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VOL. LXI No: 62 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1959 Per Copy—15*
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Rivers Voices Objections to Marine
Corps ‘Geographical Discrimination’
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, ffi — A Marine
Corps policy against assignment
of Alaska Reservists to active duty
training with pay and allowances
has been protested by Represen
tative Ralph Rivers of Alaska.
He said the directive is “dis
criminatory in nature, in contra
vention of the purposes of reserve
training, and detrimental to the
security of Alaska and the United
States.”
Rivers’ protest was directed at
a memorandum sent recently by
Roger D. Peterson of the 12th
• Marine Corps Reserve and Re
cruitment District at San Fran
cisco to Alaska Marine Corps Re
servists.
In it, Peterson said Reserve
officers and enlisted men residing
in Alaska hereafter “will not nor
mally be considered for assign
ment to active duty or training
with pay and allowance unless
they can provide an address within
the continental limits of the
United States to which orders may
be mailed and from which travel
Injured Soviet
Seaman En Route
Home via Tokyo
TOKYO, U!) — A Russian sea
man, suffering from a brain in
jury received in a fall in Alaskan
waters, arrived here Sunday by
air from Anchorage, en route
home.
Evgenij Ivanovich Gneushev
was met at the airport by two
members of the Soviet Russian
Embassy in Tokyo.
The Russians at first chased
away a lone Japanese photogra
pher when he tried to take pic
tures as the injured seaman was
carried on a stretcher from a
Northwest Airlines plane.
After passing customs, the Rus
sians summoned the photographer,
apologized and said it was a mis
understanding. They said they
didn’t know how badly Gneushev
was injured and feared that a pic
ture flash might be harmful.
They permitted the photogra
pher to take his pictures.
Gneuschev suffered a brain in
jury last month when he fell from
a Soviet fishing vessel in Alaskan
waters. A U. S. Coast Guard ves
sel gave him aid at the scene.
He was later flown to the U. S.
Elmendorf Air Force Base hos
pital ,jn Anchorage.
Northwest said information re
ceived in Tokyo indicated that
the Russian seaman was flown to
Tokyo to be sent home at the re
quest of the Soviet Embassy in
Washington.
Although one Russian Embassy
official declined to say how Gneus
chev would return to Soviet Rus
sia, it was presumed he would be
sent home on a Russian vessel
making a regular run to Japan.
BARTLETT TALK WILL
KEYNOTE POWER CONFAB
SEATTLE, UP — Senator Bob
Bartlett is scheduled to be the
keynote speaker when the Amer
ican Public Power Association
opens its convention here May 26
Other speakers will include
Navy Vice Admiral Hyman G.
Rickover and Senator Henry M.
Jackson (D-Wash).
o and from training will be per
formed.”
He said his memorandum was
issued “in order to clarify ques
tions concerning active duty or
training policies arising as a re
sult of statehood for Alaska, and
in consideration of the excessive
travel costs involved in transport
ing personnel from Alaska to the
continental limits of the United
States.”
Rivers said residents of no other
state are excluded from full par
ticipation in the Marine Corps
program simply because of the
geographical location of their
residence.
Justification of the policy on
grounds of excessive travel costs,
he said, “will not bear the test of
sound logic.” He said travel costs
to and from Alaska are compar
atively modest.
He said further that Alaska’s
admission to statehood makes
clear the Congressional intent
that the new state be considered
part of the continental Uinted
States on equality with other
states.
Rivers contended that exclusion
of Alaska from full participation
in the program “can only weaken
the chain of defense in its most
vital link.”
l,It seems to me,” he said, “that
our geographical location im
poses a special responsibility to
keep this vast area at maximum
possible strength. Having a ‘ready
reserve’ that is on the spot at the
time needed is the basis for the
reserve training programs con
ducted by the Marine Corps and
the other branches of the armed
services.”
Candid Admiral Rickover
Spurns ‘Directions’ In
Testimony to Congress
WASHINGTON, UPl — Vice Ad
miral Hyman G. Rickover, who
is known almost as much for ig
noring protocol as for developing
nuclear propulsion, has given
Congress another lesson in hand
ling superiors.
Rickover, testifying at a closed
session of a House Appropriations
subcommittee, began by assuring
questioners he was not “under
wraps” or “handcuffed.”
He said he had not read the cur
rent Navy directive on testifying
before Congressional committees,
and mentioned: “I have never fol
lowed any directive in testifying
to Congress.
“Once one of my seniors called
me before I was due to testify and
told me what his policy was. I
said, ‘fine, thank you very much.
When I testify I will say that this
is what you told me to say.’
“He said, ‘Oh, no; you mustn’t
say that.’
“Since that time I have never
been directed.”
Rep. Daniel Flood (D-Pa) told
Rickover he had suggested to Air
Force officials they borrow Rick
over to head up the controversial
nuclear aircraft project and “they
said they would be glad to have
you.”
“That would be a dire fate, sir,”
Rickover replied.
Flood then suggested, “Go ahead
and build it for the Navy. What
do y«W think about it?”
“What do you think about run
ning for Congressman from' two
districts?” Rickover shot back.
C. of C. Emphasizes |
Hydro Dam Value
In Final Action
The Alaska State Chamber of
Commerce completed its t'nree
day meeting on Saturday. It was
announced by president George
Sharrock that the board- passed,
with unanimous approval, a four
point program designed to in
crease the effectiveness of the
State Chamber, which will entail
the hiring of a full-time executive
manager. This program includes
Legislation, Industrial Develop
ment and Financing, Transporta
tion, and Education on the Amer
ican Free Enterprise System. Un
der Legislation was ^included a
plan for political action on the
part of Alaska businessmen.
Several important resolutions
passed, including the following:
Approval and full support of
the Cape Thompson Harbor pro
ject, which plans utilization of
atomic energy for blasting a deep
water harbor; request for an em
bargo on foreign seafood imports;
endorsement for study and action
on equalized freight rates for
Alaska; formation of a committee
to study ESC legislation; forma
tion of a committee to study bor
ough legislation; support of the
present School of Fisheries plan,
with a recommendation that it be
given broader scope: commenda
tion to the Alaska International
Rail and Highway Commission,
and encouragement toward fur
ther cooperation between the U. S.
and Canadian governments.
Recommendation for engineer
ing studies on the Rampart hydro
electric site was emphasized. It
was urged that a crash program
be effected to bring the two inter
national airports at Fairbanks and
Anchorage up to jet standards.
The board commended the Alas
ka State Legislature on their ac
tion taken on Senate Resolution
No. 6, which was related to a
sound system of public education.
Delegates from sixteen towns in
the Golden Star State returned
home yesterday and today.
Visiting British Envoy
Will Leave Alaska To
Attend Dulles’ Funeral
FAIRBANKS, OP — Sir Harold
Caccia, British Ambassador to the
United States, said today he will
fly back to Washington tonight
for the funeral of John Foster
Dulles.
The envoy plans to leave imme
diately after addressing the For
eign Affairs Council in Anchor
age. He had been scheduled ear
lier to make the speech tomorrow
night.
Sir Harold will return to Alas
ka after the funeral and continue
his combined business and pleas
ure tour. Yesterday he and Gor
don C. Whitteridge, British Consul
General in Seattle toured Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park for five
hours.
No Sign of Progress
In Steel - Labor Talks
. NEW YORK, UP — Negotiations
between the United Steel Work
ers and the steel industry had
recesses until today, with no indi
cation that the parties have come
to any agreement.
As talks concluded Friday for
the weekend, top negotiators for
labor and management said only
that they had continued “explora
tory discussions.”
Free Nations Mourn Death of Dulles,
Author of ‘Massive Retaliation’ Policy
By JOE F. KANE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Ravaged
by cancer and stricken by pneu
monia, John Foster Dulles died
in his sleep at 7:49 a.m. Sunday.
From around the world came
an outpouring of tribute today to
the 71-year-old former U. S. Sec
retary of State.
And in the capitals of the free
nations, diplomats arranged to fly
here for last rites for a fallen
leader of resistance toNCommunist
expansion.
The funeral will be held at 2
p.m. Wednesday in Washington
National Cathedral.
Because of Dulles’ long domi
nance of free nations’ strategy in
dealing with the Soviet Union, his
passing seemed to many to mark
the end of an era.
Spectator At The Last
-The men who knew Dulles best
had no doubt that one of his own
great regrets was that final ill
ness had made him a spectator
from afar rather than the active
field general as the West’s foreign
ministers strove in Geneva for
some progress toward a settlement
with the Kremlin and a true
peace.
But though he was absent from
the parley Dulles was still a dom
inant influence through continu
Geneva Conferees Prepare
To Recess for Members’
Attending U. S. Services
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, — Soviet and East
German foreign ministers joined
Western ministers in opening to
day’s Big Four conference ses
sion with expressions of regret
at the death of John Foster Dulles.
Russia’s Andrei Gromyko also
assisted in working out full ar
rangements to recess the confer
ence Wednesday and Thursday so
Secretary of State Christian Her
ter, Selwyn Lloyd of Britain and
Maurice Couve De Murville of
France can fly to Washington to
morrow night for the funeral
service Wednesday.
It was agreed that the session
tomorrow will open an hour ear
lier than usual and that the Fri
day meeting will be started late.
The Western ministers are due
back Friday morning.
Gromyko and East German Min
ister Lothar Bolz listened to
praise of Dulles today from Her
ter, Lloyd and Couve De Murville.
Throughout his career as Secre
tary of State Dulles was a major
target of Soviet propagandists.
Gromyko and Bolz did not join in
the laudatory tributes but, a U. S.
spokesman reported, they “ex
pressed condolences and sympa
thies” at Dulles’ death.
Sunday Results
American League
New York 9-1, Baltimore 0-2.
Cleveland 3-3, Detroit 2-6.
Kansas City 8, Chicago 6.
Washington 8, Boston 3.
National League
Philadelphia 6-3, Milwaukee 0-8.
Pittsburgh'2-5, Cincinnati 1-4.
St. Louis 7, Chicago 3.
San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 1.
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 5-1, San Diego 3-7.
Phoenix 5, Salt Lake City 4.
Portlyand 2-6, Vancouver 1-2.
Spokane 5-1, Seattle 0-7.
ing policies worked out under his
leadership.
In recognition of that Dulles
role the Western diplomatic chiefs
were pulling out of the parley en
masse to attend the funeral
services.
There was talk in Geneva that
their adversary in the Geneva
conference, Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei Gromyko, might also
make the journey.
For more than a week Dulles’
passing had been expected from
day to day but the sense of shock
was still evident in the mass out
pouring of tributes at home and
abroad.
President Eisenhower received
the news at his farm home in
Gettysburg, Pa.
'True Friend' of President
In a statement which he per
sonally penciled, Eisenhower de
scribed Dulles as a true friend and
“one of the truly great men of
our time.”
The President ordered flags on
U." S. buildings throughout the
world flown at half staff for the
next three days, and cancelled all
his own official appointments for
that period.
Dulles’ body will rest at the Na
tional Cathedral — Episcopal —
for 24 hours before -the funeral
service is held there.
An honor guard from the armed
services will stand vigil there, and
burial will be with full military
honors at Arlington National
Cemetery.
Dulles served as a captain and
major in World War I.
Presbyterian Funeral
The funeral at the Cathedral
will foe in the Presbyterian rites.
Dulles, a son of a Presbyterian
minister, was a ruling elder of the
Presbyterian Church.
Death came to Dulles in his
sleep at Walter Reed Army Hos
pital.
Mrs. Dulles hurried back to the
hospital at 5:30 a.m. after a doc
tor called her at her home with
the word that her husband of 47
years was sinking rapidly. Mrs.
Dulles had left the hospital only
a few hours earlier to get some
rest.
Her son, John, an engineer
from Mexico City, and another
son, Avery, a Jesuit Priest study
ing here, reached the hospital
shortly before she arrived. Dulles’
younger -brother, Allen, director
of the Central Intelligence Agen
cy, and his sister, Eleanor, a State
Department official specializing
in German problems, arrived a
short time later.
'All Over'
In silence they watched as
Dulles’ heavy breathing became
more strained. It stopped once,
then resumed, before the end
came.
One of the family asked, “Is
it all over?” and a doctor nodded.
No one said a word as Mrs.
Dulles walked to the head of the
bed and looked at her husband’s
face. Then the rest left the room,
leaving Mrs. Dulles alone at the
bedside. She left the hospital
about 40 minutes later with her
sons.
Heavy doses of pain-killing
drugs had kept Dulles sleeping
most of the time during his final
days. At times he could not recog
nize merpbers of his family, -but
on the day before his death he
recognized his wife and managed
to speak a few words to her.