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Both Parties Back
Ike in Goodwill
Tour of 11 Nations
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, UP) — Congres
sional leaders of both parties
pledged unanimous backing today
to President Eisenhower on his
forthcoming tour of free world
nations.
Chairman J. William Fulbright
iD-Ark) of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee said Demo
cratic leaders who breakfasted
with the President all gave their
approval to Eisenhower’s forth
coming excursion in personal
diplomacy.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
(D-Tex) emerged from the break
fast with the comment that the
President is undertaking a stren
uous piece of business.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn
don Johnson of Texas said that
Eisenhower will take with him
understanding, our prayers and
our hopes for a successful jour
ney.”
Johnson said Eisenhower indi
cated to the group that while he
does not intend to enter into any
negotiations with heads of other
governments he does expect to
outline the objectives and pur
poses of the United States in the
present world situation.
Senate Republican Leader Ev
erett Dirksen of Illinois said the
Democrats present at the break
fast expressed unanimous ap
proval of Eisenhower’s plans for
the trip.
Ike Will Broadcast
Views Before Tour
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Presi
dent Eisenhower will go on
nationwide television and radio
Thursday evening to discuss his
goodwill mission abroad and such
domestic problems as the steel
strike.
The White House announced
today that Eisenhower will speak
over all major networks for 15
minutes starting at 7:15 p.m. Im
mediately after the talk, he will
go to Andrews Air Force Base in
nearby Maryland and depart on
a 22,000-mile tour to 11 nations
in Europe, Asia and Africa.
The President’s TV-radio theme
will be twofold, Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told newsmen.
Eisenhower will deal first with
his December 3 to 22 trip abroad.
He will- discuss “the strengthen
ing of cooperation among those
countries in pursuit of their own
security and progress in the at
tainment of world peace with
justice.”
In addition, Eisenhower will dis
cuss the domestic economy. Hag
erty put it this way:
“The President will talk about
the need for stronger cooperation
among the several groups that
make up the American economy
so that the nation’s progress
toward peace may be insured and
enhanced.”
Alaska Superior Court
Judges Observe Newark,
N. J., Court Procedures
SEATTLE, Iff) — Eight Alaska
Superior Court judges stopped
briefly Saturday night in Seattle
on their way to New York to
study eastern court systems.
The judges, who will open
courts in the 49th State early in
January, will begin a week’s ob
servations today in a Newark,
N. J., court.
“With our calendar congested
as it is, we hope to get some
pointers on procedures with em
phasis on pretrial procedures,”
said Walter E. Walsh, Juneau.
“We’re starting from scratch,”
said Everett W. Hepp of Fair
banks, “and hope by this study
with several renowned eastern
judges to get started on the right
foot.”
The other new judges include
James M. Fitzgerald of Anchor
age; J. Earl Cooper, Anchorage;
Edward V. Davis, Anchorage;
James von der Heydt, Nome; Har
ry O. Arend, Fairbanks, and Hu
bert A. Gilbert, Fairbanks.
One Last Blast, Then
Quiet Reigns at Hawaii’s
Erupting Kilauea Volcano
HILO, Hawaii, Wt — Kilauea
Iki Volcano shot a tremendous
fountain of golden lava to a rec
ord height of 1,700 feet last night
and then stopped erupting, for the
third time since November 14.
The third violent eruption on
Hawaii Island attracted throngs
of sightseers over the weekend.
The lava flow, reported by seis
mologists at close to 50 million
cubic yards, has formed a lake of
molten rock to a depth of 355
feet on the floor of fiery Kilauea
Iki crater.
Sunday’s spurts of lava topped
all previous records.
Dr. Gordon A. MacDonald, Uni
versity of Hawaii geologist and
veteran volcanologist, said the
giant fountain of molten rock
was the largest he had ever seen.
Seismologists at the volcano ob
servatory said the rising lava bed
does not pose a threat to residents
and property. The eruption is con
fined inside the crater, about 200
miles southeast of Honolulu.
Student Killed In Utah
Mountain Climbing Try
PROVO, Utah, W> — The nar
row ledge was icy with spray
from towering Bridal Veil Falls.
The bottom of Provo Canyon was
250 feet below. So climbers Allan
H. Warren and Larry Anderson
, hooked their belts together as a
makeshift lifeline — just in case.
Waren, 23, stepped out .first. He
slipped, dropped from the ledge.
The belt, with Anderson straining
to hang on, held a moment —
then snapped. Warren plunged to
his death..
Warren, of Downey, Calif., and
Anderson, 19, of Anchorage, were
students at Brigham Young Uni
versity. The tragedy happened
Sunday as they climbed in the
nearby canyon.
Severe Weather
Adds to Holiday
Death Hazard
HOLIDAY DEATHS
By the Associated Press
Traffic . 432
Fires . 69
Miscellaneous . 125
Toial . 626
Unusually severe and early
winter weather in some sections
of the country was a major fac
tor in the cause of death of many
persons during the extended
Thanksgiving holiday.
The worst traffic accident of
the holiday occurred in southern
Texas. Seven persons, including
a couple and their four children,
died in a two-car crash on U. S.
Highway 181 last night.
Of the fire tragedies, the worst
were two in which a total of 10
persons died — five at Merrill,
Wis., and five at Bristol, R. I.
The period covered by the sur
vey started at 6 p.m. local time,
Wednesday, and ended at mid
night, Sunday — a total of 102
hours.
The Associated Press recently
surveyed a nonholiday weekend
of 102 hours and listed ‘433 traffic
deaths, 49 in fires and 100 from
miscellaneous causes.
Last Thanksgiving, 454 died in
traffic accidents, 54 in fires and
118 in other types of accidents.
ROD AND GUN . . .
SAN FRANCISCO, UP — Thom
as Mannion, a steel construction
foreman who loves quiet Sun
days, told police: “I finally had
enough. I was fed up.”
That’s why, he said, he took
two pot shots at 18-year-old Rob
ert Valdez who was hammering
on the fender of his hot rod car
in the vacant lot across the street
and below Mannion’s second-floor
apartment.
One bullet grazed the youth’s
shoulder. A second pierced the
car’s roof.
Police booked Mannion on sus
picion of attempted manslaughter.
POWERFUL DIGHT
MERCERSBERG, Pa., UP —
Dickey Barnes, IVz, was sitting in
the front seat of his father’s car
Sunday when his inquisitive fin
gers got hold of a stray .30 caliber
bullet.
An opening on the dashboard
seemed just the place for it, so
the boy shoved it in.
It turned out to be the hole
for a cigarette lighter, and the
bullet exploded. The blast in
jured Dicky’s left eye. Doctors
at a hospital in Hagerstown, Md.,
said the boy’s condition was fair.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS URGE
1960 NATIONAL CONVENTION
BE HELD AT ANCHORAGE
TACOMA, UP — Young Repub
licans from five states, meeting
here Saturday, adopted a resolu
tion urging the site committee
for the 1960 convention to select
Anchorage for the meeting.
Balloonists Photograph Venus From
81,000-Ft. Stratosphere Vantage Point
MANHATTAN, Kans., UP) “Any
one could do it,” say aerialists
Malcolm Ross and Charles B.
Moore of their 15-mile weekend
jaunt into the stratosphere.
Ross, a Commander in the Navy
and Dr. Moore, a scientist, rode
in an instrument-filled gondola
under a huge plastic balloon to
81,000 feet where they took
photographs of the planet Venus
through a 16-inch telescope.
It is “wonderfully pleasant”
up there, they said.
The men ascended from Rapid
City, S. D., at 11:36 a.m. Satur
day and landed at 3:30 p.m. Sun
day in a pasture about 30 miles
northeast of Manhattan.
Ross, who had made six pre
vious trips into the stratosphere
— once to 86,000 feet — said the
landing was ideal until surface
wind filled their emergency par
achute.
They jettisoned the balloon as
the gondola touched ground, but
the paraohute dragged their
seven foot aluminum sphere a
quarter mile across a rough pas
ture.
Moore wasn’t hurt but Ross was
shaken up. Helicopters whisked
them about 80 miles to the Schil
ling Air Force Base hospital at
Salina, Kans., for an overnight
rest.
They went up to 81,000 feet to
photograph Venus because at that
altitude the atmosphere is free of
dust particles that cause the stars
to twinkle.
“It was the most exciting view
of the stars I ever had,” Moore
said.
“The outstanding sight of all
was at sunset Saturday,” Ross
said. “We could see it getting dark
on earth and all the lights were
coming on in the little towns and
it was still daylight where we
were.
“There were the most vivid
colors imaginable both in the
sunset and in the sunrise Sunday
morning.
“The whole sky was streaked
with vivid browns, purples, rose
colors gnd shades of yellow. The
sun striking on extremely high
clouds produces these colors. Any
one would enjoy it.
“While the sky is streaked with
color, the earth takes on pastel
shades of green and brown. You
can still see the rivers, and moun
tains, and at night, the lights of
towns.
China and U. S.
Both Charge
Bombay Kidnaping
NEW DELHI, — Communist
China and the United States each
accused the other of a kidnaping
in Bombay, and Prime Minister
Nehru told the Indian Parliament
today he could not say yet which
one was telling the truth.
Nehru said the Chinese ambas
sador formally complained to the
Indian government today that
Americans kidnaped members of
the staff of the Chinese Consulate
General in Bombay Friday.
The United States filed a pro
test Saturday accusing the Chi
nese of kidnaping and abusing
Marine Sergeant Robert Arm
strong of Los Angeles, who the
United States said, was guarding
a Chinese offirial who had asked
for asylum.
“All this sounds more like some
piece of fiction than fact,” Nehru
told the lower house.
The Prime Minister said Bom
bay police are investigating.
Red China charged that the
U. S. Consulate General in Bom
bay kidnaped and beat Chang
Chien-Yu, a member of the Red
Chinese consular staff, and forced
him to make an anti-Communist
statement against his will.
The U. S. State Department
said Chang was a member of Red
China’s Export-Import Corp. and
asked for political asylum. The
Department said he was given
Sergeant Armstrong as an escort,
and Armstrong was kidnaped and
beaten by members of the Chi
nese Consulate after a taxi ride.
Panama Agitators
Riot; Stone U. S.
Border Troops
PANAMA, UCl — Thirty to forty
Panamanian nationalist agitators
were jailed here after a round-up
of elements blamed for fomenting
an anti-U. S. riot Saturday.
The demonstrators were lead by
150 members of a “Motorcade of
sovereignty” from Chiriqui Prov
ince in western Panama.
A mob of 300 split away from
an orderly Independence Day ral
ly, burned effigies of Uncle Sam,
shouted “Gringo go home,” and
threw rocks at U. S. soldiers
guarding the border of the
Panama Canal Zone.
Twelve U. S. soldiers and 19 .
Panamanians were injured.
The riot was another manifesta
tion of recent nationalist agita
tion to establish Panamanian sov
ereignty over the Canal Zone,
taken over by the United States
under permanent lease in 1903.
Some observers believed left
ists took advantage of the big rally
in celebration of the 136th anni
versary of Panama’s indepen
dence from Spain, to inspire the
riots. The “March of Sovereign
ty” demonstrators started early in
the day scattering leaflets de
nouncing the treaty of 1903.
U. S. authorities praised the
Panamanian National Guar<jf for
its help in quelling the riot. The
United States had complained the
guard was slow to act when a
mob tried to invade the Canal
Zone on November 3 and subse
quently attacked the U. S.
Embassy.
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