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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 118 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1953 Per Copy—15^
GOP Unity Shows
Signs of Cracks
At High Levels
WASHINGTON, W — Republi
can unity gave signs of develop
ing cracks at high levels Monday,
with some indications that Presi
dent Eisenhower may have to take
a hand to restore harmony.
Sen. Bridges (R-NH) jolted ad
ministration officials with a week
end announcement that the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee
probably will call foreign opera
tions administrator Harold E.
Stassen on the carpet to explain
what Bridges called “capricious”
job firing in his agency.
Bridges’ statement, issued thru
his office here, gave something of
a Republican endorsement to fre
uently voiced Democratic com
plaints that dismissals of federal
employes had—as Bridges put it
—“worked inequities on personnel
and had impaired the efficiency of
the organization.”
Stassen’s aides replied that in
firing workers they were only
following the rules laid down by
Congress itself.
There is some feeling among
congressional Republicans that
Stassen is grooming himself to
run again for the Republican pres
idential nomination.
WARREN SWORN IN AS
U S. CHIEF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, l® — Earl
Warren became the 14th chief jus
tice of the United States at 12:06
p.m. today.
President Eisenhower looked on
as the former California governor
raised his right hand and took an
oath to give justice impartially to
the poor and to the rich—and
thus became the nation’s highest
judicial officer.
Mrs. Eisenhower was with the
president.
Mrs. Warren was also- there, in a
blue suit which had small red dots
and a flat red hat. On her shoul
der was a large lavender orchid.
She beamed through the brief
ceremony.
While the eight associate jus
tices and the audience stood, War
ren raised his hand and read the
oath standing before the court
clerk, Harold B. Willey. Warren
then shook hands with Willey.
Warren then seated himself in
the high-backed chief justice’s
chair in the center of the long
bench.
The law business of the Sup
reme Court will get under way
Oct. 12. Major issue scheduled for
the court’s attention in the new
term is that of validity of segre
gation of white and Negro chil
dren in public schools. Argu
ments on this issue were heard
last December but the justices
were unable to reach a decision.
Reopening of Struck
Seattle Times Nears
With 2 Contracts Signed
SEATTLE, UP) — Seattle Typo
graphical Union 202 approved a
new contract with the Seattle
Times Sunday, removing one
more obstacle to reopening the
strikebound newspaper plant.
But when the paper would re
sume publication after its 2 Vz
month shutdown was uncertain.
Approval of the pact with the
printers came 24 hours after CIO
American Newspaper Guild ac
ceptance of a contract, ending its
strike against the newspaper. Still
to be negotiated however, were
contracts with stereotypers, web
pressmen, photo - engravers and
mailers.
V. P. Roush, president of the
AFL-Printers Union said the con
tract approved Sunday provided a
$4.50 weekly wage increase retro
active to Aug. 1.
Turkey Beats Out Poland
For Seat in United Nation's
Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP)—
U.S.-backed Turkey beat out Rus
sian-supported Poland for a seat
on the U.N. Security Council Morr
day. Victory came on the eighth
ballot.
Brazil and New Zealand were
elected to two other Council va
cancies on the first ballot without
serious opposition.
Russia has demanded that the
U.N. live up to a 1946 “gentle
man’s agreement” whereby the
eastern European countries—now
all Soviet satellites—were assured
representation. That bloc ran,Po
land in Monday’s election.
The United States, which claim
ed the agreement was valid for
only one year, put up Turkey.
Chief Soviet delegate Andrei
Vishinsky took the floor today to
demand that Assembly live up to
the agreement by electing Poland.
When he referred to Turkey’s can
didate, Assembly president Mrs.
Vi jay a Lakshmi Pandit of India
ruled him out of order.
Assembly rules call for no
nomination or electioneering
speeches.
Yankees Win Fourth Game
To Cinch Their Fifth
Consecutive World Series
NEW YORK, UP) — The New
York Yankees won their fourth
game of the World Series from
the Brooklyn Dodgers today, 4-3.
It was their fifth consecutive
world series title.
As a result of yesterday’s 11-7
victory at Ebbets Field, the Yanks
were 3 to 1 favorites to win.
Five days of perfect baseball
weather came to an end as the
series shifted back to Yankee
Stadium with rain forecast for the
late afternoon. Skies were cloudy.
Undersec’y of State
Hears Fishermen
Protest Japanese
JUNEAU, l/P) — Undersecretary
of State W. C. Herrington Friday
heard Alaska fishermen protest
against Japanese operations in the
Bering Sea and terms o*f this
country’s new fishing treaty with
Canada and Japan.
Herrington held an open meet
ing with fishermen before going
into a closed conference with the
Territorial Fisheries Commission.
In the pre-conference session,
Truman Emberg, a Bristol Bay
fisherman, said that “under the
United Nations charter the inter
ests of people in territories not
self-governed are held to be para
mount..”
He went on to suggest that Al
askans would have received more
consideration from the United Na
tions under its charter than they
did from the United States gov
ernment in drawing up the recent
tripartite fishing treaty with Can
ada and Japan.
“That’s why we’re against this
closed door diplomacy,” said Tiny
Cichoski, Kodiak. “We weren’t
consulted on the treaty.” •
All who spoke objected to Jap
anese crabbing operations on Bris
tol Bay. “Our own Eskimos sit on
the beach and watch Japs fishing
off shore,” said Jim Downey, busi
ness agent of the Bering Sea Fish
ermen’s Union.
J. H. Wakefield, a member of
the territorial commission, said
that Japanese crab operators fish
on a scale too large and too cheap
for present American competition.
Navy Skyray Interceptor
Sets New World Speed
Record of 753.4 m.p.h.
THERMAL, Calif., UP)—Streak
ing an average of 753.4 m.p.h. the
Navy’s new F4D Skyray inter
ceptor has won back the world’s
measured course record for the
United States and now will be
given further tests at sea.
Lt. Cmdr. James B. Verdin, 35,
youthful looking combat hero of
both World War II and Korea,
piloted the jet flying wing type
Douglas plane to the new record
Saturday about 150 feet above the
hot sands along Southern Cali
fornia’s Salton Sea.
The Skyray is designed for use
off carriers to protect the fleet
from attack and is now scheduled
for sea duty aboard a flat top for
further tests.
On each of his four arrow
straight passes over the 3 kilo
meter (1.863 mile) course, Verdin
averaged each mile in less than
five seconds.
Verdin and the Skyray erased
the 737.3 m.p.h. record set by
British Cmdr. Mike Lithgow in a
Vickers Supermarine Swift at
Libya only last Sept. 25.
Air Force To Test ‘Global
Mobility’ Of Its B-53
Intercontinental Bombers
WASHINGTON, UP) —The Air
Force will test the “global mobil
ity” of its B-36 intercontinental
bombers this month by dispatch
ing two squadrons of them to re
mote corners of the world.
An announcement Sunday said
one squadron will go from Walker
Air Force Base, Roswell, N.M.,
for a week’s exercises at the Arc
tic air base of Thule on the north
west coast of Greenland.
Another will leave Carswell Air
Force Base in Texas for about 11
days at a North Africa “forward
base,” presumably one of the
three now operated by the United
States in French Morocco.
A squadron of heavy bombers
usually is 10 planes. No definite
departure date was disclosed.
Mechanical Heart
Costing Only $190
Works On Dogs
CHICAGO, UP) — A cut - rate
mechanical heart costing only
$190 was decribed to the Ameri
can College of Surgeons Monday.
It pumps only 10 per cent of
the normal flow of blood. But that
apparently is enough to keep a
person safely alive long enough
for surgeons to open his own va
cationing heart, free of blood, to
repair defects in it.
This pump, a common commer
cial type, has been used success
fully on dogs, and is being adapt
ed to humans. It was reported by
Drs. Morley Cohen and C. Walton
Lillehei of the University of
Minnesota Medical School, Min
neapolis.
Mechanical hearts and heart
lung machines have been used
successfully on a few humans.
These machines are costly and
complicated.
The new idea is based on dis
covery that dogs can be kept alive
without harm, for up to 30 min
utes with a pump circulating only
10 per cent of their blood.
This presumably is also true
for humans.
Husband Stabbed By Wife
Who Was Peeling Spuds
When He Kissed Her
CHICAGO, Iff)—'William Hughes
Jr., 34, died early Monday of a
stab wound police said his wife
told them she accidentally in
flicted Saturday when he kissed
her while she was peeling pota
toes.
Police Capt. William Hennessey
said Hughes’ wife, Genevieve, 22,
told him Saturday she was start
led by the kiss because she was
unaware her husband had left
another room where he had been
watching the world series.
Hennessey identified Hughes as
the brother of Brooklyn Dodger
Jim Hughes and the son of a Chi
cago fire captain.
Atomic Stalemate
U.S. and Russia
Is Foreseen
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UP) — Some top
U. S. policy makers believe the
United States and Russia are ap
proaching an atomic stalemate.
Some think this may tend to
stabilize relationships of the big
powers and so contribute to devel
opment of more peaceful rela
tions however uneasy.
At the same time, foreign pol
icy experts believe a situation ap
proaching a diplomatic stalemate,
perhaps influenced by the shift
ing military power balance but
more likely by other factors, is
already at hand.
State Department officials gen
erally believe the Soviets are act
ively avoiding any real negotia
tions concerning Germany now
and will do so for many months
to come. They question whether
the Reds want to negotiate ser
iously about the Far East, altho
their position is relatively strong
er there.
The combination of an atomic
stalemate, if it becomes an ac
cepted fact in great power poli
cies, and a diplomatic standoff
might very well freeze the pre
sent state of relationships indefin
itely even without any formal
East-West agreements to that ef
fect.
Nearly Blind Man Unable
Rescue Fishing Companion
Who Fell Into Puget Sound
SEATTLE, (#)—A nearly blind
fisherman tried in vain to rescue
a companion who had fallen from
their outboard motorboat off Fort
Lawton in the Ballard Elks’ Jubi
lee Fishing Derby Sunday.
The victim was Fred Steinert,
43. Roy Binzer, who is nearly
sightless, said later he heard a
splash and Steinert’s call for help.
“I grabbed an oar and put it
in the water for him to grab,” Bin
zer said, “but the water was so
rough I couldn’t control the boat
and I’d keep drifting away from
the sound of his voice.”
Binzer can distinguish light
from darkness and finally got the
boat to shore.
FERRY RUNS OUT OF WATER
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — The
ferryboat Sacramento ran out of
water in the middle of San Fran
cisco Bay Sunday—fresh water,
that is. It was delayed 19 min
utes while crewmen hooked an
emergency supply to the boilers.
LOS ANGELES, (4V-This city
recorded its hottest day of the
year Sunday — 100—as hot, dry
winds continued to harass crews
in checking three brush and tim
ber fires. At the airport it was 101.
Even the beaches reported high
temperatures.
OPEN MEETING School Gym 8:00
Tonight SCHOOL BOND ISSUE
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