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and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
VOLUME XVI
Friday. September IS, 1955
NUMBER 19S
Rebels mass troops for move
on Peron in Buenos Aires
Government fights
back as Peren told
to get out
BULLETIN
Buenos Aires (/P) A rebel
ralio station at Puerto Belgran
do said late today anti-Peron
forces are gathering to march
on Buenos Aires.
The radio claimed these re
bel forces include army troops
from the provinces of Corrien
tes, Cordoba, Santa Fe and En
tre Rios.
It said naval forces are join
ing the rebellion from the Rio
Santiago naval base and naval j
academy, the submarine base j
at Mar de la Planata, the river j
and ocean fleets and the naval i
aviation and marine corps.
Ibv S'atm Summerlin
BUENOS AIRES (/P) Armed
forces loyal to President Juan
D. Peron battled today to crush
a lightning wave of army and
navy uprising in Argentina.
Both sides claimed victory as
the fighting raged on.
There were unofficial reports
that, some elements of the army
had handed Peron an ultimat
um to get out. Hours after these
reports had circulated in Buen
os Aires there.was no confirma
tion.
The government shuttled pla
toons of troops out of Buenos
Aires — apparently to reinfor
ce trouble spots — and sent
V eatchcomblng
• Argentina is again in ithe
throes of a revolution — but
then don’t S. A. republics al
ways have revolutions most of
the time unless kept down by
a “strong man with a sword?”
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• Ballyhoo will be heard to
morrow as Sitka’s community
fair opens. Just how much j
“junk’ 'Can you come home j
with and still keep out of the
dog house is a mystery, and to j
have a good time at a fair, one
must gather a few trinkets. i
-H— j
• Fair warning — “Davy 1
Crockett,, & the Veatcheomiber
are going hunting on the Indian
River flats Sunday afternoon.
We’re not good hunters but then
aside from “a big brown bear
like Davy Crockett killed. Dad
dy,” we don’t expect to see f
anything.
_H_
• At the rate thev are un
loading ships in the North
— the Coasties will be back in
town within a few weeks — j
then a lot of girls will smile. «
British-made Awo Lincoln
bombers into an attack against
at least one revolt center, the
Rio Santiago naval base. Heavy
explosions marked the attack.
A government radio (broad
cast announced a “command of
repression” has been created
to cope with the emergency.
The command was not identifi
ed. A curfew was decreed begin
cinig at 4:30 p.m.. All public
entertainment and meetings
were banned.
But there was doubt the strug
gle loomed as a ygraver cbalilen
ge to Peron than the bloody
June 16 revolt which was put
down much faster than today’s
sudden predawn outburst of re
bellion. There were predictions
>f limited civil War unless Per
>n can stop the fighting. i
Rebel forces captured Bahia
Blanca, Argentina, biig wheat
bort in Buenos Aires province
adjoining Puerto Belgrano na
zal base. That 'base and the Rio
Santiago base, site of Argen
ina’s naval academy, were in
revolt.
There were reports air force
planes had 'bombed the Rio
Santiago base and the 5th in
fantry division was on its way
lo attack Puerto Belgrano. The
Argentine fleet was declared
loyal to Peron. It is anchored
at Puerto Madryn, 600 miles
south of Buenos Aires, after
maneuvers in the South Atlan
tic.
Planes over Corboda, one of
the centers of Friday’s upris
ing, dropped leaflets proclaim
. ng the triumph of the revolu
tion.
“Once more the armed forces |
of the nation are raising with
pride and honor the flag in de
fense of the secred (principles of
the fatherland,” the leaflets
said. “Cardolba has been con
quered again for God and fath
erland.”
But the government said ele
ments of the 14th infantry re
giment, loyel to Peron, was ad
vancing toward Cardoba to put
down the rebels there. The gov
eminent threatened arial bom
bardment of all rebel strong-1
holds unless they srrrendered. j
A state of siege — virtual
martial law — was extended
to the entire country. Previ
ously this applied only to
Buenos Aires.
Peron proclaimed the state
of siege and the house of dep
uties. completely dominated
bv oro-Peron deputies, spprov
ed it in just five minutes.
There was no official ac
count of casualties from the
revolt but it appeared that
some bloodshed must have re
sulted.
A policeman was reported
shot to death in the Belgrano
district of the capital. Identity
..couurued on page four;
Hurricane alert
posted in Florida
MIAMI {JP) A weekend hur
ricane alert was sounded by
the weather bureau today iior
the Atlantic coast between
North Carolina and Florida as
hurricane lone, her winds built
up to 90 miles an hour, pushed
west-northwestoaird at a for
ward pace of about 12 miles on
hour.
The Atlantic storm was ex
pected to move west-northwest
ward at albout the same for
ward speed for another 12
hours and‘ swing around to a
more northwesterly course af
ter that.
MacKinnon leads
Peratrovich by only
six votes
JUNEAU (/P) J. S. MacKin
non, Jr. led Frank Peratrovich
by six votes as 31 precincts of
the first division reported their
results in the at-large race for
the constitutional convention.
The men rank seventh and
eighth in a field of twenty-one
This includes Sitka, Mt. Edge
curnibe, Juneau, Ketchikan,
Sfcalgway. Haines, Petersburg,
Wrangell, Mt. Edgecumlbe, An
nette and Hoonah.
Still unreported are Klawock, i
Angoon, Hydaburg, Kake and
several smfall precincts.
On the basis of repurns this
morning:
Nolan 1593. Sweeney 1520,
Riley 1339. Gray 1248, Stewart
1218, Robertson 1182, MacKin
non 1097,
Peratrovich 1091. Parker 943
Hope 863, Johnson 761, Sav
vikko 758, Peter 739, Kederick
694, Simpson 692. Clausen 637,
Brandes 523, Boddy 513, Jack
son 494, Seaman 256, Bolay 220
No change in
Terr -at-large
standings
<by The Associated Press
The rankings today of candi
dates for the seven territory
at-large seats in the Alaska
constitutional convention:
Sen Ralph Rivers 5406
Mrs. Mildred Hermann 4356
Mrs. Katherine Nordale 3998
Steve McCutcheon 3664
George Sundborg 3494
R. Rolland Armstrong 3258
Byron Gil'iam 3070
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The list of leaders in un
chnged from yesterday, but
Armstrong climbed ahead of
GiUan alga in. The additional
scattered returns added since
yesterday were from rural pre
cincts in the 1st and 3rd divi
sions.
Vote totals of the other at
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Ship unloading goes on 24
hours a day in Dew operation
Many ships slightly
Injured; one has
hole in side
BARTER ISLAND, Alaska
(TP) Unloading operations on a
vast convoy of navy ships which
dot the northern rim of the con
tinent in this area continued
at full speed today despite float
ing ice. zero visibility and sub
freezing cold.
The Ships are here with ma
terials for the distant early
warning (DEW) line project be
ing set up as a protective ra
dar system around the north
ern permimeter of North Am1
erica.
The icepack has receded from j
these shores after hugging
ciose to the beaches all sum
mer. Movement of ships is im
peded, however, by small ice
floes which dot the offshore
waters.
Durinlg the past few days,
crews of the freighter Sailors
Splice and the LST 827 have
Two Americans
released by Reds;
"brainwashed" I
HONG KONG UP) Red Ch
ina today released two Ameri
can 'civilians — the first of 22
the communists have promised
to free. One of the two assert
ed he was guilty of spying for
the United States.
Released were Walter A.
Riekett of Seattle, a Fulbright
scholar imprisoned July 25,
1951 on espionage charges, and
the Rev. Harold W. Rigney, 54
Chicago, dean of the Roman
Catholic Fu Jen University in
Peiping. He was arrested on
spying and sabotage charges in
July. 1951. :
Riekett said, after crossing
the border into this British
crown colony: “I was engaged
in espionage work and there
was a (Korean) war. I was an
agent for the U. S. government
I collected military informa
non. l
Rickett’s wife, Adele, wlhen
released fby the Reds last Feb
ruary. said she was guilty of
svipinig. She praised the com
munists highly. She reiterated
that today after her husband
was freed.
American Officials Said last
spring Mrs. Rickett appeared
to have been thoroughly “brain
washed.” Rickett is a former
U. S. Marine Corps language
officer who speaks Chinese and
Japanese.
Father Rigney was taken to
the Hong Kong Catholic center
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been discharging cargo to the
beach on four small landing
crafts. Working around the
clock, the men unloaded 1,500
tons of equipment in two days
despite poor visibility.
In recent days, a total of 31
000 drums of fuel and thou
sands of tons of equipment have
been unloaded onto the beach
of this crowded island 350 miles
east of Pt. Barrow in the Arc
tic Ocean. The cargo from the
navy ships is being taken to
the shore by 530 army troops.
Ice conditions are the best
they have been in weeks and
crews are working around the
clock to take advantage of the
open water which may close a
gain under pressure from stro
ong offshore winds against the
ice.
Naval officials were not too
proud to learn a lesson from
Eskimos and have speededup
the unloading by making use
of dynamited passages through
grounded shore ice to land car
go.
The vessels hovering off Pt.
Barrow had been prevented
from landing cargo by pile's of
the grounded ice which clung
to the shoreline after the main
ice pack moved out to sea.
When the vessel North Star
arrived off Barrow with the
winters supplies for the Es
kimo village, the natives set to
work. They blasted passages
through the heavy ice with dy
namite and quickly began mov
ing the badly needed food to
shore through the openings.
The navy observers quickly
adopted the plan, blasting out
new channels as well as using
the ones provided for the North
Star after that boat left.
Some damage is (being done
to the 40 or more ships as they
churn through the ice-dotted
waters. One ship struck an ice
berg two weeks ago and 29 feet
of water flooded its hold, min
ing a Cargo of cement.
Other vessels have damaged
their propellers or suffered
scratches land miner holes.
Some now are under tow while
repairs are being made. The
operation continues full speed
however, and confidence is ex
pressed the job will be comple
ted beifore the main ice pack
seals off the beaches for the
winter.
Marine forecast from Friday
to Saturday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Yakutat variable
winds 5 to 15 rmph.
North portion cloudy becom
ing partly cloudy with fog to
night. South portion tfldudy
with occasional very light rain
or drizzle today ending tonight