U-2 Plane Thai
Si ra ved Was
Based al Slieinva
WASHINGTON Uf\ — The U-2
plane which the United States says
unintentionally flew over the tip
of a Russian island may have been
operating out of the remote base
at Shem.va, near the outer end of
the Aleutian Chain.
Statements by U.S. Air Force
and Japanese officials virtually
eliminated the possibility that the
U-2 which crossed a tip of Sak
halin Island, off the Siberian Coast,
on Aug. 30 had been using air
fields in the Far East.
A U.S. Air Force spokesman in
Okinawa said no U-2 aircraft had
been stationed there since last
September. The Japanese said all
U-2s were withdrawn after the
Soviet capture of U-2 pilot Francis
Gary Powers in 1960.
In a broadcast beamed to Japan,
Moscow radio said Wednesday
“there is strong reason for belief
that the plane took off from a
Japanese base because of the area
where the violation occurred.”
Shemya, built during World War
II, is only about 1,300 miles from
the area of Sakhalin — an easy
distance for the glider-like jet.
Shemya’s extended runway is
capable of handling any jet air
craft. Until about a year ago, it
was a refueling point for com
mercial planes flying the Far East
run over the Great Circle Route.
Now the airdrome is in the
hands of the military and closed
to casual visitors enroute by air
liner.
nave Deen riying in suasKa >
for several years. Their stated mis- j
sion is to conduct high altitude j
sampling of air for radioactivity I
and to conduct weather research.
Alaska is a natural point of in- |
terest on both scores. Air masses
flow across from Russia The Polar
area is a “weather factory" from
which air movements flow affect
ing weather there and far down
along the globe.
But Alaska also is next door to
Soviet maritime provinces, where
aircraft and missile bases are lo
cated.
Any aircraft flying near Siberia
is watched closely by Russian ra
dar stations and radar planes.
From some U.S. radar stations in
Western Alaska it is possible to
see, via radar screen, Soviet planes
as they take off, climb and land.
If this is true for the U.S. watchers,
it must be equally true of the
Russian warning system.
This suggests that the U-2 which
wandered over Sakhalin Island
probably was watched and tracked
long before it crossed unwittingly
into Russian territory for what the
Russians say was a period of nine
minutes.
McKinley national park
W> — The McKinley National Park
Hotel will be closed at noon Sept.
10, manager Robert Vaughn has
announced.
Vaughn said only limited accom
modations and services would be
available until approximately Sept.
15, while the hotel is being readied
for winter.
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U.S. Doesn't Want to
Make Space a Battlefield
WASHINGTON .P — The Ken- j
j nedy administration has offered to j
! refrain from pushing for weapons j
| which would make space a battle- I
field, if the Soviet Union will do 1
likewise.
The offer was made by Deputy j
Secretary of Defense, Roswell Gil
patric, Wednesday night in words
reportedly written by members of
the White House staff.
Gilpatric told an industry-uni
versity audience in South Bend,
Ind., that “we have no program
to place any weapons of mass de
struction into orbit.
“An arms race in space will not
contribute to our security,” the
Pentagon’s second in command said.
“I can think of no greater sti
mulus for a Soviet thermonuclear
arms effort in space than a United
States committment to such a pro- 1
gram,” he said. “This we will not 1
do.” 1
Gilpatric declared there is no
doubt that either the United States
or the Soviet Union could send ^
hydrogen weapons into orbit “but *
such an action is just not a ra
tional military strategy for either
side in the foreseeable future.” *
Informed sources acknowledged *
that the underlying theme in Gil- ^
Patrick’s remarks could be de- 1
scribed as mutual forebearance — c
that is, that both sides should
refrain from making space a battle
field.
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YAKIMA. Wn. </P — Sen. Barry j
Goldwater, 1 Fi-Ariz.', told news-;
men Wednesday night that Russia
won’t attack the United State.1 j
from Cuba. But he said Russia can
support revolutions in Latin
America from the island.
His remarks followed similar ,
observations he made earlier in the !
day in Tacoma, where he told a !,a
newsman, "if it were left up to the jT
American people we would be in
Cuba tonight."
“I don’t think Russia would
fight for Cuba,” he told the Ta
coma newsman, ‘‘but as long as we
are not going to protect ourselves
Russia is going to take every ad
vantage we give her. Cuba is not 1
a military threat. It is a threat
against the Latin American coun
ties.”
In Yakima he enlarged o i his
views of Cuba and said President
Kennedy’s trade embargo against
~uba was late, and it should have
oeen followed by a blockade.
The Arizona Republican also had 1
ariticism for a Senate committee 1
leaded by Sen. Estes Kefauver. i
Te said it has no right to demand
he private records of the steel
companies in price probes.
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