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Big Four Conference In the Clouds
Still Leaves German Puzzle Up in Air
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, W> — Foreign minis
ters of the Big Four nations began
secret talks on German issues
and a summit conference here to
day after a precedent-setting sky
session on a transatlantic flight
from Washington.
First indications from Western
informants were that the talks on
the 17-hour flight had not pro
duced any real progress. Never*
theless, Western officials seem
reasonably sure that a formula
can be found in the next 10 days
or two weeks.
A U. S. Air Force plane brought
Secretary of State Herter, Soviet
Foreign Minister Gromyko, For
eign Secretary Lloyd and France’s
Couve from Washington.
The four ministers were in a
jovial mood. Herter was first off
the plane, Gromyko following. As
sistant Secretary of State An
drew Berding, who had ridden in
an accompanying aircraft, issued
a statement on behalf of the four:
“The four foreign ministers had
an opportunity on the aircraft of
reviewing the progress of the Ge
neva conference and to discuss
certain details of their respective
positions. All agreed that their
exchange of views had been most
useful.
Berding supplied some details
of the conference in the clouds
after talking briefly with Herter.
The four ministers took off
from Washington in midafternoon.
For the first hour they chatted
informally and read newspapers
and magazines and the like. Then
they organized a meeting — with
about as much secrecy as they
will, ever get — and talked about
conference issues for an hour and
a half.
Various 'accounts indicated that
altogether the four spent six or
seven hours in conversation, either
organized or casual.
Mamie Hosts Blind,
Infirm, at White
House Lawn Party
By FRANCES LEVINE
WASHINGTON, UP) — The First
Lady had a smile, a handshake,
a gay word for each of her spe
cial guests — even a kiss for
some. All of them were at least
65, some over 90.
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower had in
vited the 514 men and women
from local homes for the aged and
the blind for a White House gar
den party — the first of its kind.
Some were in wheelchairs.
Some walked with crutches or
- canes. Some were blind. But all
waited with an expectant smile
as they lined up to meet their
hostess.
Mrs. Eisenhower didn’t dis
appoint them.
Under a tree near the Presi
dent’s golfing ground^ she stood
on a square of pale green carpet
in her pink silk dress and told
them, “I am awfully happy you
came.”
Mrs. Eisenhower complimented
the women on what they were
wearing, worried that wheelchairs
were sticking in ruts in the grass
and that the 90-degree heat might
be too much for the elderly
guests.
But they took it all in happy
stride, enjoying refreshments
served at two bright red and white
striped awning stands. They sat
on chairs and listened to the Ma
rine Corps Band in scarlet and
white uniforms playing old time
tunes.
Whale Is White Elephant
GRAND RAPIDS* Mich, UP) —
U. S. Marshal Harry Jennings
hopes a whale of a problem will
be taken off his hands at a hear
ing June 15.
Jennings has been ordered to
confiscate 6,000 pounds of whale
meat destined for -western Michi
gan mink raisers. The meat failed
to meet federal food and drug act
standards.
Ordered by the National Foods
Co., the whale meat was shipped
to nearby New Era, Mich., from
Japan.
The company has been ordered
to show cause why the meat
should not be confiscated. Jen
nings hopes it has a good answer.
Memorial Day
Observance Stirs
Homage To Dead
America’s revered dead — mil
tary heroes of the nation’s five
major wars since the struggle for
independence — will be honored
Saturday in the 91st annual ob
servance of Memorial Day.
The ceremonies, spreading from
coast to coast, across the Pacific
to Hawaii and northward to Alas
ka, will center chiefly at national
cemeteries, battlefields and other
shrines.
The long holiday weekend got
under way today as millions trav
eling by train, car and plane,
started an exodus from crowded
cities to resort areas.
America has counted 1,128,393
killed in the five major wars
since the Revolution, and count
less thousands will pay homage
at gravesites in large and small
communities- throughout the na
tion.
At Rindge, N. H., Daughters of
the Confederacy and Daughters
of Union Veterans will lay wreaths
on an altar on a pine-clad hill. The
scene of the joint commemoration
will be the altar of the nation,
recognized hy Congress as a me
morial for all American war dead.
It is the only one of its kind.
At Honolulu, the U. S. Navy will
hold a Memorial Day service on a
platform aboard the sunken battle
ship Arizona — a victim of the De
cember 7, 1941, Japanese sneak
attack on Pearl Harbor. Still en
tombed in the Arizona’s bulk in
Pearl Harbor are 1,102 officers
and men.
President Announces
Change In Advisor
For Science, Technology
WASHINGTON, UPC-The White
House announced Thursday the
resignation of Dr. James R. Killian
Jr. as special assistant to the Pres
ident for science and technology.
Killian will return to Massachu
setts Institute of Technology from
which he was on leave. He was
named chairman of the corpora
tion of MIT last December.
Dr. George Bogdan Kistiakew
sky. professor of chemistry at
Harvard University, was chosen
by President Eisenhower to suc
ceed Killian. He is a native of
Kiev. Russia.
Veterans Groups
Sponsor Local
Memorial Parade
Most business houses will be
observing the Memorial Day holi
day by closing all day Saturday.
The Memorial Day parade, spon
sored by the American Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be
augmented by several groups of
young people, the School Band,
the Civil Air Patrol, and Boy
Scouts.
The parade will form at 10 a.m.
from the Federal Building, to
march up Front Street, and out
B or Bering Street to the ceme
tery.
The parade marshal, Mike Vi
verios, states there will be a short
ceremony with remarks by the
local Commander of ,the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, Larry Minnix.
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Army Developing
Pneumatic Flying
Saucer Vehicle
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Army
is working orr a new flying sau
cer it’s pretty enthusiastic about.
It’s called the Avrocar.
It’s one of a whole family of
vehicles developed around the
ground cushion effect.' They rise
a few inches or feet from the
ground on downward blasts of
air.
The new one rises at least 50
to 100 feet, and the Army hopes
to use it in place of some of its
land vehicles such as light troop
carrier trucks and light or me
dium tanks.
Brig. Gen. F. H. Britton of the
Army Research office, said the
fact of its shape and the fact it
flies, “we will have to say some
thing. If we don’t say what it
is, we are going to get a lot of
speculation. We will be back into
flying saucers again.”
Britton’s remarks were in cen
sored testimony made public by
the House Space Committee.
Britton said the Army already
has spent more than five million
dollars on the vehicle, being de
veloped by Avro Aircraft, Ltd.,
of Canada.
U. S. Doffs Hat To Honor Able, Baker,
As First, Fastest Astronaut Primates
By GEOFFREY GOULD
WASHINGTON, OP) — Able and
Baker, the world’s most renowned
monkeys are flying here for a
press conference Saturday.
From personal experience, they
know more about space travel than
the government scientists who will
present them.
After all, they traveled 1,500
miles, curving out more than 300
miles into space, aboard a Jupiter
missile Thursday.
They survived, with nary a
missed heartbeat, the ponderous
thrust as the rocket lifted off the
launching pad at Cape Canaveral.
They endured nine minutes free
of the earth’s pull of gravity as
the missile screamed along at
10,000 miles an hour.
And they survived the burning
re-entry into the earth’s atmos
phere far out in the Atlantic near
the Island of Antigua. The recov
ery of their nose cone, vehicle
from the sea by Navy vessels was
almost an anticlimax.
A-ble is a seven-pound rhesus
monkey, Baker a squirrel monkey
weighing only a pound*. Both are
females.
Through electronic instpuments
that radioed back such information
as pulse rate, body heat and blood
pressure, they told scientists much
about what can happen to a trav
eler in space.
The two pioneering monkeys
were aboard the Navy tug Kiowa
early today, alive and well.
After reaching San Juan, Puer
to Rico, they will be flown to
Washington. Project scientists will
meet newsmen Saturday with
Able and Baker on hand to meet
the press.
The monkeys’ successful 15
minute trip is hailed as an aus
picious forerunner for the pro
jected orbiting around the earth
of human “Mercury Astronauts”
by the United States some time in
the next two years.
Midnight Sun Festival Program Plan
Creates Summer Fete on Golden Strand
Plans for the annual three-day
Midnight Sun Festival have been
announced for June 19, 20 and 21.
The committee is headed by the
NWA Chamber of Commerce
Tourist Committee, and includes
to date Del Kampmann, Ruth Mc
Lean, Bob Herman, Pafll Mande
ville, Don Collis, Jim O’Sullivan,
Earl Owen, Sharon and Bob Har
wood, and John McNees.
Preliminary plans include tours
with lectures on Friday, June 19,
on which local residents may be
included, as the lectures will have
much historical data not usually
included on regular tourist peram
bulations. It was emphasized by
the committee that there will be
allowed special low rates for
children on these tours.
For Friday evening there is
planned a series of Eskimo street
dances on Front Street.
Saturday morning there will be
beach tours, with opportunities to
pan gold. Anyone may take home
all the gold they can find, and old
time miners will give expert ad
vice on how to pan gold. This
also is for residents as well as for
visitors.
Saturday afternoon, June 20,
will be Carnival Time in down
town Nome, with outside games
of chance, parade music, and other
special features, including a float
for the Festival Princesses.
Saturday evening will be high
light by a promenade of Nomeites
and visitors in frocks and cos
tumes of the stampede days, which
will be followed by a grand ball
in costume, at which time the
Festival Queen will be crowned.
Sunday morning is church time
in Nome, with blanket tossing
and other Eskimo sports sched
uled from Noon until 2 p.m. High
kicking champs are being invited
from Barrow, Kotzebue, Point
Hope, and other villages.
Everyone, states a spokesman of
the committee, is urged to get
dressed for the occasion and to
take part in the Festival. Business
houses are planning window dis
plays, with historical material fit
ting to portray the days of the
gold rush.
Boeing 707 Jet Makes
Record Distance Flight,
Seattle to Rome
ROME, Ut) — A Boeing 707 air
liner landed here today, claiming
a distance record for commercial
jet transports.
The plane took off from Seattle
yesterday and covered approxi
mately 5,800 miles on its flight
to Rome.
For the second time in a week
the plane beat the 4,225-mile flight
record claimed by the Soviet
Union for a flight from Moscow
to Khabarovsk, Siberia.
Forty persons were aboard the
airliner, among 'them the Boeing
Airplane Co. president, William
M. Allen.
The plane flew over the Great
Circle Route across Canada, Ice
land and Greenland.
On Monday the same airliner,
nearing completion of Federal
Aviation Agency tests, flew 4,575
miles nonstop on a nine-hour
round trip from Seattle to Fro
bisher Bay, Baffin Island.
The plane can carry 189 pas
sengers.
Teamster Leaders
Jailed on Pinball
Extortion Charges
MINEOLA, N. Y., UP) — A top
ranking national leader of the
Teamsters Union and a dozen
other men were held today on in
dictments by a grand jury which
investigated jukebox industry
rackets on Long Island.
The president of a New York
City local of the Teamsters Union
and other Teamsters officials were
among 15 men indicted Thursday
night.
John J. O’Rourke, 59, an inter
national vice president of the
union and head of- the Teamsters’
Joint Council 16 in New York
City, was one of those arrested.
After his release on $25,000 bail,
O’Rourke went to the fashionable
Garden City Hotel near Mineola
until his appearance in county
court today.
He was the only one of those
arrested to be freed in bail.
O’Rourke is a long-time friend
of Teamsters president James Hof
fa, and was named general organ
izer of the union last December.
Most of those indicted were ar
rested within a short time after
the indictments were handed up
by a Nassau County grand jury.
The bulk of the defendants were
charged with conspiracy, coercion,
extortion or attempted extortion.
Nassau County District Attorney
Manuel Levine told newsmen that
the extortion charges were based
on evidence that Local 266 was or
ganized “purely for the purpose of
extorting and coercing and re
straining individuals from the
proper conduct of their business.”
THURSDAY BASEBALL
(By The Associated Press)
American League
Kansas City 7, Cleveland 2.
Baltimore 5, New York 0.
Boston 3, Washington 1.
National League
Pittsburgh 3, Milwaukee 0.
San Francisco 5, St. Louis 4.
Chicago 7, Los Angeles 5.
Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3.
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 7, San Diego 0.
Salt Lake City 10, Phoenix 8.
Seattle 3, Vancouver 0.