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63rd Year No. 154
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Violent Fighting
Erupts In Katanga
BRUSSELS, Belgium OP) — Ka
tanga forces have opened fire on
U.N. forces in Elisnbethville and
have refused to obey President
Moise Tshombe’s orders to cease
firing, the United Nations in Leo
poldville reported today.
In New York, a U.N. spokesman
said the Congo force “has been
instructed to take all necessary
action in self defense and to restore
order.”
Col. Gunnar Samuelson of Swe
den, a U.N. officer, reported that
U.N. troops had been attacked
with bombs and heavy mortars as
well as small arms fire. He said
six Ethiopians and one Indian were
wounded.
A U.N. spokesman in New York
said Tshombe apparently had lost
control of the police.
Earlier the Belgian radio, qu'd
ing diplomatic sources, renorted
the fighting was very violent and
that there were casualties on both
sides.
Katanga has seceded from the
Congo central government based
in Leopoldville and the United Na
tions has been pressing Tshombe
to bring his mineral-rich province
under Leopoldville’s control. The
larger part of the United Nation’s
19,000-man Congo force is report
ed to be in Katanga.
U.S. Smelting Stock Takes
$6 Spurt on Stock Market
NEW YORK UP—Common stock
of U.S. Smelting and Refining Co.
jumped $6 to $48.50 in the New
York Stock Exchange today. But
the company said it couldn’t read
ily explain the big advance.
The firm, whose headquarters
are in Boston, produces gold, sil
ver, lead, zinc, copper, coal, oil
and gas and some other minerals.
Its officers said Dec. 13 that they
planned to give increasing empha
sis to diversification through ac
quisition of natural resources.
In Wall Street, brokers attrib
uted the spurt to Street rumors of
an effort by minority stockholders
to effect some changes in the firm,
possibly through purchase of its
stock.
Walter Keith of Anchorage
Named Director of
Division of Air Commerce
ANCHORAGE UP) — Walter S.
Keith, who has been active in com
mercial aviation in Alaska for 16
years, has been named Director of
the Alaska Division of Air Com
merce.
Keith’s appointment made by
the Public Service Commission,
becomes effective Jan. 2. He re
places Jack Scavenius of Anchor
age, who recently submitted his
resignation.
A resident of Anchorage since
1963, Keith has most recently been
doing independent flying, includ
ing contract work for the Depart
ment of Interior.
Lord Brabazon Suggests
Slower Speed for Aircraft
LONDON UP) — Lord Brabazon
of Britain, a pioneer aviator, sug
gests that they make airliners
capable of carrying 250 people but
slow the maximum speed to 250
miles per hour. This is more than
300 mph below the cruising speed
of modern jet airliners. Braba
zon’s suggestion appeared in an
article in the 1962 Lloyd’s List
Annual Review.
Or. KeKev Will Head
Mew Office to Test
New Drugs on Humans
WASHINGTON (,!’! — Dr. Francis
Kelsey, hailed as a national heroine
for keeping thalidomide off the
American market, today was put
at the head of a new U S. office
which will pass on requests to test
new drugs on humans.
Her appointment as Director of
the Investigational Drug Branch
was part of a reorganization at t'm
Food and Drug Administration’s
new drug division which was ap
proved today by Secretary of Wel
fare Anthony Celebrezz.e.
In a statement Celobrezze said
the retooling of the drug division
into five branches will permit the
FDA to cope with its increased
responsibilities in the new drug
area.
As a backlash of the outcry over
the thalidomide—a sedative blamed
for deformities of thousands of in
fants born in Europe — Congress
last October enacted a law giving
the FDA stronger authority over
production and sales of prescrip
tion drugs.
Somerset Maugham Seeks
Hight to Deny Daughter
Arv of His Fortune
NICE, France UP — Author
Somerset Maugham has gone into
a French court in an effort to
deny his daughter any of his for
tune when he dies—and to get
back $2 million he says he has j
given her since she was born 47
years ago.
The British author, 88, claimed
in a suit filed in Nice that Eliza
beth Mary Maugham — now the
wife of Lord John Hope — is not
legally his daughter because she
was conceived while her mother
was married to another man.
Lady Hope is the daughter of
the late Syrie Bernardo Maugham,
a well-known interior decorator
whose marriage to the writer ended
in 1928. She died in 1955.
Maugham contended in his suit
that the daughter was conceived
while her mother was still married
to Henry Welcome. Welcome di
vorced his wife, naming Maugham
as co-respondent, and she and the
writer subsequently married.
The contention that Lady Hope
is legally someone else’s daughter ,
apparently was made to deny her
any share of her father’s estate
when he dies. Maugham revealed j
at the same time that last April »
he adopted Alan Frank Searle, his
secretary for 32 years as his son.
Searle is 50. 1
‘Mona’ S*il1 Locked Up
WASHINGTON UP — A public \
clamor — “Let Mona Lisa Out!” — ,
failed today to release the Leon- J
ardo da Vinci masterpiece from her
art gallery prison.
U.S. and French officials insisted
the young Florentine matron with
the mysterious smile must wait \
until Jan. 8 to make her American j
debut. j j
The 450-year-old portrait came j j
here Dec. 19, on leave from the i
Paris Louvre, and was immediate- I j
lv locked up in an underground ! ■
vault of the National Gallery of .
Art. ' |
Word was passed that the French
government, with its love for cere
mony, wanted to delay her unveil- ’
ing until members of the new
Congress were in town. So on Jan. 1
8 President Kennedy, with all the J
required protocol, will introduce i
her to legislators, diplomats and (
other notables. The public showing £
will open the next day and con- \
tinue for three weeks. I
2-Day Celebration
Will Mark Egan’s
Inauguration
JUNEAU W — Formal inaugu- i
ration ceremonies for Gov. Wm.
p"nn and Secretarv of State Hugh
Wade were set today for 2 p.m.
Jan. 20. the highlight of a two-dav
inauguration program, Alaska’s
f’rst under statehood.
Details of the two-dav program
"•ere announced by chairman Felix
Toner of the Inauguration Com
mittee. Plans for formal ceremonies
marking Egan’s first term in 1950
were called off when he suffered
a near fatal illness.
Toner said the two-dav program
will start on Jan. 25 with an onen
house hosted bv the chief execu
tive and Mrs. Egan.
Inaugural dinners, each no-host
buffets sponsored by the Demo
cratic State Central Committee,
will be held at three locations —
the Baranof Hotel, the Elks Lodge
and Mike's Place — following the
reception.
ana wane win visit eacn
of the dining rooms during the J
dining period. Toner said, although
no formal programs have been
planned.
Scheduled Saturday, Jan. 26, are
a parade through the downtown
area and lV^-hour pageants, fea
turing native dances and other
j Alaska entertainment.
The parade will start at 10 a.m.
J The pageants are scheduled for 12
j noon and 3 p.m. in the Juneau
Douglas High School Auditorium.
The formal inauguration will be
held in the High School gym.
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce will sponsor a series of re
ceptions for out of town guests
Saturday evening and at 10 p.m.
inaugural balls will start at the
Baranof Hotel, the Elks Lodge and
the Juneau Armory. Other sites
will be used if necessary, Toner
said.
Admission to the inaugural ball I
will be $5 per person and a similar
charge will be made for the no
host buffets Friday night.
The inaugural ceremony itself
and the Juneau Chamber of Com
merce receptions will be on an
invitation only basis.
Toner said some 7,500 invita
tions will be mailed to persons in
Alaska and other states.
Top Secret . . .
PALM BEACH, Fla. (A»v — If
Pushinka is about to have puppies
—it’s top secret.
Two weeks ago it was confirmed
that Pushinka—one of the Ken
nedy children’s three pet dogs—
had taken a pregnancy test. Now
the White House is turning cov.
“The iron curtain has descend
ed,’’ Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, quipped when ask
ed about the test results. The 10
days it took for completion are
gone and the results should be in.
Rut, Salinger is refusing to con
firm or deny the rumors.
Pushinka, a fluffy white dog.
is the daughter of the Soviet
Union’s famous space dog “Strelka”
and was given to the Kennedys by
Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Composer Harry Carroll Passes
SANTA BARBARA. Calif. (An—
Harry Carroll, 70, composer, whose
s'ongs included “I’m Always Chas
ing Rainbows,” and “By the Sea,”
lied Wednesday two weeks after
suffering a heart attack. Carroll
wrote “Trail of the Lonesome
Pine” when he was 17.
Donovan Says He Alone !
Responsible for Release of
Cuban Invasion Prisoners
WASHINGTON UP — Attorney
James B. Donovan says that he
alone, and not Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy, was responsible for the
operation that brought 1,113 Cuban
invasion prisoners to the United
States.
In a telephone interview Thurs
day with the Washington Star,
Donovan implied he could have
finished the job himself without
help from Kennedy at all if it had
not been for the Cuban missile
crisis in October.
Donovan, a New York lawyer
and unsuccessful Democratic can
didate for the Senate in the Nov.
ft election in New York is counsel
for the Cuban Families Commit
tee which negotiated the prisoner
exchange for $53 million worth of
drugs, food and equipment.
Contacted at Lake Placid, N.Y.,
where he is resting after long ne
gotiations with Cuban Prime Min
ister Fidel Castro. Donovan told
the Star that he has “enormous
respect for the Attorney General,
but it is absolutely and unquali
fiedly so that the policy and nego
tiations were entrusted to me.”
Government sources had report
ed previously that Kennedy had
directed a team of government of
ficials who helped manage the
massive operation.
CASTRO WON'T RELEASE
ANY MORE RELATIVES
HAVANA U?) — A diplomatic
source said today an offer to per
mit 1.000 Cubans to leave has been
canceled.
The information came from a
Swiss diplomat. Prime Minister
Fidel Castro had said the 1,000 ad
ditional relatives of released Bay
of Pigs prisoners could leave
aboard an American freighter.
The diplomat said he had re
ceived his information on the can
cellation from the Ministry of the
Interior. He added that he is seek
ing further confirmation.
Army May Be Denied
Right to Make Guard and
Reserves Combat Ready
WASHINGTON UP* — Chiefly to
save money, the Army reportedly
may be denied authority to put
into full effect a key part of a
plan intended to make National
Guard and Reserve forces more
combat ready.
The total amount of money in
volved is perhaps $7 million a year.
The Army has proposed sending
as many as 100,000 Reservists to
summer training for two weeks j
with high-priority Guard and Re- !
serve units.
Defense Department officials !
were understood to have moved :
to trim this number to about 55.000. ;
Questions other than money are 5
involved, including whether a re- .
organization of the Guard will be
far enough along by summer to .
permit utilization of the full
100.000.
The Army plan terns from a d - I
sire to avoid troubles that eropned
up during the Berlin crisis mobili
zation last year.
Difficulties developed then with ’
the assignment of individual Re- \
servists to fill the gaps in under- j
strength Guard and Reserve units, j
It was found that many of these 1
“fillers,” lacked necessary military !
skills. They had to be trained to
handle jobs to which they were
assigned and this held back the
combat readiness of some of the
outfits.
!\ Hiolngisf (.barges
(’anada Withholds
Certain Data About
Radiation in A retie
EDMONTON. Alta. L4* — A
United States biologist says the
Canadian government is withhold
ag certain far'- about radiation
levels in the Arctic. Federal offi
cials immediately denied the
charge.
Dr. William Pruitt, 40, said
Thursday night in a telephone in
terview from Fairbanks that be
cause no one is worried about
whether radiation is affecting rein
deer, caribou or Eskimos, the seri
ousness of radioactive contamina
tion is not being made known.
He said the government is
“hushing up" information on radi
ation.
Dr. Pruitt, formerly associated
with the University of Alaska,
added:
“Contamination in Cana d a ’ s
Arctic regions has far surpassed
considerable safe levels. Autop
sies performed on the bodies of
four Alaskans revealed bones which
had four times the concentration of
I strontium-90 than other United
States residents. This indicated an
extremely dangerous situation.”
He urged a non-government in
ternational study into the question
of radiation in the Far North, a
region he described as a radiation
‘‘hot spot.”
Dr. Pruitt said the U.S. Federal
Radiation Council has set a safe
limit for humans of exposure to
strontium-90 at about 17 strontium
units. Studies revealed levels of
contamination in Arctic caribou
bones now ranged from 100 to 200
strontium units.
Dr. Pruitt said the situation prob
ably has been aggravated recently
because of Russian and American
nuclear tests and said his studies
were made prior to recent ex
| plosions.
' Contamination is highest in
caribou and reindeer because they
feed on lichen, a type of northern
moss, which retains virtually 100
per cent of the radioactive particles
which fall upon it and may remain
contaminated for many years.
Because caribou is the base of
the food chain in the Arctic, Dr.
Pruitt said contamination spreads
from lichen to caribou to human.
Dave Dunsmuir, executive assist
ant to the Federal Health Minister,
said government tests of radio
active contamination in the North
west Territories and the Arctic in
dicated levels far below the na
tional average.
He denied the government was
su r press i ng in form a t i on.
“Our figures are released month
ly and I can assure you we are
not faking them. We still have a.
long way to go before the levels
present any real problem.”
TWO TO ONE . . .
BERKELEY. Calif. ■,?' _ For
every two marriages in California
th:s year there was nearly one
divorce.
Di. Malcolm it. Morrill, State
Health Director, released figures in
his annual report showing there
were 114.000 marriages. 48.000 di
vorces and 5,700 annulments.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued fair. Low tonight -20,
high tomorrow -8. In the last 24
hours: High of 23, low of -8. Max.
wind 16 mph from the north. Sun
rise at 10:03 a.m., sunset at 2:04
p.m. Temps, a year ago today:
High of -35, low of -41.