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Vice - President Urges Support Of
Foreign Policy And GOP Candidates
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Nixon Predicts
GOP Governors
For Five States
FAIRBANKS, UPl — A net gain
in the number of Republican gov
ernors as a result of Tuesday’s
elections was predicted yesterday
by Vice President Richard M.
Nixon.
The Vice President, in the clos
ing hours of a campaign tour that
has taken him across the country
and for the first time into Alaska,
named five states in which he
said the GOP stood its best chance
to oust Democratic governors.
He previously had said Repub
lican hopes were bright in New
York and Rhode Island.
To those, Nixon told newsmen,
he now adds Iowa, Kansas and
Oregon.
The Republican hold on state
house offices, he said, appeared
most vulnerable in Ohio, Mary
land and his home state of Cali
fornia. Thirty-four governors will
be elected Tuesday. There now are
29 Democratic governors and 19
Republicans.
The Vice President had no fore
cast on the outcome of Senate
and House races.
In Alaska speeches, however,
Nixon has repeated that there has
been a great upswing in Repub
lican feeling in the past few
weeks.
The'Vice President spoke at Re
publican rallies in Juneau and
Anchorage Saturday and made an
other appeal for Republican sup
port in a television talk Satur
day night at Anchorage. The rally
speeches were broadcast trhough
out Alaska, and his TV talk was
filmed for later showings in other
cities.
His visit and talks with party
leaders and candidates, Nixon
said, has given him new hope
Republicans will win the gover
norship in Alaska. Before coming
here, he said, he had heard there
was no chance for a GOP guber
natorial victory.
Reds Shell Quemoys
With Heaviest Load
By ROBERT TUCKMAN
TAIPEI, UP) — Communist guns
opened up on the Quemoys today
with the heaviest bombardment
in seven weeks.
The Nationalist Defense Min
istry said 36,431 shells hit the is
lands between noon and 6 p.m.
The ministry said the shelling
later dwindled to sporadic pep
pering fire. That was the highest
shell count since September 11.
The firing included 9,500 rounds
on the Little Tan Islets, which are
far more vulnerable to invasion
than Quemoy and Little Quemoy.
It was the hardest shelling these
little dots of land had taken since
the offshore island scrapping be
gan August 23. Nationalist defen
ders on the Tans live entirely
underground.
WHO'S IMPROPER?
NEW HAVEN, Conn., UP) — Cafe
manager Wallace Holland, an
gered at the sight of a nonlunch
er’s car in his lot, pushed it into
the middle of a street, then called
police to complain that a car was
parked improperly. Police more or
less-agreed. They charged Holland
with improperly parking the car
there.
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Vice Pres
ident Richard M. Nixon urged
again Saturday' night support of
Eisenhower Admisistration foreign
policy and the election of Repub
lican candidates who believe in it.
Nixon in a 30-minute television
talk here, spoke immediately after
a news broadcast which reported
former 'President Harry Truman
said the Administration had made
a mess of foreign policy.
The Vice President, speaking
informally and without notes, said
he admired Truman for fighting
for what he believes. But he
added:
“Mr. Truman should be an ex
pert on making a mess of things
— when we took over the Admin
istration we were at war.”
Nixon said the Administration
had ended the war in Korea, and
by its firm stand against
Communist aggression since has
kept the United States at peace.
He called the policy peace with
out surrender — and he told audi
ences both here and at Juneau
that the policy had worked.
I While defending criticism of the
Administration foreigii policy,
Nixon made strong appeals for the
election in Alaska of Republicans
in the first State elections here
November 25.
His strongest support was given
to former Governor Mike Stepo
vich, 39, a GOP nominee for one
of two U. S. Senate seats that will
be open to Alaska.
Equally strong endorsement
went to Territorial Senator John
Butrovich, Jr., 48, who is fighting
an uphill battle for governor.
Stepovich introduced the Vice
President at a Saturday night ral
ly attended by an estimated 1,700
persons who did not quite fill the
plush Anchorage High School
auditorium.
FPC Sets Date For
Project Protests
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Fed
eral Power Commission has set
December 8 as the final day for
filing of protests against a small
power project proposed by the
San Juan fishing and packing Co.,
on Evans Island in Alaska.
The project is composed of three
small concrete and timber dams
on San Juan Lake and stream,
with waterwheels coupled to gen
erators with a capacity of 100
kilowatts.
The commission’s announce
ment said the project represents
an enlargement of an earlier pro
ject for which the company’s li
cense expired last year.
Evans Island is 50 miles ea^t
of Seward.
Bear-Chasing
In Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn., UR — When
Harry Wulff saw a big, black crea
creature scamper from his garage,
he thought it was a dog.
But when the animal started
climbing a tree, Wulff knew it
was a bear. He called police and
the zoo.
The bear made it to the roof of
Wulff’s house, where he outwitted
his pursuers for several hours.
Finally a zoo worker, John An
derson, lassoed the 400-pound
bear, which was hauled off to a
zoo. Zoo officials said the animal
had not escaped from there.
Air Force To
Launch Third
Moon Rocket
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
United States will launch its
third Air Force lunar probe wi
thin a week or so, the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration announced today.
The official announcement was
coupled with a formal estimate
that the third effort has “one in
25” chances of reaching the vici
nity of the moon.
NASA declined to say on the
record when the third moon shot
will be attempted. Standard ref
erence books that set forth the
phases of the moon and the times
of the year when it is relatively
nearer the earth indicate the best
time to shoot for the moon would
come up in the period of three
or four days starting November 7.
At a news conference, Dr. Hugh
L. Dryden, deputy administrator
of the NASA, cautioned against
any great optimism about the
shoot.
“If we are very fortunate, we
may achieve trajectory and velo
city control sufficient to position
the probe in the vicinity of the
moon,” he said.
Alaska Trapper Freed
After Seven Years
In Federal Prison
FAIRBANKS, (51 — Freedom
came Saturday for Raymond Lay
ton after seven years in prison
for a crime a federal jury says he
did not commit.
Seven years ago a quarrel
erupted in a trapper’s cabin deep
in the Tanana country of interior
Alaska. Several persons were pres
ent. During the fight Barney
Grant was shot and his body
burned.
Layton pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to the Lewisburg Fed
eral Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.
Three years ago Fairbanks At
torney Warren Taylor investigated
the case and decided an injustice
had been done. He pointed out
Layton’s emotional state at the
time of the confession and said
there was no way to determine
who had fired the fatal shots.
The federal jury cleared the
former Johnstown, Pa., man.
“I am very happy,” Layton said.
No Hope Held For
24 Missing Miners
SPRINGHILL, N. S., UP) — Res
cue workers kept digging today in
the Cumberland No. 2 coal mine,
but there was no real hope for
any of the 24 men stjll missing.
Three more bodies were brought
out last night and one this morn
ing, bringing the total recovered
to 50. One hundred miners were
rescued, the last seven on Satur
day after 8V2 days deep under
ground in a small debris-enclosed
pocket.
The 174 miners were caught in
an underground earth shift Oc
tober 23 which jammed the shaft
at various. points with rock and
rubble and loosed poison gas.
CHURCH LOOTED OF MONEY
INTENDED FOR SPRINGHILL
MINE DISASTER RELIEF
TORONTO, UP) — Thieves
blasted open a church safe here
during the weekend and stole
$3,456 intended for the Springhill
mine disaster fund.
Democrats Happy In Victory Hopes;
GOP Is Working Hard Toward Upset
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON, UP) — The 1958'
battle for control of Congress ta
pered off today with Democrats
happily predicting a massive vic
tory and Republicans hoping and
working for a last-minute upset.
Some 48 million Americans will
decide at the polls tomorrow
which side is right in the back
wash of a campaign that focused
more on personalities than on any
gripping national issues.
A state-by-state survey by the
Associated Press, updated through
Sunday, Showed Democrats fav
ored to capture 8 to 12 GOP seats
in the Senate and 17 to 40 or more
in the House, with a good chance
to gain a couple of governorships
as well.
Prospects of a strong Demo
cratic upsurge brought President
Eisenhower out fighting during
the campaign. From coast to coast
he blasted the Democrats as left
wing dominated “gloomdogglers”
too divided over civil rights and
other issues to be able to govern
effectively.
For the Democrats, former
President Truman, Adlai E. Ste
venson and other party leaders
accused the President of surrend
ering to the Communists in Korea '
in the armistice there.
Easily the political discovery of
the year is multimillionaire Nel
son Rockefeller, the glad-handing,
50-year-old multimillionaire who
rocketed from a political nowhere
to become a serious challenger of
New York’s Democratic Governor
Averell Harriman, who has sev
eral tens of millions himself.
In California the Republicans
were hurt by dissension. Senator
William F. Knowland and Gover
nor Goodwin J. Knight, running
for each other’s job, seemed to be
fighting each other as much as
they fought the Democrats. Re
sult: Knowland was expected to
lose to Democrat Edmund (Pat)
Brown and Knight was less than
an even choice against Represen
tative Clair Engle.
Cubans Want
Special Guards
For Planes
By GEORGE KAUFMAN
HAVANA, Cuba, UP) — The Cu
ban government today planned to
demand special protection for Cu
ban airliners pnd passengers in the
United States as the result of
rebel seizure of a plane which
crashed and killed 17 persons.
The three survivors said four
Cuban rebels commandeered the
big Viscount turboprop airliner
Saturday night on a flight from
Miami to Varadere Beach, 87
miles east of Havana.
The wreckage was spotted Sun
day in shallow waters of the bay
of Nipe near Preston, in rebel-in
fested Oriente Province.
The Cubana Airline said Fidel
Castro rebels seized the plane to
make headlines for their move
ment on the eve of the Cuban
national election tody, but they
caused it to crash when they
forced the pilot to attempt a land
ing in darkness on an airstrip
that was too small.
Those killed were the four gun
men, the four Cuban crew mem
bers three other Cubans and six
naturalized Americans bom in
Cuba.
The plane was the second
seized in flight since October 21
On that date, an authoritative
source said, two rebels among the
passengers seized a DC3 with 12
other persons board.
The rebels shot that pilot in the
arm and forced him to divert the
flight. The crew of three and a
Cuban soldier passenger were re
ported still held by the rebels, but
the other eight passengers were
allowed to return to their homes.
A spokesman for the Cuban for
eign ministry said as a result of
the capture of the four-engine Vis
count Saturday, the Cuban gov
ernment “will ask from the United
States the due protection in
American airports of all Cuban
airplanes, their crews and pas
sengers.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional snow
today. Partly cloudy tomorrow.
Lowest temperture expected to
night 5 to 10. The high tomor
row 20-25.
Pasternak Free
To Take Prize,
Says Kremlin
LONDON, UR — The Soviet *
news agency Tass said Saturday
Boris Pasternak is free to leave
Russia to receive the Nobel Prize.
The statement followed a Tass
announcement that Pasternak had
written Soviet Premier Khrush
chev stressing his ties with Rus
sia and acknowledging he may
have committed errors.
The statement said:
“In connection with the letter
from Pasternak to Khrushchev,
Tass is authorized to state that
no obstacles will be placed by the
Soviet state authorities if Paster
nak expresses his wish to go
abroad to receive the prize awar
ded to him.
“The reports spread by the
bourgeois press to the effect that
Pasternak was allegedly refused
the right to go abroad are a crude
fabrication.”
This is the text of a Tass re
port broadcast in Russian: ■
“On the 31st of October Boris
Pasternak addressed a letter to
Khrushchev, in which he says that
he has informed the Swedish
Academy of his voluntary refusal
to accept the Nobel Prize.
“Pasternak says that he is bound
to Russia by his birth, his life
and work and that he cannot vis
ualize his fate apart from her.
“ ‘Whatever my mistakes and
errors may have been,’ the letter
says, ‘I could not imagine that I
would find myself in the midst of
such a political campaign which
has been fanned around my name
in the West’.”
The letter followed a frenzied
campaign waged against Paster
nak by the Soviet press and radio.
Son Born To
Annette Dionne
MONTREAL, UR -— Two of the
Dionne quintuplets now are mo
thers. Annette, Mrs. Germain Al
lard, gave birth Sunday to a boy
weighing 8 pounds, 1 ounce.
The 24-year-old mother and her
son were reported doing well at
a suburban hospital.
Annette and Allard were mar
ried October 12, 1957. Her sister
Cecile, Mrs. Philippe Langlois, had
la boy September 15.