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Geneva Conference Opens With Tight
Rules Governing Germans’ Activities
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, W> — The Big Four
foreign ministers opened their
conference on cold war problems
tonight, 3t£ hours late, after run
ning aground for a time on the
question of how the East German
government should participate.
The first session of the confer
ference was scheduled for the
Palace of Nations. Instead, Sec
retary of State Christian Herter
and his Soviet, British and French
counterparts got together infor
mally at a British villa.
From this meeting Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Gromyko
emerged with the announcement
the formal session was set for
6 p.m.
“There has been a complete
agreement on all procedural and
administrative matters,” he said,
adding that this includes the ques
tion of German participation.
British Foreign Secretary Sel
wyn Lloyd, designated to preside
at tonight’s opening session, led
the efforts to resolve the dispute
involving the whole issue of the
status of the Red East German
regime.
The formula decided upon for
the formal opening session was
as follows:
The East and West Germans sit
at separate tables. The Big Four
foreign ministers sit at a round
table but all on one side, leaving
one side vacant.
The West German table is closer
to the seat occupied by Herter,
the East Germans closer to Gro
myko. The two German delega
tions are separated by a third
small table for the conference
secretariat.
Western spokesmen said the
separate tables idea met the ori
ginal Western objections to having
a round table. The West had feared
that if only a round table was
used the Russians would try to
squeeze in first the East Germans
and later the Poles and Czechoslo
vaks as full participants.
Under the agreed upon formula
the Germans are advisers and not
full participants as demanded by
the Russians.
If either the East nr West Ger
man representatives desires to
speak, the conference chairman
will ask if any of the Big Four for
eign ministers has any objections.
If there are none, the floor will be
given to the Germans.'
Winnie Bids Adieu
To American Allies
LONDON, UP) — Sir Winston
Churchill returned home today
from what may have been his last
visit to America.
Smiling and spruce in a hom
burg and gray suit with a red
rose in his lapel, the British
statesman was greeted at the air
port by his wife, who kissed him
on both cheeks.
This was Churchill’s ninth visit
to the United States since the first
dark days of World War II.
Churchill, 84 and ailing, paused
at the ramp as he boarded the
plane, and delivered a brief mes
sage. Then he waved his black
homburg at the crowd of several
hundred gathered to see him off.
Churchill spent seven days in
New York and Washington. Here
he stayed with an old friend, fi
nancier Bernard Baruch, four
years his senior.
The cigar-smoking, brandy
sipping Churchill has suffered
several serious illnesses in recent
years.
But there was much of the old
warrior evident is he stood on the
ramp at the airport.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I must
now leave you and return to Bri
tain, my other country,” he said.
“I have had a happy stay in the
United States, and I have been
touched, much touched, by the
warmth of your welcome.”
“My great friend, President Eis
enhower,” he continued, “has
made my stay in America a mem
orable one. We hold him in great
regard throughout Britain.”
Tears appeared in his eyes as
he continued.
“I will now say goodbye to you
all, and particularly to my old
friend, Mr. Baruch, with whom
I have worked over the years. I
would like to bid you farewell in
this key: As long as the United
States and Great Britain are
united and bound together, the
future is one of high hopes both
for ourselves and the whole free
world.”
Governor Will Return To
Seattle For Last Operation
JUNEAU, UP) — Governor Wm.
Egan will undergo the last in a
series of gall stone operations
at Seattle, he said today. The
Governor said he would leave for
Seatle May 19 for the surgery,
and probably would return to
Juneau in mid-June.
Secretary of State Hugh Wade
will be acting governor during his
absence. v
First Meeting of Education
Board Slated for May 18
JUNEAU, UP)—The State Board
of Education has been called into
session at Juneau May 18 for its
first meeting, with a top item of
business expected to be the nom-.
ination of a new commissioner.
Appointment of a $17,GOO-a-year
Commissioner of Education will
be made by the Governor from a
list submitted by the board.
The new commissioner will be
come a member of the Governor’s
12-man cabinet, and will succeed
Don Dafoe who resigned during
the last legislative session.
Board members include Robert
Baldwin, of Nome.
JUPITER NOSE CONE FOUND
ANTIGUA, British West Indies,
M1) — U. S. military personnel
Sunday found the nose cone of a
Jupiter rocket fired May 6 from
Cape Canaveral, 1,500 miles away.
The 60-foot missile was lobbed
over the Atlantic at a water tar
get near Antigua Island in what
was described as a highly suc
cessful flight.
WASHINGTON, UP) — Military
standardization has now reached
the buttonhole st^je.
Along with the buttons, button
holes may soon be alike as peas
in a pod on G.I. uniforms, Assist
ant Secretary of the Army Court
ney Johnson told the House Ap
propriations Committee in testi
mony made public today.
By making all buttonholes the
same size, Johnson said, the Army
expects to save the taxpayers
some money on uniform purchases.
Belly Landing At Nome
Shows Flight Skill Of
Veteran Willie Foster
A tight little drama was played
out at the airport yesterday after
noon at about 5 o’clock when an
Apache twin-engine airplane be
longing to Alaska Airlines made
a belly landing on the north-south
runway.
Aboard the plane were three of
Alaska’s bush pilots, Willy Fos
ter, who was flying the plane,
Ray Luke, and Eddie Olson, who
has just joined the pilot staff at
Nome.
Olson was a pilot here for Al
aska several years ago and more
recently has been flying on the
Kenai Peniusula.
Foster and Lukb were up on a
familiarization flight with Olson
and when they prepared to land
the wheels Would not lower into
landing position.
Foster called FAA, notified
them of his difficulty and re
quested crash and fire-fighting
equipment at the field when he
would attempt a wheels-up belly
landing.
According to eyewitnesses at the
field the landing itself was as
perfect as it was possible to be
under the circumstances.
It was a cool demonstration of
flying know - how when Foster
brought the ship in with propel
lers feathered horizontally, and
slid along" the ground for about
200 feet.
Damage to the plane was re
ported today to be negligible.
Spring Twisters
Take Heavy Toll
In U. S. Midsection
(By The Associated Press)
Spinning windstorms reached
into Michigan and Illinois today,
killing one person at Ann Arbor
and causing severe damage. Monti
cello in central Illinois was hit
also.
The tight twisting winds chewed
into the central Great Lakes re
gion after weekend tornadoes
ripped into six states in the plains
and Midwest, killing 5, injuring
21 and causing heavy property
damage. In the Ann Arbor storm,
described by witnesses as a small
tornado, one woman was reported
killed by a fallen electric line,
and two houses were set afire.
Rains swept wide areas of the
midcontinent in the wake of the
destructive storms.
Scores of homes were demol
ished, huge semi-trailer trucks
were tossed about like leaves, and
the four-building Iowa community
of Fansler was wiped out in tor
nadoes which lashed Texas, Iowa,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and
Wisconsin Sunday.
Tornadoes whipped through
Oklahoma both Saturday and Sun
day with roars which sounded to
a farm wife “like a thousand
winds blowing in all directions at
the same time.” It was in 'Sie
Oklahoma town of Frisco that a
twister killed five persons and
injured nine.
Heavy hail storms followed the
tornadoes in a number of commu
nities. Then came the rains. Hail
the size of baseballs fell in the
vicinity of Corpus Christi, Tex.,
and egg-size hail covered the
ground near Austin.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued cloudy with little
change in temperatures. Continued
snow showers.
Governor’s Veto Boots Another Punt
In Scrimmage for State ESC Legislation
April Employment
Rise Highest On'
U. S. Record
WASHINGTON, Oft — The num
ber of Americans at work rose
by over a million in April to a
record total of 65 million, a rec
ord for the month. Unemployment
declined by 735,000.
The improvement in both em
ployment and unemployment were
double what is seasonally ex
pected in April.
The employment total is the
highest recorded for any April and
compares with peak employment
of 67,221,000 in July, 1957.
Secretary of Commerce Lewis
Strauss and Secretary of Labor
James Mitchell said in a joint
statement the figures demonstrate
a rapidly accelerating job re
covery.
Employment rose to 65,012,000,
an increase of 1,184,000 over
March. This is 2,105,000 more jobs
than in April last year.
Unemployment declined to 3,
627,000, dipping by 735,000 from
March. This is a decline of 1,493,
000 from the recession conditions
in April of last year.
The Commerce-Labor monthly
job report attributed the April im
provements to an unusually large
pickup in construction and brisk
hiring in hard goods manufacture
together with the spring expan
sion in Agriculture.
Strauss and Mitchell said in
their joint statement: “This April,
one year after the turning point
in the recession, the rate of un
employment was about two
thirds- of the way back to pre
recession levels. The strong im
provement in the last two months
was in contrast to the lag in job
recovery during the past winter.”
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Dulles’ Condition Remains
Unchanged as Pneumonia
Complicates Treatment
WASHINGTON, UPl—No change
was reported today in the condi
tion of John Foster Dulles, weak
ened by pneumonia in his fight
against cncer.
The former Secretary of State’s
sister, Eleanor Dulles, returned to
Washington Sunday night because
she felt “I should be nearer home
at this time.” Mrs. Dulle had been
in Berlin representing the State
Department at the 10th anniver
sary of the lifting of the Berlin
blockade. _
The State Department said Sat
urday that Dulles had developed
a mild case of pneumonia, but his
temperature had returned to nor
mal after treatment.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
New York 6-3, Washington 3-2.
Boston 3-5, Baltimore 2-1.
Detroit 7, Kansas City 6
Chicago 5-5, Cleveland 4-0.
National League
Philadelphia 6-4, Pittsburgh 3-6.
Los Angeles 3, San Francisco 2.
Milwaukee 12-2, Cincinnati 4-1.
Chicago 10:7, St. Louis 9-8.
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 4-9, Phoenix 1-0.
Portland 2, Salt Lake City 1.
Spokane 9-4, Sacramento 2-10.
San Diego 10-2, Seattle 1-2.
JUNEAU, W) — Employment se
curity legislation probably will be
at the top of every “must” list for
action by the second session of the
First State Legislature.
Governor Egan’s veto Saturday
of the 1959 proposal to cure the
state’s ailing jobless insurance
fund appeared likely to move, em
ployment security ahead of all
other items that will face the
lawmakers when they convene in
Juneau next January.
In his veto message, Governor
Egan promised a positive admin
istration proposal to solve the
“long vexing problem” of em
ployment security — a hardy
perennial before Alaska Legisla
tures.
The blossoming of the new em
ployment benefits bill probably
will come ahead of such matters
as local government and borough
legislation, which had been con
sidered ,the major tasks facing the
I960 session.
Egan said today he had not yet
named a committee ■, to work on
the administration proposals to
solve the deficit operation of the
unemployment fund, which has
been paying out two million dol
lars more than it takes in each
year.
The Governor said he had re
ceived no reaction from either
supporters or opponents of the
vetoed bill, as a result of his re
jection of the measure.
The veto was the last action
by the Governor on 209 bills
passed by the first state session.
A total of 200 bills have become
law.
Liquor, Cigarette
Tax Stamp System
Will be Abolished
WASHINGTON, UP) — The gov
ernment) today abandoned its his
toric policy of collecting liquor
and cigarette exise taxes through
the sale of stamps. Starting June
24, the industries will pay the
tax by filing returns twice a
month.
About four billion dollars now
is collected each year through the
sale of such stamps.
The industries have long lobbied
for scrapping of the stamp sys
tem. They complained that large
amounts of working capital were
tied up because they had to buy
the stamps in advance of bottling
or packaging their products.
Under the new system, distillers
and tobacco manufacturers will
file returns twice a month cov
ering shipments during the pre
ceding 15 days. Taxes will be paid
when returns are filed.
Internal Revenue Service offi
cials said details of the procedure
haven’t been worked out yet.
James P. Richards, president of
the Tobacco Institute, Inc., said
the action will save the govern
ment money and lift part of the
industry’s financial burden at the
same time.
“It is estimated that the govern
ment has been spending at least
five million dollars per year in
printing, handling and distributing
the blue stamps so familiar to
tobacco users,” Richards said in a
statement. “This will no longer be
necessary.”