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VOL. LVIII No. 106_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1956 _Per Copy—15^
ROAD BOARD
TO MEET HERE
NEXT WfcEK
Dewey Goodrich of the Terri
torial Board of Road Commis
sioners reports that plans have
been completed for the first meet
ing of the board to be held here
starting Monday, Sept. 10.
The Roads Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce has pre
pared the agenda which will be
presented to the board at a spe
cial meeting of the Chamber at
noon Tuesday. The Roads Com
mittee is headed by Dewey Good
rich, with Chamber President
Stan Morgan, Ben Young, former
member of the board, Pete Reader
and John McNees assisting. Pres
entation will be made by John
McNees.
Some of the board members are
arriving on Saturday and others
on Sunday with the first meeting
scheduled for ten o’clock Monday
morning at the City Hall. This
meeting is open to the public.
Sunday, if the weather is favor
able, a tour of roads, particularly
Highway 97 and the Teller exten
sion, will be made.
Two Lawyers Plead
Innocent of Conspiring
Against Lobby Laws
WASHINGTON, Wt—Two law
yers pleaded innocent today on
charges of corwpiring to violate
the federal lobbying laws and un
lawfully attempting to influence
the vote of Sen. Francis Case
(R-SD).
The trial of the two lawyers,
John Neff of Lexington, Neb., and
Elmer Patman of Austin, Texas,
together with the Superior Oil Co.
of California for whom they
worked was set for Nov. 19.
The indictments were returned
July 24 after an investigation of
lobbying on the natural gas bill
which Congress passed and Eisen
hower vetoed.
The investigation was touched
off by Case when he told the Sen
ate he had rejected a $2,500 cam
paign contribution he said had
been offered him while the Sen
ate was considering the gas bill.
Menzies Committee
Awaits Word From West
Before Next Move
* CAIRO, Egypt, (e—The Men
zies mission ( conferred privately
for nearly three hours today and
adjourned without announcing
whether it would meet again with
President Nasser on the Suez Ca
nal situation.
A spokesman refused to com
ment on reports the mission has
failed to get Nasser to agree to
international control of the canal
and that the next moves are up to
Washington and London.
He said the mission did not
come to Caiio to find a solution to
the Suez crisis, but to find a
starting point foy negotiations.
Pessimism pervaded both the
Egyptian and the foreign .quarters
of Cairo following the reports tne
Menzies mission was awaiting
word from London and Washing
ton before making its next move
—even to setting a time for the
next meeting with Nasser, f
BODY OF KIDNAPED
BABY FOUND IN LAKE
NEW HAVEN, Conn., WL
State’s Attorney Abraham S. Ull
man said that his plans “are in a
state of flux” today as police
pressed their investigation in the
Ruotolo baby case.
Asked whether anything devel
oped during the night, he said,
“I have nothing to say now.”
With an absence of interstate
angles indicated, the FBI has of
ficially stepped out of the probe
altho its facilities have been made
available to local authorities.
The body of six-week-old Cyn
thia Ruotolo was found yesterday
stuffed in a plastic bag in Ham
den’s Lake Whitney.
The child’s mother, Eleanor
Ruotolo, 32, told police the baby
was snatched from her carriage
in the foyer of a Sears & Roebuck
department store Saturday, a mile
from the lake.
Two Rescued
From Mt. Rainier
Give Up Climbing
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL
PARK, Wash., Ufi—The Rev. Mr.
Earle Johnson, 26, whose parish
is reached by boat along British
Columbia’s rugged shore, is for
saking the way of the mountain
climber, thank you.
And so is Don Richardson, 21
year-old Victoria, B.C., Bible stu
dent.
They made the vow (plus a $25
payment to the U.S. government)
last night after spending a night
13,000 feet up on the treacherous
slopes of -Mt. Rainier in freezing
weather.
Their unannounced climb of the
14,410-foot peak began Wednes
day morning. Park rangers be
came aware of it late that night
when intermittent flashes of light
were seen coming from the 13,
000-foot level where the pair
huddled, thinly clad and prayer
ful, on a narrow ledge.
The rangers fl&shed back a sig
nal and early yesterday organ
ized four search parties.
Rescuers brought the two be
fore stern-faced parlc officials
who quickly placed them under
arrest for violating park regula-1
tions prohibiting unauthorized
climbs. , . ’ I
Japanese Astronomer Sees 'Canals’ on Mars as
Planet Comes Nearest to Earth in 32 Years
• By the .Associated Press
A Japanese astronomer today,
reported seeing several “panals”
in the northern hemisphere of the
planet Mars, under close scrutiny
by star gazers around the world.
The existence of such canals
long has been the subject of great
debate among astronomers.
They were' first reported seen
many decades ago but other ob
servers who have spent a lifetime
at telescopes failed to catch a
glimpse of them.
The great question concerning
the canals, assuming they, do ex
ist, is whether they are arteries
such as waterways devised hy
intelligent beings or some kind of
natural phenomenon.
The latest report came from Dr.
Michikazu Onishi of Kobe, Japan,
who, like many other astronomers |
in recent weeks, has concentrated j
attention on Mars during its
closest approach to the earth
since 1924.
The nearest point, 35,120,000
miles, was reached at 7 p.m. Ber
ing Time, yesterday.
Dr. Onishi said he detected
white clouds near the polar re
gions of the red-hued planet and
several canals in the northern
hemisphere.
Meanwhile, astronomers else
where told of observing a bright
object near Mars, believed to be
a comet, and a vast cloud of yel
low or yellow-white dust spread
over a portion of the planet itself.
The latter, too, has been seen
previously.
Seventeen observatories in 10
nations were geared to study the
planet during its rare visit.
It. won't be as close again until
1971. Sometimes the planet is as
far away as 235 million miles.
Most likely it will be months
before information obtained now
can be correlated and the new
findings, if any, made public.
(See Astronomy Notes on Page 5)
Adenauer Renews
Appeal to Big Four
To Unite Germany
BONN, Germany, Ml—Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer’s govern
ment called on the big four pow
ers today to start new negotia
tions to unite divided Germany’s
70 million people thru free elec
tions.
Sweeping security guarantees
were offered to the Soviet Union
to insure that it would never
again be the victim of German
aggression.
In notes to the United States,
Britain, France and Russia, the
Bonn Republic suggested the four
big powers should seek thru nor
mal diplomatic channels to devel
op an agreement with West Ger
many that would insure the suc
cess of a later conference on the
whole German question.
The note to Russia was accom
panied by a five-page memoran
dum outlining the Adenauer gov
ernment’s views on how Germany
can be united without endanger
ing the security of the Commu
nist state. Copies of the memo
were sent the western big three.
The memo said the big four, I
which partitioned Germany be
tween western and eastern blocs
in 1945, bear the full responsibil
ity for uniting the nation.
MISS HAWAII WINS
SWIMSUIT PRELIMS
FOR MISS AMERICA
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Ml—
Three blondes and a brunette are
the front-runners going into the
third round of preliminary judg
ing tonight in the annual Miss
America pageant.
The brunette is Miss Hawaii,
20-year-old Jerrie Wright of Hon
olulu, who copped honors in the
swimsuit division last night.
She shared the night’s laurels
with Miss Arkansas, 18-year-old
Barbara Banks of Conway, who
was judged best in the talent
competition with her modem bal
let number.
Two other blondes placed first
in their divisions on Wednesday.
They were Miss California, Joan
Backet of Sacramento, in the bat
tle of swimsuits, and Miss Ala
bama, Ann Stuart Ariail of Bir
mingham, in the talent section.
Nixon and Stevenson At Odds
On Defense Policy; ‘Easy Way
Is Seldom Right Way,’ Says V.P.
By the Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson contended to
day the Eisenhower Administra
tion has failed to handle what he
said was the “school crisis” in
volving shortages of classrooms
and teachers. He said the Demo
cratic Party has a program to
meet it.
The Democratic presidential
nominee was back at his home
base in Libertyville, 111., after a
fast swing into California. Sen.
Estes Kefauver, vice presidential
nominee who traveled with him,
continued on to Washington, D.C.,
where he commented that their
candidacy was "off to a good start
in California.”
Stevenson spoke yesterday in
San Francisco while at the same
time Vice President Nixon was
telling the American Legion na
tional convention in Los Angeles
that “the entire problem of Com
munism, foreign and domestic,
was too important for partisan
criticism or political sniping.”
Nixon said the international
Communist movement was the
only serious threat to freedom in
the world today. He urged “more
common sense about Communism
and less wishful thinking."
Stevenson made no speeches
today but discussed the school
conditions in a formal statement.
Police Release
Trapper Who Shot
Confidential Mag Editor
CUIDAD TRUJILLO, Domini
can Republic, UF>—Police have re
leased Richard Weldy, 35, a
jungle trapper questioned in the
shooting of Robert Harrison, 50,
publisher of Confidential maga
zine.
Weldy was turned loose last
night. The police acted after Har
rison told newsmen the shooting
was an accident, he did not plan
to file charges, and “Weldy is a
nice person.”
Harrison backed up Weldy’s
story that he dropped his shotgun
by accident and it discharged.
The shot wounded Harrison 'in
the shoulder slightly.
He said 500,000 more classrooms
are needed and the “teacher
shortage is at least as serious and
probably more serious."
Nixon, referring to Stevenson’s
statement on the same platform
to the American Legion the pre
vious day, said that the United
States should discontinue nuclear
weapons tests, said:
“I realize that there are those
in the U.S. who sincerely believe
we should have discontinued test
ing of hydrogen bombs if other
nations would have offered to
follow a similar policy. I respect
fully submit that for us to have
followed this advice would have
been not only naive but danger
ous to our national security.”
Commenting o n Stevenson’s
proposal that the military draft
be ended as soon as consistent
with national security, Nixon said
“the easy way is sfeldom the right
way.”
“This is no time to suggest to
our friends or our possible oppo
nents abroad that America is get
ting soft and tired and is looking
for an easy way out.of our world
responsibilities,” Nixon said.
Martial Law
Postponed in
Racial Dispute
By the Associated Press
State officials stood Teady today
to declare martial law in Sturgis,
Ky.( one of the principal southern
spots in the segregation dispute.
Nine Negro students, threat
ened by mobs yesterday, stayed
home at Sturgis today and a de
cision on martial law was post
poned. »
Kentucky Adj. Gen. J. J. B.
Williams said he had received re
ports that parents of the Sturgis
Negro students had been threat
ened with loss of jobs if their
children attended the previously
all-white high school. He asked
the FBI to check possible viola
tion of civil rights.
Heavily armed Kentucky Na
tional Guardsmen patrolled the
streets of Sturgis last night while
a generally orderly crowd esti
mated at 1,000 cheered fiery seg
regation speeches in public parks.
Earlier Thursday, Guardsmen
armed with riot guns and bayo
nets formed a solid wall to pro
tect nine Negro students as they
left the high school after their
first day of classes.
An angry crowd of 500 shouted
■threats to “get you niggers if it
takes all year” while the guards
men pushed a path to three cars
in which the students left.
At Knoxville, Tenn., the man
blamed by many Clinton citizens
for stirring the population to a
frenzy on the race issue was
J granted bail while appealing a
one-year sentence on a contempt
of court conviction. Bail for John
Kasper of Washington, D.C., was
I fixed at $100,000.