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Entered es second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Alaska Day ...
REAL significance of Oct. 18, today, to Alas
kans is that this is the anniversary of the day the
Russian flag was lowered a't Sitka and the Stars and
Stripes were raised, signifying the birth of a new
American territory.
Covering land which is over 600,000 square miles
in area and one-fifth the size of the first forty-eight
states, is is outstanding in its potential wealth which
under statehood is beginning to develop.
Alaska Day, today, with Alaska Day of past years
means more than it ever did before. Alaska is the front
line of defense for the nation (against its former own
ers. The military leaders are just beginning to realize
how poorly defended its coastline is against an ag
gressor who has more than once bitterly regretted
giving up the “great land.” #
fdany of us would not be here were Alaska under
Russian rule, but those of Eskimo extraction whose
forefathers were here have much to be thankful for,
that they are free Americans aiid not slaves of Com
munism.
The Big One That
t)idn’t Get Away * • .
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
—Commercial fisherman Hank
Watts can always tell the story
of the big one that didn’t get
away.
Late Monday he found an 842
pound sturgeon tangled in his
gillnet when he pulled it in from
the Fraser River near here.
The monster fish tore parts of
the net to shreds, but Watts land
ed it.
The big fish, now on display
at a fish store here, is the sec
ond big Sturgeon taken from the
river in a few months. An 811
pound sturgeon was landed late
in August. •!)’; iJ
ANPA Protests Proposed
Increase in Press Costs
WASHINGTON L» — The
American Newspaper Publishers
Assn, protested yesterday a pro
posed order‘by the Federal Com
munications Commission on the
grounds it would increase sub
stantially press costs for news
wires leased from the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. and
Western Union.
In a brief filed with the
the ANPA said the proposed
would require AT C T
em Union to impose
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l W:!0i0§M:M Sp
S'imate Given on
\Hhfial the 50
Megaton Bomb
Would Do to D.C.
WASHINGTON UFi — A 50
megaton bomb such as Soviet
Premier Khrushchev says the So
viet Union will explode Oct. 31
would dig a hole 400 feet deep
and a mile and a half wide and
kill almost all parsons within
seven miles unless they were in
well - constructed under ground
shelters.
This was the estimate given by
Dr. Rlaph Lapp, a nuclear sci
entist when questioned by a re
porter after Khrushchev told of
plans for firing a bomb with the
equivalent of 50 million tons of
TNT.
Lapp used Washington for an
example and the White House
as an impact point in giving his
estimate of damage. His figures
would mean that most of the fed
eral government buildings would
be within the area he said would
be instantly converted into a gi
gantic crater.
He said all wood frame houses
within 16 miles—all of Washing
ton—would be destroyed. In addi
tion Lapp continued, brick struc
tures within 10 miles would be
leveled and even big steel-rein
forced buildings would be smash
ed for a distance of from 5 to 6
miles.
In addition, he said, a bomb
would result in injuries to many
persons from flying glass or debris
for a distance of 30 miles from
the impact point.
Lapp also said that radioactive
fallout would contaminate an
area of from 10,000 to 20,000
square miles depending upon
wind conditions.
Ike Claims He Had
Nothing to Do With Sale
Of Jets to Jugoslavia
NEWARK, N.J. UPi — Former
President Dwight Eisenhower told
a news conference Tuesday he
had nothing to do with the sale of
135 Sabre jet fighter planes to
Communist Yugoslavia.
Eisenhower said that as far as
he could remember, the military
said it had the planes available
early last January during the lat
ter days of his administration. He
said the State Department ap
proved the sale later in January,
a few days after President Ken
nedy took office. The actual
agreement between the United
States and Yugoslavia was made
in March, he said.
Eisenhower said that in 1958 it
was decided as a matter of policy
that as long as Yugoslavia-Amer
ican diplomatic relations were
maintained on the same level the
United States would sell military
equipment for cash, except secret
equipment.
In Washington, administration
sources said Monday that Eisen
hower left a memo with Kennedy
outlining reasons for sale of the
jet fighters to Yugoslavia.
Asked whether Eisenhower rec
ommended to Kennedy that it
would be better for Yugoslavia to
get <135 jet fighters from the
United States than to turn to
Russia for them, a spokesman
said that Eisenhower “indicated a
belief that the deal should go for
ward and he felt it would be in
the best interest of this country
that it should go forward."
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U.S. frontiersmen once treated
earaches by sprinkling drops of
genuine skunk oil into the sore
ear. The real problem: First you
had to catch the skunk.
MOSCOW UF)—Premier Khrush
chev announced Tuesday that the
Soviet Union will explode a nu
clear bomb equivalent to 50 mil
lion tons of TNT Oct. 31.
It was the first time the Kremlin
had given notice of a nuclear ex
plosion. .
“We have a 100-million-ton
bomb,” Khrushchev told the open
ing session of the 22nd Soviet
Communist Party Congress, “but
we do not intend to explode it.”
“If we happen to explode it in
the wrong place, we might break
our own windows,” Khrushchev
continued. “May God grant that
we never have to explode such a
bomb.”
The Soviet Union, in announc
ing Aug. 31 that it was resuming
nuclear weapon tests, said its sci
entists had worked out projects
for building bombs with explo
sive power of up to 100 million
tons of TNT, or 5,000 times the
power of the U.S. bomb that de
vastated Hiroshima. The biggest
bomb in the U.S. arsenal is be
lieved to have a force of perhaps
20 million tons.
UjS. military experts said
earlier that building a 100-mil
lion-ton bomb would not be par
ticularly difficult but it would
not be worth the money because
the bombs already available have
sufficient explosive power to
obliberate any conceivable mili
tary target.
Khrushchev told the Congress
the Soviet Union had been forced
to resume nuclear testing 'because
of the sharp international tensions
the Western powers had created
around the world, especially in
Germany.
Khrushchev said the Soviet
Union will not insist on signing
a German peace treaty by the
end of this year—as he had
threatened earlier—“if the West
ern powers display readiness to
settle the German problem.’^
Peace Treaty Will Be Signed
But the Soviet Premier declared
that "The German peace treaty
must and will be signed, with the
Western powers or without them.”
And he reiterated that the treaty
must end the Western allied oc
cupation of West Berlin and con
vert it into a “free demilitarized”
City- :
He also demanded “genuinely
equal rights in all U.N. agencies
for the three groups of states that
have come into being in the
world — Socialist (Communist!,
Neutralist and 'Imperialist.” And
he once more demanded that Red
China get its “legitimate rights”
in the United Nations.
Khrushhev told the Party
Congress—the first in two years
—that the Soviet Union and its
Communist allies “now possess
vast power, ample to provide a re
liable defense for the great gains
of Socialism against toe inroads
of Imperialist aggressors.”
He called on the United States
to “renounce the idea of Settling
disputes through war and to base
international relations on toe prin
ciple of peaceful economic com
petition.”
“If realistic thinking gains the
upper hand in United States
policy,” Khrushchev said, “a seri
ous obstacle to a normal world
situation will be removed. Such
thinking will benefit not only the
peoples of our two countries alone
but those of other countries and
world peace.”
Cheers and Applause
The delegates broke into cheers
and applause as the Premier led
the party’s top leaders onto the
big.stage of the 6,000-seat theater
in the Kremlin Palace of Con
gresses, being used for the first
time for this Congress.
The applause continued as
Khrushchev introduced the lead
ers of the 80 delegations from '
foreign Communist parties, led
by Premier Chou En-Lai of Red
China.
There were to conspicuous ab
sentees—Albania and Yugoslavia.
Albania attended the Com
munist summit meeting last No
vember but presumably is absent
from the current Congress be
cause in recent months it has
aided with Communist China in
the ideological dispute between
Peiping and Moscow.
Relations between the Yugoslav
and Soviet parties have been dis
tant for several years. Yugoslavia
was represented at the last
Party Congress, in 1959, only by
its ambassador, and the Yugo
slavs were absent entirely from
toe November summit conference.
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