Daily Sitka Sentinel
Home-Owned Newspaper
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
5Oc a Copy
Wednesday, December 14, 1955
VOLUME xvn
NUMBER 3
Russia proposes 16 nations in
new package to beat vetoes
Would drop Japan
Duter Mongolia
until 1956
UNITED NATIONS (/P) Rus- |
sia today laid before the secur
ity comacil a new package dealj
to admit 16 new' members to
the United Nations.
Soviet delegate Arkady A.
Sobolev proposed Japan and
Soviet supported Outer Mon
golia be dropped from the or
iginal package plan which was
defeated yesterday by Soviet
and Chinese Nationalist vetoes.
He told the 11-nation council,
however, Russia favored the
admission of both Japan and
Outer Mongolia and would be
ready to push for their admis
sion at the 1956 meeting of the
general assembly.
i UNITED NATIONS (/P) An
emeitgency meeting of the U. N.
security council! was summon
ed today at Soviet Russia’s re-;
quest to reconsider idhe memb
ership deadlock.
The meeting was set for 4 p.
m. (iEST).
Soviet delegate Arkady A. j
Solbolev asked (the council pre
sident, Sir Leslie Munro of New
Zealand, to call the 11 nation j
body into session either atoas
afternoon or tonight.
There was no immediate in
dication whether the Russians
had any new proposals. Vetoes
by Nationalist China and Rus- j
sila yesterday killed a package
dead which would have admit
ted 13 new members to the UN
Word of the Russian move
came as angry sponsors of the
veto-riddled package deal de
manded a full airing of the
problem in the 60 nation gener
al assembly which previously
had called npon the council to
act favorably on the package'
plan.
Assembly president: Jose i
Maza of Chile told the assem- j
bly that it would get a chance
to debate the problem again (be
fore the current session ends
# Gee, just ten days before
Christmas — and I should real
ly start thinking about a 'pre
sent for rJhe boss.
9 At what age does a person
have mature judgement? is a
moot question, especially when
you consider the antics of some
members of recent legislatures.
A five year Old child could have
done as good a job in asboul. half
the time, so let’s not talk about
“mature judgement.”
'# Sis ndt so oOld in Sitka!—
Wesli Yellowstone, Montana, re
corded a -3d last night and has
a prediction it will be colder
tonight.
And the temperature was -54
in Fairbanks Saturday, but t he
•basketball fans turned out —
which reminds us the Colored
Giianrts play at ®®t. Edgecumbe
tonight and tomorrow.
later this week. He said, how-.
ever, he would not. place irt on
the agenda until after the coun
ci!l had concluded its efforts to
find a solution.
Nationalist China’s T. F.
Tsiang said he had not been in
formed officially of the .Soviet
move. He declined1 lio comment!
until he knew what agenda
was proposed for the council
meeting.
Chief U. S. delegate Henry
Oalbot 'Lodge Jr. said he had no
abjections to the Soviet request
“I shall renew my appeal to
the Soviet Union to accept the
17,” he said. This was a refer- j
ence to previous U. S. appeals
to Russia to agree to the admis
sion of all nations in the pack
age except Outer Mongolia.
In Washington, State depart
ment press officer Lincoln
White declared that Russia had
taken a position “that the will
of the majority he damned”
when it cast votes yesterday
There was little or no hope
that the plan could be revived,
but angry sponsors of the pack
age deal were ready to blast
Nationalist China and Russia,
for using the veto in the secur- j
ity council' yesterday to thwart j
the will of the majority.
The Chinese Nationalists
vetoed Soviet supported Outer
Mongolia. Russian vetoed 13
non-communist countries in the
(continued on page lour)
Neutralists are
Red aides and allies;
savs Meanv
NEW YORK (/P) AFL-CIO
president George Meany says |
(prime minister Jiaiwaharailal Ne- j
hru of India and marshal Tito
of Yugoslavia are “aides and
allies of communism.”
The nation’s top labor leader;
also attacked “'liberals” in this
country in a speech yesterday
before the National Religion
and Labor Foundation.
Meany said he was disturbed
that many U. S. “liberals” are
“stone silent” about the loss of j
human rights in Soviet domio-1
aled countries. I
Speaking of Nehru and Tito, j
Meany said no count ry can be
neutral in the struggle between
communism and democracy. He
added.
“Nehru and Tito are not neu
tral. They are .aides and allies
of communism in ftact and in
1 effect, if not in diplomatic ver
biage.”
| Meany’s speech was made
shortly before the announce
ment in New Delhi of a coop
eration pact signed by India
and the Soviet Union.
! Hits remarks brought a for
mal protest later in the day
from K. T. Tripathi, general
secretary of the Indian nation
al rades council. Tripafhi said
\ the attack on Nehru would have
. “most unfortunate repercus
I sions” throughout Asia.
Meany’s remarks were com
mended, on the cither hand, as
being “accurate and courage
ous” by Mohammed A. Khalife,
se'cre* ary of the All-Pakistan
♦ seamen’s union.
Disconcerting?
CLERMONT, Fla. (/P) Ross
C. Cantwell was unopposed for
city treasurer in yesterday’s
election. But he didn’t win.
His name and the tiltle of the
office hiad been left off the bal
lot iby error.
Another election must be
held.
Gaitskell elected as
labor party leader
LONDON (lP) The Labor par
ty tonijgihlt elected Hugh Gaits
kelil as its leader. This made
him a potential British prime
minii'sLer.
In balloting !by Labor mem
bers of parti ament Gai ts kell re
cedved 157 votes. Leftwing lead
er Aneurin Bevan got 70 and
deputy leader Herbert Morri
son 40.
The 49 year Old Gaitskell
thus succeeded former prime
minister Clement At.lee who !
stepped out as party leader
seven days ago and accepted a
peerage. Should the Labor par- j
ty again gain power Gaitskell
would be the prime minister.
Gait shells vict ory clima xes
a meteoric rise in British polit
ical life. He has been a member
of parliament* only 10 years.
Final attack on
voting age of 19
fails yesterday
FAIRBANKS (IP) The third
and final series of attempts to
change the constitutional con
vention’s decision I o set the
voting 'age olf future Alaskans
at 19 failed yesterday.
The end came, after hours of j
lively and sometimes almost
bitter debate, when delegates
defeated an al tempt by Warren .
Taylor of Fairbanks to amend j
the suffrage article to read,
“The legislature of the state
(of Alaska1) may 'provide (by ,
law the age and qualifications ;
of voting of the si ate.”
Acceptance of the amend- j
ment would have thrown out
the earlier decision to spell
out the age requirement in the
cams! itution and to set the age
limit at 19.
Taylor’s maneuver didn't re
quire a roll call vote, a rarity
after two days of close deci
sions.
Failure of the amendment
was (followed by an attempt by
Dora Sweeney of Juneau to
sei the age limit at 20. as or
iginally .proposed by the suf
frage committee. But president
William Egan ruled It he amend
ment out of order.
Earlier Mildred Hermann of
Juneau had moved to put the
whole suffrage article back in
to comimii tee. This was after
roll call votes bad been taken
on setting the suffrage age at
18, 19, 20 and 21. respectively.
When 'Mrs. Sweeney’s a
mendiment was ruled out, the
convert don appeared' ready to
accept the fact a majority of
delegates intended to extend
the voting right to 19 year olds
Anchorage delegate John
Hellert hal led the fight a
gainst Taylor’s move to throw
the (Whole matter of voting
qualifications into the laps of
future legislators.
I Heillenthal Jtoid the conven
(continued on page four)
City Council in busy, routine
session, raises valuations
Search for city
engineer still
under way
A lengthy meeting of the
cihy council adjourned last
night just prior to eleven o’
clock, with a great amount of
routine business handled.
COUNCIL CONSIDERED
Police report for Novemiber
showing 14 arrests, fines as
sessed of $287.50 and fines col
led.ed of $132.50. Reports of
pufblic health nurse and magis
trate for Novemiber.
Letter of Lowell A. Rathbun
notify inig the city he 'had ac
cepted an engineering position
in the states and was not avail
able as city engineer.
Request of C. J. Pederson
for a cab company license; and
directed he 'be requested to
furnish further information.
Committee report of Mr.
Oalihoun concerning meeting
olf the school board Monday
evening. He reported it had
been suggested a block be in-!
stalled on the boilers of the
school to reduce the tempera
ture during the night. Also
bhalt the school ‘board would
like to have the $10,500 pledg
ed Iby the city under territor
ial grant in 1053 paid to them
now.
Neill Andersen for the prop
erty corrumil tee .brought In a
suggested rental for buildings
on City-owned property.
Report of Mr. McClain that
rails at the city float needed
replacing and the latrine
should >be cleaned up.
Report of the city attorney
the navy department, iby let
ter, had acknowledge the city
had a Igiood title to the Victor
ia 'float. Also that C. E. Pearl
never had operated a taxicab
under his own name, but had
been driving for the firm own
Bad weather stilt >
hampers search fori
two missing men
EAGLE (JP) Bad weather
which grounded most search
planes is hampering a search
for two men missing on a flight
from a caterpillar tractor train
in a remote ares of Canada to
this Yukon River community.
The cal’ train is still pushing
ahead hut the search is center
ed between the point the train
bad reached last Tuesday when
the pair took off for Eagle.
No maps exist for much of
the search area and pilots are
groping through unchartered
peaks in an effort to find a
trace of the missing Luscombe.
Missing are Forest Wright,
well known Fairbanks and Ne
nana hush pilot, and Andy War
wiick, Alaska Freight Line em
ployee, whose wife and three
children reside in Fairbanks.
Veterans fliers in Ithis region
believe there is every chance
that the two men are Still alive
despite the fact that they have
ibeen missing eight days in tem
peratures that have ranged
down to 54 degrees below zero |
ed Iby Fred Easley. Mr. Chris
tianson stated the suit ajgaindt
Mr. Easley to recover delin
quent city sales tax was set
for Dec. 28.
Referring to the city’s in
vestigation into the feasibility
of collecting sales tax on local
advertising of radio stations,
Mr. Christianson had replies
from Juneau, Fairbanks, An
chorage, Ketchikan and1 Cor
dova. Council agreed to make
a demand on both radio sta
tions to collect this tax as of
Jan. 1, 1955.
A letter from the SQPU st.at
(continued on cage four)
Turncoat West
German official
giving information
BONIN (TP) ChanceQILor Aden
auer and his cabinet today dis
cussed the sensational return
to West Germany of former
intelligence chief Ottito John.
An Interior ministry sipokes
man said John, meanwhile,
was still under interrogation
here. 'He said the questioning
could <last -four or five days.
“John is giving information'
voluntarily,” he said. “There
has been nothing revealing so
far thait would' justify the fil
ing of any charges against1
him.”
Nothing of what John was
telling was announced. There
was no confirmation of the re
port by a West German news
agency that he had said a West
Berlin physician, Dr. Wolf
gang Wohlgemuth, had drug
ged him and kidnaped him
from West 'Berlin.
Wohigemul h left West Ber
lin with John and still is in
East GermJany.
Interior minister Gerhard
Sehroeder. John’s boss when
the turncoat headed the West
German counterespionage set
up, reported1 ito the cabinet on
John’s surprising return to the
West.
Communist East Germany
issued a brief comment on the
arrival in West Germany of
the Bonn government’s form
er counterihl diligence chief af
ter a 16-month stay with the
Reds. The 47-word comment diis
trilbuted by the East German
news agency ADN, tried to
give a sod of tacit blessing
to John's departure to the
West, saying:
“Herr Dr. John, former pres
ident of the Bonn office for
the protection of the constitu
tion, Who was granted asylum
in the (East) German Demo
cratic Republic on July 20,
1954, has left the German Dem
ocratdc Republic. Dr. John had
repeatedly stated he intends to
conduct the figWt1 'algiadinst neo
fascism in West Germany.”
Marine forecast from Wed
nesday to Thursday.
Outside wafers Dixon En
trance (to Yaikutat northeasterly
winds 10 to 20 mph.
Partly cloudy to cloudy.