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Eisenhower To
Leave Hospital On
lltli, Veterans Day
DENVER, UP)—President Eisen
hower’s doctors, satisfied with his
recovery progress, have picked
Nov. 11—one week from Friday—
as a target date for letting him
out of the hospital.
The tentative decision, subject
to review of a full scale medical
consultation this weekend, was
made known by the White House
as the President arranged to con
fer late today with still another
cabinet member, Secretary of
Labor Mitchell.
Mitchell is the eighth cabinet
officer to come to Denver for a
hospital conference with Eisen
hower since the chief executive’s
September 24 heart attack. The
other two members of the cab
inet — Secretary of Commerce
Weeks and Secretary of Welfare
Folsom—may visit him here next
week.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said Fitzsimmons
Army Hospital physicians have
discussed with hoth the President
and Mrs. Eisenhower their tenta
tive plans to let him fly back to
Washington, Nov. 11, Veterans
Day.
Episcopal Minister, Expert
On Jazz, Wins $32,000
On CBS Giveaway Show
NEW YORK, UP)—The Rev. Al
vin Kershaw, Episcopalian church
record and jazz expert, has taken
his $32,000 winnings and passed
up a chance for the grand prize
on “The $64,000 Question,” CBS
radio and television show.
He says he will use the money
—after income taxes—to support
settlement of displaced persons in
his parish. He also will make a
contribution to the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
The 36-year-old clergyman an
nounced on the program last night
that he would keep the $32,000,
rather than risk losing it in a
try for more, because it was a
“resource and opportunity to sup
port many movements in our
world —movements laboring and
struggling for brotherhood.”
The Rev. Mr. Kershaw, rector
of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church,
Oxford, Ohio, won the $32,000 in
three steps answering questions in
his chosen category of jazz.
Vancouver, BC, to Vote on
Permitting Sunday Sports
VANCOUVER, B.C., UR — The
city council cleared the way for
a public vote Dec. 14 on the ques
tion of lifting Vancouver’s ban on
Sunday sports.
The council, acting on a recom
mendation of a subcommittee,
approved adding the question to
the civic election ballot to “get
the general feeling of the public.”
Twice before Vancouver voters
have turned down a proposal to
permit professional sports on Sun
day. The question arose at this
time after the Oakland Oaks
transferred their Pacific Coast
League baseball franchise for the
1956 season.
United Airliner
Crash In Rockies
Kills All 44 Aboard
LONGMONT, Colo., UP) — A
four - engine United Air Lines
plane — some witnesses said it
seemed to explode in the air —
crashed in a northern Colorado
sugar beet field last night, killing
all 44 persons aboard.
The disaster hitting the New
York-to-Seattle DC-6B craft was
the second major crash the air
line has suffered in the Rocky
Mountain region in less than four
weeks.
A UAL airliner smashed into
Medicine Bow peak in southern
Wyoming Oct. 6 for a loss of 66
lives, the nation’s worst commer
cial aviation tragedy.
Last night’s crash killed 39 pas
sengers, including an infant boy,
and 5 crew members.
An airline official declined to
speculate on what happened to
the plane, explaining that the ac
counts. of witnesses varied widely.
“Some say it exploded in the
air, others that it hit the ground
and exploded,” the spokesman
said. “It is difficult for us to say
what took place. That probably
will have to be determined by the
Civil Aeronautics Board.”
Unlike the UAL crash Oct. 6
this accident happened over com
paratively level country a few
miles east of the Colorado Rock
ies.
Wreckage and bodies were
strewn for a mile over a plowed
field and pasture about 32 miles
north of Denver’s city limits.
Tht plane left Denver about 10
minutes earlier and was 20 min
utes behind schedule, United Air
Lines reported. A Compaq of
ficial said it was on course to
ward Cheyenne, Wyo. He said the
DC-6B had a cruising speed of
about 300 miles an hour and was
capable of carrying up to 64 pas
sengers.
Premier Faure Engineers
Vote of Confidence He is
Almost Sure To Win
PARIS, (#) — Premier Edgar
Faure goes before the national
assembly for the third time in 16
days tonight to ask for a vote of
confidence.
Even his most bitter enemies
were likely to hesitate before vot
ing against the premier in the ses
sion beginning at 9 p.m.
The premier’s idea of dissolv
ing the present assembly on Jan.
2 and hold a quick election in
December appeared popular thru
out the nation. Any deputy voting
against the government might
seem to be in a position of want
ing to avoid a test of his own
popularity at the ballot box.
During the last three days of
debate many have demanded a
new method of electing members
of the assembly. No less than 11
different proposals for changes in
the election system have been
voted down. The only thing the
assembly did vote for was the
principle of proportional repre
sentation.
Pure proportional representa
tion would greatly increase Com:
munist strength in the assembly,
and for that reason the govern
ment declared it unacceptable.
Former Nome
Youth Performs
Heroic Rescue
CORDOVA, (A*V—A Nome Eski
mo boy’s heroism helped make
the 10th anniversary of the found
ing of the Lutheran Mission Home
for Children here a happy one
yesterday.
The courage of Jonathan Davis,
14, in diving through a hole in
the ice and rescuing Walter Elis
ovsky, 12, undoubtedly saved the
younger boy’s life, Dr. Ray Coffin
said.
Disobeying instructions, a group
of boys from the home went skat
ing on nearby Eyack Lake Hal
loween Eve and the ice broke.
John Elisovsky and the Davis boy
were unable to pull Walter out
and he went down, apparently
for the last time.
But the Davis boy dove in.
Swimming under water, he lo
cated his unconscious friend,
brought him to the surface and
other boys helped pull them out.
John and Roger Reese, 14, started
artificial respiration and Dr. Cof
fin arrived quickly to help revive
him.
The home, headed by Miss Net
tie Hanson, now cares for 19 boys.
Several hundred youths have
lived there the past decade.
3 Americans Win
Nobel Prizes In
Chemistry, Physics
STOCKHOLM, M — The Nobel
prizes in chemistry and physics
went to three Americans today.
Dr. Vincent Du Vigneaud of
Cornell University’s medical col
lege Won the prize in chemistry.
The‘physics award went jointly to
Dr. W. E. Lamb of Stanford Uni
versity and Dr. P. Kusch of Col
umbia University.
The physicists will split prize
money of $36,720 for their work
in correcting an error made by a
Briton who previously won the
Nobel Prize. Their work was in
connection with atomic measure
ments.
Dr. Du Vigneaud will receive
the $36,720 chemistry award for
his work on two hormones that
help in childbirth and keep a
check on- vital organs like the
kidneys. The 54-year-old Chicago
born biologist is the first scientist
ever to take apart and put to
gether a hormone produced by the
pituitary gland. His work on the
two substances — oxytocin and
vasopressin — is described by
Nobel authorities here as “a his
toric feat in biochemistry.”
Dr. Du Vigneaud was mention
ed two weeks ago among those
possibly in line for the Nobel
Prize in medicine, but this went
to a Swede, Dr. Hugo TheoreU
The prizes will be awarded by
King Gustaf Adolf at ceremonies
here Dec. 10.
The correction that won the
physics prize for the two Ameri
cans is described by the Royal
Swedish Academy of Science as a
major advance toward learning
what goes on inside the atom. It
enabled scientists to calculate cor
rectly the properties of some of
its component parts.
Senate Group Hears Civic Leaders
On Value of Local Tin Industry
To U.S. and to 2d Division Economy
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CAB to Hold Intra
Alaska Air Route
Hearings In Alaska
SEATTLE, W)—The Civil Aero
nautics Board has agreed to hold
its forthcoming intra-Alaska air
route hearings in Alaska instead
of Washington, D. C., to permit
pilot - owners to participate and
testify, chairman Harren G. Mag
nuson (D - Wash) of the Senate
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee said today.
“Although" findings in this case
cannot be reached until some time
next spring, we do plan to con
duct sessions of the case at con
venient points in Alaska,” CAB
chairman Ross Rizley advised in
a letter to chairman Magnuson.
Magnuson requested the Alas
kan hearings, advising Rizley “Al
askans feel that they should be
heard on matters as far-reaching
as the intra - Alaska case which
probably will set the pattern of
air transportation in the territory
for years to come.”
Sen. Magnuson had suggested
hearings might be scheduled for
Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau
“at least.”
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Townsend Will Not See
Princess Margaret After
Her Renunciation of Him
r LONDON, (if)—Peter Townsend,
slowly picking up the threads of
his life after a shattered romance,
said today Tie has no intention of
seeing Princess Margaret again
before he returns to his job as
I air attache in the British embassy
in Brussels on Sunday.
The handsome divorced RAF
hero, whose love Margaret re
nounced for God and country,
talked to newsmen at the gates of
Eridge Castle, home of Lord
Abergavenny in the. rolling Sus
sex countryside today.
He came over from nearby Uck
field House, where he trysted
with the princess last weekend, in
a car driven by Lord Rupert Nev
ill, a brother of Lord Avergav
enny. ,
Senator Advises Hawaii
To Settle For Nothing
Less Than Full Statehood
HONOLULU, (/P>—Sen. James E.
Murray (D-Mont) left for home
yesterday with the advice that
Hawaii should settle for nothing
less than full statehood.
He told reporters Hawaii is
fully ready.
Murray, chairman of the power
ful Senate Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee, said he is
willing to consider separate Ha
waii and Alaska statehood bills.
But he said the Republican ad
ministration must justify its op
position to a joint bill. Any delay
for Alaska, he said, must be only
temporary.
A statehood bill combining the
two territories died in the past
session of Congress.
» Senator Kerr Scott of North
Carolina and party including two
members of his staff—Howard
Browning and Ben Roney—and
Robert Redwine, mining consul
tant, arrived Monday for a Con
gressional hearing on tin. They
were met by a group of local min
ing men and civic leaders.
A dinner in their honor was
given that evening at the Bering
Sea Club with Ralph Lomen act
ing as toastmaster.
Tuesday morning a hearing
was held in the U.S. Court Room
in connection with the amended
bill to stabilize the price of do
mestic tin. The bill is now before
Congress and was introduced by
Sen. Scott.
Those who were questioned at
the hearing included Ralph Lo
men, who had already appeared at
Washington D.C. He surveyed the
background of tin mining and
brought out several interesting
facts concerning tin, showing how
the price has fluctuated since the
time tin was first mined here—
from 27 cents a pound to $2.04 a
pound. He stated that over $3,000,
000 in tin has been exported from
here and $150,000 worth went out
on the Coastal Rambler this past
month.
Only Source In North America
He noted the importance of the
industry from the standpoint that
it is the oldest and best of base
metals known and this is the only
known source of any quantity on.
North America and expressed his
opinion that if the bill is passed
that private industry will be eager
to invest at a stabilized price of
$1.35 for lode operations and $1.20
a pound for placer.
He explained that the govern
ment would be out nothing until
private industry had produced the
tin, and had it ready for stock
piling.
Impact On Welfare Cases
Mary Jolly, Welfare Depart
ment representative, testified as
to the amount of welfare in this
division, showing that $55,000 was
spent on help to the aged, depen
dent children, etc. during the past
year and how the economic situa
tion could be improved with an
improved diet, through better in
comes.
Pete Sandvik, district engineer
for the Territorial Department of
Mines, showed that 2,000 tons of
tin had been produced here since
1903 and showed how the present
price of 92Vfe cents a pound is not
sufficient to finance any kind of
operation of this important metal.
He also explained that 1 cent
per pound tariff on imported tin
would offset the government’s in
vestment for stockpiling Alaskan
tin and at the same time be an in
centive for the prospecting of
other strategic minerals such as
mercury, tungsten, copper, urani
um and bismuth.
Effect on Health of Natives
Dr. Fred Langsam, superinten
dent of the MMM Hospital, re
ported on the health conditions,
stating that tuberculosis is 11
times higher here than in the
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