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VOL. LXII No. 113 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1960Per Copy 15^
Khrushchev Attacks Structure,
Location and Personnel, of U.N.
By RELMAN MORIN
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., W—
Nikita Khrushchev proposed to
day to move the United Nations
out of New York, shake up its or
ganization and eliminate the of
fice of Secretary-General.
In a blockbuster speech, the So
viet premier also:
1. Denounced President Eisen
hower as risking World War III
in the U2 spy plane incident of
last May.
2. Demanded the immediate in
dependence of all colonial areas.
3. Proposed a newly dressed up
three - stage disarmament plan
looking toward what Khrushchev
calls complete and general dis
armament. It contained much of
which the West already has re
jected, in a newly wrapped pack
age.
4. Repeated a demand for a new
summit conference “in a few
months time” apparently to dis
cuss the future of West Berlin
with the U.S. President and the
French and British heads of gov
ernment.
Khrushchev’s surprise recom
mendations on the United Nations
came only a day after President
Eisenhower had pleaded with this
historic 15th U.N. Assembly ses
sion to use the world organiza
tion to clear dangerous disputes, j
The Soviet leader proposed a j
three-man executive body to
guide the United Nations, in
which the West, the Soviet bloc
and the neutralist powers would
share equally in control. This
would replace the post of Secre
tary-General, now held by Swed
en’s Dag Hammarskjold, who has
been under heavy Soviet attack
since a Russian diplomatic set
back in the Congo.
Khru9hahev rammed all these
powerhouse proposals into the
hopper in what was developing as
a showdown duel of personal dip
lomacy between him and the U.S.
President. He denounced President
Eisenhower by name in his re
marks concerning the U2 incident.
The Soviet premier spoke for
two hours and 20 minutes.
After broaching his disarma
ment plans and his proposals on
colonial areas, the Soviet leader
launched into a bitter attack on
the President on the basis of the
U2 spy plane incident.
He said the plane incident was
particularly significant because
President Eisenhower “himself
declared the aggressive flights of
the American planes a normal
business allegedly necessary for
the security of the United States.”
Political Spending
Could Jeopardize
Chnrcli Exemption
WASHINGTON, (if)—The Trea
sury said today any church which
uses parishioners’ contributions
to finance distribution of politi
cal campaign material might jeo
pardize its tax exemption.
However, a spokesman said any
case would have to be considered
by itself before the Internal Rev
enue Service could determine
whether the facts warranted such
action.
An IRS source said the agency
has received no complaint of im
proper political activity by
churches during the present pre
sidential campaign. He said any
complaint would be investigated
promptly.
Charles P. Taft, chairman of the
Fair Campaign Practices Com
mittee which has bipartisan sup
port, said last weekend some
churches are receiving contribu
tions to pay for the distribution
of literature aimed at the defeat
of Sen. John Kennedy, the Demo
cratic presidential nominee and a
Roman Catholic. He said contri
butions are being made with the
intention of claiming they are
deductible on federal income tax
returns.
Taft, the brother of the late Re
publican Sen. Robert A. Taft of
Ohio, said he got his information
from “a very responsible author
ity.” He expressed the opinion
that any church or similar organ
ization which circulated anti
Kennedy material would jeopar
dize its tax exempt status.
YANKEES MOVE CLOSER
TO CLINCHING PENNANT
BOSTON, Uft — The New York
Yankees moved closer to another
American League pennant today
by beating the Boston Red Sox
5-1 for their seventh straight.
Any combination of four New
York victories or Chicago defeats
would eliminate the second place
White Sox.
No Survivors Found In
Marine Corps Transport
Wrecked Near Okinawa
NAHA, Okinawa, OP) — Search
ships found a “lot of bodies in life
jackets” but no survivors today
amid the wreckage of a U.S. Mar
ine Corps transport plane which
crashed in the Pacific with a Ma
rine crew of 6 and 23 Navy men
aboard.
The U.S. Navy said all appar
ently perished but destroyers car
ried on the search of the crash
area 180 miles south-southeast of
Okinawa.
It Was Twice What
He Donated Last Year
NEW YORK, OP)—A routine re
port from Washington today on
gifts by New York residents to
political parties turned up a very
big name with a very small con
tribution: Gen. David Sarnoff—
$2 to the Republicans.
Sarnoff, board chairman of the
Radio Corp. of America, was list
ed alongside individual contribu
tors of up to $2,500.
Sarnoff is chairman of the Am
erican Heritage Foundation which
has been conducting a drive to get
Americans to vote and to con
tribute to their political parties.
In his capacity as chairman,
he recently gave $2 to both the
Republicans and Democrats.
“I gave them $1 each the year
before,” Sarnoff said, “but this
year I told them I thought they
were doing such a good job that
I raised it to $2.
SPECIAL ELECTION NOV. 8
TO FILL SENATE VACANCY
JUNEAU, OR—Gov. William A.
Egan today officially called for a
special election on Nov. 8 to fill
the vacancy left when Ralph
Moody resigned his Senate Dis
trict E. seat to become State At
torney General.
The Democratic candidate for
tlie vacant seat is Helen Fischer.
The Republican candidate will be
Howard Pollock. Both are from
Anchorage.
Alaska Airlines Official
Calls Attention To Nome’s
Many Tourist Attractions
Officials of the Alaska Airlines
met with businessmen at a special
meeting called by the Chamber on
Wednesday to discuss transporta
tion problems to this area.
R. Gilbert, executive vice pre
sident of the company who keeps
in close touch with the problems
of this area assured the group
that the o-day-a-week service will
be continued. Problems arising
from the handling of freight in
Anchorage are being overcome he
stated so that the back-log which
which caused much concern here
during the summer will not apt
to happen again.
He told the Chamber that Nome
is the best known town in Alaska
and if it is to take advantage of
its fame it should capitalize by
playing up some of the things
people remember about Nome
from what they read in history or
have heard first-hand from peo
ple who stampeded here 60 years
ago.
More emphasis on the old
Nome, methods of gold mining
with displays of the mining meth
ods actually in use for the tour
ist such as longtoms, old time
gambling houses, possibly a tour
right through an abandoned
dredge, restoration of a mining
camp and any other phase of
early day life. He called attention
to the fact that Dawson is going
all-out by restoring some of its
old buildings, even the opera
house, as a real tourist town. This
is community effort which will
bring not only summer but win
ter tours.
Others in the party were Chet
Miller, vice president in opera
tions; Bob Giersdorf, district
sales manager at Fairbanks, and
E. Fitzhugh, station manager at
Anchorage.
Soviet Subs and
Tanker Lurk Off
Grand Banks
t WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Navy
has spotted a Soviet submarine—
and maybe two—lurking about in
the North Atlantic near two So
viet ships that have been sta
tioned there for several days.
The sub was seen twice at dif
ferent times, or else there are two
of them. What the Soviet tanker
and tug are doing in the area off
Newfoundland’s Grand Banks is
not known.
The Navy said last night that
a Neptune patrol plane made
radar contact with a submarine
four miles from the Soviet tanker
about midnight Tuesday. The
plane switched on a powerful
searchlight and sighted a heavy
j wake left by a submerged sub,
which sank out of sight as the
I plane passed over.
Some 5Vz hours later, the U.S.
patrol plane saw a submarine
snorkel sticking up from the
water 10 miles astern of the tank
er. The submarine dived when
the American plane approached.
The presence of the two surface
ships, both heavily equipped with
electronic devices, had started
speculation that they had some
thing to do with some spectacular
space experiment the Soviet
Union might try to bring off
while Premier Khrushchev is at
the United Nations session in
New York.
The presence of a submarine,
however, does not seem to fit in
with this theory.
Powers Writes In
Pravda Roeket
Downed His U2
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, UP> — Francis Gary
Powers said in a letter published
in the Communist party paper
Pravda today he believes his U2
plane was destroyed by the shock
wave of an explosion in the rear
“or maybe on the right.”
The pilot, serving a 10 - year
sentence on conviction of espion
age, denied he had ever told his
father, Oliver Powers of Pound,
Va., that his high-flying jet was
not downed by a Soviet rocket.
Powers also expressed hope he
will not have to serve the full 10
years and reaffirmed his deter
mination to return home when he
is freed .
The flier testified at the open
ing of his trial Aug. 17 that he
was at 68,000 feet on his May Day
flight across the Soviet Union
when he saw an orange burst and
his plane went out of control,
forcing him to bail out.
The Soviets say the U2 was
downed by a single rocket and
that their rockets can down in
truder planes from any height,
even those far beyond reach of
ordinary antiaircraft artillery.
Powers’ views appeared in an
open letter addressed to the editor
of the New York Times which
was published in Russian trans
lation by Pravda.
Apparently the imprisoned Pow
ers had been shown an interview
from New York in which his fa
ther was quoted as saying his
son had told him the U2 was not
shot down by a Soviet rocket at
record height.
World Series Starts Oct. 5
NEW YORK, UP)—Commissioner
Ford Frick has announced that
the World Series will open Wed
nesday, Oct. 5 in the National
League park, presumably Pitts
burgh, where the first two games
will be played. After an off day,
Friday, Oct. 7, the two clubs will
resume in the American League
park, Saturday, Oct. 8 and con
tinue for three days unless one
team has won four. If it is neces
sary to return to the National
League park for a sixth and sev
enth game, there will be an off
day, Tuesday, Oct. 11.
Box seats in Pittsburgh’s For
bes Field will cost $11 each,
grandstand reserves will be $7.70,
standing room $4.40 and bleach
ers $2.20. At Yankee Stadium the
boxes would sell for $10.50, re
served for $7.35, standing room
$4.20 and bleachers $2.10.
Cost of Living Levels
Off During August
WASHINGTON, W) — Living
costs leveled off in August after
rising steadily but slowly since
January, the Labor Department
reported today.
The consumer price index com
piled by the Department’s Bureau
of Labor Statistics was unchanged
last month at 126.6. This meant
prices were 26.6 per cent higher
than the average for 1947-49, the
base years for the index.
The leveling off in prices was
not unexpected. August price tags
often show a small drop but sel
dom rise on the average.
Ewan Clague, Commissioner of
i Labor Statistics, indicated he
I looks for an upward movement in
j prices this month and can fore
see no substantial downward
I movement in the next few years.
Eisenhower Will
Resume Personal
Diplo macy
WASHINGTON, UP— President
Eisenhower will resume his per
sonal diplomacy at meetings Mon
day with Prime Minister Nehru of
India and President Nasser of
the United Arab Republic in New
York.
The President already had
scheduled a trip to New York
Monday to address the golden ju
bilee dinner of the National Con
ference of Catholic Charities.
The White House revealed yes
terday that Eisenhower would see
Prime Minister MacMillan of
Great Britain Tuesday morning.
Press Secretary James Hagerty
held open the possibility of meet
ings with other world leaders on
Tuesday but he repeated that he
knew of no plans for a meeting
of the President and Premier Nik
ita Khrushchev of Russia.
Eisenhower returned at about
noon today from his New York
visit for Thursday’s U.N speech.
Little more than an hour ear
lier the biggest ovation of his visit
to U.N. headquarters had greeted
him as he emerged from the Wal
dorf-Astoria Hotel for the return
journey.
The cheers were an apparent
tribute for his ohallenege to the
Soviet Union, in his address to
the General Assembly yesterday,
to join in peaceful solution of
world problems through the U.N.
Right up to the time he set out
for Idlewild Airport, the Presi
dent was busy on that campaign
in a series of conferences with
national leaders.
The White House said Eisen
i hower is tentatively scheduled to
I spend the weekend in Washing
I ton, before leaving by air Mon
| day for appearances in Philadel
| phia and another visit to New
York for a speech and more talks
with world leaders.
Two Polaris Shots
Fizzle, Delaying
Operational Start
CAPE CANAVERAL, Iff) — The
Polaris missile program has been
dealt a damaging blow by the
failure of two rockets launched
within three hours from a sub
merged submarine.
The pair of fizzles yesterday
may delay the Navy’s plan to send
the first combat - ready Polaris
submarine to sea within a few
weeks.
“It was a black day for Polaris”
an official commented. Both mis
siles were launched from the nu
clear submarine Patrick Henry as
she rode 90 feet beneath the At
lantic, about 30 miles off Cape
Canaveral.
The first rocket broke through
the surface, but failed to ignite
and fell back into the ocean. The
second ignited, but went out of
control and was destroyed by the
range safety officer.
A high-level group of Navy and
Defense Department officials was
aboard the submarine to observe
what the Navy intended as the
final submarine launchings in ad
vance of declaring the Polaris op
erational.
TODAY is Friday, Sept. 23, the
267th day of 1960. There are 99
j days left in the year,
j Thought for Today: It’s a poor
joke when something sacred is
I made to appear common.