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VOLUME xvn Thursday, December 29, 1955 NUMBER 13
Khrushchev blasts American
president in policy speech
Accuses president
pf crude
interference
MOSCOW (JP) Nikita Khru
shchev today accused Presi
dent Eisenhower of ‘‘crude
imerferenice” in the afifairs of
communist nations, and dis
missed his open sides arms in
spection as “nothing more
than military intelligence.”
lie boasted the Soviet hydo
gea bomb “can be considerably
increased in power.” At the
aarne t.ime he criticized secre
tary Dulles as “advocating
massive retaliation and other
absurdities.”
The communist party chief
spoke ifor two hours before
the supreme Soviet (parlia
ment.)
“Some western politicians
have a strange idea of the Ge
neva spirit,” he asserted.
“They want us to disarm our
army and also to disarm mor
ally and politically.”
Khrushchev said he spoke
about Eisenhower critically
“most unwillingly” (because he
respected ft he president “so
much.” But, he declared, the
president’s Christmas message
to the people of eastern Euro
pean communist nations “is
quite incompatible with the
Geneva spirit.”
This referred to a presiden
tial message broadcast by ra
dio free Europe saying:
“During the Christmas seas
on I want you to know that
Ihe American people recognize
the trials under which you are
suffering; join you in your
m t_. u iinxi 11- j l_i
V eatchcombing
• Now Khrushchev sets him
himsglf up as an authority on
theology — calling a prayer
*by Eisenhower “meddling inter
ference.”
0 ilf you see some slip and
slide — teeter and stagger —
they aren't drunk — just tryiny
■to negotiate the slippery streets
without landing on the back of
their necks.
i «
• Thanks rto that “good an
gel” who returned Ace’s knife
this morning. He will he thril
led beyond words — even if
the rain and snow did turn the
white handle black.
—J—|—
• If you haven’t found out
yer — the roads and Streets
AIRE 'mighty slippery and you
can’t stop within the prescrib
ed distance even if you want
to. Watch out for kids and
grown-ujps: they can’t get out
of your way any better than
vcxu dan atop.
--1—4—
• Sunday will be a quiet day
with the New Year starting *the
previous midnight and the way
Sitkans like to celebrate it.
concern for the restoration of
individual freedoms and polit
ical liberty; and share your
faith that right in the end
will prevail to bring you once
again among the free nations
of the world.”
Khrushchev criticized Gov.
Averell Harriman of New
York for a similar message.
“To pray for a change of re
gime in the people’s democra
cies is crude interference in
the internal affairs of those
countries and only leads to in
citing passions and ,the arma
ments race,” said the stocky
communist leader, as 1,400
members of the supreme Sov
iet listened attentively.
(As far as U. S. Officials
could recall it was the first
time any major Soviet leader
had used such critical lang
uage about President Eisen
hower since the summit confer
ence in Geneva; in fact since
the Bulganin regime took over
in February after Georgi K.
Malenkov quit.
Khrushchev repeated the
statement he made in India af
ter the recent H-bomb test ex
plosion in the Soviet Union—■
hat the new Russian weapon
i
“was equivalent to many mil
lions of tons of ordinary ex
plosives.”
He said although “we do not
want to boast about our mili
tary and technical streng.h.” he
wanted to remind the West a
bout the test explosion.
“The power of this weapon
was equivalent to many million
tons of ordinary explosives and
it can be considerably increas
ed,” he added. “People who
are trying to increase tension
should rememiber nhe results
of this test.”
(The telephone line over
which part of this story was die
tated was broken by the Soviet
censor for five minctes afi.er
mention was made of Khrush
chev’s statement about the H
bomib).
Khrushchev followed premier
| Nikolai Bulganin to the ros
j truim. Borh speechs bristled
1 with attacks on “Western Col
onialism.”
On the Middle East Khrush
chev put forth these contention8
1. The Baghdad pact violated
vcontinuea on page three)
(Disabled tug
'reaches port
j KETCHIKAN UP) The dis
i aihled tug Nile, with a ;.ow of its
| own, arrived here in tow of a
Canadian tuig last night.
| The Ke chikan owned Nile
] called for help yesterday after
: breaking a shaft. It was towing
a barge-load of general cargo
. for this southeastern Alaska
port.
The 60-foot tug Kwatna brou
ghr the Nile and the barge here
The Nile’s skipper is Earl
Hoachmen. Crewmen with him
were Vic Hughes and George
Paratrovieh. The tu^s is owned!
by the Alaska Towing Co. <
Strong gales lash
British Isles
LONDON (.A3) Savage gales
with gua.s up to 70 miles an
hour lashed the British Isles
today, halting ocean liners and
sending little ships scsuttling
for shelter.
Biasing winds across the
Yorkshire moor overturned a
number of trucks and uprooted
trees.
Torrential rains caused a big
traffic tieup in Lancashire coun
ty
Gale warnings were hoisted
all around the coast. The liner
Empress of France was unable
to leave its dock in Liverpool
for Canada because of the
winds.
The 358 ton Norwegian ship
Sidsel K. radioed she had brok
en down in the North Sea, 30
miles off Yarmouth. A Du.ch
tug went to her aid.
Many cars slip off roads from
icy driving conditions today
No damage or
serious injuries
reported
Jamestown Bay residents,
and those living further out
the road, were most inconven
ienced by the icy pavements
today caused by rains atop a
sheet of ice.
A number of cars had gone
off (the road beyond the Charles
Johnstone place at Jamestown
Bay; however, no damage was
reported to the vehicles and
there were no injuries.
' The school bus slipped off
State department surprised
at attack on Eisenhower
Still tougher line
of Russian foreign
policy seen
by John M. Hightower
WASHINGTON (/P) United
States officials were astonish
ed at Nikii.a Khrushchev’s di
rect attack today on President
Eisenhower. They thought
this action by a top Soviet
leader may mean i.he develop
ment of a still tougher line in
Russian foreign policy.
Experts here found it signif
leant, moreover, that the im
mediate reason for the person
al at.aok was a rather routine
Christmas message in which
Eisenhower spoke of prayers
for freedom in eastern Europe
Khrushchev’s attack on the
president indicates the satel
lite front is an extremely sen
sitive one for the Soviets. This
in turn suggests they may in
fact be confronted with great
er problems of maintaining
communist control there than
the West knows about in de
tail.
Authorities were not partic
ularly impressed initially by
Khruchshev’s boasts of new
powerful atomic weapons.
The prapoganda line of a pow
erful Soviet Union standing con
fident and powerful in a world
of waning capitalism is one
which Moscow has been devel
aping with great enthusiasm
in recent months — even be
fore the summit conference at
Geneva last July.
Khrushchev and Soviet pre
mier Nikolai Bulganin met Eis
enhower at the summit con
ference and professed to 'be
greatly impressed with the
(sincerity of his statements a
Ibout peace and disarmament
and his declarations of inter
est in avoiding atomic warfare
They rejected even then,
(however, all df his efforts and
ill of the arguments advanced
by seer© 'ary of state Dulles
for bringing up the problems
of the satellite countries at
the Geneva meeting.
Subsequently, at the Big
Four ministers me© ing at Ge
neva in Octobe r-No vemibar,
Soviet foreign minister Molo
tov served notice the Soviets
would never abandon their
East German puppet regime
to .the fate of all German free
elections.
And he turned down every
effort by Dulles and the Brit
ish and French foreign mini
sters*, to obtain some lessening
of Iron Curtain barriers be
tween East and West1..
Dulles became pretty well
convinced then that the Sov
iets were extremely sensitive
to any maneuver which would
tend to increase freedom in
the satellite countries or weak
en in any way the hold of -Red
leaders on the captive peoples
in the Iron Curtain area.
Speed restoration
job in flooded areas
in California
SAN FRANCISCO (/P) Re
lief and reconstruction workers
in counities ravaged by Califor
nia's most destructive floods
worked earnestly today to
speed the restoration job.
The toll of known dead reach
ed 40 in California and 12 in
Oregon. Between 20 and 30 per
sons still are reported missing
and presumed dead in Califor
nia; 3 in Oregon.
Early estimates on damage—
— still preliminary — are 150
to 170 million dollars in the
widespread flooding of a mil
lion acres in the peak inunda
tion on Christmas Eve.
With crisp, clear weather,
the runoff slackened in the
still swollen Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers.
(continued on page four)
the highway on its way out to
pickup students in the James
town Bay area.
Yesterday city crews sand
ed the downtown streets and
today were throwing sand on
streets and walks in other
parts of the city. Pedestrians,
in paiuioular, were hard put
to walk even in the downtown
area yesterday as the thaw put
an inch or more of water atop
solid ice. Today most down
town walks are cleared; but
the back streets still present a
problem in upright navigation
The highway near the plane
turnaround was particularly
dangerous last evening, with
several cars sliding into the
ditch. No damage or injuries
were reported. Warning lights
and signs will be place there
and at other danger spots to
day, chielf of police Burt Dou
cette stated.
Wintry weather
in most states
by The Associated Press
Wintry wea.her returned to
wide sections of the mid-con
tinent today after a few. days
of fairly mild temperatures.
Generally cold weather con
tinued in mosi, of the eastern
section of the country.
A surge otf Arctic air spread
over the plains southward to
Kansas and eastward to the up
per Mississippi valley. Temper
atures dropped from unseason
ably high marks to below zero
in some areas. Readings rang
ed from 11 below zero at Grand
Forks, N. D., to near zero at
Pierre, S. D., 17 at Omaha and
19 at Des Moines, Iowa.
Snow fell in the upper Great
Lakes region, with (amounts
ranging from 1 to 3 inches in
mosi areas. Light rain or driz
zle was reported in parts of
Wisconsin and lower Michigan,
with some freezing rain in Mi
chigan. Freezing drizzle also
was reported in western Kansas
and eastern Colorado.
In the east, temperatures
ranged from -9 at Rumford,
Maine, io 23 at Greensboro, N.
C., 21 at Philadelphia and 41 at
Atlanta.
Marine forecast from Thurs
; day ao Friday.
STORM WARNING
A strong pressure -gradient
will cause winds 25 to 50 mph
with very strong gusts.
End of warning.
' Outside waters Sitka to Ya
kuta; south to southeast winds
25 to 50 mph with very strong
gusts.
| Cloudy with occasional rain
| Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Sitka ‘sou.h to south
east winds 30 to 40 miph with
! Stronig gusts.
I Cloudy with occasional rai$