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Nehru to Visit Moscow
NEW DELHI, India, OP)—Prime
Minister Nehru left here by air
Saturday for the first leg of a
five-week visit to Moscow and
other east European capitals. He
is due to arrive in Moscow Tues
day.
Speaking to newsmen at the
airport, Nehru said he welcomed
the Soviet - Yugoslav agreement,
signed Thursday night in Bel
grade. “Any friendly agreement
is good,” he said.
Nehru is flying first to Bombay.
VIENNA, OP)—Radio Prague re
ported the arrival today of Nehru
enroute to Moscow.
Nehru expressed a desire for
closer relations with Communist
Czechoslavakia and for more ex
change between the two countries,
the radio said. He was welcomed
by Premier Vilem Siroky and
other top government officials.
Indian Diplomat Will
Visit Canada and U.S.
After Peiping and London
LONDON, Uf)—Indian diplomat
V. K. Krishna Menon intends to
report to President Eisenhower
personally, probably this week,
on his talks in Peiping about pros
pects of a Formosan peace, his
aides said Saturday.
Menon left Red China two
weeks ago after 10 days of top
secret talks with President Mao
Tze-tung and Premier Chou En
lai. His mission was to try to ar
range negotiations for a Far East
settlement.
The 58-year-old confidante of
Prime Minister Nehru conferred
with Prime Minister Eden for an
hour Friday.
Menon is due to fly to Ottawa
Tuesday or Wednesday for talks
with Canadian Foreign Secretary
Lester B. Pearson. Canada, like
Britain, has been quietly support
ing the Indian search for a basis
of peacefully settling the Far
Eastern tangle.
The Indian is then going to the
United States to represent his
country at meetings of the United I
Nations Trusteeship Council.
Bride and Attendants
Die From Heat as They
Ride in Procession
NEW DELHI, India (#>—A bride
and her four attendants died in
northern India’s intence heat
wave which has claimed at least
23 persons in four days.
Temperatures above 115° F. have
been reported.
From Banaras came reports
that the four attendants died in a
wedding procession after the cer
emony. The bride, carried in a
closed litter to the home of her
husband, was found dead by the
bridegroom when he opened tlge
litter.
He had followed the procession,
by tradition, on horseback.
* CUSTER, S.D., UP>—The United
States Air Force is capable of
delivering the greatest destruc
tive force in existence in the
world, Secretary of Air Talbott
said Friday.
“No other air force has avail
able to it a greater amount of
effective combat materials, par
ticularly including atomic weap
ons of all types and varieties,”
said Talbott in an address before
the Stock Growers Assn.
Apparently replying to recent
criticism that American air power
has fallen behind that of Russia,
Talbott said:
“Regardless of what the Com
munists do, the United States Air
Force doesn’t scare worth a
damn.”
“Air power requires not only
aircraft,” he said, “but also highly
trained crews. It requires a sure
fire communications network all
around the globe. It requires an
integrated and tested logistics sys
tem. It requires experience in the
employment of airpower.”
The U.S. Air Force has them
all, Talbott said.
‘This means that today the
United States Air Force can deliv
er against any target or area of
the earth with assured accuracy
the greatest destructive force in
existence. That is true today—it
will be true next year—I see no
time when it will not be true.”
U.S. experience in producing
and employing air power cannot
be matched by any nation, Tal
bott said. “The Soviet Union has
never employed strategic bomb
ers in war.”
Talbott said the U.S. produced
303,000 war planes between 1940
and 1945. He listed current USAF
manpower at 950,000, “the largest
national air force in the world,
bar none.”
“No other air force remotely
approaches our advantages” in
current deployment of the USAF
in strategic positions around the
world, he said.
Billy Graham Gets
Pat on Back From
Roman Catholic Weekly
NEW YORK, UP*—Evangelist I
Billy Graham, a Southern Bap
tist, has got a pat on the back and
good wishes from a leading Ro
man Catholic weekly published
by the Jesuits.
“We rather like Billy Graham,”
said this week’s issue of America.
“We also wish there were more
like him where he came from.”
The Jesuit national weekly
commented: “We have the im
pression that he is one of that
vanishing race of Protestant di
vines with whom a Catholic schol
ar could actually sit down and
talk theology.
“Undoubtedly he is doing a lot
of good among devout Protestants
here and abroad.”
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Charges Renewed
That Chinese Reds
Violate Armistice
WASHINGTON, WV-The gov
ernment has renewed its charge
that the Chinese Communists are
violating the Korean armistice by
holding 11 U.S. airmen prisoners.
Deputy Undersecretary of State
Robert Murphy repeated the ac
cusation at a hearing Friday be
fore the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. The group is consid
ering four new treaties dealing
with humane treatment for war
prisoners, the wounded and sick,
and civilians in occupied areas.
The pacts were worked out by
59 countries at Geneva in 1949
and are now up for Senate ratifi
cation.
The treaties have been ratified
by 47 nations, including Russia.
Communist China is not a signa
tory.
Nome ANG Commander
Confers at Denali as
Troop Encampment Ends
Special to the Nome Nugget
CAMP DENALI—Maj. Francis
R. Siegwart, commander of the
1st Scout Battalion at Nome was
in Anchorage on the Memorial
Day weekend to attend a confer
ence of top Alaska National Guard
commanders at Camp Denali, Fort
Richardson.
The two infantry battalions of
the Guard are winding up their
annual two-week infantry en
campment at Camp Denali. Em
phasis this year was in training
and firing of crew-served weap
ons and unit tactics. A two-day
one-night field problem climaxed
the field training.
Presentation of awards and tro
phies to the infantry units was
made by the adjutant general on
Memorial Day as part of the dedi
cation ceremony for the new Air
National Guard Base near Inter
national Airport. Mrs. Albert Ku
lis, widow of the Alaska Air
Guard pilot in whose honor the
new base was named, was pre
sented with a bouquet of roses by
Alaska Air Guard commander,
Capt. Clyde E. Eaton.
Sponsored by Milk Co.,
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Gets in Hot Water
HOUSTON, (#1—George Gobel
is in hot water with the Texas
Methodist Conference.
Some 1,000 delegates to the
conference’s 116th annual meeting
unanimously approved Friday a
Board of Temperance report that
criticized the TV star for alleged
ly saying a week ago'Saturday:
“You’ve heard that you can’t
buy happiness. You can. Go out
and buy a fifth.”
The temperance report asked
the 185,000 conference members
to wire or write protests to Gobel
and his sponsors, the Pet Milk
Co. and Armour & Co.
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