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Gen. Twining Says
USAF Is the Power
That Reds Respect
BOSTON, U!) — Gen. Nathan F.
Twining warned today that a
“flood of aircraft streaming from
the aviation arsenals of the Soviet
Union holds far more potential
danger than the mightiest hurri
cane.”
The Air Force chief of staff
said the United States today is
“well ahead in the kind of air
power the Soviets respect.” But
he cautioned that Russian aircraft
production is catching up fast not
only in quantity but in quality.
“If we do let the Reds catch
up in air power,” Twining de
clared, “you may be certain that
a Soviet attack would be more
likely than it is now.”
He said the “battle for prepar
edness is getting harder instead
of easier,” and that the nation is
still almost two years away from
the 137-wing goal set for the Air
Force in 1953.
Twining said the radar warn
ing line along the U.S.-Canadian
boundary is now complete and
work is well under way on a
mid-Canada line. But he said the
“Dew,” or distant early warning
line, in the Arctic is just getting
started.
The general said it will be an
other year before the Air Defense
Command gets supersonic inter
ceptors capable of destroying en
emy aircraft with guided missiles.
He described the B-52 as “the
best jet bomber in the world to
day.”
Twining said the Tactical Air
Command has developed to a
point where it is now possible
to meet large or small challenges
almost anywhere on the world.
France Replaces Grandval
As Resident General Of
Strife-Ridden Morocco
PARIS, UP) — France today an
nounced the resignation of Gil
bert Grandval, her top adminis
trative officer in her troubled
Moroccan protectorate.
As expected, Gen. Pierre Boyer
de Letour was named to succeed
Grandval as resident general. The
general, who has been resident
general in Tunisia, left Tunis for
Rabat, the Moroccan capital.
Grandval, who went to Rabat
July 7 with orders to relax the
French rule, built up popularity
with many Moroccan nationalists
but drew the ire of European resi
dents of the protectorate who op
pose giving the natives a stronger
hand.
The colonists blame his “weak”
policy for the native uprising on
Aug. 20 in which more than 1,000
Moroccans and French were j
killed. Neutral observers consid
ered the uprising were due to the
French government’s delay in
granting some measure of self
rule to the nationalists.
The French hope that de Latour
who for many years held military
commands in Morocco, will satis
fy both "nationalists and French
colonials.
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Peron Offers To
Resign Presidency
Of Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Iff* — Presi
dent Juan D. Peron offered to
resign today. The response was
mass demonstrations of strength
by his followers who insisted that
he continue in office.
The president addressed his
offer to the Central Confederation
of Labor and the leadership of his
own Peronista party. Both clearly
had been primed to receive and
reject it.
The long message said:
“The time for fighting has
passed. The time has come to
work and consolidate our revolu
tionary gains. I offer my retire
ment "to insure pacification. I do
not want to be an obstacle ... it
is not possible to destroy what we
have built.”
“They speak of civil war,” it
continued. “I do not believe it
will happen here. There will be
peace or dictatorship. I have no
taste for dictatorship. If that is
the solution, someone else will
have to do it.”
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League,
Cleveland 7, Baltimore 4
Chicago 7, Boston 5
Detroit 4, Washington 0
Kansas City 4, New York 3
National League
New York 5-9, Cincinnati 0-7
St. Louis 1-1, Pittsburgh 0-3
Brooklyn 8, Milwaukee 6
Chicago 3, Philadelphia 1
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 10, San Francisco 3
Los Angeles 2, Hollywood 1
Portland 5, Seattle 2
B-47 Jets Take
Fairchild Trophy
In ‘World Series’
RIVERSIDE, Calif., »—Swept
wing B-47 Stratojets out-bombed
the 10-engine B-36s to capture the
Muir Fairchild trophy today for
the first time in the seven years
of competition in the Strategic
Air Command “world series” of
bombing and navigation.
Gleeful B-47 pilots, whose all
jet jobs fly about twice as fast
as the B-36s which have six con
ventional engines and four jet
engines, will receive their honors
today from the skipper, Gen. Cur
tis LeMay, SAC commander. The
B-47 jockeys call the B-36s “heli
copters.”
There were 24 B-47 and 10 B-36
wings in competition, each with
two crews entered. Their missions
in the last six days were simu
lated bombing of industrial plant
targets in Los Angeles, Sacra
mento, Calif., and Spokane, ac
companied by 3,000-mile naviga
tional problems. All results were
determined by radar findings.
Each crew had to fly three such
missions.
Air Force scorers said that
many times crews “shacked the
bomb” or hit dead center on a
target which may have been only
one corner of one building in a
sprawling industrial installation,
and this from perhaps 40,000 feet.
Wreckage- of Tug
And Barge Found
At Shishmaref
Pieces of barge and tug boat
have been washed up on the beach
at Shishmaref, it is reported, fol
lowing the recent storm during
which winds were reported about
90 miles an hour in that area.
According to reports, the wrecks
are believed to be a tug and barge
belonging to the B & R Tug Co. of
Kotzebue and a crew oi three
were supposed to be aboard. No
further details have been ob
tained.
Alaska Steam Announces
Sale of Passenger Ship
Baranof to Japanese Firm
SEATTLE, UP> — The S. S.
Baranof, last passenger ship held
by the Alaska Steamship Co., has
been sold to Japanese interests,
the company announced today.
R. C. Anderson, executive vice
president of the line, said he
could not disclose the name of
the buyer or in what trade the
4,990 - ton 186 - passenger vessel
will be used.
He said the transaction still
needs approval of the United
States and Japanese governments
but this is expected soon.
The vessel was built in 1919
and originally called the Santa
Elisa until Alaska Steam took it
over in 1936 and renamed it after
a Russian fur baron.
Man Who Caused Large
Forest Fire Must Make 20
Lectures On Fire Safety
PASADENA, Calif., UPl—A 26
year - old physical education in
structor, who U.S. Forest Service
officials say accidentally started a
$500,000 forest fire with a camp
stove, yesterday was ordered to
make 20 public talks on fire
safety as a condition of probation.
Municipal Judge Richard Fil
dew also fined Bernard V. Buck
$100, suspending a six - month
county jail sentence. Buck plead
ed guilty to a charge of violating
county fire ordinances.
District Ranger Carl Wilson
said the three-day fire last month
blackened 420 acres of watershed
in the Angeles National Forest.
Buck, a teacher at Pacific Col
lege in Los Angeles, must deliver
the talks at the direction of the
y
Forest Service.
Western Foreign Ministers
Coordinate Views Before
Meeting With Molotov
WASHINGTON, UP! —Secretary
of State Dulles and the British
and French foreign ministers will
meet in New York Sept. 27 to
coordinate Western views in ad
vance of their meeting with Rus
sia’s V. M. Molotov in October.
Heinrich von Brentano, West
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German foreign minister, will
join the Big Three foreign policy
chiefs on Sept. 28. This phase of
the talks presumably will deal
with Western plans to press for
German unity at the meeting with
the Soviets which is set for Gen
eva on Oct. 27.
Five Congressional Committees
Plan On-the-Spot Inquiries Into
Alaska Problems Starting Sept. 15
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Pan American Personnel
Threaten To Strike For
Pay Raises and Conditions
NEW YORK, (B—Maintenance
and flight service personnel of
Pan American World Airways
have authorized their union to
call a strike any time after their
labor contract expires at midnight
tonight.
No specific strike deadline was
set and federal mediation sessions
today are expected to defer any
immediate walkout.
The CIO Transport Workers
Union said a strike would affect
Pan Am operations all around the
world. A spokesman for the com
pany said this would depend on
how many employes in the far
flung Pan Am system obeyed the
strike call.
The union has asked for a raise
of 18 cents an hour for hourly
rated employes, who now average
$2.10 an hour. For flight stewards,
who now make $375 a month, it
seeks a boost of $45 a month.
Also in dispute are demands for
a 30-hour work week instead of
40 hours, a guaranteed year
round layoff pay plan, improved
pensions and triple time instead
of double time for holidays.
Gloria Lockerman
Takes $16,000 On
TV Quiz Show
NEW YORK, (^—Little Gloria
Lockerman has taken her $16,000
winnings and passed up a chance
to spell her way to more wealth
on “The $64,000 Question” tele
vision show.
Here’s the way she figured it
wouldn’t be wise to try for
$32,000:
“For such a big amount of
money it would be a hard ques
tion. It would be a jumble of
words I never heard of, and then
I’d be lost. I thought the sensible
thing to do was to stop where I
was. I’d rather go away and be
Gloria the undefeated champion
than Gloria the girl who lost.”
The girl will net about $11,600
after federal income taxes, ac
cording to best estimates. She re
ceived $500 to use as she wishes,
and master of ceremonies Hal
March said the rest of the money
will be put into a trust fund for
her education.
Marine Corps. Capt. Richard S.
McCutcheon of Worthington, O.,
reached the $16,000 mark last
night in his quiz category of
cooking and foods. He named the
flours and geographical origins
of five kinds of bread.
Gino Patro, who recently won
$32,000 on the program by an
swering questions about opera,
left by plane last night for Italy
to visit his 92-year-old father,
Giovanni, whom he hasn’t seen
in 33 years.
> By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Congress
begins its annual invasion of Al
aska next month.
Beginning in mid - September
and running through the end of
the year, four House and Senate
subcommittees plan on-the-spot
inquiries into Alaskan problems
on which they must legislate.
Plans of three Senate subcom
mittees still are tentative in some
respects. This much is definite:
Hearings on juvenile delinquen
cy will be held in Juneau and
probably Anchorage and Fair
banks Sept. 15-22 under the di
rection of Sen. Langer (R-ND>.
Sen. Magnuson fD-Wash) will
take members of his Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Commit
tee to Juneau and Anchorage in
mid-October to look into prob
lems of air and water transporta
tion, airport development, small
boat basins and probably fish
eries. Republican Sens. Potter of
Michigan and Bricker of Ohio
plan to accompany him.
Late in November or early De
cember, the Mining subcommittee
of the Senate Insular Affairs
Committee will go to Juneau and
Nome for hearings on legislation
to provide an incentive program
to spur tin exploration and devel
opment.
The House Territories Commit
tee hearings, under Rep. O’Brien
(D-NY), will open in Fairbanks
Sept. 15 and close in Ketchikan
Oct. 3. In between the group
plans to visit or take testimony
in Pt. Barrow, Kotzebue, Nome,
Anchorage, Palmer, Seward,
Homer, Cordova, Dillingham,
Kodiak, Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell,
Petersburg, Craig, Hydaburg and
Klawock.
Members describe the trip as
the first comprehensive on-the
spot series of hearings in Alaska
since the late 1940’s. Matters to
be studied include such varied
subjects as the various self rule
proposals, industrial possibilities,
resources, transportation, Indians,
mental health and public land
problems.
George Abbot, committee coun
sel, puts it this way:
ifWe hope to be able to take
the record of this hearing and
stamp it ‘This is Alaska’.”
At least seven members have
indicated their intention to take
in all or part of the series. In
addition to O’Brien, they include
Democrats Mrs. Green (Ore) and
Sisk (Calif) and Republicans Say
lor (Pa), Dawson (Utah), Cheno
weth (Colo) and Utt (Calif). Dele
gate Bartlett will join the group
in Alaska. \
A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
VIENNA, UP — Sunbathers in
Vienna Park ran for their lives
yesterday when a bolt from the
blue split a large cherry tree in
their midst from top to bottom.
The bolt turned out to be a
20-pound metal bar that dropped
j off an airplane passing overhead.