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VOL. LXI No. 22 NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1959 _Per Copy— 15<g
Eisenhower Meets
With President
Of Mexico
ACAPULCO, Mexico, (TP—Pres
ident Eisenhower flew into this
tropical resort yesterday to -begin
two days of talks with Mexico’s
President Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
The 49-year-old Mexican leader
led a big delegation of government
officials who gathered at the gaily
bedecked airport to welcome
Eisenhower.
Thousands of excited Mexicans
lined the streets of Acapulco to
join in the greeting.
The President flew here in his
personal plane, the Columbine III,
after -an overnight stop in Texas.
With the Mexican President
were U. S. Ambassador Robert C.
Hill and Mexico’s foreign minis
ter, Manuel Tello.
Accompanying Eisenhower were
his brother, Milton Eisenhower, a
White House adviser on inter
American affairs, and Roy H. Ru
bottom, assistant Secretary of
State for Latin American Rela
tions.
The President took 3 hours, 37
minutes for the flight here from
Bergstrom Air Force Base at Aus
tin, Tex.
After greeting one another, the
two Presidents reviewed a mili
tary guard of honor composed of
Mexico’s Presidential guards.
Then they left for Eisenhower’s
Acapulco “White House,” the lush
Pierre Marques Hotel.
It was the fourth visit of an
American President to Mexico.
Before Eisenhower came Presi
dents Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Truman.
Posters along the route from the
airport to the center of town fea
tured the Mexican and American
flags entwined.
Beck Behind Bars;
Found Guilty On
All Six Counts
TACOMA, {&) — Convicted of
cheating on his income tax, mil
lionaire labor leader Dave Beck
Sr., 64. spent time behind bars for
the first time in his life last night.
The former president of the huge
Teamsters Union was found guilty
on all four counts of income tax
evasion — covering $240,067 for
the years 1950-53 — and two
counts of filing false returns. He
could receive up to a five-year
sentence and a $10,000 fine on
each cunt.
U. S. District Judge George
Boldt, who set sentencing for Feb
ruary 27, was to hold an appeal
bond hearing in Seattle today.
Beck’s lawyers said the verdict
would be appealed ‘‘all the way.”
The one-tim laundry truck driv
er, who prided himself on not
smoking or drinking, appeared
more shaken at having to spend
the night in jail than by the
verdict.
The portly Beck, nattily clad in
a blue suit and polka-dot tie,
gripped the edge of a table but
showed little emotion as the clerk
drawled “guilty” six times yester
day afternoon. Later he was heard
to remark to a friend he just
couldn’t understand why he had
to remain in jail.
When found guilty, his $25,000
bail was revoked.
His quarters in the federal sec
tion of the city jail were a world
apart from his lavish home in the
so-called “Beck Compound” on the
shores of Lake Washington in
Seattle.
Cut In Governor
Pay Recommended
JUNEAU, iff) — The Senate Fi
nance Committee recommended
yesterday the Governor’s salary
be cut to $23,000 and the pay of
the Secretary of State be increased
to $18,000.
A bill which has already passed
the House set the Governor’s an
nual salary at $24,000 and the
Secretary of State’s at $17,500.
The committee said it advocated
the reduction in the Governor’s
pay in order to escape the placing
of the chief executive into a high
er income tax bracket.
Governor William A. Egan and
Secretary of State Hugh J. Wade
now acting Governor in Egan’s
absence, have been without sal
ary since they took office on
l January 3.
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— LATE BULLETIN —
JUNEAU, —The Senate voted
today to up the proposed pay of
Alaska’s Governor to $25,000.
The Senate voted 12-7 to amend
the House-approved bill to tack
an additional $1,000 a year on the
pay of the Governor.
By the same vote, the Senate
gave final passage to amend the
bill. It went to the House for ac
ceptance or rejection of the Sen
ate amendment, with action ex
pected on that later today.
The same Senate amendment
would raise the annual salary of
Secretary of State to $20,000 a
year, $2,500 above that approved
by the House.
STORES CLOSED MONDAY
Business houses. Stale and
Federal offices, including the
Postoffice, will be closed on
Monday, as an observance of
the birthday of George Wash
ington, which falls on Sunday,
February 22.
Treasury Dept.
Opposes Free
Gold Measure
WASHINGTON, CSn—'The Treas
| ury Department has told a Con
j gresional committee it is opposed
| to a bill to permit the sale of gold
j on the free market.
It said the bill would have the
“effect of creating variable prices
for gold in terms of the dollar in
domestic and foreign markets.”
The Department’s opposition
was contained in a letter by Laur
ence B. Robbins, acting Treasury
Secretary, to the Senate Banking
Committee in reporting on a bill
introduced by Senator Bob Bart
lett.
Robbins’ report indicated the
department also will oppose a sec
ond bill, introduced by Bartlett
and Senator James E. Murray (D
Mont) and others, to raise the
price of gold from S35 to $70 a
fine ounce.
“Our goals of economic stability
and sound money,” he said, “re
quire a continuation of our policy
of maintenance of the price of
gold at $35 an ounce.”
Robbins said the open market
proposal would in effect create a
free market for newly mined and
imported gold, and permit unre
stricted exports.
This, he said, would result in a
second unofficial price for gold
which would fluctuate from the
official government price in rela
tion to the demand.
In addition to the domestic
need or a fixed price on gold, Rob
bins noted that foreign nations
also have “come to rely on the
dollar as a strong and secure cur
rency firmly fixed in value fixed
in gold.”
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Crowd Of 300 Attends Local Scouting’s j
Annual Blue And Gold Banquet Here!
Honor guests at the annual
Blue and Gold Boy Scout banquet
held last evening at the multi-pur
pose room of the school was Ken
neth Jury, executive from the
Western Council headquarters at
Anchorage.
- Last night’s banquet was served
to more than 300 people and, ac
cording to the Scouts, 800 serv
ings of cake were handed out.
In charge of the preparation of
the dinner were Bob Emmons, Don
Collis, Barrow Morgan, Jim Drake
and Don Billman, who were given
a round of applause for the suc
cess of the undertaking.
Chairman of the Boy Scout
committee, Jim Blanning, intro
duced all adults who were parti
cipating in the program.
In Cub Pack 363 there are now
six dens, headed by the following
den mothers: Mrs. James Blan
ning, Mrs. Douglas Scott, Mrs.
Robert Francis, Mrs. Maurice Kel
liher, Mrs. George Bayer and
Mrs. Roy Conklin. Cubmaster is
Douglas Scott, with Don Collis
as assistant.
The Cub committee is composed
of Robert Francis, James Blan
ning, George Bayer, Maurice Kel
liher and Roy Conklin. Ben
Young is treasurer for the pack,
and Rev. Gerald McCray repre
sents the sponsoring institution,
which is the Community Metho
dist Church.
Cub Pack 245 is newly-formed,
and headed by Father Nevue. Den
mothers are Alice Hudson, Audrey
e>
Rauch, Marie Kookoluk and Marie
Kunuk. Pack committee is Paul
Tiulana, Bob Emmons, Ash Craft
and John Rauch.
Boy Scout Troop 666 has John
Bandy as Scoutmaster, assisted by
Jim Drake. Troop committee is
Wilbur Arnold, Harry Johnson,
Clinton Gray, Everett Bachelder
and F. Richardson. Sponsoring
group is the Rotary Club, with Roy
Snyder as representative.
Boy Scout Troop 663 has Spen
cer Strand as Scoutmaster, with
Ken Anderson as assistant. The
committee is Martin Olsen, Wal
lace Mclver, Thomas Tungwenuk.
This group is sponsored by the
Covenant Church, with Rev. R.
Amundson as representative.
Explorer Post 766 is headed by
Ash Craft as advisor, with Don
Biilman as assistant. Barrow Mor
gan and Roy Snyder are the com
mitteemen.
At the banquet, all groups put
on clever skits, with the Explor
ers giving a demonstration on
emergency packs, and a display
of their canoe which is in the
making.
Mr. Jury gave a talk on the
growth of Scouting i nthe other
states as well as Alaska, showing
how Alaska ranks among the high
est in its development. He brought
greetings from “the biggest town
Alaska to the friendliest town in
Alaska.” He also brought greet
ings from Frances Cook, his sec
retary, who is a former Nome
resident.
Rumors In Poland Stir Demonstrations
Of Would - Be Emigrants to America
By STANLEY JOHNSON t
WARSAW, Poland, UP! — Hun
dreds of Poles seeking to emigrate
to the United States besieged the
American Embassy yesterday. Am
bassador Jacob Beam was impris
oned briefly in his car, which flew
the Stars and Stripes.
It was the third day of demon
strations in which well over 1,000
Poles from Eastern regions border
ing the Soviet Union have poured
into embassy territory.
They were inspired by a false
rumor, currently centered around
the village of Siemiatycze, that the
United States has opened its doors
again to unrestricted immigra
tion.
The rumor has grown to the
point where the story now is that
the United States will pay the
fares and grant land to Poles will
ing to settle in the new State of
Alaska.
Embassy consular staff mem
bers. already swamped, fear it will
spread to other regions of this
Communist nation and regular
Havana Gambling
Casinos Opened
By Castro Govt.
HAVANA, UP) — The click of
roulette wheels and the rattle of
dice came back to Havana yes
terday like a sweet melody — for
foreign tourists and well-to-do
Cubans.
Fidel Castro’s revolutionary re
gime added a little glitter to its
reform program by taking the
padlocks off the doors of the
plush gambling casinos. But poor
er Cubans were still barred from
the tables. The “popular” casinos
where small sums were bet will
stay closed.
The multimillion-dollar industry
that enriched fallen dictator Ful
gencio Batista and many Amer
ican racketeers resumes in 11 big
Havana casinos.
London Smog Is
410 Times Greater
Than Normal’
LONDON, — Britain’s thick
est. longest and foulest-smelling
fog of the season began lifting
slightly yesterday after four days,
but the Air Ministry said it would
be back again shortly as bad as
ever.
Thousands of drivers through
out London and southern England
used the brief relief to pick up
automobiles abandoned earlier
when driving was impossible.
Air pollution experts from St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital said the
fog was accompanied by high pol
lution, that the smog content was
as much as ten times greater than
normal for this time of year.
“It is not yet as bad as the big
smogs of 1952 and 1957, but it’s
still very bad,” a spokesman said.
About 12,000 Britons — many
of them elderly and already ill —
died in the great blackout of 1952.
_ FLASH-! _
ANCHORAGE — Isaac Okleas
ik, Nome entry in the Rendezvous
Dog Race, placed third today in
the first heat. He was 37 seconds
behind the winner.
A total of 25 entries made the
run on the 25-mile course. Prizes
offered for the winning teams
total over $6,000.
5>
embassy business will be para
lyzed.
The area where the would-be
emigrants come from was the site
of a rumor last November that
the Soviet Union was about to
annex that part of Poland.
Winter plowing stopped, peas
ants began to sell their land and
cattle, and blew the proceeds on
vodka orgies.
The Polish government blamed
that rumor on speculators who,
it said, wanted to buy up choice
land there at bargain prices by
spreading panic.
Consular personnel have ex
plained there is no truth to the
new rumor, that only 6,400 Poles
a year will be admitted to live in
the United States and that each
one must have a financial spon
sor.
Libby’s Sell Out
Salmon Canneries
In New State
SEATTLE. UP) — Libby, McNeill
and Libby, Alaska’s second larg
est salmon packers, yesterday sold
all of its canneries in the new state
and announced it no longer will
carry on fishing and processing in
the north.
In what was believed'to be the
largest single sale in the history
of the Alaska salmon industry,
Libby’s transferred its properties
to a new company jointly formed
by Columlaia River Packers Asso
ciation, Inc., and Ward’s Cove
Packing Co., Inc.
The newly created corporation
will be known as C. W. C. Fisher
ies, Inc. *
Libby’s, active in the northern
salmon fishery since 1903, packed
about 9 per cent of the total Alas
ka catch last year. Pacific Amer
ican Fisheries, Inc., at Belling
ham, with about 12 per cent, was
the only company to do a greater
volume.
Although no sales figure was
disclosed, the purchase price prob
ably ranged into many millions of
dollars. Plants in Bristol Bay,
Moser Bay, Kodiak Island, Kenai,
Inlet, Craig, George Inlet and
Petersburg are included in the
sale.
N. Y. Ranking Republican
Congressman, Fighter for
U. S. Tariffs, Dies at 83
WASHINGTON, — Represen
tative Daniel Alden Reed fR-NY)
died yesterday of a heart attack.
The 83-year-old Congressional vet
eran was stricken at Walter Reed
Army Hospital where he had been
under treatment for 15 weeks for
an infected foot.
As ranking Republican and for
; mer chairman of the tax-writing
House Ways and Means Commit
tee, Reed was known best as an
advocate of protective tariffs to
fend off competioion from foreign
goods.
WIEN WILL MAKE
KING ISLAND, DIOMEDE
FLIGHTS TOMORROW
Wien Airlines found it neces
sary to cancel its scheduled trip
to King Island and to Diomede
Island, and are planning to make
the flights tomorrow.
Freight and passengers, as well
as mail, will be carried.