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Humphrey of Minnesota Declares His
Intention to Seek Demo Nomination
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn) j
today plunged officially into the I
race for the 1960 Democratic
Presidential nomination.
Humphrey announced at a news
conference that his name will be
entered in Presidential primaries
in Wisconsin, the District of Co
lumbia, Oregon and South Dakota.
Humphrey indicated he will
campaign primarily on foreign
policy and national security is
sues. He aimed immediate barbs
at the Eisenhower Administration.
“We can no longer tolerate a
government that reacts instead of
taking the initiative,” he said in
a statement handed to reporters.
“We cannot afford to have an
Administration that spends all of
its time repairing damage instead
of building solid, long term pro
grams.”
Humphrey became the first
among the Democrats most prom
inently mentioned as Presidential
possibilities to get oficially into
the race.
The first of the primaries that
Humphrey said he will enter is
that in Wisconsin. It is to be held
April 5.
Opposed by Southern Democrats
because of the position he has
taken on civil rights, Humphrey
said he had no illusion about his
quest 'for the nomination.
“It will be an uphill fi^ht,” he
said frankly.
Boston Shoreline
Flooded by Highest
Tide in 108 Years
BOSTON, iff) — Thousands of
persons fled their homes, hundreds
were rescued and damage was re
corded in the millions from a
record ocean tide which gave New
England one of its worst coastal
floods.
Communities along 30 miles of
the Greater Boston shoreline suf
fered the brunt of the flood devas
tation as the Atlantic Ocean
spurted a stormy anger from
Maine to New Jersey.
The highest tide in 108 years
— 14.3 feet — brought ocean
water to a depth of seven feet on
some streets and into the first
floors of many homes.
The flood tides were driven by
a northeast storm which battered
New England for the second suc
cessive day.
The storm dropped up to 16
inches of snow on New England.
At least nine deaths were blamed
on the storm.
More than 700 families were
forced to flee their homes in the
town of Hull on Boston’s South
Shore. Scores of women and chil
dren were plucked from first floor
windows by rescuers.
Coast Guard craft and private
boats were called to aid in the
evacuation.
In New York, 44,000 homes
were without power when the
storm snapped power lines. Two
men were electrocuted by fallen
wires.
Woman Suffers Hours in
Overturned Auto Near
Busy Michigan Highway
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Wl—
Hundreds of motorists yesterday
whizzed by a car overturned in a
ditch alongside a busy highway.
Badly injured, Goldie Clark,
28, of nearby Royal Oak was
pinned in the car for six and one
half hours before two Chrysler
missile plant workers came to her
rescue. Icy water covered her to
the waist.
As they drove by Joseph Du
Long, 48, said to Philip Pugsley,
27, “You read all the time about
people being trapped in cars.
Wonder if this could be one.”
Miss Clark was rushed to a hos
pital here. She was in a critical
condition from fractures, shock
and exposure.
Rockefeller’s Political
Staff Will be Kept Busy
NEW YORK, uei — The large
personal staff that was ready to
push a Presidential campaign for
Governor Nelson Rockefeller will
continue in being.
Associates of the Governor
stress that this does not mean he
stil lhas his eye on the White
House.
They contend his announce
ment that he would not seek the
Presidential nomination and
would not accept a Vice-Presiden
tial nomination are absolutely
final.
The staff’s function, they say,
will be to help the Governor with
his speech-making and the nor
mal activities surrounding a
Governor.
Strictly political activities of
the staff have been dropped.
Rockefeller made clear, how
ever, in his noncandidacy state
ment Saturday, that he intends
to continue “as citizen and as
Governor” to speak with “full
freedom and vigor” on national
and world issues.
The staff of nearly 70 persons,
operating in two mansions con
verted into' an office building
here, can expect to be kept busy.
GSA Studies Possibility
Of Moving Tok Station
WASHINGTON, UP) — The pos
sibility of moving the border in
spection station at Tok Junction,
to the Canadian border at Snag
is under study by the General
Service Administration.
A GSA spokesman said today
a survey of federal agencies is
being made on the need for mov
ing the United States station, in
the interior of Alaska, closer to
the Canadian border.
The Canadian and U. S. sta
tions are 118 miles apart on the
Alaska Highway. Senator Ernest
Gruening and others have com
plained that travelers are incon
venienced by the great distance
between the two stations.
EPISCOPAL ALTAR BOYS
DIP INTO COLLECTION
AT NEW YORK CHURCH
NEW YORK, UP) — Six altar
boys — all from prosperous fam
ilies — have dipped into a Sun
day School church collection to
go on a $300 comic book-candy
and movie toot. Police said yes
terday the youths ranging from
11 to 15, admitted taking the
money from an Episcopal church
in Queens. They are charged with
juvenile delinquency.
Judge Gilbert Appoints
Four Deputy Magistrates
Judge Hubert A. Gilbert, Nome,
presiding judge of the Second Ju
dicial District, Superior Court of
Alaska announced today the ap
pointment of four Deputy District
Magistrates. The appointments
made are:
Wilfred Ryan, Unalakleet; Jack
O. Jones, Kotzebue; Fletcher
Gregg, Candle and Edward E.
Hopson, Point Barrow.
Where possible, the policy has
been followed of appointing Es
kimos or persons who are part
Eskimo to serve as Deputy Magis
trates in areas where the popula
tion is predominantly Eskimo,
states Judge Gilbert.
Anti-Semitism
Still Rears Ugly,
Head in Germany
BRUNDWICK, Germany, (fl> —
Four new anti-Jewish incidents
were reported today in various
parts of Germany. Police tried to
find out if they are part of a
concerted nationwide campaign.
Swastikas and anti-Semitic slo
gans were pained on the monu
ment for the war dead and vic
tims of Nazism here last night.
Swastikas were painted on sev
eral shop windows in the Rhine
land town of Rheydt.
Authorities in Hesse announced
the state criminal agency has
taken up the case of an 85-year
old Jewish survivor of the Resien
stadt Terezin concentration camp,
who was anonymously threatened
with crucifixion.
In Offenbach, near Frankfurt,
a half-Jewish resident reported
that swastikas and the word
“Jew” were scratched on his car.
Police said the man advised them
belatedly, explained he feared he
would be terrorized if he reported
the incident.
Swastikas also were painted on
the St. Hedwig’s Roman Catholic
Church in Gelsenkirchen. Police
said they suspected a connection
with the desecration at Cologne.
Air Force Will De-Activate
Elmendorf Rescue Unit
WASHINGTON, — Senator
Bob Bartlett said yesterday the
Air Force apparently intends to
go ahead with plans to deactivate
the 71st Air Rescue Squadron at
Elmendorf AFB.
However, Bartlett said he had
been informed that the Air Force
plans to turn five helicopters over
to the Alaska Air Command for
rescue services.
Bartlett, Sen. Gruening, and
Rep. Ralph Rivers have protested
the Air Force plan to deactivate
the 71st next March.
EISENHOWER SMOOTHING
TEXT OF ADDRESS ON
STATE OF THE UNION
AUGUSTA, Ga., Uft — President
Eisenhower will be working with
words today, smoothing out his
State of the Union message to
Congress. He also will be shooting
a round of golf if the weather
holds.
Congress starts a new session
January 6 and the message, in the
usual run of events, would be
presented by the President in per
son a day or two after that. The
message sketches the Adminis
tration’s program for the year
ahead.
Administration Considers Steps to
Revamp T-H Rights in Steel Impasse
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Ad
ministration is considering a wide
range of proposals to Congress
for dealing with the threat of a
renewed steel strike.
The deadlocked labor dispute
in the industry continues tighter
than ever. Director Joseph Finne
gan of the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service said today
management and the Steelworkers
Union are so preoccupied with
electioneering ahead of a sched
uled January 11-13 poll of steel
workers that no further govern
ment peace moves are contem
plated at the moment.
The poll — on whether the
workers want to accept manage
ment’s last offer — is part of an
admittedly unwieldy Taft-Hartley
law procedure for dealing with
emergency strikes. With both
sides seeking support for their
positions in the upcoming ballot
ing, they have no immediate in
centive to seek a settlement
solution.
Thus, the Administration is
considering steps to revamp the
Taft-Hartley emergency strike
procedures as well as moves to
deal with the immediate steel
labor crisis.
M-K Apparent Low Bidder
On N.E. Cape Construction
Morrison-Knudsen Co. was the
apparent low among nine* bidders
on construction of facilities for'
the U. S. Air Force station at j
Northeast Cape.
Competitive bids were opened
by the U. S. Army Engineer office
in Seattle. M-K bid $968,000 for
the job. The government estimate
of costs for the project is $913,054.
The work will consist of build
ing a multipurpose recreational
facility and operations building, a
steel frame recreation building,
covered walkway, installation of
outside utilities gravel surface
road and grading work.
Utah Grand Jury
Asks State to
Erase Polygamy
FARMINGTON, Utah, MR —
Utah should launch an extensive
investigation of polygamy in an
effort to stamp out the practice,
says the Davis County Grand
Jury.
The jury returned nine indict
ments yesterday and issued a re
port on its six-months probe of
plural marriage.
The report did not say how
many people were involved in
polygamous practices, but said
the cost of welfare payments is
a staggering burden on the tax
payer.
The practice of a man taking
more than one wife once was
sanctioned by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
(Mormon). But the church, which
has more than half the popula
tion of Utah among its members,
outlawed polygamy before state
hood in 1896. Since then, any
Mormon caught practicing poly
gamy has been excommunicated.
Small groups calling themselves
Fundamentalists persist in taking
more than one wife, and claim
divine sanction. The legal charge
of unlawful cohabitation carries
a penalty of up to five years in
prison.
The jury suggested the practice
should be punished more severe
ly and that the women should also
be prosecuted.
CUTTIN' UP . . .
IRVINGTON, N. J., UR —
Thieves sheared the • Atomic Cut
lery Co. Tuesday of 6,500 pairs
of scissors. They took eight ship
ping cases of medical scissors
worth $10,000, after they jammed
the burglar alarm —> with a pair
of cissors.
Deadlock Threat
Felt in Geneva
Treaty Talks
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
United States and Britain are
facing a new crisis in their nego
tiations with the Soviet Union for
an enforceable treaty outlawing
test explosions of nuclear
weapons.
It may reach a head soon after
the three-power talks resume
January 12 in Geneva. It is not
the first time a deadlock has
threatened.
The crisis centers around de
velopment of an international in
spection system strong enough to
discourage cheating with sneak
explosions.
Unless the Soviet Union modi
fies its opposition to strengthen
ing the system already proposed,
President Eisenhower indicates
he may order a resumption of
underground test1 explosions in the
United States.
Before such a step would be
taken, the United States would
very likely change its strategy in
the negotiations at Geneva to
seek a limited rather than a com
prehensive test ban. A limited ban
would apply only to explosions in
the air or in the water. They
could be policed more easily than
underground explosions.
A toughening U. S. policy with
respect to the negotiations was
disclosed yesterday when Eisen
hower substituted a day-to-day
voluntary suspension of nuclear
weapons tests for the present
fixed-term moratorium which
expires December 31.
May 16 Summit Is
Okay With Khrushchev
LONDON, UP> — The Soviet
Union today accepted the Western
proposal for a May 16 summit
meeting, responsible London
sources reported.
Notes from President Eisenhow -
er, British Prime Minister Mac
Millan and French. President De
Gaulle suggesting the May 16 date
were delivered in Moscow only
yesterday to Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko.
Moscow reports last might indi
cated Premier Khrushchev was
expected to accept the date.
The Western notes were a
counter-proposal to Khrushchev’s
Christmas Day letters agreeing to
a summit meeting in Paris.
Khrushchev said the Western pro
posal for April 27 as a date was
inconvenient, however, and sug
gested April 21 or May 4.