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, 1958-07-03
Aluskdns Dance
In Street On
Herring News


They celebrated with whis-
ties, sirens, horns, bells and
fireworks a S they cheered
news of the Senate's passage
Of the statehood bill. Street
dances followed parades. In
Sitka, one-time capital of Rus
sian Alaska, drinks were on
the house.
At Fairbanks, the Chena
River turned gold as happy re-
sidents poured dye into the
stream near where one of
Alaska's big gold strikes lured
pioneers and sourdoughs at
the turn of the century.
At Skagway, the gateway to
the big Klondike gold strike of
1898, housewives paraded n
the streets wearing embroid-
cred badges that proclaimed:
Bigger than Texas, better
than California. Alaska-God's
country"
At Anchorage, a huge bon
fire blazed long through the
CONTINUED on page A
The Nome nugget., 1958-09-10
.Kidnaper Violates.
 Murders Young Colo. Secretary
By DAN TEDRIcK

FORT COLLINS, Colo, tR - The body of pretty blonde stem ographer, who was Kidnapped, raped, and later died of three bull let wounds in her head, was found Monday in a shallow grave atop a mountain.
 Sheriff Ray Scheerer said Floyd J. Robertson, husky 25-year-old cement worker, orally admitted the crime
 My God, why did I do it?" Robertson sobbed to officers.
 No charges have been filed.
 Marjorie Schneider, Is, was un- covered late yesterday = about 36 hours after a gunman had sur prised her and three other young people as they sat in parked car at lonely lovers lane four miles southwest of Fort Collins. He shot up the car, robbed the couples and kidnapped the Schnei- der girl.
 Robertson, the father of three children, was quoted by the sher- if as saying he forced the girl to drive for some distance and that he himself drove a while until a tire blew out.
 When Robertson tried to repair the tire on a county road about 30 miles from the <idnan Scene the girl broke and ran.
 q shouted to her, I'm sorry I'm such crash shot but I'm gonna have to do this'," Robertson was quoted as saying. "Then I shot her"
The Nome nugget., 1958-09-10

SPOKANE, LR - One giant B52 bomber sliced into the side of another at sundown Monday night and both planes fell to pieces in flames near a busy cross-state highway. Thirteen of the IS men aboard were killed.
 A 200-pound chunk of landing gear sailed through the air, smashed through service sta- tion sign and skidded to rest on the shoulder of Highway 2, a main link between here and Seattle.
 The roar of the crash, the fly ing debris and the explosion as the planes hit the ground terror ized two fleeing service station attendants and two customers, along with patrons of a nearby tavern. ut no one on the ground was hurt.
 The 8 million dollar B52s, prime atom bomb carriers of the Stra-
The Nome nugget., 1958-09-10
Two $8 Million B52s Collide and Crash

tegic Air Command, were mak- ing routine landings at Fairchild when they crashed together about l,500 feet over the highway.
 Joe Martella, a service station attendant, said both planes were turning at the time, one right into the path of the other, with neither pilot apparently aware of the impending disaster.
 A big hunk of fuselage fell within 40 feet of the highway and burned. The other plane crashed about a mile away. There was a third pile of burning wreckage in a farmers field, 10 miles west of here.
 The planes were less than two miles from the Fairchild runway when they collided. The tremen- dous noise of the exposion shook buildings on the base.
 It was the second fatal B52 crash at Fairchild in nine months. Eight of nine men aboard one of the eight bombers died in crash on takeoff last December.
The Nome nugget., 1958-09-10
HOT RODS FOR GOLF CARTS

BRENNAN, Tex, tR - Tom Whitehead, spokesman for a group of golfers, protested yes terday that management had all lowed some players to turn a local course into a race track.
 Full sized automobiles stripped down to look like hotrods, are used on the course as golf carts, D he said ''If you don't move along fast enough they start honking at you.
The Nome nugget., 1958-09-10

OAKLAND, Calif., R -.iWil- liam w. Hoffman had the best excuse possible for getting out of jury duty. He returned the mailed summons to the court clerk calling attention to a fact which had been overlooked. He is William w. Hoffman, the presiding judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-17
japan Appeals
For World Bon
On Atomic Arms

TOKYO. June II R.--Prime
Minister Kishi appealed again
today for a total worldwide ban
on nuclear weapons coupled
with reduction Of conventional
armament by the ma jor powers.
The alternative. he warns, is
a nuclear war which would
mean the extinction OF the
human race.
1t was Mr.. Hishi's first major
policy address since his Con-
sentative Liberal Democrats
were sent back into power in
the May % election. Speaking
to the Diet (Parliament, he
also:
/. Promised no change in
Japan's policy Of expanding
trade with Communist China
but refusing diplomatic recog-
milton.
2. Said he would crack down
on extremists Of left and right.
includAg groups that restrain
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He went blind suddenly after Q
brain operation.
Hes in wonderful spirits"
continued Mrs. Horwitz. Hes
willing to take a challenge and
won't be daunted."
He is the type OF child who
never said, Why does this hap
pen to me?'"
Philip took up amateur radio
as a hobby two years ago.
When he received his set the
manufacturer sent engineers to
his home to mark the dials in
Braille. He speedily passed his
operators test with high
grades His call letters are
K9GBS.
Aided by Braille textbooks.
Phillip also excelled in his
grammar school courses. He is
scheduled TO graduate with
honors from the eighth grade
next week.
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Ham Rodio With BroiIIe
Cures Blind Boys Blues

CHICAGO. June II up. -
Thrown into the inky world of
the blind 3l2 years ago, Phillip
Horwitz, 10, today has created
a new and brighter world
through the Braille-marked
dials Of a ham radio set.
1T pulls me through my
crisis" Phillip told newsmen
yesterday. There is so much
to think about and plan and 1
have gained many friends"
Each day he generally talks
to several people, Phillips
mother. Mrs. Mildred Horwitz,
said. He has contacted opera
tors in Al States and II coun-
tries.
Mrs. Horwitz spoke at her
sons bedside in Illinois Ma
sonic Hospital, where Philip is
recovering from a third opera
ton seeking TO restore his sight.
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Mothers Plea
Bores Kidnapping

MONTREAL, June II Up
A 2l2-year-old boy and his
maid were kidnapped for ran
som from his Montreal home
Saturday, it was disclosed to-
day in a broadcast appeal by
the grief-stricken mother.
The appeal of Mrs. Cyril
Reitman in a radio broadcast
was the first public disclosure
Of the kidnapping. Newspaper,
radio stations and news agen-
cies had complied with a police
request to withhold news be-
cause a note left in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Reitman had
said the child would be killed
If police were notified.
Police decided to let Mr..
Reitman make the appeal in
an effort to reach the kid
napers after nothing beyond
the ransom note was heard
from them.
Mrs. Reitman, Is. begged for
the return Of her son. Joel.
and for release Of the maid,
Gerta Goede. 46.
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By &c Associa ted Press

President Eisenhower said
yesterday his doctors want him
to avoid Colorado's altitude be-
cause he suffered a heart at
tack there "but I think they're
nuts"
The President made the re-
mark to a group of about 40
Explorer Boy Scouts from La
Junta, Colo. They called on
him at the White House.
The Scouts, known as the
Koshare Indians, reminded Mr..
Eisenhower they had been
scheduled to put on an Indian
dance for him while he was
vacationing at Denver in 1855.
1t was there, in the fall of
that year. that Mr.. Eisenhower
was stricken with a heart at
tack which hospitalized him in
Denver for seven weeks.
With smile, and an obvious
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President Says Heart
Bars Visit to Colorado

reference to his physicians, Mr..
Eisenhower told the Scouts:
They won't let me go there
much any more"
A bit later in chatting with
the Scouts in the White House
rose garden, the President said
in further reference to Colo
RADIO:
When 1 get out of this job /
hope to go back there. Only
because I got sick out there one
year, the docs say l can't go
there.
But / think they're nuts"
Maj. Gen. Howard Nice.
Snyder, the White House physi-
clan, once told newsmen he
personally was against letting
the President return to Colo
rado for any length of time
because of the altitude. Denver
was Mr.. Eisehhower's vacation
headquarters from 1852 through
1855.
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Adams Refused to Testify
In Dixon Yates Inquiry

vigorous protest at the time. In
a letter to Mr.. Adams, he con-
tended officials of the Govern
ment should not and cannot
assert privilege where the re-
suit would be the suppression
of evidence which would show
corruption and deception in a
matter involving millions Of
dollars of public funds"
But Mr.. Adams still refused
to appear.
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BY the Associated Press

Sherman Adams, who is tes-
tifying today on his own gift
taking, claimed executive i'm
munity almost three years ago
when his testimony was sought
in the Dixon-Yates case.
At that time, investigating
Senators were trying to find
out if Mr.. Adams had used his
close-to the President status
to influence a Federal agency
in the case.
The chief presidential aide
was under fire during a 1855
probe Of the Dixon-Yates power
contract, later Cancelled by
President Eisenhower.
There had been testimony
that at Mr.. Adams request the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission had postponed for three
days a hearing on Dixon-Yates
financing.
Senator Kefauver, Democrat
Of Tennessee, chairman of the
Senate anti-monopoly Subcom-
mittee, called on Mr.. Adams to
testify fully" about any con-
ferences he may have had re-
garding suspension of the SEC
hearing.
Mr.. Adams maintained any
facts known to him could be
developed through the testi-
mony Of SEC Chairman j. Sim
clair Armstrong and other
Government officials. He said
there was nothing he could add
to testimony already given by
Mr.. Armstrong and because of
my official and confidential re-
lationship to the President, /
respectfully decline the subcom-
mittee,s invitation"
Senator Kefauver entered a
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fine extended a $500, 900 line
of credit" to the papers owner,
John Fox. ION condition that
the Post make a last-minute
switch to support Gov. Deyer. It
did, but Gov. Dever lost any
way"
Il regarded it as a favor to
the Governor" Mr.. Goldfine
was quoted concerning the
loan. How could 1t be any
other way? I gave it at 3 per
cent"
In Boston Mr.. Fox denied
that any political deals were
involved when he borrowed the
money from Mr.. Goldfine.
Mr.. Fox said he agreed to
support Gov. Dever even be-
fore he took over control Of
the Post on September 3. 1852,
because he was an old friend.
He said the loan had nothing
to do with the papers support
of Gov. Dever.
OF Mr.. Goldfine, Mr.. Fox
said he knew nothing except
that he was an extremely close
personal friend and supporter
of Paul Dever."
Mr. Fox said Gov. Dever Of
fered to help him obtain the
loan when he heard him tele-
phone several banks in quest
of loans.
In 1851, the magazine said.
Mr.. Goldfine hired a New York
press agent to help stage an
"anti-hard times conference"
at Montpelier, VT, to which
New England Governors were
brought in chartered planes,
greeted by a l9-gun salute.
Among the honored guests,
the magazine said, was zone Of
Bernie Goldfine's oldest and
dearest friends. New Hamp-
shire Gov. Sherman Adams"
azine said New England poll
ticians whom Mr.. Goldfine has
warmly befriended are Repub-
lican Senators Bridges and
Cotton of New Hampshire,
Names Republican Senator
Payne and Massachusetts,
Democratic Gov. Foster Fur
colo.
In picking winners" Mr..
Goldf1ne was quoted, I've been
very fortunate"
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or 70 any Of his companiesp
A. No. STR.
Denied President Got Coat
Mr.. Moss-Was there more
than one vicuna coat presented
TO anyone at the White House
at the time you received yours7
A. Well, now. let's get the
thing on the record. My supe-
rior ofiicer In the White House
never received a coat from this
gentleman.
Mr.. MoSs-Well. was there
anyone else who received one?
A. Not 10 my knowledge.
Mr.. Moss. ! think II is gen.
orally felt that you are a man
who has the very close conf
dence Of the President OF the
United States. and that, be-
cause Of your relationship 10
the President and the position
you occupy. you are a person
of considerable influence and
power In the administration
Would that be a false conclu-
sion?
A. I have heard II rumored.
(Mr. Adams and Mr.. Moss
engaged in a lengthy colo
guy about the "routineness"
Of White House inquiries
from the agencies point of
view. The presidential assist
ants replies were largely
duplicates Of his answers to
Mr.. Lishman and Mr.. Flynt.
Ed.
Mr.. Moss-Did you exact
from Mr.. Goldfine a require
ment to demonstrate to you
that he was legitimately en-
titled to this information?
Did you apply the same cri-
terra which you would have
applied 10 a Mr.. John Doe?
A. When any Congressman
or any member of the public
calls me on the telephone. I
do not start out by asking him
whether he considers he is
making me a legitimate re-
quest. / think that would be
rather impudent. I try to be
courteous to everyone, Mr..
Moss, and to treat everyone
with a reasonable degree of
consideration.
I did in this case. and I have
done it in many others.
"Are You Accessible"
Mr. MoSS-Are you readily
accessible by telephone or
otherwise to the average men,
Der of the public?
A. So far as ! have any rec
objection, that the calls that
come to me personally are
100 per cent either handled by
myself or by my staff. I try to
see to it that every person who
calls the White House has a
reply if that reply involves a
legitimate question or request.
Mr.. Moss-But here we have
a case of a man who is a close
personal friend, according to
your testimony. He has been a
most generous friend, accord
ing to your testimony. Now,
that is not the routine case in
your office, is it?
A. I don't think he ought to
be prejudiced just because he
is my friend.
Mr.. MoSs-No, l don't think
he should be denied anything
that is available to the average
person who. we will say, is in
the same field of activity.
A. I have already said that
I do not believe that he got it.
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by group pressure the free
operation Of the Diet" an obvi-
Gus reference to his Socialist
opponents.
3. Expressed hope for ex-
changing visits with leaders OF
other nations to ease interna-
tional tensions.
4. Supported a summit con-
ference as an endeavor TO re-
solve antagonisms between ma
tons.
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Murder Charged
To Wife, Is

An 18-year-old woman was
charged with flrst-degree muir
der yesterday in the shooting Of
her 32-year-old husband last
Friday night.
The defendant. Mrs. jeanette
Gaskins. was held without bo d
by Municipal Court Judge 10 n
Lewis Smith. jr. Her husba nd,
Ernest A. Gaskins, died Sunday
in District General Hosp al.
Police said he had been shot in
the base Of the neck with a .32..
caliber revolver. "A
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$50 log Hints Adams
Got Second Rate Coot

tile men agree. But similarly.
top-grade vicuna hair, In ouans
tity large enoneh - w~'-' y
topcoat length--3iS yards
would have cos. INC, t.ida %
for the mill 70 buy. Securing.
spinning and weaving into
fabric would have added sub
stantially to the cost.
So New York textile experts
are driven TO the colclusion
that Mr.. Goldlne's fabric-of
which he is proud. according
TO Mr.. Adams-really was Sec
ond "or maybe third" grade.
Not Top Quality
"Goldhne's mills aren't re-
nowned for producing top
quality vicuna." q textile man
remarked.
A spokesman for Forstmann
Wooden Mills at Passaic. N. j..
a subsidiary Of the J. p. Stevens
Co. and q leading manufacturer
OF vicuna cloth. said that 100
per cent vicuna fabric "over the
last 10 years has ranged from
SOS to SOS" a yard wholesale at
the mill.
The question Of where all
this vicuna comes from was q
good one, incidentally. The vi
cuna. a relative of the llama,
alpaca and camel. is q native
Of Peru and Bolivia. But COM
mercial counselors for those
two countries said today that
commercial expectation of VIZ
cuna fibre has been forbidden
for many years.
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of the rules. and j had no
knowledge. certainly. Of the
fact that the information which
! received was not perfectly
proper In respect 70 divulsine
II. II I so chose. for the benef
Of the person for whom II was
drawn.
Had I known that. quite
obviously my decision might
very well have been different.
But I do agree with you that
there Is q rather wide spectrum
here, and. as one famous JUS
tice once mentioned. II Is rather
a penumbra.
! would hate b have 10 sit
on a jury and decide the lido
syncrasies Of every question.
Rug Question Raised
Mr.. Moss Democrat OF Cali
formal Governor Adams. II Is
my understanding that one OF
the purposes of your appear
ance here today Is TO deal with
the charges which have been
raised during the past few
weeks.
I noticed on the front page
OF one OF the morning papers a
detailing Of additional items
which would now like to have
you put the record straight on.
Did you receive more than
one rug?
A. I think there were a
couple Of small mats.
Mr.. Moss-Did you receive
articles of furniture2
A. I did not.
Mr.. Moss-No article Of
furniture of any type?
A. I did not.
Mr.. Moss-Did you accom-
pany Mr.. Goldfine on shopping
trips to Faber e. Sons in Bos-
ton for the purchase of items
Of personal apparel?
A. I think there were, Mr.,
Moss, two stores mentioned.
Mr.. Moss-Jordan Marsh, de-
signers in Boston.
Coat Is Discussed
A. That is right. And on the
second question the answer is
negative.
On the other question, that is
the tailor which I mentioned
that, ! believe, although / am
not absolutely sure on the point,
but l think he made up the
garment which ! have already
testified about.
Mr.. MosS-That you'd be the
coat which has been much dis
cuSSed?
A. 1t could have been.
Mr.. MoSs-And no other ar
ticle of personal apparel.
A. l think, as l have al
ready stated. that there were
some fabrics which came off of
his loom which I had made into
a suit.
Mr.. Moss-Other than those
two, none that you can recall?
| A. At the moment. Let me
say, Mr.. Moss. that many Of
these matters were a consid-
cradle number of years ago,
and l should have to refresh
my memory. But I think, for
the purpose of your question,
that / have made an answer
that is satisfactory to you. 1
hope so.
1 Mr.. Moss-Have you made
use Of an airline credit card or
cards belonging to Mr.. Goldflne
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GoIdfine Is Quoted:
Always Aided Friends

NEW YORK. June II Or
Boston businessman Bernard
Goldfine is quoted as saying
that when you have problems
-. why. you go TO your Con-
gresham or your Senator or
your Governor" for help.
The textile and real estate
millionaire. whose favors to
Presidential Assistant Sher-
man Adams have touched off
a furore in Washington, dis
cuSsed his activities in a Time
Magazine interview.
In its current issue, out to-
morrow, the magazine said Mr..
Goldfine. in running his chain
OF six New England textile
mills, discovered friendships
to be quick and warm among
political officials in States where
ne nad plants.
He was quoted: "You operate
in the State and you have prob
lens. Who do you go to? Why.
you go to your Congressman
or your Senator or to your
Governor, not to some schno. "
Did Best for Friends
The magazine said Mr.. Gold
fine found "the warmest well
come among politicians TO
whose campaigns he had con-
tributed.' and quoted him as
saying he always supported
my friends as l could within
my means"
Time said its correspondents
located Mr.. Goldfine for the
interview by trailing his wife
to a Boston restaurant where
he consented to the interview.
In the report of Mr.. Gold
fines comments, there was no
direct reference to the Wash
ington investigation. The &C
count traced Mr.. Goldfine's
rise from delivery boy to
wealth, and his relationships
with various politicians.
The story said a sample of
how hard he worked for very
dear friends" came in the
Massachusetts, gubernatorial
campaign of 1852, when the
then Democratic incumbent.
Paul A. Dever, was under fire
from the Boston Post.
The magazine said Mr.. Gold
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-17
BY WILLIAM HINES
star stan Writer

Textile men think Presiden-
tial Assistant Sherman Adams
is probably right about the $50
he says II cost his friends mill
10 produce yardage for his VI
cuna coat. But, they add
hastily. II the iiRure Is right
Mr.. Adams Is sporting a Sec
ond-hand topcoat.
A leading New York textile
man suggested that Mr.. Adams.
In his testimony before the
House Legislative Oversight
Subcommittee. might have
been talking about the price
per yard. II seems that $50 a
yard as the wholesale price for
l6-ounce vicuna fabric would
not be at all outlandish. Vi
cuna frequently goes UP 10 500
a yard wholesale.
Lower Grade Indicated
But wholesale price appar-
emily was not what Mr.. Adams
was talking about. Wholesale
price includes a substantial
markup for profit-in the case
OF vicuna. upwards Of so per
cent. And Mr.. Adams said II
have learned that the material
from which this garment was
made cost his (Friend Ber-
nard Goldfine's) mill about
$69."
Had the fabric been really
top grade, it would not have
cost $50 a yard TO make. tex
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Partial Transcript Of Adams Testimony

FOLLOWING Is partial teri OF Sherman Adams
testimony this morning before the House Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Subcommittee Legislative oper-
sight Unless otherwise indicated o." are questions BY
Subcommittee Counsel Robert w. Lishman end "a" are
repfies bu Mr. Adayus.
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Payne, Cotton Links PrObed

@. Did. you ever discuss the
SEC case with Senators Payne
and Cotton?
A. think there was some
discussion about that at one
time, but so far as ! am con-
cerned. it was a casual dis
cuSsi62. and there was no dis
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or 70 any OF his companiesp
A. No, sir.
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Mrs. Doyle to Head
Courts Advisers

Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
former school board member.
was elected yesterday to head
Juvenile Courts new Advisory
Committee.
At the same time, the COM
mittee heard Judge Orm
Ketcham propose a plan under
which the court would have
an expanded psychiatric clinic.
He said the need for at least
two psychiatrists was necessary
to handle between 500 and 600
children instead of the 800 now
accommodated. In his talk the
Judge pointed out that WASH
ington is the only city of its
size having only one psychia-
trist for Juvenile Court. FL
nancing Of the plan would have
to be done under a supple
mental budget item.
In addition to Mrs. Doyle
the following officers Of the Ad-
visory Committee were elected
for two-year terms.
DR.. Addison Duval. assistant
superintendent Of st. Eliza
beths Hospital; Mrs. Louis Of
tenberg. Rabbi A. Balfour
Brickner, DR.. Frank D. Costen-
barger, opthalmologist; Ben
jamin j. Hanley. principal Of
Bundy School; John Theban,
vice chairman: Miss Florence
Muerage.