Los Angeles’ Mayor
Poulson Is Ready to Retire
LOS ANGELES,* UP) — Norris
Poulson, 64, whose two terms as
mayor of this sprawling metropo
lis are best known for Khrushchev
and baseball,' won’t run for re
election.
“I am grateful that I have my
health and I want to keep it,”
said Poulson in making the an
nouncement.
Beyond the burgeoning limits
of Los Angeles, Poulson is per
haps best known for two things.
He told off Khrushchev to his face
and he played a major role in
bringing major league baseball to
the West.
Poulson’s after-dinner speaking
almost gave the Soviet Union’s
• visiting Khrushchev a severe case
of indigestion last fall. Khrush
hcev took exception to oulson’s
reference to the Soviet leader’s
celebrated “We shall bury you”
quote. Khrushchev, his pleasant,
peasant face redder than the
Kremlin flag, threatened to pack
up and go home. But he calmed
down after a bitter anti-Poulson
tirade.
Later, the Soviet leader said the
mayor “does not shine by his in
telligence.”
Poulson said in rebuttal that
“there is no statement of principle
in his remarks to Khrushchev
with which any good American
citizen can find fault.”
Paulson spearheaded a civic
group that made a safari to Flo
rida and lured Walter O’Malley
and his then Broklyn Dodgers to
the money-green fields of Memo
rial Coliseum.
Poulson said he plans to live in
Los Angeles after his term ex
pires in June, 1961. The former
Republican Congressman said he’ll
go back to his first love — the life
of a Certified Public Accountant.
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Soviet Premier Reports Shooting Down
American High AltitudeResearch Plane
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, UP) — Nikita Khrush
chev told the Soviet Parliament
in a bristling speech yesterday that
Soviet armed forces have shot
down a plane he described as a
U. S. military craft. He threat
ened to retaliate with rockets if
American bombers appear over
the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Premiers speech cast
gloom over prospects for the sum
mit conference opening in 11 days.
He issued an unveiled threat to
U. S. allies, took a hefty slap at
Vice President Richard Nixon,
and charged that President Eisen
hower’s freedom of movement at
the summit is being restricted by
“certain «U. S. circles.”
Khrushchev referred angrily to
Eisenhowers suggestion that Nixon
might sit in for him at the summit
if the President’s presence is re
quired in Washington on domes
tic matters.
Khrushchev said he had met
Nixon several times and it was
difficult for him not to gain the
impression Nixon was the last per
son to think of stopping the cold
war or ending the arms race.
“I am afraid that if Nixon be
comes entitled to carry on nego
tiations at the summit, it would
be, as we say in Russia, like send
ing a goat to take care of the cab
bage,” the Soviet Premier said.
The Supreme Soviet Parliament
session burst into a wave of ap
plause as Khrushchev announced
the downing of an American
plane last Sunday.
Khrushchevs attack on the West
capped a day which brought an
nouncement of a shakeup in the
ruling hierarchy, a promise by
Khrushchev to abolish income
taxes by the end of 1963 and an
announcement which amounted to
a revaluation of the ruble effec
tive in October.
The party and government
shakeup brought Khrushchev’s
protege, Frol Kozlov, up from a
deputy First Premiership in the
Council of Ministers to a top
Communist Party job under
Khrushchev himself. Kozlov, 51,
became a Secretary of the Party
Central Committee in a general
reorganization. Kozlov toured the
United States last year.
The Lockheed HJ2 airplane, pre
sumably the one Russia claims to
have shot down last Sunday — is
one of a type capable of extended
flights at altitudes between 50,000
and 55,000 feet.
It is capable of speeds up to 70
per cent of the speed of sound.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Adminisration described it
as a straight wing, single-engine
jet craft, originally designed for
use as a high altitude test vehicle.
It has a 90-foot wing span and is
45 feet in length.
NASA spokesmen have said
about a dozen such planes have
been in use since 1956 in joint
upper air research with the Air
Force.
The U2 was designed to carry
heavy loads of research gear .10
miles high and keep them there
long enough to make delicate stu
dies. Speed was sacrificed for the
ability to fly high.
Information sought? Data about
the thin air in which airliners of
the future may operate — causes
of clear air turbulence, wind,
shear, the jet stream, cosmic rays,
concentration of various elements
in the upper atmosphere, move
ment of contaminants from nu
clear tests.
First flights were over the
western United States, emanating
from the atomic proving grounds
in Nevada. Since 1956, flights
have been made from various
parts of the world offering dif
ferent climactic conditions, in
cluding Alaska.
Even Dozen American
Plane Casualties Attest to
A Continuing ‘Cold War’
WASHINGTON, UPl — The U. S.
plane reported shot down toy Rus
sia Sunday is the 12th American
aircraft lost in encounters with
Russian or satellite forces during
the last 10 years of the cold war.
. Additionally there have been a
number of brushes in the Korean
and Formosa Straits areas that
apparently inolyed no direct Rus
sian responsibility.
The first of the major cold war
incidents occurred in April, 1950,
when an unarmed 'Navy patrol
plane was shot down over the
Baltic Sea.
In June, >1955, a Neptune patrol
bomber crash-landed near St.
Lawrence Island in the Bering
Sea.
The last known incident prior
to the one reported Thursday by
Soviet Premier Khrushchev was
the attack 'by Soviet type Jet
fighters on a Navy patrol plane
over the Sea Of Japan. The Amer
ican craft, though damaged, re
turned to its base in Japan.
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Tone Is Subdued at
West Virginia Kennedy
Humphrey TV Debate
By the Associated Press
Senators Hubert Humphrey and
John Kennedy met head-on in a
television debate Wednesday night
at Charleston, W. Va.
The two rivals for he Demo
Kcratic Presidential nomination
produced no sparks, no fireworks.
The tone was mild and unbitter.
Humphery did take issue with
a consant Kennedy refrain — that
Humphrey has no chance to be
nominated and a vote for him in
West Virginia’s May 10 primary
is wasted.
Humphrey said:
“No Democrat has this nomina
tion tied up. If you have 200 con
vention votes you’re just as much
alive politically as the man with
500 votes.”.
Banner Season Predicted
For Alaska Travel
SEATTLE — Alaska is in for a
banner summer tourist season this
year, with advance bookings
heavier than ever before, accord
ing to Bob Ellis of Ketchikan,
president of the Alaska Travel
Promotion Association, a non
profit organization devoted to the
promotion of travel to and within
Alaska.
Californians lead the list of
tourists holding reservations, but
interest in Alaska among Midwelt
and East Coast residents is in
creasing steadily, Ellis reported.
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Underground Gasoline
Flow Hampers Downtown
New York Construction
NEW YORK, UP)—A mysterious
underground flow of gasoline —
going on for the past 15 days at
the rate of 500 gallons daily —
may halt work on a big Manhat
tan project. To make it more mys
terious, no one has reported losing
the volatile liquid.
The gasoline pours into two 18
feet-deep excavations on West
40th Street near Ninth Avenue at
the site of the 19,000,000 addition
to the Port of New York Authority
Bus Terminal. The excavations,
part of the foundation, eventually
must reach 30 feet.
“We’re stymied if this contin
ues,” Francis Carey, the term
inal’s resident engineer, said.
“We can’t sink the foundation any
deeper with gasoline still under
ground. It’s much too dangerous.”
The automotive-type fuel some
times is pure and at other times
is brownish in color or mixed with
water. Goelogists. technicians and
engineers are puzzling over the
source.
One geologist said the source
could be miles away and coming
in via an underground stream. It
might be coming from a sewer
leak. Gasoline stations in the area
report no loss from their tanks.
The fire hazard is acute.
BABY GIRL FOR PETE HAHN'S
A daughter was born this mor
ning to Mr. and Mrs. Pete Hahn
at the hospital. The infant weigh
ed 10 pounds at birth and is the
fifth child for the Hahns. The
father is on the staff of the Nome
School and the maternal grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Dunbar.
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