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VOL. LVIII No. 33 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1956 Per Copy—15*
Nome Blizzard N
Blocks Traffic,
Cancels Planes
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The blizzard reduced school at
tendance so much today that the
hot lunch service was closed down
for the day, for the first time since
the service started in January.
Children from both ends of
town and from the Sandspit were
not present. Children in two
rooms of the school annex were
excused due to insufficient heat.
Only about a third of the chil
dren in the primary grades
showed up and about one-fifth of
the intermediate grades were
present.
All planes cancelled out for the
day and some business houses had
to dig for their keyholes to open
up this morning.
The city snow removal equip
ment was unable to keep up with
the snow. Although one Caterpil
lar ’dozer is clearing the streets
now, the city-owned Cat is in the
shop for modification. Drifts were
too deep for the city grader to
handle.
The Weather Bureau forecast
is for more snow and blowing
snow tonight, clearing Tuesday.
Louis Bromfield,
Noted Author,
Dies at 59 Years
COLUMBUS, Ohio, UP!—Louis
Bromfield, noted Pulitzer Prize
winning author, newspaper col
umnist and militant advocate of
soil conservation, died last night
in University Hospital here at 56.
Bromfield’s physician said his
death was due to “kidney and
liver” failure caused by a jaun
dice infection.” Bormfield had
been in a coma for 24 hours.
Memorial services for the authi
or will be held Thursday in the
First Congregational Church in
Mansfield, Ohio.
Bromfield’s literary career,
which started with the publica
tion of “The Green Bay Tree,”
reached its zenith when he was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926
for his novel “Early Autumn.”
Bromfield traveled widely, and
some of his more than two score
novels reflect the scenes he visit
ed. Many of them also were made
into motion pictures.
After ambulance service in
World War I, Bromfield worked
first as a reporter for the New
City News Assn. He subsequently
became a wire editor for the As
sociated Press, a private tutor;
foreign editor and critic of the
magazine Musical America; a
theater, music and art critic for
The Bookman, and a staff mem
ber of Time magazine.
OVERWEIGHT PILOTS
FIGHT TO SHED POUNDS
RAMSTEIN, Germany (tft^-Over
weight pilots in the U.S. 12th Air
Force—told nine weeks ago to re
duce or else—have reduced.
A headquarters spokesman said
the airborne fatties cut down on
their calories and did push-ups
like mad to comply.
RUSSIA REPAYS
HALF COST OF
NAVY NEPTUNE
WASHINGTON 'The United
States disclosed today that Russia
has paid $724,947 as half the cost
of a Navy Neptune plane shot
down by Soviet fighters over the
Bering Sea last June.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White said this marks the
first time Russia or any of its
satellites ever has paid for planes
knocked down in a number of air
incidents since World War II.
White made public a note de
livered by the Russian embassy in
Washington to the State Depart
ment last Saturday. The note in
sisted the U.S. plane violated So
viet frontiers but that neverthe
less a check of $724,947 was in
closed.
The incident occurred at a time
when Secretary of State Dulles
and Soviet Foreign Minister Mol
otov were in San Francisco at
tending the 10th anniversary con
ference of the United Nations.
They conferred immediately on
it, and Dulles later suggested that
Russia pay at least half.
Molotov agreed, but last Jan. 6
the State Department prodded
Russia, reminding the Soviets that
they had never paid the agreed
upon sum and gave a breakdown
of costs for the plane and injuries
to the crew.
In agreeing to accept half of
the total claimed damages, the
U.S. held to its contention that the
Soviet attack was “unprovoked”
and took place while the Neptune
was flying in international air
space.
EAST COAST STORMS
FATAL TO 95; SNOW
SMOTHERS NEW YORK
Winter that refused to say die
today smothered the metropolitan
New York area with a second
snow blanket of the weekend. It
brought the storm dead toll to 95.
The nation’s largest city was
prostrated with a fall measuring
a foot—the worst snowstorm in
seven years.
Trains stalled or ran late and
some businesses and schools did
not open this morning.
La Guardia Airport was shut
down. Even the usually reliable
New York subways were halted
in spots.
The second storm struck West
Virginia Sunday and swirled up
the middle Atlantic coast during
the night. Later heavy snow bore
down on New England.
President Eisenhower was snow
bound part of the weekend at his
Gettysburg, Pa., farm, but drove
back to Washington this morning.
Wife Who Hid in
Closets Dies in One
Following Argument
SAN MARINO, Calif., UPt—A
wife who often hid in closets died
in one.
A relative yesterday found the
body of Mrs. Dorothy J. Heller,
43, in the closet of the sewing
room in her mansion in this Los
Angeles suburb. She had gone
there to hide after an argument
at noon on Saturday, police said,
and apparently died of a heart
attack.
Her husband is Alfonse H. Hel
ler, 62, wealthy oilman and ranch
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Fred Allen Dies of Heart Attack
After 25 Years in Movies, TV, Radio
Goodrich Reports
On N.C. Meeting
In Fairbanks
....Dewey Goodrich, manager of
the N. C. Co., returned Friday
from a week’s meeting of about
30 Northern Commercial Com
pany agents throughout Alaska
and Yukon Territory.
Also present were company of
ficials including Volney Rich
mond, Jr., John Larons, secretary
treasurer. ♦
Mr. Goodrich stated that much
progress was shown in the unify
ing of merchandise purchasing
and efforts will be made to cor
relate and standardize .national
brands to be carried in all stores.
Goodrich stated the group went
on record to make every effort
to get their merchandise ship
ments handled in cribs as is done
in other parts of the territory.
The local store is to be remod
eled after the more modern stores
in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Mr. Goodrich appeared on tele
vision the last evening he was
there and reports that Sally Car
righar is now personal store buyer
for the N.C. Co in Fairbanks. He
said that Bobo, Sally’s famous dog
had died recently.
r NEW YOR,K itf)—Funeral Ser
vices will be held tomorrow for
Fred Allen, the veteran humorist
with the baggy eyes and sharp wit.
The 61-year-old radio and TV
comedian died of a heart ailment
as he strolled a Manhattan street
late Saturday night.
A solemn Requiem Mass will
be sung for Allen at the actors’
shrine of St. Malachy’s Roman
Catholic Church in the theater
district. He will be buried at the
Gate of Heaven Catholic Ceme
tery in suburban Westchester
County.
Allen was an entertainer in ra
dio, television and motion pictures
for a quarter of a century. He was
a regular panelist on the CBS TV
show “What’s My Line?” Last
night the show went on without
him. His widow, Portland Hoffa,
said he would have wanted it that
way.
Master of Ceremonies John Daly
said at the start of the program
that despite their sorrow the cast
would put on the show “the way
Fred would like to have had it
done.” This, he said, meant doing
no more than Allen himself had
often done, making his audiences
laugh “when he didn’t feel like
laughing.”
Steve Allen, no relation, substi
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Eisenhower Asks $4,839,975,000 in
Foreign Aid to Check Communism
Dominican Republic
Proposes Solution to
Fishing Rights Dispute
CUIDAD, TRIJLLLO, Domini
can Republic, MV—'The Dominican
Republic proposed a plan Satur
day designed to solve disputes
over fishing rights in this hemi
sphere’s territorial waters.
Chile, Peru and Ecuador have
signed a joint agreement to bar
international fishing within 200
miles off their coast lines. This
claim has been disputed by na
tions with big fishing fleets such
as the United States, Norway and
Japan.
The Dominican proposal was
submitted to the Inter-American
Conference on Conservation of
Natural Resources and Marine
Waters which hopes to come up
with a satisfactory solution.
The proposal would limit a na
tion’s offshore sovereignty to that
portion of the continental shelf
which it can “explore and exploit”
efficiently. No limit in miles
would be fixed.
Two Vessels
Equipped With
Radar Collide
VANCOUVER, B.C., t/P)—A fog
shrouded collision here between
two radar-guided vessels appar
ently has no explanation, the cap
tains said today.
The big Norwegian freighter
Holtheim Saturday plowed into
the United States vessel Dispatch
of Seattle, a 130-foot gasoline lad
en tanker.
Both vessels were using radar
and blowing their whistles.
“It was just one of those things
which shouldn’t have happened
but did,” said Capt. Lyle Vail of
the Dispatch. “I simply can’t ex
plain it.”
Capt. Vail was asleep in his
cabin when the Holtheim ripped
a 15-foot hole in the side of the
tanker. Capt. Rolf Bentzon, the
master of the Holtheim, could not
explain the incident either.
“We had our radar on and we
could see her,” he said. “But we
lost her when she got too close.”
Gasoline rushed over the sea
from one of the Dispatch’s rup
tured tanks after the impact. But
sparks thrown from the tom met
al failed to ignite it.
MEMORY TEST FLUNKED
MIAMI, Fla., UP)—Left behind
by a commercial air lines passen
ger deplaning from a Chicago to
Miami flight last night:
A book entitled “Stop Forget
ting”—with a mental concentra
tion pamphlet as a bookmark.
WIFE COMPLAINS OF
MASSAGE WITH CACTUS
LOS ANGELES, UP)—C a r 1 o s
Noriega, 29, was booked on sus
picion of wife beating yesterday
after his wife, Esther, 18, com
plained to police that he beat her
and then massaged her face and
body with a cactus plant.
» WASHINGTON, (4*—President
Eisenhower today asked Congress
to vote $4,859,975,000 for foreign
aid, with $1,640,000,000 in military
assistance earmarked for the Mid
dle East and Asia.
“Serious risk of aggression still
exists” in these areas, he said.
Along with his request for a
big increase in appropriations,
Eisenhower asked for new flexi
bility in administration of the
program.
That feature, as well as the
money increase, promised a hot
fight in Congress.
In a special message, Eisenhow
er told the lawmakers:
“We cannot now falter in our
quest for peace.”
Eisenhower said the need for
the mutual security program he
outlined is urgent because:
1. “There are still nations that
are eager to strive with us for
peace and freedom but, without
our help, lack the means of doing
so.”
2. “There are still forces hostile
to freedom that compel the free
world to maintain adequate and
coordinated military power to de
ter aggression.”
3. “There are still peoples who
aspire to sustain their freedom
■but confront economic obstacles
that are beyond their capabilities
of surmounting alone.”
Eisenhower said significant tes
timony to the success of our mu
tual security programs appears in
the new turns and developments
of Soviet policy.”
Although he said the new Rus
sian maneuvering is still develop
ing, “ we must . . . assume that
Soviet expansionism has merely
taken on a somewhat different
guise, and that its fundamental
objective is still to disrupt and in
the end to dominate the free na
tions.” Eisenhower added:
“With Soviet leaders openly
proclaiming their world aim, it
would be folly for us and our
friends to relax our collective ef
forts toward stability and secur
ity.” He said the $4,859,975,000
which he is asking “is a low price
to pay for the security and vastly
greater chances for world peace.”
Old Steamship Alaska
Towed Across Pacific
To Be Cut Up for Scrap
SEATTLE, —The old steam
ship Alaska, which carried thou
sands of passengers between Seat
tle and Alaska, is scheduled to
leave San Pedro for Japan this
week on her final voyage.
The well-known ship i$ headed
for a Japanese yard to be cut up
for scrap.
A Puget Sound Tug & Barge
Co. tug, the Wando, with Capt.
Kelly Sprague as skipper, will
tow the passenger ship across the
Pacific.
The Alaska, renamed the Ma
zatlan, made one cruise after the
Alaska Steamship Co. went out of
the passenger business and sold
the ship to the Margo-Pacific
Lines. The cruise, from Long
Beach to Acapulco, Mexico, was a
financial failure.