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LA GRANDE OBSERVER
Observer, La Grande, Ore., Wed., Oct. 14, 1959 Page' 7
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.!
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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.
"We've made a constant study
of reactions to viewers abroad to
our pictures, and we've found it
is the best possible propaganda
weapon this country has for the
simple reason that in reality it is
no propaganda at all."
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Had Summit Plank
Piime Minister Harold Maennl
Ian took as a plank in his cam
paign platform the fact that it
was he who first made the trip
to Moscow to see Khrushchev
durii'g the licilin crisis, and the
claim that it was he who insti
tuted the thaw leading to Khru
shchev's I'. S vint.
Noted the Moscow Iiadio:
"It was driven home to the
British voters that the Conserva
tives had the greatest desire and
a special knack for clrnl.n; with
the Soviets." It added:
"Nor must it be forgotten that
Macmillau aid these other Con
servative leaders have lately been
advocating the early calling of a
summit conference."
No matter how much the mas
ters of Communism may detest
the capitalistic roots of Britain's
Conservative government, it was
obvious, that at this time, the
Kremlin hel.eved the Conserva
tives' re-election to their advan
tage. West Strongest Advocate
Maemillan has been the West's
strongest advocate of a summit
conference in the quest for world
peace. Had the victory scales
been reversed, it had been as
sumed the British foreign minis
try would he taken over by the
fiery -Aiieurin Bevan, a Socialist
whose thinking might normally lie
considered closer to Moscow's
own.
Actually, it was this, plus Sev
an's frequent anti-American
blasts, which would make him a
liability to Khrushchev's summit
hoies.
A British government whose
thinking did not parallel Washing
ton's own might well be a factor
in hardening V. S. caution toward
a summit meeting into outright
opposition. That, Khrushchev did
not want.
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GOP Asks Slow Reduction
Of All Farm Price Supports
Farm Ntw Roundup
WASHINGTON i ITI i A Re
publican policy committee recom-
t.ul-it, lli.il imvi'rnnw.nt
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mine crops lo markets rather
than to federal storage bins
The 40 -member group also pro
posed that more land be retired
to the conservation reserve and
that planting controls lie ea.sed as
price supports come down.
The (iOP Committee ri Pro
ram and Progress charged in the
latest of a series of reKi!s that
the farm surplus problem was
caused by the refusal of Deiiio
cratic congresses to reduce price
supports.
WASHINGTON UPI1 Presi
dent Eisenhower has formally es
ta'ilshed o rural development
committee lo cont.nue a lour year-
old program aimed at improving
living conditions of low-income ru
ral families.
Eisenhower gave formal recog
nition Monday to the sev en mem
tier committee, wincn Has ueen
lunctioiiiiig informally since PO."
WASHINGTON U'P1 - Sen
(Mm D. Johnston lu-hi.i says
Congress may have to legislate to
insure accurate grading of cot
ton unless the Agriculture Depart
men! finds some means of guaran
teeing fair prices. .
Johnston declared Monday that
he "was very unsatisfied" with
an agriculture marketing service
reixirt that on an overall basis its
Columbia. S. C, office was duin
a good job of grading cotton.
The Agriculture Marketing Ser
vice did concede that there was
an excessive error of judgment
on 85 bales of cotton which John
ston asked the department to in-
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LONDON (ITU Women who
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those who don't, a doctor wrote
in the authoritative British medi
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no means trivial," said Dr. C. R.
Lowe. He said a survey of 2.042
women in Birmingham showed
babies borne by smoking mothers
averaged 6.93 pounds as against
7.33 pounds for non-smokers.
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