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PBY with 3 Aboard
Lost Between
Juneau ■ Annette
JUNEAU, W) — A San Fran
cisco-bound plane with at least
three persons aboard disappeared
last night after the pilot radioed
he had lost one engine.
The last message from the two
engine PBY 6A amhibian received
by the Coast Guard at Annette
Island, gave a position of 28 miles
north of Annette.
The ship was flown by Philip
Gray, Mill Valley, Calif. Also
aboard were co-pilot Carl Scott,
and'Burrass Smith, engineer.
It was under charter to the
Stanford University Research In
stitute and left Fairbanks several
days ago. At that time Bob
Meath, Alaska bush pilot, and a
man and woman, both unidenti
fied, were passengers.
Whether they left the plane at
Juneau or another stop on the way
from Fairbanks was not imme
diately known. The Coast Guard
here listed Gray, Scott and Smith
as aboard, but the pilot did not
report the number of passengers.
The amphibian plane fs owned
by California Engine Co. of Hay
ward and is under charter to
Stanford Research Institute. It
was used by SRI for radio studies
in the polar region. A series of
tests and measurements had been
completed and the plane was en
route to its home base at Hayward.
Washington Huskies
Arrive In Southern Cal
• For Rose Bowl Game
PASADENA, Calif., OP — The
Washington Huskies arrive today
in Rose Bowl country, a place
where their football predecessors
have made two “pointless” appear
ances.
The last time the Huskies were
here, in 4944, they lost to Southern
California 29-0 in a war-year con
test, the only Rose Bowl game to
involve two western teams. Sev
en years before that, the Huskies
met Pittsburgh in the New Year’s
Day classic, and lost 21-0. That
gives them a total of no points
against 50 for the opposition.
The Huskies, matched this time
against Wisconsin — which also
has been blanked here — are due
to land at Long Beach late in the
afternoon.
They will be ushered in cara
van style into downtown Long
Beach, their training site, and
tendered a formal civic welcome.
Wisconsin is due tomorrow and
will set up headquarters here.
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Air Force Refuses
Discharge to Sgt. Howlett
To Work Alaska Mine
MERCED, Calif.. tPl — An Air
Force sergeant, who a few months
ago announced he had fallen heir
to an Alaskan mercury deposit
which he said was worth millions,
had his request for a hardship dis
charge turned down Thursday.
Technical Sgt. Thomas L. How
lett, 28, said it is impossible for
him to remain in the Air Force
and to take care of his Alaska in
terest.
The Air Force said the hardship |
aspect of Howlett’s case is not!
within regulations.
The sergeant said he wanted the
discharge so he could work the
mine himself.
•
96 ‘Survivors’
Make Two-Week
Shelter Test
PLEASANTON, Calif., UP) —
You could live in “reasonable
comfort” in an underground shel
ter for at least two weeks, a Civil
Defense experiment here has dem
onstrated.
The experiment ended Thursday
when 96 bearded men emerged
from such a shelter after two
weeks. They could have remained
another two weeks in the steel
quonset hut 20 feet below the
surface, if more water and food
had been stocked.
It was a test of survival from
nuclear fallout. It also tested the
steel and concrete shelter, its
ventilating and air-filtering sys
tem, its advertised capacity of
housing 100 persons and its built
in electrical and sanitation sys
tems.
The volunteers were grimy but
cheerful. They had lost three to
five pounds each. They had that
night shift pallor and they needed
a bath.
The men ate standard Army C
rations, peanut butter bars and a
special diet developed by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Pleasanton is in the San Fran
cisco Bay area.
Chou Suggests
Nehru Journey to
China for Talks
TOKYO, Iff) — Premier Chou
En-Lai of Communist China pro
poses that he and Prime Minister
Nehru of India begin talks De
cember 26 aimed at settling their
border dispute.
Chou, in a letter to the Indian
leader, suggested the meeting be
held “any place in China” or at
Rangoon, Burma, and added: “If
you wish to suggest any other
date, I am also willing to give
it consideration.”
The letter called on India to
withdraw its armed forces from
10 places on the disputed border
and accused India of an unreas
onable attitude in not listening to
Peiping’s views.
The letter was in reply to one
Nehru wrote in which the Indian
leader rejected Chinese Commu
nist proposals for troop withdraw
als along th Himalayan border of
Tibet, and for an immediate meet
ing with his Peiping counterpart.
Nehru has said careful prepara
tion should be laid before a New
Delhi-Peiping summit meeting
could take place.
Nehru claims China now con
trols about 9,000 square miles of
Indian territory and has killed at
least 12 Indian patrolmen in
border raids.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair with increasing cloudiness
tonight and possible light snow
Saturday. Not so cold Saturday.
Lowest temperature expected to
night -20, the high tomorrow -5.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temperature -19, lowest -29. Max.
wind 19 mph from the east. Sun
rise 10:01 a.m., sunset 1:56 p.rn.
A year ago today: highest temp.
15, lowest 11. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 36 in
1932, lowest -36 in 1946
; Governor Authorizes
; Half-Day Off for Eves
Of Christmas, New Year
JUNEAU, OP — Governor Egan
this week authorized a half-day
holiday for State employes on
Christmas Eve.
The Alaska Chief Executive
said he felt it would make pos
sible a family association in keep
ing with the meaning of Christ
mas.
The Governor said: ,
“It is proper that families work
together in preparation for this
great day, which commemmorates
the birth of'Christ and mankind’s
abiding wish for Peace on Earth.”
Granting ’ of the additional half
day to State employes follows sim
ilar action by President Eisen
hower on behalf of Federal em
ployes.
Czech Named In
[Poison Attempt on
Radio Free Europe
HEIDELBERG, Germany, UP) —
i The U. S. Army charged today
that the Czechoslovak’ Vice Con
sul at Salzburg, Austria, pro
vided a Communist agent with
the poison found in salt shakers
I at the cafeteria of Radio Free
Europe in Munich.
“The Army counterintelligence
investigation shows that. Jaroslav
Nemec, a vice consul at the Czech
Consulate in Salzburg, Austria, on
November 16 gave a Communist
agent salt shakers containing
atropine for placement in the RFE
cafeteria in Munich,” an official
Army statement said,
i “The agent was told that the
shakers contained a ‘mild laxa
tive’,” the Army said.
“Clinical analysis, however,
proved that they contained atro
pine in sufficient quantity to
cause serious illness, the degree
of which would depend on the
amount of salt consumed.”
Atropine is derived from the
deadly Nightshade plant. It is
given in minute doses for certain
forms of heart disturbances, asth
ma and intestinal colic. A dose of
two-tenths of a gram causes death
within 6 to 24 hours.
In Vienna, the Austrian protocol
office said a Jaroslav Nemec is
employed by the Czechoslovak
Consulate General at Salzburg as
a minor official, without diplo
matic status.
The Czechoslovak legation in
Vienna termed the U. S. Army
statement “gross provocation”
and denied Czech officials in Aus
tria were involved.
PAJAMA GAME
~LOS ANGELES, UP — When
friends visited them, Monika
Korngold said, her husband
would put on his pajamas and
ask if she wasn’t coming to bed,
too.
That testimony helped her get
a divorce Thursday from George
L. Korngold, 30, studio music edi
tor, and son of the late Eric Wolf
gang Korngold, cqmposer and di
rector of the Viennese State Op
era Orchestra.
Mrs. Korngold, 29, won custody
of their two sons, $400 monthly
support and alimony, a North
Hollywood home and a station
wagon.
They married in Vienna in
1950, and separated last Sep
tember.
Eisenhower, Herter Discuss Foreign
Policy on Way to Paris Summit Meet
E N R O U T E WITH EISEN
howef, Uh—President Eisenhower
and his Secretary of State, Chris
tian Herter, conferred on world
problems today aboard a train
nosing through the French coun
tryside.
The President and his foreign
policy advisor were closeted in
the President’s car as the train
sped him from Toulon to Paris,
where he will attend a meeting
of the Western summit.
Few Realized Ike's Presence
As the train swept past vine
yards and rich fields, few people
even realized that President Eis
enhower was aboard. French se
curity precautibns barred people
from stations along the route and
the split-second timetable was
kept secret. A few who had waited
for a glimpse of the President
waved at the train as it sped
past small towns.
The President looked fit and
cheerful after his three-day Med
; iterranean cruise.
An echoing 21 -gun salute
greeted the U. S. heavy cruiser
Des Moines as she brought the
President into Toulon Harbor.
Frnch Minister of State Louis
Jacquino welcomed the President
to France on behalf of President
Charles De Gaulle.
Will Win The Peace
“France first came to our aid
in 1777,” Eisenhower said in re
ply. “The underlying affection
and respect of the two nations
each for the other has never
stopped.”
“Under General De Gaulle,’1 the
President said, “France and the
United States are part of a great
coalition and we are determined
from a position of strength to pur
sue peace as much as we possibly
can. We are sure that one day
we shall win out.”
Just before stepping ashore,
Eisenhower told newsmen he was
fteling fine and remarked, “Sleep,
Oh boy, that’s what I’ve done
best.”
Rode Through City
The Presidential convoy sped
out of the naval base for a brief
ride through the city — when the
residents had insisted upon when
they heard Eisenhower might take
a helicopter instead.
Crowds were banked the depth
of the sidewalk all along his
route, and the President showed
his appreciation with a big smile
and repeated waves of his hat as
he stood in the car. Cheers rippled
along the streets.
The stations were brightly dec
orated in red, white and blue, and
the platform was jammed with
local dignitaries. Although Eisen
hower technically was on French
soil, he hardly touched ground be
cause of the red carpets that cov
ered the station floors.
‘Syndicate* Blamed
In Shotgun Slaying
Of Terrible Touhy
CHICAGO, UP) — Crime syndi
cate guns cut down Roger Touhy
less than a month after his re
lease from prison, the man
wounded in the fusillade insists.
Two men carrying shotguns
killed Touhy, 61, and critically
wounded Walter Miller, 62, a re
tired police sergeant, Wednesday
night on the steps of Touhy’s sis
ter’s home where the gang chief
had been living since his parole.
What value Miller’s 'accusation
has to investigators of the assas
sination is indistinct. Every gang
land killing around Chicago for a
decade has been attributed to “the
syndicate.” Who its members are
and how they can be brought to
justice eludes prosecutors.
The inquest into the assassina
tion was continued Thursday to
next month but investigators
pressed ahead to make the most
of slim clues and search for
motives.
Among theories advanced for
bloody removal of Touhy from the
Chicago scene was that he had
offended remnants of the old pro
hibition era A1 Capone gang in
his recently published biography.
Another was that he was being
paid off for giving one or more
of his own mob a short share, or
no share, of the Factor ransom
payment.
ONE THING LEFT OUT
PORTSMOUTH, Va., UPi — A
Norfolk Ledger-Star reporter sent
to cover a lecture for rookie cops
on the “Cooperative function of
the police department with the
newspapers” £ame back empty
handed. The police barred the
press from the meeting.
Allies Agreed on
Western Europe
Air Warning Need
PARIS, UP* — The Western Al
lies have authorized first steps
toward an integrated system to
warn of an air attack on West
ern Europe but have left for Pres
idents Eisenhower and De Gaulle
the major question of whether
NATO could order French planes
into action against the attack.
This is the chief result of the
annual policy review by foreign,
defense and finance ministers of
the 15 members of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization. The
three-day meeting ended here
Thursday with France agreeing to
a formula for establishing the
weapons system but‘ still refusing
to put any of its air force under
NATO’s unified military com
mand.
The United States wants forces
of all NATO nations unified under
the alliance’s central command to
defend Western Europe. In the
face of De Gaulle’s opposition, the
Americans urged that at least an
integrated air defense be started.
But the French would not even
agree to that.
Instead, the ministers left it up
to Eisenhower — as well as Brit
ish Prime Minister Harold Mac
Millan and West German Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer — to see if
they could make some headway
with the stubborn French Presi
dent during the Western summit
conference this weekend.
ALL SET FOR WINTER
COUDERSPORT, Pa., OP) — The
Pennsylvania Forests and Waters
Department today formally
opened Denton Hill State Park as
a skiing resort. Only one thing
was missing — snow!