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VOL. LIX NO. 62 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1957 Per Copy—15^
No Reduction
Seen in Russia’s
Armed Forces
WASHINGTON, UP>—Secretary
of the Army Brucker told sena
tors today that Soviet Russia has
failed to carry out its publicized
promise of last year to drop some
1,200,000 men from its armed
forces.
“So far we have no evidence to
show that such reductions have
been made,” Brucker- told a Sen
ate Appropriations subcommittee.
Backed by Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, Army chief of staff,
Brucker pressed senators to re
store at least $204,700,000 of one
billion and a quarter dollars that
the House Appropriations Com
mittee chopped off of budget re
quests for the Army.
Meanwhile. House leaders called
up for debate the multi-billion
dollar annual Defense Depart
ment money bill carrying some
$2M> billion less than President
Eisenhower asked for the fiscal
year that begins July 1.
In discussing specific cuts made
by the House Appropriations
Committee, Brucker singled out
these items for restoration:
A cut of $436 million in military
pay. He said this was “completely
inconsistent” with efforts to keep
a trained force of one million men
and /women ready to fight both
atomic and conventional wars.
A $700,000 cut for the Alaska
Communication System.
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Four Army Inductees
From This Area Are
Training at Ft. Richardson
Four Army inductees from here
are now at Fort Richardson In
duction Reception Station where
they will undergo 16 weeks of
basic training before being as
signed to Army units in the terri
tory. They are:
Gordon Nashalook, Unalakleet;
Elmer Seetomona, Shishmaref;
Anthony Luke, Stebbins; and
Daniel Iyatunguk of Deering.
Florida Governor Grants Sanctuary to
Jewish Foster Parents of Catholic Girl
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., (JV-“Sim
ple right and justice require that
Hildy McCoy’s present home life
should not be disturbed.”
With those words, Gov. LeRoy
Collins yesterday granted sanctu
ary in Florida to Mr. .and Mrs.
Melvin B. Ellis, the Jewish foster
parents of 6-year-old Hildy, who
was born of an unwed Catholic
mother.
Massachusetts—which has tried
for four years to take the child
away from the Ellises under a
law requiring adoptions within
religious faiths where possible—
charged the Ellises with kidnap
ing Hildy.
Collins called the charge “syn
thetic” and said “the real issuer is
simply whether or not the cus
tory of Hildy McCoy should con
tinue with the Ellises or be put
under institutional control and
direction.”
“God grants to every child . . .
first the right to be wanted and
secondly the right to be loved,”
the governor of Florida said.
'‘Hildy’s mother has denied
both of these rights to her.”
A crowded hearing room ap
plauded. There were tears in
many eyes.
The ordeal has cost the Elyses
a home and a successful dry
cleaning business in Massachu
setts. They will never be able to
visit friends and relatives there,
Ellis said, nor will he see his
fathers grave again.
“But when I weigh it all against
having Hildy safe and secure, I
don’t feel sorry,” he said.
They rushed from the hearing
directly to an airliner taking
them back to Miami Beach and a
reunion with Hildy. Today the
child graduates from the first
grade at Lear School there. Her
mother announced proudly she is
first in her class.
Chinese Ambassador
Expresses ‘Profoundest
Regrets’ Over Rioting
WASHINGTON (£>—C h i n e s e
Ambassador Holiington K. Tong
expressed to the United States
today the “profoundest regrets of
my government” for the anti
American rioting in Taipeh.
Tong told reporters “there’s no
deep anti-American sentiment”
involved in the rioting in his
opinion. He called it “an outbreak
of emotion.”
He also said that a number of
members of the mob had been ar
rested and “mor» will be.” The
situation has been brought under
control, he said, with the estab
lishment of a curfew and a dec
laration of martial law.
Tcng said this was the “most
distressing mission” he has had
to perform in his year in Wash
ington. In talking with newsmen,
he said “It’s awful.”
! Air Force Helicopter
Crashes Near Willow
Injuring 1 of 7 Aboard
ANCHORAGE, (#>—An Air
Force helicopter crashed yester
day morning near Willow, 85
miles north of here, seriously in
juring one of the seven men
aboard.
The Air Force said the helicop
ter’s fall was caused by mechani
cal failure but gave no other de
tails except to say that the crash
wrecked the plane’s radio, mak
ing it impossible to immediately
contact its home base at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base.
The injured man was Frank L.
Russell, an Anchorage civilian
employe of the district engineers.
The plane had landed four pas
sengers near the lonely Willow
Road just prior to the accident.
The four walked to Willow, about
eight miles, to report the crash.
Br itisli jet Crew Still Hop es to Break
Roundtrip London-Tokyo Record
After 29 - Hour Delay in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS UP>—A sleek, Brit
ish Canberra jet bomber streaked
across the vast emptiness of the
North Pacific today with its crew
of three still hopeful of cracking
the London-Tokyo record for the
roundtrip flight.
Despite a delay of more than
20Vi> hours because of mechanical
trouble, the twin-jet bomber’s
crew was confident it could beat
the old record of 94 hours set 20
years ago by a Japanese plane.
The Royal Air Force bomber,
with Flight Lt. Harry Hopkimson
at the controls, left here at 3:33
a.m. for Tokyo, where another
crew will take over for the return
trip to London over the top of the
world.
Wing Cmdr. Rod Harman, the
crew commander, said he expect
, ed to run into slight headwinds
over the North Pacific but he said
I he expected to make the 3,600
' mile run in a little less than eight
1 hours. The Canberra left here
with about 8V2 hours of fuel.
. Harman said that the Canberra
i would race the sun across the
j North Pacific at an altitude of
i about 50,000 feet.
The British jet zoomed into
Fairbanks at 6:17 a.m. yesterday
and flashed into the sky toward
j Tokyo 50 minutes later.
j Less than two hours later the
I plane was back, however, with
a faulty fuel pump in one of the
engines. The repair was complet
ed at 6:30 p.m. but Harman decid
ed to stay until early this morn
ing.
Enroute to Fairbanks from
London, with a stop at Keflavik,
Iceland, the jet averaged 465 mph.
and for a time rode a jet stream
1 at 580 mph. The bomber’s route
1 over the icy waters of the arctic
took it 300 miles north of the
j Magnetic Pole.
Harman said the flight was
strictly for navigational experi
ence and not a speed test, altho
the time of the flight was being
watched with intense interest in
London.
IT TAKES ALL KINDS . . .
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Wl —
Deputy District Clerk Jerry Maz
ziola saw an elderlj’ woman leave
a sackful of money in a down
town bank.
Hp caught her as she reached
the door and returned the money.
The woman stared at him icily,
then demanded he remain sta
tionary while she counted the
j money.
j “. . . Two hundred and ninety
| eight, two hundred and ninety
nine.”
As Mazziola turned to leave,
red-faced, the woman said, “Here,
young man, here’s a dime.”
j Anti - American Rioting in Taipeh
Follows Acquittal of Army Sergeant
jWho Killed Chinese Peeping Tom
T A I P E H, (ff)—Chinese mobs
went on an anti-American ram
| page today, ravaging the U.S.
embassy and information office,
besieging a military headquarters
and chasing Americans on the
street.
Nine Americans were injured.
The American flag was hauled
down from the embassy flagpole
| and torn to shreds.
Furniture Thru Window
Thousands of Chinese, worked
up to a frenzy by the acquittal
of a U-S. Army sergeant who
killed a Chinese peeping Tom,
stormed the embassy and spent
most of the afternoon tossing
broken furniture and torn docu
ments thru the windows.
A U.S. court-martial found the
sergeant innocent yesterday of
charges of voluntary manslaught
er of a Chinese caught looking
thru a bathroom window while
his wife was taking a shower.
Escorted to Airport
The riots started after M/Sgt.
Robert R. Reynolds of Colora, Md.
and Coatesville, Pa.—the man
whose acquittal stirred the trou
ble—had left with his wife and
7-year-old daughter by char
BPR Starts To
Open Up Roads
In This Area
The arrival of spring is now
being marked by BPR crews be
gining to open roads.
Under direction of foreman
John Norbert, the Council Road
has been opened to Safety Ferry.
It is in fair condition, with oc
casional patches of glacier as far
as Cape Nome. Here a heavy
glacier''had to foe ripped off leav
ing the road slippery and bumpy
for a short distance. The rest of
the way to Safety is passable but
has not been graded. As soon as
repairs to the ferry are made
and/or the ice leaves Safety La
goon the ferry will be launched.
Route 97 has been opened to
Mile 5. Work is being delayed un
til warm weather melts more of
the deep snow between Mile 5
and Dexter. The advance con
struction crew under foreman
Barney Crosby, has moved out to
the Salmon Lake , camp. After
the camp is opened and condi
tions are more favorable, they
will begin work with bulldozers
extending the road.
The Sunset rct?.d hrs been
opened to Penny River to permit
the survey crew to begin location
work toward Teller.
The U.S. Smelting Co. opened
the Snake River road across An
vil Creek and to the top of Gla
cier Hill. BPR crews have re
moved the Specimen Creek cul
vert which had settled and be
come twisted. For the present it
will be necessary to ford the
creek until a replacement culvert
arrives on the boat.
I tered plane for Manila.
A guard of 67 armed police es
corted Reynolds and his family to
the airport.
The attack on the embassy
erupted after the widow of the
slain Chinese entered the em
bassy compound with a banner
protesting Reynold’s acquittal.
100 Americans Besieged
The disorders spread and the
mobs tried to invade the U.S. mil
itary center in the sugar building.
About 100 Americans slammed
down the storm gate and were be
sieged Inside.
Another mob assaulted the U.S.
Information Office and ransacked
it in the same pattern as at the
embassy. Furniture, papers, type
writers and equipment were
wrecked and tossed out of the
windows.
About 1,0 0 0 demonstrators
formed before a police station in
downtown Taipeh.
Worst Since 1949
Informed sources said Chinese
authorities were preparing to
proclaim a state of siege or a cur
few as a result of the worst anti
American disorders since Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-shek escaped
here with the remnants of his
Nationalist forces in 1949.
U.S. authorities advised all
American personnel to stay in
doors. Three lines of defense
were set up around the American
embassy. Guards were rushed to
other American installations and
to American homes, especially in
outlying areas.
City Curfew Will Be
Enforced; City Hall Bell
Will Signal Time
Police Chief John Marvik gave
notice today that the police will
enforce the curfew ordinance in
the future. The bell atop the City
Hall will be rung in the evening
and all children under 18 years
of age must be off the streets
by that time or have a legitimate
excuse for being out after curfew.
Chief Marvik also cautioned
parents to see that young children
are properly clothed, since the
police have “apprehended” sev
eral youngsters on the streets in
various stages of dishabille.
Rail Line Linking Russia
With Red China Starts
Passenger Service
HONG KONG, UR — The train
line linking Red China and the
Soviet Union through Outer Mon
golia was opened to passenger
traffic Wednesday. The first train
left Moscow for Peiping by way
of Mongolia’s capital, Ulan Bator,
Peiping radio reported.
The broadcast said the first
train from Peiping will leave for
Moscow June 1. It takes 10 days
to complete the journey, which
covers more than 8,000 miles.
There will be thrice-weekly ser
| vice.