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Gen. Walter Smith, Genius
Of Military Planning,
Suffers Fatal Heart Attack
WASHINGTON UP> — Walter
Bedell Smith, soldier, diplomat,
jut-jawed genius of military plan
ning, died Wednesday night of
a heart attack. He was 65.
Death came to the General as
an ambulance rushed him to Wal
ter Reed Army Hospital. He had
suffered the attack at his home
here.
Smith served the government in
various posts for 43 years. It hon
ored him as few men in history
have been honored — with four
Distinguished Service Medals.
As a soldier, Smith rose from a
private in the Indiana National
Guard to coordinator of the en
tire planning of the invasion of
North Africa and Normandy in
World War II. He was Gen. Ei
senhower’s Chief of Staff through
most of the war, the team be
came known as “Ike and Beetle.”
Eisenhower once described him
as “the general manager of the
war.”
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Foster I.
are expected to arrive today from
Lansing, Mich., to visit their
grandson, Dalton (Don) Foster III
and his wife. While in Nome they
plan to try some fishing in this
area with their grandson who is
the manager of the Jonas Bros.
Store here.
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Nikita Claims He
Is a Man of Peace
Does Not Want War
MOSCOW tiP—Premier Khrush
chev brandished the threat of a
super-super-bomb five times more
powerful than the average Ameri
can hydrogen bomb Wednesday
night, but claimed once more he
is a man of peace.
“We do not want war . . . only
lunatics think of war,” the So
viet leader declared.
Khrushchev sounded his bomb
warning in an impromptu speech
at an otherwise gay reception for
the Soviet Union’s newest pinup
boy — spaceman Gherman Titov.
“Scientists have suggested to
the Soviet government that they
can create a bomb equal to 100
million tons of TNT — only one
bomb,” Khrushchev said.
Unless the prospects for peace
improve, the Premier continued,
he will give the scientists the
green light to build the bomb. He
added that the Soviet Union
could provide a rocket that would
send such a big bomb aloft.
Khrushchev disclosed that he
had given this warning to Presi
dent Kennedy’s chief disarmament
negotiator, John McCloy, and to
Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani
in recent conferences.
Western scientists said a bomb
the size Khrushchev described
would be easy enough to build,
but the military effect would not
be worth the effort since existing
hydrogen bombs are powerful
enough to wipe out most cities at
one strike.
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Record Shows ('astro Did Not Initiate
Hijackings ... A Increditable Story
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By James Marlow
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (ff — Before
your blood pressure goes up,
thinking of Fidel Castro and hi
jacked American planes, look at
the record. It’s a dizzy, almost
incredible story, compounded of
confusion.
So far as the record shows Cas
tro initiated none of the hijack
ings. There were four. Three of
the four planes were forced to
land in Cuba. Castro immediate
ly released two, kept one. The
fourth got detoured to El Paso.
None of the five hijackers in
volved was a Cuban citizen. Two
were Americans from Arizona,
one was a Frenchman, one a
Puerto Rican, and one, a waiter,
was born in Cuba but had be
come a naturalized American citi
zen.
Hijacked 24 Planes
Meanwhile Cubans fleeing Cas
tro hijacked or flew 24 of his
planes to this country. The United
States returned 14 of them to him.
The other 10 were seized under
a court order to be sold for a
debt owed by the Cuban govern
ment to a Miami businessman.
And if Castro had used his head
he probably could have gotten
the 10 back, too. How? A State
Department spokesman said: If
Castro had invoked Cuban sover
eignty over the planes the Amer
ican court most likely would have
refused to let the planes be seized.
Why he didn’t do that, since
it sounds so simple? The State
Department spokesman said this
was the answer: He probably
didn’t know how he could do
that, or he didn’t think of it, or
perhaps he couldn’t find a lawyer
to represent him here.
But that’s only the beginning.
Wednesday a French gunman. !
over Mexico and at gunpoint, ;
forced the pilot of a Pan American :
World Airways plane with 81 per
sons aboard to fly him to Ha
vana. After it was all over an of
ficial of the airline said the ’
gunman was incoherent and had j
no connection with Cuba. Crew ;
members described the hijacker
as wild-eyed and apparently men
tally disturbed.
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were angry shouts in Congress.
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to send an agent to Mexico to
capture a Pan American plane. ,
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to, he could have helped himself
to some of Pan American planes
on the ground in Havana.
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worst possible time to hijack an j
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American plane. All the Ameri
can nations are meeting right now
in Uruguay where the United
States has offered $20 billion in
Latin-American aid.
One of Castro’s chief lieuten
ants, Ernesto Guevara, is there,
trying to make the United States
look like a villian. He made a
speech to that effect. Castro would
be the villian if he turned hi
jacker at this time.
The truly ludicrous touch came
here:
Instead of 'trying to chastise
Castro directly, the United States
is anxious for the Latin-American
countries to crack down on him.
No one has been working harder
to get just this crackdown on
Castro than the Colombian For
eign Minister, Julio Turbay. And
Castro knows it. By chance, the
minister was on the plane hijack
ed Wednesday and forced down
in Havana.
If Castro had tried to hold him
there would have been a Latin
American explosion. Castro’s gov
ernment lost no time in announc
ing it was releasing the plane
right away “in deference to the
Colombian minister.” Castro even
went to the airport to see him.
The diplomat quoted Castro as
expressing mortification.
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Border Patrolmen to
Guard Airplanes Against
Further New Hijackings
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy announced yesterday
that Border Patrolmen will be
assigned to a number of airplanes
to guard against new hijacking.
As a further precaution, Ken
nedy said, doors to the pilot’s
cabin will be locked and the key
held inside.
Kennedy also told a news con
ference that he hopes other gov
ernments will exercise all the
means at their power to control
what he called these “exercises
in futility.”
The President cautioned against
premature howls of protest be
fore it can be ascertained exactly
who has hijacked an airplane and
for what purpose.
His cautionary words were di
rected at members of Congress
who have attacked Fidel Castro
of Cuba as the instigator of two
recent plane piracies when, as it
developed, the aircraft were
seized by men who no known
connection with Cuba.
At the Justice Department, a
spokesman for the Immigration
Service said there will be no dis
closure of the details of imple
menting the President’s announced
plan to put Border Patrolmen on
airplanes.
MacARTHUR TO RECEIVE
"HONOR ET VERITAS" AWARD
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. UP —
Gen. Douglas MacArthur will re
ceive one of the highest awards
of the Catholic War Veterans of
the United States — the “Honor
Et Veritas” award.
James W. Fay of New York,
CWV National Commander, said
Wednesday the ipresen tation
would be made Aug. 19, during
the organization’s 26th national
convention.
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