SIS NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL, LV No. 133 .NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1953 Per Copy—15^
GOP Leaders Shy
Of Official Stand
On Statehood
SAN FRANCISCO, UP*—Western
Republican leaders ended a week
end session here with a call for
election of more GOP congressmen
and senators and a decision
against adopting any resolution or
taking an official stand on Hawaii
or Alaska statehood.
Delegates from 11 western
states, Hawaii and Alaska ex
pressed strong support and ad
miration for President Eisen
hower and Secretary of Agricul
ture Benson, nearly unanimous
backing for immediate statehood
for Hawaii (but not Alaska), con
cern over the sick mining industry
and disapproval of the number of
Democrats still in federal jobs.
But they didn’t adopt resolu
tions on any of the issues be
cause, chairman Harlan Payeton
of Spokane explained, this has
been a family meeting of the peo
ple who are going to keep work
ing for the party.
It was learned that the resolu
- tions committee shied away from
statehood resolutions because it
didn’t feel it could back Alaska,
which is normally predominantly
Democratic, along with the Re
publican Hawaii.
Nenana C of C Expedition
Completes 50-Mile Motor
Trek To Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, UP) — A two-car
expedition sponsored by the Ne
nana Chamber of Commerce com
. pleted an overland trip to Fair
banks Saturday, succeeding in a
project which failed last Febru
ary.
The purpose of the 50-mile trip
was to prove the feasibility of a
road linking Nenana with Fair
banks. The trip was taken in
temperatures ranging from 3 be
low to 10 below zero. The pre
* vious attempt was turned back
when the radiator in a jeep used
then was punctured while going
through thick forests.
The tavelers left Nenana at 5
a.m., led by Arnold Anderson,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, in a pickup truck and a
4 - wheel - drive surplus military
vehicle.
Six hours later they were greet
ed in Fairbanks by acting Mayor
Myra Rank and other city of
ficials.
“There’s nothing to the trip,”
Anderson said. “A road could be
built linking Nenana with the
highway system of Alaska at very
little cost. We are looking forward
to completion of this road.”
G. R. Jackson Named
To Development Board
G. R. Jackson has -been appoint
ed by Gov. Frank Heintzleman to
the Alaska Development Board
for the Second Division to fill out
the unexpired term of A. Polet
who resigned some time ago.
Mr. Jackson is well qualified
for this office having lived and
t been in the banking business in
this area for over 50 years and
knows the needs of the Division.
His term is until March 31, 1954.
New Moving Company To
Move Household Goods
Between U.S. And Alaska
SEATTLE, UP)—A moving com
pany which intends to engage
solely in the business of moving
household goods between the
United States and Alaska and
other overseas points was organ
ized last week.
The company, Smyth Overseas
Van Lines, Inc., was incorporated
by G. W. Smyth, Evelyn Smyth
and D.D. Heydlauff.
The company, using padded
vans, or “totes,” will transport
household goods on a door-to-door
pickup-and-delivery plan between
Seattle and Alaska points. The
totes are constructed to be carried
in the holds of ships, on railroad
flat cars or as highway vans.
Loads originating elsewhere in
the United States will be put in
the special vans at the firm’s
warehouses in Seattle.
Strip Teaser, Crazy
About Babies, Is
Arrested by FBI
HUGO, Okla., Iff)—A 5-months
old baby boy giggled and cooed
today while a 17-year-old former
carnival strip teaser who admitted
kidnaping the infant, resolutely
announced that when he is grown
“I’m going to get him back.”
Mrs. Tommy Dene Doughty, ar
rested about midnight at the Red
River Valley farm home of her
father, was placed under $20,000
bond at her arraignment about six
hours after her arrest. She did not
enter a plea.
She was charged with kidnap
ing Richard Lee Stammer Friday
night and taking him from his
Evansville, Ind., home by bus and
hitchhiking to the farm north of
Bokchita in southeast Oklahoma.
Mrs. Doughty was baby sitting
with the child when she said she
decided to take him. “In a way
I’m glad it’s over, but I still wish
I could have kept him for a few
days,” Mrs. Doughty told an AP
reporter.
“He is just the age of the one
I lost,” she said in halting tones
after her arraignment before U.S.
Commissioner D. A. Stoval.
The child’s parents, Richard
Duane Stammer, 25, a sailor who
got an emergency leave after the
child was taken, and Mrs. Shirley
Stammer, 18, are flying to Durant
to claim their baby.
A physician examined the child
and said he was in perfect physi
cal condition.
James C. Ellsworth, agent in
charge of the FBI in Oklahoma,
said Mrs. Doughty lost a child at
birth in June, 1953, in Chicago.
He said she told agents she gave
birth to a child at Dallas in 1951
but two weeks later her husband
took it away and she never has
seen it since.
At Gainesville, Tex., across the
Red River from Durant, B. R.
Doughty, a taxi driver, said he
was seeking an annulment o'f their
marriage. He said his wife is “sort
of crazy about” babies and once
tried to claim another woman’s
infant as her own in Dallas.
Immigation Act
Is Beneficial To
Alaska, Says Boyd
SEATTLE, UP) — District Immi
gration Director John P. Boyd
says that Alaskans, who at first
were apprehensive about what
they feared would be annoying
red tape under the McCarran Im
migration Act, are now beginning
to recognize it as beneficial to the
territory.
The act went into effect 11
months ago. It set up tighter
regulations for entry of aliens
from the territory. Boyd express
ed the opinion in an interview
that the act has worked to the ad
vantage of Alaska and has given
federal agencies a check on who
is traveling between the U.S. and
its territories.
“It has succeeded in keeping a
lot of agitators and trouble
makers out of the territory,” Boyd
said. “We made it clear before
the act went into effect that if we
found alien subversives or aliens
with criminal histories attempting
to enter the United States from
Alaska, we wouldn’t admit them.
“As a result, most of them
stayed in the States.”
At the time the act was put
into effect last year, it brought
criticism from many Alaska
groups and individuals, who com
plained that it would be discrim
inatory and burdensome.
Boyd said that of 125,000 per
sons who have arrived in this dis
trict from Alaska since the law
took effect, 30 have been de
tained by the Immigration Ser
vice.
The majority, he said, are aliens
from the Philippine Islands who
went to Alaska for the canning
season. Twenty-nine are free on
bond, pending settlement of their
cases. One, a Russian citizen suf
fering from tuberculosis, is in con
finement.
Boyd said 12 of the 30 have
been ordered deported.
Russian Conditions For
Proposed Big 4 Meeting
Unacceptable To The U.S.
WASHINGTON, UPl — Secretary
of State Dulles said today Russia’s
latest note constitutes a blunt de
mand that free nations “uncondi
tionally surrender their protective
principles and practices” before
conferring with world Communist
leaders.
Dulles said emphatically at a
news conference that these Rus
sian conditions for a propsed Big
Four foreign ministers’ conference
are not acceptable to the United
States Goverment.
At the same time he said the
United1 States, Britain and France
would have to give thought to the
possibility of conferences dealing
with Germany and Korea without
Russia.
“The demands made on the
United States,’ Dulles said, “par
ticularly those which are stated as
preconditions to any meeting, are
couched in language that bears
little resemblance to that normally
employed as between nations
which are at peace.”
Police Reports FBI Found
Bill From Missing Ransom
In Greenlease Kidnaping
PETOSKY, Mich., UR — Police
Chief Philo Wakeford of Petosky
said today he understood the FBI
had found in Detroit a $10 bill
from the missing Greenlease ran
som money.
There was no' immediate com
ment from the FBI, but its agents
were reported swarming through
Northern Michigan.
Mrs. Henry Krauser, who was
unavailable today, was reported
to have identified the bill from a
list of serial number distributed
by the FBI to operators of hotels,
motels, rooming houses and mer
chants.
Detroit papers said Mrs.
Krauser got the money from a
rural mail truck driver in Man
tan, Mich., who had received it
without knowing its background.
Manton is 75 miles from Petoskey.
One report was that the miss
ing money came into Michigan
through Chicago’s underworld
and was sold by professional
“fences” for 30 to 50 cents on
the dollar.
U.S. Dumb Enough
To Turn Nazi Subs
Over To Russians
WASHINGTON, (^ — Secretary
of Defense Wilson said today that
after World War II “we were
dumb enough to turn over the
whole German submarine fleet to
the Russians.”
Wilson, in a copyrighted inter
view with the magazine U.S. News
and World Report, also said he
had been misquoted as saying
during the Senate hearings on his
nomination that “What is good
for General Motors is good for
the country.”
He did not elaborate on his re
marks about German submarines,
nor say how many the Germans
had when they surrendered.
Asked about reports that Russia
has the world’s second largest
navy, Wilson said:
“The first thing I would like to
do in my job down here is to
work over some of the mistakes
of the past.
“When anyone mentions the
Russians’ submarines and the fact
that we were dumb enough to
turn over the whole German sub
marine fleet to the Russians, I get
a little hot and stay hot for sev
eral minutes.”
Humphrey Says U.S. Faces
$8 Billion Defecit in 1954
DETROIT, Ufi—Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey said Monday
the government faces a possible
deficit of eight to nine billion
dollars next year unless spending
can be cut or taxes raised.
And, he said, “only relatively
small reductions” in government
spending can be made quickly.
BASEBALL NOT SUBJECT
TO ANTI-TRUST LAWS
WASHINGTON, W — The Su
preme Court today ruled profes
sional baseball is still only a sport
and hence is not subject to federal
anti-trust laws.
I
AYA Estimates
Tourists Spent $10
Million In Alaska
JUNEAU, M—'The Alaska Vis
itors Association estimates the
spending of tourists in Alaska this
year at 10 million dollars, a gain
of 65 per cent over 1952.
The estimate was given by
president Ed Coffey after a week
end meeting of AVA directors
here.
He described the tourist in
dustry as a vital economic factor
in Alaska—even in such cities as
Anchorage and Fairbanks — and
said the AVA hopes a stepped-up
advertising campaign will draw
twice as many travelers next year.
“The paramount importance of
the tourist industry can be seen
all over the territory,” Coffey
asserted. “In Nome and Kotzebue
the economy is now based on tour
ist travel since the closing of the
gold mining industry.”
He expressed the opinion that
tourist dollars did much to bolster
Anchorage and Fairbanks econo
mies last summer while military
construction was at a low ebb
during the period of contract re
viewing.
British Foreign Secretary
Accuses Italian Extremists
Of Provoking Trieste Riots
LONDON, Iff) — Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden today accused
extremists inside Italy of provok
ing last week’s riots in Trieste.
He demanded the Rome govern
ment clamp down on them.
Eden told the House of Com
mons that about 3,000 persons
from Italy tried to storm the
American-British occupied Zone A
of Trieste on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4
but most were turned back.
“In spite of this, large num
bers succeeded in entering or in
filtrating into the zone and took
part in the riots,” he said.
Irresponsible elements had evi
dently planned to exploit certain
national Italian anniversaries in
order to provoke incidents in
Trieste,” he said.
The foreign secretary made his
statement only a few hours after
Prime Minister Churchill unex
pectedly called his cabinet into
session to discuss the Trieste sit
uation. The riots had taken an
anti-British turn.
Clerk’s Strike Curtails
N.W. Airlines Operations
ST. PAUL, Minn., UP) — North
west Orient Airlines operated on
a curtailed basis Monday as a re
sult of the strike last week of
1,500 members of the AFL Bro
therhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks.
Vice-president Malcolm C. Mac
Kay said the changes would leave
some 30 flights unchanged and
would provide service on 85 per
cent of the lines normal daily
mileage.
Company spokesmen said the
streamlining of flights was effect
ed to meet what “probably will be
a long strike.” The airline con
tends the strike is “illegal and un
necessary” because processes re
quired by the Railway Labor Act
have not been complied with.