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VOL. LXII No. 75 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1960_Per Copy 151
President Plans
Reply to Red China
‘Failure* Taunts
HONOLULU, liW — President
Eisenhower was reported today to
be planning to hit back at Red
China claims that his Far Eas
ern tour was an ignominious
failure.
The President’s rebuttal and a
contention that much good was
accomplished despite cancella
tion of his visit to Japan will
come, it was understood, when he
reports to the American people
next week.
Eisenhower will make a nation
w i d e television-radio address
within a few days after returning
to Washington. Present indica
tions are he will arrive there Sat
urday or Sunday.
Announcement of the Presi
dent’s plans to go on the air was
made by White House Secretary
Hagerty as Eisenhower, who ar
rived in Hawaii from the Orient
Monday, continued to relax in
glorious weather.
The President talked over his
Far Eastern journey by telephone
Tuesday with Secretary of State
Herter in Washington.
After the 25-minute conversa
tion, Hagerty reported that both
Eisenhower and Herter feel that
the President’s visit to the Phil
ippines, Nationalist China and
Korea were completely successful.
Even as the President made
plans for a TV-radio report after
returning to Washington, the Red
China radio was denouncing the
whole Eisenhower journey as an
ignominious failure.
U. S. Nazi Party
Chief Mobbed In
Downtown N. Y.
NEW YORK, Oft — Mayor Rob
ert Wagner refused today to per
mit the American Nazi party to
hold a rally in Union Square.
The Mayor called George L.
Rockwell, the party’s head, a
“preacher of race hatred.”
He said he had been informed
that it was Rockwell’s intention
to “incite a riot.”
Earlier, Rockwell was nearly
mobbed outside a state supreme
court building. Police had to be
called to protect him from angry
civic and war veterans groups
and spectators.
The disturbance began when
Rockwell emerged from a court
room where a hearing was being
held to bar the American Nazi
Party from holding a rally in
Union Square Park on July 4.
He was being interviewed by
a television commentator when
about 150 pebple raised a cry of
“Throw him out.”
Tempers flared and there were
shouts of "You want to gas all
Jews” as Rockwell suddenly be
came the center of a milling
crowd.
National Guard’s Top
Brass Will Gather in Nome
For August Convention
Col. Charles Casper, U. S. Prop
erty and Fiscal Officer, and Presi
dent of the Alaska National Guard
Assn., gave the members of the
Chamber of Commerce a preview
on what is going to take place
here in August when 26 generals
and their staffs from all over the
50 states will hold their conven
tion here.
The objective of the meeting,
stated Casper, is to educate and
orient more people in high places
about the problems of Alaska,
which are uniquely different
from those of any other state.
Those in the Pentagon, he stated,
don’t understand the transporta
tion problem in this vast new
state, or what a complete lack of
road system means in defense.
Casper expressed pride in the
work of the 1st Scout Battalion
and the important part they play
in defense, and how much more
should be done to support them
along the northern coastline of
North America.
Before arriving here the high
ranking officers will be given a
72-hour briefing on the problems
and what to observe. While they
are here, side trips are planned, to
take them in all directions and
up and down the coast, and out
1 on the Bering Sea. They will ob
serve the work of the 1st Scout
troopers, and study local crafts
and arts. After the meeting here
they will travel north to Barrow,
down to Anchorage, and finally
to Juneau headquarters. By then
they will have experienced air
travel in Alaska, and know what
distances mean to the people in
the 49th State.
The convention is headed by
; Maj. Gen. Wm. Harrison of Mas
i sachusetts.
I NWA Chamber President Pearse
Walsh pledged co-operation on the
part of the Chamber in making
this convention a most successful
and memorable one.
Capt. J. O’Rourke is in charge
of arrangements here for the
affair.
Brinks Robber Freed
BOSTON. OP)—Joseph J. (Specs)
O'Keefe, 51, who helped master
mind the $1,219,000 Brinks rob
bery, was declared a free man in
Superior Court today — so far as
the Commonwealth of Massachu
setts is concerned.
The dapper convict who has
spent nine of the last 10 years
in jail, was given two concurrent
terms of three to four years in jail
for his role in the nation’s biggest
cash robbery. However, Judge
Felix Forte found O’Keefe already
j had served more time than that
and directed his discharge,
j Dist. Atty. Garrett H. Byrne
told Judge Forte — who presided
at the Brink’s trial — it was his
belief O’Keefe should not serve
one more day in prison.
Federal, state and local law en
forcers freely admit the Brinks
robbery Jan. 17, 1950, might not
have been solved without
O’Keefe’s help.
Kennedy Party
Here Friday
.JUNEAU, —A two-man vote
seeking team from the camp of
Sen. John Kennedy is scheduled
to make a whirlwind tour of
Alaska Thursday and Friday, one
of Alaska’s delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention dis
closed last night.
Felix Toner of .Juneau, a for
mer Democratic State Chairman
and a Kennedy booster, said the
Democratic Presidential candi
date’s younger brother, Edward
M. Kennedy, and administrative
assistant, Ted Sorenson, were due
in Anchorage early Thursday.
Kennedy and Sorenson are
scheduled to fly from Anchorage
to Juneau Thursday morning.
They will meet with Juneau dele
gates to the National Convention
for some two hours, then return
to Anchorage.
Meetings with Anchorage area
delegates are scheduled Thurs
day night. The Kennedy-Sorenson
team then plans to fly to Nome
and to Fairbanks Friday, leaving
the state for Seattle Friday night,
Toner said.
Toner said he believed the Ken
nedy team planned to see all of
the state’s 18 Democratic conven
tion delegates with the exception
of Frank Peratrovich, Klawock;
Pat Gilmore, Ketchikan; U. S.
Senators Bartlett and Gruening,
and State Sen. William Beltz,
Unalakleet, who is ill in the U. S.
Public Health Service Hospital,
Anchorage.
Budget Director
Warns Congress to Lay
Off Big Spending
WASHINGTON, UP) — Maurice
Stans, the man who counts the
billions in the nation’s budget, has
pleaded with Congress to lay off
big spending programs.
President Eisenhower’s 1961
budget, said Budget Director Stans
Tuesday is in “acute jeopardy” of
becoming unbalanced.
If all or most of the measures
now pending in Congress are en
acted, Stans said, “they will shat
ter the hopes of millions of tax
payers that in due time there
might be tax reduction and re
form, while meeting our solemn
obligation to reduce the stagger
ing 290-billion-dollar public debt.”
Stans made his plea in a letter
to Rep. John Taber of New York,
ranking Republican of the House
Ways and Means Committee. Its
release seemed timed for max
imum effect as Congress jostled
into the final weeks before ad
journment.
MAMIE'S BACK IN TOWN
WASHINGTON, IP) — Mamie
Eisenhower is back in the White
House after three weeks in Wal
ter Reed Army Hospital with an
attack of acute asthmatic bron
chitis.
She had entered the hospital
on May 31. A White House press
secretary said after her return
home Tuesday that Mrs. Eisen
hower was feeling much better.
NLRB Orders Nome
Longshoreman Election
For June 28-29
SEATTLE, Ufi — The National
Labor Relations Board has sched
uled an election June 28 and 29
to determine collective bargain
ing rights for 75 longshoremen
in Nome,
The longshoremen will vote on
whether to be represented by the
Marine Staff Officers, Office and
Allied Personnel of the Seafarers’
International Union.
James O. Willoughby of Seattle,
international representative of the
union, arranged for the election
and has been directing organizing
efforts.
August Primary Ballots
En Route to Polling Places
JUNEAU, UP — Official bal
lots for the August 9 primary
election are scheduled to be
mailed to all election district su
pervisors this week, Secretary of
State Hugh Wade said today.
Wade said the official ballots,
printed in shops around the
state, should be in the hands of
election supervisors by Friday.
90-2 Senate Vote
Accepts Treaty
WASHINGTON. UD — The Sen
ate today ratified the U. S.-Jap
anese Security Treaty by an over
whelming 90-to 2 vote.
With the Senate proposal, all
that is left to bring the 10-year pa
that is left to bring the 10-year
pact into force is the formal ex
change of ratification documents.
Japan’s ratification became ef
fective last Sunday.
The U. S. instruments of rati
ficaion will be flown to Hawaii
for President Eisenhower’s signa
ture. From there, they will be
taken to Tokyo for the exchange.
Japanese leftists, whose rioting
led to cancellation of Eisenhow
er’s visit to Japan, have threat
ened to blockade U. S. Ambassa
dor Douglas MacArthur II and
Foreign Minister Fujiyama in
their homes to prevent them from
making the exchange of docu
ments.
Today’s Senate vote came after
a flurry of speechmaking sharply
critical of the Administration.
Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas,
the Democratic leader, said the
treaty itself is in the “best in
terests” of the United States,
Japan and the entire free world,
but said the United States must
shore up free countries with ‘‘a j
really massive offensive for]
peace.”
Sen. Russell Long ID-La', lead
ing a group of southern senators
in opposition to the pact, at
tacked what he called its lopsided
provisions in favor of Japan.
“We give much and gain noth
ing we do not already have,” he
contended.
Long protested that the treaty
binds the United States to de
fend Japan without Japan's being
obliged to defend this country
outside of Japanese soil. ,
First Doubleheader
Pul Into Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL. UP — A
spectacular space “first,” rammed
two satellites into orbit with a
single rocket today.
The doubleheader rocket that
turned the trick was a two-sage
Thor-Able-Star, an Air Force ve
hicle making only its second flight.
The second stage fired for
about four minutes, shut off and
coasted for 20 minutes, then re
ignited for 13 seconds to kick the
satellites into orbit.
The two new moonlets flashing
the skies are Transit II-A, a sec
ond experimental navigation aid
satellite, and a basket-ball-sized
aluminum sphere crammed with
instruments to measure solar ra
diation.
The latter is called a “piggy
back” satellite because it hitch
hiked a ride aboard the larger
Transit payload.
Transit II-A is a 36-inch ball
weighing 223 pounds. The tinier
42-pound package, looking much
like a sea diver’s helmet, was
clamped to it until a spring de
vice separated the pair in orbit.
America tried once before, with
a Vanguard rocket, to fire a pair
of satellites into orbit simultan
eously, but failed. As far as is
known, the Soviet Union has not
attempted such a feat.
Confirmation of orbit came 1 Vz
i hours after launch when the sat
I ellite duo — the smaller leading
the way — passed over a Seattle
station on their first globe-cir
cling passes.
M&M Bank Granted
Conditional Charter to
Operate Kotzebue Branch
JUNEAU, UP> — A conditional
charter to operate a full-time
branch at Kotzebue has been,
granted to the Miners and Mer
chants Bank of Nome, Commis
sioner of Commerce A. H. Ro
mick said today.
Romick said the Miners and
Merchants Bank had served Kot
zebue with a part-time facility
for some time, and now believes
a full-time branch is needed
there.
School Aid Bill Stands
Slim Chance in Congress
WASHINGTON, UP*—'The House
Rules Committee today dealt a
near-fatal blow to any chance for
enactment of a federal school aid
bill in this session of Congress.
By a 7-5 vote it refused to per
mit a conference to iron out dis
agreements between House and
Senate versions of the legislation.
Unless the committee changes
its stand, any possibility for final
passage of a school aid measure
seems remote.
The House bill calls for 325 mil
lion dollars a year for four years.
The money is to be used only for
school construction.
The Senate bill is a two-year
$1,800,000,000 measure giving the
states the option of using the
money for teachers salaries as
well as construction.
Democratic Meeting Tonight
CIYT HALL--8 P.M. - FOR DELEGATES AND ALL INTERESTED DEMOCRATS.