Japanese Prime
Minister Gets
Official Welcome
WASHINGTON, W*l—Prime Min
ister Kishi of Japan arrived today
for a three-day visit and promptly
began talks with President Eisen
hower which he said may open a
“new era of Japanese-American
relations.”
He called at the White House
just 90 minutes after his arrival
at National Airport aboard Eisen
hower’s plane, Columbine III.
The 60-year-old prime minister
was a White House luncheon
guest and later had a golfing date
with President Eisenhower at the
Burning Tree Club in Maryland.
Kishi’s nine advisers accompan
ied him to the President’s office,
but left shortly thereafter.
Vice President Nixon greeted
Kishi on his arrival and told him
of the “admiration, respect and
friendship”, of this country for the
people of Japan.
Kishi was once purged for polit
ical activity by U.S. occupation
forces, but is now regarded as a
firm ally.
Among those attending the con
ference with the President were
Secretary of State Dulles and U.S.
ambassador to Japan Douglas
MacArthur II, both of whom had
been at the airport, where Kishi
was accorded a military reception, j
Kishi was taken from the air- i
port to Blair House, residence for !
official guests across from the j
White House.
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Mrs. Lloyd Draper was hon
ored with a baby shower last!
Monday evening. The shower was j
given by Charlotte Hungerford at J
the home of Barbara Mecklenburg ■
and the baby received many j
lovely gifts.
Tug Arrives From Anchorage
The B & R tug Sheilokof with |
a barge load of contractor sup- 1
plies and motorized equipment ‘
arrived from Anchorage Monday
evening and unloaded in Nome
Harbor and on the Sand Spit.
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| Eisenhower’s Civil Rights - Bill
Passes House, Is Sped to Senate
WASHINGTON, UPi—The House
Tuesday passed, 286-126 Presi
dent Eisenhower’s civil rights
bill.
On final passage, 168 Republi
cans and 118 Democrats voted
for the bill while 19 Republi
cans joined 107 Democrats in
voting against it.
The bill was sped in record
time to the Senate where Vice
President Nixon was in the chair.
The bill, however, could not be
taken up for action since the Sen
ate was in executive session for
a continuation of debate on U.S.
ratification of the international
atomic energy agency.
Democratic leader Johnson of
Texas said he proposed to return
to legislative session after the
Senate acts on the treaty, but
hours of' speeches were in pros
pect.
INVITATION FOR BIDS
Sealed bids in duplicate will be
received by the Alaska Depart
ment of Aviation, Room 202 Glov
er Building, Anchorage, Alaska,
until 2:00 P.M., A.S.T., on June
28, 1957 and then publicly opened
in the Office of the Director, for
the transportation of approxi
mately one hundred seventy-five
(175) tons of steel landing mat
from Cold Bay to the present
landing strip at Selawik, Alaska.
The work to be completed by Sep
tember 1, 1957.
Further information and Bid
Proposal Forms may be obtained
from the Department of Aviation
at the above address.
Department of Aviation
Territory of Alaska
By: Eugene G. Roguszka
Acting Director of Aeronautics
Publ. June 19, 22, 26, J957.
Any event, once it has hap
pened, can be made to appear in
evitable by a competent historian.
Just before final passage, the
House defeated, 251-158, the
Southern bloc’s fourth and final
attempt to drive a jury trial
amendment into the measure. The
vote insured passage of the bill
essentially in the form Eisen
hower recommended and the Re
! publicans, northern and western
Democrats backing such legisla
tion agreed on.
The bill now goes to the Sen
ate, where a bipartisan coalition
is trying to rush it on the cal
endar. for action, thus depriving
Southern senators for one of
their opportunities to filibuster.
The bill would authorize the
U.S. Attorney General to take
into the federal courts the oases
of persons whose voting or other
civil rights were violated or
threatened.
Without first going to state
courts, the Attorney General
could seek a federal injunction
against such violations. If it were
granted, the court then could
punish for contempt anyone who
violated the injunction.
The bill also would provide for
a bipartisan commission to make
a two-year investigation of civil
rights complaints and for a spe
cial division of the Department
of Justice, under an assitant at
torney general, to handle civil
right matters.
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Judge Denies
Defense Plea for
Frank Brewster
WASHINGTON UP)—F e d e r a 1
District Judge John J. Sirica yes
terday denied a defense plea for
acquittal of Frank W. Brewster,
top official of the Teamsters
Union who is charged with con
tempt of Congress.
The ruling, which came at the
close of the government’s case,
means the defense now must go
forward with its testimony.
The 31-count indictment against
Brewster, chairman of the 11
state Western Conference of the
teamsters, stems from his refusal
to produce records and answer
questions before the Senate in
vestigations subcommittee last
January. He challenged its auth- |
ority 'to look into internal affairs 1
of labor organizatinos.
Subsequently, the- Senate cre
ated a special committee to take
over the investigation. Brewster
testified before that committee
for five days, denying testimony
linking him Avith efforts to take
over vice operations in Portland, !
Ore., and with other misdeeds. j
Brewster’s chief counsel said .
Brewster will testify in his own!
behalf. i
O'Brien Predicts
House Approval
Of Statehood Bill
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The chair
man of the House territories
subcommittee today predicted a
“very strong likelihood" that the
House will pass the Alaska state
hood bill if it reaches the floor
this session.
Rep. O’Brien (D-NY) made the
prediction on the basis of a whip
organization poll of House Demo
crats, which he said favored a
statehood bill 123-65. The remain
ing 46 Democrats could not be
reached or remained uncommit
ted.
The New Yorker said the Dem
ocratic poll bore out assurances
he had received from Alaska’s
“Senators” Egan and Rivers that
their check on individual House
members indicated as many as
238 favorable votes for the Alas
ka bill.
O’Brien said the Democratic
poll was particularly reassuring
to him because “the hard core op
position to statehood is in our
party, among the southern Demo
crats.”
Common sense is instinct, and
a sufficient amount of it is genius.
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