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Khrushchev Throws U.N. Into Uproar
By Riotous Attack on Filipino Delegate i
UNITED NATIONS, UP)—Soviet
Premier Khrushchev today called
a Philippine delegate a "jerk” in
an uproarious session of the Gen
eral Assembly.
Shouting and waving his arms,
Khrushchev took the assembly
rostrum in an unprecedented
tumultuous scene.
The Soviet leader delivered the
attack on Sen. Lorenzo Sumulong
of the Philippines.
Khrushchev alluded to him as
“this jerk, the stooge of American
imperialism.”
At one point Khrushchev had
his shoe off and in his hand, ready
to pound on the desk.
Sumulong had noted that the
Soviet Union had proposed that
the assembly call for independ
ence of all colonial, trust and de
pendent territories.
“The declaration proposed by
the Soviet Union ...” he said,
“should cover the inalianable
right to independence not only of
the peoples still under Western j
imperialism and colonialism but |
also of the peoples of Eastern
Europe and elsewhere who have
been deprived of the free exercise
of their political and civil rights.”
It was this remark that set off
the outburst.
Sumulong was finally permit
ted to continue his speech.
“We know the difference be
tween being a colonized people
and being an independent, sov
ereign people,” he declared.
He said he would vote for full !
discussion of the colonial issue in
the Assembly—as demanded by
Khrushchev.
But Sumulong said he was doing
so because “in our view this item
pertains to a subject wider in
scope and more important than
the proponents of this resolution
may have intended.”
At the end Khrushchev held his
hands high over his head and ap
plauded vigorously.
NIKITA CHANGES
ATTITUDE TOWARD
DEFECTING SAILOR
NEW YORK, Oft — Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev said today it is
all right with him if a Soviet
sailor defector stays in the United
States.
“If he had approached me—I
was on the same ship —I would
even have furnished him with
some money for the first period
until he finds a job,” Khrushchev
said.
The Kremlin leader, ina side
walk news conference, talked
about the case of Victor Jaani
mets, 29, the Soviet sailor from
the passenger ship Baltika who
asked for political asylum Mon
day night.
Khrushchev was in a smiling
mood which contrasted with his
anger Tuesday.
Khrushchev cautioned Ameri
cans against believing “because
one sailor has gone over” that the
United States now has an over
whelming advantage.
Khrushchev’s comment repre
sented the first high-level Soviet
reaction to the case. Two Soviet
embassy diplomats talked with
Jaanimets Tuesday, in an effort
to persuade him to return.
The young sailor refused to
heed their pleas, saying he was
fed up with life in the Soviet
Union.
The Journal - American said
Jaanimets was telling the FBI
about Soviet spy activities in the
United States. The newspaper
quoted him as saying he wanted
to “give whatever information I
can to this great country about
Russian spies."
Two Bandits In Cadillac
Hold Up Seattle Bank
SEATTLE, (jD—Two armed men
escaped with $14,600 yesterday
after holding up a portable
branch of the Seattle First Na
tional Bank.
They confronted the acting
manager, Victor Amira, 29, while
he was having lunch at his desk.
Two women tellers were also in
the bank.
The 11 foot-high building was
parked in the suburb of Tukwila,
south of Seattle.
Amira said the men fled in a
Cadillac, about a 1956 or 1957
model.
Truman Discusses
Religion In
Baptist Texas
WACO, Tex., UP)—Former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman last night
delivered what the Democrats say
they hope will be the knockout
punch against attacks on presi
dential candidate John F. Ken
nedy’s Roman Catholic religion.
In an unusually serious mood,
Truman told a crowd that gave
approval 24 times with applause
that “innuendoes and downright
lies” are being used to arouse
religious prejudice. “I say to you
this is un-American. It makes me
sick and it makes me want to
fight and that is what I am do
ing,” Truman said.
Truman, on stage with House
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Sen.
Ralph Yarborough, both Texas
Democrats, devoted more than
half his 30-minute speech to the
question of religion.
The setting was in a central
Texas area heavily populated by
Baptists, like Truman, Rayburn
and Yarborough.
Many Baptist ministers and
other clergymen have openly
questioned Kennedy’s qualifica
tion to serve as President in view
of his Catholic religion.
“I think that Jack Kennedy has
responded very well to the at
tacks on his religion,” Truman
said. “He has answered all rea
sonable questions with patience,
with dignity and candor.”
Asking the audience, estimated
at 5,000, to “listen carefully,” he
read the part of Article VI of the
Constitution which declares that
no religious test shall be required
as a qualification to any office of
public trust.
New Director of Fisheries
WASHINGTON, UP) — Harry L.
Reitze today was promoted to be
Regional Director for the Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries in Al
aska, with headquarters at Ju
neau. Reitze has been assistant
Alaska Regional Director since
1958.
Reitze succeeds John T. Ghar
rett, who recently was transfer
red to Gloucester, Mass., as re
gional director for the Bureau’s
North Atlantic Region.
Reitze will receive a salary of
$13,730 plus a cost of living allow
ance of $3,432 yearly.
Hugh Wade Tells
Dr. Lee McKinley
Ballot Will Stand
JUNEAU, UP! — Secretary of
State Hugh J. Wade refused yes
terday to yield to demands by Dr.
Lee L. McKinley, Republican can
didate for the U.S. Senate, that
the form of the Nov. 8 general
election ballot be changed.
McKinley last week had asked
for several changes in the ballot.
He said he was prepared to go
to court to enforce his demands if
they were not met.
The Palmer dentist objected to
the use of a circle instead of a
square to designate straight party
voting, contending the new elec
tion code specifically called for a
square.
He also objected to what he
felt was a lack of instructions on
the ballot on how to vote a
straight party ticket.
The Alaska Secretary of State
said “I felt it would be less con
fusing to have a circle for voting
a straight party column rather
than a square because the square
is used by the voter when voting
for an individual candidate.”
Wade said the instructions at
the top of the Alaska ballot fol
lowed the form of other ballots
studied by the state.
Election judges will be instruct
ed to call the attention of voters
to the new form of the ballot and
to explain that by marking the
circle at the head of either the
Democratic or Republican column
of candidates the voter is voting a
straight party ticket, Wade said.
He said election judges will fur
ther be instructed to tell individ
ual voters that if they do mark
one of the circles at the top of
the ballot, a mark in the square
opposite any candidate’s name
will not be counted.
The judges will also be instruct
ed to point out that cross-party
voting is permitted in the gen
eral election, Wade said. It is pro
hibited in primary elections under
the new code.
Wade said he felt personally
that instructions ‘‘that have
proven adequate in other states
will toe clear for the Alaskan
voter.”
Distance Flier
Down In Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, 1* — A
Fargo, N.D., flier forced down at
sea off Wake Island in a single
engine plane is missing and a
search is under way, the Coast
Guard was advised today.
Another Fargo flier safely land
ed his single - engine plane at
Wake. The two were attempting a
nonstop flight from Oakland,
Calif., to Manila.
A Coast Guard crash boat took
in tow the plane in which Lt.
Duane Stirling, 27, went down
last night about three miles north
of Wake.
Stirling was not in the plane.
Stirling’s companion, Capt.
Charles Finnegan, 30, landed on
Wake. The two had been in the
air more than 30 hours and were
past the halfway mark of their ef
fort.
Both planes were in view of the
island when Stirling’s plane went
down.
Finnegan and Stirling left Oak
land Monday on their projected
7,698-mile flight. They were after
the record set last year when Max
Conrad flew 7,685 miles nonstop
from Casablanca, Morrocco, to
Los Angeles.
YANKEES BLANK J
PIRATES 12 TO 0
TO EVEN SERIES
PITTSBURGH, m — The New j
York Yankees unlimbered their
big guns behind the sparkling j
pitching of Whitey Ford to crush
the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-0 and
tie the World Series at 3-3. The
seventh and deciding game will
be played at Forbes Field tomor
row.
It was the third runaway vic
tory by the Yankees who lost
three tight thrillers to the claw
ing Pirates. The Yankees broke
and tied a flock of World Series
batting records.
It was Whitey Ford’s seventh
World Series triumph against
four defeats and the only time he
has won a series game away from
Yankee Stadium.
SAS Starts Polar
Jet Service Today
ANCHORAGE — Scandinavian
Airlines System inaugurates jet
service with DC-8Cs today on its
route from here over the “North
Pole” to Copenhagen. Flight time
for the nonstop intercontinental
crossing is 8 hours 40 minutes, six
hours faster than the propeller
driven DC-7s previously used on
this route. Flights serving Anchor
age continue to and from Tokyo.
Initially, SAS will offer twice
weekly trips each Wednesday and
Saturday leaving Anchorage at
10:40 a.m. Return trips from Cop
enhagen leave the Danish capital
each Tuesday and Friday at 1:20
p.m. arriving in Anchorage at
11:10 a.m. the same day.
The airline began passenger op
erations from Anchorage to Eu
rope in 1958 and due to the popu
larity of its North Pole route, the
equipment has been upgraded to
the new DC-8C jet.
Both first class and economy
class service is offered on the
new “North Pole Jet Express.”
Onward connections from Copen
hagen are operated to 35 cities in
21 countries with SAS Caravelle
jets.
Son of Former Alaska
Legislator Held In
Death of His Mother
TACOMA, UP) — A 19-year-old
Tacoma youth was held today for
investigation of homicide in the
death of his mother, widow of a
former Alaska territorial legisla
tor.
The youth, Roger Vukovich, was
booked last night. He had been
held since Monday afternoon,
when Mrs. Selma Vukovich died.
Mrs. Vukovich, who had been
employed at a Tacoma sports shop
for several years, was the widow
of Steve Vukovich, a representa
tive in the Alaska legislature in
1945.
Roger disappeared for several
hours after his mother’s death. He
told detectives that he was rest
ing on a sofa, heard his mother
start downstairs, heard a thud
and found her unconscious in the
basement.
Then, he said, he wandered
away in a state of shock.
COLUMBUS DAY TODAY
Four hundred and sixty-eight
years ago today at about two
o’clock in the morning, Rodrigo
de Triana gave a cry that land
was in sight and sounded the
cannon as a signal and thus Col
umbus discovered America.
Each of the three little sailing
ships in that famous crossing took
70 days to cross the Atlantic.
Debate Shaping Up
Over 5tli Debate
Of the Candidates
NEW YORK, W)—A great de
bate appears to be shaping up
over the “great debate” between
the Presidential candidates.
Sen. John Kennedy has accepted
a network offer to make time
available for a fifth debate early
in November.
But Vice President Nixon is
cool to the idea and has suggested
that instead of a fifth debate he
and Kennedy expand their fourth
appearance to two hours.
Kennedy said a good many
things may be happening between
now and the election and he felt
the rival candidates should have
a chance to debate them close to
election time.
Originally, four one - hour de
bates were scheduled. Two al
ready have been held and the
third is set for tomorrow night.
The Kennedy camp feels that
the senator did so well in the
first two debates that still an
other would be beneficial to him.
They also believe that with the
last debate on Oct. 21, too big a
time gap would be left before the
election and that the Republicans
could finance a home-stretch TV
blitz that the Democrats could not
match because of a lack of funds.
The Republicans take another
view.
Fred C. Scribner, chief Repub
lican negotiator for the four pro
grams already scheduled, assert
ed that Kennedy had lost the sec
ond TV debate, held last Friday.
“It is not unusual for a man
who has been beaten to ask for
a return match,” he said.
Gov. Egan Invites Nuclear
Ship Savannah to Alaska
On Inaugural Voyage
JUNEAU, Wl—The Federal Mari
time Board was asked Monday by
Gov. William Egan to send the
nuclear-powered merchant vessel
Savannah, due for completion
next spring, to Alaska on her in
augural voyage.
Alaska’s coastline, Egan said in
a letter to Vice Adm. Ralph E.
Wilson, chairman of the FMB, “is
particularly adaptable, by reason
of the difficult conditions of sup
ply which prevail, to future util
ization of nuclear - powered ves
sels” which would not require fre
quent refueling.
The governor also said Alaska’s
proximity to Russia would be an
opportunity to demonstrate this
country’s desire for peaceful uses
of atomic energy.
Heavy Cruiser Alaska
To be Sold For Scrap
WASHINGTON, W)—Four war
ships, inactive since World War II
will be sold for scrap.
They are the battleships North
Carolina and Washington, about
35,000 tons each, and the battle
cruisers Alaska and Guam, 27,500
tons each.
They are being scrapped be
cause of obsolescence, the Navy
advised Rep. Ralph Rivers yester
day.
After disposal of the ships, an
chored at Bayonne, N. J., there
will be eight World War II bat
tleships left in the reserve fleets.
There are none in the active fleets.
The Navy plans to ask for bids
on this schedule: Washington in
December, North Carolina in Jan
uary, Guam in February, and
Alaska in March.