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Candidates Attack Each Other’s Record!
HYANNIS PORT, Mass., UP! — |
Sen. John Kennedy took a par
tial respite from his presidential j
campaign today after assailing the
Eisenhower administration’s for
eign policy and Vice President
Nixon’s role in that field.-^
Kennedy, the Democratic nomi
nee, lit into Nixon, his Republi
can rival for the White House, ■
and indirectly into President,
Eisenhower in a speech at Syra
cuse, N.Y., last night.
Kennedy listed the areas
around the world where the Com- i
munists have helped to precipi
tate crises during the last 12
months.
“Why was not our Latin Ameri
can capital investment program
strengthened in 1958, after Mr.
Nixon was there, instead of now
at the point of Mr. Castro’s gun?”
Kennedy asked.
“Why did we fail to recognize
the situation in Laos—in India—
in Japan —in Poland and other
areas of the world —before the
crises developed?
“Mr. Nixon was there — pre
sumably he saw what was going
on—presumably he made recom
mendations.
“But it is apparently an un
fortunate fact that for all these
years a trip by Mr. Khrushchev
. . . has had a far greater effect
on our foreign policy than a trip
■by Mr. Nixon.”
Mrs. Nixon Willing to
Debate Mrs. Kennedy
On ‘Important’ Issue
NEW YORK, an—Mrs. Richard
Nixon said today she would be
willing to debate Mrs. John F.
Kennedy on some topic of im
portance. She added, however,
she feels there is no reason to
do so.
“I would be willing to debate
something of great value, but I
do not think clothes are import
ant and should not be an issue”
the wife of the GOP presidential
nominee said at a Republican
Women’s gathering.
Mrs. Kennedy, wife of the
Democratic nominee, recently
voiced displeasure over published
reports that she spent $15,000 to
$30,000 a year for her wardrobe.
She remarked that Mrs. Nixon
probably spent more than she did.
Mrs. Nixon commented that she
did most of her shopping in med
ium-priced stores.
Castro Promises Legal
Showdown Coming On
Guantanamo Naval Base
HAVANA, an — Fidel Castro
made clear at a welcome home
celebration Wednesday night that
a legal showdown is coming over
the U.S. Naval Base at Guantan
amo. The homecoming was inter
rupted by two bomb explosions
that did no damage.
Within three hours after re
turning from the UN. General
Assembly in New York, the prime
minister was renewing his threats
against the naval installation and
flailing away at the United States
as “the most aggressive, most
warmongering and most stupid of
imperialisms.”
Castro dismissed the explosions
as the “little bombs of imperial
ism,”
100 Days Without Highway Death
PROVIDENCE, R. I.. dP —Pro
vidence observed its 100th day
without a highway death Wednes
day. As a bonus all 502 members
of the police department will get
an extra day off.
ENROUTE WITH NIXON, Iff*— ,
Vice President Richard Nixon, |
pushing his campaign into rain
swept Maine, told a Republican j
rally at Bangor today the Novem- |
ber election may decide “the fu
ture of America and the future'
of the world.”
The presidential nominee flew j
into Bangor to appeal for his elec
tion on the basis of Republican i
performance. And he asked his
audience to compare his and Vice
Presidential candidate Henry Ca
bot Lodge’s qualifcations for keep
ing the peace with those of their
Democratic opponents.
“Put us to the sternest test,” he j
invited. “Examine the records.
Examine our backgrounds, and
then decide.”
Nixon took another slap at Sen.
John Kennedy, his Democratic ri
val, for advocating programs he
said would cost from $13 billion
to $18 billion.
“That’s not Jack’s money he
would be spending,” Nixon said of
his opponent, the son of a million
aire. “That’s your money.”
He hammered away here, as he
has across the country, at the ar
gument that President Eisen
hower “took us out of a war we
were in, kept us out of other wars
and preserved the peace wthout
surrender.” He pledged that he
and Lodge will, if elected, carry
on “the policy of firmness with
out belligerence” Eisenhower has
followed and “move ahead on the
economic front.”
Plagued by another day of rain,
Nixon's chartered campaign plane
made another instrument land
ing as he came into Bangor run
ning about 30 minutes behind
schedule.
Large Factory Canning
Ship to Leave For Alaska
Crab Fishing Grounds
SEATTLE, Oft—A floating can
nery, the M.S. Mercator described
as the largest factory ship of her
type under the flag to enter the
crab canning business will leave
within a few days for the Kodiak
Island fishing grounds.
The Mercator, built originally
for the Standard Oil Co. and
christened the Hawaiian Stand
ard, is a steel vessel 221 feet
long.
A spokesman for the present
owners, Pan-Alaska Fisheries,
Seattle said it has been complete
ly overhauled and outfitted to
work as a factory ship and mother
ship. It is expected to work in
dependently of her Seattle base
several months at a time and can
handle up to 250 cases of crab
meat per eight-hour shift, he said.
Castro, 34, Calls
Kennedy, 43, Nixon 47,
‘Ignorant, Beardless Kids’
HAVANA, UPi — Bearded, 34
year-old Fidel Castro today at
tacked Richard Nixon, 47, and
John Kennedy, 43, as “two illit
erate, ignorant, beardless kids.”
This was only one of the insults
that the Cuban prime minister
hurled at the two American pre
sidential candidates in expanding
the attack he was not permitted
to continue before the U.N. Gen
eral Assembly.
“I’m sure that if Soviet Premier
Khrushchev spent six months in
the United States, he would get
more votes than Kennedy,” Castro
declared in an unscheduled post
midnight television appearance.
Elivera Doud, 82,
Mother of Mrs.
Eisenhower, Dies
DENVER, UP) — Mrs. Elivera
Doud, 82, mother of Mrs. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, died in her sleep
Wednesday night at her home in
Denver. She had been in ill
health more than two years.
The White House said the first
lady would fly to Denver immedi
ately. Another daughter, Mrs.
Gordon Moore of Washington,
was with her mother when the
end came.
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower last visited Mrs. Doud here
July 27-31.
No closer and more public re
lationship between a President
and his mother-in-law probably
existed than that between Mrs.
Doud and Eisenhower.
She lived at the White House,
and was the first mother-in-law
ever to accompany a presidential
candidate on his campaign train.
Two other daughters were born
to Mrs. Doud and her husband,
John Sheldon Doud, who died at
the age of 80 in 1951. The first
born, Eleanor, died in 1912.
Mamie was the second daughter.
The third daughter, Edna Mae,
died in 1918. Mrs. Moore is the
youngest.
Ike Flies to Funeral
DENVER, Colo., VP) — President
Eisenhower flew to Denver today
to join his grieving wife at fun
eral services for Mrs. Eisenhow
er’s mother, Elivera Doud.
The President arrived in a jet
plane from Chicago.
The plane stood by to hasten
the President back to Washington
tonight. Associates said the con
tinuing East-West conflict at the
United Nations precluded any
long family visit away from the
capital.
The time Eisenhower, the son
in-law, borrowed today from his
responsibilities as head of govern
ment and of his party was a
testimonial to his real individual
grief.
The President was devoted to
the bright-eyed 82-year-old “Min”
who died in her sleep Wednesday.
Lyndon Johnson Will
Make Nome Visit
During Campaign
Lyndon Johnson, Democratic
candidate for Vice President, has
a visit to Nome scheduled on his
Alaska itinerary, stated Les Bron
son, acting chairman of the Demo
cratic Club.
Bronson states that when the
date is firmed up a $10-a-plate
Democratic dinner is to be an
nounced for the very special oc
casion.
FLIP-FLOP~
MOSCOW, VP) — Communist
China’s ambassador here was
quoted today as saying that his
country will work for peaceful co
existence, a view that departs
from recent Peiping philosophy.
The Communist party paper
Pravda printed a statement by
Liu Siao, the Red Chinese am
bassador, at a celebration Thurs
day night marking the 11th anni
versary of Communism’s takeover
in China.
In recent weeks, Moscow and
Peiping have been split over
which way to implement Marxist
doctrine—the Soviet Union favor
ing peaceful coexistence and
Communist China declaring that
only war will advance Commun
ism.
Five Neutralist Leaders Make Formal
Demand For A New Summit Meeting
Nehru Lends Personal
Prestige To Resolution
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (A>>—
Prime Minister Nehru of India to
day formally asked the U.N. Gen
eral Assembly to place on its
agenda a neutralist resolution de
manding a Khrushchev - Eisen
hower meeting.
Nehru, in his first appearance
before this Assembly session,
dramatized the rising influence
of the neutrals and lent his per
sonal prestige among them to the
drive to bring about a new sum
mit meeting.
By RELMAN MORIN
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., lift—
The Communist bloc mounted a
counteroffensive in the U.N. today
against a tough major Western
statement of policy, but neutral
ist leaders still undismayed, is
sued a formal demand for a new
meeting at the summit of Presi
dent Eisenhower and Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev.
Speaking for the Communists,
Poland’s Wladyslaw Gomulka
struck back at British Prime Min
ister MacMillan’s hard-hitting ad
dress Thursday which touched off
a violent table-thumping demon
stration by Khrushchev.
Gomulka said world peace
would be impossible so long as
the Western powers supported
West Germany’s claims to former
policy territory.
In the midst of the bitter Com
munist-Western quarrel, five neu
tral leaders produced a formal
State Accuses Alaska Line
Of Ignoring Order Set Up
Special Rate Accounts
JUNEAU, UPI — The State of
Alaska today accused the Alaska
Steamship Co. of ignoring a Fed
eral Maritime Board order to set
up a special account for all mon
ey received as the result of a
contested rate increase.
The state, in a petition filed
with the Federal Maritime Board
in Washington, D.C., asked that
the board order immediate refund
of money received by Alaska
Steam as a result of the rate in
crease or that the board enforce
its order pending a final decision
on the rate increase.
After Alaska Steam, Coastwise
Line and Garrison Fast Freight
filed new tarrifs increasing rates
by 10 per cent, the board agreed
to let the increase stand, provid
ing the special accounts were set
up.
The State said in its petition
that Alaska Steam had ignored
the order and “the increased rates
were simply thrown in with the
commercial revenues of the steam
ship company.”
The State petition did not state
whether Garrison Fast Freight or
Coastwise Line had followed the
Federal Maritime Board’s order
n setting up special accounts.
Floyd Fagerstrom Injured
In Accident At Mile 13
Floyd Fagterstrom is hospital
ized with back and bone injuries
suffered when his car ran off
the bridge at Mile 13 on High
way 97. He carried a passenger
who was not injured as he was
thrown clear of the car. Fager
strom is believed to have been
driving a jeep.
plea for action by this historic,
star-studded 15th General Assem
bly session. It asked the Eisen
hower - Khrushchev meeting as a
“first urgent step” toward easing
international tensions.
The five leaders making the:
plea were President Tito of Yugo
slavia, President Nasser of the
United Arab Republic, President.
Nkrumah of Ghana, President Su
karno of Indonesia, and Prime
Minister Nehru of India.
Eisenhower and Khrushchev
last met face to face in Paris,
when Khrushchev stormed against
the May 1 U2 intelligence plane
flight over the Soviet Union and
said he would not talk with
Eisenhower about world issues
until the President apologized.
Eisenhower has said he is un
willing to meet Khrushchev until
the Soviet leader releases captive
American crewmen of a U S. RB
47 plan shot down by Soviet
fighters in July.
But both leaders have been ex
pressing willingness for some sort?
of approach to the world’s most
delicate international problems.
The resolution by the five neu
trals was presented against the
background of violent outbursts
by Khrushchev inspired by the
hard-hitting address of Britain’s
MacMillan.
MacMillan had defended West
Germany yesterday against Soviet
i charges that it harbors militarist
aims. The Briton’s speech had
moved the Soviet Premier to vio
lent outburts of table-thumping
protest.
BB Tries Suicide
On 26th Birthday
MENTON, France, — Film
star Brigitte Bardot, found in a
coma after trying suicide on her
26th birthday, was recovering to
day in a nerve hospital.
The St. Francis Neurological
Clinic said she slashed her wrists
with a razor blade and took an
overdoes of sleeping tablets. It
described her condition as “ratl^r
alarming” when brought in.
The sexy blonde French movie
queen has been reported having
serious marital difficulties with
her husband, actor Jaques Char
rier. He has been on a separate
hunting vacation in southwestern
France.
Brigitte disappeared from Paris
after her husband got involved in
a minor brawl with Sarny Frey—
her current leading man —when
Charrier encountered the couple
in a car outside a night resort.
U.S. Embassy Advises
Americans In Cuba
To Go Home
HAVANA, UPi — The U.S. Em
bassy has been quietly advising
all American residents to send
wives and children back to the
United States and leave them
selves if at all possible, because
of the tense situation here.
Hundreds of American families
already have departed because of
the Castro regime’s anti-Yankee
campaign and many others are
preparing to leave as a result of
the embassy’s warning. The last
of the embassy dependents will
be gone by the end of this week.
The Cuban government has
placed no barriers in the way of
these departure, although some
persons have been briefly search
ed at airports.