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VOL. LVII No, 100 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1955 Per Copy—15*
1st Scout Battalion
Plans Encampment
At Dexter in Sept.
Co. “A,” 1st Scout Battalion,
will have their annual encamp
ment at Dexter Sept. 4-18, it has
been announced by Maj. Francis
T. Siegwart, commanding officer,
These units will include Gam
bell and Savoonga of St. Law
rence Island and Little Diomede
and King Islands.
The encampment will be high- j
lighted by visits from Gen. Noyes
and various representatives of the
U. S. Army.
A five-target rifle range is be
ing constructed at Dexter by the
Alaska National Guard TSU and
ACS under supervision of Major
Siegwart.
Firing will take place all during
the encampment and range guards
will be posted to keep civilians
out of the firing area.
Approximately 80 men will at
tend the camp. Scouting, patrol
ing plus intelligence reporting
will be top as the various courses
of instruction, also courses in
radio operation and maintenance.
Capt. R.D. Ellis, Nome, will be
camp commander; 1st Lt. Timo
thy Gologergen, Savoonga, com
mander of troops.
No Military Action Being
Considered Against Pilot
Downed by Reds in Korea
SEOUL UD—A high U.S. official
said tonight there has been “no
consideration of any military ac
tion” against Lt. Guy H. Bumpas
for statements the Communists
claimed he made in North Korea.
The Jackson, Miss., flier pilot
ed a small, unarmed plane which
was shot down last week near the
neutral zone. Capt. Carl W. Brown
of West Louisville, Ky., an ob
server passenger on the plane,
was killed.
The official, who requested his
name be withheld, attributed to
“irresponsible Communist propa
gandists” a red statement quoting
Bumpas as contradicting the U.N.
Command’s claim he was on a
routine flight.
The Reds charge Bumpas was
reconnoitering over North Korea.
After six days as a prisoner of
the Communists, the injured
Bumpas, and the body of Brown,
will be returned to Allied lines
tomorrow.
The injured airman will be
turned back to the United Nations
Command at a point about 12
miles east of Kumwha, an the
central Korean front, not far from
where his plane was shot down
by Red antiaircraft fire last Wed
nesday.
Daughter Born to All-American
Football Star Don Heinrich
SEATTLE, US)—All - American
Don Heinrich’s first born isn’t
likely to be a football player. It’s
a girl, born yesterday morning.
Don had led the professional
New York Giants to a 28-17 foot
ball victory over the San Fran
cisco 49ers Saturday in a game in
which he completed 12 of 25
passes for 178 yards and one
touchdown.
30 Jobless as Alaska
Sportsman Shifts Printing
Job to Stateside Firm
KETCHIKAN, GP)—The maga
zine Alaska Sportsman laid off 30
employes of the printing and
mailing departments last night,
announcing henceforth it will be
printed in the States.
The editorial and business of
fices of the last remaining major
Alaska monthly will remain here
but the presses and typesetting
machines will be placed on the
market.
The new publication site will
probably be Garden City, N.Y.
U.S.-RED CHINA TALKS
STILL DEADLOCKED
GENEVA, (®—.u. S. and Red
Chinese representatives Saturday
adjourned without reaching an
agreement on the repatriation of
41 Americans detained in Red
China.
It was the ninth meeting, be
tween U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis
Johnson and the Red Chinese en
voy, Wang Ping-nan.
A brief announcement after the
session disclosed only that the
two delegations were still bogged
down on the first agenda item
concerning the return of civilians
on both sides to their respective
countries. Not until some agree
ment is reached on this point can
the ambassadors proceed to the
discussion of the second item—
“other practical matters at issue
between the two sides.”
The next meeting was set for
Tuesday.
More Unidentified Subs
Spotted off Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, GP1—
The Swedish navy said today a
Swedish freighter spotted three
unidentified submarines off the
east coast of Sweden.
It was the seventh time this
summer that unidentified foreign
submarines have been sighted in
Swedish waters. Each time the
Soviet Foreign Office has denied
in formal notes to Sweden that
the subs were Russian.
President to See
Disaster Areas
DENVER, (#>—President Eisen
hower will make a six-state aer
ial inspection of eastern hurri
cane and flood damage tomorrow.
The President personally an
nounced his plans to take a look
at the damage which has taken
many lives and caused much
property destruction.
Eisenhower told newsmen at
the summer White House he will
leave Denver by plane and arrive
in Hartford, Conn., to confer with
E. Roland Harriman, chairman of
the American Red Cross. Govern
ors of the flood ‘ravaged states
also have been invited to attend.
Eisenhower appealed to people
everywhere in the country to
“pitch in and help” the Red Cross
in a drive for relief funds.
He will fly on to Washington
after the Hartford conference and
will keep his appointment the
next day to address the American
Bar Association.
10,000 Boy Scouts Enjoy
Town’s Hospitality at
10th Annual Jubilee
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, On
tario, Ut)—With the official speech
making over, the 10,000 Boy
Scouts here for the 8th World
Jamboree settled down today to
the business of sightseeing, swap
ping and just moseying.
Just about everyone is trying
hard to make this a successful
meeting, as well as to make the
Scouts at home. Signs in front of
homes all 'through the village wel
come the Scouts to come in and
partake of some cookies and re
freshments. The Scouts are oblig
ing in large numbers. One woman
reports she has dispensed 65 cases
of soft drinks and 30 packages of
sweets and cookies.
Elsewhere in the camp the
boys seem to be having little dif
ficulty in getting past the lan
guage barriers.
The Scouts seem willing to
swap anything that isn’t nailed
down, with the possible exception
of their tickets home.
♦
Would-Be Nude Swimmer Sneaks to
Home as Searchers Comb Countryside
HAMPTON, Va., —It was hot<
and humid in Hampton the night
before last. So hot and humid a
Hampton man, who’d been fish
ing in Mills Creek beside a bridge
on the military highway, decided
to peel off his clothes and take a
swim.
After all, it was 2 a.m., and
much too late for a car to come
along. But one did.
The would - be swimmer had
just finished disrobing when an
approaching car flooded the high
way with light.
Our hero scrambled madly over
an abutment of the bridge and
into hiding.
He was too slow, though. The
motorist caught a glimpse of him
as he rolled over the side of the
abutment and, fearing an accident
had happened, stopped to investi
gate.
When the motorist didn’t see
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anybody in the water, he called
the police. The police called the
fire department. Rescuers hurried
to the scene. A large crowd gath
ered. Helicopters from a nearby
Army base were summoned.
Officers found the missing man’s
clothing piled beside his bicycle
by the creek. Papers in his pock
ets gave them his name. They no
tified his family of his disappear
ance.
At 3:45 a.m. a telephone jan
gled at police headquarters. It
was the man’s wife. He’d arrived
home safely—but unclad.
Too embarrassed to return to
shore for his clothes, he’d taken
all the dark alleys he could find
and reached hearth and home un
detected.
Police declined to give the
man’s name.
Tremendous Rehabilitation Job Faces
Northeast States; Death Toll Near 200
—-C.
Hans Arp High Bidder
On M/V Yukon Health
High bidders on three Alaska
Department of Health boats have
been announced by Dr. C. Earl
Albrecht, commissioner of health.
Bids were opened in Juneau early
last week.
Freeman Brokers of Seattle
were high bidders on the M/V
Health with an offer of $18,776.
High bid on the M/V Yukon
Health was $9,000 by Hans Arp
of Nome.
Peterson Navigation of Fair
banks bid $6,750 on the M/V Ha
zel B. The latter two boats are at
Nenana, the M/V Health is in Se
attle.
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Pier Angeli and Infant
Well Despite Accident
HOLLYWOOD, (£>—Pier Angeli
has given birth to the baby she
almost lost because of an accident
aboard an airplane. It’s a 8 pound
13 ounce boy and both the young
actress and her son were reported
in fine condition.
Miss Angeli, wife of singer Vic
Damone, fractured her pelvis
when she fell in an airliner which
was approaching Palm Springs,
Calif., last February. She had
been confined to her home since
the accident.
Helicopters’ Work
In Flooded Areas
Wins High Praise
STROUDSBURG, Pa., ®—'The
work of military helicopter units
in flood ravaged northeast Penn
sylvania drew a “splendid job”
comment from disaster workers.
The Army, Navy, Marine and
Coast Guard aircraft—with their
whirling blades slap-slapping the
air—have been everywhere. They
have delivered food and medical
supplies, rescued the living, re
covered the dead and transported
rescue teams all over the grim
vacationland.
The craft have proved useful in
support missions in war, but in
the peacetime disaster here they
have perhaps proved their great
est worth.
In an area where almost every
bridge has been knocked askew
or washed away, almost every
road washed out, almost every
rail line torn up, transportation
would be primitive were it not
for the helicopters, dashing here
and there like the winged angels
of mercy they’ve been.
To go by mobile transportation
overland in some instances you
would have to travel a rugged,
circuitous route of 20, ever 50
miles to go between points only a
quarter mile apart.
But not the helicopters. They
can set down anywhere—and
have.
Many of the military pilots are
Korean War veterans. Comment
ed one weary pilot: “This is more
rugged than any duty I ever saw
in Korea.”
“ By the Associated Press
A staggering job of rehabilita
tion faced flood-wrecked commu
nities of the northeast today as
stunned survivors found the death
toll steadily mounting toward the
200 mark.
The latest count since the be
ginning of the floods last Thurs
day was: Pennsylvania 93, Con
necticut 68, Massachusetts 13,
Rhode Island 1, New Jersey 6,
New York 4, Virginia 3.
As the rampaging streams and
rivers receded to normal levels,
astonished citizens surveyed the
heart-breaking devastation. It was
so vast that only the broadest
estimates of the damage could be
made, but these ran to billions.
Homes were wrecked or com
pletely gone; factories were dam
aged, some beyond repair. Bridg
es were down and roads washed
out, asphalt surfaces churned up.
Health hazards were a major
problem. Flood survivors in most
places were ordered to boil drink
ing water. Dry ice was an emer
gency item and supplies were
commandeered to refrigerate vital
food supplies where regular re
frigerators were without power.
On top of all their other prob
lems, many flood survivors looked
ahead to an uncertain future with
their regular jobs gone, at least
temporarily. Factory damage in
Woonsocket, R.I., alone left thou
sands out of work.
Some buildings that first ap
peared to have survived the floods
were found so weakened that they
had to be condemned.
Normal life was brought to a
standstill in Putnam, Conn.,
where floods and uncontrolable
magnesium fires had combined to
wreck the town. “We’re done.
This valley is dead,” commented
a veteran textile worker.
The worst single tragedy oc
curred near Stroudsburg, Pa.,
where Brodhead Creek swept over
a summer vacation camp and car
ried away 40 persons,, mostly
women and children. Nine per
sons survived to tell of the horror
when the flash flood collapsed a
building in which the campers
had sought refuge.
More Flood News On Page 3
Khrushchev Celebrates
Satellite’s Anniversary
LONDON GW—Russia’s Commu
nist Party chief, Nikita Khrush
chev, has arrived in Bucharest
with other Red leaders to help
stage a celebration of satellite
Romania’s liberation by the So
viets from Nazi rule 11 years ago.
Moscow radio broadcast the
news of Khrushchev’s arrival
yesterday, even as India and oth
er non-Communist lands were
urging the Kremlin to give up the
Cominform and help ease ten
sions.
Open Season on Italian Hunters
ROME, GW—Italy’s hunting sea
son opened this weekend. The toll
in the first 24 hours was one hunt
er killed, two blinded, and two
others wounded.