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VOL. LVII No. 6 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 ~Per""Copy-^S*
Hammarskjold
Talks with Chou
Are ‘First Steps*
UNITED NATIONS, UP) — Sec
retary General Dag Hammar
skjold said today that Red China’s
Chou En-Lai raised a number of
questions, including a U.N. seat,
during their Pepiing talks—but
that he definitely had laid down
no conditions for release of the
11 American fliers held there.
The secretary /general, in a
news conference, declared he had i
achieved what he was “aiming'
at” during his visit to Peiping.
He described this as merely the
first step in the continuing con
tact.
Hammarskjold said that in his
opinion an improvement in the
international climate was direct
ly connected with the question
of releasing the American fliers
and other U.N. Command person
nel held by the Chinese Commun
ists.
He stressed, however, that
Chou had made no proposals or
laid down any terms.
He said Chou’s discussion of
other questions was “entirely
apart from the question of the
prisoners.”
“No deals of any kind, nor any ,
link between these other ques-1
ttons and the prisoner question,;
were suggested by either side,”
Hammarskjold told reporters.
The secretary general declined
to list specifically which ques
tions Chou had brought up, but
he said the Chinese leader had,
raised just about every issue that
he has discussed in recent speech
es, statements, and other expres
sions.
Hammarskjold was asked wheth
er Chou had expressed concern
over a possible attack on the
Chinese mainland by the United
States.
“One of the curious things
about the present world situation
is that everybody is afraid of
everybody else,” the secretary
general said.
Cardinal Spellman Says
Asia Is A Volcano That
May Erupt At Any Time
LOS ANGELES, W — Francis
Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of
New York, returned from a 29
day tour of Pacific military es
tablishments today and told news
men at the airport:
“It is my personal opinion that
the Asian mainland is a volcano
and may erupt at any time, how
or when I cannot say.”
He added: “Unless through God
in his mercy and through our
prayer and penance we can have
enlightened and strong leader
ship, cooperation, good will and
understanding I have grave fears
for the future.”
33 'Chute Safely
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C-119 Over Ladd
FAIRBANKS, UP)—A planeload
of 33 “Operation Snowbird” para
troopers were forced to hit the
silk over Ladd Air Force Base
here last night after one of the
aircraft’s two engines failed.
All of the men landed safely
desj^te darkness and zero wea
ther and the plane was brought
undamaged to the ground by its
6-man crew.
The mass exodus was the third
in the giant Army-Air Force ex
ercise since the more than 100
planes started from Sewart Air
Force Base, Tenn., Monday in the
3,000-man exercise.
Thirty-eight men dropped safe
ly from one of the C-119 Flying
Boxcars Tuesday near Sewart
but two members of the plane
crew were killed in a subsequent
crash. Thirty-three more jumped
safely at Miles City, Mont., the
same day. The plane was landed
successfully.
Last night’s jump was on the
last leg of the northward flight,
from Whitehorse, Y.T., to An
chorage. One engine conked out
10 minutes after the plane pass
ed Nenana, 50 miles southwest
of Fairbanks.
The pilot turned the ship back
toward Fairbanks and ordered
the men out when over Ladd.
Some drifted away from the base
but all were accounted for with
in a half hour after the jump
order was given.
MRS. JACK LONDON DIES
SONOMA, Calif., (iP — Mrs.
Jack London, widow of the
famed novelist, died last night at
her home, Glen Ellen, in the
Valley of the Moon. She had been
ill for several years.
The former Charmain Kitt
ridge and London married in 1904
in Chicago. She was his second
wife. London died in 1916 in their
Glen Ellen home.
MRS. JAMES FARLEY DIES
NEW YORK, UP) — Mrs. James
A. Farley, 60, wife of the for
mer Postmaster General and for
mer Democratic National Chair
man, died today of a heart attack, i
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NORTH DAKOTA GETS
WARMER WEATHER THAN
PARTS OF GULF COAST
(By the Associated Press>
Winter weather played a few
tricks today. It was warmer in j
northern North Dakota than in
parts of the Gulf coast.
It was below freezing at Mobile,
Ala., a chilly 31, which was 19
degrees lower than yesterday. At
the same time it was a compara
tively mild 35 in Williston and
Minit, N.D.
The mild weather extended
over the great plains from Texas
to the Canadian border.
Soviets Offer Share
Their Peaceful
Atomic Know-How
MOSCOW, —The Soviet gov
ernment today offered to share
with .the rest of the world the
experience it claims to have gain
ed by operating an industrial
power station with atomic energy, j
Foreign ministry press chief
Leonid Ilyichev told a news con
ference the Soviet Union is “ready
I to hand over the scientific and
technical experience piled up in
the Soviet Union.”
He said this information would
be made public through a report
to the United Nations committee
on atomic energy.
There was no indication that
foreign scientists or technicians
would be able to study the oper
ation of the atomic power station
which the Russians claim to pos
sess on their own.
At the same time the spokes
man announced that academician
D. V. Skobeltsyn ‘had been ap
pointed Soviet representative to
the conference on atomic energy
which the last U.N. General As
sembly decided should be held
during 1955.
This is the first time since the
atomic discussions began in the
U.N. that Russia has sent a non
political figure to such a meet
ing. The significance of the
change over to a scientist was not
immediately clear.
Security Comm.
May Split On
Benefit Limits
KETCHIKAN, WP> — The Em
ployment Security Commission
announced yesterday it has set
aside the proposals of its direct
or, A. B. Phillips, and has begun
work on its own proposals to
rebuild the fund from which job
less benefits are paid.
There is a possibility any re
commendations to the legislature
may take the form of two re
ports, however, as the commission
is split 2-2 between labor and
employer representatives.
The commission wound up a
public hearing listening to a de
mand by Robert McFarland,
president of the Alaska Territor
ial Federation of Labor, denounc
ing Phillips’ plan to cut off bene
fits at $200 a person until July.
The controversial $200 limit
proposal would be only about
one-fourth the payments provided
under the territorial law.
The heavy drain on the fund
during the current biennium is
expected to take it down to
around $650,000 by March 1, in
contrast to the peak of 10 million
dollars or more a few years ago.
It is expected to a major prob
lem before the legislature in the
session opening a week from next
Monday.
Sch ool dot Lunch Benefit
PIONEER HALL WHBT PAETY edutainment SATURDAY, 8 P.M.
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President Urged To Re-Certificate
All Four States-Alaska Air Carriers
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Army Releases Wyer
Report On Sea-Train
Service To Alaska
SEATTLE, (jP — A military
statement on the proposed sea
train service for Alaska said to
day it “can greatly improve peace
time Army shipping, but its prime
importance lies in its effect on
overseas military supply in time
of emergency.”
The estimate of military advan
tage was in a memorandum from
the Department of the Army to
the 6th Army on the findings
of the 'Wyer & Co. report. The
basic content of the Wyer Report
was released Tuesday in Wash
ington.
“Commercial advantages in the
handling of rail cars and motor
carrier units lie in reduced costs
in trans-shipping from land to
sea and sea to land transport,”
the memorandum said.
“Militarily, an added advan
tage lies in the fact that, with j
the reduction of vessel turn
around time, the concentration of
shipping in a port at any one
time is thinned out. In addition
to greater utilization of man
power and facilities in port op
eration, this speed-up of loading
and unloading offers a less val
uable target for enemy attack.
“The New Jersey company
(Wyer & Co.» was employed to
analyze the United States - to
Alaska trade as an existing typi
cal example of the basic prob
lem.”
The Army said it was releas
ing the report because of exten
sive commercial interest and in
the hope it would spur develop
ments in this type of transport.
POPE RECEIVES ANOTHER
TRANSFUSION OF PLASMA
VATICAN CITY, UP — Pope
Pius XII received another trans
fusion of whole blood and plasma
Thursday.
His personal physician, Dr. Ric
cardo Galeazzi-Lisi, has given
such transfusions every two or
three days since the Pontiff be
came seriously ill six weeks ago.
Juke Box Steve To Turn
Over One Day’s Receipts
To The March of Dimes
Juke Box dimes will join the
March of Dimes Monday, when
Juke Box Steve (Steve Stephan
son) will turn over all receipts of
the day from his boxes, which are
all over town, to the March of
Dimes campaign, in progress dur
ing the month of January.
This is the opening donation to
the fund to which all the commu
nity will contribute during the
month.
Remember the date—Monday—
when every tune will be dedi
cated to the victims of polio—
courtesy of Juke Box Steve.
WASHINGTON, <&—'The entire
Washington State congressional
delegation and Delegate Bartlett
urged President Eisenhower to
day to re-certificate all four air
lines now flying between the Pa
cific Northwest and Alaska.
The request, made in a letter
which went also to members of
the Civil Aeronautics Board, like
wise urged that routes of the
four carriers — Pan American,
and Northwest, Pacific Northern
and Alaska Airlines — be un
changed, including present routes
extending to Portland, Ore.
A similar letter is being drafted
by Sen. Neuberger tD-Ore) who
said he plans to confer with other
Oregon members to obtain a
united northwest front.
f .
The Washington - Alaska letter
stems from reports the CAB has
voted to recommend elimination
of Pacific Northern and Alaska
from the States - Alaska service,
confining these carriers to intra
Alaska routes.
“The effect would be to vir
tually destroy two airlines whose
organization and equipment have
been expanded to a point where
restricted operation would not be
efficient,” the President was told.
Continuation of route struc
tures as now certificated, it add
ed, “will foster competitive air
i service between the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska, and will
avoid monopoly in air operations
between the States and the terri
tory.”
“The fact that steamship pas
senger service between the States
and Alaska has just been sus
pended, making the territory de
pendent upon air travel exclusive
ly, emphasizes the need for more,
not less, air transportation.”
Another “Boxcar” Makes
Successful Landing When
One Engine Conks Out
SEWARD AIR FORCE BASE,
Tenn., UP*—The fourth case of en
gine trouble to develop in Air
Force C-119 Flying Boxcars on
the Alaska troop ferry resulted
in a forced landing at Elsworth
Air Force Base, near Rapid City,
South Dakota, last night, it was
announced here today.
314th Troop Carrier Command
headquarters here, which is air
lifting 3,000 Fort Campbell, Ky.,
paratroopers to Alaska, said the
plane’s right engine failed and it
came down safely with its 33
paratrooper passengers and five
crewmen. There was no bail-out.
-65° IN VERKHOYANSK
LONDON, (tf* — Moscow radio
said the mercury fell to 65 below
last night in Verkhoyansk, Si
beria. That isn’t bad for Verkhoy
ansk, where it got down to 90
below in February of 1892. Refer
ence books say that’s the coldest.