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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV1 No. 140 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1954 Per Copy—15^
‘‘State of Alaska”
By E. Gruening
‘Comes Out’ Today
SEATTLE, Ml—This is “coming
out day” for former Gov. Ernest
Gruening’s long heralded book on
Alaska — his major project since
ending his 14 years in the gov
ernor's mansion in 1953.
Titled “The State of Alaska,”
it is a 606-page production.
The “State” in the title is used
in the same sense in which the
President reports to Congress on
“The State of the Union,” but the
author makes it plain that he
chose the word for its double
meaning. ,
The book ends with a discus
sion of statehood legislation as it
was presented to the 83rd Con
gress, and the final paragraph re
flects his long - time stand for
statehood:
“Alaskans had stood too much,
too long, to be discouraged or
other than determined to fight on
to validate the most basic of
American principles—government
by consent of the governed. They
knew through unchanging experi
ence that the state of Alaska
would not improve appreciably
until the State of Alaska came
into being.”
In a review of the book by
veteran political reporter E. B.
Russell, the Seattle Times says:
“Many will agree with much of
what the author has to say. Few
readers, probably, will accept all
the Gruening thesis. And because
that is the kind of book this is,
it probably will be widely praised,
attacked, dissected and debated—
which the author apparently had
in mind.”
The Times review continued:
“Author Gruening gives the ad
ministration of Governor Gruen
ing only passing attention. In a
footnote he says a succeeding vol
ume will discuss the past 20 years
in detail.
“But the latter half of the book
deals with Alaska’s recent and
resent problems—land, aboriginal
rights, salmon, transportation and
self - government. These provide
controversial issues.
“As governor, Gruening was not
inclined to run away from a con
troversy. As an author he has a
new opportunity to voice his
views.”
Eight Inches of Rain Fall
In Seven Hours In
Heavy Hawaii Storm
HONOLULU, (fP) — Torrential
rain, punctuated by lightning and
whipped by gale winds, drenched
Honolulu last night and forced the
evacuation of portions of four
Navy housing areas and the clos
ing of a main highway.
The U.S. Weather Bureau fore
caster at Honolulu airport said
it was the first Ral Kona, a stormy
southwest wind peculiar to the
Hawaiian Island, since 1951.
In the space of seven hours the
rainfall ranged from 8.65 inches
at Liheau, coastal town on south
eastern Kauai Island, to 5.6 inches
at Barbers Point Naval Air Sta
tion on Oahu Island. The rain
was considerably heavier in the
mountains.
New H-Bomb Air
Fleet Will Cost
U.S. U Billion
WASHINGTON, 6PI—America’s
new H-bomb striking force will
consist of 11 wings of high speed,
long - range B-52 jet bombers —
four more wings than previously
announced.
This force. Pentagon officials
said today, will gradually replace
during the next two or three
years the present fleet of heavy
strategic bombers—the B-36 pow
ered with a combination piston
jet plant.
The cost of the program, based
on estimates of the average cost
of B-52s when in full production,
the cost of development of the
first two prototype planes, of
tanker planes for refueling and of
putting into operation a second
source of production, may be
about 84,300,000.000.
Until this new indication was
made by Pentagon officials, the
Air Force had admitted officially
only that the program called for
seven wings of B-52s. A heavy
bomber wing includes some 30
planes plus supporting elements.
The Pentagon’s estimate of the
average cost of a B-52 bomber is
$8,700,000, with the estimate for
the first prototype produced, in
cluding development items and
tooling, at 20 million dollars.
The B-52 is powered with eight
J-57 engines, each producing
about 10,000 pounds thrust. Maxi
mum weight of the plane fully
loaded with fuel and bomb, is
about 500,000 pounds, somewhat
less than the B-36.
Secretary of Air Harold Talbot
has said the present range of the
B-52 is about 6,000 miles, with
hope of extending that to 10,000.
Sailors’ Union Refusal
To Work Overtime Delays
Liner’s Sailing for Hawaii
SAN FRANCISCO, IjB—Sailors’
Union of the Pacific stuck fast to
its “no overtime policy” today and
the liner President Wilson failed
to leave on a scheduled trip to
Honolulu and the Far East.
Her 650 passengers were told
to go to hotels for the night at
their own expense.
The 24-hour delay loomed yes
terday when Harry Lundberg,
head of the SUP, made it clear
the union would not budge from
the policy of doing no work in
ports on Saturdays, Sundays and
between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m.
The liner was to have moved
early today from Oakland Army
Base, where it was loading mili
tary cargo, to its San Francisco
pier. Tugs and officers were on
hand, but crewmen didn’t show
up.
SANTA GETS REQUEST
FOR ROLLING PIN
SHREVEPORT, La., UR — The
Shreveport Times received this
scrawled Santa Claus note yester
day from a lad thinking more of
his mother than himself:
“My mommie has been married
12 years and has never had a
rolling pin. My daddy is getting
out of hand. Please bring my
mother a rolling pin.”
Soviets and Satellites
Open Strictly Family
Security Conference
MOSCOW, — Foreign Min
ister V. M. Molotov opened Rus
sia's European collective security
conference as strictly a Commun
ist family affair here today. It
was boycotted by the West.
Gathered about a hollow-cen
tered roundtable in the White
Marble Hall of the Stiridonovka
Palace were representatives of
seven Communist-ruled East Eu
ropean states, delegations from
six constituent republics of the
Soviet Union and Chinese Com
munist observers.
A few hours before proceeding
to the pro - revolutionary palace,
where the foreign ministry does
most of its official entertaining,
Molotov received rejections from
the Western big three—Britain,
France and the United States—of
his invitations. Kremlin-courted
Yugoslavia and all other Western
countries also said “no thanks."
The talks, which opened under
the glare of camera flood lights,
are expected to pave the way for
linking East Germany formally in
the Eastern bloc as the West pro
ceeds with ratification of the Paris
agreement for the rearmament of
West Germany. Soviet organs
emphasized the nations repre
sented intended to “take immedi
ate measures" to assure their own
security.
This conference is also expected
to try to devise methods for pre
venting ratifications of the Paris
accords.
Newsmen were admitted to the
room to take a look at the dele
gates in their places, but had to
leave before the proceedings be
gan. The Soviet foreign ministry
promised them briefings.
Election Results Warn
Adenauer Many Germans
Resent Rearmament
FRANKFURT, Germany, UP) —
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
pressed forward today in his fight
to rivet West Germany to the At
lantic alliance after parrying a
determined challenge to German
rearmament in two state elections.
The Chancellor’s Christian
Democratic Union lost ground in
yesterday's voting in both the
states of Bavaria and Hesse, but
held control of the Bavarian state
government. This insured the
Adenauer regime’s retention of its
two-thirds majority on the upper
house of the federal parliament,
whose members are named by the
state governments.
To ward off any Socialist chal
lenge in the courts, Adenauer
wants a two-thirds endorsement
in both houses of the federal par
liament for the Paris agreements
to raise half a million German
troops under the banner of the
North Atlantic Alliance.
The election outcome reinforced
the Chancellor’s determination to
push through the ratification vote
early next year. But the declines
in Christian Democratic strength
from its high mark in the 1953
national election were a warning
to Adenauer that many Germans
actively resent his demand that
they turn soldier again.
Next Move Up To
U.S. In Case of 13
Americans inChina
WASHINGTON, («— Commun
ist China’s defiant refusal to free
13 Americans jailed as spies con
fronted the United States govern
ment today with the perplexing
problem of how to make the Reds
change their minds.
With the British serving as in
termediaries, t he Chinese Com
munists Sunday rejected an Am
erican note protesting the impris
onment of 11 captured airman
and 2 U.S. Army civilian em
ployes on spy charges. The State
Department called the charges
“baseless.”
But the British government, re
porting the Chinese turned down
the U.S. note as “unacceptable,”
said the Reds insisted the evi
dence against the 13 Americans
was incontestable.
The British acted as go - be
tweens because this country does
not recognize the Red Chinese
regime and maintains no direct
diplomatic contact with Peiping.
The Chinese reaction to the
U.S. protest—a development that
was not unexpected—left the next
move up to the U.S. government.
What that move might be, re
mained on open question as State
Department officials reported “all
appropriate measures are being
considered.”
Sen. Knowland of California,
the Republican leader in the Sen
ate, sounded a call Saturday for
direct action against the Chinese
Reds—a naval blockade.
Five Airmen Killed
In Crash of B-25
BALTIMORE, UP)—Five persons
were killed and the sixth critic
ally injured in the crash of an
Air Force B-25 in a woods last
night.
The plane was trying to make
an emergency landing at Friend
ship.
The plane was last heard from
at 10:14 last night when it radioed
the Friendship tower it was out
of gas. Nothing more was heard
of the craft, which was returning
to Andrews Air Force Base near
Washington from a training mis
sion to Tulsa, until a search plane
spotted the wreckage in a dense
wods this morning.
BARGAIN HUNTERS SPEED
TO BASEMENT NON STOP
WHEN ELEVATOR SLIPS
TOKYO, OP) — Two dozen bar
gain hunters in the Isetan depart
ment store rushed past the guards
and crowded into the elevator.
The elevator slipped its brakes
and plunged eight stories to the
basement, non-stop. Nobody was
hurt, but Isetan store officials
rushed the passengers into a par
lor, apologized profusely and gave
them each 500 yen (about $1.50>
merchandise certificates.
Ten Drown In Irish Sea Storm
LONDON, 0P1—Ten seamen were
feared dead in wrecked ships and
hundreds of others fought for
their lives Saturday in hurricane
force winds that tossed vessels
like corks in churning waters
from the Irish Sea to the coast
of Holland.
New Censure
Charge Faces
Sen. McCarthy
WASHINGTON, IfPI — A new
charge faced Sen. McCarthy to
day as he returned from the hos
pital for renewal of Senate debate
on whether to censure him for his
conduct.
Sen. Bennett iR-Utah) said he
would offer a third count, when
the Senate reconvenes its special
session on the censure issue this
noon to the two censure counts
already recommended by a spe
cial bipartisan committee.
Bennett’s charge is based on
McCarthy's attacks on the special
committee and its chairman, Sen.
Watkins, and on McCarthy’s de
scribing the special Senate session •
as, among other things, a “lynch
party.”
McCarthy emerged from the
Bethesda Naval Hospital yester
day with his right arm in a sling,
saying it was still painful but he
was feeling “very well.”
Republican leader Knowland of
California this weekend called on
the Senate to reach a decision by
Dec. 11, saying he believed there
was “a growing demand” for the
Senate to dispose of the issue and
turn to the consideration of what
he termed more important mat
ters.
Bennett’s resolution declares
that McCarthy described the spe
cial Senate session as a “lynch
party” and a “lynch bee,” accused
three of the censure committee
members of “deliberate decep
tion” and “fraud” and called Wat
kins “cowardly” and “stupid.”
These actions of McCarthy’s,
the resolution states, “are all con
trary to good morals and senator
ial ethics and tend to bring the
Senate into dishonor and disre
pute, to obstruct the constitution
al processes of the Senate, and to
impair its dignity.”
Eight Ministers Participate
In Dedication of Plane For
Rev. Wartes of Pt. Barrow
SEATTLE, (iPI —In an unusual,
ceremony in which eight ministers
took part, the Arctic Messenger, a
4-plnce Cessna plane, was dedi
cated at the Bellevue airport ac
ross Lake Washington Sunday
afternoon.
The trim yellow and maroon
craft will be used by the Rev.
William Wartes, a former World
War II bomber pilot, in his Pres
byterian missionary work among
the Eskimos in the Point Barrow
area.
Present at the occasion were
Rev. Wartes’ wife, Bonnie, and
their five children, the oldest
Meredith, 11, and the youngest
Clayton, only 11 months. The
plane, paid for by church contri
butions from all over the country,
is valued at about $18,000, spon
sors said.
Rev. Wartes took the plane aloft
for a demonstration flight. He
will leave this week for Point
Barrow and his wife and family
will join him after the first of the
year.