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VOL. LXII No. 88 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1960_Per Copy 151
U.S. Says It Has Proof Russian Planes
Maneuvered RB47 Off Course And Shot
It Down Over International Waters
By MILTON BESSER
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., W>>—
The United States asserted today
it has scientific proof that Soviet
fighter planes deliberately man
uevered a U.S. RB47 off its course
and shot it down over interna
tional waters.
U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot ,
Lodge denounced the action “as
a criminal and reckless act of
piracy” which the Soviet Union
tried to hide with “reckless talk.”
But he did not seek Council
condemnation of the Soviet Union.
Instead he submitted a resolu
tion calling on the Council to
either name an impartial fact
finding mission to investigate the
incident, or submit the entire
matter to the International Court
of Justice.
In a highly dramatic speech he
produced two maps to demon
strate his points.
Lodge said of the Soviet act of
shooting down the plane July 1:
“This astonishing and criminal
fact is established beyond doubt
by the evidence of our scientific
dveices.” He did not go into de
tails and U.S. sources said the
exact nature was withheld be
cause it involved sceret informa
tion of great interest to the So
viets.
He accused the Soviet Union of
denying the RB47 crewmen their
rights under international law
and denounced this as “flagrant
disregard for the standards of
international conduct.”
! As Lodge spoke, the chief So
I viet delegate, Vasily Kuznetsov
] sat attentively erect, alternately
I twiddling this thumbs and jotting
down notes.
In the spectators’ gallery, the
wives of the RB47 crewmen, their
expressions grim, watched tensely
as Lodge pointed with his finger
to the maps upon which the
plane’s course was charted.
Speaking in l'eply to Lodge,
Kuznetsov accused the United
States of “cynicism without pre
cedent” in trying to play on the
emotions of the wives and rela
tives of the crew members.
Kuznetsov said “maps could not
delude anyone,” and added that
the Security Council should not
be “a prop for that kind of farce.”
He repeated the Soviet charge
that the RB47 was on an aggres
sive spy mission in Soviet air
space.
Body of RB47 Pilot
Now Enroute Home
AMSTERDAM, UR — The body
of the pilot of the U.S. Air Force
RB47 shot down by the Russians
on its Arctic mission July 1 was
started home by air today.
A KLM Dutch plane bore the
wooden coffin of the pilot, iden
tified by the Russians as Capt.
Willard G. Palm of Oak Ridge,
Tenn., from Moscow to Amster
dam.
Here a U. S. Army mortuary
team took over. The body is being
moved to the U.S. Rhein-Main
Air Base in West Germany for
positive identification before be
ing sent on to the United States.
A. U.S. Embassy spokesman ex
plained that military authorities
want to be quite sure it is Palm’s
body before turning it over to his
family.
A Soviet medical certificate said
Palm was drowned and his body
was found floating in the Barents
Sea.
BRIDE OF NINE HOURS
IS SHOT TO DEATH
CULVER CITY, Calif., UR—'The
marriage of Hoyt and Betty Mull
lasted just nine hours. Then they
quarrelled and the bride was shot
to death.
Mull, 27, a male nurse, was
booked on suspicion of murder.
Police said he told them his wife
was holding the pistol when it
went off by accident as they ar
gued.
She still wore her blue bridal
gown when officers arrived Sat
urday night to find her body with
three bullet wounds.
Russian Freighter Enroute To
Congo with Relief Supplies
MOSCOW. UR—'The Soviet ship
Leninogorsk left Odessa for Af
rica Sunday night loaded with re
lief supplies for the Congo. The
vessel is carrying 9,000 tons of
wheat, more than 1,000 tons of
sugar and 300,000 cans of con
densed milk, a Tass dispatch said.
Castro Sells One-Third
Of Cuba’s Sugar Crop
To The Communist Bloc
HAVANA, I.T)—Fidel Castro has
bound a third of the Cuban sugar
crop — the cornerstone of the
country’s shaky economy—to the
Communist bloc.
For the next five years Cuba
has agreed to supply the Soviet
Union and Red China 1V£ mil
lion tons of sugar annually out
of a harvest that this year is set
at 5,700,000 tons. Shipments to
other Communist countries will
bring the total Cuban sugar going
behind the iron curtain to nearly
two million tons a year.
The Soviets also have bought
the 700,000 tons of sugar Presi
dent Eisenhower cut from Cuba’s
1960 sales to the United States.
The Castro deals with the Com
munists are largely on a barter
basis pegged to world prices. The
U. S. long has been Cuba’s best
customer at premium prices of
2 to 2VJ* cents a pound above the
world market price. The Soviet
Union pays the world price and
Rod China presumably will do
likewise.
Carpenters Repudiate
Labor Council’s Decision
On Moving Capital
FAIRBANKS, OP) — Alaska’s
State Council of Carpenters Sat
urday came out in repudiation of
an Anchorage Labor Council reso
lution which called for moving
the capital city.
In a statewide meeting here
with representatives from a dozen
Alaska cities, including Anchor
age, the Carpenters voted not to
sanction the action of the Anchor
age Labor Council.
Last week, the latter came out
in favor of moving the capital
from Juneau to somewhere in
westward Alaska.
On August 9, voters will decide
whether the capital should stay
in Juneau or be moved to the
Cook Inlet-Railbelt area.
Africans Riot In
Britisli-Ruled
Southern Rhodesia
BULAWAYO, Southern Rho
desia, IIP — African mobs rioting
against white rule were reported
smashing shops, beer halls and
cars in the black township of
l Bulawayo today.
A strike of the African labor
force followed disorders involving
several thousand Africans Sunday
night, finally put down by police
backed by white British troops.
Negro agitators moved into the
white suburbs of this commercial
and industrial center of 52,000 in
an effort to induce African ser
vants to quit their jobs. Many did.
Troop reinforcement were or
dered into Bulawayo and South
ern Rhodesia’s Premier Sir Ed
gar Whitehead came into town
with a message of assurance for
white residents. He said the re
inforcements will enable more
l positive steps to be taken.
Southern Rhodesia forms part
! of the British-run Central Afric
I can Federation, which lies be
tween the chaotic Congo and the
| racially troubled Union of South
I Africa.
Alaska Airlines Awarded
$600,000 Contract To
Supply DEW Line
SEATTLE, 0P>—Alaska Airlines
has been awarded a one-year con
tract by the Federal Electric Co.
of Paramus, N. J., to., operate a
supply lift to the Distant Early
Warning Line, it was announced
today.
The $600,000 award calls for
the transportation of more than
6,000,000 pounds of cargo and
personnel from Fairbanks to sup
ply points north of the Arctic
Circle.
Federal Electric operates and
maintains the DEW Line for the
Defense Department.
DETROIT, (i'Pl—Ford Motor Co.
today reported net earnings of
$264,800,000, equal to $4.83 a
share, for the first six months of
1960. This compared with a net
of $285,900,00 or $5.22 a share,
for the first half of 1959.
Convention Keynote Speaker Accuses
Democrats Encouraging Communists
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
CHICAGO, UR—Rep. Walter H.
Judd tonight accused the Demo
crats of encouraging Communist
attacks by falsely picturing the
United States as second rate in
military strength.
Keynoting the Republican Na
tional Convention, the Minnesota
congressman demanded:
“What kind of reckless and ir
responsible action is it for any
one to misrepresent the United
States as a second class power,
as was done in the Democratic
convention, and thereby encour
age the very attacks which all
Americans profoundly hope and
pray can be prevented?”
Plunging into an issue that pro
mises to loom large in the coming
campaign, Judd declared in his
prepared speech that the Eisen
hower administration has “built
up gigantic strength in our own
armed forces and given vital as
sistance in building up the
strength of other nations stand
ing with us . .
While dealing severely with the
Democratic critics of Eisenhower
defense policies Judd also could
be viewed as striking at New
York Gov. Nelson E. Rockefeller.
The Republican governor has
spoken almost as sharply as many
Democrats.
Judd mounted a slashing coun
terattack against a range of Dem
ocratic charges of ineptitude, drift
and weakness on the part of the
Eisenhower administration.
In the process, the Minnesota
representative tore open a num
ber of old sores—as when he said
“We brought an end to the fight
ing in the Korean War which the
Truman administration would not
win and could not stop.”
He credited the Eisenhower ad
ministration with preventing “a
half dozen other threats from de
veloping into war” on far flung
fronts from Formosa to West Ber
lin.
The controversial U2 spy plane
flights—which led to the summit
collapse in May—was pictured by
Judd as one of several “brilliant
examples of successful initiative.”
GOP Convention Opens In Chicago
Ike Disagrees with
Rockefeller On
Defense Plank
NEWPORT. R.I., UP)—President
Eisenhower thinks the national
defense plank recommended by
the Republican Platform Commit
S tee is pretty good, the summer
White House said today.
And that clearly lined the
President up against New York :
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Rocke
feller has called the plank in ade
quate and says it “does not face
up realistically to the dangers
that threaten the nation.”
The plank the platform commit
tee recommended in Chicago, on
the eve of the opening of the
convention, praised Eisenhower’s
conduct of national defense and
said it would be continued on a
no-price-ceiling basis.
Rockefeller has called for a 3Vi>
billion dollar increase in defense
spending this fiscal year. He and
Vice President Nixon agreed over
the weekend that there is need
for an increase in military spend
ing. But on that occasion they
mentioned no specific figure.
Eisenhower for months has
taken the position that defense
spending is adequate.
Nixon Greeted As
“Mr. President” at
Chicago Airport
CHICAGO, UP) — Vice President
Richard M. Nixon flew into this
Republican convention city today
and won a conqueror’s welcome
that amounted to a celebration in
advance of his apparently sure
nomination for president.
Arriving by chartered plane
from Washington, Nixon was in
troduced for a brief airport speech
as “Mr. President.” He let it go
at that.
An estimated 2,000 spectators
were on hand at O’Hare Interna
tional Airport to give Nixon and
his smiling wife a greeting that
was not too far from a mob scene.
There were police arrangements
to hold back the crowd but they
didn’t work.
CONVENTION HALL, Chicago,
l/P—Republicans opened their 1960
National Convention today ag
ainst a backstage wrangle over a
civil rights platform plank.
Vice President Nixon arrived
and made evident his intention
to take charge—both of the plat
form writing and selection of a
vice presidential running mate.
Nixon gave notice the platform
must be agreeable to him as the
prospective presidential nominee.
He specifically didn't like the
civil rights plank turned out dur
ing the day’s early hours by the
GOP platform drafters.
This version, which earlier had
been described as a combination
of liberal and moderate view
points, “is unsatisfactory so far
as I am concerned,” Nixon de
clared.
For one thing, Nixon said he
will demand that the plank in
clude approval of the lunch coun
ter sit-ins by southern Negroes
in stores which accept them as
customers at all their counters
except where they might sit with
whites and eat.
On the convention’s other big
question, Nixon said he has con
sulted President Eisenhower on
the matter of a vice presidential
nominee, and, of course, will be
guided importantly by the Presi
dent’s feelings. This served to
strengthen reports that Henry
Cabot Lodge, Ambassador to the
United Nations, has the inside
track for the No. 2 job.
Sen. Thurston B. Morton of
Kentucky, national chairman, is
also one of those figuring high in
speculation about a possible vice
presidential nominee.
At a meeting with reporters in
Washington Nixon said his choice
for the spot will be a man who
shares his views and one who
would be qualified for the presi
dency if it should be necessary for
him to take over that office.
Two Alaska Delegates
Satisfied With GOP
Platform
CHICAGO, Ufi — Alaska’s two
members of the Republican plat
form writing committee describe
the nearly completed document as
one that Alaskan voters can sup
port.
Robert Groseclose, state GOP
chairman and head of the Alaska
six-vote delegation to the Repub
lican National Convention, called
the work of the 103-member reso
lutions committee “very excel
lent.”
Mrs. Lucille Harkabus, Fair
banks business woman, said it is
something the party’s candidates
for President and Vice President
“can run on with pride.”
Groseclose said the civil rights
proposals are “realistic — some
thing that can be enforced.”
Mrs. Harkabus said she consid
ered the disagreements in the
platform committee “the healthi
est thing for the party.”
For Improving the Service . . .
CHICAGO, (4=1—The jet airliner
that brought members of Vice
President Richard Nixon’s family
to Chicago served its usual deluxe
meal to first class passengers.
But Patricia Nixon, 14, wasn’t
quite satisfied. She left a note for
the management, suggesting the
addition of one of her favorite
snacks—doughnuts.