Mechanics Call for
Radioactivity Checks on
High-Flying Jet Planes
WASHINGTON UR — Repre
sentatives of 43,000 U.S. ana
Canadian airline mechanics called
Friday for rarioactivity checks
on all high-flying jet planes after
all flights.
The MO delegates to a three
day conference Of the Interna
tional Assn, of Machinists, AFL
CIO said decontamination equip
ment should be available in
(hangers and ground personnel
should be given frequent medical
examination for fallout effects.
The Federal Aviation Agency
said Wednesday that periodic ra
diation checks are being made by
airliners on high altitude flights,
but that “the radiation readings
are low.”
In their final session, the ground
crew representatives also called
for broader legal protection for
licensed aircraft mechanics
against pressure tby supervisors
to certify unsafe equipment as
airworthy.
They said in some instances me
chanics had been fired when they
refused to certify equipment they
considered unsafe.
Conference delegates met with
officials of the Federal Aviation
Agency and the Civil Aeronautics
Board to discuss safety problems.
K200 East German Police
Defect to the West
BERLIN Iff) — Nearly 200 East
German border guards have de
fected to the West since the Com
munist wall went up in Berlin
last August, West Berlin author
ities said today. This is nearly
double previous estimates.
Officers reported 12 refugees
escaped to West Berlin daring
Saturday night, including two de
fecting East German policemen
and three youths who swam a
chill river.
The Communists caught two
other men apparently trying to
flee near the eastern side of the
Brandenburg Gate, astride the
border in the center of Berlin,
West Police said.
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Nikita Says Disarmament
More Important Than
Suspension of Tests
TOKYO i/Fi — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev reiterated Saturday
that total disarmament is more
important than suspension of nu
clear bomb test explosions.
Khrushchev, in a letter to Prime
Minister Hayato Ikeda, reassert
ed that Soviet nuclear test re
sumption was compelled by what
he called Western military pre
parations and blackmail.
The letter, a reply to Ikeda’s
protesting letter of Oct. 28 against
Russia’s repeated nuclear blasts,
was delivered to the Foreign Min
istry by Soviet counsellor Aieskei
Mamin.
Calling on Japan to join the
Soviet Union in efforts to con
clude an international agreement
to total disarmament, Khrush
chev assailed the Japanese gov
ernment for concluding a security
treaty with the United States.
He said the most urgent and im
portant problem at the present
time is the total disarmament
of the whole world and if this
matter was solved any other prob
lems such as banning of nuclear
tests and the productions of nu
clear weapons will be settled.
Without Protest . . .
Truman Says We Must
Do Our Duty to the World
KANSAS CITY UP) — Former
President Harry Truman Saturday
declared the United States will
have to fight a third World War
unless we do our duty to the
world.
Truman spoke at a Veteran’s
Day observance in rededicating
the World War I memorial, which
overlooks the downtown area.
Truman, who helped dedicate
the 217-foot high memorial tower
in 1021, said “we thought we had
fought the war to end wars. It
could have been done if the Unit
ed States had done its duty — if
it had joined the one organization
that could have done it.
“We have fought two World
Wars to maintain peace in the
world. Unless we do our duty to
the world we’ll have to do it
again.”
500 State Dept.
Employes to Get
Dismissal Notices
WASHINGTON OR — About
500 State Department employes
will begin getting dismissal no
tices Wednesday. There is not
enough money to pay them.
The pink slips — called “ter
minations” in the lar»gusge of gov
ernment — will become effective
early next year.
The dismissals, cutting into the
department’s 7,200-man force
here, were ordered because of a
shortage of funds for salaries.
Deputy Undersecretary Roger
Jones announced in mid-October
that layoffs would be required
because Congress provided about
$10 million less than the approxi
mately $219 million the depart
ment hoped to have for operating
purposes this fiscal year.
Officials said they didn’t know
exactly how many will be let out
but that at least 500 will get no
tices between Nov. 15 and Dec. 1.
Arrangements are being made
to provide employment for the
500 whenever possible in other
government agencies.
Officials said morale is suf
fering under the impact of the
reductions and noted that many
readjustments will be necessary
One may be in the Depart
ment’s Office of Security. It is
responsible for protecting the
Secretary of State, foreign visit
ors and U.S. embassies, and has
the job of checking on the se
curity of department employes.
The security stoff, numnberinf
about 150 officers, will be re
duced by 25.
To make up for the cuts in th<
security staff, other agencies —
such as the FBI and the Civi
Service Commission — may bs
assigned the investigations need
ed when new persons are em
ployed by the State Department
officials said.
Strategic Air Command
Expands Air Alert
Tests in Polar Regions
NEW YORK UPl — For the past
two weeks the Strategic Air Com
mand has expanded its air alert
tests into Polar regions and across
the Atlantic, the New York Times
reported Saturday.
A Washington dispatch by Jack
Raymond said B-52 jet bombers,
presumably armed with nuclear
weapons have been engaged in
air probes that range beyond the
usual routes for strategic aircraft
! based in the United States.
The newspaper said the broad
ened air alert is called operation
Chrome Dome, and is an expan
sion cf a practice exercise that
was instituted earlier this year in
response to some demands for a
full ah’ alert.
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Ike Heads People
To-People Movement
KANSAS CITY (A — Universal
understanding will bring greater
freedom throughout the world
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower said Sat
urday.
He presided at the first meeting
of the reorganized Board of
Trustees of People-to-People.
President Kennedy announced
Wednesday that former President
Eisenhower would be chairman of
the board.
The People-to-People movement
was first organized in 1956 to co
ordinate activities of private
groups and citizens in improving
relations throughout the world.
“It is futile to expect nations
to accomplish anything substant
ial unless people get together,”
he told the board. “If we are to
avoid war it is vital there be un
derstanding among people. As the
Soviet government is compelled
to move ahead in scientific de
velopment those people responsi
ble for it are bound to learn more
about the ideals of people.”
CMDR. OF PORTUGUESE^
ARMY DIES IN PLANE CRASH
LISBON, Portugal VP> — A mili
tary plane crashed and burned
Friday in Angola, killing the com
mander of the Portuguese Army
there and 17 other persons, offi
cials announced.
The Commander was Gen. Silva
Freire. Other victims were 11
army and air offfieers, three ser
geants and three civilians.
A Lusitania news agency dis
patch from Luanda, the capital,
said the plane, a DC-3, overshot a
landing strip at Chitado, near the
South African border, hit a tree
and exploded. There were no
survivors.
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Harry Bridges Is
Refused Permission to
Attend Meet In Cuba
SAN FRANCISCO Ut) — The
U.S. State Department refused to
permit Harry Bridges, president
of die International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen's Union,
to attend a weekend labor con
vention in Cuba.
A Tim state Department, which
generally restricted travel to
Cuba last January, says the West
Coast labor leader’s planned trip
would not be in the best interests
of the United States.
The convention, held by the
Cuban Labor Federation, began
iii Havana Saturday.
Bridges called the ruling “an
extreme and undemocratic method
of continuing to prevent people
from seeing the facts about Cuba
with their own eyes.”
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