Nixon Reveals
Spotting Red Spies
On East Coast
By JACK BELL
BUFFALO, N. Y., UP) — Vice
President Richard Nixon said
today two Russian agents were
spotted but not picked up pn the
day Soviet Premier Khrushchev
addressed the United Nations last
fall.
Nixon told a reporter the two
Russian officials had been ob
served trying to obtain secret in
formation in Springfield, Mass.,
at the time the Russian leader
was campaigning to sell the idea
that the Soviets wanted peace.
Because of Khrushchev’s pres
ence in this country, Nixon said,
the two were not apprehended at
the time.
He declined to say whether they
were picked up later.
Nixon cited the incident as a
defense of this country’s action in
sending the U-2 spy plane over
Russia only a few days before the
now-collapsed summit was to
convene.
The FBI has declined comment
on Nixon’s statement and there
has been no official Washington
comment. Police in Springfield
said they were aware of the case
but that it had been handled by
the FBI.
Springfield, a major industrial
center where many defense con
tracts have been handled, is also
the site of a big arsenal, for gen
erations a center of research and
manufacture in the field of small
arms.
Only a few miles away, in adja
cent Chicopee, is the huge West
over Air Force Base.
The theory in cases of spotting
without making an arrest is to es
tablish a continuing surveillance
to determine whom the foreign
agents are contacting in the
United States.
SOVIET SATELLITE VISIBLE
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UP) — The
new Soviet sky satellite was vis
ible to the unaided eye during the
early morning darkness hours to
day in a broad belt across the
(United States — from Maine to
Washington and from South Caro
lina to Dallas, Tex., and San Di
ego, Calif.
The satellite is moving south
east to north-northwest. It is not
seen in Alaska.
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Alaska Steam Handles I
Large Year’s Gross for
Small Annual Return
SEATTLE, LTt — The Alaska
Steamship Co. did more than $16,
000,000 worth of buhiness last
year and had $92,644 left after
paying its bills and taxes, it re
ported Tuesday.
Revenues for the year totaled
$16,185,665, the company said.
Costs included $8,970,251 for
wages; $746,397 for fuel; $471,115
for ship supplies; $252,078 for re
pairs and maintenance; $770,797
for insurance; $2,429,966 for
other operating expenses; $2,345,
342 for general administrative ex
penses and depreciation, and
$107,075 for federal and state
taxes.
Since about 70 per cent of the
annual traffic moves between
April 1 and September 30, off-sea
son operations normally reflect
losses, but in the first quarter of
this year the losses amounted to
$331,800, compared with $316,100
for the first quarter of last year.
“Mounting operating costs, not
withstanding improvements in
shipping methods,” were described
as the source of trouble.
‘I’m Sick of American
Jets!’ — Khrushchev
PARIS, Wt — “I’ve had enough
of American jet planes,” Soviet
Premier Khrushchev told a pho
tographer. “I’m sick of them.
“You know all about the one
that flew over our country — the
U. S. espionage plane.
“Then I come to Paris and they
ruin my sleep.”
Khrushchev spent last Satur
day night at Soviet Ambassador
Vinogradov’s summer home in the
country, near Orly Airport. He
returned to Paris Sunday and
thereafter slept at the Soviet Em
bassy. A photographer asked him
why.
“The noise of those American
Air Force jet planes taking off
and landing at Orly Airport,” he
said. “They ruined my sleep.”
No U. S. Air Force planes land
or take off from France’s largest
commercial airfield. Khrushchev
was probably disturbed by the
dozens of commercial jets of var
ious nations that take off and
land there.
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ARMED FORCES DAY—1960. "Mighty Mite" the work
horse of the Marines is given a lift by the Marine Corpr
helicopter the HUS-1.
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Arctic Oil Delivery
j Mining Advisor Says U. S.
Must Produce More
Strategic Metals
SEATTLE, UP) — The govern
ment’s reliance upon foreign
sources for strategic materials was
termed foolhardy yesterday by W.
G. Maloney of Butte, Mont.
In an address before the West
ern Governors’ Conference, the
vice-chairman of the Governors’
Mining Advisory Council also
complained of the federal govern
ment’s policy on silver and gold
mining.
Maloney suggested greater pro
duction of both metals — silver
for coinage and gold “to restore
our larger currency a solvency it
does not now have.”
He asserted that if foreign gov
ernments demanded their pieces
of the American gold pie by con
verting American bank notes they
hold “We will be left with com
plete collapse of our monetary
system.”
Maloney told the Western Gov
ernors that government action,
low prices and lack of markets
had depressed many areas of the
metals and minerals industry.
Russians Sign Fishing
Pact with Japan
MOSCOW, UP) — A Soviet
Japanese fishing agreement for
1960 was signed today.
The 107 days of negotiations re
sulted in agreement on a 67,500
ton salmon catch and opening of
about 30 per cent of a previously
restricted area to Japanehe fish
ermen.
A permanent Soviet-Japanese
commission to study salmon re
sources in the Northwest Pacific
was proposed.
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ARMED FORCES DAY, 1960
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pride in joining other men and women of the
nation's Armed Services in commemorating this
11th annual observance of Armed Forces Day.
The gates of major Army installation in Alaska
are thrown open on this day to show our civilian
friends the vital part the Army is playing in
maintaining our nation's strength. I take great
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Scientists Predicts U. S.
Will Beat Russia in Putting
Man Into Space
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — A scien
tist predicted yesterday the United
States will beat Russia in the race
to put a man into space. He re
ferred to a forthcoming effort to
send a man into a nonorbital bal
listic flight in preparation for
later efforts at an orbital journey
around the earth.
Dr. I. M. Letitt, head of the
Franklin Institute’s Fels Plane
tarium, said that despite Soviet
success in recently launching a
4t£-ton satellite carrying a dum
my, an American astronaut will
take man’s first space ride, some
time before this Christmas.
He said the American would be
catapulted in a rocket from Cape
Canaveral down the Atlantic rock
et test range.
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Census Shows Heavy
Alaska Population Increase
WASHINGTON, Wl — Alaska’s
population has increased in the
past 10 years from 128,643 to
223,888.
The 1960 figure was given out
by the Census Bureau as prelim
inary and subject to revision. By
election districts, the 1960 count
was:
Prince of Wales, 1,750; Ketchi
kan, 9,842; Wrangell-Petersburg,
4,083; Sitka, 6,731; Juneau, 9,594;
Lynn Canal-Icy Straits, 2,926;
Cordova-McCarthy, 1,729; Valdez
Chitina-Whittier, 2,890; Palmer
Wasilla-Talkeetna, 5,188; Anchor
age, 82,560; Seward, 2,904; Kenai
Cook Inlet, 6,049; Kodiak, 6,869;
Aleutian Islands, 5,542; Bristol
Bay, 4,010; Bethel, 5,551; Kuskok
wim, 2,041; Yukon-Koyukuk, 4,
182; Fairbanks, 42,746 ;Upper Yu
kon, 1,631; Barrow, 2,151; Kobuk,
3,564; Nome, 6,253, and Wade
Hampton, 3,112.
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ARMED FORCES DAY—1960. Air line pilots practice
entering a life raft from a mock-up airplane door attached
to a Coast Guard patrol boat during survival drills near
Honolulu.
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