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VOlTlVI No. 131 * NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1954 Per Copy—154
3 Fairbanks Polio Deaths
Include Scientist Hero
In Mt. McKinley Rescue
FAIRBANKS, iJ’l—Polio claimed
the second victim in the same
family and the third in less than
two days here Saturday.
Wayne, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Cook, of College, near
here, died last night several hours
after being hospitalized. His
younger brother, Kenneth, 4, died
Friday.
Dr. John McCall, 31, University
of Alaska glaciero'logist and hero
of the rescue of an injured Brook
lyn, N.Y., soldier from high on the
slopes of Mt. McKinley last May,
also died Friday. His widow and
four children survive.
Funeral services for Dr. McCall
will- be held at the St. Matthews
Episcopal Church today with bur
ial here.
Including the three deaths, the
Fairbanks area has had 38 polio
cases this year, Dr. Joseph Ribar,
city health officer said.
German Bishop Considers
U.S. Troops’ Morals Low
In Parts of American Z me
FANKFURT, Germany, UPi—
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Ryan, chief
of U.S. Army chaplains, reported
today Bishop Otto Dibelius con
siders moral standards in two
areas of the American Zone of |
Germany inferior.
Ryan, on a tour of U.S. bases in
Europe, told a news conference
Bishop Dibelius, head of the Ger
man Evangelical Church, had
“suggested we cooperate to raise
the moral tone of those two areas.”
Ryan declined to' identify the
areas because it “might reflcet on
the commanders.”
Several West German cities
Malenkov, Bolilen
Confer at Banquet;
Silent on Subject
MOSCOW, UP)—Soviet Premier
Ge-orgi Malenkov and U.S. Am
bassador Charles E. Bohlen dined
at the same table last night and
talked seriously for half an hour
afterwards. The occasion was a
big Kremlin banquet celebrating
the 37th anniversary of the Bol
shevik Revolution.
The traditional Red Square mil
itary parade lasted only 20 min
utes this year, and an air show
was canceled because of an over
cast sky. A speech by Defense
Minister Marshal Nikolai Bul
ganin avoided the usual blasts at
.he United States.
The conversation between Boh
lcn and Malenkov, amid the hub
bub of the party for 2,000 ranking
Soviets and foroign diplomats,
was the first time the two had
got together since Stalin's death.
Questioned later by reporters,
the American envoy gave no hint
what they talked about. He said
only: “No business was trans
acted.”
An hour-long talk that Malen
kov and Communist Party Secre
tary Nikita Khrushchev had with
Yugoslav Ambassador Dobrivoje
Vidic a little later stirred almost
as much curiosity as the- Bohlen
Malenkov talk.- Earlier anniver
sary speeches by Soviet leaders
had hinted at a revival of friend
ship with Yugoslavia, the only
Communist country outside the
Soviet bloc.
have recently been under fire as
“sin cities,” among them Munich,
Kaiserslautern, and Fue-rth, just
outside Nuernberg.
Eisenhower Says Peace Prospects
Better Than In Long Time Despite
Shooting Incident Over North Japan
BOSTON, UP—President Eisen-''
hower declared today “the specter
of war looms less threateningly”
than in a long time “despite the
instance o'f provocation” stem
ming from the shooting down of
an American plane by Russian
built fighter craft.
Departing from his text in ad
dressing the 27th convention of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, the President said, after
declaring the prospects for an en
during and lasting peace are the
brightest in years:
“Despite such instances of pro
vocation as that which took place
yesterday off the coast of Japan,
the specter of war looms less
threateningly over all mankind.”
The President said that the
quest for an “enduring and last
ing” peace “must be the over
riding goal of our foreign policy.”
Addressing a capacity audience,
the President again voiced hope
that his “atoms for peace” pro
posal will open a “new phase” of
United States relations with Rus
sia.
The invocation before Eisen
hower spoke was delivered by
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of
Boston, who termed America “a
good land” and “our President is
one of its typical sons.”
“Spare him,” the archbishop
prayed, “the vexation of idle and
unprofitable criticism from the
captious or unthinking.”
Departing from his text at one
point, Eisenhower declared “with
all the earnestness I can com
mand” that if American mothers
will teach their children there is
no real alternative to' peace, “we
shall have peace.”
“It is not paradoxical in our
peaceful efforts that we maintain
powerful military forces,” the
President said. “For a world part
ly dominated by men who respect
only guns, planes and tanks, these
weapons are essential to our sur
vival.”
TYPHOON RUBY LEAVES
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
MANILA, —Typhoon Ruby
sliced through the northern half
of the main Philippine island of
Luzon tonight after its 120-mile
an-hour winds left thousands
homeless in the island’s south
eastern sections, the weather bu
reau reported.
Max Conrad Crosses
Atlantic Non-Stop in
Two-Engine Piper
PARIS, UPl—San Francisco song
writer Max Conrad completed his
first nonstop flight across the At
lantic Sunday, landing his light
two-engine Piper Apache safely
near Paris 22 hours and 23 min
utes after taking off from New
York’s Idlewild Airport.
It was the 49-year-old flier's
fifth solo transatlantic flight. He
made the crossing to deliver the
plane to a French purchaser and
to arouse interest among young
people in flying.
Conrad said he wasn’t tired by
the flight, just needed “to' relax
a bit.” He declared his flight as
uneventful, with the weather gen
erally good, but added he “ran
into a belt of bad weather over
the North Atlantic and had to go
through some snow and ice.”
The flier said he would return
to the United States by ship.
EiseiihowtM* Vetoes
Chiefs* Proposal
On Far Fast Policy
, WASHINGTON, UP—The Wash
ington Post and Times-Herald
said today President Eisenhower
overrode a 3-1 recommendation
from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that
would have authorized American
air attack on the Chinese main
land to prevent a Communist
landing on Nationalist Quemoy.
The papers said the joint chiefs’
recommendation had the backing
of Secretary of State Dulles.
The copyrighted story by Chal
njers M. Roberts said the Presi
dent’s veto was exercised at the
extraordinary meeting of the Na
tional Security Council in Denver
Sept. 12. That was nine days after
Red artillery on the mainland
opened up with a 6,000-shell bar
rage against Chiang Kai-Shek
forces on the island only seven
miles away.
The article says also that the
Quemoy affair spurred the Presi
dent to renewed efforts to find a
way out of the impasse of Ameri
can policy in the Far East. It adds
that the situation lies behind the
strong accent on the search for
peace which has appeared in re
cent Eisenhower statements on
foreign policy.
The shelling of Quemoy led
Washington to believe that, the
Communists were softening up
the Nationalist outpost for a pos
sible landing.
The Post and Times-Herald ar
ticle says one quick result was
Pentagon permission for Chiang’s
air force to bomb attacking artil
lery and search out and attack
any troop and shipping concentra
tions in the Quemoy area.
Golden Wedding Couple
Fete Husband’s Mother, 90
ROY ALSTON, Mass., OP)—Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Jewett observed
their 50th wedding anniversary
Sunday, but the special place of
honor was reserved for Jewett’s
90-year-old mother, Mrs. Jennie
E. Jewett.
The younger Mrs. Jewett’s par
ents, residents of New Haven,
Conn., were unable to attend.
Two Russian Jet Fighters Attack
Without Warning, Shoot Down
U.S. B-29 Over Northern Japan
U.S. Note Protests Reds’
Downing of Plane in Japan
WASHINGTON, Ml—The United
States strongly protested to Rus
sia today against the shooting
down by two Soviet Mig-type
fighters of an American RB-29
“over Japanese territory . . and
called for reparations.
A terse note delivered by Am
bassador Charles Bohlen to the
Soviet Foreign Ministry said:
“The United States Government
strongly protests this action. It
will expect the Soviet Govern
ment to make all such moral and
material reparations as lies with
in its power.”
1,500 AUSTRALIAN DOCKERS
STRIKE, INVADE NEWSPAPER
SYDNEY, Australia, MV—About
1,500 striking dockers invaded the
offices of the Sydney Daily Tele
graph today aftc-r marching thru
the streets of the city.
Police removed the shouting
men from the building.
Sydney newspapers are gener
ally critical of the countrywide
strike of 26,000 dockworkers who
are protesting against federal leg
islation allowing employers the
right to hire new workers. Previ
ously, the union of waterside
workers had the sole right to
name new workmen.
Tuesday Election
Was Close Race
Outside of South
WASHINGTON, M—Democrats
outvoted Republicans by more
than 1,750,000 in Tuesday’s elec
tion with the usual big assist from
the South.
Excluding Democratic Dixie, the
party division reflects more clear
ly the dramatic tightness of the
struggle for control of Congress—
a struggle in which a shift of a
few thousand votes either way in
key spots could have swung it to
the GOP or given the Democrats
more solid majorities in Senate
and House.
For the Democrats rolled up
only about 371,000 more votes
than the Republicans outside the
South.
That’s on the basis o'f incom
plete unofficial returns compiled
by the Associated Press.
They show that:
Nationally, the Democrats har
vested 21,849,811 votes, the Re
publicans 20,099,328 for a total of
41,949,139 and a Democratic edge
of 1,750,483.
Outside the South, the Demo
crats drew 19,823,519 votes, the
Republicans 19,451,674—a differ
ence of 370,845 in a total of 39,
276,193.
The unofficial tabulations show
that so far 42,027,397 votes have
been counted throughout the
country—a bit short of the record
42,462,082 established for a non
presidential election year in 1950.
TOKYO, lift—Ten U.S. airmen,
rescued after an attack by two
Russian jet fighters, charged an
grily today that the Reds pounced
without warning on a U.S. photo
plane mapping northern Japan
and shot it down in flames yes
terday.
The 10 men parachuted to safe
ty moments before their big four
engine RB-29 smashed into a
house in northern Hokkaido’, a
few miles from the Russian-held
Kurile Islands. An 11th crewman
drowned in the sea after bailing
out.
Today, in Tokyo, Capt. Anthony
F. Feith, the plane's skipper, told
a news conference his plane was
“never closer than 15 miles” to
Russian territory.
Asked why since his plane was
armed he didn't return the fire,
Feith said, “I would have liked
to.” But he said his first thought
was to’ complete the photo mission.
His group commander, Col. Al
bert Welsh, said Feith was not to
be criticized.
Welsh said plane commanders
have standing instructions “to
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Interest in Uranium
Prospecting Flares Up
In McGrath Area
ANCHORAKE, If)—Interest in
uranium prospecting has flared
up again, despite the approach of
winter weather.
Jerry Church and Ed Steger,
pilots for Northern Consolidated
Airlines, said Saturday they had
filed 14 claims in an area near
McGrath, 150 miles northwest of
Anchorage in the Kuskokwim
country, and that between 45 and
50 other claims had also been filed
by Anchorage men, with a few by
McGrath and Medfra prospectors,
Church said.
Samples of their findings have
been tested by the Anchorage
assay office of the Territorial Di
vision of Mines, showing positive
uranium and negative thorium
(also radioactive) results, Church
added.
In addition, he said, samples
have been sent to the United
States Geological Survey’s Geo
chemistry and Petrology Branch,
at the naval gun factory, Wash
ington, D.C. If the assays show 10
per cent or better, he and Steger
plan to notify the Atomic Energy
Commission.
Senate in Special Session
To Consider Censuring
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
WASHINGTON, (JO—The Sen
ate convened in extraordinary
session today to consider censur
ing Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, and
McCarthy himself, forecasting the
vote will toe against him, said he
nevertheless will continue , ills
fight against Communism.
Predictions as to when the
Senate might get aroamd to voting
ranged from two weeks or so up
ward.