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VOL. LVIII No. 150 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1956 __ Per Copy—15c
GOV. HEEVTZLEMAN
TO RESIGN JANUARY 3
WASHINGTON, UPV—President
Eisenhower today accepted the
resignation of B. ll'rank Heintzle
man as governor of Alaska, effec
tive Jan. 3.
The White House made public
a copy of a letter in which Eises
hower told Heintzleman that he
had contributed significantly to
the development of the territory
during his term as governor.
“I extend to you my sincere ap
preciation for a job well done,”
the President wrote.
Eisenhower spoke particularly
of the governor’s efforts to devel
op natural resources of Alaska
and in establishing a pulp indus
try in the territory.
In his letter of resignation to
Eisenhower, Heintzleman said he
did not with another term as gov
ernor, “as I have now had 46
years of public service and desire
to retire to less strenuous work.”
iuis term runs to April 10 but
he said he thought his successor
should take over before the next
legislative session beginning op
January 28.
In Juneau, the governor said
he plans to stay in Alaska and
work on the "great potentialities
of the territory but 1 don’t want
to be on anybody’s payroll.”
He explained his resignation by
saying:
“In four more years, had I ac
cepted another term as governor,*
I would be 72 years old. My
health is good, but I frankly feel
the job should go to a younger
man.”
Pan American Will
Keep Trying for
North Route to Orient
SAN FRANCISCO WV-A Pan
American World Airways spokes
man said yesterday he is disap
pointed that a Civil Aeronautics
Board examiner failed to include
Portland and Seattle as terminals
for flights over the great circle
route to Tokyo.
The examiner recommended
Pan American be authorized to
fly nonstop over the northern
route to the Orient from Los An
geles and San Francisco.
The PAA spokesman, Col. Clar
ence M. Young, said “Pan Amer
ican is going to continue to press
for the inclusion of Seattle and
Portland, both because we be
lieve that these important north
west cities are entitled to the ad
ditional service, and because their
exclusion would penalize Pan
American in the global aviation
picture."
Young said 54 percent of all
transpacific traffic to Tokyo is
generated east of the Mississippi
River and flows thru Seattle, the
shortest route to the Orient over
the great circle route.
P.O. Will Work
Christmas Eve
WASHINGTON, GP>—'The Post
Office says it will deliver before
Christmas all the mail its em
ployes can handle physically,
even though Dec. 24 has been des
ignated as a federal workers’ hol
iday.
The department said yesterday
that designation by President Ei
senhower will not apply to “any
postal employe whose services
are needed to get the mail out.”
Proposals Made to
Invite Nasser, Tito for
Talks With Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, — Sen. Flan
ders (R-Vt) proposed today that
President Eisenhower invite Pres
ident Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Egypt to a conference here as a
move toward a Middle East set
tlement.
(In Cairo today, a well-in
formed Egyptian source said that
Nasser would meet with the Pres
ident in Washington if invited.
Flanders made the proposal in
an interview as other senators
disagreed on the advisability of
inviting Yugoslavia’s Marshal
Tito to come to Washington.
Secretary of State Dulies said
yesterday a visit bf Tito to the
U.S. might serve a useful purpose.
He said Eisenhower is consid
erinp the idea. From other sourc
es it was learned that Tito has
reacted favorably to U.S. feelers.
Judge Restrains Firm
From Using Eisenhower
Name for Promotion
NEW YORK (/Pi—A federal judge
has restrained a brokerage firm
from linking President Eisenhow
er’s name with a food company
headed by his foimer mess ser
geant, Marty Snyder.
Federal Judge Edmund Palmi
eri issued a temporary restraining
order yesterday against the Burd,
Jacwin and Costa, Inc., brokerage
firm.
The judge acted after the Se
curities and Exchange Commis
sion alleged that salesmen of the
firm promoted stock by tele
phone, using Eisenhower’s name.
“President Eisenhower would
do everything in his power to see
that Sgt. Marty Snyder’s beef
stew would be used by the armed
services,” was typical, the SEC
said, of the telephoned sales
pitches employed by salesmen for
the brokerage firm.
Twining Says U.S. Air Force Is
Capable of Launching Retaliatory
Strike Force in Minimum Time;
DENVER, lff>—1The U. S. Ait
Force is capable of launching a
retaliatory striking force “in min
imum time,” the air chief of staff
said last night.
Speaking to Air Force Academy
cadets, Gen. Nathan F. Twining
disclosed that more than 1,000
B-47 Air Force medium bombers
flew nonstop missions averaging
8,000 miles in a two-week period
ended Dec. 11.
He also recalled that a few
days earlier eight B-52 jet bomb
ers circled the continent in 24
hour-plus flights, logging as many
as 17,000 nonstop miles.
“This is the first time that the
nation’s strategic Air Force has
tested the operational capability
of its strike force in such large
numbers during such a short per
iod of time,” Twining said.
“This demonstrated ability of
nations to deliver powerful weap
ons by air has clearly taken the
profit out of war,” he noted in a
lecture commemorating the first
flight of the Wright brothers in
1903.
The operation meant that with
in a fortnight the swift bombers,
refueling in the air, flew a total
of eight million miles.
Eight of the B-52 bombers made
simulated combat missions cir
cling the North American conti
nent. They ranged as far north as
the North Pole.
“All eight bettered the previous
B-52 record of 24 hours aloft,”
Tv ining said, “and in doing so
flew nonstop flights as long as
17,000 miles.”
The B-47, designed by the Boe
ing Airplane Co., which also
builds the B-52, has a normal
range of about 3,000 miles. By re
fueling in the air from tanker
planes, the range can be extended
enormously.
Speed of the B-4*7 exceeds 600
mph. Its bomb load is rated offi
cially as “over 20,000 pounds.”
Twining predicted that by 1961
the Air Force procurement bud
get will be split 50-50 between
new aircraft and guided missiles.
“Right now we are coming into
the missile era,” he said.
THREE VICTIMS OF
TIN CITY CRASH
WERE AIRMEN
ANCHORAGE, The Air
Force Tuesday identified three
airmen killed in a plane crash
at Tin City in northwestern
Alaska as:
Airman 1. C. Lafayette Arm
slronv. South Norfolk, Va.
Airman 2. C. William B. Sul
livan Jr., Fitchburg, Mass.
Airman 3. C. Tommy W.
Pratt, Knoxville, Tenn.
The three airmen and Ralph
Liebert. pilot of the Alaska Air
lines plane, died when the light
craft crashed and burned dur
ing an attempted landing at
Tin City after a flight from
Nome.
Navy Dress Uniforms
Donned in Antarctica
For Commendations
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
U.S. Navy blue dress uniforms
were donned for the first time at
this Deep Freeze air base today.
The occasion was the ceremoni
al commendation of three enlisted
men by Rear Adm. George Dufek
for heroism in putting out a fire
on a wrecked Air Force Globe
master on Nov. 29.
The three were commended for
risking their lives when the fire
threatened the explosion of 3,500 ]
gallons of gasoline in the tanks j
of the big troop carrier. Many
deaths might have been caused I
and part of the ice runway on !
which Deep Freeze operations
depend this season, might have
been destroyed.
The men were John C. Dore,
San Diego; Charles L. Oliver.
Atascadero, Calif.; and Aubrey
O. Weems, Canto, Mass. An iden
tical commendation is to be sent
to Phillip L. Newcomb (no ad
dress available), who is no longer
here.
The Globemaster was damaged
beyond repair when it hit a snow
bank. All 26 persons aboard es
caped, but the pilot and a passen
ger suffered leg injuries.
NEHRU SAYS IT’S TIME
FOR FRIENDLY U.S.
MOVE TO RED CHINA
-i
Russia Trying to
Lower U.S. Prestige
In Middle East
LONDON, UP>—Pravda accused
the United States today of plan
ning to take over the lion's share
of British and French economic
and political positions in the Mid
dle East.
The Soviet Communist Party
newspaper quoted Moscow radio.
It said the U.S. is “evidently will
ing” to replace Britain as the
chief power in the Baghdad Pact
defensive alignment.
The English language broadcast
probably also was transmitted in
Arabic. Its intention apparently
was to substitute the United
States for Britain in Arab eyes as
the chief imperialist menace to
the Arab world.
It could also mean that the So
viet Union is worried about rising
American prestige in the Middle
East and is attempting to counter
this by associating the U.S. with
the Baghdad Pact, a mainspring
of emotional Arab resentment
against the West.
The United States so far has
refused to join the Baghdad alli
ance with Britain, Turkey, Iraq,
Iran and Pakistan but is closely
associated with it. The State De
partment two weeks ago pledged
again to support the independence
of the four Middle East nations
in the alliance.
—
Nixon, in Austria,
Extends Hope for
More Refugee Aid
VIENNA, —Vice President
Richard M. Nixon held out the
hope to Austrians today of addi
tional U.S. aid in handling refu
gees from Soviet oppression.
The vice president arrived by
plane for a three-day study of
the refugee flood created by the
Hungarian revolt. The Austrians
would like the U.S. to take addi
tional refugees off their hands
and to extend financial help in
caring for them.
In an airport statement Nixon
said, “We are fully determined to
do our full share in meeting the
needs which have grown out of
the refugee problem.”
Nixon is bearing a message
from President Eisenhower ex
pressing thanks to Austria for
helping fugitives from Soviet op
pression.
Austria's foreign minister Leo
pold Figl and Vice Chancellor
Adolf Schaerf, who had waited
more than an hour at the airport
for Nixon, greeted him as he
stepped from the plane this after
noon. With them was U.S. ambas
sador to Vienna Llewellyn E.
Thompson.
The vice president was cheered
as he stepped from the plane by
a group of 72 Hungarian refugees
who were waitihg for a plane to
take them to Camp Kilmer, N.J.
Refugees are arriving in Aus
tria from Hungary at the rate of
1,500 a day.
' WASHINGTON, (JV-I ndian
Prime Minister Nehru said today
he had given the “thinking” of
Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai
to President Eisenhower, includ
ing the Red view that it is time
for the United States to make a
friendly move toward Commu
nist China.
Nehru told a 45-minute news
conference his talks with Eisen
hower here had shown him that
United States policy “is not as
rigid as I had thought.” He indi
cated this might apply to U.S. at
titude toward Red China but said
he could not say specifically.
Nehru also said he thinks the
U.S. and Russia are “not far
apart” on problems of how to es
tablish a worldwide disarmament
system. The great difficulty be
tween them, he said, is a lack of
confidence and the most urgent
need for measures to create con
fidence.
The news conference at the Na
tional Press Club, drew some 200
reporters.
Responding in rapid fire man
ner to dozens of questions, Nehru
asserted he thinks the changes
which have occurred in the Sovi
et Union since Josef Stalin died
are fundamental and the “post
Stalinist policy cannot be sup
pressed.” ,
He said he doubted that any
Communist country could ever
become a parliamentary democ
cracy like the United States or
India, but he said he though that
"other forms” of democracy
which would express the popular
will “will almost inevitably take
shape.”
INenru expressed nope inai uie
10 Americans still held in Red
China “will be released” but he
said it would be “embarrassing"
to talk about the problem of these
Americans in any detail since the
matter was one for another gov
ernment and that what he could
say about it might not be true.
Nehru has a date to have a sec
ond meeting with Chou En-lai at
New Delhi on Dec. 30.
He said he thinks “the Suez
Canal should be open to all ships
of all nations.”
In a nationwide radio-televi
sion broadcast last night he said
“I have had the great privilege
of having a long talk with the
President and we have discussed
many problems which confront
the world. I can tell you that I
have greatly profited by these
talks.”
Production Is Lagging
In Hungary; Government
Hikes Pay 10 Percent
BUDAPEST, W)—Premier Janos
Kadar’s government disclosed to
day it had authorized pay increas
es ranging up to 10 percent in
an effort to draw workers into
factories and mines.
At the same time, the Commu
nist party paper complained that
production is lagging in many
plants. This is not entirely due to
the coal shortage, but to the fact
that some workers are drawing
wages and loafing on the job, the
newspaper said.