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Defection of Two NSA Code Clerks |
Shows Up Weakness of U.S. Security;
WASHINGTON, Iff) —President
Eisenhower said today the defec
tion to Moscow of two American ,
code clerks shows the need for an ;
examination of the government’s
entire security machinery.
The President said every pos- 1
sible step must be taken, without
violating the rights of individuals,
to remove bad security risks from
positions where they can harm
the nation.
The two clerks, Bernon Mitch
ell, 31, and William Martin, 29,
turned up in a Moscow news con
ference yesterday and accused
America of threatening peace.
The case shows, Eisenhower
said, that we must go through our
entire procedures to strengthen
the possibility that weak, irres
ponsible, or treasonable persons
do not occupy sensitive posts.
A Capitol Hill hearing that
could send sparks darting through
high government agencies has
been scheduled for Sept. 16 in
the case of the two turncoats.
The Pentagon said one of them
was mentally sick and both were
Congressman Asserts
1,000 Security Risks
Hold Government Jobs
WASHINGTON, Iff!—Rep. Fran
cis E. Walter iD-Pa>, asserted to-''
day more than 1,000 security risks
now hold government jobs. Presi
dent Eisenhower, he said, has re
fused since last January to tell
him their names.
Walter showed reporters letters
contained in correspondence that
he had conducted with the White
House concerning his request to
ientify what he called known se
curity risks.
As chairman of the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities,
Walter said he wants the names
of all employes separated from
service under a loyalty program
but rehired after a 1956 decision
of the Supreme Court let them
nave their jobs back.
CAB Hears Applications
For Trans-Pacific Routes
From U.S. to The Orient
WASHINGTON, (m — Airlines
competing for new trans - Pacific
routes began two days of argu
ment before the Civil Aeronau
tics Board today.
Rep. Ralph Rivers supported
the application of Pan American
World Airways for new routes
from the east and midwest to the
Orient over the Great Circle route
by way of Fairbanks.
Rivers said the proposed ser
vices would mean a minimum of
$750,000 in gross receipts from
fuel sales and landing fees in Fair
banks in addition to expanded
payrolls.
Speaking on another phase of
the broad trans-Pacific case, Gov.
Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon en
dorsed proposed services by Pan
American World Airways for
competitive services with North
west Airlines from Portland to
the Orient over the Great Circle
route.
He said present services are not
adequate and that Oregon is en
titled to better air route in the
Pacific.
obviously confused.
Chairman Francis E. Walter, i
iD-Pai of the House Committee I
on Un-American Activities, said j
the FBI had advised the National
Security Agency that one of the
pair was a homosexual. Walter
said the FBI gave the NSA this
information before the two were
hired in 1957.
A Pentagon spokesman, asked
about Walter’s charge, said the
department was sticking by its
statement of last Friday obtained
no derogatory information about
the two.
The big question was this:
How could the pair—one now
accused of being a homosexual,
one identified as mentally sick
and both listed as “obviously con
fused”— be hired or hang onto
jobs in one of the top secret gov
ernment agencies?
NSA is a defense unit with
headquarters about 20 miles from
Washington. It operates 24 hours
a day, intercepting radio signals
and concentrating on codes and
communications intelligence.
DOG’S BEST FRIEND
OMAHA, (P—Little Man’s best
friend is a big man.
Little Man is a two-month-old
Manchester Terrier who owes his
life to Harry Redman Jr., 29, his
master.
Little Man seemed a dead dog
from electrocution after he bit
into an extension cord socket last
Sunday.
Redman said “I remembered
reading about this mouth-to
I mouth respiration. I figured if it
i worked for people it might work
for a dog.
I “I tried it. In maybe a minute
; I felt his heart kick over. An
other minute or so and he started
breathing on his own.”
— SIDESHOW —
VENTURA. Calif., IP—Ventura
College today announced a new
course in Russian. It will be
taught in building U, Room 2.
GOTEBORG, Sweden, IP — A
fisherman admitted spanking his
wife with a live eel and was fined
$5 for cruelty—-to the eel.
LONDON, IP — A London shoe
firm reports doing a brisk busi
ness with beatniks since offering
“a flat-heeled, sloppy type of
boot to suit the beatnik men
tality.”
TOKYO, IP—A 20-year-old stu
dent was charged with violating a
law protecting cultural assets
after breaking a finger belong
ing to Miroku Bostasu—a 1,300
year-old Buddhist statue. The
student said he was kissing the
statue when the accident occur
red.
BONN, Germany, IP—A total of
21,465 refugees fled from Com
munist East Germany to West
Germany in August.
MIAMI, Fla., IP — There is a
new multimillion-dollar express
way providing swift north-south
travel through the western edge
of the city, but motorists can’t tell
where to get off.
The state road department ex
plained a shortage of aluminum
tubing has delayed erection of
directional signs.
681 Children
Enroll In School
On Opening Day
A record enrollment is reported
at Nome School which opened
yesterday.
The first day registration was
631 with over 700 expected be
fore the week is out.
There are 420 children in the
first 6 grades; 130 in junior high
and 13! in high school.
There will be two combination
classes to absorb the overload in
the first three grades which will
continue for a couple of weeks
until all the problems are worked
out, stated the superintendent Mr.
Potter who observed that the
classes are running about the
same as anticipated.
HURRICANE HEADS
FOR FLORIDA COAST
MIAMI, Fla., (UP)—A hurricane
watch was ordered for southeast
Florida today as a killer storm
which already has claimed 116
lives bore down on the U.S. main
land.
The area put on watch includes
the missile test center at Cape
Canaveral and the exclusive re
sorts in the Palm Beach section.
Assembly Sets Aside
Kasavubu and Lumumba
Firing of Each Other
LEOPOLDVILLE, Iff)—The Na
tional Assembly today voted to
invalidate President Joseph Kasa
vubu’s firing of Premier Patrice
Lumumba and Lumumba’s order
ousting Kasavubu.
The decision was embodied in a
single resolution. Lumumba him
self voted for the resolution along
with 59 members. Nineteen depu
ties voted against.
The decision throws the con
flict between Kasavubu and Lum
umba back to where it was. The
deputies appeared baffled by the
problem and reflected it clearly
in confusing speeches which fol
lowed one another all day long.
A U.N. spokesman made clear
that the international organiza
tion intends to take determined
steps to prevent the spread of dis
order.
President of East Germany Dies
BERLIN, iff) — Wilhelm Pieck,
84, president of Communist East
Germany, died this morning, the
official news agency ADN an
nounced.
A bulletin signed by four doc
tors said a sudden weakness of
the heart on Sunday was compli
cated by an inflamation of the
lungs.
Pieck, whose job was largely
that of a figurehead, had been too
ill to appear in public since 1958.
Walter Ulbricht the deputy pre
mier, is the real political leader
in East Germany.
Lawrence Welk's Daughter
To Marry Medical Student
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Iff)—
Band leader Lawrence Welk’s
daughter Donna Lee and James F.
Mack, a student at St. Louis Uni
versity Medical School, obtained
a marriage license yesterday.
Each is 23.
Miss Welk, who starts a teach
ing career this fall, said the wed
ding next week will be a quiet
family affair. Mack is the son of
a Santa Monica physician.
GRANDMA MOSES
IS 100 TODAY
EAGLE BRIDGE, N.Y., l/R—The
century mark arrived today for
beloved Grandma Moses, and,
with a twinkle in her hazel eyes,
she reports: “I’m going to live
to be 200.”
The diminutive, still active
painter, whose primitive rural
scenes are known around the
world, also promises to keep
laughing.
That is one of her rules for
staying young: Keep busy, keep
in young company and keep
laughing.
Although Grandma’s 100th
birthday was today, she cele
brated it last Sunday so that
working friends and family mem
bers could participate in the fes
tivities.
The fragile seeming, white
haired, 100-pound bundle of fun,
who began painting when in her
70s, is considered in good condi
tion by her doctor.
Grandma, whose full name is
Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson Moses,
still paints daily and reads the
newspapers. She is somewhat put
out with talk of man’s traveling
in space.
“He’s a derned fool,” she says.
“The Lord put us on earth, and
we should stay here until he
comes after us. They’re spending
money for those space things,
while lots of people are freezing
and starving for want of money.
It’s a foolish piece of business.”
Home Arts Club Provides
J Playfield Equipment For
King Island Village
The Home Arts Club have just
about completed its first area
playfield equipment installation
at King Island Village. The com
mittee, headed by Mrs. Marvella
Kowalczyk, conferred with the
King Island council about the
plans and immediately six of the
residents offered their services to
put up six swings and a row of
teeter - totters. The Little Sisters
of Jesus who live in the King
Island Village offered to super
vise the equipment and see that
it will be properly stored when
snow flies.
This is the first of a series of
area playfield locations which the
club is planning to install. The
cost was estimated at about $300
and would have been consider
ably more had not Larry Galvin
contributed generously to the
project with material, stated the
president, Esther McCoy.
Navy Phantom II Jet Sets
Speed Record of 1,210 mph
LOS ANGELES, iff—'The Navy
Wednesday claimed a world
closed course speed record of
1,216.78 miles an hour for its
fastest fighter, the F4H1 Phan
tom II.
The record flight was made on
Tuesday by Marine Lt. Col. Thos.
H. Miller, 37, of George West,
Tex., at Edwards Air Force Base,
Calif., over a 310-mile triangular
course.
If recognized by the Interna
tional Aeronautic Federation in
Paris the record will exceed by
more than 400 mph the current
mark of 816.3 mph. This was set
April 16, 1959, by Air Force Capt.
George Edwards Jr. in an RF101
Voodoo.
Ike Says Chance of
Meeting with Mr. Tv
Very, Very Slim
WASHINGTON, Ufi —President
Eisenhower said today the United
States deplores “the unilateral
action of the Soviet Union in sup
plying aircraft and other equip
ment for military purposes to the
Congo."
The President told a news con
ference that this has aggravated
“an already serious situation
which finds Africans killing other
Africans.”
Eisenhower said further that if
these planes are flown by Soviet
military personnel, “this would be
contrary to the principles so far
applied regarding use in the Con
go of military contingents from
the larger powers.”
The President went on to say
that so far as he knows these
rules have previously been upheld
by the Soviet Union.
In his statement, Eisenhower
said main responsibility for eas
ing the Congo tension has been
given to the U.N. as the only or
ganization to act “without adding
to the risks of spreading the con
flict.”
The President said the consti
tutional structure of the Congo
is a matter which should be work
) ed out peacefully by the Congo
lese themselves.
“This objective is threatened
by the Soviet action which seems
to be motivated entirely by the
Soviet Union’s political designs in
Africa,” he said.
The President indicated again
that he is giving serious consid
eration to addressing the U. N.
General Assembly in New York
later this month.
But he said the chances of his
meeting there with Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev, who has an
nounced he will attend the As
sembly session, are very, very
slim indeed.
Eisenhower remarked sternly
i that he does not intend to debase
the United Nations by being a
party to any battle of invective
and propaganda.
He said Khrushchev would
have to meet certain conditions
before he (Eisenhower) would ag
ree to confer with him.
Asked whether Soviet release
of the American fliers shot down
in an RB47 reconnaissance plane
could be regarded as one of those
conditions, Eisenhower replied he
believes that would be one of
them.
U.S. Closing Gap On
Leading Russians In
The Olympic Games
ROME, (41—World record hold
er Don Bragg paced a 1-2 Ameri
can victory in the pole vault after
defending champion A1 Oerter
showed the way for a 1-2-3 sweep
in the discus and the U.S. almost
closed the gap on the leading Rus
sians in the Olympic Games.
With the day’s events still not
completed, the unofficial point
score stood: Russia 470V5, United
States 469tt.
Bragg and Ron Morris of Bur
bank, Calif., broke Bob Richards’
Olympic mark of 14-llVfc set in
1956 when they became the first
15-footers in Olympic history.
The pole vault victory was Am
erica’s fourth of the day, boost
ing the U.S. gold medal total to
I 30. Russia has 25 gold medals.