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Young Gang Member
Slays Honor Student
By Mistaken Identity
NEW YORK, (iP)—A smiling,
cynical young gang member was
held today in the slaying of a 15
year-old model boy whom he mis
took for a member of a rival gang.
Frank (Tarzan) Santana, 17,
was charged with homicide in the
death of William Blankenship Jr.,
an honor student and high school
football star.
The killing broke the slain
boy’s father, a civic leader and
fighter against juvenile crime.
Said William Blankenship Sr.,
a research chemist:
“We’re going to take the boy
to Pennsylvania—where he was
born in the Blue Poconos—and
we're going to put him into clean
dirt. Then we’re going to leave
this city. We’re whipped. We’ve
been caught and crushed.”
Police said young Blankenship
was cut down by a bullet from a
foreign-made automatic fired by
Santana Saturday night in the
Bronx. Blankenship was on his
way to the movies with a friend. ;
Police quqted Santana as say
ing he thought Blankenship was
a member of the “Golden Guin
eas,” a gang feuding with his
“Navajos” over the use of a simi
lar “uniform”—a black and yel
low zipper jacket with a picture
of an Indian on the back.
Sec. Wilson Tells of U.S. Progress
In Developing Guided Missile Ships
WASHINGTON, tSV-Secretary*
of Defense Wilson has told Con
gress the Navy’s “development of
a fleet of guilded missile ships is
progressing rapidly.”
He told a House Appropriations
subcommittee in testimony made
public today the fleet soon will
have seven warcraft capable of
firing guided missiles. In addi
tion, the new weapons are being
“introduced into several fleet
carriers and cruisers,” Wilson
said.
Adm. Arthur W. Radford, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, testified at the same time
“real progress is being made” in
the broad field of guided missiles.
Radford also told the subcom
mittee “in the-^ past three or four
years, in my judgment, our
strength has increased more than
theirs (the Soviets’) due primarily
to the tremendous development
of our jet aircraft and our weap
ons delivery system.”
Testimony produced these oth
er main points:
1. Wilson said the Pentagon is
working toward a “future air de
fense system” that will include
“nuclear weapons applications to
continental defense.” It also will
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include better radar warning sys
tems, “high-performance” piloted
and pilotless interceptors of all
ranges and “more versatile sur
face-to-air guided missiles.”
2. Wilson also said, “Do not
think that the Soviets, in spite of
what they may say, want a war
with the free world. . . . The
Communists are getting along
quite well, I am sure, from their
angle, without precipitating the
war. . . .”
Wilson, supported by Radford
in defending the new cutdown
“long haul” military program,
gave this thumbnail sketch of the
growing power of U.S. forces:
Navy—Its “striking power . . .
is being steadliy improved” thru
guided missiles, more and strong
er carrier forces and moderniza
tion of ships and equipment.
Air Force—Its combat power
“has increased several fold” since
World War II, with conversion to
“ new jet-powered aircraft and a
second round of aircraft modern
ization.” Radford said the air
plane’s striking power “is some
thing like 20,000 times as great or
more” than those of the last war.
Sunday Night Fire
Burns ACS Garage
A fire of undetermined origin
completely destroyed the motor
pool of the Alaska Communica
tions System located at the orgin
al ACS site in the northeast part
of the town last evening.
The commanding officer, Capt.
Oliver Meads, states that three
vehicles were lost: a weasel, a
jeep and a truck, as well as
some electronic gear. No estimate
of the total loss has been re
leased today.
Appreciation was expressed to
both City and Air Force fire de
partments who cooperated in
fighting the fire with the military
hooking onto the nearest hydrant
at Third Avenue and Kings Way
and then connecting with city
hoses. A slight delay was caused,
stated City Fire Chief Laws, by
the fact that the line had con
siderable frost in it, not having
been used all winter, and that
it was about ten minutes before
the water reached the hydrant.
All fire mains are being filled
today for the summer months.
Radford Report Tuesday
WASHINGTON, IT'—A White
House announcement said today
Adm. Arthur Radford will report
to President Eisenhower tomor
row on his recent series of con
ferences with Chinese Nationalist
officials on Formosa.
Governors Being Briefed
On Current Problems
At Eisenhower’s Request
WASHINGTON, At Presi
dent Eisenhower’s request, top
administration officials are brief
ing state governors here today
and tomorrow on the internation
al situation, national security,
highway problems and the Salk
vaccine program.
This is the third year in a row
the President has called the gov
ernors to Washington for a dis
cussion of world, national and
state affairs.
The Chief Executive himself
will not attend the session, but
the governors were the White
House guests of the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower this morning for
a social cup of coffee. And the j
President and First Lady will be!
guests of the governors and their j
wives this evening at a dinner at!
the Mayflower Hotel. Eisenhower!
will speak informally after the
dinner.
Along with the chief executives
of the 48 states, the governors of
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands and Guam have
been invited to the conference.
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; Southern California Hit
j By Snow, Rain and Hail;
129 Autos Stranded
A weekend storm of rain, snow
I and hail in southern California
| stranded scores of fishermen and
motorists and indirectly caused
two deaths.
Snow in some mountain areas
was as deep as 30 inches.
Twenty-nine automobiles car
rying 81 men, women and chil
dren were stranded in the Santa
Ana Canyon area in the San Ber
nadino Mountains.
The cars got stuck late Satur
day. Sheriff’s rescue parties had
to tow them out one by one be
cause of impassable roads. All
were freed and none of the per
sons were in serious danger, but
nearly all suffered from cold and
hunger.
The body of one man was found
18 miles north of Fillmore. The
coroner said he apparently had
been hiking alone and had died
of exposure. The body of a fish
erman was brought out of the
San Gabriel Mountains. A com
panion said he had collapsed,
13,400 GUESSES RECORDED
FOR ICE TO MOVE MAY 3RD
IN ICE CLASSIC LIST BOOK
A complete list of all guesses
recorded on the Nenana Ice
Classic has been received and is
available at the Nugget Office.
Guesses have been made from
April 1st until Nov. 25th.
Ninety-three pages of 13,400
guesses have been recorded for
tomorrow May 3. The ice has
moved on May 3rd three times.
May Day Marked by Rain in Russia,
Violence in France, Death in England
Fairless Resigns as
U.S. Steel Chairman
HOBOKEN, N.J., —Benjamin
F. Fairless resigned today as the
chairman and chief executive of
ficer of United States Steel Corp.,
the world’s largest steel producer.
The resignation was announced
by the company’s headquarters
in Pittsburgh. The company’s
statement quoted Fairless as say
ing he wished to “surrender the
responsibility of my office to ca
pable and younger hands.”
Son of a Welsh coal miner,
Fairless had been chairman of
Big Steel since 1953 and president
since 1937. He will continue as a
director and member of the giant
corporation’s finance committee.
Nationalists React
Coldly to Moves
For Cease - Fire
TAIPEH, Formosa, (iP—R e d
shore guns and Nationalist planes
kept the vest-pocket war going
today in Formosa Strait while the
Nationalists frowned on Wash
ington and New Delhi moves
toward a cease-fire.
Red guns on Amoy shelled Lit
tle Quemoy. Nationalist planes
attacked Red ships in Amoy Bay.
The Nationalists reacted coldly
to Washington reports that U.S.
Marines and jets might be based
on Formosa. A qualified official
said, “Had the move not been
linked with a cease-fire, our re
action would have been one of
unqualified endorsement.”
Nationalist quarters scoffed at
an announcement by India’s
Prime Minister Nehru that he
was sending Krishna Menon to
Peiping to continue talks begun
at the Asian-African conference
in Bandung.
“Any effort by Nehru to solve
the problems of this area will
prove fruitless,” a Nationalist of
ficial said.
In Pyongyang, capital of Com
munist North Korea, the news
paper Rodong Shinmoon said the
U.S. should accept Chou’s Ban
dung offer of direct talks or else
“incur the growing condemnation
of the world.”
But in Seoul, the Korean Re
publican, a newspaper subsidized
by Syngman Rhee’s South Korean
government, said President Eis
enhower’s willingness to discuss
a cease-fire without Nationalist
China being present was “sheer
and amazing sophistry, consider
ing it is spoken by one ally about
the vital interests of another.”
By the Associated Press
Workers throughout the world
marched in traditional May Day
celebrations Sunday. Religious
and political leaders on both sides
of the Iron Curtain took grim
note of East-West tensions.
Violence broke out in France.
Algerian nationalists took the oc
casion to stage independence
demonstrations and wound up in
scuffles with the polices At least
41 persons were injurtW and 70
demonstrators were arrested.
The day, established as Labor
Day by the International Socialist
Congress in 1899, was observed
by Communists and non-Reds
alike.
In Moscow, President Eisen
hower’s wartime friend, Marshal
Georgi Zhukov, stood in drench
ing rain reviewing a parade of
Russia’s military might. But the
rain forced cancellation of the
usual mammoth march by “spon
taneous” civilian demonstrators.
The customary air force fly
' past also was canceled.
Later Zhukov, the Soviet de
fense minister, blasted “imperial
ists’ threats and provocations” in
a speech and said the Paris agree
ments to free and rearm West
Germany increased world tension.
Peiping radio said China’s lead
er, Mao Tze-tung, observed the
day watching a “seemingly end
less parade” down Peiping’s cen
tral boulevard. Peiping’s mayor
made a speech calling for the
strengthening of defenses and the
“liberation” of Formosa.
At Vatican City, Pope Pius XII
addressed hundreds of thousands
of workers assembled from all
parts of Italy in St. Peter’s
Square. The 79-year-old pontiff
urged modern society to achieve
social peace and delivered stern
words against Communism, al
though he did not mention it by
name.
The Pope concluded his 25
minute speech by proclaiming the
liturgical feast of “St. Joseph the
Workman” to be celebrated each •
May Day.
British celebrations were marred
by the death of one of the nation’s
top labor leaders, anti-Commu
nist Arthur Dreakin. He suc
cumbed to a heart attack suf
fered while addressing a May Day
rally.
PARLAY VOUS?
TUCSON, Ariz., —Students
at the University of Arizona may
spend a lot of time reading—but
one publication they apparently
miss is the racing form.
Not one of the 36 who took
the annual vocabulary test at the
university could define the word
“parlay.”