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VOL. LVII No. 86 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1955 Per Copy—15^
No Agreement
Reached On
German Question
GENEVA, (il — The Big Four
leaders took up the broad ques
tion of European sceurity today,
and President Eisenhower sum
moned top military advisers to his
side.
Adm. Arthur Radford, chair
man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and Gen. Alfred M. Gruen
ther, supreme Allied commander
in Europe, flew in from Paris.
Robert Anderson, deputy U. S.
Secretary of Defense, came with
them. Harold Stassen and Nelson
-Rockefeller, two presidential as
sistants dealing with disarmament
and propaganda, also were here.
The heads of government met
for their fourth session at 4 p.m.
For two hours earlier today their
foreign ministers tried to arrive
at some sort of agreed recom
mendations on the German prob
lem. One Western source said
they just argued in circles. They
got into the European security
problem to such an extent that
Western leaders became convinc
ed it would be difficult to keep
the issues separate.
The West finally agreed to re
commend the summit talks move
on to the security problem—sec
ond on the agenda after Germany.
’ It was expected the two questions
would be discussed together.
Although the outlook for any
sort of agreement on Germany
appeared dim, one American
source said the shift to security
certainly did not mean that the
German discussion was finished.
Actress Suzan Ball
Suffering From A
Recurrence of Cancer
DURARTE, Calif., (M— After a
complete evaluation of actress
Suzan Ball’s condition, physicians
at City of Hope Hospital have
announced that she is suffering
from a recurrence of cancer.
It was cancer that made it
necessary for her right leg to be
amputated 18 months ago. Thg
hospital did not announce where
cancer had struck again. Unof
ficial but authoritative sources
have said it is cancer of the lung.
The dark-eyed beauty has been
hispitalized since July 5. Her hus
band, actor Richard Long, has
been a constant visitor.
Japanese Report Air
Force Will Reduce Its
Bases There From 40 to 10
TOKYO, t#) — Plans are under
way to reduce the number of U.S.
Air Force bases in Japan from
40 to about 10, it was reported
today by Shintaro Fukushima,
director of the Japan Procure
ment Board.
The procurement board is the
Japanese government’s clearing
house for U.S. military needs in
Japan.
A spokesman for the Far E^st!
Command said FEC headquarters
“has no comment on the report.”
There was no immediate com
ment from Air Force officials in
Tolkyo.
Eisenhower and Zhukov
Lunch Together Privately
For First Time Since ’45
GENEVA, LP)—President Eisen
hower and his wartime friend,
Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov,
had lunch together today at the
President’s villa.
It was the first opportunity the
two conquerors of Germany had
had to talk privately since they
arrived here last weekend for the
Big Four summit talks. Only two
interpreters—an American and a
Russian—were with them today.
Traveling without a security
escort of any kind, the uniformed
Zhukov sped into Eisenhower’s
Lake Geneva villa accompanied
only by the chauffeur of his black
Zis limousine and an interpreter,
Oleg Troyanovski.
Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. ambas
sador to Moscow, arrived a few
minutes before Zhukov to serve
as Eisenhower’s interpreter.
As was the case when Eisen
hower was host to the Soviet dele
gation at dinner Monday evening,
newsmen were barred at the gate
today.
Freak Accident
HOUSTON, UP) — “I thought it
was the end,” says Fred Raemer
of a traffic accident which hap
pened yesterday.
Raemer was sitting in his car
waiting for a red light to change
when another car plunged off the
roof of a three - story parking
garage—and fell on Raemer’s car.
The second car belonged to El
vin Steen, 35, who had it up on
jacks while making some repairs.
Steen forgot the engine was run
ning and in gear and let the car
down off the jacks. ‘‘It just took
off,” says Steen.
Raemer was not hurt but his
car was messed up.
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1st Commercial
Atomic Power
Now Being Used
WEST MILTON, N.Y., The
free world’s first commercial at
omic-electric power is in use to
day in upstate New York.
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of
the Atomic Energy Commission
pulled a switch Monday that
loosed several thousand kilowatts
of it into the Niagra Mohawk
Power Corp. grid.
A counterpart of an atomic
submarine reactor produces steam
to operate a turbine and generate
the power. An official of the Gen
eral Electric Co., which built the
generator, said it had a capacity
of 12,500 kilowatts and was “ex
pected to prpduce electricity at
the rate of about 10,000 kilo
watts.”
The GE spokesman said the
generator could provide addition
al power for as many as 35,000
homes in the system served. Niag
ara Mohawk provides power for a
wide area of upstate New York.
“One of the first persons” to use
the atomic power, the spokesman
declared, was Mrs. John Thomas
of nearby Ballston Spa, who
“cooked a hamburger” with it.
! Commissioners
Meeting Starts
Here Today
The first meeting of the Com
missioner’s Conference started
this afternoon at 1 o’clock with
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U.S. Commissioners yfrom all over
the Second Division attending the
three-day session.
The conference was opened by
Judge Walter Hodge and the first
panel discussion was on Criminal
Preceedings with Russell Her
mann presiding.
Also to be taken up by the
panel was discussion on Commit
ment of Defendants with Bon V.
Davis of the Nome Federal Jail
presiding.
Also scheduled for the after
noon was a moot court showing
the procedure in both bind-over
and criminal court proceedings.
Tomorrow the sessions will in
clude discussion and explanation
of Civil Suits in Justice Courts
and Probate Practice as well as
Recording and Filing.
Friday the discussions will be
on Vital Statistics, Payrolls and
Vouchers in the several branches
of the work, and Juvenile Cases.
Expected to attend were- Mary
Bahr of St. Michael Precinct;
Harry Bourn of Teller Precinct;
Alfred Frances, Noatak-Kobuk
Precinct from Kotzebue; Fletcher
Gregg, Fairhaven Precinct, from
Candle; Herb Jenks, Cape Nome
Precinct, Nome; Ludwig Ost,
Wade Hampton Precinct, of For
tuna Ledge. Hugh Saltsman of
the Barrow precinct, will not be
able to attend the conference.
Doctor Wanted
SOUTH LYON, Mich., WV—'The
South Lyon Chamber of Com
merce has offered to stake any
doctor to a home and office if he
will set up practice in this south
west Oakland County community
(population 1,312).
“The doctor can pay for it at his
convenience,” said Len Enders,
chamber president.
TUESDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 4, Chicago 3
Detroit 12, Baltimore 4
Washington 8, Cleveland 1
Boston 6, Kansas City 3
National League
Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 3
St. Louis 3-2, New York 1-4
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 3, Seattle 2
Sacramento 1, Hollywood 0
Los Angeles 4, Portland 0
CLIPPERS COMING
TO NOME AGAIN
After a long enforced ab
sence, the Clippers of Pan
American Airways will once
again be flying to Nome from
Seattle and Fairbanks.
Service will be resumed on
a basis of one trip per week
utilizing DC-4 equipment.
This flight will operate on
Tuesday. Connections will be
made at Fairbanks with the
Super-6 pressurized Clipper
for Seattle.
Auto Workers Union
Indicted For Violation
Corrupt Practices Act
DETROIT, OP)—A federal grand
jury today indicted the CIO
United Auto Workers Union on
charges of violation of the fed
eral corrupt practices act in poli
tics.
The grand jury accused the
million-and-a-half member union
of using general union funds to
finance political activities in the
1954 congressional campaign.
This was the campaign in
which Patrick V. McNamara,
Democrat supported by the tlAW
and other labor groups, defeated
the then Sen. Homer Ferguson,
Republican.
The grand jury indictment
named only the union itself.
None of its officers, who include
CIO president Walter Reuthers,
were named.
The indictment, containing four
counts, charges the union violated
a section of the act which pro
hibits banks, corporations and
labor organizations from using
general funds for political pur
poses.
A maximum penalty of $5,000
is provided in event of conviction
on any of the counts.
The union, after the indictment
was handed down, issued a state
ment denying it had acted wrong
ly and welcoming “this oppor
tunity to test the validity and
scope of this law.”
The union said it “deplores the
fact that Republican politicians
have been able to use the courts
in their frantic efforts to save
face . . .”
Russia Joins U.S.
To Prevent Clashes
In Alaska Area
WASHINGTON, «P>—Russia of
fered Monday to join with the
United States in measures aimed
at preventing any new clashes be
tween American and Soviet planes
in the Alaska area.
The offer was made in a note
delivered to Acting Secretary of
State Herbert Hoover Jr. by Rus
sian Charge d’Affaires Striganov.
Russia’s note was in answer to
one from the United States last
Thursday which accepted the So
viet government’s offer to pay
half of the damages resulting
when Soviet fighters shot down a
Navy Neptune patrol plane June
23, forcing it to crash land on St.
Lawrence Island.
A State Dept, spokesman said
that in its newest note Russia
stuck to its version of the incident
—that the American plane opened
fire first after violating Russia’s
frontiers. The State Dept, has de
nied this, maintaining the Ameri
can plane at no time was any
closer to Russia than midway over
the Bering Sea channel which
separates Alaska from Russia.
Russia’s reply “noted with sat
isfaction,” said the spokesman,
that the United States wants to
improve .relations with Russia.
The American desire, said the
Soviet note, “fully corresponds to
the desires of the Soviet Union.”
Mrs. Perle Mesta
Out-talks Rioters
In Saigon Hotel
SAIGON, South Viet Nam, UP)
— Thousands of rioters sacked
Saigon’s leading hotel today. An
anti - Communist demonstration
intended to attract the attention
of the Geneva conference turned
into a carnival of destruction.
Mrs. Perle Mesta, former U.S.
minister to Luxembourg, in Sai
gon briefly on a world tour, was
trapped in a second-flor suite of
the Hotel Majestic for an hour
and a half. The noted Washington
hostess managed to out-talk riot
ers who attacked her door with
axes.
The riot erupted from a peace
ful demonstration by 3,000 stu
dents denouncing the first anni
versary of the armistice agree
ment which gave northern Viet
Nam to a Communist regime. The
demonstration aimed to show to
the summit conference an un
willingness of free Viet Nam to
talk with the Communists about
elections in 1956 or participate in
any except strictly free, super
vised elections.
When the not broke out, Mrs.
Mesta was in her air-conditioned
suite with her two secretaries.
Mrs. Mesta rushed to the door
and locked it, but demonstrators
seized axes and began breaking
it in. Mrs. Mesta dramatically
threw the dor open, and shouted:
“No—we are your friends. We
are Americans!”
A student leader who under
stood her organized a cordon in
front of the apartment to keep
back the rioters, who were sys
tematically laying waste to the
five - story, government - owned
hotel. The cordon beat back sev
eral attacking groups before
Frank Malloy, first secretary of
the TJ.S. embassy, and an embassy
Marine guard rescued Mrs. Mes
ta’s party. She left later for Singa
pore.
Her first impressions of what
had happened were excited and
somewhat inaccurate.
“Twenty men with guns sur
rounded me,” she reported. An
embassy official reminded her
there had been no guns and only
six students in her “bodyguard.”
Bridges Citizenship Trial
To Be Ended This Week
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — The
government’s civil suit to strip
Harry Bridges of his U.S. citizen
ship should conclude this week.
Final arguments will start to
morrow, with the government
leading off, and should be con
cluded Friday.
Then it will be up to Federal
Judge Louis E. Goodman to ren
der his verdict—did Bridges lie
in 1945 when, in acquiring citi
zenship, he swore he wasn’t a
Communist?
The judge has heard the cur
rent case without a jury.
Bridges, a native of Australia,
is head of the International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
Union, which the CIO ousted
some years ago on the grounds
its leadership followed the Com
munist party line.
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