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VOL. LVII No. 132_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1955_■ Per Copy—15*
Gov. Knight Says
Healthy Mining
Industry Essential
SACRAMENTO, UP)—A mining
industry that is economically se
cure and capable of immediate
full scale development in the
event of a national emergency
should be the nation’s goal, Cali
fornia’s Gov. Goodwin J. Knight
said today.
Many of the strategic miners
are the victims of the complex
international problems confront
ing this nation in its foreign re
lations program,” he said in an
address prepared for the opening
session of a two-day Western gov
ernors mining conference.
Industrymen are forced to com
pete with low foreign wage pro
ducers who send their ores and
concentrates here under a favor
able tariff, he told industry dele
gates and other western gover
nors.
“I know something of the trials
and tribulations of the prospector
and miner,” said Knight, who said
he spoke “as one who hopes to re
open his gold mine some day.”
He said the gold problem is
probably the most complex of all
because of its position in the
monetary system and its relation
ship to many of the international
problems.
The Western states, he said,
have tremendous reservoirs of
minerals, some of which continue
undiscovered.
“Under current incentives for
prospecting, exploration and de
velopment,” he added, “it is pro
bable that they will remain a
secret for years to come.”
The Californian recommended
Western states work together to
develop recommendations that can
solve many of the industry’s prob
lems. “Only by joining hands can
we hope to achieve the support
and recognition that will be neces
sary if a sound and practical long
range mineral policy is to be
established by our federal gov
ernment,” Knight said.
Sen. Scott Condemns
Policy Which Keeps
Alaska ‘Step Child’ of U.S.
FAIRBANKS, (iP)—Sen. W. Kerr
Scott (D-NC) Saturday condemned
what he termed the “federal pol
icy of keeping Alaska a step child
of the United States.”
Here to hold hearings on tin
production, the Senator said both
Alaska and Hawaii “must be free”
if they are to develop.
He charged politics alone has
prevented both territories from
obtaining statehood. The two are
being treated as colonies, said Sen.
Scott, adding: “They are forced
to carry on in a fashion not in
keeping with our demorcatic form
of government.”
Peter Gruening’s Body
F'ound in His Car
15 Miles From Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia, Itf)—Police
Saturday found the body of Peter
Gruening, 32, South Pacific mana
ger for United Press, in his car in
bush country about 15 miles from
Sydney.
Police said a piece of rubber
hose led from the automobile ex
haust pipe to the inside of the ve
hicle.
Gruening. who had been miss
ing a week, was the son of former
Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska.
The newsman had been the ob
ject of a widespread search.
38th Anniversary
Of Revolution Soft
Pedals Red Might
MOSCOW, (* — The Soviet
Union today celebrated the 38th
anniversary of the Bolshevik revo
lution with a massive parade
which played down Soviet mili
tary might.
No new guns, armor or aircraft
were displayed in a brisk 20-min
ute arms demonstration, the brief
est observers ever witnessed on
this holiday.
The thousands in Moscow’s Red
Square saw a big two-year-old
T3C four-jet bomber zoom over
head with an escort of four super
sonic fighters leading the air dis
play. Spectators counted only 59
airplanes in all, including the T38,
nine two-jet bombers and 34
fighter planes. The fighters were
a new version of the MIG which
has a claimed speed faster than
sound at level flight.
No field piece was displayed
which could be called strictly
atomic, but western military ob
servers said almost any large field
piece can now take an atomic
charge.
Some spectators thought the
Soviets were bending over back
wards to support their contention
they are peace-loving, unaggres
sive and friendly and thus help
their own position at the Big Four*
foreign ministers’ conference in
Geneva.
Governor's Conference
Calls For Program To Get
Mining Out of Doldrums
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UD—The
governors of Nevada, Idaho, Utah,
Wyoming and California and the
lieutenant governor of Colorado
called last night for westerners to
agree on a program to get the
mining industry out of the dol
drums.
“We must have unity of action,”
said Gov. Charles Russell of
Nevada at a dinner on the eve of
a two-day western governors min
eral policies conference.
Idaho’s Gov. Robert E. Smylie
asked, too, for a program which
can be sold to Congress. “This
isn’t the problem of just any one
of the western states,” declared
Milward Simpson of Wyoming.
“I have the impression that
miners are very poor politicians,”
said Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah.
“Maybe that’s what’s wrong with
the mining industry.” The im
provement of the industry would
buttress the economy of the west
and of the entire nation, said Cali
fornia’s Gov. Goodwin J. Knight.
S. H. Williston of Palo Alto, the
co-chairman of the conference,
said the -west’s mining industry
has been sacrificed by the U.S.
State Department in the interest
of foreign relations.
The session was called by Gov.
Knight, who has closed a gold
mine of his own he would like
to open. Knight invited the gov
eronrs and industrymen of the ll
western states, plus North Dakota
and Alaska.
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| "Honest John" Rocket Launcher
Tested On Mount Fuji In Japan
KOTEMBA, Japan UPC-1The U.S.
Army’s Honest John rocket
launcher, which can fire atomic
warheads, lobbed a concrete miss
i ile six miles over the lower slope
of Mt. Fuji today without incident
in its first test firing in Japan.
The sacred snow-capped moun
i tain was the backdrop as 850 high
Japanese and Americans watched
the test.
Western GOPs
Ask Immediate
Alaska Statehood
PORTLAND, (#> — The Western
Republican Conference added an
appeal for immediate Alaska
statehood Saturday to its resolu
tions committee report and ap
proved all other proposals in a
strong show of unanimity. Hawaii
already was down for immediate
statehood endorsement.
The statehood resolution was
the only one amended on the
floor. When it was phrased to say
the convention fa'Vors “immediate
statehood” for Hawaii and only
“statehood” for Alaska, Walter J.
Hickel of Anchorage, the terri
tory’s national committeman, pro
tested. Without dissent the con
vention then approved calling for
immediate statehood for both ter
ritories.
In oth*er resolutions the conven
tion commended the partnership
program for power development;
endorsed the Eisenhower adminis
tration’s mining policy and said it
favors the stockpiling of strategic
raw materials and special incen
tive payments for domestic ex
ploration and development, called
for enactment of the Eisenhower
highway construction program
and extension of the federal high
way aid act to Alaska.
Ford Motor Co. Stock
Will Go On Public Sale
For First Time In History
NEW YORK, (M—Stock of the
k Ford Motor Co., which revolu
tionized America with its mass
production methods, is to be sold
to the public after the first of the
year.
The price and precise timing
have not yet been set, but nearly
seven million new common shares
with voting rights will be offered.
Financial analysts say it is ex
pected to bring between 400 and
500 million dollars, indicating a
price of $60 to $70 a share.
The announcement that Ford,
richest family business enter
prise in the world, would desert
the ranks of family-owned firms
was made last night. It came from
the Ford Foundation, multi-mil
lion-dollar philanthropic trust set
up by Henry Ford, who died in
1947.
Henry Ford II, grandson of the
founder and president of the Ford
Company, has agreed with other
Ford heirs to transfer 60 per cent
of their exclusive voting control
of the company to the new com
mon stock. The other 40 per cent
of voting rights will remain with
the Ford family.
With the public sale of its
stock, the company will have to
disclose for the first time its
assets and earnings, one of its
most carefully guarded secrets for
52 Vz years. ,
Only last Wednesday the Ford
board chairman declared the com
pany’s 1955 earnings, before taxes,
would surpass the firm’s total
earnings for the 21 years before
World War II. Neither figure was
revealed, however.
President To Leave
Hospital On Friday
DENVER, —President Eisen
hower will leave the hospital Fri
day and fly back to Washington,
but his doctors said today it may
be late January or early February
before he is in a position to de
cide whether to seek re-election.
Dulies Opens Drive to Get Russian
Participation in Measures To Make
Massive Surprise Attack Impossible
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Tito Joins West’s
Demand Russia
Free Satellites
BRIONI, Yugoslavia, W)— Mar
shall Tito put his weight today
behind the West’s demand that
Soviet - bound satellite states of
eastern Europe be given their in
dependence and freedom of ac
tion.
As a leading statesman in the
Balkans, he apparently has been
asked also to use his influence
for peace between Israel and the
Arab states during a trip he is
planning to Egypt.
These were the highlights of a1
seven-hour talk yesterday be
tween the president of Commun
ist Yugoslavia and U.S. Secretary
of State Dulles in the dramatic
setting of Tito’s Adriatic island
retreat.
Tito took Dulles for a ride in
his white speedboat to the nearby
island of Vanga, which he uses for
swimming and clambakes.
Then Tito played host in his
palatial home for the first time
to the large group of accompany
ing newspaper correspondents
who strolled about a black marble
reception room admiring the gold
and white piano, oil paintings of
nude cherubs and ladies, and a
collection of ship models.
Sitting beside Tito, who later
said he was in agreement, Dulles
told reporters:
“We were of common accord in
recognizing the importance of in
dependence for these (east Europ
ean) states, non-interference from
the outside in their internal af
fairs, and the right to develop
their own social and economic
order in ways of their choice.”
These words would apply to
Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, Ro
mania, Czechoslovakia and Po
land. They indicated Tito’s views
had not been changed by the visit
of Soviet Premier Bulganin and
Communist party leader Khrush
chev last spring.
Iron Lung Flown To
Ketchikan Which Has
37 Polio Cases in 3 Months
SEATTLE, —An iron lung
was flown to Ketchikan from Se
attle Saturday for use in treating
polio cases.
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis loaded the res
pirator aboard an Pan American
Airways plane at Seattle-Tacoma
Airport.
The iron lung was taken from the
King County Hospital, which got
it on loan from Oakland. The hos
pital is not in immediate need of
it.
Ketchikan has had 37 cases of
polio within the past 3 months.
Three patients have died, and
thr'ee now are in respirators, ac
cording to Mrs. James O. Whaley,
Alaska advisor of women’s activi
ties for the Foundation.
Mrs. Whaley, a volunteer work
er, notified the Foundation’s rep
resentative in Washington of the
need for an additional iron lung
at Ketchikan when she arrived
here Saturday evening to attend a
Foundation meeting to be held
here Wednesday and Thursday.
> GENEVA, Ut) — Secretary of
State Dulles conferred today with
disarmament expert Harold Stas
sen. He opened a drive to get
Russian participation in measures
designed to make a massive sur
prise attack by eithe? America or
the Soviet Union impossible.
Dulles returned from the Yugo
slavia resort of Brioni last night
with an agreement from Marshall
Tito that the Soviet satellite states
of eastern Europe should regain
their independence.
This was regarded in Western
quarters here as a boost for the
American campaign to keep alive
the quest for freedom in the Iron
Curtain countries, especially since
it was only a few months ago
that Soviet leaders tried to talk
Tito back into the satellite fold.
Dulles, it was learned, will tell
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov that agreement on such
measures — keyed to President
Eisenhower’s U.S. - Soviet aerial
inspection plan—could be follow
ed readily by other steps leading
to worldwide arms reduction and
control of atomic weapons.
Dulles is prepared to assure
Molotov that while the United
States considers aerial inspection
an essential measure in prevent
ing the surprise attack, it is pre
pared to consider any other sug
gestions for action the Soviets
may put forward.
Seven of Ten Escaped
Convicts from Walla Walla
Prison Are Recaptured
WALLA WALLA, Wash., (A —
Seven of 10 convicts who bored
through concrete and dirt to lib
erty late Thursday were back in
the Washington State Penitentiary
today and an intensified search,
was being made for the three
still at large.
Posses rounded up the seven
Friday in groups of four and three
with all the men surrendering
meekly despite their reputations,
for toughness.
The last three captured includ
ed William Bracey, 20, Tacoma
youth who slew his mother two>
years ago in a fit of pique be
cause she declined to let him use
the family automobile. Bracey
exhibited no truculence when
stopped by police on Milton-Free
water Street.
Fire At Northwest Airlines
Refueling Base at Cold Bay
SEATTLE, IA—A fire de
stroyed two buildings and dam
aged others at Northwest Orient
Airlines refueling base at Cold
Bay, Alaska.
First reports reaching A. T.
Petersen, regional operations
manager here, indicated no one
was injured in the fire which
broke out yesterday.
Cold Bay is located on the tip
of the Alaska Peninsula. North
west at present is moving its
major trans-Pacific refueling sta
tion back to Shemya Island at the
tip of the Aleutian Island chain
900 miles west of Cold Bay.
Reports indicated that the build
ings destroyed by fire were two
former barracks buildings now
used for housing single employes
of the airline.