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VOL. LVIII No. 116 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1956 Per Copy—154
Eisenhower Accuses Democrats of
Talking ‘Wicked Nonsense" and
‘Political Bunk" in Their Campaign
By the Associated Press <!
President Eisenhower fired back
at his Democratic critics today,
accusing them of talking “wicked
nonsense” and “political bunk” in
the presidential campaign.
Eisenhower’s strongly worded
address, prepared for delivery in
Cleveland, did not mention oppo
nent Adlai Stevenson by name,
but he hit at Stevenson on the
farm issue, cost of living, labor
and several other campaign topics.
Eisenhower, in the strongest
terms fie has used so far in the
campaign, told the Cleveland aud
ience Republicans have given toe
nation the kind of government
that is a witness to a basic virtue
in a democracy—public morality,
'public service and public trust.0
'Favoritism. Cronyism'
“In this administration,” he
continued, “you cannot find those
ugly marks of the past: special
Strand Resigns Post
In Interior Department
To Help Republicans
WASHINGTON, I*—'The Inter
ior Department announced today
that William C. Strand, 45 direc
tor of information and special as
sistant to the secretary, had re
signed to join the staff of the Re
publican National Committee.
An Interior spokesman said that
Strand would advise the commit
tee on natural resources matters.
It was understood he probably
would return to the department
after the Nov. 6 election. His sal
ary with the government was
$14,190 a year.
Strand was city editor of the
old Washington Times-Herald be
fore joining the Interior Depart
ment in 1953. He previously had
been a reporter for the Chicago
Tribune and editor of the Fair
banks News-Miner.
favoritism, cronyism and laxity
in administration.”
Hitting back at Stevenson’s
criticisms of the cost of living,
Eisenhower said “the men of the
opposition know perfectly well
that one of the main reasons they
were thrown out of office four
years ago was their tolerance of
the thievery of inflation. . . .”
Robbery of Pay Checks
He said the “record shows that
we—not they—have made the
most successful fight to stop in
flation’s robbery of every pay
check.”
Eisenhower said it is "political
bunk” and “wicked nonsense” for
Democrats to say Republicans are
against labor, adding:
“The record shows that organ
ized labor is larger in numbers
and greater in strength today af
ter three years of Republican ad
ministration than ever in our na
tion’s history.”
Nothing in 20 Years
On the farm front, Eisenhower
said. Democrats had “20 long
years to do something for the
most needy families on our farms,
and at the end of those 20 years
they had done nothing except to
by-pass the small farmers as they
made corporation and big farm
ing more profitable than ever be
fore.”
Eisenhower also scheduled a
nationwide radio-TV address to
night from a GOP rally in Lex
ington, Kentucky.
Further evidence of a stepped
up campaign came in a White
House announcement yesterday
he will make a 5,500-mile, 48
hour flying trip in mid-October
to Minnesota, Washington and
Oregon, all key states in the drive
to re-elect Eisenhower and recap
ture control of Congress.
Huge British Delta-Wing Bomber
Crashes at Airport as Officials Watch
LONDON, —A huge, delta
winged plane, one of Britain’s
secret atom bomb carriers,
crashed and exploded in fog and
rain at London Airport today be
fore horrified dignitaries welcom
ing the plane home from New
Zealand.
Hair triggered ejector seats,
touched off just before the four
jet Vulcan nosed toward the earth,
saved the lives of Air Chief Mar
shal Sir Harry Broadhurst and
Squadron1 Leader D. R. Howard,
captain of -the plane. „
Four bodies were recovered
from the smoking, flaming wreck
age which littered the airport’s
“lucky No. 7” runway for 200
yards. Broadhurst and Howard
received minor injuries in their
fall of about 300 feet. Parachutes
eased them to the ground.
Eye witnesses and a spokesman
for the builders of the Vulcan,
the A. V. Roe Co., said the canopy
mysteriously came off the plane
as it swept in for a landing after
its 26,000-mile testing proving
flight to New Zealand and Aus
tralia. The nose sagged. Two loud
"bangs,” signaled the ejector seats
sending out the only survivors.
And then the big plane whomped
down.
A company spokesman said that
as the bomber approached the
runway “it seems that it hit
something, possibly an obstruc
tion. He (the pilot) immediately
turned his engines on to full pow
er in an attempt to climb away
but at this point, altho he gained
some height and went back into
a cloud, he recognized that the
aircraft was out of control and,
within seconds, gave the order to
abandon ship.”
The spokesman said there were
no indications “whatsoever that
anything was wrong with the
bomber. All four engines were
operating as usual.”
Bartlett and Gillam Debate Here
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France, Germany
Reach Agreement
On Saar Valley
BONN, Germany, Of)—Conclu
sion of the Frencli-German agree
ment to return the rich Saar val
ley to Germany has been hailed
by both governments and Saar
landers themselves as the first
step toward real European union.
The agreement was hammered
out finally here Saturday after 12
hours hard bargaining between
West German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer and French Premier
Guy Mollet. It sets next Jan. 1
as target date for shifting back
the 991-square-mile industrial ba
sin taken by the French as war
booty in 1945.
"Germany and France are now
prepared to walk hand-in-hand
in working for European integra
tion," Adenauer told newsmen
after agreement was announced.
"With the Saar problem behind
us, we can go ahead faster with
European integration,” Mollet de
clared.
Boy I ^oses His Life
Reselling His Dog
DENVILLE, N. J., (jB—A 12
year-old boy’s love for his dog
cost him his life yesterday under
the wheels of a train.
Police said the victim, Eugene
Rickey Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Rickey, Mt. Tabor, was
playing with an 11-year-old com
panion and his dog, Sixie, when
the pet rushed onto the track as
a four-car Lackawanna commuter
train approached.
The boy tossed the dog to safety
but he was hit by the train and
dragged some 150 feet. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
MOURNING NEWSPAPER
IN MILWAUKEE BANNERS
SAD NEWS OF PENNANT
MILWAUKEE OB—Milwaukee’s
mourning newspaper, the Senti
nel, carried this banner headline
on the front page today:
“Dodgers Win Pennant!”
It was edged in black.
Father Accidently
Burns 2-Year-Old Son
In Bonfire of Reeds
COPENHAGEN OB—A horrified
father stirred the embers of a
bonfire on a south Jutland farm
and discovered he had burned his
two-year-old son to death.
Detlef Keller invited his three
boys to watch him burn a heap of
reeds. As he set the pile on fire
he noticed the youngest, Peter,
was missing but thought he had
returned to the house.
When the blaze was out, Keller
found Peter’s charred body in the
ashes.
Police said the boy had been
overcome by smoke after hiding
in the reeds.
Nominees for Delegate to Congress
Trade Political Shots at School
NOME, (/P)—Alaska’s two nominees for delegate
to Congress finally traded political shots on the same
platform last night at the Nome School auditorium.
After weeks of wrangling over times and places
—and over whether there'
would be any face-to-face
debating at all—D e m o
cratic Delegate E. L. Bartlett and
Byron Gillam, his Republican
challenger, met here in the first
of their scheduled series. (
Gillam declared Bartlett has
been a failure as a delegate for
the people of Alaska.
Bartlett declared that his many
years in Congress have been de
voted to the cause of helping Alas
ka as a territory and its people
as private citizens. «
Bartlett declared that if it were
not for the Democratic Congress,
Nome would not have its hospital,
school, federal building or sea
wall. ,
Gillam charged the Demo
crats with being guilty of three
failures: "Failure to give free
dom from want: failure to give
freedom from oppressive gov
ernment, and failure to deliver
Alaskans from neglect."
Gillam also injected reindeer
meat into the debate. Bartlett and
former Gov. Ernest Gruening,
Gillam said, had failed to develop
a market for reindeer meat. He
also accused Bartlett and Gruen
ing of being socialists and said
th.ey had failed to obtain for Alas
kans the right to elect their own
governor.
He added welfare had increased
eight times since Bartlett became
delegate to Congress.
The Democrats, Gillam said
during his 20-minute opening
statement, have followed a phil
osophy of government manage
ment. The GOP candidate said
the Republicans, on the other
hand, believe in private enter
prise.
It was the latter statement that
Bartlett devoted much of his time
to during the 20 minutes he was
allowed for an opening statement.
He said he had lent his personal
backing during his time in Con
gress to 109 public bills and 59
private bills. He said he would
continue to help the private citi
zen in Congress.
Bartlett disputed Gillam's
claim that Bartlett and Gruen
ing had failed to get Alaskan
voters the right to name their
own governor by saying that
93 percent of the Republicans
in the Senaie were against
statehood for the territory.
Swinging on another tack, Bart
lett asked Gillam if the Republi
can Party in Alaska had “lost its
decency and dignity.”
The Democratic incumbent said
he referred to many cartoons in
Alaska papers which he said were
aimed at him personally.
Bartlett suggested that it would
be more fitting that Gillam
change his nickname from "the
Nevada Kid” to “the Alaska Kid."
Bartlett also made reference to
the fact that he insisted on a pub
lic participation in the debate in
stead of a TV booth. “You can’t
work from a TV booth in Wash
ington,” he said.
In his speech, Gillam pointed
at Bartlett and challenged, “What
have you done about food on the
table and where are the jobs for
Alaskans,” (referring to 36,000
Eskimos and Indians in the lower
wage bracket).
Bartlett replied, “I wish I could
wave a magic wand and raise the
wages for everyone. I can merely
seek to help economy.”
Both men were given 20 min
utes apiece for opening state
ments, ' with each allowed two
five-minute rebuttal periods.
Moderators were James von
der Heydt and Charles Frazier.
(Continued on Page Two)
Gum Disease Said To Be a Top
Cause of Tooth Loss in Adults
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., (J*—An
Air Force Dental Corps officer to
day said early diagnosis of gum
diseases—along with effective use
of the toothbru ,h—is a top pre
ventive of tooth loss among adults.
With persons 35 and over, said
Maj. Clifton O. Dummett, more
teeth are lost from periodontal
diseases—pyorrhea and gingevitis
—than from any other cause, in
cluding dental decay.
Dummett, chief of periodontics
and preventive dentistry at El
mendorf Air Force Base in An
chorage, cited a study which be
said showed 50 percent of all men
are afflicted with some form of
periodontal disease by the age of
45 er have lost all their teeth
because of it.
Existing information, he said,
shows periodontal disease is wide
ly prevalent, is influenced by
body disease and “affects males
earlier in life than females.”
Early diagnosis of gum dis
ease, Dummett said in a report
prepared for the annual meeting
of the American Dental Assn.,
enables treatment to be launched
as soon as possible. Special vigi
larlce is necessary, he said, to
keep the condition from recour
ring or progressing among those
once afflicted.
Dummett said that periodontists
agree effective use of the tooth
brush is an Essential home weap
on against these diseases.