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Downgrading Of
Stalin Denounced
By Red Newspaper
MOSCOW, UP)—The army news
paper Red Star today denounced
as “absolutely wrong and harm
ful” recent charges that Joseph
Stalin left the Soviet Union un
prepared for Nazi Germany's on
slaught.
The big army paper thus chal
lenged the position taken April 24
by Military Herald, official maga
zine of Defense Minister Marshal
Georgi Zhukov.
Military Herald had blamed
Stalin for ignoring warnings by
Soviet intelligence that Hitler
planned to attack the Soviet
Union. The magazine said the
German attack “turned out to be
sudden for the Soviet Union al
though it cannot be considered to
have been sudden for the highest
leadership of the country which
at that time was wholly concen
trated in the hands of Stalin.”
The conflict between the army
newspaper and the defense min
istry magazine was the most dra
matic demonstration yet of the
ferment and confusion set off by
the campaign of the present So
vient leadership to downgrade
Stalin and rewrite the history of
World War II.
Some western observers speeu- |
lated the Military Herald’s
charges had been circulated too
widely and had to be countered
shortly and sharply. To others it
appeared to be a case of serious
second thoughts on how far down
the Communist hierarchy the
blame for Russia’s unprepared
ness would descend.
Deputy Defense Secretary
Sees No Need For Rail
Link Between Alaska, U.S.
ANCHORAGE, UP — Defense
strategy for Alaska does not in
clude the need of a rail link
with the 'United States, Reuben R.
Robertson, Deputy Defense Sec
retary, said here yesterday.
“U.S. forces in Alaska have
adequate defenses, both air and
land, to meet any overland inva
sian,” Robertson added.
The secretary is on an inspec
tion tour of military bases in the
territory.
Tuesday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4, Cleveland 3
Boston 4, Chicago 3
Baltimore 7, Kansas City 4
Detroit 14, Washington 6
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 6, Chicago 0
New York 5, Cincinnati 4
Milwaukee 5, Pittsburgh 0
St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 1
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 3, Los Angeles 0
San Diego 5, San Francisco 4
Vancouver 5, Portland 4
ALBANY. Calif., UP —A large
sign on the roof of an auto re
pair shop looked down on Demo
cratic presidential contender Ad
lai Stevenson in a speech at the
Albany Freedom Movement last
night.
It read:
“Careful what you say, Adlai.
This side of the street is good
Republican territory."
Delegate Bartlett Asks
$10 Million For Fairbanks
Flood Control Project
WASHINGTON, IP — A $10,
567,000 flood control project for
Fairbanks, Alaska, was urged
Tuesday by Delegate Bartlett.
He told a House Public Works
subcommittee, which is consider
ing an over-all flood control au
thorization bill, that the work is
necessary to protect Fairbanks as
well as the nearby Ladd Air Force
Base.
The project would include
works to divert flood flows from
the Chena River into, the Tanana
River above Fairbanks.
U.S. Heady to Back
liammarskjold in
Another Mission
WASHINGTON, UP — The
United States was reported ready
today to back another Middle East
peace mission by U.N. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjoid if he
thinks it would promote Israeli
Arab agreement.
Secretary of State Dulles said
last night this country and its
Western allies now have greater
confidence in United Nations
handling of the dangerous Middle
East situation since Russia has
indicated it is prepared “to sup
port a solution" through the U.N.
“The Soviet Union seems in
creasingly aware of the dangerous
consequences of reckless action,”
Dulles said in a speech before an
international convention of B’nai
B’rith, a Jewish fraternal organ
ization.
His speech constituted a report
on his meeting in Paris iast week
with other foreign ministers of
the 15 - nation North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and was
largely devoted to the possibilities
of expanding NATO’s work.
Recalling that NATO had not
taken up the Middle East crisis,
North African problems and the
bitter Cyprus dispute because it
has been solely concerned with
military matters, Dulles declared:
“Surely the Atlantic commun
ity is not adequately organized
if matters of this nature, which
could shake the community to its
foundation, develop over the
years without any effort at broad
consultation between the mem
bers."
Gromyko “Exhausted"
From Disarmament
Talks In London
LONDON, UPi—Andrei Gromyko,
Soviet deputy foreign minister,
left for Moscow Tuesday after
seven weeks of disarmament talks
with representatives of the West
ern powers.
“I am too exhausted to add any
thing to my previous comments
on the talks over here,” he told
airport reporters. ‘‘Perhaps Mr.
Nutting will say something. He is
not exhausted.”
Minister of State Anthony Nut
ting was British representative in
the talks which recessed last week
without agreement. Gromyko was
apparently nettled over state
ments made by Nutting in the
House of Commons opposing So
viet disarmament proposals.
At Today’s
Presidential
News Conference
WASHINGTON, — President
Eisenhower said today he will
undergo a new head-to-toe physi
cal examination Friday, including
a check on his heart condition.
Eisenhower made the announce
ment at a news conference. He
had been asked whether he plan
ned another full-scale check up in
advance of the Republican nation
al convention which opens in San
Francisco Aug. 20.
In today’s meeting with news
men the President also discussed
these other matters:
Security—'Discussing the case of
Sidney Hatkin, Air Force econ
omist who was suspended 14
months ago as a possible security
risk, Eisenhower expressed con
fidence that Secretary of the Air
Force Quarles will handle the
matter with justice.
Eisenhower’s comments came
when a newsman told him that
former Republican Sen. Harry P.
Cain, now a member of the Sub
fersive Activities Control Board,
had said in a speech a few days
ago that subordinates have kept
the President in ignorance of
what goes on in the government
security program.
In criticism of that program,
Cain mentioned the Hatkin case
as an example of “bureaucratic
heartlessness.”
Speaking generally of the secur
ity program, Eisenhower said no
one would say it is working per
fectly. But he added great pro
gress has been made, and said the
administration is determined that
it will work in the best interest
of the country.
Air Power — Eisenhower said
again he believes emphasis should
be placed primarily on having
adequate all around military
strength, including air power,
rather than concentrating on hav
ing more of any one type of wea
pon than a potential enemy.
That was a follow up on his re
marks last week that America
will feel a lot better about its
air power position when the full
picture has been outlined by the
Defense Department to a Senate
investigating committee.
Cypriots Attack U.S.
Information Service Office
ATHENS, Greece, UP — Greek
mobs inflamed by the impending
hanging of two Greek Cypriots at
tacked the U.S. Information Ser
vice Office and demonstrated
against Britain today in riots
which left two killed and 120 in
jured.
Thirty policemen were hospital
ized, including several suffering
from bullet wounds.
Tonight, fearful of new rioting
tomorrow, soldiers in full battle
gear threw up barbed wire en
tangements around the British
embassy. Other wire coils were
placed beside the U.S. embassy so
a barricade could be thrown up if
needed.
Police said rioters opened fire
on them, which led to an ex
change of bullets, in addition to
stoning and clubbing.
Dr. Milo Fritz Prop oses American
Medical Students Come To Alaska
To Study Diseases At Firsthand
President Eisenhower
Leads Kefauver In
Indiana Primary Election
Five states held primary elec
tions yesterday and an immediate,
and inevitable, dispute arose as to
the political significance of the
Indiana results.
President Eisenhower took a
substantial lead in that predom
inantly Republican state, over
Democrat Estes Kefauver, al
though the two were not directly
opposed in the presidential pre
ference voting.
Eisenhower, with 3,902 of In
diana’s 4,359 precincts reporting,
had 316,340 votes, or 61 per cent.
Kefauver, with 3,718 of the
state’s precincts counted, had
194,699 votes, or 37 per cent.
The Indiana vote was unusual
ly light, even though real con
tests were lacking. Democrats
had hoped for an indication of
farm resentment of administra
tion policies, but no such signals
appeared.
Sen. George Will Leave
Senate To Become
Ambassador To NATO
BY JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, W—Sen. Wal
ter F. George of Georgia, the
Democrats’ veteran spokesman on
foreign affairs, said today he will
leave the Senate when his term
ends in January. He indicated
strongly he plans to step into a
new assignment as President Ei
senhower’s ambassador to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion.
George’s intention not to run
for re-election had become known
in advance, but word of the NATO
job came as a surprise.
George did not say in so many
words that he will take the NATO
post but he did tell his news con
ference:
“I would not shirk my duty or
any duty or responsibility de
manded or requested of me. What
ever I may do in the future may
begin in January.”
As for his decision not to run
again, George said it is for “good
and sufficient reasons.” He did
not elaborate.
Eisenhower Will Name
Secretary of Interior
In A Few Days
WASHINGTON, (JV- President
Eisenhower told his news confer
ence today he hopes to name a
successor to Douglas McKay as
Secretary of the Interior within
a matter of days. McKay, a Re
publican, resigned from the cabi
net April 15 to run for the Sen
ate in Oregon. The seat is now
held by Wayne. Morse, who was
elected six years ago as a Re
publican but later switched to the
Democratic party.
Eisenhower spoke of the diffi
culty he said there always is in
getting the right man for the job,
but said a McKay successor will j
be announced soon.
SEATTLE, iff)—A proposal that
American universities send young
doctors to “backward” areas of
the world for six months of the
customary three-vear residency
training has been advanced by an
Anchorage physician.
The doctor, long a champion of
improved medical care for Alaska,
said his proposal would eliminate
an artificial “shortage” of medical
personnel to care for thousands of
Alaska natives.
Dr. Milo H. Fritz, president of
the Alaska Territorial Medical
Association, made the observation
in an article in Northwest Medi
cine.
Dr. Fritz contrasted remedial
health conditions among thou
sands of Alaska natives with a
situation he said exists in many
American medical centers in
which young physicians cannot
find sufficient diseased patients
to get adequate training.
The same “abundance” of pre
ventable disease exists tamong the
Navaho Indians of this country, in
India, Africa and other backward
nations, Dr. Fritz noted.
Dr. Fritz observed that there
are now 3,000 known cases of
mastoid disease among Alaska
natives which now need surgical
correction. Only one physician in
the entire territory now does that
sort of surgery.
“If he could do one operation
a day 300 days a year, it would
take 10 years to do the known
cases,” Dr. Fritz said.
Three-fourths of all patients ad
mitted to Alaska Native Health
Service hospitals in Anchorage
and Mt. Edgecumbe, have im
paired hearing and vision due to
mastoiditis, and a disease caus
ing scaring of the cornea of the
eye, respectively.
“Over 80 individuals have vision
so markedly impaired in both
eyes that they are blind by legal
definition.”
“They could be restored to use
fullness by cornea transplant tech
niques,” Dr. Fritz wrote.
He added that “the three ortho
pedic surgeons in the territory are
overwhelmed by the amount of
bone and joint tuberculosis which
required immediate attention.”
Yet, centers for training eye
and ear specialists in the large
eastern cities have so few pa
tients with some of these diseases
that proper training cannot be
given, Dr. Fritz said.
“Out medical schools supply, in
a manner of speaking, two chick
ens for every pot,” Dr. Fritz said,
“While the Alaska native and
most people in the world don’t
even have the pot.”
Somebody Has To Do It
CHICAGO, M—Thomas Martin,
Chicago's elevator inspector, jilan
ned a busy, and probably dizzy
day today. He will spend the day
riding the roller coasters, 'the
loop-the-loop and other thrillers
at an amusement park. Martin has
to determine that all rides are
safe before they are put in oper
ation for the season, which opens
next week.