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Rockefeller Calls on Nixon to Show!
‘Where He Proposes to Lead the Nation’
NEW YORK, Iff) — Governor
Nelson Rockefeller openly at
tacked Vice President Richard
Nixon today.
The draft-available New York
Governor said anyone aspiring to
lead the Republican party should
declare precisely what he pro
oses and that this “has not been
done.”
He, in effect, challenged Nixon
to say how he would meet “great
matters before the nation.”
Rockefeller paid tribute to Pres
ident Eisenhower but noted his
service was ending.
‘II am deeply convinced and
deeply concerned,” Rockefeller
said, “that those now assuming
control of the Republican Party
have failed to make clear where
this party is heading and where
it proposes to lead the nation.”
Rockefeller’s statement was
made to a closed door meeting of
Republican leaders here a few
hours after he had personally
notified President Eisenhower
that he planned to make the state
ment. The statement also was
critical of current national de
fense policies.
The New York Governor also
told the meeting he would head
the New York delegation to the
Republican National Convention
next month in Chicago.
The statement made no refer
ence to Rockefeller’s current
political position — “available”
for a draft to run as the GOP
candidate for President.
However, the tenor of the state
ment indicated that Rockefeller
was striking out on his own as
a Republican spokesman indepen
dent of the Eisenhower-Nixon
Administration.
Rockefeller ■ Ike
Breakfast Brings
No Sign of Change
WASHINGTON, Ufi — Governor
Nelson Rockefeller breakfasted
with President Eisenhower and
talked some politics with him to
day, but gave no indication he
had changed his mind on any
political issues.
Talking with reporters at the
White House, the New York Gov
ernor:
1. Said the chances are “pretty
good” that Vice President Nixon
will get the Republican Presiden
tial nomination.
2. Reaffirmed his own willing
ness to accept a draft for the top
place on the ticket, but again re
jected with emphasis proposals
that he accept the Vice Presiden
tial nomination on a Nixon ticket.
Rockefeller said he and Eisen
hower discussed “politics, inter
national affairs, and the Presi
dent’s forthcoming trip to Japan”
while they breakfasted alone in
the White House dining room.
But, Rockefeller said in re
sponse to queries by a horde of
newsmen, such questions as his
own possible candidacy, the pres
sure on him to be Nixon’s running
mate, and a possible major role
for him at the GOP convention
in Chicago, never came up in the
conversation.
Asked what political matters
were discussed, Rockefeller re
plied he “would hope that the
President say something about
that” since he — Rockefeller —
felt the courtesies of the situation
forbade him to tell.
Two Naval Officers Killed
In Puget Sound Crash
OAK HARBOR, Wash., UP» —
Two naval officers, one the father
of seven children, died Tuesday
when a twin-jet attack bomber
plunged into Puget Sound from
the end of a runway on Whidbey
Island.
Killed were Lt. Howard Moore,
33, Tucson, Ariz., the pilot, and
Lt. Richard North, 36, Charlotte,
Mich. Moore had two children
and North seven.
Ensign Howard P. Lambert, 25,
Johnston, Pa., was in critical con
dition at a naval hospital. George
Mozier, 28, an enlisted man from
Westport, Conn., was in satisfac
tory condition.
Bomarc Burning
Issues Radiation
McGuire AFB, N. J., UP) — Air
Force spokesmen indicated today
a slight amount of radiation re
leased in the burning of a Bomarc
missile may have come from a
chemical fire in the missile itself,
not from the atomic warhead.
The nuclear-tipped missile,
poised at the site 12 miles north
of this base, caught fire yester
day. Some radioactive material
was scattered around its launch
ing pen and billows of smoke rose
in the air.
No one was injured. There was
no danger from radioactivity in
the area, though first reports
from the site indicated it might
exist.
The cause of the accident was
not announced. The fire is under
investigation from three sides —
the Atomic Energy Commission,
the Defense Department, and the
New Jersey Department of
Health.
In Washington an Air Force
spokesman said two explosions of
fuel material apparently occurred.
Jet fuel for the missile was set
off by the fire. Initial investiga
tion indicated that a flask of hy
drogen used in the fuel system
also exploded.
The missile itself was a total
loss, burned out or melted down
by the blaze. The weapon was a
Bomarc A model, which costs be
tween a million dollars and $1,
200,000.
Police Mix It Up with
Connecticut Strikers
HARTFORD, Conn., UP) —Vio
lence broke out on picket lines
today as a strike against the
United Aircraft Corp. spread to
seven of the company’s plants.
Police said strikers clashed in
Windsor Locks when pickets at
tempted to bar a truck from en
tering the Hamilton Standard
Division plant there.
Strikers reportedly attacked
policemen attempting to clear a
path for the truck. Police used
their clubs.
At North Haven earlier, strik
ers smashed two windshields on
autos of nonstrikers. Three po
licemen were injured slightly
when they were struck by a non
union worker’s auto.
Some 30,000 production work
ers, members of two unions, were
affected by the strike.
Anchorage Firm
Bids Lowest on
Nome-Teller Road
JUNEAU, UP) — The Bureau of
Public Roads opened bids yester
day for construction of 13.8 miles
of the proposed Nome-Teller road.
Alcan-Pacific Construction Co.
of Anchorage submitted the ap
parent low bid of $658,807. A bid
of $672,274 by Central Construc
tion Co., Seattle, was second low
of 10 received.
The project calls for construc
tion of a secondary road from
Penny River to Sinuk River, into
potential iron and coal deposits
in the Sinuk area. Eventually,
plans call for a road link between
Nome and Teler.
A contract award was expected
after a review of the bids. The
construction is scheduled for this
summer.
Competition Narrows In
National Spelling Bee
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Jaw
breaker words slashed the field
by two-thirds today in the 33rd
National Spelling Bee.
After 10 rounds, only 24 of the
original 73 regional winners were
left to fight it out Thursday for
the championship.
Seven were eliminated in round
seven right after the luncheon
break. That left only 35 of the
original 73 regional champions,
with 38 out of the running.
Camille Kemplin, 14, Amarillo,
Tex., was the 32nd contestant to
be spelled down. She added an
unneeded “e” to the word “cavil.”
Richar Drost, 12, Williamsville,
N. Y., slipped up on the word
“perspicacious,” when he made
the last “c” a “t.”
Jan Williams, 13, Kings Moun
tain, N. C., was spelled down on
“cerement.” She misspelled it
“cierment.”
The word “parricide” proved
the undoing of Gail Gulledge, 13,
Dayton, Ohio. She failed to put
in the second “r.”
Diane Saltz, 11, Detroit, Mich.,
misspelled “orifice.”
Japan Government
Stirs Mass Rally
To Welcome Ike
TOKYO, UPI — Japanese con
servatives today made plans to
rally 600,000 Japanese to give
President Eisenhower a rousing
welcome, countering leftist dem
onstrations against his visit.
Prime Minister Kishi’s Liberal
Democratic party and Japanese
business leaders joined in a “na
tional welcome Ike committee” to
ensure a warm reception when
the President arrives June 19.
An organized reception for the
President was made necessary toy
mounting leftist opposition to the
visit and sthdent threats to stage
a giant sit-down strike on the
runways of Tokyo’s International
Airport to impede the President’s
landing.
Behind the students are So
cialist, Communist and left-wing
labor groups contending that Eis
enhower’s visit amounts to inter
ference in the bitter dispute over
ratification of the new U. S.
Japan security treaty.
Kishi ignored a boycott by the
Socialist minority in Parliament
and opened a debate in the upper
house aimed at final ratification
of the treaty.
Without upper house action, the
new treaty automatically would
take effect on June 19 — the day
Eisenhower arrives — or 30 days
after its approval by the lower
house. Apparently the govern
ment felt earlier final ratification
might take some of the steam out
of the anti-Eisenhower demon
stration.
The government planned to
designate 10,000 civilians to help
9,000 police quell any disorders
when Eisenhower arrives.
ANCHORAGE YOUTH
GRADUATES AT ANNAPOLIS
ANNAPOLIS, Md., — Jon Ess
linger, 22-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Crayton Esslinger of An
chorage, was graduated from the
U. S. Naval Academy today. He
was commissioned an ensign in
the regular Navy.
NIXON FIRES FANNED IN CALIFORNIA VICTORY;
NEW YORK COLD-SHOULDERS TAMMANY BOSS
By The Associated Press
Primary results from coast to
coast offered evidence today of
the popularity of Vice President
Nixon in California and the
weakening of Tammany Hall in
New York.
Nixon polled more votes on the
Republican ballot in Tuesday’s
California primary than Gov. Ed
mund G. Brown did on the Dem
ocratic ballot.
Tammany leader Carmine De
Sapio suffered a major setback
when reform Democrats defeated
some of his followers in New
York City.
The California and New York
primaries came during a busy day
of voting. Montana, Idaho, South
Dakota and Mississippi also had
primaries Tuesday.
In California, Brown, running
as a favorite-son candidate, won
control of the state’s 81-vote dele
gation to the Democratic National
Convention. But pension promoter
George H. McLain received 30
per cent of the Democratic total.
The combined vote of Brown
and McLain was greater than the
total piled up by Nixon. But the
Democratic margin was not as
great as the party’s 3-to-2 major
ity in the state.
Republican leaders hailed
Nixon’s total, which added 70
votes to his cause at the Repub
lican National Convention in
July. The leaders said the results
indicated a Nixon landslide in
California in November.
In New York, DeSapio denied
the results were a challenge to
his leadership. As head of Tam
many Hall, he leads the party in
New York City’s Borough of Man
hattan. He aso serves as national
committeeman.
The primary fights were “local
contests,” DeSapio said.
Nixon ‘Encouraged’ By
Home-State Primary Vote
WASHINGTON, UR — Vice
President Nixon said today the
vote he received in Tuesday’s
California primary provides
“great encouragement” for Re
publican prospects of carrying
the state in November.
“I am gratified by the heart
warming vote of confidence from
the voters of my home state,”
Nixon said in a statement.
“The surprisingly large McLain
vote indicates that Independent
Democrats still control the bal
ance of power in California’s
election.”
Fairbanks Man
Killed, Judge Hepp
Injured In Crash
FAIRBANKS — George Nehr
bas, 54, prominent Fairbanks busi
nessman and civic leader, was
killed and State Superior Court
Judge Everett Hepp was seriously
injured Monday night when
Hepp’s floatplane crashed at the
mouth of Nenana river, less than
a mile from the town of Nenana.
The two men were returning to
Fairbanks from a one-day fishing
trip to Summit in the Alaska
range when the tragedy occurred.
Judge Hepp was rescued from
the river by Jim Root, 24, an em
ploye of the Bureau of Public
Roads at Nenana, who happened
to be boating near the crash scene.
Root’s frantic efforts to extri
cate Nehrbas from the mangled
fuselage were fruitless and it was
almost an hour after the crash
before his body was removed.
It is believed Nehrbas died in
stantly from the shattering im
pact of the plane as it plowed
upside down into the Nenana
river.
Dr. Arthur Schaible attending
surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital
here said “Judge Hepp sustained
extremely deep lacerations
around the mouth and eyes and
also jaw fractures."
Fulbright Gives Support
To Japan-U.S. Treaty
WASHINGTON, UR — Sen. J.
William Fulbright voiced his full
support today for Senate ratifica
tion of the new U. S.-Japanese
security treaty in advance of
President Eisenhower’s visit to
Japan.
He and other members of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, of which Fulbright is
chairman, said they are convinced
Eisenhower will go to Tokyo June
19 unless the Japanese govern
ment should ask a delay.
The White House said Tuesday
“No change is contemplated” in
plans for the three-day visit.
Secretary of State Herter gave
the committee what Fulbright
called a ‘‘persuasive case” in sup
port of a trip now, despite left
wing demonstrations and riots in
Japan.
But Fulbright said Herter still
did not set entirely at rest his
misgivings about the advisability
of the trip now.
Mrs. America Contest,
Winners Named in Three
Homemaking Skills
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., UR
First points toward Mrs. Amer
ica honors have been won by rep
resentatives from Alaska, Penn
sylvania, Oklahoma and Texas.
In kitchen contests yesterday,
Marlynn Porter of Ketohikan
prepared a prize-winning casser
ole dish called a “Wild Rice
Igloo”; Mrs. Pennsylvania, Char
lotte Logue, took honors in the
refrigerated dessert category with
a molded lime gelatin concoc
tion she called “Angel’s Delight,”
and Mrs. Betty Cutbirth of Texas
won the cake baking contest with
a cake she called “Lone Star.”
Mrs. Oklahoma, Mrs. Mary
Jane Mason, won the laundry
contest.
Mrs. America will be desig
nated Friday night from among
entrants from the 50 states and
the District of Columbia.