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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 133NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1955Per Copy—15*
Democrats Win General Victory in
Elections for Mayor in Several States
By the Associated Press
Democrats registered off-year
municipal election gains in Indi
ana, Pennsylvania, and Connecti
cut yesterday and scored sweeping
victories in races for governor of
Kentucky and mayor of Philadel
phia.
Republicans made gains here
and there but the net results in
many areas favored the Demo
crats.
The two feature races went ac
cording to advance expectations.
In Kentucky, A. B. (Happy)
Chandler made a political .come
back by defeating Republican Ed
win R. Denney for the governor
ship. Chandler, a former U.S. sen
ator and baseball commissioner,
returned to the governor’s post he
last held in 1935-39. He had been
out of political office for 10 years.
In Philadelphia, 57-year-old
Richardson Dilworth, a veteran
Democratic warhorse, swamped
Republican W. Thacher Long
streth, a 35-year-old political neo
phyte, in winning election as
mayor of that onetime GOP
stronghold by 132,000 votes. Long
streth had received the personal
endorsement of President Eisen
hower.
Ohio voters dealt the CIO a set
back in its drive to win approval
of a supplemental layoff pay plan
and increased state jobless bene
fits.
Democrats scored their most
surprising triumphs in normally
Republican Indiana. Incumbent
Republicans were toppled in In
dianapolis and South ;Bencl, Mun
cie and Evansville, among others.
Democrats also registered gains
in Pennsylvania. For the first time
in 50 years, they were leading in
Bucks County balloting. And in
Allegheny County (Pittsburgh),
Republican District A tty . James F.
Malono was trailing his Democrat
opponent. Malone has been con
sidered a possible candidate for
senator or governor.
In New York, the Democrats
Federal Defense Spending
In Alaska Expected to
Stay High for 10 Years
ANCHORAGE, (#)—An Alaskan
told an Interstate Commerce Com
mission examiner yesterday fed
eral defense spending is expected
to continue at a high level in Al
aska for the next ten years.
For that reason, said A1 Ander
son, executive director of the
Alaska Resources Development
Board, stateside railroad freight
rates should be changed to benefiit
the territory. He said he felt the
change would noj; only stimulate
business in Alaska but would
boost the business of railroads as
Alaska developed.
Anderson was a witness at the
final session of an ICC hearing
here on Alaska protests against
stateside railroad rates.
WOMAN ASKS CUSTODY OF
2,000 CONCRETE BLOCKS
COVINGTON, K y., 0!V-Mrs.
Kate Dishon Schultz sued for a
divorce yesterday and asked cus
tody of 2,000 concrete blocks.
Her divorce petition failed to
set out where the blocks came
from and what she intends to do
with them.
She also asked for furniture and
household effects from her hus
band, Edward.
racked up a net gain of one may
oralty. They wrested control in
Troy and Schenectady and six
cities. The Republicans, in turn,
defeated Democratic mayors in
six cities. A Democrat also went
down before an independent in
New Rochelle. The Democratic
victory edge in Troy and Schen
ectady was slim and contests ap
peared likely.
In neighboring Connecticut, the
Democrats uprooted an 8-year-old
GOP regime in Waterbury. They
also elected a mayor in Norwalk,
turning out an independent.
In Mississippi, Atty. Gen. J. P.
Coleman, a Democrat, was elected
governor. He had no Republican
opposition.
In many places the mayoralty
battles were fought on a nonparti
san basis. Boston voters gave John
B. Hynes a third term as mayor
after a campaign in which he
claimed credit for “restoring the
dignity and prestige” of the Hub
City.
In San Francisco, the mayor’s
seat was won by George Christo
pher, president of the city’s Board
of Supervisors, in a nonpartisan
election. In Salt Lake City, Earl J.
Blade, mayor for the past 12
years, was upset by County Com
missioner Adiel F. Stewart. -The
principal issue was the long ten
ure of Glade, a Democrat.
Stores Will Close Friday
Most stores and offices, the
Post Office, bank, etc. will be
closed or observe holiday hours
on Friday, November llih, Vet
erans Day, as requested by Gov.
Heintzleman and Mayor Steffen
Andersen.
School regulations do not pro
vide for a holiday on Nov. 11,
so classes will be held as usual. |
2 Nomeites Included in Appointments
By Mildred Hermann to Rules Group
FAIRBANKS, (J*>—A committee
headed by Burke Riley of Haines
worked today on rules for Alas
ka’s Constitutional Convention.
Riley was named chairman of a*
Rules Committee appointed yes
terday afternoon by Mildred Her
mann, temporary chairman of the
Convention. He said the commit
tee expected to present proposed
rules today for Convention con
sideration.
The Public Administration Ser
vice furnished the committee with
rules from constitutional conven
tions of past years.
Other Rules Committee mem
bers are Edward Davis and Steve
McCutcheon, Anchorage; George
Sundborg, Juneau; M. J. Walsh
and John A. McNeese, Nome; and
Ralph Rivers, Fairbanks.
The Convention met for only
eight minutes yesterday afternoon.
The only business besides the
Rules Committee appointment
was an announcement on bus
transportation and the unanimous
vote to ask former Gov. Gruening
to keynote today’s meeting.
Delegates were assured there
would be adequate bus transpor
tation between the University of
Alaska and Fairbanks, a distance
of three miles. The Alaska State
hood Committee will pay for this
service.
Delegates from the far-flung
cities and villages of the north
convened at the university yester
day to draft a constitution. They
came from such outposts as Kla
wock, Kotzebue and Unalakleet
with an eye toward the needs of
what would be the nation’s larg
est state and hope in their hearts
that Congress will make it one.
In recognition of the territory’s
racial tradition, the invocation
was by the Rev. Roy Ahmoagak,
an Eskimo minister in the arctic
village of Wainwright.
The document that emerges
from the 75-day convention must
be submitted to the people of Al
aska for approval and then must
be submitted to Congress.
Legislators who sponsored the
act contended congressional action
for statehood would be more like
ly if the territory has its constitu
tion all drawn.
Hawaii held a similar conven
tion several years ago.
The session* is being held in the
university gymnasium, which has
been renamed Convention Hall.
E. L. Bartlett, Alaska’s non
voting delegate in Congress, ad
monished the delegates to draft a
constitution to guarantee the basic
liberties and to safeguard the vast
natural resources upon which the
sprawling territory banks for its
future development.
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PROCLAMATION
To commemorate Veterans
Day, I, Steffen Andersen, may
or of the City of Nome, Alaska,
do proclaim Friday, the 11th of
November, 1955, a holiday, and
urge all persons to lay aside
their customary occupations
and join together in celebrating
this anniversary in a fitting
manner. All business places are
urged to cooperate by remain
ing closed.
Steffen Andersen
Mayor
n_n
Governors’ Committee
To Urge Congress to Adopt
Free. Market for Gold
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UD — A
committee of the Western Gover
nors’ Mineral Policies Conference
adopted a resolution Monday urg
ing Congress to adopt a free mar
ket for buying and selling gold.
The resolution said the govern
ment has usurped the right of pri
vate enterprise and denied in
dividuals the right to buy, own or
sell in open competition. Ameri
can producers can sell their gold
only to the government at a price
of $35 an ounce.
Mrs. Westbrook Pegler,
With Husband in Rome,
Dies of Heart Attack
ROME (£>—Mrs. Westbrook Peg
ler, 61, wife of the American col
umnist, died here today after a
heart attack.
Mrs. Pegler came to Rome with
her husband several days ago. He
had planned to leave today for a
visit to Moscow.
She was a well-known newspa
per woman, having served on the
Memphis Commercial Appeal and
later “orr the New York Daily
News.
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Convention Hears Gruening Score
‘United States Colonialism in Our
Nation’s Dealings With Alaska*
COLLEGE, Alaska, U!>—Dele
gates to the Alaska Constitutional
Convention, who by unanimous
vote asked Df. Ernest Gruening to
make a major address, heard their
former governor today brand Am
erica as- a land that “does not
practice what it preaches as long
as it retains Alaska in a colonial
vassalage.”
Dr. Gruening, who retired after
serving as Governor of Alaska for
13 years, bitterly condemned what
he termed “United States coloni
alism in our nation’s dealings with
Alaska.”
He told his audience that “our
nation was born of revolt against
colonialism . . . our charters of
liberty—the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the Constitution—
embody America’s opposition to
colonialism . . .”
Then, Dr. Gruening took the or
iginal Declaration of Indepen
dence and compared the com
plaints of our founding fathers
with the complaints of present
day Alaskans. His comparison
showed a similarity between the
grievances of 1776 and the
“gripes” of present-day Alaskans.
Gruening said “Alaska is no less
a colony than were those thirteen
colonies along the Atlantic sea
board in 1775. The colonialism
which the United States imposed
on us, and which we have suf
fered for 88 years, is no less bur
densome, no less unjust than that
against which they (our founding
fathers) poured out blood and
treasure. . . .”
The former governor charged
that the United States broke faith
with Alaska after purchasing the
territory from Russia.
He quoted the Treaty of Cessa
tion, by which Alaska was an
nexed, as containing the following
clause:
“The inhabitants of the ceded
territory . . . shall be admitted to
all rights, advantages and immu
nities of citizens of the United
States. . . .”
Said Gruening: “That was the
pledge. Yet a treaty is the highest
law of the land, and it is made in
clear view of all mankind.”
He charged that Alaskans are
worse off than the founding fath
ers of our nation who revolted
against the King of England.
Pointing )ut that Alaskans are
taxed without representation, he
said residents of the territory also
are subject to military service for
the nation—a privilege and an ob
ligation Alaska gladly accepts—
but an obligation that King
George III did not impose on our
colonial forefathers.”
President Eisenhower
Will Address Nation
Friday on^Radio and TV.
DENVER, UR—President Eisen
hower will address the nation
briefly on television and radio
when he checks out of Fitzsim
mons Army Hospital Friday mor
ning and again when he arrives
in Washington that afternoon.
The Denver remarks — the
President’s first to the country
after seven weeks of hospital con
valescence-will be at Lowry Air
Force Base a moment before he
walks up the 17-step ramp to his
private plane, Columbine III.
And his equally informal talk
in Washington will be at the Mili
tary Air Transport terminal at
National Airport when he steps
from the plane there.
Eisenhower’s doctors announced
here Monday he will leave the
hospital Friday. He will spend the
weekend resting up in the White
House after arrival in the cap
ital, then journey by automobile
on Monday to his farm at Gettys
burg, Pa., for a further recovery
period of perhaps six weeks.
DOCTORS RECOMMEND
HULA FOR BACK ACHES
HONOLULU, UR—About the hula
—Dr. J. Vernon Luck, Los Ange
les, and Dr. A. B. Sirbu, San
Francisco, told the Western Or
thopedic Assn, convention yester
day the dance is “a universal
therapy for aches, especially back
aches.”
CLEAN WINDOWS
CHEYENNE, Wyo., \!R—LeRoy
Henderson, a new janitor at the
Wyoming statehouse, can really
polish windows.
! A short time after cleaning one
; of the capitol building windows,
i Henderson noted some boys run
ning through the yard. He stuck
his head out to yell at them—for
getting the window was still s ut.
He was cut, but not seriously.
Miners Consider
Higher Tariffs to
Bolster Industry .
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (^—Min
ing industry recommendations for
tariff hikes to bolster its economy
were considered today by the
Western Governors Mining Advis
ory Council.
The conclusion of. a two-day
meeting of the mineral policies:
conference brought a request that
tariffs ranging from 15 to 100 per
cent of market price be fixed on
various minerals.
“They would assure to domestic
industry its fair share of the do
mestic market,” recommended the
mineral economics policy section
of the conference. Tariffs are
needed, too, it was said, to‘“pro
vide a broad mobilization base in
time of emergency.”
In 1939, the section noted, tar
iffs on metals averaged about 40
percent. It estimated inflation and
tariff cuts to help the economy of
foreign nations have reduced them
to less than 10 percent.
If there is too much opposition
to increased tariffs, the recom
mendation said, the tariff that is
now collected should be given to
domestic mineral producers.
“The outlook for the mineral
industry in the United States is
cloudy indeed,” the Advisory
Council was told.
“Thorium and antimony no
longer are mined,” said the rec
ommendation. “Chrome, gold, sil
ver, fluorspar, manganese, tung
sten, zinc, mercury and uranium
are able to plan for a future rang
ing in length from a few months
to a relatively few years.
“Only copper and, to a lesser
extent, lead can clearly see a fu
ture where markets can absorb
iheir probable output at a price
whicr can permit them to live and
expand.”