NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 49
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1963
Per Copy 15£
Three Americans Released from
Cuban Jails Were Intelligence Agents
WASHINGTON — Congres
sional sources said today that three
of the prisoners released by Cuba’s
Fidel Castro in an exchange for
four held in the United States
were Central Intelligence agents.
Castro was said to be aware that
some of the prisoners he agreed
with New York attorney James
Donovan to exchange were CIA
employes.
Members of Congress familiar
with the situation said that Dono
van was acting under government
orders in making the pact with
Castro to release three Cubans and
a Cuban-American who were held
in U.S. jails.
Amopg the Cubans released was
Francisco Molina Del Rio, serving
a sentence of 20 years to life in
New York for killing a nine-year
old girl during a brawl in New
York between Castro-Cubans and
refugee Cubans. He is a former
Castro bodyguard.
In St. Louis, the St. Louis Globe
Democrat reported in a copyrighted
story that an undercover employe
of the Central Intelligence Agency
was among 21 Americans recently
released from Cuban prisons.
He was identified as Daniel
Carswell, 45, supposedly an engi
neer from Eastchester, N.Y. His
real identity, the paper said, re
mained concealed.
Carswell was imprisoned more
than 2Vz years on a 10-year espi
onage sentence. Fidel Castro knew
of Carswell’s alleged connection
with the CIA, the Globe-Democrat
said.
The CIA had no comment on
the story.
The paper reported Castro’s
agents arrested Carswell Sept. 14.
1960, on charges of spying on a
Red Chinese news agency in Ha
vana. ^A revolutionary tribunal
convicted him three months later
and sent him to the Isle of Pines
prison.
Carswell, who lists his birth
place as Ashland, Pa., was flown
with 20 other Americans follow
ing his release to a military air
port near Miami. Then Carswell,
a bachelor, left for Washington,
the Globe-Democrat said.
The New York World Telegram
and Sun said:
The United States agreed to the
unusual prisoner “swap” primarily
Gov. Rosellini Speaks
Out on Recreation Lands
For Western States
PHOENIX, Ariz. tf) — Western
states would stand to gain more
than $1 million for planning, ac
quiring and developing recrea
tion lands if legislation now before
Congress is enacted into law,
Washington’s Gov. Albert Rosellini
said today.
Speaking on the closing day of
the Western Governors Conference,
Rosellini said the federal match
ing funds the pending legislation
would provide would help the
western states become the play
ground for the nation.
The legislation, he said, pro
poses to make available $125 mil
lion a year to the 50 states, on a
matching basis for recreational
purposes.
Alaska would receive $597,800,
he said.
Another speaker, Atty. Gen.
Stanley Mosk of California, urged
action to protect investors through
out the nation from questionable
land promotions.
to free the captured CIA agents,
who were held in Castro dungeons
along with American adventurers
and soldiers of fortune.
“In return, the government
agreed to release four Cubans held
in this country — a convicted mur
derer and three alleged saboteurs
awaiting trial for plotting to blow
up defense installations.”
Karras Faces Suspension
From Wrestling Career
MUSKEGON, Mich. <*> — Alex
Karras, star Detroit Lions tackle
under suspension from the Nation
al Football League, now faces the
possibility of a similar fate in his
wrestling career.
Michigan Boxing Commissioner
David Gudelsky said today with
out question there will be fines
I or suspensions for both Karras
and wrestler Richard Affils as a
result of a bar room brawl early
Tuesday in Detroit involving
them.
Affils, 34, who as Dick the
Bruiser wrestles Karras Saturday
night in Detroit, lost a fall to
eight policemen in the bar, and
had five stitches taken in a head
cut he said was caused when
someone hit him with a pool cue.
XNuciear-rowered Sub
USS Jack Hits the Water
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. UP) — A
new nuclear-powered attack sub
marine, the USS Jack, slid into
the water at the Portsmouth Naval
Shipyard today, two weeks after
her sister ship, USS Thresher, sank
with 129 aboard.
The Jack, the third Thresher
class submarine built at the Ports
mouth yard, went down the ways
and into the estuary of the Pis
cataqua River shortly before noon.
It was at 9:17 a.m. April 10 that
last contact was made with the
Thresher.
The Jack was christened by
Mrs. Leslie Groves of Darien,
Conn., wife of the retired Army
lieutenant general who at one
time headed the Manhattan proj
ect for development of the atomic
bomb.
Mrs. Groves broke the tradi
tional bottle of champagne over
the gray ship and it slowly moved
down the ways and splashed into
the water.
A crowd estimated by the Navy
at 2,000 sat in overcoats and furs.
In the principal address preced
ing the launching, Groves referred
to the dangers involved for crew
men aboard such a ship. 1
“Military service is not without
its hazards,” he said. “To make
our country strong our men in
uniform must run such risks as are
necessary to insure the maximum
development of their equipment
and the means of using that equip
ment, including the limits in which
it can be safely employed.”
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Increased cloudiness with occa
sional snow with 15 to 25 mph
gusting winds beginning this
afternoon. Low tonight 15, high
tomorrow 32. In the last 24 hours:
High of 26, low of 3. Max. wind
25 mph from the NW. Sunrise at
3:56 a.m., sunset at 8:05 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High
of 33, low of 26. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 47 in
1938, low of -10 in 1924.
In Nenana today it was partly
cloudy and had a high temperature
of 42.
Study Committee
Urges Employment
For Idle U.S. Youth
WASHINGTON UP* — A top
level study committee recommed
ed to President Kennedy today a
broad local, state and federal
drive to put a growing army of
young idle people into gainful em
ployment.
The 33-member panel headed
by Secretary of Labor Willard
Wirtz warned that although youths
aged 16-21 comprise only one out
of 14 members of the nation’s
labor force, they account for one
out of six unemployed. The group
said the idle youth problem is
growing steadily more grave.
The committee — made up of
cabinet members, representatives
of labor and management and
sociologists — had a wide variety
of recommendations, including pas
sage of a plan similar to Kennedy’s
recommendation to Congress to
promote urban-rural youth em
ployment.
This legislation — called the
Youth Employment Act — creat
ing make-work in city and country
at some $100 million initial cost
for 65,000 youths the first year
and for 130,000 the second year—
has passed the Senate and is pend
ing in the House.
Other recommendations:
Governors and mayors should
establish continuing commissions
on youth affairs.
Employers should re-examine
their hiring, training and promo
tion policies.
The committee reported the
number of unemployed youths is
600,000 to 800,000 and at the rate
things are going will double by
1970.
Norvin Lewis Funeral Friday
Norvin Lewis, who passed away
Monday noon, will buried from
the Community Methodist Church
with a Masonic ceremony on Fri
day afternoon at 2:00 p.m.
The family has requested that
those wishing to make memorial
offerings may make contributions
to the Shriner’s Hospital, a service
for children in which the deceased
was very interested.
Princess Alexandria of
Kent Marries Scotsman
LONDON — Princess Alex- 1
andria of Kent, 12th in line for
the British throne, was married i
in the medieval splendor of West- 1
minster Abbey today to Scotsman
Angus Ogilvy, a financier and sec
ond son of the Earl of Airlie. 1
It probably was the last wed- *
ding of a British princess for a (
decade. The only unmarried one
left it Anne, 12-year-old daughter (
of Queen Elizabeth II. Anne was ‘
the chief bridesmaid today. \
Thousands of Londoners jam- *
med Parliament Square outside the
900-year-old Abbey and lined the 5
flag-hung hall of to cheer the <
tall, smiling princess and her ]
craggy-faced businessman bride- i
groom. Millions of Britons watch- l
ed on television. 1
Alexandria, daughter of the late
Duke of Kent and Princess Ma- 1
riana, is 26. Her father was killed ;
in a Royal Air Force crash dur- .
ing World War II. ]
Ogilvy is 34. She has known him
since her teens.
Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother ;
Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, :
Prince Philip and Prince Charles
headed the British royal family
seated to one side of the high altar. 1
John Golovin Dexter
Passes While in Seattle
SEATTLE OP — John Golovin
Dexter, member of a pioneer Alas
ka family, died here yesterday
in a hospital. He was 59.
His home has been in Skokie,
til., for about five years and he
aecame ill here while on his way
to Alaska for the construction
season.
For about five years before
moving to Skokie he lived here
and was a construction foreman
in Alaska.
He was born in Council, Alaska,
and spent his childhood in Golo
vin. His uncle, John Dexter, was
a mining man around Nome, Dime
Dreek and Teller.
Dexter was a violinist in his
youth and later taught school in
Alaska. In recent years he had
worked on federal construction
projects throughout Alaska.
Besides a son, John, at Skokie,
he is survived by his wife, Ann;
Two sisters, Molly Dexter of Nome
and Mrs. Flora Peterson of Sitka,
and a grandson.
Funeral services will be held
here Thursday.
FBI Agents Apprehend
Man for Unlawful Flight
ANCHORAGE UP> — FBI agents
arrested an Anchorage taxicat
driver yesterday on a Michigar
warrant charging him with un
lawful flight to avoid prosecutiot
for armed robbery in Port Huron.
Information accompanying th<
warrant indicated there were fou
armed robberies in the Michigai
city in February and April, com
mitted by two men.
An FBI spokesman said the cat
driver, James Craig, 36, said h<
could prove he was in Anchorag<
on March 15 and indicated he ma}
fight extradition.
Craig has been living here with
his wife and three children. He
was being held in federal jail
in lieu of $5,000 bail, pending a
hearing on the federal flight
charge.
King Hussein of Jordan
Won’t Quit His Throne
AMMAN, Jordan t?* — King
Hussein declared Tuesday he never
vill quit the throne of Jordan,
;haken by pro-Nasser demonstra
ions last weekend.
“Let me make it clear,” the
; m i 1 i n g, confident 27-year-old
non arch told a news conference.
I am no quitter.”
Aware of the history of assassi
lations in the turbulent Middle
Cast, Hussein scorned the threat
>f an assassin’s bullet.
He called assassination ‘‘an oc
upational hazard which one takes
is a normality. Mv life does not
nean anything to me if it is not
n the service of my people.”
The monarch said the demon
trations, called to demand Jordan
;nter the new United Arab Re
>ublic, were “an organized affair”
timed at destroying his govern
nent. But he said security forces
tad the situation under control.
Jordan is striving for closer re
ations with other Arab countries
rnd is prepared to take part in an
\rab union “on a proper basis,”
le said.
The King declared he would de
fend his throne with his life in
i speech to the nation Monday
light.
“I will carry on my heritage as
long as I live,” he said in the
broadcast.
U.S. Teams Win 12
Gold Medals in Pan
American Games
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Bar
bara Ellen McAllister of Phoenix,
Ariz., won the three-meter women’s
springboard diving championship
and the U.S. team captured the
over-all pistol-shooting title today
to boost to 12 the United States’
total of gold medals in the Pan
American games.
Patsy Willard of Meza, Ariz.,
added a bronze medal in the wom
en’s diving. After leading through
the first five dives, Miss Willard
dropped below Judy Stewart of
Canada in the three-meter com
petition.
In a major upset, Canadian Tom
Dinsley, of Vancouver, B.C., won
the three-meter spring board div
ing title by a razor’s edge margin
in the fourth Pan-American games
today.
Dick Gilbert, Indiana sophomore
from Lancaster, Pa., was second.
Miss McAllister, a brown-haired
beauty, was handicapped by a cold
I and sore throat, but she came
through like the U.S. national
champion she is. She took over the
lead on the second of her five
optional dives today and about
wrapped it up with a superb 2Vz
forward somersault pike that earn
ed her 16.79 points.
The strong U.S. pistol team
1 scored 2.170 points in beating out
Canada, second with 2.146, and
1 Brazil, third with 2.104.
The U.S. pistol team is made
' up of Army and Marine person
nel.
1 With the track and field events
still to come the United States is
threatening to make a runaway
* of the games. Uncle Sam’s powerful
; swimmers captured the first four
? finals Tuesday.
Boeing Co. and Machinists
Dispute Still Not Settled
SEATTLE UP) — Labor and
management appear at cross pur
poses despite dogged attempts at
settling the nine-months Boeing
Co.-AFL-CIO Machinists’ Union
contract dispute.
Negotiators for the two parties
were scheduled to meet this after
noon.
A rift appeared in the making
on the basis of statements issued
Tuesday by Boeing and the Ma
chinists.
Several top union leaders from
throughout the country held a
strategy session here, then appeal
ed to workers at Boeing’s scattered
installations to remain on the job
pending the meeting, which the
union said was “to explore the
possibility of bettering the last
company offer.”
But the big aerospace firm said
flatly the meeting was not being
considered a re-negotiating session
on an agreement which was nar
rowly defeated by the union mem
bership last week.
Dill L. Pickle . . .
CHICAGO — The National
Pickle Packers Assn, has an
nounced the winner of its ‘‘Man
of the Year Award.”
He is, the association said, Dill
L. Pickle of Hollandale, Miss.,
owner of Pickle’s Dairy Bar.
Pan Am's Sales Rise
NEW YORK UP) — Pan Ameri
can World Airways Inc., earned
$15,007,000, equal to $2.32 a share,
in 1962, compared with $8,927,000,
or $1.34 a share, in 1961.
Sales rose to $503,916,000 from
$460,567,000.