OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64 th Year No. 81
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1963
Per Copy 150
U.S. Puts a Freeze
On All Cuban
Assets in America
WASHINGTON UP — The United
States today froze all Cuban assets
in this country, whether owned by
the Fidel Castro government or
Cuban individuals. At the same
time all unlicensed financial or
commercial transactions with Cuba
by Americans were forbidden.
In general, the orders put the
Communist-dominated island coun
try in the same class with Com
munist China and North Korea,
but under more stringent rules
than those applying to the Soviet
bloc.
Funds that refugees manage to
get out of the country are not af
fected by the freeze order, unless
it is determined they actually are
acting in behalf of the Castro
government.
The new regulation, instituted
by the Treasury at the request of
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, be
came effective one minute after
midnight this morning.
The action, the State Depart
ment said was taken “to restrict
the movement of funds from Cuba”
in accordance with the July 3
resolution of the Organization of
American States urging member
governments to counter Castro
type subversion in the Western
Hemisphere.
The controls as announced by
the State Department will work
three ways.
Firstly the Treasury blocked all
assets in the United States of Cuba
or of persons in Cuba, estimated
to be in the neighborhood of $33
million.
Secondly, it prohibited Ameri
cans to engage in “unlicensed
transfer” of U.S. dollars to or from
Cuba.
Thirdly, it prohibited all other
unlicensed transactions with Cuba
or Cuba nationals or transactions
involving property in which there
is a Cuban interest.
Salmon Run ‘ Fantastic'*
JUNEAU i.4*> — Seiners resumed
fishing in the Icy Strait area dur
ing a regular weekly fishing period
today as a horde of pink salmon
streaked in from the gulf in a
run described as fantastic.
The State Department of Fish
and Game estimated that roughly
a million fish were caught during
a special 24-hour season which
ended at midnight Saturday.
Frank See, a member of the
State Board of Fish and Game and
a native of the fishing community
of Hoonah, said Sunday the run
could only be described as fan
tastic.
“Only in 1931 have I ever seen
anything to equal this,” See com
mented.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
American League
Chicago 4, Boston 1
Baltimore 4, Minnesota 3
Washington 7-6. Los Angeles 3-4
Cleveland 11-4, New York 3-7
Detroit 5-7, Kansas City 1-8
National League
Pittsburgh 11, New York 5
Philadelphia 3, Chicago 2
Los Angeles 4-3, Cincinnati 0-1
San Francisco 4-0, St. Louis 3-5
Milwaukee 4, Houston 0
Pacific Coast League
Dallas-Ft. Worth 6-2, Seattle 5-1
Denver 12-6, San Diego 4-9
Tacoma 2-3, Oklahoma City 1-6
Portland 7-3, Salt Lake City 1-7
Spokane 10, Hawaii 7
Hundreds of Youths
Mar Final Day of Grand
Prix Sport Car Races
GARNETT, Kan. — This little
eastern Kansas town picked up the
pieces today and wondered what
course to take after a wild riot
by hundreds of beer drinking
youths that marred the final day
of the fifth annual Grand Prix
Sport Car Races, a national event
attended by 65,000 persons.
A policeman was dead of a heart
attack suffered at the height of
the riot early Sunday. More than
100 persons were treated for minor
injuries. Officers jailed 26 of an
estimated 1,500 youths involved
in the riot.
The sports car drivers, who had
no part in the riot, were angry.
“They messed the whole thing up,”
one driver said.
Many officials doubted the races
could continue.
Police Capt. Robert Cowdin, 42,
of Ottawa, Kan., father of three
children, collapsed after he had
used a tear gas gun against the
rioters.
The youths fought police and
firemen, hurled bricks and stones,
beer bottles and cans. Twice they
tried unsuccessfully to storm the
city jail to free youths arrested
earlier and in protest of the clos
ing of two beer halls.
The mob began to break up
after Capt. Cowdin’s death was
announced, almost two hours after
the riot began.
Traffic Accidents
Claim 553 Lives
During 4tli Holiday
C? mf
By the Associated Press
Traffic accidents killed at least
553 Americans during the long
Independence Day weekend, a
record for the holiday.
A Sunday spurt in highway fa
talities sent the toll beyond the
record 509 mark of 1961 well before
the midnight deadline for the four
day period.
The final tally for the 102
hour period from 6 p.m. Wednes
day to midnight Sunday local
times fell within a death count
span estimated by safety experts
before the holiday period.
The National Safety Council, in
a pre-holiday statement, estimated
550-560 persons would die in traf
fic accidents during the long week
end.
‘•It has been a costly weeKena
in tciTns of accidental death and
injury, breaking all records for
a summer holiday weekend,” said
Howard Pyle, council president.
“The wicked part of it is that
at least 70 per cent of the damage
was done through avoidable situa
tions: Speeds too great for con
ditions, failure to yield right-of
way, violation of the centerline in
the road, and drinking and
driving.”
The council’s figures show that
traffic deaths in the first five
months of this year have averaged
100 per day.
In addition to traffic deaths, 143
persons drowned and 41 others lost
their lives in boating accidents.
Hide-and-Seek Ends in Death
NEW ROCHELLE. N.Y. UP) — A
7-year-old boy who left home Sat
urday to play hide-and-seek was
found dead Sunday in an aban
doned, refrigerator located in a
neighborhood garage.
Police identified the victim as
Charles Elliott, who had been
missing since early Saturday night.
Myron Beckwith Pleads
Innocent to Murder Charge
JACKSON, Miss. W* — Byron
de la Beckwith pleaded innocent
today to charges he murdered
Mississippi integration leader Med
gar W. Evers from ambush June
12.
Beckwith, 42, a Greenwood fer
tilizer salesman, was arraigned
before Circuit Judge Leon Hen
drick. Dist. Atty. Bill Waller read
the indictment and asked for a
plea.
“Not guilty, sir.” Beckwith re
plied without hestitation.
Beckwith, a member of the hard
core of Segregationist Citizens
Council and an ex-Marine wound
ed in World War II, was flanked
by his three attorneys as he faced
the court.
A Hinds County grand jury of
17 white men and one Negro in
dicted Beckwith last week for the
crime.
Attorneys were to meet later to
day to set a date for the trial.
Khrushchev Does
Not Attend Red
Showdown Meeting
MOSCOW (jP>—Premier Khrush
chev today conferred in Kiev with
Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak
of Belgium on easing East-West
tensions.
Khrushchev met with the former
Secretary-General of NATO hun
dreds of miles from Moscow, ap
parently to demonstrate his aloof
ness from the showdown talk be
tween the Soviet and Chinese Com
munist parties, now going on here.
The studied snub was empha
sized by the nature of the con
ference. Tass said it was a con
tinuation of the conversations the
two men had in 1961. That was
when Khrushchev withdrew his
deadline for signing a peace treaty
with Germany and turning West
Berlin into an internationally con
trolled free city.
The Chinese have violently op- I
posed Khrushchev’s policy of try- j
ing to co-exist peacefully with
the West. The meeting with Spaak
was a dramatic demonstration of
this policy.
In Moscow. Soviet and Chinese
delegates met at a walled villa
on the hills at the city’s edge. The
press of both countries ignored
mention of the session.
Western correspondents were
kept at a distance from the villa.
Soviet police stood guard to see
that no pictures were taken as cur
tained limousines whisked the ne
gotiators through the gates.
Efforts to get information from
the Chinese embassy also proved
fruitless. Western newsmen were
told embassy officials were too
busy to answer questions.
Political Orbit . . .
WASHINGTON UP — Is astro
naut John H. Glenn thinking about
attempting a political orbit — per
haps in next year’s race for the
U.S. Senate?
Glenn, 41, replies to such specu
lation that he has no time for
politics. A spokesman for the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration comments the politi
cal guess-work about Glenn sounds
like a trial balloon.
But the speculation persists in
Washington military circles, and
some Ohio politicians say they
wouldn’t be surprised to see Glenn
among the field seeking the seat
of Sen. Stephen Young, iD-Ohio),
which is up for grabs next year.
Glenn is an Ohioan.
Racial Violence
Overshadows Peaceful
Integration Steps
By the Associated Press
Racial violence in New York and
Baltimore overshadowed peaceful
integration steps taken Sunday by
two widely separated churches.
A white teen-ager was wounded
earlier today by a gunshot from
a passing car near a Bronx diner
which had been the scene of a
racial disturbance earlier. The boy,
Jack Cippolla, 16, of the Bronx,
told police the gunman was a
Negro. Cippolla suffered a flesh
wound in the right cheek.
The diner is being picketed bv
white and Negro members of the
Congress Of Racial Equality.
CORE is demanding that the diner
chain, White Castle, hire more
Negroes.
Early Sunday, some persons in
a crowd of several thousand, most
ly teen-agers, hurled rocks, eggs
and tomatoes at the pickets. Short
ly before the shooting, police dis
persed a crowd of several hundred
white youths in the area.
Baltimore police arrested more
than 100 white and Negro inte
grationists — including 13 clergy
men — at a privately owned
amusement park in suburban
Woodlawn while about 6,000 white
patrons hurled catcalls and ob
scenities. The integrationists were
charged with trespass.
inis contrasted snarpiy witn de
velopments in Tucson, Ariz., and
Richmond, Va. The Pueblo Gar
dens Methodist Church at Tucson
welcomed its new pastor, the Rev.
Wilbur Johnson. The minister is
a Negro. The congregation is all
white.
The Rev. Robert Hare, a white
man, preached his first sermon as
pastor of a Negro Presbyterian
church in Richmond.
More British Ministers
Have Been Linked to
Exciting Sex Scandals
LONDON i/P — A British news
paper says three more government
ministers have been linked to the
sex scandals exiciting the British
public.
The Sunday peper, The People,
said the minister's names have
been turned over to Lord Denning,
who is investigating sex and se
curity antics in high circles. Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan ap
pointed Denning to investigate se
curity aspects of former War Min
ister John Profurno’s affairs with
call girl Christine Keeler while
she was also the mistress of a So
viet naval attache.
The People said Denning has
been told compromising photo
graphs cx:st involving one minis
ter and possibly two.
‘•One of the pictures was in a
set of photographs produced dur
ing a recent divorce case,” the
paper said. “Some people claim
that a leading minister is recog
nizable in the photograph.”
‘‘This picture is not linked in
any way with the Profumo scandal.
But the second picture about which
Lord Denning has heard rumors
does bear directly on the Profumo
affair.
“It is alleged to show a member
of the government, at the side of
a swimming pool in a group that
includes Christine Keeler.
“The third minister is also the
subject of a rumor that connects
him with the Christine Keeler set.
Lord Denning has been told of a
meeting between a minister and
a girl.”
Judge H. Gilbert
Named to Third
Division Bench
JUNEAU iJ5' — The appointment
of Judge Hugh A. Gilbert as a
Superior Court Judge in the Third
Judicial Division at Anchorage was
announced today by Gov. Wm.
Egan.
Gilbert, formerly Superior Judge
for the Second Judicial Division
at Nome, fills a seat in the Third
Division authorized by the legis
lature.
Gilbert’s name was submitted to
Egan by the Judicial Council, along
with the name of one other mem
ber of the legal profession, whose
name was not disclosed.
The constitution provides that
the Judicial Council recommend
two or more qualified persons to
the governor for appointment to
vacancies on the Superior Court
bench.
Egan said he believed Gilbert
was nominated by the council be
cause of the need for an experi
enced jurist in the Third District,
which has a large case backlog.
Gilbert, 48, is a native of Ft.
Cobb, Okla., who first came to
Alaska in 1946. He has served in
both the Territorial House of Re
presentatives and the State Sen
ate.
Prior to his appointment to the
Superior Court bench at Nome
on Nov. 9, 1969, Gilbert had prac
ticed law in Sitka and had served
as U.S. Attorney and City Magi
strate at Fairbanks.
; U.S. Press Corps Protest
Manhandling of Newsmen
By Vietnamese Police
SAIGON, Viet Nam UP) — South
Viet Nam’s American Press Corps
has appealed to President Ken
nedy to support a protest against
manhandling of newsmen by Viet
namese secret police.
The newsmen protested to the
U.S. Embassy Sunday and called
Kennedy after police felled and
kicked a Western correspondent
and smashed two cameras in a
fracas following a memorial serv
ice for a Buddhist monk who burn
ed himself to death last month.
About 1.000 Buddhist monks and
nuns attended the service for
Quang Due, 73. who publicly im
molated himself in Saigon June 11.
The act protested alleged discri
mination against South Viet Nam’s
Buddhist majority by the govern
ment.
The government banned public
services for Quang Due, apparently
fearing a riot might erupt despite
an agreement with the Buddhists
resolving many differences.
Plainclothes secret police who
had been shadowing Western
newsmen at recent Buddhist de
monstrations were out in force
Sunday.
As a monk carrying Quang Due's
ashes in a silver cup started to
lead a procession out of the pa
goda. uniformed police ordered the
mourners to leave in small groups.\
When Western newsmen and
photographers moved in closer, a
New Zealander was wrestled to
the ground and kicked, suffering
cuts and bruises. Two AP cameras
were broken and a CBS movie
camera was dented.
SOUTHEND, England UP) —.
Cindy Willis, 17, failed her driving
test, so she still wall have to carry
“L” plants to show she is a learner
driver.
Cindy is a motorcycle rider on
the Wall of Death at the Southend
Fun Fair.