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DEMOS TAKE OVER CONGRESS!
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK j
and JACK BELL
WASHINGTON. UP) -r- Demo
crats climbed- in Tuesday’s elec
tions to peaks of Congressional I
power rivaling their palmiest New
Deal days. They seized heavy ma
jorities in both Senate and House.
The balloting at the same time
shook up the national political j
picture for l&60’s Presidential j
election.
Both California’s William F.
Knowland and New York’s Aver
ell Harriman were shunted from
the main political current.
Political clamor settled instead
on their conquerors in battles for
governorships — Democrat Ed
mund G. (Pat) Brown in California
and Republican Nelson Rockefel
ler in New York.
What the Democratic upsurge
in Congress may mean as to the
future course of legislation is still
to be assayed.
But President Eisenhower said
the people obviously were voting
for spending advocates. Calling
any trend toward bigger federal
spending a dangerous one, he told
a news conference he will fight
hard against it during his last two
years in office.
The New York stock market,
after opening mixed, swung high
er in active trading.
Democrats scored major suc
cesses in important farm belt
states, a swing generally interpre
ted as reflecting dissatisfaction
with Administration farm poli
cies. This could influence Con
gress to a free hand on aid to
farmers. _
In tabulations up to noon, the
Republicans, while losing heavily
in their own numbers, had failed
to oust a single sitting Democrat
from Congress.
One Democrat who appeared in
■possible danger was Representa
tive Brooks Hays of Arkansas.
Dale Alford, a segregationist
write-in candidate, held a lead
over Hays, who tried last year to
ease the federal-state clash over
integration of schools.
In the battles, for state gover
norships, the Republicans did a
little better.
Rockefeller’s victory over Har
riman in* the battle of the mil
lionaires was their show piece —
a point of elation. However, they
also ousted Democrats from state
houses in Arizona, Oregon and
Rhode Island while losing in Cali
fornia, Maryland, Nevada, Ohio.
South Dakota and Wisconsin.
For the Senate, the results at
noon showed 61 Democrats elec
ted and 34 Republicans.
For the House, the count was
276 Democrats elected and 138 Re
publicans. Still undecided were 21
races. Republicans led in 16 of
these, Democrats in five.
Labor Hails
Democrats
As Friends
By NORMAN WALKER
Associated Press Labor Writer
WASHINGTON, — Labor
unions today acclaimed the elec
tion returns as insuring a Con
gress that can wreck all existing
state right-to-work laws at one
sweep and enact new social legis
lation.
They gained confidence from
defeat of right-to-work referenda
in five of the six states in which
the issue was on the ballot.
Union strategists said the com
plexion of the new Congress is
such that labor-wanted measures
— like a higher minimum wage,
extra jobless benefits and reces
sion curatives — will get more
favorable consideration than they
have in recent years.
One thing organized labor will
fight for in Congress next year,
union sources said, is repeal of
that section of the Taft-Hartley
law known as 14B which per
mits states to enact right-to-work
laws. These ban the union shop
— a labor contract provision that
requires workers to join a union
to hold their jobs.
Kansas voters approved a ban
on the union shop Tuesday, join
ing 18 other states which already
had such laws on the books.
But right-to-work was voted
down handily in Ohio, California,
Washington and Colorado, and
lost by a narrow margin in Idaho.
Labor unions wanted to avoid
at all costs any spread of the
right-to-work principle in the
industrial Midwest. Indiana is the
only state in that area now hav
ing such a law.
The other right-to-work states
are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi,
Nebraska, Nevada, North and
South Dakota, North and South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah
and Virginia.
Skaters Meet Death
On Flight Home
ANCHORAGE, - An ice
skating party ended in death for
two men and a girl whose bodies
were found in the wreckage of
their plane about 35 miles north
west of here yesterday.
Killed in the crash were Ray
Nickel, Los Angeles, pilot and
former employe of the Civil
Aeronautics Administration; Wal
ter Brunn, 27, Staten Island,
N. Y., CAA technician, and Miss
Halcyon Tallakson, 22, Minnea
polis, Minn., a teacher at Gov*
ernment Hill school here.
The trio left here Sunday for
an ice Skating party at Big Lake.
The crash apparently occurred
as they were returning to Anchor
age.
Miss Tallakson’s father, Harold,
is an elementary school principal
in Minneapolis.
Report Red Buildup
Opposite Quemoys
TAIPEI, Formosa, W”) — Artil
lery dueling resumed today in the
offshore war after a .27-hour lull.
Red Chinese guns opened up on
the Quemoys before dawn. Na
tionalist batteries returned the
fire.
There were reports of continu
ing Red buildup of mainland po
sitions opposite both Quemoy and
Matsu, 150 miles north.
Tavern Pinup Boy
DERBY, England, U!) — Irish
man James McCormack today be
came the pinup boy of Derby’s
415 pubs, clubs, hotels and liquor
stores.
Police sent each a photograph
of the 51-year-old laborer with
the order: “Don’t serve him.”
McCormack appeared in court
Tuesday charged with being drunk.
It was the second time in 24
hours, the 13th time this year,
and the 40th time in his 35-year
drinking career.
He was fined 2 pounds ($5.69),
and banned from buying liquor
for three years.
Mike Stepovich
Is Visiting Nome
On Campaign Trip
Nome welcomes Mike Stepo
vich today with his wife, who are
arriving on a campaign trip to
MIKE STEPOVICH
District 23. As Governor of
Alaska, Mike Stepovich has been
in Nome and participated in the
Fourth of July ceremonies, and
made many friends.
He comes this time as a Re
publican candidate for U. S. Sen
ator, and is opposed on the ballot
by former Governor Ernest
Gruening.
He was scheduled to speak at the
Rotary Luncheon tod^y, while
his wife was to be honor guest at a
no-host luncheon at the North
Star Seaview Room.
As a member of the Pioneers
of Alaska, Stepovich will attend
that meeting this evening after
appearing on TV, and after the
meeting Mrs. Stepovich and mem
bers of the Women’s Auxiliary
will join with the Pioneers for a
social hour. Wives and husbands
of pioneers have been included to
meet the guests.
Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Step
ovich leave for Kotzebue, for an
overnight visit, and return here
Friday enroute to Juneau to meet
with Secretary of the Interior
Fred Seaton.
Tlior Rocket
Exploded After
Cape Launching
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., OP) —
A powerful Thor intermediate
range missile — the heart of moon
rocket Pioneer — blew apart with
a brilliant flash shortly after
launching early today.
It was the fifth straight time
that a ballistic weapon had ex
ploded in spectacular style in the
past few months. The shattered
sections of the missile appeared
to plunge into the Atlantic just
off the Cape.
The Air Force announced a mal
function occurred about 30 sec
onds after liftoff and the missile
was destroyed by the range safe
ty officer.
Flaming debris rained into the
water. A huge black cloud hung
against the moonlit Florida sky.
Washington State
Bucks The
National Trend
SEATTLE, UP> — Washington
bucked the national trend by
sending six Republican represen
tatives and one Democrat back to
Congress for the fourth straight
time, and electing the state’s first
Congresswoman.
But in nearly all other races,
both national and state, Demo
crats scored heavily,
son easily won reelection against
Democratic Senator Henry Jack
political newcomer William B.
Bantz, Spokane, Republican, piling
up a lead of 502,198 to 233,006
with about 82 per cent of the pre
cints reported. .
A right-to-work law was sound
ly defeated for the second time in
two years despite a costly and in
tensive campaign by its backers,
spearheaded by the Boeing Air
plane Co. and General Electric Co.
Mrs. Catherine May, 44, of Ya
kima, became the first Congress
woman in the state’s 69-year his
tory in winning the seat vacated
by Republican Representative Hal
Holmes. Her victory over Frank
Leroux, Walla Walla wheat far
mer, was regarded as Washing
ton’s major political upset. Mrs
May has been a State Legislator
six years.
Republican incumbent Con
gressmen who won reelection,
most of them handily, were Thom
as Pelly, Jack Westland, Russell
V. Mack, Walter Horan, and Thor
Tollefson.
Democrats, who had claimed
they would take two to five Re
publican seats, had to settle for
the one they already had. Rep
resentative Don Magnuson (D)
won easily.
WEATHER FORECAST
Decreasing cloudiness today,
fair tonight and tomorrow.
Lowest temperature expected
tonight 25, the high tomorrow 34.
Sec. Seaton Plans
Alaska Tour
To Boost GOP
WASHINGTON, UPi — Secretary
of the Interior Seaton, who’s been
hitting the stump pretty hard
this year, said yesterday he plans
to make 18 more speeches in Alas
ka in behalf of Republican candi
dates.
-Seaton has already made ap
pearances in Alaska, and all told
has engaged in 162 GOP cam
paign programs since August 15.
Seaton plans to leave about
Friday for the Territory. He will
campaign out of Fairbanks, An
chorage and Juneau until Alaskan
Election Day, November 25.
Seaton plans to go to Hawaii
December 12 to speak at a meet
ing of the Western States Repub
lican Conference.
The Alaska trip is expected to
include speeches at Nome, Bar
row, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Ju
neau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Haines,
Wrangell, Petersburg, Homer, Pal
mer, Valdez, Cordova, Kodiak,
Seward, Skagway, Annette Is
land and possibly at Fort Yukon.
Seaton said he also may visit
some Eskimos and Indian villages.
World’s Fair New
Airport Burns
ZAVENTEM, Belgium, Iff! —
The main building of Brussels’
new International Airport was
wrecked last night by a fire due,
at least indirectly, to premature
opening of the airport.
A helicopter rescued two per
sons trapped in the control tower.
Officials said the fire was
started by explosion of a small
oil stove installed on the ground
floor to supplement a still eratic
heating system.
The airport was opened to traf
fic before completion to handle
the crowds attending the World’s
Fair last summer.
Traffic resumed with operations
centered in a building on the
other side of the field.
Ike Is Confident He Will Get Along
With New Democratic Congress
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, (g) — President
Eisenhower said today the elec
torate obviously voted for spend
ing advocates in giving the Demo
crats greater control of Congress.
At a news conference, Eisen
hower called any trend toward
bigger federal spending a dan
gerous one.
He pledged that his Administra
tion will fight hard against it
during his last two years in
ofice.
Speaking against the back
ground of sweeping Democratic
election triumphs, Eisenhower
emphatically replied — not at all
— when asked whether he ex
pects to have additional trouble
during the next two years in deal
ing with Congress.
Eisenhower added he always
has managed to get along pretty
well with Congress. He said he
is confident that Democrats as
well as Republicans are motivated
by what is good for the country.
The news conference was dom
inated by questions about the out
come of Tuesday’s elections, which
gave the Democrats the tightest
control of Congress since New
Deal days.
Eisenhower opened the confer
ence by asking whether there
were any questions, and then
| joined in the laughter when the
first reporter stood up and said:
“Yes sir.”
Two or three times, Eisenhower
refused to be drawn into any pre
diction or expression of opinion
regarding any effect the vote may
have on Republican potentials for
the 1960 Presidential nomination.
Asked whether Nelson Rocke
feller’s election as Governor of
New York made him a strong
Presidential possibility, Eisen
hower replied he hadn’t even
given that matter any thought.
He did say he is delighted by
Rockefeller’s victory over Demo
cratic Governor Averell Harri-,
man.
As for Eisenhower’s oft-stated
goal of molding his party along
what he called lines of Modern
Republicanism, the President said
that’ not for one moment is he
discouraged.
He said somewhat grimly that
anyone who has as strong prin
ciples as he has cannot afford to
be discouraged. He recalled that
during World War II he suffered
military setbacks at Kasserine
Pass and in the Battle of the
Bulge.
Eisenhower remarked that you
can’t be discouraged about such
things — you must look on them
as opportunities of some kind.