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Arms Shipment
Arrives Guatemala
From Red Poland
WASHINGTON, UP — Guate
mala’s chief diplomat here stalked
out of an inter-American “har
mony” meeting last night as Sen.
Wiley (R-Wis) spoke of the “om
inous arrival” in Guatemala of
“a tremendous shipment of arms”
from Communist Poland.
Wiley, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, was
chief speaker at a dinner in
honor of Latin American diplo
mats and he used the occasion to
discuss a State Department an
nouncement that a Swedish ship
was unloading at a Guatemalan
port arms which it reportedly had
taken on at Stettin in Poland. '
Wiley did not name Guatemala,
but it was clear he was talking
about that Central American na
tion, which he has described be
fore as “a Communist bdach
head in the Americas.”
Everybody, said Wiley, is “keen
ly aware of the grim implica
tions” of the news about the arms
shipment, which he said may be
“a part of the master plan of
world communism.”
At that point in Wiley’s speech,
up rose Dr. Alfredo Cocano, act
ing head of the Guatemala em
bassy. He walked to where W.
Cameron Burton, president of the
host District of Columbia Bar
Assn, was seated near the speak
er’s rostrum. He thanked Burton
for the invitation and said he had
to leave.
Outside the banquet room, the
Guatemalan told newsmen: “I
don’t know anything about that
arms shipment.”
French Mobilize Light
Planes and Helicopters
To Remove Wounded
HANOI, Indochina, UP)—At least
80 more wounded were expected
to arrive here tonight from cap
tured Dien Bien Phu as the
French mobilized all available
helicopters and light planes to
speed the mercy shuttle.
Coincident with the step-up of
evacuations, the French intensi
fied their air assaults on rebel
troops moving out of Dien Bien
Phu along the 70-mile highway
leading towards the strategic Red
River delta, seen as the next
Vietminh target.
The Vietminh delegation in
Geneva said Genevieve de Galard
Terraube, French air force nurse
who' was the only woman in the
fortress, would be released to the
French today.
TUESDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Detroit 8, Philadelphia 3
New York 4, Chicago 3
Cleveland 6, Boston 3
Washington 3„ Baltimore 1
National League
Chicago 7, Brooklyn 1
St. Louis 9, New York 3
Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 5
Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 2
Pacific Coast League
Los Angeles 9, Seattle 0
San Francisco 12, Portland 0
Sacramento 3, Hollywood 0
San Diego 5-7, Oakland 1-8
U.S. To Equip and Train
Pakistan Armies Against
Possible Red Aggression
KARACHI, Pakistan, (At —The
United States formally agreed to
day to aid Pakistan build her
armies into a modern efficient
fighting force.
A mutual defense assistance ag
reement, bitterly opposed by both
India and Russia, was signed here
by foreign minister Sir Mohom
med Zafrullah Khan and John
Kenneth Emerson, U.S. embassy
charge d’affaires.
Under the pact, the United
States will furnish military equip
ment and training aid to Pakistan,
building her armed forces into a
bulwark against possible Com
munist aggression in this part of
Asia.
“Black Eagle” Says U.S.
Policy Force's Guatemala
To Buy Arms From Reds
NEW YORK, (Jt—Col. Hubert
F. Julian, who claims he is
Guatemala’s military purchasing
agent, said today U.S. State De
partment policy has forced Guate
mala to buy arms for “hormal re
quirements” wherever it can —
including Communist dominated
countries.
He blamed what he called “the
constant refusal by the State De
partment to permit the minister
of national defense of Guatemala
to purchase surplus miltary ma
terials from this country or from
friendly countries.”
Julian, an American citizen, be
came known as the “Black Eagle”
as a flier during the Italo-Ethio
pian war. He is a negro.
Julian also asserted that “the
shipment of arms about which
this fuss is being kicked up was
not donated by the Soviet govern
ment, as has been implied.”
WASHINGTON, UP! — President
Eisenhower, commenting on ship
ment of arms from Red Poland to
Guatemala, said today it would be
a terrible thing if a Communist
dictatorship were established on
this continent.
Carpenter Locals Reject
Working Agreement With
General Contractors
ANCHORAGE, UP)—The Alaska
Council of Carpenters has reject
ed the proposed 1954 working ag
reement with the Associated Gen
eral Contractors for lack of a two
thirds majority vote of accept
ance.
Seven locals in the territory
voted to accept the contract but
five were against it.
Gordon Fischer, business agent
for the carpenters said there will
be no work stoppage because of
the rejection.
“We’ll just have to go back into
negotiating sessions with the con
tractors to consider about three
articles in the contract that the
members are not satisfied with,”
he said. He apparently referred to
provisions regarding working
conditions.
The contract proposal calls for
a 15-cents-an-hour increase in pay
in southeastern Alaska to $3.37Vi
base and 121/2 cents in westward
Alaska for a $3.69 base.
McCarthyArmy Row
Eisenhower Calls
For Continuance
Stalled Hearings
WASHINGTON, L/P) — President
Eisenhower today called for the
McCarthy-Army hearings to con
tinue—let the chips fall where
they may.
And in quick team play, Secre
tary of the Army Stevens declared
that at no time did higher-ups in
the administration give orders to
the Army in the case—the issue
over which the hearings were sus
pended a week last Monday.
Eisenhower and Stevens joined
in a maneuver obviously aimed at
seeing that the onus is not laid
on the administration if the hear
ings are not resumed, and further
to cut the ground from under the
contention by Sen. McCarthy that
a presidential secrecy order
makes it impossible to get the full
truth.
Eisenhower told a news confer
ence the hearings should not end
inconclusively and without the
public’s getting all the facts. He
said he has no intention of with
drawing his secrecy order regard
ing an administration conference
of last January, and was aston
ished it was being used as a
reason or excuse for suspension
of the hearings.
McCarthy said in a statement:
“If the senators maintain the po
sition which they took in execu
tive session, and it’s on the rec
ord, that this means we can’t get
all the truth, then the (presiden
tial) order will have the effect of
getting us back to the all-im
portant work of getting Com
munists out of defense plants and
the government.
“While I don’t like the method
used, I can’t help but applaud the
result.”
No Sign Of Progress In
Indochina Peace Talks •
GENEVA, UP — The Indochina
peace talks were resumed in an
other secret session today with
out any sign of progress.
As the third consecutive re
stricted meeting got under way,
the nine-party conference was re
ported tightly deadlocked over
western demands that Communist
forces withdraw immediately
from Laos and Cambodia.
At the same time, France es
tablished direct contact here for
the first time with the Vietminh
in an attempt to settle the contro
versy over the evacuation of
wounded from Dien Bien Phu.
The two delegations appointed
special representatives. They con
ferred briefly, but had nothing to
say after the meeting.
France and the United States
were reported pushing plans for
a southeast Asia pact.
MONDAY SCORES
National League
Chicago 10, Pittsburgh 6
Philadelphia 8, St. Louis 4
(Suspended game from Friday)
St. Louis 8, Philadelphia 0
American League
Boston 4, Detroit 3
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 15, Portland 7
Senate-House Committee
Takes Over McCarthy’s
Alaska Fraud Investigation
WASHINGTON, UP) —Sen. Mc
Carthy said today he has formally
turned over to a Senate - House
committee responsibility for in
vestigating fraud in federal spend
ing in Alaska.
Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), who
heads the joint committee on de
fense production, confirmed the
arrangement. He said he expects
McCarthy to turn over within a
day of two documentary evidence
to provide a basis for the pro
posed public inquiry.
The Senate investigations sub
committee which McCarthy heads
authorized him last week to pass
the inquiry to other hands while
it looks into his row with Army
officials.
McCarthy announced that staff
investigators who’ have most to
do with the preliminary inquiry
will be assigned “on loan” to
Capehart’s joint committee.
McCarthy again declined in an
interview to give details of the
Alaska cases, except that they in
volve federal expenditures “for
roads, housing and mining.”
Steno and Friend Die of
Aphrodisiac Put in Sweets
By Impatient Suitor
LONDON, (#)—Scotland Yard
says a 44-year-old office manager
has confessed he fed chocolates
doctored with an aphrodisiac to
his pretty stenographer in hopes
she would yield to his advances.
The dose was too big and she and
another girl who also nibbled
died.
The manager, Arthur K. Ford,
was brought into court yesterday
on a charge of manslaughter that
grew out of the death of Betty
Grant, 27, the object of his desire,
and her co-warker in Ford’s office,
19-year-old June Malins.
Ford was returned to jail pend
ing a further hearing next week.
Detectives said Ford toid them
he dosed the sweet with the sex
ual stimulant (cantharidin and
gave a piece to Miss Grant.
“We were very fond of each
other,” they quoted the confes
sion. “She kept putting me off
and I made up my mind to give
her cantharidin to stimulate her
desire for me. I cannot say how
Miss Malins got the other piece
except that it must have been an
accident.”
Ford himself was taken to the
hospital at the time the girls died.
He complained of severe head
pains. Detectives quoted him as
saying he had eaten some of the
candy, but put the drug only in
that intended for Miss Grant.
Nationalist Planes Clash With
Communist Jets Over China
TAIPEH, Formosa, (tf)—Nation
alist China’s air force today said
eight of its fighters (presumably
propeller type) clashed for 10
minutes with eight Communist
Mig jets off Chekiang province.
The communique made no men
tion of damage, but a press officer
said he believed several were hit.
He refused to comment on a ru
mor one Mig was destroyed.
All Nationalist pilots returned
safely, the air force said.
Pleas Made To
Allow House Vote
On Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
Rules Committee today heard
pleas that it permit the Senate
passed statehood bill for Hawaii
and Alaska to go to Senate-House
conference, but adjourned with
out acting.
A committee decision was de
ferred when the hour allotted for
the hearing expired before all
witnesses had testified. Chairman
Allen (R-Ill) said the hearing
would have to be continued to
“another day.”
Chairman Miller (R-Neb) of the
House Interior Committee asked
the Rules Committee to “let the
American people through their
elected representatives in the
House express themselves on the
question of statehood for Hawaii
and Alaska.”
Miller said he believes the ques
tion of statehood for each of the
territories should stand on its own
merits, but he said the Rules
Committee could grant special
authority for unlimited debate in
the House on the combined state
hood measure.
Delegate Bartlett endorsed Mil
ler’s plea for sending the com
bined bill to conference.
“All we are entitled to,” he
said, “is a chance to have the
House exercise its will on Alaska
statehood.”
Convicted Fairbanks White
Slaver Shoots Man In
Anchorage Night Spot
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A Texan
who was convicted of white slav
ery in Fairbanks early Sunday,
then released on $10,000 bond,
was arrested after a night club
fracas here yesterday and charged
with shooting with intent to kill.
The Texan, Wesley Kehrt, of
Lubbock, is still in the Anchorage
jail, unable to scrape up $25,000
in bail money on the latest charge.
Victim of the scuffle was Jesse
Combs, 31-year-old unemployed
plumber who arrived here two
ago from Shafter, Calif. He was
struck by a bullet which pene
trated his right cheek and came
out below his ear. His condition
was described as “not serious.”
Kehrt and James Bennett were
convicted of transporting women
from the states for immoral pur
poses. The Fairbanks trial was
described as one of the most sen
sational ever held in Alaska.
SAS Plane Will Stop At
Fairbanks Enroute To
Tokyo From Norway
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Testing the
new trans - Arctic air route be
tween Europe and the Orient, a
Scandinavian Airline plane is
scheduled to arrive here Monday
on a charter flight was 40 Nor
wegian Red Cross workers flying
from Bodo, Norway, to Tokyo.
Last year, an SAS plane on a
similar flight stopped at Anchor
age.
The Red Cross workers will be
housed at Ladd Air Force Base
during an overnight stop. The
plane is to depart Tuesday morn
ing for Shemya and Tokyo.