Chester Bowles
Removed from
Top Official Post
•WASHINGTON </P> — The future
of Chester Bowles as a top offi
cial of the administration was
clouded by doubt and uncertainty
today after his removal by Presi
dent Kennedy as Undersecretary
I of State.
Hours after the announcement
of a lO-arvan White House-State
Department shakeup in the for
eign policy high command, Presi
dential associates and Bowles
himself were silent on what job
he would take over. The an
nouncement said merely that he
would move into a high policy
making position.
In its over-all effect, die re
organization was a tidying up
operation, in moat cases fitting
men into positions involving the
kind of work they were already
doing.
One major result probably will
be to strengthen foreign policy
control in the hands of Secretary
of State Dean Rusk and to lessen
somewhat die amount of irvter
I vention in State Department
operations by members of the
White House staff. Officials con-,
sidered it significant that two
moves involved the transfer of
Walt RuStow and Richard Good
win from White House posts into
jobs involving operational re
sponsibilities in the State Depart
ment.
There were reports that Walter
McConaughy, outgoing Assistant
Secretary of State, would become
Ambassador to the Philippines.
No one is being dropped.
Bowles, former Governor of
Connecticut and Ambassador to
India and a Kennedy adviser dur
ing last year’s Presidential race,
has been a controversial figure in
the administration since its first
weeks in office. The President and
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
were reported to consider him
misplaced in the Department’s No.
2 position as Undersecretary.
' The shakeup announcement,
I made Sunday night from the Ken
nedy headquarters at Hyannis
Port, Mass., said Bowies is to get
a high policy-making position on
| relinquishing his present duties.
Officials here understood
Bowles was being offered a com
bination assignment, of roving
ambassador and special foreign
adviser to Kennedy and Rusk. As
Undersecretary he has spent con
siderable time traveling abroad
and has been interested, within
the State Department, chiefly in
promoting policies of assistance to
underdeveloped nations in Africa
and Asia.
Administration leaders consider
ed him misplaced as Undersecre
tary, officials said, because he
was more concerned with broad
lines of policy development in
functioning as an idea man than
i& the dady-to-day conduct of for
eign relations traditionally hand
led by the Undersecretary. Bowles
hr 60.
U.S. Accuses Russia of
Enslaving People Under
System of Colonialism
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP)—
The United States today accused
the Soviet Union of enslaving
millions of people under a sys
tem of colonialism “shocking in
the 20th Century.”
In a strong memorandum dis
tributed to all U.N. member na
tions, the United States declared:
“Because the world cannot long
remain half-slave and half-free,
the United States expects that
the United Nations will focus its
attention as carefully on the
‘colonialism’ of the Soviet Union
as it does on that of Portugal or
any other nation.
“For if the Soviet Union comes
to believe it can enforce a double
standard in the world .with com
plete impunity, no country in the
world will be safe.”
The memorandum was submit
ted by the chief U.S. delegate,
Adlai Stevenson, as the General
Assembly was engaged in a debate
on colonialism.
Bowles Accepts
New Assignment '
WASHINGTON — Chester
Bowles, just relieved as Under
secretary of State, Monday was
named a special adviser to Presi
dent Kennedy on African, Asian,
and Latin-Amerkran affairs.
Bowles’ new assignment was
announced after he visited the
White House arid discussed it
with Kennedy.
The White House said Bowles
accepted the appointment at that
time.
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Eichmann Trial Will
Be Resumed Dec. 11
JERUSALEM OB —The trial of
Adolf Eichmann will resume Dec.
11, the Israel government an
nounced today.
The former Nazi official is ac
cused of major responsibility in
the death of millions of Jews in
Hitler’s extermination camps.
Tile final phase in the lengthy
trial will include the reading of
the 300-page indictment which I
the three judges have drawn up,
pleas by Israeli Atty. Gen. Gideon
Hausne'r and German defense
counsel Robert Servatius, Eich
mann’s final statement and the
pronouncement of sentence. This
is expected to take about 10 days.
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Package of Copper Needles
Reported Still Orbiting
LEXINGTON, Mass. IB — A
powerful American satellite
tracking radar has picked, up evi
dence that 350 million tiny copper
filaments shot aloft Oct. 21 are
still orbiting in a package —
instead of a cloud.
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Lincoln Laboratory
said it is carrying out calcula
tions and experiments as to why
the copper hairs seemingly have
nwf been released.
'iW purpose of tfrhat is called
Project Went port experiment was
to spread a band of tiny needles
in a 2,100-mile orbit 2,100 miles
Weri to have formed a thick
cloud about five miles wide and
miles deep. , ^
Millstone Hill radar, at Westford,
liaan, has picked Up contacts on
three occadons — Nov. 9, Nov,
15 and Nov. 22 with whet may be
the package—only 5 inches in di
ameter and 17 indies long, , as it
gttfttod about »,000 miles over
Hopes Fade to
Find Rockefeller’s
Missing Son
MERAUGE, Dutch New Guinea
— Hope for Michael Rocke
feller faded again today as wisps
of smoke wafting up from the
steamy jungle off which he dis
appeared eight days ago were
identified as burning brush.
The smoke was spotted Sunday
by an Australian Air Force plane,
raising hopes at the search head
quarters. Dutch officials said an
investigation proved it to toe “a
wild 'goose chase.”
Helicopters criss-crossing the
jungle wilderness of southwest
New Guinea were scheduled to
end their search Tuesday night.
Michael’s father, Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller of New York, and his
sister, Mary Strawbrid'ge, were
expected to leave for the United
States soon after.
The Governor flew over the
wild country in what appeared to
be his last ,personal effort to find
his missing son.
Ground parties will continue to
comb the crocodile-infested jungle
coast for ait least two more weeks.
‘‘We still have one hope,” a
Dutch district official said. “It’s
possible Michael might be sick
or injured and given aid and
shelter by the natives.
“In this eventuality it’s also
possible that the natives . would
not tell authorities about his
whereabouts until after he re
cuperated. They might be afraid
they would be blamed for his ill
ness.” .
Dr. Rene Wassing, the Dutch
anthropologist with Rockefeller
when their native catamaran cap
sized and was swept out to sea,
said he was “90 per cent positive”
the six«gallon, red gasoline can
found, south of New Guinea Sat
urday was one of the two Michael
used as a buoy when he set out
on his 3Vi-mile swim to shore.
Wassing stayed with their over
turned raft and was rescued.
The can was picked up about
120 miles from the scene of the
capsizing. Dutch officials said it
was possible Michael abandoned
the cans after reaching shore and
they were washed out to sea.
Holiday Traffic Death
Toll Takes 449 Lives
By The Associated Press
Traffic deaths across the nation
during the long weekend held
close to the usual toll for a
Thanksgiving holiday period.
Fatalities during the 102-hour
period that ended at midnight
numbered 449. That compared
with 442 in 1960, 445 in 1959 and
454
i
to Kotoabua
Walsh reported today
Gov. William Egan is ex
_ 1 to be in Ndme briefly on
day enroute to Kotzebue ]
dedication of the Public
iospital there.
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State Department Asked
To Investigate Reports of
Russian Ships Off Boston
BOSTON ce — The State De
partment, asked by White House
Majority Leader John V/. Me
cormack, (DiMass.), to investigate
published charges that Russian
trawlers are “harassing” Ameri
can fishermen in the North At
lantic, says it hopes a U.S. Coast
Guard partol will help.
McCormack made public last
night an exchange of correspon
dence between himself and the
State Department albout the mat
ter. He said he spoke also for
Rep. Thomas O’Neill Jr., (D
Mass.).
A reply by Assistant Secretary
of State Brooks Hays, dated Nov.
18, noted that George Bank is in
international waters and “is there
fore open to use by fishermen of
all nations. Hence, there is no
legal basis for objecting to the
number of USSR vessels operat
ing in this area. The United States
government is, however, keeping
itself informed of the activities
of these Soviet fishing fleets off
our shores.”
SEN. AND MRS. GRUENING
COMING HERE TOMORROW
Sen. Ernest Gruening and his
wile are scheduled to arrive to
morrow for a two-day visit here.
Several social affairs and meet
ings are scheduled lor them be
fore they leave for Kotzebue tc
attend the dedication of the Pub'
lie Health Hospital.
Russ Meekins Elected
New Southcentral
District Demo Chairman
ANCHORAGE l/B — The South
central District Democratic con
vention came to a slam-bang
close at the Sydney Laurence
Auditorium last night with An
chorage auto dealer Russ Meekins
emerging as the new district
chairman.
Meekins’ victory over James
Fisher and former State Sen,
Irene Ryan was seen as a setback
to state party chairman Wendell
Kay, who had actively supported
Fisher and is often mentioned as
a candidate for Governor next
year.
Meekins polled 279 votes and
Fisher and Mrs. Ryan were tied
with 114 each.
In somewhat confused party
power struggle “nearly everybody
lost something and nobody gain
ed anything in the long run,” said
one observer.
Gov. Wm. Egan, who attended
some of the convention sessions,
could gain some satisfaction from
the defeat of Kay’s candidate.
But the winner, Meekins, had
engaged in a public quarrel with
the Egan administration over its
purchasing policies when Meek
ins’ offer of a numfoer of autos to
the state was rejected.
And no one offered the usual
convention resolution of the party
in power praising the state ad
ministration.
Meekins succeeds Steve Me
Cutcheon as chairman of the dls
met coiranmM.
Kay said today that the enthu
siasms and turnout of Democrats
tthe convention sessions “de
nstrated there is great interest
in the progress of the Democratic
party at this time.
The convention maneuvering
does not constitute a great rift in
the party, Kay said. What oc
curred at the convention was
:s3uat a normal type of Democratic
battle.”
Soviets Propose
To the West to
Ban Nuclear Tests
MOSCOW UP) — The Soviet
Union proposed today that the
United States, Britain and France
agree with it now to ban all nu
clear tests. First Western reaction
was skeptical since the Soviet
proposal seemed to call for an un
controlled moratorium.
The proposal was made on the
eve of the resumption of nuclear
test ban talks in Geneva by the
Soviet Union, Britain and the
United States. France, the fourth N
nuclear power, is not a partici
pant but a Soviet statement said
the time has come to invite the
French.
The Soviet Union released a
proposed four-article draft agree
ment and in an accompaying state
ment hinted they may resume
tests if France does.
Under the Soviet proposal the
four powers would agree to halt
tests in the atmosphere, under
water and in outer space. The
argument was that each power
now has the means of detecting
such tests and cheating would be
impossible.
The lour powers also would
undertake not to hold nuclear
weapons testa underground while
negotiating an agreement on a
control system that could detect!
such blasts.
| The first Western reaction in
Moscow was that it was aimed to*
end atmospheric tests now that
the Soviets had completed theirs
and would tie up underground
tests for an indefinite period until
an agreement could be readied on
means of detecting them.
That amounted to giving the
Soviet Union a virtual veto over
the kind of tests the United States
is now carrying out. The United
States says it will continue under
ground tests regardless of the re
sumption of negotiations at Ge
neva.
11 Fairbanks
Men Arrested on
Gambling Charges
FAIRBANKS UP) — In a series
of raids held Friday night and
early Saturday morning, city and
state police arrested 11 men on
charges of conducting a gambling
game.
Although details of the raids
are still scarce, it was known that
the men were arrested in con
nection with their activities in
engaging in betting and operating
a football pool.
Police officers confiscated 9
quantity of football pool tickets
and money during the raids on
several establishments in Fair
banks.
All those arrested were released
on bail.
Those arrested were: ,
Wallace F. Burnett, bail set at
$1,000; Alexander Miller, $1,000;
Edward J, Krize, $1,000; Bob
Clayton, $300; Ernest D. Tyler,
$300; Quincy M. Parker, $300;
William Acklss, $300; John T.
O’Donnel, $300; Richard C. Smith.
$300; Paul L. Alexander, $300;
and Robert L. Sasnyd, $300
They will be charged %w eon
ducting "is proprietor or employ
er,” of a gambling game . . .
played for money with a devioa
known as a football pool ticket in
violation of Section 05-13-16,
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