Monorail Slated
At Seattle Century
21 Exposition
SEATTLE, (tf) — A preliminary
agreement for the construction of
a one-mile-long $3,^00,000 mono
rail to connect downtown Seattle
with its Century 21 Exposition
grounds was signed Friday by
Alwac International Inc. of Swe
den and Century 21 officials.
Alwac, a unit of the industrial
empire of the Swedish financier,
Axel Wenner-Gren, will construct
the monorail system prior to the
start of the Exposition in 1962.
Red Climbers Scale Mt.
Everest ‘The Hard Way’
TOKYO, W) A radio report said
Thursday a Soviet-Chinese moun
taineering team reached the top
of Mt. Everest from the northern
slope, a route to the world’s high
est peak never before taken suc
cessfully by man.
An announcement by the Nepal
ese government said the joint
Communist team, racing an Indian
expedition, “is reported to have
reached the peak of Mt. Everest
from the northern slope, which
was for so long considered in
surmountable.”
In Katmandu, however, govern
ment spokesmen said it is “hard
to believe” that the Communist
team is at the summit. ,
Everest first was conquered in
1953 by a British expedition climb
ing the south side of the peak, a
Swiss expedition repeated the feat
twice in 1956.
A report to the Times of India
said the Communist expedition is
predominantly Chinese although
the leader is Russian. The news
paper said the expedition prob
ably was designed to bolster Chi
nese claims on the mountain,
which most maps show straddling
the border between Nepal and
Tibet.
New Jet Transport
Crashes In Test
ATLANTA, Ga., Itf)—A big new
jet airliner being readied for pas
senger service exploded in a train
ing flight takeoff today and
burned four crewmen to death.
Delta Airlines, which plans
soon to put the new 615-mile-an
hour jet in service, said no pas
sengers were aboard for the train
ing flight. The plane was a Con
vair 880.
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Chas. Hughes Quits State
Local Affairs Post to Join
Kennedy Bandwagon
JUNEAU, UP) — The State Di
rector of Local Affairs has given
up his post in hopes of joining
the Presidential campaign staff of
Sen. John Kennedy.
The resignation of Charles
Hughes from the $12,500-a-year
post he has held since last Sep
tember was announced by the
Governor’s Office.
The former Kodiak and Ketchi
kan lawyer leaves next week for
Washington, where he previously
had served as administrative as
sistant to Rep. Ralph Rivers.
Roger Pegues, 27, now on the
staff of the Legislative Council,
will succeed Hughes as local af
fairs chief June 1. Pegues is a
resident of Juneau.
Hughes, in addition to his local
affairs duties, had served as head
of rural development programs
and as state hearing officer under
the Administrative Procedures
Act.
IN MAGISTRATE'S COURT
City cases handled in the State
Magistrate’s Court by Magistrate
James St. Amour, are as follows:
Wm. Harris pleaded guilty to
drunkenness, and was fined $40;
Vincent Ahkolik pleaded guilty to
a charge of being drunk and dis
orderly, fined $20; Vernon Carl
son, drunk and disorderly, pleaded
guilty, fined $35; Dean Martin,
charge with speeding, pleaded not
guilty, was tried, convicted and
fine $15.
Pastoral Letter Calls on
Cuban Catholics to Fight
Against Communism
HAVANA, (41 — Cuba’s Roman
Catholics were told to fight Com
munism in a pastoral letter that
sources close to high church
authorities said today was listed
as a feeler to test the reaction of
the Castro government.
Prime Minister Fidel Castro has
charged that anti-Communism is
a smokescreen thrown up by those
bent on ruining his revolution.
It was the Catholic Church’s
first open attack on Communists
inside Cuba since Castro took
over.
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Gen. LeMay Calls
for Unified Control
of U. S. Services
NEW YORK, UHl — Air Force
Gen. Curtis E. Lemay said Satur
day that all the strategic forces
“must come under central con
trol.”
The Deputy Chief of Staff of
the Air Force apparently referred
to the previously proposed plan
for centralized over-all direction
of the strategic long-range bomb
ers, missiles and carrier lanes of
the various services. But in a pre
pared Armed Forces Day speech
LeMay did not go into details on
this point.
The general, former Chief of
the Strategic Air Command,
summed up the present strength
of the Air Force, Army and Navy,
and referred to new weapons and
warning systems now coming into
use. Then he said:
“The Soviets can overtake us
but I don’t think the Soviets can
do this unless we let them. They
can’t if we plan for the future. To
keep this from happening we must
keep on developing new and more
advanced weapon systems, such as
the B-70, (a long-range supersonic
bomber) and Minuteman (a solid
fuel intercontinental ballistic mis
sile) and all the strategic forces
must come under central control.
“We must have a force that in
sures a re-strike capability. This
assurance comes with a strategic
force that has quality, quantity,
dispersal, adequate early warn
ing, mobility and alert capability.
“This is a counterforce —
forces able to destroy the war
making capacity of any aggressor.
“A counterforce gives us an um
brella under which we work for
better ways to Solve our world
problems.”
Cannibals Convicted In
New Guinea Court
PORT MORSEBY, New Guinea,
UPl — A judge Saturday sentenced
16 cannibals to death for murder
ing a villager in a wife-hunting
and food-gathering raid last year.
Witnesses testified the cannibal
band, with highly developed
teamwork and generalship, raided
the village of Suwana in January,
1959, killed three men and kid
naped eight women. Parts of the
dead were ejiten; and the judge
in pronouncing sentence said: “I
would like to see you stay in jail
and learn about administration
and law. For eating flesh is a very
bad thing. Some people eat people
because they are pigs. Man should
be something better than a pig.”
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Force Base, Fla. The tower is a
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move it from the site by Aug. 12.
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Lone Japanese Artilleryman Captured
After 16 Years’ Hiding in .Guam Jungle
GUAM, UP) — World War II
finally ended Saturday for Jap
anese Pfc. Bunzo Minagawa,
found after nearly 16 silent years
of futile solitude in Guam’s
jungles.
Minagawa said he suspected
the United States had retaken
Guam, but told interpreters he
still couldn’t believe Japan lost
the war.
Two Guamanians spotted Mina
gawa, 39, in dense foliage 10 miles
south of Cana. Minagawa ran. The
Guamanians chased him 300 yards
Chris Berg Plans Kotzebue
Sea Water Sewer System
ANCHORAGE — Chris Berg,
Inc., has made application on be
half of tlie Bureau of Indian Af
fairs for a Department of the
Army permit to install a sewage
discharge and sea water intake
at Kotzebue.
Anyone objecting to the pro
posed improvements from the
standpoint of navigation is asked
to communicate with the U. S.
Army Engineer District, Alaska.
The deadline for receiving ob
jections has been set for June
10. Correspondence should be ad
dressed to U. S. Army Engineer
District, Alaska, P. O. Box 7002,
Anchorage.
QUIET RETREAT
OSLO, Norway, W) — A Norwe
gian hotel man paid $10,000 at
auction for an abandoned jail in
the scenic mountain valley of
Valdres with intentions of making
it into a resort. “The 14 cells,”
he said happily, “are just right for
hotel rooms.”
and subdued him after a brief
struggle.
Minagawa’s fatigue clothes were
filthy, his patched shorts held up
with a piece of cloth. In two
pouches he carried a dirty bandage
and a brown* wooden statuette —
a carved image of Buddha.
The man appeared in very
good health. He had lived his lone
ly years on coconuts, wild fruits
and other jungle foods.
In 1944 about a week before the
United States invaded Guam, he
said, his army unit broke up in
Sumay where the Japanese 3219th
Artillery was located.
He moved from place to place
in the jungle for about two years,
careful to avoid farms, villages or
roads and finally -set up a her
mit’s hideaway in the area where
he was caught. In nearly 16 years
he did not speak to anyone.
Minagawa is in a hospital while
immigration officals decide his
status. Officials say the holdout
story is being investigated and at
present the soldier is conidered an
alien.
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