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Senate Delayed On
Ike’s Middle East
Aid Resolution
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senate
hearings an * President Eisen
hower’s Middle East aid resolu
tion ran behind schedule today,
and a new Monday goal was set
for their completion.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, for
• mer NATO commander, had been
listed to testify today, but his
appearance was put off until
Monday when the Senate Foreign
Relations and Armed Services
Committees decided against a
Saturday session. There had been
hope earlier the hearings would
end this week.
The Administration has been
pressing for the earliest possible
Senate action an a House-ap
proved resolution.
Demonstrations In
Syria Aimed at
Pro-Communists
BEIRUT, Lebanon, UP)—Unoffi
cial reports reaching Beirut today
said violent anti-Communist dem
onstrations erupted for four days
at Aleppo, in northern Syria.
The reports said the Syrian
Army has restored order after
arresting 3 0 0 demonstrators,
• mostly members of the outlawed
Syrian Popular Party. The riots
were aimed at the Communists
and the pro-Soviet Baath (Resur
rection Socialist) Party.
Six dynamite explosions rocked
Aleppo during the riots, the re
ports said. A stick of dynamite
was tossed at a building housing
an official Soviet mission.
Syria’s government is receiv
ing Red arms and is reportedly
dominated by the pro-Soviet army
clique. * Syrian President Shukri
Kuwatly visited Moscow in No
vember. Two months later, on a
visit to India, he acknowledged
that Syria had turned to Russia
for arms.
Family Tragedy In Brooklyn; Child
Dead, Couple Leap From 15th Floor
NEW YORK, L5*>—A distraught
Brooklyn couple clasped hands
and plunged 15 stories to death
early today about three hours af
ter their 5-year-old daughter died
under mysterious circumstances.
Police said they could not de
termine until an autopsy later
today whether the little girl per
ished of illness or a mishap, or
was killed. However, there was
no mark of violence on her body.
The victims of the family tra
gedy were Joseph T. Kennedy,
46, his wife, Nan, 42, and their
child Valerie.
The couple, wed in 1948, had
been plagued for years by illness
and perhaps financial troubles.
The father had not worked since
1952.
The family lived in a one
bedroom apartment on the 15th
floor of a stylish apartment build
Pay For Alaska
Reps. Approved In
21-3 House Vote
JUNEAU, UP) — The House yes
terday approved by a vote of 21
to 3 a substitute bill appropriat
ing $187,935.41 to pay the ex
penses of the Territory’s unoffi
c i a 1 Congressional Delegation
now in Washington, D. C.
One of the three votes against
came from one of the bill’s sup
porters, Rep. Ken Johnson <D
Anchorage).
Johnson voted against the bill
so he could serve on a confer
ence committee, if the Senate
makes any changes in the bill
when it comes up for considera
tion there.
The two other opposition voters
were cast by a Juneau Democrat,
Dora Sweeney, and the Repub
lican minority leader, John Cog
hill of Cenana.
Representative Sweeney said
“I couldn’t walk down the street
and face people knowing I had
voted for extravagant pay to
three people in Washington —
for two years—when we are here
cutting corners trying to get
money for education and welfare
and other needs.”
Johnson, whose Ways and
Means Committee rewrote the
bill and spelled out some fuzzy
language in the initial proposal,
said “now is not the time, to im
pair the work of the three men
in Washington by failing to pro
vide them with necessary funds.”
He added: “We did nothing but
act in accord with the wishes ex
pressed by the people many
times.”
The bill provides $9,000 an
nual salaries to provisional “Sen
ators” Ernest Gruening and Wil
liam Egan and Rep. Ralph Riv
ers. On top of this, they will re
ceive a daily expense allowance I
of $16 while in Washington.
ing in Brooklyn. Their furnish
ings appeared well worn, how
ever.
The parents impressed (neigh
bors as being a cheerful couple,
but the family physician de
scribed Kennedy as being a hy
pochondriac over a longtime
stomach ailment. Mrs. Kennedy
suffered from asthma. The doc
tor knew of no ailment affecting
the child.
When the parents’ bodies were
discovered, officers went to their
apartment and found the daugh
ter lying dead on the bed in the
bedroom.
A shirt of the father, with
bloodstains, was found lying on
a television set. There also was
blood on a divan pillow in the
living room, a broken glass in
the kitchen and specks of blood
on the sink and wall nearby.
Galena AF Base
| To Be Modernized
For Jet Planes
[ ANCHORAGE, LPI—A million
dollar project to modernize the
Air Force base at Galena, has
been announced by the Alaska
District Office of the Army En
! gineers.
The project will enable the
field to handle jet aircraft. Bids
are to be opened in the Army
Engineers’ office in' Seattle
March 12.
Three Japanese Held
For Selling Marijuana
To U. S. Servicemen
YOKOHAMA, WV—Three Jap
anese were arrested today for
producing marijuana cigarettes
for American servicemen.
Police said the gang had col
lected some $27,000 since last
spring—at 60 cents a cigarette—
from GI’s.
Reno Streets Opened
After Clearing of Rubble
RENO, Nev., UPi—Several blocks
of Virginia Street—main street of
this gaming and divorce center—
reopened today after being closed
following Tuesdajf’s gas explo
sions and fires.
The reopened section contains
Reno’s largest hotel, the Mapes,
two banks and many shops.
Half of the evacuated area was
opened last night.
An accumulation of leaking
propane-air gas exploded Tues- j
day, killing two persons and in-;
juring 40. Five buildinge were de- j
stroyed.
Legislators Busy;
House Permits
Loan Companies
JUNEAU, Iff)—Among the bills
passed by the Senate Thursday
was one which would permit loan
companies to operate in Alaska.
Another bill which passed
would permit Territorial tax re
funds to be used to offset cur
rent taxes. And another bill
would make the Director of Fi
nance the collection agent for
corporation taxes.
The first act of the 1957 Legis
lature was signed into law. Act
ing Gov. Waino Hendrickson no
tified the Legislature he has
signed House Bilt No. 2—the bift
which provies for an appropria
tion of $137,100 to pay the cleri
cal and staff expenses of the cur
rent Legislature.
THE RIGHT TO LIE!’
SANTA FE, N. M., \Bh—A bill
making false statements to a
peace officer unlawful was passed
32-2 by the state Senate yester
day, but not without argument.
Sen. Earl Parker, Torrance
County Democrat, declared:
“I’m against this bill. It strikes
to the very foundation of human
rights. I say you should have the
right to lie to whomever you
please.”
House Splits at Party Division on
Passing ‘Pocket Veto’ Nominations Bill
JUNEAU, '{#)—The Territorial
I House split strictly on party lines
! yesterday in passing a bill which
| would allow, in effect a “pocket
| veto” of nominations made by
the governor.
The bill was approved and sent
to the Senate by a 21 to 3 vote—
with Republicans John Coghill,
Frank Johnson and Clinton Gray
voting against -it.
The controversial part of the
bill provides that a nomination
on which the Legislature fails to
act within the three-day time lim
it is considered automatically re
jected.
The first section of the bill
would permit the governor to
withdraw the name of any ap
Second Div. Rep.
Presents Measure
House Bill No. 4 was the first
House bill presented by a .Second
Division legislator, Clinton Gray,
and it provided for the districting
and apportionment of the mem
bership of the Legislature within
judicial divisions.
The areas defined for the Sec
ond Division are Barrow, Kobuk,
Nome, Wade Hampton.
Barrow and Kobuk combined
will be entitled to elect one repre
sentative; Nome, one, and Wade
Hampton, one.
Copies of all House bills are
being sent the Nugget and are
available to be studied or looked
over at the Nugget office.
Atom Plane
Project Slowed
For Research
WASHINGTON, (A1)—An official
disclosure that the atom-powered
plane project has been slowed
down comes from the Pentagon,
along with a hint that some
guided missiles may be pared out
of that weapon development pro
gram.
Dr. Clifford C. Furnas, the as
sistant Secretary of Defense for
Research and Development, told i
newsmen yesterday that the rea-1
sons are technical, not the result
of budgetary economy.
He was asked specifically about
the project to perfect an airplane
driven by the power of a nuclear
reactor. Sen. Symington (D-Mo.)
told a television audience Sunday
defense officials have almost
abandoned work on the project
“'because they don’t want to spend
the money.”
Further remarks suggested the
designers are again confronted
with the basic trouble: the atomic
reactor must be lighter in weight
than those now being tried, aind
the necessity for a quantity of
radiation-proof shielding per
sists.
This means, apparently, that
while the Atomic Energy Com
mission (AEC) .has operated a
jet engine using the heat from
an atomic reactor for power, that
land-based design isn’t of the
weight required for airborne use.
pointee to a commission or board,
with the privilege of resubmit
ting the name Later.
There was no controversy on
this point. It would formalize the
action taken Monday when Act
ing Gov. Waino Hendrickson
withdrew the name of Karl F.
Dewey for reappointment as tax
commissioner after Dewey was
stricken ill. Dewey suffered -a
hart attack Sunday. He is reported
in satisfactory condition at a
Juneau hospital.
In the warm argument over
the section of the bill for auto
matic rejection of appointees af
ter the three-day limit, Speaker
of the House Richard Greuel (D
Fairbanks) left the chair to argue
fore it.
He said the bill would have
the effect only of putting into
the statutes a ruling handed down
by Judge J. L. McCarry Jr. of
Anchorage last year.
Minority leader Coghill of Ne
nana protested:
“This is an easy way for the
Legislature to kill the pain in re
jecting particular persons nomi
nated by commissions.”
An Achorage Democrat, Sea
born J. Buckialew Jr., replied:
“Let’s ease the pain—it’s the
polite thing to do.”
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Soviets Order Out
Two Americans
Already Recalled
MOSCOW", UFt—A Soviet order
expelling two more American
military attaches will have little
pnactical effect except as propa
ganda. One has already left the
country and the other has trans
fer orders.
The Russians yesterday ordered
out Marine Capt. Paul R. Uffel
man, 31, of Fort W<ayne, Ind.,
and Navy Lt. William S. Lewis
of Guthrie, Okla.
The United States said they
were attacked by a crowd in ci
vilian clothes in Leningrad Jan.
25 and subsequently detailed in
a Leningrad police station despite
their diplomatic immunity.
DEW Extension
Engineer Named
ANCHORAGE, UPl—A $20,000,
000 extension of the D. E. W.
(distant early warning) line
through the Aleutian Islands will
be under the direction of James
L. McNamara, veteran Alaska
engineer.
This announcement has been
made by the Alaska District Of
fice of the Army Corps of En
gineers.
Bids on the big project, which
now involves six installations,
are to be opened in the Seattle
branch office of the Alaska Dis
trict on the following dates:
February 21—Cold Bay and
Cape Sarichef sites. ,
March 1—Port Heiden and Port
Moller.
March 8—Driftwood Bay arnd
Nikolski.