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VOL. LVIII No. 30 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1956 Per Copy—15<f
ENGLISH JET SETS
NEW SPEED RECORD
OF 1,132 M.P.H.
LONDON, Wl—England claims
her dart-like new jet fighter, the
Fairey Delta 2, has captured the
world speed record with a mark
of 1,132 miles an hour.
The Royal Aero Club said the
single-jet plane known to airmen
as the “droop snoot” struck this
average in two runs over a nine
mile course in southern England.
It recaptured the record from the
United States.
Flying at 38,000 feet, test pilot
Peter Twiss attained 1,117 miles
an hour on one run in the British
jet and 1,147 on the second.
Col. Horace H. Hanes of the
U.S. Air Force set the previous
record last August when he Hew
a F-100C Super Saber at just over
822 miles an hour. Another U.S.
plane, the Bell X-1A, has flown at
1,650 miles per hour but not under
record conditions.
The “droop snoot” gets its nick
name from its sharp nose shooting
far out in tront of the cockpit. The
nose depresses during takeoff and
landing to give the pilot a better
view.
Avalanche Kills Skier
JASPER, Alta., OP)—A Rocky
Mountain avalanche buried Chas.
Dupre, a Swiss skier, under 10
feet of snow for four hours Sun
day. Efforts to revive him were
unsuccessful.
Alaska Railroad Disposes
Of Hotels as Advised
By Hoover Commission
WASHINGTON, UR—'The Inter
ior Department said today the Al
aska Railroad is disposing of its
hotels and dormitories where it
is feasible, as recommended by
the second Hoover Commission.
Two hotels have been leased to
private operators, and dormitories
that are retained will be operated
on as nearly a break-even basis
as possible.
Heads of State and
Crowd of 40,000 Pay
Homage to Pope Pius
VATICAN, —Forty thousand
persons and the special envoys of
51 heads of state paid homage yes
terday in St. Peter’s Cathedral to
Pope Pius XII on the 17th anni
versary of his coronation as head
of the Roman Catholic Church.
The celebration also marked the
Pope’s 80th birthday.
A heavy snowstorm forced can
cellation of the Pontiff’s tradition
al blessing of the city and the
world (“urbi et orbi”) in St. Pe
ter’s Square. However, he ap
peared at his apartment window
to bless the thousands who braved
the cold and wet in the square
below.
Twenty-nine cardinals robed in
scarlet and ermine moved in pro
cession to the great confessional
altar and knelt to the Pope in
individual acts of obeisance.
Democrat Camps Exchange Pot Shots;
Herter Not Keen to Run Against Ike
(By the Associated Prdssi
An exchange of pot shots be
tween the rival camps of Adlai
Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefau
ver has added new heat to the
windup of New Hampshire’s Dem
ocratic presidential primary cam
paign.
Members of both parties in
New Hampshire will ballot to
morrow. President Eisenhower
seems assured of a decisive vic
tory in the Republican contest, so
interest centers on the Kefauver
Stevenson competition.
Kefauver a 'Straw Candidate'
Stevenson supporters yesterday
put out a statement claiming that
Kefauver is “a straw candidate
receiving money form the govern
or of a large state” in an effort to
torpedo Stevenson’s candidacy.
The statement, from the New
Hampshire for Stevenson Com
mittee did not identify the gov
ernor.
Kefauver, stopping in Boston
enroute to New Hampshire for a
final round of campaigning, said
last night:
Kefauver Denies Charge
“We’ve received mighty little
money from anybody, and no gov
ernor has given or offered us any
contribution.”
Kefauver is unopposed in the
presidential preference section of
the primary and Stevenson has
not campaigned in the state. Both
men are represented on the ballot
by full 12-member delegate slates,
however.
The much-discussed question of
who will be Eisenhower’s Novem
ber running mate popped up yes
terday in a New York radio-TV
interview of Gov. Christian A.
Herter of Massachusetts.
Herter said he is “making ab
solutely no effort” to get second
place on the GOP ticket but would
take the assignment if Eisenhow
er and the party convention
“wanted me.” The governor said
he would be “very happy” if Vice
President Nixon was nominated
for a second term.
Nixon Not Strong in Poll
Something less than solid sup
port for Nixon was shown Satur
day in an Associated Press poll of
19 of 38 prospective GOP conven
tion delegates in New Jersey. Nine
of the organization-backed dele
gate candidates favored Nixon
while 10 were either undecided or
lukewarm toward him. All 19
candidates were for Eisenhower.
Among the Democrats, there
were indications that a Texas “fa
vorite son” move for Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson might spread and give
him presidential support from the
southern states.
Sen. Russell (D-Ga) said Sun
day if Johnson wants to run “I
will support him 100 percent.”
Sen. Thurmond (D-SC>, who
headed a states rights ticket that
opposed national Democratic can
didates in 1948, commented John
son would be an “attractive can
didate” in his state.
Nome Basketball
Team Returns
With *B’ Trophy
The Nome School Band and
high school student body turned
out this morning along with fans
and families to welcome home the
Nanooks basketball team, who ar
rived from Anchorage bringing
home the “B” trophy for the
second consecutive year.
Monday last week, the Nome
team beat the Valdez Buccaneers
48-36; Tuesday they lost their
only game to the Cordova Wol
verines 58-53; Wednesday they
defeated Valdez again 48-36; on
Thursday they swamped Kodiak
Naval 50-33. Friday night they
played Cordova again, winning by
a score of 58-56; and Saturday
evening they played Cordova
again as both teams had lost only
one game and to each other. This
one the Nanooks took 56 to 32 and
with it the trophy.
Jimmy Huntington, 40, Wins North
American Dog Race Championship
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All Governors Asked
To Make Nominations for
Young American Medals
WASHINGTON, (*>—Atty. Gen.
Brownell today asked all state
and territorial governors to sub
mit their nominations for the 1955
Young American Medals for brav-1
ery and service.
The medals were authorized by
Congress in 1950 to give recogni
tion to boys and girls up to 18
years old who performed some
outstanding act of bravery or es
tablished some record of outstand
ing service.
Nixon's Vote Saves
Administration's
Farm Price Program
WASHINGTON UP*—A tie-break
ing vote by Vice President Nixon
Friday night narrowly saved the
administration’s flexible farm
price support program on wheat.
The 45-46 vote to reject a high
er, rigid support level contrasted
sharply with the 54-41 tally the
day before on supports for cotton,
corn and peanuts.
In addition to Nixon, 34 Repub
licans and 11 Democrats support
ed the administration stand, while
11 Republicans and 34 Democrats
voted against it.
The Nixon tally knocked out a
special system of rigid price sup
ports proposed for “quality mill
ing wheat” and set off an angry
parliamentary row that lasted for
hours.
MINOR EYE OPERATION
WON'T SLOW BING CROSBY
BEVERLEY HILLS, Calif., (tfv—
Minor surgery on an eyelid isn’t
expected to slow up Bing Crosby
at all.
The singer underwent the sur
gery Saturday for removal of a
small growth, a member of his
family said. He is expected to re
sume normal activities this week.
* FAIRBANKS (A*>—Jimmy Hunt
ington, Husslia trading post oper
ator and veteran of Alaska’s snow
trails, nosed out young drivers
yesterday to win the North Am
erican championship sled dog
derby.
The 40-year-old musher col
lapsed at the end of the gruelling
70-milc event but quickly recov
ered to take the huge trophy and
$2,300 cash that went with first
prize.
Huntington, father of seven
children, won the first 20-mile
heat Friday, placed second in Sat
urday’s 20-mile lap and took the
final 30-mile heat yesterday.
Kotzebue Eskimo Next
Huntington came in neck and
neck with Eddie Gallahorn, 28
year-old Kotzebue Eskimo, who
started first in yesterday’s event.
Huntington started second, in the
order of Saturday’s finishes.
Dog trouble plagued Hunting
ton in the finale. He used 10 dogs,
mostly malemutes. One of his lead
dogs developed hip trouble, he
said, and had to take the trail
without him. He used 12 dogs in
the first heat.
Driving towards the finish yes
terday, his dogs bolted into deep
snow and he lost two minutes un
tangling them.
Defending Champ Injured
The defending champion, Wil
bur Sampson, 19-year-old Noorvik
Eskimo, made a clean sweep of
all three heats yesterday. A badly
injured right arm kept him from
this year’s final two heats. He
went out Friday but was unable
to compete the last two days.
A crowd estimated at 2,000 paid
to watch the derby and at least
another 2,000 lined parts of the!
long, looping trail that crossed
highways and snaked thru woods
and open fields.
Gallahorn, in finishing second,
had a total elapsed time of 5 hours
9 minutes 54 seconds.
Alfred Wells of Kotzebue was
fifth in 5 hours, 16 minutes and
40 seconds.
MARGARET TRUMAN BETROTHED
Baby Dies in Fall
From Mother's Arms
ALEXANDRIA, Va. !#—A two
month-old boy, whose father is in
Whittier, died yesterday of injur
ies received after he fell from his
mother’s arms at their home.
Mrs. John A. Swanson, wife of
an Army specialist sent to Alaska
two weeks ago, told police she
was feeding the baby, Joseph, in
the dining room when she heard
her other son, 14 months old, cry
ing in a bedroom.
She stood up to go to the other
child, she said, and the baby
slipped from her grasp and fell
on his head.
The baby was pronounced dead
on arrival at a hospital of a cere
bral hemorrhage and a fractured
skull.
» INDEPENDENCE, M o., —■
Former President and Mrs. Harry
S. Truman today announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Mary Margaret, to Clifton Daniel
Jr., assistant to the foreign news
editor of the New York Times.
Mr. Truman, who made the an
nouncement for himself and Mrs.
Truman at a press conference,
said the wedding would be held
in Independence in April.
Asked by a newsman when he
and Mrs. Truman first received
word from their daughter about
the engagement, Truman said:
“■That is something you will
have to talk to them about.”
Both Miss Truman and Daniel
spent the weekend at Zebulon,
I N.C., visiting his parents, Mr. and
| Mrs. E. C. Daniel Sr.
During the visit, the elder Dan
1 iel said his son and Miss Truman
had been friends for years but he
added “whether there’s any more
to it than that I couldn’t say.”
Miss Truman has spent most of
her time in New York, where she
is engaged in radio and TV work.
The 32-year-old Miss Truman,
a coloratura soprano, has made a
series of concert tours in the past
six years. She made her debut on
television with the Ed Sullivan
Show in 1950. That same year she
signed a radio and TV contract
with the National Broadcasting
Company.
Daniel, 43, was graduated from
the University of North Carolina.
His first newspaper work was on
the Daily Bulletin at Dun, N.C.,
in 1933. He moved then to the
News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
from 1934 to 1937. For the next
six years he was with the Associ
ated Press in New York, Washing
ton D.C., Berne, Switzerland, and
London.
He joined the New York Times
in 1944, serving as a correspon
dent in London, the Middle East,
Germany, and the Soviet Union.
Daniel’s father, a Zebulon drug
gist, is a former president of the
North Carolina pharmaceutical
Assn.
Man Severely Burned in
Gas Tank Explosion
FAIRBANKS, —A flash of
flame from a propane tank explo
sion burned Richard Shoup se
verely here Saturday.
The accident occurred while the
tank was being refilled at a bot
tled gas establishment.
One of two youngsters with him
received minor facial burns. A
dog in a pickup truck was burned
fatally.
Quick action by the Fairbanks
Fire Department was credited
with preventing a possible major
disaster. Many large, filled bottles
of gas were in the area.
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
LAWNDALE, Calif., The
best of friends are Mrs. Amy
Kendig’s pets, Dugan, Razma and
Bouncy. They eat from the same
plate and sleep in the same bed,
she says.
Dugan is a cat, Razma a white
rat, and Bouncy a dog.