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VOL. LXII No. 7 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1960__ Per Copy 151
Alaska Omitted
From Federal
Aid to Highways
WASHINGTON, Wl —Secretary
of Commerce Frederick H. Muel
ler sent to Congress Wednesday
a recommendation that 50 miles
of highway construction in Hawaii
be included in the federally
subsidized interstate and defense
highway system.
If approved by Congress, the
action would make Hawaii elig
ible for federal assistance in the
ratio of 90 per cent federal
funds to 10 per cent state out
lays.
The report made no similar
recommendation for Alaska. The
study, as prepared by the Federal
Highway Administration and for
warded by the Secretary, said:
“Neither the present conditions
nor anticipated further develop
ments for the next 15 to 20 years
warrant the designation of any
interstate mileage in Alaska.’’
It explained that the generally
low volumes of traffic usage and
the long routes through sparsely
settled areas apparently can be
adequately handled by using the
construction standards for low
volume primary and secondary
road systems.
The report noted, also, that
Alaska is in a more favored po
sition than most other states with
respect to federal fund-matching,
since it receives 86 cents of fed
eral aid for each 14 cents of state
funds on the regular primary,
secondary and urban extension
road programs.
“I couldn’t be more surprised,”
Bartlett said. “Along with other
Alaskans I had looked forward
with anticipation to the state’s
inclusion in the interstate highway
system.
“We are entitled to be included.
We pay all the taxes that citi
zens elsewhere do for interstate
roads.
“. . . This report of the Com
merce Department . . . seems to
be typical of the Administration’s
desire to do little for Alaska or
nothing at all — unless it is
forced to.”
At Juneau Governor Egan
called the Commerce Department
report “A real blow.”
“I never considered that reac
tion was possible,’’ Egan said.
“We were very hopeful that such
highway proposals in Alaska as
Route 97 to Nome, the ferry sys
tem for Southeastern Alaska and
other routes would be part of the
interstate system.”
Kotzebue Voters Turn
Down Liquor Sales
KOTZEBUE — Voters turned
down a proposal to allow the sale
of intoxicating beverages within
the city limits 198 to 122, and
also elected a new council of seven
members:
Jack Jones . 24j5 ,
Ben Harrison . 228 '
John Nelson .;.... 205 '
Alice Sheldon . 196
Elsie Adams . 183
James Hayes . 182
Bessie Cross . 178
Other candidates and the votes
received: Mary Goodwin 173, Art
Fields 163, York Wilson 148, Wm.
Hensley 134. Ih addition Thomas
Sours, Stubby Lambert, Rhea
Mullaly, David Johnson and Har
old Pilcher each recived one
write-in vote.
(There were 333 ballots cast in
Kotzebue’s first municipal elec
tion as an incorporated city.
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Last of Personnel
Evacuated From
Station Charley
FAIRBANKS, (IP) — Four cold
and weary men were flown off
Station Charley today as the Air
Force completed its evacuation of
the rapidly disintegrating scien
tific ice floe in the Arctic Ocean.
An evacuation plane from Stew
art Air Force Base, Tenn., landed
at 6:28 a.m.; in 45-degree-below
zero weather.
Last to leave the crumbling ice
floe about 440 miles northwest of
Barrow, were all military per
sonnel — Captains Arthur Schroe
der and James 'F. Smith; Sgt.
Theodore Narasaki, and Airman
1/c Gary Standfill.
The evacuation of the four men
today completed the orderly with
drawal of some 30 civilian and
military personnel who had made
their home on the island since
last May, to study the depths and
currents of the Arctic Ocean.
The floe began breaking up last
week after a raging Arctic storm
of two days’ duration.
“It was in pretty sad shape
when they left,” said Major
Philip Peacock, information offi
cer at Ladd AFB. “It was break
ing up around the edges, ice ridges
were being shoved up, and new
cracks were appearing in the
ice.” ,
A C-130 four-engine transport
brought eight men out late last
night, and four others had been
taken off earlier in the day.
U.S. and Britain
Approve Russ Talk
Of Manpower Cut
LONDON, Iff! — Britain today
officially welcomed Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev’s announced in
tention to cut the Soviet Union’s
armed forces by 1,200,001) men.
A terse statement by the For
eign Office was in contrast to the
more cautious “prove-it” attitude
that marked the U. S. govern
ment’s approval.
Both Allied powers — the Brit
ish unofficially and the Amer
ican officially — stressed that the
Soviet Premier himself had noted
the; planned cuts would in no way
lessen the real striking power of
Soviet arms.
A British spokesman told re
porters the government welcomes
the news that the Soviet Union
intends to make a further reduc
tion in its conventional forces.
The State Department in Wash
ington last night called on the
Soviet Union to accept1 an inter
national system of inspection and
control as a means of testing
Khrushchev’s pledge.
Hawaii Senator Long
Asks Retention of Cost
Of Living Differential
WASHINGTON, (ffl — Senator
Oren Long (D-Hawaii) has urged
the Civil Service Commission to
retain the 20 per cent cost "of
living pay differential for federal
employes iji Hawai.
The commission, Long said, is
making its annual review of the
allowance.
In a letter to Commission Chair
man Roger Jones, Long said the
differential is needed to maintain
adequate salaries for federal em
ployes in Hawaii, and to continue
to attract highly qualified per
sonnel to the federal service.
Judge Gilbert Appoints
Bert Jones of Fairbanks
As Magistrate for Nome
Judge Hubert A. Gilbert, Pre
siding Judge of the Superior
Court at Nome, announced today
the appointment of Bert M. Jones
as District Magistrate for the Sec
ond Judicial District, effective at
the date of transfer of the court
system.
Magistrate Jones, age 27, is an
Oklahoma lawyer, who formerly
worked for Judge Gilbert in his
law office at Fairbanks. He is
married, and his wife is a school
teacher. Magistrate Jones is also
a lieutenant in the Marine Corps
Reserve.
The new Magistrate is expected
to arrive in Nome on or about
February 1.
Walter Hodge Nominated
Federal Judge for Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP>— President
Eisenhower Thursday nominated
Walter H. Hodge, now an Alaska
Supreme Court jcstice, to be U.S.
District Judge for Alaska.
The President also sent to the
Senate the nomination of C. Nils
Tavares, a Honolulu attorney, to
be U.S. District Judge for Hawaii.
Both are new positions. The
I nominations are subject to Sen
I ate confirmation.
Hodge, 63-year-old Republican,
is a native of Auburn, Ind. He
began his legal career in 1921.
Tavares, 57, also a Republican
began private law practice in
Hawaii in 1925. For 13 years,
starting in 1934, he served as at
torney general. Then he returned
to private law practice in Hono
lulu.
Hodge will not resign from the
State Supreme Court until his
nomination has been confirmed by
Senate action, expected within
two weeks.
At that time the State Judicial
Council will be called into session
to consider nomination of an
Alaska lawyer to succeed Hodge
on the Supreme Court bench.
A proclamation establishing
the new federal court and trans
ferring jurisdiction over pending
state cases to the new Alaska
Superior courts is expected to
be effective about February 1.
Judge Hodge will make his head
quarters of the new federal court
at Anchorage, but will hear cases
also at Nome, Fairbanks, Juneau,
and Ketchikan.
Senator Describes
Russian People As
Anxious for Peace
WASHINGTON, The Rus
sian people were described today
as contented and anxious for
peace.
Sen. Prank E. Moss (D-Utah)
used these phrases in, answering
questions by other senators Wed
nesday after a 90-minute trave
logue of pictures taken during a
month - long trip through Russia
last fall.
Moss and Sens. Edmund Mus
kie (D-Maine) and Ernest Green
ing (D-Alaska) made the trip as
a special subcommittee to in
spect hydroelectric plants.
Their report, issued earlier this
month, said Russia is making tre
mendous progress in this field
and, if the relative place contin
ues, ultimately will pass this
country.
Moss acted as commentator
while colored pictures of the trip
were shown at a meeting of the
Senate Public Works and Interior
committees.
Suicide May Have Been Cause Of
January 6 Airline Crash Which
Claimed Lives of 34 Passengers
WASHINGTON, UPt — Blaming
a suicide bomb for a January 6
airliner crash which killed 34
persons, Senator Mike Monroney
(D-Oklal said today new laws
may be needed to protect against
such acts.
He said the evidence is very
strong that a passenger bent on
suicide caused the disaster.
The FBI reportedly moved into
the case yesterday as the story
was unfolded before the Senate
Aviation Subcommittee headed
by Monroney.
The subcommittee heard testi
mony that insurance totaling
nearly $900,000 had been issued
since last April on the life of
one of the crash victims.
He was named as Julian An
drew Frank, 32-year-old West
port, Conn., lawyer. He died with
33 others when a National Air
lines plane plunged to earth near
Bolivia, N. C., while en route from
New York to Miami.
Oscar Bakke, chief of the Civil
Aeronautics Board’s safety divi
sion, testified about the insur
ance. Bakke also described other
evidence found by CAB investi
gators which Monroney said made
clear the grim story of what had
happened.
Mystery had shrouded exact
cause of the disaster since the
plane literally fell apart in the
air and plunged to earth.
Bodies of most of the victims
— the last was found yesterday
— were located in the vicinity
of Bolivia, N. C.
Frank’s body was found last,
Saturday 16 miles away, on the
beach near Ft. Fisher, N. C., with
some of the wreckage. Bakke
said Frank could have been blown
through the side of the plane by
an explosion.
Deeply Pierced by Fragments
Bakke said Frank’s body had
•been deeply pierced by metal and
wood fragments, and had been
mutilate in a manner far differ
ent from the injuries suffered by
all of the other victims. Such
piercing of the body with flying
fragments frequently occurs in
explosions.
Frank was married to the for
mer Janet Wagner, a top pho
tographer’s model. They had two
children, Andrew, 2, and Ellen, 4.
Bakke said that Frank had
taken out a $500,000 life insur
ance policy last November, two
$100,000 accident policies in
April and November, and three
accident policies of $61,500 each
in December.
Monroney said the insurance
was made- payable to Mrs. Frank
as beneficiary. She declined to
discuss the matter with newsmen.
New York insurance officials
said there was nothing particu
larly unusual about the quantity
of insurance Frank carried, nor
the short time in which he
acquired it.
They said life insurance poli
iiles normally provide for no pay
ment in case of suicide within two
years of their issuance. The com
pany merely returns premiums
which have been paid if suicide
is proved.
Noted Geneticist
Held for Murder
Of Lady Biologist
BATON ROUGE, La., Ml — Dr.
George H. Mickey, known inter
nationally in the field of genetics,
was held in a Baton Rouge jail
cell today, accused of murdering
a fellow teacher, Dr. Margaret
Rosamond McMillan.
Officers arrested Dr. Mickey,
dean of the Louisiana State Uni
versity graduate school, yester
day. They had questioned him
several times since the body of
Dr. McMillan, 39, was found on
a cow path Sunday near the Mis
sissippi River.
An assailant had brutally beat
en her with a sharp instrument
on the back of the head. She was
a biology teacher at the LSU
branch in New Orleans. She was
believed to have driven to Baton
Rouge for a date.
'District Attorney J. St. Clair
Favrot said last night a special
session of the grand jury may
be called to consider the charge
against Mickey, married and the
father of a 19-year-old boy, a
sophomore at LSU, and a mar
ried daughter.
A murder charge in Louisiana
allows no release on bond.
The 49-year-old Mickey was de
scribed as likeable and friendly
by LSU personnel. He is consid
ered brilliant in the field of gen
etics and is known internationally.
Favrot said he issued the war
rant after reviewing the evidence.
He wouldn’t go beyond that. The
District Attorney said the inves
tigation is still going on.
N. Y. Cop Goes
Berserk, Kills 3,
Himself in Bar
NEW YORK, Uf) — A model
policeman who recently became
emotionally disturbed, turned a
lower Manhattan bar into a place
of deaih yesterday. In a sudden
burst of gunfire he killed a man
and woman, wounded the bar
tender, and then killed himself.
Dead were the police officer,
Anthony Dotti, 55, who earlier
had threatened to “kill five people
this week,” Ann Kenney, 46,
mother of two married children,
and Dominick Mega, 48-year-old
truck driver.
Wounded was George Kruse, 49,
the bartender.
After shooting his victims,
Dotti walked to an alcove in
Dick’s Bar, and Grill near the
Holland Tunnel on Sixth Avenue,
put his service revolver to his
head, and fired.
It clicked but didn’t fire.
A witness said Dotti appeared
puzzled, examined the .38-caliber
gun, raised the pistol to his head
again, and fired a bullet into his
brain.
“The guy had been going crazy
for about a week,” Kruse told
police. “He had been in several
times drinking and complaining
that people were talking about
him behind his back. He said he
was going to have to kill five
people this week.”
Dotti leaves his widow, Jennie,
50, and four children, aged 15
to 30.
One daughter told newsmen
her father had ben “a very sick
man in the past few months.”