Polish Rush Toward Independence
Seen as Cause of Soviet Leaders’ Visit
WARSAW, Poland, «V-Nikita
Khrushchev and other top Soviet
leaders slipped quietly out of Po
land Saturday after secret talks
apparently aimed to stem inis
country’s headlong rush toward
independent Communism.
The Polish people were told of
the Russians’ visit only after their
sleek, TU-104 jet airliner
whooshed away from a military
airport. The Soviet leaders ar
rived unexpectedly Friday in the
midst of signs of critis in Polish
Russian relations.
(Moscow radio reported Khrush
chev and the top level delegation
he led to Warsaw returned to
■Moscow Saturday.)
Friendly and Frank
A communique said a delega
tion from the Polish Communist
Party's Politburo will go to Mos
cow “in the near future” for con
sultations with the Presidium of
the Soviet Communist Party’s
Central Committee.
The communique said the Rus
sian-Polish talks were held in an
“atmosphere of friendship and
frankness.”
During the visit, reports circu
lated in Warsaw of the arrival of
troops at the city’s outskirts.
Their strength, nationality or
whom they supported was not
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known. Soviet as well as Polish
forces are stationed in Poland.
Rehabilitated Leader
Vladislaw Gomulka, the reha
bilitated former Polish leader
purged and jailed at Stalin’s order
for attempting to lead Poland
away from Moscow’s guidance,
continued his comeback despite
the visit.
Warsaw radio said Gomulka’s
restoration to favor in the Polish
Communist ranks was being
hailed thruout the country.
Gomulka, reportedly on his way
to the top in the party hierarchy,
had been pictured as bitter over
the Russian’s sudden arrival.
The broadcast sa.id Poland was
well on the road of the democrati
zation of political and economic
life—against any attempts at
checking of this process.”
The official communique did
not mention the presence of Sovi
et military men in the Russian
delegation, which was reported by
authoritative Polish sources. It
named other participants.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Snow beginning this evening
and continuing through Tuesday.
Temperatures rising during the
night to around freezing. Easter
ly winds 15-25 mph.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 o’clock today: highest tempera
ture 21, lowest 10. Max. wind 17
mph from the N.E. Sun will set
tonight at 4:16 p.m. and will rise
tomorrow morning at 7:18 a.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 36, lowest 3. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 53
in 1953, lowest 8 in 1918.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 3 Snow
Ketchikan 2 Part cloudy
Wales 21 Cloudy
Gambell 27 Cloudy
Nome 14 Part cloudy
Unalaldeet 6 Snow
Bethel 15 Cloudy
McGrath -13 Part cloudy
Anchorage 14 Part cloudy
Fairbanks 1 Snow
Juneau 32 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 40 Rain
Seattle 41 Cloudy
San Francisco 53 Cloudy
Japanese Premier Returns
From Russia With
End-of-War Treaty
MOSCOW, Of)—Japanese Pre
mier Ichiro Hatoyama left for
home Saturday with a campaign
promise fulfilled. He carried a
declaration ending the 11-year
state of war between his country
and the Soviet Union—a pact he
vowed to obtain when elected to
office two years ago. ,
‘‘I am very happy,” Hatoyama
said at the airport before depart
ing. “ . . . We have established a
foundation for relations which
should flourish in the future . . .
the aim of my Moscow mission
has been accomplished.”
The 83-year-old Premier flew
in a special Soviet plane to Stock
holm. From there he will proceed
by airliner to Tokyo by way of
the United .States.
The agreement which Hatoyama
signed Friday with Premier Bul
ganip fall$ short of a full peace
treaty. The two countries were
unable to agree on return to Ja
pan of islands that Soviet troops
occupied at the end of World War
II, altho Russia gave a conditional
pledge to return eventually two
tiny land areas just north of the
* Japanese home islands.
But Japan won Soviet support
for membership in the United Na
tions, return of nearly 1,100 Jap
anese prisoners of war, and a
long-term fisheries agreement.
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Later Report Tells
Of Four Killed in
Antarctic Crash
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
—Two of four U.S. Navy men
injured by the crash of a Neptune
plane in a blinding white-out
were well enough Friday to be
flown back to New Zealand.
Four men were killed and two
others were injured seriously in
the crash Thursday at the end of
a 2,250-mile flight from Christ
church, New Zealand, to this
American deepfreeze base.
The two in best condition were
Aircraft Mechanic Clifford Allsup
of East Greenwich, R.I., and Bry
son, Tex., and Aviation Techni
cian Richard Lewis of Clarks
Summit, Pa. Doctors said Allsup
had numerous bruises and contu
sions. Lewis suffered fractures of
the right leg and upper left arm.
Listed as in more serious condi
tion were Ensign Kenneth MacAl
pine of Ambler, Pa., who received
a fractured skull and shoulder and
chest injuries; and Robert Spann
of Buffalo, N.Y., who suffered a
skull fracture.
Behind the safe landing of Du
fek’s Skymaster Wednesday and
the five other planes Thursday
was a tale of toil required to clear
a 6,000-foot airstrip thru the long
winter night.
Lt. Cmdr. David Canham Jr.,
in charge of the station here, esti
mates his crew labored 100,000
man hours in total darkness plow
ing out the ice surface sufficiently
'to permit the landing of giant
Globemasters.
The Globemasters, normally
troop carriers, are essential to an
air drop of 500 tons of equipment
and supplies at a South Pole sta
tion to be built as soon as possible.
The polar base will be the end
station in a chain of antarctic
bases set up by nearly a dozen na
tions for observations in the In
ternational Geophysical Year, to
start in July 1957.
Cloves are dried, unopened
flower buds.
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