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VOL. LV NO. 151 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Russia Agrees Join
US In Secret Talks
On Atom Control
WASHINGTON, UP—'The White
House announced today that So
viet Russia has agreed to join the
United States in secret negotia
tions on President Eisenhower’s
proposal for an international
atomic pool.
Murray Snyder, assistant presi
dential press secretary, told news
men the Russian government also
has asked the U.S. for additional
information on Eisenhower’s Dec.
8 plan.
Snyder declined to provide
more information on the Soviet
note, which Moscow radio said
had been handed to American am
bassador Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen
in Moscow today.
Molotov Agrees With
Eisenhower On Dangers
Of Atomic Armament Race
LONDON, Iff) — Soviet Russia
said today President Eisenhower
“quite justifiably” had emphasiz
ed the world dangers unless gov
ernments adopt measures against
the race on atomic armaments.”
Moscow radio broadcast an of
ficial Soviet government state
ment on President Eisenhower’s
recent United Nations speech pro
posing a wrorld atomic pool for
peaceful uses.
The statement by Soviet For
eign Minister V. M. Molotov said:
“Quite justifiably the U. S.
president emphasized the danger
for the peoples of the world of
the situation which is being cre
ated unless governments adopt
measures against the race in
atomic armaments.
“This is even more so now,
when, together with the atomic
weapons, the hydrogen weapon
has already been invented — a
weapon which greaty surpasses in
power the atomic weapon.
“It must be remembered also
that' there exist such modem
types of armaments as the rocket
weapons which modern techni
ques enables to be used over dis
tances of thousands of kilometers,
without aircraft, as well as tor
pedoes with atomic warheads and
others.
“The discovery of the practical
possibilities of the use of atomic
power is an immense achievement
of modern science and technique.”
SEATTLE, Iff) — Prices were
down 7 to 25 per cent Saturday
at the first winter auction on the
Seattle Fur Exchange. The small
est decline was in wild mink, the
largest in muskrat pelts. The top
bid was $43.50 a skin on royal
pastel mutation mink, with the
average running $30.32 for males
and $16,18 for females. About two
thirds of the 10,379 royal pelts of
fered were sold.
Scientist To Measure Heat
Lost By Human Body In
Breathing Cold Arctic Air
NORMAN, Okla., UP) — A Uni
versity of Oklahoma medical
school physiology professor is
packing some 700 pounds of gad
gets today for a flight to Fair
banks, Christmas Day, and if it’s
warmer than 40 degrees below
zero he say he’ll be disappointed.
Dr. Paul Webb will be test
ing equipment to measure the
body heat Air Force men at Ladd
Field lose when they breathe
Arctic air into their lungs.
He believes the experiment
will determine the type clothing
best suited for frigid use, and the
type food best to stand very cold
weather.
“You can reduce the surface
heat loss by using heavy clothing,”
Webb said, “but you don’t cover
up the lungs very much. When we
know how much heat is lost due
to breathing in cold air and
breathing out moist air, then we
can decide how to clothe and how
to feed a man to make up for it.”
Webb’s machines regelate both
the temperature and water vapor
changes simultaneously and reg
ister both on a graph.
Airlines Request Lower
Mail Rates for Themselves
WASHINGTON, UP)—Four trunk
airlines — Capital, National, Pan
American and Northwest — have
requested lower mail rates for
themselves.
The four, in separate petitions,
told the Civil Aeronautics Board
(CAB) they want their present
rate of 53 cents a ton-mile reduced
about 15 percent to meet competi
tion of other airlines that have a
45-cent-a-ton-mile rate in seeking
airmail contracts.
The Post Office Department has
announced that effective Jan. 1 it
will send airmail by airlines hav
ing the lowest rates, where there
are competitive routes.
The CAB has fixed the domes
tic mail pay of Capital, National,
Northwest and Pan American at
the non-subsidy or compensatory
rate of 53 cents a ton mile—53
cents for carrying a ton of mail
one mile.
The four largest domestic air
lines — American, Eastern, TWA
and United—have a compensatory
rate of 55 cent a ton mile. The
theory for this is that their oper
ating expenses are lower and their
routes more profitable than those
of companies with higher mail
rates.
Gold Rush Accountant Passes On
SEATTLE, W — Frederick A.
Callarman, who joined the Klon
dike gold rush in 1900 and later
was an assistant auditor for the
White Pass and Yukon Railroad,
died Friday in a Seattle hospital.
He was 77. He operated an audit
ing and accounting firm here.
I
Propose Use Of
Arctic Ice Islands
Jet Fighter Bases
WASHINGTON, UP) — An Air
Force Arctic expert, has proposed
forming small fighter plane units
on polar ice islands, which could
lash out with atomic bombs
against any aggressor nation.
Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher,
who organized the first detach
ment for the drifting ice island
T-3 in 1950, said such units might
prove to be the only readily avail
able retaliatory bases if Russia
should strike suddenly and wipe
out present U.S. air bases in for
ward areas.
Fletcher, who is now in the air
research and development com
mand, outlined his proposal in a
paper written for the official pub
lication “Air University Quarter
ly.”
“The basic unit might be built
around the all-weather fighter as
an atomic bomb delivery vehicle,
supported by long-range air trans
port or by submarine,” he wrote.
“There are no technical ob
stacles formidable enough to pre
vent the development of such a
tactical capacity ...”
WWle he did not so specify, it
is known that small but power
ful atomic bombs now can be
carried in such planes as the jet
F-84 fighter.
Fletcher said that in any sud
den atomic war Russia would
strike first and possibly destroy
such forward bases as the big
airdrome at Thule, in northwest
Greenland.
Moreover, he suggested that
use of bases in foreign territory
might be los>t by shifting policy
of friendly nations.
“In some cases our allies, faced
with the choice of neutrality or
obliteration, may decide that neu
trality is their only salvation,” he
said. “Already we hear talk from
some of them.”
Ninth Unprecedented
French Ballot Fails To
Elect President of Republic
VERSAILLES, France, UPt—The
French parliament failed again
today to elect a president of the
republic. It was ninth ballot taken
since last Thursday.
Premier Joseph Laniel, a
wealthy industrialist and the top
contender, got 413 votes—a drop
of 17 votes from the eighth ballot.
His Socialist opponent, Marcel
Edmond Naegelen, who has Com
munist support, got 365—a drop
of 16 votes.
Laniel was only 22 votes short
of victory on the eighth ballot in
the Peoples’ Assembly Hall of the
old palace of French kings, where
the national assembly deputies
and senators have been trying to
name a new president.
Proposed Get-Together Of
Heintzleman and 3rd Div.
GOP’s Fails to Develop
(By the Associated Press)
A proposed get - together be
tween Governor Heintzleman and
Third Division Republicans at An
chorage failed to develop over the
weekend.
Walter Hickel, the new elected
president of the Third Division
Republicans, said he had received
a wire from the governor indicat
ing he did not choose to fly to
Anchorage for a conference with
the group on any “yes or no” ul
timatum basis.
Hickel said there must have
been some misunderstanding in
Juneau about the Anchorage Re
publicans’ intentions.
“The governor told me in the
wire that he had heard reports
that I had said he would have to
accept or reject the proposition
■that would be handed him there,”
Hickel asserted. “The governor
said he does not want to accept
or reject anything.”
Hickel also said he does not re
call ever having made such state
ment.
Railroad Warehouse Full
Of Building Materials
Burns At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, UB—A large Al
aska Railroad warehouse filled
with building materials was de
stroyed by fire in the railroad
freight yards here early today.
The flames, fed by highly in
flammable tar and roofing paper,
turpentine and linseed oil, rose
200 feet at the height of the un
explained blaze which broke out
about 5:30 a.m.
A string of Alaska Railroad
freight cars along a siding adja
cent to the building was pulled
clear by an engine which was
forced to move perilously close to
the blistering-hot fire.
An estimate of the damage was
not immediately available. The
warehouse, 200 feet long by 75
fe&t wide, was leased from the
railroad by the Alaska Sash and
Millwork Co., which owned the
materials stored in it.
HUGH STODDARD OF JUNEAU
DIES IN PORTLAND. ORE.
PORTLAND, W—Hugh A. Stod
dart, who came here 10 days ago
from Juneau, to take over as divi
sion engineer for the U.S. Bureau
of Public Roads, died Sunday of a
heart ailment.
He had been in the Portland
office of the bureau for about 15
years until five years ago when
he went to Juneau as division en
gineer. With W. H. Lynch retir
ing here Dec. 31, Stoddart was
packed as his successor.
Immediately on arrival from
Juneau, Stoddard went to a hos
pital.
Five Convicts Still
At Large After
Escape from Pen
DETROIT, UPi — The last five
of 13 southern Michigan prison
fugitives—two murderers, a kid
naper, a robber and a burglar —
were believed holed up some
where in sprawling Detroit today,
waiting for an intensive manhunt
to slacken.
The other eight who burrowed
out of the world’s largest walled
prison with them Saturday night
were back behind bars. Seven of
them were captured within hours
after the spectacular break from
the penitentiary at Jackson. An
other, cold and hungry, gave up
there last night.
A complete lack of leads for
some 24 hours after they were
last seen in Detroit’s northwest
section convinced police that the
remaining five were laying low
for the time being.
In an effort to rout them, sev
eral hundred city and state police
combed the vast Detroit residen
tial area where the fugitives
ditched their stolen Cadillac and
released unharmed two women
hostages taken along on a wild
all-night ride. It was one of Mchi
gan’s biggest manhunts.
The 13 found freedom by cut
ting through steel grates of an
underground sewer with an acety
lene torch. Where they got the
torch and the oxygen to operate
it was the subject of an immedi
ate investigation by Warden Wm.
H. Bannan.
The two women hostages, Mrs.
Watts and Miss Gilbert said the
fugitives were gentlemen thru-out
and kept assuring them they
would not be harmed if they fol
lowed instructions.
Adm. Radford, Chairman
Of Joint Chiefs of Staff
On Tour of the Far East
TOKYO, UP)—Adm. Arthur Rad
ford, chairman of the U.S. joint
chiefs of staff, and Walter S.
Robertson, U. S. assistant Secre
tary of State, arrived Monday on
a tour that will take them thru
Japan, Korea, Formosa and the
Philippines.
Robertson, who last summer
won from South Korean president
Syngman Rhee a promise to ob
serve an armistice, told newsmen
he expects Rhee “to cooperate
with his allies” in Korea.
Radford said he and Robertson
planned to attend the presidential
inauguration of Ramon Magsay
say in Manila, Dec. 30 and de
cided the occasion was a good
chance to gather knowledge in the
Far East.
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town!
A- J|l| Santa Claus Is Coming to the Nome Hardware Store
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