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Khrushchev Ends 2
Days Before U.N
By RELMAN MORIN
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP> —
United Nations headquarters re
laxed security precautions and
breathed a collective sigh of re
lief today as Nikita Khrushchev
returned to Moscow after a 25
day visit that shook the world.
A massive contingent of New
York police, drawn up to control
pickets and prevent unauthorized
access to the headquarters build
ings, was withdrawn from First
Ave., abutting the U. N. area.
Special U. S. passes required of
U.N personnel, reporters and even
waitresses in the dining rooms
were no longer needed to get
into the tall Secretariat Building
on the East River.
These measures and many more
had been put into effect to pro
tect chiefs of state who came for
the opening of the 15th General
Assembly—but mainly because of
Khrushchev’s presence.
The Soviet premier left behind
the memory of a bully, a vul
garian, a pile-driving debater, an
expert propagandist and a Jekyl
and-Hyde who talked peace out
of one side of his mouth and
Candidates Do Not
Agree On Very
Many Issues
By JACK BELL
AP Poliiical Writer
A wide-ranging third television
argument found the two major
presidential candidates agreed
today on only two subjects: de
fending Berlin and condemning
religious bigotry.
Separated by the width of the
continent but brought to a single
screen, Vice President Richard M.
Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy
flailed at each other last night on
the issues of war and peace, how
to stop national emergency strikes
the state of American prestige,
and the cost of farm programs.
Both sides thought they had
won. Nixon called the encounter
“Good, fast-moving, a good clash.”
Kennedy told reporters “ I
thought we touched on important
matters that are at issue in the
campaign.”
The issue of Kennedy’s Roman
Catholic religion was brought into
the debate for the first time. A
reporter quoted Rep. Adam Clay
ton Powell, New York Negro con
gressman, as saying that, “The
Ku Klux Klan is riding again in
this campaign” in opposition to
Kennedy.
The newsman said Gov. Michael
V. DiSalle of Ohio, a Roman Cath
olic, was saying much the same
thing. DiSalle said he was not
quoted correctly. He merely re
ported, he said, that the head of
the Ku Klux Klan said he would
vote for Nixon.
Kennedy said he didn’t suggest
in any way that the Vice Presi
dent has any sympathy with or
involvement with the Klan.
“That is absurd,” Kennedy said.
“I don’t suggest that. I don’t sup
port it. I would disagree with it.”
Nixon, a Quaker, said he wel
comed the chance to join Ken
nedy in repudiating the Klan or
anybody who uses the religious
issue.
In Tampa, Fla., W. J. Griffin,
head of the state Klan, said: “I
don’t give a damn what Nixon
said. I’m still voting for him.”
5 World-Shaking
. General Assembly
nuclear war out of the other.
He was also a badly beaten
man, whipped on all but one of
the great controversial issues that
came to a vote in the General
Assembly.
Clutching at straws before his
departure last night, Khrushchev
claimed a “victory” on the single
point in which the Assembly
went along with him—the unani
mous agreement for a hearing, in
plenary session, on his proposal
to demand immediate independ
ence for all colonies.
He boarded his giant Soviet
turbo-prop plane at Idlewild Air
port just before midnight. In his
customary departure statement
he said: “We are leaving in a
good mood.”
Khrushchev said there were
signs “which allow us to hope for
solutions of the major interna
tional problems through the
United Nations organization, and
through this session of the Gen
eral Assembly.”
Much of what followed echoed
the positions he took on various
issues while he was here.
His next major moves in the
international arena, he indicated
repeatedly at the United Nations
will come after the presidential
elections. He said he did not be
lieve American officials could
fully participate until then in “the
question of questions,” disarma
ment.
South African Denounces
U.N. Inquiry Into Charges
Of Racial Discrimination
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Iff)—
South Africa’s Foreign Secretary
Eric H. Louw, soberly warned the
U.N. General Assembly today So
viet Premier Khrushchev’s at
tacks on the U.N. structure may
not be idle threats.
He also declared South Africa
is concerned about what he term
ed Communist penetration of Af
rica and Communist inspired act
ivity in ihis own country.
Most of his policy statement)
was devoted to lashing back bit
terly at the 41 countries that have
demanded a U. N. inquiry into
charge of South African race dis
crimination, chiefly India.
“They do not come into court
with clean hands,” Louw said, re
citing charges of discrimination
against races and minorities he
said prevails in other countries.
Owners Decide Not To
Salvage Tug Tom
SEATTLE, Iff)—Owners of the
Seattle tug Tom, which sank near
Juneau last month with loss of
its three-man crew, reported yes
terday they have decided not to
attempt salvage.
The 55-foot tug sank Sept. 8 in
492 feet of water in Stephens
Passage, 75 miles south of Juneau.
The crewmen lost were Earl Long,
the skipper, and Myrton Voellger
and William Pavoa.
James McMurdy, president of
Puget Sound Dredging Co., said
the Tom went down in an ex
posed area where there are swift
currents.
“It is a difficult situation for
salvage effort,” he said, “with
very remote chance of success.”
At one time a company official
reported a special hook was being
fabricated and would be used in
an attempt to raise the Tom.
6,000 Wellwishers
Serenade Eisenhower
On His 70th Birthday
WASHINGTON, Ufi— President
Eisenhower’s neighbors — about
6,000 of them—serenaded him to
day with a happy birthday chorus
as he turned up. And he pledged
with deep emotion to continue
working for world peace.
Eisenhower, the first U.S. Presi
dent to reach the age of three
score and ten in office, also took
the occasion to toss a barb at
Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
In an informal talk to the crowd
of well-wishers on the White
House south lawn, the President
said Americans and the rest of
the free world must never stop
striving for peace with justice
’’despite all possible provocations
of personal deportment and veiled
threats ...”
That remark came against the
background of Khrushchev’s bit
ter tirades in the United Nations
in which the Kremlin leader’s tar
gets often were the United States
and Eisenhower.
Cuban Delegate To
U.N. Resigns Post
(By The Associated Press)
One of Cuba’s delegates to the
United Nations turned against
Prime Minister Fidel Castro today
almost at the exact hour the U.S.
was unleashing an attack on him
in the United Nations.
The Cuban delegate, Miss Ter
esa Casuso, quit her post with
the charge that Castro is making
Cuba into a police state. She said
Castro “has to be at war with
everybody.”
The United States filed with the
United Nations a 9,000-word reply
to Castro’s 4Vfe-hour speech last
month to the General Assembly.
The State Department depicted
Castro as a tyrant who is seeking
to provoke an incident over the
Guantanamo Naval Base. It said
Castro is welcoming Communist
intervention and trying to under
mine the inter-American system
of collectve security and progress.
At home, Castro’s regime moved
toward complete state control of
basic industries. It nationalized
382 firms including banks and
sugar mills owned by Cubans, as
a followup to a takeover of many
U.S. investments. Virtually all
sugar mills, turning out the main
stay of the Cuban economy, now
are under state control in much
the same way that factories are
controlled by the state in Com
munist countries.
Sports Kart Demonstration
Slated For Saturday
Afternoon on Front Street
The Sports Kart demonstra
tion will be held on Front St.
tomorrow afternoon at 1 o’clock,
it was announced by Bob Em
mons, president of the Arctic
Club.
At this time this new motorized
car with speed up to 15 miles an
hour will be set in motion and a
lucky child will be chosen from
the audience to help with the
demonstration and learn to drive.
The Kart is to be given away
on Oct. 22 by the Arctic Club at
their annual Carnival for which
new concessions and new games
are to be part of the night of fun.
The Club has also announced a
cash prize of $100 to the person
who sells the most tickets for the
carnival. Anyone interested may
contact Johnnie Stephenson who
has charge of the tickets.
Egan Deplores
‘Sectionalism’ In
Pioneer Speech
SEWARD, UP)—Gov. William A.
Egan warned today that section
alism can lead Alaska into “big,
statewide trouble.”
Speaking before the 1960 con- j
vention of the Pioneers of Alas
ka, Egan said Alaskans have en
joyed a kinship and oneness as j
few people anywhere have ever,
enjoyed.
“Lately, however, a gravely j
serious and disquieting condition j
has developed which threatens!
irreparable harm, the Governor;
said. “Harm through interruption,!
harm through delay, harm
through directing our efforts from
the prime problems of transition,
and harm greatest of all by divid
ing our people through the bitter
ness of regionalism run rampant.”
Although Egan did not mention
what he felt was the source of
the sectionalism of which he
spoke, it appeared to be a direct
reference to the bitter capital re
location fight of the past year and
the regional choosing of sides over
the 23 million dollar bond issue
for a state ferry system which
will be voted on Nov. 8.
The state’s chief executive said
the ferry system was of utmost
importance to the development of
Southeastern Alaska. He said the
system’s economic impact would
extend both north of the Gulf of I
Alaska and to the Panhadle.
“As to the bonding method of
financing,” Egan said, “Alaska at
present is almost alone among the
states in having no indebtedness.
However, that is not necessarily
an enviable situation if it means
to stay out of debt we do with
out needed improvements.”
—
Vukovich Charged
With the Murder
Of His Mother
TACOMA, UP)—Roger Vukovich,
an only child who lived in a
world of strange portrait paint
ings and supernatural readings,
was charged in Justice Court here
today with the first-degree mur
der of his 57-year-old widowed
mother.
Today in a city jail cell, Vuko
vich observed his 20th birthday.
Late yesterday afternoon he
signed a confession that he had
killed his mother, Mrs. Selma Vu
kovich, after unsuccessfully try
ing to hire out the slaying to his
only close friend for a reported
$1,000. The friend shrugged the
offer off as a joke.
Yesterday afternoon, according
to a detective, Vukovich confes
sed in writing that he struck his
sleeping mother on the skull with
the blunt end of a shingle hatchet,
carried her from her bed, and
shoved her down a steep flight of
basement stairs.
When arrested, Vukovich had in
his possession a paperback book
“Mediums and Survival.” He told
in his signed statement that he
had just finished a chapter in
volving the question, “can mortals
make contact after death?” This
was the experiment he hoped to
make after his mother’s death,
Vukovich said in his statement.
Mrs. Vukovich was the widow
of a Juneau man who served in
the Alaska House in 1945.
Pittsburgh Stages
Big Baseball Binge
PITTSBURGH, W—Horn toot
ing, bell-ringing Pittsburgh Pirate
fans celebrated until the early
hours today in what police said
was the biggest, craziest mass
demonstration ever witnessed in
the steel city.
Baseball fans who had seen
World Series celebrations in other
cities said this one beat them all.
The celebration began exactly
at 3:36 p.m. yesterday when Bill
Mazeroski clouted a leadoff
homer in the ninth inning to give
the Pirates a come-from-behind
10-9 victory over the New York
Yankees. The victory gave the
Pirates their first World Series
championship since 1925.
Pirate fans who had waited a
long time to celebrate let go with
a vengeance. Crowds yelled, fire
crackers boomed, air raid sirens
screamed, confetti rained and
church bells pealed.
In a few hours traffic was jam
med hopelessly. Extra police were
called out. Beer bottles littered
main streets.
Girls grabbed strangers and
kissed them. The men got into the
act by kissing strangers. That
caused a few fist fights.
By 1 a.m. more than 40 persons
had been arrested on various
charges as a result of the cele
bration.
One police officer said: “Most
of those arrested were younger
people who probably never saw a
ball game in their life. They just
took this opportunity to show
off.”
The litter in the streets got so
bad water hydrants were turned
on to wash down streets.
After-hour clubs were jammed.
People were drinking in the
streets. The situation got so bad
police requested radio and tele
vision stations to ask residents to
stay away from the downtown
area.
SEARCH HALTED FOR
FLIER LOST AT WAKE
HONOLULU, UP—The Wake Is
land air-sea search for a missing
flier, Lt. Duane Stirling, 28, of
Fargo, N.D., was called off Thurs
day night, the Navy announced.
The North Dakota Air National
Guard pilot was attempting to fly
nonstop from Oakland, Calif., to
Manila —7,698 miles —when his
single-engine plane plunged into
the Pacific near Wake Island
Wednesday night.
YOU BET!
ST. LOUIS, W)— Police did the
bet making and it’s a good thing
for the bettors.
The gambling squad raided two
places and took bets over the
telephone to determine extent of
the operations.
It would have been a good day
for the bookies. Lots of bets came
in, all on the World Series—and
most on the New York Yankees,
who lost to Pittsburgh 10-9.
American Niet, Goods Yes
NEW YORK, UP) — Russian Pre
mier Khrushchev and his party
evidently like American products,
even if they don’t like Americans.
As the group prepared to leave
for home, great numbers of crates,
cartons and other items of bag
gage were crated out of the Rus
sian Park Avenue headquarters
and loaded into trucks and other
vehicles.
Among other things, newsmen
could see automobile tires, anti
freeze and auto batteries.