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VOL. LXII No. 6 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1960_Per Copy 151
U. S. 8th Army, U.N. Command, to Get
Nike-Hercules Missiles in South Korea
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, UP — Nike Her
cules antiaircraft missiles with
nuclear warheads are destined for
South Korea. The plans probably
will be made public within the
next few weeks. Nikes have an
80-mile range.
/ The U. S. 8th Army and the
United Nations Command in Ko
rea have emphasized the need for
missile defense against hundreds
of Red jet warplanes believed to
toe based in Communist North Ko
rea and adjacent Red China.
U. S. forces in South Korea al
ready have several types pf ar
tillery and rockets adapted for use
of atomic ammunition. They in
clude 8-inch guns, 280-millimeter
guns and the Honest John battle
field rocket. Presumably nuclear
warheads also are stored there.
The United States began intro
ducing atomic-capable weapons
into the South Korean defenses
after the North Korean Commu
rist§ built a network of new air
fields and imported modern jets.
Missiles for both batlefield and
air defense are now in position in
most Far East Allied nations —
except Japan.
Japan, the only nation ever to
be hit by atomic attack, dislikes
atomic weapons. In the minds of
many Japanese, all missiles, whe
ther possessing nuclear capabili
ties or not, are classed as nuclear
weapons.
Within recent months, some
non-atomic Sidewinder missiles
for launching from plants have
been brought into Japan’s defense.
Nike Hercules missiles are in
position in Okinawa, the U. S.
controlled island south of Japan.
Planes on carriers of the U. S.
7th Fleet — which roams along
the Asian coast — are capable of
using both defensive and offen
sive atomic weapons.
6Q-Flu’ Disrupts
Community Life
In Nine States
(By The Associated Press)
Outbreaks of mild influenza
have upset community routine in
various parts of the country, clos
ing schools dropping production,
delaying justice, and perking up
the sale of pills.
Secretary of Welfare Arthur
Flemming said yesterday that nine
states had reported outbreaks. In
four, the variety was Asian flu.
Flemming named Texas, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan,
California, Nevada, Utah and
Hawaii.
There were signs that other
states might be added soon. The
epidemiologist for Seattle was
concerned that it might hit his
area.
“There has been a moderate
spread of flu carried back to
Seattle from Los Angeles by
peaple who went to the Rose Bowl
football game,” Dr. R. T. Raven
holt 9aid.
In Los Angeles County, the
“Q-flu” kept 20 per cent of city
employes, 10 to 15 per cent of in
dustrial workers, and 10 per cent
of the teachers at home.
Illness struck judges, jurymen,
prosecutors, witnesses, and de
fendants, causing a logjam in the
court.
Health officials termed the virus
the “Q-flu” because it has not
been identified. The Q stands for
question mark.
Druggists reported a thriving
pill business as many residents
walked about sneezing and cough
ing with bad colds or more ser
ious infections.
HONOLULU CITY COUNCIL
PROTESTS RED PLANS FOR
PACIFIC TEST FIRINGS
HONOLULU, UP — The Hono
lulu City Council is filing pro
tests against Russia's plans to
shoot rockets into the Pacific
Ocean southwest of Hawaii.
The council adopted a resolu
tion yesterday asking the Russians
to choose another impact zone or
to abandon the project.
Copies are being sent to Pres
ident Eisenhower, Congress and
the United Nations.
19 Sentenced for
Disguising Intent
Of Gangland Meet
NEW YORK, (41 — Nineteen
delegates to the Appalacian under
world convention here were sen
tenced today to prison terms of
up to five years.
U. S. District Judge Irving R.
Kaufman said the backgrounds
of the defendant^ “read like a
tale of horrors” and that he was
sentencing them “for society’s
protection.”
The men were charged with
conspiring to obstruct justice by
lying about the purpose of the up
state crime conclave in 1957.
Fourteen of the men were sen
tenced to the maximum of five
years. Ten of the 14 also were
fined the maximum of $10,000.
Four others were sentenced to
four years, including John C.
Montana, former Buffalo, N. Y.,
city councilman and that city’s
“Man of the Year” in 1956.
A jury of eight men and four
women convicted the delegates of
conspiracy last December 18 after
a 53-day trial and 15 hours of de
liberation.
The defendants had given a
variety of explanations for the
conclave to various investigative
agencies — ranging from a visit
to a sick friend to auto trouble.
The government conceded at the
trial that it did not know the
secret purpose of the meeting. But
one report indicated the conclave
was called to split up territories,
divide proceeds and discuss ex
tension of racketeering in labor
unions.
Newfoundland Hit By
j ‘Worst Storm in Years’
ST. JOHNS, Nfld., UPi — Relief
was sighted today for Newfound
land after one of the worst winter
storms in years.
The Weather Office forecast a
gradual easing of winds that have
carried 21 inches of snow to some
areas since Sunday and played
havoc with shipping and commu
nications.
With clearing skies, an air
search was planned for the Ice
landic trawler Uranus, missing off
the Newfoundland coast for three
days. It carried 28 men.
Hodge to be Named
For Federal
District Bench
Special to the Nome Nugget
WASHINGTON, UPI — Presi
dent Eisenhower has decided
to nominate Waller E. Hodge
for Alaska's first Federal Dis
trick judgeship, the office of
Senator James O. Eastland, Mis
sissippi Democrat, said today.
Hodge, a Republican, is now on
the Alaska Supreme Court
bench. His appointment would
be acceptable to both Demo
cratic Senators Bartlett and
Gruening. Senator Eastland was
advised in advance of judicial
nomination, as chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee,,
which considers all federal
judgeships.
Demo. Leader
Wins Senate Fight
To Continue Policy
WASHINGTON, U) — Majority
Leader Lyndon Johnson had
overwhelming support from his
Democratic colleagues today to
continue his middle-of-the-road
policies in the Sen&te.
Nipping a liberal revolt, the
Democrats killed by a 51-12 vote
a proposal to strip Johnson of
control of the party policy com
mittee, expand its size and direct
it to develop over-all policy.
The vote was taken during a
2Vfc-hour closed party conference
yesterday. The liberal group had
sought a stronger voice in deter
mining tactics and policy.
With his leadership tactics
thus resoundingly endorsed. John
son told reporters he will contin
ue to follow the course he has
in the past.
This has involved restraint in
criticizing President Eisenhower
and the tailoring of legislation in
an effort to avoid Presidential
vetoes. It has meant the enact
ment of compromise measures
rather than passage of bills de
signed mainly to build up a Dem
ocratic political record.
A sharp comment came from
Senator Paul Douglas (D-Ill), who
began a move to have more cau
cuses at which the 65 Senate Dem
ocrats could air their views.
“It istapparent thaat a majority
of the Senators are not yet ready
for political self-government but
prefer to stay in a state of poli
tical colonialism,” Douglas said.
French Finance Minister
Resigns, Due to Friction
PARIS, (if) — Finance Minister
Antoine Pinay announced his
withdrawal from the government
today after seeing President De
Gaulle.
The architect of France’s eco
nomic recovery under De Gaulle
found himself at opposite poles
from some members of the cab
inet on economic matters. A con
servative, he considered some of
his colleagues socialistic.
Pinay told reporters as he left
the Ely see Palace:
“In the circumstances, I am
going to withdraw from the gov
ernment. I remain at the govern
ment’s disposition. General De
Gaulle understands the situation
very well. On my side I will do
what I can to carry on the work
begun.” ,
Eisenhower Endorses Russian Right to
Test New Rockets in Central Pacific
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UP! — President
Eisenhower practically ruled out
today any protest against Soviet
plans to fire test rockets into the
U. S.-dominated Central Pacific
sometime after January 15.
It would seem very unusual, he
told a news conference, for the
U. S. government to make any
protest against the kind of thing
it has done itself and may do
again.
Such testing appears to con
form with international law, he
said.
Russia’s announced plans to test
powerful new rockets in that area
have brought criticism from sev
eral individuals — former Presi
dent Truman and Senator Mans
field (D-Mont), for example.
Eisenhower said the United
States has always claimed it is
proper to use the high seas for
valid scientific experiment, and
has been doing so after notifying
all concerned and warning away
anyone who could be injured. '
This was Eisenhower’s first
news conference since December
2. On hand for it were 253 re
porters.
Among other matters coming up
in the conference were:
Poetics — The decision by Gov
.i. Nelson A. Rockefeller of
, i'ork to bow out of the Re
publican Presidential race does
create a certain atmosphere of no
competition for the GOP nomina
tion, Eisenhower remarked with
a smile. Rockefeller’s decision has
oiven Vice President Richard
Nixon what appears to 'be a
stranglehold on the nomination.
As he has in the past, the Pres
ident said he believes there are
a number of highly qualified Re
publicans who would make good
Presidents.
Defense — With a show of an
ger, Eisenhower vigorously re
i_
jected what he termed a reporter s
implication that the nation’s de
fense program is being conducted
on a partisan basis. Sarah Mc
Clendon, representing Texas news
papers, told Eisenhower that Re
publicans who met with him at
the White House Thursday had
suggested that anyone who raises
a question of the inadequacy bf
the defense effort is displaying
partisanship. Bristling, Eisen
hower asked Mrs. McClendon
whether she was making a speech,
or asking a question.
She replied she was putting a
question, and repeated in sub
stance what she had said a mo
ment earlier.
Eisenhower shot back that he
resented any implication the de
fense program was being run on
a partisan basis. In the first place,
he said, he has devoted his entire
life to defense without partisan
ship.
U. S. Security — Eisenhower
firmly rejected any idea that he
will be dealing from any position
of inferiority when he and Soviet
Premier Khrushchev meet at the
East-West summit conference in
Paris next May.
Summit — Eisenhower cold
shouldered a proposal by former
President Truman that he be ac
companied to the Paris ummit
meeting by both Democrats and
Republicans from Congress.
Tour — Eisenhower interpreted
the tumultuous welcomes he re
ceived on his 1!1-nation tour in
December as an attempt to show
appropriation for America’s efforts
on behalf of world peace.
Cuba — Eisenhower declined to
speculate as to whati new steps
the United States may take now
that the Fidel Castro regime in
Cuba has rejected his country’s
protests regarding seizure of
American property.
Fire Bombs on Cuban
Plantation Laid,to U.S.
HAVANA, UPi — A fire bomb
raid near Havana was blamed on
U. S.-based counter-revolution
aries today by Prime Minister
Fidel Castro’s semi-official news
paper, Revolucion. Government
sources said Castro himself would
go on television shortly to de
nounce this latest “aggression.”
The raid was first) disclosed by the
Hershey Sugar Mill yesterday. A
spokesman for the mill, once
owned by Americans but operated
by Cuban interests, said an uni
dentified twin-engine plane set
fire to seven cane fields.
Navy Cruiser Cable
Cutting Done by ‘Crackpot’
Indicates Union Leader
QUINCY, Mass.. iff! — A union
spokesman said today “some
screwball” was Vesponsible for the
cutting of electric circuits aboard
two Navy vessels under construc
tion at the Fore River Shipyard.
The Navy and the FBI are inves
tigating cable cutting aboard the
guided missile destroyer USS
Luce and the nuclear-powered
cruiser USS Long Beach. James
McGonnical, executive secretary
of the shipyard local representing
some 7,000 employes, said he was
certain sabotage was not in
volved.
Weather Delays
Ice Floe Airlift
FAIRBANKS, Ufi — One evacu
ation plane flew 6,000 pounds of
equipment from Station Charley
to Barrow Tuesday when it was
unable to land here because the
Fairbanks area was closed by ice
fog.
But the bad weather cancelled
other evacuation flights from the
ice floe research camp being
abandoned because of a gradual
breakup. Temperatures ranged
from a high of, 34 below zero to
a low of 45 below.
Yesterday five of the 15 men
still on the drifting floe 400 miles
northwest of Barrow, and more
scientific equipment were to have
been taken off.
At least two flights were
planned today if weather per
mitted. Efforts will be made to
complete the evacuation by to
morrow or Friday.
The floe began crumbling a
week-ago after a two-day storm,
and now is about one-fifth of its
original 2-by-4-mile size.
The Air Force has stressed,
however, that occupants of the
camp have been in no danger dur
ing the breakup and plans made
months ago for airlifting them
here have been proceeding with
1 out incident.