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A ON 'AO! If THE CINCINI I ENQUIRER 118th YEAR ISO. 83 DAILY FINAL EDITION TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1958 NEWS Ar Wiraphoto N. Y. Tribune 7 Single eoptea, 10c beyond Asweitd Pr.M United Prau Intnnutionnl I retail trading Bona. Measure Passed By U.

S. Senate; Ike's OK 'Sure' WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) The Senate wepV Alaska through the door-of statehood tonight in a historii vote that will plant a 49th star oh the flag. The roll call vot of 64 to 20 to admit the vast territory', more than twice tha size of Texas, pushed the borders of th United States to the back door of Russia, nyyi.gH imhuimm vi sa i i. hi The statehood bill now goes Trio Seized By Rebels; Total Is 45 HAVANA, June 30 (UPI) The kidnaping of two more U. S.

citizens and a Canadian was disclosed today, increasing the number of North American hostages in the hands of Cuba's rebels to at least 45. The new abductions dimmed hopes for an early release of the prisoners. The U. S. Embassy was advised that the rebels seized Sherman A.

White, New York City, manager of the U. S. government-owned Nicaro Nickel plant, and his assistant, J. Andrew Toll, Grand Rapids, at the plant at 8:30 a. m.

today. A few hours later, spokesman for the Cuban sugar industry belatedly announced that Richard Sargent, Canadian manager of a sugar mill near Guantanamo, was abducted by the rebels Thursday. His seizure raised the kidnap total to 42 Americans and three Canadians. At the same time, an official of the Ermita Sugar Company left Havana for Oriente Province to investigate reports that a 46th man, Raymond Elmore, American manager of one of its plants, also had been kidnaped. Most of the rebels' victims were seized in retaliation for the alleged refueling of Cuban Government warplane at the lr.

S. Navy's Guantanamo Base. Before the abductions disclosed today, however, informed sources had reported the prisoners' release was Imminent. Sources here also said the kidnapings were being engineered by the Cuban rebels to take some of the Government Ohio Says Yes WASHINGTON, June JO AP) Both of Ohio' Senaors voted for the Alaska statehood bill which the Senate passed tonight, 64-20. Sens.

Frank J. Lausche (D) (Cleveland, and John W. Bricker (R) Columbus, voted yes in the roll call vota. mark the first time a new stata has been added to the union since Arizona oame in February 14, 1912. Statehood supporters beat down frequent attempts by Southerners to hamstring the bill or kill it on constitutional grounds.

The territory's first delegate to Congress, James Wicker-sham introduced the original Alaskan statehood bill in 1916. Alaska was promised it eventually would become a state 1n a treaty signed after this country purchased the territory from Russia during the administration of President Andrew Johnson for $7.2 million. "SEWARD'S FOLLY" Once known as "Seward's Suggested New U. S. Flag Designs Mrs.

Jersey Spittle, Army Quartermaster Corps employee, poses yesterday before a display of a few of the several hundred designs volunteered by Americans for their flag in the event of Alaskan statehood. The Senate yesterday passed the bill to make Alaska a state and sent it to the President. AP Wirephoto. Fox Promises Lawsuits Against Adams, 'Enemies' to the White House where it is expected to receive President Eisenhower's signature. Approval of the bill was Victory for the President, who counted Alaskan statehood high on his list of legislative must." It touched off a riotous celebration that stretched from the Halls of Congress to isolated villagers in Alaska's frozen northland.

And it sparked prompt demands for similar Hawaii. When the vote was announced, cheers and a loud burst of applause went up from the Senate galleries where about 200 persons had come to witness the history-making event Alaska Gov. Mike Stepovich, almost overcome with tension, shouted "Thank God!" as 83 Republicans and SI Democrats registered their votes for the bill. Opposed were seven Republicans and IS Democrats, most of them Southerners. IN Alaska, the territory-wide civil defense network went Into action to help spread the news which even reached lonely Eskimo villages above the Arctic Circle.

The new state will push V. S. borders to within eyesight of Soviet territory. Alaska's Little Dlamede Island is only 3.4 miles from Big Dlamede, owned by Russia. NEW MEMBERS The Senate will get two new members bringing the total to 98.

It was on this point that Southerners rallied in five-day delaying action against the statehood bill. They feared it would dllttt their Senate strength. Alaska, with a population of only 215,000, will be allotted one House member? This will raise the number of Representatives to 436 pending the next reapportionment. Admission of Alaska will -Enqulrr (Bob Frit) Phot Sirs. Urnia I-ea and son, Danny both are glad he'i alive Near-Fatal Game Boy Survives 'Hanging' Self A game of "hangman" almost ended In real tradegy for a Pleasant Ridge boy yesterday.

Danny Lea. 12, 2918 Losantiville and his friend, Billy Mack, also 12, 2918 Cortelyou Pl were playing the game in a garage at the rear of Danny's home. They fastened a rope to a beam In the garage and were taking turns pretending they were being hanged. Billy stood on a box with the noose around his neck, then let Danny kick the box out from under him. Billy climbed the rope to safety with his hands.

When Danny, a heavier boy, tried it he couldn't pull himself up. He screamed for help. Billy got the rope untied and summoned police, who found Danny unconscious on the garage floor. Danny's mother, Mrs. Urma Lea, accompanied her son to Children's Hospital, where he was listed in fair condition last night.

WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) Boston Promoter John Fox wound up his free-swinging testimony before House Influence investigators today by promising million dollar suits against Presidential aid Sherman Adams and five other of his "enemies." pressure off them and also to dramatize their struggle to the world. The rebels' captives Include 30 U. S. servicemen, 10 Americans and two Canadian engineers from Free port Sulphur's Moa Bay construction project, the two nickel executives and the Canadian sugar mill He also stepped down with a rebuke from Chairman Oren Harris Ark.) of the House investigating subcommittee. Harris said certain of Fox's his charges against Adams and Goldfine.

Curtis wanted the House to act immediately on a resolution which would set up a special committee to determine whether the subcommittee should be restrained from taking further testimony like that of Fox in public. After hearing Curtis and Harris. Speaker Sam Rayburn ruled the resolution could not be called up for immediate action. Curtis then laid It before the House in the usual way. Rep.

Charles A. Wolverton N. questioned whether Fox might not have been seeking "retribution" against "cherished enemies" in levelling his more sensational charges. ious occasions, said these statements were not heresay. Harris also opposed on the House floor Rep.

Curtis' attempt to force an immediate House vote on the Issue of whether the Investigating subcommittee should be censured for Its handling of Fox. Curtis took the position that Fox should have been heard first in secret so the subcommittee could determine hether he had any evidence to back up Rebels Hit Chamoun On Hills Over Beirut Jumblatt has refused to let United Nations watchdog teams enter his territory to see if arms and men are being sent across the border to him from the Syrian province of President vamal A 1 Nasser's United Arab Republic. The fighting near Beirut occurred after fierce weekend battles in Tripoli. The Folly." after William H. Seward.

Secretary of State, who arranged the deal, the vast area is expected to become a new star in the flag sometime in December. Before then, how ever. tha President must sign the bill and relay word of his action to Governor Stepovich, who came here to help lead the fight for statehood. Stenovic will then Issue a proclamation calling for an election of a new group of state officers and of the state's first two IT. S.

Senators and it single House member. Alaskans also must vote on whether to accept statehood. They are virtually certain to accept It. but some opposition does exist. The referendum is expected to be held either during Alaska's primary In early fall or its general election which must bt held by December 1.

Following the election and referendum, the gov ernor certifies the results to the President. Only then can Eisenhower issue officii proclamation making Alaska the 49th state. Laborer Hurt In Sudden Fall Of Truck Bed A 20-year-old laborer was in Jured seriously late yesterday when the bed of a dump truck; fell on his back. Richard Eugene Whisman of R. R.

1, Sardinia, Ohio, was taken to General Hospital, with internal Injuriea. Whisman was at work on a street-excavation project at Boudinot and Urwiler Westwood, at the time. U. S. May Share A-Secrets Under New Powers To Ike sensational charges against Adams and others would have been belter left unsaid although they would be admissible in court.

However, Kep. Thomas B. urtis (R Mo.) demanded that the House consider censuring the subcommittee for taking public testimony from Fox that tended to "defame, degrade and Incriminate" Adams. Curtis said Fox's charges should have been heurd first behind closed doors. Fox said his lawyers would file libel and slander suits here and in Boston tomorrow seeking $1 million each from six defendantsAdams; Roger Robb and Samuel Sears, lawyers for Financier Bernard Goldfine; Robert B.

Choate, publisher of the Boston Herald Traveler; William J. Dempsey, attorney for the newspapers; and the Boston Herald-Traveler Corp. Speaking for Adams, James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, demanded: "How silly can you get?" He said Adams would have no comment. Fox said he was filing the suits because of "scurrilous" statements concerning the truthfulness of charges he made against Adams and Goldfine during three days of testimony.

He also called on the subcommittee to bring into the open additional information he said it had on Adams' relations with Goldfine. The subcommittee will meet In private session tomorrow. It mill convene in public Wednesday morning to hear Goldfine, Adams' gift giving friend, answer Fox's charges. The financier already has denied most of them through his lawyers. Chairman Harris excused Fox from the stand after remarking that certain of the witness' statements "would have been better left unsaid." He said the subcommittee neither condoned tion at this time eligible for atomic weapons designs, fissionable materials and non-nuclear components.

It stipulates that these are reserved for friendly nations that have made substantial progress in atomic weapons, Britain is the only one. The President would have considerable authority to advance the training of NATO troops for atomic warfare. He could disclose Information on the size and effect of unclear weapons, reactor designs and fuels for atoniio powered suit-marines and other types of military power plants. The United States also could supply non-nuclear parts of weapons not basic to the weapon but related to its operation, use and maintenance. WASHINGTON, June 30 UP) Congress today voted President Eisenhower much of the authority he had sought to share additional atomic military secrets with U.

S. allies. The Senate passed on to the White House legislation providing more freedom to exchange weapons. Information and materials than the government has possessed since the first atomic energy law was enacted 13 years ago. The House acted last Friday on the bill, which contains restrictions drafted by Congress on the sharing authority originally requested by Eisenhower.

For the most part, the curbs were designed to prevent development of new atomic threats in the world. At present, only the United States, Great Britain and Russia qualify as nuclear powers. As revised, the exchange bill would enable Congress to veto any agreement to share C. 8. knowledge In the nuclear weapons field.

No such agreement could take effect wihtout lying before Congress SO days this session or 60 days In future years. And in that period, Congress could pass a resolution to kill tha pact. Great Britain is the principal beneficiary and Eisenhower is expected to announce shortly a new atomic agreement with London. Under the legislation. Great Britain would be the only na BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 30 UP) Government forces and mountain tribesmen fought a seesaw battle in the hills overlooking Beirut today after the rebels drove closer to the capital than ever before.

Followers of Kamal Jumblatt, young rebel leader, made a surprise dawn push into hills between Chemlsn and Kayfoun, only five miles from Beirut International Airport. Government forces counterattacked with Jet planes, armored cars and 81-miiU-meter artillery. The rebels, apparently shaken by the heavier firepower, fell bark from two hills. Security troops surrounded a four-story building that had been turned into a fortress and the insurgents inside cams with their hands up. Rebels on another hill then swept across the valley in an attempt to relieve their comrades.

They were driven back by machine gun and mortar fire. Irregulars helping the security forces blocked roads and approaches to Kayfoun and Chemlan to choke off the rebel advance. Security forces sajd they suffered no casualties and aaid many rebels were killed. The size of the attacking force was not given. However, Jumblatt, leader of the pro- gressive Socialist political organization, controls a large area south and east of Beirut His followers are largely Druse mountain tribesmen.

The rebels fired only small arms. They were too far away to fire on the airport. Both the airport and Beirut are within sight from the hills. An Arab studies center operated IB C'hetiiian by the British Foreign Office was evacuated. A British Embassy spokesman said Jumblatt had warned he planned to attack the town.

"We do not want to hurt any foreigners," Jumblatt reportedly wrote, "so we suggest you evacuate." There have been frequent rumors that clashes there began Thursday and the combat area extended 10 to IS miles around the northern port city. The American Presbyterian Hospital, surrounded by rebel territory, was the center of fighting. Government guards were still Inside the hospital with 25 Lebanese patients and 43 staff members. American personnel left the hospital two weeks ago. Gala 4th At Fair BRUSSELS, June 30 UP) The United States tonight opened a big six-day entertainment program at the Brussels World Fair linked with observance of American Independence Day.

More than 500 American performers will bt busy entertaining fair visitors. On Friday the Fourth of July former President Herbert Hoover will speak at the fair's grand auditorium. Hoover is President Eisenhower's special representative at the exposition. Today the 125 members of the Holiday On Ice show begin their performances at the downtown sports palace. Wednesday the U.

S. Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps arrives from Washington. On Thursday the U. S. Air Force command band from Wiesbaden, Germany, will begin a three-day series of parades and concerts.

There also will be a square dance festival. The Philadelphia Orchestra will take over the fair's grand auditorium with Eugene Ormandy conducting and Isaac Kept Jump Ahead Of Hitler 21 Years Reunion! cf yi By George Amick Enquirer Reporter A family torn apart by Hitler's Nazis was reunited last night at Greater Cincinnati Airport. Down the ramp of the plane from Los Angeles walked little Mrs. Elsa Levinsohn, at the end of her long air journey from Wellington, New Zealand. Sh paused a moment, looking about uncertainly.

nor approved statements that "cannot be substantiated." But Harris, apparently referring to Fox's statements of what Goldfine told him on var sohn. Mrs. Sass, her husband and Mrs. Alexander went to Trinidad, West Indies, and from Stern as soloist The American Ballet Theater will open with an evening performance Wednesday and the musical comedy "Wonderful Town" will begin a stand at the World Fair Theater Thursday. Texas Pianist Van Cliburn will appear with toe Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday.

Jumblatt -would march on Beirut, where sporadic fighting has been under way since the rebellion against pro-Western President Camille Chamoun began May 10. Jumbhtt's forces have been fighting security troops elsewhere in Lebanon. there to Cincinnati. Meanwhile, the i rkr'J vl rolled into Denma Germans rk. Curt fled A to Sweden.

m. from him "i again this time There no word rd City Rental Homes Cost $3, 448 62 Housing Aid Assured VwT; V- Hot Days Seen But Cool Nights Although torrid days are in prospect, nights will remain cool most of ihis week, the Weather Bureau predicted yesterday. The forecast for today calls for fair skie and temperatures from 62 to 92 degrees. Low and high yesterday were 61 and 87 degrees. The mercury will return to the 62-degree mark.

IN THE ENQUIRER Page Page Birthday 14 Radio-TV 19 Bridg? 10 Schottelkotte 8 City Mirror 14 Classified 18-24 Smile 2 Comics SI Society 1 Court News SO Sports 55-58 Crossword IS Star Gazer It Deaths 17 Theater Editorials 4 Van Dellen IS Foreign Washington I Horse Sense 10 Weather 17 Markets 6-7, 17 Winchell 12 Miller 10 Women's 9-10 Obituaries 15 Word Game 10 Then they surrounded her her mother, Mrs. Bertha Alexander; her brother. Curt Alexander, and her sister, Mrs. Julius Sass laughing and crying and all trying to hug and kiss her at once. They bad last been together in their native Sensburg, Germany, thousands of miles and 21 years away.

"It's wonderful wonderful to see you all," Mrs. Levinsohn kept repeating. It was 1937 when Mrs. Levinsohn, then Elsa Alexander, put her younger brother Curt on the train for Denmark. The Nazis had just issued an edict that all male Jews leave Germany.

Two years later Elsa, her sister, Mrs. Sass, and their mother also fled Germany as Hitler's campaign against the Jews was stepped up. Elsa went to New Zealand, here she met and married Dr. David Levin until 1944, when he made his way to the United States, located his sister and mother In Cincinnati through the Red Cross, and Joined them here. "We've been writing to Elsa and looking forward to the time when she could visit us here for years," Alexander said.

"She's going to be here for three months, and we'll all get acquainted again." As Mrs. Levinsohn gasped her greetings, Mrs. Sass who had never heard her long-lost sister soeak anything but German broke out laughing at her clipped New Zealand accents. "She speaks English," Mr. Sass exclaimed km surprise.

"Not American 1" IV Enquirer Bureau Special WASHINGTON, June 30 Cinr today was assured of Federal help in tie $3,445,562 construction of 244 new rental homes for persons displaced by the city's redevelopment programs. The new dwelling units are to be built on a site directly to th northeast of the existing 730-unit Winton Terrace homes. Located in the north central section of Cincinnati, the new site is irregular in shape, with Este Street as its southeast bouadary. Tha homes will be ore and two. story houses.

The Public Housing Administration an nounced the approval through Cincinnati Reps. Gordon H. Scherer and William E. Hess of an "annual contributions contract" on tie $3,448,562 project by the Housing and Home Finance Agency. PHA officials said a contract with the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority would be signed "shortly." Under terms of the contract tne Federal goverrjnent will reimburse the authority annually for the difference between cost of operating the units and the low-cost rentals.

Tl housing construction Is under Cincinnati's "workable program" for slum clearance approved earlier by HHFA. Lull mill -fro'jirtr fCochun) photo Julius Sass, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Levinsohn, Mrs. Sas Twenty-one year of separation end at airport.