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A-4 THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C., Tutsday, July 12, 1960 PARTIAL TEXT - - - . Russians Complain Os U. S. Violation MOSCOW. July 12 (AP).—Here is a partial text of the Soviet note of protest to the United States yesterday as transmited by Tass: The government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re public refers this note to the Government of the United States of America in connec tion with the new gross viola tion of the airspace of the Soviet Union by a United States Air Force plane. An unidentified military air craft heading for the frontier of the Soviet Union was sighted by the aerial observa tion service of the Soviet anti aircraft defense forces over the Barents Sea, in the vi cinity of the Kola Peninsula, on July 1,1960. A fighter plane was sent up to identify the nationality of the plane and prevent it from invading the territory of the USSR. The pilot of the Soviet fighter plane established that the unidentified plane was a bomber with markings of the United States Air Force. The American plane violated the state frontier of the USSR 22 kilometers (14 miles) north of the Svyatoi Nos Cape and was moving in the direction of the city of Archangel. Signals Given Despite the signals given by the Soviet fighter plane to fol low it and to prepare for land ing, the violating plane contin ued moving deeper into the air space of the Soviet Union. In accordance with the order is sued to the armed forces of the Soviet Union on safeguard ing the Soviet frontiers the violator plane was shot down at 1803 (6:03 p.m.) Moscow time over Soviet terrtorial wa ters east of Svyatoi Nos Cape. Some time later a Soviet ship picked up in the territorial waters of the USSR two mem bers of the crew of the Ameri can plane that was shot down. They were the plane's naviga tor, first lieutenant of the United States Air Force, John Richard McCone of Missouri, actually from Tonganoxie, Ky., bom in 1932, and co-pilot, first lieutenant of the United States Air Force, Freeman Bruce Olm sted of the State of New York, born in 1935. As McCone and Olmsted tes tified during the interrogation, the plane in which they had flown—a six-engined "RB-47” reconnaissance bomber be longed to an air unit of the American military strategic reconnaissance group included In the 55th Wing, and fulfilled special military reconnaisance missions. The plane was armed With two 20-millimeter guns and a set of shells and had tomparment enclosing special reconnassance photo and radio Electronic equipment. 'According to Olmsted and McCone, the plane had a crew of four men besides themselves. Khrushchev Assails U S. on Air Incident MOSCOW, July 12 (AP).—The text of a statement by Premier Khrushchev today at a Kremlin news conference on the downing of a United States reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea July 1 as distributed by Tass, the official Soviet news agency: You already know that the government of the Soviet Union lodged a resolute protest yes~ terday with the governments of the United States of America, Great Britain and Norway, in connection with the new gross violation of our country’s air 3 ace by an American war ane. This happened on July 1. An American military aircraft vio lated the state frontier of the Soviet Union in the vicinity of the Svyatoi Nos Cape in the Barents Sea, near the Kola Peninsula, and flew in the direction of Archangel. The intruder plane did not obey the signals given by our fighter plane, which demanded that the aircraft follow it. After that, in accordance with the order given to the armed forces of the Soviet Union on the protection of the Soviet fron tiers, our fighter was compelled to open up on the intruder plane and shot it down. Two Crewmen Saved Later on two members of the crew of the shot-down Ameri can plane were picked up in Soviet territorial waters—the navigator and copilot. Their evidence showed that this six-engine RB-47 aircraft took off from an American war base in British territory and was to fly on an espionage mis sion along the northern fron tiers of the Soviet Union and then return to Britain. The new gross violation of our country's air space shows that the Government of the United States of America did not give up its policy of per petrating acts of aggression against the Soviet Union. In this case the intrusion of the American plane was cut short in the very beginning and for this reason the Soviet gov ernment limited itslef to the shooting down of the aircraft. The surviving members of the crew will be tried in accordance with Soviet laws. The prov ocations and executers of their evil must not expect to go scot free after such actions. Cites U. S. Gamble We have warned the Gov ernment of the United States about the grave responsibility it assumed by perpetrating provocations against the Soviet Union. The American people, as all the world public, must The commander of the plane, Capt. Willard O. Palm, and three officers specialists in photo and radio - electronic equipment Capt. Eugene E. Posa and Ist Lts. Oscar L. Go forth and Dean B. Phillips. The body of the first pilot, Capt. Palm, was discovered by Soviet vessel in a rubber boat and taken aboard. The search for other members of the plane's crew yielded no results. Flew From Britain According to the testimony of Olmsted and McCone, the “RB-47” plane, on board of which they flew, took off on July 1, 1960, at 1000 hours Greenwich time from an Amer ican military base situated in Brize Norton, Britain, on route lying along the northern fron tiers of Norway and the Soviet Union. It was under instruc tion to return, after fulfilling its assignment, to the same base in Britain where the United States Air Force unit to which this plane belonged was stationed. Before the takeoff the crew of the plane had been warned by their unit commander at the Brize Norton base, Maj. Debelle, that the flight had to be kept top secret and the crew were therefore forbidden to maintain regular radio com munication with the base. It is only two months ago that the aggressive actions of the United States, which found expression in the predetermined intrusion of an American Mili tary aircraft into the USSR on a spying mission and in the proclamation on such provoca tive acts to be a matter of the national policy of the United States, led to the wrecking of the summit conference by the United States Government and were unanimously condemned by the public opinion of the world. The new violation of the frontier of the Soviet’ Union by an American aircraft proves that the United States is still following the same course dan gerous to peace. Everybody sees now what is the real worth of the solemn assurances by the United States Government and j by President Eisenhower in person about the President’s alleged order to discontinue American spying overflights of the territory of the USSR. The question arises what pur poses does the United States Government have in continuing the policy of aggressive incur sions in the airspace of the Soviet Union? There can be only one answer. The actions of the United States Govern ment constitute a deliberate violation of the generally ac cepted norms of international law, a policy of deliberate know the truth. They must know that the Government of ■ the United States of America is gambling dangerously with the destiny of the world, with the destinies of the peoples. The violation by an American reconnaissance plane on July 1 of the Soviet frontier is a new act of perfidy on the part of the United States Government. The provocative flight of the American RB-47 military air craft shows that the assur ances of President Eisenhower in Paris last May on the dis continuation of spy flights into the confines of the Soviet Union are not worth a penny. Attacks Britain It is necessary to note the unseemly role played in this provocative affair by the Gov ernment of Britain. It came out as a direct accomplice of the United States aggressive acts against the Soviet Gov ernment. This role is entirely incompatible with the official statements of the British Gov ernment about its desire to promote the easing of tension and to improve its relations with the Soviet Union. The question also arises can one trust the statements of the Norwegian government, which promised in its note of May 27 to take measures to prevent the use by the United States of Norwegian territory for aggressive purposes against the Soviet Union? In the light of the known facts, the position of the Norwegian Government is. to say the least, unwise and dangerous for the Norwegian people. Hits “Ruling Quarters” On behalf of the Soviet gov ernment and all the Soviet peo ple, I wish to call with all seriousness the attention of all the countries of the world to the fact that the ruling quar ters of the United States, with the connivance of their allies under aggressive blocs, obvi ously provoking a serious mili tary conflict. Their actions can not be assessed otherwise. The Soviet Union will go on upholding the interests of peace and international se curity. Those who decided to try our patience are making a great blunder. The Soviet Union and our allies, with whom we are linked by appro priate commitments, will be able to rebuff any aggressor. provocations aimed at aggra vating the situation, at in creasing the war danger. . .. Warns of Consequences The Government of the United States is certainly aware of the consequences its policy of deliberate provoca tions. against the Soviet Union may entail. It may, for some or other reasons, withhold them from its people. But the gov erment of the U. S. S. R. deems itself in duty bound to warn the United States Government that it has no right to gamble with the destinies of the world. The Soviet Government deeply regrets to have to state that the governments of cer tain countries—the United States’ allies in the military blocs have still not drawn the due conclusions from the well known facts connected with the aggressive actions of the United States Air Force. By allowing the American military bases in their territory to be used they continue the policy of complicity in the above mentioned aggressive actions, thereby inviting a great danger on the peoples of their countries. In view of the new violation of the Soviet frontier by the American plane on July 1, the government of the U. S. S. R. declares a strong protest to the Government of the United States. 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What better opportu nity could there be to induce one group of Americans to con demn another group of Amer icans and provide more and better fodder for Mr. Khru shchev’s own Communist prop aganda mill? Deliberate Contempt The Soviet Communist leader went well out of his way to make a show of his contempt for the United States Govern ment. He delayed announce ment of the latest plane inci dent. he said, to see whether the United States Government would fall into another trap. He wanted to see. he explained, if the American alibi this time would be like that of the inci dent in May. Mr. Khrushchev had to be quite aware that the United States administration, having burned its fingers in the U-2 incident, would be supercau tious this time in committing itself to any alibi. No matter how innocentthe intentions be hind the RB-47 flight, the United States would be slow this time with its explanation. Nothing could have suited Mr. Khrushchev’s purposes better. The Soviet Premier insists that the RB-47. was on a spy ing mission, that the two cap tured flyers admitted this, and that the flight wks another “act of aggression.” But it is Mr. Khrushchev in this instance who has assumed the sole right to define both espionage and aggression and it is on his initiative that the threat of world war is raised. Uses Golden Chance Here was another golden chance for him to take another sledge-hammer whack at the wedge he is trying to drive be tween the United States and its allies. The U-2 incident, having caught the United States Gov ernment in an embarrassing lie, had paved the way for Mr. Khrushchev. The world would be a little less ready, this time, to accept American explana tions, a little more distrustful of official American statements. But even better than that, Mr. Khrushchev had before him a fine opportunity to di vide the American people them selves and turn the presidential election campaign into a noisy row over the conduct of cold war policy, with the whole world looking on and drawing its own conclusions. Transfer for Galloway Maj. Gen. Gerald E. Gallo way, commanding general of the Army Engineer Center and commandant of the Army En gineer School at Fort Belvoir, will leave his post in Septem ber to become division en gineer, United States Army Pa cific Ocean, Engineer Division in Honolulu, Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker an-! nounced yesterday. Crashed Plane Carrying 18 i Seen in Andes I GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July : 12 (AP).—The wreckage of a United States military trans [ port plane missing since yes -1 terday with X 8 aboard was I sighted today in the Andes i Mountains, the United States Consulate announced. Ecuadorean Air Force planes spotted the wreck on the side of Mount Piehinoha, only 10 minutes’ flight from Quito, its destination. Aboard the plane were State Department employes, FBI agents and several Ecuadorean diplomats. Air Attache Aboard The C-47 from the United States military mission in Bo gota, Colombia, was bringing Col. James Seaver, United States Air Attache in Bogota and Quito, tp the Ecuadorean capital yesterday to present the Legion of Merit to Col. Gustavo Izurieta, inspector general of Ecuador’s Air Force and former air attache in Washington. Mrs. Seaver was also on the flight. The Caribbean Air Command | in Panama said the plane, with I 14 passengers and four crew men aboard, last reported at 11.23 a.m. as it was heading for San Antonio Pass through the i Andes, some of the roughest terrain in the world. The pilot said he was flying I at 8.500 feet and was climbing to 11,500 feet. He estimated he would arrive in Quito in half an hour. Heavy Fog and Rain San Antonio Pass, leading to Quito, has a 15,500 foot peakj on one side and a 10,000-foot jpeak on the other. There had' been heavy fog and rain the ! Gun in Police Slayings Linked to 4 Murders NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ July 12 (AP).—Ballistics tests show the same pistol used in the Sunday slaying of two (policemen in Highland Park i was used to kill four people ■ last January, the Middlesex • County prosecutor said today. > Police throughout North Jer i sey were searching for a Hun i garian refugee, Michael Fekecs, 25. since two Franklin Town ! ship patrolmen were found shot i to death in his apartment. I “There’s no question that this ; is the same gun” used in the January slayings at the home ■ of Dr, Francis Clark, Prosecutor : Edward Dolan said. Other Clue* Hinted “I have other reasons to be lieve that Fekecs is the man who committed the Clarke murders,” he added without elaborating. It was reported one clue lay in the fact Fekecs on January 26, the day of the Clarke mur ders, was missing from his job at the Westinghouse Electric Corp, plant in nearby Edison. Fekecs has been a $BO-a-week materials handler at the plant for three years. Mr. Dolan said ballistics tests and examinations of spent cartridge shells found at the Clarke home and at Fekecs’ past two days over the Andes. Identity of the other persons aboard the plane was not im mediately announced. Two Ecuadorean Air Force planes and a plane from the United States Air Force mission in Ecuador began the search yesterday, but found no trace of the missing aircraft in the t area from which it last re ported. Two United States , planes from the Canal Zone ; were to join in the search today. ~ apartment showed the same s weapon was used. s Dr. Clarke, a prominent sur geon, was away at a hosoital 3 when an unknown gunman t came to his home and sho* e four people, each through the J head. The victims were Mrs. Edith Clarke. 57-year-old invalid ■ wife of the doctor; Miss Doro- ■ thy Moore, 66, her housekeeper , and companion; Mrs. Cora ■ Thaddies. 29. a maid, and t Morris Michael, 56, a Newark I cab driver who brought the s killer to the home. ! The gunman drove off in the ! cab after the killings. The mo ' tive for the crime has re mained a mystery. Fekecs was arrested Sunday on a traffic charge driving • while his license was revoked, i At a court hearing, bail was ! set at $250 and two Franklin ; Township patrolmen accom panied him to his apartment ' in Highland Park so he could ' pick up money for the bond. The two were later found dead i in the apartment, each with a : bullet wound in the head. Deadly Gas Powder Footprints Found ABERDEEN, N. C„ July 12 i <AP).—Authorities are looking ' for an intruder whose foot prints were found in the Olin- Mathieson Corp plant here. They said the footprints indi cated the person had walked 1 barefoot through deadly mus tard gas powder. The footprints, described as i those of a small person, were i found when the plant was i opened yesterday. Nothing was missing from the building. ! plant officials said, although a door had been pried open. They said the mustard gas dust ■ could be fatal within three to five days if the intruder is not treated.