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House Member Irked at Delays To
Sell Alaska Communications System
WASHINGTON, tfh — One
member of the House Subcom
mittee on defense appropriations
is irked at delays in action on
proposals to sell the government
owned Alaska Communications
System to private operators.
Thris was shown with the re
lease of the record of a closed
hearing at which Rep. Daniel J.
Flood (D-Pa) questioned Signal
Corps officers.
After being told by Maj. Gen.
Emil Lenzner, deputy chief sig
nal officer, that legislation to
authorize the sale still is await
ing approval by the Budget Bu
reau, Flood asked:
“Do you have any indication
in \irhat decade that might de
velop? ”
Congress is being asked to ap
pr<£>riate 5V£ million dollars for j
the system in the year beginning
July 1, but only $344,000 would
be for construction and system
improvements. Lenzner said it
is planned to continue operations
“on the same minimal essential j
basis as during the past two
years” pending a decision on the
sale proposal.
Flood at one point said “some j
of us have the vague impression j
$15 Million Cut
From U. S. State
Department Funds j
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House;
Appropriations Committee today i
cut $15,412,798 from new funds j
President Eisenhower had re- j
quested to finance the State De- [
partment and U. S. Information
Agency.
In a bill sent to the House for
debate next week, it recom-1
mended that the State Depart
ment get along on $192,859,353
and the USIA on $101,750,000 in
new funds during the year start
ing July 1. The President had
requested $199,990,151 for the
State Department and $110,
032.000 for the USIA.
The committee allotment is
$10,417,953 less than current
year appropriations for the State
Department and $5,550,000 more
than the USIA received this year.
The committee trimmed $1,
600.000 from the $7,600,000 the
President had sought for his
special international cultural, ar
tistic and athletic program which
finances overseas good will tours
of American entertainers.
A formal report accompanying
the committee’s recommendations i
was devoid of the criticism i
directed at the State Department |
and USIA in past years.
The committee said the State
Department had not proceeded
with the opening of all of the
new consular and reporting posts
abroad for which funds had been
appropriated last year. It spe
cifically earmarked on unspeci
fied portion of 1959 money for
opening 12 of these posts.
Among items approved was
$1,644,900 for U. S. participation
in seven international fisheries
commissions. *
that we are fattening up this
calf to fall as a ripe plum into
some unsuspecting lap, if you
know what I mean.”
He explained:
“I mean by the time we keep
maintaining it at this point, some
body will be able to come in and
say, ‘There is not a heck of a lot
left. You ought to give it to us
for X dollars now because after
all for the last 10 years you have
been merely maintaining it’.”
A major change In the budget
request would provide an added
$134,'000 to permit replacement of
72 military personnel with 36
civilian technicians. The commit
tee was told the change was in
the interest of economy, that it
would eliminate the continued!
training of military personnel
that has been necessary because
of periodic rotation within the
service.
U. S. Rep. Adam
Powell Indicted
For Tax Evasion
NEW YORK, UP) — Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell Jr., Harlem Demo
crat and church leader, has been
indicted on charges of federal
income tax evasion and aiding
in preparing a fraudulent tax
return for his wife.
A special Federal Grand Jury,
impaneled 16 months ago, Thurs
day returned a three-count in
dictment against the 49-year-old
Powell, Negro member of Con
gress from New York since 1945.
Powell supported President
Eisenhower and the GOP in the
1956 election, assertedly over his
displeasure with his own party’s
position on the racial segrega-1
tion issue.
Shortly after Eisenhower’s
reelection the jury was allowed
to become dormant. Powell de
nied that this represented any
deal with the administration.
Of the counts against Powell,
one charged tax evasion in a joint
1952 return with his wife, pianist
Hazel Scott. The Powells re
ported a net income of $5,252.
The government charged that the
true net was $8,952 and that
they owed taxes of $1,663.
A second count states that Mrs.
Scott, advised by her husband,
set her net income for 1951 at
$3,815, but that her net was
really $9,101. A third count
covers alleged violation of the
federal criminal code against aid
ing and abetting the preparation
of a fraudulent return for an
other person.
The three-count indictment
carries a maximum penalty, if
convicted, of 15 years in prison
and $30,000 in fines.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Washington 4, Detroit 1
National League
Cincinnati 10, Chicago 8
Pacific oast League
Sacramento 2, San Diego 1
Vancouver 7, Seattle 2
Phoenix 8, Salt Lake City 4
100,000 Aircraft
& Missile Workers
on Brink of Strike
(Bv The Associated Press)
Nearly 100,000 aircraft workers
who make some of the nation’s
most important missiles and
bombers stood on the brink of a
strike Thursday. At the last
hour, their leaders called back
handbills and picket signs pre
pared for midnight.
The first of some 8,000 workers
in the big Lockheed bomber
plant at Marietta, Ga., walked
off the job when their midnight
deadline ran out, and organized
picket lines.
At the nation’s missile test
center at Cape Canaveral, work
ers also set up picket lines, but
were called back minutes later
by word from Los Angeles that
the strike had been postponed.
Workers at plants in Texas,
Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina
and Arizona would have been
affected.
Officials of the International
Assn, of Machinists and of the
United Auto Workers said they
would continue negotiating with
three big aircraft makers, Con
vair, Douglas Aircraft Corp. and
North American Aviation, Inc.
They held to their strike threat,
however, despite the economic
recession that has produced
America’s greatest unemployment
in nearly 20 years.
Anchorage Doctor
Gives $200 Reward
For Return of Wallet
PHOENIX, UP)—An Anchorage,
Alaska, doctor today recovered
his wallet containing $1,400—and
gratefully gave $200 to the girl
who found it.
Teresa McGlory, 18, sobbed
with happiness after receiving the
reward from Dr. Calvin T. John
son, who has been visiting in
Phoenix. Dr. Johnson’s wife,
Mary, died recently in a Phoe
nix hospital of injuries suffered
in an automobile accident.
The girl said she found the
wallet in a shopping center phone
booth last night. Police located
the owner today.
The gir took the reward money
to a bank and opened a savings
account.
Head of Pakistan’s
Republican Party
Victim of Assassin
LAHORE, West Pakistan, UP) —
The head of Pakistan’s governing
Republican Party, Dr. Khan
Saheb, was assassinated today in
the capital of West Pakistan.
He was stabbed by a man iden
tified as Ata Mohammed, a dis
missed revenue official. Th e
man was captured. . ,
A veteran Indian and Pakis
tani politician, Khan Saheb, 85,
was the first chief minister of
West Pakistan. He later re
signed to devote full attention to
running the party.
In New Delhi, Indian Prime
Minister Nehru said “I hardly
ever came across a greater gen
tleman” and the Indian Parlia
ment stood in silence for two
minutes in Khan Saheb’s honor.
Vice President Nixon And Party
Stoned by Communists In Peru
LIMA, Peru, (#) — A shower
of rocks greeted Vice President
Nixon Thursday as he sought to
visit San Marcos University’s
rector and talk to students. One
rock grazed the touring Vice
President’s neck and another
chipped the tooth of a member
of Nixon’s party, Jack Sherwood.
Nixon then cancelled his visit,
saying it was obvious someone
would be badly hurt if he per
sisted. He then paid a call on
nearby Catholic University to
talk to student groups there.
Two thousand students were
assembled as Nixon approached
400-year-old San Marcos. The
university student federation early
24 Men Rescued
After 13 Hours
Trapped In Mine
SHARPLES, W. Va., UP)—1Twen
ty-four men who had been trapped
more than 13 hours in a flooded
coal mine were brought to the
surface, unharmed and in good
physical shape, at dawn today.
They came out through an
abandoned air shaft of the Boone
County Coal' Corp. mine. Trucks
picked them up and carried them
to the mine bathhouse where they
were met by their families and
friends, who had waited anxious
ly through the night.
A four-man rescue party
reached the trapped miners by
threading their way through the
honeycombed passages of a sec
tion which had not been worked
since the 1920s.
The 24 were the entire work
force on the 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
shift yesterday. The water, which
flooded part of the mine and
cut them off, broke through
about 1 p.m., jamming the pas
sageways with debris.
It came from a pond in a
mountain hollow on the surface
above the underground workings.
Refuse-laden water from the
mine coal washery is pumped
into the pond, swollen by re
cent rains.
The trapped men probably
owed their lives to a downhill
slope away from them, which
kept water from reaching the
place they were working.
Thursday morning adopted a reso
lution saying Nixon was unwel
come in Peru because “he rep
resents the plutocratic and im
perialist interests of the North
American government.” The fed
eration denied his visit had any
student sponsorship. The local
press identified the main backers
of the resolution as Communist
sympathizers.
The U. S. Vice President had
waited until the last moment be
fore deciding to go to San Marcos
because of the threats of violence.
The San Marcos’ students
shouted “Nixon get out!” as the
Vice President came up to them.
Then a dozen or so rocks flew
through the air toward the Nixon
party.
A bit of scattered applause
had been drowned out by derisive
whistles, apparently from a hard
core of Red-led students.
Nixon kept telling police who
were with him: “Don’t push,
don’t push.” He also called to
the students: “I want to talk
to your leaders. Dqn’t you want
to hear facts.”
Later at Catholic University he
commented that those making
the most noise appeared to be
“very old students”.
The outbursts against the Vice
j President shook Lima. The in
fluential newspaper El Comercio
said the police should have taken
steps to prevent the outbreaks.
Opposition papers already had
criticized the government for
failing to prevent similar—but
j milder — anti-Nixon demonstra
tions the day before.
Nixon made no official fuss
but Foreign Minister Raul Porras
quickly expressed official and
personal apologies.
Although the Communist Party
is outlawed in Peru as an inter
national organization, the Reds
have been making propaganda
hay with the country’s economic
problems by blaming them on
the United States.
U. S. markets for Peru’s lead
and zinc are dwindling and there
is a strong drive in Washington
to raise the tariff on those metals.
The nation’s sugar quota recent
ly was cut, and Peru needs U. S.
loans. Peru also fyas viewed the
sale of U. S. surplus cotton
abroad as cut-price dumping and
a threat to her own cotton.
BACCALAUREATE SERVICE
SUNDAY, MAY 11 — 8 P.M.
Nome High School Auditorium
Prelude . Alice A. Glavinovich
Invocation . Rev. E. F. Bibb
Born To Be Free . Williams
(Vocal Ensemble)
Baccalaureate Address . Rev. Willard M. Mecklenburg
Were You There ... Burleigh
(Vocal Ensemble)
Benediction . Rev. E. F. Bibb
Postlude . Alice A. Glavinovich
Graduating students from Nome High School who will participate
in the ceremony are: Sadie Bell, Edward Carter, Harriet Cole
man, Virginia Doyle, Suzanne Fagerstrom, Ruth Glavinovich.
John Johnson, George Rost, Gloria Mogg, Arlene Muller, Charles
Snyder, Berda Tate, and Gladyce Walker.
JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM School Auditorium I
/ Admission $1.00 per Person Semi- Formal Theme: Harbor Lights Music by Rich and His Or~?ji