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iHouse Passes Bill Raising Police And Teacher Wages
Big ICBM‘s Spectacular Flight }Traverses Third Of The World
By
record. $200,971,761 working budget for the next
target in the Indian Océan southeast of the'tip of South It was
the
longest
7,760 miles claimed by the ) Russians for a rocket they Jaunched into the central Pacific last January. 325
targets
feach
mit
:
within
U.S.
mi'sile
cated farthty tial enemy:
Atlas bring
from
any
be
The
Air
Force,
yesterday’s
of
jubilant
success,
to
be
irritations’
incidents
in
increased viets.
tensions
Eisenhower
the
for
and possibly with
the
of
So-
given
less
gratitude
like
a thund-
erous welcome home in cheers from hundreds when his big orange and silver jet transport *winged into Andrews Air Force « base. F Smiling he thanked them for the
the
ex-
to ferret out
tacked
BUDGET,
Police
on
the
upping include
Page
Oklahoma
(AP)—Admiral Arleigh Burke told newsmen. Thursday the United States will keep its giant Cuban naval base “by force if necessary.” The chief of naval
apt to
Strengthen
Amendments
the an
25)
tions
told.
a news
in Ponca City expects Cuba
opera-
conference
that the to honor
U.S. the
United States’ long-term lease on the Guantanamo Bay naval base.
In reply to a question, he said the U.S. “is prepared to retain the Guantanamo base —by force if necessary. Nobody
is
ships
and
going
get
te
attack
our
with
it.”
away
Nikita Tones Down; Promises Status Quo On German Issues By WILLIAM BERLIN (AP) Khrushchev
RECORD FLIGHT—Map traces route an Atlas fired from Cape Canaveral took yesterday to land on target 1,000 miles. outside Cape Town, a test shot of 9,000 miles.
welcome and expressed appreciation -for, the solidarity shown during his tribulations in Paris. In Serious Mood ’ Then, in serious mood, Eisenhower reported that- an Amer-
Air
ican two-engine C-47 plane is missing along
ference is “a mystery mains a mystery.”
munist-controlled was
in
contains
for items
Will
(See
peak
atmosphere
also
budget by the House police appropriation
over
watchful
budget
voter
Funds
So-
dent Eisenhower returned yesterday from the wrecked summit conference and somberly warned “more
the
del-
rise
U.S. Ready To Use Force TONKAWA,
| illegal use of public monies.
Ike Home, Urges Watchfulness Americans
juvenile
above: the
‘If Necessary’ To Keep Cuban Base, Says Burke
tra $10,060 voted to underwrite travel expenses of the investiga=|tors from the Comptroller’s of-
announced
cay
to combat
fice. It is their task
the ‘Atlas achieved all test objectives in dropping its tacticaltype nose cone in the intended impact area 1,000 miles southeast of: the Cape.of Good Hope. The intercontinental range giant, 85 feet tall and weighing 125 tons-at liftoff, rose smoothly from.its Cape Canaveral pad at 10 am. (EST) after a perfer. countdown. Travelingat speeds up to 17,(See ATLAS, Page 25)
WASHINGTON
rise
A
Poten-
the
the
win
lo-
denberg AFB, Calif., could reach only the northern twothirds of Russia. The added ranall
are
budget
increases
For example, the 6,325-mile Atlases now stationed at Van-
ge would cover viet Union. '
in
hefty
But
per-
to
$18,692,790
. the
inquency and the traffic accidents.
range more
and
bases
—
seen in the Senate, Weighty factors
men
miles. the will
year
increases voted in police and school teacher pay, plus fresh appropriations vated to swell the number of police-
distance covered the Atlas was
Extension of “to 9,000 miles
fiscal
current figure. Speedy pas-4 sage for the budget bill is
| surfacé-to-surface missile}; ) flight record, exceeding the
The longest reviously by
J. LIDIN
The Popular Party majority Friday pushed through the House of Representatives a
By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)—The U. S. Air Force fired an Atlas missile more than a third of the way around the world yesterday in a spectacular demonstration of the range, power and accuracy of this big U. S. military rocket. The epochal .5214-minute ach earried the Atlas 9,000-miles to. a pre selpcted. | Africa.
HAROLD
Eastern
transport the Com-
frontier
of
Germany.
Force
transport
had
landed
Breakup A: Mystery Eisenhower. said Nikita Krushchev’s breakup of the Soviet conIt was not American
U2
re-
the downing of the spy
plane
in Rus-
sia that wrecked the conference, with nine passengers, is overdue. Eisenhower said in effect, de‘We can’t be sure the worst claring that the Soviet leader “distorted and overplayed” the has not happened,” he said. incident. (East German police reported “They (the Soviets) wanted no (See IKE, Page 4) \ last night a twin-engine U. S.
He said this unarmed transport,
of
the
told
East
last
night
dynamite
blems of West vided Germany ther
RYAN Nikita
summit
S.
German
a
solu-
laden
pro-
Berlin and a dimust await anomeeting.
The Soviet premier predicted chiefs of gavernment will meet within six to eight months and
in Communist East Germany after “straying off course.’’)
and
Communists tion
L. —
said, to the laughter of his listeners, that he is aware Pre-
sident fice
Eisenhower's
will
be
term
of
Speaking of “marking and keeping the German tion
in
eight
of-
ending.
status
quo
months,
the
tite” situa-
for
six
premier
to
de-
clared: “We
shall
pen
the
and
bring
times
The ed
of
do
nothing
international
to
shar-
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
situation
it back to the worst the
cold
Communist
Eisenhower
war.”
leader again
and
attacksaid
“a hidden. struggle” is going on behind the scenes among Ame-
rican
political
such
a
serious
struggle
forces.
could
developments.
said
He
lead
to
~~
subdued, was Khrushchev (See NEKITA, Page 25)