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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 115 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1956 Per Copy—15*
KHRUSHCHEV IS SAID
TO BE IN TROUBLE
WITH SOVIET LEADERS
TITO LEAVES WITH
KHRUSHCHEV FOR
RUSSIAN VACATION
LONDON, I*—Nikita Khrusn
chev was reported in trouble with
some Soviet leaders today and
may be seeking the support of
Yugoslav’s President Tito for his
•policies of de-Stalinization and
easing up on the east European
satellites.
Press reports here and in Aus
tria said a new struggle for pow
er inside the Kremlin was back
of the surprise trip by Tito to the
Soviet lUnion in company with
Khrushchev, the first secretary
of the Soviet Communist Party.
Without a word of explanation,
Tito took off from Belgrade yes
terday with Khrushchev, who had
spent eight days in seclusion with
the Yugoslav leader. With some
of his closest lieutenants, Tito
was reported at the Black Sea
resort of Yalta today. Khrushchev
was said to be planning to take
him to the nearby Crimean resort
of Sochi to see Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bylganin and Foreign
Minister Dmitri Shepilov.
Caught in a Squeexe
The reports here and in Vienna
said the free-wheeling, free-spo
ken Soviet party boss at last had
been caught in a squeeze by a
Stalinist bloc in the Politburo
and Soviet army chiefs.
Former Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov and former Premier
Georgi Malenkov were reported
to believe that Khrushchev had
gone too far in his de-Staliniza
tion campaign.
The independent Vienna news
paper Neuer Kurier, in a dispatch
from the Yugoslav capital which
quoted a “high ranking personal
ity,” declared Khrushchev had
been summoned to appear before
the Kremlin leadership sitting as
a “party court."
Khrushchev to Court
The dispatch said Khrushchev
had been summoned to appear be
fore the Kremlin leadership sit
ting as a “party court.”
The dispatch said Khrushchev
was accused of a policy which
went awry in the satellites and
“led, among other things, to the
June 28 Poznan riots in Poland.”
It said the “party court” may
either have been called by
Khlirshchev’s opponents or by
Khrushchev himself in an effort
to "rehabilitate” himself.
It added that Khrushchev took
Tito back to the Soviet union as
his witness to “Stalin’s monstros
ities."
“So urgent as the case that Tito
even agreed to fly, altho it is well
known that he dislikes air travel,”
the Kourier said.
50,000 Pounds
Reindeer Meat
Unloaded Here
Leo Murphy, manager of Alas
ka Native Industries Cooperative
Assn., <ANICA> is on a survey of
the northern Alaska stores, trav
eling on the MS North Star now
in port. ANICA is the purchas
ing organization for the native
cooperative stores.
Mr. Murphy said he was parti
cularly interested in the system
atic and well - organized meat
packing setup at the reindeer sta
tin at Mekoryuk on Nunivak Is
land. This station is the source
of the reindeer which the North
Star distributes along the coast
of Alaska.
He also stated that three of the
native stores which went in the
red this past year and feared they
might lose their stores, have been
re-financed by the government.
The three stores are at King Is
land, Diomede JslAnd, and Buck
land.
Also on the North Star is Dell
Williams, administrative assistant
from the Seattle office of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The North Star yesterday dis
charged approximately 50,000
pounds of Nunivak reindeer meat
here. The biggest purchaser was
the U.S. Merc which took 37,000
pounds. The balance was taken
individual native families.
Bill Wanser, purser, who has
been handling the sale of the deer
meat, said that during the past
ten years he has handled a million
pounds of reindeer.
PILOT DIES IN
BELL X-2 CRASH
FROM 45,000 FT.
EDWARDS, Calif. UPV—The speed
and altitude record-holding Air
Force plane X-2, rocketing above
45,000 feet, developed unex
plained trouble and crashed yes
terday. The pilot was killed.
The needle-nosed, swept-wing
research craft, which had sped
1,900 miles an hour and climbed
to a reported 126,000 feet on pre
vious flights, ended its spectacu
lar career in shattered wreckage
on the desert 20 miles east of Ed
wards Air Force Base.
The body of the pilot, Capt.
Milbum G. Apt, 32, still was
strapped in the capsule cockpit
section. He had apparently made
no effort to escape by ejecting
himself.
The plane, built by Bell Air
craft Co., was taken up to 30,000
feet suspended from the belly of
a B-50 bomber. There it was re
leased and its rockets shot it up
in a steep, swift climb.
Following briefly were two Sa
bre jet “chase planes,” one piloted
by Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, who
had flown the X-2 to its 126,000
foot altitude record.
The X-2 quickly outsped its
pursuers and vanished into the
sky. No more was heard from its
pilot.
Trouble apparently developed
while the plane was between 45,
000 and 60,000 feet, Edwards AFB
officials said.
Cyprus Rebels Kill
2 British Soldiers
NICOSIA, Cyprus, —T w o
British servicemen were killed
with bullets in the back along
Nicosia’s “murder mile’’ today.
A third was wounded but drew
a gun and returned the fire.
The deaths brought to 49 the
number of British servicemen
killed since the EOKA under
ground 18 months ago began its
campaign of violence against
British rule of the Mediterranean
island colony. EOKA has slain 86
Greek Cypriots.
The three Britons were saun
tering down Ledra Street in civ
ilian clothes when a small group
of men opened fire on them from
behand. The gunmen escaped.
47 Bolivian Political Prisoners
Seize Captors* Plane in Flight,
And Seek Asylum in Argentina
SALTA, Argentina, t*t—Forty
seven bedraggled but defiant Bo
livian political prisoners, interned
here after seizing their captors’
plane in flight, pressed an appeal
today for asylum in Argentina.
Argentine authorities, appar
ently nonplussed by the sudden
visit, issued a guarded statement
that the situation was being
studied.
The fugitives, including leaders
of the socialist Falange party,
main opposition to Bolivia's gov
ernment, overpowered their air
plane guards over Bolivia yester
day while being flown to a con
centration camp near La Paz. One
of the prisoners took over the
controls and flew the government
airliner, a four-engine DC-4, the
450 miles to Salta.
“We preferred death in an air
plane to life in a concentration
camp." one of the group told re
porters at Salta Airport, 170 miles
south of the Bolivian frontier.
The group included business
men,' students, a journalist, an ac
countant, and several ranchers.
They were arrested after last
Saturday’s anti-government riots
that caused four deaths in La Paz.
The .government blamed the
Falange for instigating the upris
ing. Observers said, however, that
the real causes were high prices
and food shortages.
Still dressed in their grimy
prison uniforms, the escapees de
nounced the regime of Bolivian
President Heman Siles Zuazo and
described as phony the amnesty
proclaimed by the government
before this year’s presidential
election.
BARTLETT HITS PLAN
TO LET RUSSIANS USE
NOME FIELD AS BASE
GILLAM - BARTLETT
DEBATE IN NOME
CALLED OFF
The debate scheduled to be held
here this weekend between Byron
Gillam, aspirant to be Republican
Delegate to Congress, and Bob
Bartlett, present delegate, will
not be held, it is understood, be
cause the parties could not reach
an agreement. The local Repub
lican organization had made ten
tative plans and reservations for
broadcasting and televising the
debate.
U.S. Invites Reds
To Observe Close
Of Political Race
WASHINGTON IIP*—'The United
States has invited Russia and four
Soviet satellite countries to send
government officials or other
qualified observers here to ob
serve the close of the political
campaigns in the U.S. presiden
tial elections.
A State Deportment spokesman
was asked whether the invitation
was broad enough to open the
way for a visit by Soviet Premier
Bulganin or Communist Party
Boss Khrushchev.
He said this “is not intended to
invite anyone for a state visit.”
Privately, State Department of
ficials made clear they expected
persons of much lower rank or
non-officeholders such as profes
sors of law or political science.
Press Officer Lincoln White
said the invitations were deliv
ered eight or nine days ago to the
foreign offices of the Soviet Un
ion, Czechoslavakia, Poland, Ro
mania and Hungary.
He reported there had been no
acceptances yet.
U.S. Sailor Killed When
Shell Explodes Too Soon
YOKOSUKA, Japan tffl—An ex
ploding shell killed one American
sailor and injured nine others
aboard the U.S. destroyer Buck
yesterday.
A Navy announcement said ap
parently the time mechanism in
the fuse of a fragmentation shell
exploded prematurely.
The bursting shell pierced the
destroyer’s hull, ruptured the
ship’s forward fire main and put
a gun mount out of action, the
Navy said.
BRITAIN EXPLODES
ATOMIC WEAPON
CANBERRA, Australia, (J’l—
Britain exploded an atomic weap
on yesterday at its new Mara
linga proving ground in Australia.
The announcement that Brit
ain's latest series of atomic test
finally had got under way was
made simultaneously in London
and Canberra.
* U.S. Proposed Plan
In Connection With
Geophysical Year
WASHINGTON OP—Delegate E.
L. Bartlett said here Wednesday
he was very concerned that the
State Department has invited the
Soviet government to use avia
tion facilities at Nome in connec
tion with the International Geo
physical Year.
“An Associated Press dispatch
originating in Washington,” Bart
lett pointed out, “said our State
Department has proposed that
Russian planes come to Nome
once a week in assembling scien
tific data.
“This seems incomprehensible.
“By doing this we should be
opening the entire arctic area to
Soviet inspection.”
“As we know, the United States
has been busily engaged in build
ing detection and communication
systems in the arctic,” Bartlett
continued. “Are we now to ex
pose all of this to Soviet scrutiny?
This seems unthinkable.”
According to an announcement
last week, the United States has
proposed that Russia join with it
in making a photo-map of the
North Pole’s shifting ice cap.
It proposed flights by the U.S.
and Soviet planes between Nome,
Alaska, and Murmansk 'in the
Soviet Union
Alternate flights between these
points would be made once a
week during the March-Septem
ber 1957 period, a time of maxi
mum daylight in the arctic.
The aerial photographing would
be a project of the International
Geophysical Year, an 18-month
world-wide study starting next
July 19.
The project was informally
discussed at an arctic conference
in Stockholm last May, when
Soviet representatives suggested
pooling their resources, thereby
making full runs between Soviet
and U.S. territory rather than
stopping half way to turn around.
Case Against Costello
Based on Wiretapped
Evidence Dismissed
NEW YORK, UP)—Federal Judge
Edmund L. Palmieri today dis
missed a government proceeding
to take away gambler Frank Cos
tello’s. citizenship.
Palmieri ruled that the govern
ment’s ease rested on documents
containing references to wire
taps, and that use of sueh evi
dence is not admissable in federal
proceedings.
Costello is serving a five-year
sentence on an income tax con
viction.
Newsmen asked Costello’s at
torney if there were a possibility
he now would attempt to set aside
Costello’s conviction for tax eva
sion on the ground it also was ob
tained by wiretaps. “I have that
in mind,” the attorney said.