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Airliner Crash On
Guam Kills At
Least 77 Persons
AGANA, Guam, At least 77
persons, most of them American
military personnel and their
wives and children homeward
.bound, died today in the thunder
ing explosion and crash of a
World Airways transport plane on
a jungle-matted hill of this west
ern Pacific island.
Seventeen persons were alive
when rescuers got to the twisted
shell of the plane but one of
them died a few hours later.
The DC6B, on a contract flight
for the U.S. Military Air Trans
port Service, crashed three min
utes after takeoff from a refuel
ing stop.
The wings were ripped off the
giant plane as it plowed a 100
yard path through dense growth
on the side of a 640-foot hill
called Mt. Barrigada.
Military and civilian rescue
units slashed their way up the
dense hillside greenery with ma
chetes and bolo knives.
The survivors were rushed to
the U.S. Naval Air Station hos
pital in Agana. Two were report
ed in critical condition and 14
seriously hurt.
The plane left Clark Air Force
Base near Manila Sunday. It car
ried mainly American military
personnel from various posts in
Asia. The plane was destined for
Travis Air Force Base north of
San Francisco.
Authorities here announced the
plane carried 86 passengers and
a crew of eight. But World Air
ways headquarters in Oakland,
gave the crew total as ten.
Gov. Egan Says State’s
Great Need is Federal
Re-Insurance In ESC
SITKA, UP>—Alaska’s great need
today, and the need of every other
state, is a federal re - insurance
program in employment security,
Gov. William Egan told the State
Federation of Labor today.
In a speech at the opening ses
sion of the Federation's 1960 con
vention, which has drawn up
wards of 200 delegates and visit
ors to Sitka, Egan said:
“Our great need is a federal re
insurance plan in employment
security, one that will equalize
risk among the several states, one
that the present administration
has steadfastly refused to sup
port, and one that Sen. (John F.)
Kennedy has publicly espoused.”
Margaret Thornburg, Western
director of the Women’s Activities
Department of the AFL - CIO
Committee on Political Education,
said that Kennedy, the Democrat
ic presidential nominee, had a
vastly superior voting record than
does his GOP opponent, Vice
President Nixon.
Egan urged the encouragement
of more year-around industry to
locate in the state, which he said
would pave the way for correction
of Alaska’s unemployment secur
ity problems.
The state’s unemployment sec
urity fund is now some $9 million
in debt to the federal govern
ment, largely because of the pre
valence of seasonal industry in
the state.
U.S. Subs Now Capable |
Of Operating Under Polar |
Ice The Year Around
SAN DIEGO, UP)—'United States
nuclear submarines now have the]
capability of operating the year i
around in the Arctic, a scientist
who has made five trips to the
North Pole in them said Saturday.
“By now,” said Dr. Waldo Lyon,
physicist and Arctic specialist at .
the Navy Electronics Laboratory
here, “we have operated in the
Arctic under all of its different
environments — in shallow water,
among icebergs, around islands,
through channels, in complete
winter darkness and in 24-hour
summer daytime. The tehniques
1 of navigation, communication and
breaking through the ice to the
surface are completely opera
tional.”
Lyon and Arthur Roshon, elec
tronics laboratory engineer, have
just returned from a cruise in the
submarine USS Seadragon thru
the Northwest Passage to the pole.
It was Roshon’s fifth trip also.
Col. Mobutu, Congo’s
New Strongman, Foils
Assassination Attempt
LEOPOLDVILLE, UP) — Col. Jo
seph Mobutu, the Congo’s reign
ing strongman, told today how he
foiled an assassination plot, per
sonally overcoming the gunman
sent to kill him.
Mobutu charged army support
ers of Patrice Lumumba with
plotting the assassination attempt
Sunday at about the same time
the deposed premier came out of
hiding.
Mobutu claimed he had been
tipped off and was ready for the
assassin, identified as Congolese
Army Major Vital Bakasa.
Mobutu, who seized control of
the government in a bloodless
coup last Wednesday, said “the
army will know how to deal with
Bakasa” and the other officers he
said were in the plot.
Congolese forces invading se
cessionist Katanga province mean
while agreed to withdraw, deal
ing Lumumba another blow in his
struggle for power.
The United Nations peace mis
sion said the commander of Lum
umba’s striking forces Sunday
approved creation of a 60-mile
wide no-man’s land along the
Katanga-Kivu border. That buf
fer zone, if observed, would go a
long way toward restoring peace.
Lumumba, ousted as premier
by President Joseph Kasavubu,
came out of three days hiding
shouting defiance but Col. Mo
butu, the Congo’s rising strong
man, appeared to have the situ
ation in hand in the capital.
Moscow Radio Gives Favorable
Report On Khrushchev's Arrival
LONDON, tP) — Moscow radio
gave a speedy, favorable report
today on arrival in New York of
Soviet Premier Khrushchev, say
ing a lot of people gathered to
meet him despite heavy rain. The
broadcast said the pier where
Khrushchev’s ship docked was
decorated with Soviet flags and
those of East bloc countries.
| In a home service broadcast
j within minutes of Khrushchev’s
| arrival, the Soviet radio omitted
! any reference to hostile demon
j strations.
Three Boys Sight Lights
Of Flying Objects
Saturday Night
Three high school boys who
camped out over hte weekend saw
two bright white lights traveling
across the sky Saturday night in
generally a northeast direction.
They reported they were on the
road just above Dexter and were
lying down looking upward at the
stars at about 10:30 when the
light came into view from south
west. They said the objects were
traveling slower than meteors but
not as fast as the Sputnik which
was visible from Nome when it
was first orbitted.
Similar sightings have been re
ported from the Fairbanks area
last week.
The boys were Devon Alex
ander, Pepper Gray and Jeff
Grant.
Experts Study Whether
To Try Raise Tug Toni
SEATTLE, UP—Salvage experts
are studying whether an attempt
should be made to try to raise the
Seattle tugboat Tom which sank
in Stephens Passage, two weeks
ago, M. S. Gorton, vice president
and manager of the Puget Sound
Bridge & Dry Dock Co., said to
day.
A decision will be made within
a few days. The skipper, Earl
Long and crew members Myrton
Voellger and William Pavoa, were
lost.
Coast Guard and private search
both by planes and boats failed
to uncover any debris, life rafts
or anything from the Tom but it
was located on the bottom, some
75 miles south of Juneau.
Norman Vincent Peale
Says Statement May Be
Unwise, But Not Wrong
NEW YORK, UP—'The Rev. Nor
man Vincent Peale says it may
have been unwise for him to
align himself with a group of con
servative Protestants, but he does
n’t feel he did anything wrong.
Dr. Peale said in a sermon Sun
day at Marble Collegiate Re
formed Church, of which he is
pastor, that his association with
the group known as Citizen for
Religious Freedom “might be
questionable from the standpoint
of wisdom.”
“I’ve never been too bright any
way,” he said wryly. His congre
gation laughed sympathetically.
The group of 150 Protestants,
most of whose names have been
withheld by the organization, met
recently in Washington. One ses
sion, led part of the time by Dr.
Peale, released a statement which
expressed doubt that a Roman
Catholic president could resist
pressures from the Vatican.
Dr. Peale was accused of in
jecting religion into the political
campaign.
Dr. Peale resigned from the or
ganization and said he had no
part in drawing up the statement.
New Manager King Island Store
Edward Per.atac is the store
manager for the King Island Co
operative Store, it has been an
nounced. He took over upon the
resignation of Edward Muktoyuk
and will serve in that capacity
until Jan. 1, 1961.
Khrushchev Lands In New York and
Immediately Makes Bid to Turn U.N.
Assembly Into World Summit Meeting
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
NEW YORK, UPl — Nikita S.
Khrushchev and his retinue of
Communist chieftains arrived to
day to a soggy and coldly hostile
reception. The Soviet premier im
mediately made a bid to turn the
coming United Nations General
Assembly into a world summit
meeting.
Khrushchev began his second
stay in the United States with a
lecture to President Eisenhower,
urging the President to avoid
making a “fancy speech” and get
down to serious negotiations on
disarmament.
Boos and shouts of “murdered”
greeted the Soviet Communist
chief as he stepped from the
white-hulled Soviet ship Baltika
to a rain - soaked, decrepit East
River pier, to the echo of jeers
from hostile longshoremen.
Apparently unperturbed, he at
once produced a 1,500-word pre
pared statement. In it he pur
ported to interpret President
Eisenhower’s decision to address
the Assembly Thursday as raising
the possibility of top-level nego
tiations.
The United States has resisted
Khrushchev’s attempts to turn the
82-member Assembly session into
a worldwide summit, viewing
Khrushchev’s emphasis on his
blockbuster proposals for univer
sal and complete disarmament as
propaganda.
But Khrushchev’s decision to
attend the session—in the role of
chief of the Soviet U.N. delegation
for this meeting—attracted other
leading figures, including such
heads of government as President
Tito of Comunist Yugoslavia,
Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United
Arab Republic and Fidel Castro,
Yankee-baiting premier of revo
lutionary Cuba.
In addition Khrushchev brought
with him Communist party chiefs
of satellite Eastern Europe.
The Communist leaders arrived
at a moment when Soviet leaders
were assessing a sharp Commun
ist propaganda setback in the
U.N.
Kennedy Calls For Public
Restraint While Commie
Bloc Leaders Are Here
ATLANTIC CITY, N, J„ UP —
Sen. John Kennedy today called
on the American public to exer
cise great restraint and respon
sibility while Soviet Premier Nik
ita Khrushchev and other Com
munist bloc leaders are in New
York.
Echoing an appeal made over
the weekend by President Eisen
hower, Kennedy—the Democratic
presidential nominee — sounded
his plea during a campaign talk.
He made no specific mention of
the U. N. Assembly session, nor
did he call Khrushchev or any of
the other Communist chieftains
by name. But there was no mis
taking what he had in mind when
he said it is time for everyone in
this country to display “the great
est sense of responsibility and re
straint.”
Bleak and Sodden Scene
The arrival was a bleak and
sodden scene, and additional chill
was added by the absence of any
top U.S. or other Western dig
nitaries to greet the Soviet ship.
Russian children from the So
viet diplomatic mission huddled
on the dilapidated pier. Its leaky
roof failing to protect them from
the rain, waiting to hand the So
viet leader bouquets of flowers.
Almost at the moment he set
foot on American soil, the Soviet
leader produced his statement,
translated sentence by sentence
by an interpreter into a public ad
dress microphone. The process
took 35 minutes. Other Commun
ist leaders, one by one, made
similar speeches. After the ora
tory, Khrushchev was bundled
into a black limousine, heavily
protected by a police car escort,
and sped to headquarters of the
Soviet delegation at Park Avenue
and 6th St. The rain-soaked route
had been virtually deserted, in
sharp contrast with Khrushchev’s
visit a year ago, and dreariness
of the scene at the delegation’s
headquarters unrelieved by a sog
gy red carpet rolled out for the
visitor.
Castro Protests
Violent Treatment
By N.Y. Police
NEW YORK, UP) —Fidel Castro
protested to the United Nations
today over the “uncivil and vio
lent” treatment he said he re
ceived from security guards Sun
day upon arrival at Idlewild Air
port.
The letter of protest charged
specifically that the prime min
ister’s arm was pushed when he
sought to step out of a limousine
to greet pro - Castro Cubans as
sembled at the airport.
Castro remained secluded be
hind tight security restrictions in
his hotel suite.
Only a homemade sign, hung on
a fire escape across the street
from his suite, was calculated to
disturb him. Drawn in ink on
brown wrapping paper, it read:
“Fidel Commie go home.”
Two hundred police stood guard
in the pouring rain, but the wea
ther kept almost everyone else
inside. Police gave permission for
25 pickets to parade across the
street from the hotel.
The revolutionary prime minis
ter flew into New York Sunday
to a boisterous welcome from his
supporters, mixed later with boos
and catcalls from his opposition.
He smiled and waved as he left
the plane and said hoarsely: “I
want to salute the people of the
United States.”
He added: “My English, the
same as the last time, is not so
good. All I have to say I will say
to the United Nations.”
A crowd of 3,000 at Idlewild
Airport was waiting to greet the
strapping, 34-year-old lawyer. Po
lice kept all but a few hundred
at the main gate, nearly two miles
from where his plane stopped.