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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. I32 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958 '_Per Copy—15^
Policeman Kills 16-Year-Old Girl Wlio
Brandishes Automatic Pistol At Him
Experts to Make
Nutritional Study
Of Alaska Eskimos
WASHINGTON, UP) —Food and
nutritional specialists are work
ing on the first large-scale study
of the nutritional status of Alas
kan Eskimos, the U. S. Public
Health Service announced today.
Ten native villages will be
visited by the team. About 1,000
Eskimos will participate in physi
cal examinations and biochemical
studies on how well the native
diet meets nutritional require
ments.
The study also will cover two
Eskimo battalions of the Alaska
National Guard.
Lt. Col. Laurence M. Hursh of
the U.S. Army Medical Nutrition
al Laboratory at Fitzsimmons
Army Hospital, Denver, is in Al
aska directing the survey team.
Alaska Airlines
Buys First New
DC-6C Airliner
SEATTLE, UP>—Alaska Airlines
• took delivery on a new one mil
lion, 300 thousand-dollar DC-6C
airliner at Everett Field yester
day.
The new four-engine Douglas
built craft will be in service in
mid April, Charles F. Willis Jr.,
president and general manager of
the airline said.
Alaska Airlines will purchase
a second DC-6C within another
month, Willis predicted, to add
fast first-class Seattle-Alaska ser
vice daily to and from Anchor
age and Fairbanks. The line now
has 26 airplanes in service.
Free-For-All Rocks Italian
Chamber of Deputies
ROME, (Jl — Fascist and Com
munist deputies turned Italy’s
Chamber of Deputies into a bat
tleground today with a riotous
free-for-all fist fight that left
seven persons injured.
Communist-allied Socialists and
some Center deputies also joined
in the battle, which erupted as
the Chamber considered a bill to
give legal recognition to the It
alian Partisans who fought
against Fascism during World
War II. Such recognition would
allow the Partisans to claim pen
sions and other veterans’ bene
fits paid the army.
Bloody noses, black eyes and'
swollen fingers attested to the
violence of the fight, one of the
worst in years in the turbulent
Italian parliament.
Statistics Prove: If You Want To
Stay Out of Jail—Get Married
ALBANY, N. Y., (£» — More
bachelors and spinsters spent
time in the Albany County jail
last year than did married folk.
The 1957 report of the sheriff
showed 1,970 men had been re
ceived either to await disposition
of charges or to serve a term, and
1,286 of them were single. Of the
206 women taken in, 131 were
single. i
f TOPPENISH, Wash., UP) — A
i rookie patrolman shot and killed
! a 16-year-old girl in' a crowded
J bus station yesterday as she fum
j bled with the safety catch on an
j automatic pistol aimed at him.
Witnesses said Sandra Ling
I scheit, only child of a farm couple
j living on a Columbia Basin irri
! gation project at Eltopia, Wash.,
ignored three warnings to throw
down her gun.
The girl and a companion, Jan
ice Teel, also 16, of Pasco, Wash.,
had been stopped as runaways as
they alighted from a bus:
Patrolman Richard Stevens, 33,
told Police Chief Earl Phillips he
had no recourse but to shoot the
girl, whose gun posed a threat to
the some 50 persons crowded into
the small bus depot in this south
central Washington city.
Chief Phillips said Stevens was
“greatly upset.”
Stevens had been sent to the
bus depot to intercept Sandra and
Janice at the request of Franklin
County officials.
He said he accosted them short
ly after they got off the bus to
stretch their legs. Suddenly,
Stevens said, the Lingscheit girl
turned her back. When she turned
around, he said, she was gripping i
a .22 caliber automatic pistol in j
one hand and fumbling with the i
safety catch with her other hand.
Three times Stevens ordered
her to drop the weapon. When his
last order went unheeded he
drew his own gun and shot her.
Shah of Iran Divorces
Queen Soraya for Failure
To Give Him a Son
TEHRAN, Iran, UPL-The Shah
of Iran today announced his div
orce from beautiful young Queen
Soraya because she failed to give
him a son and heir to his throne.
The divorce followed weeks of
negotiations with the childless,
26-year-old queen, deliberations
within the royal council and long
hours of soul-searching by Shah
Mohammed Reza Phlevi.
Soraya now is in West Ger
many with her father, the Iranian
ambassador there.
The 38-year-old monarch and
his green-eyed wife had been a
devoted, almost inseparable
couple, but the Shah, as a court
communique put it, “ignored his
personal feelings for the sake of
the nation’s high-level interests.”
Bette Davis Files Suit For
$8",000 For Tumble She
Took Into Basement
LOS ANGELES, OP) — Actress
Bette Davis asks $85,000 damages |
for a tumble she took into a base
ment.
Her suit against the former
owners and their agents says that
when she was shown a house she
rented last June a door leading
to the basement was described to
her as opening on a closet.
So she was not expecting a
“precipitous, ladder - type” stair
way when she opened the door
six days later and fell, the com
plaint adds. It says she suffered
spinal and other injuries.
t
Senate Rejects
Sliort-Cut Bill
To Cut Taxes
WASHINGTON, UPl — Senator
Douglas (D-I1I) battled today for
an excise tax cut despite over
whelming Senate rejection of his
proposal for a slash in both per
sonal income and excise levies.
By a 71-14 vote, the Senate de
feated Douglas’ proposal for tax
cut^ totaling about $5,200,000,000.
He contended the cuts were need
ed to fight the recession and pro
vide more spending money.
Several opponents attacked the
Douglas proposal as inflationary.
They also objected to the short
cut method he was using in seek
ing the reduction. Douglas offered
his plan as an amendment to a
House-passed bill dealing with
taxes on certain income of in
surance companies. The Constitu
tion requires that tax legislation
originate in the House, where it
normally is processed in commit
tee before reaching the floor.
Douglas contended a tax cut is
the quickest way to pump con
sumer dollars into the sagging
economy. He noted arguments he
was by-passing usual committee
procedures, and said that if Con
gress does not act now, “We may
wake up and find ourselves in a
disaster.”
In the House, meanwhile, Rep.
Simpson (R-Pa), a member of the
tax-writing Ways and Means
Committee, introduced a bill to
cut taxes on personal and cor
poration income and to trim
sharply excise levies on such
items as new cars, TV sets and
personal transportation. The
Simpson bill would bring tax re
ductions totaling about $6,400,
000,000.
AFL-CIO Says
U nemploymen t
Still Growing
By NORMAN WALKER
WASHINGTON, OB—The AFL
CIO said today available data in
dicates that unemployment in
mid-March is at least as high as
in February, instead of showing
the usual seasonal improvement.
The estimate was made in a
memorandum sent by AFL-CIO
President George Meany to Presi
dent Eisenhower to support la
bor’s contention the economy is
still declining.
Meany sent an accompanying
letter to Eisenhower saying “ev
ery current economic indicator
demonstrates that the recession
has not hit the bottom and thus
there is every need for immediate
action,”
The AFL-CIO report went to
the White House before Eisen
hower met with his cabinet this
morning to review the nation’s
economic plight.
The memo supplied statistics to
indicate that business as well as
employment has been deteriorat
ing.
The prediction that unemploy
ment now is the same or higher
than the 5,173,000 total counted in
mid - February was based on an
analysis of unemployment com
pensation benefit claims.
Anti ■ Statehood Statements By
Juneau Publisher Prescott Allen
Resented By Alaska Delegation
By FRANK W. VAILLE
(AP Special Washington Service^""*
- WASHINGTON, UP)—An angry
discussion of the pros and cons
of Alaska statehood broke up a 1
meeting abruptly yesterday as
participants argued about who i
was best qualified to speak for j
the territory.
As the meeting waxed hot, Wil- ,
liam Prescott Allen, Juneau pub
lisher, said statehood legislation
“doesn’t stand a Chinaman’s
chance in Congress this year.”
Territorial “Senator” William
Egan in turn sternly remarked
that he- resented portions of an
anti-statehood item published in
a Washington newspaper Wed- j
nesday and which Egan said im
pugned patriotism of Alaskans.
The communication referred to
by Egan was headed “editorial”
and ran as an advertisement with
a notation that it was a reprint
from the Daily Alaska Empire,
Juneau, of which Allen is pub
lisher.
It said in part:
“To grant statehood to Alaska
at this time, we would find that
the leftist extreme element in Al
aska and Hawaii would undoubt
edly run a race in case of war to
see which area would voluntarily
join the Communist block first,
and being next door to Russia,
Alaska might go first.”
Asked about this later, Allen
said he had in mind what he
called “radical elements controll
ing waterfronts in Alaska and
Hawaii.” He said he feels “quite
sure there are senators who feel
Alaska and Hawaii are poor risks
in event of war.”
Sitting in on yesterday’s brief j
session in the office of Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska were the terri
tory’s unofficial congressional
delegation — “Senators” Ernest i
Gruening and Egan and “Rep.”
Ralph Rivers.
Others present were Bartlett,
and €. W. Snedden, Fairbanks
publisher, all pro-statehood, and
Allen, who opposes immediate
statehood.
The participants said the ses
sion was called at Allen’s re
quest to discuss means of work
ing together for Alaska.
Anything Short of Statehood
Before the breakup, Allen told
the group that he believes Alaska
can get “anything short of state
hood” this year but can’t get
statehood itself.
He urged the provisional dele
gation to work with Bartlett to
obtain passage of Bartlett’s bill
to lift the 25 per cent ceiling on
the tax-free cost-of-living allow
ances paid federal employes in
Alaska, seek similar tax reduc
tions for all Alaskan residents
and a 10-year moratorium on all
federal taxes in Alaska.
Allen told a newsman later he
believes statehood is unattainable
“until we put our own house in
order and get some industry up
there.”
The meeting broke up when
Egan observed that he, Egan, had
been born in Alaska, that Alas
kans on several occasions had
voted support for statehood, and
challenged Allen’s qualifications
to speak for Alaskans.
Bunch of Phonies
Egan said that at one point
Allen left the room, asserting that
the provisional delegation was “a
bunch of phonies and I don’t
want to talk with you.”
Allen said later that if he
used the word “phonies” he was
referring to the unofficial status
of the group and not to the men
as individuals.
The Juneau publisher said that
while all Southeast Alaskan resi
dents want statehood, there are
80 per cent of them who first
want a tax adjustment and more
industry.
Prince Albert Alexandre
Louis Pierre Is Born to
Princess Grace of Monaco
MONTE CARLO, UPi — Princess
Grace of Monaco today gave birth
to a baby boy, the new heir to
the throne of this Mediterranean
principality.
The former Hollywood movie
queen’s first son—Prince Albert
Alexandre Louis Pierre — dis
places his 13-month-old sister,
Princess Caroline in the line of
succession to rule over 3,000 sub
jects and 20,000 inhabitants.
The palace said the baby was
healthy, the birth normal and
that both the mother and 8Vis
pound child are going fine.
Monaco’s ceremonial cannon
boomed out a 101-gun salute—for
a princess it would have been
only 21 — as the citizens began
celebrating in this 367-acre prin
cipality.
The mother, the former Grace
Kelly of Philadelphia, held the
new baby in her arms soon after
the birth and she herself showed
him to Prince Rainier, the 31st
absolute monarch of Monaco.
Reds Will Not Participate
In Disarmament Talks
Where They Outnumbered
MOSCOW, UP)—The Soviet gov
ernment said today it will not
take part in the work of any U.N.
disarmament commission where
the Communist nations are out
numbered.
A statement by the foreign
ministers said this policy also ap
plies to the discussion of the dis
armament problem before the
U.N. Security Council.
The ministry’s statement charg
ed that the United States was try
ing to aggravate the situation
“and pile up obstacles to a solu
tion of the disarmament prob
lem” by convening the U.N. Dis
armament Commission.”
(The United States and other
Western nations had hoped the
Soviet Union would end its boy
cott and attend a* U.N. Disarma
ment Commission meeting to be
called shortly.)