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VOL. LXII No. 73NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1960 Per Oqpy 15*
Eisenhower Steams Toward Formosa
Aboard Heavily-Guarded Navy Cruiser
Eisenhower Says
Reds Responsible
For Tokyo Riots
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
EN ROUTE WITH EISEN
HOWER, W) — It was learned to
day that President Eisenhower
believes the Chinese Communists,
with the aim of making anti
American propaganda, are respon
sible for blocking his' visit to
Tokyo.
The President, sailing aboard
the cruiser St. Paul for Formosa,
is known to hold these views:
The Chinese Communists acted
in much the same way that Soviet
Russia seized on the incident of
the U-2 spy plane to wreck the
summit conference.
It is evident that all is not
well between the Soviet Union
and Red China.
The President believes Russian
and Chinese Communist leaders
are most unhappy about the
warm mass receptions he received
in many countries during his far
ranging travels in the last 10
months.
On the basis of information
from well informed sources, the
President is convinced Nikita
Khrushchev decided he did not
want President Eisenhower to
visit Moscow. In this view,
Khrushchev yanked back his in
vitation to Eisenhower and said
he was doing so because of the
incident involving the U-2 spy
plane.
The President concluded that
one of the reasons underlying
Khrushchev’s actions at the sum
mit conference in Paris a month
ago was that the Soviet Premier
did not want Eisenhower to visit
Moscow.
The President does not seem to
be particularly downhearted or
discouraged by cancellation of the
Tokyo visit. He feels the warm re
ception he received in Manila off
set to some extent the negative
aspects of this first visit to the
Far East by a U. S. President.
And he still believes there are
benefi‘s to be gained from per
sonal diplomacy toy an American
President.
Alaska Comes Out Third
In Census Growth
WASHINGTON, UR — Alaska
made the third largest percentage
gain of any state in the union in
the past 10 years, the Census Bu
reau said Thursday.
Preliminary figures gave Alas
ka’s current population as 223,383,
compared with a territorial popu
lation of 128,643 in 1950.
This is an increase of 74.4 per
cent, exceeded only by Florida at
76.6 per cent and Nevada at 75.8.
Other preliminary figures in
cluded: Washington — 2,824,009,
compared with a 1950 population
of 2,378,963, for a gain of 18.7
per cent.
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f EN ROUTE WITH EISEN
HOWER, (iW — President Eisen
hower steamed north toward the
Nationalist Chinese island fort
ress of Formosa today as Chinese
Communist guns bombarded the
offshore islands, 110 miles from
his destination.
Peiping Radio said the pound
ing by thousands of guns was a
display of “contempt and scorn”
for the U. S. President.
The U. S. 7th Fleet kept un
flagging vigil around the Presi
dential vessel. The fleet com
mander, Vice Adm. Charles D.
Griffin, had predicted the Com
munists “might well do some
thing” further to mar the Eisen
hower trip, already blighted by
cancellation of his visit to Japan.
Eisenhower slept late this
morning aboard the heavy cruiser
St. Paul, flagship of the fleet. He
worked for a while on his revised
trip schedule, then planned an
afternoon of relaxation. He had
appeared weary and grim as he
boarded the cruiser late Thursday
night in Manila Bay after his tre
mendous reception in the Philip
pines and the disappointing can
cellation of his visit to Tokyo.
White House Press Secretary
Hagerty told newsmen the Pres
ident did not believe the blowup
of his Tokyo visit had marred his
prestige or hurt U. S. national
interests. He has been in touch
with the State Department but
has received no messages thus
far from U. S. Congressional
leaders, Hagerty added.
It was no secret, however, that
Eisenhower was unhappy that he
was not going to Japan because
of Communist-inspired violence.
KING ISLANDERS ARRIVE
Three skin boat loads of King
Islanders, who had been weather
bound on their trip to Nome, ar
rived this morning, and are get
ting settled in their summer
homes at the east end of town.
CHARLES JONES and CHRIS
TIE WALDHEM, who will reign
as Pioneer King and Queen Re
gents of the Midnight Sun Fes
tival. and be official Nome
greeters for 1960.
Kishi Government
Hangs On Despite
Mounting Turmoil
By GENE KRAMER
TOKYO, Iff),— Japanese leftists
pressed their advantage and sent
65,000 demonstrators dancing and
chanting around Japan’s Diet
building today in a drive to block
the military alliance with the
United States. A Socialist legis
lator was stabbed during the
melee.
But Premier Kishi’s govern
ment was determined to stay in
office, until the new treaty with
America comes into force Sunday.
After that, a government
spokesman said, elections will be
called and Kishi’s Liberal-Demo
cratic Party will seek a popular
mandate for new laws to curb
violence. He accused the postwar
American occupation of “weaken
ing Japan and its police so that
present international Communism
can carry out its activities quite
freely.”
The demonstrators taunted the
police with cries of “Fool.” Some
threw stones at police. Many beat
sticks on the walls of he com
pound.
The crowd probably was
spurred by the memory of Wed
nesday’s riot, when police re
frained from using their pistols
and waited for hours before or
ders came to use tear gas.
The government has been fear
ful of raising the specter of the
brutal and efficient prewar Jap
anese police. Fears of a revival
of police power were a major fac
tor in U. S. occupation policy to
put the police under strict civi
lian control.
“Down with Kishi, Down with
the treaty,” demonstrators yelled
in their rhythmic chant, keeping
time with the shuffle of feet.
Kosaku Shinoda, spokesman for
Kishi’s Liberal-Democratic Party,
told newsmen he believed the
Premier would resign after rati
fication of the treaty providing
for U. S. military bases in Japan
for at least another 10 years.
“If Kishi goes there will be a
new leader for the Liberal-Dem
ocratic Party and with that a lot
of the hate will leave.”
He said the 64-year-old Pre
mier “has become more or less
a scapegoat.
“He has taken on his shoulders
all the hatred against conserva
tives, against Americans, against
everything,” Shinoda said.
FAA Names Allen Horning
To Head 4th Region
SEATTLE, UP) — Allen H. Horn
ing, native of Washington State
and former communications sup
erintendent in Alaska for Alaska
Airlines, has been named head of
the Federal Aviation Agency’s 4th
Region Facilities and Material Di
vision at Los Angeles.
Horning left Alaska Airlines in
1940 to become an airways flight
inspector for the old Civil Aero
nautics Administration, the fore
runner of the FAA. He formerly
was assistant administrator for
the FAA’s 4th Region.
Senate Dares Veto By
Passing Federal Pay Bill
WASHINGTON, 1* — Daring a
veto, the Senate today sent Pre
sident Eisenhower a bill to raise
the pay of 1V£ million Civil Ser
vice and Postal workers by about
746 million dollars a year.
Two days ago, the House passed
this very same measure by a
377-40 count, far more than two
thirds majority. It acted in the
face of a flat veto prediction by
House Republican Leader Charles
A. Halleck of Indiana.
The measure would give one
million federal workers a pay
boost of l¥i per cent. In addition,
half a million postal employes
would receive salary increase av
eraging 8.4 per cent.
Governor Asks Alaskans’
Prayers for Sen. Beltz
JUNEAU, UP) — Gov. William
Egan asked Alaskans today to
pray for the recovery of State
Senate President William E.
Beltz.
The Democratic lawmaker from
Unalakleet is seriously ill at the
Public Health Service Hospital at
Anchorage, where he has under
gone two operations f6r removal
of a brain tumor.
The Governor issued a state
ment asking “for a moment of
prayer” for the 47-year-old Es
kimo who “has given many years
of his life to the public service.”
Beltz has terved in both the Ter
ritorial House and Senate, and as
presiding officer of the Senate in
both sessions of Alaska’s first
State Legislature.
Egan, departing for Anchorage
on a regularly-scheduled trip,
said he planned to visit Beltz later
today.
Beltz was stricken during the
closing weeks of the 1960 legis
lative session, and entered the
hospital about a month after the
lawmakers adjourned.
STANFORD OCEANOGRAPHER SAYS BERING
STRAITS DAM COULD TRIGGER NEW ICE AGE
By RENNIE TAYLOR
EUGENE, Ore., Wl — Russia’s
proposal for a dam across Bering
Strait to warm the Arctic Ocean
would call for a water pumping
system using 25 times the power
output of Hoover Dam, says an
oceanographer. In a couple of
decades, it might trigger a new
ice age, he adds.
This view came from J. F. T
Saur of the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service at Stanford Univer
sity.
Warm water from the Japan
Current in the Pacific now finds
its way into the Chukchi Sea at
the rate of 1.8 million cubic me
ters per second during the sum
mer season, Saur said.
It is the principal mechanism
for melting the ice and keeping
this sea open to navigation in
summer.
The Russian proposal would
call for the pumping of cold wa
ter from the Arctic Ocean across
the dam into the Pacific. This
would permit warm water from
the Atlantic Ocean to move west
ward through Canadian and polar
territory into the Arctic Ocean
area.
Such a system delivering a mil
lion cubic meters per second the
year around not only would warm
the area north of the dam but also
would have a cooling effect on
the Pacific, Saur said.
He agreed wih a calculation
previously made by Dr. Maurice
Ewing of Columbia University
that the warming of Arctic waters
in this way could in 20 years
bring about the start of a new
ice age.
This could occur, he said, be
cause warming the Arctic could
slowly melt the Polar ice cap. But
the melting occasioned by warm
er summers would make for more
evaporation, more clouds and
more precipitation and finally
heavier snowfall in winter.
The pileup of excessive snow
would make the Arctic region
whiter than ever. The white sur
face would reflect instead of ab
sorb more of the sun’s heat, and
in a few years, the North would
again be under a spreading blan
ket of ice.
State Collects
Half-Million In
Voluntary Tax
JUNEAU, UR — More than half
a million dollars in voluntary
payments have been received in
the last three months under the
1949 Alaska General Property
Tax, the Governor’s Office re
ported today.
The collections were made after
the U. S. Supreme Court upheld
Alaska’s contention that repeal of
the property levy in 1953 did not
forgive tax liabilities incurred
during the three years the law
was on the books.
The largest single voluntary
payment amounted to $137,725 by
the United States Smelting, Re
fining and Mining Co. Included
among other payments were taxes
owed by some companies which
opposed state efforts to collect the
assessments in the long court
battle.
The Governor’s Office said the
voluntary receipts coincided with
action by the state in filing more
than 100 complaints against de
linquent taxpayers for personal
liability on the property levy. Ad
ditional complaints will be filed
in the future, the Governor said.
Peter Gatz, State Commissioner
of Revenue, said it had been de
partment policy to seek voluntary
payment by billing procedures,
before resorting to legal action.
LYNDON JOHNSON GAINS
NOMINATION SUPPORT
WASHINGTON, UR — Six more
Democratic House members an
nounced support yesterday for
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon
Johnson of Texas for the (Demo
cratic nomination for President.
The Citizens for Johnson na
tional committee headquarters
here said they included Ralph
Rivers of Alaska.