Guatemala’s New Regime Spurns
Communism to Win Friends in West
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Strong Earthquake
Hits Nevada Desert
And Farm Town
BERKELEY, Calif., UPL-A “very
strong” earthquake shook the
barren northwest Nevada desert
early Tuesday.
The quake, violent enough to'
cause heavy damage in a heavily
populated area, was centered in
the farming community of Fallon,
a town of about 2,000 situated 60
miles east of Reno.
Water mains were cracked, j
power was temporarily cut off
and walls of buildings buckled. A
15-foot strip of U.S. Highway 50
sank five feet without cracking
the asphalt.
The sailors at the Fallon Naval
Auxiliary Station all escaped with
minor injuries, mostly from flying
glass. Some were thrown from
bed by the violent tremor. Opera
tions at the air base were sus
pended to clean up the debris.
Don Tocher, assistant seismolo
gist at the University of California
here, said the quake had a Rich
ter magnitude of from 63A to 7.
It was the biggest shock in this
area since the Tehachapi-Bakers
field earthquake in July 1952
which was rated at 7.45 on the
Richter scale.
Tocher said the temblor began
at 4:14 a.m. (PDT) and was re
corded for 30 minutes.
The 1906 San Francisco quake
was 8.25 on the Richter scale.
The shock was felt as far west
as the San Francisco - Oakland
area. It also hit Elko, Nev., Lodi,
Modesto, Stockton and Bridgeport
in California.
NEW YORK, UP!—A moderately
severe earthquake, described as
probably in the Kurile Islands,
was registered on the seismo
graphs of Columbia University at
Palisades, N.Y., and Fordham
University in the Bronx Tuesday. |
Sen. Knowland Asks State
To Tell Congress How to
Oppose Red China in U.N.
WASHINGTON, GPt— Senator
Knowland (R-Calif) asked the
State Department Tuesday to tell
Congress how to oppose Chinese
Communist entry into the United
Nations and haw this country
might quit the U.N. if Red China
is admitted.
Knowland, the Senate Republi
can leader, told reporters he had
conferred with Secretary of State
Dulles about the proposed opposi
tion to a membership bid by the
Peiping regime.
The California senator said at
tempts also may be made to
amend the foreign aid money bill,
yet to be considered by Congress,
to provide a cutoff of funds if the
United States withdraws from the
international organization.
f> GUATEMALA, (Jt—Giatemala’s
new government has turned its
back on the Communist world in
a bid to get on better terms with
its Western Hemisphere neigh
bors.
Elfego Monzon and Carlos Cat
illo Armas, top colonels in the
five-man junta, told a news con
ference Monday their administra
tion would reverse the policy of
the ousted government of ex-Pres
ident Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and
would refuse to deal with the
Soviets or their Iron Curtain
allies.
The colonels said Guatemala
also would rejoin the Organiza
tion of Central American States
(ODECA) and support the Organi
zation of American States (OAS)
and the United Nations.
This was considered an appeal
for diplomatic recognition. So far
two countries—Co'sta Rica and El
Salvador—have served notice that
they will take up formal relations
with the five-day-old military
regime.
The leftist Arbenz government
dropped out of ODECA last year,
accusing the other members of
aggressive intentions toward Guat
emala. Six weeks before Castillo’s
anti-Communist revolution top
pled Arbenz from power, his gov
ernment received a 10-million
dollar arms shipments from be
hind the Iron Curtain. Guatemala
also now has diplomatic relations
with Red Czechoslovakia.
Monzon, who is titular head of
the junta until it elects a perman
ent chief July 17, said Monday the
police have completely filled the
country’s jails with 2,000 Commu
nist suspects and now are prepar
ing new places of confinement.
Monzon said 1,000 persons have
taken refuge in foreign embassies.
U.S. Refuses Red Swap
Offer After Arrest of
Seven Sightseeing GIs
BAERNAU, Germany, (^—Ger
man border police said Tuesday
Czech authorities have offered to
swap seven U.S. soldiers arrested
Sunday for three Czech freedom
seekers. But U.S. Army headquar
ters at Heidelberg said it was not
involved with the Czech escapees.
A U. S. Army headquarters
spokesman said the Army was
negotiating directly with Czech
authorities for release of the Am
ericans—six enlisted men and a
captain on leave—seized on the
East-West border while sightsee
ing.
“We hope we will be able to'
obtain release of the men soon
and without difficulty,” he added.
He called the three Czech escap
ees a “separate issue” and posed
this question: “How can the bor
der police negotiate for the return
of U.S. soldiers?”
About two million school-age
children in the United States have
impaired hearing.
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MUNZ AIRWAYS
To Big Hurrah: Arley Payne.
From Wales: Mrs. Sam Kakik
and child.
To Wales: Gordon Nagazruk.
To Teller: Elmer Okboak.
From Lost River: Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Okpealuk.
From Tin City: Bill Brown.
To Lost River: Esther Kugzruk,
Paul Hwang, Howard Murray.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Robert Lewis,
Harry Buxton, J. H. Kelly, C.< A.
Van Etten, Bob Ferko, Herb Dod
dridge, Cliff Jolly, Frank Detho
mas, C. H. Moss, Mrs. Wanda
Moore and Donny, W. H. Weide
man, Bea Havercamp, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Neeley.
From Unalakleet: John Dexter,
Clara Eakon, Selma Toshavik,
Myrtle Stringer.
To Anchorage: Herb Doddridge,
Chaplain Mailloux, Otto Weide
mann, Bill Munz, Keye Cho,
Walter Hodge, Annette DuFaucon,
F. E. Power, S. E. Erickson.
To Koyuk: Oscar Anasogak.
To Shaktoolik: John Rock.
From White Mt.: Janet Ashen
felter.
From Lost River: Oswald Moses
From Teller: Pete Fidjeland.
To Pt. Hope: Maj. Wirthington,
Lt. Yarbrough.
From Pt. Hope: Tom Lotspeich,
Charles Poe.
To Lost River: Oswald Moses.
To Golovin: Floyd Fagerstrom.
From Shaktoolik: Molly Takak.
From Unalakleet: Marjorie Gry
ten. From Anchorage: Don Kan
tola.
To Anchorage: Maj. C. Sturgis,
Maj. G. B. Wirthington, Don Gill
ette.
To McGrath: M. E. Tippets.
WIEN AIRLINES
To Fairbanks for the past three
days: Earl Anderson, F. J. Kerth,
T. C. Collette, Omar Victor, Ray
Littler, Mr. and Mrs. Mungar and
family, Burton Kelling, Don Per
ron, Margaret Steinbreck, A. Po'hl,
E. Hobix, Mr. Bartholomew, Mr.
and Mrs. Cox and family, Mr. and
Mrs. McCollough and family,
Herm Joslin and family, Fred
Shaw, Harold Stolan.
Kotzebue to Nome: Fay Wells,
M. Winegar, W. D. Pruit, B. Bar
bara, Bill Boucher, C. E. Ander
son, Dr. W. E. Ware, T. D. Coll
ette.
To Galena: Roger Dayton, Rob
ert Drumm. To Rainbow: Frank
Whaley and family. To Tanana:
T. Ronquillo and family. To Bar
row: Joe Kaganaluk.
To Kotzebue: Pete Sandvik, T.
L. Collette, John Dexter, Ethel
Sage, Betty Sage. From Kotzebue
today: Mr. and Mrs. Arundel, Mr.
Sampson, Maj. G. Wirthington, Lt.
J. A. Yarbrough.
Today two flights are scheduled
from Kotzebue to bring in 30
tourists, some of whom are stay
ing overnight.
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"YOU MEAN X WON?"—Sure enough, this baby brought a
prize home for daddy in the 1954 Graflex Photo Contest. J. H.
Troup of Harrisburg, Pa., is the photographer who focussed on
a perennially favored subject and came up with something
different in expressions.
Disputed Report
Hits Tom Clark for
Refusing to Testify
WASHINGTON, UR—A House
Judiciary subcommittee in a dis
puted report, Tuesday criticized
Justice Tom C. Clark for declin
ing to testify after he joined the
Supreme Court but said it had
turned up no proof of wrongdoing
by Clark while he was attorney
general.
The document drew immediate
fire from Rep. Byron G. Rogers
(D-Colo), one of the five subcom
mittee members, who said Chair
man Keating (R-NY) pulled a
“sneak play” by his “unwarranted
political ‘release of his proposed
libelous report.”
Rogers defended Clark, an ap
pointee of former President Tru
man, and said most of the report
had not been approved in subcom
mittee or even considered by the
parent judiciary group.
The report, dealing with the
subcommittee’s inquiry last year
into operations of the Justice De
partment, said the investigators
were “troubled” because some
controversial actions were traced
back to Clark. Clark was attorney
general in 1945-49 before going to
the Supreme Court.
Keating said in an accompany
ing statement that Clark’s failure
to testify was “unfortunate” be
cause “we were deprived of the
benefit of any light which might
have been shed by a former mem
ber of Truman’s cabinet.”
In the U.S. today about 160,000
children under 18 years of age
are fatherless and >175,000 are
motherless due to parents’ can
cer deaths, the American Cancer
Society reports.
Churchill “Did His Best”
To Reach Foreign Policy
Accord with United States
SOUTHAMPTON, England, OP)
Prime Minister Churchill said last
night he had done his best to
reach agreement with the United
States on foreign policy differenc
es “but it would be a mistake to
think everything can happen all
at once.”
The 79-year-old Prime Minister
arrived home from his talks with
President Eisenhower.
Even before the Queen Eliza
beth docked here, he telephoned
orders from sea calling cabinet
meetings for today and tomorrow.
MOUNTAIN MARATHON
WON BY NATIVE SWEDE
SEWARD, Alaska, UPl—Sven Jo
hansson, 29-year-old native of
Sweden, won the 26th annual
Mountain Marathon Race here
Sunday with a near record time
of 53 minutes and 20 seconds.
Johansson kept an easy lead all
the way as he climbed to the top
of Mount Marathon in 42 minutes
and 15 seconds. He scooted back
down the shale-covered peak in
11 minutes and 5 seconds.
The record for the seven-mile
course is 52 minutes 35 seconds.
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