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Eisenhower and
Menshikov Hold
‘Very Useful’ Talk
WASHINGTON, UPi — Soviet
ambassador Mikhail Menshikov
met for 30 minutes today with
President Eisenhower and re
ported afterward they had a
“very useful conversation.”
Menshikov brushed aside ques
tions about whether his call dealt
with a summit conference, say
inf “it hasn’t ripened yet for pub
lication.”
Soviet sources said, however,
that Menshikov met with Eisen
hower for the second time in
three weeks to discuss the Krem
lin’s proposal for an East-West
foreign ministers meeting in
April.
The Soviet ambassador, who
went to the White House alone,
hinted Eisenhower talked blunt
ly with him about Soviet prob
lems with the West.
“I found the President looking '
healthy, and he’s very cheerful,”
Menshikov said.
“He’s frank and straightfor
ward and openhearted—qualities
the Russians like.”
Secretary of State Dulles also
sat in on the meeting.
James C. Hagerty, White House i
press secretary, said after Men- j
shikov left that the White House j
had nothing to say at this time ;
about his visit.
The White House stressed that
the Soviet envoy asked for the
appointment before the Kremlin
sent a note Friday proposing a
foreign ministers conference in
April to pave the way for an
East-West summit meeting.
Oldtimers Predict
Early Breakup of
Ice at Nenana
NENANA, (Special to Nugget)
— A gaily painted tripod was
erected at Nenana Saturday.
Under the black and white
structure there is 42 inches of j
ice and four feet seven inches of 1
water.
Don Clark, manager of the
1958 Nenana Ice Classic, says the
tripod is 300 feet from the Tan
ana bank and since there is very
little snow this year tourists can
drive their cars out on the ice
to get a close view. Nearby a
fish wheel is frozen in, affording
shutter bugs an unusual oppor
tunity for pictures.
Old timers are predicting an
early breakup due to the remark
ably warm winter. One sour
dough said that he hadn’t seen
such a mild winter since 1911.
While Arlee Charlie and Quen
tin Qulle were digging two-foot
trenches into the ice they were
quite puzzled as to where the
cakes of ice floating beneath were
coming from. However, Carl
“Mad Trapper” Haggstrom quick
ly explained that the ice worms
living upstream are nesting early
this year.
Manager Clark said: “To sum
it all up, the ice is 11 inches
thicker today that it was on Feb.
8, so form your own conclusions
and good luck.”
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Senators to be
Questioned In
FCC Investigation
WASHINGTON, UP)—The chair
man of the House committee in
vestigating the FCC.said today he
will seek to impeach Commission
er Richard A. Mack, and “certain
senators” who intervened in a
Miami television case are going
to have to come before the com
mittee.
Chairman Harris (D-Ark) made
this pronouncement after G. T.
Baker, winner in the TV case
rocked by charges of influence,
protested that it appeared Mack
was to be “crucified” while others
escaped.
Baker demanded senators and
others be investigated for what he
called their “improper activities”
in behalf of a rival applicant for
the TV license.
Mack has remained publicly
silent since he told the House in
vestigators last Friday he would
seriously consider demands that
he resign. The demands came
after several weeks of hearings
on the role ployed by Mack in
the Miami TV fight.
Specifically Baker demanded
investigation of what Sens. Ke
fauver (D-Tenn), Holland (D-Fla)
and (D-Fla) did in behalf of A.
Frank Katsentine, a losing appli
cant for Miami’s TV channel 10.
Wien To Bring Mail
From States via Fairbanks
On Sunday and Monday
Two refinement in mail service
were announced today by Wien
Airlines. The first is that arrange
ments have been made with the
U.S. Postal Department for all
first class and all airmail destined
for Nome is to be transferred
from Fairbanks on Saturday and
Sunday because there are no
flights from Anchorage on Sun
day and Monday.
The other service announced is
that outbound mail from Nome
will make a direct daily connec
tion for the states. Agent Dick
Miller explained that mail in the
postoffice before 9:30 a.m. each
day >will make the Seattle plane
without a day’s delay in Fair
banks.
Dr. Vivian Fuchs
To be Knighted for
Antarctic Trek
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, UP)
—Dr. Vivian Fuchs says the idea
he might fail to, cross Antarctica
never crossed his mind, but he
sometimes wondered how long it
would take to make the hazard
ous 2,100-mile trek.
Fuchs and his nine-man British
expedition arrived at Scott Base
yesterday, 99 days after leaving
Shackleton Station on the other
side of the Antarctic continent.
It was the first time man had j
ever crossed the frozen continent
by land.
“I did expect getting to the
South Pole would be trickiest,
and that was how it proved,”
Fuchs said. “From Deput 700 on, j
Ed (Sir Edmund) Hillary was j
with us and he knew the route
and was able to guide us.
“We broke only two crevasses
after Depot 700, and that was
only because I was off course,” |
Fuchs said.
Congratulatory messages con
tinued to pour in from govern
ment leaders, scientists and ex
plorers. Shortly after his arrival j
Fuchs received a radiogram noti
fying him that Queen Elizabeth
II would knight him for his
achievement.
Father Kills 6-Year-Old Son
While Out Rabbit Hunting
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UP> —
Six-year-old Jack Richard Rook
Jr. was afraid his father’s second
shot at a rabbit would hit his
dog, who was chasing the wound
ed animal yesterday.
The boy darted toward his dog
just as Jack Sr. fired.
The bullet went through the
boy’s head and he died a half
hour later in a hospital.
Never Listen To Your Wife
CANELLI, Italy, UP—Giuseppi
Gallo, an old hand at marriage,
advised new husbands today:
“Never listen to your wife.”
The sturdy 96-year-old said
that was how he and his wife,
92-year-old Giuseppina, arrived
happily at their 72nd wedding
anniversary.
Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of
Chicago Becomes First American
Member of Catholic High Curia
VATICAN CITY, im — Samuel
Cardinal Striteh, archbishop of
Chicago, was named by Pope
Pius XII as Pro-Prefect of the
Roman Catholic Church’s Congre
gation for the Propagation of the
Faith.
Vatican circles said the ap
point meant Cardinal Striteh will
leave Chicago and become a
member of the Curia of the
Church in Rome.
Cardinal Striteh, now 70, was
born in Nashville, Tenn., and was
ordained a priest there in 1910.
In Chicago, Cardinal Striteh
said in a statement he was “sur
prised and amazed” by the ap
pointment.
“It is clear that the holy father
in honoring me principally had
in mind honoring the church in
the United States,” he said.
“Never before in history has an
American prelate been called to
such an important office.”
Present Prefect of the Congre
gation for Propagation of the
Faith is Pietro Cardinal Furma
soni Biondi, who is 85.
His advanced age has limited
his activities, and the appoint
ment of a pro-pfefect is intended |
to relieve him of the weight of i
these duties.
The Congregation for the Pro
pagation of the Faith is the 7th,
in order, of the 12 congregations (
which govern the affairs of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Alaskans and Hawaiians Present
Case for Statehood On Nationwide
TV Program Murrow’s ‘See it Now’
NEW YORK, (j*P) — A combat
veteran of World War II, a wild
erness homesteading couple and a
pretty, young territorial legisla
tor whose ancestors were Japa
nese, joined yesterday in asking
the United States to admit Ha
waii and Alaska to the union.
A coast-to-coast television pro
gram on the CBS network de
voted a full hour to on-the-spot
interviews in Hawaii and Alaska
with proponents and opponents
of statehood. The first half of
the program, “See It Now,” con
ducted by Edward R. Murrow,
was devoted to Alaska; the sec
ond half, to Hawaii.
Murrow concluded each seg
ment with Washington interviews
with two key senators who ex
pressed opposition to statehood
for either territory.
The program ranged across the
scenic beauties of both lands, and
gave glimpses of Hawaiia’s pine
apple and sugar-growing fields
and factories and Alaska’s fish
eries.
Paid Price In Blood
Nits Fujuda, a former Army
major who commanded the most
decorated unit in U. S. military
history in World War II — the
N. Korea Wants
Recognition From
Western Powers
By K. C. HWANG
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Iff) — A
six-hour Allied-Communist meet
ing on the possible return of two
Germans and two Americans held
in North Korea ended in a dead
lock today over Red demands for
negotiations between govern
ments.
The Communists rejected a U.
N. Command proposal that the
two American pilots and the two
West German passengers of the
South Korean commercial air
liner held in North Korea since
Feb. 16 be handed bver at once
to U.S. and West German diplo
matic representatives present at
a meeting of secretaries of the
Allied-Red Truce Commission.
The North Koreans demanded
that arrangements first be work
ed out by meetings between of
ficials of the Unitel States, West
Germany and North Korea, which
would like to get recognition in
any form from the Western
powers.
After arguments lasting into
the night, U.S. Navy Capt. George
W. Kehl, the U.N. representative
told the Reds the Allied side “has
no intention to arrange a political
meeting between government
representatives.”
The session adjourned indefin
itely.
The Communists also refused
to treat with representatives of
the South Korean Red Cross con
cerning the 30 Korean passengers
on the plane.
famed 100th Infantry Battalion of
the 442nd Regimental Combat
Team — pointed to Hawaii’s war
dead and, in effect said Hawaii
had paid the price of citizenship
in blood.
Patsy Mink Takimoto, the first
woman of Japanese descent elect
ed to the Hawiian territorial leg
islature, said Congress should be
ashamed of itself for withholding
Hawaii’s “right to statehood.”
In Alaska, homesteading on the
Kenai Peninsula for nine years,
Larry Lancashire said that state
hood might cost Alaskans more
in taxes than they pay now, but
it was wor^h the price.
Second-Class Citizen
His tall wife, Rusty, who is
helping him carve a home out of
the wilderness, was no less direct
in expressing resentment over
her “second-class citizenship”
which denies her the right to
vote in national elections.
Not all those interviewed in Al
aska and Hawaii favor statehood.
Some felt the present system of
partial autonomy was good
enough and that the remoteness
of the territories made inter
mingling and sharing of national
ideas impossible for the average
inhabitant.
The proponents spoke strongly
of their “right” to U.S. citizen
ship, and pointed out their sacri
fices on the battlefield, their pay
ment of taxes to the U.S. Trea
sury and their political matur
ity should override all other ar
guments.
Two Opponents Air Views
Murrow interviewed in Wash
ington Sens. George W. Malone
(R-Nev) and James O. Eastland
(D-Miss).
Malone, senior Republican
member of the Interior and In
sular Affairs Committee, said
bringing territories into the na
tion that were not physically
joined to the continental United
States would open the door to
statehood demands from Puerto
Rico, the Philippines and Chinese
Formosa. Even European nations
would be applying, he said.
Eastland, chairman of the pow
erful Judiciary Committee, con
centrated most of his fire on Ha
waii which he said had large
number of Communists in posi
tions of power.
“I’m opposed to statehood for
Hawaii because the Communist
party controls the economy of the
island,” Eastland declared. He
said he would favor statehood for
Hawaii if the alleged Communist
power were broken. He said the
International Longshore Workers
Union “controls” the Hawiaan
legislature and that the ILWU
president, Harry Bridges, is a
Communist.
Bridges, who appeared earlier
on the program, had laughingly
denied the Communist allegation
and said he wished it were true
that he controlled the le islature,
but it wasn’t. , (1