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W. Berliners Reject
Soviet Plan*
For ‘Free City’
By REYNOLD ENSZ
BERLIN, uei — The people of
West Berlin gave an emphatic no
yesterday to Communist plans to
drive the Western allies out of
their city.
But the resounding Communist
defeat in the election of a new
West Berlin Parliament did not
kill the Soviet proposal to end
the four-power occupation and
turn West Berlin into a demili
tarized free city. Red spokesmen
said the proposal still stood.
West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt
braced his people for shocks to
come and warned of serious times
ahead.
No Comunist candidates were
elected in the election, which was
widely viewed as a plebiscite on
Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s pro
posal. The Communists were the
only ones who supported the So
viet proposals.
Brandt, leader of the Socialists,
was re-elected in a smashing per
sonal triumph. His 'party got 78
of the 133 seats in Prliament, a
solid majority. The remaining 55
went to the Christian Democrats,
West German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer’s party.
The Communist candidates were
buried under an avalanch of votes.
They received a mere 1.9 per cent
of the vote, as compared with 2.7
per cent in the last election in
1954. They have never won a Par
liamentary seat in West Berlin.
Brandt, 44, a fighting anti-Com
munist, became the undisputed
leader of West Berlin and thus a
strong eventual contender for the
West German Chancellorship.
The Soviet Union is proposing
that the French, British and Amer
ican troops leave West Berlin
within six months and turn it
into a free city independent of
both West Germany and Commu
nist East Germany.
Brandt, Adenauer and allied of
ficials have denounced the plan
as a Soviet trick to grab West
Berlin.
Gruening Says Admin.
Has Neglected Alaska
PORTLAND, UP) — Republican
neglect helped give Democrats
victory in Alaska’s recent election,
Senator-elect Ernest Gruening (D
Alaska) said here last night.
“The present Administration
has neglected the needs of Alas
ka,” said Gruening.
“In the Senate I hope to help
compensate for the years of dis
crimination against Alaska so the
state may come abreast of the
other 48 states,” he said.
“Specifically, I’m hopeful that
Congress will bring us up to par
ity on a road building program.
We’ve tried for years to improve
the roads,” Gruening said.
Gruening arrived here yester
day from Washington, D. C. He
visited with Senator Richard Neu
berger (D-Ore), and Will address
a Democratic Party rally tonight.
TOUGH SWALLOWING
DETROIT, Mich., UP) — Eight
year-old James Boyer caused ex
citement yesterday with his quar
ter for the Sunday Schol collec
tion. On the way to church James
half-swallowed the coin and be
gan choking.
An ambulance picked him up
and on the way to a hospital ran
over a bump. James completed the
swallowing. He was unharmed.
New Little Rock
| School Officials
| Denounce Faubus
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., — The
deadlock over desegregation here
remained unbroken today after an
inconclusive election in which
three businessmen opposed by
Governor Orval E. Faubus won
seats on the Little Rock School
Board.
Faubus charged the three were
integrationists who had worked
against 'his successful bid for a
third term in last summer’s elec
tion.
Three others elected to the school
board had the implied backing of
the Governor.
Seemingly split on the degree of
resistance to integration, the ndw
board soon will have to cope with
an uncompromising federal order
for “affirmative steps” toward ra
cially mixed classes in public
schools.
All 13 candidates for the six
board seats had professed to be
segregationists.
“This is the first crack in the
Faubus edifice and I predict that
his entire political empire, foun
ded as it is upon misrepresenta
tion and bigotry, will soon be
crumbling at his feet,” asserted
Ted L. Lamb, an advertising exec
utive who defeated two staunch
segregationists 'in a three-way
race.
But Amis Guthridge, attorney
for the prosegregation Capital Cit
izens Council analyzed the voting
this way: “Our people took the
election for granted and refused
to run scared.”
Record Snowfalls,
Sub-Zero Cold
iHit The Nation
iBv Tha Aaaaetatad PraiaI
Swirling snow piled a thick
white coat over the expanse from
the. plains to New York today
and subzero cold gripped much of
the upper Mississippi Valley.
Oswego, N. Y., had a record
one-day snowfall of 33 inches —
■far exceeding the previous 24
hour mark of 19.1 inches in 1900.
There was a 44-inch white snow
burden which immobilized the
city.
The heavy fall isolated and par
lyzed a section of Upstate New
York.
Schools were closed throughout
the Upstate New York area, and
roads were drift-blocked by the
record accumulation. The deepest
snow ever accumulated before
was 35 inches measured February
9, 1912.
Pulaski, N. Y., had a 24-hour
fall of 15 inches, bringing the
ground cover to 24 inches. Winds
of 30 to 40 m.p.h. off Lakes Erie
and Ontario whipped up high
drifts.
The subzero cold extended in
early mornfhg from Montana and
Wyoming to Iowa, Wisconsin and
Northern Michigan.
Miles City, Montana, had a 20
below-zero reading. It was 32 be
low at International Falls, Minn.,
which shares the nation’s winter
ice box reputation with Cut Bank,
Montana. '1
WEATHER FORECAST
Clear and cold tonight through
Tuesday. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight 0, the high to
morrow 10.
Final Returns
Show 601 More
Voted In Election
The final unofficial returns for
the recent general election for
the northwestern district are now
in with receipt' of the Haycock
return.
There were 601 more ‘ballots
cast in the general than in the
primary election, with a total of
3030. Final totals, including 76
absentee ballots, are as follows:
. _ For Governor
F^an 1,646, Butrovich 1145,
Dollinter 79.
For U.S. Senators
Bartlett 2,314, Capper 44, Rob
inson 525.
Gruening 1,812, Stepovich 1,129
U.S. Representative
Rivers 1,692, Benson 1,163.
State Senators
Bronson 1,654, Johnson 1,179.
Bells 2,144, Frazier 688.
Hopson 571, Bullock 530.
Stale Representatives „
Blodgett 831, Fagerstrom 761,
Gray 586, Martin 530.
Nusunginya 290.
Curtis 395, Lincoln 383.
Axel Johnson 265.
Confidence In Dad
Quiets 5-Year-Old
In Heart Surgery
ROCHESTER, Minn., UP—Great
confidence in his dad and a de
sire to be strong as other kids led
a 5-year-old English boy to the
operating room where surgeons
mended his defective heart.
Stephen Smith still believes it
was his father, a 31-year-old Lon
don boilermaker, who performed
the surgery Friday. Actually it was
Mayo Clinic surgeons who did
the operation, Stephen’s only hope
of living beyond childhood.
“Stephen knew how much the
operation meant to him,” Frederic
Smith explained. “We have told
him he can run and play like the
other boys on the street if he gets
well. We didn’t try to mislead
him but he has so much confi
dence in me that he thought I
would do the operation.”
At the head surgeon’s sugges
tion, Smith went along when Ste-.
phen was Wheeled into the oper
ating room. Doctors let the boy
believe his father would remain
there. In the eyes of the fright
ened child, his dad was the man
who would see him through.
Doctors repaired a hole in the
wall separating chambers of the
lad’s heart. The surgery appeared
to be successful. But it will be a
few days before physicians can
tell whether Stephen will recover.
Sec. Dulles Has No
Recurrence of Cancer
WASHINGTON, UP — Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles is
hospitalized with an intestinal ail
ment. But his doctors say they
find no evidence of a recurrence
of cancer.
The State Department said
Dulles, 70, was in satisfactory con
dition at Walter Reed Army Hos
pital, undergoing treatment for an
inflammatory condition of the
lower colon.
The doctors’ finding that no
cancer was involved was reported
by the Department Saturday
night, when it disclosed for the
first time that Dulles had entered
the hospital 24 hours earlier. A
cancerous section of Dulles’ in
testine was removed at Walter
Reed two years ago.
Little Chance Foreseen That Democrat
Congress Will Follow Party Program .
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, (TP) — The Dem- ;
ocratic Advisory Council’s broad j
legislative program appeared like-;
ly today to get only passing atten
tion from a Congress which may
be more interested in national se
curity. than social security.
In its first meeting since last
month’s election bolstered Demo
cratic majorities in both House
and Senate, the policy-shaping
council drafted a 2_4-point program
of goals for the 86th Congress
Sunday.
The pronouncement, the most
comprehensive and- far reaching
ever issued by the 24-memtoer
council, called for action on a
wide range of issues fro.m, expan
sion of social security to strength
ening of civil rights.
It made no specific recommen
dations, however, on such things
as outer space devetyjpments which
Senate Democratic leader Lyndon
Johnson of Texas stressed last
month in a 12-ppint legislative
program for the new Congress.
Johnson omitted civil rights from
his program.
Despite the contention of na
tional chairman Paul Butler that
the council’s program reflects the
direction in which the party is
pointing in 1960, however, the pro
posals do not appear likely to
command effective sponsorship in
Congress.
The general opinion among poli
ticians is that Johnson and House
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas
will, in practical effect, shape the
final form of the legislative pro
gram that emerges from next
year’s session.
In the past, Johnson and Ray
burn have not paid much atten
tion to the council’s recommenda
tions. There is no reason to believe
their attitude will change ma
terially. -
First Date
Reveals Kinship
PORTLAND, Ore., I® — On
their first date, Dorothy Manewal,
16, and Richard Gillett, 22, liked
each other.
And then they found that they
really had something in common
— they were brother and sister,
parted 10 years ago.
After they were introduced by
a friend last week, Dorothy said,
“I sort of liked Dick and we made
a date for Saturday night.
“We were sitting in a car and
talking when I just happened to
say that Dorothy Manewal wasn’t
my real name, that it was Sara
Esther Aldridge.
“And then he said that Dick
Gillette wasn’t his real name
either. And then he said, ‘Well,
I’m your brother.’ We just sat
there for a moment. We could
hardly believe it.”
The pretty, dark-haired high
school girl said they were adopted
into separte homes after their
mother died in 1948, and hadn’t
seen each other since.
Gillett, whose real name is Mi
chael Charles Aldridge, said that
he knew he had a sister but had
never tried to find her.
“I remember him when I was
a little girl,” Miss Manewal said.
She said he had never attempted
to locatp him either.
Gillett, a factory worker in
nearby Oregon City, spent Sun
dy helping his new-found sister
make Christmas decorations.
“We talked about the old times
and things tht we used to do when
we were kids,” she said. “I think
we’ll be good friends.
Total Dead From
Chicago Grade School
Blaze Reaches 92
CHICAGO, (® — The fire at
Our Lady of the Angels School
last week claimed its 92nd victim
today.
Kurt SchVitt, 9, died in Edge
water Hospital, where he had
been getting special treatment for
burns and otheF injuries.
Eighty-seven children and three
nuns died in the fire last Mon
day. Friday night another of the
critically injured died in a hos
pital.
There are still 57 persons in
seven hospitals with burns and in
juries as a result of the blaze. Ten
of them are on the critical list.
Army Preparing
For Second Try
At Moon Rocket
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
WASHINGTON, OR — A second
space shot ahead, Army scien
tists set out today to correct
troubles that thwarted their first
effort to hurl a tiny package of
instruments 4nto orbit around the
moon.
At the same time, they rated
the experiment a success in meas
uring the depth of man-poisoning
radiation around the earth.
The space probe Pioneer III
— first of two assigned to the
Army — met its flming end over
North Africa Sunday afternoon.
Fired aloft by a four-stage rock
et early Saturday. The 13-pound
cone reached an announced peak
altitude of 66,543 miles before
falling back and burning in the
terrific heat generated by atmos
pheric friction.
All told, it was 38 hours and 6
minutes in flight.
The Army’s Pioneer III didn’t
get as far into space as did the
Air Force’s best effort October
II. Revised figures showed the
Air Force’s Pioneer I reached 71,
300 miles.
Failure of the Army’s Pioneer
III, scientists said, was due to its
being launched at too low an
angle. And they said its first stage
fuel shut off three seconds too
soon, cutting its speed below the
24,900 m.p.li. during takeoff.
Dr. von Braun States
Missiles Can Be
Used For Transport
WASHINGTON, (R — Dr. Wer
ner von Braun, the Army’s top
missile scientist, sys he regards
the ballistic rocket “as a very
suitable form of transportation”
for people and cargo.
But he says a lot of people —
including Army officials — still
must be convinced of this.
“We could use missiles that we
have right new and fire people
with them a couple of hundred
miles,” von Braun said.
The missile, he said, should not
be regarded only as an artillery
weapon, but as a means of deliv
ery that may deliver not only
bombs but also people or cargo.