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Democratic Victory In New Jersey
Election Casts Pall of Gloom Over
Republican Political High Command
WASHINGTON, W— Tuesday’s
elections — particularly the elec
tion of a . Democratic governor
and Congress member in New Jer
sey cast a pall ctf gloom on the
Republican political high com
mand today and brought jubila
tion to the Democrats.
For the Republicans and the
Eisenhower administration, the
the New Jersey results were a
stunning blow, and GOP chair
man Leonard W. Hall frankly ack
nowledged it.
“There was no question about
it,” Hall said, “As of today, we
are in trouble politically.”
But Hall proclaimed confidence
that things will be different in
next year’s elections when con
trol of Congress will be at stake.
Stephen A. Mitchell Democratic
chairman, interpreted the results
as meaning his party is von the
march from north, south, east and
west.”
As in any election, there was
wide room for conjecture and de
bate as to the extent to which the
results turned on purely local
issues and how much voters were
influenced by their attitude to
ward the national administration.
New Jersey Republicans, how
ever, had sought votes with the
argument that the prestige of
President Eisenhower’s adminis
tration was involved. And the
• President had given a blanket en
dorsement to all Republican can
didates.
Last week, the White House
specifically named Paul L. Troast,
the GOP candidate for governor
of New Jersey, as among those
having the President’s endorse
ment.
Troast lost by about 160,000
votes to Robert B. Meyers who
will be the first Democratic gov
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Neutral Observers
Protest Lengthy
Harangues by Reds
PANMUNJOM, UP) — U.N. and
neutral observers protested an
grily Wednesday as Communist
persuaders harangued balk Chi
nese prisoners for as long as
four hours.
Only 205 or 403 prisoners sched
uled to appear for explanations
were interviewed. And of the 205
only three elected to return to
Communism.
The Neutral Nations Repatria
tion Commission certified one of
the three as mentally incompetent
and ordered him to a hospital.
An Allied officer said the prison
er spent almost three hours be
fore Red persuaders and was so
confused he didn’t know what he
was doing or saying.
Several Swiss members of the
Repatriation Commission group
overseeing the explanations walk
ed out temporarily when their
protests over long interviews were
overruled by Indian chairmen.
Results of yesterday’s elections
in brief:
NEW JERSEY—The governor
ship went to Robert B. Meyner,
Democrat, to end 10 years of Re
publican control of the Trenton
statehouse. The defeated GOP
candidate was Paul L. Troast. In
a special house election in the 6th
District, held by the Republicans
since 1932, Democrat Harrison A.
Williams Jr. narrowly defeated
Republican George F. Hetfield.
VIRGINIA— Democrats retained
the governorship, which they have
held since Civil War times. Thom
as B. Stanley won over Republi
can Theodore R. Dalton in the
closest race there in years.
NEW YORK CITY—Robert F.
Wagner Jr., Democrat, won the
mayoralty by a whopping margin
over Harold Riegelman, Republi
can, and Rudolph Halley, Liberal.
The present mayor, Vincent Im
pellitteri, elected as an Indepen
dent Democrat, had been defeated
by Wagner in the Democratic pri
mary.
OTHER MAYORS—Republicans
held onto city halls in Little Rock,
Ark., and Waterbury, Conn., and
made gains in Syracuse, Glens
Falls and Oneida, N.Y. Democrats
held Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Al
bany, Louisville, Ky., and Bing'
hamton, N.Y., and made gains in
New Haven, Conn.; Akron and
Columbus, Ohio. Many other
mayoralty elections were non
partisan.
Top Official Deny Reports
That U.S. Plans To Store
A-Bombs In Spanish Bases
WASHINGTON, UP) — Two top
administration officials have
denied that the United States has
plans to store atomic weapons in
Spain, and Secretary of the Air
Force Harold Talbott contends he
didn’t say it did.
The denials came yesterday in
quick succession and in the wake
of widely published stories quot
ing Talbott as saying in Madrid
on Monday there were such plans.
Until Talbott comes home about
mid-month and gives his official
version, the government apparent
ly intends to ride along on the
basis of:
1. The pronouncement of Sec
retary of State Dulles, concurred
in by Secretary of Defense Wilson
that “We have no plans for stor
ing atomic weapons in Spain” and
that if and when suoh plans ma
terialize “we shall not announce
them publicly to the world and
to our potential enemy.
2. Talbott’s insistence on arriv
ing yesterday in Athens, Greece,
that he had said nothing about
storing bombs in Spain “nor will
be ever make statements about
atomic weapons.”
INDIANAPOLIS, WP)—A sign at
a three-way intersection at the
Indianapolis stockyards warns:
“Please drive carefully. The
life you save may be next year’s
sirloin.”
Asks Restitution
Foreign Duty Pay
Alaska Servicemen
WASHINGTON, UP) — Delegate
Bartlett today pressed his fight
against a law prohibting payment
of foreign duty allowances to
servicemen stationed in terri
tories where they have legal resi
dence.
“It is simply not true,” he wrote
Secretary of Defense Wilson,
“That an Alaska boy who has
been called into service can live
cheaper than one from else
where.”
During consideration of the De
fense Department appropriation
bill last year, the House inserted
a provision barring foreign-duty
payments and cost - of - living al
lowances to civilian govenment
employes assigned to the terri
tory in which residence was
claimed.
After protests by Bartlett, the
Defense Department and others,
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee struck out the provision
dealing with civilians—but let the
military ban stand.
Bartlett wrote Wilson today that
after talking “with many who
have had their pay seriously cut”
as a result of the provision “I am
more than ever convinced that a
very positive effort should be
made to make sure that the next
appropriation bill does not con
tain this discriminatory language.”
He said he had comferred with
Lt. Gen. J.H. Atkinson, command
ing general of the Alaskan Com
mand, and found the general
“very much opposed” to the pro
vision.
Bartlett cited several examples
which he said illustrated hard
ships brought about by the pro
vision.
Western Governors Urge
Statehood For Hawaii To
“Pass Without Delay”
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., UP) —
Western governors today urged
Congress to “pass without delay”
the pending Hawaii statehood bill.
The action came as governors
of 11 western states and Hawaii
wound up a three-day meeting of
the Western Governors confer
ence.
In unanimous action, the chief
executives urged the legislative
body of the nation to get on with
the job of bringing “This Ameri
can commonwealth into the union
as the 49th state.”
Dutch Inventor of New
Microscope Wins The
Nobel Prize in Science
STOCKHOLM, iff) — The 1953
Nobel physics prize was awarded
today to Dr. Frederik Zemike, a
Dutch scientist who invented a
revolutionary microscope.
The Swedish Academy of
Science announced the $33,840
cash award will go to? Zemike for
his invention of the face contra^
microscope which greatly facili
tated the study of living matter.
Dr. Zernike is a professor of
physics as Groningen University
in Holland.
Diane Wells and Negro Drummer
Arrested In States on Telegraphic
Murder Warrant from Fairbanks
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BULLETIN
OAKLAND, Calif., (A»)—Pofice
Inspector James Mangini today
arrested Johnny Charles War
ren, 33, a Negro drummer, on a
telegraphic murder warrant
from Fairbanks, Alaska.
Mangini said the warrant
jointly charged Warren and
Mrs. Diane Wells, blonde wid
ow, with the murder of Mrs.
Wells' husband Cecil Wells.
Warren was questioned pre
viously by Oakland police but
was not held. At that time he
denied any knowledge of the
slaying.
Fairbanks police reported
Warren left Fairbanks early the
morning of the slaying.
DMEA Aid To Be
Cut To Minerals
Critical to Defense
WASHINGTON, LH —The gov
ernment decided Monday to limit
financial aid by the Defense Min
erals Exploration Administration
ter those minerals in shortest sup
ply for defense needs.
Even that aid will be limited
to 75 per cent of the cost of an
exploratory project, instead of the
previous maximum of 90 per cent,
Secretary of the Interior McKay
announced.
The new restriction on gov
ernment stimulation of explora
tion for new strategic material de
posits carries out recommenda
tions made by the Office of De
fense Mobilization on Aug. 31.
The new rules are effective on
applications received after Nov. 3
—yesterday.
McKay announced that future
aid will be on the following
basis:
Group A—Chromium, copper and
molybdenum, for which the gov
ernment wil contribute 50 per
cent of approved project costs.
Group B—Asbestos, beryl, co
balt, columbium, manganese,
mica, nickel, platinum, tantatlum,
tungsten, and uranium, for which
the government will contribute 75
per cent of approved costs.
Last available figures showed
DMEA had executed 543 contracts
under the program up to July 31,
covering projects estimated to
cost $21,644,941, with the govern
ment agreeing to pay $12,869,872
of the total.
Churchill Intends To Stay
In Power Two More Years
LONDON, ®— Prime Minister
Winston Churchill said Tuesday
he intends to keep his conserva
tive government in power for two
and a half more years, barring
some “extraordinary situations.”
He addressed a new session of
the House of Commons a few
hours after Queen Elizabeth II
had formally opened the Parlia
ment in a glittering ceremony at
pomp and pageantry.
* SEATTLE, (An—Diane Wells, 31
year-old widow of Cecil Wells,
president of the All-Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce who was slain in
Fairbanks Oct. 17 was taken into
custody by the United States mar
shal here Tuesday night.
The arrest was made as the at
tractive blonde stepped from a
Pan American Airways plane
from Fairbanks with her four
year-old son, Marquam, at the
Seattle-Tacoma International Air
port.
Weeping and obviously dis
tressed, Mrs. Wells protested that
she did not understand. Marshal
W. Budd Parsons told her he was
arresting her on a telegraphic
warrant issued by the U.S. Dis
trict Court in Fairbanks.
Only a portion of the warrant
was read to explain to Mrs. Wells
why she is being held.
There was no disclosure of any
specific charge against her, prior
to her arraignment before a U.S.
Commissioner here today.
Federal officials stated at the
hearing, that the warrant was
based on a secret indictment re
turned by a grand jury at Fair
banks last night.
Wells’ will, make public last
week, left most of his estate to
Mrs. Wells, their 4-year-old son
Marquam, and to Wells’ children
by previous marriages.
Wells was the General Motors
dealer in Fairbanks.
Apparently unaware of the gra
vity of the situation, Marquam
played noisily and happily in the
King County Jail booking office
while Mrs. Wells conferred brief
ly with Wallace Aiken, attorney
here for the sizable Wells’ estate.
“I don’t see how they can put
a person in jail without telling
what the charge is,” she protested
tearfully during the booking pro
cedure.
The Wells slaying has been one
of Alaska’s most sensational death
cases, and has provoked sharp
controversy in Fairbanks over the
procedures at the police and their
failure to call in other law en
forcement agencies immediately.
A coroner’s inquest jury re
turned a verdict of death at the
hands of a person or persons un
known last week. It had refused
the previous week to follow the
recommendation of a U.S. Attor
ney for such a finding. Instead, it
had called for further evidence at
a second session.
JUDGE SAYS NO PREJUDICE
IN SELECTING JURY FOR
GREENLEASE KIDNAP TRIAL
KANSAS CITY, (A — Federal
Judge Albert L. Reeves says the
question of prejudice will not en
ter into- the selection of a jury for
the trial of the Greenlease kid
napers “since there is no ques
tion of determining guilt or inno
cence.”
Carl Austin Hall, 34, and Mrs.
Bonnie Brown Heady, 41, Tuesday
pleaded guilty to the kidnaping
and slaying of Bobby Greenlease
and their trial was set for Nov. 16.