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State Department Reveals Disgust with
Tenor of Attacks from Moscow, Havana
WASHINGTON, If) — The
United States has fired back at
the increased salvos of criticism
coming from the Soviet Union and
Cuba.
Within a period of a few hours
Saturday, the State Department:
1. Said it was disgusted with
Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s bit
ter attacks on President Eisen
hower. It accused Khrushchev of
trying to degrade international re
lations and confuse the issue of
the Paris summit conference col
lapse.
2. Protested to Havana that the
Fidel Castro regime was building
an intense official campaign of
slander against the United States.
It said the Cuban government was
trying to sow distrust and ani
mosity while claiming to seek
friendship and understanding.
President Eisenhower, without
naming Khrushchev, also hit back
at the personal criticism of him
which has been coming from Mos
cow.
In a commencement address
Sunday at the University of Notre
Dame, he deplored as “the ene
mies of human dignity” the lead
ers who “brandish angry epithets,
slogans and satellites.”
Earlier, Eisenhower had said in
a talk at West Point, N. Y., that
Khrushchev’s “ill tempered ex
pressions” had made the Western
alliance stronger than ever. That
time he mentioned the Soviet
leader by name.
The weekend statement issued
by Secreary- of State Herter
through the State Department was
aimed directly at Khrushchev and
his “personal attempts at villifi
cation.”
“All America, I am sure, shares
the disgust I feel at the ill-tem
pered atacks emanating from Mr.
Khrushchev," Herter said. “His
remarks reflect credit neither on
himself nor on his government.”
The Soviet attacks on U. S. poli
tical leaders were extended Sun
day to include New York’s Gover
nor Rockefeller. The newspaper
Soviet Fleet charged Rockefeller
had joined “other ringleaders of
monopolies and high-placed poli
tical figures in advocating more
spending for military adventures.”
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Navy Balloon Soars In
‘Most Successful’ Flight
MONTGOMERY, Ala., UP) — A
huge balloon floated southwest
ward across the nation today in
what a Navy spokesman called
the most successful cosmic flight
ever undertaken.
The giant sphere, 500 feet in
diameter, was sent aloft at Bruns
wick. Ga., yesterday in an experi
ment designed to provide more in
formation about cosmic rays.
A Navy tracking team, in a spe
cially equipped plane, landed at
Maxwell AFB at Montgomery
this morning for a brief pause
before resuming the westward
flight.
Lt. William Stierman ®f the
Office of Naval Research at Wash
ington said the balloon at 7:15
a.m. was located some 75 miles
northeast of the Naval Air Sta
tion at Pensacola, Fla., and still
soaring 20 miles above the earth.
Stierman said the sphere is ex
pected to come down in midafter
noon tomorrow, probably in
Texas.
Alaska Outdistances States
In Percentage Growth,
Reports Census Bureau
WASHINGTON, — Alaska,
te second newest state, is outrun
ning all others so far heard from
in the 1060 census in percentage
wise population increase.
And West Virginia, of the 20
states for which preliminary fig
ures have been reported, is the
only one to lose population.
With the possible exception of
Arkansas, Census Bureau experts
believe all states still to toe re
ported will have greater popula
tions than in 1950.
Alaska, whose admission to
statehood made Texans quit brag
ging how their state dwarfed all
others in size, still has only 223,
888 people. But that’s a whopping
increase of 74 per cent over 10
years ago when the territory had
a population of 128,643.
West Virginia dropped from
2.005,522 to 1,849,142, a decrease
of 7.8 per cent.
Next to Alaska, Delaware, of
the states so far reporting prelim
inary figures, had the highest per
centage gain.
NEW QUAKES ROCK
SOUTHERN CHILE
SANTIAGO, Chile, lift — Two
strong earthquakes shook the
southern Chilean provinces of Con
cepcion and Magallanes at 1:54
a.m. today, causing panic in a
number of towns, but no damage.
The Ministry of Information
said the quake was felt through
out southern Chile with its epi
center in sparsely populated Wel
lington Island. The ministry said
the quake was grade four in
intensity.
At Washington, D. C., the Coast
and Geodetic Survey recorded a
major earthquake at 2:08 a.m. 1
Seismologists described the trem
or as comparable to the first of
the series of quakes which did
great damage in Chile, but below
the level of the devastating third
earthquake here.
A series of earthquakes and
tidal waves struck Chile last
month, causing a death toll esti
mated as high as 5,000 persons.
Japan’s Central Meteorological
Agency in Tokyo said it detected
a faint tremor which it estimated
to have resulted from a “large
scale earthquake far away from
Japan.”
French Town Celebrates
16th Anniversary of
Allied Liberation
BAYEUX, France, Ufi — Sixteen
years ago today Allied troops
landed on the soil of Normandy to
begin the liberation of Europe
from Nazi rule.
Bayeux, the first city liberated,
fell to the British June 7.
As it has each year, Bayeux
marked the anniversary of D-Day
with solemn ceremonies.
French veterans Minister Ray
mond Triboulet and Foreign Min
ister Maurice Couve de Murville
laid wreaths on a floodlit libera
tion monument Sunday night.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair and warmer with scat
tered early morning fog Tuesday
with N.E. winds 8-15 mph. Low
temp, expected tonight 38, high
tomorrow 65.
Machinists Strike
Key Missile Bases
SAN DIEGO, Calif., UP> — The
International Association of Ma
chinists today struck key Atlas
missile bases from California to
Florida — first walkout in labor
disputes that could tie up a major
portion of the aircraft-missile
industry.
Among those hit is the huge
missile base- at Cape Canaveral,
Fla., where the nation’s major
missiles are tested.
The Atlas missile plant here
was picketed. Police are on guard
against any violence.
The dispute is with Convair Di
vision of General Dynamics Corp.,
nad also covers local aircraft
plants of Convair, which make
Air Force F-102 and F-106 jet
interceptor planes and commercial
jet airliners.
IAM officials said picketing at
the plants was aimed at support
ing the work stoppage for mass
membership meetings.
The strike could affect the test
firing of the Atlas, the United
States’ only operational intercon
tinental range rocket.
About 800 IAM members struck
Cape Canaveral, Fla., missile test
center. Picket lines were set up
at midnight. Also struck as the
midnight deadline moved across
time zones to the West Coast were
Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif., Warren AFB, Cheyenne,
Wyo., and four facilites of Offutt
AFB, near Omaha. Neb.
EISENHOWER JOINS MARCH
AT WEST POINT REUNION
WEST POINT, N. Y., OPV—Pres
ident Eisenhower today took part
in a round of colorful reunion ac
tivities with his West Point class
mates of 1915.
The program included a brief
speech at an alumni luncheon, a
review of the Corps, and the tra
ditional march with the men of
his class.
Asked to comment on the 16th
anniversary of D-Day, when he
commanded the Normandy inva
sion forces, the President said: “I
don’t have to live that over,
anyway.”
Problems of Elderly
Are Viewed at Fairbanks
COLLEGE — Problems of j
Alaska’s elderly people will be
taken up June 6-8 when the State
Conference on Aging is held at the
University of Alaska.
Sessions are scheduled at the
Bunnell Building. Present will be
research officials from various
agencies concerned with aging
problems, as well as specialists in
this field from the University.
During the meeting, members j
of the state committee will con- I
sider proposals made during the '
past year in various state districts. ]
Following this, a special com- '
mittee will make a condensation of
all of these district reports into a
final paper. This will be sent to
Washington as Alaska’s contribu
tion to the President’s Conference
on Aging to be held next Jan
uary in Washington.
Mrs. Emily Boucher of Nome
will represent Northwestern Alas
ka at the meetings.
Alaska Steam Rejects
Reports It will Abandon
Service to Alaska Ports
SEATTLE, Iff) — An official of
Alaska Steamship Co. said today
the firm never has considered
abandonment of service to all
Alaska ports except Whittier and
Seward.
Melville McKinstry, vice presi
dent and general manager, com
mented in a statement on reports
published in Anchorage Saturday.
The Anchorage Times, quoting
Washington, D. C., sources, said
Alaska Steam was considering
such a service curtailment.
McKinstry’s statement added:
“It is true that we face serious
problems: Competitive conditions,
rising operating costs, possible
loss of mail revenue, and difficul
ties in trying to make a reasonable
return. However, the thought of
eliminating service to all ports
but Seward and Whittier has
never crossed our minds.
“Depending on our ability to
cope with the problems faced, it
may become necessary to consider
some curtailment of service. That
time has not pet come.”
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CAMPAIGN BECOMES
SIZZLING FRONT LINE OF TOP POLITICIANS
By The Associated Press
The campaign in California’s
Presidential primary suddenly is
bristling with controversy.
Angry charges and counter
charges burst out in a busy week
end of politics that also found
Governor Rockefeller of New
York acting like a Republican
candidate and two Democratic
senators hunting votes in Minne
sota.
Democrats and Republicans
vote in California’s primary Tues
day. The Republican Presidential
preference ballot lists only Vice
President Nixon. The Democratic
ballot lists Governor Edmund G.
Brown and a minor candidate,
George H. McLain.
The campaign, dormant for
weeks, livened after Brown called
for a heavy Democratic vote to
swamp the turnout for Nixon.
A former Congressman, Patrick
Hillings, wrote Los Angeles Re
publicans that such a vote would
be interpreted by Premier
Khrushchev “as an indication that
the Administration’s tough atti
tude toward Communism is not
supported by the American
people.”
Brown attacked the letter “as
the ugly tactics of the old Nixon
and 11th hour McCarthyism.” Ad
lai Stevenson called on Nixon to
repudiate the letter.
Rockefeller returned to New
York after two days of campaign
ing in North Dakota. He asked
voters to support Gov. John Davis
in the special Senate election
June 28. But at times, Rockefeller
acted more like a campaigner
seeking support for himself.
He scored a personal triumph
but found no encouragement for
his hopes to win the Republican j
Presidentiial nomination. In fact,
at a television interview in Bis
mark Saturday night, Rockefeller
gave Nixon higher public praise
than he had given him before.
Both Senators John Kennedy
and Stuart Symington campaigned
in Minnesota. They want support
from the 31-vote delegation to the
Democratic National Convention.
At a news conference in Min
neapolis Kennedy said he ex
pected more than 600 votes in the
early balloting at the convention.
He would need 761 for the nom
ination.
Symington spoke at a farmers
union picnic at Albert Lea, Minn.,
and said the country needs a new
Secretary of Agriculture.
Sen. McNabb Wire
Tells Krushchev
U.S. Resents Attack
FAIRBANKS, W>) — Democratic
State Senator George McNabb
saying he wants Soviet Premier
Khrushchev to know how Alas
kans feel, has sent the Russian
leader a telegram protesting the
recent attacks upon President
Eisenhower.
The telegram read:
“The American people, pos
sessed of unlimited national pride
and devotion, resent your attack
upon President. We neither desire
nor intend to interfere in the in
ternal affairs of our alleged
friends of the Soviet Union.
“I recommend that you confine
your remarks to promoting peace
based on mutual admiration and
respect.”
U. S. Spy Pilot’s
Letter Tells Father
Not to Visit Russia
ATLANTA, Ga., Ml—The father
of the U-2 spy plane pilot said
today he had given up the idea
of going to Russia and expressed
confidence the U. S. government
would do everything possible to
protect his captive son.
Oliver Powers of Pound, Va.,
said in a statement released here
that his going to the Soviet Union
would serve no useful purpose at
present.
Previously Powers, a shoe
maker, had written Premier
Khrushchev asking merciful treat
ment for his son, Francis Powers,
who was shot down or forced down
in Russia last month.
A spokesman for the family said
he understood the family had re
ceived a letter from the son.
Sol Cury, a close friend of Oli
ver Powers, says he believes only
one letter was received and that
it went to the younger Powers’
wife at Milledgeville, Ga.
Newsweek Magazine, in its
forthcoming issue, says letters
went by regular mail to the father
and the wife.
Newsweek quoted Powers’ let
ters as saying he knows he must
stand trial for spying. And the
magazine said he urged the fam
ily not to try to visit him until
after the trial — persuading his
father to call off a plan to go to
the Soviet Union.
REPORT DENIED HITLER'S
BUTCHER TRIED TO COMMIT
SUICIDE IN ISRAEL JAIL
TEL AVIV, Israel, —A police
spokesman today denied reports
that Adolf Eichmann had at
tempted suicide in an Israeli pris
on where he awaits trial.
The spokesman said all meas
ures have been taken to prevent
any suicide attempt by Eichmann,
who has been accused of com
plicity in the Nazi slaughter of
six million Jews.
HAPPY LANDING
EVANSVILLE, Ind., OR—“Well.
I wrecked it,” beamed Richard
Bevans as his parents helped him
from the family car, smashed
against a house after bouncing off
a telephone pole. Richard is 2Vfc.
He had disappeared a few min
utes earlier, but Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Bevens soon found their
little boy. They heard the crash
a block away. They left the keys
in the car.
Richard had boasted he knew
how to drive the car.