Pioneer Pallbearers Serve
At Seattle Funeral for
Noted Mining Engineer
SEATTLE, (JPI — Funeral, serv
ices will be held here Saturday
for Crosby E. Keen, noted mining
engineer who was one of the
founders of the Fairbanks Ex
ploration Co. He died Tuesday at
Elko, Nev.
Alaska Pioneers Leonard Sep
ala, James Gaffeny, Elmer Ry
deen, Frank Kelly and Dick
Sundquist will be among the
pallbearers.
Welfare Dept. Approves
Sitka High School Grant
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON, UP) —A $76,927
grant to help finance construc
tion of a high school in Sitka
was approved yesterday by the
Department of Welfare.
Aides of Rep. Ralph Rivers were
informed of the action. The grant
is under a program of aid to fed
erally affected areas.
18.000 MADE HOMELESS BY
TYPHOON IN HONG KONG
HONG KONG, {/Pi — At least
18.000 Chinese were homeless to
day in the aftermath of Typhoon
Mary, which smashed into this
British crown colony with winds
of up to 118 miles per hour.
A government spokesman said
30 bodies had been recovered and
at least 34 others were missing.
The typhoon roared on up the
China coast, but as yet there was
no word from the Communists of
its effects on the Red-ruled main
land.
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Soviet Spy Planes Watched DEW Line
Construction in ’53 at Cape Lisbourne
WASHINGTON, Wl—Rep. Dan
iel Flood (D-Pa) has reported to
Congress that he has definite evi
dence of Russian spy flights over
Alaska.
The Pennsylvania Democrat
recommends that the United
States take the same action that
Soviet Premier Khrushchev has
threatened Russia will take
against any future American spy
flights over their territory — that
is, challenge them, and shoot
them down if they do not comply
with orders to land.
In a statement inserted in the
Congressional Record, Flood noted
that on May 19, following the
summit conference collapse at
Paris, he made a House speech
asserting that Soviet fights were
made over Alaska and demanded
that they should be ended.
Since that time, Flood said, he
has received a letter from an
Alaskan resident, telling him of
having seen at first hand such
Soviet flights.
However, at Juneau, Alaska
Gov. Egan repeated previous
statements he had no knowledge
of any Russian flights over the
49th State.
The letter said the writer had
seen a number of Russian planes
over Alaska in 1953. The flights
were observed almost daily over
Barter Island and Cape Lis
bourne, the letter said.
It added that to the writer’s
knowledge these flights have not
been as numerous in the last two
years.
“During the years before we
had our long-range fast aircraft,
they definitely photographed all
the DEW Line (radar) sites, etc.,
because during the construction
period they flew just about daily
and returned straight to Russia,”
the letter said.
“I observed them from Lis
bourne head to Russia a number
of times, and knew that they
were not our planes.
“During the building of our
radar site at Cape Lisbourne they
even came over and, on several
occasions with jet aircraft with
their gear down, made passes at
the lower field of the first one
built.
“I have met and asked many
Air Force pilots why they never
did anything. I was told that they
had orders not to fire on them
unless attacked by them.
“There are a number of re
spectable pilots and others who
can verify all this but I suppose,
for some reason not known to us,
it has not been publicized.”
Flood asked “Why is it that
such information as this has not
been told to the people of the
United States?
“Why is it that officials of our
government have not used Soviet
flights over Alaska to counter the
browbeating attacks of Premier
Khrushchev?”
Flood reiterated his opinion that
the government “should call for
the arrest and deportation of So
viet spies, who form a far more
extensive intelligence service
here than we have in the Soviet
Union.
In Fairbanks, the Daily News
Miner said that reports of Soviet
spy flights over Alaska, while
the DEW Line was being built,
are undoubtedly true.
The News-Miner stated that on
at least six different occasions in
the past six years correspondents
of the newspaper or residents of
the Arctic Coast of Alaska have
reported to the News-Miner what
they believed were Russian planes
over their heads.
“The trouble was we didn’t
take these reports seriously,” said
C. W. Snedden, publisher of the
News-Miner. “We could never get
confirmation of any sort from the
military. People in Alaska saw
these planes, but military officials
were always skeptical.”
The statement by Rep. Flood
was brought up during a regu
larly-scheduled news conference
with Gov. Egan at the Alaska
Capitol.
“1 don’t know of any occasion
that (reports of Soviet flights over
Alaska) could be substantiated,”
Egan told reporters.
“Insofar as I have ever learned,
the extent of any Russian flying
qver the state has been planes
making turns close to shore while
heading back to Soviet territory
after patrols over the Arctic
Ocean or the Bering Sea.”
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President To Arrive
Early at-Anchorage ___
WASHINGTON, W — President
Eisenhower’s arrival at Anchor
age, on the first leg of his Far
Eastern trip, ^ill be 45 minutes
earlier than previously an
nounced, the White House said
today.
The Presidential party will
reach Elmendorf AFB there at
10:15 a.m. local time on Sunday,
June 12, to be met by Gov. Wil
liam Egan, Mayor George Byer
and other officials.
A motorcade through Anchor
age, lasting 30 or 40 minutes, will
end at about 12^)5 p.m., when the
President v arrives at his quarters,
the “Alaskan Chateau” at the El
mendorf base.
U. S. Won’t Scrap
Allies’ Pacts for
Russ Treaty
GENEVA, UP) — The United
States firmly told the Soviet
Union today it will not abandon
the collective defense of the free
world as the price for a world
disarmament treaty.
U. S. Ambassador Frederick
Eaton said the new Soviet dis
armament plan would require the
“liquidation of all free world se
curity arrangements through the
complete and immediate with
drawal of U. S. forces from the
areas overseas where they are
now stationed at the specific re
quest of our friends.”
Eaton gave the 10-nation dis
armament conference the first
formal Western comments on the
plan put forward by Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev last week. The
first stage of the new plan calls
for destruction of all vehicles able
to deliver nuclear weapons and
simultaneous liquidation of all
foreign military bases.
IT'S A DRAGI
The Nome Telephone Co. build
ing is getting a new foundation
with Pete Reader in charge of the
operation. A very ingenius con
traption involving a small drag
line bucket with a gas cat, a jeep
a block and a parked truck are
being used 'to drag the gravel
under the building.
Convair Strike will
Spread in Calif.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., UPl — Union
spokesmen say the strike against
Convair’s far-flung missile facil
ities will spread Monday to the
firm’s big airplane and missile
making plants here.
The move would idle 20,000
workers building Atlas Intercon
tinental Missiles, F-106 intercep
tors, and speedy new Convair 660
and 880 jet transports.
The walkout is slated as a one
day affair, called by the 6,000
member Engineers and Arctitect’s
Association.
Officials of the International
Association of Machinists/Thurs
day night said it would oi-der IAM
workers not to cross the EAA's
picket line.
The move came as talks be
tween the firm and the two unions
remained deadlocked. I
Convair offered the engineers
the same deal it did IAM work
ers: an 11-cent hourly wage in
crease and a 3-cent hourly cost
of-living hike. The IAM asks 14
cents and fringe benefits. Wage
scales range from *$1.79 to $3.40
hourly.
THE HOME ABTS CLUB in
stalled new officers at their meet
ing Tuesday evening. The election
was held in May. Esher McCoy is
president, vice president is Mary
Jean Potter; secretary, Marvella
Kowalczyk; treasurer, Elsie May
Smith.
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