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VOL. LIX No. 81 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1957 Per Copy—15*
1,000 Police Ston
Demonstrators at
U.S. Base in Japan
TACHIKAWA, Japan, UP)—Jap
anese government surveyors to
day completed their work at the
big Tachikawa air base. More
than 1,000 policemen held back
demonstrators protesting expan
sion of the base.
No American air police were
involved.
Five members of a huge force
of Japanese police were injured
when demonstrators pelted them
with rocks and fireworks.
A spokesman said no further
surveys will be necessary for re
newal of leases on lands which
runways will be enlarged to ac
commodate the newest jet fighters
and bombers.
Villagers who own the land
claim the Japanese government
does not pay them nearly enough
for leasing it. Now the main1
American air base in the Tokyo I
vicinity, Tachikawa is to be
turned over to the Japanese air
force eventually.
The final surveys were com
pleted in a drizzling rain. At one
point about 150 demonstrators
crawled under the fence sur- 1
rounding the base. After a brief
scuffle, they squatted beside the
fence while .their leaders talked
with police. Then they crawled
out.
Pilot and Plane Missing
30 Hours Found Safe
EDMONTON, UP)—A light civil
ian plane missing for 30 hours
with one man aboard in the rug
get mountains and bush country
700 miles northwest of here was
•found Sunday night.
The flane was undamaged and
the RCAF at Edmonton, reported
that the pilot, a Mr. Gregory of
Idaho Falls, Idaho, was alive and
well.
The missing 'aircraft was found
out of fuel on a sandy beach on
Blind Lake, 65 miles west of
Smith River.
Violent Deaths Kill 727 Persons
During Four-Day Holiday Period
(By The Associated Press)
Violent deaths killed at least
727 persons during the long In
dependence Day holiday period.
As always, traffic accidents ac
counted for the greatest portion
of the staggering toll, but in this
holiday period the toll came far
below the predicted 535.
Late reports increased the
count slightly, showing that there
were at least 423 persons killed
in motor vehicle accidents be
tween 6 p.m. Wednesday and mid
night Sunday. Drownings during
the 102-hour period took 205 lives
and another 99 died in miscella
neous accidents.
The highway fatalities com
pared with the record traffic toll
for a Fourth of July period of 491
set during the four-day holiday
in 1955. The National Safety
Council, in a pre-holiday state
ment, had estimated this year’s
toll would reach 535.
The over-all total compared to
805 accidental deaths in a 3-day
Fourth of July holiday obser
vance in 1955, a record for the
period.
One death from fireworks was
reported during the holiday per
iod, the same number as reported
in 1956 and 1955. The high since
World War II was 6 in 1946.
Two of the worst highway ac
cidents during the long holiday
period occurred yesterday, killing
16 persons. Nine person lost their
lives in a two-car crash near Ox
ford, Miss., and another head-on
crash near Saugus, Calif., killed
seven persons.
California led the states in traf
fic fatalities with 50, with New
York’s 31 second high. Only three
states—Delaware, Nevada, and
Rhode Island—reported no high
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New Vacation Site
For Eisenhower Is
Probably in New England
WASHINGTON, WV—The White
House indicated today that Presi
dent Eisenhower has picked a va
cation site, possibly in a New
England area.
“I think I know where the
President will go and I hope to
be able to make an announcement
soon,” Press Secretary Hagerty
told a news conference.
Hagerty noted that Eisenhower
said two weeks ago he hoped to
be able to get away some place
“to the northward” of Washing
ton. Hagerty said today that was
the only clue he could provide at
this time.
He did say in response to ques
tions, however, that secret service
agents have been checking “quite
a lot of places” in the vicinity of
Cape Cod, Mass.
Grand Jury Indicts
Zlatovskis of Conspiring
To Transmit U.S. Secrets
NEW YORK, (/P)—-A one-time
Army intelligence officer and his
wife, former New Yorkers now
living in Paris, were indicted to
day by a federal grand jury on
charges of conspiring to transmit
vital U.S. secrets to the Soviet
Union and its agents.
U.S. Atty. Paul W. Williams
identified the\ couple as George
Zlatovski, 47, and Jane Foster
Zlatovski, 45.
A five-count indictment against
the couple charged that they had
conspired with a group of Rus
sian nationals and with Jack and
Myra Soble and with Jacob Al
bum to transmit to Russia secrets
vital to the defense of the U.S.
The Sobles and Albam, all of
whom were arrested last Jan. 25
on spy charges, have pleaded
guilty to conspiring to obtain
secret U.S. documents with the
knowledge that they were to be
transmitted to the Soviet Union.
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More Heat
With Storms Is *
States’ Forecast
(By The Associated Press)
More hot and showery weather,
with storms in some areas, was
the outlook for most of the United
States today.
It was a muggy night in many
areas after yesterday’s hot and
humid weather but k little cool
ing appeared in sight for some
regions.
Temperatures were in the 90s
to above 100 in many parts of the
east and mid-continent yesterday,
with a high of 106 at Hill City,
Kansas.
■Reading's in the 90s were the
rule in the southeast and in the
100-degree range in most of Tex
as and the far southwest.
Severe storms hit some areas
today. Hail and heavy showers
were reported from eastern Neb
raska thru southern Minnesota
and northern Iowa.
Wind gusts up to 81 mph. hit
Grand Island, Neb. Damaging
w'ind and hail storms also struck
areas in Michigan.
I Supreme Court Hears Japanese
Woman Killed by Girard Was
Enticed to Come and Pick Scrap
WASHINGTON, UP)—The gov
ernment told the Supreme Court
today the Japanese woman fatal
ly injured by GI William S. Gir
ard on a firing range in Japan
was enticed to come forward and
pick up scrap metal.
Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin
said “enticement and inducement”
had an important bearing on the
government’s decision to turn
over Girard for trial in Japanese
courts on a manslaughter charge.
Rankin, however, told the court
Girard himself has denied he in
duced the woman and other Jap
anese to come forward to gather
scrap.
The eight justices showed con
siderable interest in this ques
tion: was there, as Chief Justice
Warren phrased it, actually an
invitation for the Japanese to
come forward and pick up scrap.
Warren indicated the court
might decide to unseal an affida
vit submitted by the general
counsel of the Defense Depart
ment reciting facts in the case,
including the charge that Japan
i ese scrap scavengers had been
lured onto the range.
The affidavit is in the court’s
possession.
District Judge Joseph C. Me
Garraghy, who ruled that the
proposed delivery of Girard to
Japan for trial would violate his
constitutional rights, looked at
the affidavit, but did not make it
part of the lower court record.
As the government has done
thruout the case, Rankin conced
ed that Girard was on official
duty when he fired an empty car
tridge casing from his rocket
launcher last January, fatally in
juring the Japanese woman.
But, Rankin said, Girard was
never authorized to use the gre
nade-launcher on his rifle in such
a fashion. Rankin contended the
act was so far removed from offi
cial duty that the United States
was justified in waiving its pri
mary jurisdiction in favor of Ja
pan.
The courtroom v.’as packed and
crowds filled outside corridors.
Amphibious Jeep
Safely Crosses
North Pacific
SEATTLE, L¥)—Two adventur
ers attempting to, cross the peri
lous North Pacific in an amphibi
ous Jeep arrived safely Last night
at Shemya, six days overdue from
Japan, Northwest Airlines report
ed here today.
The airline, which maintains a
station at Shemya in the outer
Aleutians, said the Jeep, dubbed
the Half Safe, reached the island
at 8:30 p.m. last night.
Aboard were Ben Carlin, 45, an.
Australian who began a round
the-world trip in the Jeep seven
years ago, and Boyde de Mente,
28, Phoenix, Ariz., who joined
Carlin in Japan.
Concern for the safety of the
two men grew last week when
efforts to contact them by radio
failed, and they did not turn up
at Shemya in the 21 days they
estimated the 1,300-mile voyage
would take.
Their Jeep carried 720 gallons
of fuel when they left northern
Hokkai^lo Island in Japan June
12. More than half of the gasoline
was towed in a container behind
the Half Safe.
GLACIER HIGHWAY DEATH
JUNEAU, UPt—An automobile
crashed thru a guard rail on Gla
cier Highway 14 miles north of
here Sunday, killing the driver
and injuring two passengers.
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Argentina and Venezuela Break Off
Relations in Dispute Over Feron
BUENOS AIRES l/P—Argentina
and Venezuela closed their em
bassies in each other’s capitals
today in a feud over ousted dicta
tor Juan D. Peron’s activities in
Venezuela.
Increasingly bitter exchanges
built up over a week to the open
break in relations between the
two countries, located at opposite
ends of the South American con
tinent.
The Argentine ambassador to
Caracas said on his way home
that the Venezuelan government
had begun a mass roundup of Ar
gentines in Caracas opposed to
Peron.
Argentina charged Venezuela
was permitting Peron to master
mind a campaign of subversion
and terror against Provisional
President Pedro Aramburu’s gov
ernment from ,his exile in Carac
as. Anamburu charged Peron and
his followers have “woven a tre
mendous intrigue around Venezu
elan authorities.”
Venezuela alleged Argentine
Calvin Coolidge Widow
Dies at Age of 78
NORTHAMTON, Mass. MV-Mrs.
Grace Goodhue Coolidge, widow
of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president
of the United States, died early
today at her home. She was 78.
A physician said heart failure
and a general weakening condi
tion was the cause of death.
Mrs, Coolidge had been in a
hospital twice in the past year,
returning home last March.
Her son John was at her resi
dence when she died.
Burial will take place Friday
in the family plot at Plymouth,
Vt., after cremation Thursday.
The former President and a son
Calvin Jr., who died at age 17,
are interred at Plymouth.
agents had plotted to kill political
refugees in that country. Foreign
Minister Jose Loreto Arismendi
later asserted the rupture was
provoked by the Argentine am
bassador in Caracas, Gen. Carlos
Toranzo Montero, because he had
been refused an audience with
Venezuelan President Marcos Pe
rez Jimenez.
Argentine Foreign Minister Al
fonso de Laferrere announced
that diplomatic relations with
Venezuela had been “interrupted”
rather than broken off.
Diplomatic experts said the use
of that word indicated relations
could be resumed quickly if Pe
ron should leave Venezuela or his
activities be restricted.
Nobody Answers
Malenkov’s Telephone
NEW YORK, OfV—'The New
York Post placed a transatlantic
telephone call today to Moscow
in an effort to talk to Georgi Mal
enkov, one of the ousted Commu
nist leaders.
The overseas operator reported
back in a few minutes:
“I’m sorry but his phone does
n’t answer.”
HUTCHESON APPOINTED
EDITOR IN WALLA WALLA
WALLA WALLA, Wash., UR—
The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
has announced the appointment
of James Hutcheson, long-time
member of the Associated Press
news staff and former A.P. legis
lative correspondent, to the new
ly created position of executive
news editor.
The Seattle newsman is known
to many Alaskans as the first
wire service editor to give full
time coverage to the legislature
at Juneau.