VOL. LVII No. 131NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1955__Per Copy—15»
9 Inmates Tunnel
Out of Washington
State Penitentiary
WALLA WALLA, Wash., iffl—A
mother-murderer and nine other
tough inmates of the tumult-rid
den Washington State Peniten
tiary escaped last night after
weeks of tunneling through seven
inches of concrete and 30 feet of
earth.
The escape was discovered an
estimated two hours after the 10
had crawled through the 30-inch
wide tunnel to liberty just outside
the west wall.
Early today, despite a wide
spread cordon of scores of police
assisted by four bloodhounds, no
trace of the men had been found
except tracks a half mile from
the gaping hole in the prison side.
Back in the prison the guards
found a neat circular slab chiseled
from the 7-inch-thick concrete
floor of one of the cells. It led
into an unused dirt-floor base
ment. The 30-foot-long tunnel
started there, running straight as
a die to the exit point.
Only a few hand-made digging
tools were left behind. The dirt
apparently had been flushed
down prison toilets a bit at a time.
Guards said the big chunk of con
crete probably had been replaced
each day by the felons after a
night of digging.
One of the men who escaped
was William B. Bracey, 20, who
shot his mother at Tacoma two
years ago when she refused him
the use of the family automobile.
GOP With Go Along
On Eisenhower
Administration Record
PORTLAND, Ore., W—Repub
lican National Chairman Leonard
W. Hall said today he is optimistic
about a Republican victory in
1956 because of what he called a
youthful and united party will be
running on a platform upholding
the Eisenhower record.
“I say the Republican party is
the strongest it has been in 25
years,” Hall said in an address
prepared for a Western States
party conference luncheon. “We
are in that condition today be
cause President Eisenhower has
led us along that way. I repeat—
the philosophy of the President
is the philosophy of the party; his
record is the platform we will
stand on next year.
“That was true three months
ago. It is true today. In that re
spect nothing has changed since
the sudden illness of the Presi
dent.”
Among the highlights of the
Eisenhower record is a “boom
ing economy,” he said.
Israel Says Egyptians
Again Attack Outpost
JERUSALEM, (*) — Israel said
two Egyptian platoons today at
tacked an Israeli advanced posi
tion near the lower sector of the
Gaza Strip. No action was re
ported along the El Auja-Nizana
zone border where a bloody battle
was fought yesterday.
An official Israeli spokesman
said in today’s attack, the Israelis
beat back the Egyptians with rifle
and machinegun fire and suffered
no casualties.
Both sides claimed they held
the strategic El Sabha checkpost
in the El Auja-Nizana zone, scene
of a 17-hour battle yesterday de
scribed as the heaviest fighting
between Arabs and Jews since the
1948 Palestine war.
Peter Gruening
Disappears In
Sydney, Australia
SYDNEY, Australia, W) — Aus
tralian police said today, they
were making a country - wide
search for Peter Gruening, 32,
South Pacific manager for United
Press, who has been missing a
week.
Gruening, son of former Gov.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska, left
his Sydney apartment in his auto
mobile a week ago and had not
been heard from since, police
said. They expressed fears for his
safety, saying they had been told
he was suffering from a spinal
ailment.
Gruening’s picture and a de
scription of his car were publish
ed widely, but no one has re
ported seeing the American.
His brother, Hunt Gruening,
airline pilot from Alaska, is ex
pected to arrive here tomorrow to
assist with the search.
Duchess of Windsor Says
She Regarded Woodwards
As An “Ideal Couple”
MINEOLA, N. Y., UB — The
Duchess of Windsor says she re
garded as an “ideal couple”
blonde Mrs. Ann Woodward and
her socialite - sportsman husband
whom she shot to death in their
Oyster Bay, Long Island, home.
The Duchess was the honored
guest at a party attended by the
Woodwards last Saturday night.
Early Sunday morning Mrs.
Woodward — who said later she
was alarmed by a noise she con
nected with a prowler in the
neighborhood — fired a double
barreled shotgun in the darkness
and killed her 35-year-old hus
band.
The Duchess of Windsor was
questioned yesterday in her suite
at the Waldorf Towers in New
York City by two Nassau County
police officials.
Later, Detective Inspector Stuy
vesant Pinnell quoted her as say
ing:
“I have known the Woodwards
about 12 years and have met them
on several occasions before the
party. I spoke to them Saturday
night, complimented Mr. Wood
ward on the achievements of his
horse, Nashua, and exchanging
greetings with Mrs. Woodward.
“Then I left the group to join
some other people. I knew of no
trouble between them and re
garded the Woodwards as an ideal
couple.”
Pinnell said detectives thus far
have questioned about a score of'
the approximately 58 persons who
were at the party.
Red China Completes
New Mausoleum for
Genghis Khan’s Body
TOKYO, UPI—Peiping radio said
Thursday Red China finished a
new mausoleum Oct. 30 for the
body of Genghis Khan, the great
Mongol conqueror who was bom
in 1162 and conquered most of
Asia before he died in 1227.
The broadcast heard here said
the mausoleum had been complet
ed in the Inner Mongolian auton
omous region on the Yellow River
at a place identified as Ezen Hor
oo. Available maps do not show
Ezen Horoo, but it probably is on
the southward bend of the Yellow
River in either Ninghsia or Shen
si Provinces.
It is built in traditional Mongol
style with a roof of yellow and
blue tile.
Salinas Exonerated
The U.S. Marshal for the Sec
ond Division, announced today
that his office had completed its
investigation of persons and cir
cumstances surrounding the death
of Betty Maye Braidwood, on the
evening of Oct. 24.
Marshal R. W. Oliver said:
“The findings of our investiga
tion conclusively establish that no
persons were implicated in the
death in this case.
“Natividad (Steve) Salinas has
cooperated throughout this period
of investigation and voluntarily
submitted to a lie detector test,
which was given through the co
operation of the Department of
the Air Force. The result of this
examination is that Mr. Salinas
was not implicated in the death
of Betty Maye Braidwood.”
Salinas, who had been sched
uled to leave Nome on Nov. 1, re
mained voluntarily until the in
vestigation was concluded.
Galvin Stores To Redeem
“Lucky Bucks” Each
Week Until Christmas
For the past week the U. S.
Mercantile Store and the Nome
Hardware Store have been giv
ing out new one-dollar bills in
change. They will continue to do
this every week until Christmas,
stated owner and manager Larry
Galvin.
The serial numbers of the bills
are recorded, he explained, and
every Monday, one of the num
bers will be announced in the
Nugget.
The person holding the dollar
bill with the lucky number may
redeem their lucky buck by pre
senting it either of the Galvin
stores in exchange for ten dollars
value in merchandise. The con
test will continue until Christmas
it has been announced.
Employees and their families
are not permitted to participate.
Winners will be announced each
week.
Spokesman Pooh-Poohs
Canadian Claim Japanese
Catching All Their Fish
TOKYO, (#>—“Japanese are not
getting any more fish than they
are entitled to,” a government
Fisheries Board Spokesman said
today.
The statement was made in re
sponse to charges by British Col
umbia fishermen that the Japa
nese are taking British Columbia
fish from mid-Pacific waters.
“Japan has rigidly observed the
fishery demarcation line at the
175 degrees longitude mark in the
Pacific, provided by the Canada
U.S.-Japan treaty of 1952,” the
spokesman said.
“Government ships have always
escorted Japanese fishery con
voys to the mid-Pacific and have
never allowed any Japanese fish
ermen to trespass the line over to
the Canadian-Ameriean side.”
The 175th parallel is roughly
1,500 miles from Japan’s eastern
most island, Hokkaido ,and about
3,000 miles from British Colum
bia.
“It is true that Japanese fisher
men this year had a record high
haul of red and pink salmon in
the Pacific,” the spokesman said.
“And we hear that British Colum
bia fishermen did not have a good
haul of them. But we don’t think
we ought to comment on a sug
gestion 90 per cent of the fish
caught in the Japanese side have
! cruised from the Canadian side.”
Convention
Supplement
With This Issue
The Alaska Statehood Commit
tee has published a newspaper
supplement containing articles on
the issues facing the Alaska Con
stitutional Convention, to be held
at the University of Alaska con
vening next Tuesday, Nov. 8.
The articles are designed to fur
nish to the public information
concerning constitutional ques
tions. Some of the studies have
been prepared by leading authori
ties of the United States on gov
ernment and constitutions, at the
resquest of the Statehood Com
mit, and others were written by
staff associates of the committee.
Included in the supplement is
the complete text of the legislative
act calling the convention, under
the terms of which it will oper
ate, and a list of the delegates.
Groups or persons desiring ad
ditional copies of the edition for
study or reference purposes will j
be able to obtain them by writing
to the Executive Officer, Alaska
Statehood Committee, at College,
Alaska.
——
Cy Young, One Of
Baseball’s Pitching Greats,
Dies Today At Age of 88
NEWCOMERSTOWN, Ohio, UP>
—Denton True (Cy) Young, one
of baseball’s all-time pitching
greats, died today. He was 88.
Young, a member of baseball’s
Hall of Fame, had been ill only
briefly.
Cy Young was ranked as one of
the great figures of baseball.
He retained an active interest
in baseball until his death.
Beginning in 1890, Cy Young
pitched major league ball for 22
seasons, was in the box in 873
games and of these was credited
with winning 511.
Another of his great achieve
ments was the feat of pitching
three no-hit, no-run games. He
turned the trick first on Sept. 17,
1897, against Cincinnati; next on
May 5, 1904, against the Phila
delphia Americans, and the third
on June 30, 1908, against the New
York Americans.
U.S. Grants Entry Visa
To Russsian Archbishop
WASHINGTON, (Jf) — The
United States today granted entry
visas to Archbishop Boris of the
Russian Orthodox Church and his
private secretary.
The action by the State De
partment came less than 24 hours
after it was disclosed the Soviet
government has agreed to allow
an American priest, Father Louis
Dion of the Assumption Order, to
enter Russia.
Father Dion, replacing the Rev.
Georges Bissonnette who was ex
pelled by the Soviets, will min
ister to the religious needs of
Americans in the Soviet Union.
LIGHTNING DOWNS DUCKS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., UPV—The
weather here Wednesday wasn’t
fit for ducks.
Lightning downed two mallards, i
One was found with his feathers
singed, dead. The other, dazed and
; bruised, was sent on its way with
a state game and fish commission
band on its leg.
Tom Mull, educational director
of the commission, said he’d never
heard before of ducks being forced
down by lightning.
Wien’s Airdrop
34 Barrels Fuel
Oil At Diomede Is.
FAIRBANKS, W — An Alaska
commercial airliner on an emer
gency supply mission circled re
peatedly within one mile of 4
Russian-held territory in the Ber
ing Sea this week without inter
ference from Soviet fighter
planes based on the Siberian
coast.
The Fairbanks News-Miner re
ported the flight today and com
mented on the change in U.S.
Soviet relations.
Only a few months ago, the
newspaper recalled, Russians shot
down a United States Navy plane
which the Soviets claimed had
strayed within 50 miles of the
Russian mainland. It became an
international incident that ended
only when Russia agreed to pay
half of the indemnities and ex
pressed official regret.
On the mercy flight, the News
Miner said, a Wien Alaska Air
lines C46 dropped 30 drums of
desperately needed fuel oil to
Eskimos on American-owned Lit
tle Diomede Island.
Circling carefully to make the
drop effective, the newspaper
said, the C46 passed repeatedly
within a mile of the International
Dateline without a response from
Russian installations in Siberia 30
miles away, or Soviet-owned Big
Diomede Island only one mile
away.
In dropping the fuel, the C46
ignored a practice common to all
Alaska airlines of never approach
ing closer than 30 miles to the
Russian-Alaska border, the news
paper said.
During winter months, bush
planes sometimes approach Little
Diomede Island from the Ameri
can side and land on frozen ocean
ice to delivery supplies.
The C46 circled carefully over
the area and dumped the drums
into the ocean a short distance
from shore where water cushioned
their impact and the Eskimos
could still retrieve them without
venturing too far out in the
stormy, ice - filled ocean. They
saved 28.
Pilot was Capt. “Red” Schultz,
co-pilot Bob Shinn, freight ex
peditor Gerry Modrow, and C. KL
Harvey and Jackie Muller pushed
the drums from the plane.
President Visits
Today with Army’s
Gen. M. Taylor
DENVER, WP1—President Eisen
hower, able to dine outside his
hospital room now, looked for
ward to a social visit today with
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army
chief of staff.
The White House said the two
old service friends planned no dis
cussion of national defense prob
lems, and added they would be
joined by their wives at the late
afternoon meeting.
Tomorrow the President will be
visited at Fitzsimmons Army Hos
pital by another old comrade in
arms, Field Marshal Viscount
Montgomery of Great Britain,
deputy commander of North At
lantic Defense forces in Europe.
Then on Sunday the President
will get definite work whether he
can leave the hospital and fly
back to Washington a week from
today, as planned tentatively by
the physicians at Fitzsimmons.