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Eisenhower Names
Inquiry Board to
Check on Steel Tiff
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today recommended
his board of inquiry in the steel
dispute. He again expressed hope
that both sides in the controver
sy will continue negotiations and
reach a settlement as soon as
possible.
Eisenhower acted under the
1947 labor law which provides
that inquiry boards shall report
to the President 60 days after a
strike has been halted by an 80
day court injunction.
The 60 days started with the
upholding of the injunction last
Saturday by the U. S. Supreme
Court. If the dispute has not
been settled by the end of the 60
days, the board will report the
final offer of the steel companies
to the union.
Once the inquiry board "reports,
the law provides that the National
Labor Relations Board shall,
within 15 days, conduct a refer
endum in which union members
will vote on whether to accept
management’s final offer.
White House Press Secretary
Hagerty said that when the in
quiry board reconvenes it will
work with Joseph Finnegan,
chairman of the Mediation and
Conciliation Service, who, under
the law, has the responsibility for
continuing the negotiations.
Hagerty said in reconvening
the board, headed by Dr. George
Taylor of Philadelphia, the Pres
ident “re-emphasized sincerely,
and trusts that both sides will
recognize, their responsibilities to
the United States and will con
tinue negotiations and reach a
settlement as soon as possible.”
STEELWORKERS MOURNING
WHEELING, W. Va., UP) — Arm
bands and a sign describing them
selves as “Ike’s slaves,” illustrate
the resentment of some steel
workers in this area to a govern
ment injunction halting their
strike.
The armbands and sign ap
peared Tuesday as workers Re
turned to two Wheeling steel
plants.
A company spokesman said the
workers were free to work or
quit, as they wished.
Russian Ice Island
Expedition Discourages
Visit from London Writer
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The Rus
sians operating a scientific base
on an ice island north of the
Bering Strait definitely do not
want visitors, a British newsman
says.
Michael Cope of the London
Daily Express said his chartered
plane tried to land on the base
without first going through for
mal channels.
The Russians, he said, foiled the
landing by driving vehicles up
and down the air strip and roll
ing oil drums onto the apron.
Cope said Monday night his
newspaper sent him on a trip to
the Soviet base to gather material
for an article about the Russian
operation.
The Soviet scientific base is
located on a five-mile long ice is
land which has drifted west from
waters north of Canada, where
the Russians originally began the
operation.
Veterans Day Rites j
Bring Warning of
Pink Infiltrations
‘(By The Associated Press'
The nation paid tribute today
to veterans of past wars and heard
a warning from a former top com
mander that freedom could be lost
by default to Communism.
. The warning was sounded' by
retired General Albert Wedemeyer
in a talk at the Arlingtn National
Cemetery amphitheater after a
wreath was laid at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier as a climax
of the national observance of
Veterans t)ay.
Throughut the nation and at
military posts around the world
similar ceremonies were held.
There were parades, talks of
glory and of death, and services
in memory of the dead of past
wars in most cities.
“We could lose our freedoms
by default simply because we
take them for granted,” Wede
meyer told a crowd gathered at
the Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier, where General Lyman L.
Lemnitzer, Army Chief of Staff,
laid the wreath of memory.
“Every informed American
knows that Communism has infil
trated in varying degrees into
our schools, labor unions, churches
and some branches of govern
ment,” Wedemeyer said.
“This could never have hap
pened were it not for false con
cepts of Americanism — and the
apathy of many of our fellow
citizens.”
Still alive to receive the tributes
are one Confederate veteran of
the Civil War, 60 veterans of the
Indian wars, 42,000 Spanish
American War veterans, 2,750,000
veterans of World War I, 15,250,000
veterans of World War II, and 5,
456,'000 Korean War veterans.
Honored as well are the mil
lions who fought for their nation
and died.
Spain and Tunisia Added
To President’s Itinerary
For Goodwill Tour
WASHINGTON, W — President
Eisenhower today added Spain
and Tunisia to his previously an
nounced nine-nation goodwill tour
starting December 4.
The White House said the Pres
ident will meet with President
Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia
aboard the U. S. cruiser Des
Moines off Tunis December 17. At
that time he will be en route from
Athens, Greece, to Toulon,
France.
James Hagerty, Presidential
Press Secretary, also announced
Eisenhower’s acceptance of an in
vitation to visit Generalissimo
Francisco Franco in Spain.
After the Western summit con
ference in Paris, Eisenhower will
fly to Madrid the afternoon of
December 21. He will leave the
next morning for Rabat, Moroc
co, en route to Washington.
'Behind Those Swi-i-inging Doors'
WESTBROOK, Maine, l/P) — A
man pushed his way through
swinging doors and demanded of
the man on duty, “a glass of ale
with a shot of whisky.”
Burton F. Richards, 42, discov
ered too late that the swinging
doors led, not to a bar but to
a sergeant’s desk in the police
station.
- He was booked for intoxica
tion in a public place.
Unique Naturalization
Ceremonies at Gambell
Performed Yesterday
Probably the most unusual nat
uralization ceremony ever per
formed took place yesterday after
noon at the Gambell airport. The
subject was Cora Iya of Savoonga
who was enroute to Gambell by
dog team on Monday when Judge
Vernon Forbes bestowed citizen
ship on her sister Doris Uglowook
of Gambell.
Judge Forbes had made a spe
cial trip to the St. Lawrence Is
land community Monday to hold
the naturalization ceremony for
the two women but an extremely
bad trail between Savoonga and
Gambell delayed Cora Iya and
she missed the Monday cere
mony. Judge Forbes and his party
returned to Nome Monday night
and held. a short term of court
here Tuesday morning.
During the afternoon it was
learned that Cora Iya had reach
ed Gambell, so Judge Forbes and
party again flew to the island.
It was about 2:30 in the after
noon when the plane landed and
since the subject was right there
at the field Judge Forbes held
the naturalization ceremony on
the spot, under the wing of the
plane. Hhe entire proceeding con
sumed only about 20 minutes,
and then the plane returned to
Nome. Judge Forbes then held
another short term of court in
the U.S. District Court late yes
terday afternoon.
London Couple
Select Alaskans to
Receive Infant
LONDON, UP) — Roy and Sheila
Winkley announced today their
unwanted unborn baby will go
to an American couple living in
Alaska.
“We made our final decision
after reducing the list to three
couples in Alaska, New Jersey
and the state of Washington,”
Winkley said by telephone from
his home in Timperley, Cheshire.
“But we won’t announce the
name of the couple for perhaps
a fortnight because we want to
give the fuss a chance to die
down.” ,
Winkley said more than 100 let
ters and a flood of cables and
transatlantic telephone calls had
been received from would-be fos
ter parents in the United States.
The baby, expected in mid
March, will be 27-year-old Mrs.
Winkley’s fifth. When the fohrth
was born last year, she said she
could not face the chores con
nected with raising another in
fant. A neighbor family adopted
the baby girl.
Last week Sheila decided she
felt the same way about the baby
she is now expecting but would
like to have it go to America “be
cause there is more opportunity
there”
Winkley said it would be impos
sible to answer all the inquiries
from America, “but please thank
them all for us.”
Winkley said he thought the
British press had been “a little
unkind to me and Sheila about
all this.”
The couple has been roundly
denounced in various newspapers,
especially in letters from readers.
The theme of most of the let
ters has been that if the Winkleys
don’t want babies, they should
quit having them.
Democrats Plan Special Broad Alaska
Resource Developing Platform for 1960
PORTLAND, UP — Alaska must
get special consideration in the
1960 Democratic national plat
form written at the party’s na-1
tional convention next June in
Los Angeles, Oregon’s Democratic
National Committeeman said here
Tuesday.
C. Girard Davidson, head of the
natural resources committee of
the Western States’ Democratic
Conference, said the new state
needs help to develop its vast nat
ural resources and in solving com
plicated federal problems.
“Proposals like the construc
tion of the giant Rampart Dam
and the paving of the Alcan
Highway will, of course, continue
to be strongly supported by the
Democratic Party,” he said.
Davidson said the party must
look further into the future at
programs to develop untapped
hydro-electric potential and thus
assure new industries and a broad
er tax and employment base.
He urged attention to conser
vation of fish resources, preven
tion of air and water pollution
now plagueing other states, or
derly transfer of federal land to
the state and development of
facilities for growing tourist
travel.
Davidson, former Assistant Sec
retary of Interior under President
Truman, in conjunction with Gov
ernor William Egan named a
nine-man subcommittee.
The subcommittee, Davidson
said, will prepare papers backing
up necessarily more bried plat
form planks.
The subcommittee includes
Egan, chairman, and Phil Holds
worth, State Director of Natural
Resources, consultant.
Members are Henry Camarot,
Fairbanks, Truman Emberg, Dil
lingham, Helen Fischer, Anchor
age; James Hurley, Palmer; Alex
Miller, Fairbanks; Burke Riley,
Juneau; W. O. Smith, Ketchikan;
Felix Toner, Juneau, and Lew
Williams Jr., Petersburg.
Capitol ■ Shift
Petition Sent to
State Secretary
ANCHORAGE, UR — Several
hundred signatures were sent to
Juneau today asking Secretary of
State Hugh Wade to issue peti
tions calling for an initiative vote
on relocating the State Capital,
State Representative Earl Hill
strand announced.
“Although there were several
hundred signatures, mostly from
McGrath, Homer, Seward and
Palmer, only two signatures from
Anchorage were included in the
application,” Hillstrand said.
The application asks that the
State Capitol be moved in 1965
to the railbelt-Cook Inlet area
and that the proposal be placed
on the ballot next November.
Should the Secretary of State
find the application in order, he
will issue petitions which require
the signatures of 10 per cent of
the registered voters in two-thirds
of the 24 election districts. Upon
approval of the required signa
tures on the petitions, the meas
ure would be placed on the No
vember, 1960, ballot.
Circulating the petitions in the
outlying areas on behalf of the
| Capitol Site Steering Committee,
of which Hillstrand is president,
were Representative Don Harris,
McGrath; Quincy Benton, Homer;
Sol Urie, Sewardj and A1 Saxton,
Palmer.
Hillstrand said no signatures
; were obtained from Nenana be
I cause residents there construed
the railbelt-Cook Inlet area to
mean the railbelt area along the
Cook Inlet.
“This was not the intention of
the description.” Hillstrand said.
EISENHOWER RECEIVES
FIRST CALIFORNIA CRABS
SAN FRANCISCO, UPl — The
California crab season opened
Tuesday but the only one who
got any was President Eisenhower.
Six fresh crabs — the only
ones caught — were flown to the
White House.
The crab fleet stayed at the
docks in a half-cent-a-pound dis
pute with dealers over transpor
tation costs.
Labor Secretary
Eats Hat - Jobless
Sum 3 Million Plus!
WASHINGTON, UP> — Secretary
of Labor Mitohell today ate his
hat — a fedora made of cake —
because unemloyment failed to
fall below three million last
month as he had predicted.
But Mitchell sent a slice apiece
to the leaders of the steel strike
which kept joblessness high, pres
ident David McDonald of the
United Steelworkers Union and
the industry’s top bargainer,
Conrad Cooper.
“I was a couple of hundred
thousand off in my predictions,
due entirely to the steel strike,
not to any weakness in our econ
omy,” Mitchell said.
Unemployment in October was
3,270,000 though employment was
66,800,000, a record for the month.
Mitchell in April predicted that
by last month employment would
rise to 67 million and joblessness
would drop below three million.
When AFL-CIO President
George Meany accused him of
talking through his hat. Mitchell
promised to eat his headpiece on
the front steps of the Labor De
partment if he were proved
wrong.
Aides to the Secretary had a
hat made of cake so the boss
wouldn’t get indigestion paying
off.
Officials calculated that unem
ployment would have been in the
neighborhood of 2,800,000, or
nearly a half million less than
the actual figures, if there had
been no steel strike.
CONSERVATIVE . . .
HOLYOKE, Mas$., UP) — Mayor
Samuel Resnic ife somewhat of a
conservative when it comes to
spending tax dollars.
He treats public money like it
was his own — and why not?
I The assessor’s list of the biggest
city taxpayers came out Tuesday,
and Resnic’s name was at the
top for individuals.
His city tax bill this year is
i$14,031. In addition, he pays as
a partner in a realty firm and as
a member of an industrial prop
erty corporation.