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'TWAS; THE WEEK AFTER CHRISTMAS
Are We Expendable?
PRESIDENT KENNEDY, in his evening press conference of
Nov. 20, reminded the nation of his agreement with Khrush
chev that when Russia had removed its offensive weapons from
Cuba and "appropriate U.N. observation and supervision" had
been established to provide verification, "we would remove our
naval quarantine and give assurances against invasion of Cuba.”
The crisis has passed and our hastily organized invasion forces
have returned to home bases.
"Appropriate observation bv the U.N.” would be in order
also on the northwestern rim of North America.
Recently Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, sent a
man here for first-hand information on the seriousness of the need
of some kind of defense for this part of America. The officer
who came from the staff of Gen. George Mundy, who is charged
with the security of ALL OF ALASKA, conscientiously took notes
and made recordings of the unique factors which made this
defense necessary.
By now the Defense Department has received the report and
have had time to study it. If nothing is done and Northwestern
Alaska remains outside the perimeter of defense and an incident
occurs the whole blame, the entire fault, the censure of the nation
will fall upon, and only on, our military strategists who failed to
protect their own country while spending billions and billions
of dollars on defense around the glohe.
Are we expendable, Mr. McNamara?
FBI Agent Thwarts
Bank Holdup Attempt
SAN FRANCISCO UP—A would
be bandit, Richard Dean Holton,
didn’t figure on a man named
Monte Hall Wednesday, when he
attempted to rob the Hibernia
Bank of $1,500.
“This bomb in this newspaper
can blow up the whole block. I
want $1,500. Please be careful,”
read the note which Holton, 27,
passed to teller Maureen Laval.
In line just behind Holton was
Hall — an FBI agent. ,
“Have you been robbed?” Hall
shouted to Miss Laval after she
handed Holton $1,400.
She nodded. Hall arrested Holton
on the spot.
The newspaper held only a tran
sistor radio.
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Cuban Relatives
Stage Emotional
Reunion in Florida
MIAMI. Fla. UP — The freighter
African Pilot brought 921 rela
tives of the Bay of Pigs captives
to Florida Thursday and to an
emotional reunion in the vast Din
ner Key Auditorium.
As the relatives arrived, hopes
were high that Fidel Castro would
allow at least another 1,000 rela
tives to escape from Communist
ruled Cuba, joining the massive
exodus that has brought 200,000
persons fleeing to freedom in the
United States.
About 600 of the prisoners, who
were released last Sunday and
Monday, were waiting at the audi
torium ’ . hen their relatives arrived
by bus from Port Everglades.
Barricades had been thrown up
inside so that Red Cross authorities
could stop to take the names as
the relatives arrived one busload
after another. But it didn’t work.
Some prisoners leaped over them
to embrace mothers, wives and
children. A few sold'ers collapsed
when they saw their loved ones.
The first woman to enter the
hall, Mrs. Nereida Rodriguez Es
trada, 23. became incoherent when
she was unable to locate her hus
band at once.
Mr. and Mrs. Jose Delgado tear
fully embraced their son, Roman,
23, when they saw him for the
first time in eight months.
“It is a miracle that we are
here,” cried Mrs. Delgado, 55.
Devoting her last voyage to this
errand of mercy, the 20-year-old
African Pilot docked at the port
near Fort Lauderdale, 25 miles
northeast of Miami.
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sea, which had carried ransom sup
plies to Cuban Prime Minister
Fidel Castro for the invasion
prisoners, now goes into mothballs.
Seasickness, nervousness and a
mild outbreak of measles aboard
the ship failed to dampen the
enthusiasm of the refugees who
gave up everything they owned to
escape Castro Communism and join
loved ones in the United States.
Only about 200 observers saw
the freighter come in. The port
was closed to all but newsmen and
authorized officials. A big sign
said “welcome” in English.
The Red Cross reported nine
cases of contagious disease aboard.
Three ambulances were on the
dock to pick up 11 stretcher cases.
Joe McGowan, Associated Press
writer representing American news
agencies on the African Pilot, said
many passengers remained awake
through the night, too nervous and
excited to sleep, on the trip.
“I have a bed,” said one elderly
refugee, “but who could sleep at
a time like this ”
Oldest of the refugees aboard
was Angla Ceballos De Marero, 89,
grandmother of one of the prison
ers. The youngest was a baby born
22 days ago.
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7ed China T5ids Openly
no Take Leadership of
Communist Movement
WASHINGTON i/P> — Asst. Sec
retary of Stato W. Averoll Harri
man says Communist China is
bidding openly to take over the
leadership of the world Commu
nist movement from the Soviet
Union.
Differences between the two will
grow as the fight for leadership
is waged, Harriman said Wednes
day in an interview. “Which one
will gain is anyone’s guess,” he
added.
Harriman, a former Ambassador
to Moscow, is President Kennedy’s
top adviser on Far Eastern affairs.
Both Communist nations, he
said, want to “destroy everything
we believe in.” Of the two, he
said, the Chinese “have a more
dangerous point of view and may
become the more dangerous threat
to the free world.”
Doctor Refuses Aid
And Dies From
Self-Infected Gunshot
HOLLYWOOD i.P'—Dr. Bertrand
WooLfan, bleeding from a bullet
wound near the heart, told police
and ambulance attendants:
“I have diagnosed my wound
and it will kill me. My lungs are
filling up with blood, and I am
dying. I wish to die at home. Please
leave me alone.”
Detectives and attendants left
and Dr. Woolfan, 67, died minutes
later. His wife, Priscilla, was at his
side.
Investigators said Dr. Woolfan,
a prominent Hollywood and Bev
erly Hills physician, shot himself
because he feared he was becom
ing a cripple. He suffered a recent
back injury for which he wore a
brace, they said.
Detectives said Mrs. Woolfan
called them to the family’s Holly
wood Hills home Wednesday to
report the shooting. They said she
agreed with her husband’s wishes
that he be allowed to die at home.
Officers said they cannot force
a person in a private home to ac
cept medical treatment if he or she
is conscious and clear of mind.
Poet Robert Frost
Suffers Heart Attack
BOSTON UF)—Poet Robert Frost
suffered a heart attack while con
valescing from an operation but
“his condition Thursday morning
is improved over the past few
days,” Peter Bent Brigham Hos
pital reported Thursday.
Hospital Director Dr. Lloyd Mus
sells disclosed for the first time
the 88-year-old poet’s ailment —
obstruction of the urinary tract
complicated after surgery by the
heart attack. He entered the hos
pital Dec. 3.
Frost, winner of four Pulitzer
prize awards, also is holder of
many honorary college and uni
versity honorary degrees.
VIRUS INFECTION KILLS
12 PENGUINS IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Ore. UF) — A virus
infection has killed 12 of 46 pen
guins brought from Antarctica to
the Portland Zoo Dec. 2.
City Parks Superintendent Harry
Buckley said the dead penguins
included seven small adelies and
five large emperors.
Zoo Director Jack Marks was
unable to comment about the
deaths. He is suffering from a
bronchial ailment.
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\ikila Fights
To Revive Anti
Americanism
By J. M. Roberts
S o v i c t Premier Khrushchev’s
characterization by Red China as
a “capitulationist,” and by the
West as a paper tiger, is getting
under his skin.
P>y a revived anti-American
campaign he is trying to prove that
he is still right in there pitching
-—and trying to lead—world ex
pansionist Communism.
Now he returns to the old and
heavily discounted Berlin issue.
But the West no longer responds
by jumping through every hoop
he holds up. The whip has been
used so often that it has lost its
cracker.
Certainly the Soviet Union would
fight quicker over an attempt to
oust her from East Germany than
over being ousted, militarily, from
Cuba. What Khrushchev can now
be much more sure of is that the
United States would fight just as
quickly over Berlin as over Cuba.
lie's hollering down a rain bar
rel in an attempt to re-establish,
with noise, a certain sense in both
the West and in the Communist
sphere of Soviet importance.
It is not only that Peking no
longer acknowledges Communist
centralism or the ideological lead
ership of the Kremlin.
China is taking definite uni
lateral steps in her own campaign
for dominance in Asia. She has
supplanted Soviet hegemony in
North Korea, made her own ar
rangements on some matters with
bordering Mongolia, Tibet, Pakis
tan and Burma, so that she can
center on points where she faces
real resistance, in India and South
east Asia.
bo viet support of Communist
forces in Laos during the 1961
crisis there appeared very much
in the nature of an attempt to
keep her position alive in an area
where there wasn't much of it
left.
Khrushchev would like very
much to have it appear, by the
beating of old horses as in Berlin,
that he still is the Communist who
is listened to and negotiated with
by the world’s real powers.
Hopes which were expressed in
some Western quarters after Cuba,
that the Kremlin would now see
the dangers of its policy and open
the road to better relations, had
little base. Khrushchev could not
remain idle while his bicycle lost
its momentum, inviting a spill. It
is natural that he should try to
revive his animal training act.
But revelations of Soviet econ
omic and relative military weak
neses, along with Communism’s
lack of unity, have let the lions
learn that, while he undoubtedly
has some dangerous ammunition
left in his pocket, he’s still firing
blanks.
Fair Skies Cover
Most of the S*ate
A strong high pressure area cen
tered near Barrow covered all
sections of Alaska today and
brought fair skies to virtually the
entire state.
Taking note of the situation, the
Weather Bureau said clear skies
from Ketchikan to Barrow, “though
obviously not impossible happens
very infrequently.”
The only weather of note was
in the form of patchy ice fog as
sociated with cold temperatures in
the interior.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from 38 below at Tanana to 38
above at Cold Bay and Shemya.
The high yesterday was 41 at
Kodiak.
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