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VOLUME XVI
Monday. November 7, 1955
NUMBER 232
Big 4 will talk disarmament
at Geneva meeting this week
New plan would
make surprise
attack impossible
GENEVA <7P) Secretary of
State Dulles conferred today
with disarmament expert Har
old Stassen. He opened a drive
to get Russian participation in
measures designed to make a
massive surprise attack by
either America or the Soviet
Union impossible.
Dulles returned from the
Yugoslavia resort of Brioni
last night with an agreement
from Marshal Tito that the So
viet satellite states of Eastern
Europe should regain their in
dependence.
This was regarded in West -
ern quarters here as a boost for
the American campaign to keep
live the quest for freedom in
the Iron Curtain countries, es
pecially since it was only a few
mom.hs algo that Soviet leaders
tried to .talk Tito back into the
satellite fold.
Dulles met with his s: all
this morning and conferred
with various delegation mem
bers. Stassen arrived here Sat
urday. As President Eisenhow
er’s special advisor on disarm
ament he will participate with
Dulles in the disarmament
phase of Big Four conference
talks later this week.
Dulles, it was learned will
tell Soviet foreign minis.er Mo
lotov that agreement on such
measures — keyed to President
Eisenhower’s U. S.-Soviet aer
ial inspection plan — could be
followed readily by other steps
leading to other worldwide
arms reduction and control of
atomic weapons.
Dulles is prepared to assure
V eatchcombing
• After the storm which blew
up last night — it is easy to see
why 'people get excited when
someone is out in a small boat.
• Fairbanks is giving a cold
reception to ftihe visitiinlg dele
gates — after la warm campaign
for positions 'from the 4th di
vision. Bet Bill Knight and Ben
Stewart wish they were hack
in the rain off the banana belt.
—I—I—
• Went (hunting again Satur
tHtay — wii.ih Ace — and as us
ual was “skunked.” It looks
like I’m going to have the larg
esit “unused” collection of deer
licenses in Alaska.
-M
• That snow we had Friday
night was just a warning
(1) that we 'are going to have
a cold winter; (2) that winter
will (be mild (3) that it won’t
be any different than usual.
-H
• Those boys with long faces
were Washington rooters
but the result makes the “farm”
game a real hot-shot.
Molotov that while the United
States considers aerial inspec
tion an essential measure in
preventing the surprise at jack
it is prepared to consider any
Other suggestions for action the
Soviets may puit forward.
Meanwhile, a committee of
Big Four experts seeking a
(greemen't on the lowering of
Iron Curtain barriers to devel
op East-West contacts have
found the “Spirit of Geneva”
wearing thin.
Authoritative sources say
three days of secret nega.na
tions between representatives
of the Big Three Western po
wers and the Soviet Union have
failed to produce agreement on
any major point.
The Russians have rejected
i proposals for a freer exchange
I of ideas and information except
on technical matters. They want
Western scientists, engineers]
and agronomists to contribute
their know-how to the Soviets,
but, they maintain other excha
nges would be “dangerous in
terference” in Soviet internal
affairs.
Big Three negotiators have
turned down Russian demands
| to end the West’s ban on the
sale of 9 rategic goods to the
Soviet bloc and have refused
to discuss a communist “free
dom of the seas” proposal. The
latter would have put the West
in the post.ion of opposing the
Nationalist Chinese blockade
of the Chinese mainland. -
Israel-Egypt border
presents problem
to peace makers
JERUSALEM (/P) A new
shower of charges of violations
of the Palestine armistice con
fronted peace makers today in
the troubled Middle East.
They included an Israel de
claration Egyptian troops were
entrenched dn the demilitarized
ed zone of the Egyptian Sinai.
! •'constituting a longstanding
| violation and a threa: to civil-■
ian life.
! An Isnaeli foreign office spo
kesman said “Israel is fully
aware of last week’s bloody El
Sabhia clash.”
I The spokesman said “prohib
ited numbers” of troops were
! in the area where armistice a
: greemen't prmits only three
i Egyptian checkpos'.s with a
i total of 30 soldiers,
i Israel also accused Egypt of
a new raid near the Gaza strip
Maj. Gen. Edson L. Burns,
U. N. truce supervisor, return
ed from conferences, in New
York and London on the tense
border situation.
He conferred immediately
with truce organization offic
ials and called for meetings
with Arab rapresenta. ives on
the latest U. N. proposal to ease
border tensions.
Put forward by U. S. secret
ary general Dag Hummlarskjold
the prosposal is reported to call
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Convention opens
in Fairbanks at 28
below zero
FAIRBANKS (A5) Delegates
to the Alaska constitutional con
vention were arriving here to
day in 28 degrees below zero
weather for tihe formal opening
ceremonies scheduled to take
place at 10 olc’ock Tuesday
morning.
Governor B. Frank Heini.zle
man will make the opening ad
dress, to be followed by Dr.
Ernest Patty, University pre
sident, who will welcome the
delegates.
Other speakers will include j
former governor Ernes". Gruen j
in(g and delegate Bob Bartlett.!
The opening ceremonies will
be held in the university gym
nasium. Imimerijdaltely after
the convention is open, delega
tes will commence their work.
Committees must be appoint
ed to undertake the task of
shaping up the constitution it
self.
Many delegates arrived in
this crowded city yesterday and
more were arriving today. Since
the Alaska chamber of commer
ce did not adjourn until yes.er
day, and many chamber dele
gates stayed over to attend the
opening of the constkutional
convention, hotel space -is at a
premium in this city.
Local residents were endea
voring to greet all incoming
delega.es. A busy round to
teas and social events were
scheduled for this week.
Continued cold weather was
predicted for the opening of
the convention.
Tito agrees East European
countries should be freed
President of
Yugoslavia.backs
western stand
BRIQNI, Yugoslavia (7P) Mar
shall Tito put his weight coday
behind the West's demand that
Soviet bound satellite states
of Eastern Europe be given
their independence and free
dom of action.
As a leading statesman in the
Balkans, he apparently has
been asked also i.o use his in
fluence for peace between Is
rael and the Arab states during
a trip he is planning to Egypt.
These were the highlights of
a seven hour <Jalk yesterday be
tween the president of comimun
ist Yugoslavia and U. S. secre
tary of state Dulles in the dra
matic se.ting of Tito’s Adriatic
island retreat.
Tito took Dulles for a ride
in his white speedboat to the
nearby island of Vanga, which i
he uses for swimming and clam1
bakes. I
J Then Ti:o played host in his eva foreign ministers cosfer
palatial home for the first time enice. Asked by reporters aibout
to the large group of accompany ma.hods of 'settlinlg the pro
ing newspaper correspondents blem, the secretary said, “that’s
who strolled about a black mar another quesion. We shall see.”
ble recap, ion room admiring
the wite and gold piano, oil
painting of nude cherubs and
ladies, and a collection of ship
models.
Sittinlg beside Tito, who later
said he was in agreement.
Dulles ..old reporters:
“We were otf common accord
in recognizing the importance
of independence for these (East
European) States, non-interfer
ence from the outside in itheir
internal affairs, and the right
to develop their own social and
economic order in ways of their
choice.”
These words would apply to
Hungary, Bulgaria. Albania.
Romania, Czechoslovakia and
Poland. They indica.ed Tito’s
views had not been changed
by the visit of Soviet premier
Bulganin and comimunlist party
leader Khrushchev last spring.
Dulles said he and Tito also
were agreed “the German ques
it ion must be settled gradually,
set by step.”
It Was evident, however, they
did not see eye to eye on all
details of the German question
which has deadlocked the Gen
Convention delegates' ideas
reported by AP survey
Strong executive
authority is plea
of most delegates
(What are the ideas of the
elected delegates who will gath
er at the University of Alaska
Tuseday for the historic job of
drafting a constitution for the
future state? The Associated
Press has condus.ed a poll of
Jhe delegates to get a cross-sec
tion picture of their thoughts
about what the dooument sho
uld contain. The results of the
poll are being presented in two
articles. This is the first).
by James Hutcheson
Associated Press
Legislative Correspondent
Several opinions stand out
dominantly in the minds of con
stitutional convention delegates
who responded to the AP poll
on issues they expect .o face
and settle.
They want a stronlg executive
authority.
They don’t want to slice the
territory into the large number
of counties that prevail in the
48 states.
They oppose writing any pro
hibition against gambling into
the constitution.
They won’t favor writing any
Nevada-1 jype (free-and-easy di
vorce provision into the basic
law.
They favor continuing the
present two-house type of leg
islature, but a majority think
a session should be held annual
ly instead of every two years.
They favor an independent,
non-partisan judiciary.
They think teasing of. state
owned lands is generally pre
ferable to selling them (with a
gricutural lands an exception
in some minds).
They favor keeping the num
ber otf territorial elective offic
ers to a minimum, leaving to
the governor the job of naming
heads of administrative depart
ments — and then holding him
responsible.
Many of the delegates oppose
pui.'tinlg any provisions for spe
cific taxeis, or restrictions a
gainst them, into the constitu
tion. They feel a free hand in
the taxing field shoull be left
to the legislature. That is par
ticularly the opinion of .those
who have served in the law
making body.
Some also expressed the be
lief that 'basic laws on gambling
and divorce, too, should be left
wholly to the legislature. (Aft
er all, said one, there are the
ice pool “Contests”.)
In setting forth the thesis a
gainst putting too much detail
into the constitution on speciific
subjects, W. O. Smith of Ketchi
kan explained:
“I feel that the inclusion of
suich a provision in the consti
tution would otpen the door to
a host of like prohibitions. I
would support to the full extent
of my ability a larw prohibiting*
gambling in the state. But I
feel that the people of a state
have the right to decide such
questions without going thro
ugh the process of amending
the constitution.”
More than one-bird of the
delegates .responded to the ques
tionnaire.
Most indicated that they
would not go to the convention
with any special “pet” propos
als to push.
They expect to listen and dis
cuss, and resolve the final is
sues on a basis oif give-and-take
George Sundbong, Juneau
newspaperman and former man
ajger of the Alaska Develop
ment Board, phrased it this way
“I feel there is more to be
achieved through the delibera
tions whidh the delegates will
have with one another than
there is in the wisdom of any
one man now — or even in the
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Marine forecast from Mon
day to Tuesday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Si) ika south to south
east winds 20 to 30 mph with
gusts this afternoon and 15 to
25 mph tontgfhi.
Light and- intermittent raini
this afternoon and tonight.
Qu> side waters Sitka to Ya
ku'tat southeasterly winds 20
to 30 mph with gusts.
RAIN ‘ /■*, ,
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