NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN AT^ASKA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
. ■ --fc- - ■ ■■ =---■■■■■■ ■ =■ ■■ ■- ' '
VOL. LIX No. 151NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1957 _Per Copy—15^
Secret Report Calls for Drastic
Reorganization of Defense Dept.
DULLES HAS TALK
WITH SPAIN’S FRANCO
MADRID, Spain, WV-U.S. Sec
retary of State Dulles arrived
here today for a five-hour visit
with Generalissimo Franco and
other Spanish officials.
Reliable Spanish informants
said one reason the government
invited him here was to try to
win American approval of a' pro
posed Spanish offensive against
the Moroccan army of liberation
in Ifni.
Living Cost Up
As Result of
Higher Car Prices
WASHINGTON, (&—'The gov
ernment reported today that liv
ing costs rose again substantially
in November. A month earlier,
they ha'd leveled off after a steady
13-month climb.
The November rise of four
tenths of one percent means a pay
increase for 1,000,000 workers ef- j
fective Jan. 1. Most of them, J
mainly in the steel and aluminum j
industries will get five cents an j
hour boosts.
Ewan Clague, labor statistics
commissioner, attributed the No
vember rise primarily to higher
prices for new model automobiles
althg prices of clothing and ser
vices generally also increased.
Without the auto -price hikes,
Clague said, living costs would
have risen only slightly if at all
in November. The November new
car prices were 11.5 percent over
those in October.
ONE JUROR
DEADLOCKS
HOFFA CASE
NEW YORK, iff)—A lone juror,
who held out against unyielding
conviction sentiment of his 11
colleagues, today brought the
James R. Hoffa wiretap conspir
acy case to a deadlock.
U.S. attorney Paul W. Williams
said he would seek to retry the
case as soon as possible.
“I didn’t think the government
proved beyond a reasonable doubt
that a conspiracy existed,” assert
ed the holdout juror, Earle T.
Machardy.
“I very conscientiously kept
my mind open ... I was looking
for proof. I don’t mind admitting
I was the one (who caused the
hung jury).”
Machardy, 49, is vice president
of the Refined Syrups & Sugars,
Inc., of Yonkers, N.Y. He is a
member of the board of directors
of the Yonkers YMCA and is the
father of two sons, 5 and 18.
Earlier in the year Hoffa was
acquitted in Washington on a
Charge of setting up a conspiracy
to buy secrets of the Senate Rack
ets Committee.
While Hoffa was on trial here,
a federal district court hearing
began in tyashington on charges
by anti-Hpffa teamsters that his
election as union president was
rigged. Hoffa has been prevented
by coufti order from, taking office
until th<fe Washington case has
been decided.
» WASHINGTON, UP)—Sen. Mike
Mansfield (D-Mont) said today a
Senate probe of missile and satel
lite programs should result in a
drastic overhaul of the Defense
Department to “bring order out
of chaos.”
He said the top military com
mand machinery “must be sim
plified and streamlined” to en
able the nation to push ahead of
Russia in the race for control of
outer space and in development
of long range missiles.
Criticism of the defense organi
zation also was voiced by two
other senators, Kefauver (D-Tenn)
and Barrett (R-Wyo). Both are
members of the Senate Prepared
ness Subcommittee.
In a copyrighted story in to
day’s editions, the Washington
Post said it had learned the top
secret Gaither report recommend
ed a “sweeping reorganization of
the Pentagon command system
and of the current roles and mis
sions of the armed services.”
The Post story added that the
report—prepared by a board
headed by H. Rowan Gaither Jr.,
former Ford Foundation president
—pictured the nation as being “in
the gravest danger’ in its history.”
The White House has called the
document highly classified, and
has declined to comment on its
contents.
Pentagon Will
Ask Congress for
Another Billion
$
WASHINGTON, (*>—Secretary
of Defense McElroy said today the
Pentagon will ask for about a
billion dollars addition to current
funds when Congress convenes.
The money will be used for
missiles and other arms in con
nection with the NATO military
buildup.
This supplemental appropria
tion, as it is called, would boost
the defense budget for the fiscal
year ending next June 30 to about
$39Vi billion.
McElroy, oh arriving from the
Paris NATO meetings, was asked
by newsmen whether the Defense
Department expected to ask Con
gress for more money.
“The amount is not quite set,”
he replied.
Asked then whether it might
be about $1 billion, he said “that
wouldn’t be far wrong.”
The spending budget for the
next fiscal year is expected to be
about $40 billion.
The disclosure that the Penta
gon thinks it will need another
billion dollars between now and
next June 30 suggests that the
Fempo of the military buildup for
NATO, outlined in the just con
cluded Paris meetings, is being
moved up rapidly.
SANTA FEELS LET DOWN
BELLINGHAM, Wash., (#>—The
children at the Marietta School
party -had a wonderful time last
night. The parents though it was
fun, too.
But poor old Santa had a letr
down feeling. He lost his britches
—and his aplomb—while handing
out presents. The show went on,
however, after the bag of toys
was dropped and a quick grab
and tug restored things to normal.
Security Tightened at
Canaveral Missile Site
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UR—
The Air Force today tightened
security another notch at this
busy test center where three huge
ballistic missiles were launched
this week.
Bird Watch Knoll now is all
but off limits to photographers
and newsmen. The spot is four or
five miles from the launching
sites.
Cameramen photographed from
this knoll the 1,500-mile-range
Air Force Thor, which was fired
yesterday. They also got pictures
of the Air Force Atlas 5,000-mile
vehicle and the 1,500-mile Army
Jupiter.
Antarctic Ice Cap
About 9,800 Feet Thick
P-^RIS, (J*>—The antarctic ice
cap in the French area of Adelie
Land is -about 9,800 feet deep, re
ports received from the French
IGY expedition said today.
Soundings were made over the
past two months by the French
scientific expedition to Antarctica.
They showed the ice cap rests
on a rocky -base, which is mostly
at sea level but drops several
hundred yards below sea level in
some places.
U.S. Gunsmith’s Rifle
Catches Eye of King
WASHINGTON, UR—King Saud
of Saudi Arabia was said today to
have been so taken with a local
gunsmith’s personal rifle that he
ordered 100 of them during his
visit to the U.S. last winter.
Charles Covell, outdoor editor
of the Evening Star, said the rifles
cost the monarch over $500 each.
The gunsmith is Norman F.
Strebe, who operates a plant in
nearby Hillside, Md.
Strebe’s private rifle, with
which Saud became so fascinated,
has a tiger-striped Circassian
walnut stock, blue chrome-vana
dium steel barrel, chromed bolt
and clip and a tip of polished
Asiatic buffalo horn.
It has two triggers, the first
sets the second for hair-trigger
action. Sighting scopes are mount
ed so they may slip off with the
flip of a lever.
Santa’s Getting Requests
For Missile Age Toys But
Old Standbys Favored
SANTA CLAUS, Arizona, UR—
Santa Claus is getting plenty of
requests for spaceships and the
like this year, but most young
sters seem to prefer the same old
earthly favorites in toys.
* Two of Santa’s busiest helpers
say the adult world’s scientific
influence has not swept the kid
dies off their feet.
The helpers are Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. (Doc) Bromaghim, operators
of this tiny northwestern Arizona
highway resort which annually
receives thousands of letters to
Saint Nick.
The letters started pouring in
from all over the world after the
couple appeared on a nationwide
television show a few years ago
and told how they answer letters
for Santa.
The Bromaghims, who estimate
they open 1,000 letters on a peak
day, say interest in Sputniks and
missiles is reflected in letters but
the long-time standbys prevail.
The Bromaghims write individ
ual replies in preference to form
letters. They advise the young
sters to help mom and dad and
that Santa will be headed their
way soon.
NATO Defies Russian Threats by
Agreeing to Europe Missile Bases
But Door Open for Truce Talks
Will Russia Accept
Peace Talks Bid?
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
PARIS, (5)—Diplomatic officials
said today the United States and
its NATO allies will take the ini
tiative in trying to set up a for
eign ministers meeting with Rus
sia. Opinion is divided on the
likelihood of Russia’s acceptance.
One thing seems certain. If an |
East-West conference is arranged !
in the next several months, it will i
result in discussion of much more j
than the problem of how to get I
disarmament ^ discussions started
again. The possibility of a broad !
agenda covering major world
problems is already being talked
about by British leaders.
The U.S., which has been basic
ally opposed to going into new
East-West talks without evidence
of change in Soviet policies, de
cided to take a risk in yielding to
European demands for a dramatic
new effort to end the armaments
race and the cold war.
One danger is that the public
will expect great achievements
which will not be realized. An
other is the possibility that pres
sure will be generated for a slow
down in equipping NATO’s Euro
pean forces with nuclear weapons.
Parliament Okays
Missile Bases
LONDON, Uf)—Prime Minister
MacMillan tonight won parlia
mentary approval for establish
ment of nuclear missile sites on
British soil.
By a vote of 289-251, the House
of Commons supported decisions
taken by the Prime Minister at
the NATO meeting in Paris—de
cisions which involve the basing
of American made missiles in
Great Britain.
The Prime Minister told the
House these ballistics missiles—
of intermediate range, able to
reach targets in the Soviet Union
—would only be used by the U.S. j
with British agreement.
Britain would not be able to use
them on her own, but would have
to have Washington approval be
fore they could be fired in earn
est, MacMillan said.
Generals Fined for
Illegal Goose Hunting
BALTIMORE Uft—•’Two top offi
cers in the U.S. Army were fined
$25 and costs each today after
failing" to contest charges of ille
gally hunting wild geese over a
baited area.
Maj. Gen. Rinaldo Van Brunt,
56, chief of staff of the 2nd Army
at Fort Meade, Md., and Lt. Gen.
Edward T. Williams, 56, deputy
commanding general of the Con
tinental Army Command at Ft.
Monroe, Va., received the penal
ties in federal court.
Van Brunt appeared at the
hearing but Williams was not
not. He pleaded thru his attoreny
the press of government business
at Ft. Monroe.
PARIS, (£>—The 15-nation At
lantic summit conference yester
day offered Moscow a foreign
ministers’ meeting on disarma
ment and formally accepted Pres
ident Eisenhower’s offer of ballis
tic missiles and nuclear warheads
for arming western Europe.
The heads of government said
the allies cannot accept the Soviet
idea that Russia should have a
monopoly on nuclear weapons
and missiles in Europe pending
disarmament.
These decisions, announced in
a 3,500-word communique, wound
up NATO’s four-day conference.
President Eisenhower said the
results “should make war less
likely, peace more sure.”
Secretary of State Dulles said
the conference had gone a long
way toward accepting “a strategy
of victory” over Soviet threats..
The final communique put the
blame on Russia for the need to
bring west Europe’s defenses into
the age of pushbutton warfare.
“In the Soviet view,” the com
munique said, “all European- na
tions except the U.S.S.R. should,
I without waiting for general dis
armament, renounce nuclear
weapons and missiles and rely on
arms of the pre-atomic age.”
But Russia itself is arming with
! the “most modem and destructive
weapons” so the NATO council
decided that “we have no alterna
tive but to remain vigilant and to
look to our defenses.”
The summit leaders called on
the Soviet Union anew to fulfill
its “solemn commitment” to per
mit the unification of divided
Germany thru free elections.
The tone of the whole commu
nique was defiant of Russian
threats and warnings about nu
clear weapons and missiles. At
the same time it kept open the
door to negotiations.
Eisenhower Back;
Faces Major
Budget Decisions
WASHINGTON, WV—President
Eisenhower returned to Washing
ton today after a week’s trip to
Paris where 15 NATO allies
drafted a blueprint for coping
with the Communists in the mis
siles age. . .
Eisenhower's plane was delayed
more than three hours by 80-mile
headwinds.
On his departure at the Paris
airport, the beaming but tired
President bade an almost wistful
farewell to his NATO partners in
a short speech of farewell.
French President Rene Coty
was there to see Eisenhower off,
as he had greeted him on arrival.
A resplendent honor guard gave
the President a last salute, their
bright sabres glinting in the air
port light.
Major decisions on the federal
budget—and little time in which
to make them—confront President
Eisenhower immediately.
Unofficially, administration of
ficials have suggested Eisenhower
will send Congress next month
another peacetime record spend
ing budget of $73 billion or more.
They hope it will be balanced,
even if precariously.