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VOL. LXII No. 103 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1960 _Per Copy 15<
“San Jose Declaration” by American
Foreign Ministers Constitutes Clear
Indictment of the Castro Government
By JACK RUTLEDGE
SAN .JOSE, Costa Rica. IP — .
Secretary of State Christian A.
Herter told the closing session of
the American Foreign Ministers
Conference today their San Jose
Declaration “constitutes a clear
indictment of the Castro govern
ment of Cuba.”
Herter said the spotlight of Am
ericans will be focused on the
future behavior of the Dominican
Republic and Cuba, “judging
them on the basis of the principles
enunciated here.”
The foreign ministers con
demned the campaign of the So
viet and Chinese Communists to
use Cuba as a willing springboard
into the Americas.
Earlier in the two-week con
ference the foreign ministers also
had taken strong action against
the Dominican Republic.
The conference by a 19-1 vote
Sunday night rejected a Cuban
resolution calling on the United |
States to refrain from aggressive
acts against Fidel Castro’s regime.
When the ministers also turned
down a Venezuelan proposal to
water down the anti-Communist
“declaration of San Jose,” For
eign Minister Raul Roa and the
rest of the Cuban delegation
John Cardinal O’Hara,
Bishop of Philadelphia.
Dead at Age of 72
PHILADELPHIA, UR — John
Cardinal O'Hara, Archbishop of
Philadelphia and spiritual leader
of 1,513.000 Roman Catholics, died
Sunday at the age of 72.
The tall slender prelate, who
received the red hat symbolic of
his office in December 1958 from
Pope John XXIII, had undergone
surgery for peritonitis last Tues
day.
His death reduced to five the
number of cardinals in the United
States. They are Francis Cardinal
Spellman of New York, Francis j
Cardinal McIntyre of Los An- j
geles, Richard Cardinal Cushing
of Boston, Albert Cardinal Meyer )
of Chicago and Aloysius Cardinal
Muench of Fargo, N.D.
All but Cardinal Muench, who !
is in Rome, are expected at the
solemn pontifical mass to be
celebrated at the Cathedral of
St. Peter and Paul.
Time Bomb Kills
Premier of Jordan
BEIRUT, Lebanon, UR — Time
bombs planted in government of- j
fices killed Premier Hazza Ma
jali of Jordan and nine other per
sons in the Jordanian capital of
Amman today, a Jordanian offi
cial said here. Another 50 persons
were reported wounded.
The time bomb that buried
Majali in the debris of his office
was one of three that blew up
simultaneously, said reports from
Damascus, Syria. The others
were said to be In the govern
ment publications office and the
foreign ministry.
Majali, 44, was regarded in
Cairo as one of the Spearheads
of the forces in the Arab world
opposed to U.A.R. President Nas
ser. Thus the bombing sent tre- j
mors through the volatile Middle |
East.
walked out of the conference and |
packed for home.
It was the second walkout of
the two-week conference. The
delegation from the Dominican
Republic quit the meeting Aug.
20 after the other ministers found
Rafael Trujillo’s regime guilty of
plotting to assassinate Venezuelan
President Betancourt and voted
political and economic sanctions
against the Dominican Republic.
‘•Two dictators gone—one from
the left, one from the right,” one
diplomat remarked after the Cu
ban walkout.
But he and others wondered
about the effects of the 70-year
old inter-American system. Some
felt the ministers’ tough action
would restore public faith in the
system. Others feared it set an
unhealthy precedent for the Am
erican family of republics.
With the United States pressing
for a firm line against the Com
munist threat to the hemisphere,
the ministers compromised only
to the extent of omitting specific
mention of Cuba from their dec
laration of San Jose. But their
opposition to Castro’s friendship
for the Soviet and the Chinese
and to his defiant rejection of
the OAS was clear.
Jacksonville Mayor Takes
Police Action to Stop
Two Days of Race Violence
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., UPi —
After two days of racial violence,
emergency police powers were in
effect in Jacksonville today. Negro
leaders called off sit-in demon
strations at downtown lunch
counters.
A wave of vandalism swept
through Negro sections Sunday
night, climaxed by the throwing
of fire bombs—glass bottles filled
with kerosene—into a grocery, a
curb market and an automobile.
No one was hurt and damage
was minor.
Windows were broken in more
than 15 stores as bands roved the
city in cars throwing bricks and
other missiles.
Police arrested 138 persons —
twice the number for a normal
Sunday.
Mayor Haydon Burns invoked
emergency police powers at 10
p.m. Sunday. He banned any
street gathering of more than four
persons and unnecessary auto
traffic.
Howard Pollock Chosen
By GOP to Run For
Moody’s Senate Seat
ANCHORAGE, UP1—Howard W.
Pollock of Anchorage has been
named by Southcentral District
Republicans to run in November
for the Senate District E seat
vacated by Ralph Moody.
Moody resigned his Senate seat
when he was appointed state At
torney General early this year
Pollock is project manager and
legal advisor for the Federal Elec
tric Corp. at Anchorage.
His opponent on Nov. 8 will be
Democratic Rep. Helen Fischer,
also of Anchorage. Pollock was a
member of the Territorial House
of Representatives in 1953
Nuclear Sul)
Seadragon Will
Stop at Nome
Nome will have the honor of
being the first American com
munity to be visited by the nuc
lear powered Submarine Sea
dragon after it completes its voy
age over the Northwest Passage
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Seadragon left Portsmouth,
N. H. on Aug. 1 and proceeded
northward between Greenland
and Laborador through Baffin
Bay, then westward through a
series of sounds and straits of
ficially designated by Canada as
the Parry Channel.
The Seadragon is scheduled to
arrive at Nome on Labor Day,
Sept. 5, and remain all day. Its
officers and crew of 75 as well
as a Canadian commodore, and
about a dozen scientists will visit
ashore.
A baseball diamond was laid
out at the North Pole where the
enlisted men beat the officers
13-10. According to a dispatch the
diamond was laid out so that a
home run would travel “from to
day into tomorrow and from one
side of the world to the other.”
While the game was on, frogmen
went for a swim with the water
temperature and the air the same
temperature—28 degrees Fahren
heit.
Mayor Steve Andersen said this
morning that he has had addition
al phone conversations with the
Kodiak Naval Base concerning
the Seadragon’s visit to Nome.
He said the sub is scheduled to
arrive Nome at 10 a.m. the mor
ning of Sept. 5, and that the
Cutter Northwind will also come
to Nome, arriving on Sept. 4.
Mayor Andersen said that it is
also expected that Adm. Caldwell
and staff will be on hand to greet
the Seadragon. Adm. Caldwell is
the commander of the Alaska Sea
Frontier with headquarters at
Kodiak.
Anchorage Seeks To
Improve Freight Service
To Nome and Kotzehue
ANCHORAGE — The Chamber
of Commerce board of directors
have passed a motion concerning
improvement of freight service to
and from Anchorage
Don Rozell, chairman of the
transportation committee, recom
mended the board send a formal
petition to the CAB requesting a
hearing on air freight service to
Nome and Kotzebue, and other
cities reportedly affected by “poor
service."
The committee also will peti
tion the State Department of Avi
ation to support the CAB hear
ing. Nome and Kotzebue will be
advised on this action taken by
the Anchorage Chamber and will
be asked to support efforts.
Ed Suddock said that the so
lution of the transportation prob
lem could be reached by “invit
ing prime manufacturers to An
chorage who would probably set
up production on a limited scale.”
NIXON HOSPITALIZED
WITH KNEE INFECTION
WASHINGTON, l/F — Vice
President Richard M. Nixon was
hospitalized today for treatment
of an infected knet. He may re
main in the hospital two weeks.
POLITICALLY...
By The Associated Press
Congress today swings into
what it hopes is the final week of
its politics-laden post convention
session. The presidential candi
dates were making plans to shift
their campaigns Into overdrive
immediately after.
There was sporadic bickering
over the weekend as to whether
the truncated Congress session
has done the Democrats, who
dominate Congress, more harm
than good.
A group of eight Republicans,
with Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsyl
vania as chief needier, were ex
pected to continue their inform
ally organized efforts to jump on
Democrats in the Senate every
chance they get.
House Republicans announced
they would put on an “operation
veracity” this week to combat
what they called Democratic
“misstatements of fact.”
Sen. John Kennedy, relaxing
over the weekend at his Hyannis
Port, Mass., summer home, set his
sights on a Tuesday foray into
Maine and New Hampshire. His
formal campaign opens Saturday
at Anchorage, where his speech
is expected to be on the develop
ment of Alaskan and western re
sources.
Vice President Richard Nixon
said over the weekend that if
elected President he will assign
his running mate, Henry Cabot
i Lodge, to the task of trying to
I bring peace to the Middle East.
| In a message to the Zionist Or
ganization of America in New
York, Nixon said the time has
come to try for an over-all settle
ment of “the status of the Arab
refugees, the development of the
waters of the Jordan and other
relationships between Israel and
its neighbors.”
Egan Speaks Out
Against Charges of
Election Confusion
JUNEAU, (J")—Gov. William A.
Egan spoke out harshly today
against a charge that state offi
cials deliberately tried to confuse
voters in the Anchorage area dur
ing the Aug. 9 primary election.
Anchorage City Councilman
Bennie Leonard made the charge
last week after the Council heard
a protest from Robert A. Ross, a
Republican precinct committee
man, on what Ross termed last
minute precinct boundary changes
by Secretary of State Hugh Wade.
Leonard said the election of
ficials “made no attempt to clar
ify the precinct situation — in
fact, they did everything they
could to hide it.”
He further charged that “some
of us feel it was an attempt to
throw out the capital vote.”
“Any inference that Hugh
Wade or any other state official
attempted to confuse state citi
zens in their voting is totally
without foundation,” Egan told
his regular Monday morning news
conference.
“Some of the statements made
in Anchorage involving Hugh
Wade border on personal slander
and are absolutely ridiculous.”
Egan said the state made no
precinct changes in the Anchor
age area prior to the primary,
that each and every boundary
change was made by the Anchor
age city council itself.
Medical Aid To
Needy Bill Goes
To The President
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Sen
ate today sent President Eisen
hower the much-disputed bill in
creasing federal grants to the
states to help pay medical costs
of needy persons over 65.
The measure, which also makes
some changes in the Social Secur
ity System, was one of the major
items that leaders declared must
be disposed of before Congress
quits. Final action marked a big
step toward adjournment, pro
bably some time later this week.
The medical care plan is ex
pected to cost the federal govern
ment 202 million dollars the first
year and the states 61 million. In
five years, the federal cost is ex
pected to rise to 340 million a
year and the cost to the states
to 180 million.
The bill, as sent to Eisenhower,
was a compromise of different
j bills passed previously by the
Senate and House.
Eisenhower is considered cer
tain to sign the bill. Top admin
istration officials sat in on the
Senate - House conference and
approved the final version.
The plan for federal - state
grants from general revenues to
help the needy elderly with their
medical bills follows the general
form urged by the administra
tion as opposed to a broader pro
posal financed bv higher Social
Security taxes that was urged by
Democratic presidential nominee
John F. Kennedy.
U.S. Athletes At Rome
Resent “Anti-American'’
i Sentiment of Judges
By TED SMITS
l Associated Press Sports Editor
ROME, OP)—The United States
won its first gold medal of the
17th Olympic Games today when
Gary Tobian, a 25-year-old ex-GI
from Glendale, Calif., took the
men’s 3-meter springboard diving
title. It was the ninth straight
men’s springboard title for the
United States.
Meanwhile, the U.S. threatened
to go to the International Olympic
Committee with its protest of the
disputed men’s 100-meter free
style swimming race Saturday.
Rebuffed in his first appeal, Max
Ritter, U.S. member of the Inter
national Swimming Federation,
said he would appeal on the basis
of what he called new film evi
dence.
Throughout the American quar
ters—in diving, boxing, wrestling,
weight-lifting and other depart
ments—there was strong resent
ment of what the athletes called
a growing “anti-American” and
“knock down the Yanks” senti
ment.
Dr. Sammy Lee, the U.S wom
en’s diving coach, said the judges
had two approaches to scoring—
one for the U.S. and the other
“for the rest of them.”
A red hot sun again brought
killing heat to the competition,
_which after a Sunday off, moved
into its third full day of activity.
Germany led the unofficial
point standings with 34. Italy was
second with 30, the United States
j third with 17, and Russia, Holland
| and Great Britain were in a
I three-way tie for fourth with 14.
j Australia was seventh with 12.