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President Kennedy Eyes Berlin Wall
Amid Wild Cheers from West Berliners
BERLIN Ur) — President Ken
nedy looked at the wall of Berlin
today and beyond into the Red
ruled East. Wild cheers from a mil
lion West Berliners rang in his
ears and even East Berliners waved
at him despite the presence of
armed Communist police.
Then, in a speech to 250,000 Ger
mans in front of city hall he de
nounced the wall as a symbol of
Communist failure.
“The wall is an offense against
history and an offense against
humanity,” he told the chanting,
roaring crowtj.
They were part of the million
West Berliners who left their jobs
and homes to give Kennedy what
his press secretary said was the
greatest reception he had received
anywhere in the world.
He saw the wall twice. He visit
ed historic Brandenburg Gate, the
massive symbol of Berlin’s di
vision, and Checkpoint Charlie,
the allied crossing point into East
Berlin.
Across from the checkpoint per
haps 2,000 East Berliners defied
Communist police who tried to
keep them moving. Though they
could see little of Kennedy they
heard the cheers and smiled. Some
hesitatingly raised handerchiefs
and waved when the police were
Old Homestead
Won’t Be the Same
For JFK’s Visit
DIJNGANSTOWN. Ireland —
not looking.
They were waving handerchiefj
also when Kennedy mounted z
special platform at Brandenburg
Gate and looked for four minutes
into East Berlin.
Another expression from the
East occurred at Congress Hall ir
West Berlin, where Kennedy was
given a bunch of flowers senl
from East Berlin workers as z
symbol of their hope for eventual
freedom from Communist rule.
Then in a speech at West Ber
lin’s Free University, Kennedy
predicted that the very system
which erected the wall is headed
for discard. He said police states
are an anachronism.
The President reached the
Brandenburg Gate after the great
est spontaneous welcome in the
memory of the former German
capital. Old timers said not even
Hitler with his famous parades
had brought out the people the
way the American President did.
The screaming, cheering, flag
waving, confetti-tossing welcome
exceeded the mammoth reception
West German crowds gave Ken
nedy earlier this week.
The President looked across into
East Berlin from an 18-foot ob
servation platform about 15 feel
from the wall. West Berlin Mayor
Willy Brandt and West Germar
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stooc
at his side as a British office]
showed the President a chart o
the principle points in East Berlin
Soviet guards came over fron
their war memorial to take pic
tures. The memorial is in the
I Sen. Gruening
Raps AMA for
Drug Endorsement
WASHINGTON l# — Sen. Er
nest Gruening criticized the Amer
ican Medical Assn. (AMA) today
for endorsing a drug in advance
of its clearance by the Food and
: Drug Administration.
He called the action of the
' AMA’s council on drugs “highly
’ unusual” and asked if one might
not conclude it represented an ef
fort to pressure the FDA to act
faster. He conceded the drug ap
parently is safe.
He spoke out as acting chair
man of a Senate Governmental
Operations Subcommittee in open
ing a hearing on changes made last
year in the drug control laws.
Gruening, a doctor, also com
plained that the AMA has failed
to play the constructive role he
said it should in evaluating drugs,
in helping to strengthen the FDA,
and in keeping physicians inform
ed about drugs.
“Many observers feel that if the
AMA devoted as much energy and
as much finances to drug evalu
ation and information as it devotes
to opposition to federal legislation,
for example, the American physi
cian and layman would be a lot
better off,” Gruening said.
Dr. Hugh Hussey, director of
the AMA’s Division of Scientific
Activities, told the subcommittee
■ that over-regulation of the drug
industry could prevent or delay
E life-saving discoveries.
Hussey said he would submit a
i statement later replying to Gruen
• ing’s criticisms of the AMA.
Defense Dept. Will Not
Reduce Combat Strength
WASHINGTON UP> — The De
fense Department says it has no in
tention of reducing its combat
strength either at home or abroad.
After conferring with Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara,
Pentagon spokesman Arthur Syl
vester denied a report the United
States is preparing to reduce its
overseas force and trim the Army,
Navy and Air Force.
Sylvester, an assistant secretary
of defense, said the Pentagon
hopes to reduce costs by improving
| efficiency, shucking unnecessary
frills in equipment and arms, and
possibly by weeding out among
rear echelon forces supporting
combat units.
But, he added, all these programs
have been in the works for some
time.
Moose Hunters of
“Wanton Waste”
JUNEAU UP> — The State Su
preme Court said today the fail
ure to salvage game for human
consumption is a violation of the
game regulations and a criminal
offense “only when the element
of wantoness is present.”
The state’s high court made the
comment in reversing the convic
tion in Third District Court oi
two men charged with wasting
two moose they had killed. Th<
two men involved were James F
I Baldridge and Jack L. Williams.
I At their trial, it was brought out
Court Acquits
Who threw the concrete topping on
Mrs. Ryan’s barnyard?
“It’s an American trick,” most
Irish newspapers said today. They
blamed the U.S. government for
the startling changes at the an
cestral homestead President Ken
nedy will visit Thursday.
The Americans are denying
everything and shifting the accus
ing finger toward the Irish gov
ernment.
Whoever is responsible for the
changes, the old homestead won’t
be the same place Kennedy visited
ip 1947 when he was a congress
man.
The tidy but dirty barnyard,
where the widow Ryan’s 70
chickens and three cows once held
sway, has been covered with con
crete and now resembles a park
ing lot.
A huge manure heap has disap
peared from the adjoining field,
where the President’s helicopter
will put down.
All the farm animals have been
shunted out of sight. There are
no pigs in the pasture.
A concrete porch and an indoor
tiled toilet — know locally as
John’s john — have been added
to the comfortable Ryan cottage.
The cottage is a few yards from
the humble tin-roofed hut that
Patrick Kennedy, the President’s
great-grandfather, occupied before
emigrating to the United States.
The hut is now a storage shed.
Mary Ryan, a Kennedy before
"her marriage, is the President’s
third cousin and his best-known
relative in Ireland.
Despite the changes that have
been made about the place, Mrs.
Ryan is absolutely determined to
give her illustrious kinsman a
She pl^ns to brew him a cup
of tea and serve some tangy Irish
soda bread. That is all he is going
simple
to get, she said.
British sector near the Branden
burg Gate.
Visitors to the Brandeburg Gate
can peer through its three acrhes
down Unter Den Linden, the gov
ernmental center of East Berlin.
Last night the East Berlin re
gime hung flags from the arches
to curtain Kennedy’s view into
the East. The flags ostensibly were
raised in celebration of the visit
Friday to East Berlin of Soviet
Premier Khrushchev.
Young GOPs Rally
Goldwater for President
SAN FRANCISCO Iff) — The
Young Republican Convention that
was turned into a continuing rally
for Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater
for President was told today it’s
natural to have favorite candi
dates but warned against the fine
line “when initiative becomes
fratricide.”
The warning came from Gov.
Mark Hatfield of Oregon, often
mentioned as a possible Vice
Presidential running mate for Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller of New York
whose name is seldom heard at
this convention.
In a keynote address to the 1,000
Young Republicans attending their
13th biennial convention, Hatfield
cautioned:
“Let’s remember this is spring
training and we are trying out
against members of our own team.
It’s the Democrats we’re warming
up for.”
The Oregon governor also cau
tioned against “extremists who do
violation to what we try to achieve
as a party.”
Walter Glavinovich of the U.S.
Smelting Co. is here supervising
work of putting No. 5 dredge in
“mothballs.” He is now stationed
at Fairbanks.
U.S. House Passes
Record Peacetime $47
Billion Defense Program
WASHINGTON UP) — The House
passed today a $47-billion defense
appropriation, trimmed $2 billion
below the military spending sought
by President Kennedy but still the
second largest in peacetime his
tory. The vote was 41 to 1.
The House approval came after
two days of debate — and an
amendment that clipped another
10.2 million off the administra
tion figure.
That pegged the defense money
bill at $47,082,009,000.
Rep. George Mahon, (D-Tex.),
chairman of the Defense Appro
priations Subcommittee, sponsored
the late amendment which trimmed
Army procurement spending.
He said the Army had over
stated the cost of radios it has to
buy.
That brought Republican sug
gestions that the House strike out
all the Army’s procurement funds
and make the Pentagon justify the
proposed spending all over again.
But the action was not formally
proposed to the House.
$22,800 for Wafer Improvements
WASHINGTON — The Com
munity Facilities Administration
announced yesterday a $22,800 ad
vance to Petersburg for planning
additions and improvements to the
water supply and distribution sys
tem. Estimated cost of the project
is $410,800.
Hazel Heaton, sister of Mrs.
Helen Cherry, is on her first visit
to Nome from her home in
Everett, Wn. She is spending a
few weeks seeing this part of
Alaska which has been her sister’s
home for many years, and will
take in the 4th of July activities.
that the two men had bled and
opened the animals, but were
forced to leave in Baldridge’s
plane before cleaning the animals
because a ground fog started to
set in.
They were unable to return to
the animals the following day be
cause of damage to a ski on the
aircraft. They were also unable
to obtain other air transportation.
A bulldozer operator employed
by Baldridge and Williams to drag
the two moose out did not get to
the animals for several days.
When he did, the meat was spoiled.
They were convicted under a
State Fish and Game regulation
prohibiting the wasting of game.
The Supreme Court noted that
the state did not contend there
was wanton waste of the game,
but argued that the regulation in
question imposes a mandatory duty
on a hunter to salvage game meat
and that a hunter negligently fail
ing to do this is guilty of a vio
lation of the regulation, regard
less of whether his actions were
wanton in nature.
The high court said legislative
policy was clear in a 1959 statute
which prohibits the wanton waste
of game.
‘‘It is a criminal offense to waste
game meat in a manner that
amounts to a reckless disregard of
the consequences,” the court said.
“It is not a criminal offense to
waste game by a negligent failure
to salvage it for human consump
tion. . .
“To adopt the argument urged
by the state would mean that the
Board of Fish and Game has made
criminal by regulation that which
the legislature did not see fit to
make criminal by statute.”
The court ordered the cases re
manded with instructions to va
cate the judgments of conviction
and to enter judgments of acquittal.
Women’s Congress
involves Mrs. JFK
In Loud Dispute
MOSCOW LfPt — A Chinese Com
munist delegate forced the World
Women’s Congress into a loud
wrangling suspension today. Later
the Congress got into a dispute
involving Mrs. John F. Kennedy.
The suspension occurred when
the delegate from Peking sought
to refute Indian representatives’
views on the Chinese-Indian bor
der conflict.
Mrs. Kennedy’s name was
thrown into debate by a Chinese
supporter after Spanish Commu
nist delegate Dolores Ibarruri —
“La Passionaria” of Spanish Civil
War fame — praised Premier
Khrushchev's policy of peaceful
coexistence which the Chinese op
pose.
“Do you want to come to terms
with Mrs. Kennedy? sneered the
advocate of the Chinese view.
“We want to come to terms with
Mrs. Kennedy too,” replied La
Passionaria in her usual flaming
voice, “if she is ready to help
defend her children from the dan
ger of nuclear war.”
Delegates broke into cheers and
applause.
SThey had also cheered a ruling
•efusing the Chinese the right to
>peak now, but offering a chance
to sign up on the future speaker’s
list.
The Chinese delegate threw the
Congress into an uproar when she
marched to the podium in the
Kremlin Grand Congress Hall to
reply to an Indian speech deplor
ing the “violent conflict" between.
the two countries.
The chairman, Dr. Joan Carritt
of England, refused to grant her
the floor. As confusion mounted,
the chairman adjourned the meet
ing.
38 Belgian Paratroopers
Die in Fiery Plane Crash
DETMOLD, Germany UP — A
Belgian military transport plane
burst into flames today and
plunged to earth, killing 38
aboard.
British military sources said
nine of the Belgian paratroopers
aboard managed to jump out before
the crash, but that 38 other Bel
gian military meen died.
The plane was carrying 42 para
troopers and a crew of five on a
training exercise over the Senne
lager military grounds near this
northwest German city.
Survivors suffered from shock
and two of them were slightly in
jured.
Police said eyewitnesses saw a
flame shoot out of the tail of the
plane when it was about 800 feet
up and immediately after, the
plane started to plunge down. Nine
of the paratroopers jumped sec
onds before it hit the ground. On
crashing the plane exploded and
the wreckage burned for hours
before rescue teams could start
recovering the victims.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued cloudy with light rain.
Little change in temperature.
In the last 24 hours: High of 47,
low of 42. Max. wind 21 mph from
WSW. Sunrise at 1:24 a.m., sunset
at 10:45 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High
of 52, low of 39. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 77 in.
1951, low of 29 in 1918.