22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL, LVII No. 76_ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1955_'Per Copy—15^
Gen. Atkinson
Promises Nome
Band For The 4th
Lt. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson
has assured the 4th of July Com
mittee there will be a military
band here for the celebration next
Monday. Which band is coming
has not been disclosed but it will
be selected and sent over from the
Fairbanks area by Gen. T. Alan
Bennett.
Gen. T. Allen Bennett, com
mander of the 11th Air Division
at Ladd Field, will make the
address of the day at the Nome
celebration.
A generous supply of candy has
been donated by the ANS hospital
in Anchorage through the cour
tesy of Mrs. Betty Edris and it
will augment the usual free ice
cream* for all he children as is
traditional.
There will be games, we are
informed, native sports, and pos
sibly boat races.
The committee is meeting today
to round out the plans for the cel
ebration.
Mrs. Carrie Dunn,
Early-Day Nome
Teacher, Passes
PASADENA, Calif., WV—Funer
al services were held here today
for Mrs. Carrie Leigh Dunn, pio
neer Alaska school teacher, who
died in Pasadena Saturday at the
age of 74.
She had been in failing health
since the death last November of
her husband, John H. Dunn, 90,
former Alaskan attorney and
court official. They had lived in
Pasadena since his retirement in
1932.
Mrs. Dunn, who was born in
Portage, Me., first went to Nome
in 1900 as one of the first teach
ers in the public school there
during the gold rush days. Among
her first pupils was Gen. James
Doolittle, famed aviator.
She and Mr. Dunn, who then
was clerk of the United States
Court in Nome, were married in
1905. Later, they lived for many
years in Anchorage, where Mrs.
Dunn was a Past Worthy Matron
of the Order of Eastern Star, and
in 1924 moved to Juneau, where
they lived until Mr. Dunn’s re
tirement.
Mrs. Dunn is survived by two
sons, John M. Dunn, San Ansel
mo, Calif., who was born in Nome
and Dr. Clarence L, Dunn, a
chemical engineer, of Berkeley,
Calif.
Man Dies While Enroute
To Alaska For Holiday
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C., UP> —
Walter Muller, 46, of Belling
ham, Wash., died here early Sun
day after sufering an attack while
driving to Alaska for a holiday,
His wife, riding in the car with
him, grabbed the wheel as he
slumped over, and managed tc
guide the car to a safe stop.
He was brought by a passing
motorist to the hospital here, bul
failed to respond under treatmenl
and died less than 12 hours aftei
being admitted.
‘Rube’ Cremer
Dies At Sitka
W. E. H. Cremer, known to his
friends as “Rube,” passed away
yesterday at the Pioneer Home,
where he has been for sveral
months due to his illness.
Wm. Edward Henry Cremer
was born Jan. 14, 1875 at Fes
tina, la., and arrived in Nome on
June 24, 1901, where he lived un
til 1910. In that year he joined the
stampede to the Kobuk region,
but returned shortly thereafter to
mine here until 1925, when he
was appointed U.S. deputy mar
shal. Cremer was a deputy until
1932, after which he returned to
mining at Hastings Creek, where
he lived every summer.
Supt. Leslie Yaw writes that
“Rube was about the finest Pio
neer I have had the pleasure to
meet here at the Home. Never
complaining, always cheerful,
with a good word for his fellow
Pioneers, and never overlooking
the opportunity to entertain from
his wealth of experiences in the
Nome district. He will be missed
by the staff and his many friends
here at the Home.”
Cremer was a member of Anvil
Lodge F and A M, Pioneers of Al
aska, Order of Eastern Star and
requested to be given a Masonic
funeral.
Surviving him are two brothers
in Seattle, George M. and Louis
Cremer, and two sisters, Lizzie
Lenseng, Estma, Iowa, and Pau
line Gerleman, Calmar, Iowa.
Red Migs Attack Unarmed
Nationalist Chinese Planes
TAIPEH, Formosa, —The Na
tionalist Defense Ministry report
ed today Chinese Communist
Migs shot down a T33 jet train
ing plane near the Matsu Islands
within two hours after Red jets
attacked an unarmed commercial
amphibian plane.
The ministry said the training
plane plunged into the sea 10
miles south of the island group.
The pilot was not recovered.
The pilot of the amphibian, a
two-engine Catalina, said the two
Migs made four passes at the
plane, hitting it on the first pass.
U.S. Military Headquarters re
ported an American officer—1st
Lt. John J. Goodrich, 26, Rayne,
La. — was aboard the Catalina,
but gave no other information.
U.S. Sabre Jet Slashes
British Bomber In Two
During NATO Exercise
RAMSTEIN, Germany, lift — A
U.S. Sabre jet, speeding upward
on an interception mission in
maneuvers, slashed into a Brit
ish bomber in the darkness early
Sunday and all six men of the
bomber’s crew were killed.
The jet pilot, Lt. William H.
Whitten of Chillicothe, O., para
chuted to safety in a forest. He
was treated at a U.S. Army hos
pital for slight injuries.
German police said the bomb
er, a four-engine Lincoln, was
cut in two and the parts dropped
into a woods like flaming torches.
The accident was the fifth and
most deadly mishap in an atomic
air exercise called “C arte
Blanche,” involving 3,000 planes
of the North Atlantic Allies.
Both Side Agree
U.N. Anniversary
Meet W orthwhile
SAN FRANCISCO, MV—Russia
and the Western powers were
agreed today that the U.N.’s 10th
anniversary session had been well
worthwhile.
Both acknowledged the week
long meetings had provided an
excellent opportunity for diplo
matic contacts and that the big
power speeches had given each
side a better understanding of
what to expect at the summit
talks in Geneva next month.
The anniversary session ended
yesterday—just 10 years after the
signing of the U.N. charter—with
a declaration by its president,
Dr. Eelco N. Van Kleffens, re
affirming the determination of
the 60 nations “to save succeed
ing generations from the scourge
of war.”
The session had a few rough
moments, when the President
wielded the gavel and cautioned
restraint, but behind-the-scenes
relations between Russia and the
Western powers were unusually
cordial.
In addition to a 4-hour meet
ing of the Big Four foreign min
isters, there were private talks
between Molotov and each of the
big Western foreign ministers.
His talk with Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles was especial
ly friendly and cordial.
Alaska To Get
$1,350,000 A Year
For New Airports
WASHINGTON, (*> — Alaska
would receive $1,350,000 a year
in federal matching funds for air
port construction, under a bill
which has been approved by the
Senate, and Oregon and Washing
ton would each get close to a
million.
The legislation still must be
approved by the House and sign
ed by President Eisenhower. It
would authorize contributions to
states and territories of 63 million
annually for four years.
Texas would get the top alloca
tion of $3,093,777 a year. Nine
other states and Alaska would be
above the million mark. Califor
nia would be second with $2,734,
099 and New York next with
$2,606,233. Allocations would be
under a formula which takes into
consideration size and population.
The states and territories would
be authorized to make contracts
for projects as they do now under
the highway program, even
though federal funds might not
be available immediately.
RUSSIAN SHIP SEIZES TWO
JAPAN FISHING BOATS
NEMURO, Japan WPI—A Russian
patrol ship Wednesday seized two
Japanese crab fishing boats in
“northern Hokkaido waters,” the
Japanese coast guard reported
yesterday.
One of the ships, the 19-ton No.
2 Hokuto Maru and its eight-man
crew, was towed to Russian-held
Shkotan Island. The other fishing
i vessel was released after being
inspected.
Secretary Dulles ‘Gratified’ By The
Unprecedented Conciliatory Tone
Of Russians On Shooting Incident
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One of Navy Plane!
Crew Tells Of Migl
Attack Wednesday
BOSTON, Ltt—“I felt a jolt and
I knew we had been hit. I never
saw the Migs myself.”
That is how Radarman John F.
Rump, 20, of Malden, Mass., de
scribed in a telephone interview
with the Boston Sunday Globe the
Soviet attack on his Navy Nep
tune plane over the Bering Sea
Wednesday.
Rump, now at Kodiak, told the
Globe Saturday night “We were
on a, routine patrol when the
Russkies hit us.”
“Suddenly Don Sonnek, our
ordnanceman, hollered over the
intercom from his rear station:
“ ‘There are planes on our tail.
They’re firing at us’.”
“Then I felt the plane dip and
we shot into the clouds.
“The Migs made only one pass
at us. They never had the op
portunity for another . . .
“Halfway through the landing
(on St. Lawrence slland) there
was a flash fire.
“The bomb bay tank exploded.
It was a mircale we weren’t all
killed. Some of the men were
yelling in pain from burns and
broken arms.
“We were there about an hour
when a whaleboat with Eskimos
aboard arrived on the scene. They
were members of the Alaska Na
tional Guard Ground Observer
Corps.”
Rump said, “One thing is sure,
God was with us all the way on
that flight last Wednesday mor
ning.”
> By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UB— Secretary
of State Dulles said yesterday he
is gratified af Russia’s official ex
pression of regret over the shoot
ing of an American plane be
tween Siberia and Alaska last
Wednesday.
The conciliatory tone of state
ments by Dulles and Soviet For
eign Minister Molotov apparently
ended any danger that the aerial
incident might in some manner
disrupt plans for the Big Four
conference at Geneva July 18.
Dulles commented to reporters
upon his arrival here by plane.
Shortly afterward, the State De
partment released the text of a
note which Molotov handed him
Saturday in San Francisco, where
they attended preliminary Big
Four talks and a United Nations
10th anniversary meeting.
The note insisted that the
United States Navy Neptune pat
rol plane had “violated the state’s
frontier of the Soviet Union in
the region of the Bering Straits”
and that this was the reason for
the shooting.
The United States has insisted
the plane was over international
waters when Russian Mig jet
fighters attacked without provoca
tion.
Another difference developed
over the shooting itself. The So
viet note referred to “an exchange
of shots between the American
and Soviet aircraft.” U.S. spokes
men have said the Navy plane did
not return the Russian fire.
Nevertheless, the Soviet note
also contained at the end these
paragraphs which officials said
were virtually unprecedented in
their conciliatory and even apolo
getic tone:
“The Soviet government ex
presses regret in regard to. the
incident which has taken place.
“Taking into account that the
incident with the American mili
tary aircraft took place under
conditions which do not exclude
the possibility of a mistake from
one side or the other (a refer
ence to cloudy weather), the So
viet government declares its will
ingness to compensate for 50 per
cent of the damage suffered by
the American side, having in
mind that the remaining 50 per
cent of damage would be under
taken by the American side.”
Dulles was asked what he
thought of this Soviet response to
his demand on Molotov Friday for
an explanation of the shooting.
“It is gratifying,” Dulles said,
“that he expressed regret and at
least indicated willingness to
make some reparation, but it is
not what we asked for.”
WASHINGTON, OB— Secretary
of State Dulles plans to fly to
Bangor, Maine, this afternoon for
talks with President Eisenhower
on foreign policy problems in
cluding the shooting down of an
American plane by Russian fight
ers.
Skin-boats From Gambell
Were First To The Scene
Within a half hour of the crash,
four skin-boats from Gambell,
five miles away, were at the
scene,” said Lt. Col. Robert Carl
ton, group materials pilot of Ladd
AFB, who flew the seven injured
men directly from Gambell to El
mendorf Field, Anchorage.
“The boats were manned by
Eskimo villagers, and Grace Cros
sen, Alaska Native service nurse
on the island, and the Rev. Elmer
Parker. Four of the injured were
stretcher cases. Two of these were
seriously burned. The third had a
broken leg and the other a broken
arm.”
The plane had no sooner hit the
ground than the Eskimos were
putting off in their boats to help,
said Col. Carlton, who was in
Nome at the time of the crash
with Lt. George T. Webb, co-pilot.
HARMONICA WIZARD DIES
PARIS, Uft—Borrah Minnevitch,
52, leader of the “Harmonica Ras
cals” who played in vaudeville
theaters throughout the United
States, died yesterday of a cere
bral hemmorhage at the American
hospital in suburban Neuilly.