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VOL. LVII No. 48_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1955_ Per Copy—15* •
Nehru Assails
NATO as Protector
Of Colonialism
By ROBERT HEWITT
BANDUNG, Indonesia, UP) —
Prime Minister Nehru assailed
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization today as a protector of
colonialism. He urged his own
neutralist policy upon other dele
gates to the 29 - nation Asian
African conference.
Nehru’s blast came in response
to a satement from Turkish dele
gate Fatin Rusto Zollu that “Tur
key would not have survived
(Russian expansion) and we
would not be at this conference
today” if she had not joined
NATO.
“We have heard what Turkey
has to say,” Nehru responded.
That is one side of the case. The
other side would be presented
here. But India does not stand for
either side. We do not approve
the Communist or the anti-Com
munist powers. We think that
they are both wrong and that
their policies are leading us to
the brink of war.”
The Indian leader contended
that the 14 - nation organization
headed by the United States,
Britain and France is “one of the
most powerful protectors of col
onialism, though it was created
for self defense.”
“The only way to bring peace j
into the world is to reduce the!
area of tension through coexist
ence,” he said.
The conference ran into its first
big deadlock today in a bitter
argument over charges of “Com
munist colonialism.”
A subcommittee, after arguing
on the Communist issue for more
than two hours, finally adjourned
until tomorrow. The issue at
stake is a move by non-Commu
nist powers to put the conference
on record as condemning “sub
version” as well as old style
colonialism.
Conference Today To
Decide Most Equitable
Distribution of Vaccine
WASHINGTON, tfl—A govern
ment-sponsored conference seeks
today the best way that the Salk
polio vaccine can be made avail
able on an equal-to-everybody
basis.
Invited to take part were rep
resentatives of government agen
cies, the medical and public
health professions, the drug in
dustry, congressional committees
concerned and others.
Dr. Jones Salk of the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh, developer of
the vaccine, arrived last night to
attend the conference and to re
ceived a citation from President
Eisenhower. “I’ve just come to
listen,” Salk said of the confer
ence.
Ten Injured In Train Wreck
CLEVELAND, — Some 20
injuries were reported today
when the Morning Steeler, ram
med into some steel-loaded
freight cars.
The accident occurred on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, passing
through Bedford, a suburb south
east of Cleveland.
The railroad reported about 10
passengers were taken by police
and ambulances to various hos
pitals, but a greater number of
injuries were reported by the
hospitals. No fatalities were re
ported.
Cabinet Secretary
Declines To Testify At
Senate Hearing On Corsi
WASHINGTON, (ff) — The
White House said today Max
well Rabb, secretary to the cab
inet, has declined an invitation
to testify at Senate hearings on
the case of Edward Corsi.
Chairman Langer (R-ND) of a
Senate Judiciary subcommitee
had sought testimony from Rabb
as to his part in bringing Corsi,
a prominent New York Republi
can, into the State Department.
Dismissed on Easter Sunday,
Corsi has charged his ouster was
engineered by a group which he
said is “sabotaging” the adminis
tration’s refugee relief program.
Langer’s committee is looking
into the charges.
White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty said Langer in
vited Rabb to testify several days
ago.
“The White House,” Hagerty
told reporters, “believes that con
fidential assistants to the Presi
dent should not testify in regard
to confidential matters in the
White House offices or between
the departments in the executive
branch of the government.
SAS To Make Charter
Flight From Europe To
Tokyo On Mary 11
FAIRBANKS, Iff — Another
North Pole charter flight of the
Scandinavian Airlines System,
from Europe to Tokyo, is sched
uled to stop at Fairbanks for one
hour May 11.
On the return flight from Tok
yo, the plane is to stop at An
chorage May 17.
Last year, SAS made the first
commercial flight over the North
Pole with an Oslo-Tokyo charter
run via Alaska.
In a letter to the News-Miner,
K. Hagerup-Svendsen, SAS vice
president for operations, in Stock
holm, said:
“We are still of the opinion
that SAS is not going to opan a
regular route between Scandin
avia and Japan before the end
of 1956 at the earliest. At this
time we will receive the new
DC-7C aircraft which we con
template to operate over this
route.”
Andrews Siamese Twins
Survive Operation
Separating Them
CHICAGO, W - The head
joined Andrews Siamese twin
girls were separated last night
and surgeons are “guardedly op
timistic” that both will survive, j
Never have two similarly link
ed Siamese twins survived sep
aration.
Dr. Harold Voris, who headed
the team of 14 doctors perform
ing the operation, said it was
completed in the relatively fast
time of 4V£ hours. This compared
to 12V£ hours required for sep
aration of the famous Brodie
twins in 1952. Rodney Brodie, now
3Vz, survived; Roger died 34 days
after the separation.
Unlike the Brodie, the Andrews
girls, now nearly 7 months old,
had separate sagittal sinuses, the
viens which drain blood from the
brain. Dr. Voris said this fact
was responsible for the opera
tion's success.
The twins’ 33-year-old mother,
Mrs. Andrew J. Andrews, is a
Chicago registered nurse. The
father, 38, is a meat packing
company salesman.
Nome To Be Host
To Visiting Ladies
Tuesday, April 26
Wives of members of the
Chamber of Commerce and Ro
tary Club and other women of
the community have been dele
gated to be hostesses next Tues
day to a group of visiting ladies.
The group is composed of wives
of generals of the Alaska mili
tary establishment.
A full program has been plan
ned for the two-day visit and
includes a tea sponsored by the
Beta Sigma Phi at the USO Club,
a tour of historical and interest
ing places by Q Cab, dog team
rides < if there is enough snow),
and fishing through the Bering
Sea ice.
' The Chamber of Commerce is
postponing its Tuesday luncheon
until Wednesday for the accom
modation of the guests, and re
servations are now being taken
for a no-host dinner at the Ber
ing Sea Club Wednesday eve
ning.
Tuesday evening has been re
served for entertainment in a
private home.
Nationalists Reject
Proposal Chiang
Abandon Islands
By SPENCER MOOSA
TAIPEH, Formosa, UP! — High
Nationalist Chinese officials re
jected beforehand today a pro
posal that might be made for
Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces to
abandon the coastal island groups
of Quemoy and Matsu.
“Absurd — ridiculous — un
thinkable — impossible,” these
officials said of Washington re
ports that the United States may
seek a ceasefire which would
mean giving up the islands to the
Communists.
The officials said the question
was a hypothetical one. They in
sisted that the United States had
at no time suggested, directly or
indirectly, that those offshore
islands be yielded to the Reds,
as were the Tachens.
There was no doubt, however,
that there were forebodings even
in top quarters as to the possible
mission here of Assistant Secre
tary of State Walter Robertson
and Adm. Arthifr Radford, chair
man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
Display Totem Pole Stolen
From Merchandise Mart,
Largest Commercial Bldg.
CHICAGO, (4*1—Chicago’s Mer
chandise Mart, largest commer
cial building in the world, is
loaded with home furnishings,
clothing and other most useful
items.
A thief who visited the Mart
sometime this week overlooked
these articles and walked out
with, of all things, a totem pole.
Police are puzzled over how
anyone could make off with a
totem pole 4 feet long and 6
inches thick without attracting
attention.
J. Robert F. Swanson and Mrs.
Pipsan Aarinen Swanson, Detroit
designers, bought the totem pole
in Alaska and used it it in ex
hibit at the Mart.
While they worried about their
loss, they passed on this non-con
soling thought:
Alaska totem pole carvers say
it’s bad luck to steal a totem pole.
Search For Uranium
Surges North Into Idaho
From Utah and Colorado
BOISE, Idaho, (if) — The great
scramble for uranium — the raw
material of atomic energy — is
surging north from Utah and
Colorado into Idaho, where
miners for almost a century have
been finding pay dirt in deposits
of gold and silver, copper, lead
and zinc. *
More than 2,000 claims have
been staked in recent weeks in
one small area alone — in the
valley of the Salmon River which
winds through the trackless
mountains of Idaho’s “primitive
area.”
Since early April the state has
leased almost 150,000 acres of
public land to uranium prospec
tors, and other applications are
piling up by the score.
Sales of Geiger counters, “scin
tillators” and “snappers” are
soaring.
All this—and not a single de
posit or proven commercial value
has yet been dug in the state.
40 T.B. Patients From
Anchorage Flown To
Tacoma Indian Hospital
TACOMA, (if)—Forty tubercul
osis patients from Anchorage,
arrived by plane at the Seattle
Tacoma airport Thursday after
noon and were taken to the U.S.
Indian Hospital in Tacoma.
They were brought here be
cause of a shortage of accomoda
tions in the Alaska Native
Service hospital there, officials at
the hospital here said. Ten more
patients are to arrive this week
or next from Sitka.
At Anchorage, Dr. Robert G.
Moles, ANS medical director, said
transfer of the patients will not
reduce the number of patients at
the ANS hospital there as most
of the group sent outside have
been recently called in from the
interior.
The “go ahead” signal has also
been given for increased staffing
of the hospital, with an increase
in the number of patients to be
cared for, Dr. Moles said.
At present there are about 280
patients in the Anchorage hos
pital. The hospital has a bed
capacity of 400 out of which a
section is set aside for general
cases.
The new group in Tacomp
brings the total outside under
Interior Department contract to
338.
Nominating Petitions For
Constitutional Convention
At U.S. Commissioner's
Nominating petitions for filing
as candidates for delegates to the
Constitutional Convention are
now available at the office of
the U.S. Commissioner.
Prospective candidates are re
minded that these forms, when
completed, must be filed with the
Clerk of the U.S. District Court
before May 10th, the deadline for
filing.
3 Die In RCAF 'Copier Crash
ROSSLAND, B.C., OP)—A Royal
Canadian Air Force helicopter,
flying at tree-top level, hit a
fog - shrouded mountainside 20
miles west of here yesterday,
killing three of the five aboard.
The survivors crawled through
an escape hatch of the twrin
rotor Piasecki ’copter after the
wreckage burst into flames. They
are recovering in a hospial here.
West Accepts Red
Proposal For
Big Four Meeting
LONDON, (iP — The Western
Big Three today accepted Russia’s
proposal for a Big Four ministers
meeting to complete the Austrian
treaty of independence.
But the United States, Britain
and France laid down a condition
that their ambassadors in Vienna
should meet first with the Soviet
envoy there and Austrian repre
sentatives to clear up unsettled
questions.
Emphasizing the speed with
which the western allies are mov- ,
ing on the issue, U.S. officials
said in Washington a three-power
working party will begin study
ing procedures in Vienna next
Monday.
The identical notes from the
United States, Britain and France
are in response to Russia’s pro
posal last Tuesday. The Russians,
acting after their agreement with
Austrian officials last week at a
meeting in Moscow, called for an
early foreign ministers’ session to
sign a treaty restoring Austria’s
independence. This appeared to
end 10 years of Soviet stalling.
“As soon as the necessary pre
parations have been completed,”
the note said, “the earliest prac
ticable date should then be set
for the foreign ministers to meet
and sign the treaty.”
Portland Attorney Killed
When His Car Is Bombed
PORTLAND, Ore., —A bomb
wired to an attorney’s car in a
country club parking lot killed
him and ripped his car to shreds
just before midnight last night.
The victim was Oliver Kermit
Smith, 35, of Portland, who only
last week applied for a police
permit to carry a gun for pro
tection.
Police said they didn’t know
who had threatened Smith. He
was beaten up March 10 as he
left his car in the garage at his
residence, but if he knew his
assailant, he didn’t say. Police Lt.
Bard Purcell said he thought
Smith knew who it was.
The explosion killed Smith out
right and threw his body 20 feet
onto another car. His car’s wind
shield was found 150 yards away
and the top 50 yards distant.
Lt. Dean Blackwood, city police
demolition expert, said the ex
plosive was placed by someone
with an “above-average” knowl
edge of lethal charges and prob
ably required 15 minutes to wire
in place.
Mrs. Paul Clumpner
Of Anchorage Chosen
Alaska Mother of 1955
ANCHORAGE, UP — Mrs. Paul
Clumpner of Anchorage has been
selected Alaska Mother of 1955,
it was announced today by Mrs.
Elmer Sellin, territorial chairman
of the local American Mothers
Committee.
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Gov. Heintzleman yesterday
issued a proclamation setting
aside April 24 to 30 as Alaska
Mothers Week.
Mrs. Clumpner will represent
the territory in the national con
test.
Mrs. Clumpner’s husband, Paul
V., is in charge of the local Citi
zenship and Immigration Office.
They came to Anchorage in 1949.