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Eisenhower Honors Iran’s Parliament
For Joining Fight Against Communism
By JOHN SCALI
■ TEHRAN, Iran, UPi — President
Eisenhower lauded Iran today for
refusing to stand on the sidelines
in the free world’s fight against
Communism. Then he said fare
well to Asia and carried his mis
sion of peace and freedom on to
Greece.
It was the longest day of the
President’s three-continent tour,
spanning 3,300 miles between New
Delhi and Athens. It included six
busy hours in the Iranian capitol
and another crowded six hours in
Athens before bedtime tonight.
Eisenhower praised Iran’s brav
ery in the face of a “powerful
propaganda assault” a few hours
after a cheering, flag-waving
throng of 750,000 hailed his ar
rival in Tehran, half-way point on
his 22,000-mile mission of peace
and goodwill.
In an address to a joint session
of Iran’s Parliament, the President
said the people of Iran “continue
to demonstrate that quality of for
titude which has characterized
the long annals of your history
as a nation.”
I know I speak for the Amer
ican people when I say we are
proud to count so valiant a nation
as a partner,” Jke declared.
Eisenhower addressed the Par
liament after a two-hour private
review with Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlevi of problems facing
this American ally on the south
ern doorstep of the Soviet Union.
The President told the legislators
the free world must not abandon
such defense alliances as the
Middle East’s Central Treaty Or
ganization — to which Iran be
longs — until the Soviets agree
to an enforceable world peace.
The President received a stand
ing ovation from Parliament be
fore and after his address. Ap
plause interrupted him only once,
however, while he was speaking
— when he recalled how Iran,
with American support, succeeded
in putting down a Soviet-backed
attempt to set up a Communist
government in northern Azerbai
jan Province in 1947.
The President’s voice was
hoarse, and he cleared his throat
several times while speaking. His
doctor blames the hoarseness on
the frequency with which he has
been speaking.
Russians Said to
Have Lost Man In
Space Flight Try
NURENBERG, Germany, 1#) —
A German space scientist says
he has heard that one Soviet as
tronaut disappeared when the So
viets tried to put him into space,
and believes others have vanished
in similar attempts.
Professor Hermann Oberth was
commenting on reports distributed
by the Italian News Agency Con
tinentale that the Soviet Union
had made four futile attempts to
get a human being into space.
“I know from American intel
ligence reports that one attempt
at the end of 1957 or beginning
of 1958 failed,” said the 66-year
old former member of the U. S.
Army’s missile program at Hunts
ville, Ala. “I believe the Russians
have made several other attempts.”
The Italian news agency story,
published Sunday by British news
papers, said it got its information
from “most reliable sources” in
Prague. It added, however, that
there had been no officiail con
firmation.
A Soviet Embassy spokesman
said in Vienna he knew nothing
about the reports.
Truman Disparages
Merging of War and Navy
Posts Under Defense Dept.
NEW YORK, UP) — Former
President Harry S. Truman says
the merger of War and Navy cab
inet posts under the Secretary of
Defense was “ashotgun wedding
that didn’t take.”
Interviewed Sunday on a taped
__ CBS-TV program, “U. N. In Ac
tion,” Truman recalled that the
War and Navy cabinet posts were
merged after World War II under
the Department of Defense. The
Secretaries of the Army, Navy
and Air Force serve under the
Defense Secretary.
“They’ve got four there now
and they can’t get along,” Truman
commented.
Persians Line Route of
Eisenhower’s Car With
Rich Persian Rugs
TEHRAN, Iran, Of) — President
Eisenhower was astonished to find
his limousine rolling over rich
Persian rugs in the streets of
Tehran today.
Beautiful rugs were placed at
several points along the four-mile
route from the airport to the pal
ace of the Shah. A bit later the
Shah gave Eisenhower a large red
and blue rug — a new one.
“Obviously, you must know
how I love Persian carpets,” the
President said in accepting the
rug. “I was chagrined when I
saw how we were driving over
them today. That is not the way
we treat them in America.”
SOVIETS NOT INTERESTED IN
ABANDONED POLAR PLANE
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, UP)
— The Soviet Union says it is
not interested in the wreck of a
Soviet plane sighted by an Amer
ican patrol flight on an ice floe
12 miles east of Greenland.
Djoern Jonsson, chief of the
North Atlantic Air Control in
Reykjavik, said the Soviet Embas
sy here announced airmen aban
doned a plane of the same type
in the area in the summer of 1955.
Lighting Strikes
American Airlines DC6
PHOENIX, Ariz., Uft — A light
ning bolt nipped the aerial on an
American Airlines DC-6 carrying
50 persons Sunday and the plane
was swapped f<?r another at
Phoenix.
Only radio communications
were damaged, said District Man
ager Milt Atkinson, and passen
gers were unaware the plane had
been hit. He said the big airliner,
bound from San Francisco to El
Paso, Tex., took the shock about
15 minutes out of Phoenix.
The 45 passengers and five
crewmen went aboard another
plane, he said, and continued the
flight which makes a normal
stop at Phoenix.
| $2,500 In Prizes
Offered for Nome’s
Spring Dog Races
The Arctic Club of Nome has
announced the annual dog races
will be rim on April 9 and 10 next
year, with $2,500 in prizes.
The race will be run in two
heats with total time prizes of
$750 for first, $400 for second,
$200 for third, $100 for fourth and
$50 for fifth place.
In addition to the grand prizes
there wilf be prizes for both
day’s races starting with $250 for
first, -$150 for second, and $100
third prize.
Rules and regulations will be
announced soon as they are being
made up by the Seward Penin
sula Dog .Mushers Association,
which is headed by Pete Larsen.
In addition to the race a Dog
Derby Dance will be held and a
Dog Musher’s Queen selected. A
no-host dinner will honor the dog
mushers after the racei
Air, Sea, Rail and
Car Services For
New Alaska Tour
SEATTLE, UD — The Sea Otter,
which has been referred to as “the
biggest little ship ever built,” will
run between Ketchikan and Skag
way next summer in a new type
of cruise program operated by
Arctic Alaska Tours of Seattle, it
was announced Saturday.
The tours will combine air, sea,
railroad and limousine touring.
Passengers will fly to Ketchi
kan, where they will board the
Sea Otter for a cruise through
Alaska’s Inside Passage to Skag
way, with stops at Wrangell, Pe
tersburg, Baranof Warm Springs
and Juneau. They will travel
aboard the White Pass & Yukon
narrow-gauge railway to White
horse, where they will take to
limousines for a tour to Fairbanks,
McKinley Park, Anchorage and
Valdez. The highway tour will
end at Haines, where they will
board the Sea Otter for the re
turn to Ketchikan and to fly back
to Seattle.
The Sea Otter, which carries
24 passengers, is owned and op
erated by Captain O. D. Treiber
of Seattle, who designed her. She
was built in Seattle in 195? and
has cruised out of Juneau the
past two seasons.
The Sea Otter is the only United
States vessel licensed to carry pas
sengers to Alaska.
Arctic Alaska Tours will con
tinue to operate the steamships
Glacier Queen and Yukon Star
providing a sailing from Vancou
ver, B. C., to Alaska every four
days from May through Sep
tember.
26 Missing In Collapse Of
Two German Apartments
DORTMOND, Germany, UPi —
Hundreds o f rescue workers
searched for bodies today in a
smoking heap of rubble of two
apartment houses.
Twenty-six people may have
died. Police believe 34 people were
in the two houses when they
were wrecked by a blast and en
suing fire Sunday.
Sixteen bodies were recoveted.
Three persons did in ambulances
or hospitals. Eight survivors were
blown out into a back garden by
the force of the blast.
Greece Welcomes U. S. President
In Colorful Display at Ancient Athens
By JOHN SCALI
ATHENS, Greece, UP> — Working
a 20-hour schedule, President
Eisenhower said goodby to India
today and won rousing welcomes
in Iran and Greece, both under
the protective fold of U. S. mili
tary aid.
Here in Athens hundreds of
thousands of Greeks turned out to
cheer and wave. King Paul
greeted the President enthusias
tically at Athens’ Ellenikon Air
port, saying the Greek people had
watched his journey so far with
deep emotion.
In reply, Eisenhower noted the
long history of Greek culture and
said Greece’s steadfast devotion
to democratic principles has won
the admiration of the world.
The President’s big orange and
silver jet landed at a seaside air
port after a six-hour stop in Iran
that marked the halfway point
in his 22,000-mile goodwill tour.
Thousands of Greeks turned out
to make the welcome another
memorable occasion for the Presi
dent. School children got a holiday
and many workers were given
time off.
P r i m e Minister Karamanlis
urged his people to greet Eisen
hower “with the enthusiasm im
posed by the personality of our
visitor and the significance of his
mission.”
The President’s 10-mile route
into Athens lay along a broad
four-lane highway beside the blue
waters of the Bay of Phaleron,
then past the Temple of the Olym
pian Zeus and the Great Arch
of Hadrian.
Thousands of U. S. flags and
the blue and white banners of
Greece dotted the route, flying
between pepper and orange trees.
“Welcome Eisenhower” posters
were plastered on hundreds of
buildings.
Tonight, in honor of the occa
sion, the floodlights will be turned
on such historic monuments as
the Acropolis and the Parthenon.
Even the Communist-line EDA
Party joined in. It urged a warm
welcome for the President, ignor
ing for the moment the role Amer
ican aid played in crushing the
Communists during the Greek
civil war in the late 1940s.
The Greek Premier said Eisen
hower’s one-day visit would give
the Greek people an opportunity
to repay “a great moral obliga
tion — to express our feelings of
friendship and gratitude to the
American people who for over 12
years have extended not only their
political and moral support but
also material assistance for its
rehabilitation.”
Alaska Dept, of Education
To Receive $2,964,350
For “Federal” Children
WASHINGTON, UPl — The De
partment of Health, Education and
Welfare today announced a pay
ment of $2,964,350 to the Alaska
Department of Education. The
money is to help schools where
there is an unusual number of
children of federal workers in
attendance.
The office of Senator Bartlett
was informed the payment is part
of four million dollars in federal
funds that have been approved
for the present fiscal year to help
operate Alaska schools.
Captain Wold, Bering Sea
Plotter, Dies at 77 in Calif.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., UP) — Capt.
Peter H. Wold, 77, ship captain
who rescued the Glacier Priest,
Father Hubbard, in the Shelikoff
Straits in 1931 and mapped the
Bering Sea Straits, died in a hos
pital Thursday.
In 1937 Wold set up the first
regular mail service from Seward
to the Aleutians. He operated it
for five years. At the request of
the Secretary of the Navy, Wold
did the plotting and graphing of
the eBring Sea areas.
He was the first civilian to enter
Dutch Harbor after the bombing
in World War II.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Carrie E. Wold,- and a son,
Peter H. Wold Jr., of San Diego.
Funeral services will be held here
Monday.
BRRR!
The Nugget is sorry to be a
little la%e today but we’re for
tunate to get out a paper at all.
When we opened up shop this
morning there was no “hot” news
at all—it was 12 degrees below
freezing—that’s 20 degrees. The
automatic oil furnace was out,
and it almost noon before we got
the shop thawed sufficiently for
the linotype to be operated.
Communications
Construction Bids
To Be Advertised
WASHINGTON, (jf> — Bids on a
17 million dollar construction pro
gram for improved communica
tions facilities in Alaska will be
advertised late this month and the
first part of next year by the
Corps of Engineers.
Senator Bartlett said $17,200,000
is available for the 1960 fiscal
year construction job which will
provide 21 communications sites
over two routes to the continental
United States.
Main purpose of the added
system, Bartlett’s office said, is to
provide communications support
for the ballistic missile Early
Warning System to be located
near Fairbanks.
Col. W. C. Gribble Jr., District
Engineer at Anchorage, informed
Bartlett the Air Force and Army
have also considered the needs of
all communications users along
the routes such as the Civil Aero
nautics Administration and the
Alaska Communications System.
One route will be inland and
the other will follow the Alaskan
coast, Gribble said.
Gribble said the contracts are
expected to be awarded about six
weeks after they are advertised.
WEATHER FORECAST
North winds with gusts of 20 to
30 rnph, with little change in tem
perature tonight. A rather rapid
drop in temperature to -30 to -40
is expected later as the wind de
creases.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temperature -6, lowest -16- Max.
wind 51 mf>h from the north. Sun
rise 9:55 a.m., sunset 1:57 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
15, lowest -1. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 34 in 1914
and the lowest -30 in 1935.