“Absolutely Unprovoked Attack” Says
Co-Pilot Of B-50 Shot Down By Soviets
Senate Passes Bill to Allow
Secretary of Interior
To Sell Land in Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP—'The Sen
ate Saturday passed and sent to
the White House three bills to
authorize the secretary of interior
to sell land in Alaska.
One would authorize the sale of
about half an acre at the comer
of Manor Avenue and North Sev
enth Street in Anchorage to the
Calvary Baptist Church of An
chorage. The bill provides that
the land shall be sold at a reason
m- able price but at not less than
$1.25 an acre. It reserves coal
and mineral rights for the gov
ernment.
A second bill would authorize
the sale of 133 acres of land some
19 miles along the Sterling High
way from Kenai to the Alaska
Council of Boy Scouts for use as
a campsite.
The third bill would authorize
the sale of 462 acres about 200
miles from Anchorage and near
the Alaska Highway to the Cath
olic bishop of northern Alaska for
use as a mission school.
SIT FOR SAFETY. SAYS SIGN
SILVER CREEK, N.Y., OB—It'
took a bus boy to think up this
sign in a tavern in this Chatauqua
County village:
“Please do not stand while tav
ern is in motion.”
SWIFT & CO. OFFICIAL
DIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT
UNION PIER, Mich., OP—Na
than Butler Swift, 41, vice presi
dent of Swift & Co., huge meat
packing firm, was killed Friday
night in an automobile accident.
Michigan state police said that
Swift’s English sports car was
rammed broadside by an automo
bile driven by Semour Gottlieb,
25, of Lakeside, Mich.
EDDIE STANKY GIVEN
THREE-YEAR CONTRACT
AS CARDINALS' MANAGER
ST. LOUIS, OP—Eddie Stanky
was given a new three-year con
tract as manager of the St. Louis
Cardinals today calling for a sal
ary believed to be in excess of
$40,000. It is effective next year
and extends through 1956.
Stanky is now reported to be
receiving $37,000 a year.
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TOKYO, W)—“It was absolutely
an unprovoked attack, 40 miles
from Russian territory,” said the
| co-pilot of an American B-50 shot
down at sea in a Russian jet at
tack off Siberia Wednesday.
Capt. John Roche Saturday dir
ectly contradicted Moscow charg
es that the big bomber and its 17
man crew were over Siberia near
the Red naval base, Vladivostok,
and that the Americans fired first.
Roche told a news conference:
“We were definitely 40 miles
from Russian territory. Our navi
gation is almost infallible. It was
visual, Loran and Q13 [radar].
We weren’t any closer than 40
miles.”
Roche, 28 , said a Mig jet with
Russian insigne flashed in and
blasted one of the bombpr’s four
engines. Then—so quickly that
it might have been a different
Mig—an engine on the other wing
was shot up.
The right wing fell off and the
big plane crumpled into the Sea
of Japan. The crew was ordered
to bail out.
Roche, of Washington, D.C., was
the only crewman rescued by U.S.
ships.
Roche said the American de
stroyer Picking, which plucked
him from the sea in the pre-dawn
darkness Thursday—22 hours af
ter the crash — had stopped a
Russian “trawler or tug boat” and
questioned the crew, but saw no
indication that it had any surviv
ors aboard.
Roche said a gunner on the
B-50 fired back at the first Mig
—a three- to five-second burst of
machinegun fire—but he did not
know whether the Mig was hit.
“No, nobody issued an oredr to
fire. No order was needed. We
were under attack,” he said.
“I dove out past the nose wheel.
I smelled smoke and looked up to
see if my chute was on fire. It
was open and there was nothing
wrong with it. Then my feet
touched water.
“I was about 75 feet from the
wreckage of the plane. The water
all around the wreckage was on
fire. I swam backward to get
away from it.
“I had on my Mae West [life
jacket]. I found a mattress and
used it as a raft.
“I heard somebody holler. I
started swimming toward the
sound and found Capt. O’Kelly.
We stayed together for the next
IIV2 hours — until we spotted a
B-29 flying over.
“I fired my flares and marked
the area with sea marker dye. I
kept backing up, to keep out of
the dye. I was 75 or 80 yards
away from Capt. O’Kelly when
the B-29 dropped a lifeboat.
“O’Kelly was a little weak, I
think.
“I swam to the boat. It was 150
or 200 yards from O’Kelly. I
climbed into it. I had cramps and
was violently sick. I couldn’t
move. I never got a chance to get
to O’Kelly after that.”
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PRECAUTIONS
Gamma Globulin—obtained from hu
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weeks. However, it is in VERY SHORT
SUPPLY.
A vaccine is not ready for 1953. But
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uled to return to Washington to
morrow.
The conference chairman, Dem
ocratic Governor Allan Shivers
of Texas, in an address prepared
for the opening business session,
reported “significant progress” in
the field of federal-state relations.
And he credited it largely to' Eis
enhower.
Outside the four-day confer
ence, there was evidence of wide
spread support among Republican
governors for Eisenhower’s at
tempt to increase the legal debt
limit of the federal debt. Of the
43 governors here, 31 are Repub
licans.
Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado,
a Republican and an early pre
convention backer of Eisenhower,
told a reporter - there is a better
prospect for cutting taxes next
year than the situation indicates
now. By that time, he said, the
administration will be able to put
in its own program.
Thornton joined three other Re
publican governors who in separ
ate news conferences yesterday
advocated that Congress set aside
any moves to cut taxes until after
the federal budget is balanced.
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BAD YEAR FOR
SMALL PLANES
By DON GRETZER
For the Office of Aviation Safely
I cannot remember a year in
the history of Alaska aviation
which has been so tragic in the
number of fatal accidents in small
airplanes as this past year.
There were 12 in-flight fatal
accidents which killed off 25 men,
women and children between July
1, 1952, and June 30, 1953. There
were eight more accidents which
caused serious injury to fifteen
more of our citizens. Two other
seriosly injured persons were sur
vivors of accidents fatal to others.
PLANES' PROGRESS
Today, an air traveler can make
the hop from New York to Lon
don in 11 hours and 45 minutes;
in 1946 it was 17 hours and 35
minutes. Thus, a reduction of
5 hours and 50 minutes has been
achieved in- the short span of
! seven years.
SUNDAY SCORES
(By the Associated Press)
National League
St. Louis 10, Brooklyn 1
Philadelphia 4-1, Milwaukee 1-6
Cincinnati 5-3, New York 0-1
Chicago 7, Pittsburgh 6
American League
Washington 1, Chicago 0
Cleveland 10-7, Philadelphia 1-1
Detroit 2-9, Boston 1-6
Coast League
Oakland 4-1, S. Francisco 3-2
Hollywood 4-3, Los Angeles 1-5
Seattle 5-3, Portland 1-7
Sacramento 3-2, San Diego 0-3
FRIDAY SCORES
American League
Washington 2 — Chicago 0
Detroit 5 — Boston 3
Cleveland 12—Philadelphia 6
New York ^1 — St. Louis 5
National League
Brooklyn 2 — St. Louis 1
Philadelphia 5—Milwaukee 1
New York 9 — Cincinnati 2
Pittsburgh 4 — Chicago 0
Coast League
Portland 2-3 — Seattle 0-6
Hollywood 2 — Los Angeles 1
S. Francisco 5-3—Oakland 1-1
Sacramento 6 — San Diego 5
VAGRANT CENTENARIAN
LIVERPOOL, England, UB —
Elizabeth Stringer celebrated her
100th birthday in the dock at
magistrate’s court on vagrancy
charges.
She was found asleep on a step
by a police officer who said she
could not give a satisfactory ac
count of herself.
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“Gangster Tactics”
Revealed In K.C.
Labor Dispute
WASHINGTON, UP— House in
vestigators reported Saturday that
they have turned up evidence of
“appalling violence” and “gang
ster tactics” in a labor dispute in
Kansas City. The House members
recommended that the federal
government study the record for
possible criminal prosecution.
The report was filed by a House
labor subcommittee headed by
Rep. Wint Smith (R-Kan). The
unit’s hearings followed a long
union squabble in Kansas City
which idled as many as 25,000
workers for nearly two months.
The subcommittee blamed “jur
isdictional demands of the Kan
sas City teamsters,” an AFL affili
ate, for bringing construction,
both private and defense, “to a
complete halt.”
Reporting on hearings conduct
ed in Kansas City June 29 to July
3, the House group said:
“This committee and the Con
gress should look with deep con
cern at this sordid account of
free men, afraid to work, terror
ized by the gangster tactics of
those to whom the Congress itself
has given privilege and authority.”
Since the hearings ended, work
stoppages have ended with the
teamsters going ahead under pres
ent work contracts. These do not
expire until next April.
The subcommittee report rec
ommended that its findings be
referred to Attorney General
Brownell and the U.S. attorney
for the western district of Mis
souri, with the request they take
steps to obtain a federal grand
jury investigation.
The subcommittee said the dis
pute involved attempts by the
teamsters union to invade terri
tory where other AFL unions
claimed bargaining rights.
ATLANTIC AIR ROUTES
Every seven days, approximate
ly 200 scheduled airliners fly the
ocean routes between the North
American continent and Europe.
These planes are operated by 12
U.S. and foreign airlines. They
are a part of the total world air
line fleet of some 4,000 transports,
four-fifths of them produced by
the aircraft plants of the U.S.
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