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American Korean
War turncoat
Is Enroute .Home
HONG KONG, UP)—'The return
of another American turncoat
from Communist China aroused
speculation today that more soon
would follow.
LaRance Sullivan said after
crossing the border yesterday he
wanted to be the first of the three
negro turncoats to go home.
The 27-year-old former Ser
geant was dishonorably dischar
ged from the U. S. Army with
20 other Americans who refused
repatriation from Communist
capture in Forea. Sullivan, of
Omaha, Neb., and Santa Barbara,
Calif., has been described as the
bitterest of the lot.
“I went to China with the skin
and heart of a negro,” Sullivan
told newsmen. “I lived happily
with the people in a spirit of
peace.”
Dressed in a blue suit and look
ing healthy, he said the Pei
ping government treated him well
during four years and two months
in China, found him a job as a
factory worker in a Provincial
city and paid him a subsidy while
he worked there.
“I went to China to work and
study and to add my voice to the
cause of peace. I did work and
study and I was very happy
among a soul-stirring people, a
peace-loving people, but thought
it was time to come home,” he ]
said.
Sullivan said he studied “the j
International situation which to- j
day is really in a state of hysteria
caused by warmongers.”
Sullivan is expected to sail for
home Saturday. His exit left
11 other turncoats in Communist
China, two of whom are negroes.
Judy Garland In Hassle
Over $40,000 Wages With
Night Club Owner
NEW YORK, UP) — Judy Gar
land sang “Life is just a bowl of
cherries” at a Brooklyn night
club last night, told the audience
she had a “terrible case of lar
yngitis” and walked off the stage.
“It doesn’t matter anyway,”
she said, referring to the laryn
gitis, “because I’ve been fired.”
She had appeared at the Town
and Country more than an hour
late.
Ben Maksik, owner of the club,
said he advanced Miss Garland
$40,000 before she arrived here.
The singer and her husband, Sid
Luft, whom she sued for divorce
March 4 in California, denied
they receivd $40,000 from Maksik.
Yesterday afternoon, Miss Gar
land said, she called Maksik to
ask for money, saying there was
no food in her house, M"aksik
refused, Miss Garland added.
The v owner denied this.
Maksik said he signed the
singer for a 3V£ week engage
ment at $25,000 a week. She
opened March 20 to good notices.
Sack Dresses Must Have Been
Designed By "Woman Hater"
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UP)—Por
trait photographer Tony Wichers
believes the sack dress must have
been designed by “someone who
hated women.”
“I mean someone would have
to hate women to hide something
as beautiful as the female body;
in a bag,” the Topeka, Kan.,
photographer told a meeting of
the Kentucky Professional Pho-j
tographers Assn, yesterday.
Alaska Airlines
Pilots Sight Fire
Ball Over Canada
JiUNEAU UP) —Two Alaska Air
lines pilots flying between Ju
neau and Petersburg reported
seeing an orange ball of fire flash
through the sky about noon Sat
urday.
Pilots Dave Brown and R. K.
Gildersleeve, piloting different
planes, said the object was very
bright and was visible for three
or four seconds before it disap
peared to the Northeast.
The Dominion weather office
of Vancouver, B. C. said its met
eorologist at Whitehorse in the
Yukon reported a “meteorite
like object sighted Northwest of
Whitehorse about 12:30 p.m. PST
Saturday.
“Reports have it that it was
observed at Watson Lake, Y. T.,
Aishihik and a point in Alaska,”
the meteorologist said. “The ob
ject appeared to be consumed be
fore reaching ground.”
Shifting Ice Threatens
Little America V
In The Antarctic
AUCKLAND, New Zealand UP)
—Little America V—A U. S. Ant
arctic headquarters and successor
of the famed Byrd bases—must
be abandoned before shifting ice
carries it out to sea.
Rear Adm. George Dufek,
Commander of Operation Deep
Freeze, said a crack already has
appeared in the ice behind the
Seebee-built camp.
If the section broke off in win
ter no help could be given, Du
fek warned, the camp “could go
out to sea on an iceberg.”
As soon as communications
open next spring, he said, the
Americans will begin withdraw
ing their scientific establishments
from Little America and opera
tions will be transferred to Mc
Murdo Sound before next win
ter sets in.
It is the fifth camp to bear the
historic Little America name.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
built the original on his first
expedition to the Antarctic, in
1928. He reestablished the base
on two later expeditions. The
fourth was set up by the Navy
operation High Jump in 1946-47.
Israel and Syria
Fight on Border
JERUSALEM, Of)—Israelis and
Syrians battled with tanks and
mortars on the Syrian Border
again today, an Israeli Army
spokesman said.
The spokesman charged Syr
ians opened fire with 120 M.M.
mortars and tanks at Israeli
workers in the disputed Huleh
reclamation area. He said Israeli
forces returned the fire with
tanks and artillery.
This was the second clash in
two days. The two sides fought
a 75-minute tank and mortar
battle in the same area yesterday.
During the past week there had
been sporadic smell arms skirm
ishes.
In Cairo, Capital of the United
Arab Republic of Egypt and Sy
ria, a military spokesman said
U. A. R. Forces will defend the
lives of its subjects, their land
and property.”
The Arabs oppose any work on
the reclamation project at Huleh
because they fear it means the
Israelis are solidifying their hold
on the sector claimed by Syria.
Nome To Ballot
Tomorrow In
Municipal Election
Nome’s annual municipal and
i school board election will be held
I tomorrow at the City Hall start
ing at 8 a.m. The polls will be'
open until 6 p.m.
Following is a list of the can
didates and the offices for which
they aspire:
For Mayor:
Steffen Andersen
Wilbur T. Arnold
For City Council, 1-year term:
Axel T. Edman
Gordon Osborne
For City Council, 2-year term:
Fred Cavota
Keith Hedreen
Bob Lewis
J. R. (Dick) Miller
Wallace C. Melver ^
Grant Nelson
Roscoe J. Wilke
For City Clerk:
Robert F. Scott
For City Treasurer:
William W. Tuttle
For Nome Light and Power
Utility Board:
William T. Haley
For Member School Board:
1-Year Term
N. W. (Willie) Foster
3-Year Term
Dorothy A. Grant
L. Earl Towner
5-Year Term
Roy W. Snyder
Pilot Dives DC-6B
Airliner To Avert
Mid-air Collision
NEW YORK, — A veteran
pilot threw his National Airlines
plane into a sudden dive yester
day to avert a collision with a
twin-engine plane coming direct
ly at him.
The quick action of Capt. Jack
Guthrie, 37, was credited with
probably saving the lives of 60
persons.
Guthrie told authorities he was
approaching Idlewild Airport
from Miami with 58 persons
aboard when he saw the uniden
tified plane coming at him.
He put the DC-6 into a sud
den, baggage-jarring steep dive
for about 100 feet. Some pass
engers were thrown out of their
seats. Hand luggage fell from
the racks. But no panic was re
ported. . i
“I saw it just in time to get out
of the way,” Guthrie said later.
“Pilots see airplanes all over
the sky all the time. Usually yqu
have time for gentle turns or easy
descents. This one just hap
pened to be so close that it called
for a rather quick change.”
The near collision occured in
the vicinity of Barnegat Inlet,
N. J., 60-odd miles from Idlewild.
The point is known as the “Coyle
Interchange,” where two radio
waves—aid to navigation—cross.
Officials of the Civil Aeronaut
ics authority said they planned no
investigation.
Joseph Egelik Charged
With Manslaughter In
Death of Golovin Man
Joseph Egelik of Golovin is
being held on a charge of man
slaughter. The body of Tommy
Amoktoolik was brought in frbm
Golovin and an autopsy is being
held today. Egelik is alleged tp
have killed Amoktoolik with his
fists.
United States Questions Reliability
Of Russia’s One-Country Stop Order
On Further Hydrogen Bomb Tests
MOSCOW, —'The Soviet Un-|
ion announced today it is halting ;
all hydrogen and atomic weapon j
tests but warned it will be free J
t& resume them if the West does
not follow suit.
A resolution introduced in the
Supreme Soviet asked the Cabi
net to take steps to halt the tests
but set no date.
“If other countries possessing
hydrogen and atomic weapons
continue their tests,” the resolu
tion said, “the Soviet Govern
ment will be free to act in the
same manner in the interests of
the security of the Soviet Union.”
The Parliament unanimously
approved a new government an
nounced by Premier Krushchev
at the same session.
Krushchev named Bulganin,
the man he supplanted as Pre
mier, head of the Soviet State
Bank. He appointed two First
Deputy Premiers and four Dep
uty Premiers, and reappointed all
other Ministers and key execu- j
tives who had been in the Bui-1
ganin Cabinet.
Bulganin’s job is one he had
held in his earlier career. It
gives him a seat in the Council
of Ministers but not full Mini
sterial rank.
Reporter Amazed
By Excellence of
White Alice Tone
Nome had an interesting part
in the formal opening of the
White Alice system last week.
Mayor Steve Andersen spoke
to New York in a special three
way conversation.
To prove to a News Week re
porter just how fast the White
Alice system works a call was
put through from the New York
office of Western Electric and
the New York office of News
Week to Mayor Andersen. The
transaction was completed in
three minutes and the conver
sation was heard clearly and dis
tinctly reported Andersen, to the
amazement of the reporter.
Nome’s “voice with a smile” is
Audrey Rauch who has had nine
years experience as long distance
operator with the Southeastern
Bell Telephone Co. She is the
first civilian operator of the full
civilian staff of operators being
planned stated ACS officer-in
charge Sgt. Jim Blanning.
Mary Pickford’s Adopted
Son Attempts Suicide
SANTA MONICA, Calif., UPV—
Police said marital troubles ap
parently prompted a suicide at
tempt by the adopted son of Mary
Pickford.
Ronald Charles Rogers, 21,
adopted in 1943 by the former
screen star and her husband,
Buddy Rogers was reported in
fair condition in St. John’s Hos
pital.
Physicians said he took an
overdose of sleeping pills and
antibiotic capsules.
The young man, a machinist at
Northrop Aircraft Co., was found
unconscious Saturday in his Haw
thorne apartment. Neighbors
said he had been despondent
since his wife, Lenore, 22, left
him two weeks ago. The couple
has two small children.
WASHINGTON, 0?V-Thc Uni
ted States today questioned the
reliability of Russia’s one-country
stop order on H-bomb tests, and
called on the Kremlin to operate
in that field in an “orderly”
manner under the United Na
tions.
A State Department statement
noted the United Nations recent
ly approved overwhelmingly “a
comprehensive first-stage dis
armament proposal and called on
the nations concerned to begin
at once technical studies as to
how these proposals might be
carried out.”
The quick State Department
response to today’s Moscow an
nouncement said: “The Soviet
statement comes on the heels of
an intensive series of secret Sov
iet tests.”
Those tests themselves, it add
ed, “should arouse world opinion
to the need to deal in an orderly
and dependable way with the
testing and related, aspects of
the disarmament problem.”
It said Soviet official propagan
da “incessantly seeks to create
abroad the image of a peace
loving Soviet Government.”
The statement added: “but that
same government openly defies
the United Nations with respect
to both the substance and the
procedure of disarmament.”
That was a reference to the
Kremlin action in boycotting the
disarmament commission set up
by the U. N. General Assembly.
Canadians Vote Today To
Choose Governing Party
TORONTO, UPl — Canadians
went' to the polls today for their
second National election in nine
months, and Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker’s Conservative Party
was generally picked to remain
in power with the clearcut ma
jority it missed last June.
Libral Leader Lester B. Pear
son waged a strenuous campaign
to regain the control of the House
of Commons his party held' for
22 years—until the Conservatives
squeaked ahead last year. But
political experts said there was
little chance the Liberals could
overcome the odds they faced.
In Canada, as in Britain, vot
ers do not ballot for a Prime Min
ister but only for a member of
Commons from their own district.
The Prime Minister is the head
of the party which wins a major
ity—or most of the 265 seats in
Parliament’s Lower House.
The Conservatives last June
won 113 seats, more than any
other party but 20 short of a ma
jority. The Liberals had 106
seats.
New Volcano Island
Appears Off Coast of Italy
PALERMO, Sicily, UPt—A new
volcanic island arose in the Med
iterranean at dawn Saturday and
by noon jutted 450 feet above the
sea.
The Italian Navy reported the
tiny island emerged eight miles
from Favignana, an island off the
west coast of Sicily between Mar
sala and Trapani.
The Navy’s last report s~id the
volcanic island was still rising.