Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 3, 1963, Yuma, Arizona Have a Happy 4th of July EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK The Giants Of Industry Grow Bigger By JONES OSBORN Fortune magazine provides us with an interesting report on the condition of big business in the U.S.A Both sales and profits of ica's 500 biggest industrial com- panies an all-time high in 1962 according to Fortune The combined sales 1 of the 500 giants were lions or per cent above the previous year which also set an all-time ord Combined I profits for thr 500 Jast year came to billions a gain of 16 per cent over profits of the previous year These 500 firms account for more than one-half of the total sales of all U.S manufacturing and mining companies And they account for more than 70 per cent of their profits Forty-nine American companies now have sales of more than billion a year an increase of 8 over the previous year The ten biggest industrial com- panies and their total sales in billions are as 1 General Motors 2 Standard Oil 9.5 3 Ford Motor 8.1 4 General Electric 1.8 5 Mobil OH 3.9 6 U.S Steel 3.5 7 Texaco 3.3 8 Gulf Oil 3.8 9 Western Electric 2.8 Swift 2.5 This is not of course the full story of American economic health Thousands upon thousands of small businesses also play a vital role in the nation's economy But it is more exciting Fortune knows to talk about the giants of American industry Council Predicts Record Holiday Traffic Toll By United Press International Americans prepared today to celebrate the Fourth of July with the grim prediction that 550 to 650 persons will die during the long weekend The National Safety Council said the estimated 550 to 650 deaths would be a record high for the Independence Day end An additional lo persons would be injured the council predicted Tbe holiday begins at 6 p.m local time and continues until midnight Sunday Howard Pyle council president said nearly three-fourths of all traffic accidents would be caused by drinking and driving driving too fast driving left of center and failure to yield right-of-way The Weather Bureau said sunny skies were expected on the Fourth in the eastern half of the nation and fair to partly cloudy skies elsewhere Tt will be warm in almost all sections Defends Rights Measure WASHINGTON UPI Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy today sharply rejected suggestions that the public accommodations tion of the President's civil rights proposals would put new shackles on the nation's business Ilk called the suggestions screens Kennedy made the statement shortly before he completed three days of testimony on the public accommodations plan T ISi a f or j of 2 s his wifie had t- U.S Ing er AND THE WEATHER yesterday 108 Lowest 77 at 11 today 93 Relative humidity at 1L this date 108 Avenge low this date 79 FORECAST to Mostly clear with little change In today through Thursday today and tonight 108 law 76 Sunrise set YUMA 157 14 PAGES PER COPY lOc YUMA ARIZONA WEDNESDAY JULY 3 1963 PHONE SU ARIZONA 157 Reds Step Up Spying Activities Iraq Claims Communist Revolt Plot Foiled Attempted Army Camp Coup Fails BEIRUT Lebanon UPI Baghdad Radio today announced the crushing of a Communist plot to seize a military camp in Iraq The radio in a broadcast heard here announced a communique from the Iraqi Revolutionary Com- mand saying the plot against the camp at Rashid this morning was put down in hall an hour The broadcast gave no details of the action and did not mention what casualties were A Communist plot staged by some Communists and agents to seize Rashid camp was crushed at dawn in a half hour by our military forces the national guard the police and the a com- from the Iraqi ary government said Strength Shown The swiftness with which the at- tempted coup at the camp was foiled showed how strongly the revolutionary regime is in con- trol the broadcast said The communique said that a special committee was questioning the detained agents A later broadcast reported the execution by hanging of three accused of pating in a revolt in Mosul in northern Iraq in The Iraqi ment which came to power last Feb 8 in a military coup edly has been conducting a to eliminate Communists in Iraq The Reds backed former Premier Abdel Karim Kassem who was ousted in the coup and later executed Lenders The February uprising under the leadership of a junta was led by Lt Col Abdul Karim Mustafa The junta named a transitional government with Abdul Salam Mohammed Arif as president and Maj Gen Ahmed as premier The leaders of the coup were said to be advocates of pan- Arab policies promoted by United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser Red China Accuses Kremlin MOSCOW UPI Communist China circulated a Foreign note in Moscow today cusing the Kremlin oE trying to obstruct Sino-Soviet negotiations scheduled to start here Tbe Chinese Embassy uted copies of the note to the embassies in Moscow of countries with whom Peking has diplomatic relations The note which was released earlier in Peking dealt with the Soviet expulsion of three Chinese diplomats and two students for circulating in Moscow a harsh at- tack on Russian policy Colls Action Unfounded Calling the Soviet action un- tenable and the nese note accused the Soviet Un- ion of deliberately trying to worsen relations between the two countries virtually on the eve of the Moscow talks aimed at ing their ideological and political split Until how the Kremlin Has said nothing about the expulsion of the Chinese leaving the an- to Peking Diplomatic observers said dis- of the note by the nese under the nose of the lin was certain to cloud the at- for the talks Not Bucking Down The Soviet Union indirectly served notice today it will not hack down -in the face of Peking's belligerent line toward other Communist countries and the West Premier Nikita Khrushchev was reported to have lated Marshal Tilo upon his re- cent confirmation lo the dency of Yugoslavia One of the basic conflicts in the Sino-Soviet rill is the Chinese demand that Russia break with Yugoslavia which Peking cuses of consorting with the im- and betraying the in- Communist ment No Paper Tomorrow The office of The Yuma Daily Sun will he closed tomorrow in observance of Independence and there will he no issue of this newspaper on day Paul Attorney Dies Here Last Night Paul F 50 Yuma at- torney died suddenly here last night at Baptist tal The well-known attorney a member of the firm of Nebeker Nebeker and was taken ill at home late last night He was taken to where he died within an hour It is believed that lie died of a vascular ture For a number of years operated the Yuma Adjustment Bureau In February of this year he returned to the practice of law He received his law degree from Creighton University in 1936 He attended Notre Dame University for two years At one time els was associated with Everett Miller in the practice of law here During WWII he was in the Counter Intelligence Corps Survivors include his wife Ruth and four children Danny 14 Elaine 13 Frank 10 and Cathy 8 all of 8th Avenue Also surviving are a brother Frank and two sisters The er is expected to arrive here this evening Funeral arrangements are pending was a member of the PAUL Arizona Bar Yuma County Bar Association and the Nebraska Bar He also was a member of he Yuma Elks Lodge American Legion and VFW His wife is the school nurse at Kofa High LET FREEDOM are urged to join with millions of tomorrow at 11 in celebrating Independence Day by ringing a bell Thomas F Allt and Lt Cmdr Jack Larson Yumans Plan Holiday Celebrations Bell ringing nnd fireworks arc the orders of the dny in Yuma and surrounding areas on Day tomorrow The Bells for dom program will be a highlight in many communities Many Yuma organizations and churches will take part in the 11 ringing to note Uie sound of dom The sounds should peel across the town as take time out from their holiday to remember its significance Alarms Somerton is planning to take part in the celebration by ing the old siren at 11 tomorrow Somerton Baptist Church and the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church will ring their bells at the appointed hour Some merchants have even discussed of setting to enhance the audible of the principle of liberty Here in Yuma fireworks dis- plays will be set off tonight and tomorrow night The Crest Drive-In Theater will hold its annual fireworks display tonight at Crest holds ils display tonight so as not to com- pete with the American Legion celebration tomorrow night This is tlie fourth year in a row for the Crest entertainment and a crowd of nearly is expected Watermelons All the kids from the Yuma area arc invited to cat fill of watermelons starting at noon tomorrow at the house Over 600 watermelons will bo passed out as part of the July 4th Community Carnival Tomorrow night will feature the American Legion barbecue The H H Post No will its festivities at the clubhouse starling with the cue at 5 p.m The general public is invited There will be supervised games for the children a scramble for pennies and train rides for tile children The Fireworks After dark a beautiful fireworks demonstration featuring ground Turn lo Page 12 Col 3 Please senling the Kiwanis Club one clubs in the Yuma area fostering the July 4th bell pealing tice up for tomorrow's freedom ring The bell belongs to Yuma High School BIG pretty young lady Sharon McGinnis 114 Street is holding two of the fireworks displays to be set off tomorrow night by the American Legion at the Jaycee clubhouse All Yumans are invited to attend Sun Staff Photo Wirtz Seeks To Avert Rail Strike WASHINGTON UPI Labor Secretary W Willard Wirtz stepped into deadlocked railroad negotiations again today in tope of finding some avenue toward averting a nationwide strike put himself back into the struggle Tuesday with the an- that a new round of talks had gone nowhere The strike deadline extended twice is July 10 We arc now in the hour of this dispute which has ued for nearly four he said No effective bargaining has taken place as a result we are facing a nationwide railroad shutdown He planned to meet with J E Wolfe chairman of the railroad negotiating committee and each of the negotiators for the five op- railroad brotherhoods Friday he planned a meeting will both sides in a joint session Please Drive Carefully Yuma Officers Urge All Yuma law enforcement chiefs joined today in urging mot crisis to drive with extra tion over the holiday tomorrow Yuma Police Chief Robert bery said that all available cers will be in patrol cars out the city tomorrow keeping traffic moving safely He said there expected lo be a heavy traffic flow of tourists nnd day motorists through the city and lo this area for recreation purposes Chief Mabery said officers will keep a constant check to keep traffic moving safely County Sheriff Travis Yancey said his staff will also he out in full force patrolling the county roads and highways He suggested that motorists should try to keep a safe distance behind the car in front drive at a safe speed and refrain from drinking if driving Arizona Highway Patrolmen will also he doing extra duty on the state highways according to Sgt C M Chick Lawwill of the trol staff here He said would concentrate on slowing up speeders and getting drunk ers off the highways NAACP Demands Hotel Remove Negro Statues CHICAGO UPI The tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People demanded today that two statues of Negro jockeys be removed from the lobby of its hotel headquarters Delegates to the annual convention passed an emergency resolution objecting to the presence of the five-foot urines in front of the entrance to the Tockey Club in the son Hotel Soviet Files Protest over U.S Arrests WASHINGTON Union today protested the ar- of a Russian loye and his wife on spy charges and demanded their immediate The protest was filed at the State Department by Georgi acting head of the Soviet here Mentioned in the protest were Van 41 and iis wife Alexandria 39 They vere picked up along with an- other couple Tuesday night on charges that they conspired over he past six years to steal U.S military secrets for the Kremlin Kornienko called the arrest unlawful and said it cannot mprove in any way relations KFK Comments Meanwhile Ally Gen Robert r Kennedy commenting on the arrests said that the Communists vere stepping up their spy ies against the United Stales The four were arrested lay night by FBI agents in New York's Queen County and i n in the second Soviet spy case in this country in two days On Monday the Stale De- ordered expulsion of viet Embassy attache Gennadiy espionage A government official called the spy ring n big one and FBI said it had all the al messages left at drop codes ciphers and secret writings Two Aro Kennedy said today on a sion program that the two ed in Washington were not can citizens but were illegals He appeared on Today's program The attorney general described his term as applying to persons came to the United Slates not as part of u diplomatic mission illegally and who adopted the of American citizens Kennedy said this kind of is increasing against the United States He said All Com- munist countries have increased heir espionage activity Seized in Now York in the est roundup were Ivan Egorov II and his wife 39 a officer in the United tions secretarial formerly served In Soviet Embassy in India and Canada Taken into custody In ton was a couple known as ert Kctetutis Ballch and Joy Ann Ballch The FBI said were not their real names but it did not disclose their true identities It said the real Baltch is a Roman Catholic priest and Joy Ann Garber is a Norwalk Conn housewife Neither knew of the spy masquerade Two Others FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said that two other conspirators in spy ring were Aleksei Ivanovich Calkin -15 former first secretary of he Byelorussian mission who left the United States May 10 and vich Maslennikov -13 first tary of the Soviet mission who returned home a week lier The FBI complaint Identified Galkin and as cers of Soviet military gence It said that the defendants con- spired to transmit to Russia in- formation relating lo the national defense of the United States and particularly information relating to military installations naval in- troop movements shipyards and military waterfront facilities Among the information ed sought was the locution of U.S intercontinental ballistic missile sites Stores To Be Closed On Independence Day Public offices mid stores will bo tomorrow in ance of Dny a gal holiday
