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Art Johnson and
Passenger Die
In Plane Crash
Art Johnson, 41, well known
northern Alaska bush pilot was
killed Friday when the plane he
was flying for Wien Airlines
crashed about 20 miles rnorth of
Safety Lagoon while on a flight
from White Mountain with an in
jured woman he was bringing to
the MwEM Hospital.
The woman, Mrs. Guy lone,
mother of six children had suffer
ed a head injury at her home and
the ambulance had been alerted to
meei the plane which was caught
in very bad weather, with high
winds and freezing snow.
Johnson is the last of four
brothers, all of whom were flyers
and all of whom met their deaths
in airplane accidents.
Johnson has flown as a pilot lor
Munz Airways, Alaska Airlines
and had also had his own flying
service out of Unalakleet at one
time, and became a pilot fofr
Wien’s last year when that or
ganization took, over the Unlak
leet route. He was also a member
of the State Legislature from this
area having served one session.
He is survived by his wife,
Grace and four children of Nome;
his mother, Mrs. Rudolph Odegard
of Fairbanks; and a sister, Mrs.
Merritt Powers also of Fairbanks.
Funeral arrangements are pend
ing word from Johnson’s mother
end will be held from the Cove
nant Church, where he was a
Mrs. lone is survived by her
husband, six children and her
father, David Henry, formerly of
Nome and now of White (Moun
tain. Her sister-in-law, Dorothy
Bl<ee and sister Rose Kowcnee re
side in Nome.
Pearse Walsh, station manager
[or Wien Airlines, expressed ap
preciation for his company to the
many people who volunteered to
aid in the search.
Martin Olson, who located the
plane; Dick Galleher and Willie
Foster with their observers as
well as Wien pilots all assisted
whenever there was a break in
the weather.
Three weasels and a Snow Jeep
made the trip to the crash scene
late Saturday afternoon and re
turned with the bodies. Roy Sny
der drove his own Weasel, Tom
Johnson drove the RCA Weasel,
Bob Schick drove the FAA Wea
sel, and John Ba'nnke drove his
Snow Jeep. '
The ice was very thin on the
lagoon, it was reported and the
rescuers were in the water part
of the time, especially near the
downed plane.
CAB and postal inspectors are
scheduled to arrive today to in
vestigate the accident. ZZ
Canadians Use UJL Pennies
TORONTO Ufl — New U.S. pen
nies are in demand in Canada to
meet a shortage of Canadian pen
nies caused by Yule shopping and
the new Ontario sales tax. One
supermarket chain has ordered a
million
French Newspaper Claims
Nikita Suffered Stroke
PARIS UFi — The newspaper
France Soir today quoted a well
informed Western source as say
ing that Soviet Premier Khrush
chev apparently suffered a slight
stroke recently.
The article by Michael Gorday,
France Soir’s Russian expert, said
observers noted that Khrushchev
stopped several times during a
speech Saturday, seemed to lose
the thread of his thoughts, stam
mered and had difficulty in finish
ing sentences or pronouncing cer
tain words correctly. The story
added that at the end of the 55
minute speech before the World
Federation of Trade Unions,
Khrushchev was covered with
perspiration and seemed to be
exhausted.
Gorday wrote thai the reports
reaching Paris said a slight stroke
apparently was suffered after the
closing of the 22zid Communist
Party Congress.
U.S. Invests Over
$25 Billion in Its
Atomic Energy Program
WASHINGTON — The Unit
ed States has invested over $25
billion in its atomic enregy pro
gram sine 1940, the Atomic En
ergy Commission reported Sun
day.
The cost of developing the
bomb, which was handled then
under the War Department, was
approximately the $2.61 billion re
quired for 1951 fiscal year opera
tions was divided thusly: $733
million for production of nuclear
materials, $037 million for pro
curement of raw materials, $516
million for weapons development
and fabrication, $437 million for
reactor development, $154 million
for physical research, $54 million
on biology and medicine and $81
million for miscellaneous projects.
Gene Fullmer Retains
Crown — Kayos “Kid”
! Paret in 10th Round
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (ff> — Gene
Fullmer has got to be the work
ing man’s candidate for “Man of
the Year.” As a boxer, a world
champion, he is a magnificent day
laborer.
There is nothing spectacular
about Fullmer. He just daes his
hands, and maybe a little elbow
grease and a shoulder here and
there, to lift that bale, tote that
load and knock the hell out of
the other guy in the ring.
It’s just like any other work
ing stiff.- It brings home the ba
con. It also keeps Gene in his
proudest possession, the National
Boxing Assn, portion of the world
middleweight championship.
Saturday night Fullmer in the
same dig-the-ditch fashion knock
ed out Benny (Kid) Paret in
rounds to keep his cherished
and wreck Benny’s
weight titUTi'or Saturn
effort the Cuban kid
lMtt and Gene 15944
lar about Fullmer’s victory,
just planed Paret aoninst
ropes fo>
U.S. Underground
Blast Releases
Radioactive Cases
By Alton Blakeslee
CARLSBAD, N.M. UB — Sci
entists counted blassings of know
ledge from the first underground
atomic “peace bomb” explosion
Sunday despite the escape of ra
dioactive gas.
They reported 70 per cent suc
cess in getting data on major sci
entific programs, but major mys
teries remain.
They judged the steaming ra
dioactive cloud hadn’t hurt any
body or anything, although its
unexpected fallout partially block
aded nearly 300 observers.
The specially designed five
kilo-ton atomic device was de
tonated a quarter-mile under
ground It was in a chamber at
the end of a buttonhook tunnel
dug 1,100 feet through salt rock
from a vertical mine shaft. This
project Gnome hole cost 1 million,
the total drill nearly $6 million.
A main objective was to learn
what happens when a nuclear
blast, equivalent to 5,000 tons of
TNT, occurs in salt rock. Sci
entists hoped it might form a
cavity partly full of molten salt
and steam, and wanted to see if |
enough steam could be brought
up to operate turbines and gen
erate electricity.
The earth shock produced a
moderate earthquake in Carlsbad,
23 miles away, where a waitress
saw “an itty-bitfy Santa Claus
shaking on a drug store counter.”
It didn’t harm the Carlsbad
Caverns, 34 miles west, or pot
ash mines, kept empty of people
when the blast was detonated.
Seismic measurements obtain
ed near and far may help show
I the difference between the “sig
i nature” of an earthquake and a
secret nuclear underground bomb
test.
The blast apparently turned the
chamber room into a leaky boiler,
said Dr. Phillip Randolph, Liver
more, Calif., deputy technical di
rector of Gnome.
Somehow, the leak sent radio
active gases up the mine shaft, a
white steam turning into an in
visible cloud of radioactive gas.
A filter in the shaft head ap
parently stopped solid particles,
said Dr. Randolph.
Atomic Energy Commission of
ficials said the gas swept over an
unpopulated area. But for more
than three hours they blockaded
the direct road to Carlsbad until
radioactivity died down. And “for
good housekeeping” the ABC
washed seven cars caught between
blockade points.
Soviets Sever Diplomatic
Ties With Albania
MOSCOW m — The Soviet
Union has severed diplomatic ties
with AJbania in the biggest Com
munist bloc split since Stalin ex
pelled Yugoslavia from the Com
lnform in 1948.
The break, disclosed in Tirana
and confirmed by the Albanian
Embassy hear Sunday, had been
expected since Premier Khrush
chev at die October Soviet Party
Congress denounced the Albanian
them oi
Charges U.N. Seeking to
Destroy Katanga’s
Economic Potential
ELISABETHVI LLE, Katanga UP)
— President Moise Tshombe de
clared today the United Nations’
aim in current fighting is to re
duce considerably if not to de
stroy “the economic potential of
my country.” He said Katanga’s
secession from the Congo was not
the target.
After a weekend of air raids
and counter raids, Tshombe said
Katflhga’s communications have
■been largely cut by U.N. attacks
on the post office and radio trans
mitters and the most Important
and modem copper factories in
Kolwezi have been heavily dam
aged,
Kolwezi is a Katanga base and
copper mining center 150 miles
northwest of Elisabethville. U.N.
planes attacked the town yester
day.
Tshombe told newsmen “This
day will be marked with a white
stone by the capitalist bourgeoisie
to mark the story of its deca
dence. For us and our African
brothers this day will be marked
with a black stone.”
U.N. Commander Says
White Mercenaries Are
Leading Katanga fighting
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo UP)
i —Mobs raided the UjS. consulate
, in Elisabeth ville Sunday and
j stoned the U.S. embassy in Brus
5 sels as the United Nations sound
’ ed a peace overture to end the
i fighting in the secessionist Congo
province now in its seventh day.
Gen. Sean McKeown, the Irish
commander of the UN. task force
in the Congo, said Katanaga pre
sident Moise Tshambe has lost
control of his rich province and
white mercenaries representing
foreign interests are directing the
fighting.
Gen. McKeown told newsmen:
,* “Thfcre ; are* indications that
Tshbmbe realizes the hopelessness
of his position but we don’t think
he could stop the fighting even
if he wanted to.”
Acting U.N. Secretary-General
U Thant and Adlai Stevenson,
! chief U.S. delegate to the United
Nations, insisted the U.N. forces
were fighting a defensive action
without political motive. Both (
made clear, however, they hoped i
for a unified Congo. i
A mob of 200 Katanga Youth
League members broke windows 1
in the U.S. consulate in Elisabeth- \
ville, forced their way into the <
building and stole all the cigarets :
they could find. They were i
ejected by Tshombe’s official :
guard. None erf the consulate staff ]
was hurt. a
In Brussels, about 250 pro-Kat
anga demonstrators stoned the i
U.S. embassy and clashed with <
police who drove them off. 1
—
REP. AL ULLMAN. OREGON,
SUFFERS LOSS OF LEFT LEG
STEPHENS CITY, Va. CIV—Rep.
A1 Ullman, CD-Ore.), suffered the
loss of part of his left leg in a
freak accident Friday.
Doctors at Winchester Hospi
tal amputated the leg at the knee
after it was nearly severed in the
accident.
Police said Ullman was driving
on Virginia State Highway 277
when he attempted to close a
rattling door. The wind jerked
open the door, which opens from
the front of his small foreign car.
The car served into a ditch
and Ullman was thrown out.
Secty.-Gen. U Thant
Says U.N. Is Broke
And Is Heading
For Bankruptcy
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Un—
The United Nations is broke and
heading for bankruptcy, acting
Secretary-General U Thant an
nounced today.
He estimated the U.N. year-end
deficit in 20 days will total $107.5
milion and that by next June 30
it will be around $170 million.
Thant told the Assembly Bud
getary Committee in a personal
appearance “it is imperative that
the General Assembly take ap
propriate action to establish fi
nancial responsibility and re
sources, seriously and soon.”
A step toward establishing the
legal basis for Thant's plan was
taken by the committee immedi
ately after he spoke. It voted 31
10, with 20 abstentions, to ask the
world court tor an opinion wheth
er the Soviet Union and other
countries have the right to re
fuse payment of their assessed
share of the Congo operations
cost. The Soviet bloc is assessed
about 20 per cent of the Congo
and Middle East operation.
The United States pays its Con
go assessment of nearly $36 mil
lion plus more than $15 million
to help defray 50 per cent of more
of the assessments of small na
1 tlons. -Tfr
France, South Africa and Fort
‘ ugal also have refused to pay
- their share of the Congo costs.
Eichmann Guilty . . .
May Die on the Gallows
JERUSALEM <B—- Israel con
victed Adolf Eichman of ‘Unsur
passed” crimes against the Jews
and said his role in the Nazi
program would be remembered
“until the end of time.”
The special three-man tribunal,
which for four months tried the
55-year-old Gestapo lieutenant
colonel, handed down hi3 judg
ment which may bring him death
on the gallows.
Reading the verdict, with all Ita
elaboration of the legal reason
ing, will require several days. Sen
tencing is expected by Friday.
In his bullet-proof, glass-en
closed cage, Eichmann took the
first blow of conviction of the
major charges with aplomb.
The court delivered an exhaus
tive study of the “iniquities” of
the Nazi regime and said it lata*
would describe in detail the role
Eichmann played as chief of the;
Gestapo’s bureau for Jewish af
fairs, the man who shipped mil
lions to their death in the exter
mination camps.
Eichmann had argued that he
was only an underling who carried
out orders. But the court said:
“The laws of humanity are bind
ing on individuals. The guilt ei
Germany as a state does not de
trict one iota from the personal
responsfblity of the accused.”
AGAINST LOVE . . .
HASLINGDALE, England SB—
Miss Doris Woraley, the city li
brarian, reported Saturday that
somebody who is against lova hla
ruined more than 40 romantic
novels.
“The offender — a woman, I
think — began by scratching out
the word ‘love* wherever it ap
peared,” said Miss Worsfay. “Thin
whole sentences were obliteratfd
and recently pages have been
torn from the books.”