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U.S. Asks Russia
To Return Ballous j
For Evaluation
WASHINGTON, lS> — The
United States has called on Rus
sia to return American balloons
which the Soviets claim are used
for spying on their territory.
In a formal note, the State De
partment reiterated that the high
altitude balloons equipped with
cameras, are used to photograph
cloud formations as part of wea
ther experiments.
Some of the balloons landed on
Soviet territory. The Russians re
covered them and exhibited them
to newsmen as examples of U. S.
espionage activities.
In answering the Soviet charge
for a second time, the note to the
Soviet foreign office said the bal
loons were launched from the
West Coast during the first six
months of this year to gatlver me
teorological information on the
earth’s atmosphere.
The balloons were made of
plastic and carried scientific in
struments, in addition to camer
as. The Cambridge Research Cen
ter of the U. S. Air Force, which
carried on the experiment, re
ported that a few of the balloons
have been lost.
In view of this, the Department
said the balloons recovered by the
Soviets undoubtedly were of this
type. Accordingly, the Soviets
were asked to turn them over
promptly so that data collected
could be evaluated and made
available to the world scientific
community.
Sinclair Weeks
Resigns Post as
Commerce Sect},
WASHINGTON, UP! — Secretary
of Commerce Sinclair Weeks has
resigned his post, and Lewis L.
Strauss has been named to suc
ceed him in the Cabinet.
The White House announced
that:
1. Weeks has tendered his res
ignation to be effective not later
than November 10, because of
“pressing business, personal and
family considerations,” which he
said made his return to Boston
imperative.
2. President Eisenhower is mak
ing a recess appointment of
Strauss, 62, who has been assist
ant to the President on peaceful
uses of atomic energy since his
recent retirement from the chair
manship of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
An exchange of letters between
Weeks and the President was
made pulbic.
Weeks’ letter, dated October 22,
tender his resignation. He re
recalled that he had conversed
with Eisenhower on his departure
several times, and assured Eisen
hower that in the future “If I
can serve you in any way, you
have only to call upon me.”
CASE OF MALLARD MYSTERY
CLARKSTON, Mich., UPI — The
case of the missing mallard ducks
is under investigation by the Oak
land County Sheriff’s office.
Detroit Police Detective Lieu
tenant Glenn Coller, owner of a
private hunting farm near here,
says more than 200 mallards val
ued at $1,000, have been stolen
from the farm. He said the ducks
wore metal identification bands
and were trained to stay on the
farm.
Seattle Chamber
Group Promises to
Return to Nome
Members of the Chamber of
Commerce and other residents
were hosts to a delegation from
the Chamber of Commerce of Se
attle, Wednesday evening, at an
Alaskan smorgasbord.
In addition to the 16 Seattle
visitors, the guests included
George Morrell, head of the B
and M Co. of Portland, Maine, who
is part of the Maine delegation
now in Anchorage; Ray Schrick,
of the Wall Street Journal, who
is doing a series of articles on
Statehood, Northern Commercial
Co., and other subjects, and two
young ladies from Massachusetts,
who are in Alaska to make it
their permanent residence.
Toastmaster for the evening
was Judge Walter Hodge, who
handled the arrangements for the
evening, nd introduced the guests.
Mr. Morrell of Maine told how
his party was headed by the Maine
governor, Edmund Muskie, and
that they had brought a truckload
of gifts for Alaska. These are
being auctioned off in Anchorage
for some worthy charity, which
will be announced by Acting Gov
ernor W a i n o Hendrikson, to
whom the gifts were presented.
The Seattle group was headed
by its president, Dean Eastman,
an attorney, who stated that the
group had enjoyed their stay here
so much that Nome will be part
of the itinerary on future trips,
as many people want to come to
Some. It has been eight years
since the Seattle Chamber has vis
ited Nome.
Other speakers for the Seattle
group included John Hale of the
Alaska Division of the Seattle
Chamber, and Martin O’Rourke,
chairman of the Alaska Depart
ment, and tour manager.
Speaking for the Nome Cham
ber, Russell Hermann, vice presi
dent, reviewed some of the things
for which Alaska will be needing
help from the Pacific Northwest.
This included support on the
completion of Highway 97, in
crease in price of gold, nuclear
power for this area.
“As Seattle gets Alaskan tour
ists going and coming,” the tour
ist industry prophesied to be the
greatest in Alaska’s history, is
most important at this time,
stated John McNees, Chamber
manager.
The group left Thursday morn
ing for Anchorage to attend the
All Alaska Chamber of Com
merce annual meeting.
Admiral Rickover Is
Upped to 3-Star Rank
WASHINGTON, UR — Rear
Adm. Hyman Rickover pioneer in
the atomic submarine field, is get
ting the promotion his Congres
sional backers have demanded.
The White House announced
that Rickover has been upped to
vice admiral, subject to Senate
approval next year. His new
three-star rank is to be effective
while Rickover heads the Atomic
Energy Commission’s Naval reac
tors branch.
Credited with fostering the na
tion’s first nuclear submarine,
Rickover has been a center of
controversy from time to time
during his career. Some of this
controversy has stemmed from
his reported readiness to brush
aside Navy red tape in order to
further the nuclear sub program.
Body Is Discovered
On The Beach
A body, discovered on the beach
about three miles up the coast,
was brought to town about noon
today by the CAA weasel, with
Roy Snyder as driver, and Dep
uty Marshal George Bayer.
The body has been identified
as that of Samuel Thomas, a resi
dent here since 1954, who was
married to the former May Luke
of this city.
It has not been announced
whether there will be a hearing.
Americans Addicted
To “Don’t-Give-a-Dam”
Pills Says Psychiatrist
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Amer
icans are taking too many “don’t
give a dam” pills,” a noted psy
chiatrist says.
“What the world needs is some
“do give-a-dam pills,” said Dr.
William Menninger.
He is general secretary of the
Menninger Foundation in Topeka,
Kansas.
“Hate and man’s selfishness are
the major problems confronting
the world,” Dr. Menninger said
in an interview. “The answers
may lie in a deeper religious
faith and in more concern for our
neighbors. Psychiatry is not the
whole answer.”
I
Prostitute Accused
Of Extortion By
Baptist Minister
OAKLAND, Calif., UP) — A
Baptist minister resigned yester
day after telling police of his en
trapment in a former prostitute’s
bedroom by her husband and an
other man. He accused the trio of
attempting extortion.
Officials of the First Baptist
Church of Oakland withheld im
mediate acceptance of Dr. Ronald
K. Adams’ resignation, saying,
“This is no time for hasty judg
ments.”
The shapely woman denied tak
ing part in an extortion plot.
Adams, 36, father of three, told
police he was with Mrs. Virginia
McFerren in her bedroom Tues
day night when her husband, Ron
ald, pnd Ronald Lawrence popped
out of a closet with flash cam
eras.
They snapped pictures, the
minister said, then threatened ex
posure to his wife and congrega
tion unless he gave them $6,000.
McFerren, 28, unemployed dak
land boiler operator, who went
under the name Jack Michaels;
has a petty criminal record dat
ing back to 1947, police said.
Mrs. McFerren was arrested in
1949 and 1953 on prostitution
charges.
{Police said Lawrence, 30, an
unemployed carnival worker, has
a record of arrests going back to
1943.
The three were jailed on
charges of conspiracy and at
tempted extortion. They denied
the charges.
Mrs. McFerren said she had
been going to Dr. Adams for in
spirational advice once a week
during the three years he has been
in Oakland. “I love him,” she de
clared. “I’ve always had a strong
desire for him.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional snow.
Gusty easterly winds, 20 to 30
miles per hour this afternoon and
tonight, decreasing Saturday. Low
tonight 20-25, high tomorrow 25.
The National Political Pot is Boiling
(By The Associated Press)
Vice President" Nixon and Nel
son Rockefeller, potential Repub
lican Presidential rivals for 1960,
breakfasted together today. Both
insisted they weren’t^even think
ing about things on the other side
of this year’s election.
The harmony demonstration was
hastily set up in New York City
after an episode Thursday night
in which Rockefeller, GOP can
didate for governor, didn’t attend
a dinner for Nixon.
Afterward, the Vice President
hurried away to catch a plane to
Wisconsin to carry on his slam
bang campaign for election of a
Republican Congress in the voting
a week from Tuesday.
Some Democrats were turning
campaign guns more directly to
President Eisenhower as leader of
their opposition, with an accu
sation that he has shirked leader
ship in the school integration con
troversy.
But the Democrats had their
own internal squabbles to deal
with. For instance, National
Chairman Paul M. Butler was
complaining that he is being
“clobbered by the Republicns and
smathered by the Democrats.”
He referred to a call from Sen.
George Smathers (D-Fla.) for But
ler to quit talking so much about
party differences over civil rights.
Nixon himself set the stage for
the teamwork displayed with
Rockefeller. He went out of his
way in a New York broadcast
Thursday night to praise Rocke
feller as an able administrator
who offers New York “dynamic
leadership.”
Some observers had read into
Rockefeller’s absence from the
dinner an implication of coolness
between him and Nixon.
But the explanation from Rock- -
efeller — who is wooing some of
the Democratic voters Nixon has
been lambasting as radicals —
was that he simply had a long
standing prior date. His opponent
is Gov. Averell Harriman, a fav
orite of Democrats who call
themselves liberals.
- Meanwhile, former President
Harry S. Truman accused Eisen
hower of sidestepping a “moral
responsibility” to back up the
Supreme Court’s school integra
tion ruling.
The result, Truman told a Dem
ocratic fund-raising dinner in
Boston, was a wave of violence by
“crackpots and extremists.” “For
three years,” Truman said, “the
Administration stood aside while
the opposition in some parts of
the country gathered its strength.
“Only when there was outright
defiance of the courts by a sov
ereign state did the President
move into action. That was too
late. The opposition to law had
solidified and the poison of hate
had already spread.”
One Ballot Battle
Is Settled
JUNEAU — The battle of the
ballots has been settled.
Acting Gov. Waino Hendrick
son issued an executive order
amending an earlier one regulat
ing the November 25 Alaska gen
eral election.
The amendment permits en
dorsement of the ballots by either
the election commissioner or by
the clerk of court in Alaska’s
four judicial divisions.
However, the amendment ac
tually will apply only in the third
and second divisions.
Clerks of court at Fairbanks and
Juneau, in the fourth and first
divisions, printed the general elec
tion ballots with the endorsement
by Election Commissioner David
J. Pree.
William Hilton, clerk of the
third division court at Anchorage,
said funds to pay for the ballots
were to come from the federal
government. So he endorsed the
ballots printed in the third divi
sion.
The second division court clerk
also agreed with Hilton’s stand.
Pree, who also is an assistant
Territory Attorney General, last
week filed an injunction suit
against Hilton at Anchorage.
Had an injunction been issued,
it appeared all the ballots for the
second and third divisions would
have to be reprinted. Agreement
was reached late Friday that the
most simple solution would be to
allow either name on the ballots.
Pree met Tuesday with the act
ing governor, and the executive
order amendment was quickly
signed.
Reds Detonate 13th Bomb
TOKYO (Saturday) UP) — The
Soviet Union detonated another
small nuclear weapon above the
Arctic Circle yesterday, the Tokyo
Meteorological Station announed
today. It was the 13th blast in
the series of Soviet tests resumed
l September 30.
93 Men Trapped In
Nova Scotia Mine
SPRINGHILL, N. S., iff) — A
violent shift of rock in the depths
of a coal mine today trapped 93
men, six of them supervisors.
Hope of rescue grew dimmer by
the hour.
Seventy-eight miners had
reached safety. One body was re
covered.
With tears in his eyes, the vice
president and general manager of
the Doi?iinion Coal Co., H. M. C.
Gordon, told newsmen that there
is no hope for miners trapped on
two levels of the mine. He added
there is only a glimmer of hope
for those on the third level.
Rescue workers have deter
mined the location of 55 men
trapped by fallen rock. But they
have been unable to find the
other 36, and it is for these that
there remains some small meas
ure of hope.
A silent crowd shivered in a
cold drizzle through the night as
five-man teams of draegermen—
volunteer mine rescue workers—
cleared rock and debris from dust
choked tunnels.
The draegermen wpre respira
tors. One of the first survivors to
come out said the “bump” — the
miners’ name for underground
rock shifts of explosive force —
had smashed the mine ventilating
system and pockets of deadly gas
were forming.
'WE WANT BILL' ...
WHITEVILLE, N. C., iff) — Stu
dents of Mrs. Hugh Stout’s first
grade class at Williams Town
ship School, were hurt this week
when they found their nominee
for Hallowe’en queen was inel
igible.
Their unanimous choice, 7-year
old Bill Ward, is a boy. “We still
want Bill,” stubbornly said cam
paigner Debbie Jacobs, 6. “He’s
the prettiest.”
After much coaxing, the vote
was changed, and Debbie was
made the nominee.