Kennedy ()rdei\s
Crackdown on
Shipping lo Cuba
WASHINGTON OP — President
Kennedy has ordered a major
economic crackdown on shipping
between the Communist bloc and
Cuba and the action program is
expected to be put into effect in
ten days or two weeks.
One effect of the policy decisions |
would be to close U.S. ports to !
Soviet shipping because Soviet
vessels are used to deliver arms
to Cuba.
This is a symbolic gesture since
Soviet flag vessels very seldom
call at American ports, but it may
have considerable impact on for
eign understanding of U.S. concern
about the Red arms buildup in
Cuba.
The move, which has been under
study for some time, would be the
first action by the United States
following Wednesday night’s unan
imous Inter-American F o r c i g n
Ministers' condemnation of the So
viet-supported Fidel Castro re
gime in Cuba.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
told the lh Latin-American For-|
t ign Ministers — and the State
Department sent word to North I
Atlantic Treaty Organization Al- j
lies — that the United States is i
planning to take immediately the !
following steps to prohibit or dis- ■
courage shipping to Cuba:
1. Close United States ports to }
all shipping of countries which ,
have any v.. ■ ! - whatever engaged
in ( arryin ,.r! to Cuba.
2. Deny a w U.S. government j
cargo to t ea ign flag ships of any
owm.;• whose vessels are used in
trade be‘\\g a Cuba and the Sino
Soviel bloc.
3. Flath bar all United States ’
owned ships from carrying goods !
to Cuba.
4. Close Un fed States ports to |
any vessel which on a continuous
voyage i. employed in trade be
tween Communist bloc countries
and Cuba.
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J). B. Skinner Protests
Law Which Bars
Operation of Trainship
SEATTLE !/P' — Federal law pro
hibiting foreign-built ships from
carrying cargo from one U.S. port
to another was protested Wednes
day by D. E. Skinner, president
of the Alaska Steamship Co.
This law has blocked Alaska
Steam’s attempt to operate the
Japanese-built trainship City of
New Orleans between Seattle and
Alaska.
“We think it is naive,” Skinner
told the Propeller Club at its na
tional convention here, “to ex
pect a carrier in this trade to
modernize his fleet, meet increas
ing operating costs, live with pro
longed rate hearings and compete
for passengers and cargo with
other carriers who arc in no way
limited in their ability to buy their
equipment from foreign sources.
“Wo see no consistency in al
lowing domestic airlines to buy
foreign airplanes, domestic motor
carriers to buy foreign buses or
domestic railroads to buy foreign
equipment to haul cargo between
two U.S. points and at the same
time telling the domestic water
carrier that ho can only look to a
U.S. shipyard for replacement of
his equipment. . .
“If it is the intent to subsidize
the shipyards, then subsidze them
—but not at the expense of the
domestic carrier who pays 100 per
cent of the cost of whatever he
buys to modernize his fleet.”
Skinner said American taxpay
ers are, in effect, subsidizing the
Alaska railbarge service of the
Canadian National Railroad. He
said federal agencies are loaning
;ru :: for CNR railbarge terminals
and t e Canadian system is using
equ'pmer.t financed through U.S.
TVFuiitime Administration mort
gage insurance.
Skinner evidently referred to a
loan of more than a million dol
lars by the U.S. Area Redevelop
ment Administration for construc
tion of an ocean terminal near Ket
chikan to tie in with the Canadian
system.
The Tom Crowley Towboat in
terests were reported to have
chartered a half - million - dollar
barge from the Griffith Tug &
Bar te Co. to haul Canadian rail
cars from Prince Rupert, B.C., to
Whittier, Alaska. The barge was
financed by federal mortgage in
surance.
Canadian National began last
May routing American freight from
the midwest and east over Can
adian rail lines and north via
barge from Prince Rupert.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fia. ■*>
Walter M. Schirra hero of Wed
nesday’s dazzling nine-hour .satel
lite flight six times around the
earth, told Thursday the scientific
story he was much too bus;.’ tc re
late' in space.
After the 39-year-old Novy com
mander, comfortably lodged in the
admiral’s cabin of the aircraft
carrier Kearsarge, completes his
uninterrupted dictaphone account
ings, physicians will examine him
thoroughly for any possible after
effects. Two doctors on the Kear
sarge have reported he apparent
ly suffered no ill effects.
No other American has s.wu.t
so much time — more than . ine
hours —- weigh less and in ■ t
From first appearances, the . t: .i”
had been no greater than f v < \- t
plane flight of comparable I '
The Kearsarge plucked Sa
—perfectly dry and comfortable
in his Sigma 7 spacecraft — from
mid-Pacific waters less than three
miles off its bow.
With unprecedented accuracy,
and a performance of unrivaled
smoothness, Schirra and the Proj
ect Mercury team that launched
him from Cape Canaveral hit a
bulk-eye for the longest orbit
flight yet taken by an American.
Schirra blasted off at Florida's
breakfast hour — 7:15 a.m. EST.
He traveled about 1 (19.000 miles,
and then went aboard the carrier
before lunch had been served.
By contrast, the water journey
of less than 1.000 miles to Hono
lulu, under way. will take about
72 hours, or eight times as long
as the Sigma 7 cruise.
His spacecraft parachuted into
the water 285 miles northeast of
Midway Island at 4:23 p.m. EST.
A whaleboat from the Kear
sarge took him in tow. and at
5:08 p.m. EST, a winch lifted Sig
ma 7 and its pilot aboard the car
rier.
As the first space traveler to re
turn to earth thousands of miles
from his takeoff point, Schirra
actually completed about 5': t
orbits rather than six.
The aeronaut attained a peak
altitude of 176 miles — higher
than that of any other space
traveler except the Soviet Union’s
187-mile-high Yuri Gagarin.
Obviously enjoying himself all
the while, he convulsed his team
mates on the ground with his
jaunty responses to their commu
nications.
With all the gaiety, Schirra re
mained what all the astronauts
have been trained to be — a space
scientists, a technical observer.
Dr. Brainerd Holmes, director
of the Lunar Exploration Program
for the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, said, “this
was a hugely successful flight,
magnificently performed.”
As soon as he boarded the car
rier. Schirra answered two Wash
ington telephone calls — from
President Kennedy and Vice Pres
ident Lyndon Johnson — and .one
from his wife, Josephine Schirra,
in Houston, Tex.
President Kennedy greeted him
with a “Hi Commander,” and told
him the country was delighted
with his “wonderful job.”
The astronaut said that the Pres
ident’s Sept. 11 visit to Cape Can
averal was greatly appreciated —
“it seemed to help.”
The flight and the manner in
which it was conducted made r
special impact on Europe, when
millions on both side of the Iror
Curtain tuned in films on tele
vision, shortly after the launch
in a program relayed bv the Tel
star communications satellite.
Moscow radio called Schirra “«
courageous son of the America!
people.”
A bathing suit manufacturer
claims he can cut six bikinis irorr
a square yard of material.
Stage Set tor Debate
Between Stepovich and
Kgan at Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN ,-P The stage;
! may bo set hero for a delayed!
! action “great debate” the latter
; i>:.rt of next week between Gov.
Win. figan and Republican guber
natorial candidate Mike Stepo
vich.
The two candidate.- ar< sched
tiled to trade verbal punches from
the same platform on successive
days, according to local sources.
The delayed action debate was
set when Egan and Stepovich ac
cepted speaking dates at Ketchi
kan High School. Egan is flue to
address the 800 students at the
... ool Thursday while Stepovich
i~ slat'd for an address Friday
afternoon.
1 gan will answer a series of j
cues!ions posed by students and
faculty, according to James Pink- j
erton. Democratic candidate for the j
State House- of Roprest ntative-. Re- j
••ublican source s said Stepovich !
-I. 1 received a similar set of ((lies-I
tions.
Both candidates a’- will address i
the Grand Igloo Pioneers of the!
Alaska Convention, too.
Pinkerton said the questions in
clude:
Why are y--u a Democrat'.' What
is your platform? Is the state in
a good financial condition? How
do you justify the high turnover
n ha Highway D y w. ent? Dis
ci! - s the status of the f.-nw sys
tem? Why should you rather than
your < pponent be elected . v- nor
| < f Alaska?
| Pinkerton said similar question
| were sent to Stepovich.
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(iunfire Lca\cs Four
Dead in Los Angch-s Hotel
LOS ANGELES '.L A .-.hiring
radio, a complain*, a b--aTing ar.d
a fu.ulacie of gunfire left four dead
Thursday in a West L>> Ar. ■ :•
hotel.
Police at fji. t theorized *na' a
berserk gunman caused the < r
nage and fled Later, they theoriz* d
teat one of the four victim.- fir d
the shots.
Six hours after the midnigat
fracas police came up with the. e
tentative identifications:
Sheridan Sherman Burch Sr,
62, Cal G. Britton, and Edward P.
Clark, about 60. ail occupants of
separate rooms on the same floor
of the Cooier Hotel: Lucy Hannon,
the manager.
Daniel Haro, 31, nurseryman and
apparently a bypass*.r. was hospi
talized with bullet w our.cls in the
rig: 1 arm and back.
Police said officers revived a
telephone call complainin;' of a
loud radio at the small tv v
■tel.
The desk sergeant suggested t; e
< nmpla trier sc* the manager. • l
iiffered to serif; a patrol car by
"Mr . I ll take care < ■: : a If,”
.•.•as the imply of the w identified
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