Dulles Says Communist Desire for
Bastion Near Panama Canal May
Be Behind Big Shipment of Arms
WASHINGTON, UP)—Secretary'
of State Dulles said Tuesday the
Reds may have shipped arms to
Guatemala in order to build up a
Communist bastion near the Pan
ama Canal.
Dulles told a news conference
that was one possible objective of
the arms shipment last week from
Poland amounting to 2,000 tons
valued at 10 million dollars. He
said this had made Guatemala the
dominant military power in Cen
tral America.
A State Department announce
ment late Monday that arms are
being airlifted as “rapidly as pos
sible” to Nicaragua and Honduras,
Guatemala’s neighbors to the
south, evoked a quick denuncia
tion from Moscow Radio, which
called the action preparation for
“an attack against Guatemala.’
But Guatemala’s foreign minis
ter, Guillermo Toriello, apparent
ly viewed the new development
with no such alarm. He told news
men “We do not believe the arms
shipment has anything to do with
us.”
Toriello pointedly sidestepped
any mention of Nicaragua, which
has recalled its envoy from Guat
emala. But he said Honduras is a
good friend of the Guatemalan
government and people.
However, the Chicago' Tribune
said Monday night war seemed
imminent between Honduras and
Guatemala. Tribune staff writer
Jules Dubois filed a dispatch from
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in which
he said Honduran border guards
on Sunday captured five armed
Guatemalan Communists inside
Honduran territory. He also told
of reported troop and military air
activity cm both sides of the Guat
emala-Honduras border.
In Washington, Lincoln White,
State Department press officer,
said the department had no infor
mation that a war was impending,
but he added that U.S. diplomatic
officials knew there was consid
erable tension between the two
countries.
Meanwhile, dispatches from
Guatemala quoted longtime Am
erican residents of that country as
saying they could not recall a
similar strained atmosphere.
There were reports of workers
shouting “Go home Gringa (Yank
ee)” to North American women.
GUATEMALA, UP)—Guatemala
has rejected as intervention in
its internal affairs a U.S. note
demanding compensation for ex
b
propriated United Fruit Co. prop
erty in this country.
This position was outlined in a
foreign ministry memorandum re
plying to a State Department note
delivered in February. The mem
orandum was made public Mon
day night.
The U.S. note demanded pay
ment of 15 million dollars for the
expropriated property or submis
sion of the matter to international
arbitration.
Guatemala’s reply said “there
has been no denial or delay of
justice” to justify the State De-<
partment demand.
Land Mine Blast
Kills Robert Capa
In Indochina
HANOI, Indochina, W)—Robert
Capa, famed American war pho
tographer, was killed yesterday in
a land mine blast on the Indochi
na front.
A French High Command an
nouncement said the Hungarian
born cameraman died in the ex
plosion of a Vietminh mine near
Phuly, 30 miles south of Hanoi.
He was the first American photo
grapher killed in the Indochina
War.
Capa, who won fame through
his coverage for Life magazine
during World War II, came here
two weeks ago on a temporary
assignment for Life. He had gone
to Phuly—an active war sector—
to do a story with John Mecklin,
a Time magazine correspondent, j
French sources said Mecklin es
caped injury.
In recognition of his World War
II coverage, Gen. Eisenhower dec
orated Capa with the U.S. Medal
of Freedom in 1947.
The death of Werner Bischof,
one of Capa’s associates was an
nounced in New York last night.
He was killed sometime last week
in an automobile accident in the
mountains of Peru.
Bischof was a native of Zurich,
Switzerland. He had covered as
signments for many American
magazines, including the corona
tion of Queen Elizabeth II for
1 Life.
The old baldy among American
birds is the buzzard rather than
the eagle. The bald eagle’s head
actually is covered with white
feathers.
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FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
OUT-OF-TOWN ORDERS CAREFULLY HANDLED
Big Hydro Project
In Susitna R. Basin
To Be Considered
WASHINGTON, W—1The gov
ernor has adopted—as a basis for
further study — a development
plan for the Susitna River basin
in Alaska envisioning 12 major
dams and 11 power installations.
Secretary of the Interior Mc
Kay announced Tuesday the pre
liminary report has been sent to
the governor o*f Alaska and to in
terested federal agencies for their
comment.
In an accompanying statement,
Reclamation Commissioner W. A.
Dexheimer said that “in such an
ultimate plan” the total capacity
of the 11 power plants would be
1,249,000 kilowatts. Annual firm
energy output would be 6,180,000,
000 kilowatt hours.
The dam sites selected for fur
ther study, Dexheimer said, are
Denali, Vee, Watana, Devil Can
yon, Olson, Tokichitna, Trapper,
Greenstone, Granite Gorge, Keet
na, Skwentna No. 2, and Tala
chulitna.
The Reclamation Bureau said
the basin covers nearly 13 million
acres. Only about 5,000 acres are
privately owned, the rest being
public domain. About one million
acres are potential farm and graz
ing lands.
Dexheimer said the hydroelec
tric power potentiality of the ba
sin, “if developed to provide an
adequate and inexpensive supply
of electric power, would encour
age industrial development of the
railbelt area”—that area lying
along the Alaska Railroad from
Anchorage to Fairbanks.
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