Brush Fires Still
Rage in California,
( 375 (Homes Razed
(LOS ANGELES UB — The two
big rangeland and brush fires that
started Monday have destroyed
about 375 homes, officials report
I ed today, and the count is still
I going on.
As an army of men set backfires
If and hacked fire lines with bull
dozers to save homes in coastal
§; Pacific Palisades, fire authorities
P reported these figures:
In the Bel-Air and Brentwood
|| area of movie and millionaire
If mansions—368 homes destroyed.
In nearby Topanga Canyon fire
—9 houses razed.
Officials said the count is not
I yet complete.
Bombers dropping a fire-re
I' tardent borate solution joined
ground crews in attacking the hot
southerly front of the Topanga
Canyon fire threatening Pacific
Palisades. A front three or four
miles long flared far from con
trol.
About 1,500 men from many
agencies fought or patrolled both
fires, the worst in Southern Cali
fornia history.
The city of Las Angeles had
1,000 men on the lines with 70
pieces of equipment; the county
nearly 500 men with 42 rigs, >11
tractors and a helicopter. Firemen
were there also from the Cali
fornia Division of Forestry, Kern
and Ventura Counties and Civil
Defense branches from all over
Southern California.
Late statistics on the twin fire
disasters included:
Acreage destroyed: 13,190 —
7,400 in Topanga Canyon, 5,790 in
Bel-Air — all of which would
have been prime defense against
spring floods.
NBA Rates Liston as No. 1
Heavyweight Contender
CHICAGO rn — “That’s good,
that’s good, now I won’t have to
knock off that Britisher to get
to the title.” s
This was Sonny Liston talking
Egan to Decide Monday
Whether Alaska Will
Participate in Century 21
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Wm. Egan
said yesterday he will decide Mon
day whether Alaska will accept
an offer by a Seattle bank which
will permit Alaska to participate
in Seattle’s Century 21 exposi
tion.
The National Bank of Commerce
recently offered Alaska free of
charge the use of 3,000 square
feet of space in a building the
bank plans to construct on the
C21 grounds.
Egan asked members of the
Legislature to indicate, in ad
vance, whether they would sup
port. an appropriation of up to
$175,000 to provide money for
staffing and equipping a state
exhibit in the NBC Bldg.
The Governor advised the bank
yesterday that while a great ma
jority of the replies from mem
bers of the Legislature have been
favorable he had not received re
plies from a sufficient number
of legislators on which to base
a firm decision.
Egan said the bank deserved an
early reply so it could make other
arrangements if Alaska was un
able to accept the offer of free
space.
Queen Elizabeth II to
Visit Ghana Despite Fracas
ACCRA, Ghana OB — President
Kwame Nkrumah’s police arrest
ed eight persons, it was reported
today, barely 24 hours before
Queen Elizabeth II comes for a
12-day visit to this African mem
ber of the British Commonwealth.
The sudden police swoop em
phasized the trappings of dicta
torship which, along with a rash
of bombings by political oppon
ents, have turned the Queen’s
visit into a controversial subject
and caused the British govern
ment to study carefully the ques
tion of canceling the tour.
British Prime Minister Mac
Millan in London, however, raid
that the government had approved
the visit. The Queen and her hus
band, Prince Philip, will take off
from (London tomorrow morning
for the 3,600-mile flight.
Among those arrested were a
member of Parliament and the
deputy general manager of the
independent newspaper Daily
Graphic. Two army officers were
among the other six persons un
officially reported detained.
Sad Song Can’t Sing,
But He Sure Can Run
AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico UB
—If a horse could sing, you might
say (that one named Sad Song
sang a happy tune for Guy Diaz
and his five friends.
Sad Song can’t sing, but he can
run. He won the 10th race at
Caliente Sunday, and Diaz, 36,
and his friends had him picked.
They also tabbed the five pre
vious rises, enabling them to cash
in a pool ticket worth $72,127.
Diaz, of OOchoacan, Mexico,
in recent months a
laborer in the
looted tiie money
his friends plan to buy X chicken I
farm. I
Attorney Questions
State Jurisdiction
At Barrow
FAIBANKS UR — A test case
has come up in federal court here
involving the question of whether
the state or federal government
has legal jurisdiction in the giant
Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4.
The case revolves around Frank
Long Jr. who is being held in
the Nome jail. Long is charged
on a state complaint of entering
on Aug. 25 the Wien Airline
office at Point Barrow and steal
ing freight packages addressed to
three persons.
Defense attorney Fred Crane
has filed a petition for a habeas
corpus in Long’s case, claiming
that Point Barrow is located in
Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4
in federal jurisdiction and not in
the jurisdiction of the state.
He cleisns Long is unlawfully
being held on an illegal complaint.
Federal Judge Raymond Plum
mer yesterday issued an order di
recting that Crane’s petition and
affidavit be served upon Martin
■Underwood, Commissioner of the
Department of Public Safety, Paul
Windsor, Commissioner of Health
and Safety, and Ralph Moody, At
torney General.
All three officials or their au
thorized representatives are order
ed to appear here Nov. 7 at 2
pm. to show cause why a writ
of habeas corpus should , pot be
issued in the case.
If a writ ig granted in Long’s
case this will probably mean that
the federal government will pro
secute law breakers in the Naval
Petroleum Reserve No. 4 which
includes the villages of W*in
wright and Barrow.
A state deputy magistrate, Mrs.
Sadie Niakok, In Barrow, signed I
the order binding long over toj
the Grand Jury in Nome.
Businessmen Welcome
Japanese Financial
Investment in Alaska
TOKYO UR — Leading Alaskan
businessmen told a US.-Japan
Businessman’s Conference today
they would welcome financial in
vestments from Japan to help de
velop Alaska.
They were Ken Sheppard, vice
president, Alaska Pipe Line Co.
and Walter Hickel, president of
Hickel Investment Co. of Alaska.
The two men now touring Japan
with six others, including Arch
Booth, vice president of the U-S.
Chamber of Commerce, also said
they will offer every convenience
to Japanese survey teams sent to
investigate natural resources in
Alaska.
WEATHER REPORT
Fair with little change In tem
peratures. Lowest expected to
night 20-25, high tomorrow 30.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 31, lowest 22. Max. wind 22
mph from tine NNE. Sunrise at
8310 asst., sunset at 3:20 pm.
A year ago today: the highest
temp. 37, lowest 31. Extremes on
this date since 1807: highest 43 in
1348, lowest -10 in 1847.
AWOL Soldiers
Sentenced to Hang
For Killing Spree
RUSSELL, Kan. UR — Two
young AWOL soldiers who boast
ed of killing seven persons in a
cross-country rampage of robbery
and murder have been condemned
to hang for killing a Kansas
railroad man, their sixth victim.
James Douglas Latham, 19, of
Maiuriceville, Tex., and George
Ronald York, 18, of Jacksonville,
Fla., did not flinch as they heard
the verdict yesterday.
“We thought we were doing
them a favor by putting them out
of their miseries in this rat race,”
York said when he and Latham
were captured near Grantsville,
Utah, last June 10.
The all-male jury convicted
them of first degree murder for
the shooting of Ottot E. Ziegler,
62, of Oakley, Kan., June 9. Zieg
ler was robbed of $51.
Returning their verdict after de
liberating six hours and 45 min
utes, the jurors rejected defense
contentions that the youths are
insane and too young to be ex
ecuted. The jury could have sen
tenced them to life imprisonment.
York and Latham were tried
only for Ziegler’s death, but in
signed statements they also ad-'
mitted slayings in Florida, Ten
nessee, Illinois and Colorado.
Their crime spree began May 24
when they broke out of the Army
stockade at Ft. Hood, Tex.
Japanese Scientist Claims
Super-Bomb “Very Dirty”
TOKYO UT> — A Japanese sci
entist today said the 30-megaton
super-bomb the Russians explod
I ed Oct. 23 was a “very dirty”
bomb, similar to those tested by
the United States and Russia in
1058.
■Dr. Yauso Miyake, of the Me
teorological Research Institute, i
told a meeting of the Meteorolog
ical Society fallout from the 50
megaton-plus bomb exploded Oct.
30 now is being analyzed.
Miyake said that if the 30
megaton bomb contained the
elements he thinks It did, “there
is a great amount of ashes of
death encircling the globe in the
stratosphere.”
Elks to Stage Drive
For Playing Cards
JUNEAU if) — The State Elks
Assn, said today its 13 lodges
in Alaska will participate in a
National Elks drive for new and
used playing cards for the use of
hospitalized veterans.
E. Robert Haag of Juneau,
president of the association, said
special cartons for the playing
cards will be placed in Elks lodges
and in various business houses
in those cities where there is an
Elks lodge.
After the requirement of the
veterans have been met, surplus
cards will be sent to local civilian
hospitals, homes for senior citi
zens and other public institutions.
Some of the newer decks will
be brailled for distribution to the
blind._ . |
U.S. Smelting Co. Deeds
Vocational School Site
Over to City of Nome
The Nome City Council met at
noon today in special session with
Carl Glavinovich, manager of the
U.S.S.R. & M. Co. Mr. Glavino
vich presented the city with the
deed for the land on which the
vocational school is to be built
at Satellite Field. The only reser
vation made by the mining com
pany was that the land be used
for school purposes only.
It is to be assumed that the city
will in turn deed the school site
over to the state.
Schedule of Events
At Thursday’s Open
House et Nome School
Following are demonstrations
to be given at the school during
ihe Open House tomorrow eve
ning in their program commemo
rating American Education Week.
From 7:30 until 8:15: Mrs. Pot
ter’s First Grade will give read
ing demonstrations; Mrs. Nerland,
2nd Grade, Arithmetic; Miss For
tin, 3rd Grade, Social Studies;
Mrs. Dinkel, 4th Grade, Reading;
Lab; Miss Nelson, 5th Grade,
English; Miss Parkxnan, 0th
Grade, Social Studies, and Mias
O’Brien, Remedial (Reading Class
in Phonetics.
In High School, Mrs. Bell,
Home Ec; Mira Bierwagon, Adult
Typing; Mrs. Emmons, Biology;
Pete Hahn, Physical Education,
and Bill Ullrich, Mechanical
Drawing.
There will also be a display of
the Scott Foresman Basic Read
ing Series, the supplementary
series, and the new Science Re
search Associates reading labora
tory introduced Into the curri
culum tills year.
At 8:30 the Junior High School
will present a farce entitled
‘Standing Room Only.”
Everyone is urged to visit the
school during the Open House and
observe the school in operation
and to shown appreciation to the
teachers and students who have
worked on the demonstrations
and the play
Dry Spell on Pribilof
Islands May Be Ended
WASHINGTON W — A long
dry spell on the Pribilof Island?
which goes back to 1948 is about
to 'be ended.
The Interior Department told
Rep. Ralph Rivers today it is
taking steps to abolish the regula
tion against the landing and use
of liquor on the islands—in the
Bering Sea.
Members of the Aleut com
munity of St Paul Island told
the department they felt they are
“civilized citizens, and are able
to consume good-quality liquor,
(and) at the same time keep the
volume within limits.**
James Carr, Undersecretary of
the Interior, said the proposed
change would be in line with the
department’s policy of extending
the same privileges to the dUaene
of the Pribilof Islands as are
enjoyed by other citizens.