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Nikita Holds Kennedy to Pledge
Against Invasion of Castro’s Cuba
.MOSCOW W—Premier Khrush
chov said today he is holding
President Kennedy to what he
called pledges against an invasion
of Cuba and warned if they are
not kept “we will be compelled
to take such actions as the situa
tion requires of us.”
Speaking before the Supreme
Soviet, Khrushchev stressed that
the “anti-invasion” pledge was a
main factor in the Soviet Union’s
withdrawal of rockets and bomb
ers from Cuba.
The premier acknowledged the
rockets were “ready for launch
ing, for action” — but said the
Russians had no intentions of
bringing them into play for an at
tack on the United States.
i\mu5Muiuv s speecn was umea
as a major foreign policy state
ment, and while he devoted much
of it to an explanation of Soviet
policy with regard to Cuba, he also
touched on other outstanding prob
lems, including that of West Ber
lin.
The Soviet Premier renewed his
proposal that Allied troops in iso
lated West Berlin be replaced by
United Nations troops. He re
vived his threat that the U.S.S.R.
would sign a separate peace treaty
with both East and West Ger
many. By Soviet reckoning, this
would cancel Allied rights in West
Berlin.
Khrushchev said Moscow still
favors negotiations of disputed
questions, but he added that “long
patience has an end.”
“However, once again he neg
lected to set any deadline for ac
tion on the German questions, nor
did he hint when a separate peace
treaty with the Communist regime
might be signed.
He paid credit to President Ken
nedy as having an interest in pre
serving peace in the Caribbean
and said both were negotiating so
that pledges on both sides would
be kept.
It was then that he thundered
out his warning that the pledges
Sen. Byrd Believes
Congress Will Turn
Down Proposed Tax Cut
WASHINGTON UP) — Sen. Harry
Byrd, (D-Va.>, predicted today
Congress will turn down President
Kennedy’s proposed 1963 tax cut
unless it is accompanied by a
promised reduction in spending.
who iiuctua i!il ofiune r 1- ;
nance Committee, said in an inter- 1
view he is opposed to “tax reduc
tions out of borrowed money” —
an objective he said the adminis
tration has spelled out by contend
ing that spending cannot be re
duced at this time.
In this connection, the Virginia ;
senator predicted the federal de- ;
licit will run nearer $!() billion in j
the current fiscal year than the j
administration’s most recent $7-$8 j
billion estimate.
“If Congress could bo assured f j
a clear cut reduction in expendi- |
tures, I believe it would vot. a j
clear cut reduction in taxes,” Ilyrd
said. “But I don’t believe Con
gress is going to be so irresponsi
ble as to reduce taxes in the face
of a tremendous deficit.”
Byrd said he supports the po
sition of chairman Wilbur Mills,
(D-Ark.), of the House Ways and
Means Committee that there is no
economic justification at this time
for reducing taxes effective Jan.
1, 1963, as Kennedy has suggested.
j must be kept.
Khrushchev, referring to what
| he apparently meant by President
j Kennedy’s “pledge,” said the
United States had promised “not
to attack the Republic of Cuba and
' to restrain its allies from doing
I so.”
But despite the implied threat,
the Khrushchev speech appeared
to have a defensive tone. He re
marked t; at there was no question
of who won in the Cuban crisis,
saying that “sanity and the cause
of peace” were the winners.
LJ.b. I roposes
‘Hot Line’ Between
JFK and Nikita
GENEVA IT' — The United
States proposed today the installa
tion of a direct telephone connect
ing President Kennedy and Soviet
Premier Khrushchev as part of a
detailed system for preventing war
by miscalculation or accident.
U.S. Ambassador Arthur Dean
urged the 17-nation disarmament
conference to give careful eonsider
j ation to ways of keeping the world
from blundering into a war.
He introduced a six-point pro
gram for building up confidence
between nations and insuring them
against surprise attack or blows
delivered by accident.
This whole field, Dean said,
“offers opportunities for early
agreement which should not be
passed by.”
He did not mention the recent
Cuban crisis, but the proposals
which he advanced would reduce
the chance of a repetition of such
a threat to peace.
The American document con
tained these major points:
1. The nations would give ad
vance notice of major military
movements to allay any fears of an
aggression.
2. Installation of permanent ob
servation posts at railway junc
tions, ports, key highway inter
sections and large airfields plus
systems to guard against sneak
mobilization.
3. Exchange of military missions
bv the major powers as a confi
dence-building measure.
4. Communications links between |
major capitals to prevent war by |
miscalculations. A hot telephone I
between Washington and Moscow j
—or “Purple Line” as it is some- !
times called—would fall in this ;
category.
5. Studies of the ways in which 1
111 ■ 1 v, i l i ii uiL'niM'i v us
tend to touch off a war.
8. The various countries would
make public the steps they had
1 ken individually to prevent war
bv accident.
CHRISTMAS PACKAGES
HERE FROM FT. WAINWRIGHT
Members of the Ministerial Asm.
were routed out early Monday
morning to meet a C-VM from
Fort Wainwright which brought in
ovir 1.000 pounds of Christmas
packages for several local families.
Earlier this year names were
selected for families to be given
Christmas packages by the Fort
Wainwright Officers Wives Club
and the gifts were adapted to
these individual families.
Leaders of the local churches
will be distributing the gifts to
these famiilcs at Christmas time.
Sub-Zero
Cold Grips filler
Area of 1J.S. Today
Flitter, sub-zero cold gripped a
huge area of the United States to
day and more snow was forecast
for the northeast.
Weather records for the date fell
lik > tenpins. Winter officially is
10 days away.
And on this day of odd weather
happenings, the creek in Hell,
Mich., froze over.
The coldest reported reading
was -23 at Mt. Pisgah, in the North
Carolina Smoky Mountains. Mt.
Mitchell, N.C.. had -19, Interna
tional Falls, Minn., and Huron,
S.D., -18.
Hundreds of schools were closed
because of cold or snow.
Innumerable travelers were ma
rooned because of heavy snow in
| the northeast and sections of the
midwest.
Snow fell in Jacksonville, Fla.,
j and Pensacola Naval Air Station
had a low of 19 degrees. Freezing
readings were common throughout
Florida. There was damage to win
ter vegetables, but the citrus crop
appeared safe on this second day
of freezing temperatures in the
state.
Scores of towns in the northeast
i ern section of Ohio were buried
j under snow ranging from 20 tr
■48 inches. Drifts shaped by biting
I winds in sub-zero temperature:
j piled up to depths of 6 and 8 feet
| Ohio State Guardsmen wer<
pressed into emergency work
clearing roadways with huge
powerful equipment. And the^
were shuttling nurses and doctors
from their homes to hospitals.
Between 24 and 30 inches of
' snow fell overnight at Fulton, N.Y.
The temperature fell to -7 at
Watertown and Elmira, -5 at
Poughkeepsie and 19 in New York
City.
In the West Virginia mountains,
snow fell again in sections where
drifts have reached depts of some
20 feet. Sub-zero readings were
general throughout the state.
Nehru Won’t Guarantee
To Observe Cease - Fire
NEW DELHI, India — Prime
Minister Nehru said today India
has given no guarantee it will
continue to observe the cease-fire
the Chinese Communists pro
claimed in the Himalayas.
"We have given no guarantee
on the future of the cease-fire,"
Nehru told Parliament.
"It depends upon the circum
stances. But for the time being
India is accepting it."
Nehru said India does not wish
to impede the ce;ise I ire and. v !
copies reports of Chinese with
drawal on the n o r t !i e a s t e r n
frontier. The Chinese are insisting
on ’ ■ Lib: • their : resent ]s>si‘i ■ .
ni T adnkh. at !' .• m*rt!i< • rn e:rl
of the border, vvhev they occu
pied more t' an 22 i riare miles
in their invar n.
Wh te' or tin■ r ■■tt. of
-..•ire-fire and the C inese wiih
Iranal. Xel rn sari. India will h i\v
to eontinue to strengthen its de
fense forces.
T}h‘ Weather
Mostly <loudy with snow. Low
tonight 22, high tomorrow 25 In
the last 24 hours: High of 25, low
of 19. Max. wind 12 mph from
the east. Sunrise at 9:52 a.m.,
sunset at 1:59 p.m. Temps, a year!
ago today: High of 11. low’ of 1.1
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Tanker Hoads
Toward Labrador
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. 'TP' —
A huge, four-engine airplane
abandoned by its crew in the sky
over central New York continued
to fly on its own across the state,
into Canada, and apparently came
down in Labrador — more than
1.000 miles away.
An official at Plattsburgh Air
Force Base said that, in his e\
! perience, the pilotless flight of the
KC-97 Air Force tanker was un
precedented.
The Air Force said the plane was
in flames when its 10-man crew
placed the controls on automatic
pilot and bailed out over Watkins
Glen Monday night. Yet, when a
Royal Canadian Air Force fighter
intercepted the tanker 100 miles
north of Montreal, the fighter pilot
saw no flames.
j One of the crewmen lost his life
i in the bail-out. The others escaped
| serious injury.
The tanker was on a training
! mission and had completed an in
flight refueling of a jet over El
mira when one of the heaters
caught fire.
The crew said they tried fight
ing the flames hut gave up when
the plane filled with smoke. The
pilot brought the plane down tc
between 9,000 and 10,000 feet anc
: the crew bailed out, near Odessa
.N.Y.
, Mariner 2 Will
Speed Past Venus
At Noon Friday
LOS ANGELES (JP> — As the
weekend approaches, and with it
Mariner 2's Friday date to fly by
the planet Venus, the builders of
the spacecraft are not unlike
youngsters anxiously awaiting
Christmas.
Reason for the scientific anxiety j
is the possibility of new discover
ies, coupled with the slight chance
that Mariner still might fail from
overheating.
Dr. William Pickering of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory at nearby
Pasadena, where Mariner 2 was
built, told a Los Angeles news con
ference yesterday that it may up
set present concepts of what
Venus is like.
If all goes well, the instrumented
vehicle will speed past Venus at
noon on Friday arid will report
back the planet's temperature, sur
face me; 'urcments and. if nnssible, I
data <*:. tee surh.ee.
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last wt ok from Anchorage.
Ho will bo given several days to
gain further stien.gth before a
decision is made on the next step,
the spokesman added.
Noun* (f ran Ird
SI0.000 from Rural
1 )<*\ (‘lopinont Fund
Sen. Lester Bronson reported
this morn:ns that he had received
a phone call from Tex Hoffman,
who stated that Gov. Wrn Egan
had approved the appliciition of
the City of Nome for $10,000
from the Rural Development Fund
to be sper," on school improvement
this winter under th Depressed
Area program.
The check is now enroute and
the program will be undi r the di
rection of Councilman John Read
er, with inside work to start very
soon at the school.
It is estimated that about 120
; nv. n are now out of work and some
j of these, stated Bronson, did not
vork all summer.
Applications for the projected
work, both inside and outside jobs,
will be made through the State
Employment Office here.
Wild - Tempered Father
Kills Estranged Wife
VAN NUYS. Calif, -P—A wilri
tempored young father who admits
he killed his estranged wife and
her parents, then tipped police so
his baby son could be saved, was
captured at a motel today.
Raymond ,J. Hudgens, 22, check
ed into the motel in nearby Sher
man Oaks under his own name
last night.
Though Hudgens had hinted he
might fight to the death rather
than surrender, there was no in
dication of violence in first re
ports of his arrest.
ft was Hudgens’ early morning
telephone call to the police in this
Los Angeles suburb that led Ari
zona officers to a cabin six miles
[ from Kingman, Ariz.. within view
of busy LT.S. Highway 66. There
they found, fatally shot, the bodies
of Hudgens’ wife, Grace, 20, and
her parents, Myron Young, 67,
and Dorothy Young, 55, who
moved there from Van Nuys two
years ago.
Nearby was 14-month-old Ray
mond Hudgens Jr., “the only thing
that knocked me back into real
ity,’’ the distraught slayer wrote.
The child reportedly hadn't been
fed for about 24 hours.
Ketchikan Voters Seek
Borough Government
KETCHIKAN T - A petition
containing the names of 862 area
voter- v be mailed to the Local
All i:\gv:,e\ m Jam. u ‘ wior
t'o-.v as another "aw in why baek
• a- h pe will b":w - a. b r-m. h
h ”m eg -,v rnment to this area.
A borou di is a I w, of g >vern
S Below Zero in Holl . . .
HKI.I.. Mich. -- i* v.m; -1
below zero in. Hoi! t day. Fv-'ry
Creck.
’ding in drifts three fe, * i, > in
An .cels Pass in noarbv Sr s.
Hills.
Hell is a community of (>0 \ tur
arouud residents in a sun. ■: >• re
sect area about 15 miles n. cm .v >.-t
of Ann Arbor.