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VOL. LIX No. 2 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1957 Per Copy—15*
School Hot Lunch
Is Served To 103
On the First Day
The School Hot Lunch Com
mittee said today that the first
lunch of the year was served on
Wednesday to 103 children. On
Thursday 143 children enjoyed
their noon meal in the new multi
purpose room at Nome school.
After lunch the children had
teacher-supervised play periods.
The school lunches, which are
prepared by the North Star Grill,
cost 30 cents for the complete
meal. Lunches may be paid for
on a weekly or a daily basis.
Menus for the next week in
clude many nourishing and ap
petizing foods. Parents are re
quested to clip and save the listed
menus for reference during the
school week.
Monday, Jan. 7—Rice, cheese,
luncheon meat casserole, green
beans, pear sauce, bread butter,
and milk.
Tuesday. Jan. 8—Pork lunch
eon sandwich, vegetable soup,
peach, rice, cream, milk.
Wednesday, Jan. 9 — Baked
beans, leafy green vegetable,
fruit jello, bread, butter, milk.
Thursday, Jan. 10 — Spanish
rice, green beans, prune and pea
nut butter pudding, bread, butter, j
milk.
"Friday, Jan. 11 — Toasted
cheese sandwich, canned beets,
cherry cobbler, milk.
HUNGARY REGIME ADMITS
SIXTH REBEL EXECUTED
VIENNA, UP)—Budapest radio
reported today that a 25-year-old
Hungarian rebel against the Com
munist regime was executed for
hiding arms. .
This brought the admitted
number of rebels executed to six,
altho the actual number is be
lived to be much higher.
U.S. Calls For Renewed
Efforts to Bring About
Reunification of Korea
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
The United States today called
for renewed efforts to bring about
the unification of Korea and the
“full restoration of international
peace” in that area.
Until the divided peninsula is
united, U.S. Delegate Edward S.
Greembaum said, it “will remain
a potential danger to world
peace.”
Greenbaum spoke before the
U.N.’s 80-nation Political Com
mittee.
He blamed the Communists for
the failure of the U.N.’s 10-year
effort to solve the Korean prob
lem.
The U.S. demand for renewed
efforts was contained in a resolu
tion reaffirming that the objec
tives. of the United Nations are to
bring about unification of Korea
| as an independent and democratic
nation.
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Wierd Plan Revealed
To Assassinate Former
President Harry Truman
ALBEMARLE, N.C., LD—A Ko
rean veteran, saying he was bent
on avenging his brother’s death,
revealed a wierd plan here yes
terday to assassinate former
President Harry S. Truman.
Frail, 82-year-old LeRoy Shad
rick, speaking from a cell in the
Stanley County jail where he is
held for attempted armed rob
bery, said he holds Truman di
rectly responsible for the death
of Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick on July
5, 1950, reportedly the first U.S.
soldier to die in Korea.
He said he planned to kill the
former President at his Indepen
dence, Mo., home next July 5, the
seventh anniversary of the sol
dier’s death.
Shadrick said he had been in
and out of mental insti tutions.
Freighter Freed From Antarctic Ice;
Crew Make Emergency Repairs
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
'Hie crew of an Operation Deep
Freeze supply ship made emer
gency repairs today in the shelter
of an antarctic cape after fighting
their 7,400-ton vessel free from
the grip of a crushing ice pack.
The captain of the U.S. Navy
freighter Arneb messaged that his
craft had reached the safety of
Cape Hallett. Work was started
to patch a gaping hole above the
waterline and cracks in the hull
inflicted by the blows of monster
wind-driven ice floes.
Gapt. Nels C. Johnson of Alex
andria, Va., reported by radio that
ice pressure had damaged both
sides of the hull along the full
length of the ship but that flood
ing was under control. One of the
Arneb’s two propellers also was
damaged.
Johnson said there were no in
juries to crdw members and no
loss of cargo. The Arneb carries
about 200 men.
The 450-foot Arneb, an attack
cargo vessel specially fitted for
antdretic duty, was pinned against
the coast of Antarctica’s Ross Ice
Shelf New Year’s Day. Sudden
winds of near-hurricane force
turned a huge ice jam into a
grinding mass of destruction,
sending it bearing down on the
Arneb from across miles of open
sea.
The Northwind, one of the U.S.
Coast Guard’s most powerful ice
breakers, smashed thru the heavy
ice to aid the stricken freighter.
Pumps of both vessels were
used to keep the Arneb from
flooding while crewmen worked
to shift cargo and shore up the
sides of the hull with timbers.
Re-Routed Soviet Ships
Use Panama Canal
P A N A MA, —Two Russian
freighters, have cleared the Pan
ama Canal, the first of 15 expect
ed ;o pass thru the waterway this
month and the first Soviet craft
thru the canal since last Febru
ary.
The Soviet ships using the Pan
ama waterway have been re
routed from Asian ports because
of th^ closing of the Suez Canal.
C of C Recommends
City Buy Building
For A Museum
By RUTH McLEAN
The first 'meeting in 1957 of the
N.W.A. Chamber of Commerce
outlined a few of the immediate
plans for the new year. On Feb.
7 nominations will be closed for
names of prospective board mem
bers for the coming year; and ar
rangements will be: completed
soon for the annual banquet, to
be held about Feb. 15.
In the near future the Nome
Chamber will make, a trip to Kot
zebue to meet with the Arctic
Circle Chamber and commitees
from the local chapter will report
on activities in this area.
A special committee is to be
appointed to work with the mili
tary on such occasions as the re
cent request for contributions
from the merchants to bring ser
vicemen to Nome for the holi
days.
President Stan Morgan led a
discussion on the possible pur
chase by the city of a surplus
building at Nome Field suitable
for housing a museum and similar
community projects. Such a
building would be moved to a
convenient location, preferably
near the center of town, to be
accessible to visitors as well as
to the townspeople. Mayor An
dersen will be advised that the
Chamber recommends such a
purchase.
The regular luncheon meetings
will again be held on Tuesdays,
beginning next week.
Budget Message Slated
For January 16
WASHINGTON, UP)—The mite
House announced today that the
President will send his budget
message to Congress on Wednes
day, January 16.
The budget message will be the
second of Eisenhower’s three'ma
jor messages to the new Congress.
The State of the Union mess
age will be delivered on Thurs
day, Jan. 10. The third message,
the annual economic report., will
follow the budget message-. No
date has been fixed for it.
President Names
Walter George
Special Assistant
WASHINGTON, WV-President
Eisenhower foi-mally appointed
former Sen. Walter F. George
(D-Ga) today to be his special
assistant with the rank of ambas
sador and a salary of $20,000
yearly.
George’s assignment, said Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty, will
be as announced last Maj-—the
President’s emissary to the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization and
an adviser to Eisenhower and
Secretary of State Dulles on the
“development and implementa
tion of bipartisan foreign policy.”
George’s term as a senator ex
pired with organization yesterday
of the new Sena te, and his $22,500
Senate salary stopped then.
Hagerty said the appointment
does not require Senate confir
mation.
Sen. Mansfield Asks Eisenhower for
Estimate of ‘Costs and Dangers’ in His
Proposal for Middle East Policy
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTON l£>—Sen. Mans
field (D-Mont) called on President
Eisenhower today to give Con
gress an estimate of the “costs
and of the dangers” involved in
his proposal for thwarting pos
sible Red aggression in the Mid
dle East.
Mansfield, a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, said Eisenhower should
provide this information when he
appears before a joint session to
morrow.
Mansfield spoke in an inter
view as four new Democratic sen
ators reserved judgment on Ei
senhower’s request for stand-by
authority to use U.S. military
forces in the Middle East in event
Marie McDonald
Disappears; Police
Suspect Kidnaping
VAN NUYS, Calif., UR—Marie
(The Body) McDonald, beautiful
and tempestuous actress, disap
peared from her luxurious home
under puzzling circumstances ear
ly today. Police say kidnaping is
a possibility.
Mystified by many aspects of
the disappearance, Chief of De
tectives Thad Brown said investi
gators “are treating it as a kid
naping until we find out differ
ent.”
Blonde Miss McDonald, inac
tive professionally in recent years
due to poor health, vanished from
her home without disturbing her
three children, a nurse, a maid, a
chauffeur or her boxer dog.
Telephone calls to Miss McDon
ald’s mother and her multi-mil
lionaire ex-husband and a note in
her mail box said the actress was
being held. They were warned
against calling police.
First word of the disappearance
came from Miss McDonald’s
mother, Mrs. Marie Tuboni of
nearby Woodland Hills. She said
she received a phone call at her
home at 12:45 a.m.
Mrs. Tuboni said “a male, ner
vous voice” told her:
“We have Marie. No harm will
come to her if police are not noti
fied.”
The mother called police and
went to her daughter’s home. She
said the front door was open,
lights were on in Miss McDon
ald’s bedroom, and the children
and servants were sleeping.
Ice Moves Out At
Bluff Halting Murane
Mining In Bering Sea
Ralph Murane, mining man
who went to Bluff early in De
cember to try out his new method
of mining on Bering Sea ice, has
been unable to start operations
it is reported as the shore ice
moved out and has not returned.
Mr. Murane plans to remain at
Bluff and wait until the ice
moves in again.
of possible aggression there. The
four are Sens. Carroll (Colo),
Clark (Pa), Church (Idaho) and
Lausch'e (Ohio).
The President will go before
an unusual Saturday joint ses
sion to press for approval of a
resolution which would:
1. Give him advance authority
to use U.S. military might if he
felt such a move was necessary to
block Russian intrusion into the
Middle East. '
2. Authorize the spending of
$400 million oyer a two-year per
iod beginning next July for eco
nomic aid to nations in the strife
wracked area.
So far there has been little out
ward opposition in Congress to
the Eisenhower Administration’s
Middle East proposals, pictured
in some official quarters as need
ed to fill a power vacuum left by
destruction of British and French
influence in the region.
But criticism of the President
came yesterday from Adlai E.
Stevenson, defeated Democratic
presidential candidate. Steven
son, here for a Democratic advis
ory committee meeting, said in a
statement Eisenhower “is evi
dently trying frantically to fill
the vacuum that his own policy
helped create before Russia does.”
However, Stevenson implied
support of Eisenhower’s request,
recalling that he urged more than
a year ago a “declaration that the
United States would oppose any
changes in the Middle East by
force.”
Stevenson also said he warned
at the time that “’Russian influ
ence was spreading dangerously.”
Tragedy Strikes
Search Party on
Mt. Hakkoda
AOMORI, Japan, —Bitter
cold killed two men in a nine
man search party on the treacher
ous slopes of Mt. Hakkoda today.
Two others are missing and are
feared dead.
The nine men started out last
night to hunt for a missing skier.
He also is believed a victim of
intense cold and blizzard condi
tions.
Five members of the search
party made their way to safety
today. They said four others had
sought refuge from the cold by
digging a foxhole in the snow.
Another rescue party came
across two of the men in the fox
hole. One was frozen to death
and the secnod died a short time
later. Two others who had been
in the foxhole were missing and
officials said they are probably
dead.
Two American helicopters and
three planes flew over the area
today in an effort to spot the
missing men. Mt. Hakkoda is
about 350 miles north of Tokyo.
It is well known in Japan as the
place where 210 soldiers perished
in winter maneuvers 55 years
ago.