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Delinquent Girls
Charged With
Kidnaping Farmer
SALINA, Kans., UP) — Two 16
year-old girls who broke out of
Nebraska Industrial School and
forced a farmer to drive them on
their flight will be charged with
kidnaping.
Peggy Ann Moore and Janet
Spegel are being held here for a
federal officer to return them to
Nebraska. The FBI said yesterday
kidnaping charges will be filed
against them.
The girls were captured at a
roadblock here a few hours after
they escaped Saturday night.
“It was quite an experience,”
said the girls’ victim, Jesse Rich
ards, 54.
Peggy and Janet, armed with
two butcher knives and a .22 cal
iber pistol, commandeered Rich
ards’ car and forced the 6-foot,
200-pound farmer to drive them.
“They had a knife at my throat
and a gun leveled at my back,”
Richard said. “I wasn’t scared at
first, but I got scared before we
stopped.”
The girls were committed to the
industrial school as delinquests.
The girls said they planned to
go to Waco, Tex., because an Air
Force base is near that city.
“I hear some of those Air Force
boys are real crazy,” said Peggy.
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Six Days Behind — ’59ers
Still Plodding Along On
Alcan Highway Trek
SUMMIT LAKE, B. C., UP) —
More troubles are hitting Michi
gan’s pioneering ’59ers whose
original schedule called for them
to be in Alaska today.
The hardy band, which plans to
settle as homesteaders on Alas
ka’s Kenai Peninsula, was six
days behind schedule but still
plodding along.
The latest mishap occurred yes
terday when the ’59ers new trail
er-truck broke down with a
blown piston.
Still the modern-day pioneers
continued 114 miles on to this
waypoint along the Alcan High
way. Bright sunshine and zero
weather greeted them in Summit
Lake, a community with a service
station, cafe and hotel all in a
single building.
Another mishap occurred when
Mrs. Eleanor Rubino drove into
a snow bank as the caravan was
crossing the steep Canadian Rock
ies. She wasn’t hurt and her car
wasn’t damaged. But it took quite
a bit of pulling to get her car free.
Congress Considers Bill to
Place Alaska'Surface
Carriers Under I.C.C. Rule
WASHINGTON, UP) — Three
bills designed to place all surface
transporttation in Alaska under
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion were introduced today by
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D
Wash), chairman of the Inter
state and Foreign Commerce
Committee.
One bill would transfer juris
diction over water transportation
between Alaska and other states
from the Maritime Board to the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Another bill would give the
I.C.C. jurisdiction over the Alaska
Railroad.
The third would provide
“grandfather” rights for motor
carriers and freight forwarders op
eating in Alaska.
Spokane Campfire
Girl Murdered
By ‘Maniac’ Hand
SPOKANE, UPt — An aroused
police force vowed today to find
the killer of Candy Rogers, a 9
year-old Campfire firl whose rav
ished body was found in a clump
of woods after a 16-day search.
“We’ll put every available man
on the case and keep them there
until the thing is solved,” said
Police Chief Clifford Payne,
father of a daughter aged 9.
“We know what we’re looking
for now. We’re looking for a
maniac.”
He said it appeared the child
had been picked up on a street
corner, raped, strangled “with a
piece of her own slip, then buried
under a pile of brush miles from
town — all within a few hours,
17 days ago.
Never before has Spokane or its
police force been so stirred by a
case. The pretty fourth-grader
vanished March 6 while selling
Campfire mints door to door near
her home.
Police found six boxes of mints
scattered near a bridge in the 12
hours that followed the disap
pearance, then ran into a blank
wall despite 750 tips from sub
stantial citizens, skid row bums
and tea leaf readers.
Two enlisted men from Fair
child Air Force Base found a
small pair of blue suede shoes Sat
urday while hunting woodchucks
in remote woods 12 miles from
town.
At dawn Sunday, a half dozen
officers gathered at the scene of
the airmen’s discovery. A patrol
man spotted a knee sticking out
from under a pile of faded pine
needles.
An autopsy showed little Candy
had been raped. Her legs had been
tied by a piece of her petticoat.
Another piece was strung around
her neck. There was blood on her
face and neck.
The grim discovery ended the
biggest manhunt in the history of
this city of 180,000. Police said it
also started an even bigger one.
Ninth Week Brings
No Sign of Breakup
For Lawmakers
JUNEA'U, UP) — Alaska’s first
State Legislature moved into its
ninth week today — with still no
official word on when the law
maker will call it quits.
In Territorial times, the legis
lators would be about ready to
pack their bags and return home.
Territorial legislators met for
only 60 days and the state law
makers will complete their 60th
day Thursday.
But under statehood, there is no
constitutional limit on the length
if a session.
The best guess at this point is
that the current session will run
at least until April 4 and possibly
until April 11. It will be up to
the Democratic policy committee,
which speaks for the majority, to
set an adjournment day.
And so far, the committee has
been silent on the quitting time.
One of the major tasks facing
the Legislature before adjourn
ment is approval of a budget for
state operations for the next fis
cal year. The House Finance
Committee has yet to report out
an appropriations bill calling for
expenditures of some 26V£ mil
lion dollars.
There are other major bills to
be acted on, including amend
ments to the Alaska Employment
Security Law.
Sen. Magnuson Laid Low
By Case of Salmon
WASHINGTON, Iff! — Senator
Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash)
will have to use crutches for six
weeks as a result of breaking
three bones in his foot.
Magnuson’s foot was Injured
when he dropped a case of canned
salmon on it. In trying to prevent
the full weight of the case from
falling on his foot, he also in
jured 'his neck.
A collar was placed around the
senator’s neck to immobilize it.
His foot is in a cast.
3-Point Approach To Summit Meeting
Outlined in Ike-Macmillan Compromise
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, iff) — President
Eisenhower and British Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan have
proposed that the Western allies
adopt a three-point approach to
a summit conference with Soviet
Premier Khrushchev this summer.
It was learned today that this
was the compromise formula
agreed on in talks between the
two Western leaders at Camp
David, Md., on Saturday.
Now- under discussion by West
German Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer and French President
Charles De Gaulle, it represents
a compromise between MacMil
lan’s urgent desire to meet with
Khrushchev unconditionally and
Eisenhower’s reluctance to meet
without primise of achievement.
The three points:
1. The Big Four powers — the
United States, Britain, France and
the Soviet Union — should open a
foreign ministers’ meeting at Ge
neva May 11; Khrushchev has al
ready substantially agreed to
this. The foreign ministers should
reach agreements on the widest
possible range of German and re
lated problems, try to narrow So
viet-West differences and prepare
proposals for a later summit con
ference.
2. The heads of government
should hold their meeting when
justified by the work of the for
eign ministers.
3. The foreign ministers there
fore would have the responsibility
of determining the time, place, and
subject matter of the summit con
ference.
The proposal covering these
points was drafted by MacMillan
and Eisenhower for inclusion in
Western notes now expected to go
to Moscow later this week.
Khrushchev has been, pressing
for a summit conference for many
months.
Some officials say the forging
of a summit meeting was one of
the Soviet leader’s objectives, in
stirring up the Berlin crisis be
ginning last November.
MacMillan feels the Western
heads of government must nego
tiate with Khrushchev even if the
foreign ministers conference is a
failure. Eisenhower feels every
effort must be made to get basic
progress toward a solution of the
Berlin crisis and some start on
other German problems at the for
eign ministers’ meeting.
Chester Topkok Takes 1959 Dog Derby
$500 Prize, Trophy; Mushing In 2:18.05
Chester Topkok, three times
winner for the Nome Dog Derby,
was awarded the beautiful big
trophy which was on display at
Hagen’s Jewelry Store over a
period of several years, waiting
for the musher who could win
three times. Topkok won the 1957
and 1956 races.
Topkok beat last year’s winner,
Isaac Okleasik, by 53 seconds,
with a winning time of 2:18.05.
In addition to the trophy, Top
kok was awarded $500 in winner’s
prize money.
Second prize went to Isaac Ok
leasik, whose time was 2:18.58,
and his prize was $275 cash.
Both first and second winners
are Teller residents. Third prize
went to Larry Westlake of Kot
zebue, who chartered a plane and
flew his team in for the race. His
time was 2:31.46. His prize was
$100.
Westlake was sponsored by the
Arctic Circle Mushers Assn., of
Kotzebue. He returned to Kotze
but immediately after the race.
He is reported to have placed fifth
in the North American Champion
ship Races at Fairbanks last
week.
David Walluk of Nome placed
fourth, and won $75 prize money.
Steven Weyionanna was fifth,
and won $50 cash.
The other entries are as follows:
6th Herbert Nayokpok of Shish
maref, driving his own team, C
maref. 2:49.03; 7th Stephen Ag
loinga, White Mountain, 2:49.34;
8th, Frederick Okleasik, Teller,
2:57.52; 9th Edison Okitkon, Solo
mon, 2:58.38;
10th, Issiah Oksoktaruk, driv
ing Tom Brawn’s team, of White
Mountain, 3:00.34; 11th George
Auliye of Elim, 3:12.54; 12th Pete
Larsen of Nome, 3:15.17; 13th,
George Kakaruk, Nome, 3:17.10;
14th, Joe Cumming, Nome, 4:02.
Robert Tocktoo and Ralph Wil
loya did not finish. Willoya was
driving the Edwin Punguk team
from White Mountain.
Following the races a Musher’s
Banquet was held at the Seaview
Room, with over 50 racing eh- *
thusiasts celebrating with the
mushers.
Honor guest, who presented the
trophies, was Mrs. Wilma Lind,
International Delegate of Beta
Sigma Phi, to their convention
here.
A beautiful 16-page racing
pamphlet souvenir had been pre
| pared by the Arctic Club, with the
cooperation of the merchants of
Nome, and copies may be obtained
from Ash Craft or other members
of the Dog Race committee.
Mrs. Nease, wife of the custo- x
dian for the Federal Building, was
given the fur parka by the Arctic
Club, in connection with the Dog
Race Derby. She had her choice
of either a gun or a parka, and
chose the parka, which will be
made to order for her.
KNOM-TV broadcast the race
news, and the announcer, Charlgs
West, learned all about dog racing
in Nome while the show was on.
Hot dogs were served by the
P-TA at the Dog Race headquar
ters, which was _ at Alaska Air
lines downtown office building,
where a large blackboard showed
the progress of the race, and
a public address system kept the
crowd abreast of the whereabouts
of each teaiji.
Children’s races, with fine dog,
were held shortly after the last
team left town, with the following
winners:
Girls: Harriet Liebig, 1st, $5;
Helen Dimmiok, 2nd, $3, and Lena
Scott, 3rd, $2.
For the boys: Allen Conklin,
1st, $5; Ernest Dimmick, 2nd, $3,
William Curran 3rd, $2, and
Robert Walsh fourth.
New Law Requires Party
Voting In State Primaries
JUNEAU, UP) — Alaskans will
be able to vote for candidates of
only one party at the next primary
election.
A bill providing for a party
column primary election ballot
was signed into law Saturday by
acting Governor Hugh Wade.
This wipes out the old blanket
primary system under which
Alaska has nominated political
candidates for the last 10 years.
In primaries past, Alaskans
could vote for candidates of either
major political party. Now the
candidates of each party will be
listed in separate columns and
votes may be cast in only one of
the columns. Cross voting among
candidates of different parties
will invalidate a ballot.
YOUNGSTER KILLED IN
CAR CRASH DURING
FAMILY DEVOTIONALS
NASHVILLE, Tenn., UP) — A
two-year-old boy was killed as he
knelt in prayer on the front seat
of Kcar driven by his father yes
terday.
Philip Dwayne Roberts died in
the head-on collision of the car
with another auto npar here. Sev
en others were injured.
Gordon Roberts 21, father of the
dead child, said he was taking
his wife to work and that the
family was holding their evening
devotional while driving.
Courts System Signed Into
Law By-Acting Governor
JUNEAU, — Alaska is as
sured a three-man supreme court
and an eight-judge superior court
by January 3, 1962 — and they
could be operating before then.
Machinery for setting up Alas
ka’s first state court system was
covered in a bill signed Saturday
by acting Governor Hugh Wade.
The law provides for the new
courts to virtually begin operat
ing immediately if jurisdiction of
the present judicial system is held
invalid. The 1962 date would con
form with the expiration of the
three-year transitional approved
by Congress for the start of the
new court system.
Jurisdiction is being tested in
two separate actions before the
Ninth Circuit Court at San Fran
cisco. An appeal from Anchorage
challenges the jurisdiction of Alas
ka courts to hear federal cases. An
appeal from Fairbanks challenges
the right of the circuit court to
hear appeals from the lower courts
of Alaska.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair and cold. Low
est temperature expected tonight
-30, the high tomorrow 0.
In the last 24 hours the temper
ature ranged from -28 to 3 above.
The lowest previous recorded
temperature on this date was -31
in 1938.