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Eisenhower invites Russia to Match
U.S. Peace Efforts at Geneva Meeting
DENVER, UP)—President Eisen- j
hower today invited Soviet Russia |
to match American conciliatory j
efforts at Geneva and lay the
groundwork for the peace and
progress “for which the whole
world longs.”
If the “new spirit” evidenced at
the “summit conference’ at Gene
va three months ago is real, said
Eisenhower, the foreign ministers
will seek solutions for the reunifi
cation of Germany and clear away
other barriers to peace at the
four power conference opening to
morrow.
The President spoke out in a
statement issued from his sick
room on the eighth floor of Fitz
simons Army Hospital, where
his progress toward recovery from
a heart attack was reflected yes
terday in the publication of the
first close-up photographs since
his seizure Sept. 24.
A witness at the picture taking
said “you never would guess from
the way the President looks now
that he had had a heart attack.”
Garnett D. Horner, Washington
(D.C.) star reporter, representing
the combined press here, said the
President’s cheeks were “ruddy,
their flesh firm,” and that his eyes
sparkled. His voice was strong, he
reported, and “his manner is re
laxed but spry and chipper.”
The President voiced hope that
Russia will respond in the same
“genuine spirit of conciliation and
accommodation” to the proposals
the U.S. will submit along with
Britain and France and with
which the Republic of West Ger
many has been kept abreast.
“The world hopes,” the Presi
dent said, that the conference he
attended at Geneva did, in fact,
create a “new spirit” which will
make possible future solutions of
world problems.
He reported his belief the “acid
test” will come at the new confer
ence when the foreign ministers
tackle “concretely” the problems
which, if unresolved, “create ten
sion and danger.”
“They will seek solutions which
are possible if that new spirit is
real,” Eisenhower asserted. “Fore
most among these measures is the
reunification of Germany within
a framework of European securi
ty.”
Release of the statement, appar
ently designed to impress on all
world capitols once again the
President’s vital personal concern
with the Geneva negotiations, fol
lowed presidential conferences
yesterday with Secretary of the
Interior McKay and Serman Ad
ams, the President’s chief deputy.
350 Scholarships
For 4 Years College
To Be Awarded
CHICAGO, Ufr—A nationwide
talent search got'underway today
in 10,000 American high schools.
The prizes are 350 four-year col
lege scholarships for the country’s
most promising seniors.
More than 50,000 youngsters are
taking examinations in their high
schools that will narrow the field
for the scholarships. It is the offi
cial start of the biggest privately
financed scholarship program in
the history of American education.
The National Merit Scholarship
Corp., set up last summer with a
$20 million grant from the Ford
Foundation and a $500,000 grant
from the Carnegie Corp., of New
York, is conducting the program.
The students competing were
picked by their local principals as
the most promising 5 percent of
each senior class. The 4,000 sen
iors who survive this first test will
be eligible for a second examina
tion Jan. 14, 1956. Top scorers on
the January test will be screened
by a board to pick the scholarship
winners.
The winners will receive from
$100 a year to $2,000 a year to
attend any college of their choice.
The amount depends entirely on
financial need rather than how
the youngsters finish in the exam
inations.
Former Tennis Queen
Awarded $95,000 Damages
For Leg Injuries
SAN DIEGO, Calif., OP)—A su
perior court jury has awarded
Mrs. Maureen Connolly Brinker
$95,000 in damages for leg injuries
she claimed halted her amateur
tennis career and ended her hopes
for professional profits.
The 21-year-old former tennis
queen, who won the U.S. women’s
crown when she was 16 and the
Wimbledon Championship in the
following year, had asked $265,
000 for injuries she suffered when
she was brushed from her horse
by a concrete company truck in
July 1954.
The jury returned its verdict
late yesterday on a 9 to 3 vote,
after 6 hours 23 minutes delibera
tion.
The attorney for the concrete
company gave notice he would ask
for a new trial and would appeal
the judgment if the motion for a i
new trial was denied.
Mrs. Brinker’s right leg was
fractured and the calf torn in the
accident. Doctors testified for her
that the circulation in her right
foot was impaired.
VOTERS AT HENDERSON
GET CHANCE ON NEW AUTO
HBNDERSON, Ky., (#)—A new
giveaway program makes its de
but at the polls Nov. 8.
Each voter here and in Hender- j
son County will receive a ticket
entitling the voter to a chance on J
a 1956 automobile.
Spokesmen for both the Repub
lican and Democratic Parties ap
proved the plan and will work out
details later. They hope to get out
more votes.
Russian Jets Could Have Hit Any
Point in U.S. Monday, Says Col. Shoup
ALBUQUERQUE’ N.M., WV—An
Air Force colonel has indicated
that Russian jet bombers last
Monday could have hit almost
any point in the United States in
a period of 9 to 12 hours.
Col. Harry W. Shoup, combat
operation director of the Conti
nental Air Defense Command at
Colorado Springs, said the flights
were figured on paper by CONAD.
The time element, he said, was
reached by considering weather,
short routes and jet air streams.
Shoup spoke Sunday at a five
state Ground Observer Corps’
planning conference.
Shoup, declaring “we know the
approximate speed of the Russian
jet bomber,” gave three plotted
routes figured on paper last Mon
day by CONAD. Two of the routes
got the hypothetical jet bomber
over Albuquerque in 9 hours and
7 minutes. A third route took 10
hours and 33 minutes. Shoup
based his calculations on times to
Albuquerque only, but his de
scription of routes showed almost
any point in the U.S. could have
been reached within the 9- to 12
hour span.
Here is how Shoup described
the three hypothetical flights:
The first left a peninsula in Si
beria across from Alaska and, go
ing over the Bering Strait, stayed
far out in the Pacific along the jet
air stream. The jet stream, travel
ing swiftly at 30,000 to 35,000 feet,
brought the plane speedily to the
point where it turned east toward
the West Coast. Coming in low to
avoid radar detection, the plane
passed over major West Coast
cities and a contingent reached
Albuquerque in 9 hr: 7 min.
The second flight left another
'Siberian point but passed east of
Alaska. Traveling over Canada
and then over the Rocky. Moun
tains in the U.S., it arrived on the
shorter route in about the same
time as the Pacific flight.
The third flight took 10 hr. 33
min. to reach Albuquerque. This
one passed over Chicago after us
ing the North Pole route from its
base in north central Russia. From
Chicago, a contingent hypothetic
ally branched southeast and one
southwest. The latter hit Albu
querque.
New Alaska Newspaper
To Cover Field of
Business in Territory
JUNEAU—Peter Wood will as
sume duties in January 1956 as
editor of a new Alaska newspaper
covering the field of business in
the territory.
Wood also has a real estate
agency in Juneau.
It will be called “Alaska Busi
ness” and will go free each month
to every licensed business and
mine in Alaska. While written and
edited in Alaska, the paper will be
published and mailed from Den
ver by Bell Publications, a large
printing establishment which pub
lishes several trade magazines,'
hardcover books, and all Denver
high school papers.
Coroner Jury Finds Betty Braidwood’s
Death Caused By Persons Unknown
Sen. W. Kerr Scott To
Hold Hearings On Tin
In Nome Next Monday
At the noon luncheon of the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday
the matter of entertaining Senator
W. Kerr Scott, member of the
Senate Interior Committee, and
his party was discussed. It was
decided that a dinner would be
held in his honor on Monday eve
ning at 7:30 at the Bering Sea
Club.
The dinner will be open to the
public and reservations may be
made with Paul Mandeville or
Stan Morgan.
The senator is making the trip
for a special hearing on tin in
connection with a bill pending
before Congress to establish a de
finite price for domestic tin for a
period of years to make it possible
to develop the tin industry.
A hearing will be held on Tues
day but the time has not been
announced.
Navy Icebreaker Glacier
Spearheads Antarctic
Operation Deepfreeze
BOSTON, —The Navy’s new
est icebreaker, the U.S.S. Glacier,
left Boston today on the first leg
of a trip to the Antarctic where
she will help spearhead Operation
Deepfreeze.
She will load last minute sup
plies at Norfolk, Va., and leave
Oct. 31 to join the icebreakers
Edisto and Eastwind in the Ant
arctic.
Seven ships and more than 1,800
men will take part in Operation
Deepfreeze, which will build two
key bases in Antarctic’s Ross Sea.
McKay Predicts Defeat
Of Morse; Backs D’Ewart
For Interior Position
DENVER, (R>—Secretary of the
Interior McKay, after a confer
ence with President Eisenhower
yesterday, said he didn’t discuss
politics with the President since
he thought it “inappropriate.”
When a reporter pressed him
for his own views of GOP pros
pects for 1956, he wouldn’t go be
yond saying, “I’m for Eisenhower
first, last and always.”
He did predict the defeat of
Sen. Wayne Morse from his own
state of Oregon, but declined to
forecast who will run against him.
He said he would press for the
nomination of Wesley D’Ewart,
former GOP congressman from
Montana, as assistant secretary of
the interior in charge of land man
agement in the face of opposition
from Sen. Murray (D-Mont).
Murray, chairman of the Senate
Interior Committee, is lining up
opponents of confirmation of the
man he narrowly defeated for the
Senate in 1954.
McKay said D’Ewart, now serv
ing under a recess appointment
that must be submitted to the Sen
ate in its January session, is the
“best qualified man” in the coun
try for the post and described his
opposition as “purely vindictive.”
* The court room was filled to
capacity yesterday during the in
quest on the alleged suicide of a
waitress known as Betty May
Braidwood, which took place in
the apartment of Steve Salinas,
located in the Wallace apartments
Monday evening.
The waitress had been here only
a short time and had been sched
uled to leave on Tuesday’s plane,
according to the testimony and
had planned to marry Salinas, a
well-known cook, who had plan
ned to leave Nome later this
month.
According to the testimony, the
woman had been drinking and
cut her throat with a knife be
longing to Salinas. Salinas testi
fied that he changed his blood
soaked clothes before arousing the
manager of the hotel and alert
ing the authorities.
An autopsy was held late last
night and the case is being con
tinue_d this afternoon.
The jury is composed of Bob
Lewis, Pete Reader, Tom Martin,
Charles Frazier, Stan Morgan, and
Carl Mickelson.
This afternoon Dr. F. Langsam
reported on the autopsy, stating
that there were no bruises on the
body except the fatal wound,
which could have been self in
flicted.
After being out about an hour
the jury returned a verdict at
three o’clock that death was
caused by a person or persons
unknown.
Nunivak I. Musk Oxen
Now Number 116
WASHINGTON, (#>—The musk
ox herd on Nunivak Island off Al
aska is increasing.
The latest Fish and Wildlife
Service survey showed therp are
now 116 musk oven on the island,
a net gain of 16 over the past year.
Experimental stocking of the
island, where there are no preda
tory animals, was carried out in
1935 and 1936, when 31 musk oxen
were brought here from Green
land. The herds of musk ox which,
once roamed the north had disap
peared from Alaska before the
United States purchased that area
from Russia in 1867.
Nunivak Island is about 25
miles off the mainland of Alaska.
11 U.S. Airmen Safe
After Parachuting From
Crippled B-29 Bomber
KENDALL, England UP>—Eleven
U.S. airmen were reported safe
today after parachuting from their
B-29 near here. The big plane’s
two port engines conked out over
the Irish Sea, but the craft took
the men 50 miles inland before
they had to bail out.
The four-engine bomber was as
signed to the U.S. 53rd Weather
Reconnaissance Squadron. It was
on a training flight from the Am
| erican base at Burtonwood.
Within two hours of the plane’s
! crash all members of the crew had
j reported from isolated farmhouses
j in the vicinity.