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Transportation Bill Offered by Bartlett
Combines Rate Functions of 3 Boards
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator;
Bob Bartlett has introduced two
bills that would create a joint
board to regulate transportation
between Alaska, Hawaii and the
other states.
Bartlett said the purpose of
both bills, introduced yesterday,
is the same — to set up a joint
board that would oversee trans
portation matters now regulated
by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the Federal Mari
time Board and the Civil Aero
nautics Board.
“The difference is simple,” he
said. “One would make it manda
tory for land, water and air car
riers to file through rates with
the joint board and the other
would make it permissive.”
Under the permissive bill, mat
ters relating to through service
to Alaska and Hawaii, at the re
quest of the carriers, could be
referred to the joint board. Under
the other, all would be handled
by the joint board.
The goal of both bills would
be to “foster sound economic co
ordination of transport services
by air, land and water ... by the
establishment of through rates and
joint rates by carriers,” Bartlett
said.
He introduced the bills as a
result of recent hearings on Alas
ka transportation in which it was
brought out that, at times, car
riers operating between conti
nental United States and Alaska
and Hawaii must operate under
regulations of the ICC, FMB and
CAB.
Witnesses said this makes it
difficult for carriers to establish
a definite through rate on ship
ments which may use as many as
three different modes of trans
portation.
“The need is for a joint board
approach to give uniformity to
regulations covering shippers in
that situation with respect to
Alaska and Hawaii,” Bartlett said.
Under Bartlett’s bills, the CAB,
FMB and ICC would name mem
bers to the joint board which
would have powers similar to
those of the three parent bodies.
The board’s orders would be en
forceable and reviewable as pro
vided by law with respect to the
ICC.
The board, after notice and
hearing on any rate or base con
sidered unjust or unreasonable,
would be authorized to take the
same action as the ICC is empow
red to take in such cases.
Nixon Hecklers in Siberia Asked to
Explain Soviet Troops on Satellite Soil
By JOHN SCALI
SVERDLOVSK, Iff) — Richard
M. Nixon took on a series of
hecklers today and demanded to
know why the Soviet Union sees
fit to maintain troops in Poland,
Hungary and East Germany.
The clashes took place in No
vosibrsk, Western Siberia, just be
fore the Vice President took off
for Sverdlovsk. Several thousand
silently waiting Russians greeted
him in this city in the eastern
Ural Mountains.
Nixon’s eagerly awaited tour of
the Siberian branch of the U.S.S.R.
Academy of Sciences at Novosi
birsk turned out to be a bust.
Soviet authorities allowed him to
see only a single building, which,
they said, is to house their Insti
tute of Hydrodynamics.
Eventually, some 500 buildings
are to be located in the area where
mapy of Russia’s top scientists
will work.
Nixon’s total stay there lasted
about a half hour.
Soviet authorities only reluc
tantly allowed him the visit. Nix
on insisted on it.
Overall Feeling Friendly
The over-all feeling toward
Nixon in Novosibirsk was warm.
He received there yesterday the
friendliest greeting of his 11-day
Soviet tour. Trongs, curious about
Americans, a breed they seldom
see, all but mobbed him at times.
But shortly before leaving No
vosibirsk he was subjected to
some questions from hecklers.
One of Nixon’s aides said some
of the hecklers appeared to have
been planted in the crowd.
On several occasions question
ers stood toe to toe with Nixon
challenging him to say why the
United States will not accept So
viet plans for ending nuclear
tests and why it will not trade
more with the Soviet Union.
The Vice President’s patience
wore a little thin when, standing
atop an incomplete hydroelectric
dam, a workman kept shouting
questions and interrupting. The
questioner was identified as Gri
gory Belausov Federovic, 30, an
electrician.
“The Soviet Union has no mili
tary bases outside our borders,
and the United States has many
in foreign cuntries. Why is that,
I’d like to know,” Federovic
asked.
“As you know we have poli
tical and foreign policy differ
ences with the Soviet Union,”
Nixon said. “When we both agree
on a disarmament proposal with
adequate inspection then we can
take up the question of bases. Now
I’d like to ask you a question.”
The heckler interjected, “I’m
not satisfied with that answer.”
In a loud voice, Nixon contin
ued: “In East Germany, Poland
and Hungary, the U.S.S.R. has
troops. Why are your troops in
those countries?”
- “We have no Soviet forces
there,” Federovic contended.
“Is Poland your country?”
Nixon went on. “Is Hungary your
country? Why do you keep troops
there?”
“There are American and West
ern troops in Germany, and the
Soviet has to maintain forces for
that reason,” the man retorted.
Bill Would Restrict Boats
Carrying Aleutians Mail
WASHINGTON, C/P) — The Sen
ate Post Office Committee yester
day approved a bill to require
that boats carrying mail on an
Alaska route between Seward
and the Aleutians operate ex
clusively on that route.
The legislation was introduced
by Senators Bob Bartlett and
Ernest Gruening, to prevent the
mail contract from going to a
firm operating between the Aleu
tians and Seward by way of
Seattle. The senators said such
operation would result in delays
and irregularity of mail service.
Walter Hodge
Named to State
Supreme Court
JUNEAU, (JV—Buell A. Nesbett,
49-year-old lawyer from Anchor
age, who was born in old New
Mexico territory, today was named
chief justice of the new State Su
preme Court in Alaska.
District Judge Walter Hodge,
of Nome, 62-year-old native Hoo
sier, and John H. Dimond, 40,
of Juneau, son of a famed Alaska
pioneer, were named associate
justices on the three-man court.
Appointmnts were announced
by Governor Egan. He signed
telegrams of appointment to the
three as he announced their selec
tion.
Each new justice will be sworn
into office in ceremonies at Ju
neau, at a date still to be set.
They will serve initial terms of
three years, and then become eli
gible for 10-year terms.
Egan’s telegrams to new jus
tices said it was his “privilege and
great pleasure” to make the ap
pointments. To each he said:
“Justice for all is now entrusted
to your wisdom. May God bless
you.”
The’ appointments are effec
tive, Egan said, “upon mutual
agreement between yourself, and
other members of the court.”
The Governor told newsmen he
expects the court to set an early
date for assumption of its duties.
Some delay would toe necessary
to permit Judge Hodge to resign
from the District Court post he
has held since March, 1954, and
to allow Nesbett and Dimond to
wind up their own law practices.
The new Chief Justice, who op
erates his own law office at An
chorage, and Dimond, a member
of a Juneau law firm, are Demo
crats. Hodge is a Republican.
House Tosses
Foreign Aid Bill
Into Senate Hands
WASHINGTON, UV—The House
today passed a $3,186,500,000 for
eign 'aid bill cutting deeply under
President Eisenhower’s request
and tailored to force out infor
mation the Administration wants
to withhold.
The bill went to the Senate on
a 279-136 roll call vote.
Both the cut in funds and the
force-out provision are sore
points with Eisenhower.
Just before the House acted the
President predicted at his news
conference that the force-out
plan never would get to his desk
as legislation. He described it as
an unconstitutional invasion of
executive powers. The device con
sists of a section providing for
a cut-off of aid funds if the Ad
ministration holds back from Con
gress its evaluation reports on
how aid programs are going.
At the same news conference
Eisenhower said the bill’s deduc
tion of 700 million dollars from
his request would damage the
program seriously.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair tonight and Thursday. The
lowest temperature expected to
night 40, high tomorrow 55.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 57, lowest 47. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest
69 in 1928, lowest 41 in -959.
Republicans Win Surprise Hawaiian
Victories; Capture Three Top Offices
By ROBERT TUCKMAN
HONOLULU, \1Pi — Republicans
made a surprise showing in Ha
waii’s first state election, captur
ing three of the top five offices
and regaining control of the state
senate.
Republican William F. Quinn
overcame the underdog role to
win the Governorship from Demo
crat John A. Burns, delegate to
Congress when the islands were
a territory.
Two Democrats and a Repub
lican went to Congress. Repub
lican Hiram L. Fong, of Chinese
ancestry, and Democrat Oren E.
Long won Senate Seats. Demo
crat Daniel K. Inouye, of Jap
anese parentage, easily won the
lone House seat.
Quinn’s running mate, Ha
waii-born James K. Kealoha, was
a shoo-in victor in the Lieutenant
Soviets Show U. S.
Goodwill in Nixon
Reception, Says Ike
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, Iff) — President
Eisenhower said today the recep
tion given Vice President Nixon
in the Soviet Union is clear evi
dence of a friendly feeling by
the Russian people for Amricans.
Eisenhower also told a news
conference that Nixon has every
right to discuss with Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev a possible visit
by the Premier to this country,
but has no authority to offer an
outright invitation.
By indirection, the President
thus seemed to confirm reports
that the Vice President had
broached the subject of an Amer
ican visit to the Soviet leader.
Eisenhower said Nixon had ac
quitted himself splendidly and in
a manner fitting with his high
office during his Soviet travels
and in his encounters with
Khrushchev.
Eisenhower also touched on
these other topics in the news con
ference:
Steel — He said that the U. S.
Steel Corporation’s profits, as re
ported last night, have no bearing
on whether the government should
intervene in behalf of a wage in
crease for the 500,000 striking
steelworkers.
The company’s earnings in the
first half of the year were at
record heights. The union con
tends the earnings statement
shows wages can be increased.
Hawaii — The President opened
his news conference with a vol
unteered expression of gratifica
tion over the outcome of yester
day’s election in Hawaii.
He said his gratification was not
primarily over the success of three
Republicans — the Governor,
Lieutenant Governor and one Sen
ator — but at the fact that among
the successful candidates, re
gardless of party, were Americans
of Chinese, Japanese and Hawai
ian extraction.
This was a fine example of
democracy at work, Eisenhower
said, and a good example to the
whole world.
With a grin, he added that of
course he did not wish to say
that he was not happy about the
election of the successful mem
bers of his own party.
Governor’s race.
Democrats had been favored be
cause of a strong primary show
ing a month ago. Quinn overcame
a 20,000 vote primary deficit. The
Democrats had won every terri
torial election since 1954.
Republicans Win Senate Control
They won the House of Repre
sentatives 33-18, but the Repub
licans won narrow control of the
Senate, 13-12.
Both Fong, 52, and Inouye, 34,
rfiade note of their ancestry in
victory statements.
“I feel that more will be de
manded of me because of my an
cestry,” Fong, a millionaire busi
nessman, said. “It is a great re
sponsibility because everything
will be scrutinized.”
The present U. S. House lineup
is 282 Democrats, 153 Republicans
and one vacancy. The Senate has
64 Democrats and 34 Republicans.
Fong, son of a poor Chinese
farmer, and Inouye, Japanese
American World War II hero, will
be the first legislators of Chi
nese and Japanese ancestry to
serve in Congress.
Fong was the only Republican
supported by Harry Bridges’ In
ternational Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union. The rest
of the union’s endorsement went
to Democrats.
By winning three of the five
top offices in the 50th state’s first
election yesterday, Republicans
made a surprise showing.
Democrats Were Favored
Democrats had been favored on
the strength of a strong primary
election showing a month ago and
their successive victories in every
Hawaii territorial election since
1954.
Inouye is a much-decorated war
veteran who lost his right arm
in combat.
The election brought out a rec
ord vote of an estimated 170,000
or 93 per cent of the 183,000 regis
tered voters.
Governor Quinn will have un
precedented patronage powers.
He will appoint 460 officials, in
cluding judges, department heads
and members of boards and com
missions.
His pay is $25,000 a year, a
$6,000 raise over the appointed
job.
Hawaii’s two Senators will serve
terms of either two, four or six
years to be determined by the
Senate. They will probably draw
lots, as Alaska’s first two Sen
ators did.
Cook Inlet Salmon Haul
Hard Hit By Storms
ANCHORAGE, UF> — The com
mercial salmon catch in Cook
Inlet, hard hit, by storms earlier
this month, is at an all-time low,
John Skerry of the Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries reported
Tuesday. '
Skerry said 72,941 cases of all
varieties of salmon had been
packed through Saturday, nearly
100,000 cases less than last year’s
below-normal pack.
Last year’s total was 173,534
cases, compared to 228,219 cases
in 1957 and 307,304 in 1956.
Skerry said he believed there
was little chance Cook Inlet fish
ermen could recoup the loss suf
fred because of the storms in the
time remaining this season.