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Icebreaker Edisto
Off to Antarctica
ForScienceStudies
BOSTON, (#>—The sturdy Navy
icebreaker USS Edisto was on the
high seas today on the first leg of
a six-month expedition to Antarc
tica. She pulled out from here yes
terday.
The Edisto is one of nine ships
which will rendezvous in the polar
region as Task Force 43 for ex
tensive studies to be carried out
under the International Geophysi
cal Year program 1957-58.
The Navy did not spell out the
Edisto’s duties, but previously has
said 38 nations will participate in
IGY studies embracing such fields
as meteorology, solar activity, gla
ciology, cosmic rays, oceanog
raphy and geomagnetism.
The Edisto carries a crew of
some 200 officers and men. Eleven
Alaskan husky dogs, trained for
sled work, also are aboard.
On the ship’s weather deck are
“weasels*” special snowmobiles,
and an enclosed Caterpillar—part
of the snow transportation system.
The ship carries two helicopters,
the largest ever to operate from
an icebreaker; sleds, skis, cold
weather clothing, scientific equip
ment, cameras, film and other
photographic materials.
Enough food to feed the crew
for eight months was also aboard,
although the cruise is expected to
end in May. The Navy explained
an extra 25 percent ratio will be
allowed each man to combat rav
enous appetities acquired in the
frozen lands.
Rear Adm. George Dufek, a vet
eran arctic explorer, is in charge
of the task force made up of three
icebreakers, three cargo ships, two
tankers and a fueler.
Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd,
now in Washington, will assume
overall command of the expedi
tion.
Millionaire Sportsman Shot By Wife
When She Mistakes Him For Prowler
OYSTER BAY, N.Y., (£V—Wil
liam Woodward Jr., millionaire
sportsman and socialite, was shot
dead yesterday by his beautiful
blonde wife. Between hysterical
sobs she told police she had mis
taken him for a prowler.
The prominent Woodwards, mar
ried 12 years and the parents of
two children, had returned home
from a party in honor of the
Duchess of Windsor about two,
hours before the shooting.
Woodward, 35, was the owner
of the racehorse Nashua. His wife,
Ann, 32, an ex-model, shared his
enthusiasm for racing and was
seen with him by millions who
watched on TV the $100,000 match
race in which Nashua beat Swaps,
winner of the Kentucky Derby, in
Chicago last Aug. 31.
It was a 12-gauge, double-bar
reled shotgun that felled Wood
ward just inside the doorway of
his bedroom about 3 a.m.
Police arrived at the low, ram
bling 15-room home on the 60
aere estate soon after the shooting.
Mrs. Woodward, crying incoher
ently into the telephone, had
asked the operator to get help.
The sobbing, hysterical wife
was found on the floor holding the
I lifeless, unclothed body of her
husband in her arms. From her
fragmentary answers and from
the questioning of others, police
put together this story:
At the party for the Duchess of
Windsor, given by Mrs. George F.
Baker of nearby Locust Valley,
both the Woodwards had talked
about a prowler being in the
neighborhood. They believed he
had already made two attempts
on their home.
The party guests agreed that
Woodward had very little to drink
and his wife, nothing.
. Returning home at 1 a.m., they
inspected the house, found all se
cure, and went to bed in their
separate rooms. In case the burg
lar should come later, he kept a
pistol beside his bed and she, the
shotgun.
Mrs. Woodward later recalled
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Ill-Year-Old Farmer
Indian Chief Dies
POWELL RIVER, B. C., UR—
Chief Tom, 111-year-old former
chief of the Sliammon Tribe, has
died here.
The chief, one of the oldest per
sons in the province,, headed his
tribe until he was defeated in
tribal elections in 1950.
He was with the Indian party
which paddled a canoe from Sli
ammon Creek to New Westmin
ster, nearly 75 miles, to bring the
first missionary to the tribe in
1890.
Sen. Scott Party
Arrive For Tin
Hearings Tuesday
Sen. W. Kerr Scott of the Sen
ate Interior and Insular Affairs
Committee arrived at noon today
accompanied by Robert Redwine,
committee mineral consultant,
and two members of his personal
staff, Ben Roney and Howard
Browning. Senator Scott is sched
uled to hold a hearing on the
tin industry, starting tomorrow
morning at 10 o’clock in the Fed
! eral Building.
Several prominent citizens are
to testify on different phases of
the importance of a stabilized
price on tin. They will include
Ralph Lomen, who has already
appeared before the committee in
Washington, Mayor Steve Ander
sen, John Mulligan of the U. S.
Department of Mines, Dr. Fred
Langsam, Jack Jenkins of the
ANS, Mary Jolly of the Territor
ial Welfare Office, Carl Glavino
vich, of the U.S.S.R. & M. Co.,
and possibly others.
This evening at 7:30 a dinner
is planned in honor of the sen
atorial party through the cooper
ative efforts of the City and
Chamber of Comemrce. The din
ner will be held at the Bering
Sea Club and is open to the public.
MMM Hospital Is
1st In Alaska to be
Fully Accredited
The following wire was re
ceived from Milo H. Fritz, M.D.,
president of the Alaska Territorial
Medical Association:
“Congratulations to the City of
Nome and their Dr. F. Langsam
for having the first civilian hos
pital in all of Alaska fully ac
credited by the American Hospital
Association.”
(According to Time magazine,
one third of the 1,385 hospitals
inspected last year in the U. S.
failed to meet the standards of the
American Hospital Assn, and the
American Medical Assn. How
ever, 283 out of the 463 which
failed, managed to get provisional
accreditation by improving their
standards. One hundred eighty of
the hospitals inspected failed.out
right, Time reported.)
Dr. Langsam revealed today
that this is the only hospital with
only one doctor ever to be accred
ited by the association, the survey
of which is made jointly by five
organizations: the American Col
lege of Physicians, the American
Medical Assn., the American Col
lege of Surgeons, the Canadian
Medical Assn., and the American
Hospital. Assn.
Israel Charges
Egyptian Troops
Invaded Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM, (£)—An Israeli
military spokesman charged that
Egyptian troops backed by auto
matic fire crossed into Israeli ter
ritory east of the Gaza strip today.
He said an Israeli unit drove
the Egyptians back across the ar
mistice line. No casualties on the
Israeli side were reported.
The spokesman said the Egyp
tian force came over the border in
the Nirim area, east of the central
sector of the Gaza strip. At the
same time, he said, an Egyptian
position opened fire with medium
automatic weapons on an Israeli
outpost.
Israeli authorities reported late
last week that an Egyptian unit of
platoon strength, supported by
mortar and machinegun fire from
across the border, tried twice to
storm an Israel position in the
Nirim area but failed both times.
A report from Gaza quoted a U.N.
spokesman as saying UYN. investi
gators had found no evidence to
support the complaint.
An Israeli foreign ministry
spokesman declared that up to
this morning the Egyptians had
refused to leave Israel territory in
the El Auja-Nitzana zone.
The spokesman welcomed the
New York peace appeal of Maj.
Gen. E. L. M. Burns, U. N. truce
observer, and commented “a quiet
border situation and peace—that’s
exactly what we want, too.”
The U.N. appeal was made by
Gen. Burns and U.N. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold. It
warned that either side taking the
offensive might cause “the gravest
consequences.”
Big Four Ministers Deadlocked
On Program To Reunite Germany
GENEVA, l#)—The Big Four,
foreign ministers met Saturday j
for the third time to try to bring
nearer together their apparently
irreconcilable views on how to re
unite Germany and achieve Euro
pean peace.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
MolOtov, U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, Britain’s Har
old MacMillan and France’s An
toine Pinay assembled in the Pal
ace of Nations.
Russia and the three Western
powers presented each other Fri
day rival programs for resolution"
of Europe’s problems. Diplomatic
quarters said the two plans were
almost as far apart as they ever
have been.
Best opinion was that their ar- (
guments now are being directed i
not so much at changing each
other’s minds, but toward rallying
public support, particularly in
Germany.
Each side now is prepared to
argue that its own plan for Europe
and Germany affords the best
hope for assuring peace.
Behind the propaganda fight—
the existence of which neither side
officially admits—appear to be
contradictory diplomatic strategies
gies which shape up this way:
1. The Western powers believe
they may eventually persuade
Russia to accept German reunifi
cation on Western terms if they
apply firm and patient pressure
over several years. They reason
that Russia needs a period of
peace and international goodwill
and that the Soviets will, if neces
sary, pay a considerable price for
it.
2. Russia for many months has
been maneuvering to obtain a
truce in the cold war in order to
relax world tensions, put the
Western nations off guard, weak
en the North Atlantic alliance, and
concentrate on its own internal
economic problems.
Having achieved considerable
relaxation of tension, especially
since last July’s conference of Big
Four government chiefs, Russia’s
tactics now are to hold what it
has gained without giving up any
territory or position of great value.
* m *
Soviet Foreign Minister Molo
tov invited Secretary of State Dul
les and top members of the U.S.
delegation to dine with him to
night at his villa. The Americans
accepted.
The meeting will afford them
an opportunity for informal dis
cussion of the progress of the Big
Four conference and the Middle
East situation.
Eisenhower Backs
Benson Program of
Flexible Supports
DENVER, (iP)—President Eisen
hower still is keeping mum about
his 1956 plans but he is back in
the political scrap with yet anoth
er week or so to go before leaving
the hospital..
His activity in that rough and
tumble field is far from full
fledged, even from the standpoint
of the rather reserved role he
played in it prior to his Sept. 24
heart attack.
But the President’s 100 percent
support of embattled Secretary of
Agriculture Benson gave the Dem
ocrats notice over the weekend
that they can look for Eisenhower
to defend administration policies
during next year’s campaign—
whether he seeks re-election or
not.
At a conference in the Presi
dent’s room at Fitzsimons Hospi
tal Saturday the President and
Benson discussed politically hot
farm problems for 30 minutes.
They talked mainly about de
clining farm prices and how to
jack them up; and then agreed on
a program aimed at achieving that
objective.
Afterward, Eisenhower issued a
statement rejecting arguments—
offered by many Democrats and
some Republicans—for return to
high, rigid farm price supports,
now replaced by the administra
tion system of flexible supports.
The White House called that an
all - out Eisenhower endorsement
of Benson and said the President
never thought of ousting his sec
retary of agriculture.
Whittaker Chambers Has
Severe Heart Attack
WESTMINSTER, Md. MV-Whit
taker Chambers, former Commu
nist courier, suffered a “severe
heart attack” 10 days ago and is
confined to bed, his wife said
today.
The 54-year-old Chambers, the
chief witness against Alger Hiss,
has been ailing since *lhe fall of
1952, when he was stricken by a
heart attack. He was confined to
a Baltimore hospital for several
months that time.
His physician said the most re
cent attack was severe but not as
severe as the 1952 attack and
Chambers has shown improve
ment and is recovering “as well
as can be expected.”
BEAR BARGES INTO
KITIMAT HOTEL LOBBY
KITIMAT, B.C., —A bear
which broke through a glass win
dow and entered the lobby of the
Kitimat Hotel was too busy scar
ing hotel patrons to register.
The bear threw around a few
chairs and then left through the
broken window without visiting
the hotel’s famous 600-chair pub.
A larger Bruin walked through
wet concrete laid at the site of the
new Bank of Montreal building.
MORE TV SETS THAN PHONES
WASHINGTON, MV-Television
sets outnumber telephones on
farms in Ottawa County, Ohio, a
Census Bureau report indicated
Saturday. Estimating the situation
as of late this year, the bureau
said there were 945 TV sets on
the county’s 1,392 farms, com
pared -v^th 835 telephones.