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GOP Steps Up Campaign Tempo;
Demos Get Boost in Nevada Court
«Ry the Associated Press*
President Eisenhower Friday
night urged the election of a Re
publican Congress lest the nation
find itself in “the ditch.”
Stevenson addressed a Demo
cratic rally in the Hollywood Bowl
at Los Angeles Saturday night.
Eisenhower two weeks ago made
a political talk from the same
platform.
The President Friday night ad
dressed a GOP meeting in Den
ver. His talk, televised and broad
cast nationally, emphasized what
he called the dangers of a Demo
cratic Congress under a Republi
can President.
“You know perfectly well,” he
said, “that you can’t have one car
with two drivers at the steering
wheel and expect to end up any
place but the ditch—especially
when the drivers are set on going
in different directions.”
Eisenhower said he foresees
“a cold war of partisan politics”
if the Democrats take over con
trol Of Congress.
Top GOP leaders of Congress
flanked Eisenhower on the speak
er’s platform. Earlier they had
talked politics with the President
for an hour.
Senate Republican leader Know
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THIEF SPECIALIZES
MANILA, t'P)—Thirty Manila
detectives began canvassing junk
shops today in search for a thief
who specializes in manhole covers.
Sixteen have been stolen from
Manila streets.
FTC Files Charges
Against Coffee Exchange
For Recent ‘High Prices
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Fed
eral Trade Commission filed char
ges today against the New York
Coffee and Sugar Exchange in
connection with the recent high
prices of coffee. The FTC said the
exchange unlawfully restrained
international trade in coffee and
thereby promoted substantial in
creases in prices. The complaint
named the New York Coffee and
Sugar Exchange, 4 of its officers
and 8 of its members, and the
N.Y. Coffee and Sugar Clearing
Association.
The government said the com
plaint is a followup to the econ
omic study of the coffee market
made last spring in its report on
this study, the trade commission
said last July the sharp increases
in coffee prices during 1953 and
1954 cannot be explained in terms
of the competitive laws of supply
and demand.
The Federal Trade Commission
gave the coffee exchange and oth
ers named in the complaint 20
days in which to file answers.
[Bureau of Mines
| To Be Reorganized
i Into Five Regions
WASHINGTON, (#)—An Interior
Department official said Friday it
is now planned to reorganize the
Bureau of Mines into five regions,
instead of four as announced last
July.
Region 1 will consist of Alaska,
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Montana, with headquarters at
Albany, Oregon.
Secretary of the Interior McKay
announced in Oregon Friday that
Albany will continue as a region
al office but did not say how that
change affected the whole reor
ganization plan.
The second region will consist
of California and Nevada, the
spokesman told a reporter.
AVA Plans Ads
In Nat’l Magazines
To Lure Visitors
Antonio Pplct, representing
Nome at the Alaska Visitors Assn,
meeting in Anchorage, reports a
very busy session was held, re
sulting in the announcement that
travel feature stories, pictures
and advertisements, all prepared
by the AVA, will appear in na
tional publications throughout the
winter.
Such magazines as Holiday,
Sunset, New Yorker, New York
Times travel sections, Travel
Trade, Travel News, and Travel
Agents will carry AVA ads. The
Saturday Review of Literature
will have an article on Oct. 23
entitled “Alaska in Words and
Pictures.” Madamoiselle will car
ry another in the March 1955
issue on Alaskan women.
The organization worked on the
budget to be presented to the leg
islature. It was the largest meet
ing held to date and much interest
was shown even with the handi
caps facing the organization this
year.
The closing of the McKinley
Park Hotel and the shutting down
of the passenger boats next sum
mer are handicaps that will have
to be worked out. However, thei-e
is much to be done in raising the
necessary funds in each communi
ty to support the ever-growing
tourist trade.
Heading the local Chamber of
Commerce committee is Charles
Reader, who will solicit the ten
dollar memberships to the AVA
or the $100 memberships, which
are voting memberships, so that
Nome, which has been a leader in
tourism, may do its'share in the
territorial organization.
6,926 Off Gov’t
Payrolls Result of
Security Program
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Eisen
hower Administration reported
today it now lists 6,926 persons—
1,743 of them with “subversive
data” in their files—as taken off
the government payroll as a result
of its security program.
Of the total, 2,611 were listed
as fired outright and 4,513 as
having resigned before final de
termination of their cases.
The program is aimed to reach
drunks, loose-talkers and people
with records as law violators as
well as Communists, fellow trav
elers and persons of questionable
loyalty.
The number was reported by
the Civil Service Commission as
of last June 30 and covered the
period since President Eisenhow
er’s new security program went
into effect May 28, 1953.
The count has become a hot
political issue.
Vice President Nixon has said
repeatedly the administration has
removed “Communists, fellow
travelers and security risks” from
the government payroll, “not by
the hundreds but by the thou
sands.”
Democratic National Chairman
Stephen A. Mitchell has chal
lenged Nixon to name a single
Communist let out under the pro
gram. Mitchell contended Nixon
is lumping real subversives with
such persons as loose talkers and
drunks.
Ex-Security Agency Man
Arrested for Mishandling
Secret U.S. Documents
WASHINGTON, (A>i—'The FBI
Saturday arrested Joseph Sydney
Petersen, Jr., 40, a former em
ploye of the National Security
Agency, on charges of improperly
obtaining secret documents con
nected with the national defense.
The complaint charges that Pe
tersen, an employe of the agency
until Oct. 1 this year, obtained
the information “with intent or
reason to believ’e that the infor
mation was to be used to the in
jury of the United States or to
the advantage of a foreign na
tion.”
The Justice Department said
he was arrested at his home in
nearby Arlington, Va.
The National Security Agency
operates within the defense estab
lishment under executive order of
the President. Petersen had been
employed by it and its predeces
sors since 1941.
\
Voting hours in tomorrows
general election will be from 8:00
a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Voting places
are in the City Hall, in town,
and at the mining company’s No.
5 Camp.
Stevenson Blasts Administration;
Sees Demo Victory on November 2
Italian Grocer Wins
$363,000 in Soccer Pool
TtTRIN, Italy, Iff)—A Turin
grocer has won the largest sum
ever paid by Italy’s weekly soccer
pool—$393,000 (243,577/000 lire).
And it’s tax free.
Directors of the government
operated pool announced that the
grocer, Nicola Saccini, held the
only ticket which correctly picked
the winners or ties in all 13 of
Sunday’s soccer games.
“Red” Dean to Moscow
LONDON, OP)—Or. Hewlett
Johnson, the “Red” Dean of Can
terbury, left London for Moscow
today in quest of material for a
book on Soviet Russia.
Chicago Flooded
By Heavy Rains
CHICAGO, (#)—Widespread
flooding in the wake of a record
six-inch rain numbed Chicago
today with a partial paralysis
which disrupted routine for hun
dreds of thousands, and jolted the
city’s vital commerce and indus
try.
No one knew for certain the
dollar loss to business as water
from the choked Chicago River
spilled into basements and sub
basements, stopped rail traffic at
Union Station, cut power output,
and threw scores of thousands out
of work.
Thousands of householders in
the city’s south and west sections,
and in suburbs, were marooned as
lakes were spawned throughout
neighborhoods.
City transport was badly crip
pled by flooded underpasses that
necessitated rerouting of bus and
auto traffic. Outside the city,
highways were cut by flood water.
The 32-hour rain which began
Saturday evening had pelted the
city with 6.21 inches of rain early
this morning when it stopped.
Unofficial measurement in some
localities indicated as much as 10
inches of fall.
Surprisingly, only one death
had occurred, which appeared to
have resulted from the flooding.
Patrick McNichols, 51, was found
lying in three feet of water in his
flooded basement apartment, ap
parently the victim o’f a heart
seizure.
The bulk of the damage result
ed from the over-brimming of the
Chicago River in the area just
west of the loop business district.
There, water spilled into the base
ments and sub-basements of the
Union Station, inundating tracks
and bringing operations of four
railroads to’ a halt.
(By the Associated Press)
Vice President Nixon and Adlat
Stevenson crossed verbal swords
Sunday in the wake of Steven
son’s scathing criticism of the
Eisenhower Administration in a
speech Saturday night.
Arriving in Los Angeles shortly
after Stevenson left the city for
Phoenix, Ariz., the Vice President
said the Democrats’ 1952 presi
dential candidate “like other
Democratic leaders is offering de
structive criticism apparently be
cause they have no constructive
suggestions to offer.”
Told of this later at Albuquer
que, N.M., Stevenson retorted:
“Mr. Nixon’s remarks remind
me of a wonderful and classic re
mark a woman juror made when
she turned to a neighbor and said
‘I don’t' want to listen to the evi
dence. I like to make up my own
mind.’ ”
Stevenson told a news confer
ence he has detected “a tremen
dous swing” toward the Demo
cratic Party throughout the na
tion. He predicted the Democrats
would “win control of the House
by 30 or 40 seats.” He said he also
thinks the Democrats will win
control of the Senate.
“Stevenson in part: “The harsh
fact is that in 20 months of bluff
and blustc-r, confusion and contra
tradiction, we have lost influence
and friends ■ faster than at any
time since Warren Harding and
the Republican repudiation of in
ternational cooperation after the
first world war.”
Stevenson said the real issue in
this election “is whether Congress
will function more effectively un
der a divided, quarrelsome Re
publican regime than it will under
the proved leadership of the Dem
ocratic Party.”
Alaska Air Command
Denies Knowledge of
Strange Planes in Sky
ANCHORAGE, (#1—Alaska Air
Command headquarters here dis
claimed any knowledge Saturday
of strange planes being detected
recently in Alaska skies.
Air Command authorities said
vapor trails at high altitude could
be caused by such things as Scan
dinavian Airlines planes on flights
over the polar cap to the Orient,
or bush fliers making arctic hops
for which no flight plans are filed.
These “contrails” not made by
U.S. military planes are not nec
essarily created by enemy air
craft, the Air Command said.
The Air Command’s comment
was in response to queries about
a published report Friday which
said unidentified planes had been
detected over Alaska recently,
both by sight of vapor trails and
by radar.
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