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VOLUME XVI
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John VonHorn named vice
commander national Legion
Legion demands
aid to India cease
until stand changed
MIAMI (/P) John VanHorn,
32, Sitka, Aliaska, was one of
five national vice commanders
elected by acclamation at the
American Legion convention
here today.
Van Horn, the Legion’s first
vice commander from Alaska,
is the son oif the present de
partment of Alaska command
er, E. W. VanHorn and a broth
er of Fred VanHorn. He has
just completed a term as mayor
of Sitka and is associated with
his brother in Blue Lake Farms
MIAMI (/P) Refusal of eco
nomic aid to India was propos
ed by the American Legion
today on grounds India is
“giving material aid to com
munist Russia” under the guise
of neutrality.
The big veterans’ organiza
tion in national convention
here devoted only one para
graph in a 10-page report to
the subject. The report also
termed the Red Chinese “sav
ages.” and called for military
defense of the Formosa area.
Of India it said:
“We deplore the continued
economic aid given (by the
United States to India. That
country, although professing
neutrality, is actually giving
material aid to communist Rus
sia. So long as India continues
to aid and abet Red Russia,
our government should refuse
to give any material aid of
any kind to India.”
The report, by the Legion’s
foreign relations committee,
declared Red China is build
V ecrtchcombing
• Seems that after an early
fall (most oif summer) we are
being treated today with hail
for the coming winter (or is it
here and we don’t know it).
• Had a good time last night
hearing all the newspaper gos
ip from three of the five towns
in Alaska with daily papers.
It isn’t often that I get a chance
to talk “shop” and get caught
up on the “news inside news
papers” in Orelgon. Washington
and Alaska.
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• We hear that one man who
finally raised a beard for Al
aska Day threatened to cut if
off and that his wife had a fit
about it. Seems he “looks so
much better” with the “bea
ver” than he did without it.
I don’t believe it — but that’s
what they tell me.
—|—|—
# I asked “MBS” who was
going to be the next president.
“That’s what the Republi
cans would like to know,” was
his reply.
finig airfields, aiding in the mil
5 itary buildup in North Korea
i and “waiting for an opportun
i ity to deal Korea a death
j blow,” all in violation of the
armistice there.
“We insist that our govern
ment withdraw its support
from the armistice commission
(in Korea) and remove its pro
tection from communist mem
bers of the commission.” said
the report.
Continued refusal of diplo
matic recognition of Red China
and use of “every resource” to
prevent the seating of com
munist China as a mem/ber of
the United Nations were advo
cated.
On Russia, the convention fa
vored continued military stren
gth to keep the U. S. prepar
ed for an eventuality, and op
posed any trade with Russia
until that country “can con
vince the world that she holds
no people, wherever they may
come from, captives.” !
Knight nixes Nixon
as presidential j
possibility i
LOS ANGELES f/P) Repub-j
lican Gov. Goodwin Knight of >
Calitfornia was quoted as say-j
ing today he opposed Vice Pre
sident Nixon as a possible pre-’
sidential candidate because “I,
just don’t think Dick can win”
| Knight in an interview with
the Mirror-News, said also he
1 doesn’t believe that Sen. Wil
! liam P. Knowland (R-Calif) can
win either. Knowland has been j
mentioned along with Nixon asj
a GOP presidential prospect in
I case President Eisenhower
i doesn’t run for re-election next
year.
Knight, interviewed by the
paper’s political editor. Richard
C. Bergholz said there was no
animosity in his attitude and
added that he worked hard for
Nixon during the latter’s 1950
fight for U. S. senator. Nixon
was elected.
[ ‘‘I hope he won’t think I’m
knifing him across the coun
try,” Knight said. “But I sup
pose he will.” Nixon is a Cali
fornian.
The governor reiterated he
' plans to lead the potent 70 vote
! California delegation to the
GOP national convention in
San Francisco next August as
I a nominal “favorite son,” even
j if it means on all-out fight with
Nixon.
1 And if President Eisenhower
intercedes in (behalf of Nixon?
“If the president asks me,
I’ll tell him just what I’m
telling you,” the governor de
1 dared. “I’ll tell him that he
may like the boy. but we just
1 can't elect him.”
1 Knight said he himself took
a public opinion poll during
two weeks of personal inter
views, and in the poll “Dick
got murdered.”
(continued on page lour)
Tuengel-City case
choosing jurors
I A jury to hear the case of
' Charles Tuengel vs. the City of
| Sitka was being selected this
i morning in district court in
j Juneau. At noon the selection
! had not yet been completed,
j Mr. Tuengel is asking diam
aiges from the city for alleged
j personal injuries suffered at
the former SJS-Community
I hospital.
I
Baines boys change
plea to guilty;
receive sentences
Frank Baines, 21, and his
[brother. Joel Baines, 19, thr
jouigh their attorney Warren
! Christianson, today changed
'their not guilty pleas to pleas
of guilty to assault and battery
and soliciting liquor in U. S.
commissioner’s court.
Their counsel, in seeking to
demonstrate to the court cir
cumstances surrounding the in (
cident, had the deputy U. S.!
marshal Charles Johnstone re
late details of his investigation j
to the effect that Mr. and Mrs
William Meachem had been
drinking with a group of friends
for at least an hour at a local
club. He pointed to discrepan
cies in the testimony, "in that j
the Meachem’s had reported
five young men were involved
—- whereas only three appar
ently took part in the fracas;
the Frank Baines had called
Mrs. Meachem an obscene
name according to M. Meach
em. while Frank Baines testif
ied he had said “excuse me” or
“pardon me.” Mr. Christian
son also stated Mr. Meachem
had struck the first blow in
front of the Bayview Cafe.
i
He outlined that Frank
Baines had served one year in
Korea and Japan and if AWOL
from the Marine Corps barracks
on Oct. 24, due to confinement
in a civil jail, he would be tried
again by a military court andj
probably receive a dishonor
2be discharge.
The court sentenced Frank
Baines to one year in jail, with
the term suspended after Oct
22 when he must leave to
1 report for duty; ‘sentenced his
brother, Joel Baines? to 90 days
, in jail, with the term suspend
ed after Oct. 22; and placed
each on probation for three
! years. In addition it levied a
(fine of $200 against Frank and
. $50 against Joel.
Add Wagner new
Legion commander
; MIAMI (A5) J. Addington
1 (Add) Wagner, 41, a Battle
Creek, Mich., attorney was el
' ected national commander of
j the three million member A
'merican Legion today.
| Wagner, a navy veteran
wounded in the Pacific, won
by an overwhelming margin
’in a roll call vote.
| He has been vice chairman
iof the Legion’s AmerP nism
I commission.
Truman blasts American
Legion for stand on UNESCO
Says Legion going
"haywire" by
faking stand
NEW YORK (IP) Former
president Harry S. Truman to
day accused the American Le
gion of going “haywire”
wanting the United States
quit the United Nations edu
cational, scientific and cultural
organization.
The Legion, in a resolution
adopted by an overwhelming
Eisenhower hopes
Russia wiii go
along on inspection
.S3
DENVER (/P) President Ei
senhower, in a letter to Rus
sia's premier Bulganin, coup
les a formal U. S. offer to ac
cept a Soviet military inspec
tion plan with a new plug for
the Eisenhower “pre-disarma- J
ment” program.
The convalescing president's
brief note, made public by the
Denver White House late yes
terday, underscored the admin
istration’s continued hope the
Soviet Union eventually will
go along with the chief execu
tive’s proposal that the Unit
ed States and Russia exchange
military blueprints and agree
on reciprocal aerial inspection.
At the same time, apparent
ly in a move to keep that hope
alive, Eisenhower reiterated
this country is willing to com
bine his plan and the Soviet
program with a view toward
disarmament in the long run.
In a Sept. 19 message to Ei
senhower, five days before the
president was sticken with a
heart attack. Bulganin found
I much fault with the Eisenhow
er plan first put forth at the Big
Four summit conference in Gen
!eva last July.
So miuich fault, in fact, that
administration officials report
edly concluded at the time that
Bulganin had chosen either to
miss or ignore the essence of
the plan — that it would be a
step toward disarmament and
not disarmament itself.
But if the Kremlin leader did
choose to miss or ignore that
basic point, Eisenhower in re
play was quite clear, making
no mention of Bulganin’s blunt
criticism of his proposal. The
president elected to take note
of the premier’s assertion that
the Eisenhower plan was get
ting careful study by the Sov
iet high command.
“. I am encouraged”
Eisenhower wrote, “that you
are giving such full considera
tion to my Geneva proposals.”
Then, in his concluding para
graph, the president formally
renewed a bid to Russia to allay
“fear and suspicion” by com
bining both his own and the
Soviet plan for mutually check
injg on military instalations and
L movements.
voice vote at its Miami coriven
tion yesterday, urged congress
to abolish the U. S. national
commission for UNESCO.
“The Legion doesn’t know
what it is talking about,” de
clared Trumlan.
“They have gone haywire in
the last three or four years.
They don’t know what they
are doing.” •'
Truman, a Legionnaire him
self, voiced his feeling to re
porters as he took his usual
early morning stroll. He and
his wife are sipending a week
in New York.
Noting that the Legion’s res
olution came in the face of ac
tion by a six-man Legion com
mittee which gave UNESCO a
clean bill of health, Truman
noted:
“Their own committee said
that shouldn’t be done.” How
ever. Truman went on to tem
per his criticism, saying of the
Legion membership:
“They’re a fine bunch of
kids. They fought for the wel
fare of their country. Most of
them knew what they were
fighting for, but they seem to
have forgotten about it now.”
Asked what he meant by
saying the Legion had gone
“haywire” in recent years, Tru
man said:
“I’m sorry to see them get
into politics. They had no busi
ness doing so.”
Under the Legion contitu
tion, he said, the veterans or
(continued on page four)
Knowland blasts
"heir apparent"
theme of GOP
TACOMA, Wash. (/P) Sen.
| Knowland (R-Oalif) said last
night that no one mail should
be designated as “an heir-afp
parent” if President Eisenhow
er does not seek re-eection in
1956.
The senate minority eader de
parted from the text of a pre
pared speech to tell a Republi
can women’s club he fe]t “the
; nation will be better served by
a wide-open Republican pri
mary.”
He returned to his text to
say. in further discussion of
possible Republican nominees,
that he did not consider “A
Pepsodent smile, a ready quip,
an actor’s perfection with lines,
nor an ability to avoid issues,
as qualifications for high of
fice.”
Marine forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Cape Spencer south
to southwest winds 15 to 25
* mph decreasing to around 15
' mph by this evening and becom
ing east to southeast 15 to 25.
mph tonight.
[ Cloudy with intermittent raia