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VOL. LVI No. 141 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1954 Per Copy^jjl
Bartlett Urges CAB
Maintain Present
Service to Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska has urged the
Civil Aeronautics Board to main
tain the present air service be
tween the United States and Al
aska.
In a letter to chairman Chan
Gurney of the CAB Bartlett said
reports have reached him that the
board may be considering funda
mental changes in the existing
States-Alaska air pattern.
Bartlett’s letter said the report
reaching him was that the board
would not renew the right of
Alaska Airlines to serve Fair
banks and that Northwest Air
lines would not be recertificated
to Anchorage.
Bartlett said the report also is
that the board would grant Pan
American the Seattle - Anchorage
certificate and Northwest would
be granted a route from Seattle
to Cold Bay and on to the Orient.
He also said he understood the
plans calls for decertification of
Pacific Northern from Portland
Seattle to Anchorage “which in
my judgment is in exact harmony
with the realities.”
Collie Dog, Last Gift From
Father Killed In Alaska
Crash, Stolen From Boy
MIDWEST City, Okla., UP! —
“Feller,” the collie dog of four
year-old Jimmy Witt, was stolen
yesterday and the youngster has
been crying ever since.
' His mother explained why to
day. The dog was a Christmas
present — the last one he’ll ever
receive from his daddy who died
in an airplane crash.
Lt. James Doyle Witt promised
his son he’d get him .a puppy for
Christmas. But in August, 1952,
Witt was killed when his F-95 jet
crashed near Anchorage.
Knowing about the promise to
Jimmy, members of the lieuten
ant’s outfit chipped in money
enough to buy the puppy. Jimmy
awoke Christmas morning two
years ago and found “Feller”
under his tree. A tag around his
neck read: "To Jimmy from
daddy.”
Mrs. Witt said someone appar
ently took the dog out of their
fenced yard. His collar was found
in the yard.
Petitions with 1,000,816
Names Opposing Censure
Are Sent to Senate
NEW YORK, Ufi — Bundles of
petitions opposing censure of Sen.
McCarthy were shipped off to
Washington by armored truck
early today for delivery to the
U.S. Senate.
The petitions had been prepared
by an organization known as “Ten
Million Americans Mobilizing for
Justice,” which hired the truck to
transport them to Washington.
A spokesman for the anti-cen
sure organization said the peti
tions sent to Washington carried
1,000,816 signatures certified by
an auditing firm. The names were
signed to the petition in a nation
wide drive to collect 10 million
signatures. ,
Russia Seeks Bring
China, N. Korea
Into U.N. Debate
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP) —
Russia sought today to bring Red
China and Communist North
Korea into the U.N. debate on
Korea, but the United States vig
orously opposed the move.
The United States cited Red
China’s sentencing of 13 Ameri
cans as alleged spies as one rea
son why the Peiping regime
should not be invited here.
Poland declared that if the
United States was really interest
ed in settling the case of these
men it ought to agree to have the
Peiping representatives come here
for discussions.
U.S. delegate James J. Wads
worth asserted the Chinese Com
munists and the North Koreans
still were holding hundreds of
persons who aided the U.N. cause
and were continuing aggression.
“The Chinese Communists have
no right to sit at this table,” he
told the General Assembly’s 60
nation Political Committee.
Jacob Malik, who last week re
placed the late Andrei Vishinsk.v
as chief Russian delegate, told
the committee it would be impos
sible to expect any objective dis
cussion of the Korean problem
without the two Communist re
gimes being represented here.
British minister of state An
thony Nutting agreed with Wads
worth that the Red regimes
should not be invited.
He said they rejected the au
thority of the U.N. at the Geneva
Conference on Korea last spring
and for this reason it was hardly
fitting to invite them.
Chinese Representative
Refuses To Accept New
New U.S. Protest
GENEVA, Switzerland, —U.S.
consul general Franklin C. Gowen
said Red Chinese representatives
refused to accept a new protest—
couched in the “strongest pos
sible” terms — against Peiping’s
imprisonment of 13 Americans as
spies.
Gowen sad he delivered the
protest orally to Red Chinese con
sul general Chen Ping at a Gen
eva hotel. Their meeting, which
lasted an hour, followed Commun
ist rejection of a similar protest
delivered in Peiping by British
diplomats acting on behalf of the
United States.
Gowen said the Red Chinese
representatives took down his
protest word for 'word and then
said he could not accept it.
No ARC Funds Spent
On Lost River Road
The Alaska Road Commission
reported recently that .it has not
spent any of its appropriated
funds for an access road to the
’U.S. Tin Corp. mine on Seward
Peninsula.
A. F. Ghiglione, ARC director,
released a statement to that effect
after a Senate-House committee
on defense production in Wash
ington had referred to use of ARC
funds on the road project.
I
To Increase Outlay
For Continental
Defense System
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The Penta
gon plans soon to increase its
spending for continental defense
and guided missiles.
Secretary of Defense Wilson in
cluded those items among several
he said would call for heavier
outlays in the 35-billion-dollar ex
penditure budget he forsees for
the fiscal year beginning next
July 1. Total spending at that
level would be about a half-bil
lion less than docketed for the
current year.
Wilson gave no details, but ex
penditures this year for contin
ental defense—interceptor planes,
anti-aircraft weapons and radar
warning networks in the United
States, Alaska and Canada — are
expected to be about 600 million
dollars.
The Pentagon also will seek
authority to build a fifth 60,000
ton supercarrier, Wilson said in
answering questions at a news
conference yesterday. Three of
the huge carriers are now under
construction and a fourth has
been authorized by Congress.
In the discussion of supercar
riers, reporters asked Wilson’s op
inion of an address by British
Field Marshall Lord Montgomery
this week in which he expressed
the view that the day of the air
craft carrier is “approaching its
end.”
Wilson said of Montgomery’s
comment:
“He is a very brave and bold
man to come into another coun
try and give some advice.”
West and Midwest Hit
By Snow and Below-Zero
(By the Associated Press)
A blanket of snow covered wide
areas in the Midwest and West to
day with temperatures dropping
below zero in some sections.
Snow measured a foot in west
ern South Dakota and in some
northern Nebraska communities.
Heavy falls also were reported
in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Michigan, North Dakota and Iowa
as the tail end of a storm moved
south and east from the Rocky
Mountain region.
It was one below zero early to
day at Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and
below zero readings also were re
ported in the northern and central
Rockies.
Chrysler Strike Averted,
Assuring Market Battle
Among “Big Three”
DETROIT, t/PI—A Chrysler strike
was averted Tuesday, making cer
tain a full-scale automobile mar
ket battle among the industry’s
“big three.”
Negotiators for Chrysler and
CIO United Auto Workers came
to an agreement in the dawn
hours after 19 hours of marathon
sessions.
The settlement preserved Ohrys
ler’s place in the 1955 car market
race. A strike could have shut
down all Chrysler’s operations,
idling 150,000 men and leaving
the big competitive battle to Ford
and General Motors alone.
Solons Agree That
Next Congress Will
Extend Draft Act
WASHINGTON, UP>—Four sen
ators agreed today that the next
Congress will extend the Draft
Act but differed over other parts
of the Pentagon’s new military
manpower plans.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
outlined the program yesterday:
It will call for a four-year ex
tension of the draft law, a modi
fied form of universal military
service tf^at will provide for long
and short term draftees, more pay
for long - service men and little
change in the historic Reserve and
National Guard setup.
Wilson told a news conference
that, while some details remain
to be settled, President Eisen
hower will present the plan in his
state of the union message to the
new Congress in January.
Chairman Saltonstall iR-Mass)
of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, Sens. Stennis (D-Miss'
and Case <R-SD), agreed in sep
arate interviews that Wilson will
get a sympathetic hearing when
he takes his case before that
group.
While concurring with the other
three senators that the Selective
Service Law should be extended,
Sen. Long iD-La) said he doubts
Congress would okay what he de
scribed as a new version of the
universal military training pro
gram Congress has turned down
several times in recent years.
Wilson stressed the intent of
the new program would be to
induce men to stay in uniform
longer. He spoke in terms of a
pay increase amounting to from
3 to 5 per cent, costing up to 600
million dollars a year.
Shipowners Warn That
Labor Disputes Are
Destroying Jobs
SAN FRANCISCO, (A*)—Pacific
Coast shipowners say they have
made conflicting commitments to
two unions locked in a dispute
which has disrupted West Coast
shipping for a month.
J. Paul St. Sure, president of
the Pacific Maritime Assn., in a
letter to Harry Lundberg, secre
tary-treasurer of the AFL Sailors’
Union of the Pacific, said, “We
have publicly admitted having
given commitments covering cer
tain work of our member compan
ies to both members of your union
and to the ILAU.”
St. Sure urged all parties to
make a “realistic reappraisal of
the situation” to settle the basic
issue which he termed “scope of
work.”
Otherwise, he warned, “the jobs
themselves will be destroyed, for
American flag ships cannot con
tinue to take the economic beating
they are now experiencing.”
PMA, wrote St. Sure, is “solely
concerned with finding a solution
as distinguished from publicly
fixing the blame.” He asked that
all parties “work out an immedi
ate solution that will settle once
and for all who would do the
disputed work.”
Meteor Fragment
Hits Alabama
Housewife
SYLACAUGA, Ala., (/PI—A cel
estial disturbance seen in three
states was identified yesterday as
an exploding meteor which sent
a nine-pound fragment crashing
through a roof here and injured
a 32-year-old woman.
Mrs. Hewlett Hodges suffered
bruises when the meteorite tore a
hole three feet wide in the roof
over her living room, smashed a
radio and struck her on an arm
and hip.
The object was identified as
a sulphide meteorite by George
Swindle, field representative of
the U.S. Geological Survey.
A “bright flash” across the sky
followed by explosions was re
ported about 2 p.m. simultaneous
ly in Atlanta, Newman and Col
umbus, Ga., Sylecauga and Bir
mingham in Alabama, and as far
away as Greenville, Miss.
Swindle said the meteorite
measured about six inches in dia
meter, and weighed approximate
ly nine pounds. The inside con
sisted of a metallic grey granular
substance, which responded to
tests given for sulphide. The out
side coating was a black stain
appearing substance.
Richfield, 8th Large Oil
Company, Applies For
Kenai Oil Leases
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Richfield
Oil Co., the eight major petroleum
firm to indicate interest in Alaska
exploration, has applied for leases
on 90,520 acres of Kenai Penin
sula land.
The California company sent a
check for $23,000 covering the
lease applications to the Anchor
age Land Office.
Officials said the area is in the
central part of the Kenai Penin
sula, southwest of Anchorage.
The Anchorage Times said
there is a “distinct possibility”
some of the applications may have
to be tossed out because of dupli
cations with earlier ones from
other firms or individuals.
Other firms represented in the
territory are Standard Oil Co.,
Union Oil, Ohio Oil, Humboldt
Oil, The Texas Co., Shell Oil and
Phillips Petroleum.
All have shown interest in the
Kenai Peninsula, where more
than a million acres have been
classed “geographically favorable”
for oil exploration.
TULSA DISCHARGES HER
LOSING FOOTBALL COACH
TUSO, Okla., UP)—Head football
coach BeVnie Witucki and his
four-man staff were paid in full
and dismissed yesterday by the
University of Tulsa which just
completed its most dismal season
in 69 years.
Witucki’s 3-year contract—re
portedly calling for $10,500 an
nually—was due to expire after
next season.
Tulsa, a member of the Mis
souri Valley Conference, had won
only three games of 21 played the
past two years. It lost all 11 this
past season.