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6 Air Force Men In
Indochina Feared
Captured by Reds
SAIGON, Indochina, (If) — Five
U.S. Air Force men stationed at
a French air base in Tourane are
missing and American officials
fear they may have fallen into
the hands of the Communist-led
Vietminh.
The U.S. embassy said a Viet
namese peasant had reported see
ing five Americans among a group
of 10 Senegalese war prisoners 10
miles south of Tourane.
John O’Daniel, chief of the Am
erican aid group, flew today to
Tourane on the central Viet Nam
coast midway between Saigon and
Hanoi, to conduct an inquiry into
the disappearance of the men,
missing since Monday.
The Americans left the big
Tourane air base Monday after
noon and drove off in a French
vehicle to a beach three miles
away. Officials said they had no
passes and were not authorized
to leave the base.
The vehicle the men used was
also missing. Native villagers who
reported seeing the five south of
Tourane said they were on foot,
in their swimming trunks.
Guatemalans Muster On
Honduras Frontier Amid
Indications Revolt Coming
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, UP)
—Armed Guatemalan exiles were
reported mustering along their
jittery homeland’s frontier with
Honduras amid indications today
there may be a revolt against
President Jacobo Arbenz Gus
man’s Communist-influenced re
gime.
The belief stemmed in part
from Guatemalan ambassador
Amadeo Chincilla, who said he
had received reports that resist
ance forces would launch a re
bellion against the Arbenz re
gime.
Reports from censorship-blank
eted Guatemala said authorities
there were readying a massive
public demonstration today. Main
ly this was to show solid support
for the government, but observ
ers here also interpreted it as a
possible move to mobilize friendly
forces for action in case a revolt
breaks out.
New Premier Must Bring
About Indochina Peace
By July 10 Or Resign
PARIS, iffi—France’s new pre
mier, Pierre Mendes - France,
worked urgently to form a cab
inet today. He may keep for him
self the foreign ministry replac
ing Georges Bidault and seek a
peace in Indochina through per
sonal meetings at Geneva with
the Communists.
French sources reported the
new premier will go to Geneva
Monday to fill the diplomatic gap
left when Joseph Laniel’s govern
ment fell.
He is under pressure to set up
a cabinet speedily to make good
on his promise to achieve an In
dochina settlement by July 10—or
resign.
Puerto Ricans
Convicted Of
Shooting Solons
WASHINGTON, OP)—Lolita Le
bron, convicted with three men
for wounding five congressmen,
but facing a lighter sentence,
swore today she Will continue to
fight for Puerto- Rican independ
ence.
“What I thought was the end
must be the beginning,” she re
plied from her cell to written
questions from newsmen.
“If all my blood had spilled it
would have slashed away decad
ence and inertia ... I hope no
more of my people will have to
die. My country is going to be
free.”
The slight, 47-year-o'ld brunette
was acquitted on five charges of
intent to kill. She had been found
guilty Wednesday of 5 counts of
assault with a dangerous weapon.
Her three fellow members of
the radical Nationalist party of
Puerto Rico—Rafael Concel Mir
ando, 15, Andres Figuero Corde
ron, 19, and Irving Flores Rodri
guez, 18—were convicted Wed
nesday on all 10 counts.
Thus, they face possible maxi
mum penalties of 75 years in
prison apiece, including concur
rent sentences for intent to kill
and assault with a dangerous wea
pon. Mrs. Lebron, convicted only
on the latter charges, would get
no more than 20 years in prison.
Far East AF Bombers
Transferred To The
Strategic Air Command
TOKYO, un—1The Air Force to
day shifted its heavy bombers in
the Far East to the Strategic Air
Command—carrier of the atomic
weapons—and said the big planes
would be moved from Japan to
Guam.
The Air Force said a wing of
four-engined B-29s would be
flown to Guam for training.
Most of the Far East Air Forces
now based in Japan will be flown
to Guam and put under control
of the SAC, the Air Force said.
Eventually, SAC will replace
the B-29s with B-47s and other
aircraft. The B-29 Superforts
which dropped the atom bombs on
Japan and bombed North Korea
for 17 months are headed for re
tirement.
The Air Force said later other
types of SAC aircraft are expect
ed to go tcf the Far East under
the new program.
Mainly transport and fighter
craft, and a few outmoded light
bombers will remain in Japan.
Sabre jets, which can carry small
atom bombs, short distances, will
remain in Japan, the Air Force
said.
Britain Rejects American
Request To Search Vessels
LONDON, UPI—Britain disclosed
today she has rejected an Ameri
can request for power to search
British vessels which may be
carrying arms to Guatemala.
But Britain promised at the
same time to undertake police
action on the high seas to stop
any British ships bound with
arms to Guatemalan ports.
Atty Gen. Blasts
M’Carthylnvitation
To Fed. Employes
BALTIMORE, (iP) — Atty. Gen.
Brownell said last night Sen. Mc
Carthy’s invitation to government
employes to come to- him with
information, even information
they are charged with keeping
secret:
1. Threatens the classic Ameri
can concept of separation of pow
ers among Congress, the executive
and the courts.
2. “Would substitute rule by an
individual for government by
law.”
About 600 weekly newspaper
editors and publishers attending
the 69th annual convention of the
National Editorial Assn., broke
into applaud when the attorney
general declared:
“Any one who attempts to put
himself above the laws and incite
government employes to turn over
classified information relating to
our national security, is tragically
mistaken if he believes he is help
ing to protect our nation’s safety.
“Nothing pleases the Commun
ists more than to create division
among the people on matters of
national security, impair constitu
tional government, and encourage
disobedience to the law . . .
“I have spoken out pretty
strongly against those in high
places who are blind to the dan
ger of Communist infiltration in
our government. I believe it
equally important to speak out
against those who, regardless of
motives, break down our system
of government by law in an ef
fort to investigate Communism
where there is no need for it.”
Ends 15-Year Flight From
Communists With U.S.
Citizenship at Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, G5V-Thirty-year
old pert and trim Roxyana Skob
slski tool^ an oath here yesterday
which made her a citizen of the
United States and ended a half a
lifetime battle to find a new
home in a free land.
Her long desperate struggle be
gan near the Romanian border of
Poland in 1939 when the Com
munist armies of Russia entered
Poland.
Four times she and her family
attempted to make a home in the
troubled lands of Balkan Europe.
Each time they had to flee the
Communists.
They finally found sanctuary
in Vienna and Roxyana, now able
to speak four languages fluently,
went to work for American occu
pation authorities. But Vienna
was surrounded by the Red zone
of Austria and she could not get
out until, with the help of a
British clergyman, forged papers
were obtained which got her thru
the Russian road blocks into the
American Zone.
Today Miss Skobslska is sawing
timber and clearing ground to de
velop a homestead at Homer. Her
brother is working in the states
and sending money north to fin
ance the homestead. He hopes
soon to join Roxyana in a home
from which they will not have to
move ahead of the Red terror.
Alaska’s First Pulp Industry, Costing
7 Times Territory’s Purchase Price,
Starts Operations Near Ketchikan
Queen Elizabeth Ducks
Low-lying Telephone Wire
While Galloping Horse
ASCOT, England, iff) — Queen
Elizabeth II gave an exhibition of
her excellent horsemanship at the
Royal Ascot race course today
and probably saved her head.
She ducked just in time on a
galloping horse to get under a
telephone cable that was hanging
down at head level across the
course.
A shout from the Duke of Edin
burgh, who was riding out front,
sounded the warning. The queen
laughed off the incident and call
ed out to loud speakers as she
rode past:
“We were nearly all decapi
tated.”
The duke, more concerned than
his young wife, asked her after
ward:
“Did you hear me shout when
I saw that wire?”
She smiled and replied: “I saw
you duck and I did the same.”
The queen and some of her
noble peers and their ladies, stay
ing at nearby Windsor Castle,
went for a morning gallop on the
famed course before the opening
of the day’s racing.
Only a few workmen saw her
close escape.
Stevens Declines Attend
After-the-Hearings
Cocktail Party
QUANTICO, Va., UR—Secretary
of the Army Stevens, looking back
on the long and bitter days of his
dispute with Sen. McCarthy, voic
ed confidence today that “the in
tegrity of the Army no longer is
at stake.”
He also made it plain he intends
to decline an invitation to an
after-the-hearings cocktail party
to be given Monday by Sen.
Mundt (R-SD) for participants on
both sides, and . expects no Army
personnel will attend.
Mundt presided over the hear
ings which ended in Washington
yesterday.
Stevens, here for a four - day
meeting of top Defense Depart
ment and armed forces officials,
also told newsmen:
“I am absolutely confident that
there will be no abuse of Army
personnel, in. or out of uniform,
who appear from now on before
McCarthy’s Communist - hunting
subcommittee.”
And he has no intention “what
soever” of resigning but proposes
to serve as long as he is of “ser
vice to the country.”
He said he was sure Sen. Mundt
planned the cocktail party with
the utmost of good will but it
“probably would be inappropriate
for us of the Army to attend.”
87 Take Out Citizenship Papers
ANCHORAGE, Of)—Sixty-seven
persons, representing 11 nations,
too'k out their citizenship before
Judge George Folta in Federal
Court yesterday.
> KETCHIKAN, UP) — Alaska’s
first pulp industry, a project that
cost seven times what the U.S.
paid Russia for the whole terri
tory 97 years ago, has started op
eration in a newly completed
modern plant.
Ketchikan Pulp Co. annonunced
today its $52,500,000 mill at Ward
Cove, 8 miles northeast of here
now is working around-the-clock
turning out pulp at a rate ex
ceeding 100,000 tons a year. For
mal plant dedication is set for
July 14.
For Alaskans, the project caps
years of effort to get a major
industry started in the territory’s
vast southeastern region with its
untapped virgin forests.
Ketchikan Pulp, a joint venture
of Puget Sound Pulp and Timber
Co. of Bellingham, Wash., and
American Viscose Corp. of Phila
delphia, made a deal with the
Forest Service for eight billion
board feet of timber in the Ton
gass National Forest. Officials say
it’s enough, with reforestation and
natural growth, to permit per
petual operation.
At Ward Cove, which was only
a wooded coastal harbor when
work started June 1, 1952, mas
sive and intricate machinery has
been installed in a plant utilizing
latest manufacturing methods.
Sulphite liquors, otherwise wast
ed, are recovered for fuel to gen
erate steam and power. Chemicals
are put to repeated use in a di
gester system.
Three miles above the mill site
an 85-foot-high concrete dam has
been built across Ward Creek. It
provides the mill with a water
supply of 50 million gallons daily,
enough for a city of several thou
sand.
American Viscose, producer of
rayon and transparent wrapping
material, has contracted for vir
tually the entire output of the
mill for 20 years.
Test runs of the complicated
machinery have been in progress
for several weeks. In the past few
days all buildings and equipment
have been turned over to the op
erators by contractors.
First Anniversary of
Workers’ Rebellion Passes
Without Major Incident
BERLIN, (J")—West Berlin came
through the first anniversary of
the June 17 anti-Communist work
ers rebellion in East Germany
without a major incident, police
noted with satisfaction today.
One outburst of hot tempers left
three injured in the Western sec
tor at a rally called to commemo
rate the uprising in the East. The
crowd pummeled six Communist
hecklers who were rescued by
flying squads of police.
City authorities said only three
of the six needed hospital treat
ment. Then they were sent home.
Thirty men were held briefly for
questioning, scolded and also re
leased.
There were no incidents on the
East-West frontier.