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VOL. LIX NO. 65_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1957 Per Copy—15^
Nationalist Arab Rebels Massacre
302 Inhabitants of Algerian Village
ALGIERS, l/P>—Survivors of a
night of horror came out of the
mountains today and told how
nationalist Arab rebels massacred j
almost the entire male population
of their village 80 miles southeast
of Algiers. French officials put
the total dead at 302.
Reports of the bloodshed Tues
day night reached the French
yesterday when some of the male
survivors straggered out of their
hiding places. Some went mad
over the massacre, described by
the French as the worst incident
of its kind in the history of mod
ern Algeria.
Aid was rushed by helicopter to
the village of La Melouza. The
French said the first troops to ar
rive were sickened by the sight
and smell of hundreds of bodies.
In one house five bodies were |
piled on one another. Part of the j
village was put to the torch.
Many of the women were in- j
jured as they sought to save their .
husbands and sons. The French
said of the males only boys 15 |
years or less were spared.
Eight Killed in
Anti-West Riots
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In Lebanon Capital!
BEIRUT, Lebanon, UP)—Soldiers j
and police guarded strategic spots j
and armored cars patrolled this |
capital city today in the wake of
yesterday’s political violence.
Eight rioters were killed, about
70 wounded, and more than 200
put under arrest as the army
squelched a demonstration by
government opponents.
Opposition political leaders
were making little headway in
appeals to continue a general
strike.
The government announced it
was going ahead with parliamen
tary elections slated to begin on
June 9 and said the army will
help supervise them.
The opposition leaders had de
manded continuation of protests
“until the government falls and
until the criminals who are gov
ernment officials and employes
get their just punishment.”
It became apparent that the
opposition was centering much of
its ammunition on pro-Western
President Camille Chamoun, who
was elected in 1952 for a six-year
term. The President is chosen by
Parliament. Opposition groups are
supporting former Foreign Min
ister Hamid Fragieh.
Four hours of violence swept
the Moslem quarter 'of Beirut. It
ended only after the Lebanese
army moved in tanks and ar
mored cars.
The opposition has demanded
that Lebanon align its policies
with the pro-Soviet stand of Syr
ia and Egypt.
Cries of “Down with Sohl” and
“Down with Eisenhower” were
heard during the rioting. The
demonstrators also shouted crit
icism of Chamoun.
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The French speculated the mas- j
sacre was another bloody chapter J
in the rivalry of the two big Al
gerian nationalist groups—the Al
gerian Nationalist Movement and
the National Liberation Front.
Cne version said the rebels ap
peared at the village on Monday
night and killed five men accused
of being pro-French. The villag
ers protested and the rebels came
back the next night in two bands
of a dozen men each. They were
armed with submachine guns,
rifles, hunting weapons, knives
and axes—all apparently used in
the slaughter.
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Red China Trade
May Cost Britain I
Loss of Hong Kong;
WASHINGTON W—Sen. Know- !
land <R-Calif> told the Senate to- [
day Britain may be risking loss
of the crown colony of Hong Kong
by broadening its trade with Red
China.
Knowland, the Senate Republi
can leader, said the British are
taking a “calculated risk” in de
ciding to ship what he called
“strategic” materials to Commu
nist China. The decision was an
nounced yesterday in London.
“These materials in time may
strengthen Communist China to
the point where she dares risk
the responsibility of taking over
the crown colony of Hong Kong,”
Knowland said. “That is the cal
culated risk being taken by the
ministers of Her Majesty’s Gov
ernment.”
As one of the severest of Con
gressional critics of Communist
China, Knowland said he found
it “difficult to understand” why
Britain should decide on a course
Knowland said could only result
in strengthening “our common
enemy” in Asia.
The State Department has ex
pressed disappointment at the
British decision to adopt the same
list for shipments of goods to Chi
na that prevails in shipments of
goods to the Soviet Union.
This would reduce the trade
controls to the levels applied to
Russia and her satellites. The
United States carries on no trade
with Red China but has agreed in
the past 4hat her allies should sell
so-called non-strategic goods to
that country.
18 Persons Apply for
Land Commissioner Job
J.UNEAU —Eighteen applica
tions for the $12,000-a-year job of
Alaska Land Commissioner have
been received, the Land Commis
sion reported today.
A dozen of the applications
have come from persons in Alas
ka. The other six were filed with
the Commission by land officials
in the States.
The board said no appointment
to the post is expected until some
of the leading candidates have
been interviewed.
Only Traces of Missing
Eskimo Youths Found
By Air Rescue Squadron
The first trace of two Eskimo
youths, missing since April 23
along the northwest Arctic coast
line, was found Monday by the
crew of a 74th Air Rsecue Squad
ron helicopter.
Six dogs, rifles and food sup
plies believed to belong to the
missing pair, Charlie Susook, 17,
and his 14-year-old brother,
Jimmy, were located 20 miles
southeast of Point Lay on the
bank of the Kukpowruk river.
“No sled, no boys,” was the
terse radio report from the heli
copter.
Pioneers Grand President
Sid Raynor to Visit
Overnight in Nome
Sid Raynor, Grand President of
the Pioneers of Alaska, is sched
uled to arrive Saturday evening
at 6:00 for an overnight visit here.
Mr. Raynor will be met by of
ficers of both the Pioneer men
and women’s organizations and
will be the dinner guest of Presi
dent Frank Morris and President
Jennie Frazier, after which a
meeting is planned at 8:30 at the
Pioneer Igloo where light re
freshments are being planned.
Tentative plans are being made
for a no-host breakfast Sunday
morning pending other plans
Raynor may have already made.
He plans to leave about 1:00 on
Sunday.
Treasury Refuses
Tax Exemption for
Alaska Industry
JUNEAU, l#1)—The Alaska com
missioner of mines said today the
U.S. Treasury Department has re
fused to consider federal tax ex
emptions for new industries in
the territory.
Mine Commissioner Phil Holds
worth said he attempted to get
government consideration of a
joint memorial adopted by the
1957 Territorial Legislature.
The memorial was a companion
piece to the new Alaska law that
provides for complete territorial
tax exemptions for as long as 10
years as a lure to industrial de
velopment here.
The memorial asked Congress
and the federal government to
give similar tax relief for the
same periods covered by any ter
ritorial tax forgiveness awards.
Holdsworth said he disscused
the matter in Washington a week
ago with Dan Smith, a deputy to
Treasury Secretary Humphrey.
“He cited any number of court
decisions on which the govern
ment says it is impossible to give
federal tax concessions to Alas
ka,” Holdsworth said.
“The courts have held,” said
the mine commissioner, “that
Alaska and Hawaii are part of the
continental United States, so far
as tax matters are concerned.
Their territorial status eliminates
any possibilities for a tax relief
program, as far as the federal
government is concerned.”
WOMAN SURVIVES PLANE CRASH
AND 19-DAY WAIT FOR RESCUE
RAWLINGS, Wyoming, Uf)—It’s
certainly a blessing to be alive.”
Those were the first words Mrs.
Dalton LeMasurier spoke to res
cuers who found her beside the
body of her husband late yester
day on a snow-shrouded moun
tainside.
The 45-year-old Duluth, Minn.,
housewife survived her ordeal for
19 days.
Candy and Vitamin Pills
Her only nourishment was
three small pieces of chocolate
candy and a bottle of vitamin
pills.
With only the remains of the
burnt-out wreckage and shrubs
for protection, Mrs. LeMasurier
lived thru almost constant storms.
The couple’s light plane, head
ed back to Duluth from Pasadena,
Calif., smashed into 9,500-foot
Ferris Mountain east of here on
May 11 during heavy overcast.
Rain Quenches Fire
The gasoline tank exploded and
burned for an hour. Then a rain
storm put out the fire.
Here’s Mrs. LeMasurier’s story
of the crash and what followed:
“We were flying at about 8,000
feet when there was some engine
Surgeon Reveals
Radar Beams
Can Be Fatal
LOS ANGELES, W>—R a d a r
beams can be extremely danger
ous, warns a California surgepn,
for they already have killed one
man and injured others.
The first known case of death
from radar was believed to have
occurred in 1954 in the Los Ange
les area, Dr. John T. McLaughlin
of nearby Glendale reported in
the current issue of the California
Medical Assn, monthly publica
tion.
He said the 42-year-old victim
stood in front of a radar transmit
ter for less than a minute. In 10
seconds he had a sensation of heat
in the abdomen. In less than a
minute the heat became so intense
he had to move away.
The man, a technician in a ra
dar manufacturing plant, died
within two weeks, and while
there were no marks on the sur
face of his body, Dr. McLaughlin
said, “his insides were cooked . . .
there was a hole as big as a silver
dollar burned in his small bowel.”
The case is just now being re
ported for security reasons.
McLaughlin said microwaves
emitted by a radar transmitter
cause instant and intolerable tem
perature increases in the tissues
and cells. Tissue temperature just
a few degrees above the normal
body temperature is dangerous,
he said. And the higher the tem
perature, the shorter the time
necessary to cause cellular death.
He urged immediate research
to determine safe doses of micro
wave radiation—which must be
treated with the “same respect as
nuclear radiation.”
noise and my husband said:
“ ‘We’re going to crash!’
“As soon as we could get free
of the wreckage we began to run
because the gas tank was on fire.
It exploded and ... a cloudburst
finally put out the fire.
Fuselage for Shelter
“We crawled into the fuselage
of the plane and stayed there for
the first three nights.
“After that we wandered about
400 yards down the mountain on
to a level area. The drifts of snow
were about four feet deep and it
kept snowing and raining.”
LeMasurier. who was president
of Duluth Radio Station KDAL,
presumedly was injured fa tally
in the crash.
Death From Injuries
His wife first told rescuers he
died four days after the crash,
later that he died seven days ago.
And before going to sleep in her
hospital bed last night she said
she knows he is still living.
LeMasurier would have been 48.
Their children are Donald, 25,
a Duluth magazine publisher;
Ronald, 23, Pasadena, an actor;
and Mrs. Judith Collins, 21, of El
Paso, Texas.
Missed in Aerial Search
During her ordeal Mrs. LeMas
urier said she watched the skies
for some sign of help and saw
several airliners and light planes
obviously taking part in the wide
spread aerial search for the cou
ple. “I waved a red sweater but
nobody saw it,” she said.
She shouted with joy when she
spotted the seven-man rescue
party. She was rushed to a hospi
tal suffering from shock, frost
bite, sunburn, exposure and mal
nutrition. Today she is resting
and recovering.
‘Dad’ Sam Hanks
Wins Indianapolis Race,
Announces Retirement
By DALE BURGESS
INDIANAPOLIS, (J>>—The Indi
anapolis motor speedway will
have to get along hereafter with
out “Dad” Sam Hanks, who won
the 580-mile race yesterday on
his 12th attempt, but it won’t
soon forget the 42-year-old driver.
His record of 135.601 miles an
hour, compared with the late Bill
Vukovich’s 130.840 mark of 1954^
could stand for a long time.
Hanks had a splendid experi
mental auto which probably will
revolutionize race car design. It
was just too good for the rest of
the field.
Jim Rathmann, 28-year-old Mi
ami driver, tried desperately to
catch Hanks for the last 64 laps
but Hanks was pulling away
when he finished 17Vfe seconds in
front.
Hanks climbed out of his Be
lond special and said, “That’s it.
I’m all done.”
The lean, graying six-footer
said he’ll probably race in Italy’s
Monza autodrome “500” June 29
and finish his contract this year
with the Mercury stock car team.
Then he’ll quit racing.