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Tempers Frayed, Atmosphere Ominous I
By RELMAN MORIN
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., I^P*—
Representatives of 14 newly ad
mitted nations—13 from Africa—
pleaded with the big powers to
day to keep the cold war out of
their newborn countries.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev, re
ported by Soviet sources to be
the target of would-be assassins,
listened for an hour as the new
delegates formally thanked the
United Nations for granting them
membersip.
He left the Assembly around
noon for the Soviet mission’s
headquarters, apparently undis
turbed by a vague death threat
reported by the Swiss branch of
Amtorg, Soviet trade agency, that
plotters were attempting to take
his life. A high police official
doubted it was genuine.
U.S. Secretary of State Herter
huddled with other members of
the U.S. delegation on strategy
for the critical debate looming
ahead on such issues as Red
China’s admission, and Soviet
charges of aggression against the
United States stemming from the
U2 and RB47 plane flights.
The spotlight will turn tomor
row on President Eisenhower,
who will address the Assembly
then. He is expected to submit a
revised version of his open skies
aerial inspection plan and a for
mula for giving economic aid to
the new African countries.
Castro remained at his hotel in
Harlem. President Tito of Yugo
slavia was closeted at his U.N.
mission working on the speech he
will deliver to the Assembly to
morrow. Tito is expected to make
a bid for leadership of the so- j
called neutralist nations.
Only Cuba and the Dominican j
Republic will be absent when the j
President is host tomorrow to a
luncheon for representatives of
18 other Latin American nations
at the embassy residence of U.S.
Delegate James Wadsworth on
the 42nd floor of the plush Wal
dorf Astoria Hotel.
A formal protest—brought to
the floor of the General Assembly
itself—came from Koca Popovic,
Yugoslavia’s foreign minister. He
demanded that the United States
disperse the lines of pickets in
front of Tito’s headquarters.
“I request that the Secretary
of State forward my protest to
President Eisenhower,” Popovic
said in icy tones.
Tempers were fraying and the
atmosphere was ominous in New
York.
It was against this background
that the General Assembly began
the second day of its deliberations
—a day in which issues dividing
the East and West were to come
up for consideration.
The admission of 14 new na
tions added an element of un
certainty as to how the voting
may go. They were 13 African re
publics and the newly created
republic of Cyprus.
The list brings U N. member
ship to 96, nearly twice the or
iginal 51 members of 1945.
It is believed that one of Pre
mier Khrushchev’s purposes in
coming to this session of the U.N.
is to try his salesmanship on the
new members, especially the rep
resentatives of the African gov
ernments.
Death Claims
Rin Tin Tin Owner
RIVERSIDE, Calif., LP—Death
has claimed a man who found a
puppy in a German trench in the
first World War and made it an
American institution—four gen
erations known as Rin Tin Tin.
Lee Duncan, 67, died at his big
ranch here yesterday of a heart
attack. His wife, Eva, was with
him.
In his kennels he left a German
gheperd puppy he was training to
carry on the traditions of almost
42 years of film and television
canines.
The first Rin Tin Tin returned
from Europe with Duncan after
World War I and became a top
movie attraction from 1922 to
1932, sharing billing with such
stars as William Desmond, Jean
Hersholt, Wallace Berry and
Charles Farrell.
Rin Tin Tin, after the original
animal’s death in 1922, starred
with Jackie Cooper in the mem
orable “Tough Guy” of 1935.
During World War II Duncan
trained more than 5,000 army war
dogs. After the war he made a
comeback with Rin Tin Tin III.
The big postwar success came
in 1953, when Rin Tin Tin IV
trotted into television. Many of
the films are still being shown.
NATO Exercise in Germany
NEUMUENSTER, Germany, OP*
—Some 45.000 British, Canadian,
Danish and German soldiers went
into action today in Exercise Hold
Fast one of NATO’s biggest land,
air and sea manei vers in Ger
many.
Headquarters here said the ex
ercise is to test Western defense
capability in northern Germany.
Pioneers Urged To Bring
Gay Nineties Costumes
To Seward Convention
SEWARD, (/T> — Seward Shea,
president of Igloo No. 9, Pioneers
of Alaska, the host lodge to the
Pioneer’s convention to be held in
Seward Oct. 13 to 16, announced
here today that the feature social
event of the convention will be a
Gay Nineties costume ball.
All delegates and members at
tending the convention are re
quested to bring a costume. The
ball will be open to the public.
From the reservations coming
in, Shea said, “It looks as if this
convention is going to be one of
the largest on record. Martin
Urie, chairman of our housing
committee, is preparing to house
upwards of 400 people.”
Khrushchev Protests He
Is Under ‘House Arrest’
NEW YORK, (If) —Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev made a shirt
sleeve appearance on the balcony
of his Manhattan quarters today
and complained to reporters: “I'm
under house arrest.”
Khrushchev stepped out with
out warning on the second floor
porch of the residence at 680 Park
Avenue, accompanied by an inter
preter and Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei Gromyko.
Questioned about his plans by
reporters standing in front of the
building, Khrushchev spread his
hands wide and said:
“I’m not seeing American; this I
is my America.” He referred to a
State Department order restrict
ing him to Manhattan. “I’m under
house arrest so my desires are
restrained.”
CD Director Terms
Falsehood Charges
By Anchorage Men
ANCHORAGE, (/ft — Alaska
Civil Defense Director Vernon
Metcalfe yesterday termed state
ments by two former Civil De
fense warning controllers that
they were unable to contact him
for more than a year “an outright
falsehood.”
“I was always available—they
could get me anytime,’ Metcalfe
declared. “I am always available
24 hours a day—my whereabouts
are always known.”
Metcalfe said he had has no
direct word from four of five con
trollers who resigned recently in
protest over handling of CD af
fairs.
“I’ve had nothing in writing
from any of these gentlemen,” he
said. He said he had been in
formed by his secretary before he
left Juneau last week that Roy
Norquist, Wally Wellenstein and
Ken Johnston had called to say
they were resigning.
Informed that one of the re
signed controllers had described
the CD exercise held this spring
as a “farce,” Metcalfe said, “I
wouldn’t necessarily disagree
with the man that Operation
Alert 1960 was a farce but if it
was we learned something.”
He said “many” mistakes were
made and added it is only through
such exercises that an organiza
tion learns its weaknesses.
The CD director said he is now
making plans for Exercise Yellow
jacket which is to take place next
week at Fairbanks, Anchorage
and Juneau.
Asked what his role would be
in the impending CD exercise,
Metcalfe said he would be operat
ing from the Anchorage city hall.
“I’ll merely be observing what
the CD director (Mayor George
Byer) does,” he said.
Candidates at Odds on How Handle ‘K"*
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Ufi—Vice
President Richard Nixon said to
day the presence of the Commun
ist leaders in New York offered
a pointed reminder to America
“of the kind of men they are.”
Campaigning in Indiana for the
second time, the Republican pre
sidential nominee said Khrush
chev and his red allies say: “We
must rule the world, we must
conquer the world.”
He said he knew these men and
that America must maintain mili
tary and economic strength to
deter them, since while they want
to conquer the world without
war, if unable, they will try “any
other means.”
Without mentioning Sen. John
Kennedy, his Democratic rival, by
name, Nixon said he did not be
lieve that with Khrushchev at the
United Nations, “We should talk
about American weaknesses mili
tarily” or say that the U.S. is
falling behind economically.
“It isn’t true,” Nixon said, “and
it is right to point out things that
are right about the United States.
“It is the strongest country
militarily in the world,” the can
didate insisted. “Let’s keep it that
way and tell Mr. Khrushchev
that.”
Nurse To Leave on Vacation
Miriam Schaub, well known
nurse of the MMM Hospital leaves
this week for a vacation which
will take her home to Pennsyl
vania for about a month.
WITH KENNEDY IN TENNES
SEE, UP)—Sen. John Kennedy said
today it is much better for Soviet
Premier Khrushchev and Cuban
Prime Minister Castro to hear the
voice of political opposition in
America than to be greeted by
silence about the state of Amer
ica’s defenses.
This was the second time since
arriving in Tennessee that he had
rejected the call of his Republican
rival, Vice President Nixon, for a
mortorium on talk about any
weakness in the American de
fense setup.
Nixon proposed a ban for the
duration of Khrushchev’s stay in
New York for the United Nations
General Assembly.
Of local matters, Kennedy said:
“I’ll never call TVA creeping
socialism. It is the source of
strength, not only for the Tennes
see Valley, but for the country
as a whole.”
‘The people of the world can
take a great lesson from the Ten
nessee Valley Authority,” he said.
In his airport talk Kennedy said
he supports President Eisenhower
in defense of the country against
anti-American Khrushchev pro
paganda.
But Kennedy added that it
would be “far more hazardous
and far more dangerous” for him
to remain silent if—as he feels—
America’s defenses need bolster
ing in the face of the Communist
threat.
State Highway Dept.
Counts Nome Area Traffic I
The traffic on the streets of j
Nome and on the roads leading
out of town is being counted by
the State Highway Department.
That’s what those rubber hoses
across the roads are doing for one
week ending next Sunday.
Nineteen traffic counters were
installed at different points up to
15 miles out last Sunday by Ed
Tucker of the State Department
of Public Works, Highway Divi
sion, Planning Section.
Tucker said the figures will
give a partial picture of road
usage and traffic here. He said
it is conceivable that some roads,
with very light traffic, may be
abandoned or cut of from main
tence work.
This is the first time such a
count has ever been made in this
area but Mr. Tucker said that he
is on his second time around in
more populated parts of the state.
In Anchorage, for instance, he
said, electronic equipment counts
the traffic every hour, every day.
Tucker also said that highway
use figures are required by the
federal government on roads that
qualify for federal aid.
Red China Sort Pedals
Khrushchev at the U.N.
TOKYO, UP—Communist China
has drawn a curtain of silence
around Soviet Premier Khrush
chev’s presence at the United Na
tions, but its press gave full cov
erage today to what it called the
“insolent treatment” in New
York of Cuban Prime Minister
Fidel Castro.
The New China News agency
in Peiping dismissed Khrush
chev’s arrival in New York with
a single line Tuesday.
Chairman Mao Tze-Tung of
Red China and Khrushchev have
locked horns for months in an
idealogical duel over the possib
ility of peacefully coexisting with
the United States and the West.
African Students
In Moscow Charge
Discrimination
FRANKFURT, Germany, IJft—
Three African students have
sent open letters to the heads of
all African governments charging
“constant racial discrimination
and threats” while they were
studying at Moscow University.
Announcing their intention to
“expose Soviet colonialism” be
fore Premier Khrushchev ad
dresses the United Nations, the
three told a news conference in
Frankfurt today that they and
scores of other African students
are leaving Moscow disgusted at
Communist pressure.
They identifed themselves as
Theophilus Okonkwo, 28, of Ni
geria, who said he was the secre
tary of the executive committee
of the African Students Union in
the USSR; Andrew R. Amar, of
Uganda, and Michel Ayih, 28, of
Togo. All were medical students
in Moscow during the last three
years.
“We left—and others are leav
ing—because of constant discrim
ination, threats, restrictions on
our freedom and even brutalities,”
Okonkwo said.
Owners Will ‘Fish- For
Tugboat Tom, Sunk
In 492 Feet of Water
SEATTLE, Iff — An attempt to
snag the sunken Seattle tugboat
Tom in 492 feet of water in Ste
phens Passage, Southeastern Al
aska, with a specially-built grap
pling hook will be made soon.
The man - sized “fishing job”
was announced today by H. L.
Pratt, chief engineer of the Puget
Sound Dredging Co. A special
three pronged hook, built of 1V4
inch steel plate, is being fabri
cated by the firm and will be
shipped north next Wednesday.
Three crewmen of the Tom, in
cluding skipper Earl Long, North
Bend, Ore., were lost when the
Tom disappeared two and a half
weeks ago. No debris or traces of
the men were found in extensive
air-sea search but the hull was
located by sonar equipment.
The Tom has a big A-frame on
its bow and it is hoped the hook,
dangling on an lVfe inch steel
cable and towed back and forth,
will hook onto it, or the pro
pellor, or some other part of the
vessel, Pratt said. The water is
too deep for divers to operate.
The hook will be dropped from
a 100-ton winch on the com
pany’s floating dipper - dredge
Ajax, now in Alaska waters.
New Air Force Rocket
Blue Scout Hoists Payload
16,600 Miles Into Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Iff— The
Air Force rocketed a payload
16,600 miles into space today, but
loss of radio contact prevented
collection of data which could
lead to a method of detecting nu
clear explosions high above the
atmosphere.
Nevertheless, the firing was a
success for the Blue Scout launch
ing vehicle on its maiden flight.
The Air Force hopes to develop it
as an all-purpose rocket for boost
ing scientific probes and satellites
to gain valuable military informa
tion.
The 40 - foot rocket, its four
stages firing with clocklike pre
cision, streaked to a speed of
22,000 miles on hour before fling
ing its payload into space.