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VOL. LXI No. 66 NOMJ^ ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1959_Per Copy—154
La. Governor Long
Committed To
Regain Health
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By JAMES McLEAN
GALVESTON, Tex., UP> — Far
from being violent, Louisiana
Governor Earl Long is just “mad
as hell.” He’s been in a psychiatric
clinic and should recover com
pletely in two to three months,
attending physicians said today.
This summation came exclusive
ly to the Associated Press from
the attending physicians who
would not be quoted by name.
The 63-year-old Governor, they
said, is cooperative enough, “is
very clear in his thinking and
speaking, and is not violent at all.”
All they’re hoping to do now,
they said, is to promote his phy
sical health — shattered by Long’s
sleepless nights and driving de
termination.
Anyone who knows well the
brother of the late Senator Huey
P. Long, knows there’s the devil
to pay when he can’t have his
way.
The Governor was flown here
from Louisiana last Saturday and
his wife ' yesterday asked the
court for his {Jrotective custody
in the clinic for his own protec
tion. Mrs. Long’s application to
Probate Judge Hugh Gibson
claimed her husband was sick
mentally and physically. The
judge signed the order.
At present, Long has nearly a
year to go in his current four
year term. His friend and col
league Lt. Gov. Lether Frazar, is
acting Governor by virtue of
Long’s absence from the state.
GOP Chairman Says
‘Won’t-Do’ Congress Stalls
Administration Program
WASHINGTON^ UO — The Re
publican National 'Chairman today
labeled the current Congress a
won’t-do Congress, and said it is
bogged down on many fronts.
“It won’t accept substantial and
vital portions of the President’s
program,” the chairman, Senator
Thurston B. Morton (R-Ky), said
of the Democratic-controlled Con
gress. “And it won’t come up with
an alternative program of its
own.”
“In these times,” Morton con
tinued in a speech prepared for
a National Press Club luncheon,
“a won’t-do Congress just won’t
do.”
He said that in view of its rec
ord, “I cannot believe that the
‘won’t-do Congress’ is going to
produce the Democratic Presi
dential nominee.”
Morton mentioned no names,
but four senators are the men
most often mentioned as Demo
cratic Presidential possibilities.
They are Lyndon Johnson of Tex
as, John Kennedy of Massachu
setts, Hubert Humphrey of Min
nesota, and Stuart Symington of
Missouri.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy tonight and to
morrow. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight 45, high tomorrow
55 to 60.
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Nicaragua Preparing To
'Tepel Cuban Invaders
By JACK RUTLEDGE
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, LP) —
President Luis Somoza marshaled
his forces today to ■ meet three
boatloads of invaders reported en
route from Cuba in Latin Amer
ica’s latest vestpocket revolt.
Somoza ordered his ambassador
in Washington, Guillermo Sevilla
Sacasa, to ask the Organization
of American States for an inves
tigation of the threat to his re
gime, one of Latin America’s last
three dictatorships.
The Foreign Ministry said Tues
day night it had learned that three
schooners carrying revolutionaries
and arms set out from Cuba for
Nicaragua to support 75 or more
rebels who landed by plane from
Costa Rica over the weekend. The
government claimed it had the
group on the run.
Cuban Prime- Minister Fidel
Castro, asked in Havana about the
report of invasion from his coun
try, said he was too busy to answer
^‘baseless charges.”
Once a fiery advocate of aid to
rebels against dictatorship, Castro
has been denying he is aiding such
movements since a Cuban-based
invasion of Panama backfired in
April while the Cuban leader was
trying to make friends in the
United States.
Contract Negotiators Hope
To Avert Steel Strike
NEW YORK, UP)—Word of hope
that there will be no steel, strike
July 1 came from Washington as
contract negotiations in the basic
steel industry continue here.
Four-man teams representing
the nation’s 12 largest steel com
panies and the United Steelwork
ers of America are trying to work
out a new contract to replace the
three-year pact that expires
June 30.
If no agreement is reached by
then, 500,000 union members
would almost certainly strike at
plants that produce 90 per cent
of the nation’s steel.
The word from Washington was
that the Eisenhower Administra
tion believes there is an excellent
chance that the union and the
industry can reach agreement on
a new contract without a July 1
strike.
Hoffa Says Past Testimony
‘Answered All Charges’
WASHINGTON, UP) — James
Hoffa says the more than IV2
million members of his Teamsters
union are no better or worse than
any other large section of the
American population.
Denying that the union is cor
rupt, Hoffa told a news confer
ence Tuesday that, as far as he
was concerned, his past testimony
had answered all corruption
charges made in hearings of the
special Senate committee investi
gating labor-management rela
tions.
The committee, headed by Sen.
John McClellan (D-Ark>, plans to
recall Hoffa.
Hoffa, president of the union,
also said he planned to take no
action against vice president John
O’Rourke, indicted in New York
in connection with jukebox
rackets.
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GOP Popularity
Decline Worries
Party Chieftains
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WASHINGTON, UP — President
Eisenhower smilingly admitted
today that he’s long been worried
about poll reports of the steady
decline in popularity of the Re
publican Party.
He was asked at his news con
ference if he was disturbed by
polls which indicate his popularity
is high, while that of his party
continued to decline.
With a wry smile Eisenhower
replied that he has been disturbed
by this matter for the last six
years.
He said the large majorities
given the GOP Presidential ticket
in 1956 while Republicans were
losing both houses pointed to the
need for a very serious study and
some revolutionary efforts to re
store party popularity.
And House GOP leader Charles
Halleck of Indiana hit at the same
point in a call today to GOP lead
ers to “get across to^the American
people the fact that the Repub
lican record on major issues is a
fine record.”
Halleck said he joins in the
“wonderment of Eisenhower and
other Republicans at results of
recent polls reporting that about
60 per cent of the people believe
Democrats are better able than
Republicans to cope with, major
problems.
“It is obvious to me,” he said in
an interview, “that "somewhere we
are falling down on the job of
getting our story across to the
people.”
DANGER!
Several sticks of wet dynamite
were found burning this morning
in the area just west of the spot
where the old U.S.S.R. & M. Co.
Dredge No. 3 was dismantled.
Carl Glavinovich, manager of
U.S. Smelting Co., said there was
no one in the vicinity and it was
not known who set fire to the
dynamite, or where the explosive
came from.
The site of the burning dyna
mite is company property and is
posted with no trespassing signs.
Mr. Glavinovich said, in the light
of this incident, that henceforth
the ordinance against trespassing
on company grounds will be
strictly enforced.
Children are also warned not
to handle anything as dangerous
as dynamite, no matter how wet
or harmless it may seem.
The finding of anything re
sembling dynamite should be re
ported immediately to the au
thorities. Under no circumstances
should the stuff be handled.
East Coast Fishermen Will
Angle in Wilds of Katmai
WASHINGTON, UP) — A group
of Chesapeake Bay area fisher
men, accustomed to going after
rock fish and blues, will invade
the Katmai National Monument
country of Alaska in August seek
ing trout and salmon.
The excursion, August 14 to 23,
will be led by Don Carpenter,
outdoor editor of the Washington
Daily News.
Eisenhower Sees No Progress at Geneva
Which Could Justify Summit Meeting
WASHINGTON, UP — President
Eisenhower said today there has
been no detectable progress at the
Geneva talks that would justify
a summit conference.
Eisenhower called at a news
conference for Russia to show
some willingness to reach at least
preliminary agreement at the for
eign ministers’ sessions.
The President suggested that
the Soviet Union ought to make,
for example, a clear commitment
Western Ministers
Ready To Insist on
New Soviet Ideas
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, UP) — Western for
eign ministers reportedly decided
today to' call for an early show
down with Soviet Foreign Min
ister Gromyko in secret talks
over the Berlin crisis.
Secretary of State Herter and
ministers of Britain, France and
West Germany agreed in a mid
day strategy meeting, officials
said, that Gromyko should be told
the time has come for the Soviet
Union — which touched off the
crisis last November — to put up
new, constructive proposals for a
solution.
Gromyko’s reaction tc this chal
lenge, it was hoped, should short
ly disclose whether the Geneva
meeting has any char.ce of suc
cess in easing the East-West dis
pute on Berlin and Clearing the
way for a summit conference.
The Western ministers met for
an hour at U. S. headquarters.
They wound up their strategy
session a little more than two
hours before another round of
secret talks with Gromyko at
Herter’s villa.
European Markets
Eye Rumors of
Soviet Gold Bloc >
WASHINGTON, GD — Top offi
cials laughed off today rumors
that the Soviet Union might jolt
Western countries by suddenly
announcing a “gold ruble.”
Such rumors have been flying
through European money markets.
Most versions of the rumor say
the Kremlin soon will decree that
rubles — now artificially pegged
at four to the dollar — will be
come freely convertible into gold
on demand, at least in the satel
lite empire.
The U.S.S.R. has a big hoard of
nine billion dollars in gold which
could meet any run on gold which
might develop, according to these
reports.
The Soviet move would be part
of a carefully calculated Kremlin
drive, these rumors allege, to cre
ate a ruble bloc as a rival to the
dollar bloc and the sterling bloc
based on U. S. and British cur
rencies.
Responsible authorities who
have carefully checked into the
rumor, said they have seen no
sign the Soviet Union is seriously
contemplating any such drastic
maneuver.
that Western rights in Berlin will
not be impeded pending reunifi
cation of Germany.
It was Eisenhower’s first news
conference in three weeks. He
touched also on these other topics:
Strauss — It would indeed be
tragic, the President said, if an
issue of anti-Semitism should be
seriously raised in the Senate
fight over whether to confirm
Lewis Strauss as Secretary of
Commerce. Strauss is a Jew.
Labor — Eisenhower said he v
certainly hopes that Congress
won’t adjourn without passing la
bor legislation. He made that
statement when a reported re
marked that both John L. Lewis
and James Hoff a have come out
against enactment of any new
legislation.
Missiles—As to squabbling over
missiles, Eisenhower said Secre
tary of Defense McElroy is now
conducting an exhaustive study
which should be ready in about
1G days. The main dispute is be
tween the Air Force’s champion
ing of its Bomarc missile and the
Army’s plugging for its Nike
Hercules product.
Basilio - Fullmer Bout
Scheduled for Summer
NEW YORK, UP) —j Carmen Ba
silio has accepted terms for a
National Boxing Association world
middleweight championship bout
with Gene Fullmer, it was an
nounced today by Norman Roths
child, Syracuse promoter.
The 15-round fight will be held
late this summer, with Los An
geles, San Francisco, Salt Lake
City and Ogden, among possible
sites, Rothschild said.
Basilio’s acceptance virtually
knocks out any immediate chance
for a meeting between him and
Ray Robinson for the New York
version of the title.
Robinson, whose status as cham
pion has been under investigation
by the New York State Athletic
Commission for several weeks,
yesterday was ruled still the
champion by that group. He had
been stripped of his title by the
NBA .
RED CHINESE FOOD IMPORTS
CAUSE EAST BERLIN DEATHS
BERLIN, UP) — West Berlin’s
Berliner Zeitung said today 100
East Germans have died recently
from dysentery caused by food
imported from Red China. East
Germany’s Communist press has
made no mention of the epidemic.
He Just COULDN'T WAIT!
To Clean Up His Yard
For Nome's Cean-up Program