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GOV. EGAN APPROVES
NOME TO BE SITE OF
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
JUNEAU iyp — Gov. Egan’s of
fice said today that he had given
his approval to the State Board
of Education’s recommendation
that Nome be the site of the
State’s new Vocational Education
School.
Construction of the school
through the issuance of $1.5 mil
lion in general obligation bonds
was approved by the voters last
fall and the Legislature this year
approved a bill implementing the
vote.
Under the terms of the bond
proposal, the school has to be
constructed at a site north of the
Yukon River.
The size of the school and the
construction schedule, Egan’s of
fice said, will be determined after
the state consults with the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs about the
possibility of the BIA joining in
building the new institution.
Rock TV Roll
Beach Party Ends
In a Wild Brawl
SANTA MONICA, Calif. UP» —
A wild brawl ended a Saturday
night beach party, planned for a
few thousand rock ’n’ roll fans,
at which more than 25,000 showed
up.
One girl was raped, another
was beaten to the sand and stomp
ed by rioters, and a third suffer
ed a serious eye injury when a
firecracker was thrown in her
face.
Fifty sheriff’s officers and high
way patrolmen braved a barrage
of rocks, beer bottles and cans
to break up the mob. Fourteen
youths were arrested.
Rioting members of the vast
throng ripped plumbing out of
public rest rooms and tore parts
off lifeguard towers to build
giant bonfires. Singer Fabian,
who was to entertain the party,
refused to go on when it began
to get out of control.
A Los Angeles radio station,
planned the party at Zuma Beach,
a county facility 20 miles north
of here. The violence began as
the formal party ended at 11:15
p. m.
“It was a milling, drinking, ugly
crowd of 25,000 to 30,000 young
people on the beach in the dark,”
said Capt. Kirby Temple of the
County Lifeguard Service.
“They were fighting, shouting,
grabbing girls, and tearing each
others’ clothes. You name it anl
they did it.”
Law officers blamed the trouble
on drinking. There was no race
problem, they said. Most of the
youths arrested were charged
with drunkeness, bringing alco
hol into a county park or juvenile
possession of alcohol.
OLD AGE HAS
ITS ADVANTAGES
LAWRENCE, Kan. UP) —- Old
age has its advantages, says John
Ise, Professor Emeritus of Econ
omics at the University of Kansas.
Addressing members of the
Golden Medal Club, made up of
alumni who graduated at least 50
years ago from the university, Ise
said Sunday: “We can read the
confession magazines and the
scandalous books. We're beyond
corruption. And if we are disil
lusioned we can read the Bible—
like cramming for finals.”
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Communist
Party Must Disclose Its Membership
WASHINGTON W — The U. S.
Supreme Court, dividing sharply
5-4, today crowned with success
the government’s 10-year fight to
compel the Communist party to
register and disclose its mem
bership and finances.
Writing the majority opinion
upholding the government drive
to force the party to register as
an arm of the Soviet Union, Jus
tice Frankfurter scoffed at the
party’s arguments that its rights
under the Constitution’s First
Amendment were being abridged.
If the high court agreed, he
said, it would “make a travesty
of that amendment and the great
ends for the well-being of our
democracy that it serves.”
The First Amendment guaran
tees freedom of speech and the
right of peaceable assembly.
Frankfurter stressed that there
was no attempt by the court ma
jority “to impose stifling obliga
tions upon the proponents of a
particular political ideas from
abroad for propagation here.
“The act compels the registra
tion of organized groups which
have been made the instruments
of a long-continued, systematic,
disciplined activity directed by a
foreign power and purposing to
overthrow existing government in
this country.”
One of the dissenters, Justice
Black, said if he had his way he
would leave the Communists free
to advocate proletarian dictator
ship, in full confidence Ameri
cans will remain loyal to demo
cratic government “truly dedi
cated to freedom and justice.”
Justice Frankfurter delivered
today’s 5-4 ruling.
Under the registration law the
party can be compelled to divulge
its membership lists and finances
and label its literature as Com
munist propaganda.
Justice Frankfurter’s majority
opinion ran 112 printed pages.
He concluded with this sen
tence: “The Constitution does not
prohibit the requirement that the
Communist party register with
Trujillo’s Assassin
Shot Down by Police
By E. L. Almen
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini
can Republic 07* — Soldiers and
police shot down retired Gen.
Juan Tomas Diaz, the accused
chief assassin of Dictator Rafael
Trujillo, in a gun battle Sunday
night in the heart of this city.
An alleged accomplice was slain
with him.
Diaz, 52, was ripped by ma
chinegun fire and died on the
street. His companion, Antonio De
La Maza, died soon after in a
military hospital.
The two had been trying to
find refuge in the neighborhood
when a house-to-house search
squad of 100 men, acting on a
tip, came upon them.
Authorities said De La Maza
was carrying a gun that Generalis
simo Trujillo had with him dur
ing his fatal ambush last Tuesday
night on a road outside the capital.
Diaz had been a friend of Tru
jillo during much of the slain
dictator’s 31 years of power. Gen.
Rafael L. Trujillo Jr., who took
over as armed forces chief when
his father died, said Diaz led the
assassination plot because of his
forced retirement from the Do
minican army had made him
bitter.
the Attorney General as a Com
munist-action organization.”
Chief Justice Warren and Jus
tices Douglas and Black wrote
dissenting opinions. Justice Bren
nan wrote a separate opinion dis
senting in part.
Warren’s dissent, covering 22
printed pages, gave reasons why
he felt the law constitutes a viola
tion of the Constitution’s 5th
Amendment ban against self in
crimination.
Canadian Airliner Lands
Safely at Cold Bay After
Having Engine Trouble
JUNEAU GP> — A four-engined
Canadian Pacific Airlines plane
carrying 101 persons landed safe
ly at Cold Bay, Alaska, early to
day after one of its engines conked
out high over the stormy Gulf
of Alaska.
The Canadian Pacific Brittania
i requested an air intercept before
the landing, reporting that its No
1 engines had been feathered and
1 that a fire had broken out.
The airliner radioed that it wa:
descending to 10,000 feet in ar
I attempt to extinguish the blaze
1 A Coa9t Guard aircraft was dis
patched from Kodiak to intercep'
| the airliner.
Shortly thereafter, the Colt
Bay radar station made contac
i with the Canadian aircraft and i
reported the fire was out. Th<
landing at Cold Bay was made
without incident.
Cold Bay is a refueling stop or
the Great Circle Route from the
United States to the Orient. It is
j located 650 miles southwest of
; Anchorage, at the extreme tip of
| the Alaska Peninsula.
A & P Food Store
Executive Shot to Death
By 14-Year-Old Son
MILLBURN, N. J. UPi — Robert
Woodruff Besch Sr., 42, A & P
Food Store chain executive, was
shot to death in a struggle with
his 14-year-old son after he
smashed into the locked room of
the despondent youth, police said
Saturday.
The tall, shaking boy, Robert
Jr., armed with two pistols, later
stood off police in the living room
of the luxurious home, threatened
to take his own life, and finally
surrendered to an unarmed de
tective.
The boy was taken to Millburn
police headquarters for ques
tioning and later transferred to
the Essex County Youth House
at Newark. Police said he had
been undergoing psychiatric treat
ment for about a year.
The father was the husband of
the former Minnie Wrightson
great-granddaughter of George
Huntington Hartford, founder of
the A & P chain. She inherited
stock valued at $17.5 million in
the vast chain store operation.
CFA Advances $5,000 to
Wrangell for Harbor Project
JUNEAU (ffi — The Community
Facilities Administration has ap
proved a $5,000 advance to Wran
gell for preliminary planning of
a harbor project to cost $160,000,
the Alaska Congressional Dele
gation said today.
The federal advance will be re
payable when construction starts,
during the summer of 1962 under
current plans.
Nikita Sticks to
His Anti-Western
Policies at V ienna
VIENNA — Premier Khrush
chev stuck to the hard lines of
his anti-Western policies during
his talks with President Kennedy.
But U. S. officials hope that as
a result of the Vienna conference,
the Soviet leader may yet modify
his course.
Kennedy is reported to have
told the Soviet leader emphati
cally that if he forces a show
down over West Berlin, the allied
powers will defend the city. He
warned Khrushchev against mis
calculating Western intentions.
More broadly Kennedy sought
to get across to the Soviet leader
that in spite of the recent set
backs in Laos and Cuba, the Unit
ed .States intends to fulfill its de
fense commitments to other na
tions around the world. The Presi
dent left Vienna last night nour
ishing the hope that Khrushchev
will weigh his words seriously.
Khrushchev left Vienna this
morning by plane for Moscow,
saying as he departed he hoped
his talks with Kennedy would
, help achieve Russia’s aim of end
ing the cold war through under
standing and cooperation.
The breakup of the informal
. summit meeting left without an
swer this overriding question:
^ What kind of an impact did the
t 44-year-old Kennedy, a new
. comer to bigtime diplomacy,
[ make on the veteran, tough-mind
’ ed 66-year-old Khrushchev?
The answer probably will de
velop in coming weeks not only
in what Khrushchev says about
the meeting with Kennedy but
also in what he actually does
about such crisis issues as Laos,
Berlin and disarmament negotia
tions.
Kennedy wras reported to be en
couraged by the fact that Khrush
chev discussed his aims for Ber
lin without trying to impress
the President with their urgency.
He did not give any “ultimatum,”
it was said, about withdrawal of
U. S., British and French forces
from the city by a specific date.
Nevertheless, Khrushchev has
indicated he will make a separate
peace treaty with Communist East |
Germany late this year. The j
treaty, presumably would recog
nize East Germany sovereignty
over supply lines from West Ger
many to the city which is 110
miles inside East Germany. If the
East Germans tried to enforce
their treaty rights to control allied
military traffic, a shooting war
could result.
Whether in the end the So
viet leader will go through with
his peace treaty plan and risk
touching off a nuclear conflict is
still not certain, in the judgment
of well-informed Western diplo
mats. The hope obviously is that
despite his stated intentions he
will in the end avoid a showdown.
JFK PLAYS GODFATHER
LONDON t/P) — President Ken
nedy put aside the affairs of state
this afternoon to play godfather
at the christening of his niece,
Anna Christina Radziwill.
The baby is the daughter of
Princess Lee Radziwill, Mrs. Ken
nedy’s younger sister.
Princess Radziwill and her
Polish-born huband, Prince Rad
ziwill, looked on with smiling
approval.
The baptismal party reached the i
Roman Catholic Cathedral through j
crowded streets.
JFK and MacMillan
See Eye to Eye In
Common Policies
By Arthur L. Gavshon
LONDON (/'PI — President Ken
nedy and Prime Minister Harold
MacMillan today weighed West
ern strategy in the wake of the
Vienna conference, and announced
they see eye to eye in pursuing
common policies throughout the
world.
Kennedy at the same time was
beginning to shape up a half half
hour report he will make to the
people of the United States Tues
day night by radio and televi
sion.
Today the President met for
four hours with MacMillan, at
lunch and in private conversa
tion. This was the windup of a
sort of four-power summit con
ference by stages. First Kennedy
| spent three days with President
De Gaulle in Paris, then he was
with Soviet Premier Khrushchev
for two days’ conversations in
Vienna. That meeting ended Sun
day night with a statement rais
j ing hopes of peace in Laos but
' reporting little concrete progress
1 in other areas.
A statement issued after the
conference said the two leaders
noted with satisfaction the Vien
| na agreement for an effective
cease-fire in Laos. They express
1 ed belief this should lead to pro
gress at the 14-nation Geneva
1 conference on Laos, but such pro
' gress was not evident in today’s
meeting at Geneva. Communist
| delegates there continued to brush
! aside any talk of cease-fire viola
! tions by the Communist side.
Kennedy and MacMillan also
announced “full agreement on the
necessity of maintaining the rights
and obligations” of the American,
British and French governments
in Berlin. This was one of the
major issues discussed in Vienna
by the President and the Soviet
Premier.
The nub of the President’s re
port to MacMillan, diplomats
said, amounted to this: “The
Vienna exchanges produced bet
ter understanding of the rival po
sitions — but no firm agreement
beyond a decision to keep on talk
ing.”
First Gas Line Laid
Across Turnagain Arm
ANCHORAGE UPV—'The first of
two 12-inch submarine pipelines
across Turnagain Arm was suc
cessfully completed during the
weekend, Ken Shepard, vice pre
sident of Alaska Pipeline Co., an
nounced today.
The buried line, which ■will de
liver natural gas from the Kenai
Peninsula to Anchorage, is now
being connected to that portion
of the transmission lire installed
last year on the tidal flats at
Potter, on the Anchorage side of
the waterway.
Shepard said a pipelaying barge
began work about the middle of
May after being towed here from
New Orleans through the Panama
Canal. The barge quickly proved
itself capable of operating under
the adverse conditions of Turn
again Ann by successfully cross
ing two deep channels on the
west side of the waterway.
The barge will also lay the sec
ond line from the Burnt Island
terminus of the crossing route,
Shepard said.