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Soviets Announce They Shot Down
l .S. 1147 Missing Since July 1 In Arctic
MOSCOW, UP — The Soviet |
Union announced today it shot
down an American RB47 recon
naissance plane July 1 over So
viet territory and that two crew
men parachuted to safety and
are being questioned.
This was the first word of the
plane since it disappeared July 1
with six men aboard while on an
electromagnetic mapping flight
over waters north of Norway and
the Soviet Union.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko summoned U.S. Charge
d'Affaires Edward Fleers and
handed him a note protesting vio
lation of Soviet air space by the
plane.
Similar notes were given to
Britain and Norway because the
plane was temporarily based in
England and was expected to land
at a Norwegian air field.
A Soviet announcement said the
17 U of W Scientists
To Survey Arctic Waters
For ‘Project Chariot'
SEATTLE, Lfi—Seventeen Uni
versity of Washington scientists
are set to sail at midnight tonight
for regions of the Arctic Circle
to make a second ocean survey.
The survey is preliminary to
Project Chariot, a proposal to use
nuclear blasts to create a new
harbor at the mouth of Ogotoruk
Creek on the Chukchi Sea.
The group will travel aboard
the Department of Oceanography
vessel Brown Bear. They are
scheduled to return Sept. 16.
The research, which began last
year under the auspices of the
Atomic Energy Commission, in
volves land and sea studies of
plant and animal life. Marine life
collections will be made at sta
tions spread over a 30,000 square
mile area from south of Bering
Strait northward beyond Cape
Lisbourne.
The group will be invited by
the Chamber of Commerce to stop
over in Nome.
Highspots of
Demo Convention
LOS ANGELES, OP—Here are
the highspots of this week’s De
mocratic National Convention 'ap
proximate times are Pacific Day
light Time':
Today—Convention opens at 5
p. m. at Sports Arena. Keynote
speech by Sen. Frank Church of
Idaho starting about 6:20 p.m.
Tuesday—Session convenes at
4 p. m. Address by permanent
chairman Gov. LeRoy Collins of
Florida, about 5:30 p.m. Report of
Platform Committee.
Wednesday—Session starts at 3
p.m. Roll call of states for nomi
nations for President.
Thursday—Starting time to be
decided Wednesday. Continuation
of presidential balloting if neces
sary. Balloting for Vice Presi-,
dent. |
Friday—Program by Committee
for the Arts starts at 4 p.m. at
Memorial Coliseum. Convention
convenes at 7 p.m. at Coliseum to
hear acceptance speech by vice
presidential nominee, followed by
acceptance speech by presidential
nominee.
survivors would be prosecuted
•‘with full severity of Soviet law."
The two fliers were Lt. John R.
McCone of Conganoxie, Kan., and
Lt. Freeman B. Olmstead, Elmira.
N.Y.
The note did not mention the
fate of the other members of the
crew of six.
The note said the Soviet air
force picked up a trace of the |
plane while it was over the Bar
ents Sea proceeding toward So
viet territory. When it reached
the Soviet border at the Kola j
Peninsula, a fighter plane took
off and identified the plane by
its American Air Force markings.
The note said the Soviet pilot
ordered the American plane to
land but the pilot refused and
kept moving in over Soviet ter
ritory. When the refusal to land
continued, the note said, the So
viets shot down the American
plane.
The U. S. Air Force said the
plane was mapping magnetic
fields in the extreme north of the
world in a survey intended to pro
vide information for more accu
rate maps.
The missing plane, normally
based at Forbes Air Force Base
at Topeka, Kan., was about 1,200
miles from the north pole when
it made its last radio report.
A Pentagon spokesman ex
plained the magnetic force affect
ing conventional compasses varies
in direction over different parts
of the earth and at different
times. Navigation charts show
these variations in degrees along
curving lines, and corrections are
made from year to year.
Asst. Secretary of Defense Mur
ray Snyder said he was sure the
plane made no deliberate attempt
to fly over the Soviet Union.
U.S.-Cuba Dispute Steadily Worsening
The United States and Cuba
vied today for international sup
port in their worsening dispute
over the trend of Prime Minister
Castro’s revolution.
Cuba asked for a meeting of
the U.N. Security Council to con
sider the situation. Though details
were not made public immedi
ately, it presumably charged the
situation is a threat to interna
tional peace. This is one of the
conditions required by the U.N.
charter for Security Council ac
tion.
Almost simultaneously w'ith the
Cuban action in New York, Presi
dent Eisenhower outlined at New
port, R.I., a U.S. goodwill pro
gram for Latin American nations;
that will include Cuba only if Cas
tro’s regime moderates its course.
Eisenhower told a news confer
ence only those nations which
show a willingness to cooperate
will benefit under any U.S. aid
program.
The President brushed aside a
hint by Cuban President Osvaldo
Dorticos that Cuba may demand
that the United States abandon
its perpetual lease on the Guan
tanamo Naval Base, near the Is
land’s eastern tip.
Doricos told a labor demonstra
tion in Havana yesterday that
Cuban territory is “not for rent
or sale to foreigners." He said the
annual rental check of $3,386.25
paid by the United States last
month will be sent back to Wash
ington. Mutual consent, however,
would be required to abrogate the
lease.
In a prepared statement on the
new goodwill plan, Eisenhower
said Latin America is passing
through a social and political
transformation. “Dictatorships are
falling by the wayside,” he said.
“Moderate groups seeking or
derly reform, are contesting with
dictators of both right and left
who favor violence and authori
tarianism. Many of the extremists
frequently endeavor to introduce
dogmas which are inimicable to j
the tradition# of the Western
Hemisphere . . .
“The interests of the United
States, no less than those of all
the Americas, are directly in
volved in this struggle, a threat
to the security of the hemisphere.”
Japanese Demonstrators Still Busy
TOKYO, (#>—Ten thousand left
ists demonstrated today outside
a U.S. Air Base near Tokyo. The
Japanese government announced
American U2 planes have left
Japan.
The crowd of demonstrators
outside the Atsugi Naval Air Sta
tion was only a fifth of the num-1
her promised by the leaders of
the continuing opposition to the
U. S. - Japanese security pact.
There was no violence.
Kennedy Says
He Has Clinched
The Nomination
LOS ANGELES, UP—Sen. John
F. Kennedy said today he lias the
761 convention votes needed to
give him the Democratic presi
dential nomination.
Kennedy’s victory had been
forecast when Pennsylvania
swung the bulk of its 181 votes
to him and Sen. Hubert H. Hum
phrey released 65 votes, most of
which are expected to go to the
Massachusetts senator.
At a jam-packed news confer
ence, Kennedy declined to name
any preference for a vice presi
dential running mate. However,
he listed a number of potential
candidates he indicated would be
satisfactory to him.
Kenney said that if he is nomi
nated he will consult with Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon John
son, a rival for the nomination,
and House Speaker Sam Rayburn
before announcing his choice of
a new national chairman. Paul M.
Butler is retiring as party chair
man.
The Massachusetts senator said
a decision will be forthcoming
soon about who will be the prin
cipal person to place his name in
nomination. He said in response
to questions that there had been
no suggestion to him that this role
go to two of his rivals, Adlai E.
Stevenson and Sen. Stuart Sy
mington.
He added that he had had no
conversations about the possibility
that Symington might be willing
to take second place on the ticket.
He said Johnson had indicated he
feels his responsibilities as Senate
Majority Leader are greater than
those of the Vice President.
Kennedy said that if he is
nominated he will return to Con
gress for the Senate session re
opening Aug. 8.
Alaska Delegation Intends to Nominate
r
Candidate Who Will Win Presidency
By LEROY HITTLE
LOS ANGEI-ES, I*—A member
of ihe Alaskan delegation to the
Democratic National Convention
said today the 49th state will
nominate one of the four leading
contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
The delegate, Stan McCutcheon
of Anchorage, said Alaska—sec
only only to Alabama in the roll
call of states—will neither pass
nor yield to another state but will
nominate a candidate.
He declined to identify the
canidate, but said he will be the
man whom the 18-member Al
aska delegation feels is most like
ly to win the nomination and cap
ture the office of President.
“We haven’t even told the can
didate we plan to nominate him,”
McCutcheon said, “but it has been
determined by the individual
members of our delegation whom
we plan to nominate.”
It was part of the Alaska dele
gation’s “secrecy” strategy to
draw national attention to the
49th state and what it will do
when its name is called Wednes
day immediately after Alabama
in the alphabetical list of states.
Members of the Alaska delega
tion, operating under the unit
rule, have declined to state their
preference, but an Anchorage
newsman with the delegation said
private conversations indicate
Kennedy has an edge over the
other candidates.
McCutcheon said: “The power
of our delegation lies in secrecy.
The longer it goes on the more
attention we will get. If w'e can
keep secret until shortly before
the roll call, we will have nation
al attention.
“Alaska will be the most impor
tant state in the union. Let the
pressure build up. When the final
moment comes, Alaska is going to
call the shot.”
He said the secrecy strategy al
ready was paying off.
“We’ve got them (the candid
ates) coming to us,” he said. “That
never happened before.”
In a separate action Sunday,
the delegation designated Rep.
Ralph Rivers of Fairbanks, an
alternate, to vote for William E.
Beltz of Unalakleet, an elected
delegate.
Beltz, president of the Alaska
State Senate and only Eskimo
elected as a delegate to the na
tional convention, was unable to
attend because of a recent oper
ation.
Alternates from his district,
Lester Bronson and Pearse Walsh,
both of Nome, also were unable
to attend. Rivers was named as a
replacement after the convention
parliamentarian ruled against
Robert Scott of Nome, an alter
nate to the alternates.
South Fights
Strong Civil
Rights Plank
LOS ANGELES, lift — A bitter
battle over a strong civil rights
plank shaped up at the Demo
cratic National Convention today.
Stern-faced Southern delegates
entered a closed session of the
convention’s 109-member Resolu
tions Committee all primed to
speak their mind about the plank,
which was approved last night by
a 20-member subcommittee.
The Dixie attitude was express
ed in the crisp comment of one
of their leaders, Sen. Sam J. Er
vin Jr. of North Carolina — “I
cannot accept it.”
The plank pledges the Demo
cratic party to use the full pow
ers of the federal government to
end racial discrimination.
It commits the party to enact
ment of legislation empowering
the Attorney General to seek a
civil injunction against those ac
cused of employing discriminatory
practices.
Headed by Rep. Chester Bowles
of Connecticut, the committee
moved its meeting place to a new
hotel for the second time in two
days in an effort to hide from
newsmen and others interested in
its proceedings.
The location of the new place,
seme distance from the convention
headquarters, was a poorly kept
secret. By the time the committee
went to work, two score lobbyists
had crowded around the door to
buttonhole members and put in
last-minute pleas for their pet
proposals. Many of them were ar
dent advocates of the strong civil
rights position.
Congo Govt.
Appeals to U.N.
To Restore Order
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo,
— The Congo government has
asked the United Nations to inter
vene and restore order in this
former Belgian territory, Belgian
Minister Ganshof van der Meersh
said today.
The appeal was forwarded Sun
day after talks between U. S.
Ambassador Clare Timberlake,
President Joseph Kasavubu, Pre
mier Patric Lumumba, and Dr.
Ralph Bunche, United Nations
troubleshooter.
Rebellious Congolese troops’
were reported terrorizing whites
and fleets of planes were rushed
to help European refugees flee
the torn new African nation.
Belgian paratroopers arrived in
the trouble centers of Luluabourg
and Stanleyville to try to control
the rampaging troops.
Th«a'i On* At Ev»ry Convention
LOS ANGELES, —A woman
looking for campaign buttons,
walked into the ABC-TV office.
She already had a handful of
buttons, representing every major
candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination. This
prompted someone to ask who her
favorite was.
“My favorite, she said, “Is
Nixon.”
And, explaining her button col
lection, she added:
“I'm going to make coasters out
of these.”
lEAlR WARNING
JAKARTA, Indonesia. I R) — A
leading Indonesian Nationalist
party leader said Saturday that
Indonesia would one day have
to nationalize all foreign oil com
panies. “Only we still will re
spect the validity of their conces
sions,” R. M. Sartono told a poli
tical meeting in East Java’s in
dustrial city of Surabaya.