Powers Says Quit
Damaging Son with
‘Spy’ Appelation
RICHMOND, Va., UP — The
father of U-2 pilot Francis Gary
Powers said today he believed the
United States was hurting his
son’s chances by constantly re
ferring to him as a spy.
“I’ve got a copy of what is
supposed to be my son’s confes
sion,” said Oliver Powers on his
departure for Wahington, another
leg of a flight from his southwest
Virginia home to Moscow for his
son’s spy trial.
"There is nothing in there to
convict that boy of spying. It
looks like the biggest conviction
will be by the United States, with
Russia doing the sentencing.
“They keep speaking of him as
a spy and I believe that’s wrong,”
Powers said.
“He confessed to what he had
to confess to and that’s all. He
was found inside the Soviet Union
and of course, he could only have
gotten there by plane.
“My son never confessed to ,
being an agent of the CIA (Cen
tral Intelligence Agency).”
Powers said the confession he
referred to was sent to him by a
man in College Park, Md. He said
it was printed and the signature
was in such small writing that he
didn’t know if it was his son’s
signature and was inclined to be
lieve it was not.
Letter-size and legal file folders
at The Nugget
CAB Checks Airline
Passenger Bookings
WASHINGTON, UP. —The Civil
Aeronautics Board began an in
vestigation Friday into the over
booking practices of the scheduled
airlines.
The board asked the trunk air
lines — the companies operating
between large cities—to answer
within 60 days a questionnaire on
both intentional and unintention
al overbooking.
The agency said its investiga
tion is “not disciplinary” but is
meant to help in the fixing of a
future regulatory policy.
An airline overbooks when it
reserves more seats for passen
gers than are available in a flight.
STAN SMITH, Democratic candi
date for Senator at large, who is
opposing Senator Lester Bronson,
and who is from Kwiguk, was a
visitor in town today and a guest
at the Chamber of Commerce
luncheon.
Smith has been a teacher with
the BIA, and has his family in
Kwiguk.
RED CHINESE AROCITIES
GENEVA, UP) — The Interna
tional Commission of Jurists, a
private organization drawn from
non-Communist countries, has
published a 340-page report ac
cusing the Red Chinese of a 10
year reign of atrocities in Tibet.
The commission said Sunday
the Chinese Communists had
killed, tortured, raped, abducted
or sterilized thousands of Tibetan
people since invaing the country
in the early 1950s.
TELEGRAM
In my campaign I have found much disconlent wilh our
incumbent Democratic legislation especially our new streamlined
primary ballot. The reaction of many is to refrain from voting
in this obnoxious type primary. Every voter who abstains from
voting in this primary in effect casts a vote of confidence for this
system and its instigators. I urge and invite Alaskans regardless
of normal political afficialion to register their protest by casting
their ballot in the Republican Primary.
LAWRENCE M. BRAYTON, Candidate for the Republican
nomination for the United Stales Senate. . ,
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Hydroplane Racers
Flip at Seafair;
4 Hurt in First Heat
SEATTLE, UPl — Flames, flips
and falls punctuated the $10,000
Seafair Trophy Race for unlim
ited hydroplanes yesterday and
prompted a postponement of the
final heat until this afternoon.
Three drivers and a sky diver
were injured. The latter, Charles
Kirkpatrick, 26, of Snohomish,
cut loose too quickly from his
chute during an exhibition jump
and fell 50 feet into Lake Wash
ington. He suffered serious chest
injuries.
Mira Slovak, an airplane pilot
who drives speedboats as a hobby,
was thrown 30 feet and knocked
unconscious when his boat, the
Wahoo, flipped completely over
during a high-speed turn.
Driver Bob Larsen jumped
from from KOLroy and a frog
man leaped from a rescue heli
copter to save him. Rushed to a
hospital, Slovak was found to be
without serious injury.
The boats were running the
scheduled final 15-mile heat of
the day when the Miss U.S. I of
Detroit caught fire. Driver Don
Wilson jumped but not before
he suffered second degree burns.
Officials ordered a re-run of
the heat but on the first lap Col.
Russ Schleeh, another pilot who
doubles in boats, was pitched out
of the Thriftway Two. Again the
Coast Guard helicopter made the
rescue but Schleeh had escaped,
with bruises.
A field of 17 boats started, run
ning the first heat in three sec
tions. The accident and engine
troubles cut this to 11 and two
sections for the second heat.
SAFETY FIRST
TUCSON, Ariz., (/Pi—A/2c Eric
E. Goodrich of Davis - Monthan
Air Force Base was asked to ex
plain Friday how he won a base
safe driving award for the first
half of the year.
“I haven’t the faintest idea how
I won,” he replied. “I haven’t
owned a car since February.”
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TO THE VOTERS
OF THE 23rd DISTRICT
Many of you have known me
since I was a boy in Haycock.
More recently I have become
belter acquainted with you
while flying for Alaska Air
lines. This experience has help
ed me to understand a lot of
your problems.
A family can't make ends
meet this days unless it prac
tices economy . . . and a stale
operates the same way. For ex
ample, I do not believe that
we should continue such high
salaries for our slate legislators.
I am not asking for your vote
simply because I have native
blood, but I do want your vole
as an Alaskan. We MUST work
together for the Stale of Alaska,
whatever our race, color or
creed. The United States of
America started out that way,
with a dependence on God. and
became the world power that it
is today. People then were not
afraid of work, and we must
work to keep our nation, our
stale, and our towns and vil- !
lages going today.
If I am elected, I will do
everything in my power to keep j
us solvent and able to handle
our own affairs.
— ART JOHNSON
Republican Candidate
for the House
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EARLY AIR AGE CELEBRITY
DIES AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, UP) — Mary E. ;
Tusch, 85, known to hundreds of
great fliers as “Mother Tusch,”
died Thursday at her home here
after a stroke.
Mrs. Tusch, who befriended
Charles A. Lindbergh, Amelia
Earhart. Billy Mitchell and nu
merous others, lived from 1915 to
1950 in Berkeley. Calif., across
the street from the School of
Military Aeronautics, University
of California.
Then years ago she donated to
the Smithsonian Institution a col
lection of tokens of affection
given her by the fliers over the
years.
Mrs. Tusch, born Dec. 25, 1875,
in Rantoul, Kan., was an honor
ary member of the Women Fliers
of America, the Veterans of For
eign Wars, the National Aero
nautic Assn., Exchange Club and
the League of American Pen- :
women.
DRY RUN . . .
LONDON, Ml—Someone parked
a yacht in a London street—and
left it there.
For 10 days it lay on its side in
Salcot Road, obstructing traffic.
Bewildered police finally towed
the 15-foot boat away. It is an
chored now, among dusty trucks
in a suburban parking lot.
“We’re baffled,” said the cop
on the beat where the yacht was
found. “It’s a tidy vessel, brown
and white, and worth about 500
pounds—$1,400.
NEHRU TELLS OF CONTINUED
TIBET MIGRATIONS
NEW DELHI, Ml — Prime Min
ister Nehru told Parliament today
that an average of 1,000 refugees
from Tibet still are entering India
each month, but he rejected So
cialist suggestions that he ask the
United Nations for help.
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