64th Year No. 83
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1963
Per Copy 15$
Guardsmen Move
In to Quell Riots
In Maryland
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — Four
hundred National Guardsmen, un
der orders to carry fixed bayonets,
sped toward this city today after
a night of racial terror described
as akin to “warfare.”
Six white persons, including
three off-duty National Guardsmen,
were wounded by roving bands of
gunmen Thursday night and early
today.
Gunfire pierced the darkness so
frequently that State Police Maj.
George Davidson exclaimed at one
point: “There is shooting all over
the city — almost on the scale of
warfare.”
The troops, who had been pulled
out of the Eastern Shore communi
ty only Monday after a 25-day
stay to cope with previous vio
lence, were under orders to clamp
down stricter controls than before.
These included a 9 p.m. curfew;
stores to close at 7 p.m.; no sale of
liquor, beer or wine; no carrying
of guns; all vehicles subject to
stop and search.
These restrictions were described
as “modified martial law” during
the National Guard’s previous stay
in Cambridge. The state constitu
tion forbids martial law.
At Annapolis, Md., the state
capital, Gov. J. Millard Tawes, was
plainly upset by the necessity to
return the troops to the city, which
is akin to many places in the deep
south as far as its racial customs
are concerned.
Cambridge is a focal point of
Negroes to desegregate lunch
rooms, hotels and other public ac
commodations, integrate the
schools fully, and obtain better
opportunities in employment and
housing.
PHS Warns of Eating
Cracked or Uncleaned Eggs
WASHINGTON M — The Public
Health Service says 775 persons
in 25 states and the District of
Columbia have been hit by salmon
ella derby — an intestinal infec
tion — from eating cracked or un
clean eggs.
In issuing a warning against
buying cracked eggs, it said the
outbreak was first noted in New
York City last March and had
since spread.
The Public Health Service said
it had defined the source of some
of the cases but did not name it.
It also did not name hospitals
where patients had been treated
for salmonella derby.
A spokesman said the disease
could produced gastroenteritis, up
set stomach and diarrhea, with a
fever in extreme cases.
GERMANS DESIGN THEIR
FIRST POSTWAR TANK
MUNSTERLAGER, Germany dP>
— Orders for mass production of
the first postwar tank designed
by Germans for the country’s
armed forces will go out soon, a
West German Defense Department
spokesman said Thursday.
The 39-ton tank was designed
to become the standard tank of
the West German army. The new
tanks — 1,000 to 1,500 will be
built — will replace the American
built M-47 tank now in use. It
will be equipped with a British
armor-piercing 105mm cannon.
Equipped with a snorkel, the
tank can dive to about 20 feet
in water.
Federal Tax Lien Filed
Against Chris Palzer
KETCHIKAN — The federal
government today filed a $9,089.35
tax lien against former Alaska
ferry concessionaire Chris Palzer.
Filed in District Magistrate
court, the lien covers the first
quarter of 1963, the government
said, and was for taxes withheld
from employes of his department.
Palzer started his operations on
the ferry system on the Malaspina
in January.
The former Fairbanks business
man was unavailable for comment.
Palzer said he blamed the state
government for his predicament.
He complained that the lien would
not have been filed against him
had the state paid him the money
he says is due him.
Meanwhile, a mercantile estab
lishment also filed a lien against
the one time ferry concessionaire.
The lien was in the amount of
$290, said to be the amount of
stock and services the firm install
ed in Palzer’s headquarters here
and aboard the vessels of the ferry
system.
Little Chance of Amity
Seen In Truce Talks By
Soviets and Red Chinese
MOSCOW UP* — Russian and
Chinese Communist delegates fail
ed to meet again today for their
truce talks as Western observers
speculated that further discussion
between the Communist giants was
futile.
The talks were recessed Thurs
day and also on Tuesday without
explanation. Some informants said
the delegates were looking for a
face-saving way to end the talks.
The Chinese and Russian nego
tiators, it was indicated, have not
been able to agree even on a basis
to begin reconcilliation of their
bitter dispute of the course world
Communism should take.
The Chinese proposed 25 points
of discussion in a letter June 14
that also attacked Premier Khrush
chev's peaceful co-existence policy.
The Russians rejected those terms
of discussion, precipitating a fur
ther airing of charges and counter
charges.
Peking, renewed its attack
Thursday, throwing doubt on the
continued usefulness of the mutual
assistance treaty Communist China
and the Soviet Union signed in
1950.
Goldwater Swings at
Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barry
Goldwater said today “the New
Frontier is determined to co-exist
with international Communism
wherever it thrives — even in the
Western sphere.”
In a speech before the Human
Events Political Action Confer
ence, Goldwater said this was the
interpretation he placed on Presi
dent Kennedy’s American Univer
sity speech last month.
Europeans reading that speech,
he said, “must have wondered at
his promises that the United States
would not hesitate to defend Eu
rope from Communist attack.”
Goldwater singled out a Kennedy
phrase in the speech — “Make the
world safe for diversity” — for
special attack.
He called it “the kind of rhe
torical expression we have learned
to expect from the President” but
declared Americans should “think
long and hard” about it.
lop Russian Spy
Defects to West
LONDON (jP — Defection of a
top Russian spy to the West raised
speculation today that his flight
might force the Soviet Union to
revamp its intelligence apparatus.
The British government said the
defector, was turned over to Bri
tain after weeks of interrogation
by the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency in Washington.
The British said he was as im
portant as any defector on either
side since World War II.
His identity was kept scret. Of
ficials said he is being held at a
secret headquarters in Britain for
fear the Russians might try to
kidnap him or kill him.
“His life is in positive danger,”
one official said.
An informed source said the
Russian contacted the American
embassy in an allied capital after
revelations at the Moscow trial
of Col. Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet
official shot late in May for pass
ing information to the British.
Penkovsky compromised a num
ber of Soviet agents, a move that
apparently prompted the Russian
now held by the British to defect.
Informants said the Russian has
given invaluable information on
the Soviet espionage methods and
its spy network in the West.
Gil Johnson Will Mediate
In Contract Dispute
JUNEAU UP) — State Labor Com
missioner Gil Johnson said today
he has been asked to mediate a
contract dispute between Skagway
longshoremen and the Alaska
Steamship Co.
Johnson said he has scheduled
a meeting with both sides Tuesday
in an effort to find a means of
reaching a settlement.
The Teamsters Union, represent
ing Skagway longshoremen, re
quested Johnson’s services as a
mediator and the Alaska Steam
ship Co. agreed to the session.
At issue is a demand by the
longshoremen for a contract simi
lar to the one they now have for
working Canadian boats serving
Skagway. Wages are not involved.
The contract proposed by the
longshoremen would give them the
right to all cargo work, both aboard
ship and dockside.
Alaska Steam has said it could
not agree to such terms, pointing
out that for 63 years its contracts
with sailors aboard its ships have
provided that sailors work cargo
on board vessels in Alaska in at
least one hatch.
In rejecting the longshoremen's
proposal, Alaska Steam said the
only alternatives would be to sus
pend service to Skagway or to
“deliberately precipitate a juris
dictional dispute in every major
port in Alaska.”
Skagway longshoremen have
been working Alaska Steam ships
at Skagway for approximately a
year without a contract.
Highway Traffic Up
JUNEAU (.4* — Highway traffic
flowing into Alaska during the
first six months of this year topped
traffic during the same period a
year ago by 31 per cent, the State
Department of Economic Develop
ment and Planning said today.
Commissioner Henry Roloff said
figures compiled by the Division
of Planning and Research indi
cated that 26,898 cars entered
Alaska from January through
June, up 6,316 from a year ago.
Dummy Rockets Fired
From Jet Fighter Kill Two
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla.
<iP — An Air Force jet fired a
brace of dummy rockets at a
crowded bunker Thursday and one
of them zipped through a narrow
observation slot, killing two men
and injuring the 14 others inside.
The 4-foot-long rocket spattered
against the back of the narrow
trench, tossing about heavy planks,
sand bags and electronic equip
ment. The shell did not contain
explosives.
The fighter jet, an F-100 from
Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., al
ready had made one pass, shoot
ing at trucks, tanks and other tar
gets during a competitive strafing
drill at Eglin Air Force Base, said
A. H. Gautier, a civil defense
planning officer watching the drill
from the bunker as a guest. He
escaped serious injury. “The pilot
said he saw a tank truck and
would come back for a rocket
salvo,” Gautier said. “He apparent
ly got mixed up and came in on
the bunker.”
The bunker is about 20 feet
long, 4 feet wide and 4Vfc feet
deep.
Cuba Denies Charges
MIAMI, Fla. OP) — The Fidel
Castro regime has denied U.S.
charges that it is sending potential
subversive agents into Latin
America by way of the British
Caribbean island of Grand Cay
man.
A Havana broadcast monitored
here said today the Cuban Foreign
Ministry has issued a communi
que rejecting the U.S. contention
that airlines passengers who jour
ney by way of the small island
south of Cuba are Castro agents.
Meanwhile, there were reports
the arrival of Cuban airplanes
touched off disturbances at the
Grand Cayman airport.
The Miami Herald reported to
day angry Grand Cayman island
ers refused to let passengers leave
a Cubana airliner at Georgetown
Thursday.
A California, commercial fisher
man, Claude Gauron, who flew to
Miami Thursday, said the plane
was surrounded by 10 or 15 auto
mobiles and forced to take off
without discharging its passengers.
Charged with 2nd Degree Murder
FAIRBANKS W — Marvin T.
Jennings, 38, was bound over to
Superior Court after a prelimin
ary hearing here Thursday on a
second degree murder charge.
Jennings is accused of killing
his former employer, 49-year-old
Fairbanks businessman Kenneth
P. Anderson during a fight on
June 28.
YESTERDAY' BASEBALL
National League
St. Louis 6-3, Milwaukee 3-5
Chicago 7-3, Cincinnati 0-7
Los Angeles 4, New York 3
San Francisco 4, Philadelphia 3
Pittsburgh 3, Houston 0
American League
Baltimore 7. Washington 4
Cleveland 8, Kansas City 5
Chicago 6. Detroit 3
Boston 2, Minnesota 0
New York 3, Los Angeles 2
Pacific Coast League
Dallas-Ft. Worth 3, Tacoma 1
Portland 6, Hawaii 4
San Diego 7, Denver 2
Spokane 8, Seattle 3
Oklahoma City 4, Salt Lake 3
Zoo gorillas are often fed raw
meat, but in the wild they are
strictly vegetarians.
Military Junta
Deposes Ecuador
Pres. Arosemena
QUITO, Ecuador W — A mili
tary junta ruled Ecuador today
after exiling President Carlos
Arosemena. The junta said he “was
frequently drunk, spotted the na
tional honor and sympathized with
Communism.”
A Quito radio report heard in
Columbia said five persons were
killed and three wounded when
an army tank fired on a crowd
stoning members of the junta as
they entered the government palace
to take office.
A military spokesman said
Arosemena, a known tippler, dis
graced himself by getting drunk
at a banquet Wednesday night in
honor of the president of the Grace
Lines, retired U.S. Adm. Wilfred
McNeil.
Guests at the reception said the
president shouted abuse at U.S.
Ambassador Maurice Bernbaum,
vomitted in front of the gathering
and committed “even more in
decorous acts.”
Thursday morning the chiefs of
the three armed branches met with
the commander of the Quito gar
rison and decided to depose Aro
semena.
Arosemena refused to resign and
i named his brother Gustavo as De
fense Minister in an effort to rally
the armed forces against the up
rising. Friends of the 44-year-old
president who were in the be
sieged palace said he was still
drunk.
The situation remained in doubt
for several hours until provincial
commanders began to send mes
sages of support for the rebel
chiefs.
A military spokesman said Aro
semena resigned after receiving
guarantees for his personal safety
and that of his family.
Beryllium Deposits
Discovered On
Prince of Wales Island
JUNEAU LF — Significant
amounts of a mineral rich in
beryllium have been discovered
by U.S. Bureau of Mines person
nel around Bokan Mountain, oil
Prince of Wales Island. Sen. E. L.
Bartlett said Thursday.
While beryllium has been lo
cated previously in the Lost River
area on the Seward Peninsula,
Bartlett said he was advised by
the bureau that this is the first
report of beryllium in Southeast
Alaska.
The Bureau of Mines told Bart
lett the discovery was made from
ore samples taken in 1959 in con
nection with a study of radioactive
and rare earth minerals around
Bokan Mountain, the only known
commercial source of uranium in
Alaska.
The samples were re-examined
recently in connection with work
on a beryllium detector.
The examination indicated the
ore samples contained phenacite,
which, in its pure state, contains
more than 45 per cent beryllium
oxide, compared with only 14 per
cent beryllium oxide in beryl, the
most common ore mineral.
Bartlett said in a wire to the
Associated Press from Washington
that the Bureau of Mines advised
him most if not all of the area
from which the samples were taken,
is covered by mining claims.
Beryllium ores, most of which
are imported by the United States,
command prices of more than $350
a ton, Bartlett said.