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VOL. LXII No. 55NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1960Per Copy 154
Eisenhower Hints He May Cancel Soviet j
Tour If Khrushchev Continues Attacks |
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower hinted today he might
cancel his plans to visit Russia
next month if Soviet Premier
Khrushchev pressed his anti
American campaign too far.
Speaking casually to labor lead
er George Meany, Eisenhower
suddenly clouded his Moscow
trip with a big “If.”
He did so by saying that he
would take a new kind of a boat
as a gift to the Soviet Premier
■“iff’ he makes the trip.
The President and Meany, head
of the AFL-CIO, were standing
before a boat at a union-industries
exhibit at the time.
The interjection of the “if” was
obviously far from accidental at a
time when officials from the Pres
ident down have been trying to
figure out what Khrushchev is up
to in this critical presummit con
ference period.
As part of the search for an ex
planation, the United States for
mally and politely asked the So
viet Foreign Office today for “the
full facts” behind Khrushchev’s
boast that Soviet forces shot down
an American aircraft early Sun
day when it allegedly violated the
Soviet frontier. The note, deliv
ered in Moscow, particularly asked
about the fate of the pilot.
Deliberate Violation Denied
A State Department spokesman
denied that in this instance or any
other the Soviet -border -had been
deliberately violated by an Amer
ican aircraft. He reiterated the
U. S. government’s position that
the pilot of a weather research
plane in the Soviet-Turkish bor
der area Sunday morning was
having trouble with his oxygen
equipment and may have blacked
out.
In that event, said Press Officer
Lincoln White, he might have ac
cidentally flown into Russia.
Eisenhower’s casual clouding of
whether he might, after all, go to
Russia in return for Khrushchev’s
visit here last fall, came after a
Presidential aide had told news
men he knew nothing of any
change in the Chief Executive’s
plans.
The proposed gift boat is one
which propels itself by taking in
water and forcing it out in a jet.
Authorities seeking to analyze
the purposes behind Khrushchev’s
moves apparently feel that the So
viet Premier is trying to force
Eisenhower into a summit confer
ence trap where he must either
make important concessions or
take the blame for failure.
Alongside that assessment of
RELAXING OF EAST-WEST
TENSIONS IMPOSSIBLE
WASHINGTON, UP! — Secretary
of State Christian Herter said to
day a true relaxing of East-West
tensions is impossible “while the
Soviet Union continues its attacks”
on some of the Western nations.
He declared that was the con
sensus of foreign ministers who
attended meetings of the Central
Treaty Organization and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization held
respectively in Tehran and
Istanbul.
The ministers also agreed, Her
ter said in a statement on his
return, that “exaggerated hopes
•for agreement (at the summit con
ference) should not be enter
tained.”
Khrushchev’s current blustery j
outburst against the United States j
and Eisenhower personally stands |
this additional view: There is j
some danger Khrushchev may |
overplay his hand and wreck |
summit conference plans com-1
pletely.
Will Not Go Under Duress
Eisenhower has repeatedly said
he would not go to the summit
under threat or duress. While
Khrushchev has not carried his
present campaign to that point his
present tactics suggest the pos
sibility that he could do so.
The follow-up salvo fired by a
Khrushchev lieutenant before the
Supreme Soviet in Moscow today
reinforced the impression, based
on Khrushchev’s opening blast
yesterday, that the Soviet leader
has embarked on a deliberate
campaign.
The suddenness of his action
caught everyone here from the
President down toy surprise. Hence
official reaction has been slow and
cautious, its development ham
pered by the fact that Secretary
of State Christian Herter, together
with almost all the top officials
of the State Department, has been
in the Middle East for Allied con
ferences. They are due home
tonight.
But the White House and State
(Continued on Page Two)
President Signs Hotly
Contested Civil Rights Bill
WASHINGTON, 0 — President
Eisenhower signed today the 1960
Civil Rights Bill keyed to new pro
tection for the voting rights of
Negroes.
Eisenhower called the law “an
historic step forward in the field
of civil rights” although Congress
failed to include some of his rec
ommendations.
“With continuing help from all
responsible persons, the new law
will play an important role in the
days ahead in attaining our goal
of equality under law in all areas
of our country for all Americans,”
Eisenhower said.
The signing was without any
extraordinary ceremony.
The President's statement noted
tha this is only the second civil
rights measure passed by Con
gres in 85 years. He said it, like
the 1957 law, was built on recom
mendations of the Administration.
Congress passed the legislation
April 21 after months of struggle,
marked by one week of around
the-clock Senate sessions.
Sure Presidential Veto
Seen For $251 Million
Aid to Depressed Areas
WASHINGTON, 0 — The Sen
ate today sent to President Eisen
hower — and an apparently sure
veto — a 251 million-dollar bill to
aid chronically distressed areas.
The vote was 45-32 or seven
votes short of the two-thirds that
would be needed to override a
veto.
The measure carries authoriza
tions for federal loans and grants
aimed to create jobs in long-term
depressed industrial and rural
areas over the country.
If there is a veto. Democrats
plan to try to make it a major
issue in this year’s naional elec
tion campaign. There seems to be
little chance a veto could be over
ridden.
Crippled Firestone
Heir Throws Self
Off Havana Hotel
HAVANA, (#1 — Harvey S. Fire- i
stone I'll, crippled scion of the
wealthy rubber family, crawled to
the -balcony of his 20th floor hotel
suite last night and plunged to his
death.
Cuban authorities ruled him a
suicide.
The 30-year-old Firestone, a
resident of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
suffered from cerebral palsy and
was confined to a wheelchair. He
checked into the Havana Hilton
Hotel yesterday with his attend
and and a cousin, David M. Fire
stone, 29, of Sarasota, Fla. They
planned to stay three days.
About 7 p.m. Harvey disap
peared and his two companions
called police.
Clad only in white shorts and a
pajama top, -his body was found on
a third-floor parapet above the
main entrance of the 25-story sky
scraper in the heart of the Cuban
capitol.
Harvey, who had powerful arms
and shoulders, apparently crawled
to the balcony of the room, pulled
himself out of his wheelchair and
plunged over the 3 -foot-high
aluminum grill barrier around the
balcony. Death was instantaneous.
The dead man was the grandson
of the founder of the Firestone
Tire and Rubber Co. and the only
son of Harvey S. Firestone Jr.,
now head of the firm.
Philadelphia Methodist
Missions Chief to Speak
At Local Church Sunday
The Rev. Theodore H .Leonard
of Philadelphia, a Director of the
Division of National Missions of
Rev. Theodore H. Leonard
the Board of Missions, Methodist
Church, will be the guest speaker
at Community Methodist Church
on Sunday, May 8, Mother’s Day.
Mr. Leonard was elected to the
Philadelphia Headquarters post in
January, 1958. He has traveled
extensively through the mission
fields and through the states and
Puerto Rico in behalf of missions.
In his present post, he is on the
staff of the “Adance Department.”
His special responsibility is that
of sharing information concerning
the home mission field, promoting
National Missions projects in lo
cal churches across the nation, re
lating the local church to specific
mission projects and missionaries,
and the securing of funds for their
support.
Mr. Leonard will be arriving
here on May 6, for a 'three-day
stay.
Sen. Bill Beltz Undergoes
Surgery In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, UP) — William E.
Beltz, President of the Alaska
Senate, underwent surgery at
about 11 a.m. today in the Alaska
Native Hospital here.
Nature of his ailment could not
be immediately determined, but
doctors at the hospital said it is
connected with his dramatic col
lapse in the State Senate just be
fore the end of the last Legislative
session.
The Unalakleet Democrat en
tered Providence Hospital for ex
amination after the Legislature
adjourned. He was transferred to
the Alaska Native Hospital a week
ago and has been undergoing med
ical examination since that time.
The operation is apparently a
result of information determined
by the extensivp examination.
Senator Beltz was to have given
the graduation address next
Thursday evening at the Com
mencement exercises in Nome.
It has not yet been learned who
will be substitute speaker.
Administration Places
Foreign Interests Over
U.S. Welfare — Gruening
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen. Er
nest Gruening said yesterday the
Eisenhower Administration is “the
first in American history to place
the interest of foreign countries
above those of our own people.”
“Perhaps the psychiatrists can
prescribe the proper treatment for
this strange schizophrenia which
afflicts the Eisenhower-Nixon Ad
ministration.” Gruening told the
Senate.
Gruening said there is an Ad
ministration “double standard un
der which it threatens a special
session of Congress if a nickel is
cut from the requests for foreign
aid but squeals with anguish at
propoals to spend far lesser sums
here at home on exactly the same
types of programs.”
Alaska Population
Of 224,408 Is 74%
Gain Over 1950
SEATTLE, UP) — Alaska, the
largest state, became the first to
report its population in the 1960
Census today.
It was 224,408 on April 1, Guy
E. Rainboth, regional Census Bur
eau supervisor, announced here.
It is a 74 per cent gain over the
128,643 in 1950.
Final reports issued at Wash
ington, D. C., may mean a slight
revision, Rainboth said.
Anchorage, with 11,354 residents
10 years ago, jumped to 44,195,
and Fairbanks grew from 5,771 in
1950 to 13,199 this year, he added.
Mayor Steffen Andersen has re
ceived a preliminary report from
the Census Bureau headquarters
at Fairbanks, stating that Nome
has 2,300 residents, according to
the count taken here last month.
Alaska Senators Ask More
Funds for Health Research
WASHINGTON, UPI — A plea
for a $250,000 increase in funds
for the Arctic Health Research
Center at Anchorage was made
yesterday before a Senate Appro
priations Subcommittee.
Senators Bartlett and Gruen
ing contended there is an urgent
need for that increase over the
$596,000 budgeted by President
Eisenhower for the Center in the
fiscal year beginning next July 1.
Bartlett said the increase would
permit vitally needed research
into problems of life in cold cli
mates. The Anchorage center, he
added, is the only such facility in
North America.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair — little change
in temperature. Lowest expected
tonight 40, the high tomorrow 50.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 53, lowest 37. Sunrise at
3:13 a.m., sunset at 8:45 p.m.
Margaret Falters In Promises
At Brilliant, Fairytale Wedding
LONDON, UP) — Radiant as a
bride should be, Princess Mar
garet married untitled Antony
Armstrong-Jones today and sailed
off for a Caribbean honeymoon.
The wedding and its panoply of
pomp and parade down the broad
Mall gave London its most colorful
pageant since the Coronation. A
million or more cheered the dimin
utive Princess and the man of her
heart as they moved along in a
horse-drawn coach under cobalt
blue skies.
The wedding ceremony had
gone off with only one brief hitch.
The bride had a moment of
stagefright in the middle of the
ceremony. Within the medieval
magnificence of Westminster Ab
bey, all went smoothly until Mar
garet began repeating her words
before the throng of 2,068 invited
guests and millions listening on
radio and watching on television.
When she came to the ancient
ritual of pledging herself to Tony,
she choked up for a moment.
“For better for worse,” intoned
te Arohbishop of Canterbury.
Margaret hesitated, murmured
something, and as if reminding
her:
“For better for worse,” the
Archbishop said again.
She then repeated the words
quietly, her voice in a lower key
than usual. It was part of the
pledge by the bride in the Angli
can wedding service:
“I, Margaret Rose, take thee,
Antony Charles Robert, to my
wedded husband, to have and to
hold from this day forward, for
better for worse, for richer for
poorer, in sickness and in health,
to love, cherish and obey, till death
do us part. . . .”
The groom spoke his wedding
responses clearly and firmly as he
knelt with Margaret before the
Archbishop, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher.
It was the first ime in four cen
turies that the daugher of an
English king had married a com
moner.
Outside, a million Londoners
and tourists roared cheers for the
newlyweds.
A wide diamond tiara blaze on
her head. Her gown was of white
silk organza — untrimmed, high
necked, long-sleeves apd full
skirted. A high chignon added
inches to her 5-foot-2. A veil of
white illusion tulle sprang from
each side of her head above the
ears, pulled back at the shoulders
and falling to the floor.
When the bride choked up, it
was the only hitch in a wedding
of truly fairytale splendor. It was
like the turning of a page of
history.