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Democratic Party Liberals Bemoan
Johnson as Vice President Nominee
Adlai Stevenson Will
Introduce Kennedy At
Acceptance Ceremonies
LOS ANGELES, </P>— Sen. John ;
Kennedy today asked Adlai Ste
venson to introduce him at me
acceptance speech ceremonies to
night bringing the Democratic
convention to a close. Stevenson
agreed.
It was another move by the
presidential nominee to weld
party unity for the campaign to
win the White House from the
Republicans.
Stevenson, the unsuccessful
Democratic nominee in the last
two campaigns, has millions of ad
mirers who wanted to see him
nominated again.
Kennedy spent the day polish
ing up the address in intervals be
tween receiving well-wishers and
party strategists.
Gruening Endorses
Democrats’ Choice
LOS ANGELES, UP— Sen. Er
nest Gruening said today the ad
dition of Sen. Lyndon Johnson to
the Democratic ticket will help
Sen. John Kennedy get his pro
gram through if he is elected
President.
“Johnson as Vice President
and President of the Senate will!
wield a great deal of influence
and help the President get the
party program through,” the Al
askan said.
Some of the Alaska delegates
expressed doubts as to whether
the Kennedy - Johnson ticket
would be strong in the 49th state.
Eugene Brazeau and Bob Giers
dorf of Fairbanks said Johnson
was not popular in Alaska, They
threatened to list themself as “ab
sent” when the vote for Johnson
was taken, but he was nominated
by acclamation without a roll call
of states.
“The emphasis on the Vice
President is overestimated,” said
Gruening. “The people vote for
the President, not the Vice Presi
dent, but Johnson will add
strength to the ticket nationally.”
Morton and Truman
Both Prophesied Kennedy
Johnson Demo Ticket
CHICAGO, fiP—Republicans to
day hailed their own national
chairman and Democrat Harry S.
Truman as prophets who have
been honored by fulfillment of
their predictions.
GOP convention arrangers said
that: Their chairman Thruston B.
Morton, had asserted on June 30
that “it appears a deal has been
made for a Kennedy - Johnson
ticket at the rigged Democratic
convention” and “everything
Harry Truman said about the con
vention being rigged has come
true.”
Headquarters for the Republi
can convention issued a statement j
saluting Morton as “the only ma- i
jor political figure in either party
who publicly predicted the Ken
nedv-Johnson ticket in that or
der."
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you have tried to do some
thing and failed, you are vastly
better off than if you had tried
to do nothing and succeeded.
By JACK BELL
LOS ANGELES, W>—-Sen. John j
F. Kennedy formally accepts the |
Democratic presidential nomina-1
tion tonight, with party liberals j
bemoaning his endorsement of |
Sen. Lyndon Johnson as his run- t
ning mate.
In a dramatic but highly tra
ditional decision Thursday Ken- j
nedy compromised with the poli- j
tical realities of a threatened I
Southern bolt and wheeled in j
Johnson, the majority leader of:
the Senate, as his Vice Presi- ]
dential nominee.
The Massachusetts senator thus
took a practical step toward quiet
ing a growing Dixie rebellion.
But he reared in return some pro
tests from party liberals who felt
they had been influential in his
top - place nomination and de
served better of their efforts than
a middle-of-the-road Vice Presi
dential candidate.
Kennedy could placate these
dissenters, however, with a lib
eral acceptance speech tonight and
the choice of one of this group to
succeed Paul M. Butler as the
party’s national chairman. Sen.
Paul Jackson of Washington was
lapped for the job.
There was one report, quickly
denied by both the Kennedy and
Johnson camps, that Johnson was
chosen at his own insistence.
House Speaker, Sam Rayburn
of Texas, who urged Johnson not
to take second place, shook his
head and sighed a little sadly at
the outcome which was formally
ratified by the convention Thurs
day night.
Rayburn’s explanation was that
Johnson had been offered the spot
and replied in simple language
that he couldn’t reject any de
mand for service his party or his
country laid upon him. Johnson
himself offered no enlightening
explanation.
Johnson's friends frankly could
n’t figure why the Senate leader
would be willing to trade his po
sition for the Vice Presidency
which, even in its advanced sta
tus, is a job in which one man
stands in preparedness for an
other’s death.
Whatever his motives, by the
introduction of Johnson’s name on
the ticket Kennedy appeared to
have softened a movement to deny
him the vote of several Southern
states in the Electoral College.
Tonight’s formal acceptance
ceremonies take the form of a
big show with its Hollywood stars
and premiere lights, its thunder
ing thousands of spectators and
its nation-spanning coverage by
television, radio and newspapers.
Johnson has been a target for
Americans for Democratic Ac
tion, the liberal appendage of the
party. He has been criticized by
Chairman Butler for ignoring the
recommendations of the Demo
cratic Advisory Council.
Gov. G. Mennen Williams of
Michigan, a pre-convention sup
porter of Kennedy, said his dele
gation feels the nomination of
Johnson was a mistake.
Lawrence Tibbetl, Dies at Age 63
NEW YORK, (/F— Singer Law
rence Tibbett, 63, died today.
The famed baritone underwent
surgery at Roosevelt Hospital on
June 27 for an old head injury.
Architect Will Prepare
Plans For New Nome
School Facility
Lynn Forrest Jr., architect from
Juneau, has signed an agreement
with the City and School Board
to prepare plans for a new school
facility. This is being done under
Public Law 815, which provides
federal aid for areas with federal
impact and is applicable to Nome
with the many families moving
here who are not taxpayers.
The preliminary plans, stated
Superintendent Conrad Potter will
provide the needed space in one
of several possible ways.
First, a second story is being |
considered above the new part of j
the school for the east addition; I
second, a separate building just |
for the first, second and third!
grades; or a new high school to
take in the Junior and Senior high
school, leaving the first through
the sixth grades in the present
buildings.
The planning is projected to pro
vide for the increasing enrollment
for the next six to ten years.
Crown Imperial Bowling
Alleys Ordered For Last
Boat Delivery Here
Mr. Pat Cartee from Brunswick,
Inc., Anchorage, completed the
order for the six new Crown Im
perial alleys Wednesday night in
a meeting with the board of direc
tors of Nome Bowlers Inc.
The latest in colorful seats for
bowlers and the spectator area
were also ordered and the alleys
will be on the last boat without
fail, it was said. Also ordered
were the latest in automatic pin
setters.
The board also said they will
begin a sales drive soon so that
the people of Nome will have an
opportunity to invest in the bowl
ing alleys. The incorporators are
very anxious to have the people
of Nome own these alleys and to
share in the profits from their
operation.
Mr. Cartee said he expects the
alleys to pay for themselves
within four years and to show a
net profit while doing so.
Mukluk Caravan
Coming to Nome
The Mukluk Caravan of the
Safeway Airways will be coming
to Nome later this month for an
overnight stop.
In the party are 30 aircraft
with about 50 people who have
on their itinerary Galena, Kotze
bue, Aniak, Bethel, King Salmon,
and Iguigig as well as Nome. The
caravan pill be on tour from July
22 to 28, according to work re
ceived here today.
Kishi and His Cabinet
Formally Resign Today
TOKYO, UPl—Premier Kishi and
his cabinet formally resigned to
day, opening the way for the in
stallation of Hayato Ikeda next
week as head of a new govern
ment.
The cabinet — the third Kishi
had formed in his 3V& years in
office—met for its final session to
assemble the resignation notices,
which were taken to Kishi’s hos
pital bedside for his seal and sig
nature.
Kishi, stabbed and wounded in
the left thigh by an ultranation
alist Tuhrsday, was reported by
aides to be in good spirits but
is expected to remain hospitalized
at least two weeks.
War of Words Engulfs Congo Trouble
By The Associated Press
A word war flamed between
East and West over the Congo
while U.N. troops started moving
into that two-week-old African
nation today with the assignment
of restoring order.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev de
clared the U. N. resolution may
not be enough and warned the
West: “Hands off the Republic
of Congo.”
Premier Gaston Eyskens’ Bel
gian government announced it
“repccts with contempt” a Soviet
charge that Belgium, whose
troops intervened after a mutiny
in the Congolese army, is commit
ting aggression in the former Bel
gian colony.
The Russians used the chaotic
Congo situation for the new warn
ing to the West while pledging
support to Premier Patrice Lum
umba’s government “for the vic
tory of its just cause.”
The pledge was made by Nikita
Khrushchev, who had previously
accused the United States and its
allies of trying to reimpose a
colonial regime on the Congo.
Khrushchev said in a message
to Lumumba and Congo’s Presi
dent Kasabuvu, that the Soviet
Union is ready “to halt aggres
sion” there “if those states which
are carrying on direct aggression
against the Congo do not stop
their criminal measures.”
The Premier’s message was
broadcast from Moscow as an an
swer to a telegram from Kasa
buvu and Lumumba saying their
lives were in danger and that
they may be compelled “to ask
for intervention by the Soviet
Union if the Western camp does
not desist from aggression.”
Radio Moscow broadcast the
statement to the world while
United States planes began air
lifts for relief of the Congo.
USO SHOW TONIGHT
A capacity crowd is expected to
turn out at the School Auditorium
tonight at 8 p.m. to take in the
USO show, the first to be shown
here in several months.
The public is reminded that no
children under 12 will be admit
ted to the show which is free
to the public.
Hoffa Withholds Comment
On Presidential Tickets
Until After GOP Selects
DETROIT, (iPt — James Hoffa,
Teamsters Union president, de
clined comment today on the De
mocratic convention selection of a
Kennedy-Johnson ticket for the
November election.
Hoffa has been at odds with
Sen. Kennedy and his brother
Robert Kennedy, since Hoffa was
one of the targets of the Senate
Rackets Investigating Committee.
“We’ll wait until the Repub
lican convention is over before we
make any decision on how we’re
going to be in the presidential
election,” Hoffa said.
Hoffa indicated the Teamsters
would concentrate on congression
al elections. “After all, they are
the ones who pass the laws,” he
said.
Polaris Missile
Fired Successfully
CAPE CANAVERAL, Iff) — A
Polaris was fired successfully
from an underground tube early
today in the missile’s final tune- j
up for key launchings from a |
nuclear submarine.
The Navy announced the mis
sile achieved all objectives in
scooting more than 1,000 miles
down the Atlantic Missile Range. !
A major goal was to check the j
performance of the Polaris’ sen
sitive guidance system.
Nicaraguan Students
Demonstrate Against U.S.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, (ffi —
Students burned a U.S. flag in an
anti - American demonstration
Thursday night at Nicaragua’s ]
National University in Leon.
Some Nicaraguan officials ex
pressed belief the demonstration
was a result of a recent decision
by the American Cultural Center
at Managua to remove a journal
ism school it founded from the
University branch in the capital
city.
Khrushchev’s Diplomatic
Negotiations Likened
To Street Brawls
VIENNA, Austria, UD—U.S. Un
dersecretary of State Douglas Dil
lon accused Soviet Premier
Khrushchev today of reducing ne
gotiations between nations to the
level of street brawls.
Respecting Austrian neutrality,
Dillon did not name Khrushchev,
but his implication was clear.
He told the Austrian Society for
Foreign Policy: “Like you, we do
not believe that international re
lations should be conducted by
intemperate threats, or that nego
tiations between nations should be
reduced to the level of street
brawls. Like you, we treasure hos
pitality as a quality too precious
to be abused.”
The latter reference was to
Khrushchev’s repeated attacks on
the United States and other West
ern nations during his June 30
July 8 state visit to Austria, at
tacks which embarrassed his
hosts.
Dillon, here for three days of
economic and political talks,
spoke of aid to underdeveloped
areas as “the great challenge be
fore us.” He called on the Soviet
Union to contribute a fair share
to United Nations funds for these
areas.
Chinese To Buy Cuban Sugar
HAVANA, UPl — A high-level
Chinese Communist trade mission
was due in Havana today, and
Peiping was expected to offer to
take up some of the slack in Cu
ban sugar sales created by the
U.S. cutback in purchases.
It was anticipated that the
trade talks would lay the ground
work for establishment of full
diplomatic relations, which would
make Prime Minister Fidel Cas
tro’s regime the first nation in
the Western hemisphere to recog
nize the Peiping government.
LINE OF SUCCESSION
LOS ANGELES, tp—Both major
parties have set up the same pro
cedure for selecting a presidential
candidate should their nominee
die before the election.
The new standard bearer would
be chosen by a majority vote of
the party’s National Committee.
The National Committees are
made up of two members from
each of the 50 states, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Vir
gin Islands and the Canal Zone.