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41 Alaskan Politicos of Both Parties|
Gear Up for Trip to 1960 Conventions
JUNEAU, (/Pi — At least 41
Alaskans are set to leave the
state in coming weeks to take an
active hand in selecting the next
President of the United States.
All 12 of the Republican con
vention delegates and alternates
from Alaska plan to be in Chi
cago for the GOP convention and
29 Alaska delegates and alternates
have already made firm plans to
attend the Democratic conven
tion in Los Angeles.
Top Lawmakers to Attend
Included among those who
plan to be in Los Angeles are
Gov. William Egan, U. S. Senators
Bartlett and Gruening, Mrs.
Helen Fischer of Anchorage, the
state’s National Committeewoman,
and A'ex Miller of Fairbanks,
the state’s National Committee
man. All are full-fledged dele
gates.
The other delegates who have
also made definite plans to at
tend the National Democratic
Convention, Egan said, are:
Felix Toner, Juneau; Frank
Peratrovich, Klawock; Pat Gil
more, Ketchikan, Wendell Kay,
Anchorage; Bob McFarland, An
chorage; Stanley McCutcheon,
Anchorage: Bob Giersdorf, Fair
banks; Eugene Brazeau, Fair
banks; Lew Dischner, Fairbanks;
Richard Greuel, Fairbanks, and
Mike Walsh, of Nome.
Alternates planning to go are
James Campbell, Ketchikan;
George Allen, Chugiak; Sol Urie,
Seward, and U. S. Rep. Ralph
Rivers, and George McNabb, from
Fairbanks.
Eight Democrats who were
elected as “additional alternates'’
also plan to attend the Los An
geles sessions. They are:
John O’Connell, Sitka; Jack
Asher, Juneau; Maurice Oak
smith, Ketchikan; Irene Ryan,
Anchorage; Delores Roguszka,
Anchorage; Robert Scott, Nome;
Norma Scott, Nome, and Louise
Walsh, Nome.
Egan said William Beltz, Una
lakleet, was the only Democratic
delegate who definitely would not
be at Los Angeles. Beltz is ser
iously ill in Anchorage.
Alternates who may have to be
selected to stand in for missing
delegates will be named after the
Alaska delegation gets to Los An
geles, Egan said.
GOP Delegates
Robert Druxman of Juneau, a
GOP delegate, said the other five
Republican delegates planning to
be in Chicago with him are W. W.
Laws, Nome; Bob Groseclose,
Fairbanks; Lucille Harkubus,
Fairbanks; Jack White, Anchor
age, and Frank Harris, Anchor
age.
Also making plans to attend,
Druxman said, were the six GOP
alternates, Vesta Sundstrum of
Nome, John Coghill of Nenana,
Della See and Mel Tipton of An
chorage, Jack Sherman of Ketchi
kan, and Doris Barnes of Wran
gell.
Wainwright Presbyterian
Sees Marvels of ‘Outside'
At Spokane Conference
SPOKANE, (/PI — The stately
pines on the Whitworth College
campus look so good to an Alas
kan Eskimo that he would like
to take some home with him —
north of the Arctic Circle, that is.
In his first trip below that
circle, Alva Nashoalook, 61.
Wainwright, Alaska, is attending
the 71st annual meeting of the
United Presbyterian Synod of
Washington. Born at Point Frank
lin, Nashoalook had his schooling
in Wainwright and Icy Cape.
It was snowing hard and the
temperature was in the 30s when
Nashoalook left his home last
weekend. The mercury climbed to
84 in Spokane yesterday.
Nashoalook has been enjoying
the strange sights of a big city
and contrasting things with his
life on the Arctic tundra.
The cheerful Alaskan delegate
has been a trustee of his Presby
terian Church since it was organ
ized 37 years ago today.
Cost of Living Rose
I/10th Per Cent in May
WASHINGTON ,!/Pt — The cost
of living edged up one-tenth of
one per cent in May, setting a
new record for the third month
in a row.
Reporting this today, the Labor
Department announced its con
sumer price index reached 126.3
per cent of the 1957-49 average.
Higher food prices were chief
ly responsible for the rise.
Despite the slight rise in prices,
the buying power of the average
factory worker’s paycheck rose
slightly.
Nevertheless, buying power in
May still was 2 per cent below
that of a year ago.
Man Killed on N. Y.
Sidewalk by Dumbell
Falling from 8th Floor
NEW YORK, UP — Alvin Ro
decker, 60-year-old Detroit busi
nes man, died today after being
struck with a five-pound dumbell
which fell eight stories from the
apartment of actress Arlene Fran
cis and her husband.
Rodecker was head of the
Aaron Deroy Management Co. in
Detroit. He and his wife were
celebrating his 60th birthday
Thursday when he was struck
down on a Manhattan sidewalk.
The dumbell accidentally fell
from a window of the apartment
of Miss Francis and her husband,
theatrical producer Martin Gabel.
Neither Gabel nor Miss Francis
was at home at the time.
Two employes in the apartment,
police said, were changing a
screen held in place by two dum
bells when one of them slipped
and fell.
Foresees “Pacific Trail”
Extending From Mexico
To Mendenhall Galcier
OLYMPIA, OP — Representa
tives of West Coast states and
British Columbia have been in
vited to a meeting here July 20
to discuss promotion of a “Pacific
Trail" highway skirting the ocean
from Mexico to Alaska.
Gov. Rosellini wrote Thursday
to Premier Bennett of British Co
lumbia and Governors F,dmund
Brown of California, Mark Hat
field of Oregon and William Egan
of Alaska. He asked each of them
to send an administrator to the
meeting.
As he envisioned it, the route
would extend from lower Cali
fornia to the Mendenhall Glacier
near Juneau.
Ike Ponders Reply j
To Critics of
Foreign Policy
EDITOR’S NOTE: Marvin Ar
rowsmith, a veteran Associated
Press White House Correspondent
who accompanied the President
on his tour of the Far East, re
ports on developments since the
President arrived in Hawaii for
a rest.
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
HONOLULU, I/P — President
Eisenhower’s conference with
Vice President Nixon by tele
phone may well reflect Repub
lican concern over Democratic
attacks on Administration foreign
policy this election year.
Eisenhower and Nixon dis
cussed the tour, including the
furor-stirring cancellation of the
three-day visit the President had
expected to make to Japan. Eis
enhower has blamed blowup of
the visit on Communist-inspired
rioting in Tokyo.
The President also talked over
with Nixon the television-radio
report which Eisenhower will
make to the American people
Monday night on his Far Eastern
journey. The President will speak
from Washington, and his 30-min
ute address, starting at 6:30 p.m.
EST will be carried live by most
of the networks.
After reporting the Eisenhower
Nixon telephone conference,
White House Press Secretary
Hagerty was asked whether the
President had any comment on
what newsmen called mounting
criticism by Democrats of Eis
enhower’s tour.
“Not specifically,” Hagerty re
plied, “But he is somewhat
puzzled and somewhat amused by
the fact that some of these same
gentlemen were saying eight days
ago that it would be a catastrophe
if he didn’t visit Japan.”
There is small likelihood, how
ever, that either Eisenhower or
Nixon is truly amused by the
fresh flurry of atacks by some
key Democrats on Administration
foreign policy generally and the
Japanese visit collapse partic
i ularly.
Cancellation of the Japan visit,
coming atop the U-2 spy plane
episode and collapse of the May
summit conference, has put the
Administration under perhaps the
heaviest attack in the foreign
policy field in seven and one
half years.
There seems no doubt now that
the policy will be a major cam
paign issue. And Nixon, as the
almost-sure bet Republican Pres
idential nominee, is put in the
position of having to deal with
the opposition attacks.
Eisenhower is in the same po
sition, of course, so his Monday
night report cannot help but add
up to a reply to the Democrats.
Polio Cases Increase
WASHINGTON, UP — A sharp
increase in the number of polio
cases was reported last week, the
Public Health Service said todaf.
Thirty-seven cases, 30 of them
paralytic, were reported for the
week ended June 18. Nineteen
cases, 16 of them paralytic, were
reported during the week ended
June 11.
I The 30 paralytic cases, howev
I er, are considerably below the 61
for the comparable week in 1959
I but above the same week in 1958.
Tokyo Leftists Stir
Up New Disfavor
Over U. S. Part
TOKYO, Ufi — Japanese left- |
wingers today began a new ser- ]
ies of demonstrations in an ef
fort to whip up enough public |
sentiment to force nullifcation of i
the new U. S.-Japan security l
pact.
The first demonstration was a
“People’s Funeral” for Michiko
Kamba, the 22-year-old Tokyo
University coed killed in the stu
dent assault on he Parliament
building June 15. It was the third
leftist memorial service held over
the girl’s ashes.
Sponsors of today's funeral had
predicted 20,000 would turn out,
but only about 3,000 showed up.
Saturday, rallies in factories
and shops are scheduled, with a
night demonstration around the
Parliament for which 60,000 are
promised. On July 2 Socialists and
their allies will try to muster
300,000 for more shouted demands,
that a new Parliament be elected
at once and voice adoption of a
declaration refusing to recognize
the security treaty which went
into force 'Thursday.
The Socialists concede that in
an election Premier Kishi’s Lib
eral-Democratic Party would
again win a majority, but they
claim the majority would be re
duced substantially, and that this
would represent sufficient popu
lar objection to the treaty to jus
tify its nullifcation.
Coast Guard Lightship
Rammed, Sunk by
Freighter in N. Y. Harbor
NEW YORK, Wt—An outbound
freighter moving through heavy
fog rammed and sank a Coast
Guard lightship at the entrance of
New York Harbor today. There
were no injuries.
All nine Coast Guardsmen were
rescued and taken to the St.
George Coast Guard Base at
Staten Island.
The freighter, the 6,100-ton
Green Bay, was not seriously
damaged.
The heavier vessel hit the 129
foot lightship amidship shortly
after 4 a.m. It sank in about 90
feet of water about 10 minutes
later.
SEN. KENNEDY CALLS
FOR FULL-SCALE
ALASKA PROGRESS
WASHINGTON, UP—Sen. John
F. Kennedy today called for full
development of Alaska’s vast nat
ural resources.
The new state’s “unparalleled
abundance is the natural store
house of America’s future re
source needs . . . our growing
strength and our continued pros
perity depend upon the proper
development of Alaska,” he told
the Senate.
He said Alaska’s potential in
power, forests and fish call for
development of a blueprint for
development of the state’s re
sources—-"a grand plan to match
the prodigious scale of Alaskan
wealth, and the immensity of Al
askan problems.”
Kennedy said the history of Al
askan resources development has
been a “story of neglect and of
indifference, and even of flagrant
government discrimination against
Alaska and of a short-sighted in
ability to envision Alaska’s future
greatness.”
Brother Stumps
In Nome Today
For Sen. Kennedy
The first of national campaign
ers, Ted Kennedy, brother of Sen
ator John Kennedy of Massachu
setts, arrived here this morning
from Anchorage, and planned to
depart this afternoon for Fair
banks.
He was met at the field by a
delegation of Democrats, and a
no-host luncheon followed at the
Seaview Room.
Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy was
born in Brookline, Mass., Feb. 22,
1932. A graduate of Harvard and
the University of Virginia Law
School, he is now devoting all his
efforts to the Presidential cam
paign of his brother, Senator
John F. Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy played varsity
football at Harvard and served
two years with the U. S. Army
in France and Germany. He man
aged Senator Kennedy’s 1958
campaign for re-election in Mas
sachusetts, which Kennedy won
by 870,000 votes. In November,
1958, he married Virginia Joan
Bennett of Bronxville. N. Y.
A member of the Massachusetts
Bar, he has traveled extensively
on behalf of his brother, meeting
with Democratic leaders in all
parts of the country.
He plans to remain in Fair
banks just one day, departing to
morrow for Seattle .
Kennedy states his brother, the
Democratic White House aspirant,
will visit Alaska sometime during
the summer.
U. N. Tells Israel Make
‘Reparation’ to Argentina
For Eichmann Kidnap
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Ut>
— The U. N. Security Council
has endorsed Argentina’s conten
tion that the capture of Adolf
Eichmann by Israeli agents vio
| lated Argentine sovereignty. But
Israel still has Eichmann and ob
viously is going to keep him for
trial.
The Council late Thursday
adopted an Argentine resolution
criticizing the Nazi official’s se
cret transfer from Buenos Aires
to Israel and calling on Israel to
“make appropriate reparation.”
The mild, vague resolution did
not ask for Eichmann’s return to
Argentina, as Argentina had de
manded earlier. And Israeli Pre
mier David Ben-Gurion already
had said flatly Eichmann would
stay in Israel to stand trial on
charges that, as chief of the Ges
tapo’s Jewish section, he super
vised the extermination of six
million European Jews in World
War II.
| In Buenos Aires, Foreign Un
dersecretary Miguel Angel Cen
teno said his government might
consider an apology from Israel
sufficient reparation. Argentine
President Arturo Frondizi, at a
news conference in Paris, said he
was “favorably impressed” with'
the Council action because it had
“approved the principle of inter
national law for each nation.
Consequently it did not support
the violation of these rights by
Israel.”
Rear Adm. H. H. Caldwell,
U. S. Navy, was an overnight
guest here last night with a
group of staff officers. He ar
rived by Navy plane from Point
Barrow, and departed for Kodiak
this monning.