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VOL, LVII No. 82NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1955 vPer Copy—15^
Rioting Argentine Catholics Dispersed
By Police, Condemned by Cardinal
Rev. C. T. Buchanan Of
Kotzebue To Start
Orphanage In Brazil
Rev. C.T. Buchanan, who for
the past eight years has been
ministering to the people of Kot
zebue, and who built his own
church there, is preparing to
leave for Brazil where he plans
to open an orphanage. His fam
ily, which is in Kotzebue, will
join him later in South America.
California Sister Team
Wins Powderpuff Derby
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 7,
CUP)—A sister team from Califor
nia today won the ninth annual
“Powderpuff Derby.”
Mrs. Frances S. Bera, of Los
Angeles, a flying instructor, and
.her sister Edna Bower of Long
Beach, won the $800 first prize
money for the best time in the
2,800-mile handicap race from
Long Beach to Barnes-Westfield
airport here.
Miss Pearl Laska, No. 40, of
Fairbanks, Alaska, was grounded
by poor flying conditions at Wil
kinson, Pa., and couldn’t make
Springfield on time. Her co-pilot
was Miss Vivenne Schrank of
Jordon, Mont.
The winning plane was a Cess
na 180. The handicap is figured
on “par speed,” or the air speed
at 75 percent of maximum horse
power.
Robert Anderson
Resigns Post in
Dept, of Defense
WASHINGTON, (JPI—Robert B.
Anderson of Texas resigned today
as deputy secretary of defense,
effective about Aug. 15.
The White House, announcing
the resignation, said President
Eisenhower was accepting it
“with the greatest reluctance.”
It said no successor had yet been
chosen. However, Murray Snyder,
assistant press secretary, indicat
ed the President would make a
nomination to the post before
Congress adjourns.
There have been reports An
derson intended to leave the ad
ministration, and last month Sec
retary of Defense Wilson confirm
ed them, saying Anderson intend
ed to resign in “the next few
months.”
Anderson wrrote the President
he had arrived at a decision to
step down “only because of per
sonal considerations.” He did not
specify them.
There has been some specula
tion that he may run for gover
nor of Texas next year.
There have been reports Ander
son would be succeeded by Reu
ben B. Robertson Jr., Hamilton,
Ohio, paper company executive.
Others whose names have come
into speculation about the post in
clude Secretary of the Navy
Charles S. Thomas, Secretary of
the Air Force Harold Talbott and
Assistant Secretary of Defense
Gordon Gray,
BUENOS AIRES, M—Argen
tina’s uneasy church-state truce
was jarred yesterday as police
and firemen routed Catholic riot
ers staging their second anti
Peron demonstration in 24 hours.
The riot landed 13 policemen
and firemen in hospitals and
brought condemnation of the
demonstrators from Santiago Car
dinal Copello, ailing archbishop
who has urged a peaceful course
in the dispute.
Sixty persons were arrested but
many were released after ques
tioning.
In the first violence since the
bloody June 16 revolt against
President Juan Peron, more than
500 demonstrators milled through
the Plaza de Mayo near the Met
ropolitan Cathedral. Police trying
to disperse the crowd were stoned.
Defying church appeals for
peace and Peron’s own call for
“pacification,” the demonstrators
jeered police and shouted “he
must go” in an apparent reference
to the president.
One woman screamed at police:
“Why didn’t you come when they
were burning the churches?”
Firemen quickly moved in,
spraying the rioters with chemi
cal foam and brown-tinted water
as police wagons rushed to the
square.
Most of the crowd fled from
the plaza, but some gathered a
few blocks away and marched
toward the Naval Club Building,
singing the national anthem. Four
firetrucks were rushed up to scat
ter the marchers again with water
sprays. Police loudspeakers
warned more defiance would be
dealt with strongly.
Sunday’s riot broke out shortly
after priests finished reading from
their pulpits a letter from the
Cardinal Copello urging Catholics
to refrain from provocative acts
which might divide “our citizens
whose peacefulness and harmony
is our main aspiration.”
Interviewed last night at a sani
tarium where he is being treated
for injuries suffered in a fall last
year, the primate said “he con
demned” the attitude of those who
call themselves Catholic and dis
turb the peace.
Qualifying Test Found
Too Tough for Plumbers
AUSTIN, Tex., (AV—That writ
ten test was just too tough for
the boys seeking journeyman
plumbers’ licenses.
It “tended to confuse the can
didate rather than measure his
ability,” the Texas State Board of
Plumbing Examiners reported.
Worried because only 61 per
cent passed the test, the board
examined its examinations and
reported the written questions
were aimed at people with an
11th grade reading level. The
average test-taker, the board said,
has a 9th grade reading level.
The questions were simplified
and emphasis put on practical
plumbing demonstrations.
Ho Chi Minh to Moscow
TOKYO, UP>—Radio Peiping said
Ho Chi Minh, president of Red
Viet Nam, arrived in Novosibirsk
yesterday on his way to Moscow.
Novosibirsk is the junction of
the Transiberian and the Turksib
Railway that winds south to Tash
kent and beyond in Russian Tur
kestan.
Ho left Peiping on July 7 and
is making a leisurely air trip
across Siberia.
Now’s the Time
To Buy Tickets for
Lunch Program
The Hot Lunch Committee ap
pointed by Mr. William Angell,
superintendent of schools, is plan
ning hot lunches to be served
from January 2 until the end of
school next year.
Since it is' necessary to order
supplies to be delivered on the
last boat, parents are being asked
to buy meal tickets now. The
lunches will cost thirty cents each
or $6 per month. They will con
sist of a casserole or stew, milk,
bread, and butter. Some days
sandwiches will be served with
hot soup or cocoa. No profit is to
be made on the lunches so all
funds will be used for food and
necessary operating expenses.
The Board of Education has as
sumed responsibility for operating
the Hot Lunch Program as an
integral part of the school curric
ulum. The Nome City Council has
approved the Board’s action. The
success of the program now de
pends on the support of the par
ents who must buy hot lunch
tickets. These may be purchased
from Clinton Gray at the Nugget
office, or from committee mem
bers.
Buy now to insure your child’s
having a hot lunch every school
day beginning January 2.
Senate Resolution Would
Proclaim Hope for
Freedom of Puppet States
WASHINGTON, <*>—Sen. Know
land (R-Calif) introduced in the
Senate today with the “full ap
proval” of President Eisenhower
a resolution expressing hope cap
tive peoples behind the Soviet
Iron Curtain will gain their free
dom.
Knowland, GOP floor leader,
told the Senate the resolution was
being sponsored jointly by him
self, Sen. Clements of Kentucky,
the acting Democratic leader;
Chairman George <D-Ga) of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, and Sen. Wiley of Wis
consin, top-ranking Republican on
the foreign relations group.
The resolution was offered, said
Knowland, “with the full knowl
edge and approval of the State
Department and of President
Eisenhower.”
As proposed, the resolution
would put the Senate on record as
proclaiming “the hope that the
peoples who have been subjected
to the captivity of alien despot
isms shall again enjoy the right of
self determination within a frame
work which will sustain peace.”
Three Turncoats Leave Red China
To Face Prosecution at Home
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Navy Careers Ended
For Two Injured Airmen
Shot Down by Russians
OAKLAND, Calif., W—The in
juries they suffered when, Rus
sian Migs shot down their patrol
bomber June 23 will end the
active Navy careers of Thaddeus
Maziarz, 33, of Iakland and Ed
ward Benko, 25, of Chicago.
The Navy disclosed both will
get disability discharges and pen
sions. The men were flown here
last week with five others hurt
in the bomber’s crash landing on
St. Lawrence Island in the Ber
ing Sea.
Maziarz suffered burns and
fractures. Benko’s upper left arm
was shattered.
Strong Man Swims
Handcuffed From
Alcatraz to San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, WPV—Muscle
man Jack LaLanne, who lasf year
swam the Golden Gate underwat
er, capped his aquatic feats yes
terday by swimming handcuffed
from just off Alcatraz to San
Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s
Wharf.
The physical culturalist, pick
ing an infrequent favorable cur
rent, negotiated the two-mile dis
tance in 56 minutes. He used a
modified sidestroke.
LaLanne, of Oakland, crawled
out of the water and then did 30
one-arm pushups to prove he
could have gone farther.
Full Employment
Reported for
Interior Arctic
FAIRBANKS—The 13,807 per
sons now working in the interior
arctic represent the fullest em
ployment picture in five years,
according to Mrs. Ola Reeves,
manager of the local employment
service.
Employment is 14 percent great
er now than a year ago at this
time. The total working force also
has increased 14 percent in the
past two months.
The figures compiled by the
Fairbanks employment service of
fice cover both the Second and
Fourth Divisions. But all of the
hiring for the jobs in these regions
is done only out of Nome and
Fairbanks, with the latter office
receiving by far the greatest bulk
of the traffic, said Mrs. Reeves.
The majority of the peak work
ing force of 13,807 persons is lo
cated in the greater Fairbanks
area. Most of the remainder is
concentrated in defense work,
mainly in the Arctic, said Mrs.
Reeves.
The total labor force in the
Second and Fourth Divisions—
both the workers and the jobless
—now numbers 15,110. In July of
1954 there were 13,450 persons in
the labor market, 13 percent few
er than now.
Two months ago there were
11,430 in the labor market.
► HONG KONG, UR—'Three for
mer American soldiers who
changed their minds about living
in Communist China sailed for
home tonight.
The three men—William A.
Cowart, 23, of Dalton, Ga., Otho
G. Bell, 24, of Hillsboro, Miss.,
and Lewis W. Griggs, 22, of Jack
sonville, Tex.—said they expect
to be prosecuted but are ready to
face the consequences in order to
tell what happened to them.
Life with the Reds was hell,
they all agreed.
Captured in Korea, they and 25
other Americans refused repatri
ation. Four months ago, Cowart
said, the trio and two Belgian de
serters began demanding that the
Reds let them go. The Chinese an
nounced in June that all five
would be released.
The Americans crossed the bor
der into Hong Kong territory Sun
day afternoon. British immigra
tion officials turned them over to
the U.S. consular authorities, who
said they appeared to have re
tained their U.S. citizenship and
prepared travel documents per
mitting their direct return to the
United States.
The three men returned from
China without any luggage, altho
Griggs carried a parcel and an
extra pair of shoes.
The consulate paid their pas
sage home on the liner /President
Cleveland, due in San Francisco
July 29 after a stop in Japan. A
consular spokesman said they
would be “expected to repay the
(passage) money at such time as
they can.”
For the voyage home, the State
Dept, ordered the men restricted
to the ship until it docks in Cali
fornia.
The men all had said that they
wanted to visit wartime haunts in
Japan. Cowart said he wanted to
“take care of some business”
there.
The American government has
not indicated what is in store for
the trio, except to say they will
“be responsible for any acts they
might have committeed.”
Because all three and 17 other
former prisoners of war still in
China have been given dishonor
able discharges, Secretary of De
fense Wilson said last month he
did not think the three returning
would be tried by court-martial.
Griggs told a news conference
last night “others want to come
out” of Red China but he would
not name them. The Chinese have
said any of the others could leave
if they desired.
After being questioned by con
sular officials, the Americans
held a news conference. Then
they made a drinking tour of
Hong Kong dancehalis. Today
they planned to see their first
cinemascope before boarding the
President Cleveland.
All three returnees admitted at
their news conference that while
war prisoners they had committed
acts which made them afraid to
return home in the prisoner ex
change after the Korean fighting.
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