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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 122 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1956 _Per Copy—15#
Nixon Accuses Stevenson of Playing
Politics With American Security
By the Associated Press
The controversy over Adlai Ste
venson’s H-bomb proposals con
tinued to rage over the weekend.
His suggestion that the military
draft might be ended in the fore
seeable future, when national se
curity permits, also drew replies
from administration spokesmen.
Vice President Nixon, speaking
Saturday in Alexandria, Minn.,
accused Stevenson of “playing
politics with America’s national
security on the draft issue.”
Then, referring also to the pro
posal on the H-bomb, Nixon said
Stevenson “could not have made
two statements . . . which would
have been more harmful in dis
couraging our allies or in encour
aging our potential enemies.”
At Crossroads, N.M., yesterday,
Democratic National Chairman
Paul Butler called on Eisenhower
to “reconsider” his earlier rejec
tion of Stevenson’s proposal and
join the Democratic candidate “in
a mutual effort to halt the nuclear
arms race.”
Butler said it should be consid
ered “not as an election year pro
posal, but as an American pro
posal, by an American dedicated
to the goal of world peace.”
Secretary of Defense Wilson,
Industrialist Urges
Policy of Gradual
Tariff Reduction
WASHINGTON UD— A policy of
“gradual and selective” tariff re
duction was urged on Congress
today by industrialist J. D. Zeller
bach, chairman of the Committee
for Economic Development.
“The committee believes that
■the expanding American economy
will be better able to maintain its
dynamic forward movement in a
climate of trade liberalization
than in a climate of trade restric
tion,” Zellerbach said in a state
ment filed with the House Ways
and Means subcommittee on tar
riffs.
“Simultaneously, our expand
ing economy will tend to absorb
those adverse effects of trade lib
eralization which may be felt in
particular segments of domestic
industry.”
The CED is a private, non
profit research orgaization of 150
leaders in business and education.
Zellerbach is president of Crown
Zellerbach Corp., San Francisco.
He emphasized that CED “does
not favor unlimited free trade."
He said Congress should follow
a policy which would be fair to
industries threatened with hard
ship because of foreign imports
and which would not injure do
mestic industries that are “truly
essential to national security.”
upholding the administration’s
stand, said yesterday “it isn’t
feasible" for this nation to stop
the tests without an ironclad
agreement with other nations.
Harold Stassen, Eisenhower’s
disarmament aide, said Sunday
Stevenson “has been misinformed
and misled and (is) thus mistak
en” on the H-bomb issue.
Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala', appear
ing in the same television session
with Stassen, said he thought the
tests are a proper campaign issue.
He also defended Stevenson’s po
sition on the draft, saying:
"Gov. Stevenson did not pro
pose the immediate discontinu
ance of the draft. He said we
ought to study other programs to
make it possible to end the peace
time draft. I see no reason why
everyone could not agree to that.*’
Ten nuclear scientists from the
California Instutute of Technol
ogy issued a joint statement yes
terday supporting Stevenson’s
stand on the H-bqpnb and calling
for “free and open discussion” of
such proposals.
Noting that Eisenhower has ex
pressed regret the test program
had become a campaign issue, the
statement continued:
“On the contrary, we find it
regrettable that discussions of
our military strength, of our mili
tary strength, of our vulnerability
and our foreign policy in relation
to H-bombs have thus far repre
sented such a small proportion of
current political discussions.”
But a University of California
physicist, Dr. Luis Alvarez, called
the statement “irresponsible." He
said “the subject is much too ser
ious to be injected into politics.”
Bleak Alternative
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
\SI—Crew members of four Amer
ican destroyers which wound up
a four-day visit today were extra
careful to rejoin their ships before
they sailed.
They had been told any man
who failed to turn up in time
would be drafted for the Ameri
can Operation Deepfreeze crew
which is to spend a year in the
bleak antarctic.
Not one man missed his ship.
Egan Thanks Voters
VALDEZ, OB—WUliam A. Egan,
Democrat, who apparently has
been elected a U.S. senator from
Alaska under the Tennessee Plan,
issued the following statement
Saturday:
“I am deeply grateful for' the
confidence expressed in me at the
polls on Oct. 9. Let me say that I
shall exert every effort to merit
the trust you have placed in me.”
Gravel Taken From New
Federal Bldg. Basement
Spread on City Streets
Excavating of the basement for
the new Federal building is now
under way with Q Trucking Co ,
doing the digging and hauling.
Three thousand yards of good
fill material is being spread on
the city streets including grav
eling of Fourth Ave from B St.
east.
Atomic-Powered
Merchant Ship
Wins Approval
WASHINGTON, eft—President
Eisenhower today ordered gov
ernment agencies “to proceed as
rapidly as possible" with design
and construction of America’s
first atomic-powered merchant
ship.
“I am confident that the ship
will be the forerunner of atomic
merchant and passenger fleets
which one day will unite the na
tions of the world in peaceful
trade,” Eisenhower said.
His statement was issued in
connection with a White House
ceremony at which a go-ahead
construction was authorized.
The ship will be a combination
vessel designed to carry about 100
passengers and have a dead
weight cargo capacity of 12,000
tons.
Construction was authorized by
Congress during the last session.
The ship will have a service speed
of 21 knots and will be about S95
feet long and 78 feet across the
beam. The spending limit set by
Congress is $46Vi million.
Tugs Back in Seattle
After Trip to Arctic
SEATTLE, MV-Two tugs of the
Alaska Freight Lines are back in
Seattle after completing a 9,000
mile round trip into the Arctic
Ocean to deliver supplies to 18
radar stations, some of them as
far east as Shepherd Bay, Canada.
That is 1,600 miles east of Point
Barrow. This is directly north of
Duluth, Minn., and only 150 miles
south of the North Magnetic Pole.
The arctic trip was made with
out aid of icebreakers.
Secret U.S. Documents
Found in Stolen Car
LONDON, Lf)—Scotland Yard
said today a stolen automobile
with secret U.S. documents in the
trunk “has been found in London
with everything intact.”
The Yard spokesman would not
say where in London the car and
its valuable contents were found
or give any of the circumstances
of the recovery.
/‘The car and papers are being
returned to the American author
ities," he added.
Search Continues for Survivors of
U. S. Transport Plane With 59
Aboard Missing Since Wednesday
LONDON, UPi—A Royal A i r
Force spokesman said today a
British ship has picked up the
wheels and part of the undercar
riage from the U.S. Military Air
Transport Service plane missing
in the east Atlantic with 59 U.S.
servicemen.
“It gives us new hope that there
might be a dinghy or dinghies in
the area with survivors,” the RAF
officer said in Cornwall. “A new
search is now being gradually
built up around the area in which
the wreckage was found.
The missing plane, a C-118
Liftmaster with a crew of nine
Navy men, was carrying 50 Air
Force men back to the Air Force
base at Lincoln, Neb., from duty
in Britain. It disappeared Wed
nesday night.
The debris was picked up by
the British tanker Navicella about
250 miles southwest of Land’s
End, the most southwesterly point
of Britain.
The U.S. Air Force announced
earlier that its search for surviv
ors from the Liftmaster would
continue indefinitely.
Search planes Saturday spotted
what at first was believed to be
two liferafts in the Atlantic area
where the giant airliner vanished
—but one of the supposed rafts
later, proved to toe a decomposed
whale.
The search planes’ crew radi
oed they saw no sign of life on or
near the objects in the ocean off
Spain.
Spurred by an S-O-S signal,
100 planes were in the air Friday
searching for survivors, or some
hint as to the big plane’s fate.
Saturday morning, German and
British ships picked up S-O-S sig
nals which turned (the search
planes to an area 80 miles off
Cape Finisterre, the northwest tip
of Spain.
Some Island, Not
Alcatraz, for Nixon
Says Gov. Leader
NEWARK, N.J., WV-Gov. George
Leader of Pennsylvania says he
never suggested Alcatraz as a re
tirement spot for Vice President
Nixon.
Speaking to delegates to a New
Jersey. CIO Political Action Com
mittee conference last night, the
Democratic governor said the Re
publicans themselves had linked
Nixon with the federal prison in
San Francisco Bay. And he said
$1,000 will go to charity if anyone
can show otherwise.
Five top Republicans Saturday
denounced Leader for what they
said was his Alcatraz suggestion
at a party rally in Oakland, Calif.
Thursday night.
He was quoted at that time as
saying, with obvious reference to
President Eisenhower’s farm at
Gettysburg, Pa.:
“We in Pennslyvania will have
to provide a place of retirement
for the general.”
And then he was quoted as
adding: “I hope you can find an
offshore island for . . .” but a roar
from the crowd drowned Leader
out before he could finish his
statement.
Two of the Republicans joining
in the denunciation—GOP Na
tional Chairman Leonard Hall
and Pennsylvania State GOP
Chairman George I. Bloom—sug
gested that Stevenson speak out
against what they termed "this
scurrilous statement.
But Leader ridiculed the Re
publican charges. He said what he
had in mind when he mentioned
an “offshore island were either
Seal Rock off San Francisco,
which he termed an appropriate
place to retire “the trained seal of
the reactionary Republican ad
ministration,” or Treasure Island,
between Oakland and San Fran
cisco in view of Nixon's success
in raising campaign funds.
U.S. Embassy Clerk
In Czechoslavakia
Denies Spy Charge
Vera Margaret Osso, a U.S. em
bassy clerk ordered out of Czech
oslavakia by the Communist gov
ernment, took refuge in the Amer
ican embassy in Berlin today.
An embassy spokesman said
Miss Osso arrived from Prague
last night and refused to see any
reporters or photographers be
cause “she is in a very disturbed
mental state.”
The spokesman added she will
leave for the U.S. on the first
available plane, not later than
tomorrow. She is 31 years old, a
graduate of Ohio State University
and gives Yorkville, Ohio, as her
home.
Miss Osso was accused by the
Prague government of traveling
around Czechoslavakia under
false identification papers which
were made out in the name of a
Czech woman.
The U.S. admitted the charge
was true but denied any espion
age was involved. It blamed the
affair on a Czechoslovak man
“who influenced her to accom
pany him on a motor trip to Slo
vakia during which he provided
and presented false documenta
tion for her.”
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