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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 6cT NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY) MAY 19, 1958 Per Copy—15^
Demos Condemn
Rep. Smith For
Statehood Block
•LOS ANGELES, UP> — A con
ference of Western Democratic
leaders here adopted a resolu
tion Saturday condemning House
Rules Committee Chairman How
ard Smith (D-Va) for keeping
the Alaska statehood bill locked
up in his committee.
The conference drew 14 na
tional committee members and
11 members of state Democratic
organizations. Eight western
states were represented.
Topics discussed included al
leged freight rate discrimination
against the west, hydroelectric
and atomic power, tax policies,
conservation of natural resources,
possible establishment of a busi
ness development agency for the
west and the integration of Alas
ka and Hawaii into the western
bloc of the Democratic Party. j
Covenant Church
Leader To Speak
Here Wednesday
Dr. Theodore W. Anderson,
president of thte Evangelical
Mission Covenant Church of
America, will speak at the Nome
Covenant Church Wednesday
May 21, at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Anderson, who has been |
the president of the Mission Cov- j
enant denomination for more
than two decades, is a recognized
leader in religious circles around
the world. Mr. Anderson re
ceived his Bachelor of Arts and
Maste-'s degree from the Uni
versity of Chicago, where he was
a Phi Beta Kappa student. The
honorary degree, Doctor of Hu
mane Letters (L.H.D.), was con
ferred upon him by Augustana
College, Rock Island, Illinois, in
1947. Recognition was given the
Rev. Mr. Anderson in 1952 by
His Majesty, King Gustaf VI of
Sweden, when he awarded him
the Royal Order of the North
Star.
During the past twenty-three
years, Dr. Anderson’s travels,
totaling over a million miles,
have taken him to all forty
eight states of the Union, and
Canada. He has also visited
Africa, Alaska, Formosa, Japan,
South America, and the Philip
pines and has been to Europe
four times.
The Evangelical Mission Cov
enant denomination has exper
ienced substantial growth at
home and abroad under Rev.
Anderson’s leadership. Today
there are over five hundred Mis
sion Covenant churches in the
United States and Canada, with
over 55,000 members. The Cov
enant church has 150 missionaries
serving in Africa, Alaska, Ecua
dor, Formosa, and Japan.
The Mission Covenant Church
was organized in Chicago, Illi
nois on February 20, 1885, as
an outgrowth of the spiritual re
vival that swept through northern
Europe and many areas of Amer
ica during the latter part of the
19th century.
Income Tax Reminder
Internal Revenue asks every
taxpayer who is on the “estima
ted” income basis to be sure to
identify his June 16 payment by
giving the account number shown
on the installation notice or by
returning the notice with his re
mittance.
Rayburn Fears
Alaska Statehood
i Will Be Beaten
WASHINGTON, UP) — House
Speaker Sam Rayburn was
quoted today as expressing fear
the Alaska statehood bill may be
beaten when it comes up in the
House later this week.
Rep. Clair Engle (D-Calif)
said Rayburn had advised him
he believes the bill may be sent
back to the committee but the
Californian added “I don’t think
so myself.”
Engle, chairman of the House
Insular Affairs Committee, made
his comment during the course of
a presentation to him by Ralph
J. Rivers of a trophy making the
Californian a member of the
49ers.
Rivers, Alaska’s unofficial rep
resentative in Congress, said the
award was in recognition of
Engle’s efforts to make Alaska
the 49th state.
Ronald Colman
Dead at 67
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., UP!—
Rqnald Colman, suave creator of
dozens of memorable movie roles,
died today 24 hours after being
hospitalized with a lung infection.
He was 67..
The British-born actor, a star
and a favorite of film fans since
1922, was operated on for a
lung infection a year ago and
had been in poor health since
then.
He became ill yesterday at his
ranch home and was taken to
St. Francis Hospital, where he
died at 5 a.m.
Colman, who won an Academy
Award in 1948 for his role of an
egomaniac Shakespearean actor
in “A Double Life,” starred in
such movies as “Lost Horizon,”
“Random Harvest,” “A Tale of
Two Cities,” and “The Late
George Apley.”
During his long movie career
Colman was known as a man of
culture and distinction, and he
lived the part in real life. Quiet
and studious, he was fonder of
browsing in antique shops and
puttering around in his garden
than in living in the Hollywood
spotlight.
Juneau Man Dies
From Smoke In
Home Fire
JUNEAU, UP> — Wayne L.
Clark, 52, Coast Guard civilian
employee, died here yesterday in
an early morning fire when he
was overcome by smoke from a
blaze that broke out in his home.
Firemen said the blaze appar
ently was caused by a cigarette
that ignited a davenport in the
living room of Clark’s home.
The room was heavily charred,
but firemen were able to pre
vent extensive damage to other
parts of the house.
Clark’s body was found near
the kitchen, where he had fallen,
after apparently attempting to
escape from the smoke.
Clark was a night custodian
employee at 17th District Coast
Guard Headquarters in > Juneau.
He was a native of Omaha, Neb.,
and had lived here about 5
years.
Survivors include three daugh
ters and a son, none of whom live
in Alaska. . 9
’58 NHS Graduate
To Attend Gambell
Citizenship Rite
Virginia Ellen Doyle has been
chosen to make a trip to St.
Lawrence Island on the third of
June by the rest of her 'Class
mates, the 1958 high school grad
uates. The flight is primarily
to witness the granting of citi
zenship rights to a group of Si
berian Eskimos who for some
time have been residents of the
village of Gambell. Time will
be allowed for visiting the vil
lage, and a specially prepared
lunch will be served to all going
on the flight. The flight will
give the opportunity of seeing the
International Date-line area, and
if weather permits, the Siberian
coast. It is expected that the
flight will depart about 9:00 a.m.
on the third of June, and will re
turn to Nome about 6:00 p.m. on
the same day.
All interested persons are
asked to call Main 8 or Red 128
for reservations. The flight will
be limited to the first 25 persons
to apply and pay the $30.00
that the day’s outing and trans
portation will cost. Visitors to
Nome, as well as residents of
Nome are invited to make the
trip.
The Siberian Eskimos who are
to take the oath of U. S. citizen
ship #are Thomas and Pauline
Apassingok, Fred Angij Mildred
Irrigoo, Jane Antogame, John
Walunga and Doris Uglawook.
Mrs. Boucher Flies
To Bedside of Father
Word that Tony Polet was
sinking fast in Seattle was re
ceived by Mrs. Emily Boucher
Saturday morning. She and her
son Rodney left immediately to
be with her father.
At presstime' today no word
had been received from Mrs.
Boucher and it is assumed no
news is good news. ,
Mr. Polet has been in a rest
home in Seattle following a
stroke he suffered here about two
years ago.
Elmer Davis, News
Analyst, Passes On
WASHINGTON, UP> — Elmer
Davis, longtime radio-TV news
analyst, died yesterday of the ef
fects of a stroke he suffered two
months ago. He was 68.
Davis, a white-haired Hoosier,
had been relatively inactive since
a heart attack five years ago.
He' interrupted his broadcast
ing work during World War II
to serve as chief of the govern
ment’s Office of War Informa
tion. In addition, he wrote nov
els, short stories and essays, and
worked for the New York Times
for 10 years.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 5-3, Washington 2-0
Boston 8, Baltimore 4
Kansas City 2, Detroit 0
Cleveland 7-10, Chicago 4-6
National League
San Francisco 7-8, Chicago 3-0
St. Louis 6-0, Los Angeles 5-4
Cincinnati 11, Milwaukee 7
Philadelphia 6-6, Pittsburgh 4-2
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 5, Sacramento 2
j San Diego 7-2, Seattle 3-4
j Salt Lake City 9, Spokane 4
I Phoenix 4-12, Portland 1-5
De Gaulle Ready To Lead France
Out of Chaos But On Own Terms
-<,
Army Jupiter
Makes Good
Re-Entry
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP>—
The Jupiter Intermediate Range
Missile—a project the Army al
most lost five months ago—ap
parently is the first ballistic
weapon to solve the re-entry
challenge.
Army rocket men at the na
tion’s missile test center agreed
the re-entry success was due to
an almost perfect shot of the
mighty Jupiter shortly after mid
night yesterday.
Some hours after the
launching the huge nose cone—
the first full sized warhead ever
mounted on a Jupiter IRBM—
was plucked out of the Atlantic
by frogmen and a crew of a
Navy auxiliary submarine res
cue ship.
First reports indicated the re
entry test was a complete suc
cess.
The precious nose cone was
taken t o Redstone Arsenal,
Huntsville, Ala., where Army
scientists will study its intricate
instruments to learn the secrets
of re-entering the earth’s at
mosphere without burnout after a
cruise through space.
It was the first time a full
scale ballistic missile nose cone
has been recovered intact. The
only other recovery came last
Aug. 8 when a four-foot nose
cone was retrieved from the sea.
Annual Airlift Of
Mt. Edgecumbe School
Students Under Way
The annual spring airlift of
students from the Mt. Edgecumbe
School to their northern homes
is now underway.
Yesterday a special flight
brought in 39 students and they
overnighted here. There were 11
for Nome. 9 for St. Lawrence
Island, 8 for Teller, 6 for Koyuk
and 4 for Shishmaref.
Today 60 students were sched
uled to be flown direct to Kot
zebue. Tomorrow 35 more will
be taken north.
On Thursday 15 more are ex
pected in here; 6 for Elim, 4 for
White Mountain, 4 for Shaktoo
lik, and one for Wales.
These young people are going
back home for the summer and
will be airlifted back to school
in September.
3 California Schools
Plan Withdrawal From
Pacific Sports Conference
PORTLAND, UP) — Representa
tives of the strife-torn Pacific
Coast Conference open their an
nual spring meeting here today—
a meeting which could become
one of the most important in the
42-year history of the conference.
Three schools, UCLA, Cali
fornia and Southern California,
have announced they will with
draw from the conference on
July 1, 1959.
What the remaining six schools
will do after that probably will
come up for discussion.
The meeting agenda includes
Rose Bowl committee reports and
basketball schedules for 1959
and 1960, and football schedules
beyond'the 1962 season.
i
' PARIS, Uft—Gen. Charles de
Gaulle today repudiated the role
of dictator but said he remains
ready to try to lead France out
of chaos.
The wartime hero described
himself as “a man belonging to
nobody but belonging to all” and
added:
“Have I ever attacked the
fundamental liberties of the re
public? No, I restored them.
How could you have me at 67
start a career as a dictator”?
But he made it clear he feels
the present situation, with party
enmities in Paris and the near
revolt in Algeria, is hopeless.
He said the parties have betrayed
France.
Thousands of police stood alert
to prevent any demonstrations
for or against the general.
De Gaulle again did not spec
ify the exact terms under which
he would assume national lead
ership. But he insisted this
would have to be on his terms—
not in the way of a long string
of premiers have followed since
1946, through solicitation of sup
port from various parties. The
present government is the 25th
since World War II.
De Gaulle blamed the Algerian
situation on the Paris govern
ment and said the Army officers
there are not rebels in his book.
Actually, he said, the Army de
serves a “well done” for keeping
disorders from turning into riots.
The general spoke in a firm
voice. He made a statement and
cut off questioning after a half
hour’s session.
“I am going back to my village
but I remain at the disposition
of the country,” he said.
As he left, “de Gaulle to
power” shouts were heard out
side the hotel where he met the
press.
At the outset, de Gaulle made it
clear he felt the present regime,
encompassing many parties, could
accomplish nothing.
Memorial Day Race
Time Trials Are
Fast Despite Rain
INDIANAPOLIS’, UP) — Rain
washed out most of Sunday’s
scheduled time trials for the 42nd
500-Mile Auto Race May 30 but
didn’t cool the hottest combina
tion in pre-race activities—mas
ter mechanic A. J. Watson and
Dick Rathmann, 32-year-old Mi
ami racing veteran.
Rathmann jumped into a Wat
son-built McNamara Special Sat
urday and smoked off 17 other
qualifiers with a record 10 mile
run at 145.974 miles an hour.
Rathmann thus will start in
the pole position, inside of the
front three-car pole, in the Mem
orial Day classic. Watson sold
the new lightweight car to Lee
Elkins of Kalamazoo, Mich., only
a few days ago.
The weather permitted only
one qualifying run yesterday and
Bob Christie, Grants Pass, Ore.,
did 141.900—slowest of the first
19 qualifers.
Old timers dominated the open
ing qualifications, which will
be continued next Saturday and
Sunday. t
The 18 cars that qualified Sat
urday averaged a bristling 143
.853 miles an hour, almost three
miles an hour faster t* an the
best 18 last year.