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VOL. LVIII No. 44_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1956 Per Copy—15*
GEN. GRUENTHER
WILL RETIRE FROM
NATO COMMAND
AUGUSTA, Ga., (VP)—President
Eisenhower today announced the
retirement of Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther as NATO commander,
effective toward the end of the
year. The President picked Gen.
Lauris Norstad to succeed Gen.
Gruenther.
Press Secretary Hagerty said
Gruenther, 57, is retiring from the
Army and as supreme commander
of Allied forces in western Europe
“because of personal reasons.”
Norstad, 49, now is air deputy
to Gruenther in the NATO setup.
He has been Gruenther’s air dep
uty since 1953. Prior to that he
commanded U.S. and Allied air
forces in western Europe.
Gruenther, a close personal
friend of the President, has been
NATO commander since 1953. A
few months ago Gruenther under
went what was described as minor
surgery.
Dist. Director Immigration
And Naturalization Will
Be In Nome Next Week
A representative of the Bureau
of Immigration and Naturaliza
tion is coming to Nome next week.
Mr. A. C. Dyer, Jr., district direc
tor of Immigration and Natural
ization for Alaska has informed
Norvin Lewis, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court here, that he expects
to be in Nome April 18 and 19.
He said he may be contacted on
those days at the Office of the
Clerk to discuss any problems
concerning immigration and nat
uralization matters.
Canadian Proposes
4 Corridors Thru
Alaska Panhandle
OTTAWA, Iff)—Corridors thru
the Alaska panhandle to give the
Yukon and northern British Col
umbia access to the Pacific Ocean
were proposed yesterday in the
House of Commons.
J. A. Simmons, a Laborite from
the Yukon Territory, urged Ex
ternal Affairs Minister Pearson
to seek an immediate conference
with United States authorities to
enlist their support of the project.
Speaking in the budget debate,
Simmons described the Alaska
panhandle as an economic barrier
to the development of the Yukon,
northern British Columbia and
the panhandle itself.
The panhandle is a long, nar
row strip of Alaskan coastal terri
tory running down the west side
of northern B.C.
Establishment of corridors thru
the Panhandle, Simmons said,
would improve trade relations be
tween Canada and the U.S. and
strengthen the economies of the
Yukon, B.C., and Alaska.
He proposed four corridors, or
access ways. The first would be
along the 21-mile Alaskan section
of the White Pass and Yukon
Railway tq Skagway. The others
would be along the Taku River to
a port at or near the mouth of
that river, along the Stikine River
valley to the mouth of the river
near Wrangell, and from Pleasant
Camp along the Chilkat River val
ley to Haines.
Simmons said none of the U.S.
ports at these four points had
flourished or prospered. They
would develop rapidly, he said, if
they handled traffic from the Yu
kon and northern B.C.
Nome Teen-Agers
Invited To TV
Show in New York
The Columbia Broadcasting
System has extended an invita
tion to a group of talented teen
agers from Nome to appear on
an hour-long TV show in New
York City in May. The program,
a very popular morning TV show,
“■Good Morning” is emceed by
Will Rogers Jr.,
The only catch to the invitation,
stated Carl Webb, to whom the
communication was sent, is that
the group must provide their
own transportation from Nome to
New York City and return. The
theme of the program will be in
connection with a youth center
for Nome, so badly needed since
the USO Club closed here last
year.
Leaders of civic organizations
are getting together to see what
can be doae about arranging for
the transportation.
Every effort will be made to
enlist the cooperation of the
Alaska Visitors Association and
the various airlines in working
out a plan for the Nome group
to participate in the program.
Stevenson Says Truman
Hit Close to Mark With
‘Do-Nothing’ Tag for Ike
By the Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson says former
President Truman hit “very close
to the mark” in labelling Presi
dent Eisenhower a “do-nothing”
but GOP party chief Leonard W.
Hall says Truman is engaging in
“dirt slinging.”
Hall said Truman’s label for
Eisenhower was “characteristical
ly intemperate” and predicted
he “will get no where with it.”
Democratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler echoed Truman’s
“do-nothing” refrain in a speech
at Harrisburg, Pa., last night. But
ler said “no leadership for a legis
lative program in the public in
terest has come from either the
White House or the club house at
Augusta.
This was a reference to the
Augusta (Ga.T National Golf Club
where'Eisenhower is spending a
brief vacation.
Stevenson added: “When we
look at the deterioration of our
situation abroad and our failure
to make progress at home, it
seems that Mr. Truman’s charac
terization is hitting very close to
the mark.”
Sen. Estes Kefauver took no
part in the ruckus. Like Steven
son, he is touring Florida for votes
in the state’s May 29 primary.
House Passes Military
Construction Bill
WASHINGTON, fPt—'The House
yesterday passed the $2 billion
military construction bill which
carries $44,117,000 for Alaska con
struction in the 1957 fiscal year.
It authorizes $29,544,000 for the
Air Force, $7,351,000 for the Navy,
and $7,222,000 for the Army.
FAKE PISTOL FAILS
TO BLUFF CASHIER
NEW YORK (A*)—A stickup man
ran off in shame last night when
the cashier of a Broadway res
taurant refused to accept substi
tutes.
“Get out!” roared cashier Jo
seph Brennan, “and get that lousy
fake gun out of here too.”
The man did as directed, leav
ing the cash drawer untapped.
| Eisenhower May Give
I Sign or Veto Decision
i In Nationwide Speech
| AUGUSTA, Ga., President
1 Eisenhower’s headquarters said
| today he may go on nationwide
I television and radio next week to
| disclose his sign or veto decision
I on the politically explosive farm
! bill.
1 Reports persisted Eisenhower
i has decided to veto the measure,
but James C. Hagerty, White
House presss secretary, declined
comment.
Hagerty said “no decision has
I been reached yet” regarding an
Eisenhower TV-radio talk, but
that the possibility is being con
sidered.
Hagerty made the statement to
newsmen as Eisenhower awaited
the arrival of Secretary of Agri
culture Benson for a conference
on the farm bill here tomorrow.
Great Significance
Seen in Speech
By Khrushchev
OTTAWA, —Canadian For
eign Secretary Lester B. Pearson
says a Feb. 14 speech of Nikita S.
Khrushchev, the Soviet Commu
nist Party boss, may be as im
portant to the free world as Hit
ler’s Mein Kampf.
This was the speech in which
Khrushchev rewrote two major
points of the Communist creed.
Addressing the 20th Congress of
the Soviet Party in Moscow, he
said war is not inevitable and that
Red revolutions may be achieved
in some cases by Parliamentary
means.
Pearson told the House of Com
mons External Affairs Committee
the speech signified “surprising
and notable” developments in
Russia which are having a pro
nounced effect on East-West re
lations.
Marilyn Hospitalized
After Stint at Sun Valley
HOLLYWOOD UP!—Actress Mar
ilyn Monroe is in St. Vincent’s
Hospital suffering from what a
studio physician describes as a
virus infection, exhaustion, over
work and acute bronchitis.
She became ill after working in
the snow in a thin dress at a Sun
Valley, Idaho, movie location. Her
troupe had gone there from Phoe
nix, Arizona.
Churchill Says U.S. and
Britain Will Prevent
Middle East Aggression
LONDON, UP)—Sir Winston
Churchill said today we can be
perfectly sure that the U.S. as well
as the United Kingdom” will in
tervene to prevent aggression by
Israel or Egypt in the Middle East.
The former Prime Minister told
a Conservative organization rally
“the need for this (intervention)
will probably never come, but it
may come. He added:
“If Israel is to be dissuaded
from using the life force of their
race to ward off the Egyptians un
til the Egyptians have learned to
use the Russian weapons Vith
which they have been supplied,
and the Egyptians then attack, it
will become not only a matter of
prudence but a measure of honor
to make sure that they are not the
losers by waiting.
“1 put my trust in President
Eisenhower that he will make the
will power of America felt clearly
and strongly—and felt in time.”
EGYPT AND ISRAEL CLASH IN
JET BATTLE EOR FIRST TIME
JET Battle Yesterday
Over Israeli Territory
JERUSALEM (/Pi—Warplanes of
Egypt and Israel clashed yester
day and Israel claimed first blood.
An Israeli army spokesman an
nounced two Israeli fighters inter
cepted four Egyptian jets in a
noon flight northward over Israeli
territory and shot down one—a
British-made Vampire jet—on Is
raeli’s soil.
“The other three planes es
caped,” he said. “Our planes re
turned safely to base.”
This first air-to-air combat of
the current Arab-Israeli crisis de
veloped on the heels of five new
attacks by Arab commando raid
ers on the ground the night be
fore, in one of which three Israeli
school children and a teacher were
killed at prayer.
Angered Israeli security forces
pressed a hunt for the raiders and
public clamor for retaliations
mounted.
Egypt, too, registered a com
plaint. A military spokesman in
Egyptian-held Gaza said Israelis
opened automatic fire Thursday
on an outpost in the Biet Hanoun
area northeast of Gaza City. He
said the outpost did not return the
fire. One Egyptian was wounded.
The newly established Egyptian
Middle East News Agency report
ed Wednesday night that 300 Arab
commanders had returned to their
base in Gaza after staging a series
of 50 raids.
Official confirmation was lack
ing in Cairo, which has disclaimed
responsibility for the attacks, but
an Egyptian embassy spokesman
in Damascus said the group had
headed back after making its re
taliations for the Israeli shelling
a week ago of the Gaza strip, in
which 64 Arabs were killed and
102 wounded.
Mrs. Corrine Call,
Former Teacher
Here, Dies ai 80
SEATTLE, l#>—Mrs. Corinne
Call, about 80, a retired Alaska
and Seattle school teacher, who
adopted eight Eskimo children and
educated all of them, died at her
home here Sunday.
Mrs. Call was born in Washing
ton, D.C., and graduated from the
University of Chicago and Drake
University. She and her husband,
the late Warren Call, who were
teaching school in Seattle, left
here in 1911 for Alaska.
Together they taught in an Es
kimo village on Bristol Bay. Her
husband died there about a year
later, and Mrs. Call remained in
Alaska 30 years as a teacher.
Mrs. Cail was teacher in Nome
with the ANS from 1924 through
1927. She lived here with her four
adopted daughters whom she
raised, including a blind child,
Melba, who is particularly re
membered. Later, as these chil
dren'-grew up she adopted more
children, all of whom she raised
and educated.
In her later years Mrs. Call
worked as a cleaning woman to
provide for the education of the
younger children she had adopted.
Among those surviving her are
Mrs. Melba King and Mrs. Sally
Quint, both of Seattle; Mrs. Anna
Snyder, Nome; Mrs. Nita Carter,
Fairbanks, and Olga Crocks, of
Seattle.
Dag Ilammarskjold
Gets Peace Pledges
With Reservations
By Eric Goflgefreu
JERUSALEM L/Pl—Tension eased
noticeably across Israel today in
the wake of pledges from Israel
and Egypt to hold off any new
shooting action except in self de
fense.
The night passed quietly. No in
cidents were reported since yes
terday’s aerial engagement over
Israel’s Negev Desert and one ex
change of rifle fire across the
Gaza frontier several hours after.
Unofficial reports from Cairo
said Arab commando squads—the
Fedayeen—were being withdrawn
from Israel. But an Israeli foreign
ministry spokesman asserted that
Egypt was “trying to pull the woof
over the eyes of the world.”
A 13-year-old boy, wounded in
the Fedayeen attack yesterday
night on a school, died. By Israeli
count, this brought the total of
Fedayeen victims to 14 dead and
32 wounded since Saturday night.
The Israelis said they killed 13
Fedayeen and captured 6.
U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold, in Cairo on the
first leg of his Palestine peace
tour, made an unscheduled call in
mid-morning on Egyptian Foreign
Minister Mahoud Fawzi at Fawzi’s
home.
The secretary general reported
yesterday that Egypt and Israel
had promised not to commit war
like acts against each other. The
pledges from both, however, em
phasized that they reserved the
right to act in self defense.
Another Alaska Oil
Exploration Planned
SEATTLE, GW—Proposed plans
for another Alaska oil explora
tion this summer were reported
here today.
The Post Intelligencer said the
Colorado Oil and Gas Co. has
placed $300,000 in escrow as the
first payment on a cash bonus of
$1,050,000 to be paid to partici
pants in the leasing of federal
acreages in Alaska.
The proposed exploration area
is along the Gulf of Alaska from
Cape Fairweather to Icy Bay.
Planes’ Haylift Saves
Mountaineering Horse
On High Winter Pasture
BUENA VISTA, Colo., UPV—Eli
jah, the snowbound packhorse,
had his lofty mountain meadow
all to himself again today after
giving a friendly welcome to hu
man visitors yesterday.
Only it turns out that Elijah—
named after the Old Testament
prophet fed by ravens in the wil
derness—is really Bugs, a 13
year-old mountainwise packhorse.
Bugs is owned by Bill and A1
Turner, Buena Vista wranglers
and packtrip guides. But it was
as Elijah that the horse and his
haylift became known from coast
to coast.
The climbing party reaching the
shaggy horse’s lonely aerie was
organized by the Denver Post.
The newsmen reported the
horse appears frisky and is able to
feed on bunch grass being exposed
as the farm days melt the snow.