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Eisenhower Speaks Tonight To Back
Republican Congressional Candidates
(By The Associated Press) 4
President Eisenhower makes a
final bid tonight for a Republican
Congress. The opposition says he
owes thanks to the Democratic
controlled Congress for any Ad
ministration accomplishments.
Eisenhower, who has cam
paigned with new vigor in this
year’s battle for Congress, chose
Baltimore for his windup vote
Republican appeal to the nation
via radio and television.
The President has struck some
heavy blows at the Democrats in
speeches all the way to the West
Coast. But he was expected to lay
emphasis tonight on what he con
tends are his Administration’s
achievements in the foreign and
domestic fields.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn
don Johnson of Texas said Eisen
hower has received more cooper
ation from Democrats in Con
gress than from Republicans in
the House and Senate.
Johnson said the President
ought to remember “that the ac
complishments he now holds forth
as his own are the works of a
Democratic Congress.” ■<
In this connection, Johnson
mentioned antirecession measures
and steps to counter Soviet scien
tific advances.
Noting that Eisenhower’s Bal
timore speech tonight falls on
Hallowe’en, Democratic National
Chairman Paul Butler said in a
statement that Eisenhower should
“throw* away the hobgoblin
speech your ghosts have written”
and discuss the issues.
Vice President Nixon forged
deeper into the West today, still
sounding an optimistic note on
Republican prospects next Tues
day.
Nixon was headed for Billings,
Mont., and Everett, Wash., before
going on to Alaska to back GOP
candidates in that new State.
At Wichita, Kans., Thursday
night, Nixon urged Republican
party workers to “pour it on all
over the country” in these clos
ing days of the campaign. He
said the Democrats have “run out
of gas” and pictured them as
i “staggering and stumbling toward
the finish line.”
A crowd of nearly 10,000 per
sons — Nixon called it his larg
est of the campaign — heard him
in person.
Meanwhile, the heads of the
Republican and Democratic Na
tional Committees swapped jabs
on civil rights — an issue that
bulks large in some northern areas
where the Negro vote could be a
big factor.
Republican Chairman Meade
Alcorn put out a statement speak
ing of what he called “the shoddy
Democratic record on civil rights.”
Countering, Democratic Chair
man Butler said the Republican
Party “has a long and public rec
ord of callous duplicity on human
rights.”
Soviets Demand
Ban On Atom
Tests ‘Forever’
GENEVA, WP>—Russia reiterated
today its demand for an imme
diate suspension of nuclear weap
on tests forever.
Soviet Delegate Semyon K.
Tsarapkin made the demand at
the start of new talks with the
United States and Britain for a
joint suspension of tests under
international control.
Tsdrapkin said a permanent un
dertaking by the three powers to
stop tests should precede nego
tiation of the control system to de
tect violations. The Wfct has con
sistently refused to agree to a per
manent cessation of tests unless
the control system is set up first.
Meanwhile, voluntary British
and American cessation of tests
for a one-year period went into ef
fect today.
All three nations have professed
to favor banning the tests, but a
continuing East-West split was
underlined by these developments
on the conference eve:
1. The Soviet Union insisted
that the talks must lead to an
agreement outlawing tests imme
diately and forever, regardless of
whether a control system is ap
proved.
2. The United States and Bri
tain announced a conditional one
year suspension of their tests, ef
fective last midnight. The condi
tion was that the Soviet Union
cease firing nuclear explosives
too.
Intended Victim
Catches Strangler
SANTA ANA, Calif., UP) — A
confessed strangler of three Los
Angeles area models led police
officers to the desert graves of
two of them today.
Calmly, Harvey M. Glatman of
Los Angeles led officers to a re
mote, sandy area near Escondido
in San Diego County. He identi
fied the remains found there as
the bodies of Mrs. Shirley Ann
Loy Bridgeford, 24, a divorcee of
Sun Valley, and Miss Ruth Rita
Mercado, 24, a Los Angeles model.
A body found, also in the des
ert, near Indio in Riverside Coun
ty last December, is believed to
be that of his third victim, Mrs.
Judy Ann Dull, 19, of West Hol
lywood. Glatman told police he
killed her and buried her in that
area.
Officers here, who booked the
30-year-old television repairman
on suspicion of murder, said a
fourth intended victim Mrs. Lor
raine Vigil, 28, Los Angeles,
brought about Glatman’s capture.
He made a date wiht her Mon
day night for some picture-tak
ing but, instead, took her out on
the Santa Ana Freeway, produced
a gun and attempted to assault
her, police said. However, she suc
ceeded in grabbing the gun and
was holding Glatman at bay when
officers happened to come along.
Sheriff’s officers said the three
women killed first were raped.
They quoted Glatman:
“I would make them kneel
down. With the gun on them, I
would tie this five-foot piece of
rope around their ankles. Then
I would loop it around their
neck. Then I would stand there
and keep pulling until they quit
struggling.” 1
Los Angeles Measures 20 Per Cent
Radioactivity From Nevada Blast
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., UB<
— An era of nuclear weapons
testing ended at midnight.
And in its wake: renewed furor
over £he dangers of radioactive
fallout.
'President Eisenhower’s one
year suspension of tests went into
effect today. Talks between the
United States, Britain and the So
viet Union will determine whe
ther it lasts longer.
The last atomic shot wert off
in a mountainside tunnel with an
earth-jolting shock. It was as big
as the atomic bombs which de
stroyed Japanese cities in World
War II. It lofted a 500-foot-wide
column of rock and dirt 1,000
feet above the mountain top.
Atomic Energy Commission
scientists kept trying to set off
another weapon right up until the
midnight deadline. A blast was
to have gone off under a balloon
at 1,500 feet altitude. But high
winds balked the effort.
Alarmed by a spurt in radio
activity over Los Angeles, Mayor
Norris Poulson tried to get the
AEC to call off the shot that never
materialized.
He phoned the AEC in Wash
ington and complained to Com
missioner W. F. Libby that wind
was blowing fallout from Nevada
tests over his city.
Libby said the amount of radio
activity over Los Angeles was not
hazardous.
Measurements by the Los An
geles City Health Department
showed that the amount of radio
activity in the air was 20 per cent
above the level considered safe
for human consumption over a
period of months.
An immediate flurry of excite
>
ment, apprehension and anger
followed.
The uproar was subsiding today
under a barrage of reassuring
statements.
Whitehorse Hotelman
Shoots Wife and Friend
WHITEHORSE, Y. T„ UP) — Ho
telman Raymond (Cal) Miller,
charged with unlawfully dischar
ging a firearm with intent to
wound, appeared as a witness in
his trial Thursday.
“I only meant to scare them
both,” said Miller, formerly of
Vancouver. Miller was charged
after his wife and Malcolm (Mike)
Cole of Keno, Y. T., were
wounded early August 20 in a
shooting in the Miller apartment.
’ The 30-year-old Miller, widely
known in the Yukon, said he
and Cole planned a trip August
20 and Cole was sleeping in the
Miller living room. He said they
were both old friends.
When Miller returned from a
poker game about 1 a.m., he said
he found Cole and his wife to
gether. He testified that Mrs.
Miller was in pajamas and Cole
was fully dressed.
Miller told the court he went
to his room, returned and shot
both of them.
“I didn’t think a thing like this
could happen.” he said in the
crowded courtroom of the Yukon
capital. Interest in the case has
run high-because of Miller’s pop
ularity.
Gordon Armstrong, former
Whitehorse mayor, appeared as
the only other defense witness in
the trial which began Wednesday.
He testified that Miller has a rep
utation for honesty.
Possible Democratic Sweep Predicted
As Nixon, Kennedy Tour Territory
By WILLIAM J. TOBIN «
JUNEAU, UFi — Vice President
Richard M. Nixon gets his first
look at Alaska tomorrow — but
the poliical odds should appear
familiar.
Nixon, who has attempted to
counter reported heavy Demo
cratic trends in a vigorous cross
country campaign, faces a stiff
challenge in boosting Republican
prospects in this unborn state.
Alaska won’t officially join
the Union before late December
or early January, but its first
state officials will be elected No
vember 25. The outlook is for a
Democratic sweep, with one pos
sible major exception.
It is that one exception which
is expected to get the Vice Presi
dent’s main attention before he
ends his final campaign tour at
Fairbanks Monday — the eve of
the national elections.
Former Governor Mike Stepo
vich, 39, of Fairbanks, a GOP
candidate for one of the two U. S.
Senate seats to be filled in the
Alaska elections, likely will get
Nixon’s heaviest blessing.
The national Republican Party
badly wants at least one of the
Senate vacancies open to the 49th
State. And one Senatorial post ap
pears far beyond GOP reach.
Democrat E. L. Bartlett, for 14
years Alaska’s non-voting dele
gate in Congress, seems certain to
be elected to the Senate. In the
August primary, he received near
ly five times the vote total of his
Republican opponent, R. E. Rob
ertson of Juneau.
Stepovich was the only Repub
lican who ran ahead of Demo
crats in the State-wide primary
races. Democrats in other contests
topped their GOP rivals by 3-1
vote margins.
Republicans probably have im
proved their general position
somewhat, but most observers
feel they still have a long way to
go — almost certainly Nixon
won’t overlook the other Alaska
races — which include contests
for one U. S. House seat and the
governorship — but Stepovich’s
Senate hopes seem the prime goal.
In campaign speeches along the
route to Alaska, Nixon hit at both
New Deal and Fair Deal Demo
cratic Administrations.
Stepovich’s Senatorial oppo
nent, Dr. Ernest Gruening, 71, was
Governor of Alaska in both the
New Deal and Fair Deal eras.
He was appointed Territorial
chief executive by Presidents i
Roosevelt and Truman, and ended
ipore than 13 years in the gover
nor’s office when the Eisenhower
Administration began.
Gruening trailed Stepovich by
5,700 votes in their unconcon
tested primary bids, and since has
directed a well-organized, well
financed campaign to overcome
the advantage posted two months
ago by his youthful opponent.
Helen Fischer, Democratic Na
tional Committeewoman from
Alaska, charged that Nixon’s visit
“is to try to rescue the Adminis
tration’s hand-picked candidate”
Stepovich from defeat.
“The fact that the Vice Presi
dent is taking three days at the
peak of the national campaign, to
stump in Alaska, is sure evidence
that they know, as we do, that
their boy is in serious trouble.”
Young Senator Frank Church
(D-Idaho) hit the Alaska campaign
circuit a month ago, and delivered
four major addresses largely
aimed at boosting Gruening. Most
observers, however, felt his re
sults were only limited.
Alaska Democrats look for a
bigger push a week after Nixon
leaves — when the Vice Presi
dent will be followed into the
Territory by Sen. John Kennedy
(D-Mass.).
Nixon and Kennedy, each view
ing possible Presidential nomina
tions in 1960, are expected to re
ceive massive welcome to Alas
ka. The biggest turnouts will be
at Anchorage, the Territory’s lar
gest city.
The Vice President, accompan
ied by his wife and their two
daughters, is scheduled to arrive
here in a chartered plane from
Seattle at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow.
His capital city address is sched
uled for 30 minutes in a down
town theater.
After an afternoon flight to
Anchorage, Nixon will speak Sat
urday night in the city’s plush
high school auditorium. He will
be introduced by Stepovich.
No political activities are sched
uled for Sunday, when the Vice
President and his party will be
flown to Fairbanks. He will speak
there at noon the next day, and
will return directly to Seattle
Monday evening.
Kennedy’s Alaska tour, opening
November 10 at Ketchikan, will
not extend to Fairbanks. The
Democratic Senator’s noon speech
at Ketchikan will be followed by
an address that night at Juneau.
He will fly to Anchorage Novem
ber 11 for a speech that night,
and is scheduled to return to Se
attle the next day.
Boy Prankster Shot
By Indiana Art Teacher
VINCENNES, Ind., UP) — A 13
year-old boy was wounded ser
iously Thursday night when his
30-year-old art teacher fired her
rifle to scare -some young Hal
lowe’en pranksters.
Police said Earl Martin had
been shot in the throat with a .22
caliber bullet fired by Miss Car
la Harbaugh. The boy was in ser
ious condition today, but is ex
pected to live.
“I didn’t mean to hit him, just
scare him,” Miss Harbaugh tyas
quoted by Police Chief Thurston
Arnold.
Arnold said Miss Harbaugh
will be arraigned on a preliminary
charge of assault with a deadly
weapon.
Mrs. Ernest Gruening
Suffers Mild Stroke
ANCHORAGE, UP — Mrs. Er
nest Gruening, 70, wife of the
Democratic Senatorial candidate,
is in Providence Hospital today
suffering what physicians term a
mild stroke. She was taken to the
hospital about 11 p.m. last night,
and reportedly was stricken about
6:30 p.m. yesterday. Her condi
tion today is reported as un
changed.
"I LIKE IKE" DEEP INSIDE —
OLATHE, Kans., W — David
Kraemer is qply 2, but he has a
feeling for President Eisenhower
deep inside him. He swallowed an
“I Like Ike” button Wednesday.
Doctors said he was in no danger.