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Who Will Succeed
Heintzleman as
Alaska Governor?
■By FRANK VAILLE
WASHINGTON, Of)—The iden
tity of B. Frank Heintzleman’s
successor as governor of Alaska—
if selected—remained a closely
guarded White House secret to
day.
Heintzleman’s long rumored
resignation was accepted by Ei
senhower Tuesday to become ef
fective Jan. 3. His term doesn’t
expire until April 10 but the for
mer Alaska regional forester said
he wanted to get out and suggest
ed his successor should be on
hand to meet with the Alaska
legislature in January.
As usual there's a half dozen
names being bandied about as
possible successors.
At the time of Heintzleman’s
original selection in 1953, other
candidates for the post included
Walter J. Hickel, Republican na
tional committeeman of Alaska
and a businessman, and Elmer E.
Rasmuson, president of the Na
tional Bank of Alaska, both of
Anchorage. Both are believed still
interested and available.
Other names put forward in
clude that of Robert B. Atwood,
Anchorage publisher and strong
statehood advocate; Waino E.
Hendrickson, present secretary of
Alaska, and William Strand, for
mer Alaska newspaperman who
early in the Eisenhower Admin
istration headed the Office of
Territories and now is the Inter
ior Department’s top information
man.
Strand, however, told a news
man he is not interested in the
position.
While speculation fails to cen
ter on any one individual, nearly
all observers are agreed that
Heintzleman’s successor probab
ly will be an Alaskan.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Lt. Col. Hill,
Willis Sharrar, Walter G. Bagley.
E.E. Lockaley, ames -Gibler, W.S.
Farr, C. McGowan, Carl Oho, B.
R. Martin, K.R. Bartlett, Marvin
.Murvine, K. Keiss, S. Krogstad,
D. Carlquist, J. Hickman, Arthur
Nuglene, Don Hitchcock, C. M.
Crain, J.W. Kottke, Winfred Ad
loat, Geo. Clark, N. H. Rudisill.
B'rom Kotzebue: Sam Henry,
Mildred Paneok, Martin Oyou
mik, Col. Hill, Wm. Sharrar, W.
Bagley, E.E. Lockaby.
ORPHA ABLOOGALOOK
WEDS TACOMA MAN
TACOMA, Wash., Wi—A mar
riage license has been issued here
to Lawrence C. Newbreast, 24,
Tacoma, and Orpha C. Ablooga
look, 22, Nome, Alaska.
TODAY IS SHORTEST DAY
Today is the shortest day of the
year with the sun rising at 10:03
a.m. and setting at 1:56 p.m. for a
total of 3 hours 53 minutes of
daylight.
DENSE FOG TIES UP
AIR TRAFFIC IN U.S.
By the Associated Press
A sea of fog 1,000 miles wide
tied up most air traffic in the
central section of the United
States today.
The weather bureau at Chicago
said the pall extended from west
ern Iowa on the west to Pitts
burgh on the east. It closed in
while Christmas travel was build
ing toward a peak.
Chicago’s Midway Airport, nor
mally the busiest commercial
field in the world, reported only
a few planes were moving. The
O’Hare Field northwest of the
city had a similar slowdown.
The Des Moine, Iowa, airport
shut down yesterday at 3 p.m. It
had a visibility of only one-six
teenth of a mile this morning.
Most air traffic in the state was
halted.
Airline flights at Detroit were
canceled this morning and visi
bility at Cleveland’s Hopkins air
port was a quarter mile.
The San Francisco and Oakland
airports also were socked in by
fog.
Top Churchman Visits
Interior Alaska Bases
During Christmas Season
FAIRBANKS, IffV—Dr. Eugene
Carson Blake, president of the
National Council of Churches, is
spending five days in interior
Alaska on his Christmas season
mission to military bases in the
north.
After arriving here in below
zero weather, the Philadelphia
churchman donned the tradition
al interior Alaska winter garb—
including mukluks and fur-lined
hood—for his visits to the various
bases in the almost continual
darkness of the season. He plans
to visit troops training in the field
with skis and sleds.
He tells the enlisted men the
real purpose of the Christian
church is to extend the spirit of
Christmas goodwill, generosity,
and peace throughout the year.
Illinois Central Train
Falls Down Embankment
Killing Two, Injuring 18
BELLEVILLE, 111., Oft—An Illi
nois Central passenger train to
day plunged 20 feet down a mud
dy embankment when its rain
weakened roadbed gave way.
Two passengers were injured
fatally and 18 others were hos
pitalized.
One of the dead was Mrs. Or
son Coveil, North Platte, Neb.,
on her way with her husband to
Jackson, Miss., to spend the
Christmas holiday with their son
Richard and his family. The other
was Henry Hudson, 67, a farmer.
The train, bound from St. Lou
is to New Orleans, was crawling
thru a foggy, misty night toward
Belleville. Two coaches and a
"Pullman were among the eight
cars which toppled down the 20
foot embankment into the mud.
Nixon Visits
Refugee Station
Near Hungary ( '
(Continued trom Page One)
and figures of the problems cre
ated by the refugees.
Authoritative sources have dis
closed that the Austrian federal
government will have spent more
than $7 million caring for refu
gees by Jan. 1. This does not in
clude spending by provincial and
local governments or private do
nations*.
As Nixon started the second
day of his study, newly arrived
refugees reported that they had
experienced “great difficulties”
in reaching the border area.
Only 688 Hungarians crossed
into Austria during the night,
compared with 1,000 or more
nightly earlier this week.
The refugees said that strict
checks were being made on Hun
garian trains and that most of
those who sought to quit the
country had to hitchhike or walk
to the border.
Nixon was to leave for Salz
burg tonight for a look at refugee
camps in that area and then pro
ceed to Munich tomorrow. There
he will visit the “Safe Haven”
operations base from which the
U.S. Air Force is flying refugees
to the United States.
Japanese Scientist Finds
Evidence of Recent
Soviet Nuclear Explosion
NIIGATA, Japan, lift—A pro
fessor of Niigata University, in
northern Japan, said today Russia
may have exploded a nuclear
bomb about Dec. 14 in some part
of the Soviet Union.
Dr. Nironobu Watanage said he
examined snow in the northern
district Tuesday morning and
found the radioactive count to
have increased greatly, from 180
counts per liter per minute to
1,237.
Scientists at Shingshu Univer
sity in Nagano, in the same region
of north central Honshu, report
ed highly radioactive snow Mon
day morning.
The Tok^> observatory of the
government’s board of meteorolo
gy said, “It is safe to presume a
nuclear explosion took place Dec.
14 or 15.” It could not pinpoint
where the explosion was set off
because the board's sensitive
pressure gauges “failed to react.”
Japanese authorities on radia
tion said in April 1955 that rain
exceeding 100,000 counts is ‘{al
most near the maximum permis
sable dose of radiation as pre
scribed by American authorities
. . . but it won’t do harrrr unless
such rain falls heavily for many
days.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued fair tonight through
SaAirday. Temperatures tonight
will fall to near 20 below. High
temperature Sunday about -10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
-9, low -21. Max. wind 6 mph.
from the ESE. Sunrise at 10:03
a.m., sunset at 1:56 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 30, low 10. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 36 in 1913,
lowest -22 in 1949.
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Eisenhower and Nehru Find ‘Broad
Area of Agreement’ in 4 Days of Talks
WASHINGTON, I**—President!
Eisenhower and Prime Minister
Nehru said today their talks here
had confirmed a “broad area of
agreement,” between India and
the United States in world af
fairs.
The two national leaders
summed up the results of Nehru’s
four-day visit here in a final com
munique issued at the White
House.
Simultaneously, Nehru him
self, at National Airport before
taking off on the first leg of his
trip home, said the talks with
Eisenhower had strengthened In
dian-American "bonds of friend
ship and understanding.”
The statement from the White
House said Eisenhower and Neh
ru had gained “greater under
standing” of each other’s policy.
It added that this would promote
their efforts to achieve intema
nional peace and friendship.
Eisenhower and Nehru held
their last conversation at the In
dian embassy Wednesday night.
Eisenhower was Nehru’s dinner
guest there and they talked to
gether for more than an hour.
Yesterday Nehru headed for a
round of meetings with United
Nations officials in New York,
after which he will spend a week
end in Canada. Eisenhower’s per
sonal plane was put at his dis
posal.
>-———»—
The joint statement preserved
the cloak of secrecy which has
surrounded the Eisenhower-Neh
ru talks from their beginning
Sunday. Nonetheless, high U.S.
officials familiar with the issues
taken up, said that the confer
ences had been very successful
from the American viewpoint.
Nehru rlso appeared to feel he
had achieved his objectives in
meeting with the President.
The statement emphasized that
India and the U.S. share a com
mon devotion to “respect for the
dignity of man.”
This last point appeared to be
one way of saying that while
Nehru is neutral between the So
viet and Western power blocs he
is not neutral on the basic issue
of Communism.
The U.S. has always contended
the essential difference between
Communism and free democracy
is “respect for the dignity of
man.”
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