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Knight Charges
He was Offered
Bribe Not to Run
LOS ANGELES <*> — Former
Gov. Goodwin Knight says a
wealthy Republican friend of
Richard Nixon’s offered Knight
“any job in the State of Cali
fornia”—if he withdrew from the
1062 gubernatorial race.
Knight said yesterday the un
identified emissary told him he
could become California’s “Chief
Justice or anything else you want,
if you won’t run against Dick.”
Nixon denied a virtually iden
tical charge—by State Demo
cratic Chairman Wliliam Mun
nell—at his Wednesday night
news conference, when Nixon an
nounced his candidacy for gover
nor. The former Vice President
was unavailable last night for
comment on Knight’s accusation,
but Robert Finch, campaign man
LOS ANGELES UPi — Richard
Nixon said today “Mr. Goodwin
J.) Knight’s charge that an un
named individual representing
me offered him a job to stay out
of the race for governor is false
and libelous on its face.”
Nixon added: “I demand that
Mr, Knight and every newspaper
and television and radio station
which carried this charge publish
a retraction.
“I have never made any pro
mises of any kind to Knight or
any other individual to keep them
out of the race for governor.
“No person representing me or
authorized by me has made such
a promise.
“And no promises or deals of
any kind will be made in the
future to get anybody out of this
or any other race.”
ager in Nixon’s Unsuccessful 1960
bid for the Presidency, said of
the report:
“That’s totally preposterous.
There’s never been any discus
sion of any such thing.”
Then Knight reaffirmed his ac
cusation, claiming he had two wit
nesses to the alleged conversa
tion with the go-between. He
added: “At the proper time, if
this story is denied again, I’ll
make their names public.”
Knight said the alleged emis
sary is “a high ranking Republi
can financial leader of Los An
geles—not a party official—and
one of Nixon’s closest friends.
He’s been a supporter of mine in
the past.”
Knight gave no indication if—
or when—he would disclose the
man’s identiy.
Meanwhile Democrats happily
picked up the accusation, hoping
California’s Republican—although
the June 5 primary is still nine
months off—soon would be flail
ing away the way Democrats have
done in the past.
Democratic Gov. Edmund G.
Brown, expected to seek re-elec
tion, declared: “If Knight’s
charges are true—and he insists
they are—it is the most shocking
political scandal in the history
of the state.
“If Richard Nixon did offer to
sell the highest judicial office in
California for » political favor,
the public exposure of his act
would require that he withdraw
Soviet Union Proposes
Five-Man Board to
Head U.N. Secretariat
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. UFi —
The Soviet Union, which once
insisted on a Troika at the top
of the United Nations, then a four
man setup, was reported today
proposing a temporary five-man
executive to head the Secretariat.
Diplomatic sources said Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Zorin
presented the latest plan yester
day to U.S. Ambassador Adlai E.
Stevenson and the latter told him
the United States could not ac
cept it.
The new Soviet idea was con
tained in a resolution that would
have the General Assembly, on
recommendation of the Security
Council, appoint one man to “or
ganize the work of the U.N. Sec
retariat” together with four de
puties. The proposal, billed as a
temporary measure, would re
main in force until April 1963.
U.S.- Soviet
Scientists May
Join Forces
VIENNA; Austria uP> — The
chairman of the U.S. Atomic En
egy Commission disclosed today
that the United States and the
Soviet Union are discussing plans
to join forces in building the
world’s biggest nuclear accelera
tor—to produce fantastic power
of 500 to 1,000 billion electron
volte.
Glenn T. Seaborg, chief IJ.S.
delegate to the conference of the
International Atomic Energy
Agency here, said the Russians in
private talks with American sci
entists have indicated their in
terest in cooperating.
Nuclear accelerators are atom
smashers needed to determine
hitherto unknown structural parts
of the atom’s core.
The United States last month
inaugurated the biggest existing
accelerator in the Brookhaven,
Long Island, N.Y., laboratories,
one producing 30 billion electron
volts. The biggest Soviet accelers
tor produces 10 bev.
Seaborg told newsmen the two
countries also are seeking to co
operate in other fields of peace
ful use of the atom, such as
radioactive waste disposal meth
ods and common research on fast
reactors. This cooperation comes
under a 1959 agreement between
the then ABC chairman, John
McCone, and his Soviet counter
part, Prof. Vasily Emelyanov.
Casey Stengel Signs
One-Year Contract to
Manage N.Y. Mets
NEW YORK Uft — Casey Stengel
today agreed to a one-year con
tract to manage the New York
Mets of the National League which
will start operation in 1962.
Stengel was let out last year
after managing the New York
Yankees to 10 pennants in 12
years. He was 70 years old at the
time and had just lost the World
Series to Pittsburgh.
The Mets said Stengel was not
certain if he would be able to
attend the World Series because
of a few business details he had
to clean up. Stengel was out of
baseball this year, spending his
time in his battik in California and
writing his memoirs for a maga
zine. As part of the magazine deal,
was reported to have promised
to make no decision on a come
back until the end of the season.
I Syria Breaks
Loose from UAR
By Armed Force
BEIRUT, Lebanon UPl — Syria
reasserted its independence today
after less than four years as a
region of the United Arab Repub
lic and set up a new civilian gov
ernment supported by rebel army
officers.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
of the UAR bowed to the revolu
tionary command which led the
pre-dawn uprising yesterday.
He announced that he had re
called troops, planes and warships
sent to crush the revolt, and indi
cated he would leave to the
Syrians the task of working out
their future.
“The regime of tyranny has
gone forever,” said Damascus
broadcasts proclaiming independ
ence from Cairo, accusing Nasser
of turning Syria into a prison and
disputing his claim to Arab leader
ship.
Speaking to a crowd of 100,000
in Cairo, Nasser said the entire
Egyptian navy, air force and two
army regiments were sent to
Syria but were recalled to avoid
bloodshed when the rebels took
over Latakia, Syria’s chiei port
A party of 120 parachutists,
dropped before getting the orders
to return, were told to surrender,
Nasser said. The Syrians already
had reported the parachutists
wiped out.
Nasser angrily denounced Lhc
rebels as imperialists, recation
aries and traitors and said he was
sure the Syrian people would
eventually “preserve their free
principles in the face of capitalist
dictatorship.”
The government of King Hus
sein, of Jordan, long a foe of
Nasser quickly recognized the
new revolutionary government of
Syria, and wished it success.
Dr. Mamoun Kuzbari, 48, a po
litician with a long record in
Syrian cabinets before the 1958 j
merger with Egypt, took over as I
head of the new Syrian govern
ment with the blessings of the
revolutionary command which
staged the uprising at dawn
Thursday. v
He announced the formation of
a cabinet of technicians, engineers
and lawyers.
Nunivak Island
Reindeer Badly
Overgrazing Its Range
ANCHORAGE (A — The Nun
ivak Island reindeer herd is badly
overgrazing its range, and ways
should be sought to market the
surplus animals, Ray Peterson,
president of Northern Consoli
dated Airlines, told the Greater
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors today.
Peterson said the herd was at
least twice the size it should be.
"We will either have to find a
market for the animals, or im
port wolves onto the island to
handle the surplus,” he said.
He added that his airline has
instigated a favorable backhaul
rate on reindeer meat from Nuni
vak Island which is in the Bering
Sea, west of Bethel.
The reindeer are under the
control of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, and by law can only be
owned by natives.
The problem was turned over
to the Chamber’s Retail Commit
tee for study and recommenda
tion. It has been previously re
ported that the Nunivak herd
ntixhbers about 45,000 animals.
Justice Douglas Calls
For Recognition of Outer
Mongolia’s Entry Into U.N.
MOSCOW UH — Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas of the U.S. Su
preme Court called today for
quick U.S. recognition of outer
Mongolia and its immediate entry
into the United Nations.
The U.N. Security Council is
considering Mongolia’s applica
tion. The United States has said
it would not oppose outer Mon
golia but Nationalist China has
threatened to veto the applica
tion.
Returning from a two-week
camping trip through remote
Outer Mongolia, Douglas said he
found Monoglia’s intellectuals
“starved for contact with the
West.”
He said the claim of President
Chiang Kai-Shek of Nationalist
China that Outer Mongolia is
part of China is absurd.
“It’s just as silly as it would
be for London to claim the Unit
ed States has no business in the
United Nations because it is a
British colony,” he said.
“It’s a terribly big country,
very 'beautiful and very rich,” he
said in an interview over a cup
of coffee. “They are self-suffi
cient in oil and gasoline and have
vast deposits of iron, coal' and
| feldspar.”
Alaska’s School
! Enrollment Hits 46,319
JUNEAU UR — With reports
from only a few schools missing,
the State Department of Educa
tion said today that school en
rollment in Alaska during the
first week of classes was 46,319.
In 26 of the 29 incorporated
districts, with only Yakutat, Un
alaska and King Cove missing,
enrollment during the first week
of school this year was 31,748,
compared with 29,557 in the 26
schools last year.
On base school attendance this
year was 8,626, compared with a
first week attendance of 7,819 in
1960.
The attendance in the 98 rural
schools for which attendance fig
ures were available was 5,945 this
year, compared to 5,502 last year.
Seldovia Granted $15,895
By Community Facilities
WASHINGTON UR — The Com
munity Facilities Administration
announced today advances total
ing $63,020 to assist four com
munities in planning projects.
They included Seldovia, Alaska
—$15,895, water system improve
ments, estimated cost $197,240.
Adm. Claude Ricketts
To Visit Alaska and Hawaii
WASHINGTON UR — Adm.
Claude V. Ricketts, who will be
come Vice Chief of Naval opera
tions Nov. 1, will leave on Sun
day for a 19-day visit to Alaska,
Hawaii and the Western Pacific.
The Navy said today the pur
pose of the trip is to give Ricketts
first hand information about
Naval and military affairs in
these areas.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair most of the day. Partly
cloudy tonight and colder. Low to
night 25-30, high tomorrow 45-45.
In the last 24 hours: High of 48,
low of 31. Sunrise at 6:05 am.,
sunset at 5:38 p.m. Temperatures
a year ago: High of 43, low of 38.
Extremes on this date since 1907:
High of 5i in 1942, low of 17 in
The World Bids
Farewell to
Dag Hammarskjold
UPPSALA, Sweden UPi — The
world community said farewell to
Dag Hammarskjold at his funeral
today.
In the Gothic austerity of Upp
sala’s 700-year-old Lutheran Ca
thedral, Sweden’s Archbishop
Emeritus, the Most Rev. Erling
Eidem, paid eloquent tribute to
his countryman, saying:
“We are gathered here in the
House of God, around the bier
where rest the remains of a faith
ful son of his fatherland—a de
voted servant of all mankind.”
No less eloquent was an Ameri
can, Vice President Lyndon John
son, representing President Ken
nedy, who said upon arriving in
Sweden a few hour before the
funeral:
“His devotion was to principles
that are universal — and to a
moral law which is indestructible.
“His service to these causes
through the United Nations is
proof that mortal man can owe
his ultimate loyalty to deathless
ideals.”
Pausing dramatically, the Vice
I President added: “The name of
Dag Hammarskjold has entered
history—and history confers its
highest honors for heroes of
peace.”
The Soviet Union was repre
sented at the funeral by Feodor
Gousev, its Ambassador to Swe
den.
Hammarskjold, for eight years
j Secretary-General of the United
I Nations, perished Sept. 18 in a
plane crash in Rhodesia while
flying on a Congo peace mission.
Fifteen other persons died with
him.
Choking back his grief, Ameri
ca’s Ralph Bunche expressed the
thoughts of many who are per
plexed about the future fate of
the U.N.:
“We are like a crew that has
lost its captain.”
In the wan sunshine, thousands
assembled in this old university
cathedral city, Dag Hammar
skjold’s home town. Only 2,000
of them—all invited guests—
could be admitted to the cathe
dral. Leading the mourners was
King Gustaf VI Adolf and Queen
Louise.
Marked by six tall candles,' the
bier lay 'before the altar sur
rounded by wreaths—enough to
fill a country graveyard.
LJ.S. Keeps Hands-Off
Policy on Syrian Revolt
WASHINGTON UFl — Officials
said today the U.S. government
las given no consideration yet to
recognizing the rebel regime
which appears to have gained,
control of Syria.
The United States instead was
keeping to a strict hands off
policy toward the anti-Nasser re- (
volt while watching developments
closely.
U.S. authorities said that so far
the tussle seems to be an Internal
affair. . . ,'
These officials said the. United
States had no hand in Jordan’s
quick recognition of the Syrian
rebels. Jordan’s King Hussein has
long opposed Nasser.
The Washington sources said
the United Stated, -while admit
tedly ■ supporter of Hussein’s
government, also has amicable
ties with the Nasser gw^nmfpt f
in Cairo.