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I LA GRANDE OBSERVER Observer, La Grande, Ore., Wed., Oct. 14, 1959 Page' 7 " mi 7 m M fe'-r-u READY FOR COMMAND Cmdr. Harold B. Scar (center) skipper of the ballistic ' missile submarine, Patrick Henry (on launching platform in background), discusses a cut-away model of the sub with the ship's two chaplains Lt. John Laboon (left) and Lt. Gary M. Leonard (right) just prior to launching of the Patrick Henry fronj ; Dynamics Shipyard in Groton, Mass. The Patrick Henry, a 380-foot craft is the sec ' ond of its type to be launched in the last three months. ELECTION ISSUES The decline in farm prices and Russian mili tary and scientific pro gress over this country will be major issues in the 1960 election cam paign. Senator John Kennely (D-Mass.) told a news conference in In dianapolis, I n d . Ken nedy, a candidate hope ful, criticized the Eisen hower administration for letting the Russians get ahead of us in the scien tific and military fields. II C n r .j. rressas ior Flier Information , WASHINGTON 'ITU The tinted Slates was expected today fo continue to press Hussia for information about 11 missing Ame'ican airmen despite a new Soviet disavowal of aiy knowl edge oi !h. ir fate. Soviet Charge d- Ufaires Mik hail M. Smirnovsky told the State Iienattincit Morday that a fur ther investigation by his Rjvern r.iont haJ failed to s'icd any light on the missi ig fliers. The l'nited States claims the airmen were shot down deliber ately. They were among 17 nie.i alioa d a C-130 traisport which ciashed and burned in Soviet Ar menia on Sept. 12. 1MB. alter Leing intercepted by Red jet iifiKters. . Hussia returned the bodies of six of the fliers but insisted it knew nothing about the others 11. FLAG IN CENTER BELLE FORCHE. S D. 'ITI' The American flag will be planted today on the new geogra phical center of the United States, about 20 miles north of this com munity near the South Dako;a W vommg border. The nation's cester was moved westward by the admission to Hawaii to the I'nion. FREE! of MILK Delivered lo your horns With the purchase of an ADMIRAL REFRIGERATOR LA GRANDE , AuL 'ill' . vTl Movie Mogul Would Let Russ See All American Movies By VERNON SCOTT UPI Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD ITU "Let the Russians see all the American movies they want even 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Tobacco Road it's good propaganda for our dwn country," says Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Johnston claims depicting the L'nited States at its worst still shows how much better off we are than Iron Curtain countries. "Here's an example,'' he said. "'Grapes of Wrai'i' was shown in Red Historian Says Columbus Was 'A Fake' MOSCOW i ITI i A Soviet historian said Sunday that Chris topher Columbus did not "dis cover" America because he had learned of its existence from a dying sailor who already had sailed to the Antilles and back. A Moscow Radio home service broadca.4 identified the historian as a Professor Tsypernik. candi date of history and lecturer at Ka:ikh Pedagogic Institute. lie said Columbus aid Queen Isabella teamed up to hoodwink histo ians. The professor sad Columbus really was an exponent of coloni zation who made up the story of fabulous Oriental riches to make people believe he had discovered a short cut to Asia and to make Spanish eclonization popular. He said, Columbus altered his diaries to fool the world. "I recently found a secret let ter add essed to Columbus by the Span.sh royal couple Kerd;nand aid Isabella." Tsyperrik said. "The letter makes it clear that Columbus knew r,ot only of the position of the Antilles, but also what could be ton id there and how the land could be used by the Spaniards." iTsypcrnik's claims raised no eyebrows in Madrid where one of Spain's top Columbus scholars said "historians he e have been saying the same thing ever since the lth century." iCiriaco Perez Bustamanto, a member of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid, said many his torians had published the idea that Columbus had lifted the secret of America from a dying sailor. i The story as told in various Spanish reference books is that Columbus befriended a man some times identified as Alonzo Sanchez and that Sanchez gave him maps of the New World and told him QUARTS PRICED FROM FURNITURE WAREHOUSE ' - f-.vJr., Yugoslavia rght after the war to illustrate the horrible plight of American workers. It was intend ed to be purely anti - American propaganda. "But when Tito's people saw the migrant crop workers, poor as they were, driving around in their own jalopies, they realized not even the rich in their own country had automobiles of their own. "It was shown only twice, be fore being shelved. "The same thing happened in Russia when they exhibited a pre' w ar new si eel show ing Chicago cons clubbing strikers in a pack ing plant fight. After a striker was knocked down the audience could see he was wearing brand new shoes. They were used to be ing slugged by cops, but the Rus sians couldn t afford new shoes. "We are inclined to take things for granted here, not seeing the small luxuries that other nations consider great wealth." Johnston said the Russian film commission asked for many pic tures showing the American way of life in a bad light, but the U.S. State Department banned them from the exchange program. Disgusted With Tourists "One of those was 'Blackboard Jui.gel,"' he explained. "But there were many good people in the story. In addition, the Russians would have been impressed by the fact that juvenile delinquents of his visit as he lay dying. i The Spanish historian said this account cannot be proved and many uf the historians who told this version were jealous of Columbus' glory and fame.! Black 6 Decker Portable Power Tools Authorized Dealer INDUSTRIAL Machinery & Supply 1410 Adams Ph. WO 3-4623 Soviets Take Credit For Socialist By PHIL NEWSOM UPI SUH Writer It is a quirk of the times that the Soviet I'nion. having long since taken credit for almost everything from invention of the bicycle to the steamboat, now also is taking partial credit for the Conservative election victory in Britain. Moscow Radio shed not a tear Israel Demands Extradition Of Nazi 'Criminal' TEL AVIV, Israel (l'PI - Israelis today demanded extradi- t;on of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from a Persian Gulf hideout for trial as the "master executioner" of five million jews. Newspapers gave credit to Tu- via Friedman. 35, Haifa, Israel. former inmate of a Hitler con centration camp, for tracking down Eichmann in the Arab sheikdom of Kuwait, a British protectorate. i In Frankfurt, Germany, State Prosecutor Hans Krueger said ex tradition documents could be drawn up at any time. A trial of the former Nazi S.S. colonel would have to be held in Ger many, i Eichmann was head of the Jew ish Department of the Nazi Se curity Ministry and was one of the few accused war criminals who escaped justice alter the war. Extradition admittedly would be difficult. Kuwait is Arab and Arab animosity toward Israel re mains as bitter as ever. can afford wrist watches." Johnston is disgusted with Am erican tourists who howl about the kind of Hollywood films being shown abroad. 'Good or bad, movies are the most effective means we have of telling people about our coun try,'' he said. "We can't judge the reaction of foreigners by our own reactions. 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