Gold Prospectors Missing
In ‘Headless Valley’
YELLOWKNIFE, N. W. T., W)—
A lone plane piloted by a Protes
tant missionary searched over the
weekend for two gold prospectors
missing in rough and deserted
“headless valley” — which got
its name because so many have
vanished there.
The search is regarded as near
ly hopeless. The men were with
out supplies.
The prospectors, Tom Papas. 41,
and Orville Webb, 35, have been
missing since Aril 12, when they
set out on a 110-mile hike for
help.
Left in an isolated cabin were
John Richardson, 25, and Dean
Rossworn, 55, two members of a
five-man prospecting team that
had been there all winter.
Alex Meiskonen, 60, took his
own life by dynamite when a
plane scheduled to take them out
failed to arrive.
Richardson and Rossworn were
rescued last Saturday after nearly
two months with little food. Two
pilots had landed at their cabin
by chance. It lies about 600 miles
north of Edmonton.
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Retired Intelligence Chief
Says Reds Count on U.S.
Communist Party Reports
DENVER, Colo., UP) — ‘‘Of
course” the Soviets are sending
spy flights over United States
territories, Maj. Gen. Charles Wil
loughby (ret.) said last week.
Willoughby was intelligence
chief on the staff of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur from 1941 to 1951. He
now is military editor of Amer
ican Mercury Magazine and a con
sultant to the Hounse Un-Amer
ican Activities Committee.
“Vapor trails have been picked
up over Alaska time and again,”
he said in an interview, intimat
ing these trails are from Soviet
planes.
“But this isn’t the point. Rus
sia does not have to fly over us.
It has the American Communist
Party at its beck and call. They
pick up all the information Russia
wants.”
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Truman Supports
Sen. Symington
CHICAGO, Ufi — Former Presi
dent Harry Truman last week
endorsed Sen. Stuart Symington
for the Democdatic Presidential
nomination.
At a news conference, Truman
handed out a nine-paragraph
statement tracing Symington’s rec
ord and asserting:
“I am as sure as I can be that
if the Democrats nominate him,
he will have no difficulty in carry
ing a tremendous majority of the
electoral votes in November.”
“Without doubt, he is the best
qualified man,” Truman said of
his fellow Missourian.
In Washington, Symington said
he was “deeply grateful and
proud” of the Truman endorse
ment.
“No Democrat knows more
about the qualifications of a man
to be President than does Presi
dent Truman,” Symington added.
A spokesman for Vice President
Nixon, regarded as the Republican
nominee, said he would have
comment oh the Truman an
nouncement.
In Chicago to address the Exec
utives Club, Truman had kind
words for Sen. John Kennedy,
front runner in his party’s pre
convention campaigning.
He was asked if he had any ob
jection to Kennedy, he replied:
“None whatever. He’s a fine
young man and I know and like
him. The only thing is, he lives
in Massachusetts.”
Russians Caution Canada
LONDON, W) — The Russians
Saturday cautioned' Canada
against permitting U. S. spy planes
to fly from Canadian bases.
A Moscow Radio broadcast to
North Amedica said Canada had
put its territory at the disposal of
the U. S. Air Force and “the gen
tlemen of the U. S. Defense De
partment and the Intelligence
Agency” were now making them
selves at home.
“The fate of world peace de
pends in no small measure on the
lessons which the Canadian gov
ernment and the governments of
the other countries where U. S.
bases are located draw from the
incident of the spy-plane,” the
English-language broadcast said.
Russians Tighten Hold
On Tourist Travel
WASHINGTON, UP! — Tourist
visas for Americans wanting to
travel in Russia have suddenly be
come more difficult to obtain,
travel experts reported last week.
The switch-around from pre
vious Soviet boosting of U. S.
tourist trade was linked to the
U-2 spy plane incident by in
formed observers.
The travel experts said that
starting May 6 — about the time
the circumstances of the May 1
spy plane flight became known —
travel agency couriers ran into
trouble in picking up visas at
the Soviet Embassy.
Visas were still being ^granted
by the Embassy, but not as freely
. as before.
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Sinatra, and John
Wayne Scuffle At
Hollywood Benefit
HOLLYWOOD, — Frank
Sinatra and John Wayne staged a
brief shoving match at the Moulin
Rouge night club early Saturday,
but were separated before any
blows were struck, police said.
A few minutes later, Sinatra
was embroiled in an argument
with two parking lot attendants
outside the night club. In an en
suing scuffle, police said, one of
the attendants was battered by a
husky Negro bleieved to be Sin
atra’s bodyguard.
The incidents followed a $100-a
plate Share, Inc., benefit dinner
attended by Sinatra, Wayne, Dean
Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Gary
Cooper, Milton Berle and other
stars. The proceeds went to help
mentally retarded children.
Police said that after the dinner,
Sinatra encountered Wayne on the
parking lot and snapped: “You
seem to disagree with me.” Wayne
had publicly criticized Sinatra’s
hiring of writer Albert Maltz, who
was jailed in 1951 for contempt
after refusing to tell a Congres
sional committee whether he had
been a Communist.
Wayne told Sinatra: “We can
discuss this somewhere else.” Sin
atra, about 5 feet '7 and 150
pounds, moved in on Wayne,
about 6 feet 4, _and 225. Friends
quickly pushed "the men aside as
they started shoving each other.
Police said Sinatra had been
drinking. He later had an argu
ment with the parking lot attend
ant over handling of cars on the
lot, and it was then that a Negro,
identified only as Sam knocked
the attendant against a car and
pummeled him.
Report Officials Ordered to
Quit Discussing Spy Plane
NEW YORK, UPl — The New
York Times reported Saturday
that government officials have
been ordered to stop talking in
public about the American spy
plane lost over the Soviet Union.
A Washington dispatch said the
new policy was marked by Presi
dent Eisenhower’s cancellation of
plans to make a farewell statement
before leaving for the summit
meeting in Paris, because such 3
statement would only generate
additional speculation.
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