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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 80 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1957 Per Copy—15^
Four Deposed Kremlin Leaders
Accused of Treachery, Threatening
To Undermine Defense of Soviet
By ROY ESDVOVYAN <s
MOSCOW Ufl—The Soviet army j
today accused the four deposed I
Kremlin leaders of treachery and
of threatening to undermine the
Soviet Union’s defense.
These grave charges appeared
rn Red Star, official newspaper of j
the Soviet Defense Ministry head- !
ed by Marshal Georgi Khukov.
The campaign of denunciation
against the quartet picked up mo
mentum in meetings and rallies
thruout the Soviet Union.
Lazar Kaganovich, one of the
four leaderes, was singled out for
new and stronger accusations,
which could foreshadow legal ac- j
tion against him.
The army and navy publicly
announced their endorsement of
Nikita Krhushchev in his ousting
of Kaganovich, I. M. Molotov,
Georgi Malenkov and Dimitri
Shepilov from their high posts.
Red Star declared the four
were "guilty of “fractional activ
ity” aimed at “undermining the
basis of the Soviet Union’s de
fensive capacity, to shake the
unity of the people and army,
which would have been of benefit
to the enemies of our state—the
imperialists and aggressors.”
The article also referred to
“treacherous activities” by the
four leaders.
The accusation against Kagano
vich was made by Nikifor T. Kal
chenko, premier of the Ukranian
republic of the U.S.S.R.
Kalchenko said Kaganovich had
made “grave and unfounded ac
cusations” against the leaders of
the Ukrainian republic. Kalchen
ko said this was done while Kag
anovich was secretary of the Cen
tral Committee of the Ukrainian
Communist Party under Stalin’s
reign.
The big question in Moscow to
day was what was going to hap
pen to the four.
Khrushchev and Premier Bul
ganin packed their bags for a trip
to CzechosLavakia.
Meanwhile, Deputy Premier A.
I. Mikoyan, the first top Soviet
official to talk to westerners since
the announcement of the high
level shakeup, said the changes
were a victory for the forces of
“peace, friendship and coexis
tence.”
Western reaction still was
mixed, but generally a wait-and
see attitude continued to prevail.
Jackie Cooper Fined
For Speeding 140 Mph.
MOJAVE, Calif., W> — Actor
Jackie Cooper, accused by high
way patrolmen of speeding 140
miles per hour on a desert high
way, has been fined $263 and had
his license suspended for a
month.
Cooper didn’t appear in court
The actor’s $12,000 sports car was
halted at a road block near here
June 23 after a 30-mile chase by
patrolmen.
Movie Starlet
Killed in Head-On
Auto Collision
BILLY THE KID, Wyo., I& —
A promising career of movie
starlet Judy Tyler, 24, was blot
ted out in a head-on collision of
two automobiles at this south
ern Wyoming roadside hamlet.
Fatally injured was her bride
groom of less than four months,
Gregory Falayette, also *24, a
television actor. He died in a
Laramie, Wyo., hospital a few
hours after the Wednesday night
crash.
Miss Tyler, who just complet
ed the lead role opposite Elvis
Presley in the movie “Jailhouse
Rock," was killed outright as was
Donald D. Jones, 23, of Hanna,
Wyo., riding in the other car.
Miss Tyler won the title of
“Miss Stardust” in a nationwide
beauty contest in 1949. Earlier
this year the raven-haired actress
played the domantic lead in the
Rodgers and Hammerstein musi- j
cal comedy “Pipe Dream.”
Atomic Test Blast, Mightiest Ever
Tested in United States, Felt in
Communities 300 Miles Distant
By JACK LEFLER
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., UP
—A gigantic atomic explosion—
mightiest ever tested in the Unit
ed States—shook entrenched ma
rines “like an earthquake” today
and set fire to brush and trees on
distant mountains.
It flared spectacularly over the
nation’s western half and its
shock wave rumbled thru com
munities more than 300 miles
away.
The Atomic Enery Commission
announced several hours after the
4:40 a.m. shot that its energy was
“well over” that of the previous
biggest shot.
Despite its awesome power, the
test director said fallout was
light. This was due in part to the
fact that the device was fired
1,500 feet above the desert floor
while suspended from a balloon.
No estimate of the test weap
on’s power was given. Unofficial
estimates place it at around three
or four times that of the so-called
nominal weapons dropped on the
Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki during World War II.
These had the energy of 20,000
tons of TNT.
The marines, 1,090 of them in
trenches 5,700 yards from ground
zero, reacted calmly to what was
pretty rough treatment.
Brig. Gen. Harvey Tschrigi re
ported:
“It was pretty rough. Lots of
dust. It shook us like an earth
quake. I felt like I was on roller
skates for a few seconds.’’
Pfc. Theodore Sturgeon of St.
Louis, Md., was buried up to his
neck by a cave-in. He said that
only by grabbing a buddy was he
able to keep the dirt from cover
ing him. It took 15 minutes to dig
him out, unhurt.
After the first blinding flash,
the fireball swelled and rose in
georgeous colors. At the same
time trees and bushes on moun
tains several miles away were
converted into torches.
The white flash with a yellow
afterglow that lingered for a sec
ond or more was visible to early
risers in more than half a dozen
western states—from Oregon and
Idaho to the Mexican border.
Its radius of visibility was 1,000
miles or more. An airline pilot
flying to Honolulu said he saw it
at that distance.
The powerful shock waves,
which bounce around freakishly,
skipped over Las Vegas but were
felt in many California communi
ties more than 300 miles away.
No damage was reported.
The shocks, likened to the sharp
jolts from sonic booms, took more'
than 20 minutes to reach Califor
nia.
Woman Scalped When
Hair Becomes Caught
In Cruiser’s Propeller
SAN PABLO, Calif., UP) — Mrs.
Lucretia Galbraith’s scalp was
torn from her head after her long
dark hair was caught in a cabin
cruiser’s propeller shaft yester
day.
Mrs. Galbraith, 50, of San
Francisco, her head wrapped in
towelling to quench bleeding, was
rushed in an ambulance to Brook
side Hospital in this San Fran
cisco Bay city.
Surgeons then sent Deputy
Sheriff Lester Clark racing back
to the boat harbor to cut free the
scalp skin, tightly entangled by
hair to the shaft.
Clark rushed back with the
scalp and surgeons stiched it on
Mrs. Gaibraith’s head. They hope
the operation will result in a suc
cessful healing and restoration of
her scalp and hair.
Red China Approves
Soviet Union’s Purge
Of Leading Communists
HONG KONG, (ff>—Red China
gave full approval and support
today to the Soviet Union’s purge
of leading Communists, Peiping
radio reported.
The Chinese Communist Party
said the Kremlin purge would
“help to further the unity and
consolidation of the Communist
■party of the Soviet Union, the
broadcast added.
Gov. Stepovich Helps Nome Celebrate
Hundred Eighty-First Anniversary of
Signing Declaration of Independence
“One hundred and eighty-one
years ago on this date the Con
tinental Congress proclaimed in
the Declaration of Independence
this country to be an independent
nation,” said Gov. Mike Stepo
vich yesterday in his 4th of July
address to the people of Nome.
“To celebrate the Fourth is an
American tradition which we
shall always be ready to defend,
but not only should we join in
celebration today, but we must
also dedicate ourselves as good
Americans to protect and keep
the pride of Americanism glow
ing.
“Now 181 years later we in
Alaska find ourselves still with
out the guarantees of freedom
enjoyed by our fellow Ameri
cans living within state boundar
ies . . Yet we oannot say we
have no freedoms . . . for we
are Americans and we will up
hold our right to insure that
America is strong—but still—we
lack the completeness of being
full Americans—which can only
come with statehood.”
Stepovich reminded the people
that Alaska has great friends in
Washington. President Eisenhow
er and Secretary of the Interior
Fred Seaton, and told of the im
portance of Nome as a seaport
and port of entry in a free world.
!
“Seward Peninsula is a land of
the future,” the governor said,
and he promised to see that the
Second Division will get its share
of road money to open this rich
country of which the “surface of
opportunity has not been
scratched.”
Stepovich praised the men
elected to represent us in Wash
ington, who, although unseated,
are doing a wonderful job to fur
ther the cause of statehood.
On the reviewing stand with
the governor were Lt. Gen. Frank
Armstrong, commander in chief
of armed forces in Alaska, Mayor
Andersen and his wife; Mrs. Car
rie McLain, retired city clerk,
who led the singing; Barbara
Command Ship Eldorado
Sets Sail From Seattle
To Head DEW Supply
SAN DIEGO, itf)—Rear Adm.
Frederick C. Stelter, commander
of Amphibious Group 1, sails
today aboard the command ship
Eldorado to head a resupply mis
sion to the Arctic’s Distant Early
Warning line of radar stations.
The Eldorado will be accom
panied by the landing ship dock
Catamount. They will be joined
at Long Beach by two tank land
ing ships and, after loading sup
plies there, the vessels will pro
ceed to San Francisco, thence to
Seattle t^ join 42 other ships.
The 46 ships comprise the Pa
cific division of the resupply task
force.. Fifty others will sail from
east coast ports to make up the
96-ship fleet.
Trigg, outstanding CAP Cadet
who read the Declaration of In
dependence, Col. Markell, aide to
Gen. Armstrong, and Rev. Roald
Amundsen and Father John Car
roll.
Master of ceremonies was Rus
sell Hermann, U.S. district at
torney.
Sgt. Gnanfield did a fine job of
organizing the parade, which was
headed by marshalls of the day
Emma Lyle and Louise Walsh,
well-known pioneer women and
“school girls of the gold rush”
who presented the honored guests
with bouquets of forget-me-nots
picked by a Girl Scout while the
774th Air Force Band played
“Alaska’s Flag” led by Sgt. W. C.
Bailey and his 17 band members.
A modern feature was added to
the races this year with, speedboat
races through the courtesy of
dealers of Mercury, Johnson and
Evinrude motors. The water was
not as smooth as it might have
been and one of the boats had the
misfortune of breaking its pro
pellor.
Although it was cold for the
players the 774th Band contrib
uted much to the holiday with its
concert.
SPORTS CONTEST RESULTS
ON PAGE TWO
Second Rocket
In Test Series
Ends in Failure
FT. CHURCHILL, Man., UPi —
The second rocket firing in a U.S.
test series seeking scientific in
formation on the upper atmo
sphere ended in failure early to
day. The first rocket went 160
miles up yesterday.
A brief Army announcement
from this Hudson Bay military
base said the second “flight was
unsuccessful” but gave no in
dication how far the Aerobee Hi
rocket traveled before crashing.
It was in the air about 25
seconds. The Aerobee Hi normal
ly travels about 1.28 miles a
second.
The 24-foot rocket came down
some distance from the launching
site after what was apparently a
premature burnout.
The rocket launched yesterday
was the first of the biggest fir
ings of the International Geo
physical Year, an 18-month per
iod of scientific study that began
Monday.
The first rocket was in flight
4 minutes 30 second^. It came to
earth 80 miles southeast of Ft.
Churchill, nearly disintegrated
from atmospheric friction. The
flight set a local altitude record,
besting the 156-mile mark set in
a 1956 test. The rocket carried
146 pounds of instruments to
measure chemicals, electricity,
air density, wind velocity and
direction and cosmic rays. Tiny
radio transmitters sent the data
back to earth.