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Churchill Says Now Is Not the Time
To Admit Communist China to U.N.
LONDON, Wl—Prime Minister
Churchill said today his govern
ment does “not consider that this
is the moment” to raise the matter
of Communist China’s admission
to the United Nations.
The Prime Minister told the
House of Commons that Britain’s
policy toward Red China remains
the same—she favors seating Red
China in the U.N. after the Peip
ing regime has proved it is willing
to foreswear aggression and abide
by international agreements.
Churchill also said his Wash
ington conference with President
Eisenhower was the most agree
able and fruitful in his experi
ence.
Churchill opened by saying that
he went to Washington because he
was “deeply concerned at the lack
of information” Britain possessed
about the hydrogen bomb. He con
cluded by saying that wide-spread
acceptance of the idea of peaceful
coexistence of Communist and
non-Communist worlds might
with the passage of years solve
problems and “avert the mass de
struction of the human race.”
The Prime Minister reminded
France that the European Defense
Community was a French idea.
He said Britain and the United
States were convinced this still
remains the best plan for getting
West German rearmament. In
firm tones he declared:
“It would indeed be a tragedy
if this opportunity were lost of
bringing Germany back into the
European family and at the same
time of recruiting a German na
tional army.
“To me, the bulk of whose life
has been spent in war, or prepara
tion for war, with Germany, it
seemed little less than madness to
leave that active and virile nation
with no choice but to raise an
independent, national army and
to reject association with her and
the Western world.”
SUNDAY BASEBALL
American League
New York 7, Washington 3
Chicago 3-8, Cleveland 0-2
Detroit 2, Baltimore 1
Boston 18-11, Philadelphia 0-1
National League
New York 13-1, Pittsburgh 7-5
Brooklyn 8-1, Philadelphia 7-3
Cincinnati 6-5, Milwaukee 5-6
St, Louis 4, Chicago 3
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 5-0, Seattle 1-6
S. Francisco 10-4, S. Diego 2-9
L. Angeles 5-4, Sacramento 1-3
Portland 4-4, Oakland 3-0
Japanese Crab Fishermen Catch
1954 Quota In Alaska Waters
HAKODATE, Japan, UR—Japan’s
crab fishing fleet in the Bristol
Bay, Alaska, area has caught its
1954 quota of 57,000 cases of king
crabs a month and a half ahead
of schedule, Kyodo News Service
said today.
Kyodo also reported that Japan
has appointed a seven-man ad
visory delegation for the sixth
conference of the International
Whaling Commission scheduled
here July 19.
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Dominican Diplomat Dies
In London Embassy Fight
LONDON, (#)—A Dominican dip
lomat was dead today and his
adversary in a dinnertime quarrel
and gun fight was in a hospital
with a stomach wound.
The two men, described as for
merly “groat friends,” shot it out
Saturday night in the Dominican
consulate, not far from Bucking
ham Palace.
The dead man was the Domini
can Embassy’s first secretary, Don
Luis Bernardino. His wounded
opponent was Capt. Antonio de la
Mazas, the embassy air attache.
An embassy spokesman said the
two men wore dining together at
the consulate building when they
became involved in a violent ar
gument. The shooting followed.
The spokesman said he did not
know what caused the dispute.
Margaret White Considered For
Post Alaska Customs Collector
WASHINGTON, (IP)—Mrs. Mar
garet White, Alaska’s national
Republican committeewoman, is
under consideration for appoint
ment as collector of customs in
Alaska, the Republican National
Committee said today.
J. T. Petrich of Juneau now is
acting collector.
CAA to Take Over
Radar Approach at
18 Air Force Bases
WASHINGTON, W—1The Civil
Aeronautics Administration yes
terday announced plans to take
ovej radar approach control cen
ters at 18 Air Force bases.
The primary reason: Air Force
reluctance to direct air traffic in
areas serving both civil and mili
tary aircraft.
Under the program jointly
agreed upon, the CAA will oper
ate the surveillance radar units
for the approach control of all
aircraft in the vicinity of each of
the bases. Surveillance radar has
a radius of 30 miles or more, and
is used to watch all air traffic
moving within that range of the
airport where the radar is in
stalled.
The Air Force, meanwhile, will
operate the precision approach
radar used for actual landing of
military craft by instruments, in
storms or fog or at night. A
standard radar approach control
center has two precision approach
radar sets—one with a range of
three miles and one of 10 miles—
and three surveillance radar
scopes.
CAA and the Air Force said the
new control method has been
tested successfully at MacDill Air
Force Base, Tampa, Fla., and will
be extended during the coming
12 months to McChord Air Force
Base, Tacoma, and Tinker Air
Force Base, Oklahoma City.
Similar jointly controlled cen
ters will be put into operation
after July 1, 1955, at 14 other
bases including Ladd Air Force
Base, Fairbanks.
Russia Fails in Effort
To Have U.N. Call Off
U.S. H-Bomb Tests
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (.W—
Russia- failed today in an effort
to have the United Nations call a
halt to future U.S. atomic and
hydrogen bomb tests in the Mar
shall Islands.
The issue came to a vote in the
six-nation Petitions Committee of
the U.N. Trusteeship Council. A
Soviet proposal calling on the
United States to desist from such
tests received no support except
that of the Russian representative.
Britain, France and Belgium
voted against it and the two other
members—India and Syria—ab
stained.
Nome River Mouth
Block Threatens
Food Fish Runs
Fishermen and their families
living at Nome River, have re
ported the mouth of the river
is closed and has shifted about
a quarter of a mile east of its
normal location.
The river appears to be back
ing up behind a sandbar and
spreading out into a lake, which
is seriously interferring with the
salmon, trout and whitefish runs
which are due at this time.
Fishermen who depend on the
river for their winter source of
food, urge that something be done
before the silver salmon run
starts about the 20th of July.
Territorial Sen. Howard Lyng
took action today and notified the
Fish and Wildlife Service, advis
ing and urging that the Alaska
Road Commission and the U.S.
Engineers of Nome harbor be
used to' bulldoze or drag the nor
mal mouth of the river and re
store its flow so that residents
may not suffer hardship due to
shortage of dried fish for both
the fishermen and their dogs.
Wildcat Walkout
Stops Work at Two
Big Atom Projects
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., UP)—A wild
cat walkout by members of AFL
laborers’ Local 818 halted work
today on two vast atomic plant
construction projects.
Morre than 8,000 AFL construc
tion workers were idled by the
walkout which union leaders de
scribed as illegal.
An Atomic Energy Commission
spokesman said the strike had no
immediate effect on AFL and
CIO production workers at the
three atomic energy plants here.
The shutdown of the two con
struction projects was brought
about by refusal of AFL building
craftsmen to cross the laborers’
picket lines.
W. H. Wardrep, business agent
of Local 818, said “the pickets are
unauthorized and use of the union
name on any picket signs is il
legal.”
Meanwhile, CIO chemical work
ers who struck three days last
week to back up demands for a
wage increase were reported
back on the job in normal force.
Alaska Airlines and Pan American
Seek Fare Cuts in New Hearings
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Angel Gets Wings After
Pre - Operation Jump
FT. BRAGG, N.C., UP)—Angel
got his wings the hard way.
Pfc. Angel O. Gomez suffered
an appendicitis attack just before
his fifth and final jump as a para
trooper trainee here.
He concealed his condition and
made the jump anyway. On the
way down, he passed out. Medics
in the drop zone disengaged his
parachute and rushed him to the
hospital.
Gomez had to sit up in bed to
have his wings pinned on by Col.
Nathaniel >R. Hoskot, who said:
“What you did wasn’t very
smart, but ... it showed a lot of
guts and pride in the unit.”
TOURIST KILLED IN CAR
ACCIDENT AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, UP)—Roy N. Littler,
65, of Colo., died early Sunday of
injuries received Saturday night
when a truck collided with a tour
ist limousine on the Glacier High
way. Five others were injured.
The Yellow Cab limousine was
bringing passengers to Juneau
from the cruise ship Northwind
which had put into nearby Auke
Bay from Haines.
Flood Victims in
Austria, Germany
Get Relief Supplies
VIENNA, Austria, (IP)—Relief
supplies for thousands of home
less victims of Central Europe’s
worst flood in centuries poured
into stricken Austria and Ger
many today.
Holland, Sweden, Switzerland
and the Saar were the first to
offer bedding, food and clothes to
thousands of families made home
less by the raging Danube and a
dozen tributaries. Their five-day
rampage has claimed at least 24
lives on both sides of the Iron
Curtain.
The air began to arrive as res
cue workers struggled to reach
submerged Austrian and German
towns where inhabitants were
still stranded on rooftops and
upper floors. More than 3,000
American soldiers have been tak
ing part in the rescue work.
Sketchy reports from Czecho
slavakia and Hungary indicated
those two Danube Valley coun
tries have been hard hit by the
floods. Prague and Budapest ra
dios said Communist authorities
had ordered entire farm commun
ities evacuated and that many
hamlets were under water and
crops destroyed.
It was not known what the
death toll was in the two Iron
Curtain lands. Nine deaths were
reported last night in Communist
East Germany.
In West Germany, skies cleared
and flood waters began to subside,
but thousands of acres of rich
farmland were still under water.
Countless houses, bridges and in
dustrial plants were damaged—
some beyond repair.
> WASHINGTON, UP—A Civil
Aeronautics Board investigation
of proposed reductions in airline
passenger fares between the Pac
ific Northwest and Alaska opened
today.
The hearing, before Examiner
James Keith, also involves other
proposed changes in the fare
structure, including different fares
for different types of aircraft and
free stopover privileges.
The investigation was initiated
when Pacific Northern Airlines
protested a proposal by Pan Am
erican World Airways for a re
duced fare schedule between Se
attle and Juneau which did not
provide any additional charge for
stopovers between the United
States and Alaska. Pan American
also proposed reductions in pas
senger fares between Seattle and
Fairbanks, Portland and Fair
banks, and between Portland
Seattle and Ketchikan-Juneau.
Pacific Northern Airlines also
has proposed lower fares between
Seattle and Juneau and other
points in Alaska where fares are
based on the Seattle-Juneau fare.
In addition, Pacific Northern
seeks to reduce fares between Se
attle and Anchorage and Portland
and Anchorage. /'
Alaska Airlines proposed a re
duction in its Seattle-Fairbanks
and Portland-Fairbanks fares.
In addition, Alaska Airlines is
requesting a $15 one-way fare
differential between its DC-4 air
craft and Pan American’s DC-6B
aircraft on flights between Port
land and Seattle and Fairbanks.
Alaska Airlines contends it
needs a fare $15 lower than Pan
American to enable it to retain
its 30 percent participation in the
total Fairbanks-West Coast mar
ket which is achieved for the
first time in the last half of 1953.
Henry W. Bierds, Alaska Air
lines executive and the first wit
ness at the hearing, estimated that
if Pan American has a $90 one
way fare and Alaska charges $75
it would help overcome the effect
of Pan American’s world-wide
advertising and the preference
shown to Pan American by travel
agencies throughout the country.
Chou En-Lai Returns to
Geneva for More Talks
On Indochina Peace Terms
GENEVA, UR—Chou En-Lai re
turned to Geneva today for a
fresh round of bargaining on In
dochina. He flew in a few hours
after British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden joined French Pre
mier Pierre Mendes-France in a
last effort to make peace with the
Communists over the revolt-tom
southeast - Asian land.
The Red Chinese Premier was
greeted by Soviet Foreign Minis
ter V. M. Molotov as he stepped
from the Russian air force plane
that brought him here from Mos
cow. Chou was all smiles, a start
ling change from the cold and re
served manner he displayed on
his first arrival here last April.
In a statement he said peace
could be achieved “with a concil
iatory spirit for seeking peace on
the part of all sides concerned.”