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VOL. LX No. 29 . NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1958 _Per Copy—15^
Bulganin Makes Fourth Appeal For
Summit Conference But Makes No
Proposals To Break The Deadlock
MOSCOW, OP) —-- Premier Bul
ganin, in a fourth message to
President Eisenhower released
today, appealed again for an
East-West summit conference but
made no major proposals to break
the deadlock.
The message was delivered in
Washington yesterday as the U.S.
State Department published a
note rejecting Sovet terms for a
preparatory foreign ministers’
conference.
The Soviet Union has proposed
that such a conference be limited
to the mechanical details of ar
ranging summit talks. The United
States, in common with its West
ern allies, insists that preparatory
talks must disclose real possibil
ity for some agreements before
the top leaders get together.
Not only did it fail to uncover
any new proposals that might
ease the deadlock, but it raised
some points that might actually
delay a summit meeting.
Bulganin accused the United
States of repeatedly presenting
“deliberately unacceptable ques
tions” for discussions at the sum
mit conference.
He accepted two suggestions
made in Eisenhower’s message of
Feb. 15 and proposed that they
be expanded.
He proposed the conclusion of
a treaty of friendship and coop
eration between the two coun
tries. And on the subject of in
creasing exchange of leading Am
ericans and Russians, he renewed
the Soviet proposal of two years
ago for exchange of parliamen
tary delegations.
Nothing New In
Latest Letter
From Bulganin
WASHINGTON, UPl —President
Eisenhower received today the
translation of Premier Bulganin’s
latest note urging an East-West
summit ipeeting. He apparently
found it disappointing.
U.S. officials who analyzed the
letter declared there was nothing
new in it. They called it a propa
ganda document designed to per
suade world opinion that Russia
is working harder for a summit
meeting and for cold war agree
ments than the United States.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said the letter
was not discussed at today’s cabi
net meeting, which lasted an hour
and a half.
U.S. Jet Shot Down Over Korean, But
Source of Fire Is Not Yet Determined
SEOUL, UP)—A U-S. Air Force
pilot said today he did not know
whether ground fire that hit a
comrade’s F-86 jet near the de
militarized zone came from Com
munist or friendly territory.
First Lt. Ronald E. Martin of
Rock Hil, Mo., said “to my knowl
edge” neither plane was plose
enough to be hit by Communist
fire.
An official Air Force release
said Communist fire hit the plane
yesterday. However, no protest
has been made to the Commun
ists.
Martin told a news conference
he and the other pilot were fly
ing a training mission and were
heading for the second of two
targets.
“•Upon reaching it we encoun
tered ground fire,” he said. “At
approximately the same time I
noticed my lead aircraft burst
in flames—temporarily. It con
tinued down and I followed it
down and saw it crash on the
side of a ridge.”
The 25-year-old pilot said he
glimpsed a parachute drifting
down on the Communist side of
the demilitarized zone and then
returned to his base at Osan.
The U.N. Command continued
its investigation. A spokesman
said the command had no infor
mation on the exact position of
the two F-86 Sabre jets when
the incident occurred. Search
plane found no trace of the miss
ing pilot, and the U.N. Command
is expected to request his re
turn.
PAA to Reopen Request
For Seattle and Frisco
Stops On Tokyo Route
WASHINGTON, UF>—■ A request
by Pan American World Airways
to reopen the case in which it
asked to make stops at Seattle
and Portland, on its flight from
Los Angeles - San Francisco to
Tokyo was on file Thursday with
the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The board had earlier turned
down the request.
An airline spokesman said
there was no indication how the
CAB might act on the new re
quest.
The CAB was given authoriza
tion to use a route parallel to
that of Northwest Orient Airlines
over the Great Circle route to
Tokyo but the permission speci
fied it could not make passenger
stops at Seattle and Portland.
Pan American has not yet de
cided when it will begin flying
the Great Circle route, the spokes
man said.
Democrats Push
Anti-Recession
Measures in Senate
WASHINGTON, UP> — Demo
cratic senators pushed ahead to
day their efforts to develop an
anti-recession program including
public works, tax cuts, housing
and highways.
Indications were that next
week would see action in the
Senate on some elements of the
program.
Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala) pre
dicted that the Senate would pass,
probably on Tuesday, a housing
bill he said would add at least
200,000 homes to the number that
will be built this year under pre
sent programs.
Sen. Gore (D-T-enn) said he was
confident the Public Works Com
mittee would approve by Thurs
day his bill to speed up the al
ready large Federal Highway
Program.
Sen. Douglas (D-Ill), taking
another tack, said that a tax cut
offered the “quicket method” to
meet what he said now has be
come a “very serious economic
recession.”
He announced he would offer
as an amendment to a minor
House tax bill his proposal to
slash personal income and fed
eral excise levies by $4,400,000,
000 a year. But tax cutting ap
peared to have less support at
this time than the other mea
sures being pushed.
Returned Pilots
Tell of Hail of
Bullets Feb. 16
SEOUL, Korea, Lfl—The pilot’s
compartment was “filled with
flying bullets” when Korean
Communists seized their airliner,
the American pilots related today.
“But everything happened so
fast I was completely helpless,”
Willis P. Hobbs of Vallejo, Calif.,
a civilian, told a news conference.
The Red agents grabbed the
airliner flown by Hobbs and Air
Force Lt. Col. Howard McClellan
on Feb. 16 and diverted to North
Korea off its regular flight from
Pusan to Seoul. The Reds yester
day released the two Americans,
a West German couple and 22
of the 30 Koreans aboard.
McClellan said the plane was
on automatic pilot when he heard
a loud banging on the door lead
ing from the passenger’s com
partment.
Then bullets began flying thru
the cockpit. Hobbs reported hear
ing 8 to 10 shots as the two hug
ged the sides of the plane to get
out of the line of fire.
Then, said Hobbs, three Kor
eans armed with a carbine and a
shotgun broke into the compart
ment. One told him, “We go to
North Korea.”
Army Building Exlorer III Even
As Explorer II Fails to Reach Orbit
-a
Munz Plane, With Five
Passengers Makes Forced
Landing Near Teller
A1 Mosely, pilot for Munz Air
ways, made a forced landing near
Teller Wednesday night due to
oil line trouble.
He walked into Teller and im
mediately dispatched dog teams
for the four passengers and one
infant on the plane.
The management of Munz Air
ways expressed sincere. apprecia
tion for the response of all pilots
in the community who went into
immediate action and prepared to
search at daybreak when they
heard the plane was down. •
In addition to Nome planes,
the military was ready to send a
search plane from Anchorage, it
is reported, at about the time
Mosely walked into Teller.
17 Inches of Rain Drenches
Honolulu In 27 Hours
■HONOLULU, UP) — Hawaii’s
heaviest recorded rainfall drench
ed Honolulu with 17.59 inches of
rain in 27 hours.
The weather bureau announced
an all-time precipitation of 16.78
inches in the 24 hour recording
period (2 a.m. to 2 a.m.). The old
record set in 1917 was 13.52 inches i
for a 24 hour period.
At least one man lost his life'
in the storm. A 57-year-old fish
erman was swept off a tuna boat
by a huge wave about a mile off
Pearl Harbor.
Families were forced from
their homes. Schools were closed
and plane flights were cancelled
or delayed.
Small craft sank at their moor
ings in the yacht harbor.
Wednesday Scores
Juneau Basketball Tournament
Winner's Bracket
Fairbanks 87, Douglas 52.
Loser's Bracket
Sitka 79, Haines 61.
Seward 77, Wrangell 69.
Nome, 68, Angoon 48.
Thursday Scores
Winners Bracket
Fairbanks 83, Ketchikan 48.
Losers Bracket
Sitka 48, Douglas 46
Seward 69, Nome 51.
AFRS Goes On 24-Hour
Daily Broadcast Here
Barney Fisher, station manager
of AFRS, said today that the
station went on 24-hour broad
cast last night. He said the ar
rival of an automatic station
break machine enables this sta
tion to remain on the air all
night. Until now the station has
been on the air from 7 in the
morning until midnight.
- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.. UP>—
The Navy postponed, at least tem
porarily, today’s scheduled day
light firing of its satellite-carry
ing Vanguard rocket. It was due
to minor technical difficulties.
The Vanguard was to follow
hard on the heels of yesterday’s
announcement that the- Army’s
Explorer II satellite had died a
fiery death without going into
orbit.
The Navy did not immediately
reschedule the Vanguard test ve
hicle for firing, but said that
“daylight firing is a required ob
jective of this particular test.”
In Washington, the Defense
Department said another Van
guard launching would be sched
uled “at the earliest practicable
date.” Pentagon officials were
unable to say when this would
be.
The Army meanwhile made
plans fof more satellites, more
Explorers—but they may be big
ger and better than the now
dead Explorer II.
The Army has another satellite
just like Explorer II—but it may
pass that one by to get some
other satellite into space.
In Washington yesterday it said
it was building Explorer III and
would launch it this spring.
The blame for the failure of
Explorer II was laid to the 50
pound rocket that carried the
satellite at its pointed nose. This
was the final stage of the Jupi
ter-C four stage rocket system.
The final stage failed to fire—
why scientists don’t know and
don’t expect to find out. The satel
lite, lacking the added thrust,
didn’t get up anywhere near the
gravity-defying speed of 18,000
miles an hour.
Free World Superior
Militarily and Industrially
To The Soviet Bloc
LOS ANGELES, UF>—The chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
says that from an overall point
of view the free world is “super
ior militarily and industrially to
the Soviet bloc.”
Gen. Nathan F. Twining told
the Western Industrial Confer
ence yesterday that the Soviet
bloc is on a war footing “during
a period of supposed peace” and
has nearly as many divisions, and
more weapons, than it had in
World War II.
“Some of you may think that
the discrepancy in ground and
naval forces between the free
world and the Soviet bloc puts
us in an inferior position, but
this is not so,” Twining said.
“Military strategy and power are
not based on numbers alone but
on such factors as geography,
industrial production, natural re
sources and quality of manpower
and equipment.”
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