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The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
NeWsn1en Banned From Enclaves Seized by India

NEW DELHI, India R - In- dian forces tidied up their hold on Portuguese Goa today behind an iron curtain. Newsrnen were banned from the tiny enclaves seized in a 36-hour blitzkreig.
 Defense Minister V. Krishna Menon, enroute to the United Nations in New York, reportedly said prior to his departure that the military government had to organize and clear roads of mines and that 1t would be some days before journalists would be all lowed to enter.
 The news ban left the outside world dependent on official In- dian reports of the equalization of Portuguese rule in the city.
 Menon told newsmen during a stopover in Cairo that he was re- turning to New York to place In- dia's case clearly before the Unit ed Nations.
 Diplomats at JUN. headquarters in New York were puzzled by Menon's haste. The General As se1nb1y planned to recess today until mid Jan&1nry, and the Soviet Un1un vetoed { Western cease fire resolution in the Securit, Council yesterday as India We' completing its conqueat. No fur
 ther arraignznent of India in th
 Council or the Assembly, was e1 ! pected.
 I The Communist bloc and Il, 1 Asia-African nations acclaime 1 the action by Prime Minister Mel
 rus forces The United State
 Britain, and other Western ma tions strongly condemres It.
 Meron said India had beel forced to liberafe the three en claves because IA years of nego tiation with Portugal had proved futile.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Top Political Men Call For Repeal of Taxes

ANCHORAGE tA = Prominent men of both political parties-in the wake of yesterdays oil lease sale which brought nearly $15 million to the state called today for a repeal of taxes enacted in the last session of the legislature.
 And among other suggestions was one urging that the State of Alaska pay off it's $9 million debt to the federal government, ere ated when Alaska sought aid for its ai1ing unemployment security program.
 Members of the House and Sen ate Finance Committees from the Anchorage Palmer area eunpha- sized that the windfall from the unprecedented oil lease should be used for capital Improvements and they agreed that the state, at the close of the current fiscal year on June 30, should have a surplus.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Playwright Moss Hart Dies from Heart Attack

PALM STRING, Calif. M Playwright Moss Hart died of a heart attack today at his winter home here He was 57.
 The famed theatrical writer got into his car about FOO ann, slumped over and died. His wife, actress singer Kitty Carlisle, who was with him, called doctor. Hart had awakened with d to0thache and was leaving for dentists office when the fatally stricken.
 The famed theatrical writer and his wife have had a home in this desert resort area Ior some time.
 Hart had suffered heart att tack last year while directing the break-in of sCanselot' in Toron- tto. The show was reunion of the creators of My Fair Lady"
 Hart as director and Alan Jay L.erner and Frederick Loewe as author and composer.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
KENNEDY TO MEET MCMILLAN IN BERMUDA

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. R President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold MacMillan of Britain will meet in Bermuda al- though the condition of the Presi- dents stricken father remains serious.
 This word came late Wednes- day from White House press sec retary Pierre Salinger. i
 There had been some consider ation to shifting the meeting of the Anglo-American summit ses- sion to Palm Beach.
 But the Presidents father, Joseph P. Kennedy, who suffered stroke Tuesday that left him partly paralyzed, was reported somewhat improved this morning.
 Kennedy and the doctors both saw the former Ambassador to Britain during the morning and afternoon, and in 3 report to newsmen after the afternoon visits Salinger said:
 While Ambassador Kenredy's condition remains serious, the physicians have advised the Pres ident that they feel his fathers condition Is such It Is possible for the President to leave Palm Beacz, over night.
 Therefore, Presidenf Kennedy will fly to Hervnlzde to meet Primo Minister MacAfiIlRn tomorrow morning
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Tshombe : Adoula
 Promise Treaty for Future of Katanga

LEOPOIDVILLE, The Congo M Secessionist President Noise Tshombe and Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula promised tonight to publish tentative agreement on the future of Katanga, in formed sources said.
 The terms were reported ag- reed upon after the two men met in a hospital room at guarded JUN. base for secret discussions that lasted all day.
 The two political enemies gct down to business in secret con versations they hoped to resolve the explosive issues separating Tshombe's wealthy province from the impoverished rest of the Congo.
 Adoula and Tshombe met yes- terday to make preliminary ar arrangements. It was their first meeting in months. They astor- ished JUN. and American diplo- mats as they sat together on a couch for 20 minutes, laughing, swapping stories and slappine each other on the leg.
 TshonIbe confided to associates that what he Is most eager fo1 is a cease-fire between his bat. tered forces and the United Ma. tons.
 But Adoula has insisted ther, be no halt In the military initta tive until a political solution fo ending the Katanea secession assured.
 With U. N. forces in nsmins control Of E1is z5 thville after twS weeks of battling 73ssslll6zzabe'I white-led Katangarl troops, act i;ze U. N. Secretary General . Thnnt had ordered his soldiers tr hold their flre for the duration of tsae tallks between Tshombe and Adoula. He said they would shoot back if fired on.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Midnight Tonight Is Deadline for Communist Party Registration

WASHINGTON tR = The mem- bers of the US. Communist party
 more than 10000 by FBI esti- mates have until midnight to- night to register as agents of a foreign power.
 They are expected to follow their officers lead and ignore this third and last deadline If they do, the Justice Department could try to send them to jail.
 When the party itseli ignored a Nov. 20 deadline to register with the Attorney General and the leaders did the same Nov. 30, the Justice Department got an indictment against the party.
 If convicted, the party could be fined $l0,000 for each day of non-registration. Officers an q members are subject to the same penalty. plus five years in prison for each day of violation.
 The registrations were required by the Internal Security Act of 1850. upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year after a 16-year legal bsttle.
 Party of{icIaIs had declared well In advance that they would not comply with the registration provisioux of the act. They also require the disclosure 1T party priuttn1 press locations, 1inan cial contributions and expenses.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Report Heavy Fighting Brealxs Out in Cu1ba

MIAMI, E'1a. tA Bloody fight- ing has broken out In the nnouTs- tains Of Central Cuba between a guerrilla ar1ny and 25 900 o1 Fidel Castro's milifia, . top Cas- tro expedition leader sald today.
 Eloy Gutierrez 1denoyo, chief of the second national front army that took part In Castro's revn- 1ution aEainst Dictator Batista, told of the fighting at q news con- ference. S
 He said 1nilitiamen and govern ment troops have mounted a fierce offeHsive against the Rller- ;sillas in the Escanbray Mou1l- tains.
 Less than a week ago, 1t was reported Castro's brother, Raul, chief of Cuban armed forces, was personally leading a government offensive against the guerrillas.
 "Just today we have received word of bitter fighting that has left many rnilitiarnen dead at Obispo, ]" Menoyo said.
 Many farmers in the area have been arrested for aiding the suerriiias Many of the militia- men have joined our forces"
 MerSzs ssls Castro can be overthropn by the Cubans inside the island The var itself is enough to unite those inside Cuba. "
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Air Force Gives Up Search for Tiny Monkey Who Reelected Into Orbit

CAPE C.ANAvERAL. F1s. tB z The Air Force gave ID the search today 1cs . tiny monkey named Seatback who roclketed 600 miles into space and landed in rough water in the south Atlantic Ocean.
 A single ship which had been fighting heavy waves in hunt for the monkeys capsule called 1t quits at l:4s pm. (ESp when darkness fell in the impact area 5000 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral.
 The halt was called nearly 15E hours after the capsule landed! on target after a 30-minute flight from the Cape last night. Two search planes left the area hours earlier when they ran low on fuel.
 Waves in the impact zone were seven to nine feet high. There was some thought that the cap sule and its four pound primate passenger sank soon after land- ing.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Bob Hone and Troupe Tcslr
 Armed Eorces Installations

LOS ANGELES M Comedian Bob Hope 1eft today on his 18th Christnas tour Of armed forces installations.
 Mesnbers of his trosxpe include Jayne Man1fleld, Jer7y Colonna, Anita Bryant. Dorothy Pro0ine md Peter Leeds.
 They will visit Argentia Naval Base and Harmon Air Force Base, Newfoundland; Goose Bay Afr Force Base, Labrador; Ero- bishef Bay Air Force station, HaxzIn 1s1and, and s~>.s1exsssoa md Thule 1sir Force B9ses on CxeenIan
 I,sey re Sls1e to arrive back n 1.1s !: .l 2e
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Double Jeoparlly Ski Trip Cut Short

O0Ubie 3G0pQx0y
 Ski Yrip Cut Short
 CINVEf1 1AND, Ohio un - NIT. and Mrs. Isaac Tripp III won't
 he plnnnine any more skiing trips for while.
 The couple had not done any skiing since they were youngsters, but last week they got . friend
 to stay with their three children and took off for several days Of the sport i1 Canada.
 All was tine until Friday. when Mrs. Tripp, 32, suffered a broken right leg in a spill on a slope at St. Jovite, 80 miles north of Mon- trea1, when the safety release on one of her skis failed to work.
 Tripp, s, took her to the St. Paul Hospital in St. Jovite and returned to the slope, but a few hours later he was a patient in the same hospital. The safety re- lease on one of his slkiis also Jailed during a spill and he. too. suffered broken right leg
 The couple returned here by ,lane last night.
 ''Isn't this ridiculous!'' said Mrs. rripe when she was being carried If the plane as her husband hob ,led along behind her on crutches
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
CONGRESSIONAL IMMUNITY
 QUITO. Ecuador M Two

QUIIQ, Ecuad0r 4 TWO congressman (bitter political foes), quarreled at the airport in Guaya- quill yesterday and one shot the other dead, police said.
 They said Assad Bacaram shot Galo Garay after Garay had knocked the other deputy down. A government spokesman said Bucaram was placed under police guard at his home until Congress decides whether to strip him oi his congressional i'm m unity. Otherwise, charges cannot be brought against him.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Parking Citation

EOS ANGELES M "A park in1 citation with a 45 bill attached arrived at the Municipal TFnffic Fines Bureau yesterday.
 An acconnpanying note eaid: Fl have found this 6cket on the Sidewalk. Not knowing if the cor- owner has ever seen t, I feel slf would be nice If ! made the re- nittance for him q her
 have parked over my allotted time and never received . ticket. ! can remember how eratef1l ! 9was too. :.s-4s
 This. in a szaall way nay 1nale ID fez t Mer1y IlEisllsies to you a1l. A:;
 Signed ponna Tsahl<d
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Sl.s Million Estate

&l.8 Million Estate
 NEW YORK N Errol Flynn, swashbuckiing movie star who died in 1859. left an estate esti- mated in court papers at more than $1.8 million, attorneys said yesterday.
 The bulk of the estate goes to the widow, Mrs. Ps*rice Wymore Flynn.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
wEATIsm OUTLOOK

Continued 1o1r with httte change In temperature.
 Tn the past 21 hours: highest temp, IT. lowest -5. Sunrise at le:0s a.na., sssnse. at 1:s7 pm.
 4 year ago today: hish temp. 24, loWest III. Extremes on this date since 1907: hiehest g ip l01Q, l0west z1 IF 1o1o
 IeqaexzoRs D n is the short- III d66 IT IT with ezractly
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
INSURE TEAcHERs

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 LANCASTER, Pa. tn The Lancaster Township School Board has voted to insure its teachers against law suits stemmine from use Of corporal punishznent. I'm Board said yesterday It did I'll encourage spanking or shnliu
 but would not prohihit it Mhola good judgment h used. K K
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
PADDLES DIsAppEAR

PGIMDMPHIA M - More than 30 wooden paddles were placed in roadside drums of salt by the city tor the use of motorists hampered by ice and snow. But the paddles, said Streets Commissioner Davis Smallwood yesterday. @have been disappearing faster than the salt ?
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
Ses,0oo FREE LOAN
 WASHINGTON lH

W<Ak11L11y<Xx<1N W MI 1ta- terest-free loan of $88,000 to aid the University of Alaska in plan ming . dormitory and dining com plex estlmated to cost $2,776 900 was euno41nced today by the Com munity Facilities Administration.
Evening star., 1961-04-26
Defense Comes First

The changing nature Of military
production already Is beginning to
have It's economic repercuSSions in
various parts Of the country. The
closing down or slowing down of plants
which have had high levels of employ
ment since World War II has brought
political and other presSures on the
Pentagon and Congress to forgo or
postpone such action. Defense Secre-
tary McNamara'S fortnight announce
ment, therefore, that the interests Of
national defense will be given priority
over local or private interests" is
timely and praiseworthy.
AS Mr.. Mcnamara told the Associated
Press at its annual meeting In New
York, hard choices" are involved In
many cases. AS former industrialiSt,
he is we'll aware of the impact of
Federal retrenchment on factories and
workers dependent largely on Govern
ment contracts. 1t Is not pleasant to
have to issue orders for reduction or
cessation Of manufacture Of certain
types OF weapons or equipment in order
to concentrate on newer types. Some
times the newer hardware" can be
produced in present plants. after
suitable conversion of machinery and
training of employees. Often. un-
fortunately, new plants in other loca-
tionS are better qualified to receive
the contracts.
1t is in the interest of the national
economy, of course, for Federal au-
thorities to assist State and local.
officials in relieving the effects of
defense production cutbacks. 1t is also
in the national interest, however, to
resist what Mr.. Mcnamara called
special interest groups" seeking to keep
military contracts coming even If they
are not essential to the Nations
security.
Evening star., 1961-04-26
GroundIess Fear

The fear which led many Arlington
voters to contribute to the referendum
defeat of an urban renewal proposal in
1858 now has proved to have been
groundleSs. The fear was that urban
renewal inherently involved public
housing-and Arlington has made it
plain that it does not welcome public
housing projects.
However, the County Board has been
advised by the Federal Housing and
Home Finance Agency that while urban
renewal necessarily calls for resettle-
nent of displaced families in suitable
housing, this does not mean that public
housing must be provided. On the
basis of this assurance, board members
are planning to seek creation of an
urban renewal agency for Arlington,
through another referendum. There is
need for an urban renewal program in
the county-aimed at such blighted
areas as RosslynS older section.
Evening star., 1961-04-26

I decry your editorial
support of President Ken
nedy's pledge to use force,
as necessary" in Cuba and
Latin America generally. If
Mr.. Kennedy, indeed, intends
to send American troops on
such missions. he does not
have my support, and / regret
the ballot / cast for him.
Evening star., 1961-04-26

external Omitted States) intervention. 4"
Coincidentally, the Progressive Con-
Servative Government of Prime Minister
Diefenbaker in Canada, which at times
has seemed wary of United States
policy toward Cuba, brusquely rejected
opposition demands in Ottawa that it
protest against our policy. At the
same time, Mr.. Diefenbaker himself
told his Parliament that the course of
events in Cuba reveals beyond doubt
the extent to which international COM
muniSm is prepared to go in consolidat-
ing its foothold in Cuba, a bridgehead
from which the penetration of the whole
of Latin America could be launched"
There are more grounds for concern
than for SmugneSS about the future
course of the political struggle in this
hemisphere. But 1t Is heartening, and
deeply so, that the real nature of the
threat and Iof its origin is understood
by some of those best able to help
combat 1t.
Evening star., 1961-04-26
Laos Ceuse-Fire

The prospect of cease-f1re in Laos
after weeks of steady losses of strategic
territory by royal government forces,
invites only peSsimiStic forecast as to
the eventual fate of this small South
east Asian country
Both the Vientiane government and
the CommuniSt-supported Pathet Lao
invaders have agreed" to issue cease
tire orders, but there can be no effective
international policing for several days
at the earliest. At the moment, there
is hope that representatives Of the
three-nation control commiSSion-India,
Canada and Poland-will be assembled
in New Delhi by Friday and be in the
area Of hostilities by the week end
Meanwhile, however, in a country where
communications can be as slow, or even
as non existent, as either party wishes
them to be, there is no assurance that
a ceaSe-f1re order will "get through" to
the Pathet Lao as long as they can
continue to gain ground. Preparations
for intensified fighting still are reported
under way on both sides. And, finally,
if and when a truce is established it will
be only the first step in a long, time
consuming and hardly promising process
Of negotiation on the future of the
country.
Scheduled to undertake this task,
if the preliminaries are successfully
completed, are fourteen nations-among
them the United States, the Soviet
Union and Communist China-with a
first meeting tentatively set for May
IL in Geneva. Despite expressed hopes
that agreement on a. truly neutral
Laos might be reached, the past rec
ord Of interminable negotiating on
any subject with the Soviet Union or
Red China offers little encouragement
that even the word neutral" might
have meaning common to ALL And
the probable demand from Communist
sources that neutral government be
coalition in which Communist rep
reSentation would, of course, be re-
quired, quite probably would lead to a
Communist political take-over in due
time. The alternative of partition, an
other favorite Communist recourse,
likewise would promise the same end
result.
Evening star., 1961-04-26
Welcome Words

Despite the controversy and accusa-
ton that have followed the abortive in
vasion of Cuba condemnation of the
United States has not by any means
drawn universal support throughout
the Western Hemisphere community.
And 1t Is important to remember this
at time when our own Government is
engaged in an official re-examination
Of our modus operandi-even though
not of our attitude.
The whole foundation of the latter
stands, of course, on the conviction that
the Cuban revolution Of 1859 has been
betrayed, delivered by Castro and others
to international communism. There Is
abundant evidence to support this con-
viction, and identification of Com
munist ornaments in last weeks
fighting is only one exhibit in this evi-
dence. In his address to the newspaper
editors here last Thursday, President
Kennedy reaff1rmed the essentials Of
the Monroe Doctrine and made it clear
that the time might come when the
United States alone would take what
ever action considered necessary to repel
foreign intervention in Western Hemi-
sphere affairs in the interests of our own
security.
Drawing relatively little news
attention at the time, it was only a day
later that the Presidents of Brazil and
Argentina, South Americas two largest
nations, representing 40 per cent Of the
total Latin American population, joined
in statement of continued adherence
to the institutions of representative
democracy (no longer existent in Cuba)
and of renewed determination to stand
shoulder to shoulder in "repelling the
direct or indirect interference by
extra continental forces" in hemi-
spheric affairs. Furthermore in sup
plementing this declaration, spokes-
man for Brazils President Quadros
added that his views conceded with
those of President Kennedy on matters
of hemisphere self-determination and
non-intervention, and that the very
failure of the military action against
Castro's forces "showS there was nc
Evening star., 1961-04-26
Degrading the Court

II there has been any degrading of
the Supreme Court 1t cannot properly
be attributed to Justice Frankfurters
dissent from the Willie Lee Stewart
decision.
Dividing to 4, the court in that
case set aside Stewards conviction on a
charge Of first degree murder Justice
Frankfurter said the ruling was "inde-
fenSible" and, in effect, accused the
majority Of turning a criminal appeal
Into "a quest for error" The record, we
think, amply justif1es this criticism, and
II there are those who doubt it they
should read the opinions by Justice
Frankfurter and Justice Clark.
1t Is the whole record in the Stewart
case, however, which degradeS the ad-
ministration Of juStice-using that term
in the sense of bringing it into disrepute.
On the night of March IL, 1858,
eight years ago, Stewart murdered
Harry Honikman, Washington grocer
In the course Of robbing the grocery
store, Stewart, without any provocation,
shot the man down in the presence of
Honikman's wife and daughter There
ing. In three trials, three jurieS have
found him guilty. In each case the
jurors rejected a defense Of insanity,
and the evidence overwhelmingly sup
ports the Governments contention that
Stewart was sane. Indeed, as Justice
Clark points out, the uncontradicted
testimony at the third trial was that
Stewart was feigning insanity. Never
theleSS, because Of one allegedly i'm
proper prosecution question at the latest
trial, the court set aside Stewards third
conviction. And the record shows that
the question was pursuant to a matter
opened up by Stewards lawyer, and that
the latter raised no objection when the
question was asked. This, then, Is the
record: Three jury convictions abund-
antly supported by the evidence; three
convictions set aside in the appellate
courts on the basis of what at most were
errors not bearing materially on the
question of guilt or innocence.
1t is this which impairS public con-
f1dence in the judiciary-not well-taken
criticism such as that from Justice
Frankfurter. Generally, 1t is only
through dissenting opinions that the
public has access to all the facts, and
we trust that they will continue to be
forthcoming despite Chief Justice War
ren's statement that the Frankfurter
dissent tends to degrade the court. Re
Dukes such as this should not be per-
mitted to silence dissent.