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Eisenhower ‘Mission of Good Will’ Gets
Warm Welcoming Start In Eternal City
By STAN CARTER
ROME, 1ff\—Ancient Rome gave
President Eisenhower a rainy but
warm welcome today at the start
of his 22,000-mile “mission of
peace and good will.”
Even the Communists, taking a
cue from Soviet Premier Khrush
chev, joined in the welcome with
toanners saying: “Communists of
Rome Salute President Dwight
Eisenhower.”
The American President told
greeters at Rome’s Ciampino Air
port that his message for each
of the 11 countries he visits is
one of friendship and freedom,
and he hopes it “will be heard in
every country where communica
tions are allowed freely.”
Eisenhower expressed pleasure
in landing “in this great city
which was for so long the very
center of all Western civilization.”
Relatives Clasping Hands
He said he was glad to come
to Italy, too, because of the “ties
of blood which, unite our two coun
tries.” He noted that millions of
Americans sprang from Italian
origins, “so our friendship is not
merely official, but comes from
the people, from relatives clasp
ing hands across the sea.”
The President said he looked
forward with eagerness to his
Ike’s Message to
Host Nations is
‘Peace in Freedom’
By JOE KANE
WASHINGTON, (#>—America’s
real message to the world, says
President Eisenhower, is “peace
and friendship, in freedom.”
The President talked on that
theme last night in a televised ad
dress to the nation just before
leaving on a three-week trip that
will take him half way around the
world.
He described his trip as a mis
sion of peace and good will.
He also renewed his appeal for
an end to the steel strike, and
said efforts to sustain the peace
depend on a healthy economy.
He spoke of “a peaceful bar
rier, erected by freedom” in plug
ging for mutual security or for
eign aid spending.
The President spoke from his
White House office.
“I shall try to convey to every
one our earnestness in striving to
reduce the tensions dividing man
kind — an effort first requiring,
as indeed Mr. Khrushchev agrees,
the beginning of mutual disarma
ment,” he said. “Of course, I will
stress that the first requirement
for mutual disarmament is mutual
verification.”
Eisenhower said “I hope to
make this truth clear — that, on
all this earth, not anywhere does
our nation seek territory, selfish
gain or unfair advantage for it
self. I hope all can understand
that beyond her shores, as at
home, America aspires only to
promote human happiness, justly
achieved.”
talks here with President Gronchi,
Premier Segni and other Italian
leaders concerning his search for
“peace with justice” in the world.
Rome’s Mayor Urbano Cioccetti
assured Eisenhower that the Ital
ian capitol “looks at you with pro
found sympathy and will follow
with very warm hopes the
delicate and generous mission that
you have undertaken, following
the impulse of your spirit.”
A heavy overcast and the rain
resulted in a 20-minute delay in
landing.
Whije Italian government offi
cials watched anxiously, the big
jet swung down to a perfect land
ing, sending up a cloud of spray
from puddles on the field.
Eisenhower emerged smiling,
bareheaded but looking a little
tired from the tripv for his fifth
visit to Rome.
The spectators applauded heart
ily as the President arrived and
at the conclusion of the transla
tion of his remarks. Outside the
airport, another crowd cheered in
the rain as the two Presidents
drove off for the trip into Rome
over the 2,000-year-old Appian
Way.
Despite the rain, small crowds,
of Italians under umbrellas lined
Rome streets to watch the Presi
dent go by on his way to the 400
year-old Quirinal Palace, his res
idence for his two-day stay in
Rome. The weather kept the num
bers of the crowd down, but those
who did turn out cheered lustily.
U.N. Resolution
Congratulates Two
Newest U.S. States
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UR —
The United Nations issued its
formal congratulations yesterday
to the people of Alaska and Ha
waii on having gained Statehood.
A resolution passed by the Gen
eral Assembly’s Trusteeship Com
mittee said the two new states
had freely chosen their present
status and achieved a full measure
of self-government.
The United States has trans
mitted annual reports on condi
tions in Alaska and Hawaii as
non-self-governing territories. The
committee said the reports were
no longer necessary.
The vote on the resolution was
52-0, with 19 abstentions. This as
sures passage by the full Assem
bly.
At the last minute and over
U. S. objections, Liberia succeeded
in inserting a paragraph restating
the U.N. principle that the As
sembly is supposed to be the judge
of whether territories become
genuinely self-governing.
As a result, a number of Euro
pean nations abstained on the res
olution after expressing regret
they could not join in “voting for
our friends” as Sir Andrew Cohen
of Britain put it. The United
States voted for the resolution de
spite the amendment.
Herter Promises
Serious Study of
Bering Strait Dam
JUNEAU, UPi — Governor Egan
said today an “immediate and
thorough study” of a proposal 'by
a Russian engineer to bridge the
Bering Sea Strait with a floating
dam has been promised by Sec
retary of State Herter.
Egan said he had received a
letter from the Secretary saying
the study would be made by
“appropriate offices of the De
partment of State ... in consul
tation with other interested agen
cies of the government.”
Herter’s letter was in reply to
one written to the Secretary last
month by Egan, soon after the So
viet news agency Tass had re
ported the proposal by a Moscow
engineer named Borisov.
In an article in the Soviet Lit
erary Gazette, Tass reported, Bor
isov said the dam might change
the climate of the Arctic and open
frozen tundra to development and
warm the northern seas.
Egan asked for a State Depart
ment study of the project, giving
“consideration to exploring the in
ternational benefits to accrue from
a joint study of the feasibility and
merit” of such a dam.
Herter, in his reply to the Gov
ernor, said the project “not only
has a number of points of great
interest to us, but also would in
volve many complex problems
which I would like to have time
to study rather carefully.”
Monkey Sam Rides
Space Capsule in
NASA Escape Test
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
United States today sent a monkey
— nicknamed Sam — aloft 55
miles in a space capsule such as
will be used for later attempts
to put a man in space.
The capsule, released from its
rocket, parachuted into the Atlan
tic Ocean about 200 miles offshore.
A Navy plane spotted it there
and a destroyer was speeding to
recover it.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said the
main purpose was to test at high
altitude an emergency device for
separating the capsule from the
rocket.
It said the separating device —
called an escape rocket — fired
when the booster rocket was at
an altitude of 150,000 feet.
The capsule coasted on upward
to a height of 55 miles.
When the capsule had de
scended to an altitude of 20,000
feet, a small parachute opened
to stabilize its descent.
At 10,000 feet, the main para
chute opened and lowered the
capsule into the water.
The agency said radio tele
metry aboard the vehicle func
tioned perfectly.
The monkey weighed seven
pounds and was 30 months old.
It was named Sam for School of
Aviation Medicine.
Alaska Supreme Court Restores ABC
Orders Banning Round-the-Clock Bars
JUNEAU, UP) — Alaska’s contro
versial on-and-off liquor regula
tions were on again today.
State Police throughout Alas
ka began enforcement of the uni
form hours regulation at 3 a.m.,
following a State Supreme Court
ruling yesterday.
The high court ordered the ef
fect of a lower court judgment in
the liquor case “to be null and
void and of no force and effect.”
Thus the court, in its first for
mal action since its appointment
last • July, restored nearly two
dozen regulations adopted by the
State Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board and originally put into ef
fect on November 1.
The Supreme Court actibn came
two weeks after U. S. District
Court at Fairbanks had declared
the new regulations invalid, be
cause the ABC had been improp
erly delegated regulatory author
ity by the Legislature.
The regulations require that all
licensed beverage establishments
in the state close at 3 a.m. on
weekdays and 4 a.m. on holidays.
Before the regulations were
adopted — and during the time
they were declared invalid —
bars and taverns outside of city
6V2 Million Budget for
Alaska Methodist Univ.
Approved for First 4 Years
PORTLAND, — A faculty of
10 instructors and a budget were
approved Thursday for Alaska
Methodist Unversity by commit
tees of the board of trustees who
met Thursday in Portland.
The budget committee consid
ered a budget of 6V£ million dol
lars for the next four years, said
Donald F. Ebright, who is to be
the school’s first president.
Enright said the university will
open in the fall of 1060 in a
$1,200,000 building at Anchorage,
which contains four science lab
oratories, 10 classrooms, 10 staff
offices and a library area.
The liberal arts college, the only
private four-year college in Alas
ka, will have divisions of human
ities, social science and natural
science. ,
The meeting was held here be
cause the Rev. A. Raymond Grant,
Bishop of the Methodist Church’s
Portland area, which encom
passes Alaska, lives here. Bishop
Grant is president of the school’s
board of trustees.
Rosetta Duncan of The
Duncan Sisters, Dies
From Car Crash Injuries
CHICAGO, OR — Rosetta Dun
can, 58, one of the famed Duncan
Sisters, veteran vaudeville com
edy team, died today of injuries
suffered in an automobile acci
dent Tuesday.
Miss Duncan, who suffered frac
tures of both legs, at least 10
ribs and internal injuries, died
in MacNear Hospital in suburban
Rerwyn. She had not regain con
sciousness since the accident.
limits were permitted to operate
on a round-the-clock basis.
The Supreme Court order sus
pended the summary judgment
handed down by District Judge
Vernon Firbes, pending appeal of
the legal points involved in the
case.
The order called for a hearing
on the appeal “accelerated,” and
set next Thursday as the date for
submission of briefs by the State
Attorney General’s Office.
The Alaska Licensed Beverage
Association, which had challenged
the regulations in the initial ac
tion at Fairbanks, was given until
December 18 to file an answering
brief. The state then was given
another five days for the filing of
a reply brief.
Oral arguments in the case
were to be scheduled as soon as
possible after Decembr 23, the
high court said. It appeared likely
a hearing would not be scheduled
until after Christmas.
Hundreds Die as
Dam Gives Out on
French Riviera
FREJUS, France, UPt — Dazed
survivors of the Malpasset Dam
disaster mourned their dead at
funeral services today while
weary rescue teams searched
through muck and debris for more
victims.
Nearly 3,000 persons filled the
square alongside Frejus Hospital
as the Most Rev. Henri Mazerat
gave absolution to the dead. About
135 pine caskets were laid out
in the square, each with a name
chalked on the lid.
Behind the Bishop in a hospital
corridor were 40 other caskets —
the unidentified dead. On one cas
ket was scrawled, in chalk: “(Little
Girl, Wearing a Red Dress.”
Frejus officials said the count
of dead had reached 199, includ
ing 53 children, with about 100
persons missing. Some of the lat
ter were beginning to turn up.
About 65 were injured. Some 30
were still .hospitalized.
The mass funeral was asked
by officials in an effort to clear
crowded hospitals — where
shrouded bodies lined the corri
dors — and make room for the
living.
Helicopters, ambulances and
some 5,000 troops fanned out over
the four-mile-long Reyran River
Valley, where the Malpasset Dam
crumbled Wednesday night, send
ing a racing wall of water through
"the low country to the Mediter
ranean.
Officials still could find no ex
planation for the break in the
185-foot-high steel and concrete
dam that unleashed nearly 10 bil
lion gallons (or 49 million cubic
meters) of water on the sleeping
valley below. The dam’s desig
nated holding capacity was 52
million cubic meters.
The buildup of water resulted
from five days of steady rain.
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