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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
JVT)L. LVI No. 11 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Bidault Proposes German, Austrian
Problems Be Settled Before Asian
BERLIN, Iffi—Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault proposed to the
Big Four today that German and
Austrian problems be settled
ahead of any discussion of Asian
problems.
Bidault’s statement was made
at the opening session of the Big
Four conference in Berlin called
to ease world tensions.
At this first such meeting in five
years, Bidault said:
“Clearly our meeting should be
devoted to European problems. I
do not believe that agreements
reached on a broad plane will be
advisable or even effective. We do
not see why the fate of Austria
should depend on that of Korea,
why there should be established
a link between the unification of
Germany and a change in the
international accords governing
Communist China.”
This proposal by the French
foreign minister served direct no
tice to Soviet Foreign Minister
Vyacheslav M. Molotov that the
Western powers were united in
their stand against this prodding
for a Big Five meeting with Red
China sittting in. Molotov arrived
here Saturday with this proposal
on his lips.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, Molotov, Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden of Britain, and
France’s Bidault began their his
toric but not too hopeful Berlin
sessions in the Allied Control
Authority building in the Ameri
can sector.
The four sat down together with
their advisers around a square
table under a ceiling painting of
the angel Gabriel tooting his trum
pet of doom.
Their first busines was to pose
for photographers of four nations
and twot half-nations—East and
West Germany. They allowed 15
minutes for the picture taking.
Henry Benson Files For
Labor Commissioner,
A1 White For Delegate
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Henry M.
Benson told the Anchorage Times
he would file as a candidate for
the Republican nomination as
commissioner of labor, a post he
has now held for two terms.
Benson said by telephone from
Juneau he had been urged to run
for delegate to Congress but had
turned down the suggestion, say
ing the party will have good can
didates. He added:
“I wouldn’t want to run against
Bob Bartlett because he has done
a good job in Washington.”
Meanwhile, A1 White advised
the Times he will run for delegate.
He is general counsel for the Re
publican Party in Alaska.
He said the issues for the cam
paign were statehood for Alaska;
a solution for the territory’s econ
omic ills; the enactment of a gov
ern-general bill to permit Alas
kans to govern their territory, and
“elimination of Seattle and Port
land political interests which
name appointive positions in Al
aska.”
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POMEROY APPOINTED
CIVIL DEFENSE CHIEF
JUNEAU, (#1—The new Alaska
civil defense director will be Har
old Pomeroy, a former Army
colonel now homesteading at Bear
Cove, near Homer, Alaska. His
appointment was announced Fri
day by Cfov. Heintzleman.
Pomeroy, who served with the
U. S. Army in Europe during
World War II, will take over the
post Feb. 1 when the resignation
of Col. James C. Crockett becomes
effective.
Uranium To Star At
Mining Conference
DENVER, (UP)—Ninety-five min
ing, economic and business ex
perts from throughout the country
will address the 57th annual Na
tional Western Mining Conference
here Jan. 28-30.
Approximately 2,000 delegates
will attend, Robert S. Palmer, vice
president of the Colorado Mining
Assn., announced Saturday.
Uranium, described by Palmer
as the “magic metal that bids fair
to be a shot of adrenalin to the
ailing mining industry,” will be
spotlighted at the convention.
Hemingways Safe
After Plane Crash
On Upper Nile
KAMPALA, Uganda, UP—Nov
elist Ernest Hemingway and his
wife were safe today after escap
ing death in two plane crashes in
the wild upper Nile country of
East Africa.
The 55-year-old writer and his
fourth wife, the former Mary
Welsh, escaped unhurt Saturday
when their chartered sightseeing
plane cracked up in the bush on
the banks of the Victoria Nile
River, three miles below the 400
foot steep Murchison Falls of
northwest Uganda.
A launch taking tourists to the
falls rescued them yesterday and
brought them to Butiaba, on the
shores of Lake Albert, for their
second brush with death.
There they boarded a rescue
plane which crashed and burned
in taking off. But again the pass
engers, including Hemingway and
his wife, and the crew got out of
the plane unhurt.
A police rescue party then took
them overland to Masindi, 35
miles east of Lake Albert, and
from there they headed by road
for Entebbe, 150 .miles to the
southeast on Lake Victoria.
The Hemingways had left Nair
obi, capital of Britain’s Kenya
Colonoy, in a small Cesna plane
Saturday for the 600-mile flight
over the lakes and the falls. When
they failed to arrive at Masindi
for refueling, a search was begun.
When the plane was sighted, it
was reported there was no sign of
life but that the small aircraft
appeared little damaged.
The crash occurred about 300
yards from the river, in the mid
dle of scrub trees and thick bush.
Trans-Sonic Booms Of
Diving ’Good-Will4 Sabres
Shatter Store Windows
PANAMA, Panama, UP)—J e t
fighters of the U.S. Air Force’s
good will mission “Wings for the
Americas” cracked the sound bar
rier in a demonstration here Fri
day. ^ v
The trans-sonic booms, as the
Sabre jets dived from 3,500 feet,
shattered the windows of several
business houses. The planes left
early Saturday enroute to Lima.
610 Children Are
Given Doses Of
Gamma Globulin
Gamma Globulin arrived Satur
day from stateside laboratories
sufficient for 800 anti-polio in
noculations. Within two hours of
the arrival of the serum Dr. Lang
sam had started the innoculations
to school and pre-school children
and continued until late at night,
giving doses to 550 children.
Sixty more children were given
their doses this morning and an
other hundred will receive theirs
tomorrow.
It has been announced that a
schedule has been set up for to
morrow’s innoculations so that
all may be accomodated without
too much confusion. At 10:00 a.m.
all pre-school children whose
names start with the letters A
through M, will be innoculated.
At 1 o’clock those whose last
names start with the letters N
through Z.
In addition to the original four
cases of polio there is polio now
in the families of A1 Doyle, Wal
lace Mclvor, Annie Pollock, Pete
Reader and Wilbur Arnold.
Dr. Langsam stated that the
timely assistance of AFRS in
broadcasting the arrival of the
globulin made it possible to
gather the children on Saturday
and start the injections immedi
ately.
123d Comat Team Coming
To Alaska For War Games
TACOMA, (#>—Soldiers of the
123rd Battalion combat team of
the 44th infantry regiment based
at Fort Lewis, Wash., will travel
to Alaska this week to participate
in the joint Army-Air Force exer
cise “North Star.”
The maneuver will test Alaskan
air and ground defenses and
provide Arctic training for U.S.
based military units.
MARCH OF DIMES
JANUARY 2-31
Inaugural Flight Of Pan Am’s DC-6
Hailed As Start Of Speedier,' More
Comfortable Service To Seattle
President Presents
8-Point Program Revise
Federal Housing Laws
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Eisenhower Monday gave Con
gress an eight-point program for
revising federal housing laws with
the declared aim of providing
“good housing in good neighbor
hoods” for every American.
Eisenhower urged authorization
of four more years of public
housing, with 140,000 new units
to be started. The rate, 35,000 a
year, is the one now authorized.
But this program, the President
said in a special message to Con
gress, should be coupled with “a
new and experimental” plan to
encourage private enterprise to
meet the needs of low income
families. The government should
underwrite longer-term mortgages
with lower down payments for
families left homeless by slum
clearance, he said.
The proposed stem-to-stern
overhaul of the housing program
should be based, Eisenhower said,
on “full and effective utilization
of our competitive economy.”
Demos Threaten
Drive For More
Tax Relief
WASHINGTON, UP>—Some House
Democrats talked today of a drive
to get more tax relief for families
and less for stockholders and bus
inesses in any tax revision pro
gram enacted this year.
They threatened a floor fight
aimed at drastically revising a
two billion tax reduction and re
vision plan strongly championed
by President Eisenhower and oth
er Republicans.
Several Democrats on the tax
writing House Ways and Means
Committee said they hope to elim
inate sections providing sharp re
ductions in taxes on stock and
bond dividends, and much more
rapid tax reductions to business
for the cost of new plants and
equipment.
These proposals, already ap
proved by the committee, would
reduce revenue an estimated 615
million dollars the first year and
provide much bigger savings to
the taxpayers involved in the sec
ond and third years—perhaps
three times as much.
Republicans have hailed them
as the most important points in
a project for rewriting almost all
the nation’s tax laws. Sponsors
say they will encourage invest
ment, business growth, more and
better jobs and a higher standard
of living for everybody.
But some Democrats argue it
would be far preferable to in->
crease personal income tax ex
emptions, thus reducing taxes
more for large families and low
income groups, and shoring up
the economy through their in
creased purchasing power.
» Dewey Goodrich, president of
the N.W.A. Chamber of Commerce
and Emily Boucher of the Nugget
returned this morning from a two
day visit to Seattle as guests of
Pan American Airways on the
special flight of the new DC-6
which went into regular service
yesterday on the Alaska run.
Guests of PAA on the trial run
made Thursday, included news
paper men and representatives of
Chambers of Commerce from
parts of Alaska served by this
pioneering airline.
A record flight was made be
tween Fairbanks and Seattle of 5
hours, 13 minutes, breaking the
former record of 6 hours, 10 min
utes (made by a DC-4 with a 67
mile tail wind). Much of the
flight was made at about 20,000
feet.
Pan American’s Willard Marsh,
planned the special flight and
brought together the editors and
staff members of Alaskan and
stateside papers, many of whom
met for the first time. They talked
together informally during the
flight and interviewed each other
in an effort to establish a better
understanding of the problems
and needs of the dissimilar parts
of the territory.
Representatives of the Cham
bers of Commerce held an infor
mal get-together also and set the
date of March 25-29 for a meeting
of the Alaska Chamber of Com
merce at Mt. McKinley. This date
was to be taken back to the
various Chambers for definite
acceptance.
The Alaskans were greeted in
Seattle with more snow on the
streets than was to be found in
many of the towns from which
they came. It was necessary to
keep the record - breaking plane
aloft for an hour over the Seattle
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Repatriation Com.
Disapproves
Release of POWs
PANMUNJOM, [Si— India joined
Communist Poland and Czecho
slovakia today in a 3-2 vote of the
Korean Repatriation Commission
disapproving the release of nearly
22,000 anti-Red Korean and Chi
nese prisoners by the U.N. Com
mand.
Swiss and Swedish delegates
backed the Allied action.
Commission Chairman Lt. Gen.
K. S. Thimayya of India said the
vote was taken to get the five
delegations’ views on the record.
The outcome had beert expected.
On three pjw«c> "f’asions,
India had sided with .he Red
stand that the prisoner/ must be
kept in captive status until their
fate is decided by a Korean peace
conference.
The U.N. Command released the
prisoners as civilians Saturday,
asserting tha was required by
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