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West Will Not
Consider Reds’
Newest Offer
By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH
GENEVA, UP> — The Soviet bloc
offered today to negotiate an ela
borate international inspection
system to prevent surprise attack
provided the West agreed to other
disarmament measures.
A communique announcing the
proposal did not specify what
other disarmament measures the
Communists demanded.
It was the second proposal put
before the 19-day-old conference
by the Soviet bloc. The other Red
proposal sought to prohibit flights
of nuclear-armed aircraft over
foreign countries or over the open
sea, a move obviously aimed at
the U. S. Strategic Air Command’s
constant readiness flights.
The Western delegations re
fused even to discuss the first
proposal, contending it was poli
tical in nature and therefore out
side the province of a conference
that the West considered was
called only to discuss the tech
nicalities of prevention of sur
prise attacks.
It seemed likely the Western
delegations would refuse to dis
cuss the Communist disarmament
proposals, whatever they were.
The Western delegations have re
fused to discuss disarmament at
this conference, contending it was
another political question for
which the technical conference
was not called.
It was clear that the West was
still determined not to let the con
ference turn into the kind of gen
eral disarmament discussion which
has continued fruitlessly within
the United Nations for 12 years.
Alaska Reindeer To
Highball Through Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio, UP) — Rein
deer from Alaska for President
Eisenhower’s Christmas parade
won’t run into any trouble going
through Ohio.
■ That’s the word Ted Seipel of
the Utilities Commission passed on
today to Attorney Robert C. Smith
of Indianapolis.
An Alaskan donated the two
dozen reindeer. A trucking firm
in Portland, Ore., offered to cart
the reindeer to Washington.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission granted permission to do
that without paying any special
taxes or fees. Smith was assigned
to see what red tape, if any, there
would foe in moving the reindeer
through Indiana and Ohio.
He telephoned Seipel of the
Commission’s motor transport di
vision. Seipel said to just drive
through Ohio.
Mike’s Mother Takes
Election News Calmly
PORTLAND, UP) — Mrs. Olga
Fabianieh, the mother of Alaska’s
former Governor Mike Stepovich,
took her son’s loss in his bid for
a U. S. Senate seat calmly Wed
nesday. She said he had told her
the race would be close.
“I hoped and prayed for him to
get it,” she said. “He was one of
the best. He’s a pretty good
leader.”
Stepovich, a Republican, lost to
Ernest Gruening, a Democrat
Stepovich gained the largest vote
total among Republicans but it
wasn’t enough to penetrate the
Democratic victory margin, which
gave them both Senate seats, the
Governorship and the House seat.
West Berlin
Digs In For
Cold War Siege
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
BERLIN, iff) — West Berliners
dug in today for a six-month cold
war siege. Their officials spurned
the Soviet proposal to drive the
Western allies back beyond the
Iron Curtain by converting West
Berlin into a demilitarized “free
city.”
West Berliners clearly saw the
next six months as a period of
uncertainty.
A shopgirl gave a typical reac
tion: “I’m afraid that if the allies
leave, the Communist People’s
Police would come marching in
one day. If the Big Four turn
West Berlin into a free city. I’ll
start looking for a job in West
Germany. Yes, the exodus to West
Germany would start immedi
ately.”
“We in West Berlin say no,”
Mayor Willy Brandt declared in
a radio and television broadcast
after an emergency meeting of
his cabinet to study Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev’s proposals. All
West Berlin parties, newspapers
and ordinary citizens seemed to
back him up.
The 44-year-old Socialist may
or, appealing for the support of
the Western world, promised that
West Berlin’s 2,200,000 citizens
would not panic as the six months
proposed by Khrushchev for ne
gotiations run out.
The Western powers withheld
their final word on the Soviet
proposals, but the preliminary re
action indicted they would turn
thumbs down.
The U. S. State Department
said the United States would nev
er agree to anything that would
mean abndonment of the peoplfe
of West Berlin to hostile dom
ination.
San Quentin
Convicts ‘Adopt’
Little Greek Girl
SAN QUENTIN, Calif., UPl — A
10-year-old girl who lives in a re
mote mountain village in Greece
will get a letter, gifts and money
for a big Christmas party from
her 5,000 “dads” in the United
States — but no visit.
The “dads” are San Quentin
prison convicts.
The men “adopted” Diamanto
Samartzi in September through
Foster Parents Plan, Inc., a New
York charity organization. They
donated $1,400 for her support,
from which she get $15 a month.
For a Christmas party the little
girl will get $25 extra from the
fund which will buy quite a bit
in Greece.
A Christmas package will con
tain presents, mostly handmade
by the prisoners.
San Quentin officials said the
biggest problem was to keep the
convicts from going overboard on
Diamanto’s Christmas.
“A lot of them wanted to send
their own money,” said Associate
Warden Walter Achuff, “and a
good many asked if they couldn’t
have their families send money.
“We had to turn them down,
because Foster Parents Plan feels
the needy children should be
treated as nearly equally as pos
sible.”
Diamanto wrote her San Quen
tin “fathers” recently, describing
her small village. “I’ll keep pray
ing every day for you,” she
wrote.
Cold Weather
Adds To Holiday
Death Toll
(By The Associated Press)
The nation’s accident death
toll for Thanksgiving holiday
■weekend mounted today with se
vere weather an added hazard.
Blinding snow figured in a num
ber of traffic fatalities. Cold was
a ' tor in fire fatalities.
i traffic death toll appeared
to be running near or slightly be
low the average for a comparable
nonholiday period.
The count, which started at 6
p.m. Wednesday, is to continue to
midnight Sunday, covering a per
iod of 102 hours.
By noon Friday, the total had
reached 192. Traffic accidents had
claimed 145 lives, 18 had died in
fires and 29 deaths were charged
to miscellaneous causes.
Thanksgiving -
Around the World
(By The Associated Press»
The nation celebrated Thanks
giving with the traditional tur
kay dinner, church-going and
family get-togethers.
At Augusta, Ga., President Eis
enhower did the carving as his
wife, their son and dughter-in-law
and the four Eisenhower grand
children joined him in a gala
Turkey dinner.
In London, Vice President Nix
on was embarrassed by an ill
fitting borrowed tuxedo as he
played host to Queen Elizabeth II
at a Thanksgiving dinner at the
American Embassy.
Nixon’s own tuxedo was not
packed when he left Washington.
The borrowed jacket with too
long sleeves caused Nixon some
discomforture but the Queen ap
peared not to notice.
In New York City, the annual
■Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade
drew a police-estimated 1V4 mil
lion persons despite a chill 35
degree temperature.
At McMurdo Sound in Antarc
tica, »the men taking part in Op
eration Deep Freeze, part of the
International Geophysical Year
undertakings, gobbled a turkey
dinner with all the trimmings.
The men also attended religious
services, led by a chaplain.
In Philadelphia, nuns found a
cardboard box containing a day
old baby on the doorstep of their
convent. The infant was taken in
and baptized in honor of Pope
John XXIII. Later the child was
taken to a hospital, where doc
tors said he was in perfect health.
Stomach Operation
Results In Delayed
Action Binges
RANDERS, Denmark, UPi — A
local businessman contends that
he’s a delayed action drunk be
cause of a stomach operation.
“When I drink I’m like a time
bomb,” he told a Randers court
today. “Since doctors removed the
greater part of my stomach; I
don’t get drunk like other people.
I’m sober when others in the par
ty are loading up, and I get drunk
while the others have hangovers.
A sobriety test taken hours
after the man was involved in a
traffic accident showed a high
percentage of alcohol in his blood.
He said he felt intoxicated at the
time of the test but that he was
sober when he drove his car —
because of the reduced stomach.
Doctors said he may have a
point. The judge postponed court
action until next week.
Democrats Sweep Every Major Race
In Alaska’s First State Election
By WILLIAM J. TOBIN
JUNEAU, (Jt—The most crush
ing defeat ever suffered by Re
publicans in Alaska grew more
sharply defined today as it be
came apparent they will win only
four or five seats in the 60-mem
ber Legislature.
Democrats swept every major
race in Alaska’s first State Elec
tion Tuesday, and the tremendous
landslide carried down to the
legislative level.
The vast new 49th State’s two
U. S. Senators, one Congressman,
Governor and Secretary of State
all are Democrats.
In the 20-member State Sen
ate Republicans won one uncon
tested seat and held a slim lead
for another. Republican William
K. Boardman was ahead of Demo
nt W. O. Smith by 21 votes with
three precincts unreported. Both
men are from Ketchikan.
During the last Territorial Leg
islature, which the Democrats con
trolled by their largest margin up
to that time, their edge in the
Senate was 11-5. That was in
1957.
In the present contests for the
40-member House, the Republi
cans have slim but clear-cut leads
in only two. Republican Bruce
Kendall was 36 votes ahead of
Democrat A. N. Welch in the Val
dez district with only one precinct
out. And Republican John Long
worth was 26 ahead of Democrat
Eldor Lee with one precinct un
reported in the Wrangell-Peters
burg district.
The GOP had faint hopes of
picking up a House seat in the
central or Northwestern districts,
but returns from those areas in
legislative races were still skimpy.
The Democratic edge in the
1957 Territorial House was 21-3.
When tabulations were called
off Wednesday night returns had
been received from 213 of the 287
precincts, with the total vote re
ported standing at slightly more
than 36,000.
The estimated 8,000-10,000 votes
still out were from Democratic
strongholds in Anchorage and
Fairbanks or from outlying areas
where the size of the vote could
not upset the outcome of the ma
jor races.
Democrat Sees
Heavy Pressures
For Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, — Repre
sentative Otto E. Passman (D-La)
told new members of Congress
today to look out for heavy pres
sure from supporters of what he
called “fantastic amounts” for
foreign aid.
Backers of the overseas assist
ance program were talking, mean
while, in terms of a billion-dollar
increase in aid funds. They con
tended a vigorous foreign aid pro
gram is particularly important at
this time to offset the expanding
Soviet program of help to under
developed nations.
Passman is chairman of the
House Appropriations Subcommit
tee on Foreign Aid, and has op
posed much of the assistance pro
gram. In recent years his sub
committee has made sharp cuts in
President Eisenhower’s money re
quests, but Congress has refused
to go along with the full cuts.
The tentative plans call for be
tween $4,200,000,000 and $4,300,
000,000 of new foreign aid funds
for the year starting next July 1.
Congress this year appropriated
$3,300,000,000 after cutting 600
millions- from the amount Eisen
hower requested.
$256 Million In
Dividends To Be Paid
G.I. Policy Holders
WASHINGTON, 0PI — Divi
dents totaling 256 million dollars
will be paid during 1959 to more
than five million veterans holding
participating government G-I Life
Insurance Policies.
Sumner G. Whittier, Veterans
Administrator, today said the divi
dends are primarily a refund of
part of the premium payments.
He added this was made pos
sible because the death rate among
policyholders continues to be
lower than the tables upon which
the premiums were based.
The 1959 dividends will be paid
as soon as possible after the anni
versary date of each policy.
Ten Children Perish
In Thanksgiving Day
Fires Across Nation
(By The Associated Press)
Ten children and a mother and
father perished in three Thanks
giving Day fires. Flames roared
through two private dwellings
and a private home for children.
At Oklahoma City, five young
sters in a nine-room private home
for handicapped children were
killed. Seventeen other children
were carried to safety. The cause
of the blaze was not immediately
determined, but firemen guessed
i that a defective heater could
have started it.
At Little Rock, Ark., a mother
and father and four children lost
their lives when flames raced
through their small frame house.
Cause of the fire was not deter
mined.
At Milford, Conn., a 3-year-old
girl died when fire, started by a
family space heater, swept the
frame home of Mr. and Mrs. Er
nest Dumont.
Eight years ago, the Dumonts,
then living in Claremont, N. H.,
watched their first four children
perish in a fire, also caused by a
space heater. They raised another
family, consisting of two sons and
the victim of Thursday’s fire,
little Tamora.
Federal Court Nullifies
Louisiana’s Segregation
Laws In Athletics
NEW ORLEANS, Iff) — A spe
cial three-judge federal court to
day decared unconstitutional a
portion of Louisiana’s segregation
laws which forbid interracial ath
letic contests.
The ruling today knocks out
that portion of the 1956 law deal
ing with mixed athletic events.
However, it dealso only with the
section governing participants
and does not alter separate seat
ing facilities for the races. That
issue was not before the court.
The court also issued an injunc
tion nullifying enforcement of
the law pending an appeal.
Louisiana Attorney General
Jack Gremillion said earlier if the
law were nullified, he would have
no recourse but to appeal.