H2 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. LVIII No. 127 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1956 Per Copy—15<
Chief Webb Refutes News-Miner
Story That Nome Rate of Juvenile
Delinquency Higher Than Fairbanks
The Fairbanks News-Miner of
Tuesday this week ran a front
page story with banner that said
its juvenile delinquency rate was
less than Nome’s.
To this story, Nome’s Chief of
Police Carl Webb, says “Not So.”
Webb said today that the Nome
Police Dept, recognizes that we
have a juvenile problem and is
trying to do something about it.
The City Council is wholeheart
ed1'' cooperating with the Terri
torial Board of Juvenile Institu
tions and Nome was the first city
in Alaska to sign a contract and
have approved juvenile facilities,
and we are now receiving funds
from the Welfare and Juvenile
boards.
All the law enforcement agen
cies in Nome cooperate and all
contacts are reported to the board.
Webb said: “I ask the News
Miner to get the juvenile records
from the Territorial Police and
the U.S. Commissioner and add
them to their city’s reports.”
Webb continued: ‘‘As a police
officer with 11 years experience
in cities of 35,000 population and
as a deputy sheriff in counties
with 140,000 population, it is my
opinion that if emphasis was
plgced on juvenile delinquency,
Stevenson Attacks
GOP Record on
Farm Promises
<Bt thy Associated Pnsi)
Adlai Stevenson, sharing the
platform with Sen. Kefauver at
a Springfield, 111., “farm rally",
pounded at Eisenhower for what
he said is “a record of calloused
political perfidy” on farm prom
ises.
He leveled criticism at Eisen
hower personally, saying that the
President has compounded “de
ceit with self-rightous hypocrisy."
Stevenson’s speech dealt main
ly with the farm problem, as he
sought to woo votes from what
the Democrats claim are discon
tented groups among the nation's
farmers.
He said that, if elected, he
plans “to explore at once the ap
pointment of a task force to put
the Democratic farm program in
shape for swift action at the open
ing of Congress.” He said Ke
fauver would head the task force.
Stevenson said “we must pro
tect the family farm and help the
low-income farmer—those people
the President says he loves and
his appointees say should be
plowed under."
From the same platform, Sen.
Kefauver described the GOP farm
pdogram as “a flop.”
“The truth is,” said Kefauver,
“that the Eisenhower Administra
tion betrayed the American farm
er.”
He said that “time and time
again you have seen direct prom
ises that were made to you by
candidate Eisenhower flatly re
pudiated by President Eisen
hower.”
the reporter, Val Greuel, would
not be blowing his horn so loud.
Because of the heavy incidence of
crime in the Fairbanks area and
the shortage of men in that de
partment, a true picture is not
being presented.
The basis for the Fairbanks
story was a report by Calvin Pool,
director of Juvenile Institutions.
This report was not a statistical
report but one sent to all terri
torial police chiefs to let them
know how the reports on juve
nile delinquency were coming in.
The juvenile board has asked
all the cities to give true reports
on all juvenile contacts so that
the board will have the true fig
ures to be presented to the legis
lature.
The Chief continued: “Nome
has no quarrel with any other
Alaska community. We don’t
want a $100,000 juvenile institu
tion when there is only $40,000
available for all of Alaska. We
are only trying to cooperate with
the juvenile agency and put the
true facts on the table. Yes, we
had 18 curfew violators, but, Mr.
Greuel we don’t have auto theft,
burglary and instead of running
after kids who spit on auto wind
shields, we are trying to do some
thing about the adult delinquents
who are jeopardizing the morals
of our young people."
Webb concluded by noting that
in a four month period in Fair
banks, only 6 minors were appre
hended for drinking; that if their
police would report all their con
tacts a much fuller and truer
picture would be obtained.
Hungarian Gov’t
Has No Success
In Radio Appeals
VIENNA, Austria, Wl—Pledges
of the new government of Pre
mier Nagy for a new deal with
eventual withdrawal of Soviet
troops from the country apparent
ly had not got anywhere.
The Budapest radio broadcast
repeated an urgent appeal to
the rebels to give up their arms
and cease the bloodshed.
These broadcasts pledged re
forms of all kinds, an amnesty
for rebels, better living conditions,
independence from Moscow, and
a new popular front government
“today or tomorrow.”
The radio appeals were ad
dressed especially to “young sol
diers" who apparently had de
serted the government, to work
ers, youths and even “old Com
munists.”
The Broadcasters in Budapest
claimed Soviet and Hungarian
troops were slowly crushing the
anti-Soviet rebellion—but fight
ing went on.
Nagy offered clemency again to
the anti-Soviet rebels who were
still fighting in the streets of Bu
dapest even as he broadcast.
Those who insist on continuing
the rebellion “will feel the full
[Strength of the law,” he declared.
ALL WESTERN HUNGARY
CONTROLLED BY REBELS
Hungarian Premier Promises Complete
National Independence From Moscow
If Rebels Will Lay Down .Their Arms
Nagy promised yesterday he will
negotiate with Moscow to with
draw its occupation troops if the
Hungarian rebels would end their
revolution. He went on the radio
to appeal for the rebellious forces
of students and workers to lay
down their arms and help his
new government.
He promised that if they did
so the country would get a new
deal. “As soon as order is re-es
tablished those troops which were
called by our government to help
will be withdrawn,” he said.
Apparently this meant that as
soon as the revolution ended the
Russian troops, tanks and jet
plane pilots would be recalled to
their bases. Then Nagy would
take up negotiations with Moscow
to have the four or five Soviet
divisions in Hungaiy evacuated to
Russia.
Nagy promised that in future
Car With Trailer Collides
With Tanker Trailer;
Mother of Two Killed
WHITEHORSE, Y. T., 1*1—The
RCMP has released the name of
an Alaska woman killed seven
days ago in the head-on collision
of her car and a giant tanker
trailer, 140 miles north of here.
The victim was Mrs. Verna
Augusta Sawyer of Palmer.
Her husband, Arthur Ray Saw
yer, is in critical condition in a
hospital here. Also injured in the
hospital are the two Sawyer chil
dren, Dwight William, 9, and
Shelley Lee, 5.
Sawyer was driving the family
car south, pulling a trailer, and
apparently applied his brakes
when he saw the tanker ap
proaching up a hill.
The trailer jack-knifed, forcing
the car into the tanker’s path.
Jim Armstrong, driver of the
tanker, suffered no injuries but
w%s confined to hospital for sev
eral days with shock.
Four Regiments of
Hungarian Soldiers
Desert to Rebels
VIENNA, Austria, (*l—Western
diplomatic sources here said yes
terday they had heard that four
regiments of Hungarian soldiers
had gone over to the side of the
rebels.
This would explain how the
revolutionaries—believed at first
to be composed of only students
and workers—had been able to
hold out against Russian and
Hungarian army tanks, jet planes,
machineguns and grenades.
It also would explain where the
rebels got their weapons.
relations with Russia Hungary
will insist on “complete national
independence and friendly equal
ity.”
He was following the line of
Yugoslavia’s President Tito and
Poland's Gomulka, who have
driven for an “independent road
to socialism.” Nagy apparently in
tended to open the “Hungarian
road to socialism” in order to win
the masses to his course of inde
pendence.
Nagy was ousted as Premier in
1955 because he espoused a “new
course” of giving the people more
consumer goods at the expense of
heavy industry. He returned to
the premiership Wednesday.
Nagy called the revolution a
“tragic event.” He accused the
rebels of being “counter-revolu
tionaries” who attacked “the or
der of people’s democracy."
Then the scholarly new Pre
mier, speaking with emj^iasis, de
clared:
"This revolt of the Budapest
population resulted from its em
bitterment about conditions in the
country.
"This embitterment was even
increased by the mistakes and
blunders of the past. These mis
takes demand correction by the
demand of the people.”
Thus Nagy placed the blame for
Hungary’s miserable economic
conditions on regimes controlled
by the dethroned Communist dic
tator Matyas Rakosi.
Adolf Hitler
Declared Dead
BERCHTESGARTEN, Germany,
141—Adolph Hitler was officially
declared dead yesterday—1 1
years, 5 months and 25 days after
he committed suicide and his
body burned in the bomb-pocked
garden of Berlin's Reich Chan
cellory. »
A clerk pinned an official notice
on the board of the Berchtesgar
ten district court building.
It said: “Adolf Hitler, bom
April 20, 1889, in Braunau on Inn
(Austria), is dead. The time of his
death was established as the 30th
of April, 1945.”
At the same time, Berchtesgar
ten court and Bavarian ministry
of justice made public a 4V4-page
document on the long-awaited
ruling. It said in part:
“There can no longer exist the
least doubt that Hitler took his
life by his own hand on April 30,
1945, in the ‘Feuerbunker’ of
the Reich Chancellory in Berlin,
and that he did it by a shot into
his right temple.” <
I
Casualties Estimated
To Be in Thousands
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
VIENNA, Austria UH—Hungary’s
anti-Communist civil war spread
over much of the country today
despite orders for an all-out mili
tary effort to crush the rebels.
Three Belgian diplomats who ar
rived at the Austrian border after
leaving Budapest at 11 a.m. said:
“The whole of western Hungary
is in the hands of the rebels.”
Heavy fighting raged thruout
last night .and also today in Buda
pest, with scores of Russian tanks
taking part.
"The dead and dying were
lying about everywhere in the
streets," the diplomats report
ed.
Rebels controlled the highway
to Vienna from Budapest to the
border. Rebel civilians and Hun
garian soldiers who had deserted
to the revolution stopped the
Belgian diplomats six times en
route to the Austian frontier.
Several thousand persons were
believed dead or wounded in
fighting that had flamed for
three days in the Danube capi
tal and spread to the western
countryside and such major
cities as Gyoer, Sieged. Siolnok
and Pecs.
Three radio stations apparently
were in the hands of rebel forces.
All were heard faintly here, call
ing themselves “The Freedom Ra
dio.” Two identified themselves
as being at Pecs, near the Yugo
slav frontier, and Miskolc, near
the Czech border.
Leaflets proclaiming establish
ment of a “revolutionary govern
ment” were being distributed.
Reports at the Austrian border
indicated Hungarian workers had
gone out in a general strike, par
alyzing railways, transport and
other industry.
The general strike apparently
had stopped all rail movement
except military traffic.
Some of the dead in Budapest
had been shot down by Russian
tanks when demonstrators ad
vanced with only Hungarian
flags and no weapons.
Budapest, a city of 1% million,
was a capital of gaping and black
ened wounds in its buildings. De
bris littered its streets.
Pecs and Miskolc are cities of
287,000 and 136,000. Gyoer and
Szeged, where other anti-Soviet
disorders were reported, are
places of 66,000 and 88,000.
DELUXE HUNTING
SUN VALLEY, Idaho tP—When
Don Anderson, head of the sports
department at this deluve resort,
goes hunting, he does it in deluxe
style.
He reported he shot a four
point buck deer on a ridge above
nearby Trail Creek.
The deer lurched forward and
rolled down the hill—stopping
within three feet of the tailgate
>f his vehicle.