U.S. Communists
Fail Deadline
For Filing
WASHINGTON — Officers
of the Communist party in the
United States have failed to meet
the deadline for registering under
the (Internal Security Act. ,
This left to the Justice Depart
ment the next move in the drawn
out war of nerves between the
party and the government,
A tty. Gen. Robert Kennedy s* id
earlier tills week that the depart
ment “will enforce the law.”
Last Nov. 20, when the party
itself defied a deadline for regis
tering, a department spokesman
said officials planned to wait at
least until after the time had
expired for officers to register
before taking action.
That deadline passed at mid
night last night. Individual mem
bers of the party now have until
Dec. 20 to register under the law.
The government has indicated
it plans to shove against the party
first.
The law provides fines up to
$10,000 a day for the party for
each day of defiance. It provides
the same fines — plus prison
terms — for officers and individ
ual members who defy the law.
Under ihe Security Act —
fought by party leaders in the
courts since its passage in 1950
— the party was to have regis
tered as an aim of the Soviet
government. It was to list Its offi
cers, finances and other details.
The Struggle between the gov
ernment and the party came to a
head last Oct. 9, when the Su
preme Court refused to recon
sider its decision upholding pro
visions of the 1950 larw.
A Communist party spokesman
said the number officers had been
reduced to three, but he declined
to disclose how many officers
there had been previously.
Red Romania Elected
To One-Year Membership
On U.N. Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UPf —
The U.N. General Assembly has
elected Communist Romania to
the 11 - nation Security Council
for one year, ratifying a behind
the-scenes gentlemen’s agreement
that broke a deadlock.
Under the agreement, Romania
will succeed Turkey then resign
and allow the Philippines to take
over the seat for one year begin
ning Jan. 1, 1963.
Neither country was able to get
tile necessary two-thirds major
ity in two prior attempts to fill
the vacancy.
Previously Venezuela was
elected to succeed Ecuador, and
Ghana to succeed Ceylon — both
for two-year terms—and Ireland
to succeed Liberia in another one
year split.
The United States, Britain,
France, Soviet Union and Na
tionalist China are permanent
mknhers of the Security Council.
The nonpermanent members In
1902 wSl be Chile, Ireland, Bo
mania, Ghana, Venezuela and the
United Arab Republic.
CAB Schedules Hearings
3n Proposed Reduced
Fares Seattle-Fairbanks
WASHINGTON UR — A hear
ing on proposed reduced fares on
jet flights between Seattle and
Fairbanks was scheduled for Jan.
22 by examiner Edward Stodola
of the Civil Aeronautics Board
today.
The hearing here, before Sto
dola, will concern rate proposals
of Pan American World Airways
Inc., and Alaska Airlines Inc. Pan
American has proposed to reduce
from $125 to $99 the one-way
deluxe service fare and from $99
to $90 the one-way tourist serv
ice fare.
Alaska, which offers'" a $99 one
way, one-class fare and has pro
posed a reduction to $90, opposed
the Pan American plan.
Robert L. Bennett of
Wisconsin Named As
BIA Area Director
WASHINGTON UR — Robert
L. Bennett, a 25-year veteran of
the Indian Bureau, was appoint
ed Area Director for the Bureau
at Juneau yesterday.
An Oneida Indian and a native
of Wisconsin, Bennett has been
serving as Assistant Area Director
at Aberdeen, S.D., since 1958.
At Juneau, Bennett will suc
ceed James Hawkins, who will be
given another bureau assignment
after five years as Area Director.
Gruening Protests
Naming of Bennett
BIA Area Director
ANCHORAGE If)—Sen. Ernest
Gruening protested strongly to
day the appointment of a non
Alaskan to be Alaska Area Di
rector of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
The Interior Dept, yesterday an
nounced that Robert L. Bennett,
Assistant Area Director of the
BIA at Aberdeen, SD., had been
named to replace James Hawkins
as Area Director at Juneau.
Bennett’s appointment was an
nounced the day after Frank Pera
trovieh of Klawock said he was
turning down the Juneau appoint
ment because of policy differences
with the BIA.
In a telegram to Secretary of the
Interior Stewart Udall, Gruening
said he strongly objects to the ap
pointment of an “outsider” like
Bennett as Area BIA Director
for Alaska.
Gruening said that while he was
not familiar with Bennett’s per
sonal qualifications, the Alaska
Democrat said Bennett is “totally
unacquainted with Alaska’s na
tive problems.”
Gruening asked that Udall hold
up Bennett’s appointment until
Alaska’s congressional delegation
and Gov. Wm. Egan could consult
with Udall on the appointment of
a qualified Alaskan.
“This Is another example of
absentee control which Alaskans
have had to suffer for years and
years as a territory,” Gruening
Sen. Thurmond
Blames State Dept.
For Red Advance
LOS ANGELES (JR — Sen. J.
Strom Thurmond, (D-S.C.), says
Communism is advancing through
out the world because of what he
terms “policies of paralaysis” of
the U.S. State Department.
Speaking to the First Congrega
! tional Church’s Freedom Club, the
Senator last night characterized
the State Department as espous
ing the view, as he put it, “that
we should not have won in
Korea.”
“We should have won in
Korea,” Thurmond told an esti
mated 1,000 persons at the Holly
wood Palladium. “If we had, we
would not be facing the big Com
munist menace today.”
Thurmond, 1948 Presidential
candidate of the States’ Rights
party, told an antiJCommunist
rally Wednesday that the U.S.
military now is a primary target In
the Communist propaganda of
fensive. He declared it was deter
mined at a Moscow meeting near
ly a year ago that something had
to be done to stop anti-Communist
talks by American military lead
ers.
Hie Senator said a 1958 Defense
Department directive — since
countermanded — asked military
leaders to conduct seminars on
die dangers of Communism.
He said the reason for this re
quest was that “the military
people are supposed to know the
enemy . . . and they do know
the enemy better than any other
segment of our population.
“But what happened?
“There was a meeting in Mos
cow last December at which it
was determined something had to
be done to stop it.
“Who was doing (the most devil
ment to the Communists? Who
was doing the most harm to the
Communists?
“It must have been the military.
For (Mr. Gus Hall, an official of
the Communist party and a .writer
for the 'Worker,* and organ of
the Communist party, came out
and said a primary target was
the military and its anti-Oom
munist statements and seminars.”
Pilot of Ill-Fated Plane
Failed Three Flight Tests
WASHINGTON UP) — The pilot
of the airliner in which 74 Army
recruits died near Richmond, Va.,
Nov. 8, had failed three flight
tests earlier in his flying career,
Federal Aviation Agency records
showed today.
The pilot, Ronald Conway, later
passed these preliminary teats
and went on to complete his ex
minatlon for an air transport rat
ing without a failure, the records
showed.
Edward Slattery Jr., Public Re
lations officer for the Civil Aero
nautics Board Bureau of Safety,
compared Conway’s early failures
with those of a young attorney
who fails to pass his bar examina
tion on the first try. He said he
does not consider it a black mark
1 against the pilot.
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Enos, the Chimponaut,
Is No Publicity Hound
KINDLEY AIR FORCE BASE,
Bermuda UP — Enos, the twice
around-the-globe chimp, is no
lens-hungry mug like home of his
simian brothers.
(Making his first public audi
ence since returning from outer
space, the chimponaut refused
yesterday to do even a cartwheel
for newsmen at his press confer
ence.
Enos was brought to Kindley
AFB aboard the destroyer
Stormes, which plucked him from
the Atlantic after his historic
journey Wednesday.
“He’s really quite a cool guy
and not the (performing type at
all,” said Capt. Jerry Finneg, Air
Force veterinarian.
Enos showed no outward ill ef
fects from his orbital flight. Full
results of the medical checkup
won’t be known, however, until
after he returns today to Cape
Canaveral.
He is back in training on his
space-monkey’s diet — 250 banana
pellets a day. He was given a
bonus of two oranges and two
apples as a reward for his achiev
ment — tout that’s all.
Junior Miss
Pageant to be
Held Saturday
Junior Mias Pageant will be
held tomorrow evening at the
School at 8:00 with several high
school seniors in the contest to
be the Nome entry in the All
Alaska High School contest.
Judges have been selected by
the sponsoring group, the Jaycees
of Nome and are Don Hoover,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce; Roscoe Wilke, Mayor of
Nome; Martha Craft, president of
the Home Arts Club; and Beverly
Blanning, representing Beta Sigma
Phi.
The girls will appear in formal
and sports attire and demonstrate
their special talent. Leland Bar
ber, of the Nome School Music
Department will provide the music
and Del Kampmann will be mas
ter of ceremonies.
Many prizes have been given
by looal merchants for the win
ner and the Jaycees are heading
the list with a $50 bond.
High school girls participating
are Beverly Bohrer, Carol Carl
son, Ann Chambers, Gail Croell,
Pearl Johnson, Gail Mclver and
Dahpne Rylander.
The winner will compete with
other contestants from the state
in the Pageant to be held here in
February, with the winner going
to Mobile, Ala., with all expenses
paid.
HAVANA UP) — Communist
party leader Bias Roca, recently
returned from a tour of the So
viet Union and China, said last
night Russian rockets would help
Cuba fight any armed aggression.
He told a television audience
the Cuba revolution is here to
stay but predicted “we will have
a constant fight with the United
Stjtes fog ysprs." j|
Civil Defense Chief
“Little Appalled” at
Lack of Leadership
WASHINGTON UP> — The Pen
j tagon Civil Defense Chief, an
nouncing the start of a nation
wide fallout Shelter survey, said
today he is “a little appalled” at
charges of confusion and lack of
leadership.
Stewart Pittman, Assistant Sec
retary of Defense for Civil De
fense, told a news conference that
after President Kennedy “led the
country into a concern” about
Civil Defense last spring, it took
months to get the money, the
planning and the organization.
At the same time, Pittman dis
puted contentions by same sci
entists that fallout shelters would
only delay death from radiation.
“We don’t agree with this find
ing,” Pittman said. He added that
“the best evidence we have” is
that delayed fallout coming to
earth long after an atomic attack
would not begin to compare with
the immediate hazard from ef
fects of a nuclear blast.
The news conference was to an
! nounce the awarding of contracts
to architect-engineer firms in all
50 states to mark and identify
above ground and below ground
space to provide protection for 50
million persons.
With $03 million provided by
Congress tor this, the firms wfSl
! check ell buildings, mines, tun- '
: n els and other structures that
r may provide shelter against faSl
0 out for at least 50 persons each.
- Pittman said that by the end of
this month about 700 survey con
i' tracts will have been awarded
s and teams started on the firs*
The Civil Defense planners ar<
f looking to the use of schools as
t key refugee centers in the event
' of a nuclear attack at night. They
t say schools are often the only
suitable structures for this pur
1 pose in residential areas.
Tshombe Claims Katanga
Soldiers Provoked Into
Beating U.N. Officials
ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo
UPi — President Moise Tshombe
said today the Katanga paratroop
officer whose men beat up U.N.
officials George Smith and Brian
Urquhart has been “severely
punished.”
But Tshombe claimed the para
troopers had been “provoked.” He
said Smith and Urquhart drove'
round and round the vicinity of
the house of Katanga Gen. Nor- |
bert Moke, who lives near the
American at whose home the two
UjN. officials were assaulted Tues
day during a party for US. Sen.
Thomas Dodd.
Tshombe said the people of
Katanga are very much against
the United Nations being in their
country and this has given rise
to “excitement and antipathy.” *
He added — “a friend of Ka- f
tanga” helped provoke the inci
dent to make Dodd — “a friend
of Katanga” — believe tile seces
sionist state is peopled by savages.