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VOL. LVII No. 90_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1955 Per Copy—15*
Ike Confident Of
GOP Leaders If
Party Has Unity
WASHINGTpN, (#— President
Eisenhower told Republican law
makers today that the GOP can
control the national administra
tion “forever” if it works in unity
for principles that the people can
accept in confidence.
He also described as “complete
bosh” suggestions that the Am
erican people have been led to
expect too much too soon out of
the Geneva summit conference
and a let-down will work against
the Republican party.
The President spoke informal
ly at a breakfast at the Statler
Hotel attended by all but 11 of
the 249 Republican senators and
representatives.
The pre-adjournment gathering
was arranged by Republican Na
tional Chairman Leonard W. Hall.
There was a d956 second term
atmosphere as the President en
tered the room, with many of the
legislators chanting “We want
Ike.”
Although the President made
no mention of a second term, he
urged the legislators when they
go home to carry a positive mes
sage to their constituents about
the work they have done and
will do.
Bob Thompson, Anchorage
Restaurant Owner, Killed
In Accident At Ski Bowl
^ANCHORAGE, UP) — Bob
Thompson, veteran Alaska skier
and Anchorage restaurant owner,
was killed yesterday when a truck
loaded with barrels of gasoline
overturned at the summit of
Arctic Valley Ski Bowl, eight
miles from here.
Thompson was one of the or
ganizers of the Anchorage Ski
Club and was helping take fuel
to the ski tows. A companion,
John Goetz, said the truck lurch
ed over the edge of a high ridge
at the top of the ski bowl area.
Goetz was thrown clear.
A helicopter sent to the scene
was unable to land and Thomp
son was loaded into the aircraft
as it hovered in the air. He was
dead on arrival at the Air Force
hospital here.
Juneau Gets 9,000 Shots
Of The Polio Vaccine
INDIANAPOLIS, (#> — The Eli
Lilly Co. received orders yester
day from the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis to ship
201,726 shots of polio vaccine to
six states, Alaska and the Canal
Zone.
Juneau will get 9,000.
LAST OF THE MOONSHINERS?
ST. LOUIS, UP)—The last fed
eral raid on a still in St. Louis
was in 1947 and Rayfield Hol
land, now 53, served two years
in prison for operating it.
Federal agent* made a raid yes
terday in midtdjvvn St. Louis and
whom did they arrest? Rayfield
Holland.
He was charged with operating
and possessing an unlicensed still.
He was held in the city jail in
default of $1,500 bond.
McKay Optimistic For
Alaska Economy After
End Military Spending
WASHINGTON, W) —Secretary
of the Interior McKay expressed
optimism last night about the ec
onomic future of Alaska, even
after heavy military expenditures
there have stopped.
“Bastions of defense for the
whole of North America have
been constructed” in the Terri
tory, he declared, and the hun
dreds of millions of dollars spent
there by the military have made
it possible to develop many re
sources far more rapidly than
would otherwise have been the
case.
“It is obvious that there will
be some recession with a decline
in military construction expendi
tures. To a small extent this has
already happened, but I do not
believe that it will be serious.
“Southeastern Alaska has not
shared in the boom occasioned by
military construction. It is ex
periencing, however, a boom of
more normal and therefore per
haps more wholesome proportions
in the development of its own re
sources.” ,
CAB Sets States
Alaska Fares Same
For DC4’s, DC6’s
WASHINGTON, Wl—'The Civil
Aeronautics Board has establish
ed new minimum air fares be
tween Seattle and Alaska. At the
same time it found fare differen
tials between DC-4 and DC-6B
airplanes unwarranted.
The CAB rejected the applica
tion of Alaska Airlines for per
mission to charge $15 less for its
DC-4 service than Pan American
World Airways charges for faster
DC-6B service over the same
route.
The CAB found proposed re
duced States-Alaska fares, filed
by Alaska, Pan American, Pacific
Northern, and Northwest Airlines
“unreasonable where it appears
that such reductions would ad
versely affect the financial posi
tion of the subsidized carriers.”
It said that a fare differential
between the DC-4 and the DC-6B,
on States - Alaska service, was
“unwarranted where the DC-6B
service, while more desirable, is
of the nature of tourist service,
making efficient use of the cap
acity of an aircraft which is not
more expensive to operate than
the DC-4.”
The board set $105 as the mini
mum first class fare between
Seattle and Anchorage, and the
following minimum fares for
tourist class between Seattle and
these Alaska points: Fairbanks,
$90; Anchorage, $75; Juneau, $55.
FOR SALE: CASTLE,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
STOCKHOLM, UP) — Anybody
want to buy a castle for 5 cents?
The Berkvik - Ala Co., a huge
wood pulp firm, today offered to
sell the big castle at Axmarkbruk,
in central Sweden, for that price.
The gimmick: the purchaser
must renovate it completely—at
an estimated cost of $150,000.
Munz Airways
Plane Crashes
At Feather River
The L-5 aircraft of the Nome
Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, flown
by Sam Parkinson, went out on
three search and rescue missions
Wednesday night and Thursday
morning.
The search started when word
was received that the Munz Air
way plane piloted by Martin
Olsen was down near Feather
River about 40 miles west of
Nome.
Two missions were flown on
Thursday night but were unsuc
cesful due to bad weather and
darkness.
Passengers on the plane were
Mrs. Sam Okboak and three chil
dren enroute to Nome from Teller.
Pilot Martin Olsen reports the
group had to walk ten miles across
the tundra to reach the beach and
at no time was there a word of
complaint from the children, who
rested frequently. All were pro
vided with sleeping bags and
emergency rations carried on the
plane Two of the children were
of school age.
The plane, a new Stinson Gull
wing, developed mechanical trou
ble, causing the forced landing.
According to reports, Olsen did
a skillful job of landing without
injury to any of the passengers
although the plane is a wreck.
When the group reached the
beach, Olsen built a big bonfire
which was visible to the search
planes.
Early Thursday morning the
survivors were sighted by How
ard Mays, who landed and picked
up the passengers of the crashed
plane. Martin Olsen was picked
up shortly afterwards by Parkin
son in the CAP plane and re
turned to Nome.
Japs In a Dither Over
U.S. Plans To Base
Atomic Cannon In Orient
TOKYO, —The arrival of six
U.S. Army atomic cannon at Oki
nawa roused political fire today
in Japan’s parliament.
Under critical opposition ques
tioning, Prime Minister Ichiro
Hatoyama said the United States
had not informed Japan that the
atomic guns and rockets were
being sent to the Far East for
the first time.
“Since this issue is very im
portant,” said Foreign Minister
Mamoru Shigemitsu, “we have
immediately asked for official
confirmation.
“The government’s attitude will
be decided by the reply.”
The Diet questioning, in which
Shigeru Yoshida, beaten by Hato
yama in last fall’s elections, par
ticipated, followed a Washington
announcement that a six - gun
battalion of 280mm. atomic can
non and a battery of long range
726mm. bombardment rockets
were being assigned in the Far
East.
At Okinawa, biggest U.S. Far
East base, an Army spokesman
said the atomic guns had arrived
there and would be unloaded
Saturday and Sunday.
Democrats Renew
Demands President
Fire Secty. Talbott
WASHINGTON, Iff —Renewed
demands from two Democrats
that President Eisenhower fire
Secretary of the Air Force Tal
bott indicated today they view
the case as ammunition for the
1956 election campaign.
Eisenhower has announced he
himself will decide, from the tes
timony in a now - ended Senate
investigation of Talbott’s profit
able outside business activities,
whether the Secretary had vio
lated “a proper standard of
ethics.”
The demands for Talbott’s oust
er came from Sen. Morse (D-Ore)
and Paul M. Butler, Democratic
National Chairman, both of whom
have criticized Talbott’s outside
activities as a special partner in
the New York firm of Paul B.
Mulligan & Co. while serving in
the Air Force post.
Morse told the Senate yester
day that Talbott should be fired
“forthwith,” and asked:
“What is the President waiting
for?”
Butler released a statement de
claring “It is difficult to see how
Mr. Eisenhower can retain Mr.
Talbott without serving notice, in
the eyes of the public, that the
President is lowering his admin
istration’s standards of integrity
for all government officials.’
AEC Hints At New
Weapons Based On
1954 H-Bomb Tests
WASHINGTON, (* — The gov
emment said today it has begun
producing weapons whose design
is based on the spectacular 1954
hydrogen bomb tests in the Pac
ific. and hinted these are of sev
eral types.
It said also that the prospects
for developing an airplane driven
by an atomic power plant have
“considerably brightened” in the
last six months.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion, which made these disclos
ures, was as close - mouthed as
usual in its 18th semiannual re
port to Congress. The report cov
ered the first half of this year.
Some scientists have speculated
that one device tested in the
AEC’s “Operation Castle” at its
Pacific proving grounds in the
spring of last year may have been
a “hydrogen-uranium bomb.”
The theory is that such a wea
pon would produce much more
radioactivity than even an H
bomb with its deadly clouds cap
able of covering a 7,000 square
mile area.
There was nothing in the AEC’s
report to support this speculation.
The report said domestic pro
duction jof uranium ore and its
concentrates “reached record lev
els—making the United States one
of the world’s leading uranium
producers.”
Bridges Ruled Not a Red
SAN FRANCISCO, —Federal
Judge Louis E. Goodman ruled in
favor of Harry Bridges today—
that Bridges wasn’t a Commun
ist.
House Passes Over
Alaska's Mental
Health Bill
WASHINGTON, I* — T h e
Alaska Mental Health bill ap
parently is dead for this session
of Congress.
Congressional Delegate Bart
lett says it is his understanding
from key House, members that the
bill now will not come up in
the House until next year. It
had been approved Wednesday by
the House Interior Committee but
apparently became a victim of the
final congressional rush toward
adjournment.
The bill proposed to revise the
treatment of mental patients in
the territory by providing facil
! ities for treatment there. They
now are taken to a sanitarium in
Portland, Ore., for care under a
government contract with the pri
vate institution.
Lutheran Pastor Is Found
Guilty In First Heresy
Trial In Sixty Years
MILWAUKEE, UF>—A Lutheran
pastor, found guilty last night in
the first heresy trial in the 60
year history of the Northwest
Synod of United Lutheran Church
said after the verdict, “I am not
| guilty as charged.”
The Rev. George P. Crist, Jr.,
31, summoned from his home to
hear the decision, added, “I have
committed no offense against the
rules of the United Lutheran
Church. I am certainly saddened
by the verdict, but I think I was
as ready for it as I could be.”
A synod trial board of seven
pastors found Rev. Crist guilty of
nine counts of deviation from
church doctrine and recommend
ed he be suspended immediately
from his pulpit. He was found
innocent of five charges. He de
nied the 14 charges were valid
deviations from church doctrine.
Bulgaria Promises Israel
To Pay Compensation
For Downed Airliner
JERUSALEM, UP — An Israeli
Foreign Office spokesman said
today Bulgaria has promised to
pay compensation, at least in part,
for the Israeli airliner shot down
Wednesday by Communist gun
ners.
Fifty-eight persons, including
12 Americans, perished in the
crash.
The spokesman said a note re
ceived here declared the Bulgar
ian government’s “readiness to
take upon itself the respective
part of the material damage
which has been caused, after it is
duly established.”
The Bulgarians announced yes
terday that their gunners shot
the Israeli plane’s tail off when
it wandered off couise on a flight
from Europe to Israel.
The note received today ex
pressed “profound regret.”
Hoover Declines Police Job
WASHINGTON, tfu FBI head
quarters said today Director J.
Edgar Hoover has declined an of
fer of the police commissioner
ship of New York City.