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Argentina Navy
Searches Inlet for
‘Mystery’ Sub
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, 10)
— Argentine warships and planes
searched today for a mystery sub
marine believed lurking off the
coast of southern Argentina.
Newspapers claimed the sub
marine has been bottled up in the
Golfo Nuevo, a strategic 30-foy-40
mile inlet 650 miles southwest of
Buenos Aires. There was no indi
cation of its nationality.
Navy Secretary Gaston Clem
ent confirmed that a widespread
hunt is under way but described
some of the press reports as “ab
solutely untrue.”
The Navy Secretary complained
that the sensational treatment of
the operation “has created a false
atmosphere/’ '
One newspaper said the trapped
submarine had been damaged and
two other submarines quickly
moved into the area to divert
search forces so the crippled craft
could slip away. It said the un
identified submarines were nu
clear-powered.
The government never identi
fied the submarine, but naval
sources speculated that it was a
Soviet craft.
Defense Dept. Is
Unprepared for
Airlift, Says Army
WASHINGTON,, UR — A sharp
disagreement between the Army
and the Defense Department over
the adequacy of emergency airlift
facilities was brought into the
open today by the House Appro
priations Committee.
It included:
1. An assertion by Army Chief
of Staff Gen. Lemnitzer that the
Defense Department is “woefully
and hopelessly unprepared” for
the type of emergency airlift it
might require.
2. A charge by Secretary of the
Army Brucker that Gen. Lem
nitzer “is not getting all the co
operation he ought to get” from
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
3. A statement by Rep. George
Mahon, chairman of the De
fense Appropriations Subcom
mittee, that lack of an adequate
airlift “is one of the weakest
links in our defense chain.”
The airlift controversy was
aired by the committee during
recent closed-door hearings on the
1961 defense budget.
Smallest Baby Born
Lives Only 28 Honrs
. DES MOINES, Iowa, UR — An
llVi-ounce baby, claimed to be
the smallest ever born alive, died
early this morning about 28 hours
after his birth.
The child was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Bermeullen of Des
Moines Saturday night.
The resident pediatrician at
Still Osteopathic Hospital said
the child started breathing about
two minutes after birth and was
well formed although three
months premature.
Mrs. Vermuellen, mother of
three other children, was reported
doing well.
The American Medical Associa
tion listed a 12-ounce girl which
died in Chicago 54 hours after its
birth last year, and Jacqueline
Benson, 22, of Palatine, 111., who
weighed 12 ounces at birth, as the
previous smallest babies.
Arctic Club Champ Will
Compete in Anchorage Fur
Rendezvous Dog Races
It has been announced by the
Arctic Club Dog 'Race Committee
that Chester Topkok, last year’s
Nome Derby Dog Race winner,
will compete in the Anchorage
Fur Rendezvous dog races
He will be accompanied to An
chorage by Roscoe Wilke, as man
ager of the team and representa
tive of the Arctic Club
Topkok covered a 25-mile course
in 2:18.3, setting a good record,
and, conditions being favorable,
stands a good chance of being
among the winners at the Rendez
vous races.
Last year, Isaac Okleasik of
Teller, who was the 1958 Nome
Derby winner, was sent to the
Rendezvous, and placed third.
The Nome Derby will be held
after the Rendezvous races, and
is to be a two-day race, on April
9 and 10.
Lodge, Khrushchev, Italy’s
Gronchi, Greet at Bolshoi
MOSCOW, UPl — Nikita Khrush
chev took Presient Giovanni
Gronchi of Italy to the Bolshoi
ballet Sunday night and ran into
another distinguished visitor to
the Soviet Union, Ambassador,
Henry Cabot Lodge.
The chief American delegate to
the United Nations talked briefly
with, the Soviet Premier, who was
entertaining Gronchi on a state
visit. Lodge is on a private tour.
NATO FORCES THROW BACK
'AGGRESSORS' IN GERMAN
MOCK WAR GAMES
VILSECK, Germany, UP) — The
U. S. Army defending “NATO
held territory” successfully threw
back “aggressors” in five-day war
games near the borders of Com
munist Czechoslovakia and East
Germany.
For the first time, soldiers of
the new West German army par
ticipated with American troops in
a major field exercise. The man
euver by 60,000 men ended
Sunday.
Committee’s Narcotics
Bill Recommendations
Turned Down In House
JUNEAU, UP) — A second con
ference committee will toe ap
pointed to try to resolve differ
ences in separate versions of a
narcotics bill passed by the House
and Senate at the 1959 Legis
lature.
A House Conference Committee,
deadlocked at the end of the last
legislative session, failed again
Saturday when the House refused
to accept the committee’s recom
mendation that the Senate ver
sion be approved. *
The bill, authored by Sen. Les
ter Bronson, would double the
penalties for violation of narcotics
acts and would provide for prison
terms up to 50 years and furies up
to $25,000 for narcotics convic
tions.
ANS Doctor and Pilot Lost
On Southeastern Flight
ANCHORAGE, UP) — More than
30 aircraft scoured the 350-mile
route from King Salmon to An
chorage yesterday without find
ing a trace of an amphiban plane
which vanished Friday morning
with two men aboard.
The plane was piloted by Frank
S\udet and was reported to be
carrying Dr. Stanley Edwards of
the Alaska Native Health Service.
Civil Air Patrol officals said
weather along the route to the
Southeastern Alaska town was
generally good. «
GENERAL TAYLOR SUFFERS
BROKEN ARM IN DOWNTOWN
WASHINGTON MISHAP
WASHINGTON, (*—Gen. Max
well Taylor, whose left arm was
broken Saturday night, is expected
to leave Walter Reed Army Medi
cal Center today.
Taylor, 58, former Army Chief
of Staff, was injured when he
walked against the side of a mov
ing taxicab while crossing a street
in downtown Washington. He now
is an executive of a Mexico City
utilities firm.
Democratic Stumpers Open Big Guns
At Albuquerque Western Conference
(Bv The Associated Press)
The prize of 271 Democratic
nominating votes lured Presiden
tial hopefuls into a weekend of
western politicking. Senators John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson,
seemed most active fit trying to
lasso the votes.
Kennedy supporters reported]^
approached California party offi
cials Sunday and proposed terms
under which he would stay out
of the state primary. The terms
were calculated to help Kennedy
pick up convention votes.
Meanwhile, Johnson supporters,
milling about the Western Demo
cratic conference in Albuquerque,
N. M., claimed Johnson already
had more' than 200 of the West’s
271 convention votes. Kennedy
forces looked on the claim as
Texas boasting.
Besides Kennedy and Johnson,
Sen. Hubert Humphrey showed
up at the Albuquerque confer
ence. In a speech, Humphrey lash
ed out at the Republicans, calling
them great wasters of resources,
including human resources.
The Republicans were not absent
from ' the West. Vice President
Nixon, who has a clear field to
the GOP presidential nomination,
spoke in Los Angeles Saturday
and backed up the administra
tion’s defense policy.
The Kennedy terms are that he
would stay out of the June pri
mary if Gov. Brown, the state’s
favorite-son candidate, would pro
mise to release his delegates after
the convention’s first ballot.
One of the senator’s staff ex
plained there was concern that
Brown might hold his states 81
votes until it was too late to help
Kennedy’s chances for nomina
tion.
So far only Kennedy and Hum
phrey are announced candidates
for the Democratic nomination.
But Johnson, in Indianapolis Sat
urday, seemed to leave the ranks
of those candidates who won’t ad
mit it. For the first time, he
talked about his “candidacy.”
In Baker, Ore., Humphrey at
temped to use the identical forum
as President Eisenhower and out
line what the Democratic Party
stands for.
Humphrey told a Baker dinner
meeting that he, too, had written
to Mrs. Havens. He said he told
her: “The Republicans h*Ve a
very restrictive idea of what can
be done for the country. On the
other hand, the message of the
Democratic Party is the message
of service.”
Air Force and Army Clash on Basing
Intermediate Range Missiles in Alaska
By FRITZ WITTI
WASHINGTON, (#) — A differ
ence of opinion between the Air
Force and Army on basing mis
siles in Alaska was disclosed in
testimony made public today by
a House Appropriations Subcom
mittee.
At a hearing on the defense
budget, Rep. Daniel Flood (D-Pa)
told representatives of both serv
ices that the Russians are
“loaded” with missiles on the
Kamchatka Peninsula. Responses
indicated the Air Force believes
Alaska can be protected without
missiles based there, while the
Army favors Alaska missiles.
“They are loaded, they have
two, my intelligence indicates,
zeroed on Alaska,” Flood said in
advocating two operational units
of intermediate range Jupiter
missiles in Alaska.
The Air Force informed the
committee that several studies of
the Alaska defense problem, made
in the past two years, show that
intercontinental ballistic missiles
(ICBM) “based in the interior of
the United States can do this
job better and cheaper than
IRBM’s (Intermediate Range Bal
listic Missiles) based in Alaska.”
“The reason why IRBM’s based
in Alaska are not as effective is
due to the increased prelaunch
vulnerability, higher total system
cost, and logistic support prob
lems,” the Air Force said.
Army Secretary Wilber Bruck
er was told by Flood that “On
that entire Kamchatka Peninsula
you wouldn’t dare strike a match
... it is loaded.”
‘I think that you ’are correct
on that,” Brucker said. “The very
least that ought to be there are
IRBM’s. I say Jupiter because I
know what it can do.”'
Gen. Lemnitzer, Army Chief
of Staff, admitted there is a dif
ference of opinion on the advisa
bility of putting IRBM’s in
Alaska.
“I happen to be in agreement
with you on this one,” he told
Flood. “I believe that we can make
better use of Alaska because of
its strategic location, its proximi
ty to the very threat which you
have mentioned.”
Discussing the Alaska Army
Command Lemnitzer told the
committee “After all, the forces
that are in Alaska at the present
time are only the initial forces,
and we do have plans to rein
force that area rapidly.”
To Flood’s comment that “I do
not want them to be up there at
the end of the line,” Lemnitzer
said: They are not forgotten, I
can assure you. They play a very
prominent and important part in
our plan.”
Navy Chief Says
Soviet Subs Pose
Grave U. S. Threat
WASHINGTON, UPl — Admiral
Arleigh Burke says the Soviet
Union has cut down on submarine
pi'oduction, but the Soviet sub
mersable fleet poses “one of the
gravest military threats we face.”
It is known that some Soviet
submarines can fire missiles, the
Chief of Naval Operations told
a House Appropriations Subcom
mittee. He did not elaborate, but
he said the Soviet threat extends
both to sea, communications and
to U. S. cities.
Burke’s testimony also sup
ported current U. S. intelligence
estimates based on Soviet inten
tions as "well as Soviet maximum
capabilities.
“We have made gross errors in
the past by using the old system,”
he said.
Burke cited what he said were
estimates that the Soviets could
build “hundreds and hundreds of
long-range bombers,” but said
they did not actually do so.
He went on: “They actually
built submarines in 1956. They
had the capability to continue, but
what did they do? They got a
large number of submarines and
then they stopped and they went
into new production, but their
new production is much less. You
can get a capability on a crash
program and be completely
misled.”
Estimates of Soviet submarine
strength have ranged around 500
new or recent craft.
REPORTS SAY MACARTHUR
'FAIRLY RESTFUL' IN ILLNESS
NEW YORK, UP) — Gen. Doug
las MacArthur spent a “fairly
restful night” at Lenox Hill Hos
pital, an aide reported today.
The 80-year-old general en
tered the hospital January 29 for
treatment of a prostate condition.
Chessman Denied Stay of
Execution, Set for Feb. 19
TUCSON, Ariz., UPI — Convict
author Caryl Chessman today
was denied a stay of execution,
scheduled February 19 in the San
Quentin Prison gas chamber.
Judge Richard Chambers, Chief
Justice of the U. S. Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals, also refused to
issue a certificate of probable
cause for appeal.
This would have granted Chess
man a hearing before the full
court of appeals in an effort to
reverse U. S. District Judge
Louis Goodman’s refusal to grant
a writ of habeas corpus.
Chessman now is expected to
appeal again to the U. S. Su
preme Court, which has con
sidered the case 13 times.
Should this effort fail, an ap
peal for clemency probably will
be made to California Governor
Brown.
Chessman was sentenced to
death in 1948 on charges of kid
naping, robbery and perverted
sexual assaults against two young
women. He has been in death
row for nearly 12 years and has
escaped seven earlir cxcution
dats through "arious legal moves.
U. S. Naval Chief Explains
How to Know Khrushchev
WAHINGTON, UP) — Admiral
Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval
Operations, offers a formula for
assessing the statements of Soviet
Premier Khrushchev:
“He usually tells the truth.
When he says ‘I intend,’ that I
do not believe. Or when he gives
a reason why he does things, I
do not believe it. But when he
says, ‘This has happened,’ I do
believe it. It can be verifed,”
Burke said.
This was Burke’s reply when a
House Appropriations Subcom
mittee questioned him behind
closed doors about Khrushchev’s
statement the Soviet Union is cut
ting down manned aircraft. •