Hawaiian Villagers Trying'
To Save Town from Lava
HONOLULU, UPi — Bulldozer
crews worked frantically through
Monday night trying to divert a
relentless river of glowing lava
that authorities fear may creep
into Hawaii Island’s tiny Kapoho
Village.
The fiery river has become
more fluid and is moving faster.
One seething finger from the
main flow is menacing Kapoho
School authorities said.
The main fountain’s 11,500-foot
bursts are spreading a wider path
to the Pacific, three miles away.
Kapoho, a village of 300 residents,
is on one edge of the swelling
river of fire.
Governor William Quinn, who
made a second trip to the erup
tion area, declared a state of dis
aster in the farming community.
‘GET A DOG !'
BURLEY, Idaho, UP) — Things
just-'didn’t go right for man or
beast at the weekend Cutter races.
Drivers had to use wheels on
their sled runners because there
wasn’t enough snow.
Then, as Max Burton was guid
ing his sled and two-horse team
across the ice-covered Snake Ri
ver, the ice broke. Burton leaped
to safe ice but the horses drowned.
Burton estimated a $3,000 loss in
horses and equipment.
Statehood Changes Status
Of Alaska Mineral Leases
WASHINGTON, Wl—1Two more
changes in federal mineral leas
ing regulations, a result of state
hood for Alaska, were announced
yesterday.
The Interior Department said
Alaska coal lands hereafter will
be leased under the same condi
tions that apply to federal coal
leasing in other states.
The other change' deals with
mineral leasing of lands formerly
reserved to the Territory of Alas
ka for educational purposes. The
statehood act gave Alaska juris
diction over issuance of mineral
leases on such lands within the
state.
Soviets Deplore Military
Spending in Ike’s Budget
LONDON, I If) — A Soviet
broadcast yesterday called Pres
ident Eisenhower’s new budget a
disappointment because it made
no cut in military allocations.
“This comes at a time when
the Soviet Union once again
slashes its military spending,”
said Moscow Radio.
Despite the widely-trumpeted
Soviet claims, the demobilization
announced by Premier Khrush
chev last week will by Soviet ad
mission, bring the Soviet armed
forces down to only a little less
than America’s.
Tokyo Stowaway Arrives
In San Francisco Aboard
Transpacific Jet Airliner
SAN FRANCISCO, (*l — The
first Transpacific jet stowaway
arrived here Monday.
He identified himself as Hide
masa Nagayasu, 24, of Tokyo,
who had left that city 9 hours
and 45 minutes earlier on a Pan
American World Airways jet clip
per. He speaks no English.
Pan American was at a loss to
explain how he got aboard the
plane.
“Fourteen people wanted to see
my ticket,” grumbled William Le
Veen of New York, “but appar
ently nobody asked for his.”
Nagayasu was taken to a de
tention barracks to await re
patriation. Pan American will pay
for it all, under Maritime law,
including his return fare.
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Virginia Plane Disaster
HOLDCROFT, Va., UB — A
piece-by-piece investigation be
gan today of the burned hulk of
a Capital Airlines plane that ap
parently fell straight down into
a muddy gully here Monday
night, killing all 50 persons
aboard.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
calling in heavy wrecking equip
ment from the Army at Ft. Eus
tis to begin lifting the four prop
jet power plants from the debris.
The engines were partly buried
in the mud.
The way the plane fell near this
tidewater Virginia hamlet, as if
a rug had been pulled from be
neath it, had even veteran crash
observers mystified.
Portland, (We. Paralyzed
Under Heavy Snow
By the Associated Press
A heavy blanket of snow vir
tually paralyzed the Portland,
Ore., area today, and icy air sent
temperatures tumbing across the
snow-covered sections from the
Rockies to New England.
The cold weather chilled wide
areas of the south as far as north
west Florida.
The foot-high snow in Portland
closed schools and stores. Hotels
in the city of nearly 400,000 were
| jammed overnight by hundreds
of stranded suburbanites.
Japan Becomes
Full Partner In
Free-World Pact
WASHINGTON, W> — The
United States and Japan yester
day signed a treaty formally rais
ing Japan, once a defeated, U.S.
occupied World War II enemy, to
the status of an equal partner in
U. S.-Japanese relations.
With President Eisenhower in
attendance, Prime Minister No
busuki Kishi signed for Japan,
and Secretary of State Christian
Herter for the United States, in
a historic ceremony at the White
House.
Appropriately for historians,
the signing took place in the
East Room of the Executive Man
sion — the same room where
President James Buchanan re
ceived the first Japanese envoys
when Japan resumed contact with
the outside world, 100.years ^go.
The new defense treaty is sim
ilar in many ways to pacts Amer
ica has signed with 41 other free
world allies.
America recognizes that an
armed attack on Japan “would be
dangerous to its own peace and
safety,” and promises to “act to
meet the common danger.”
Japan cannot pledge recipro
cally to help defend U. S. terri
tory in case of attack because her
U. S. - sponsored constitutional
provision renouncing war is in
terpreted as barring her from
sending troops outside Japan.
But Japan grants use of land,
air and naval bases in Japan by
U. S. forces without time limit.
The two countries agree to con
sult, “whenever the security of
Japan or international peace and
security in the Far East is
threatened.” They also promise to
collaborate economically and to
settle any dispute between them
by peaceful means.
The treaty will last at least 10
years. After that either nation
must give a year’s notice before
canceling.
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