White House Assistant Apologizes
For Impromptu Remark About
Unemployed Detroit Auto Workers
John Gilbert Graham
Insists on No Appeal
From Death Sentence
DENVER, tf*—A lawyer who
visited John Gilbert Graham in
prison yesterday says the 24-year
old condemned plane dynamiter
insists he wants no appeal, but
wants to be put to death.
“If the jury had given me life,
I would have forced you to ap
peal,” John J. Gibbons, one of
three court-appointed attorneys
who defended Graham, quoted
him as saying.
Graham, a father of two chil
dren, awaits execution in the gas
chamber the week of Aug. 26 for
the murder of his mother in the
dynamiting of an airliner. The
crash took 44 lives.
Graham’s wife Gloria, 22, had
intended to accompany Gibbons to
the state penitentiary at Canon
City to visit her husband. She
called Gibbons, however, and said
she could not mak® the trip be
cause her children were ill.
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'■> WASHINGTON, UP) — For the
second time in less than two
years, an Eisenhower administra
tion official has been tripped up
on an impromptu remark about
unemployed auto workers in De
troit.
wmte House assistant Howard
Pyle apologized yesterday “to
anyone who may have been of
fended” by what he called an off
hand remark Monday that “the
right to suffer is one of the joys
of a free economy, just as the
right to prosper it.”
Pyle’s statement said “the hard
ships of unemployment anytime,
anywhere, are not pleasant for
I any of us.”
j He said the administration has
demonstrated it is “very actively
concerned” about the situation.
President Walter Reuther of
the United Auto Workers Union
protested to President Eisenhower
about Pyle’s earlier remarks. He
said the incident recalls “another
presidential spokesman who two
years ago compared laid-off work
ers here to bird dogs and kennel
dogs.”
Secretary of Defense Wilson
told a Detroit news conference
Oct. 11, 1954 he preferred the bird
dog—“you know, one who’ll get
out and hunt for food rather than
sit on his fanny and yell.”
Pyle said he “explained in great
detail” during an appearance in
Detroit Monday that the adminis
tration was “very actively con
cerned over the fact that for the
moment this great city is a ‘criti
cal job area’ by reason of seasonal
employment problem.”
Pyle said the remark Reuther
criticized was made informally in
his hotel room to several press
representatives. The Detroit
Times, which quoted it Tuesday,
said Pyle made the remark “smil
ingly.”
It’s a lot easier to get the best
of an argument than it is to prove
you are right. |
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Alakanuk Stricken
| By Floods And
Measles Epidemic
ANCHORAGE, 0?*)—Nearly one
fourth of the 200 population of
the village of Alakanuk, 500 miles
northwest of here on the ice
swollen .Yukon river, have been
stricken with measles, Civil De
fense officials reported Wednes
day.
a scnooueacner was reported
earing for 44 measles patients,
most of them living in boats
where they are riding out high
waters caused by numerous up
river ice jams.
An Air Force B29 dropped 23
bombs on a jam near the village
before a malfunctioning bomb bay
forced the plane to give up the
mission with nine 500 - pounders
still aboard. The Alaska Com
mand said it will be a few days
before another flight can be made.
A previous aerial bombing
caused the water to drop eight
inches at Alakanuk but it rose
again before Wednesday’s futile
effort.
Throughout the flood region,
water is flowing out into the tun
dra above the jams, it was re
ported by Ed Fortier, Anchorage
regional Civil Defense director.
The ice jams were described by
Jack Emel, Alakanuk Civil De
fense director, as tremendous. He
said an aerial survey showed sev
eral jams upriver from the main
jam and several of them were a
thousand feet wide. He said water
was overflowing the banks above
the jam but was four feet below
the bank on the other side of the
jam.
ODYSSEY OF A SEA LION
TAKAMATSU, Japan, UFi —
Takamatsu has a new hero — an
80-pound sea lion. He arrived here
by:
Breaking out of his cage at an
aquarium in Osaka, swimming 90
miles across the bay into the In
land Sea, being captured in a
river here after a three - hour
fight.
Thousands of townspeople have
flocked to the city zoo to see
what caused the excitement. The
sea lion will be shipped back soon.
The testimony of a good con
science is worth more than a
dozen character witnesses.
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iSatchmo Requested To
Flay It Cool For
African Audiences
ACCRA, Gold Coast, Africa, W
— Police Maj. Michael Collens
today ordered Louis <Satchmo>
Armstrong to cool off the tempo
of his hot Dixieland music to pre
vent his happy African audiences
from rioting.
“When you play fast,” said Col
lens, “These natives can’t stand
it. They’ll riot all over the place
from joy.”
A big smile broke over Satch
mo’s broad face.
“O.K., daddy,” he told the of
ficial, “I’ll give ’em a little slow
beat. You know, that old 4 o’clock
in the morning music.”
He and his band of American
musicians then began playing
“When It’s Sleepy Time Down
South.”
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
U.S. Planes Collide Over
England;* Two Killed
IPSWICH, England, (jP—Two
U.S. Air Force fighter planes col
lided over eastern England yester-.'
day and one crashed on a house.
One pilot and one civilian were^
reported killed. The second pilot
bailed out.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 11, Detroit 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn 4
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 4, Vancouver 3
Los Angeles 12, San Diego 10
Sacramento 5, San Francisco 3
Portland 2, Hollywood 1
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