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VOL. LX No. 119 NOME,, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1958 _Per Copy—15<£
Reds Have Not Become Peace-Loving,
Says Gen. Chiang Of Cease-Fire Truce
By SPENCER MOOSA «
TAIPEI, Formosa, Tuesday,
Oct. 7, UPt — Nationalist China
today denounced the Communist
proclaimed seven-day truce in
Formosa Strait.
The guns were silent and the
Nationalists reported record
amounts of supplies were poured,
under American escoft, into the
hitherto-blockaded offshore is
lands.
But government spokesman
Sampson Shen called the Com
munist cease-fire a “diabolical
peace offensive” and “a lull be
fore the new storm.”
He also declared the National
ists were standing firm against a
Communist call for direct nego
tiations with the Reds to settle
the current 45-day-old crisis. His
statement called for new unity of
the United States and Nationalist
China and warned the Commu
nists had not suddenly become
peace-loving.
Peiping announced a seven-day
cease-fire, effective Sunday mid
night, on the condition that the
United States stop escorting Na
tionalist Chinese convoys to the
embattled island.
The cease-fire order was
coupled with a call to Nationalist
President Chiang Kai-Shek to ne
gotiate directly on a settlement
over Formosa and the offshore
islands.
Chiang, in an interview with
Cecil Brown of NBC, rejected any
such direct negotiations With the
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Communists. He said the Peiping
announcement was a “trick and
deception,” and he hoped the
United States would continue to
escort Nationalist supply convoys
with its 7th Fleet warships.
Sampson Shen, Chiang’s infor
mation director, declared the pur
pose of Peiping’s order was to
create a split between Taipei and
Washington — and a split ap
peared to have been the result in
the first reaction of officials irv
the two capitals.
Shen declared the Nationalists
distrusted the Communist cease
fire and would ignore it. He said
there would be no withdrawal of
the Nationalist request for Amer
ican escorts.
Washington officials, however,
privately expressed their delight
even at the limited and condi
tional cease-fire. Washington re
ports said a rejection of Peiping’s
announcement was out of the
question. These reports pointed
out that with a cease-fire the reas
on for American escorts ceased
to exist.
In Washington, a link was seen
between Peiping’s order and a
sharp statement by Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev Sunday declar
ing the Soviet Union would not
be drawn into an all-Chinese war
on. the side of Red China unless
the United States attacked the
Communist regime. As Washing
ton saw it, Khrushchev was tug
ging Peiping back from the brink.
Missing Plane
Is Spotted Near
Unalakleet Sunday
FAIRBANKS, UP1 — Wreckage
believed that of a plane missing
since Sept. 26 with three Western
Electric Co. technicians aboard,
was spotted yesterday afternoon
near Unalakleet,
Civil Air Patrol pilot Harold
Perkins, who found the wreckage,
said he “positively identified” the
plane as the tan and white Navion
which left King Salmon on a
flight to Unalakleet. He said the
wreckage was intact in a saddle
between mountain peaks at an
elevation of 2,400 feet.
There was no sign of life, he
said, but the plane’s canopy was
missing and could possibly have
been used for a shelter. Faint ra
dio signals, believed to come from
the missing plane, were picked
up on several occasicAis at Una
lakleet, Perkins said. I
Jefferson Parham, 36, El Paso,
Tex., George Brummett, 36,
Knoxville, Tenn., and Joe Tom
czak, 25, Detroit, Mich., were
aboard the missing plane. All
were electronics technicians sta
tioned temporarily at Port
Moller.
An Air Force helicopter was
to try to land near the wreckage
today.
* * •
Local people participating in
the search included Dusty Rhode,
who co-ordinated the search out
of Unalakleet for CAP until Fri
day, when Dave Leach took over
and Rhode returned to Nome. Lee
Adams and A1 Haferbecker con
tinued searching for the Nome
CAP, Rhode reported on his
j return.
Non - Partisan
Political Rally
At Palmer Thum
PALMER, (#! • — The Palmer
Chamber of Commerce and the
Northland Pioneer Grange have
scheduled a bi-partlsan political
rally here Thursday.
The weekly Valley Frontiers
man says the' rally is planned to
“aid residents of the community
in understanding more clearly the
vital issues confronting political
candidates and the . new State
Legislature.”
Sponsors have extended invi
tations to two candidates for the
U. S. Senate term “B”: Repub
lican Mike Stepovich and Demo
crat Ernest Gruening.
Stepovich said at Fairbanks his
campaign schedule commits him
to be in Ketchikan that night.
Gruening accepted the invitation.
Others who have been invited
to the rally include three candi
dates for the State House of Rep
resentatives from the Palmer
Talkeetna-Wasilla sector: Demo
crat James J. Hurley, Republican •
Doris McKinley, both of Palmer,
and Independent Gerrit (Heinie)
Snider of Wasilla.
Smoke From Boeing 707
Annoys British Town
LONDON, if) -r- America’s
Boeing 707, beaten by the British
Comet in the race to be the first
jet in commercial service across
the Atlantic, ran into smoke
trouble over the week end.
People living near London Air
port complained the giant’s four
underslung jet engines give off
too much smoke on takeoff.
Seven municipal authorities in
Middlesex and Surrey Counties
have sent a demand to the Minis
try of Civil Aviation that Pan
American must find means of re
ducing its smoke strem..
Seawolf Sets
60-Day Undersea
Record In Atlantic
By RONALD AUTRY
Aboard U.S.S. Skylark, UP) —
The atomic submarine Seawolf
surfaced 15 miles south of Block
Island at 11:45 aan. today, ending
a record 60 days under water.
She foamed to the surface of
Long Island Sound in calm seas
for her 116-man crew’s first con
tact with the earth’s atmosphere
.since she submerged August 7.
The hatches were open. Two
or three men stepped out, breathed
deeply and waved.
Nearby another submarine, the
Nautilus, was standing by and
radioing congratulations.
Among the first to step out for
a breath of fresh air was the Sea
wolf’s skipper, Cmdr. Richard B.
Laning.
The Seawolf had logged more
than 13,700 nautical miles in the
ocean depths, traveling nonstop
with a 200-mile radius for the
two-month period.
Cmdr. Laning radioed the Navy
in advance of his return that he
considered “this voyage has
proved feasibility of protracted
flights in ‘inner space’. ”
The Seawolf’s endurers of the
deep far surpassed all previous
submergence records. The pre
vious one — 31 days, 5V£ hours—
was posted last May by her sister
nuclear submarine, the Skate.
Russ Ambassador
Protests CBS
T-Y Drama
WASHINGTON, UP) — Soviet
Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov
formally protested today against
a television show about Stalin’s
death. He called it “a filthy Slan
der against the Soviet 'Union.”
Menshikov delivered his pro
test during an unannounced half
hour call at the State Department.
Menshikov told newsmen he
protested a CBS television drama,
“The Plot to Kill Stalin,” shown
September 25 r
“I voiced a virulent protest
against this provocative action,”
Menshikov told newsmen. “That
was a filthy slander against the
Soviet Union and the Soviet
government.”
Reporters asked Menshikov
what action he expected from the
U. S. government.
“It is expected that appropriate
measures will be taken on the
part of the U. S. government to
prevent such anti-Soviet acts
which can only be detrimental to
relations between the United
States and the Soviet Union,”
Menshikov said.
Dems., GOP, Both
Confident of Victory
In Hawaiian Elections
HONOLULU, UR — Democrats
are predicting a major victory in
Hawaii’s November election on
the basis of candidates’ show
ings in Saturday’s primary. Re
publicans ar| optimistic, too.
Incumbent John A. Bums won
Democratic nomination as the
Territory’s delegate to Congress
by better than, a 7 to 1 margin.
He will be opposed by Farrant
L. Turner, unopposed for the
GOP nomination.
The Territorial Legislature has
been controlled by. Democrat
since 1954 after more than 50
years of Republican domination.
Alaska Transitional Problems Studied,
To Present To Officials Elected In Nov.
By FRANK W. VAILLE 4
WASHINGTON, UR — Govern
ment experts are moving slowly
in their studies of the transitional
problems of getting Alaska in,to
the union. They don’t want to
get off on the wrong foot with
the soon-to-be 49th State.
“We don’t want to freeze any
ideas until we can talk with Alas
ka’s elective officiali,” said Har
old Seidman of the Budget Bur
eau. “We don’t want to be in the
position of saying ‘This is the way
it’s going to be.’ ”
Seidman is coordinator for the
government-wide study of tran
sition problems ordered in Aug
ust by President Eisenhower. As
such, he plans to go to Alaska
shortly after the Nov. 25 election
to confer with whomever Alas
kans choose as Governor during
the Senate’s formative years.
The Budget Bureau represen
tative already has been briefed
by all government agencies and
departments on the problems —
big and small — surrounding the
statehood grant. He has set up
liaison, and expects to confer
more fully later this month, with
the Public Administration Serv
ice, a non-profit government re
search organization which is con
ducting a similar study from the
Alaska standpoint.
Before he goes to Alaska, prob
ably early in December, Seidman
will receive further reports from
government agencies suggesting a
possible course of action to meet
the various problems.
Because the reports involve
budgetary and legislative matters
which will figure in the Presi
dent’s program for submission to
Congress, they are being held in
virtual confidence by the bureau.
Seidman will discuss them only in
the barest of detail and then only
to cite examples.
Some of the problems, he indi
cated, present no complications.
In this category would .be the
need for the State to obtain a li
cense from the Federal Commu
nications Commission to operate
a radio station or communications
system it might take over from
the Territorial Police, Fish and
Wildlife Service or other agency
which — as an arm of the federal
government — now is exempt
from such licensing. Presumably,
Seidman said, this would amount
to little more than submission of
a routine application which FCC
would approve readily.
A coordinated Burse of action
will have to be Burked out be
tween the State and federal gov
ernment, however* on such prob
lems as that raise* by the trans
fer to the State o§ the Territorial
Building at Jun&u which now
houses some s^ictly federal
agencies. * '
Other matters will require at
tention of the Alaska Legislature.
Such a problem would be that
raised by the 1924 Clarke-McNary
Act ^under which Alaska, as a
State, would become eligible to
receive federal aid for fire protec
tion and tree planting on lands
it selects from the public domain.
To qualify, however, the State
must first develop a program for
use of such funds.
Seidman said his review indi
cated no problem he would char
acterize as insurmountable, and
only a few which may require a
decision by the President on mat
ters of policy.
For the bulk of the steps re
quired, he said, he expects a so
lution or course of action to be
ready by the opening of the new
Congressional session.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Wl — The
United States today formally
welcomed Red China's offer to
cease fire in the Formosa Strait
and indicated U. S. convoys will
Stop if the shooting slops.
N. Y. SENATOR REPORTED
IN SATISFACTORY CONDITION
WASHINGTON, OR — Sen. Irv
ing M. Ives (R-N. Y.) was re
ported in . satisfactory condition
today after suffering a slight
stroke.
Ives, who decided to retire
from the Senate of high blood
pressure, has been at George
Washington University Hospital
since Friday.
His wife said the 62-year-old
New Yorker entered the hospital
after complaining he felt unwell.
Doctors then determined he had
sjfifered a mild stroke.
Pope Pius XII, 82, Condition Is Grave
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, m
— Pope Pius XII suffered a stroke
today. The life of the 82-year-old
Pontiff hung in the balance at
his summer residence here.
“All is in the hands of God,” a
physician reported from his bed
side.
Msgr. Angelo Dell’Acqua, sub
stitute Secretary of State, visited
the Pope a few hours after the
stroke and reported a slight im
provement in his condition. He
emphasized, however, that! his
condition continued grave.
Informants at the press office
in Vatican City said extreme unc
tion, the church’s last rites for
the dying, had been given the
Pope. Here at Castel Gandolfo
Msgr. Dell’Acqua said that to his
knowledge extreme unction had
not been given.
The Pope weakened suddenly
during the night after showing
improvement from an attack of
gastritis, complicated by hiccups.
Then at 8:30 a.m. he suffered
a circulatory cerebral attack, a
bulletin from his physicians re
ported.
Unofficial sources said the
Pope was paralyzed and could not
be moved from his summer palace
to Vatican City, where facilities
for treatment are better.
At about noon, according to un
official reports, the Pope roused
briefly from his coma, opened his
eyes and murmured a few words.
News of the latest illness came
in the 19th year of the Pope’s
reign. It halted all administrative
activity of the church at the Vat
ican.
Vatican sources said death
could come swiftly or the condi
tion could continue for a long time.
In the event of long incapacity,
cardinals of the church stationed '
in Rome would take over many
of the duties.
The Pope became ill after car
rying on a heavy load of work
and daily audiences at this sum
mer residence outside of Rome.
He was bom Eugenio Pacelli
in Rome March 2, 1876. He was
created a Cardinal in 1929 and
I elected Pope March 2, 1939.