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VOL. LXI No. 146 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1959Per Copy—15^
U. S. Again Speeds
To Aid Stricken
Red Seaman
KODIAK, UPi — For the second
time in nine months, a Russian
seaman was in need of U. S. med
ical help today in the stormy
Bering Sea. For the second time,
help was on its way from the
U. S. Coast Guard.
The Russian refrigerator ship
Jana radioed yesterday that a
member of its crew was seriously
ill. The Coast Guard flew a plane
with a doctor aboard from Kodiak
to Cold Bay, 400 miles west of
here in &e Aleutians.
The Jana was steaming south
through heavy seas toward Dutch
Harbor, some 200 miles farther
west. It was expected to arrive by
early afternoon.
The Coast Guard said an am
phibian plane would pick up the
unidentified seaman and fly him
to the Kodiak Naval Hospital.
Last April the mother ship of
the Russian fishing fleet in the
Bering Sea, the freezer Pischevaya
Industriya, appealed for help
when a seaman fell overboard.
The seaman, 23-year-old Ev
genij Ivanovich Cneushev, was
near death with concussion. The
Coast Guard flew him to Elmen
dorf Air Force Base where he
recovered. He was sent home on
a commercial flight late in May.
The Russian government thanked
the United States officially last
month.
The man whose illness was re
ported yesterday has a perforated
ulcer and abdominal peritonitis,
the master of the Jana said.
The request for aid was re
ceived by the Navy radio station
at Adak, in the extreme western
Aleutians, and relayed to Kodiak.
Red China Says U. S.
President’s Tour Used for
Anti-China Scheme
TOKYO, UP — Communist
China accused the United States
today of using President Eisen
hower’s current tour to the detri
ment of the Peiping regime.
The charge was made by Pei
ping Radio, official voice of Red
China, in reporting on President
Eisenhower’s visit to Pakistan.
Peiping Radio said “The U. S.
ruling clique has been making use
of the current tour to openly carry
out an anti-China scheme.”
Air Force Captain Propels
Helicopter to New Height
BLOOMFIELD, Conn., UP) — A
helicopter piloted by an Air
Force captain today established
an unofficial world altitude rec
ord for its class by climbing to
30,000 feet.
The Kaman H-43B crash res
cue turbine-powered helicopter
reached the height 80’ minutes
after takeoff from the com
pany’s grounds here.
It is not the highest altitude
reached by all helicopters, how
ever. A French turbine-powered
Alouette helicopter has reached
a height of 36,000 feet.
Piloting the helicopter was
Captain Walter J. Hodgson, vet
eran Air Force rescue pilot sta
tioned at the Flight Test Center
at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
The climb will not be oficial
until instruments sealed' in the
aircraft are checked.
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19 Convicts Still
Free in Carolina
Prison Break
IVY BLUFF, N. C., UP) — Hun
dreds of officers conducted a
massive manhunt today for 19
heavily armed and dangerous
convicts still at large from yes
terday’s break from North Caro
lina’s toughest prison here. One
convict was recaptured.
Two helicopters from Ft. Bragg
joined the hunt today. Several pri
vate planes also are being used
in efforts to spot the convicts.
The fact that only a few cars
were reported stolen in this sec
tion led officers to believe at
least some of the escapees are
still hiding not far from this
prison site close to the Virginia
line.
Four men, one of whom iden
tified himself with the escape
here, broke into a home in Mem
phis, Tenn., and raped a woman.
They tied up the woman’s hus
band and, while one stood guard
with a knife, three raped her.
“I’m one of the 20,” one of the
men declared in what police said
was an obvious reference to the
break here.
The 20 felons walked from the
prison after overpowering six
guards and taking eight rifles,
eight pistols and a sub-machine
gun.
Charles Edwards, 28, serving
life for burglary and attempted
rape, was recaptured eight miles
from the prison, 6V2 hours after
the break.
Huge Till-Tapping
Charged to Retired
Lady Bookkeeper
DETROIT, UP — Mary Mc
Callum Averill, 58, sat silent and
almost inconspicuous in the
courtroom.
Then the gray-haired, motherly
looking woman was arraigned in
what the prosecutor’s office de
scribed as “the largest embezzle
ment in Detroit history.”
Hands shaking, the retired book
keeper pleaded innocent and
waived examination Tuesday on
charges of embezzling $100,513
from a former employer. The firm
has reported at least $876,168
missing since 1950.
Mrs. Averill was ordered bound
over for circuit court trial, and
released on $1,000 bond.
Wife of a former Detroit police
sergeant, Mrs. Averill retired in
1957 from her $20,000-a-year po
sition as head bookkeeper of
Giffels & Wallet Inc., a Detroit
architectural and engineering
firm. She was with the company
29 years.
A company official went to au
thorities after Mrs. Averill re
tired. He said something was
wrong with the firm’s boks.
Mrs. Averill, living in retire
ment with her husband Glenn,
62, at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was
found to have acquired extensive
real estate holdings.
Police said the Averills have a
30-acre farm in nearby Macomb
County valued at $300,000.
Other property listed includes
three houses in Windsor, Ont., and
a luxurious summer home in
northern Canada.
In Detroit, the couple lived in
a swank apartment in a down
town hotel.
Nome Boundary
Hearing Set for
Tuesday, Dec. 15
Next Tuesday, December 15,
there will be a hearing in the
U. S. Court Room by the Boun
dary Commission, in regard to
city and borough boundaries of
the Nome area. The entire state
is now having a series of these
meetings.
The Local Boundary Commis
sion was created in the State
Constitution, and this section
reads as follows:
“A local boundary commission
or board shall be established by
law in the executive branch of
the state government. The com
mission or board may consider any
proposed local boundary change.
It may present proposed changes
to the Legislature during the first
ten days of any regular session.
The change shall become effective
forty-five days after presentation
or at the end of the session,
whichever is earlier, unless disap
proved by a resolution concurred
in by a majority of the members
of each house. The commission or
board, subject to law, may estab
lish procedures whereby boun
daries may be adjusted by local
action.”
Activating this, the Legislature
set up the Department of Local
Affairs and later Governor Egan
appointed Charles Hughes as
Commissioner of Local Affairs,
with the following Local Boun
dary Commission: Paul Choquette
of Homer, chairman; Ben Fleener
of Ketchikan, G. Lyon of Anchor
age, Robert Scott of Nome, and
Henry Camarot of Fairbanks.
The hearing will concern pro
posed regulations, procedures and
methods of local government;
standards and physical boundaries
for boroughs in this area, and
proposed local boundary changes.
Notice from -Mr. Hughes to The
Nugget gives the scheduled time
of the hearings as 10 a.m., Tues
day.
Cuban Firing
Squad Unemployed
HAVANA, UP) — There was
no work for the firing squad to
day in Cuba, following completion
of the first two trials since Fidel
Castro’s revival of military jus
tice for his enemies.
Military tribunals rejected pros
ecution demands of death for two
Americans yesterday and sen
tenced them to 30 years in prison.
Another American was sentenced
to 25 years. The tribunals also
sentenced 18 Cubans to prison
and acquitted 18.
In Pinar Del Rio, Frank Austen
Young, 38, of Miami, Fla., got 30
years for allegedly leading an
anti-Castro band in western Cuba.
Peter John Lambeton, 24, Brit
ish-born American of Nassau, got
25 years on charges of participat
ing in the activities of Young’s
band. He told the court he was
there only to take pictures.
In Havana, a Cuban-born Amer
ican from Miami, Rafael Del Pino,
33, was sentenced to 30 years on
charges of flying anti-govern
ment Cubans out of the country.
He is still stretcher-bound from
injuries received when he landed
his light plane on a highway last
July and was ambushed by Cas
tro forces. The death sentence
also was asked for him.
Hysterical Throngs Gang Up on Ike
In Joyous Greeting to Indian Capitol
By WATSON SIMS
NEW DELHI, UP) — A joyously
hysterical throng of more than one
million — sometimes terrifyingly
out of control — surged about
President Eisenhower tonight as
he rode for miles through this
capitol of India.
Proclaimed in a huge banner
as “The Prince of Peace,” the
President was caught tight in an
awesome crush of screaming, al
most worshipful humanity.
It was the greatest welcome
this capitol ever has given a for
eign visitor, eclipsing that ac
corded Nikita Khrushchev of the
Soviet Union four years ago.
Eisenhower had been wel
comed tumultuously in both Pak
istan and Afghanistan, but this
was one for the history books.
Waving and smiling on the snail
paced 11-mile trip from the air
port, he seemed at times bewil
dered by the sheer massiveness
of the welcome.
Snail's Pace from Airport
The trip into the city took two
hours. Hundreds of police were
unable to keep back the surging
crowds that stopped the motor
cade a number of times.
Some screamed out: “American
Badshah! (king)”
Some tossed flowers. Most just
shrieked their approval for a man
from the other side of the world.
White House Secretary James
Hagerty, himself somewhat over
whelmed, said he had never seen
anything like it. Nor had newsmen
who have followed Eisenhower’s
public appearances since his 1952
election campaign.
All the way into New Delhi —
lit up and glittering like a fairy
land for the occasion — people
pushed and shouted. When the
great crowd halted the motorcade
by force of numbers, many tried
to thrust their hands into Eisen
hower’s car to shake hands with
him.
Prime Minister Nehru at times
seemed to be emotionally affected
by the demonstration.
The long trip from the airport
after an early morning takeoff
from Pakistan and a stop in Af
ghanistan would have been an
exhausting experience even for a
man of many less than Eisenhow
er’s 59 years. At times he looked
tired and a bit ruffled. But the
President’s firm step and strong
voice at the airport indicated he
was still able to take the grueling
trip in his stride.
“What did you think of that re
ception?” a reporter called to him
as he later stepped from his car,
ankle deep in flowers, at the
home of Indian President Rajen
dra Prasad.
“You write it,” Eisenhower
shot back with a chuckle, appar
ently at a loss for any descriptive
term.
Earlier today at Kabul, Afghan
istan, Eisenhower told the Afghans
“True friendship and mutual re
sponsibility” have become essen
tial among nations.
The President paid a visit of
nearly six hours to woo the moun
tainous neutral kingdom, which is
under mounting Soviet influence.
King Mohammed Zahir greeted
Eisenhower warmly in near-freez
ing weather at the Soviet-built
airport of the mile-high capitol
of Kabul. There were cheers and
applause.
Scarce Snowy Buffalo
Hunted In State Ranges
WASHINGTON, UP! — Alaskans
are looking for an albino buffalo
to replace “Big Medicine,” a
white bison which died recently
in Montana.
Big Medicine, one of the Mon
tana Bison Herd, was a tourist
attraction. When the buffalo died,
Senator James Murray (D-Mont!
asked Alaska authorities to seek
a replacement.
C. L. Anderson, commissioner
of the Alaska Fish and Game De
partment, wrote the Lake County
Development Council at Ronan,
Montana:
“From time to time, albino
calves appear in our Big Delta
bison herd. Two such calves were
born a few years ago, but I am
not certain that they still survive.
“I will direct our biologist in
the Big Delta area to determine
whether albinos are now present
in the herd. . . .”
Young Escapes . . .
PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, UR —
Military headquarters announced
that North American Austen
Young, Miami, sentenced by a
military tribunal to 30 years im
prisonment, escaped from military
prison early this morning.
Cmdr. Jose Argibay, chief of
the 6th Military District, made
the announcement that Young
had escaped with another pris
oner, Sergio Hernandez Reyes,
who was to 'be tried Friday for
counter-revolutionary charges.
North Sea Gales
Imperil Shipping
By DENNIS NEELD
LONDON, (ffi — Winter gales in
the North Sea overturned a Nor
wegian freighter today and little
hope was held for any of her 20
crewmen. The storm, raging for
the fifth day in the Atlantic and
along the coasts of Europe, has
taken a toll of 108, dead or
missing.
The 1,719-ton Elfrida was found
floating bottom up off the south
ern coast of Norway after she ra
dioed for help. Her last call for
help said the crew was taking to
lifeboats.
Off the Scottish coast, seven
crew members of the North Carr
lightship were rescued by RoyaL
Air Force helicopters.
An entire lifeboat crew of eight
drowned Monday night in an ef
fort to reach the drifting lightship.
Norway’s radio frequencies
were jammed with distress calls
and rescue operations from all
over the North Sea.
The 995-ton German ship Mer
kur was missing and was pre
sumed sunk with all her seven
men off the southern coast of
Norway.
The 700-ton Norwegian freighter
Grete Solheim, with nine men on
her, also was overdue at Aage
sund, Norway, and was presumed
lost.