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VOL. LXII No. 87 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1960_Per Copy 15^
Seaton Authorizes Immediate Opening
Of Land Management Office at Nome
Gov. Egan Says:
No Tie-in Between
Bond Issue and
Initiative No. I
JUNEAU, UP—Gov. William A.
Egan said today a four-man com
mittee of Alaska and British Col
umbia officials hope to reach ag
reement by October on the route
of a proposed new road link be
tween the Canadian province and
Alaska.
In a news conference that
touched on a variety of subjects,
Egan also took Rep. Earl Hill
strand tD-Anchoragei mildly to
task for linking the capital move
initiative on the primary election
ballot with the 23 million dollar
ferry-highway bond issue which
will appear on the general elec
tion ballot.
Egan, who just returned from
Victoria, B.C., and a meeting of
the Alaska International Develop
ment Commission with represent
atives of British Columbia and
the Yukon, said he was very
pleased with the l'esults of the
meeting.
Egan said: “There is no con
nection between the capital and
the ferry system. Any one who
tries to tie them together is just
attempting to cloud the issue.”
Hillstrand, chairman of the cap
ital site steering committee, the
group backing the capital move
proposal, was quoted as saying
on July 14:
“If they (Southeastern Alaska)
succeed in keeping the capital,
will there be much inclination on
the part of western Alaskans to
approve of a $15,000,000 borrow
ing program to establish their
pet project—a ferry sysem?”
Commenting further on Hill
strand’s statement Egan said:
“If Mr. Hillstrand would give
the matter a little more thought,
I am sui'e he would realize that
his attempts to tie the initiative
and the bond issue together rep
resents a very poor way to leg
islate.”
Judge Releases Stripper
Jailed in the Nude
ST. LOUIS, liP—Judge Rodney
Weiss said it was “reprehensible
and barbaric” to jail stripper
Clarise Annjell overnight in the
nude.
He dismissed charges of per
forming a leWd act, resisting ar
rest and disturbing the peace,
filed against the dancer. The city
will appeal.
Clarise, 27, was dragged away
screaming and kicking from her
night club act by three detectives
Wednesday night.
They carried her off in the
paddy wagon clad only in a fea
ther here and there, and hand
cuffs.
At the station house a matron
took the costume for evidence.
Then Clarise, wearing only spike
heeled shoes, was clapped in a
cell.
Clarise refused to accept her
street clothing from a matron. But
12 hours later, faced with the
prospect of wearing a baggy
white smock into court, she final
ly accepted her clothing and
dressed.
JUNEAU, (Jt — Secretary of
Interior Seaton has authorized
the immediate opening of a Bu
reau of Land Management Office
at Nome, J. M. Honeywell, area
BLM administrator, said today.
For the next few months, Hon
eywell said, a man will be de
tailed to Nome to make a study
of land activity in the Nome dis
trict to determine the needs of
the area.
Personnel eventually assigned
to the Nome Land Office will be
under supervision of operations
supervisor Richard Quintus of the
Fairbanks Land District, Honey
well said.
Honeywell said the Nome office
is being opened for the primary
purpose of receiving applications
and disseminating information.
Prime Minister Ikeda
Satisfied with American
Trade Policy with Japan
TOKYO, GT) — Japan’s new
prime minister, Hayato Ikeda,
said today he is satisfied with
American trade policy toward
Japan.
Ikeda also ruled out any im
mediate new parliamentary elec
tions in Japan and denied any
intention of seeking revisions of
the controversial U.S. - Japanese
security treaty, two things de
manded by the left-wing demon
strators who forced the resigna
tion of his predecessor, Nobusuke
Kishi.
The bespectacled, conservative
Ikeda, who took office last week,
expressed his deep regret for the
violence which led to the can
cellation of President Eisenhow
er’s visit in June.
Charlie Jr. Miffed Because
Dad’s Name Not Engraved
On Hollywood Sidewalk
HOLLYWOOD, U> — Charlie
Chaplin Jr. is miffed because his
famous father’s name isn’t en
graved in the cement of Holly
wood’s sidewalks.
So he brought suit against Los
Angeles City Council, the Holly
wood Chamber of Commerce and
Hollywood Improvement Assn, to
make such a record.
Young Chaplin charges that the
groups “arbitrarily and with mal
ice, prejudice and bias” decided
I not to include his father’s name.
He termed the elder Chaplin’s
career “a milestone in the history
of picture making.”
The celebrated comedian and
his family now reside in Switzer
land.
Up - Up - Up
WASHINGTON, liPi —The cost
! of living climbed one-fifth of one
per cent in June to its fourth con
| secutive high, the Labor Depart
j ment reported today.
Food prices—mainly fresh fruit
and pork — contributed virtually
all the rise, the department said,
but gasoline prices helped pro
vide an upward shove.
The Consumer Price Index
reached a level of 126.5 per cent
of the 1947-49 average. This was
two points higher than a year ago
and, in percentage terms, repre
sented a drop in the buying power
of the dollar more than lVfe cents
in the past 12 months.
Castro Seizes
3 American
Sugar Mills
HAVANA, uPl—1The Cuban gov
ernment announced officially to
day it has seized three mills be
longing to the Cuban American
Sugar Mill Co.
An intervention order signed by
Prime Minister Fidel Castro said
the action was taken “for the
protection of workers and the
national industry.”
The decree accused the Ameri
can company of failing to liquid
ate its obligation to suppliers
“leaving thousands of Cuban
cane growers in a state of ruin.”
It said “responsible officials had
abandoned the properties.”
Experts estimate the mills —
two in Cuba’s eastern Oriente
province and one near Havana—
have a total value, including ad
joining land, of nearly 75 million
dollars.
Wholesale Price of Sugar
Is Highes In 37 Years
NEW YORK, UPl — The whole
sale price of sugar was raised to
day to the highest level in 37
years.
The National Sugar Refining
Co. of New York, second largest
domestic refiner of cane sugar,
increased the price 30 cents a
hundred pounds for all grades
and all types of deliveries. The
change is effective Saturday.
The boost, second in little more
than a month, puts National’s
price at $9.70 a hundred pounds.
In 1923 the price hit $9.80.
Sugar retails now at 8 to 10
cents a pound.
The wholesale price rise was
attributed by some trade circles
to the government’s delay in re
storing to the market sugar re
moved by the cut in Cuba’s quota.
Sugar dealers have emphasized
that there is little likelihood of
a shortage since the world supply
is ample.
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i Alaska Steam Charters
Another Ship To Handle
Cargoes For Alaska
SEATTLE, (41 — The Alaska
Steamship Co. chartered an addi
tional freighter yesterday to help
its regular 14 - ship fleet move
cargo between Seattle and the
49th state.
Alaska Steam took a bareboat
charter on the Liberty Ship Olym
pic Pioneer for one or two voy
ages.
On her first voyage the Olym
pic Pioneer will load salmon at
Kodiak, Cordova, Seward, False
Pass, King Cove, Chignik, Alitak
and Port Bailey.
i The Olympic Pioneer is owned
by the Olympic Steamship Co.
and just returned from a grain
voyage to India.
Eisenhower Calls On Dept. Heads
To Hold Employment Down
WASHINGTON, (41 — Through
his budget chief. President Eisen
hower today called on all gov
ernment agencies to keep em
ployment in the new fiscal year
3 per cent below the level pro
vided by the salary appropriations
of Congress.
Budget Director Maurice Stans
sent letters to every department
and agency head instructing them
to save money by not filling va
cancies, not creating new posi
tions, and shifting employes.
Congolese About-face Toward Belgium
Eases Threat of Russian Intervention
By The Associated Press
A pronouncement by Congolese
Premier Patrice Lumumba today
abruptly eased the threat o£ Rus
sian intervention in the Congo, i
He unexpectedly offered a hand
Of friendship to Belgium and said
there is no longer any need for
Soviet military aid.
The Premier expressed pro
found thanks to the U.N. Security
Council for its renewed demand
that Belgian troops quit the Con
go, although his call for an im- I
mediate pullout had been dis
regarded.
The about-face came in a Leo
poldville news conference shortly
before Lumumba’s scheduled take
off for the United States and Can
ada to appeal for economic aid,
technicians and doctors and—if
the Security Council is still in
session—do sit in on a meeting.
“We have political inependence
and now we need economic inde
pendence,” he said. “We need
bread and happiness for our peo
ple. We want to create a national
economy.”
The change in mood of the goa
teed nationalist, 34, came a few
hours after the Soviet Union join
ed the 10 other members of the
Security Council in a unanimous
vote for a Ceylonese - Tunisian
resolution that called on Belgium
to withdraw her forces “speedily”
from the new African republic.
There was a shift also in the
tone of Moscow, which has been
hammering away—on a line set
by Premier Khrushchev that the
Russians would take “resolute
measures” if what Khrushchev
called Western aggression con
tinued in the Congo.
U.S. Secretary of State Herter
yesterday assailed the Russians’
Congo campaign as a reckless
bluff. He pledge that the United
States will press ahead with all
out moral and material support
for U.N. efforts to restore order
—regardless of Soviet threats.
The declaration was part of a
new Washington policy of calling
Russia’s hand each time it be
lieves Kremlin leaders are threat
ening action they dare not carry
out.
Destroyer Collett Was On
Speed Run In Fog When
Collision Occurred
LONG BEACH, Calif., UP) — A
destroyer skipper says he was
traveling at 20 knots—in a fog
where visibility was 300 yards—
when another destroyer loomed
suddenly ahead of him.
The two collided and 11 sailors
died.
Cmdr. Albert Ford acknowl
edged at a naval court of inquiry
yesterday that even under ideal
conditions it would take 500 yards
to stop' his ship, the USS Collett.
Ford said the Collett was oh
test speed runs when it collided
with the USS Ammen off the
Southern California coast.
Radarmen couldn’t give any
reason why the Ammen wasn’t
sighted earlier, but pointed out
that equipment was newly in
stalled and crews weren’t used
to it yet.
Armed Russ Patrol Vessel
Stops American Freighter
In the North Pacific
NEW YORK, (/PI—The skipper
of an American freighter reports
that an armed Soviet patrol ves
sel stopped his ship July 7 in the
north Pacific about 350 miles from
the Soviet Kurile Islands.
The incident, discussed Thurs
day, was termed by admiralty
lawyers a violation of internation
al law.
The ship involved was the
Ocean Eva, a 10,370-ton C2 carry
ing wjieat from Portland, Ore., to
India.
The ship’s captain, J. J. Buskin
of the Bronx, described the epi
sode in a letter to his wife Naomi.
3RD PATTERSON-JOHANSSON
FIGHT SCHEDULED FOR
LOS ANGELES IN NOVEMBER
NEW YORK, tP)—Bill Fugazy,
president of Feature Sports, Inc.,
said today that Los Angeles would
be the site of the third Floyd
Patterson - Ingemar Johansson
heavyweight bout with Nov. 1 as
the probable date.
Fugazy said he would leave for
Sweden next Tuesday to confer
with Johansson and complete ar
rangements.
U. S. Orders
Expulsion of
Russian Diplomat
WASHINGTON, UPI — The
United States today ordered the
immediate expulsion of a Soviet
diplomat, Peter Y. Ezhov on the
grounds he was a spy collecting
intelligence data, including aerial
photographs.
The State Department said that
Ezhov, a Soviet Embassy third
secretary, “flagrantly abused his
diplomatic status by engaging in
espionage activity.”
Ezhov paid an American com
mercial photographer, the depart
ment said, more than $1,000 for
aerial photographs of American
cities.
Informed authorities reported
Ezhov carried out some of his in
telligence work while Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev was in the U.S.
on a goodwill visit last Septem
ber.
A second Soviet diplomat, Cmdr.
Vladimir Glinsky, was involved in
the same kind of intelligence act
ivity, the department said.
Glinsky’s role in setting up the
aerial photography apparently
came to light after he had al
ready left the embassy to return
to Moscow. He was an assistant
naval attache.
Body of RB47 Pilot to be
Delivered to U.S. Embassy
In Moscow Saturday
MOSCOW, lff\ — The body of
Capt. Willard G. Palm, 39, pilot
of the U.S. RB47 shot down by
the Soviet Union, will be deliv
ered to the American Embassy
Saturday, not today as original
ly announced.
The embassy said the delay was
due to complexities of the trans
fer and of arranging shipment of
the body to the United States.
The Soviets said the body was
found floating in a rubber boat
in Arctic waters after his plane
was shot down. Two other mem
bers of the crew were captured
and Premier Khrushchev said
they would be tried for espion
age. Three other crewmen were
reported missing.