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62nd Year No. 69 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1961_ Per Copy 15^
Two AWOL
Soldiers Admit
To Seven Murders
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah UP —
Two calm teen-agers, swapping
quips about the electric chair,
offhandedly spun a tale Sunday
of murder in half a dozen states.
“It didn’t seem to bother them
one way or the other,” said Colo
rado sheriff W. H. Terill. “I mean,
no more than what you’d think
about going out and shooting a
rabbit.”
The two, George York and
James Latham, said there had
been two women in Florida, a
man in Louisana, a man in Ten
nessee, two men in Illinois, one
in Kansas, and a girl in Colorado.
They reckoned it eight people,
six states, eight notches carved
in the handle of one of their
pistols.
Except that the man in Louis
iana — they only learned this
last week — survived.
Terrill was one of the law of
ficers who talked Sunday with
York, 18, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
and Latham, his 19-year-old Army
chum from Mauriceville, Tex. To
all, the AWOL youths talked free
ly and willingly signed statements.
“They talked as if they might
The two are held, under $10,000
bond apiece, on federal vehicle
theft charges.
“They talked as if they might
have robbed a peanut machine,”
said one law officer who ques
tioned them. “There wasn’t any
remorse. They even laughed at
some of their victims.”
Sheriff Terrill agreed.
“They joked about the death
penalty,” he said. “One said to
the other he’d have to go first to
the hot seat. The other said, ‘no,
we’ll both go together.”
York and Latham were arrest
ed Saturday, at a roadblock west
of Salt Lake City, in a bright
red car which had belonged to
one of the victims.
Ambassador to Mexico
Says US Knew of Castro's
Red Leanings in 1959
WASHINGTON UP — Robert C.
Hill, who was Ambassador to
Mexico at the time, told Senate
investigators today some intelli
gence reports from the State De
partment in 1959 and 1960 “seem
ed slanted toward Fidel Castro.”
Hill said William A. Wieland,
then director of the State De
partment’s office of Mexican and
Caribbean Affairs, “persistently
rebuffed” suggestions that the
revolutionary’s regime in Cuba
was under Communist domina
tion.
U. S. policy, Hill testified,
“seemed to be one of patience and
forbearance, on the theory that
Castro eventually would see the
light.”
“I believed Castro was definitely
under the influence of Com
munists, and I don’t believe Com
munists ever see the light,” said
Hill. He testified to the Senate
Internal Security -subcommittee.
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy with little change
in temperature. Low tonight 35
40, high tomorrow 55-60. In the
last 24 hours: High of 59, low of
39. Sunrise at 1:23 a. m., sunset
at 10:40 p. m. Temperatures a
year ago today: High of 45, low
30. Extremes on this date since
1907: High of 78 in 1939, low of
29 in 1933.
U.S. and Canada
Negotiate Exchange
Of Military Planes
WASHINGTON UP) — The Unit
ed States and Canada are nego
tiating exchange of military
planes.
That was confirmed Sunday by
the Defense and State Depart
ments after the Canadian press
said the two countries would sign
an agreement within 48 hours.
The Canadian press said the
planes were worth $320 million.
According to Canadian press,
the agreement includes these pro
visions: Canada acquires 66 Amer
ican-made F-101 Voodoo jet fight
ers; the United States places
orders for Canada to produce 200
F-104G Starfighter jets to be
shipped to North Atlantic Treaty
Organization allies, and Canada
takes over operation of the Pine
Tree Radar Line, running across
Canada just above the border be
tween the two countries.
The financial arrangements are
complicated. In all exchanges the
U. S. share of the deal is $240
million, while Canada puts up
$80 million, mostly by manning
the radar line.
Motorboat Goes
Over Niagara Falls.
Four People Die
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. UP* —
Four persons died Sunday nighl
when a small motorboat carrying
them on an outing capsized in the
rapids above Nigara Falls and
plunged over the edge.
Two women and a man were
swept over the brink of the
cataract and dashed into the mass
of rocks and churning water 162
feet below.
The other man was sucked
through the intake of a power
plant.
Killed were George Stewart,
a druggist from Ridgeway, Ont.;
his wife, Jean; and Stanley Tess
man and his wife, Gladys, of Buf
falo. N. Y.
Crowds of sightseers at the
famous tourist attraction watched
in helpless horror as the tragedy
began to unfold two miles up the
Niagara River.
The boat, apparently hit by en
gine trouble, drifted through a
gate of the Ontario Hydrocontrol
Dam which stretches more than
halfway across the river from the
Canadian side.
In all the history of the falls,
only one person is know to have
survived an accidental plunge
over the brink — a boy who fell
over last year.
One Dozen Paddlers
Head North for Juneau
TACOMA UP) — One dozen
paddlers and five canoes were
somewhere on Puget Sound to
day, slowly cruising northward
toward Juneau in the interests
of science and recreation.
Juneau is 1,200 nautical miles
from Tacoma, where the adventure
began Saturday.
Dr. A. L. Schultz, a physician,
is heading the party of eight boys
and three other adult counselors.
They are due in Juneau by July
16, because that’s the day a recep
tion is planned for them in the
Alaska capital city.
The group plans to stay within
15 minutes of shore all the way.
They carry radios to obtain fre
quent weather reports.
4-Man U.S. Team
Heads for Havana
On Tractor Deal
WASHINGTON — A four
man American team leaves for
Havana tonight in hopes of clos
ing a deal with Prime Minister
Castro to swap 500 tractors for
1,200 Cuban invasion prisoners.
The U. S. technical team repre
senting the Tractors-for-Freedom
Committee cabled Castro Sunday
night that it would arrive in
Havana at 8 a. m. Tuesday after
an overnight stop in Miami.
The path to Havana seemed
cleared of any official obstacles.
Representatives of both the U. S.
and Cuban governments said the
team could get the necessary
travel permits in Washington this
morning.
But it remained to be seen
whether Castro would agree to
the terms the committee is offer
ing. T’>e pro-Communist Cuban
has been talking publicly about
deals the Americans say they will
not accept.
A spokesman said the U. S.
team of four non-government
farm machinery experts hopes to
complete arrangements in Ha
vana in about a day, returning
to the United States Wednesday.
In its cable to Castro, the group
said it had power to negotiate
only on details of the committee
version of a swap and is in nc
position to discuss any other mat
ters.
i U. S. Government May
Go To Court to Break
Up General Electric Co.
NEW YORK UP) — General
Electric Co. said today the gov
ernment has raised the possibility
it might go to court to break up
GE, the world’s largest electrical
goods manufacturer.
The company said its repre
sentatives were told of the pos
sibility last week by Asst. Atty.
Gen. Lee Leevinger in discus
sions on a proposed consent de
cree to end a price-fixing con
spiracy case.
The talk of a divestiture pro
ceedings followed GE rejection of
the government-drafted decree as
foolhardy and impossible of ful
fillment, a spokesman said.
The spokesman made his dis
closure in commenting on stories
in the New York Times and Wall
Street Journal on the possible
government move.
The spokesman added that
Leevinger did not make clear
which properties the government
might seek to split off from the
parent firm.
The decree is an alternative to
a civil suit in which the govern
ment would ask relief from the
collusive and monopolistic prac
tices of which GE and 28 other
electrical equipment manufac
turers were convicted earlier this
year.
The companies and 45 persons
were fined nearly $2 million for
conspiring to fix prices, rig bids
and allocate markets.
LOT OF WALKING . . .
SAN DIEGO, Calif. W — Inez
Sutton proved something that all
waitresses know: The job involves
miles of walking.
Inez, employed at a central dis
trict restaurant, put a pedometer
on her leg Friday. After eight
hours, the instrument showed
she had walked 11% miles.
Dutch Airliner Crashes
Near Cairo, 20 Persons
Are Reported Killed
CAIRO, Egypt W — A Dutch
propjet Electra crashed in sand
dunes and caught fire in an at
tempt to land at Cairo today.
Airline sources said 20 per
sons were killed. The Electra’s
cargo included gold ingots,
jewelry and Swiss watches bound
for Asia.
Information here was that the
four-engine, Lockheed-built craft
carried 36 persons and that all
the survivors were injured, 10
seriously. The Royal Dutch Air
lines said no Americans were in
volved. The Electra was bound
from Amsterdam to Kuala Lum
pur, Malaya.
I Three of the seven-member
crew perished.
| The plane crashed in a desert
l area nearly two miles from the
| end of the runway.
Experts of the airline were ex
1 pected from the Netherlands to
investigate the crash, the third
mishap to a KLM plane within
two weeks.
On May 30 a KLM DC-8 car
ried 62 persons — 48 passengers
and 14 crew members — to death
in the Atlantic off Lisbon. Sun
day an engine on a DC-7 caught
| fire and went out of control on
a flight from Hartford, Conn.,
to Europe. The plane, chartered
by 73 employes of the Electric
Boat Co., of Connecticut for a
European tour, was buffeted aboul
40 minutes before the engine fell
off. The plane landed safely on
three engines at Prestwick, Scot
land.
—
I Kennedy Uses
| Crutches to
Get Around
WASHINGTON 0P> — Using
crutches and specially contrived
elevator platform to get down
from his plane — because of his
back — President Kennedy re
turned today from Florida.
His return ended a four
day stay at Palm Beach, Fla.,
where Kennedy had gone for rest
and treatment of a back injury
suffered on his recent trip to
Canada.
At the Florida home of Charles
Wrightsman, an old friend, the
President swam in a heated pool
under doctor’s orders, the White
House has reported.
A missile-maintenance platform
known to airmen as a “cherry
picker” had been used to get
Kennedy aboard his plane in
Florida.
The especially designed eleva
tor was of a rectangular blue
painted platform attached to a
yellow 12-foot fork lift, common
ly used around warehouses and
to load cargo.
Secret Service men and aides
swarmed about the President as
he made his way on crutches
about 80 feet from the plane to
a waiting helicopter.
Photographers at the White
House were unable to get pictures
of the President on crutches.
Newsmen were kept inside and
had to watch his arrival through
windows.
Assistant press secretary An
drew Hatcher said Kennedy was
feeling fine after his brief Florida
vacation. He said the decision to
use the crane was made because
it is safer and to ease the strain
of walking up the plane steps
on crutches.
GOP Chairman
Says JFK Made
A “Tragic Mistake”
WASHINGTON — Repub
lican National Chairman William
E. Miller says President Kennedy
“rescinded and revoked the Ei
senhower plan to have the Cuban
freedom fighters protected by
American air power.”
That, Miller said Sunday, was
a “tragic mistake” by Kennedy.
“Then, the second mistake he
made — and the most tragic of
all — was to announce to the
world that he had rescinded this
order, that the Americans
wouldn’t do a single thing to help
the Cuban freedom fighters,”
Miller said.
Miller’s comments were in a
television-radio program record
ed for Pennsylvania stations. The
I state’s two senators, Republican
Hugh Scott and Democrat Joseph
Clark, also appeared.
There has been no word from
official sources that former Presi
I dent Eisenhower favored air sup
I port for the forces which invaded
: Cuba in April.
| Scott said that when Kennedy
“failed to support the Cubans
with American Naval forces,
American supplies and American
air cover, that’s when the in
vasion failed.”
The Republican comments fol
| lowed a statement by Clark that
j “the whole Cuban mess is the
, result of a plan conceived by Mr.
! Eisenhower.” Clark said former
Vice President Nixon knew of the
plan “in full,” although “the
knowledge was denied by him in
| the campaign.”
Scott said Kennedy made up his
i mind to support the Cuban in
vasion “without any help from
Eisenhower or Nixon.”
“You can drag Nxon all the
way back to California and you’ll
never change my mind that he
had a thing in the world to do
with it,” Scott said.
Clark said the invasion plan
“called for the violation of our
treaties, the violation of our agree
ment with the Organization of
American States and going in with
American troops in cuba.”
Russian Flag Flies
In Boston Harbor
BOSTON UP) — A Russian flag
flew today in Boston harbor —
the first one seen in years.
A Soviet trawler came into port
yesterday to land its captain,
Artsev V. Grigorievich, 33, for
treatment of gastritis.
A seaman, Nicolai I. Kulakov
also was landed. He injured his
back when the trawler dropped
anchor in the lower harbor.
Both were taken to the U. S.
Public Health Hospital. A doctor
said three days’ treatment is
needed.
The vessel has a crew of 2H.
Through an interpretor, Capt.
Grigorievich said the trawler,
identified only as CPT 148, sail
ed from its home port, Kalinin
grad last April 23 to fish for
herring off the Canadian coast
near Grand Banks.
A number of Russian trawlers
have been reported off the New
England Coast in recent months.
Some Boston fishermen a few
months ago reported one near
the Texas radar station 100 miles
east of Cape Cod. Another was
sighted only 20 miles off Chat
ham, not far from the summer
home of President Kennedy at
H.vannis Port.