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West Germany Breaks Diplomatic
Relations With Yugoslavia for
Her Recognition of East Germany
BONN, Germany UP>—The Bonn
government unhappily broke off
diplomatic relations with Yugo
slavia Saturday.
The reaction in Yugoslavia, one
of West Germany’s best custom
ers, ranged from anger to sadness.
The action was prompted by
Yugoslavia’s recognition Tuesday
of the Communist East German
f regime.
Foreign Minister Heinrich Von
Brentano seemed none to happy
at a news conference. He said
West Germany considered it re
grettable that the step had to be
taken.
Von Brentano said his govern
ment does not feel hostile either
to the Yugoslav people or its re
gime, headed by President Tito.
Dusan Kveder, Yugoslav am
bassador to Bonn, looking more
sad than angry, told newsmen the
Russian Satellite
Falls Victim to
Capitalist Prank
NEW YORK, Uft—The Russian
earth satellite Sputnik fell victim
to a capitalist stunt Friday night
when it was used to light a sign
advertising whisky atop a two
story mid-Manhattan building.
The stunt was arranged by Ra
dio Corporation of America tech
nicians.
Sputnik’s radio signals were
picked up by an ultra-sensative
short-wave receiver at the RCA
laboratories in Riverhead, N.Y.,
relayed tp RCA engineers in New
York City and used to trigger an
intricate electronic apparatus that
lighted the sign.
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move amounted to “sensleless
pressure” that could do no one
; any good.
The Belgrade news agency
j Yugopress called the decision un
| reasonable, adding that “No move
I of Bonn officials can deny the
i fact that two German states
exist.”
In Washington and London, 'the
United States and Britain ex
I pressed their sympathy with the
West German action.
The two allies of West Germany
said they fully understood the
reasons for Bonn’s move. France
■ approved in advanee.
Like West Germany, the United
States, France and Britain refuse
to accept the legal existence of
the East German Communist re
gime. They maintain East Ger
many is occupied by the Soviet
Union and the 17 million residents
have no voice in their own af
fairs.
What would happen to the bus
tling trade between Yugoslavia
and West Germany, amounting to
$100 million a year, remained to
be seen. Both Von Bretano and
Kveder said the question of eco
nomic relations remains wide
open.
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Efforts Being
Made to Lower
Territorial Taxes
SEATTLE, UPi—Robert D. Stev
enson, recently appointed tax
commissioner for Alaska, said in
Seattle Friday that efforts are
being made to lower territorial
taxes.
Stevenson, who grew up in Se
attle and is a 1942 graduate of the
University of Washington, said
the Tax Advisory Committee ap
pointed by Gov. Stepovich is at
work on proposals to revise the
tax structure.
After visiting relatives and at
tending University of Washington
homecoming events this past
weekend, Stevenson will go to
Columbus, Ohio, and Phoenix,
Ariz., for tax conferences.
New Rule Would )
Exempt Alaska
From Wash. Tax
OLYMPIA, Uft—Plans for relax
ing the rule on payment of the
Washington State sales tax on
goods sold at retail for use in
Alaska were announced by the
Washington State Tax Commis
sion Friday.
Under the provisions of a -new
rule that will be up for adoption
by the Tax Commission Nov. 12,
such goods for use or consump
tion by the purchaser in Alaska
or Hawaii will be exempted from
the state sales tax.
“Alaska customers in particu
lar will be relieved of taxes on
goods used or consumed in the
territory,” said Tax Commission
er Charles Hodde.
He said the new rule was
worked out in cooperation with a
subcommittee of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce.
Hodde said the Washington sell
er of goods will be excused from
collecting the state sales tax if the
buyer presents him with an ex
emption certificate and an order
for the goods to be delivered to a
dock for a designated carrier to
transport the goods to Alaska or
Hawaii.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by The
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with occasional rain
tonight and Tuesday with easter
ly winds 10-15 mph diminishing
Tuseday night. Low temperature
expected tonight 35-40 and the
high tomorrow 40.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: precip*.07 in. month
total 3.15 in. Highest temperature
41, lowest 36. Max. wind 14 mph
from the east. Sunrise at 7:12
a.m., sunset at 4:20 p.m.
A year ago today: high 21,
low 2. Extremes this date since
1907: highest 46 in 1926, lowest
2 in 1956.
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Brucker Says Reds
Exploiting Sputnik
For Propaganda
By EDMUND LEBRETON
WASHINGTON, {JO—The Sovi
ets said Saturday their satellite
success is inspiring a drive by
Britain to get nuclear weapon in
formation from the United States.
Without remarking on this par
ticular statement broadcast by
radio Moscow, U.S. Army Secre
tary Brucker said Soviet Commu
nist Party boss Nikita Khrush
chev has started “a clever cam
paign of exploitation to get all the
propaganda value out of the Rus
sian satellite.”
Brucker, in a talk at the dedi
cation of a Revolutionary War
monument at Yorktown, said all
right-thinking Americans support
Secretary of State Dulles in warn
ing “Khrushchev that America
doesn’t scare easily.”
On the contrary, Brucker said,
the danger is complacency after
the initial effect of something like
the satellite launching wears off.
The Moscow broadcast, quoting
the government newspaper Izves
tia, said that on his visit to Wash
ington next week British Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan will
use the Soviet earth satellite as
justification for seeking informa
tion on nuclear weapon produc
tion.
There have been signs, during
the current visit of Queen Eliza
beth and Prince Philip to the
United States, that further pool
ing of British and U.S. efforts in
New Gazeteer Lists
Over 10,000 Place
Names in Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP)—An Alaska
gazeteer, now in preparation, will
contain the names of more than
10,000 geographical features in
the territory—but as many more,
still unnamed, won’t be listed.
Dr. Meredith F. Burrill, execu
tive secretary of the board on
geographic names, said today the
publication is expected to be
ready for distribution in about a
year.
In addition to names of places
and features and their geograph
ical location, he §aid, the book
will note names which are not ap
proved by the, board but are
sometimes used to identify sites.
The board, made up of repre
sentatives of 22 government agen
cies, is charged with standardiz
ing place names both in this coun
try and abroad to avoid confusion
in such government operations as
the postal service.
Within the past three years the
board has reached decisions on
names affecting locations in 29
states, Hawaii and Alaska.
More'than 50 of these—roughly
25 percent—have dealt with lo
cations in Alaska.
But Burrill doesn’t foresee the
day when all of Alaska’s countless
lakes and mountains, not to men
tion the bays and inlets along its
coast, will be named.
advanced scientific fields may be
under consideration.
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