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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No, 75NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1955Per Copy—15^
Peron, Lining Up New Cabinet, Says
He’s Staying in Because He’s Needed
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NAVY PLANE CRASHES
NEAR GAMBELL ON
ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND
FAIRBANKS, W—A Navy pat
rol bomber crashed on St. Law
rence Island in the Bering Sea
Wednesday and four injured men
were observed by fliers near the
smoking wreckage.
The wreck scene is six miles
south of Southwest Cape, near
the community of Gambell, resi
dents of which first reported see
ing smoke.
An Air Rescue Squadron plane
from Elmendorf Air Force Base
at Fairbanks later flew over the
scene and spotted the injured
men.
The plane last had been heard
from shortly after noon and it
was nearly four hours later when
the request for aid was received.
Today, Nome Field commander
Maj. James Kell, would make no
statement as to whether or not
the rescue had been made.
From other sources it was
learned today that the 11 men
aboard the plane were evacuated
to Elmendorf Wednesday night.
All the men were able to es
cape the flaming wreckage of the
crash, but in doing so seven of
them received burns of varying
degrees. One of the men broke an
ankle and another has a broken
arm.
The pilot attempted a crash
landing on the beach when the
right engine burst into flames
while on a routine patrol out of
Kodiak.
Post Office Offers
‘Certified Mail’ to
Assure Delivery
Effective the 7th of this month
a change in the registered mail
service went into effect at a re
duced cost to patrons and speedier
delivery on at least 25 million
letters a year now sent by regis
tered mail.
The new mail service is called
“certified mail.” A charge of 15
cents is made for giving the pa
tron a certificate of mailing and
for having the letter carrier take
a delivery receipt from the ad
dressee. This is in contrast with
the present minimum charge of
30 cents for registered mail.
Postmaster General Summer
field explained that the savings
passed on to patrons are the re
sults of simplification studies
made by the Post Office Depart
ment. At the same time, he an
nounced that the diversion of mail
out of the present registered ser
vice would enable the department
to give greater security protection
to letters carrying items of real
financial value.
The certified mail service is
used for first-class mail for which
no indemnity value is claimed.
The 15 cents charge is in addition
to regular first-class or airmail
postage. Special delivery is^ also
available for the customary extra
charge.
> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Ut)
—President Juan Peron worked
on a new cabinet lineup today af
ter tilling the Argentine people he
is staying in office only because
they need him.
“If I were not strengthened by
the importance to me of the peo
ple,” Peron said in a nationwide
broadcast last night, “I would
abandon the government this very
day. If I have not done it, it was
because I really fear the conse
quences of my selfishness would
bring down on the nation.”
Peron’s broadcast reviewing the
bloody revolt last week came only
a few hours after his 16-man cab
inet resigned. The presidential
press secretariat said the minis
ters wanted to let the President
reshuffle the government as he
wished.
The broadcast and the mass res
ignation appeared to be new evi
dence that Peron had retained his
grip on Argentina, despite specu
lation and rumors that the revolt
had weakened his power. The ra
dio speech was the President’s
first public utterance since Satur
day.
In his speech Peron once again
charged marine and naval avia
tion officers were the prime insti-1
gators of the revolt. But he broad
ened the accused to include “some
opposition political groups belong
ing to the Democratic Union,”
with “afterwards some clerical
groups joining.”
This was Peron’s only reference
to the Roman Catholic Church,
which excommunicated him just
before the revolt broke out. The
pro-government press has re
frained since the revolt from the
constant criticism of the church
it began when Peron launched his
campaign against the Catholic
hierarchy last November.
Peron said the June 16 revolt
had its beginnings as far back as
last November. He said the plot
ters planned to assassinate him
and other government leaders, but
that he was warned and left his
office 10 minutes before the first
bombs dropped on Government
House.
Communist East Germany
Has 4th Mass ‘Spy’ Trial
Within Two Weeks
BERLIN, GW—Communist East
Germany opened its fourth mass
“spy” trial within two weeks.
Five Germans accused of spying
for the U.S. were brought before
the supreme court.
In Halle, meanwhile, a Red
prosecutor asked prison terms
ranging from 13 years to life for
seven Germans accused of work
ing for the “British Secret Ser
vice.”
The Halle newspaper said the
seven were accused of reporting
Russian troop movements and
spying on East German factories.
The supreme court convicted
five Germans Thursday on spy
charges, sentencing two of them
to death. Last week the court con
victed seven other alleged spies,
also given two death sentences
Jet Bomber Flies From
Norway to Fairbanks,
Beats Sun by 4% Hours
FAIRBANKS (4V-Three British
Royal Air Force officers flew
across the North Pole in a jet
bomber from Norway to Alaska
yesterday, landing four and a half
hours by the clock before they
left Europe.
The twin-engined jet plane, the
first of its kind to fly across the
pole, roared onto Ladd Air Force
Base at 4:27 p.m., Alaska time,
six hours 23 minutes after leaving
Bardufoss, Norway. They had left
the European airport at 9:04 p.m.,
Norway time.
The 3,200-mile jaunt was com
pleted at an average speed of 500
miles an hour, gaining all the way
on the sun which had been setting
when they left Bardufoss.
(At this latitude, the relative
speed of the sun across the sky is
much slower than at the Equator,
where it approximates 1,000 mph.)
The sun and moon both were
visible at this time of year.
It was all a bit confusing, how
ever, gastronomically speaking:
the three fliers had supper in
Bardufoss and arrived here in
time for dinner the same day.
Senator Says Reds
‘Hold the Cards’
In Big Four Talks
WASHINGTON UP—Sen. Mans
field (D-Mont) said today the So
viet Union “holds all the real
cards” in next month’s discussions
with the West on the future of
Germany.
Mansfield said Eisenhower Ad
ministration foreign policy leaders
have “overemphasized the tenu
ous relationship that now exists
between West Germany and west
ern Europe and hypnotized them
selves that this relationship will
continue indefinitely.”
If Russia is seriously intent on
a neutral, reunified Germany, the
senator said in an interview, So
viet leaders may well disclose at
the Big Four summit conference
an intent to advance these “at
tractive” propositions to West
German Chancellor Adenauer:
Invite him to “take over” Soviet
East Germany; offer him Soviet
controlled territory now held by
Poland and the Czechoslavakia
Sudetenland, both of which Ger
many once controlled; and hold
out a guarantee of trade conces
sions.
Soviet Foreign Minister Molo
tov, Mansfield said, served notice
in his San Francisco speech two
days ago that Russian leaders will
demand the United States give up
its air base system in Europe and
Africa when the Big Four talks
get under way at Geneva July 18.
“This is the most significant
portion of Molotov’s speech,” said
Mansfield.
Senate Republican Leader
Knowland, meanwhile, demanded
that the U.S. avoid any discussion
of Far East tensions at any inter
national meeting until all Ameri
cans now held by Communist Chi
na are freed.
Dulles Tells Russia Way to End
Cold War Is to Stop Using Force
And Stop Supporting Subversion
SAN FRANCISCO (JV-Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles told
Russia in blunt language today:
The way to end the cold war is
to stop using force against other
countries and to stop supporting
subversion.
In a stinging attack on Commu
nism, Dulles declared:
“To bring the cold war to an
end, seven points are not needed;
this one is sufficient.”
The secretary spoke at the U.N.
10th anniversary meeting, which
Wednesday heard Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov propose a
seven-point program to liquidate
the cold war.
Dulles spoke with President
Eisenhower’s “full confidence and
concurrence.” The President him
self said so Monday when he ad
dressed the opening session. He
told the delegates the secretary
would speak today “on appropri
ate elements in the foreign policy
of this nation.”
Pulled No Punches
Dulles pulled no punches as he
reviewed the role of Communism
in recent history. He agreed with
Molotov that some problems had
been settled recently, but he said
they would have been settled
years earlier except for the Com
TRAVELING NOMEITE SEES
HOTEL ALASKA IN SPAIN
Hi Dill, former Nomeite now
traveling in Spain with his wife,
reports he found a Hotel Alaska
in Alsusua, Navarra, Spain. He
states that it is operated by Peter
Salinas, who made his fortune in
Alaska in the early days and went
back home and built the hotel in
memory of his good fortune.
Reports Conflict
On Nuclear Tests
In Soviet Russia
WASHINGTON, OB—The Atom
ic Energy Commission <AEC) in
dicated today it has had no evi
dence of a major nuclear test by
Russia in almost a year.
This contradicts Dr. Ralph £.
Lapp, a nuclear scientist formerly
connected with the government’s
atomic bomb development pro
gram, who says, “it now can be
revealed that the Soviets conduct
ed at least two superbomb tests
this spring.”
Writing in the current issue of
Life magazine, Lapp said the first
of the two tests occurred in April
and that Japanese scientists, then
found evidence in fallout sam
ples. The second shot, Lapp said,
was in May, when “nongovern
ment scientists in the United
States picked up strong radioac
tive indications of it.”
In response to a question based
on Lapp’s assertion, the AEC said:
“The commission has consis
tently followed a policy of inform
ing the American people of its
tests of nuclear weapons and of
tests in Soviet territory.
“There has been no change in
this policy.”
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munists.
“We do not forget,” he said,
“we dare not forget, that some of
those who now hail the recent de
velopments are precisely those
who for years sought to stop
them.”
Dulles strongly defended the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion (NATO) and other regional
organizations which Molotov had
blamed for much of the trouble
today. These organizations were
based on the spirit of the U.N.
Charter, Dulles said, and it was
Western strength, backed by these
organizations, which had led to
the solution of major problems.
U.N. Repelled Reds
Then, in sarcastic language, he
took up the problems which Mol
otov had listed in his speech as
having been solved. The Korean
War, he said, was ended only af
ter U.N. forces had repelled Com
munist aggression.
“It is indeed strange,” he said,
“to hear this triumph of collective
security now hailed as proof of
the peace-loving character of the
aggressor and its supporters. If
they had had their way, we would
today be commemorating the fifth
anniversary of the demise of the
United Nations.”
Austria Exploited
Dulles said further:
The Indochina fighting was
ended by agreement in Geneva,
but only after the United States
and other nations made it clear
that continued fighting might call
for collective action within the
framework of the U.N. Charter.
The Austrian treaty should
have been signed years ago, but it
was delayed while one of its oc
cupying powers exploited its econ
omy for a decade.
Yugoslav-Soviet relations have
been improved but they were bad
in the first place only because
Yugoslavia had broken away from
“an alien yoke.”
The recent Soviet overtures to
West Germany and Japan came
only after years of abuse and hos
tility from Russia.
Five Major Problems
Then Dulles listed five major
problems, which he hinted he
would like to see tackled by the
summit meeting of the Big Four
in Geneva next month. He did not
list them specifically as agenda
items, but he enumerated them as
he led into his discussion of the
Geneva talks. They are:
' 1. Unification of Germany.
2. The problem of the east Eur
opean satellites of Russia.
3. Communist China’s use oF
force and threats of force in Ko
rea, Indochina and Formosa.
4. Efforts of “International
Communism” to overthrow gov
ernments by conspiracy.
5. Disarmament.
“These are some of the prob
lems that confront us as we face
the future,” Dulles said. “They
are problems which cannot be met
if we shut our eyes to them, or if
we are weak, confused, divided.”