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VOL. LXII No. 50 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1960_Per Copy 15j
Wade Will Answer I
To Courts Why He|
Blocks New Party i
JUNEAU, l/f) — An injunction
suit against Secretary of State
Hugh Wade has been filed toy a
Fairbanks labor union official
seeking a place on the November
election ballot as an Alaska Party
candidate for the U. S. Senate.
The action seeks a mandatory
injunction to block Wade from re
fusing to recognize Lawrence
Brayton as a candidate for the
two-year-old party.
The suit was filed in Superior
Court at Fairbanks. Judge Ever
ett Hepp set Friday for a hearing
on the injunction petition.
The suit contends provisions of
the 1960 state election code de
prive voters of their constitutional
rights and make it impossible for
state-wide candidates of the Alas
ka Party to qualify for the Novem
ber 8 general election.
Acting under specifications of
the new election code, signed into
law toy Gov. Egan on April 7,
Brayton’s declaration of candi
dacy on an Alaska Party ticket
was refused.
Instead, Wade advised Brayton
he would have to file by petition
as a so-called no-party candidate
ftfiliated with the Alaska Party.
The filing, supported toy the sig
natures of at least 1,000 qualified
voters, would have to be com
pleted by a May 2 deadline.
The petition method is spelled
out in the law in cases where a
candidate does not represent a rec
ognized political party. To toe rec
ognized, a party must have had a
candidate for Governor at the last
election who polled at least 10 per
cent of the vote cast.
Brayton, 32-year-old busniess
agent for the Fairbanks local of
the American Federation of Tech
nical Engineers, contended in a
brief the new law was approved
too close to the filing deadline to
permit candidates to meet the pe
tition requirements.
Weather Hampers
Search For B-58
Lost In Salt Lake
HILL AFB, Utah, UD — Cloudy,
showery weather hampered Air
Force officials who are looking for
what’s left of a missing B-58 jet
bomber. They found part of its
tail section yesterday.
The 10-million-dollar, Convair
built Hustler disappeared over the
Great Salt Lake Friday. Two of
the three civilians who made up
its crew are missing. The third
parachuted into the lake and made
it safely to shore.
Weather has hampered aerial
search efforts, and an allout
ground crew search has failed to
turn up all but a trace of the
plane or the missing men.
Kenneth Timpson, the 29-year
old flight engineer from Fort
Worth, Tex., who survived the
crash, said he saw the plane go
down in the lake as he para
chuted. He said he didn’t see the
’chutes of the other crewmen.
The missing men are Ray Ten
hoff, 38, the pilot, and Walter
Simon, 30, another flight engineer,
both of Fort Worth. The Convair
crew was on a bomb-scoring test
flight from Texas’ Carswell Air
Force Base to Salt Lake City.
BANK IMPROVES
CAPITAL STRUCTURE
Boyd Harwood, Chairman of
the' Board of Directors of the
Miners and Merchants Bank of
Alaska, announced that by board
action, $50,000 has been trans
ferred from Undivided Profits to
the Surplus account, effective
April 25, 1960. This action raises
the capital structure of the bank
to $200,000, and was taken to
better enable the bank to serve
the growing needs of Nome and
vicinity.”
Iranian City
Wrecked In Quake;
Hundreds In Peril
TEHRAN, Iran, — A shat
tering earthquake has leveled the
south Iranian city of Lar and the
Red Cross tonight estimated about
700 were killed and several
thousand injured.
Dr. Hussein Khatibi, Iranian
Red Cross director, who made the
estimate, said he believed early
official estimates of 1,200 to
1,500 were exaggerated. He said
upwards of 380 bodies have been
recovered and buried.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
ordered quick relief measures.
Iranian Air Force planes para
chuted flour, sugar and eggs into
the area and set up an airlift to
ferry in other food, medicine and
tents.
The menace of poisonous snakes
added to the horror. It is reported
that snakes found their way under
the debris and attacked trapped
victims. Manqy of those rescued
were suffirng from snake bites.
Authorities appealed to Tehran for
serum. The U. S. government was
the first foreign government to
pledge aid. It made 100 tons of
flour quickly available.
Lar is 550 miles south^of Tehran.
Joe DiMaggio In Fairbanks
On Business for
Commissary Supply Co.
-FAIRBANKS, (JPI — “Jolting”
Joe DiMaggio, former famed
Yankee -baseball slugger, arrived
in Fairbanks this morning.
His trip is purely for business
reasons, but appearances at Ladd
AFB and at Eielson AFB are
-being scheduled.
DiMaggio said as he stepped off
the jet airliner this morning, “I’m
happy to get a chance to see the
new state.”
DiMaggio is now with the public
relations division of the Monett
Supply Co., an organization which
supplies Air Force messhalls and
commissaries. He is here on a
business trip for his employer, but
he isn’t forgetting baseball.
This afternoon, Di Maggio was
scheduled to appear at the Ladd
gymnasium where an army of
Little Leaguers will be on hand.
BASEBALL SCORES
(By The Assodated Pressi
SUNDAY
Pacific Coast League
Portland 8-4, San Diego 4-5.
Sacramento 3-18, Spokane 2-1.
Seattle 3, Tacoma 0.
American League
Detroit 12, Chicago 4.
New York J5, Baltimore 9.
Washington 11, Boston 10.
Cleveland 7, Kansas City 0.
National League
Pittsburgh 7, -Milwaukee 3.
Philadelphia 94, Cincinnati 5-10.
Chicago 9, San Francisco 4.
St. Louis 7, Los Angeles 2.
President DeGaulle
Tells U.S. Congress
“This Is The Last
Chance For Peace”
WASHINGTON, UP) — French
President Charles De Gaulle told
Congress today the great powers
are facing their “last moment”
for making a start on nuclear dis
armament. Failure to disarm, he
said, would doom mankind.
De Gaulle concluded his sum
mit strategy talks with President
Eisenhower shortly before going
to the capitol to deliver his 1,000
word address.
The two 69-year-old Allied
leaders spent an hour together at
the White House and De Gaulle
reported as he left the President’s
I office: “All is very well.”
I The French leader spoke to the
House and Senate members —
assembled in the big House cham
ber — in French. English trans
lations of his speech had been
distributed.
De Gaulle got two spontaneous
cheers — a rare display of enthu
siasm — as he took his place at
the House rostrum. After his 13
minute speech he got another
rousing ovation.
Veteran observers said it was
one of the biggest welcomes ever
given a visitor.
Capitol Site Vote
Will Be Item
On August Ballot
JUNEAU, UP> — A total of 12,
673 qualified voters from 18 of
the state’s 24 election districts
were among persons who signed
petitions seeking a vote this fall
on whether Alaska’s capitol should
be moved.
Secretary of State Hugh Wade
announced the figures today in
formally setting August 9 — the
date of the Alaska primary elec
tion —for a vote on the question.
Notification of the date for the
special election was contained in
a letter from Wade to State Rep.
Earl Hillstrand (D-Anchorage) and
State Sen. Thomas Stewart (D
Juneau), who served as co-chair
men of the initiative petition for
relocation of the capitol.
A Capitol Site Steering Commit
tee proposed the question last
year at Anchorage, calling for
voter enactment of a law requir
ing location of the capitol in the
so-called “Cook Inlet-Railbelt”
area by 1965. The initiative calls
for a committee of five, appointed
by the Governor, to select the
exact site.
Juneau, capitol of Alaska since
1906, joined the move to obtain
necessary signatures on the peti
tion in order to bring the ques
tion to a vote. But supporters of
the proposal here made clear their
action was aimed at getting the
initiative killed when it came to
a vote.
Since then, the Juneau Cham
ber of Commerce has announced
plans for a state-wide drive to
win support for retention of Ju
neau as the capitol.
Hillstrand, one of the leaders in
efforts to relocate the capitol,
seeks approval of the proposed
initiative on grounds Juneau is
not centrally located and thus un
able to serve adequately as the
seat of government in the new
state.
Supreme Court Turns
Down Chessman Plea
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Su
preme Court today refused to stop
the scheduled execution next
Monday of Caryl Chessman, Cali
fornia’s convict-author and con
victed sex terrorist.
The high court rejected a peti
tion for a stay of execution and
declined to hear an appear which
argued it was cruel and unusual
for Chessman to be given a re
prieve before Presient Eisenhow
er’s recent journey to South Amer
ica lest the execution stir demon
strations there.
Korean Mobs
Renew Attacks
On Government
SEOUL, South Korea, UP) —
Koreans renewed their demonstra
tions against President Syngman
Rhee’s government tonight, draw
ing tear gas and gunfire from
security forces.
Lt. Gen. Song Po-Chan, army
chief of staff, announced one
demonstrator was killed and six
wounded by gunshots that re
pulsed a mob attack on the home
of Vice President-elect Lee Ki
Poong, chief target of the demon
strators.
Warning shots that troops fired
into the air turned back 150 dem
onstrators who attempted to
march on Rhee’s palace.
Troops backed by tanks lobbed
tear gas grenades into a throng of
about 5,000, led by 200 college
professors, which chanted de
mands before the National As
sembly building for the resigna
tion of the 85-year-old president
and Lee, whom many claim won
the vice presidency through fraud
in the March 15 election.
The violence was the first in
Seoul since last week’s “bloody
Tuesday” riots that took 130 lives.
The renewed demonstrations in
effect were a noisy popular rejec
tion of President Rhee’s plans to
bring political peace to South
Korea.
Rhee has romised to run the
country as a nonpartisan presi
dent, surrendering his leadership
of the Liberal party, but he
showed no inclination to give up
his autocratic powers. He is under
heavy criticism for failing to call
new elections.
Chou Says Red China
Will Respect India Border
NEW DELHI, UP) — Red Chinese
Premier Chou En-Lai said tonight
China will respect the disputed
MaoMahon line between northeast
India and Tibet.
“The so-called MacMahon line
is completely unacceptable to
China.” Chou said, “but we are
willing to maintain the present
status in that sector. We will not
cross that line.”
The statement to newsmen
seemed to free India of the Chi
nese claim to 36,000 square miles
of territory in the northeast, one
of the two major areas in dis
pute. The other is the Ladakh
Plateau about 1,000 miles west of
the northeast frontier.
Chou spoke after winding up
conferences with Prime Minister
Nehru on the border dispute. A
communique said they failed to
reach agreement but they had de
cided to let other officials of the
two governments study documents
bearing on the location of the
border.
Governor Nears
Bottom of Stack
Awaiting Signature
JUNEAU, (#> — Six more laws
were added today to the 1960 acts
of the Alaska Legislature.
Six other bills were scheduled
for action later today as Gov.
Egan neared the bottom of the
stack of legislation pending since
adjournment of the Second Ses
sion.
Up for a decision by nightfall
in the six bills due today were
two of the key measures passed
by the lawmakers. One is a bill to
provide for a 46 Vi million-dollar
state spending program in the next
fiscal year. The other big one is
a controversial bill to set uniform
three-hour closures on liquor es
tablishments in Alaska.
Included among the six new
laws — which raised to 181 the
number enacted so far this year
— was one which requires em
ployment of a least 90 per cent
Alaska labor on public projects
contracted by the state, its bor
oughs, cities and school districts.
The 90 per cent figure applies to
projects on which the work force
is made up of 10 or less persons.
Projects involving more than 10
men must have at least 95 er cent
Alaska labor on the job.
Exceptions from provisions of
the act may be granted in special
circumstances by the State Com
missioner of Labor, who is
charged with administration of
the new law. ,
One of the six new laws was
enacted without the signature of
the Governor. The measure
amends the Alaska Bar Assn, code,
and includes changes in eligibility
and reciprocity provisions.
Egan said he was allowing the
bill to become law without sig
nature because some of its provi
sions “are obviously needed and
in keeping with the best interests
of the public.” But he added:
“However, in my view, other of
the amendments relating to eligi
bility and reciprocity provisions
may not be so desirable.”
The other acts signed by the
Governor provide for:
New procedures for the reclass
ification of second and third class
cities:
Collection of the state’s $10 an
nual school tax on April 15 along
with employer payments of em
ploye income tax withholdings;
Amendments to the state fish
and game act relating to the use
of heavy equipment in streams,
rivers and lakes.
CLEAR TRACK . . !
SAN MATEO, Calif., UP> — W.
H. Bullock of nearby Mountain
View and his wife were over
Bay Meadows Race Track Sunday
in a rented plane when it began
vibrating because of a chipped
propeller.
Bullock landed without incident
on the track’s empty parking lot,
had the prop replaced, and took
off for home.
“It was nothing,” said Bullock.
“Just a chip off the old prop.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair with little change
in temperature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 14, lowest -12. Max. wind 35
mph from the N.E. Sunrise at 3:49
a.m., sunset at 8:09 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
36, lowest 24. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 60 in 1940,
lowest -15 in 1924.
It was 33 above at Nenana today.