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STRETCHING HIS LUCK
Wide Open
NOME WELCOMES distinguished visitors from
many of the smaller States this weekend, as
the National Guard Officer’s Conference takes place.
Many military guests come to Alaska, are taken
through the strong military installations on the other
side of the mountains, and return to their headquarters
glowing with admiration for the northern defense
picture, never observing or realizing what exists in
Alaska beyond the perimeter of those defenses, or
even deraming how wide open is the Back Door of
America, and how inviting it has been made to
ambitious neighbors just across the Straits a few
miles away.
This State is so large that it would be difficult
for anyone to visualize the true nature of our lack of
coastal defenses unless actually seen.
Alaskans are particularly happy that Nome was
chosen for this conference, so that many high ranking
military leaders from most of the States, who have
behind them accumulated years of military experience
both in strategy and warfare, can see and understand
the nearness of the Siberian coast. They can return
to their own headquarters with a first-hand report
that the most important part of Alaska, as far as
defense is concerned, has no immediate defense at all
except for the local National Guard.
Should war come to us again (and its threat is
felt every day), how demoralizing to the whole world
it would be to have it commence in Alaska because
the invader had a line of attack closer to us than we
have to them. The open back door could easily become
the front door for invasion.
All of America — the United States and Canada
— would feel safer with a strong northern coastline
defense. All Americans would have more confidence
in the strength behind our defenses if the back door
were closed and bolted from within. It is easier and
less expensive to discourage invasion than to pay the
cost of pushing the enemy back once they have
, landed on our shore.
Nome is certainly proud of the fine job the Alaska
National Guard is doing, especially the record of the
1st Scout Battalion. Its officers and the U. S. Army
Advisory Group hold the highest respect in the com
munity. The Guard needs, however, military support
on this northern frontier.
Castro Raves at
Catholic Critics
HAVANA, — Fidel Castro
yesterday rejected criticism of his
government by the Roman Cath
olic Church, asserting that those
who condemned his revolution
“would be capable of crucifying
Christ himself again because
Christ preached what we are
doing.”
In a boiling rage, the bearded
Prime Minister charged that trait
orous clergymen directed by the
U. S. Embassy were provoking his
revolution with church demon
strations. He also accused the
United States of getting Spanish
Generalissimo Franco to pressure
Spanish priests in Cuba into at
tacking his regime.
Shouting, waving his arms and
giving seeming proof of his an
nouncement that he has complete
ly recovered his health, Castro
spoke for 3V£ hours to a post
midnight labor rally that roared
approval of his attacks on the
church with shouts in Spanish of
“Out” and “To the execution
wall.”
It was Castro’s first public ap
pearance since Cuba’s Catholic
hierarchy in a pastoral letter Sun
day warned that Communism is
advancing in Cuba. The revolu
tionary leader was as angry as
he has ever been in public.
“He who condemns a revolution
like this one betrays Christ,” Cas
tro rasped. “They are not only
traitors to Christ but to their
people and to the fatherland.”
“There is no doubt that the
American Embassy has thrown
into the battle its final pawns,” he
declared. “There is no doubt that
the imperialistic partner of <Span
ish Generalissimo) Franco and his
Fascism has influenced Franco so
that Franco can mobilize against
our countrymen as many Fascist
priests as they can count on in
our country.”
He issued a veiled warning that
his government would retaliate if
the church does not halt its criti
cism.
Castro attacked the “scribes and
Pharisees who did not raise a
voice to protest against the crimes
of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. The
scribes who were photographed
with the tyrant — baptizing the
children of the tyrant.”
Some of the church’s highest
ranking prelates baptized Batista's
children, but at least one leading
Catholic prelate, the Most Rev.
Enrique Perez Serantes, Arch
bishop of Santiago, once inter
vened to save Castro’s life from
a Batista firing squad.
NAVY SHIPS COLLIDE
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Wl — The
carrier Bennington and the de
stroyer Edwards collided Wed
nesday during refueling opera
tions 175 miles off the California
coast, the Navy announced. A
spokesman said there were no
inj uries.
Both vessels were damaged, the
carrier slightly, the destroyer ex
tensively, the Navy said.
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Reports Russian Attaches
Gobbling Military Data
WASHINGTON, of) — The
Washington Evening Star says
that while the Soviet Union was
expelling the U. S. air attache
from Moscow Wednesday on es
pionage charges, four Soviet mili
tary attaches were winding up
three busy days here collecting
armloads of the latest defense
information.
The story, reporting the obser
vations of reporter Jerry O'Leary
Jr. who followed the men through
exhibits and lectures at the con
vention of the Association of the
U. S. Army, says two other Iron
Curtain military men from Po
land were similarly occupied.
There was nothing illegal about
the six Communist bloc men’s
three busy days—they were reg
istered at the convention and had
the credentials available to mili
tary attaches.
Neither was the data they
crammed into bulging briefcases
classified.
But an Army spokesman said
seven items of defense hardware
disclosed at the convention never
before had been seen by the gen
eral public.
These included a T114 tracked
reconnaissance vehicle planned to
replace the armored car or the
light tank; a new configuration
of the Nike-Zeus missile; an art
ist’s conception of the Army's
new Mauler, a mobile automatic
air defense firing system with
electronic computer; an SD5
drone, a typical warhead of about
200 m.m.; a “red eye” hand-car
ried antiplane weapon, and a
working model of a Sadac com
puter.
Book-of-Month Club
Offers First Novel Prize in
Name of Marquand
NEW YORK — A prize of
$10,000, to be known as the John
P. Marquand First Novel Award,
was announced this week by the
Book-of-the-Month Club.
John Marquand, in whose mem
ory the prize is offered, was a
member of the Board of Judges
of the Book-of-the-Month Club
for many years before his death
in July.
Eligible for the prize, assert
Club officials, will be first novels
by American or Canadian writers
published by American or Cana
dian firms during an 18-month
period from July, i960, to Decem
ber, 1961. Actual publication of a
novel is a condition; unpublished
manuscripts will be ineligible, ac
cordng to Club rules.
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