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British Jets Get
Evidence of Reds’
Super H-Bomb
LONDON (5*)—The News Chron
icle said today that British jets
flew to 50,000 feet and gathered
samples of the radioactive fallout
from Russia’s recent nuclear
weapons test.
Official sources declined to dis
cuss the report.
The newspaper said the Russian
test was so powerful that Soviet,
authorities must have cleared an
area in their Siberian testing
grounds twice the size of England
and Wales to conduct it.
The News Chronicle said the
samples were collected yesterday
and added:
“From first tests on the samples,
atomic scientists at Harwell and
Aldermaston (British atomic re
search stations) believe that the
explosion was no ordinary H
bomb, but the far more devastat
ing hydrogen-uranium bomb.
“Yesterday’s rainfall is being
studied for any signs of increasing
radioactivity in the lower atmo
sphere.”
According to the story, the Uni
ted States fired a similar bomb at
Bikini in March, 1954.
Fairbanks Man Kills Wife
Accidentally in Attempt
To Give Her a Kiss
FAIRBANKS, UP>—The kiss that
Aultman B. Boatner said he at
tempted to give his wife last night
was the kiss of death. This is how
Boatner told police his wife Doro
thy, 20, died.
Boatner, an airman first class at
Ladd AFB, slipped up behind his
wife as she was cooking dinner
and attempted to kiss her. A play
ful scuffle ensued and the hammer
of a pistol he was carrying appar
ently caught in her clothing and
discharged.
The bullet struck her in the
temple and she was dead on arri
val at a hospital. Boatner also was
hospitalized for shock.
Both the Boatners were of Fair
banks. Her father is a sergeant in
Korea. The couple had two small
children.
Lela Oman Wins
Award for Entry in
Writers’ League Contest
Lela Oman, writer of authentic
Eskimo legends, won an honorary
award for her entry in the annual
contest sponsored by the League
of Western Writers' Alaska Chap
ter at Anchorage.
Harold Salisbury, last year’s
poetry winner, received both sec
ond and third prizes for his en
tries, one of which was published
in the Nugget recently.
Twelve prizes are awarded an
nually in four writing categories
—non-fiction, juvenile, fiction and
poetry.
Police Disperse
Mobbing Fans
With Tear Gas
SAVANNAH, Ga., W—Police
fired a tear gas bomb into an un
ruly mob which rioted in the
heart of Savannah last night after
the annual Savannah High-Bene
dictine football game.
One well-placed bomb did the
job—but not until six policemen
had been injured and hundreds of
dollars worth of fire-fighting
! equipment destroyed. Several per
sons were arrested for disorderly
conduct.
The disturbance centered about
Savannah’s main intersection,
where victors in the annual cross
town football rivalry traditionally
burn the “coffin” of the losers.
Savannah won the game 9-6.
Police said between 6,000 and
7,000 students, adults and specta
tors jammed the area at famed
Bull and Broughton Streets.
Some members of the crowd
said police had not right to inter
fere with the “celebration.”
“It was just one of those things,”
said one police officer. “It happens
every year—only this time the
students worked up a little more
enthusiasm than usual.”
When students from Savannah
High set fire to the “coffin,” fire
men were summoned to douse the
blaze before it damaged the pave
ment. Soon after the firemen ar
rived, dozens in the crowd set
upon the. hose, fire extinguishers
and other fire fighting equipment.
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ICC Chairman Resigns, But Says
Charges of Improper Conduct False
GETTYSBURG, Pa., W*—Presi
dent Eisenhower today accepted
the resignation of Hugh W. Cross
as Interstate Commerce Commis
sion chairman. Cross has been un
der fire by Senate investigators.
In his letter of resignation, dat
ed last Wednesday, Cross said that
charges of improper conduct that
were made against him were
“baseless,” but added:
“I am realistic enough to know
that, unfounded as they are, the
mere presence of such charges im
pairs my further service on the
commission and its proper func
tioning in the public interest.”
Eisenhower, accepting Cross’
resignation effective immediately,
did not comment on the investiga
tion of the ICC head by the Sen
ate Investigations subcommittee,
but said he fully appreciated
Cross’ reasons for quitting.
The President voiced “apprecia
tion for the years of diligent ser
vice you have rendered with the
commission and for the construc
tive contributions to its work that
you have made.”
Cross, a one-time Republican
lieutenant governor of Illinois,
said that in addition to his Con
gressional troubles he has moved
to resign because of “concern
about the health of my wife as
well as the uncertain condition of
my own health.”
Cross was questioned earlier
this month by the Senate investi
gators. The sessions were held be
hind closed doors, and there has
been no official disclosure of what
took place.
Reporters learned, however,
that the questioning revolved
about the issue of whether Cross
had exerted any influence in con
nection with award of a contract
to Railroad Transfer Service, Inc.,
of Chicago to carry passengers in
its buses between Chicago rail
road stations.
Cross was reported to have de
nied anything improper but to
have acknowledged that he had
had “indiscreet” contacts with
two railroad presidents.
Cross was appointed to the ICC
in 1950 by former President Tru
man.
ICC Ruling Ends
Segregation on
Interstate Trips
WASHINGTON, W—The Inter
■ state Commerce Commission to
day ordered an end to racial seg
regation on interstate trains and
passenger buses. It ruled too that
segregation of interstate travelers
in public waiting rooms is unlaw
ful.
The Commission in years past
has gone along with the theory
that separate accommodations for
the races met the requirements of
the Interstate Commerce Act, so
long as they are equal.
But it said in today’s ruling:
“The disadvantage to a traveler
who is assigned accommodations
or facilities so designated as to
imply his inherent inferiority
solely because of his race must be
regarded under present conditions
as unreasonable.
“Also, he is entitled to be free
of annoyances, some petty and
some substantial, which almost in
evitably accompany segregation
even though the rail carriers, as
most of the defendants have done
here, sincerely try to provide both
races with equally convenient and
comfortable cars and waiting
rooms.”
The ICC returned its findings
in two separate cases. One was
initiated by the National Assn, for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple against 13 railroads, operating
principally in the South.
The other case was brought be
fore the Commission by Sarah
Keyes, New York City beautician.
She charged that while serving as
a WAC in 1952, she was refused
further transportation by the Car
olina Coach Co. of Raleigh, N.C.,
when she refused a driver’s de
mand that she move to the back
of the bus.
CATS GET THE TURKEY
LOS ANGELES, UP»—'The night
before Thanksgiving, Mrs. Ernest
Lopez roasted a turkey for ex
pected cofhpany.
She left it on the dra inboard
overnight.
Mrs. Lopez has five cats.
End of turkey.
End of story.
Sharp-Eyed Seaman
Credited With Rescue
Of 16 Downed in Strait
VANCOUVER, B.C. Iff)—A sharp
eyed seaman who caught sight of
a Royal Canadian Air Force plane
coming down through a misty
overcast yesterday afternoon was
credited with the rescue of 16 sur
vivors, taken aboard a fish packer
in the area.
Three persons died and four
were injured when the plane
crashed in the rough waters of
Johnstone Strait, 130 miles north
west of Vancouver. Their bodies
were believed to be in the wreck,
which was being towed to shel
tered waters by a rescue vessel.
Seventeen aboard the huge am
phibian were RCAF personnel.
Two were civilians.
RCAF said the cause of the
crash was unknown.
The survivors were rescued by
the 140-foot fish packer Western
Challenger. Alex Karaunieks, the
mate aboard the packer, spotted
the distressed plane a mile and a
half away in the seconds before it
plunged into the sea.
THERE ARE ONLY 25 MORE
SHOPPING DAYS REMAINING
UNTIL CHRISTMAS
U.N. Drops Algerian Problem; Leaves
Way Open for France to End Boycott
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Dixon-Yates Contract
Cited by Kefauver as
GOP Favoritism
WASHINGTON, UfV—Sen. Ke
fauver <D-Tenn) says the repudi
ated Dixon-Yates power contract
“is merely one instance” of what
he terms Eisenhower Administra
tion concern for “the selfish inter
ests of private power lobbies”
Promising a continuing Senate
investigation, Kefauver said last
night the government’s decision
to pay no damages on the can
celled contract will not slacken
the public vs. private power bat
tle.
Kefauver is chairman of a Sen
ate antimonopoly subcommittee
which heard testimony that great
ly influenced a government deci
sion to regard the contract as in
valid.
That decision was announced
Wednesday by the Atomic Energy
Commission, which held that the
contract, which it signed at the
direction of President Eisenhower,
involved a “conflict of interests.”
The Dixon-Yates group disput
ed this, saying it would challenge
the action in court.
In taking credit for the AEC
decision, Kefauver and other
Democrats made it clear they look
on the Dixon-Yates matter as a
potent political issue.
Football Game Rioters
In Russia Receive
Stiff Prison Sentences
MOSCOW, —Stiff prison sen
tences have been given 12 persons
for starting a riot at a football
game in Armenia.
Veteran Western observers say
the severity of the sentences,
ranging up to 25 years, indicated
political motivation in the rioting
and smoldering discontent in the
area.
The 12 were tried by the Arme
nian supreme court. They were
charged with fomenting the riot
Oct. 12 after a disputed decision
by a referree at Yerevan, capital
of the Armenian Soviet Republic.
Observers pointed out that in
addition to the length of the sen
tences, it was extremely unusual
for defendants in such cases to ap
pear before the supreme court and
for the case to be publicized.
The riot and court action were
reported in the Yerevan newspa
per Kommunist, which was re
ceived here. The newspaper said
“groups of hooligans and crimin
als using dissatisfaction of a part
of the crowd at the result of the
game started riots.”
It said attempts were made to
lynch the referee, spectators and
militiamen were stoned and the
“riot was accompanied by vio
lence and resistance to the repre
sentatives of authority.”
Truman to Speak
In Seattle Tomorrow
LOS ANGELES, WV-Harry S.
Truman plans to fly to Seattle to
day for the first of three West
Coast fund raising dinners for the
Truman Memorial Library at In
dependence, Mo.
The former President arrived
from Kansas City last night and
was the house guest of Edwin W.
Pauley, ex-treasurer of the Dem
ocratic National Committee.
After the $100-a-plate dinner in
Seattle, he is scheduled for simi
lar gatherings here Monday
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
A major U.N. controversy was re
solved today when the General
Assembly dropped the Algerian
problem from its 1955 agenda and
cleared the way for France to end
its two months’ boycott.
The action came quickly and
without opposition, but the suc
cessful formula was found only
after several weeks of intensive
work behind the scenes.
India’s V. K. Krishna Menon
finally won agreement yesterday
of all parties on a proposal which
stated that: “The General Assem
bly decides not to consider further
the item entitled ‘the question of
Algeria’ and is therefore no longer
seized of this item on the agenda
of the tenth session.” In non-tech
nical language, this means that
the issue has been dropped from
the agenda of the current session.
The 60-nation Political Commit
tee quickly approved the proposal
this morning in a 7-minute meet
ing without debate. The General
Assembly itself then met one hour
and later ratified the motion by a
unanimous vote.
The 12-nation Disarmament
Commission neared the end of its
current round of talks, with the
East and West apparently as far
apart as ever.
Russia rejected a French com
promise plan yesterday, terming
it part of a Western maneuver to
avoid arms reduction by putting
the emphasis on a control setup.
The French plan called for a
ban on the use of atomic weapons
—which the Russians want—and
prohibition of nuclear weapons
tests, but included demands for
effective disarmament controls
and implementation of President
Eisenhower’s plan for reciprocal
U-S.-Soviet inspection and ex
change of military blueprints.
Troop Exercise
To Test Dropping
Versus Hauling
WASHINGTON WV-The Army’s
Exercise Moose Horn in Alaska
this winter will include a test of
the relative merits of two types of
arctic supply—dropping material
from planes and sending it over
land by big snow tractor-trains of
sleds.
This was announced last night
in a report on the three-week op
eration planned for January and
February in which the Army will
use about 7,000 troops from the
71st Infantry Division at Ft. Lew
is, Wash.
In the overland supply phase
each tractor will haul four 10-ton
sleds of ammunition, food and
fuel.
A battalion combat team will
journey overland up the Alaska
Highway to join six other teams
from Alaskan bases.
Operating in an area described
as the coldest on the continent,
where winds hit as much as 80
miles per hour and the tempera
ture drops as low as minus 65, the
troops will operate across rugged
country, without roads.
The 5.h Battalion Combat Team
of the 5th Infantry Regiment will
leave Ft. Lewis on the 1,200-mile
overland trip on Jan. 4. The plan
calls for return to Ft. Lewis about
March 1.