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VOL. LXII No. 124 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1960 _Per Copy 15?
U.S. BANS ALL EXPORTS TO CUBA
EXCEPT MEDICAL SUPPLIES, FOOD
HAVANA, UP\ — Fidel Castro’s
government took full advantage
of a long Washington debate on
whether to appy economic sanc
tions to Cuba to import millions
of dollars worth of essential
items from the United States in
advance of today’s curbs on U.S.
trade.
Economic experts said that if
Cuban factories continue to op
erate and automobile wheels to
turn before the Soviet bloc can
take over supply, it is because
shiploads of spare parts were
rushed here from the United
States in the past few weeks.
The new curbs are expected to
touch off the confiscation of all
remaining U.S. holdings in Cuba.
They also may touch off a for
mal Cuban demand that the
United States abandon its huge
Guantanamo Naval Base. Prime
Minister Castro may even break
diplomatic relations.
Castro told the nation last week
American businesses here that
were still untouched were being
saved for expropriation if the
United States committed “future
aggressions.”
The value of some 350 small
firms in Cuba still in American
hands is estimated at about $250
million. The Castro regime al
ready has gobbled up the big U.S.
holdings, worth nearly a billion
dollars.
At the United Nations last
month the Cuban prime minister
said his country was seriously
considering a demand—via legal
channels—that the United States
quit Guantanamo. Observers here
were puzzled when a quick fol
low-up did not develop.
The pro-revolutionary press
carried little reaction today to
Vice President Nixon’s suggestion
that Cuba be quarantined.
The Republican presidential
candidate and his Democratic ri
val, Sen John Kennedy, suggested
economic sanctions are due
against Cuba.
The newspaper Revolucion said
“Our revolution will return blow
for blow any attacks against us.”
About Nixon, Revolucion said:
“He is just as much a million
aire and just as ignorant as his
rival.”
Legion Backs Commander
In Matter of Segregation
Practiced By 40 and 8
MIAMI BKACH, Fla., UP! — The
American Legion today backed up
its national commander In strip
ping members of the fun-loving
40 and 8 Society of some of their
privileges because of their segre
gation policy.
The action came on a vote of
2,344 to 693 in the face of warn
ings by Southern Legionnaires
that the move might result in the
40 and 8 breaking away from the
Legion and eventually destroying
itself.
National Commander Martin B.
McKneally of New York City
closed out the debate by stating
that during the past year he had
been subjected to threats and two
impeachment resolutions as a re
sult of his action.
Last year the Legion Com
mander and executive committee
forbade the 40 and 8 members to
1 use the Legion emblem and to
participate in parades because the
organization restricts its member
ship to white persons.
WASHINGTON, W — The
United States today banned all
exports to Cuba except certain
medical supplies and foods.
It also forbade sale, transfer
or charter of American - owned
ships to Cuban interests without
specific government approval —
a move that blocks the Fidel Cas
tro regime from using American
shipping for transport of supplies
purchased elsewhere.
The economic crackdown is in
reaction to the Castro govern
ment’s seizure of more than a
billion dollars of American busi
ness interests in Cuba.
It comes atop the curtailment
of the Cuban sugar quota earlier
this year which denied Cuba the
opportunity to sell to the United
States 700,000 tons of sugar val
ued at about $92.5 million—sales
that would have been under a
U.S. subsidy of about $35 million.
Castro is expected to react to
the new US. move by expropria
tion of still further American
businesses.
Trade specialists in the govern
ment said the curbs will cut off
more than half of all American
shipments to Cuba, but that a
substantial amount of trade could
be continued under the regula
tions.
A place the Cubans could
quickly feel the pinch is in spare
parts for oil refining plants seized
from American companies.
The administration acted as de
bate over the Red-tinged regime
of Cuba’s Fidel Castro boiled up
as a major issue in the presi
dential campaign.
Attempt On Castro’s Life?
HAVANA, UP*—The army cap
tain who commands the military
post at suburban Cojimar, where
Prime Minister Fidel Castro lives,
is in a hospital for treatment of
a bullet wound in his side, El
Mundo, the government-controlled
newspaper reported today. It gave
no details of the shooting.
Amadeo Barletta Jr., exiled Cu
ban newspaper editor, said in
Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday that
he had received a report of an
attack on Castro early Sunday. A
spokesman at Castro’s Havana of
fice denied any attempt to assassi
nate the prime minister had taken
place.
Barletta said he was told Castro
was in a house next to the Italian
embassy at the time of the shoot
ing. The Italian amdassador had
reported in Havana that two bul
lets struck the embassy residence
on Sunday about 2 a.m.
Later Sunday morning, Castro
and the national police chief pass
ed the embassy and talked with
police investigating the shooting,
which has not been officially an
nounced or explained by the
police.
$10,000-a-Call
NEW ORLEANS, La., MP) — An
investigation has been ordered to
determine the necessity of the
emergency telephone setup in
suburban Metairie. The cost —
over $10,000 per call—was con
sidered too high.
The system, installed at a cost
of $32,000, consisted of 284 tele
phones in strategic spots con
nected to fire department cir
cuits.
Officials ordered the probe af
ter learning only three calls
were made last year.
U.S. WILL NOT BE
INTIMIDATED BY RED
THREAT OF WALKOUT
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Ufi —
The United States declared today
it will not be intimidated by
Soviet threats to walk out of the
United Nations debate on disarm
ament.
U.S. Delegate James J. Wads
worth made the statement in the
U.N. Political Committee, where
earlier Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Valerian Zorin had
threatened to boycott if the
United States and its allies insist
on pressing Western arms reduc
tion plans Zorin said discussion
would be “a waste of time” under
such circumstances.
Wadsworth challenged the So
viet Union to join in a workable
disarmament program containing
these three main features:
1. Pair balance on both sides,
giving neither a significant mili
tary advantage.
2. Adequate inspection and ver
ification, thus assuring each side
that the other is keeping its pro
mises.
3. Step-by-step progress, build
ing confidence as it goes so that
more and more far-reaching pro
posals may be made effective.
English Cars Must Pass
Compulsory Fitness Tests
LONDON, UFi—Transport Min
ister Ernest Marples — the man
who brought in new fitness tests
for aging autos —confessed his
own car hadn’t made the grade.
Marples told a road safety con
ference:
“Some people have urged that
the tests should stop because they
cause inconvenience to owners of
older cars.
“A vehicle over 50 years old
has passed this test easily. I’ve
known a vehicle only 2 years old
which has failed—my own.”
The tests will become compul
sory soon.
Nome’s “Walking Blood
Bank” to be Brought Up
To Date Next Week
A blood typing survey is to be
held the last week in October in
the Grand Jury Room of the Fed
eral Building.
The Public Health Department
and the MMM Hospital, with the
support of the Home Arts Club,
are sponsoring the program which
will be used to bring the hos
pital’s blood donor list up to date
as well as to inform the public
on their blood types. The last
public blood typing program was
carried out in the fall of 1952.
All persons between the ages
of 10 and 59 are urged to watch
for further announcements on the
blood typing program and to take
advantage of the opportunity to
have their blood typed.
Friday’s “Great Debate”
Will Probably Be The Last
WASHINGTON, UP*—1The fourth
television debate between the
presidential candidates Friday
night probably will be the last
of the campaign.
Vice President Nixon, the Re
publican candidate, Monday turn
ed down a proposal by his oppo
nent, Sen. John Kennedy, for a
fifth debate. He blamed schedul
ing difficulties.
Although Kennedy asked Nixon
to reconsider, there seemed little
chance their representatives would
agree on anything beyond the
fourth join appearance.
Instead, Nixon suggested chang
ing the format of the fourth de
bate. First, he proposed extend
ing it from one hour to two hours
and, second, he suggested the can
didates respond to questions from
the public as well as questions
from newsmen. But Kennedy re
jected the whole idea.
On The Presidential Campaign Trail
ENROUTE WITH NIXON, UPt—
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
said today the coming years “de
mand that America mount a great
offensive for freedom.”
He suggested that he and Henry
Cabot Lodge are the men to guide
that offensive.
Speaking to cheering listeners
in a midtown square in Wilming
ton, Del., the Republican presi
dential candidate bore down on a
familiar campaign theme. He as
serted that experience best quali
fies him and Lodge for the high
est offices in the country in dan
gerous times.
Nixon branded Soviet Premier
Khrushchev a “ruthless, fanatical
man.”
He said that in dealing with
dictators, “you must not under
any circumstances” make a con
cession without getting one.
He said America is the strong
est nation in the world and under
a Nixon administration would in
crease that strength.
Nixon thus continued his run
ning debate with Sen. John Ken
nedy.
While telling a Wilmington au
dience that Democratic policies
“would grind America to a stand
still” he expressed confidence in
a superior showing against Ken
nedy in the last of their televised
debates Friday night and claimed
victory in their last two meetings.
NEW YORK, (jD — Democratic
presidential candidate John F.
Kennedy and his wife rode thru
a mass of humanity and a paper
snowstorm on Broadway today,
bidding for the crucial New York
electoral vote.
The day was devoted to a maxi
mum effort to be seen with a
minimum of speaking.
Before starting, Kennedy got in
another dig at his Republican op
ponent’s refusal for the second
time to extend their television de
bate series.
He said the American people
will have to decide why Vice Pre
sident Nixon will not meet him
in a fifth debate on the issues.
The ticker tape, confetti and
torn paper began flying when
Mayor Robert F. Wagner joined
the Kennedys on lower Broadway.
Mrs. Kennedy joined her hus
band in the hand-shaking routine.
The parade had not gone far
on Broadway before a crowd be
gan knocking down police bar
riers. Progress was inch by inch
after that.
The candidate shed his topcoat,
and Mrs. Kennedy stood up with
him, waving to office workers in
the upper windows of the finan
cial district buildings.
The USCG Clover is in the
roadstead to pick up 24 tons of
freight for St. Lawrence Island
which arrived on the SS Tal
keetna for the natives on the is
land.
Nuclear Reactor
Operates Under Ice
At Greenland Base
WASHINGTON, W—1The Army
has started up its atomic power
plant built under the snow of the
Greenland ice cap only about 800
miles from the North Pole.
It announced yesterday that op
erational testing of the 2,000 kilo
watt plant has begun.
In addition to providing elec
tricity for the Army’s Arctic test
base at Camp Century, on the
ice cap, the nuclear heated steam
power plant will be used to melt
snow and provide a water supply.
Camp buildings are buried in the
snow to protect them from 70 de
gree below temperature and
winds of more than 125 miles an
hour in the winter months.
The semiportable reactor, built
for the Army by Alco Products
Inc., of Schenectady, N.Y., was
shipped to Greenland in sections.
Most of the equipment moved by
sea transport last summer, al
though some smaller items were
flown to Greenland.
Canada On Horns Of
Dilemma: What to do
About Fishing Limits
By DAVE McINTOSH
Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA, OB—The government
has under “active consideration”
the question of whether to declare
a 12-mile fishing limit off Cana
da’s seacoasts, authorities said
yesterday.
There was no indication when
a decision might be announced.
The present fishing and territorial
limit, based on the range of the
18th century cannon, is three
miles.
Canadian action may be spur
red, however, by the announce
ment earlier this month by Nor
way, another country with large
coastal fisheries, that its limits
will be extended next year to 12
miles from four.
The three-mile limit has been
a matter for serious complaint by
Canadian fishermen for years.
While some Canadian trawlers
have to remain outside a 12-mile
limit as a Canadian conservation
measure, foreign trawlers may
and do fish up to the three-mile
limit.
Last April 26, the World Con
ference on the Law of the Sea at
Geneva failed toy a single vote
to set a new universal limit for
territorial waters and exclusive
fishing rights.
The U. S., Portugal, Spain and
France have long held historic
fishing rights off Canada’s east
coast, permitting them to fish
within three miles of the Cana
dian shore.
External Affairs Minister Green
has said it will probably be a
long time -before another attempt
at a universal law of the sea can
be made.
Indications are that Canada,
like Norway, can’t wait that long
even though declaration of a 12
mile limit probably would pro
duce a first-class ruckus, especial
ly with the U.S.
Former Prime Minister St. Lau
rent said -his government didn’t
declare a 12-mile limit because
it didn’t want to start a “war.”
Arctic Club Members Will
Prepare for Carnival Friday
Members of the Arctic Club
are requested to be at the Nome
School at 8:00 p.m. on Friday
evening to prepare for the Car
nival. All members urged to help.