excess of $200000 according to Alvin A Gordon Memphis at- Radio Station To Shell Out "5 $2500 For Mosquitoes aijd operates a chain of stations MIAMI July S-(UPI) including facilities to Mobile astonished radio station whlchlAla Kansas City Mo and offered to pay a penny each for! Norfolk purchased WHHM dead mosquitoes prepared May 30 1958 bou One bounty hunter think these things a lady from interests headed by Cecil Beaver Mr Beaver operated the station from 1951 FCC investigation of the transmitted to human beings by pigeons: Histoplasmosis a respiratory ailment Skin ailments caused by the bites of microscopic mites harbored by pigeons Toxoplasmosis caused by another parasite frequently found to pigeons It can bring blindness or death to Infants bate which brought mention of land expropriation by Fidel Castro Gov Long Failing Family Summoned: State Official Says Chief Point Of No Return BATON ROUGE La July 8 A high Louisiana official said Wednesday night Gov -Earl Long was "failing rapid-' ly" and that members of the family were being summoned to the executive mansion The official who asked not to be identified said the Governor Is "at the point of no return" He said the Governor's slater Mrs Wilma Hunt had called several members of the family' and that others were expected to come to the mansion It was reported that neither Governor Long's estranged wife Blanche nor hia nephew Senator Russell Long (D La) had been called to hia bedside The governor appeared to be falling rapidly" the source aid He added that Mrs Hunt apparently had taken charge of directing affairs for the ailing governor Governor Long's doctors said hia condition was worsening and told his friends to stay away from him In the gloomiest statement issued on Governor Long's con! dition since he suffered a slight heart failure last week a battery of six doctors said hti physical condition was a "mat ter of continued concern" ant he "aeema more fatigued that he has been prior to this time' Anthem Swiped MADLSON Wia July 8 -(UPI) Gov Gaylord Nelsot Wednesday signed a bill makinf Wisconsin" the official Satate song even though tiu ditty was originally written lot Minnesota On The Intide The Ailment Without Cure "SOME CHEER Soma stare Many faint and one nearly had a heart says Mrs Lillian Wilson a nurse at Methodist Hospital There's just no telling what brand-new fathers will A) 29 THREE UNITED STATES CITIZENS Including gambling kingpin Santos Trafficante are ordered deported from Fidel Castro's Cuba as "undesirable alieni" Page 16 "SINCE American workers have made more personal economic progress than to any comparable period in our history" says Thruston Morton to Inside -Labor The GOP chairman la counting on this to awing the labor vote to hia party 28 THE WEIGHTLESSNESS they'll encounter to space travel is really a comfortable fun to say the seven Mercury Astronauts who are training for a rocket ride into history 14 "IN THE SUCCESSFUL ART WORLD today there is a cult of uglinesi that is every bit offensive as the old candy-box school of pretty painting" Inez Robb Page 18 SPORTS JOSE BECERRA wins world- bantamweight championship tv knocking out Alphonse Haliml of France in eighth round 34 In 11th HOME RUN BY BHEP FRAZIER Inning gives YESTERDAY'S REPORT Highest 94 degrees at 2 pm Lowest 71 degree at 5 am Mean (midway between high and low) S3 normal mean for date 81 Health This is a -publication of the American Medical Association you understand Local pigeon-lovers who believe I slander our fine feathered friends from per oral bias ran hardly say the same of the whole bloomin' AMA Time To Quit Jesting And by George it la high time wa quit jesting around about pigeons on the grass alas lovely pigeons in the park Encephalitis a word covering KriM'rVdm th 4 Traparatirt bn 14 1 PN ST Fra-ialtatUM al Airport non: rtUtlx kPauaiv it auAniilu IS par Ml pmpnuit leoMMHlMi trmparalurfi at NMnipht it Parraintr raadlna at nM-aimt an ana laiuna fmlpllallon Jan 1-Jalr naick tM InciMt Brio friend on 35 Chicks 5-4 decision over Mobile and consider the matter seriously You think these agents of corruption are just cute little cooing critters that look pretty in parks? Well- listen to the AMA Us magazine ealla pigeons "a Consider that psittacosis reached such proportions to Philadelphia soma years back that an ordinance was enacted making it unlawful even to feed a pigeon And muse on the conclusion ofdeaiK" huge ulto Ln-vast reservoir of Infection" and the AMA article: ldplLthe dSi8nuWM nd' reports their numbers are tn- "Authorities say the problem 1thase mosquitoes creasing so rapidly that the pub- never will be solved until thedte I cut their throats and they sent In 5402 mosquitoes neatly taped to legal-size paper Lynn Woofter of Pahokee Fla sent to an entry with mosquitoes glued to the paper In the FIVE NEW OPPONENTS are included pn 1959-60 basketball schedule for Christian Brother College 36 application and final approval the license assignment was ex-ipected in about two months Mr Shipp is Shelby County distributor for Jax Beer He has no other radio affiliations- Cardinal In Hospital BOSTON July 8 (AP) -Richard Cardinal Cushing til Elizabeth's! of 63-year-old re- A- YIAR AGO YESTZnDAY MiiImun if MMi Bt Bit bUbInbn It ninhll 2S Inch wiki IMap Forecast Page 89) 1 rfclplutlM Jan 1-JbIp I II up tsxlHa lea waa 141 lachfa abovt normal can't fly" Desperate JACKSONVILLE Fla July 8 Roma people will do Inside Labor 28 Markets 38-39 Night Desk 8 Secrets of Charm 31 Society 30-31-32-33 Sports -r' 34-33-36 Television and Radio 40 Today In Memphis 42 Want Ada 42-43-44-45ri6-47 Weather Map River 39 What Inflation Can Mean 29 William Whitt 6 Something Fishy Here RAN VICENTE Argentina July 8 (AP) Angel Inusnls- ilice this! ported to he complicated by aclll complained to police Boston entered St Hospital Wednesday to need a complete rest The prelate's condition was Alsop 6 Amusements 24 Ann Landers 32 Births 42 Comics 37 Cotton Comment 38 Crossword and Jumble 37 Deaths 39-41 Dixie Dialing 40 Editorials 6 Ines Robb 18 1 lie must be made aware id their public la fully alerted to the danger ifact that pigeons do represent Pigeons transmit psittacosis a serious hazard to public ior parrot fever the article health and actively cooperate anything to ariol Two un-pnints out and the reported public official to an inten-Identified men tried to steal theidenra of this disease has risen alva campaign to evict these air conditioner from the police sharply in the last 50 years' station here The over-heated But that'i not all thieves took off without the cool- Consider this delightful super when polict spotted them 'plementary list of ailments agents of disease from our com- munttiea" Sooner or later friend thoae'hl things have got to go Iweek that burglar proke home and made off with '1000 goldfish from his aquarium Into painful attack of shingles and an asthmatic condition which made breathing difficult I 4.

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