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Kodiak mirror., 1961-07-07
Book Review

''The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by James F. Johnson as told to Floyd Miller/Pub. Date: July 2.
 TRIBUTE TO A CON MAN
 Count" Victor Lustig-a man of twenty-four aliases, five langua- ges, and forty,seven arrests in the United States with no convictions lis the subject of ''The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" which Doubleday will publish on July 7.
 This story of one of the clevereSt confidence men of all times is really salute to his genius by the Secret Service agent who spent most of his career hunting Lustig. James F. Johnson was so fascinated by this man that, after Lustig had died in prison following conviction on his forty-eighth arrest, he set out to piece together the stories he had heard about Lustig. This book, as he told it to Floyd Miller, is the account of Lustigs extraor- dinary career.
 A man with no deep feelings ex- cept avarice, but who could simu- late all the other emotions, Lustig charmed millionaires and police of ficials alike on both sides of the Atlantic. Using his charm, his wits, and basic rule which he learned from transatlantic gambler - make the mark want to give his money"-Count Lustig proceeded to sell many respectable business men, and sheriff from Oklahoma, on his brilliant schemes. He was even able, for example, to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap-iron to two different men!
Kodiak mirror., 1961-07-07
Masons To Honor Visiting Official

A no-host t teak dinner is planned for Mir. Elmer c. Huntley, Most Worshipful Grand Master of M. w. Grand Lodge of Washington and Alaska, by Kodiak Lodge No. 295 F. & A. M. for Saturday, July 8, beginning at 8 p. m.
 The dinner will be held at the Masonic Temple. All Masons are invited.
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Kodiak Produces
Continued from Page 8)


 What the Department designates as the Kodiak area, had 97 per cent of the value of all sheep and lambs in the State. Broken down, this would be $176,400 for ewes one year old and over; $36,880 for eve lambs; wether and ram lambs, $31,- TOO, wethers and rams over one year old, $129,000, for total of $374, 400. a
 Hogs, six month old and over and pigs under six months, totaled a valuation of only $2,400. Chicken production also was insignificant, with hens at $10O, and bullets for layers and other chickens, $500, for a mere one per cent of the state total.
 Total income from all sources in the area, according to the report was $251 ,970. Most of this is de- rived from commodities listed above, with mere $1 400 derived from vegetables, mostly potatoes.
 The Matanuska Valley area ac- counted for 81 per cent of the total sale of milk, 40 per cent of the sale of eggs and 54 per cent of potato sales.
 The three major sources of in- come for Alaska farmers from the sale of their 1860 products showed substantial increases in volume of these commodities sold. Volume of milk sold, which accounts for over half of the source of agricultural income of Alaska, increased 21 per cent over 1859. The tonnage of po- tatoes for sale increased 8 per cent while the number of eggs sold by Alaska producers increased by 4 per cent,
 The volume of wool shorn in 1860 for sale increased by 6 per cent. Decreases from 1859 in vol ume of all other commodities in 1860 occurred as follows: Pork 24 per cent; poultry meat 20 per cent; lamb and mutton per cent; and less than 1 per cent in beef sold. \
 Puzzling to cattle raisers and others in this area are the figures given in the report for the value of reindeer meat produced. This is listed as $18O,OOO, with a total in- come derived from this source given as $132,000.
 Total value of production for this area is given as $318,700 of a total of $5, ,4O6,410 for the State.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-07-07

VISITS KODIAK-Rear Adm. H. A. KARO ght), Director of U greeted by Rear Adm H. H. CALDWELL USN Commndnt Seventeenth Naval District during Kodiak Station July 1861
 KARO, who temporarily embarked aboard the survey while from his head Washington conferences on survey operations in the Boring Sea.
 Other ocanogphc ships berhed at the naval station (Offca U. Photograph
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Burnham, 486-5312.
 Registration blanks are available at the church or from Mrs. Stone or Mrs. Burnham. A welcome is ex- tended to all who wish to attend.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-07-07

On his death certificate federal clerk made the following ironic entry. Under the heading Usual Occupation he wrote: Apprentice Salesman"
Kodiak mirror., 1961-07-07
THE PROBLEM

The high cost of living these days makes one-half the world wonder how the dickens the other half manages to live.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-07-07

Ability is a God-given gift-dis- play it to the world each day.
Evening star., 1961-07-29
NO ESCAPE
Viscount Loses Fight
To Shake Off Title

House of Commons declared
Mr.. Benn's seat in the Bristol
southeast district vacant when
his father died. Mr.. Benn had
held it since 1850.
An election was ordered TO
fill the vacancy. but Mr.. Benn
persuaded the local Labor Party
organization to name him as IT'S
candidate against the Conserva-
tive Party choice, Malcolm St.
Clair. Mr.. Benn won by a 2-to-1
margin.
Mr.. st. Clair then sued to
have himself declared the win
ner on grounds that Mr.. Benn,
as a peer, was not qualified to
run or to serve.
The election court agreed
with Mr.. st. Clair and certified
him as the new Commons
member from Bristol Southeast.
Said the court:
by his succession. Mr.. Benn
entered a protected class of
persons upon whom the duty
of sitting in the House of Lords
has been imposed by immemo-
rial usage"
Said Mr. Ct clair.
Il feel very sorry for Mr..
Benn. 1 could find myself in
the same position one day"
And indeed he could. Mr..
st. Clair is heir TO the title OF
Lord Sinclair, now held by his
Scottish cousin, a 44-year-old
bachelor.
Evening star., 1961-07-29

strongly denounced the U. S.
government and claimed that
"the biggest concentrations of
invasion forces are in Helvetia
Ranch (Guatemala), Vieques
Island puerto Rico) and the
Panama Canal Zone"
It added that the United
States naval base at Guantan-
amo Bay has extraordinarily
increased" its forces with both
American and anti-Castro Gu
ban troops.
"Cuba Is Not Alone"
The note said that such an
aggression could be a spark
which could set off "a con-
flagration of unforeseen conse-
quences. Cuba Is not alone"
The text implied that Soviet
Union support for Cuba could
unleash a global war.
Contending that the Cuban
government seeks to deprive
the United States of all pre-
text for such an invasion, it
said Cuba has decided to put
the hijacked airline plane "un-
der Security Council jurisdic-
ton :. so that body would
decide, whatever it confirms,
what should be done"
Evening star., 1961-07-29
u. 5, Russia
Suspend Talks
McCIoy Returning
No New Date Set

MOSCOW, July 20 SAP).-
The United States and the So
Wet Union today broke off
their consultation about dis
armament talks but said it will
be resumed at some unspecified
date in the future.
The two powers were unable
to reach any agreement in the
talks which began in Washing
ton early this month and
moved to Moscow on July IT.
They had. been asked by the
United Nations to decide what
countries should take part in a
new disarmament conference
and just what they should dis
cuSS.
When asked for a date when
the United States and the So
Wet Union would meet again to
try and break the deadlock SC
the multi-national talks could
get under way, President Ken
nedy's representative. John j
McCloy, said probably in some
weeks"
Il got instructions this morn
ing to get home as fast as ]
could" Mr.. CcCloy added.
Asked why the sudden ur-
gency for him to get to Wash
ington, Mr., CcCloy said:
"One reason is that the oeo-
pie at home president Ken
nedy and Secretary of State
Dean Rusk) want a first-hand
report on my conversations
with Chairman Khrushchev on
disarmament"
Evening star., 1961-07-29
NO ESCAPE

LONDON, July 20 (AP).-
Anthony Wedgwood Benn has
been found guilty of being a
peer CT the realm and has been
disqualified by a special elec-
ton court from taking his seat
in the House of Commons.
The decision yesterday eud-
ed a determined legal fight by
the 36-year-old Laborite, a ris-
ing star in the party's ranks
until his father died last No
vember and left him the title
of Viscount Stansgate.
Mr.. Benn refused to accept
the title and be booted upstairs
to the rarefied air of the House
of Lords, where the talk is gen.
orally dull. The House of Com
mons is where Britain makes
its political decisions.
Mr.. Benn's Labor Party COL
leagues are planning to intro
duce a measure in Commons
that would permit reluctant
peers to renounce their titles.
But the Conservative majority
feels that allowing peers to bow
out of their chamber and re-
turn to the rough and tumble
in the Commons is not the best
way to increase the noble lords
already declining prestige.
Mr.. Benn has no further ap-
peal or any other recourse in
the courts from the ruling by
the two-man election court. The
court got the case after the
Evening star., 1961-07-29
Chrissie's Dead
Until She Shows
Court She Isn't

LONDON, July 29 (AP) In
the eyes of British law. widow
Chrissie Fraser is dead - nc
matter how strenuously she
denies it.
She has to stay that way
until the high court can be
persuaded to say she is alive.
The legal demise of Mrs
Fraser, SO, a Scots-born South
African, dates from July 18
when a coroner's inquest
wrongly identified her with q
corpse found in a london hotel
bathtub.
Coroner Robert Milne ruled
yesterday that he still hadn't
enough evidence to identify the
body in the bathtub, therefore
he can not amend the finding
that Mrs. Fraser is dead.
The only way Mrs. Fraser
can legally return to life is to
obtain a ruling in the. high
court.
A relative said: "She is very
upset. She is not a wealthy
woman and cannot afford an
expensive court case"
But until she is pronounced
alive again, Mrs. Fraser's fl
nancial and legal affairs will
remain frozen.
Evening star., 1961-07-29
Policeman Saves Family Of 7
In Burning Home, Co|Iopses

An 18th precinct police pri-
vate reused the sleeping oc-
cupants of a burning dwelling
early today, aided in the rescue
of a couple and their five chill
dren and collapsed after three
trips inside the smoke-filled
Southeast Washington home.
Police officials credited Pvt.
Daniel c. Frawley, 26, Of 40
Forester street S.W., with saw
ing the lives of James A.
Church, AZ, a house painter;
his wife, Frances, 81, and their
five children, Jean, ID; Brenda,
10; Wanda, 8; Sharon, 4, and
Donna, /.
Five engine companies and
two truck companies we're sum-
moned to the fire scene, at
1926 U street Sc, shortly after
5 am. The fire, which spread
from a first-floor kitchen to
a porch, roof and attic of the
2l2 STORY frame house, was
brought under control in 20
minutes.
Pvt. Frawley was on foot
patrol on the midnight-to-8
am. shift when he observed
smoke pouring from the second
floor of the U street residence.
He pounded on the front door.
| When this failed to arouse the
Evening star., 1961-07-29

matter that would require a
two-thirdS vote for approval.
United States officials believe
the seating of Red China
could be blocked under the
two-thirds rule.
Red China Bar Urged
In advance of Mr.. Chen's ar
rival, the Senate yestedday re-
peated its opposition to ad-
mission of Red China into the
United Nations and to any
United States diplomatic rec
ognition of the Communist re-
gime.
An amendment to the Senate
resolution accused the Commu-
nistS of having imposed on the
Chinese lone of the most brutal
regimes known to history" II
also charged that by exporting
narcotics to Communist
countries in collaboration with
criminal elements, Red China
is the major source of the in
ternational illicit narcotic s
traffic"
The amendment was offered
by Senator Dodd, Democrat OF
Connecticut.
The resolution-passed by a
1910 vote and sent to the House
also expressed continued sup
port of Nationalist China as the
representative of the Chinese
people in the United Nations.
Evening star., 1961-07-29

Sharon in a crib on the second
floor and carried her outside.
He made a third trip into
the house in the mistaken be-
lief that someone else was still
inside. He collapsed at the
front door on his way out.
Pvt. Frawley was admitted to
Casualty Hospital in good con-
dition after treatment for smoke
inhalation. No one else was
injured.
Mr.. Church, who was asleep
in an upstairs bedroom with
his wife and two daughters,
Donna and Sharon, said the
first he knew of the fire was
when another daughter, Bren-
da, who had been sleeping in
the living room, came upstairs
and said there was a police
man at the door.
"The place was full of smoke
and we were only half awake, y
Mr.. Church said. They man
aged to wake the other four
daughters, he said, and with
the help of Pvt. Frawley STUN
bled out to the street.
We're very grateful to the
man." Mr.. Church said. We
don't know how to thank him.
If it hadn't been for him -
Evening star., 1961-07-29
Chinese Vice President
Sees Kennedy Monday

Vice President Chen Cheng
of Nationalist China will open
consultations with President
Kennedy Monday on ways OF
dealing with the issue of Com
munist Chinese representation
at the United Nations next fall
Mr.. Chen-hignest ranking
Nationalist Chinese official to
visit the United States since
World War Ills due to drive
directly to the White House
following his arrival Monday
morning from Williamsburg
Va.
The Chinese official, re-
garded as heir apparent to
President Chang Kai-shek, will
be accom- anie d by Shen
Chang-huan, minister of for
eign affairs and a party of 10.
Many Shift Tactic
State Department officials
have virtually abandoned hope
of using the moratorium de-
vice at the U. N. General As
sembly this year to delay con-
sideration of the seating OF
Communist China.
Instead, an effort may be
made to postpone debate until
the end of the fall session.
Another approach may be
to declare the Chinese repre-
sentation issue an important
Evening star., 1961-07-29
SenatorsCIash
On BudgetCut
Republican Asks
Presidents Aid
BY J. A. O'LEARY
Star Staff Writer

Senate Democratic Leader
Mansfield of Montana and Re-
publican Senator Bush of Con-
necticut claShed today over
whether President Kennedy
should use his influence to help
Congress cut domestic spending
to offset the big defense build
up.
AS the Senate met in an un-
usual Saturday session, Sena-
tor Bush moved to cut $277.6
million from the Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare appropri-
alton bill because it was added
in committee without being
asked for by the President.
Senator Bush said he hoped
the President would try to
persuade the Democratic leader
to get behind this effort to up
hold his budget requests.
Senator Mansfield quickly re-
piled that he hoped the White
House would not put pressure
on us" in behalf of the Bush
amendments because this i;
the Senate's business.
Il have seen votes changed
here earlier this year because
the White House intervened,
retorted Senator Bush, men,
tioning the housing bill as ar
example.
Senator Bush said Senators
should have help from the
President when they are trying
to save money as we'll as when
they are making increases.
Debate today on the $5.1 hill
lion HEW bill and the SO bill
lion independent offices money
See CONGRESS, Page A-5
Evening star., 1961-07-29

begin strategic" evacuation
possibly days in advance-and
it would, Mr.. Rodericks said,
take a day to drain off nom
essential persons current
planning calls for tactical
evacuation of the whole popu-
lace to take place only if more
than an hours warning is
given.
If tactical" evacuation is
suicide" even worse, said Mr..
RoderickS. is the current situa-
ton if less than an hours
warning is given.
Then, instead of sounding
the evacuation siren. I'VE would
sound another one and
neither is known to the public
to take cover" he said. And,
it might be added to make
peace with your maker"
If the program wins the Com
missioners' approval, the Dis
trict "can be well on the way
by this fall toward carrying
it out" he told them in a re-
port July S.
To gain area-wide approval
of the new evacuation plan, he
called for "a high-level con-
ference as soon as possible
with representatives of the
Federal Government, the Dis
trict government. the States OF
Virginia and Maryland :"
There are areas of current
operational requirements in
volving each of the jurisdic-
tions which will make it neces-
sary for a meeting of the
minds before the District can
take any action to change the
existing evacuation plan," he
said.
The rest of the broad 13-
point program has a simple
aim: Carrying out the city's
civil defense plan, drafted two
years ago at a cost of 5000, 900,
as quickly as possible.
The proposals will be aired
at a special briefing session of
the commissioners, probably on
Wednesday. Mr.. Rodericks said.
Given top priority is STEP
See PLAN, Page Az
Evening star., 1961-07-29

''imperialist Government of
the United States" plans to
justify military aggression be-
cause of Cuba's failure to sur
render the Eastern Air Lines
plane.
The airliner was forced to
land in Havana by a Cuban
who held a pistol on the pilot
of the Miami-to- Tampa flight.
No Comment by U. S.
In Washington, State Depart
ment officials said there would
be no immediate comment on
Mr.. Castro's charges of his
handling of the affair of the
hijacked airlines. They said
they wanted to see his accusa-
tions and statements in writ
ing before deciding what If
anything to say.
The Cuban note said the air.
liner now is under a court en-
barge requested by IAN inter-
ested party" It noted that, in
the past 10 months, 10 Cuban
planes have been seized in the
United States and sold at
auction.
The Foreign Ministry said
the note was addressed to the
president of the Security Coun-
Gil on instructions of President
Osvaldo DorticoS and Prime
Minister Fidel Castro. It said
Cuba wished to call the coun-
cil's attention to "the grave
risk to international peace"
provoked by imminent military
aggression" by the United
States.
The Fidel Castro government
Evening star., 1961-07-29

occupants, he forced the door
open and awakened the painter
and his family.
Together, they escorted the
children to safety. Once cut
doors, the Churches realized
their 4-year-old daughter was
missing. Pvt. Frawley re-
entered the home. He found
Evening star., 1961-07-29
Kennedy Aids College

TAIPEI, Formosa. July 90
tAP) President Kennedy has
donated $1,000 to the fund for
the reactivation in Formosa Of
the Roman Catholic Flu Jen
University, formerly located at
Peiping, it was announced here
today.
Evening star., 1961-07-29
CHRISTMAS
IN JULY

CHRISTMAS CAROLS, O YuIe-
time sermon and q Christmos tree
with trimmings will be featured in
on unusuoI Sunday service tomorrow
at the coIvory Baptist Church. The
service is previewed todoy on Poss
AS.
THE NAMES Of ll6 persons who
posed the Virsinio Stote bor exoms
on June 27-28 ore listed on Pose
Alb.
Evening star., 1961-07-29

WaShington's civil defense dl-
rector.
The plan, for strategic evac-
uation," is aimed at averting
the mass suicide of a last
minute panic flight from
Washington.
The panic would be averted
by starting evacuation efforts
long before an actual enemy
attack is launched, avoiding
traffic jams and other foul
ups that would be fatal in a
tight situation.
On word from top defense
and military officials that in
ternational relations are reach
ing the danger mark-at the
same time, that is, that those
officials now start packing
their bags, all but about 100,-
900 essential personnel would
be evacuated.
Plans Revealed
If the international situation
appears ominous, key military,
defense and government Off
cials are quietly moved out of
the danger area circum-
scribed by the Washington
blast area.
Ideally, Mr.. Rodericks said
in an interview yesterday. all
non-esSential persons within a
20-mile radius of the Ellipse-
the blast area of a 20-megaton
bomb-would be evacuated and
the area sealed off until the
all-clear.
Left behind, to be evacuated
only on warning of an. actual
attack, would be about 1000
workers necessary to maintain
the city. These, he said, would
include police and firemen.
New Warning
They would be evacuated
under the only currently exist
ing public evacuation plan,
tactical evacuation.
An attempt at emptying the
entire city through tactical
evacuation" Mr.. Rodericks
said, would be suicide.
While the new plan would
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u. n. Council Is Offered
Compromise on Tunisio
turkish Plan
Omits Blame
For France

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
July 20 (AP) Turkey today
laid before the U. N. Security
Council a compromise resolu-
tion calling for full compliance
with last weeks Tunisian cease
fire order but eliminating any
charges that France is at fault.
The new proposal, under
stood to have Western backing.
was submitted just before the
1l-nation Council met to con-
slider a controversial Asian
African plan which specifically
stated that France has not
complied with the cease-fire.
This faced almost certain de-
feat either by failure to get
the required seven votes or by
a French veto.
France continued to refrain
from taking part in the debate,
but Ambassador Armand Ber-
ard was back in his seat as an
observer after leaving his dep
uty. Pierre Millet, to sit in at
yesterdays meeting.
Settlement Asked
The Turkish resolution ex-
pressed concern that the Tuni-
sian cease fire had not been
complied with fully but did NOS
say who was to blame. 1t ap-
pealed for immediate compli-
ance.
The proposal also called for
direct negotiations between
France and Tunisia on their
differences. including a settle
ment of the controversy over
the Bizerte naval base.
In addition. the council had
before it a new resolution by
the United Arab Republic, Cey-
Ion and Liberia urging negoti-
ations between France and
Tunisia with a.view to a rapid
evacuation of French forces
from Tunisia." This is similar
to a proposal which was re-
jected last week.
Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold told the Council last
night he had received evidence
during his recent trip to Tu-
nisia that France had violated
the councils cease fire and as
sumed functions on Tunisian
soil normally reserved to a
sovereign state"
United States Ambassador
Adlai E. Stevenson conferred
for SO minutes in Paris yester-
day with President Charles Da
Gaulle on the Bizerte crisis,
which has put a strain on the
three-way relationship between
the United States, France and
TuniSia.
Berlin Situation Involved
Mr.. Stevenson, chief of the
United States delegation to the
U. N, told newsmen later he
hoped there will be a mutually
satisfactory resolution to this
unfortunate affair (Rizerte)."
Tunisia wants the United
States to make good on its pro-
nouncements of friendship to
newly independent nations and
back Tunisia's demands that
France pull out of her big air
naval base at Bizerte.
The United States has been
reluctant to offend Gen. De
Gaulle at a time when western
unity is vital in dealing with
Soviet demands on Berlin.
France has made it clear It
will not be bound by any deci-
sion the Security Council
makes on Bizerte.
4 The De Gaulle government
See TUNISIAN, Page A-3