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62nd Year No. 60_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1961 Per Copy 15^
National Guard and 500 U.S. Marshals
Restore Peaee In Alabama Raee Riots
MONTGOMERY, Ala. UP) —
Eight hundred National Guards
men and 500 federal marshals
held this “cradle of the Confeder
acy” in a tight grip today to pre
vent further racial violence.
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
said in Washington that he plan
ned to send another 200 marshals
to the Alabama capital because
Alabama is a large state and the
Justice Department wants to be
sure enough marshals are there.
Order was restored early today
but only after steel-helmeted
gaurdsmen dispersed an angry
mob of white persons who had
laid siege to a Negro church where
an integration meeting was being
held.
Guardsmen escorted many of
the Negroes to their homes in the
pre-dawn hours after order was
restored. The others slipped out
of the church quietly and drove
away.
Police arrested 16 white per
sons in connection with the vio
lence. No charges were filed, how
ever, and all were released.
Among the churchgoers were
18 of the Freedom Bus Riders
whose arrival in Montgomery
Saturday touched off repeated at
tacks by club-swinging white men
and women. The so-called “Free
dom Riders” were testing Ala
bama’s bus segregation laws.
It was the Sunday night upris
ing which provoked Gov. John
Paterson to proclaim “qualified
martial rule” and give troops
under Adj. Gen. Henry Graham
sweeping powers to take what
ever action necessary to restore
order.
The governoi previously had
protested bitterly against U. S.
Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy’s
order to rush more than 500 armed
U. S. marshals and deputies to
Montgomery to prevent further
interference with the bus riders.
In a tense, face-to-face meet
ing with Kennedy’s top assist
ant, Byron R. White, the sta'te’s
chief executive threatened to jail
federal officers who sought to
exert their authority in the ab
sence of a request for federal
Freedom Riders will Get
Nonstop Escort Across
State of Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. UFi — Gov.
Ross Barnett said today the State
Highway Patrol will be ordered to
escort “Freedom Riders” nonstop
across Mississippi if they show up
in this state.
Barnett announced the plan as
the riders reported from Mont
gomery, Ala., they are planning to
visit Jackson.
Barnett also said he has of
fered Gov. John Patterson of Ala
bama his “moral support” in ef
forts to maintain order in Mont
gomery.
Barnett said Gen. T. B. Bird
song, Public Safety Commissioner,
will be instructed to move any
“Freedom Riders” across the
state without a stop if they appedr
at the border.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with occasional showers.
Low tonight 30, high tomorrow
35-40. In the last 24 hours: High
of 40, low of 35. Sunrise at 2:25
a. m., sunset at 9:40 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
High of 40, low of 33. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of
63 in 1925, low of 21 in 1930.
help.
Patterson in his proclamation
of martial law still insisted that
the self-styled “Freedom Riders”
— he called them “agitators” —
were to blame for the race rioting
because of their insistence on
testing bus station racial barriers.
But, he decreed, “there now
exists ... a serious emergency,
a defiance of the Constitution and
Laws of Alabama, a state of law
lessness . . . which the local of
ficers are unable to subdue.”
Despite angry federal-state bic
! kering earlier in the day, U. S.
I officers worked alongside city and
i state police and the battle-train
ed Guardsmen after Patterson
ordered out the troops.
Race Ri~ts in Alabama
Deplored by Dr. Bunehe,
Undersecretary of U.N.
FAIRBANKS Ub —Bus station
race riots in Alabama were de
plored here today by Dr. Ralph
J. Bunehe, undersecretary of the
United Nations, as giving aid and
comfort to Communism.
The American U.N. official, here
to address the University of Alas
ka commencement this morning,
declared:
“The recent outrages in Ala
bama, and particularly the callous
attitude of state and local au
thorities who endorse bigotry,
are more worthy of barbarism
than of a civilized society. They
give much aid and comfort to our
Communist detractors.”
Dr. Bunehe added this state
; ment in longhand to an advance
| copy of a speech to be given at
the commencement ceremonies
this morning where he will re
ceive an honorary doctor of laws
degree.
President of P.-T. A. Says
Americans Have Forgotten
Spirit of Personal Sacrifice
KANSAS CITY, Mo. <#> —
“Many Americans are so bemused
by the creature comforts that they
seem to have forgotten the spirit
of personal sacrifice that made
this nation great,” the National
President of the Parent Teachers
Assn, said today.
Mrs. James C. Parker, Grand
Rapids, Mich., added, “there is
nothing wrong with the creature
comforts as such, it is the unmerit
ed place they hold in relation to
the things that are really im
portant.
“And it is time, past time, for
this,, country to recognize those
things that are really important.”
Mrs. Parker, finishing a three
year term as president of the Na
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers, said in an interview:
“The great concern in this coun
try with the creature comforts is
perfectly evident in many cases
where school bond issues are
voted down. Many of the voters
could afford the higher taxes to
build schools, but they refuse to
pay this most necessary of all
their bills.”
SAFE LANDING . . .
SCARBOROUGH, England Ifl—
A young man and three girls
driving in an automobile Sunday
night collided with a panel truck,
plunged over a 50-foot cliff, roll
ed nearly 500 feet over rough
ground and came to a stop in a
gully. The driver was hospital
ized with head injuries. The girls
had only minor cuts and bruises.
JFK Expresses Hope
Meeting Will Bring
A Better Understanding
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy today expressed hope
that his conference with Soviet
Premier Khrushchev next month
will lead to a better understand
ing between the United States and
the Soviet Union.
Andrew T. Hatcher, assistant
White House secretary, told re
porters that Kennedy informed
the Soviet journalists he is “hope
fully looking forward” to the
face-to-face meeting with Khrush
chev in Vienna June 3-4.
Twelve Soviet editors, nearing
the end of a tour of the country,
called on Kennedy. Two Wash
ington reporters for Tass, the So
viet News Agency, joined them,
but no U. S. newsmen were ad
mitted.
The Soviet newsmen leave
Washington for New York Tues
day to finish their three-week
visit. A delegation from ASNE
will visit the Soviet Union in Au
gust.
Big Brown Bear Joins
The Coast Guard
— As A Rug
JUNEAU UP — The Coast
Guard turned down an eager re
cruit the hard way last night.
A big Alaskan brown bear,
weighing approximately 800
pounds, tried to force his way into
the Coast Guard light station at
Cape St. Elias, on the Gulf of
Alaska some 210 miles southeast
of Anchorage.
Station personnel fired a rifle
over the bear’s head and the big
bruin beat a hasty retreat into
nearby woods.
About an hour later, however,
the bear returned to the station
and again tried to claw his way
in.
It was a mistake. Station per
sonnel took the first step toward
converting the brownie into a
bear rug and killed him.
FOOD PRICES IN ALASKA
SHOW A SLIGHT DECLINE
PALMER UPi — Food prices in
Alaska showed a slight decline
during the three-month period
ending in March, the University
of Alaska Agriculture Extension
Service reports.
Retail prices in nine Alaska
cities for 40 food items showed a
drop of 10 cents. Food prices
averaged 1 cent lower in Nome, 3
cents in Ketchikan, 6 cents in
Seward, 7 cents in Petersburg, 11
cents in Fairbanks. A 14 cent
increase was reported in Kodiak.
JUST LIKE A BIRD . . .
TEWKSBURY, Mass. UR —
Arthur Moran not only flew like
a bird but alighted like one. He
brought his light plane down on
a treetop near Tewksbury Airport
Sunday, slid down the trunk and
departed unscathed. The plane re
mained in its precarious berth.
Communists Have 300,000 Spies
At Work Around the World
WASHINGTON W — FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover says the
Communists speak of peace but
“their intelligence setup is the
most extensive in world history.”
Hoover told a House Appropri
ations subcommittee in testimony
released Saturday that Com
munist bloc nations have 300,000
agents searching out the secrets
of the rest of the world.
In many cases, Hoover said, the
spies have their job made easier
by a wide-open information setup
in the United States.
(^oni 111 i t tee Acce \> ts j
Bulldozers For
Prisoners Deal
WASHINGTON UP — A U. S.
Private Citizens Committee today
announced acceptance of Fidel
Castro’s prisoners-for-tractors deal
provided the Cuban Prime Min
ister meets three conditions.
The committee simultaneously
announced a nationwide drive to
collect funds from Americans to
pay for the tractors to be swapped
for prisoners.
Walter Reuther, head of the
United Auto Workers Union, made
the announcement as co-chairman
of the committee after conferring
with a group of 10 prisoners from
the ill-fated April anti-Castro in
vasion of Cuba.
The 10 were paroled by Castro
so they could seek to arrange a
deal for release of about 1,200
other prisoners.
Reuther said Castro was will
ing to trade the prisoners for 500
heavy type tractors. The machines
would cost up to $34,000 each,
meaning the Americans raising
funds may have to collect $17
million.
Reuther said the U. S. Citizens
Group is sending a telegram to
Castro saying it will consider it
self committed to the deal pro
vided:
1. Castro will allow a small
group of Americans to go to Ha
vana to work out details, includ
ing wihat kind of tractors Castro
is to get.
Reuther himself plans to ac
company the technicians.
2. Castro will supply a list of
all the prisoners to be freed and
this list is certified.
3. Castro promises to release
the prisoners as tractors arrive.
Castro Says Bulldozers
For Prisoners Imperiled
By U.S. “Insults”
KEY WEST, Fla. UP) — An of
ficial Cuban broadcast warned to
day that captured invaders would
be brought before revolutionary
tribunals if the United States
“persists in its insults” concern
ing the prisoners-for-bulldozers
proposal.
This introduced the possibility
of summary justice for 1,200 cap
tured prisoners from last month’s
invasion.
An official editorial over Ha
vana’s CMQ station quoted Prime
Minister Fidel Castro as saying
the United States had been insult
ing in considering his proposals
as an exchange rather than indem
nification for damage caused by
the invaders.
Soviets Enter Final Phase
Of New Manned Space Flight
BOCHUM, Germany LTi — The
Soviets have entered the final
phase of preparations for a new
manned space shot, Heinz Kamin
ski, head of the local observatory
said today. He said he bases his
statement on monitoring of fre
quencies used at the time of Yuri
A. Gagarin’s space flight. These
have been very busy in the last
week, Kaminski added.
A BIG HAUL 7TT
HASTINGS ON HUDSON, N. Y.
UP) — Shad fishermen netted a
full-grown deer in the Hudson
River Sunday. They spied the deer
caught in their net far out in the
river. They rowed out, tied the
deer’s legs and turned the ani
mal over to agents of the Amer- j
ican Society for the Prevention I
of Cruelty to Animals. |
Fastest Field Ever Will
Line Up for Indianapolis
Memorial Day Classic
INDIANAPOLIS tW — Thirty
two American auto racing vet
erans and British road racing
champion Jack Bragham will
make up the fastest field ever
lined up in the 50-year-old 500
Mile auto race May 30.
A record qualifying average of
145.302 miles an hour was set in
two weekends of qualifying that
ended Sunday.
Last year’s Memorial Day field
set the previous record of 144.070
and 18 of its starters would not
have made the program for this
year’s golden anniversary race.
Eight newcomers, including
Bragham, helped boost the average
for the 10-mile tests.
Eddie Sachs of Center Valley,
Pa., who has failed to finish in
four Memorial Day starts, was
the fastest qualifier of the two
weekends with a 147.251 on open
ing day, good for $2,200 and the
No. 1 starting position a week
from Tuesday.
Pair Hoped to Start
Alaska Guide Service
With Robbery Proceeds
SEATTLE U& — Police said to
day Terrence L. O’Conner, 22, had
confessed taking part in a $9,000
holdup here April 28 with another
man and spending most of the
money in the Anchorage area.
O’Conner and a 24-year-old
companion were arrested by de
tectives yesterday in a motel two
days after their arrival from Alas
ka. The older man denied parti
cipating in the grocery store rob
bery.
O’Conner said he and his part
ner bought three horses in Yaki
ma, Wash., and had them shipped
to Hope, on the Kenai Peninsula
near Anchorage. Much of the re
mainder of the loot was spent for
cameras and hunting equipment.
The two men were held with
out charge. Neither has a per
manent address.
O’Conner told detectives they
planned to start up a guide busi
ness in Hope.
SPAULDING & ASSOCIATES
TO DESIGN VESSELS FOR
STATE FERRY SYSTEM
JUNEAU UP> — State Public
Works Commissioner Richard
Downing said Saturday that the
Seattle firm of Philip H. Spauld
ing and Associates have been re
tained to design the vessels for
the State Ferry System.
The state plans to operate four
ferries, three in Southeastern
Alaska and one on a Kodiak
Homer run.
Downing also said that the Ju
neau engineering firm of Toner
and Nordling would design the
terminal facilities and the ap
proach roads for the terminals.
CFA Okays Interest-Free Advance
Of 522,500 to Kodiak School Disl.
JUNEAU UPI — The Community
Facilities Administration has ap
proved an interest-free advance of
$22,500 to the Kodiak School Dis
trict to finance preliminary and
final planning of a vocational
wing addition to the Kodiak High
School.
Sens. E. L. Bartlett and Ernest
Gruening and Rep. Ralp Rivers
said in a telegram to the Associ
ated Press at Juneau today that
the advance will be repayable at
the start of construction.
The addition to the high school
will cost an estimated $390,000
and construction is scheduled to
start in May of next year.