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Khrushchev Backtracks on His
Denunciation of Stalin, Saying He
Was Great Fighter of Imperialism
MOSCOW, (#)—Soviet C om ro
ll is t Party boss Nikita Khrush
chev has backtracked on his de
nunciation of Stalin.
Remarks by the party chief at
the Kremlin New Year’s Eve par
ty were interpreted as further in
dication of tpugh measures to
combat moves by the satellites
toward independence from Mos
cow as well as an effort by the
party boss to bolster his own po
sition.
Asian diplomats reported that
Khrushchev, in giving a toast at
the party, said:
“Stalin was a great fighter
against imperialism. He was a
great Marxist. The imperialists
call us Stalinists. Well, when it
comes to fighting imperialists, we
SOVIET DEFENSE
CHIEF ZHUKOV
WILL VISIT INDIA
LONDON, CPi — The Moscow
radio announced today Soviet De
fense Minister Georgi Zhukov
will visit India later this month
at the invitation of the Indian
government. It did not say when
he will leave Moscow.
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin and Communist party boss
Nikita Khrushchev toured India
last year.
Alaska Delegates
Fail to Meet
With Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, (fl— Alaska’s
unofficial congressional delega
tion today decided to concentrate
on the Senate in opening day ef
forts tomorrow for recognition.
“Sen.-elect” William Egan said
the delegation has decided not to
press for admittance to the House
until the disposition is made of
its request to the Senate.
Egan, “Sen. - elect’’ Ernest
Gruening and “Rep-elect" Ralph
Rivers were chosen 'toy Alaskans
in October to dramatize the terri
tory’s bid for statehood. If suc
cessful, the three would take of
fice officially when the territory
is admitted to the Union.
The trio failed today to obtain
a hoped-for meeting with Presi
dent Eisenhower. But Egan said
efforts to see the President and
present him gifts from Alaska
will continue.
In the meantime, the group
continued its rounds of capitol
corridors and awaited a reply to
its request for a late afternoon
appointment with Secretary of
the Interior Seaton.
Egan said present plans call for
him and Gruening to be at the
doors of the Senate when it con
venes tomorrow. He said a sena
tor friendly to the statehood
cause would move that they be
permitted to come on the floor
and present credentials as well as
a memorial urging action on
statehood legislation.
are all Stalinists.”
This appeared directed particu
larly at the satellites, since the
Kremlin has charged repeatedly
that the Hungarian rebellion was
a Fascist plot fomented by “West
ern imperialists.”
Khrushchev seemed to be prom
ising that any such future out
breaks would be met with the
same military crackdown which
Stalin would have used and which
finally prevailed in Hungary.
In contrast with the line he laid
down in his “destalinization”
speech at the Communist Party
Congress last February, Khrush
chev was quoted as telling the
Kremlin party-goers, “Men of ac
tion make mistakes and Stalin has
done so much good that one must
overlook his mistakes.”
Holiday Traffic
Deaths Almost N
Tie 1952-53 Record
By the Associated Press
Traffic deaths during the New
Year weekend came close to tying
the record for the holiday.
The high mark of 407 was es
tablished during a four-day turn
of-the-year period four years ago.
Delayed reports Wednesday for
the New Year period that began
at 6 p.m. (local time) Friday and
ended last midnight raised the
toll to 45 deaths in traffic, 70 in
fires and 109 in accidents of
other types for a total of 584.
The New Yead traffic toll fell
far under the total of 706 during J
the Christmas period—a record
for any holiday period. •
Huge Ice Floe Bashes Hole In
U. S. Freighter In the Antarctic,
Rescuing Icebreaker Also Trapped
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
A great ice floe, driven by near
thurricane winds, slammed the
U.S. Navy freighter Arneb against
the coast of Antarctica’s frozen
Ross Sea New Year’s Day. An
iceberg ripped a five-foot hole
and a series of cracks in the Ar
neb’s hull.
The powerful icebreaker North
wind crunched to the side of the
stricken ship. Ice chunks bent one
of the Northwind’s propellers.
Today, both ships were trapped
in the grinding ice pack, strug
gling to fight free.
Capt. Nels C. Johnson of the
Arneb radioed that water was
trickling thru the cracked seams,
but pumps had the flooding under
control so far.
The jagged hole—5 feet long
and 16 inches wide—was above
the waterline on the starboard
side. The Arneb’s crew mustered
in the holds to shift the cargo
and shore up the torn sides with
timbers.
The Arneb also sustained dam
17 Gold Mines Which Have Yielded' $20 Million
Will Be Reopened This Year in Colorado
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., UP)—
Seventeen mines which in past
years yielded $20 million in gold
will be reopened this year in the
Cripple Creek-Victor, Colo., area.
J. Selby Young of Colorado
Springs, head of the Beacon Hill
Mines firm, said the reopening
operations were starting today. He
said all the ore will be taken out
through retimbered shafts of the
El Paso Mine on Beacon Hill.
The mines were bought from
Governorship
Of Rhode Island
Finally Settled
PROVIDENCE, R.I., UP)—Two
months after the election, the
turbulent fight for the Rhode Is
land governorship has been set
tled by a state supreme court rul
ing that Democrat Dennis J. Rob
erts won re-election for a fourth
term.
The court’s ruling that Roberts
had defeated Republican Christo
pher Del Semsto came three
hours after the time originally
set for the inauguration of a new
governor yesterday. •
The state’s highest court threw
out civilian absentee and shut-in
ballots that had given Del Sesto
a 427-vote margin after all votes
had been counted.
Roberts led by 207 votes in the
count of ballots cast at the polling
places.
When the absentee ballots put
Del Sesto in the lead, Roberts
brought action before the court
on the ground that some ballots
were mailed toy absentees and
shut-ins before the Nov. 6 elec
tion day.
age to a propeller ancl one engine.
The North wind—one of the
Coast Guard’s most powerful ice
breakers, able to smash thru ice
many feet thick:—apparently did
not suffer structural damage. But
the pressure of the wind-driven
ice was so great neither ship was
able to maneuver.
The scene of the battle against
ice and sea was near Cape Hallett
at the northwest end of the Ross
Sea, 500 miles north of this U.S,,
antarctic base. Capt. Johnson, of
Alexandria, Va., was sent this ac
count by radio:
His ship was making its way
toward the Knox coast, 1,000
miles to the west, to establish a
U.S. base for the International
Geophysical Year (IGY).
It was buffeted by 70 m.p.h.
winds—almost hurricane velocity.
The 100-squEire-mile ice floe
came down on the Arneb swiftly,
from across miles of open sea.
If the Northwind can clear a
path, Johnson said, the Arneb
will try to seek shelter inside
Cape Hallett to make repairs to
the outside of the hull.
Thomas Copelan of Colorado
Springs and James Knight of
Chicago for approximately $50,
1 000 and “the ore values . . . could
' be fantastic,” Young said.
The district’s gold mining boom
collapsed at the turn of the cen
tury, and at least one passageway
I sunk from the 1,320-foot level is
! reported to contain ore left there
when the federal government
stopped gold mining during the
second world war.
Industry sources said there# is a
possibility of ore values exceed
ing those of the area’s heyday
but rehabilitation costs could be
extensive. They pointed out that
all the maze of shafts extending
thru nine levels will have to be
retimbered.
An official of the Colorado Bu
reau of Mines said no information
New Year’s Resolution:
No More Broadcasts of
City Council Meeting
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., (M —
Among the New Year’s resolu
tions adopted here yesterday was
one in which the city council re
solved it would not permit fur
ther radio broadcasts of its meet
ings.
The sponsor of the resolution
said members had suffered from
“mike fright” and fear they
would make embarrassing gram
matical errors.
Subzero Weather
Hits States; Minus
22 in Minnesota
By the Associated Press
The coldest weather of the win
ter season spread over wide areas
of the eastern half of the nation
today.
Below zero temperatures were
reported in northern Midwest
areas and in sections of New Eng
land and northern New York.
The icy air dipped into the
southland, with readings around
freezing in South Carolina, and
westward across the northern
sections of the Gulf States.
The biggest temperature drops,
however, were from the middle
Mississippi valley eastward thru
the middle Atlantic coastal states
and New England. Readings this
morning ranged from 10 to 20 de
grees, a drop of from 20 to 30
degrees compared to yesterday
morning..
Only southern and central Flor
ida escaped the cold weather.
Subzero readings were common
in most of Minnesota, Wisconsin
and snow-covered areas of the
Northeast.
The mercury skidded to -20 at
International Falls, Minn., and to
-22 at Lebanon, N.H. Icy winds
up to 60 m.p.h. whipped across
Mt. Washington, N.H., where the
temperature dropped to -31. The
high yesterday was -20.
New York City reported the
lowest reading of the winter sea
son last night—13.02 degrees.
Chicago also had the lowest
mark of the winter: 6 above.
of the Cripple Creek operation
had 'been sent to its offices in
Denver.
Young said he and associates
believe there is sufficient, ore in
the mines they have bought to
warrant the expense of reopen
ing the shafts. He said there is
a large amount of deep rock to be
explored.
Except for giving the approxi
mate amount of money involved
in the turnover of the properties,
Young declined to give details of
the transaction.
Gold was discovered in the
Cripple Creek area by a range
riding cowboy named Bob Wo
mack in the early 80s. For more
than 20 years thereafter, the
mountain communities of Cripple
Creek and Victor, high in the
mountains west of Colorado
Springs, enjoyed boom-town pros
perity. •
In the early 1900s, many mines
petered out, but mining has con
tinued at a number of properties.
Among* companies active in the
area now are the Golden Cycle
Corp. and Front Range Mines,
Inc.
Roman Numeral Gives I
Problem to Editors I
Of New Haven Paper |
NEW HAVEN, Iff) — The New
Haven Journal-Courier told in a
page one story how it had to con
sult a classical scholar at Yale
before "it would print today’s edi
tion.
The paper started its 191st year
of publication today, and the
question was how to write 191
in Roman numerals—the “classi
cal style” CXCI or the “early
Roman style” CLXXXXI.
An editorial conference, as
sisted by the Yale expert, finally
decided that today’s edition
ought to be labeled “Vol. CXCI,
No. 1.”
An office boy, so the story said,
asked why not just use the
Arabic numerals 191 and forget
the whole thing.
He was told to shut up.
John Biggs Mentioned
As Possible Nominee for
Wildlife Commissioner
SEATTLE, Iff)—A Washington *
dispatch to the Seattle Times says
John Biggs, head of the Washing
ton State Game Department, is
being mentioned as a possible
presidential nominee as commis
sioner of the reorganized Fish
and Wildlife Service.
A westerner may be named t*>
this post, the story said, because
of President Eisenhower’s nomin
ation Tuesday of Ross L. Leffler,
a Philadelphia steel industry ex
ecutive, to the newly created po
sition of assistant secretary of
Interior for fish and wildlife.’
The Times correspondent also
reported that John L. Farley of
Seattle, head of the former Fish
and Wildlife Service, and Amie
Suomela, former deputy under
Farley, are slated for important
posts in the reorganized agency.