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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No. 120 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Remark By Secretary Wilson
About Dogs and Unemployment
Kicks Up Cross-Country Storm
(By the Associated Press)
Gov. William G. Stratton, the
top Republican leader in Illinois,
today suggested cancellation of
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wil
son’s speech at a $100-a-plate
GOP dinner tonight.
Stratton made the suggestion in
Springfield. He said he didn’t be
lieve Wilson “would be in a posi
tion to represent properly the
viewpoint” of the Eisenhower ad
ministration.
The governor, it was made
known later, was ready to snub
Wilson. He was quoted as saying
“I won’t be there” if Wilson ap
pears.
It was the latest development
in the cross-country storm kicked
up by the Defense Secretary’s re
marks about dogs and unemploy
ment at a Detroit news conference
Monday.
Stratton joined the critics of
Wilson’s dog metaphor today. He
said he could not understand how
any man could treat the unem
ployment probem “so lightly.” His
statement added:
“Let me say that in view of his
unfortunate statement, which is
actually opposite to the attitude
of my administration and which
is obviously contrary to the views
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New Companies File
Incorporation In Alaska
JUNEAU—Twelve new Alas
kan businesses recently filed in
corporation papers with the audi
tor of Alaska, among which was
the Big Hurrah Mine, Inc., which
was incorporated in Delaware last
May 17, capitalized at $500,000,
qualified to do business in the
territory and named George Hel
lerich of Nome as resident agent.
Admiral Corporation, also' of
Delaware, qualified in the terri
tory and named as agents, R. E.
Robertson and Mike Monagle of
Juneau, M. J. Walsh of Nome,
John E. Manders of Anchorage,
and Charles J. Clasby of Fair
banks.
Republicans Trail
Democrats For All
Offices In 4th Division
FAIRBANKS', UPl — Democrats
led for every territorial office and
legislative seat in 4th Division
election tabulations today.
The returns from 25 of the div
ision’s 69 precincts included about
half of the city of Fairbanks vote.
Speaker of the House George
Miscovich and Sen. W.L. Lhamon
■trailed their two Democratic op
ponents for the senate, ex-Atty.
Gen. Ralph Rivers and ex-Sen.
Frank Barr.
Two other Republican House
members, John Coghill and Alden
Wilbur, appeared to be losing
out.
The unofficial tally stood:
Senate — Barr, 1413; Rivers,
1372; Miscovich, 995; Lhamon,
1257.
House—(All five leaders Demo
crats)— Rep. Dick Greuel, 1467;
Hubert Gilbert, 1290; Robert Mc
Nealy, 1246; ex-Rep. Warren Tay
lor, 1222; George McNabb, 1205.
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Rotary-Sponsored Concert
By Latin-American Singer
To Be Heard Here Nov. 26
The Nome Rotary Club is spon
soring one of the four concerts
which the Alaska Music Trails
has presented in many Alaskan
cities these past four years. The
artist they have chosen to intro
duce this fine entertainment into
our community is Olga Coelho,
Brazil’s famed soprano-guitarist,
who features Latin-American folk
songs.
The concert will be held in the
school gymnasium at 8 p.m. on
Nov. 26. Tickets will be on sale
soon, admission prices, adults $2
and students $1.25.
The members of the committee
in charge of this concert are Rev.
Reeves Havens, chairman, Bill
Cameron, Jim von der Heydt,
Judge Walter Hodge, and Walter
Sipprell.
Democrats Leading
Republicans In All
Contests In 1st Division
JUNEAU, UP!—One Republican
senator and three House mem
bers were trailing today in their
contests for re-election to the leg
islature, from the 1st Division, on
the basis of unofficial returns.
Democrats were leading for
both Senate seats and for four
of six House seats.
The incumbents who were trail
ing were Sen. Elton Engstrom of
Juneau and Reps. Fred Eastbaugh,
Juneau; Frank Johnson of Kake,
and William Boardman of Ketchi
kan.
The standings for the Senate,
for 31 complete precincts out of
51 in the division, and including
the city vote of Ketchikan and
Juneau, was:
Bob Ellis, D, 3727; Sen. James
Nolan, D, 3235; Engstrom, 3076;
Ralph Bartholomew, 1682.
Leading for House seats were:
Dora Sweeney, a Democrat who
was hired by the Republican 1953
Senate as its secretary, 3387;
Thomas Stewart, D, assistant at
torney general, 3213; Burke Riley,
D, ex-secretary of Alaska, now a
Haines attorney, 3202; Joseph Mc
Lain, R, 3128; ex - Rep. Vernon
Metcalf, D, 3072; Rep. Ed Locken,
R, 3050.
National Assembly Votes
Premier Mendes-France
Strong Vote of Confidence
PARIS, Iff)—The French Nation
al Assembly Tuesday gave Pre
mier Pierre Mendes-France a re
sounding vote of confidence, en
dorsing the London accords for
West German rearmament.
Unofficial reports gave the pre
mier 365 votes. An absolute ma
jority is 314.
Members of the premier’s own
Radical-Socialist (moderate) party
various center and right of cen
ter groups, followers of Gen.
Charles De Gaulle and most of
the French Socialists made up the
majority backing Mendes-France.
Nome Election Returns
Ballots Cast . 503
For Delegate to Congress
Bartlett (D>. 290
Dimock (R>. 182
For Territorial Treasurer
Hunter (R). 231
Wade <D>. 216
For Commissioner of Labor
Benson (R>. 285
Lannen iD>. 158
For Territorial Senators
Foster <D>. 283
Laws (R). 243
Ipalook (R>. 213
Beltz (D). 171
For Territorial Representatives
Fagerstrom <D>. 250
Bullock <R>. 239
Mclver (R). 230
Lee (R). 228
Bronson <D>. 209
McLain <D>. 187
Election judges were Mrs. Ray
Tveter, Mrs. W. B. McCarthy,
Mrs. R. Roell, Mrs. G. Waldheim
and Fred Rohn.
FOUR MARINES KILLED
AS HELICOPTERS COLLIDE
TOKYO, UPt-Two U.S. Marine
Corps helicopters collided over
Tokyo Bay today, killing four
crew members. Two others are
missing and a seventh is in criti
cal condition at the Yokosuka
naval hospital.
Crab Fishery At
Kcxliak Tops Fish
In Importance
JUNEAU—A king crab industry
which is expanding so rapidly
that from humble beginnings five
years ago when it engaged only
five fishermen it has become more
important to the local economy
at Kodiak than even the salmon
fishery was described here re
cently by Clarence L. Anderson,
director, and Ed Huizer, biologist,
both of the Alaska Department of
Fisheries, following a visit to'
Kodiak.
Huizer said the king carb catch
in the Kodiak area stepped up
from 64,882 pounds round weight
in 1950 to 817,397 pounds last
year. By May 8 of 1954 this year’s
total catch was 1,658,901 pounds
not including the important Port
Wakefield and Port Williams pro
duction.
Last year 129 fishermen were
working out of Kodiak for king
crab. The number is much larger
this year but has not yet been
determined definitely. Some 50
boats, mostly trawlers, have been
fishing crab out of Kodiak.
Three shore plants at Kodiak
have also been giving substantial
employment. One of them em
ployed 25 women this year. They
have given Kodiak almost a year
around fisheries operation. One
plant found king crab sufficiently
attractive this year that it didn’t
convert to salmon canning or
cease packing crab all season.
“I believe this industry means
more to Kodiak now than sal
mon,’’Anderson said. If'the Alaska
operators can maintain their mar
kets, he says, this should be a
major fisheries industry in the
future.
Alaska Votes Democratic In Complete
Reversal of 1952 Republican Swing
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Democratic Sweep Of
3rd Division Legislative
Seats Highly Possible
ANCHORAGE, UPl — A Demo
cratic sweep of all legislative seats
at stake in the 3rd Division ap
peared highly possible today on
the basis of unofficial returns
from yesterday’s election.
The only Republican who' ap
peared to have a chance was Sen.
Gerrit (Heinie) Snider, who crept
up early this morning after trail
ing J. Earl Cooper and A1 Owen,
Democrats, by several hundred
votes.
J. H. Warner, Democrat, had
a wide lead over Mrs. Sally Gor
such for the unexpired term of
her husband, the late Sen. John
Gorsuch.
A Democratic sweep of the
division’s 10 House seats appear
ed certain in contrast to the one
Democrat who won a seat in 1952.
The standings in unofficial tab
ulations for 35 of the divisions 97
precincts, were:
Senate—Ex-judge J. Earl Coop
er, D, 2665; ex-Rep. A1 Owens, D,
2179; Sen. Snider, R, 2037; Rep.
Lee McKinley, R, 1824; George
Lingo, Ind., 373.
House—(All first 10 are Demo
crats)—Ray Plummer, 3144; Ken
Johnson, 3028; Rep. Wendell
Kay, 2852; Irene Ryan, 2699;
Russell Young, 2570; Stanley Mc
Cutcheon, former speaker of the
House, 2534; Seaborn Buckalew,
ex-U.S. attorney, 2479; Harry
Palmer, 2447; Peter Kalamarides,
2460; E. G. Bailey, 2377.
The closest Republican was Sen.
Paul Robison, head of the Legis
lative Council who ran for the
House instead of seeking re-elec
tion to the Senate. He had 1963.
Rep. Dorothy Prior followed with
1826.
Latest Soviet Proposals On
Disarmament Open Way
For Further Discussions
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP) —
The United States said Tuesday
the latest Soviet proposals on dis
armament appear to open an
avenue for further discussion and
“we definitely do' not reject
them.”
The U,S. position was stated by
ambassador James J. Wadsworth
in the general assembly’s 60-na
tion political committee.
Wadsworth said the Soviet pro
posals still leave many obstacles
to be overcome, but added:
“We are still hopeful that these
Soviet proposals represent an im
portant step in the direction of
an agreed disarmament program.
They must, however, be clarified
and elaborated. Large segments of
the disarmament program are not
taught at all in these proposals.”
Wadsworth said the United States
would be ready to support re
activation in the five-member dis
armament subcommittee which
held secret talks in London last
spring in an unsuccessful attempt
to resolve the disarmament dead
lock.
> (By the Associated Press)
Alaska swung strongly Demo
cratic yesterday in its general
election — which in recent years
has proved an accurate indicator
of national trends.
The political pendulum, which
went the other way in 1952 swung
back to give E. L. Bartlett an in
creasingly wider margin for re
election as Delegate to Congress '
and assure his fellow Democrats
overwhelming control of the leg
islature.
The political divisions in which
Anchorage and Fairbanks are lo
cated apparently elected a solid
20 Democrats to the legislature.
It is a complete reversal from
their election of 17 Republicans
and 3 Democrats in 1952.
On unofficial returns from 97
of the territory’s 263 precincts,
but including almost all of the
large ones, Bartlett had 9,443 to
3,639 for Barbara Dimock. That
boosted his slice of the vote to
72 per cent, compared with 56
per cent in winning the 1952
election from Robert Reeve.
Citing the claim that “As Alas
ka goes, so goes the nation,” Bart
lett predicted in a midnight state
ment that the mounting Demo
cratic margins indicated a nation
al victory for the party next
month.
“On the basis of early returns,
which have maintained a per
sistent pattern from the start, it
is not too' soon to forecast a Demo
cratic victory in Alaska which
easily could assume a landslide
proportion,” Bartlett said in a
statement.
“ . . . Alaska almost always
has pointed the way the nation
will vote in November. This
makes it fairly sure the Demo
crats will organize the national
House of Representatives by some
30 to' 40 seats.”
In the contest for one of the
other two territorial offices,
Henry Benson, the Republican
labor commissioner, pulled ahead
after having trailed H. J. Lannen,
the Democratic candidate, part of
the time during the night.
For territorial treasurer, Hugh
Wade, former head of the Alaska
Native Service, was leading his
Republican opponent, Earle Hunt
er. In that race, the leader pulled
ahead after having trailed by
nearly 100 votes on one tabula
tion in the post-midnight hours.
CONGRESSMAN FORESEES
MERCHANT MARINE SHIPS
POWERED BY ATOM ENGINES
LOS ANGELES, UPl — A con
gressman says, “It is conceivable
that in the not too far distant fu
ture our merchant marine ships
will be powered with atomic en
gines and will be built under gov
ernment subsidy.”
Rep. John J. Allen (R-Calif),
acting chairman of a congression
al subcommittee on shipbuilding,
told reporters yesterday the ship
building program envisioned for
the nation includes 60 new ships
a year in 1955-56-57.