22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. LXII No. 2 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1960*Per Copy—154
Worldwide Wave of Anti-Semitism
Plasters Swastikas on Synagogues
By JAMES T. KING
Associated Press Staff Writer
Anti-semitic outbursts under
the banner of the swastika spread
over the weekend from West Ger
many around the world — in
cluding the United States.
Sneak raiders with paint
brushes smeared synagogues,
public buildings and homes of
Jews with the Nazi symbol and
slogans denouncing Jews.
Jewish and government lead
ers showed growing alarm over
the flareup — now in its 12th day
— but were divided on whether
it signified a resurgence of Nazi
ism and other forms of Fascism
or was mainly the work of mal
contents, hooligans and crackpots.
The swastika and anti-Jewish
slogans emerged in widely scat
tered places across eight coun
tries in Western Europe, in New
York and in Australia.
The Hitler symbol was painted
on three Jewish houses of worship
in New York City — including
the fashionable Temple Emanu-El
on Fifth Avenue.
West German government offi
cials were openly worried and
strove to check the wave of hate
which began with the desecration
of a new synagogue in Cologne on
Christmas Eve.
Openly in West Berlin
Only in West Berlin did the
demonstrators come out in the
open. Police broke up 25 neo
Nazi students who raised the
Swastika flag and sang Nazi songs
in a torch lit rally Saturday night.
In Austria, persons smeared the
word “Jews” on a- Vienna Syna
gogue and plastered swastikas in
several cities and towns in the
provinces.
Windows were smashed in two !
Jewish buildings in London —
one a Jewish newspaper office
— early Sunday morning.
Just outside Melbourne, Aus
tralia, a stone was thrown through
a window of a synagogue at St.
Kilda. The rabbi blamed hooli
gans and said “The attitude of
Australians toward us -Jews as
fellow citizens always has been
above reproach.”
In Italy, an unsigned letter was
left on the doorstep of a Milan
synagogue threatening to blow it
up. The word death was scrawled
on the wall of the Jewish center
in Parma.
Isolated anti-Semitic incidents
also were reported in Denmark,
Belgium, Norway and France.
Holiday Traffic
Death Record Set
Traffic . 366
Fires . 53
Miscellaneous . 74
Total . 503
Traffic fatalities soared today
to a new record for a three-day
new year holiday.
Delayed reports of traffic
deaths across the country that
occurred before midnight Sunday
pushed the toll to 366 exceeding
the old .record of 364 set during
the 1955-56 New Year’s weekend.
The traffic fatalities, deaths in
fires and in miscellaneous acci
dents also appeared likely to top
the over-all record for any three
day New Year holiday. The rec
ord of 513 was set in the 1955-56
holiday period.
Arctic Freeze Chills
Nation, Into Citrus Zoi\e
Icy air and gusty winds spread
across wide areas of the country
today but stormy weather dimin
ished in most sections.
It was a frigid 26 degrees be
low zero at International Falls,
Minn. Readings far below zero
were reported in other parts of
Minnesota and the Dakotas and
Montana.
The Arctic air, sweeping
southward from Canada, main
tained its pace as it advanced
through the eastern half of the
country and the northern plains.
New England was battered by
high winds, heavy rains and snow
Sunday as the storm which hit
the Midwest surged eastward.
Temperatures dropped along the
entire Atlantic Seaboard from'
Maine to Florida. «
Cold air chilled sections of
Southern California, threatening
damage to citrus crops. The mer
cury dropped to the 50s in Phoe
nix, Ariz., and was Iround freez
ing at Atlanta.
It was 44 at Anchorage, and 27
in Nome.
Assassination of
Fidel Castro
Is Foreseen
NEW YORK, lift—Stanley Ross,
editor in chief of the Spanish
language newspaper, El Diario,
said today on a nationwide tele
vision show that Prime Minister
Fidel Castro of Cuba will be
assassinated or overthrown within
30 to 60 days. .
Ross said an invasion of Cuba
is being prepared with “some five
thousand men, ready to start, not
from the Dominican Republic as
Castro seems to think, but from
some other area of the Carib
bean.”
Ross was interviewed on the
National Broadcasting Co. tele
vision show “Today” by Dave
Garroway.
Asked what would happen to
Cuba if Castro is assassinated or
removed by invasion, Ross re
plied: “Either his brother Raul
will take over and try to tighten
the strings and become a real
bloody murderer, much more so
than Castro has been if that’s
possible, or one of the exiled
groups will take over.”
Starts Kew Year With
Indiscriminate Killing
SHEFFIELD, England, lift—The
stranger sat quietly at a table in
the crowded pub.
Everyone else sang lustily in
happy New Year’s Day spirit.
“Come on feller,” one of the
singers yelled, to the silent drink
er, “Give us a song.”
The stranger rose to his feet
and sang in a deep baritone. Then
he stopped, whipped out a revol
ver, and began firing.
One man died instantly; two
others died shortly after in a hos
pital; others were critipally
wounded. Police arrested the gun
man. There was no explanation
for his sudden outburst.
(iraening Objects
To USGS Secret
Land Classification
WASHINGTON, (*> — Claiming
the public right to know is being
denied, Senator Ernest Gruening
has called for an investigation
into secrecy over reclassification
of certain lands by the U. S.
Geological Survey.
Gruening says he wants an in
vestigation of the survey’s label
ing “not for public inspection”
documents reclassifying all sedi
mentary lands in the United
States as prospectively valuable
for oil and gas.
“The Geological Survey’s action
in this case has reached new
heights of absurdity in the Ad
ministration’s continued efforts to
deny to American citizens tljfeir
right to know how public business
is being transacted,” Gruening
said.
He made the request for a probe
in letters to Senator John McClel
lan (D-Ark), chairman of the Sen
ate Government Operations Com
mittee, and Representative John
Moss (D-Calif), chairman of the
House Government Operations
Subcommittee on Government
Information.
Particularly affected are home
steaders on the Kenai Peninsula,
where oil was discovered in July,
1957. Under homestead laws,
many would be denied oil and
gas rights to lands classified as
prospectively valuable for the re
sources.
“The lands in which many
homesteaders had invested thous
ands of dollars and years of toil
were secretly classified as pros
pectively valuable for oil and gas
and then the decision and reasons
for it were hidden from public
scrutiny,” Gruening said.
The homesteaders affected were
given three alternatives, he added
— waive their oil and gas rights,
give up their homesteads or “re
fute the findings of the Geolo
gical Survey — findings they
were not even permitted to see.”
“This procedure,” he added,
violates every sound principle of
Anglo-Saxon justice.”
“Those American citizens who
are affected by governmental ac
tions are entitled to know pre
cisely what those actions are and
the reasons for them,” Gruening
contended.
He said he would introduce
legislation “to make certain that
the Geological Survey’s decisions
in the future will be made openly
and publicly and will not have
thrown around them the veil of
secrecy."
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional light
snow or drizzle. Uttle change in
temperature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temperature 30, lowest 24. Max.
wind 35 mph from the ENE. Sun
rise 9:55 a.m., sunset 2:18 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 15, lowest 8. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest 37
in 1942, lowest -34 in 1917.
NOBEL PRIZEWINNER KILLED
SENS, France, UPl — Albert
Camus, French novelist who won
the Nobel Prize for literature in
1957, was killed today in an auto
mobile crash.
He was 47 years old.
Three other persons in the car
were injured.
Strike Threat Ends In Steel Industry;
Nixon & Mitchell Credited With Feat
WASHINGTON, — The steel
industry and its workers got to
gether finally today on terms for
a new labor contract — reportedly
giving the workers 39 to 40 cents
an hour increase in pay and
benefits.
The agreement came out of a
22-hour negotiating session and
was on i terms recommended by
Vice President Nixon and Secre
tary of Labor Mitchell.
The end of the eight-roonths dis
pute lifted the threat of a new
strike later this month, took Con
gress off the hook of probable
necessity to enact some emergen
cy anti-strike legislation and re
moved one big cloud — the
threat of a renewed walkout —
from the economic outlook for
1960.
Among the steel workers and
in the financial community there
was jubilation.
Mitchell announced the agree
ment, but withheld the precise
terms pending ratification by lar
ger bodies on each side, of the de
cisions’ made by negotiators.
An informed source in Pitts
burgh said the work rules issues,
which the industry had long in
sisted was a~ major requirement
for any settlement “has been
shelved for all practical purposes.”
Mitchell in effect handed the
palm to Nixon for the settlement.
“Without the Vice President we
would not have had a settlement,”
he said.
Major Political Coup
For Nixon, it appeared at first
glance to be a major political
coup, scored in the year when he
hopes to win election to the Pres
idency.
It could, too, be an important
Mixed Mississippi
Jury Looks for
Murder Indictment
BILOXI, Miss., W)—An orderly
integrated crowd jammed a new
federal courtroom today as 22
white men and one Negro formed
a grand jury to consider the pos
sible indictments in the Mack
Charles Parker lynching case.
The crowd was integrated on
one side of the courtroom while
groups of Negroes huddled to
gether on the other side as Fed
eral Judge Sidney Mize charged
the jury. ,
Parker, a 22-year-old accused
rapist, was kidnaped from the
Pearl River County Jail at Pop
larville last April. His body was
found ten days later in the Pearl
River near Bogalisa, La.
Mize cautioned the jury that all
proceedings are secret unless in
dictments are returned.
Freddie Woodward was the
only Negro on the jury.
Mize said Mississippi has the
best record of any state except
Nevada on crime prevention.
He said the laws of Mississippi
and the United States are en
forced “fairly and honestly” in
the state “with justice to all.”
Mize read from a typed docu
ment and told the jury its pur
pose is to determine if Parker’s
civil rights were violated.
The jury then went into secret
session.
milestone in Mitchell’s career.
There has 'been talk of the Labor
Secretary as a possible GOP Vice
Presidential nominee.
Yet there are still many un
answered questions — for one
thing, what will be the over-all
impact as to the Administration’s
efforts to combat inflation?
R. Conrad Cooper, a U. S. Steel
official and chief negotiator for
the industry, was asked by repor
ters whether the additional costs
to the industry from the settle
ment would result in a steel price
rise.
“I do not care to discuss that
subject,” he replied.
But Cooper joined with David
J. McDonald, president of |he
Steelworkers Union, in praising
the efforts of President Eisen
hower, Nixon and Mitchell to
settle the prolonged dispute.
On the matter of possible in
flationary efforts, the steel in
dustry does not stand alone.
Steel Wage Sets Pattern
The wage scales in this basic
industry have long been bench
marks for others.
Adjustments keyed to steel may
come for thousands of workers in
addition to the 500,000 in steel.
The steel workers were averag
ing $3.11 an hour under their old
contract.
Although terms of the settle
ment agreement were officially
withheld for the time being, an
informed source in Pittsburgh,
told the Associated Press that it
provides an estimated 39-cent
package increase over the next
30 months.
The contract was said to pro
vide a limited provision for cost
of-living wage escalation, and the
union has withdrawn its planned
court suit for payment of a 4
cent hourly living cost increase
which would have been ‘ due
under terms of the contract which
expired June 30.
Unionists described the settle
ment as a victory and professed
to consider that the industry’s
work-rule demand has been
junked.
The agreement also reportedly
provides that various insurance
costs, formerly shared by the in
dustry and the workers, will now
be borne solely by the industry.
Heavy Losses Suffered
From Long Steel Strike
PITTSBURGH, UD — The 116
day steel strike cost more than
six billion dollars in wage and
production losses.
The strike lasted from July 15
until November 7 last year.
Striking steelworkers and the
basic steel industry absorbed
most of the loss, but other in
dustries allied to steel also felt
the effects.
The half - million steelworkers
lost an estimated $1,160,000,000 in
wages.
Lost steel production totaled
nearly five billion dollars, based
on pre-strike operations. The
strike shut down about 87 per
cent of the nation’s basic steel
making capacity.
Alore than 350,000 workers in
steel-related industries were laid
off, resulting in additional wage
and production losses in unesti
mated millions of dollars.