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Red Promises
Retaliation If
H-War Starts
LONDON, WP)—A high Soviet of
ficer declared today that if the
United States ever dropped a hy
drogen bomb on Russia, the Com
munists would retaliate by dump
ing one on America.
A Lt. Gen. Gritchinn who was
not otherwise identified, made the
assertion in an article in the So
viet Communist party newspaper
Pravda. Broadcast at length by
Moscow radio, his commentary
was entitled : “What American
atomic maniacs should not for
get.”
The broadcast was for Russian
home consumption. It told the So
viet people that the United States
does not have an edge on Russia
in atomic or hydrogen weapons.
“The most fashionable disease
in the West nowadays is atomic
fever,” said the officer. “This dis
ease has infected a considerable
number of highly placed officials
as well as ministers, generals,
field marshals and others in the
U.S.A. and Britain.
“But it appears that the U.S.A.
does not hold a monopoly of either
atomic or hydrogen weapons,” he
added.
He concluded by claiming the
American air force suffered a tre
mendous defeat in the Korean
war. Because of this, he said, the
United States decided it must re
army West Germany to create a
military machine for war on land.
B-47 Jet Bomber Crashes
And Kills Crew of Three
BRAMAN, Okla., (^—Scattered
bits of wreckage and a gaping
crater in the ground today mark
ed the spot where a B-47 jet
bomber crashed and killed three
Air Force officers yesterday.
The six-engine bomber was on
a routine training mission from
the McConnel Air Force Base,
Wichita, Kan., when it suddenly
developed trouble near this north
ern Oklahoma farm community.
All the officers were married
men with children.
Witnesses said the plane bar
rel-rolled high in the air then
plummeted earthward and ex
ploded. The blast dug a hole 12
feet deep in a pasture.
EMMA WILLOYA SON DAVID
TO WED MARY OHKIAYA
SEATTLE, (#> — Notice of in
tention to wed was filed here
Thursday by David Willoya, 24,
and Mary E. Ohkiaya, both of
Nome.
David is the son of Mrs. Emma
Willoya of the Nome Skin Sew
ers, and Mary was a patient at
the Tacoma Indian hospital.
9 TOTS DIE IN STAMPEDE
AFTER FALSE CRY OF FIRE
MEXICO CITY, (4^—Authorities
hunted grimly today for the per
son who touched off a stampede
in a movie theater at Aguasculi
entes, 250 miles north of here, by
falsely crying fire. Nine children
were killed and 40 injured in the
rush for the doors yesterday dur
ing a children’s matinee.
Industrial Development
Endangers Pacific Coast
Salmon Industry
OTTAWA, l/fl—One of Canada’s
top fishery scientists expressed
concern today for the future of
the Pacific Coast salmon industry
because of industrial development
along the rivers where the fish
spawn.
Dr. A. W. H. Needier, director
of the Pacific Biological Station
at Nanaimo, B.C., told the an
nual Fisheries Research Board
conference that increasing use of
fresh water for power, irrigation
and other industrial and domes
tic purposes is a “serious threat”
to salmon production.
Needier said the problem in
British Columbia is not yet as
acute as in some areas of the
United States, but that it was in
creasing.
The threat, his report explain
ed, was due to diversion of water
to other uses and to installation
of dams which obstruct not only
the upstream movement of spawn
ing adult fish, but also the return
of young salmon to the sea.
| Lovers Who Leaped Into
Japan Volcano Rescued
After 33 Harrowing Hours
TOKYO, l#—Two young lovers
who tried to commit suicide by
leaping into a boiling volcano
'were rescued today after 33 hours
near the hissing lava.
They plunged mto the crater
yesterday, trying to end an un
happy love affair. They tumbled
hundreds of feet down the slick,
steep sides of the crater, but miss
ed the deadly lava at the bottom.
. Their pitiful cries for help could
be heard on the rim, but the
couple themselves were hidden by
the steaming sulphur fumes that
curled around the crater floor.
Seven policemen descended into
the treacherous pit this afternoon
and carried the two perhaps 1,000
feet up the slopes, the newspaper
Asahi said.
The woman’s ankle was smash
ed and she was covered with
blood. Police said she was in criti
cal condition. The man escaped
virtually unscathed.
The woman was identified as
Miss Setsumi Endo, 21, a waitress
in a Tokyo cafe. The man was
identified as Satoru Takayanugai,
22, ill of tuberculosis.
They told police they had de
cided Takayanugai was incurable
and their love was doomed.
Employment In Executive
Branch of Govt. Is Up
WASHINGTON, UPi — Civilian
employment in the executive
branch of the government was re
ported by a Senate-House com
mittee to have climbed again in
November—largely because of
temporary hiring by the Census
Bureau.
Sen. Byrd (D-Va), as chairman
of the joint committee on reduc
tion on nonessential federal ex
penditures, said the payroll in
November reached 2,343,707, as
compared with 2,322,997 in Oc
tober. The November figure still
was 23,023 less than the total for
November 1953, Byrd added.
Dag Hammarskjold Holds
Second Meeting with Chou
On Freeing U.S. Prisoners
TOKYO, (jF — Dag Hammar
skjold held a second meeting to
day with Premier Chou En-Lai of
Red China, and scheduled a third
for tomorrow.
Today’s session lasted 3 hours
45 minutes, and brought to more
than seven hours the time con
sumed by conferences between
Peiping’s premier and foreign
minister and the U.N. Secretary
General, seeking the release of 11
U.S. airmen imprisoned as spies
and other personnel held in Red
China.
The reports of the meetings in
Peiping came from Peiping Radio,
and in dispatches from the Ham
marskjold party to U.N. head
quarters in New York.
These reports listed the advisers
present for each side, but gave
no details of the talks.
Air Force B-47 Bomber
Flies 21,000 Miles
In 47 Hours 37 Minutes
BUFFALO, N.Y., uF — An Air
Force B-47 bomber has broken the
distance and endurance records
for jet aircraft by staying aloft
47 hours and 38 minutes and cov
ering 21,000 miles.
The record-breaking flight was
revealed by Secretary of the Air
Force Harold Talbott in a speech
here last night.
The Air Force in Washington
said the flight was made last
month by a six-jet B-47 that shut
tled back and forth between Eng
land and North Africa and finally
landed at Fairford Royal Air Force
base near London.
The average speed was about
445 miles an hour, the Air Force
said.
The Air Force said that last
month’s flight was one of a series
designed to determine the combat
range of the big jet bombers, and
to study crew fatigue over long
periods.
A propellor - driven B-50, the
“Lucky Lady,” had flown 23,108
miles in 1949, but the B-50 took
94 hours.
Bush Pilot Sees “Help"
Sign So Injured Mounty
Is Flown To Medical Aid
FAIRBANKS, UP — A “help”
signal stamped in the snow at Old
Crow, Yukon Territory, led to
aerial evacuation of a Royal Can
adian Mounted Police officer who
had been burned badly with acid.
Bush pilot Bob Dyament was
returning to Alaska from the Can
adian village of Aklovik Wednes
day when he circled Old Crow
and sighted the message. He
radioed the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration, which contacted the
customs office here and cleared an
evacuation flight to Alaska.
Then pilot Cliff Fairchild flew
from Fort Yukon to Old Crow
and returned with the Canadian
identified as Roger Moore. He
was reported to have lost an eye
in the accident, but poor radio
reception prevented details reach
ing here from Fort Yukon.
Democrats Ponder “New Dealish”
Program Proposed By Eisenhower
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Army Secty. Stevens Has
No Intention of Quitting,
Refuting Such Reports
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of the Army Stevens said today
“I have never felt better in my
life and I am not resigning.” With
this one line statement, Stevens
took recognition of published re
ports that he was leaving office.
The statement was issued thru
the Army information chief, Maj.
Gen. Gilman Mudgett, who quoted
Stevens as telling hifn this morn
ing that “he had not discussed
resigning with anyone.”
There have been recurring ru
mors in the past week that Stev
ens’ departure from the govern
ment was imminent. The New
York Times said today he would
resign “just as soon as President
Eisenhower has found a succes
sor.”
Marian Anderson To Be
First Negro To Sing at Met
NEW YORK, UP) — Marian An
derson will make her debut at
the Metropolitan Opera House to
night — first negro ever to sing
there.
“I’m not sure this is happen
ing,” she commented. “This is the
high point of my career.”
The famed singer, once de
scribed by maestro Arturo Tos
cannini as “a voice that comes
once in a century,” will play the j
fortune teller in Verdi’s “Masked J
Ball.”
. Rudolph Bing, general manager
of the Metropolitan Opera Co.,
said last October he engaged her
for the role because he thought
she would be “wonderful” in it.
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Cigar-Smoking Tyke Too j
Young To Go To School
BOSTON, iiP) — Juvenile court
judge John J. Connelly soon found
out why a youngster he saw smok
ing “a big black cigar” wasn’t at
school.
The judge told a medical panel
on juvenile delinquency last night
that he came across the little
tyke sitting in a doorway, puffing
away at the cigar.
He didn’t want to alarm the tot,
so asked casually, “Son, why
aren’t you in school?”
“He took the cigar out of his
mouth,” the judge said, “and re
plied ‘Mister, I’m too young to
go to school’.”
Skies Clear, Temperatures!
Drop Over Most of Nation'
i By the Associated Press ■
Skies cleared today and tem
peratures dropped over most sec
tions of the country today.
There were no active storm cen
ters in the entire country, and
only light precipitation was re
ported during the night.
In the far west, showers and
snow flurries fell across the south
western desert regions. Dry wea
ther prevailed in other parts of
the country.
It was 9 degrees below zero at
Pocatello, Idaho, 18 degrees lower
than yesterday morning.
> By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, <*>—Democrats
pondered today how to cope pol
itically with what their leaders
called a “New Dealish” domestic
progjpam laid before Congress yes
terday by President Eisenhower.
The President apeared to have
put the opposition party on the
defensive with a 53-minute state
of the union message in which he
either asked or laid the ground
work for future requests on 33
foreign and domestic problems.
The first reaction to the Presi
dent’s call for “unhesitating co
operation between the Demo
cratic-controlled Congress and the
Republican executive branch was
one of outwardly warm accept
ance.
But while there was ready ag
reement among lawmakers of both
parties with Eisenhower's plea to
“let the general good be our
yardstick on every great issue of
our time,” signs of disagreement
were not long in appearing.
Key Democrats criticized the
President’s plea for continuance
of flexible farm price supports,
called his report on economic con
ditions “too optimistic,” attacked
his local-federal “partnership”
program of national resources de
velopment, turned thumbs down
informally on proposed revision
of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act,
urged a larger boost in the statu
tory minimum wage than he sug
gested and disagreed with his in
dication that he does not believe
Alaska is ready for statehood.
There was enthusiastic biparti
san backing for Eisenhower’s for
eign policy objective of attain
ing a “durable peace,” but what
was perhaps an ominous silence
from Democratic ranks greeted
his explanation of how he hopes
to achieve military manpower re
duction while maintaining the
armed forces in balance.
Sen. McCarthy said he was “ex
tremely disappointed” that Eisen
hower proposed no “positive ac
tion” toward freeing Americans
held behind the iron curtain. But
McCarthy was apparently alone in
his criticism on that point.
Carpenters Quit Work On
New Anchorage School
ANCHORAGE, Uf) — Construc
tion work on the $2,488,000 An
chorage high school addition in
Spenard was hampered, but not
altered, yesterday as carpenters
continued a work stoppage in pro
test against what they called “un
safe working conditions.”
The workers, all members of
the Anchorage Carpenters Union,
were called off the job Wednes
day by business agent Grover
Dieheg.
Although only the carpenters
have stopped work, H. E. Gall,
project supervisor for the contrac
tor, Patti - McDonald, said the
walkout would delay completion
of the school if continued in
definitely.
Negotiations ended in a stale
mate Wednesday, with contrac
tor’s spokesmen accusing the
union of violating its contract.