.si 1N0ME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
"'VOL. LXII No. 3 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1960_Per Copy 151
Anti-Semitism Still
Rife Throughout
Most of World
BERLIN, lift The wave of
anti-Semitism rolled on around
the world today.
There were new reports that
swastikas and anti-Jewish slo
gans have appeared in Communist
East Germany. Mexico and Cana
da’s west coast reported the first
such incidents in their areas.
“Potsdam Jewish Country
tradesman” was painted during
the night on the foundaion of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt monument
overloading the harbor of Oslo, j
Norway.
Religious and government lead- i
ers kept up a chorus of condem- |
nation.
Police officials, particularly in
West Germany and West Berlin,
carried on diligeflt investigations
to determine what was behind the
outbursts of hate-mongering that
began with the smearing of a new
synagogue in Cologne Christmas
Eve.
In Vancouver, B. C., editor Abe
Arnold of the Jewish Western
Bulletin said a man telephoned
him, identified himself as a mem
ber of the British Union of Fas
cists, and said: “We are going to
» make soap out of you.”
The first swastikas appeared in
Latin America, painted on the
gateposts of a Mexico City syna
gogue and the building housing
the Zionist Federation of Mexico.
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Steelworkers Chalk Up
Victory in Settlement
NEW YORK, UFi — The United
Steelworkers Union scored a ma
ior victory in its contract settle
ment with major steel companies,
Iron Age Magazine said today.
The national metalworking
weekly added, “The companies,
under government pressure, lost
their battle along major fronts. Tie
well-publicized local practices
hassle is being settled along the
lines the union argued.”
"'As a result of the settlement,
the magazine said, steel com
panies will have to raise prices.
Iron Age said it was unlikely
that any increases would exceed
$5 a ton, and added it was more
likely that they would run less
than $4.
New AF Academy Coach
Predicts Blanket Victory
NEW YORK, UP) — When the
next football season rolls around
a West Point graduate will be the
athletic director of the Air Force
Academy, And the new appointee,
Col. Maurice (Marty) Martin
'iiinks the Falcons will beat the
Army.
Martin, a member of the '43
class at West Point, was named
last night to succeed Colonel
George Simler at the Air Force
school.
Martin, here for thb NCAA con
vention, said “I just love to play
Army and Navy, and I think we’ll
beat them both. The Air Force
has a great future athletically.”
PAN AMERICAN SETS NEW
CARGO CARRYING RECORD
NEW YORK, UP) — Pan Amer
ican World Airways set new rec
ords for carrying international air
cargo last year, the company said
Total cargo ton mileage was 116
million, a 15( per cent increase
over 1958. Last year was the sec
ond in which the air line exceeded
100 million cargo ton miles.
New Parcel Post Rates
Effective February 1
New parcel post rates which will
go into effect February 1, will in
most cases increase the costs of
mailing parcels to and from Alas
ka, .but on the heavier weights
will result in a slight reduction.
On movements of more than
1,800 miles, the rate will double
from 32 cents to 64 cents on a 1
pound package, will increase from
$1.95 to $2.16 on a 10-pound par
cel, will go up slightly from $4.66
to $4.86 on a 25-pound parcel,
but will go down from $9,17 to
$9.06 on a 50-pound package, and
from $12.78 to $12.26 on one
weighing 70 pounds, the max
imum allowed.
MacMillan Tours
Africa to Quiet
Racial Unrest
ACCRA, Ghana, (/Pi — Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan ar
rived at the brilliantly decorated
Accra Airport today on the first
leg of a 15,000-mile facyfinding
tour through Britain’s restive
colonies and Commonwealth mem
bers in Africa.
MacMillan was greeted by
Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame
Nkrumah, who led his country to
freedom nearly three years ago
after being imprisoned by the
British.
Nkrumah noted that MacMillan
is the first British Prime Minister
to visit south of the Sahara while
in office. He said he hopes the
visit will strengthen good will, not
only for Ghana and the United
Kingdom, but for Africa and the
world.”
MacMillan in reply said he had
come “to see and learn.”
After Nigeria, MacMillan goes
to the Central African Federa
tion, where Negro nationalists in
the protectorate of Nyasaland are
trying to break away from their
federation with the white-domi
nated Rhodesias.
The last step on his itinerary
is the Union of South Africa, seat
of the continent’s bitterest racial
issues.
Pan American Would Cut
Rates If Pacific Routes
Are Extended to East
WASHINGTON, UPV—Pan Amer
ican World Airways proposed to
day that its routes to the Pacific
Coast from the Orient, the South
Pacific and Hawaii be extended
to the • main traffic centers east
of the Mississippi River.
Opening its presentation at a
Civil Aeronautics Board hearing
of the Trans-Pacific Route case, in
which applications of 15 airlines
are being considered, Pan Amer
ican also asked for:
Inclusion of Portland and Seattle
on its Great Circle Route between
California and the Orient, and
Permanent authority for all of
the company’s temporary routes
in the Pacific.
Howard Hamstra, Pan Amer
ican associate counsel, said if
Pan American’s applications are
granted, the minimum passenger
fares across the Pacific could be
reduced 20 per cent, and cargo
rates slashed 62V6 per cent.
Reduced mail rates also would
be possible, he said, to permit
mail and parcel post to move by
air at the same postal charges as
surface mail. ,
Pan American, Northwest, and
United Air Lines now compete in
service to the Orient.
Steel Pact Covers
Wages, Pensions,
Insurance Benefits
WASHINGTON, GB — Here is
a point-by-point comparison of
the new steel contracts and the
old agreements:
The package —
Over 2Yz years, a 40-cent aver
age hourly increase in total earn
ings (wages and benefits) which
formerly averaged $3.11 per
worker.
Wages —
On December 1, 1960, a 7-cent
hourly increase in basic pay,
ranging up to 13 cents in higher
job classifications and averaging
out at about 8.6 cents.
On October 1, 1961, another 7
:ent increase. With increases for
higher jpb ratings, this will av
erage about 7.8 cents.
Insurance —
Companies assume full cost of
hospital and other insurance. This
is equivalent to an average 8V4
cents increase in take-home pay.
Costs formerly were shared.
Cost-of-living —
New escalation clause could in
crease paychecks by as much as
6 cents in the 30-month period,
depending on consumer price
movements. But • if the cost of
insurance to the companies goes
up, cost-of-living increases will
be diminished. There could be no
living-cost increase whatsoever.
Pensions —
Nearly all retired workers now
on pensions will get $5 monthly
increase.
Minimum pensions of workers
retiring henceforth are increased
by amounts which vary with past
earnings.
Retiring workers will get three
months’ lump-sum pay on leaving
mills.
Years of service which count
toward pensions are increased
"from 30 to 35.
Work Rules —
In effect, no change. The com
panies lost their demand for sole
r’ght to make changes to cut costs
and improve efficiency, accepting
instead an agreement to submit
the issue to a union-management
commission for study. The com
mission’s findings will not be
binding.
34 Die In Crash of
Miami Air Coach
BOLIVIA, N. C„ UTi — A Na
tional Airlines night coach flying
non-stop from New York to Mi
ami crashed with 34 persons
aboard before dawn today in
swampy woodlands near here.
“There will not be any sur
vivors,” said a deputy sheriff.
Reporters on the scene said the
big plane appeared to have ex
ploded in the air, and debris and
bodies were scattered over an
area of 20 acres,
ing one of two substitute flights,
The four-engine DC6-B, mak
carried 29 passengers and a crew
of five.
The other substitute plane, an
Electra turbo-prop, reached Mi
ami safely with 76 passengers and
crew members.
Passengers aboard the crashed
plane included Retired Vice Ad
miral Edward Orrick McDonnell,
who held the Medal of Honor and
numerous other decorations for
World War II service.
Most of the passengers were
easterners, bound for vacations at
Florida’s sunny resorts.
Congress Back at Old Stand; Conscious
Of Hot Election-Year Party Differences
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Congress
got back into business today, and
in this Presidential election year
every member was certain of one
main item of business: politics.
Out of this final session of the
Eisenhower Administration will
be hammered the issues for next
fall’s elections. It could make or
break the hopes of members as
piring to gain higher office or
hold what they have.
A consciousness of this stood
out clearly amid the hand-shak
ing, back-slapping and good fel
lowship that always attends the
reconvening of Congress.
Already plans are shaping up
for investigations in many fields
— foreign affairs, defense policy,
television, outer space, drug
prices and boxing. Such hearings
keep a legislator’s name before
the public and sometimes influ
ence votes.
Due for early consideration are
civil rights and aid to education
bills — subjects that divide Con
gress, carry a lot of emotional
impact and have political over
tones.
Today’s House and Senate ses
sions were limited to the formali
ties of reconvening and swearing
in new members.
Tomorrow, President Eisen
hower will come up and deliver
his annual State of the Union
message to a joint session. The
message will set out in general
terms what he hopes to get from
Congress. Later, special messages
will give more detail.
Ike May "Be Sensitive
Before Congress convened,
there was a hint that perhaps the
President is a little sensitive to
prospective criticism of the gap
between this country’s missile
progress and that of Russia.
This is a subject already tabbed
for inquiry by two senators —
Lyndon Johnson and Stuart Sy
mington — who are among those
mentioned as possible Democratic
Presidential nominees.
In a brief, informal talk to offi
cials of his church — the National
Presbyterian — Eisenhower cau
tioned Americans against becom
ing too hysterical about Russia’s
achievements in outer space.
The President called for ex
ploitation in this country of the
idea that “man is a creature of
God and dignity.”
Eisenhower had attended morn
ing services at the church where
he joined in prayer for success of
the new session of Congress.
Snow Storm Blankets
Southern Sections of U. S.
(By The Associated Press>
A fast-moving snow storm
which hit the Southwest swept
info the South i today, leaving a
heavy blanket of white from Ar
kansas to North Carolina. Dixie
shivered in the first big snow
storm of the winter.
The season’s first big snow fall
— and the biggest in many years
in some areas — curtailed travel,
closed schools and disrupted tele
phone and power service. Ihe
storms were blamed for at least
five deaths.
Nearly a foot of snow made a
wintry scene in parts of the
Southland.
Arkansas sloshed through the
biggest snowfall in 38 years. The
season’s first storm dumpe nearly
11 inches in Little Rock.
Heaviest snow falls in years
were reported in many areas. The
seven inches at Nashville was the
deepest in nine years.
It was cold in the Southwest
snow belt. Temperatures dipped
to near zero in the Texas pan
handle.
But it was much colder, in
northern Minnesota as another
surge of Arctic air swept in from
Canada. It was near 20 degrees
below zero again this morning in
International Falls, on the Cana
dian border.
In Nome yesterday a high of
30 above zero was recorded.
PAPER MILL EXPLOSION
XILLS 1. INJURES 7
TACOMA — An explosion
blasted a steel drumhead half an
inch thick into a group of men
around a time clock yesterday as
the shift was changing ati a paper
factory.
Jack Apthorp, 43, ^as killed by
the flying piece of metal. Seven
other men were burned, three of
them critically, by live steam.
The explosion occurred in a
steamheated paper drier placed
in operation Monday at the Con
tainer Corp. of America plant.
London Report
Says Red General
Defected to Tito
LONDON, (iVi — Reports reach
ing Polish emigre circles today
said General Frey-Bielecki, air
force chief in Communist Poland,
has fled to Yugoslavia in his own
MIG jet fighter plane.
In Belgrade, a Yugoslav Foreign
Ministry spokesman said: “These
reports are not true.”
There was no comment from
Warsaw, the Polish capitol.
If true, the defection would be
one of the most important from
the Soviet bloc since World
War II.
Frey-Biedlecki took command
of the Polish Air Force after
Vladyslaw Gomulka had taken
over the Polish Communist lead
ership in October, 1956. Previous
ly he had been deputy to a So
viet commander, General Turkiel.
French President Plans
U. S. Arrival April 22
PARIS, UP) — President Charles
De Gaulle will open his visit to
the United States April 22 and
will remain until the end of the
month. He will visit Canada
.4pril 19 to 22.
A brief announcement from De
Gaulle’s office gave the dates.
General De Gaulle has been
invited to make an official visit
to the United States and to Can
oda at the end of next April,”
it said.
WEATHER FORECAST
Snow, ending late this after
noon. Partly cloudy tonight and
tomorrow, increasing Easterly
winds Thursday. Colder tonight
and tomorrow.
Low tonigiht 0, high tomorrow,
0.
Nome data last 24 hours, as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation, .28
inch. Month total, .60 inches. Tem
peratures: Highest 30, lowest 20
Maximum wind, 12 miles an hour
from the Southeast. Sunrise at
9:52 a.m., sunset at 2:23 p.m.