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VOL. LXII No. 65 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1960 Per Copy 15«S
Miami Driver Pushes California-Built
Ken-Paul Special to Indianapolis Win
INDIANAPOLIS, UR — On his
11th try for the 500-mile motor
derby Jim Rathmann came up a
natural today.
The Miami, Fla., driver gunned
his Ken-Paul Special home in
front of a field of America’s finest
auto racers and won at the direct
expense of Roger Ward, the man
who beat him home last year.
Rathmann and Ward duelled al
most wheel to wheel for practi
cally all of the 500 miles at a
record pace. Rathmann averaged
130.767 mph, to break the record
of 135.719 set last year by Ward.
A number of star drivers were
forced out of the race by motor
trouble, among them rookie Jim
Hurtubise, the sensation of the
time trials; Jimmy Bryan, Eddie
Sachs, who drove from the pole;
Troy Ruttman, and Tony Betten
hausen. Tony was saved from in
jury after his car caught fire and
he drove it into the pits. He wore
a flame-resistant uniform which
protected him from the flames.
Eddie Russo was injured seri
ously when his car hit the wall.
He was rushed to the hospital suf
fering from a concussion and
lacerations.
Paul Goldsmith finished third,
and Don Branson was fourth.
After that the order of the first
10 was Johnny Thomson, Eddie
Johnson, Lloyd Ruby, Bob Veith,
’ Shorty Templeman and Bud
Tinglestad.
For the last portion of the race
there was no question about the
fact that it would be either Rath
mann or Ward. Rathmann passed
Rapid Roger with just seven and
one-half miles to go and never
gave up the lead after that.
1 Rain had fallen overnight but
! the sun broke through puffy low
clouds just as the field roared
away from the start.
Rathmann’s margin of victory
over Ward was just under 13 sec
onds as Rodger had to ease off at
the end because of a weakening
tire.
Rathmann said that throughout
the race he kept wondering when
Ward and his other chief rivals
would run out of steam — but
they never did, and it was a battle
all the way. The winner added
that because Ward had a faster
car, he had to make up for it on
the corners and by cutting in front
of traffic.
Rathmann’s car was built by A.
J. Watson of Glendale, Calif., who
has built three of the last five
Indianapolis winners. It is pow
ered by a four-cylinder Offen
hauser engine, hand assembled,
and capable of 438 horsepower.
Ken Rich and Paul Lacy of Dallas
are the owners.
Speedway Tower
Topples; Two Die,
50 Spectators Hurt
INDIANAPOLIS, (#) — A home
made 30-foot scaffold loaded with
dozens of auto race fans toppled
at Indianapolis today and hurled
them screaming onto people be
low. Two men in the tangled mass
died of broken necks.
At least 50 persons were in
jured, three seriously.
The aluminum tower fell during
the parade lap just before the 44th
annual 500-mile race got under
way at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway.
The scaffold was one of many
temporary stands erected privately
for the use of fans who did not
buy grandstand seats. It was on
a truck.
The injured were rushed to the
speedway hospital tent, where the
situation was so hectic that re
porters were pressed into service
to move cots.
The owner of the scaffold was
identified as Wilbur Shortridge,
an Indianaolis meat market own
er. Shortridge was atop the tower
with his wife and daughter. He
was among the injured.
Shortridge had sold seats on the
scaffold for $5 and $10, depend
ing on the position. Regular grand
stand seats are available for about
the same prices.
There may have been nearly
150 persons on the scaffold.
Don Petty of Detroit, one of its
occupants, estimated there were
12 rows of 12 persons each in
tiers.
As the spectators craned for
ward to watch the parade lap, the
scaffold fell slowly off its truck
base and went down with a crash.
The accident raised the total of
persons killed from all causes at
the Speedway to 52 since the
first Memorial Day Race in 1909.
The toll includes 29 drivers, 14
mechanics and nine spectators.
Ray Kasola Churns
To Victory in 800
Mile Yukon Race
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Bleary
eyed from standing 26 hours at
the helm, native-born Alaskan
Ray Kasola today captured first
place in the 800-mile Circle City
to Fairbanks Midnight Sun Mara
thon Boat Race.
Kasola and his two-man crew
covered the distance in 26 hours,
26 minutes and 55 seconds.
Kasola’s boat held the lead all
the way from Fort Yukon. His
only comment on the trip imme
diately upon arriving in Fair
banks, where he was greeted by a
sizeable crowd, was: “That’s a
lot of river.”
In his crew were Don McVeigh,
formerly of Spalding, Neb., and
Jack Wright, who formerly lived
in Everett, Wash.
Second was the boat of Harvey
Stryken, who pulled into the sec
ond spot over Allen Persinger
after the two boats entered the
mouth of the Chena River side
by side. For 800 miles, the two
boats battled it out, passing each
other several times. They finished
less than two minutes apart.
Sixteen boats finished the race
this morning. A seventeenth cap
sized when it was buffeted by
heavy winds on the treacherous
Yukon flats near Stevens Village.
All three members of that crew
were rescued by a patrolling
float plane.
Deaths For Memorial Day
Holiday iReach 312
The national loll due to Ira
fic fatalities reached 312 at 1
o'clock today. Nome lime. The
complialion for the Memorial
Day holiday will continue until
midnight tonight, local time —
thus it will end on the East
Coast at 5 o'clock this afternoon
Nome lime.
Acheson Says
Russians Hope to
Split Off Europe
WASHINGTON, I* — Former
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
says the main purpose of Russian
foreign policy is to split off Eur
ope from the United States. Ache
son’s view is contained in a speech
for the Atlantic conference of
young political leaders in Wash
ington. The conference is made up
of delegates from the 15 nations
of the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization. About half of them
are members of Parliaments, and
none is more than 40 years old.
In his speech, Acheson says the
coalition of Western Europe and
the United States is the founda
tion of any counter-power to Rus
sian power, not only because of
the production figures and popu
lation, but because freedom re-,
quires what he calls a certain spa
ciousness in the world. He says
freedom has to have a place to
stand, and Europe is the place
where it must stand. He adds that
whether freedom stands in Europe
will determine whether there is a
chance for it to stand in Asia or
Africa.
Acheson says the Russians ex
pect that by the middle 1960’s, the
Soviet Union will achieve mili
tary superiority over the United
States.
The former Secretary of State
says he doubts that the Russians
expect to communize Western
Europe or the United States, add
ing: “I doubt whether they care
about that. What they are inter
ested in and what they expect to
happen is that their pre-eminent
position will be recognized by the
capitalist nations, which will ad
just their policies in accordance
with that recognition.”
Acheson also says pronounce
ments by some Russian military
authorities demonstrate that it is
not a sound expectation to believe
nuclear war is unthinkable or
impossible.
Boris Pasternak Is Dead
MOSCOW, OP) — Russia’s Nobel
Prize winning novelist, Boris
Pasternak, is reported to have
died in his sleep tonight.
A friend of the family made
the disclosure in Moscow.
The controversial literary fig
ure had been gravely ill with lung
cancer and heart disease for the
last week. He was 70 years old.
After decades of obscurity, he
became internationally famous in
1958 when he was awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature. He
first said he would accept and
later rejected the honor, when it
became clear Soviet officialdom
was opposed to his taking it.
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Ohio Road Crash Takes
Lives of Six Air Force Men
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Wl — Six
Air Force men were killed today
in the collision of their car and a
tractor-trailer truck near here.
The victims apparently were re
turning to Clinton County Air
Force Base at Wilmington, Ohio,
where they were stationed.
The driver of the truck, who
was alone, was taken to Guernsey
County Memorial Hospital in
Cambridge. He was said to be con
scious, but his injuries were not
known immediately.
Emergency crews took several
hours to remove the six victims,
and traffic was tied up for miles.
Nation’s Capitol Sets Theme to Honor
U. S. War Dead, In Arlington Tributes
WASHINGTON, W — The na
tion’s capitol today honored in
speeches, in the . booming of can
non and with floral tributes the
memory of all Americans who
died in war.
It was a gray and damp Mem
orial Day in Washington but tour
ists and other visitors swelled to
thousands the throngs who at
tended a dozen or more formal
ceremonies in cemeteries, in parks
and at historic sites.
One of the first of the day’s
ceremonies was at the most fa
mous memorial to U. S. war dead
— the Tomb ofTJnknowns in Ar
lington National Cemetery.
A Presidential wreath symbol
izing the nation’s devotion to all
Americans who 'have died for
freedom, was placed at the tpmb
in midmorning. The three White
House military aides, each from a
different military service repre
sented President and Mrs. Eisen
hower who were at their farm
home at Gettysburg.
This was but one of more than
40 wreaths laid at the Tomb of
I the Unknowns today. Others
came from National Gold Star
Mothers, who also presented a
plaque; from various war veter
ans organizations; from school
children and from Boy Scouts and
others.
After the Presidential wreath
was laid, the annual service in
memory of the Grand Army of the
Republic was held in the Arling
ton Cemetery Amphitheater.
The rattle of gunfire came from
near the White House where an
Army firing squad and bugler par
ticipated in services at the First
Division Monument.
The most thunderous of all trib
utes came, however, from a bat
tery of howitzers at nearby Ft.
Meade, Maryland, where a 21-gun
salute to the nation’s war dead
was "fired at noon.
A special ceremony was held
in 'Arlington Cemetery to honor
the memory of the late Lieutenant
General Claire Chennault who
died in 1958. Chennault achieved
fame in World War II as the
leader of the Flying Tigers and
the 14th Air Force in the China
Theater of War.
And in another special cere
mony, the AMVETS placed a
wreath on the grave of General
John Logan, commander in chief
of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic. In May of 1868 Logan Issued
an order designating May 30th
“for the purpose of strewing with
flowers or otherwise decorating
the graves of comrades who died
in defense of their country, during
the late rebellion” — the war be
tween the states.
I
I New Far East Itinerary
(May Bring Ike to Alaska, ,
! Formosa and Philippines
BII The Associated Press
! The White House will announce
tomorrow a new Far East tour
schedule for President Eisen
hower. It’s expected to include !
stops in Alaska, Formosa and the
Philippines in addition to pre
viously-scheduled visits to Japan,
Korea and Honolulu.
There is no immediate confir
mation of reports that Eisenhower
was adding to his itinerary. But
in Manila, the visiting date al
ready is being publicly pegged at
June 14. It will be something of
a welcome home for Eisenhower,
who served as an Army major in
the Philippines for several years
in the early 1930’s.
On Formosa, Nationalist Chi
nese officials said privately that
Eisenhower would receive the
greatest welcome in the world
when he arrives. A spokesman
said: “He will find that everyone
on this island is his friend. Offi
cially, the Nationalists are soft
pedaling the visit until the actual
plans are announced in Wash
ington.
Several weeks ago, Eisenhower
announced plans to visit Japan
and South Korea for five days
starting June 19. At that time,
various other Asian countries ex
pressed a desire to have him
visit them.
BRITAIN'S LORD TEDDER
HAS HEART TROUBLE
LONDON, (iPI — The man who
was deputy supreme commander
to General Eisenhower in World
War II, Royal Air Force Marshal
Lord Tedder, has entered a Lon
don hospital for treatment of a
strained heart. Tedder — former
chief of the British Air Staff —
collapsed in Hollywood last April
while on a world tour. He under
went surgery there for removal of
a blood clot on the brain. An aide |
said he has now developed a
strained heart. '
Soviet Defense
Chief Warns Reds
Will Hit U-2 Bases
MOSCOW, UP) — Soviet Defense
Minister Malinovsky has issued .
what he described as a warning
to other countries. He disclosed
that he has ordered Soviet rocket
forces to attack the take-off base
of any foreign plane violating So
viet airspace. Malinovsky empha
sized that he considered his de
cision lawful because of the pos
siblity that the foreign plane
might carry a hydrogen bomb. He
added that Soviet rockets could
hit a target higher than any air
plane could fly.
Malinovsky’s warning obviously
was aimed at our allies where
we have based airplanes such as
the U-2 spy plane downed in So
viet territory May 1. The Rus
sian leader declared there is no
foreign country which could ac
cuse the Kremlin with a delib
erate violation of its air space.
In Washington, Republican Sen
ator George Aiken of Vermont
called the Soviet threat “plain
darn fool” reckless talk. He took
it as a sign that what he called
“the war party” now controls the
Kremlin.
Democratic Senator Mike Mans
filed of Montana interpreted Mal
inovsky’s statement as another
attempt by the Soviet Union to
break down the Western ring of
bases around the Soviet Union.
He said in an interview it would
be risky to underestimate Mali
novsky’s statement. Both Aiken
and Mansfield are members of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee. There was no immediate com
ment from the State Department.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with rain or snow and
patches of fog. Low tonight 30,
high tomorrow 40.