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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 70 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1953 ‘ Per Copy—151
New Devices End Need to Heat Aircraft
Engines to Start Them In Cold Weather
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Geological Survey To
Print New Alaska Maps
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Geo
logical Survey said today a new
edition of the map of the entire
Territory of Alaska is expected
off the presses in a week or two.
The Survey announced at the
same time that operations to pro
vide more detailed Alaska maps
in the future have been started
in the territory by two typo
graphic mapping parties.
Using helicopters, the teams
will cover two general areas in
this summer’s program.
New mapping will be done in
one area, covering about 17,000
square miles in the Kantishna
River, Melozitna, Tanana, Fair
banks, Healy and Mt. McKinley
sectors.
In the other section, field work
ers will check cultural data con
tained on maps almost ready for
publication. This area will cover
about 68 additional quadrangles
in the Seward, Kenai, Tyonek,
Blying Sound and Seldovia sec
tors.
“Creeping Socialism”
Struck U.S. In Last 20
Years Says Eisenhower
CUSTER STATE PARK, S. D.,
UP — President Eisenhower says
“creeping socialism” struck at the
United States during the last 20
years of Democratic administra
tion, and that the nation runs a
grave risk “if that group takes
over again.”
The President swatted the poli
tical opposition in an informal
talk last night to about 500 South
Dakota Republican leaders.
He addressed the leaders a few
hours after arriving here from
nearby Mt. Rushmore where he
told another GOP rally his ad
ministration has made a “good be
ginning” toward a regime serv
ing “the interests and needs of
all our citizens.”
Although Eisenhower said he
was tired when he arrived here
after two speeches Thursday, he
fished for trout for two hours be
fore dinner. He caught five, kept
two of the larger ones and snag
ged his finger slightly on a fish
hook.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., UP) —
Two engineers today described
new devices designed to end the
need for heating aircraft engines
before trying to start them in sub
zero1 arctic weather.
“The herculean effort formerly
required for cold temperature en
gine starts can now be eliminated,
F. E. Carroll of Dayton, Ohio, to'ld
the Society of Automotive Engin
eers.
Carroll, chief engineer for Uni
ted Aircraft Products, Inc., de
scribed a valve that prevents
seepage of oil from the supply
tank into the line leading to the
engine. Previously oil has frozen
in the narrow line and formed a
plug cutting off the engine supply.
Another engineer, Everett Row
land, of the Wright Field Air De
velopment Center, told of a com
panion improvement—a “hot fuel
priming system,” that warms up
enough gasoline to get the engines
started.
“The hot fuel priming system
is simple, compact and light
weight,” Rowland said. “It con
sists of a tank enclosing an elec
trical heater, an electrical control
box, and the necessary wiring apd
fuel lines to connect into the prim
ing system.”
As with the oil pipe, the old
priming system required as much
as four hours of preheat before
the engine could be started in
severely cold weather.
But the hot fuel priming sys
tem makes it possible to fire the
engines in one and a half to1 two
and a half minutes at 70 degrees
below zero, Rowland said.
Air Force Recalls C-54s
From Commercial Airlines
WASHINGTON, Iff) — The Air
Force Thursday issued a recall
order for all the 37 C-54 transport
planes it has leased to commercial
airlines.
Headquarters here said the Air
Material Command at Wright
Patterson Field, Ohio, telegraphed
notices of the intent to end C-54
lease agreements.
The Air Force gave no explana
tion of the recall other than “we
need the airplanes.”
However, the operators were
advised that they would be in
formed by letter of delivery sched
ules and other details.
AIRLINE S PLANNED EXCURSION TO SEE
MIDNIGHT SUN IS MET WITH ENTHUSIASM
Alaska Airlines Manager Bob«
Curtiss reports much enthusiasm
over the announced Midnight Sun
excursion advertised for June 21.
Included in the specially priced
trip, he states, will be a visit to
Kotzebue.
Curtiss urges that reservations
be made before June 20 and says
that if the flight is delayed due
to unfavorable weather the trip
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will be made on June 22.
The plane, a DC-3, will leave
Nome about 9:00 p.m. and arrive
at Kotzebue at 10:15. It will leave
Kotzebue at 11:30 p.m., returning
to Nome about 12:45. Light re
freshments will be served enroute.
This is a wonderful opportu
nity for camera hobbyists to take
some excellent pictures.
South Koreans
Demonstrate
Against Truce
SEOUL, UP) — South Koreans
chanted, marched and wept thru
their fourth straight day of anti
truce demonstrations today as al
lied and Red staff officers worked
in secret on the last details of an
armistice that appears almost a
certainty.
The stubborn South Korean na
tion—and its unbending president,
Syngman Rhee—gave no outward
sign of changing the violent op
position to a ceasefire that would
leave the battered peninsula di
vided politically.
However, a truce appears only
a matter of days away—the time
it takes the staff officers to fin
ish the final document in morning
and afternoon sessions at Pan
munjom.
The U.N. Command apparently
is proceeding undaunted with its
armistice plans in the belief that
South Korea'won’t make good its
threats to reject the truce and
fight the Reds alone.
Seoul school girls paraded in
several demonstrations, chanting,
“Give us unification” and “March
north!”
In front of the American em
bassy in Pusan, a sitdown and
hunger strike by about 300 crip
pled and wounded South Korean
veterans continued.
Maniac Seized for
Writing Death Threats
To Three U.S. Presidents
NEW YORK, tiP)— A man de
scribed by the Secret Service as
a maniac has been seized for al
legedly writing death threats to
Presidents Eisenhower, Tj-uman
and Roosevelt.
The suspect, who gave his iden
tity as Albert J. Drevney, 40, was
arrested Wednesday in nearby
New Rochelle, N.Y., where he was
reporting for work on a new job.
Object of a nationwide hunt,
Drevney was described as a “ho
mocidal maniac” by Secret Ser
vice Chief U. E. Baughman,
From his office in Washington,
Baughman said Drevney mailed
a death threat to Eisenhower from
Lancaster, Penna., sometime in
March.
The Secret Service head said
Drevney was arrested in 1941 in
San Francisco for writing threat
ening letters to President Roose
velt. Drevney also threatened the
life of President Truman, Baugh
man said.
Drevney further was described
as having been in half a dozen
mental institutions during the past
12 years.
Drevney was booked on charges
of conspiracy and violating fed
eral postal law$.
Administration Has Made Good Start
In Achieving Its Goals, Says President
East German Communists
Retreat from Sovietization
BERLIN, OP) — East German
Communists began putting their
retreat from Sovietization into
action today and East Zone Pre
mier Otto Grotewohl declared his
government was “bitterly and ser
iously determined” to help bring
about the unification of Germany
now.
The text of Grotewohl’s speech
to a teacher’s rally in East Berlin,
distributed by the official news
agency, ADN, said his govern
ment henceforth would “omit all
measures which could disturb an
understanding.”
As an example, he said, “hun
dreds” of teachers who have lost
fheir jobs in Communist purges
would be reinstated, and a new
Red law for reorganization of the
high school system will not be put
into effect.
Pan American To Ask
CAB For Permission To
Fly To Anchorage
SEATTLE, (tf) — Pan American
World Airways will ask the Civil
Aeronautics Board to designate
Anchorage as a co-terminal with
Fairbanks on the company’s Al
aska routes when the Board hears
the forthcoming “States-Alaska”
case, John W. White, regional
PAA director, said here today.
White said, “The Civil Aero
nautics Board has established new
routes during the past three years
to compete with Pan American.
But the carriers so designated are
permitted to serve Anchorage, the
territory’s largest city and largest
source of traffic. Pan Am is not
now, and never has been, permit
ted to offer services to Anchorage.
We feel strongly that Alaska as a
whole stands to benefit if such
air carriers as may be authorized
by CAB to compete with each
other are permitted to compete on
an equal basis to the territory’s
principal population centers.”
Pacific Northern Airlines re
cently started Seattle-Juneau ser
vice—a route on which Pan Am
erican previously had the only
permit.
Midnight Golf At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Anchorage
golfers will play their annual
midnight golf game Saturday
night at the Forest Park golf club.
It won’t be by any arc-light
either. The sun hardly sets at
this time of year in Anchorage.
HOT IN NEW DELHI
NEW DELHI, India, UP) — The
mercury soared past 114 degrees
fahrenheit in the Indian capital
Friday and a dust haze swept the
city from Rajasthan desert.
MT. RUSHMORE, S. D., UP) —
President Eisenhower told a Re
publican rally Thursday his ad
ministration has made a “good
beginning” toward winning free
world collective security, modern
izing military defense plans, and
insuring “equal civil rights to all
our citizens.”
The President also declared the
party, since it took control of the
White House and Congress in Jan
uary, has launched an effective
attack on crime and corruption,
and has moved on the problem of
internal security “with a vigor
long overdue.” •
Eisenhower ticked off those
points in listing “some of our for
ward movement in 10 critical
areas of government.” In a speech
prepared for the convention of the
National Federation of Young Re
publicans, the President added:
A Good Beginning
“It would be foolish to pretend
these achievements are more than
a beginning. But I sincerely be
lieve they are a good beginning.”
Eisenhower arrived here after
a motor and flying trip from Riv
erdale, N.D., where he spoke brief
ly at closure ceremonies for Gar
rison Dam.
He is in the second of a five
day trip taking him to five states
—Minnesota, North and South Da
kota, New Hampshire and New
York. He plans to return to the *
White House Sunday night.
Eisenhower declared that gov
ernment “must not allow its poli
cies to be caught in the fatal cross
fire of a Congress and an execu
tive warring upon one another.”
He added: “Such a condition is
not going to prevail if it is within
the power of this administration
to prevent it. For our very form
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Five Deaths Attributed
To Over 100 Degree
Temperatures In MidWest
(By the Associated Press)
Five deaths attributed to the
heat were reported yesterday as
temperatures climbed above 100
over wide areas of the hot belt
extending over Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and
in parts of Tennessee, Louisiana
and Mississippi.
Three heat deaths were report
ed in Missouri and two in Mem
phis, Tenn., where it was 103, a
a record for the third straight
day. Sixteen other persons were
stricken in Memphis.
Temperatures reached 100 or
higher again over most of Kansas.
Thundershowers hit western
sections of Nebraska and South
Dakota early today. Heaviest rain
fall, with some hail, was nearly
two inches at Philip, S.D.
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