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Interpreting News
by J. M. Roberts
Asociated Press News Analyst
Outer Mongolia, which is
causing such a hassle in the Un
ited Nations, was the first
post-revolujJonary abjective of
Russia’s expansionist policy.
tl is almost as much a part of
Russia as is The Ukraine. In
deed, the Ukrainians have giv
en greater evidence of a desire
for freedom than have the Mon
Russian agents staged a re
volution in Outer Mongolia 31
years ago, and I.he Reds have
held it ever since.
Admittinlg Outer Mongolia to
the United Nations would be
very like the separate represen
tation allowed The Ukraine.
Puerto Rico has far great er au
tonomy.
For centuries all Mongolia
was, for all intents and purpos
es, a part of China. Inner Mon
golia, into which the Reds also
infiltrated, is now being rein
corporated into Red China with
Russian consent.
During the war Chiang Kai
Shek wrote a book, suppressed
(for a time at Allied insistence,
outlining 'his demands for re
turn of territories lost by Chi
na over the long years. He
wanted Hong Kong, ipart of
Burma and. among ddier things
all of (Mongolia. It’s Chinese, he
said, stretching the point a lit
tle.
But the abjective has always
'been a part of Chinese policy,
unj.il the Reds made their deal
with Moscow. Now Chiang is
refusing to admit, iby permit
ting U. N. membership, that
the area is independent. He
clings to his claims, just as he
does regarding (the mainland of
China.
The United States feels much
the same way, Ibut is willing to
admit Auter Mongolia and four
other Red nations as part of a
package deal under which Rus
sia would withhold the veto
on admission of 13 non-com
munist nations. Some of them
of considerable importance.
There is a great deal of re
sentment over the Nationalist
Chinese stand among other UtNf
delegations. Some are remind
ing forcefully that the Nation
alists themselves are threaten
ed with loss of membership
through recognition of the fact
that the Red regime at Peiping
actually controls all China ex
cept Formosa.
The Nationalists have no ■
fhance whatever of ever con
trolling Outer Mongolia. For
the sake of the record they are
alienating UN votes they are
going to need some day. The
principles and rights involved
are so tenuous they hardly seem
worth the risk.
ALASKA COASTAL PLANE
PASSENGER LIST
Arriving Wednesday:
Henry Fawcett. John Moses
Frank Bean, Charles Goshorn
Ed Gavell. Lynn Forrest, John
Bonebrick, W. D. Smeltor,
! Gordon Hart, Matt Gormley,
! James Seddon, C. D. Innes, Den
nis Hix, R. C. Kelly, Joe
i Godding, Bertra McKay, Ern
| est Hanley, John Thompson,
j Josephine Wiseman, Ernest G.
I Francis and Richard Dalton
from Juneau,
j Leaving Wednesday:
Adeline Peters, Ralph Cun
| ningham, John Ballard, Har
old Frank, James Camp. Wil
i lie Hammond, John Robinson.
Dr. Benjamin McBrayer, W.
Smeltor, Gordon Hart and Bes
! sie See from Juneau.
MT. EDGECUMBE
HOSPITAL ROSTER
Admitted Tuesday to Mt.
Edgecumbe hospital were
John Muller of Tacoma Indi
an hospital, Magdaline And
rews and Louise James of
Wrangell, Lena Klusbkan of
Mt. Edgeoumibe and John Kea
nu of Petersburg.
Discharged were Sophie
Pete r.o Marshall, Betty Moy
and Robert Paul to Sitka and
Eric Johnson to the boys dorm
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NOVEMBER LONG ON COLD
SHORT ON RAINFALL
November was far colder
and dryer than * normal, the
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Station reported this morning
But 4.3 inches of precipita
tion (snow and rain) was re
corded for the month, which
was 7.03 below normal. The
high temperature of 51 de
grees was recorded Nov. 6
and the low of 6 degrees a
hove on Nov. 25.
Compared ito the average
temperature of 30 degrees, the
month averaged 10 degrees
below normal.
O'Toole found
guilty of murder
in Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN (JP) Robert
James O’Toole, 33, has /been
found guilty of murder in itfhe
first degree in the fatal shoot
inig of Vernon Young here, by
a jufy of seven women and
five men. The jury returned its
verdict last night and asked
that the death sentence not be
imposed. The verdict thus auto
matically carries a setnenee of
; life imprisonment.
Sentence will be officially
imposed in district count Mon
day.
O’Toole, the lather of two
children, dropped his head in
his hands as the verdict was
read in open court and his wife
Patricia, sobbed 'hysterically
and collapsed on the floor of
the courtroom as her husband
was led back to his jail cell.
The jury had deliberated less
than six hours before convict
ing the former Seattle police
man who had contended that
the shoo; ing of Young was ac
cidental.
Pilot tried to keep
plane from crashing
into dwellings
FAIRBANKS (/P) The last
few seconds of Lieut. Alfred
M. Pounders’ life apparently
was spent in a desperate and
futile attempt to keep his
plane from plunging into an
Eielson air force base housing
area.
The Mom icello, Miss., pilot
of an F84 jet fighter plane
failed and he and 12 other per
sons died Tuesday noon in the
flaming wreckage off his plane
and six multiple-family hous
es on the air base. A four
teenth victim succumbed to
burns yesterday.
me story or tne puu. s ner
oic struggle came first from an
unidentified air force sergeant]
wiho reported he was strolling
by base headquarters when he
was surprised iby the jet roar
ing overhead, its wing dipping
deeply in a sharp turn.
“The pilot was struggling
with the controls,” the ser
geant said. “You could tell he
was trying to avdid the build
ings.”
Air force investigators con
curred with this version. They
said i the direction of the plane
indicated the pilot had (been
fighting to maneuver it out of
the housing area. He missed
clearing it by only a few
yards.
The toll might have been
higher if it hadn’t been for (the I
quick thinking of a Pittsburgh
Pa., bus driver, airman 2/e
Norman Stauffer, 19.
Stauffer was the driver of
the school (bus bringing 35
school children of all ages
home to lunch. He was driving
east toward the scene of uhe
accident from the school when
he saw the plane heading to
ward the (building with the
right wing extremely low.
“I knew the plane was go
ing ito crash,” he related later.
“So I stopped the bus and told
all the kids to get out and run
back from the area. The kids
scattered.”
Air base officials said if
Stauffer had continued on his
normal course and turned (the
corner ihe would have been in
the path of the hurtling plane
as it crossed the road and
came to a stop next to an a
partment building.
In Stauffer’s bus were the
two Children of Army M. Slgt.
Weldon M. Rucker and his
wife. The Dallas, Texas, cou
ple and Mrs. Rucker’s mother
Mrs. Emma B. McBrayer, all
were killed.
Serious burns were received
by six persons in the explos
ive crash and two received les
ser injuries. The rescue oper
ations in the bitter cold 16
below-zero weather also took
their toll. Eigb y-five persons
were treated for exposure, two
for smoke inhalation and 18
for cuts and bruises.
Today, the air force contin
ued the grim task of cleaning
! up the wreckage scattered ov
! er a two block area and caring
j for the ramilies made home
j less by the crash,
j More than a thousand air
I force and army personnel
worked at the cold task of
clearing away the debris. Vol
unteers from (throughout the
huge air force base worked at
various relief duties.
Members of the Officers’
Wives Club at Ladd air force
base, just outside the Fair
banks city limits, 26 miles to
the northwesr, joined the Eiel
son club in a wholesale dona
tion of clothing and food to
victims.
Officers and enlisted men
worked side by side on the
shovel and broom details, one
of which included Brig. Gen.
John F. Ruggles, commander
of the army’s Yukon forces.
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Neil! Andersen's
Col. Greeley dies
was famous as
lumberman
PORT GAMBLE, Wash. (AP)
Col. William B. Greeley, 76,
once the nation’s chief forester
and long active in the lumber
industry, died yesterday after
a lengthy illness.
Born in Oswego, N. Y., and
educated at the university of
California and Yale, Greeley
served as a suipervisor of for
ests in California. Montana and
northern Idaho before becom
ing chief of the forestry sec
tion of the AEF in France dur
ing World War I.
From 19®0 to 1928 he wus
chief forester of the United
States. He left the service in
1928 to become secretary-man
ager of the West Coast Lumber
men’s Assn., a post he 'kept un
til his retirement in 1946.
He remained active in the in
dustry circles until recently.
Survivors include the widow.
Gertrude, and three sons. One
of the sons, Arthur, is regional
forester in Alaska for the 1J.
S. Forest Service.
Alaska will have
(4 delegates at GOP
convention
CHICAGO (/P) Alaska will
have four delegates to the 19£>6
Republican national convention
under an apportionment plsm
adopted 'by the GOP national
1 committee today. This is a
boost of one over 1952.
Hawaii will have 10, an in
crease of two. The delegates
for Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands remained the same
three and one.
Under the plan, the south
will have a bigger voice in sel
ecting the Republican nominee
for president and vice presid
ent.
The total of delega.es was
boosted from the 1,206 in 1902
to 1,323. Of the 117 net gain,
13 southern and border states
picked up a total of 96 delejg
ates.
Texas, which wenlt for Pre
sident Eisenhower in 1952, had
its delegation increased from
38 to 54. The southern state is
now topped in delegate strength
only by California. Illinois,
New York, Ohio and Pennsyl
vania.
California will have 70 dele
gates, Washington 24 and Ore
gon 18 — I he same as in 1952.
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