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VOL, LVII No. 43NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1955Per Copy—15^
Russian Scientists Miscalculate:
Arctic ‘Island’ Drifts Near Canada
NEW YORK, UP)—Pravda says^
a Russian “high latitude air ex
pedition is presently operating in
an Arctic area 1,000 miles distant
from the continental Soviet Union
and only 300 miles from Can
ada’s Ellesmere Island.
The Soviet airborne scientific
mission, the Communist paper
said in an article by the top So
viet Arctic chief V. Burkhanov, is
engaged along with other tasks in
surveying the region near Soviet
Arctic Ice Station No 3,
This is within 200 miles of
Denmark’s Greenland, a little
further from Canadian soil, and
about 700 miles from the U.S. Air
Force Base at Thule, Greenland.
In the past few weeks expedi
tion No. 3 has been drifting in
the direction of the narrow strait
between Canada’s Ellesmere Is
land and Greenland. The Russians
had predicted previously it would
emerge into the Norwegian Sea
on the other side of Greenland j
where they planned to pick it up i
before the ice floes on which it
was located entered the open sea.
Apparently their calculations of
the station’s drift went wrong.
They are not sure now which
side of Greenland it’s heading for.
They are planning to withdraw
part of the personnel by air and
leave a skeleton group there until
it is clear where the thing is
bound.
The map shows that No. 3 trav- !
eled through an area claimed,, by
the Canadians as Canadian terri
tory. Canada has taken the view
that all of the Arctic directly
north of Canadian territory to the
north pole belongs to Canada. The
U.S. government does not recog
nize this claim.
The U.S. government has main
tained several floating expedi
tions on ice islands in the Arctic.
One of them, known as T-3, was
abandoned in 1954, but according
to official announcement is to be
reoccupied soon.
The American ice stations have
been under the U.S. Air Force.
The Russians claim their’s are
strictly civilian. Study of the
Arctic has intensified in both the
U.S.S.R. and the United States
because of the possibility the Arc
tics skies may be the routes of
intercontinental bombers in any
new world war.
Bull Sea Elephant Takes Over
Si. Louis Zoo Sea Lion Pool
ST. LOUIS, UPI—A 2,500-pound
bull sea elephant is the new boss
of the sea lion pool at the St.
Louis zoo.
The deposed leader is a bull
lion that weighed in at only 400
, pounds. Both are members of the
sea family.
The sea elephant, which just
arrived by air from California
with his mate and pup, was put
in the pool yesterday. Zoo direc
tor George Vierheller was afraid
a little fur might fly between the
two but it didn’t. The sea lions
just scampered out of the water
and cowered at the opposite end
of the enclosure.
LAST DAY OF FIRE SALE
AT DOROTHY’S: Wednesday, April 13
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Canadian Pacific
To Start New Air
Route To Europe
VANCOUVER, UP) — A four
motored DC-6B, carrying 48 Van
couver business leaders, was to
set out today on a “hurryup”
flight over a great new aerial
route.
The men, traveling a chartered
Canadian Pacific Airlines plane
under the auspices of the Van
couver Board of Trade are cutting
1,000 miles off the Vancouver
Europe route.
Instead of travelling Vancou
ver-Montreal-Europe, the men
will follow what CPA calls one
of the great aerial routes of the
world still to be fully developed.
Early in June, Grant McCon
achie, CPA president, will fly the
route to inaugurate the company’s
new service over the top of the
world to Amsterdam.
The Board ot Trade charter
flight will land at London in
stead. Ahead of the men are 11
days of business appointments,
tours, luncheons and other func
tions aimed at stimulating trade
between Britain and Canada.
The charter flight was to leave
International Airport here at 10
a.m. If it were a regular flight,
it would land in Amsterdam 18
hours and about 4,800 miles later.
Using facilities developed dur
ing and since the second World
War, the plane nowhere will be
more than 90 minutes from an
airport.
The DC-6B will fly over the
Rockies to the northern prairies,
only a few hundred miles from
the north pole, out beyond the
Arctic Circle, across Greenland,
along the tip of Iceland to the
northern edge of Scotland down
to London.
A familiarization flight over the
polar route left here Saturday
with 13 crew members and tech
nicians aboard. The crew will
meet that of the DC-6B in Lon
don to compare notes.
Plane With Chinese
Delegates To Bandung
Conference Disappears
HONG KONG, UP) — The Air
India airline reported tonight one
of its planes, chartered to carry
Chinese Communist delegates to
the Bandung conference, has dis
appeared over the South China
Sea.
The plane left Hong Kong to
day and was overdue at Kuching,
Sarawak. Peter Mahta, Air India
manager here, said the Constella
tion sent out three distress sig
nals, and nothing had been heard
since.
The plane carried nine Chinese
and two Poles. The latter pre
sumably are interpreters. The
Bandung conference of 29 Afri
can and Asian nations is opening
in that Indonesian city next week.
Ousted State Dept.
Official Rejects
Dulles Job Offer
WASHINGTON, UP)—Edward J.
Corsi, who was ousted as State
Department immigration special
ist, today rejected an offer by
Secretary of State Dulles of a new
job.
Corsi, whose old post was ab
ruptly abolished 90 days after he
took it, sent Dulles a letter re
signing from State Department
services.
Corsi had held down a double
barreled assignment in the State
Department: special assistant on
immigration to Dulles and deputy
administrator of the Eisenhower
administration’s Refugee Relief
Act which seeks to admit 214,000
immigrants into the United States
by the end of 1956.
This job was abolished at a
time when Corsi was under fire
in Congress.
Rep. Walter <D-Pa> questioned
whether Corsi should administer
admission of immigrants. Walter
said Corsi had associated with
pro - Communist organizations in
the 1930’s.
Corsi denied there was any
thing in his record to support
Walter’s complaints.
Corsi is known to believe that
Dulles buckled in the face of
pressure from Walter to fire him.
Corsi has been a longtime out
spoken foe of the McCarran-Wal
ter 1952 Immigration Act.
Corsi, Italian - born, has de
nounced this legislation as “ui\
American,” because it continues
to base immigration quotas on an
applicant’s “national origin.”
After meeting with Dulles Fri
day, Corsi- told reporters that
Walter’s attacks were not aimed
personally at him but represented
an effort to discredit his “en
lightened point of view” on im
migration policies.
Alaska Bills To Be
Taken Up By Congress
On April 20 and 21
WASHINGTON, ttf) — Members
of Congress from the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska — most of
whom went home during the
Easter recess to sample “grass
roots” sentiment—began return
ing to the capitol today. And they
are due for some busy days ahead.
The House Territories, subcom
mittee takes up half a dozen bills
affecting Alaska April 20, 21.
Among these is a proposal to alter
commitment procedures for Al
aska’s mentally ill and to turn
their care over to the territory.
Members of the House group
did a little preparatory work on
the matter during the recess,
making a personal inspection of
the Morningside Hospital facili
ties in Portland, Ore., where the
ailing Alaskans now are harbored.
Early action also is in line on
bills introduced in the House and
Senate to qualify Alaska for a
federal loan to strengthen its de
pleted unemployment compensa
tion fund.
Nome Enjoys Gala Day Of
Dog Racing Easter Sunday
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Pilot Says Anyone
Can Fly Wingless
“Flying Platform”
PALO ALTO, Calif., I# — The
test pilot who first took off in a
radically new wingless “flying
platform” says anyone who can
walk can fly it.
‘You just lean the way you
want it to go,” said test pilot
Phil A. Johnson of the “research
tool” developed by Hiller Heli
copters of Palto Alto for the Of
fice of Naval Research.
“I’d let my kids fly it. It’s no
trick at all,” Johnson said.
Looks like a flying manhole
cover with guard rails. It is a
literal flying saucer.
Hiller’s development to date,
said the Office of Naval Research
in the first disclosure of the new
craft, “definitely has established
the feasibility of radically simpli
fied flight.”
the “flying platform” works by
a downward thrusting air stream
generated by two counter rotat
ing propellors. They produce bal
ancing force, like a gyroscope.
Two ducted fans, presently
powered by two small engines
producing together less than 100
horsepower, suck in air through
holes in the top of the platform.
The fans thrust air out the bottom
of the platform with great force.
How it takes dff is as simple
as that.
Ascent is controlled by throttle.
You steer by leaning the way
you want to go.
What happens if the engines
quit, however, is an obvious prob
lem, too. Without the lifting air
thrust, you drop like a brick.
Test flights so far have been
little more than eight feet off the
ground at the Hiller plant’s test
ing field.
The Navy said further research
and development “will be neces
sary before these principles can
be applied to the production of
military aircraft.”
Salk Polio Vaccine Is
Unofficially Reported
90 Per Cent Effective
DETROIT, UP — The Detroit
Times quoted an unnamed Uni
versity of Michigan Medical
School man today as saying the
Salk polio vaccine is “more than
90 per cent effective” in minimiz
ing or eliminating paralysis as a
result of the disease.
The Times said the medical
school source declared the vaccine
has been found “not 100 per cent
effective but is so close as to be
called an unqualfied success.”
At the University of Michigan,
where the results of the vaccine
tests are 'to be announced to a
waiting world tomorrow, there
was no official comment on the
newspaper story.
■ Front Street was lined with dog
race fans yesterday from the Fire
Station to the U.S. Mercantile for
the second race sponsored by the
Arctic Club, who are interested in
furthering the sport which orig
inated in Nome at the turn of the
century and has become popular
in other communities in the terri
tory.
Eleven entries made the run to
Nome River and back as follows:
Pete Larsen Sr. (4) . 27:20
Franklin Okiton (7) . 31:34
Ben Herman Cl) . 31:48
Clifford Attatayuk <2) .. 32:25
Earl Scott (5) . 32:52
Ralph Olanna (6) . 33:33
Carl Adams (10) . 34:50
Gordon Dimmick (9) .... 37:15
Paul Kakaruk (8) . 40:12
Ken Kotongan (11) . 44:00
William Nelson, who started in
No. 3 position, did not complete
the race.
Pete Larsen, first place winner
beat his son’s time for the first
race by about 4 minutes.
Following the dog derby, one
ddg races for children brought
out 19 dogs of all sizes, colors,
dispositions and inclinations.
Winners in this event, which
was run off in heats of five, with
the winners of these heats run
ning again, were Roy Dimmick,
first; Fritz Chamber, second; and
Sally Walker, third. Rodney Bou
cher, who placed fourth in the
final heat was awarded a special
prize of a hunting knife, donated
by Mrs. David Russell.
Other entries in this event were
Wayne Russell with Friend; Dor
othy Russell with Frosty; Lurisse
Lowe with Pasquale, Roy Dim
mick with Bingo; Stella Moto with
Lady; Rodney Boucher with Nan
ook; Johnny Bahnke with Whis
kers; Joseph Sirloak with Silver;
Billy Muller with Snowshoe;
David Barber with Collar; Peter
Barber with Husky; Helen Read
er with Kelly; Guy Martin with
Spider; Fritz Chamber with
Whitey; Cilfford Olanna with <?);
Valerie Adams with Lad; Sheryl
Martin with Irish; Sally Walker
with Spot; and James Picknalook
with Trigger.
In the one-dog ski race there
were three entries: Rodney Bou
cher with Nanook, first; Peter
Barber with Husky, second; and
Lee Oman with Jughead, third.
The Arctic Club expresses ap
preciation to the merchants of the
community whose generosity
made the races possible. In ad
dition to those already named, are
Breakers Bar and Anchor Tavern.
It is hoped that the enthusiasm
shown will result in more races
next year with substantial prizes .
announced early in the season so
dog owners, not only here but in
surrounding towns may train their
teams and compete in the sport.
Attlee Lecturing In Canada
MONTREAL, UTi — Clement
Attlee, leader of the British Labor
Party, arrived today for an 18
day lecture tour of Canada.