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VOL. LVIII No. 118 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1956 Per Copy—15*
NEWS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
WASHINGTON lift—Among the*
many items that came up during
the question and answer period
of President Eisenhower’s news
conference this morning:—
TAXES—When told that he
had indicated in a speech in Lex
ington, Ky., this week that he
had suggested the possibility of a
tax cut in the next year or so,
Eisenhower said that he wouldn’t
classify the chances as bright or
right around the corner.
H-BOMB—It would be foolish,
the President said, to stop unilat
erally the testing of hydrogen
bombs. He said there should be
some definite international agree
ment before anything along that
line is attempted, as otherwise
Russia could go ahead with tre
mendous advances while the Unit
ed States stood still.
Stevenson has proposed stop
ping tests, but with assurances
from Russia that the Soviets also
would do this.
MINIMUM WAG E—Asked if
he thought the $1 an hour mini
mum wage should be raised, the
President said that first he wants
to see minimum wage coverage
for people who haven’t got it.
SCHOOLS—Eisenhower said it
looks to him as tho the best way
to finance new schools is by the
federal government putting up
half the money and the states
half. He said the federal money
should be distributed on a basis
of need as the first consideration.
The President discussed the
school financing situation when a
reporter asked how communities
could hold down the cost of in
terest when his policies were for
higher interest.
The reporter said the Federal
Reserve Board had raised interest
rates. Eisenhower said the Fed
eral Reserve Board isn’t under
his control.
SUE Z—Eisenhower repeated
previous expressions of hope that
the troublesome Suez situation
can be settled by peaceful negoti
ation.
MILITARY STRENGTH—Eis
enhower declared firmly that it
never has been the intention of
his administration to cut the
strength of this country’s armed
forces.
He said that reductions in man
power have been pegged to intro
ductin of new weapons.
His implication was that this
had been done with no net loss
of military power.
Attorney Morris in Hawaii
To See if Communism
Is Threat to Territory
WASHINGTON, Oft—A Senate
Internal Security subcommittee’s
chief counsel, Robert Morris, is in
Hawaii, presumably to investi
gate whether there is a Commu
nist threat to the territory.
MLss Miriam Fox, Morris’ secre
tary, said he is expected to return
here around Oct. 9 or 10 to report
to the committee on his findings..
She said it would not be known;
whether the committee would go |
to Hawaii later this fall until after |
it receives Morris' report.
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Nixon Says Republicans
Don’t Hold Out False Hope
For Early End to Draft
WASHINGTON (flt—Vice Presi
dent Nixon, in the capital be
tween extended road trips on be
half of the GOP ticket, said in a
nationwide television interview
last night that the Republicans
will not “hold out any false hopes
for” an early end to the draft.
Nixon thus hammered again at
Adlai Stevenson’s call for halting
compulsory military service “at
the earliest possible moment con
sistent with the national safety.”
The vice president also said he
thinks Stevenson is “a well inten
tioned man," but contended that
the Democratic candidate lacks
the background and judgment of
President Eisenhower in matters
involving threats to peace and
freedom.
Statement on
ESC Fund Status
Released Today
JUNEAU — A statement on the
current status of the Unemploy
ment Compensation fund was re
leased today by Merrill E. Weir,
Director of the Alaska Employ
ment Security Commission. The
figures cover the balance in the
E.S.C. fund which is currently
available for benefit payments,
and also set out the liabilities
and contingent liabilities of that
fund.
As of Sept. 30, 1956 the balance
in the Unemployment Compensa
tion Fund was $2,828,461.49.
There is a court order impound
ing $650,000 of these funds so
that the actual balance of funds
currently available for payment
is reduced to $2,178,461.49.
There is a Fund liability of
$3,000,000 due to a loan from the
Federal government and when
the amount of this indebtedness is
deducted from the $2,828,461.49
balance, the result is a deficit
balance of $174,538.51. The $650,
000 of impounded funds is a con
tingent liability against the Fund
and if that is also deducted, the
result is a deficit balance of
$821,536.51.
President Doesn’t Regard
Amendment Barring 3rd
Term as Entirely Wise
WASHINGTON, tTV—President
Eisenhower said today he does
not regard as entirely wise the
constitutional amendment that
bars a third presidential term.
Eisenhower, making no attempt
to apply his remarks to hid own
case, said he believes that by and
large the people should be able
to choose as President anybody
they want, regardless of the num
ber of terms.
He told a news conference that
there have been objections that
this might concentrate power in
one individual. But he said he has
the utmost confidence in the long
range judgment of the American
people.
2 JETS COLLIDE
OVER RUGGED
OLYMPIC PEN.
McCHORD AFB, Wash., 0P>—
Two F-89D Scorpion jets carry
ing four men crashed last night
on the brush and timber-covered
Olympic Peninsula, America’s
“last frontier.”
It was not known whether the
four airmen parachuted to safety,
the Air Force said. A ground res
cue party headed into the ex
tremely , rugged area today.
The two planes, each carrying
a pilot and a radar observer, ap
parently collided in a flight south
east of the little Indian commu
nity of Near Bay, at the northern
tip of the peninsula, 120 miles
northwest of Seattle.
The two fighter interceptors,
attached to the 321st Fighter-In
terceptor Squadron at Paine Air
Force Base, Everett, Wash., left
l their base at 5:55 p.m. on a rou
tine patrol mission.
Seventeen minutes after roar
ing into the sky from Paine, the
Air Force said, the two jets
dropped from radio and radar
contact simultaneously. The two
craft were flying at 15,000 feet.
The Air Force identified the
i four missing airmen as:
2nd Lt. George W. Deer, 22,
Meadville, Miss., the pilot of one
jet; 1st Lt. Robert L. Canup Jr.,
25, Salisbury, N.G., his radar ob
server.
1st Lt. Eugene A. Hamby, 26,
Hillsboro, Ore., the other pilot;
and 1st Lt. Jim B. Paschall, 22,
Paradise, Texas, his radar ob
server.
GEORGE BANCROFT
DEAD AT 74 YEARS
SANTA MONICA, Calif., WV
Veteran Actor George Bancroft,
one of the roughest and toughest
of Hollywood’s “heavies,” is dead
at 74. After an illness of three
weeks, he died yesterday in a
hospital.
Bancroft went to sea as a teen
ager on merchant ships. Later he
joined the Navy and was a gunner
in the Battle of Manila Bay.
In 1900 when the USS Oregon
struck a submerged rock off the
China coast, Bancroft swam be
neath the hull of the vessel to
learn the extent of the damage.
For this feat of daring and skill
he received an appointment to
Annapolis, but he found the re
strictions too confining and re
signed and headed for Broadway.
For 15 years he played impor
tant roles in many successful
shows, and in 1922 launched his
movie career. He became famous
for his rugged characterizations
and for 20 years was one of Hol
lywood’s busiest actors.
He played in “The Pony Ex
press,” “Underworld," “The Wolf
of Wall Street,” “Mr. Deeds Goes
to Town," “Submarine Patrol,”
and many other pictures. His last
movie, “Whistling in Dixie,” was
made in 1942.
Bancroft was' married in 1913
in Buffalo, N.Y. to Edna Brothers,
an actress.1 Three years later he
was wed to Octavia Broske, musi
cal comedy star, who survives
him.
Eisenhower Likes Campaigning,
Gives Him Chance to See People,
Instead of Just Getting Reports
By the Associated Press
Most of his Eisenhower’s meet
ing with reporters this morning
was devoted, as can be expected
these day, to politics. There were
a few questions on domestic and
foreign policy sprinkled in.
Eisenhower, under questioning,
said he likes campaigning—that
he likes to get out and see the
people instead of just getting re
ports.
And, he said, he is on the road
of truth and facts—not on the
high road or low road.
This was an obvious jab at
Democratic opponents who have
been accusing the GOP of taking
the low road at times during the
1956 political war.
Eisenhower also batted back at
the Democratic presidential nom
Witnesses Will Get
Increased Pay
In Alaska Courts
Rental of Dog Teams,
Private Planes, Boats
By Witnesses Okayed
WASHINGTON, WV-Increased
subsistence and travel fees will
go into effect Oct. 15 for witness
es in Alaskan district courts or
before U.S. commissioners in the
territory.
The revised fee schedule for the
first time makes no distinction in
the size of allowances paid wit
nesses from various parts of Alas
ka. At the present time, mileage
allowances for southeast Alaska’s
1st Judicial Division are lower
than for the more scattered 2nd,
3rd and 4th Divisions.
The order, signed by William
P. Rogers as acting attorney gen
eral, also specifically authorizes
for the first time, if approved by
proper authority, the payment of
rental of private airplanes, boats
or dog teams used by witnesses
in travel.
George M. Miller, assistant
chief of the Justice Department’s
accounts branch, said the changes
to be put into effect in mid-month
bring Alaska in line with similar
fees paid in the States.
Altho the revision makes no
change in the $4 a day payment
for witness attendance in court,
subsistence allowances for per
sons unable to return home each
day are increased from $5 to S9
a day.
For travel allowances, witness
es using a common carrier will be
paid the price of the “cheapest
| available first-class accommoda
tions” between their starting
point and the court.
Witnesses using a private auto
mobile or other private carrier
will get 12 cents a mile, a com
promise between the old payment
of 10 cents in the 1st Division and
15 cents in the other districts.
inee, Adlai E. Stevenson, on the
civil rights issue.
He said that in the armed forc
es, his administration ended de
segregation by taking the bull by
the horns. He did concede that
the Democrats had done some
thing in that direction. But he
also said that there had been talk
about the problem for all the 45
years he was in the service.
He also said that as far as he
knows, he was the first American
combat commander to incorpor
ate Negro troops into white army
units.
The President said that Vice
President Nixon, when discussing
the campaign with him yesterday,
didn’t specify the Republicans’
strong and weak points. He said
Nixon told him the whole picture
was most encouraging.
Eisenhower added that Nixon,
who has just returned from a 32
state tour, reported the most en
thusiastic and largest crowds of
his career, with the people happy
except in spots where there were
questions about farm problems or
depressed areas.
As for his own campaigning,
Eisenhower said it hadn’t gone
along at the level he had hoped—
that he had hoped he could use a
completely expository approach,
rather than engage in debate.
Stevenson Gives
Speeches and
Sees World Series
By the Associated Press
Democrat Adlai Stevenson to
day mixed vote-seeking with rec
reation as he took in a World Ser
ies game between campaign
speeches in Brooklyn, N.Y. and
New Haven, Conn.
Stevenson ran into weather
troubles yesterday in West Vir
ginia, but he made it to New York
for sidewalk rallies in Harlem and
the lower East Side.
The Democratic presidential
candidate was heartened by the
big crowds that turned out to hear
and cheer him in Harlem, where
the population is chiefly Negro
and Puerto Rican.
There, Stevenson said the Re
publicans had made what he
called a “brazen” effort to “seize
partisan credit for progress in
civil rights.”
Stevenson said he didn’t mind
“the President’s trying to make
off in broad daylight with the
Democratic platform . . . but he
better stop trying to run on the
Democratic record.”
On the school desegregation is
sue, Stevenson said that when
Eisenhower “was presented with
an opportunity for great national
leadership in this field, he was
virtually silent.” Stevenson re
iterated his support of the Su
preme Court decision banning
segregation of white and Negro
pupils in public schools.