How European
Press Reacted to
Inaugural Address
LONDON, UO—Western Europe’s
non-Communist press yesterday
generally welcomed President Ei
senhower’s inaugural address as
a heartening sign the United
States is ready to do its part
toward achieving a just peace.
By contrast, the Soviet news
agency Tass said Eisenhower “in
effect admitted that the USA is
eeeking to expand its influence
throughout the world.”
British newspapers also, wel
comed the speech, btxt the con
servative Daily Telegram warned
.that more than ■ the pronounce
ment of high ideals would be
needed to taring peace, particu
larly in the inflamed Middle, East.
“Every sentence proclaimed the
•President’s absorption with what
he now dearly regards as his re
maining mission in life—the cre
mation of a true and lasting peace,”
-the Telegraph said. But it added:
“The Middle East, where the
•pressing threat to peace princi
pally exists, is not, unfortunately
an area where idealism cuts much
ice . . . pacification there will
need the descent, not into the
dust of battle, taut at least into
the muddy waters of hard diplo
matic bargaining.”
The liberal Manchester Guard
ian said the President’s theme
“might be called Wilsonian.”
The editorial commented:
“It is a wonder that America,
lonely as she feels in an unde
pendable or hostile world, can
still show such goodwill and such
readiness to help others. To that
goodwill the President has given
voice.”
Galvin Giveaway
Winners Announced
Winners of the annual Nome
Hardware and U. S. Mercantile
give-away program have been
announced today.
Nick Lean received the Hot
point upright freezer; Albert
Johnson, the P!ackard-Bell TV
set; Joe Komak, a Singer sewing
machine; Vigo Walterson, a 3 ■
horsepower Johnson outboard
motor, and Alvin Pootoogooluk, s
$500 down payment on a Dodge
or Plymouth car.
Eisenhower Says
Record Boom
Should Continue
WASHINGTON. UF^President
Eisenhower reported to Congress
today that a record 1956 prosper
ity should continue into this year.
But he cautioned that more in
flation may ride along with it.
In the last of his three major
annual messages, the economic
report, Eisenhower stressed for
the third time in as many weeks
his strong opposition to tax cuts
and a sober appeal for restraint
in wage boosts.
He listed 38 laws he wants from
the 85th Congress. They included
prompt federal aid for school con
struction, more teeth in the anti
monopoly and anti-merger laws,
and more help for small firms
caught in the credit squeeze.
The nation’s total output -of
goods and services reached a rec
ord $412 billion last year, and for
the final quarter hit a peak an
nual rate of $424 billions, Eisen
hower reported, forecasting con
tinued good times.
But his basic theme was an ap
peal to industry and labor unions
to join the government in block
ing the leapfrog advance of busi
ness costs and consumer prices.
The President suggested strong
ly that he thinks the government
is doing all it can do to curb price
pressures, short of heavy-handed
restraints that would regiment
the economy and invite a reces
sion. Therefore, he said:
“Business and labor leadership
have the responsibility to reach
agreements on wages and other
labor benefits that are fair to the
rest of the community as well as
to those imediately involved.”
Tragic ‘Prank’
Leads to Fatal
Burning of Nurse
LEXINGTON, Ky. —A trajfie
“prank”, which led to the fatal
burning of one student nurse and
serious injury to another was
blamed on two registered nurses
Monday night.
Fire Chief Earl McDaniel said
Margaret R. Donovan, 24, and
Mary Frances Hutchinson, 26, j
both of Lexington, admitted in!
signed statements they doused
two student nurses with a half
pint of ether.
One of the nurses was smoking
a cigaret. The fire occurred last
week.
Kathleen Oehler, 19, of Frank
fort, died Sunday night and the
other student, 23 year-old Ch ar
lotte Smith of Danville, is still on
the serious list at St. Joseph’s
Hospital where the incident oc
curred.
McDaniel reported that Miss
Hutchinson and Miss Donovan
said ether - throwing was a
“nurses’ prank” which had been
done by others before “to make
them jump.” Ether feels extreme
ly cold when in contact with the
skin.
The fire chief said Miss Hutch
inson admitted pouring ether in
Miss Oehler’s lap and Miss Dono
van poured the liquor on Miss
Smith without realizing she was
smoking a cigaret.
He quoted the nurses as saying
Miss Smith “almost instantly
went up in flames.” The fire
spread quickly to Miss Oehler.
The chief said the nurses im
mediately pulled the two students
from the lounge and put out the
fire with the aid of an orderly.
Soviet Defense Minister
To Visit New Delhi
MOSCOW, (J*)—Soviet Defense
Minister Georgi Zhukov left Mos
cow by jet plane today to repre
sent the Soviet Union at the In
dian independence celebration in
New Delhi Saturday.
Zhukov was accompanied by
Russian aides and Indian military
attache Col. N. D. Navati and his
wife. They will stop overnight in
Tashkant, in Soviet Asia. The
Russian TU-104 jet liner is due
in New Delhi Thursday afternoon.
Airline Mechanic Commits Suicide
By Crashing in $100>000 Airplane
Charles Van Doren
Is Nation’s Top Money
Winner on TV Show
NEW YORK, (ff)—Charles Van
Doren, a 30-year-old Columbia
University teacher, now is the
nation’s top money winner of tel
evision quiz programs. His win
nings so far total $104,500—and
the sky’s the limit.
Van Doren, an English instruc
tor and the son of Mark Van
Doren, Pulitzer Prize winning
poet, boosted his earnings Mon
day night on NBC-TV’s “Twenty
One” show by basting two chal
lengers. He started the evening
with $99,000 and added $5,500.
He returns to the show Jan. 28
to announce whether he’ll take
his winnings or try for more. The
studio said there is no limit to
what Van Doren can win.
The $104,500 amount, the broad
casting company said, is the larg
est amount ever won by anyone
on a TV quiz program.
The show draws its name from
the card game “21.” The rules
governing competition somewhat
follow its rules.
Grand Jury Adjourns
With No Indictments
In Marie McDonald Case
LOS ANGELES, (ff)—The 1956
Los Angeles County Grand Jury,
held over to consider actress Ma
rie (The Body) McDonald’s story
of being kidnaped, has adjourned
without returning indictments in
the matter.
The jury retired yesterday
after a three-day hearing in
which Marie twice was called to
testify.
Foreman Warren Thorne said
many of the jurors believe a ser
ious crime may have been com
mitted, but “the necessary 12
could not agree that an indict
ment would advance the appre
hension and conviction of those
responsible.”
The jury urged continued po
lice work on the case.
Jerry Giesler, the actress’ low
yer, said private investigators
would continue the search, and
his client intends to increase the
present $5,000 reward for her ab
ductors.
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NEW YORK, —Defeated in
love, a young airline mechanic’s
helper penned a suicide letter de
claring “I am really nuts.” Eight
hours later he crashed to his
death Saturday night in a $100,
000 airplane.
“They’ll never be able to stop
me once I get on the runway,”
wrote 20-year-old Allan Adler of
Brooklyn.
The two-page letter outlined in
detail Adler’s suicide plans. It
was written Saturday morning
but never mailed to its intended
receiver, Adler’s chum in the Air
Force.
Employe of PAA
A Civil Aeronautics Board of
ficial, investigating the crash at
Idlewild Airport, found the letter
Monday in Adler’s locker in the
hangar of Pan American World
Airways, Adler’s employer for 14
months.
Adler told his friend, 17-year
old Daniel O’Leary of Brooklyn,
who is stationed at Lackland Air
Force Base, Texas:
“ ... If I were you I wouldn’t
feel too bad about my dying be
cause I don’t & anyway you
wouldn’t want to go with a crazy
guy—and I am really’nuts . . .
Alone, as Usual
“ . . . .Right now my hand is
shaking like a leaf and ! ain’t
scaired because I always wanted
to fly & tonight I’ll get my
chance. I’ll be on my own at the
controls just like I’ve been alone
always.”
Adler told his friend that he
had broke off with a girlfriend
named Lynn but planned to see
her before making the suicide
flight.
'I've Thunk This Thing Out'
“ . . . I just want to see her be
because you see tonight when I
go to work I won’t be coming
back any more—you know what
1 mean by that . . . I’ve fhunk
this thing out mighty carefully
and logically . . .,” Adler wrote.
That night, Adler stole out be
hind the hangar where he worked
and jumped into a twin-engined
DC-3 owned by his employer and
used for training purposes.
He started down the runway,
received clearance from the tow
er, and took off. The plane
climbed to an altitude of 200 feet
before it crashed to a concrete
runway of Idlewild. The plane
was demolished and Adler was
dead.
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