Russia Ready For
Discussions to End
Controversies
MOSCOW, UP — The official
newspaper of the Communist
party declared Saturday that Rus
sia is ready to enter into “business
like” discussions with the West
to end great world controversies
but made it clear the Soviet Union
is not retreating anywhere along
the line of foreign policy.
The Russian reply to President
Eisenhower’s April 16 foreign pol
icy speech was spread across the
entire front page of Pravda in an
editorial. At the same time the
text of the President’s speech was
printed on an inside page.
The whole tone of the Pravda
reply was sharp and argumenta
tive, but it was not vituperative
cr belligerent.
It took issue with the President
on several points and vigprously
criticized Secretary of State John'
Foster Dulles. It definitely reaf
firmed previous Soviet positions
on many issues that have created
tension with the West, and it took
exception to certain principles of
American policy.
But it declared:
“The Soviet government will
welcome any step of the American
government or any other govern
ment if it is directed at the friend
ly settlement of difficult ques
tions.”
The editorial particularly re
jected what it said were pre
conditions laid down by Eisen
hower for such discussions. It de
clared Russia was laying down no
such pre - conditions, and was
ready for lots of discussion, but
indicated it would have condi
tions to advance later on.
WHITE HOUSE WILL WAIT
FOR SOVIET PEACE STEPS
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The White
House said Saturday Russia’s new
peace statement may be “a first
step toward something concrete”
in settling cold war problems.
“If so,” an official White House
statement said, “the free world
will continue to wait for the de
finite steps that must be made if
the Soviet leaders are sincerely
interested in a cooperative solu
tion to world problems.”
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Washington 5—New York 4
Cleveland 2-12 — Detroit 1-2
Chicago1 2-3—St. Louis 7-0
National League
Brooklyn 8 — New York 4
Philadelphia 7-8 — Pittsburgh
5-1
Chicago 7—St. Louis 5
Coast League
Los Angeles 8-4—San Francisco.
1-0
Portland 8—Sacramento 1
Hollywood 8—Oakland 2
San Diego 4-1—Seattle 3-5
25,000 Tons Construction
Material Unloaded At
Seward In Two Weeks
SEWARD, UPV—Some 300 Sew
ard dock workers -pocketed $100,
000 Saturday as they were paid
off for the first two weeks in.
April when an estimated 25,000
tons of cargo was unloaded.
The payroll was described as
the largest in the past three years.
As many as five ships were being
worked at the same time.
The manager of the Northern
Stevedore Co., said most of the
cargo was defense material going
out by rail to Anchorage and
other Alaska points.
ANCHORAGE ORDERED TO
RETURN TAXES TO APT.
ANCHORAGE, UP> — The city
was ordered Friday to return
about half of $27,000 in taxes
collected from corporate owners
of the city’s two 14-story apart
ment buildings during 1951.
A court ruling held that com
mercial buildings are exempt
from property tax during their
construction period.
All But One Charge
Dismissed Against
McCutcheon and Hassman
ANCHORAGE, UR—Judge An
thony Dimond Friday dismissed
all but one of seven remaining
charges against Stanley McCutch
eon and A. J. Hassman, former
officials of the Union Bank off
Anchorage.
An eighth count against the
pair was dismissed earlier. The
remaining count charges they
made an excessive loan to the
Arctic Cold Storage Company in
March of last year.
Erased from the books by Judge
Dimond’s action were two counts
the pair failed to call annual
stockholders’ meetings and twp
counts they refused to obey the
Alaska Banking Board on dis
posal of bank property. The court
ruled that none of the four
charges was a crime.
The Union Bank ownership has
changed since the charges were
filed against McCutcheon, a for
mer speaker of the House in the
Alaska Legislature and Demo
cratic National Committeemen
from the territory.
U.N. Flatly Rejects
Communist Prisoner
Exchange Proposal
PANMUNJOM, UP) — The new
Korean armistice talks deadlocked
again today as the U.N. Command
flatly rejected a Red prisoner ex
change proposal which it said
offers only return to Communist
vule or “endless captivity” for
Reds who refuse to go home.
In their second meeting since
Oct. 8, both Allied and Commun
ist delegates stood pat on their
own plans for settling the ex
change problem and bringing a
truce in Korea.
Meanwhile, the Panmunjom
gate to freedom for sick and
wounded Allied prisoners stood
closrti by the Reds.
The Communists said Sunday’s
shipment of 84 disabled Allied
prisoners ended tfyeir delivery. In
seven days they turned back 684
—149 Americans, 470 South Kor
ean men and one woman, and 64
disabled prisoners from other na
tions. They had promised 605.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
55 American Businessmen
Advise Eisenhower Slash
Assistance to West Europe
WASHINGTON, W)—A team of
55 American businessmen has ad
vised the Eisenhower administra
tion to slash economic assistance
to Western Europe and increase
it to the Communist - threatened
Far East.
The business leaders also have
urged that the State Department
be given complete control over all
foreign aid programs and that th6
existing Mutual Security Agency
be abolished.
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