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Army Gives Induction
Centers More Money to
Handle Military Increase
WASHINGTON IP—The Army,
in effect, has given its induction
stations a free hand to spend more
money, hire more people, and stay
open longer to handle the anti
cipated armed forces increase.
In the wake of President Ken
nedy’s military build-up move,
Army officials said Saturday, in
structions have been sent to the
Continental Army Command to
take whatever action is deemed
necessary so that examining and
induction stations can keep
abreast of the mounting work
load.
These were described as tem
porary instructions. Firm direc
tives will follow final Congres
sional action on Kennedy’s re
quests for more money to add
225,000 men to the military serv
ices.
In turn, the Continental Army
Command has relayed work to its
regional commands, which have
issued specific orders to the in
duction stations in their areas.
Pam Am Jet Liner Has
Hydraulic Failure — Lands
Safely in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (P —
A Pan American jet airliner with
174 persons aboard made a safe
landing Saturday after reporting
that its hydraulic brakes were not
■working.
The plane came in for what ap
peared to be a normal landing
after emergency equipment had
been called out. The Boeing 707
jet, Flight 2291, carried 167 pas
sengers and a crew of seven.
A Pan American spokesman
said in New York that the plane
took off from Idlewild Airport
for the nonstop flight and lost
its hydraulic pressure shortly
after takeoff. The airline identi
fied the pilot as Capt. Jess Tran
tor.
The plane was ordered to con
tinue to San Jaun for the landing
because of rain and water on
runways in New York.
Lt. Gen. George W. Mundy
Assumes Command of All
Armed Forces in Alaska
Lt. Gen. George W. Mundy, ar
rived at Elmendorf AFB today
to assume command of all Armed
Forces in the 49th State. The new
Commander-in-Chief of Alaska
succeeds Lt. Gen. Frank A. Arm
strong, Jr., USAF, who retired
from active duty today follow
ing an outstanding military career
spanning more than 30 years.
General and Mrs. Armstrong de
parted this morning following
ceremonies honoring the man who
had guided the activities of the
Alaskan Command from his El
mendorf AFB headquarters since
September 1956. The General and
Mrs. Armstrong plan to reside in
the Tampa, Fla., area.
It was just five years ago this
month that Gen. Mundy succeed
ed Gen. Armstrong as Commander
of the Strategic Air Command’s
Second Air Force, Barksdale AFB,
Louisiana, when Gen. Armstrong
returned to Alaska to assume
command of the Alaskan Air j
Command.
Eight of Castro’s
Prisoner Delegates
I Return — Two Stay Behind
HAVANA UPi — A delegation
of eight Cuban prisoners return
ed today after three weeks of
fruitless negtiations in the United
States to raise funds for the free
dom of nearly 1,200 prisoners cap
tured by Fidel Castro’s forces in
the April invasion of Cuba.
Three representatives of Cuban
exiles in the United States ar
rived with the prisoners in an at
tempt to keep the negotiations
going. Two members of the pri
soners’ delegation remained be
hind in Miami.
Castro had offered to free the
prisoners taken in the April in
vasion of Cuba was “indemnified”
with 500 bulldozers or small trac
tors. But negotiations fell through
after representatives of an Amer
ican group, the Tractors for Free
dom Committee, offered 500 small
agricultural tractors in exchange
for the prisoners.
| Senate Okays Ally.
j j
Gen. Kennedy’s
Crime Busting Bills
WASHINGTON UP — With
Atty. Gen Robert F. Kennedy
looking on from the gallery, the
Senate passed without dissent six
of his bills designed to strike
at rich crime syndicates.
The measures, approved Friday,
now go to the House.
Asked by Kennedy to arm the
government with new weapons
for his declared fight with the
underworld, the bills would:
Make it a federal crime to use
telephone or telegraph to trans
mit gambling information—main
ly horse race results, odds and
bets — across state lines. It would
exempt transmission of racing or
other sporting news by news
papers and wire services. Pen
alties for violation: up to two
years in prison, $10,000 fine.
Declare it a felony to transport
gambling paraphernalia — such
as tickets or slips for illegal
handbook betting, betting pools,
numbers games. Penalty: up to
five years in prison, $10,000 fine.
Tighten obstruction - of - justice
laws, to punish racketeers or
others who use violence or cor
rection to prevent witnesses from
giving information to the Justice
of Treasury Departments. Penatly:
up to five years in prison, $5,000
fine.
Allow grants of immunity from
prosecution to witnesses pleading
the Fifth Amendment in trials or
grand jury investigations con
cerning labor racketeering.
Make it a felony to travel
across a state line or use the mails
to engage in or further racketeer
ing enterprises. Penalty: up to
five years in prison, $10,000 fine.
Ban interestate shipment of
gambling machines and devices
other than parimutual and better
equipment used at licensed
gambling establishments, such as
race tracks, which are legal un
der state law.
Two Convair Jet 880s
Have Malfunction In
Mid-Air, but Land Safely
LOS ANGELES UPl — A huge
Trans World Airlines jetliner
circled two southern California
airports for three hours with a
disabled nosewheel landing gear
before the crew was able to rectify
the trouble Friday night.
The four-jet Convair 880 finally
made a routine landing. It car
ried 42 passengers and 8 crew
men on a planned flight to Bos
ton by way of Chicago.
In Houston, Tex., meantime
another Convair 880 delayed its
landing there and dumped 12,000
pounds of fuel in Galveston Bay
because of trouble with the flaps.
The flaps provide additional
lift to the wings and allow the
pilot to come in at slower speeds.
The plane, Delta Airlines Flight
861 from Chicago to St. Louis
to Houston, carried 40 passengers.
It landed about 15 minutes be
hind schedule.
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Castro Places Hijacked
EAL Plane Case in Lap
Of U.N. Security Council
HAVANA UP) — The Fidel Cas
| tro government Saturday placed
| the hijacked Eastern Airlines
! plane case in the lap of the
United Nations Security Council.
The decision announced by the
Foreign Ministry appeared aimed
at avoiding a showdown between
the United States and Cuba over
the fate of the $3.5 million Lock
heed Electra plane.
A foreign Ministry note to the
U. N. accused the United States
of massing forces for an “immi
nent military aggression” against
Cuba, using the plane incident
as an excuse for its plans.
It contended elaborate military
preparations were being made
in the Caribbean area under U. S.
leadership and claimed these
plans could set off “a conflaga
ration of unforeseen conse
quences.”
“Cuba is not alone,” the note
said in an obvious reference to
expected Soviet Union support.
Secretary of State Dean de
clined to spell out what course
the United States would take if
Castro failed to return it. But
he rejected a Castro proposal to
exchange the airliner for a U. S.
promise not to impound Cuban
planes flown to the United States.
The note, preparded on Castro’s
instructions, said Cuba wished to
point out a “grave risk to inter
national peace.”
It claimed the United States
has “extraordinarily increased”
the size of its regular forces at
the U. S. Naval Base at Guan
tanamo Bay.
Senate Gives Kennedy
Unanimous Support on
Urgent Defense Requests
WASHINGTON UP> — The Sen
ate has given unanimous support
of two of President Kennedy’s
urgent defense requests.
Party lines dissolved Friday as
the Senate passed in rapid suc
cession:
Authorization for $975,570,000
for quick delivery of new mis
slies, ships and planes. The vote
was 81-0.
Authority to hold fighting men
or units on duty an extra year
and to call up 250,000 reservists
to active duty. The vote was 75-0.
Senate Republican Leader
Everett Dirksen of Illinois had
urged unanimous Senate votes on
the bills “to show Soviet Premier
Khrushchev we mean business.”
Earlier Friday the House Armed
Services Committee approved the
measures by a 37-0 vote.
IDENTICAL COLLISION . . .
SUNDSVALL, Sweden UP —
Two cars oif the same make and
the same color collided head on
outside Sundsvall.
Both drivers were thrown
against their windshields and
both were treated at the local
hospital for scalp cuts.
One driver was Finn Gagner,
25. The other was Dag Gagner, 25.
They’re identical twins.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy today, partly
cloudy this evening. Lowest tem
peratures expected tonight 35-40,
the high tomorrow 50.
In the past 24 hours: Precipi
tation .61 in., highest temp. 49,
lowest 44. Sunrise at 3:01 a.m.,
sunset at 9:13 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
64, lowest 43. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 77 in
1923, lowest 30 in 1929.
Mexican Fishing Industry
Has Increase in Catch
MEXICO CITY UP — The Mex
ican fishing industry increased its
catch last year by 20 per cent
of 206,370 tons, the government
reports. Of the catch, 39,766 tons
of shrimp were sent to the Unit
ed States.
Seattle's Two Daily
Newspapers to Raise
Weekday Newstand Price
SEATTLE UPl — Seattle’s two
daily newspapers, the Times and
Post-Intelligencer, will raise their
weekday newstand price from 5
cents to 10 cents tomorrow and
increase home delivery rates.
The Times, which has sold for
a nickle for 25 years, announced
its new rate schedule today. The
P-I, already 10 cents in all but
four counties in the greater
Seattle area, made its announce
ment Saturday.
Publishers of both papers said
increased operating costs made
the price rise necessary.
The home delivery rate for each
will be $2.25 a month for daily
and Sunday and $1.60 for daily
only, an increase of 25 cents. The
Sunday price will remain at 20
cents an issue.
AF Bolsters Strength
To Its European Bases
With FI05 Thunderchiefs
MOBILE, Ala. UPl — The Air
Force is bolstering the strength
of its European bases with week
ly flights of supersonic F105
Thunderchiefs.
Some details of operation high
flight were disclosed Saturday by
the Mobile Air Material Area
Command at Brookley Air Force
Base. The command is charged
prime logistic responsibility for
the Thunderchietf.
The stubby wing F105s fly non
stop to Bitburg, Germany, from
where they are distributed as re
placements for the FI 00 Super
sabers, long the backbone of the
Tactical Air Command.
The flights take 9Vfc hours and
the speedy 105s are refueled by
aerial tankers over the Atlantic.
The number of planes in the
weekly flights are not disclosed.
LIBELOUS NEWS WOULD
CLOSE SO. KOREAN PAPERS
SEOUL, Korea UP\ — The South
Korean military junta today pro
posed a new law which would
close any newspaper publishing
three articles deemed to be libel
ous in one year.
The proposal failed to make
clear who would rule an article
was libelous. It said the law was
designed to promote a responsible
press.
Few libel suits have been filed
against newspapers in Korea in
the past. Newspapers here gen
erally have ignored libel ques
tions because newspapers were
regarded as privileged institu
tions.
SOVIETS SEIZE
JAPANESE FISHING BOAT
TOKYO (jR — A Soviet vessel
seized a Japanese fishing boat
and HO crewmen in the Sea of
Okhotsk this week over the pro
tests of a Japanese patrol boat,
the Coast Guard said Saturday.
A spokesman said the No. 1
Taiyo Maru was under question
ing by the Japanese patrol for
alleged fishing in a non-fishing
zone when Soviet Patrol Craft
No. 632 appeared.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hall, teach
ers at St. Lawrence Island two
years ago, will be teaching in the
BIA school at Kotzebue this year.
BYPASS POLIO SHOTS
PORT ELIZABETH, South Af
rica — A national anti-polio
vaccination drive has had to by
pass temporarily the eastern cape
town of Adelaide because more
than half of the 5,000 inhabitants
has the measles.
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