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VOL. LIX No. 122 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1957 Per Copy—15*
HOFFA BARRED FROM
UNION PRESIDENCY
By NORMAN WALKER <
WASHINGTON, UP>—James R.
Hoffa today was barred by feder
al court order from taking office
as president of the Teamsters
Union.
Federal District Judge F. Dick
inson Letts issued the 10-day tem
porary restraining order.
He acted on the plea of a 13
man New York teamsters group
which claimed Hoffa’s election
was rigged by delegates illegally
seated at the teamster’s conven
tion held 10 days ago.
Teamsters Union attorneys im
mediately went into a huddle on
plans to carry Lett’s order to the
Federal Appeals Court in an ef
fort to upset it.
Hoffa, 44, had been due to take
over the union presidency tomor
row from retiring President Dave
Beck, who said he would resign
to clear the way.
Judge Letts ordered the Team
sters Union to show cause next
Monday why the restraining or
der should not be converted into
a preliminary injunction barring
Hoffa and others elected with him
from office. The proposed injunc
tion would bar teamster officials
from making any major expendi
tures or performing anything
more than routine acts, pending
final litigation on the convention’s
legality.
Godfrey Schmidt, one of the
attorneys for the group seeking to
bar Hoffa from office, said more
than 80 percent of the 1,600-odd
delegates were shown by the
union’s own convention proceed
ings to have been seated in viola
tion of the union’s constitution.
WOMAN WHO CAME WEST
IN COVERED WAGON IS 101
MADERA, Calif., UP) — Mrs.
Frances Bollinger, who came,
from Missouri to California in a
covered wagon in 1862, observed
•her 101st birthday Saturday. She
has 161 living descendants.
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State of Emergency
Ends at Britain’s
Atomic Energy Factory
LONDON, —A British Atomic
Energy Authority official said
Saturday the trouble at Wind
scale plutonium factory is under
control and “there is nothing to
be feared from it.”
The nation’s major pile produc
ing plutonium for nuclear weap
ons had a state of emergency
for two days when uranium cart
ridges became overheated in the
atomic pile. Plutonium is made
from uranium.
The Windscale pile No. 1 will
be out of action for “some
months,” the Atomic Energy Au- |
thority said.
Hundreds See Satellite
From City’s Highest Point
WORCESTER, UP1—Hundreds of
persons braved near freezing
weather yesterday for a glimpse
of the Russian satellite from the
Worcester airport, the highest el
evation in the area.
Virtually everyone except the
Ground Observer Corps reported
seeing the mem-made moon.
“No Sputnik, plenty of people,
all frozen,” was the log notation
in the corps’ offices atop a 75
foot tower at the airport.
Runaway Truck Kills
Seven Persons Watching
Outdoor Movie
PALERMO, Sicily, UP)—A truck
hurtled down a steep hill last
night into a crowd watching an
open air movie in the main square
of nearby Tortorici last night. Sev
en persons were killed and more
than 30 were hospitalized.
The main street of Tortorici, a
city of 10,000, slopes sharply into
the main square. Police said the
truck’s brakes apparently failed.
Tuberculosis Treatment Ends For
Alaska Natives In Seattle Hospitals
SEATTLE, UP)—For the past
three years, Alaska natives—Es
kimos, Aleuts and Indians—‘have
been receiving tuberculosis treat-,
ment in three Seattle hospitals.
But now the program is coining
to an end.
Contracts for care of the natives
have not been renewed with Fir
land Sanatorium, Riverton Hospi
tal and Laurel Beach Sanatorium.
The backlog of TB cases in
Alaska in 1954 has been reduced
to the point where the territory
can handle all cases.
No new patients have arrived
here since June. There now are
about 20 left at Firland, 35 in the
other two institutions.
Altogether about 600 received
treatment here. The peak load
was about 325.
Hereafter, it is expected only a
few children will receive treat
ment at Firland. On Dec. 31 any
Alaska patients remaining at the
three hospitals will be transferred
to the Cushman Indian Hospital,
Tacoma.
If present plans materialize, the
reduction in Alaska TB cases will
also bring about closure of the
Seward Sanatorium operated by
the Methodist Church next June.
A side effect of the program of
caring for patients at Firland San
atorium was a saving for Wash
ington taxpayers estimated at
$500,000 over the past two years.
Officials explained daily costs of
caring for each patient are lower
when the sanitorium is nearly full.
Lester B. Pearson
Awarded 1957
Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway, UP>—Lester B.
Pearson, former Canadian foreign
secretary, has been awarded the
1957 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize
amounts to $40,275.
In the the United Nations last
fall Pearson spearheaded a cam
paign to bring peace to the Middle
East, where Britain and France
had joined Israel, in an attack on
Egypt.
Largely as a result of Pearson’s
activity, a U.N. emergency force
was organized to separate the bel
ligerants. This force still is on
duty in the Gaza area.
Pearson said he was thunder
struck at the announcement. He
had not known of it until he was
advised in Ottawa by reporters.
The Nobel Committee again de
cided not to award the 1956 prize.
The committee found no worthy
candidate.
Pearson in June lost his Cabin
et job as a result of elections
which brought the Consedvative
Party to power, sweeping out the
Liberals. He remains a member of
the Canadian Parliament.
16 Marines Face Court-Martial
For Mistreatment of Prisoners
SASEBO, Japan, W>—A Marine
corporal from Anchorage is one
of 16 U.S. marines facing general
court-martial on charges of mis
treating prisoners in the Navy
brig here. The marines says they
were only enforcing discipline.
The Anchorage marine, Glen W.
Fredericks, 21, denied the charg
es and said, “If they convict us,
the whole Marine Corps system is
wrong.”
Some of the marines say they
have been victimized by “cry
baby” complaints but express bit
terness that they were not backed
up by their officers. Most said
they are thru with their marine
careers when their enlistments
are up. *
An investigation record signed
by the marine’s own commanding
officer accuses the marine guards
of assaulting two prisoners with
a bayonet, ordering a prisoner to
have a bowel movement in front
of others and igniting lighter
fluid under him, ordering a man
to wash his face in a toilet, push
ing a pencil up a prisoner’s nose,
burning a prisoner with a cigaret
butt, plucking hairs from one
man’s mustache, wetting men
down with hoses and a fire ex
tinguisher, threatening prisoners
with a shotgun and pistols, order
ing one to act like a dog and bite
other personnel, and numerous
cases of slapping, punching and
kicking.
The marines counter-charge the
sailors involved “were cry-babies,
dope fiends and thieves. They
couldn’t take orders aboard ship.
They couldn’t take discipline in
the brig.”
EGYPT BUILDING UP
ARMS IN ARAB WORLD
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Rain and Floods
Hit Onee-Dry
Parts of Texas
DALLAS, UP)—Two rising creeks
trapped a school bus today as
torrential rains swept parts of
Texas. State police and others
carried the five children and two
adults to safety in boats.
The bus was caught between
creeks near Taylor in central
Texas.
Meanwhile, fresh rains on the
upper Colorado River threatened
more misery for Ballinger, in
west Texas, already under water
from the business district to the
south city limits.
A college student drowned when
his car plunged into a rain-swoll
en creek, and the engine and four
baggage cars of a passenger train
jumped the track when a small,
rain-weakened trestle collapsed.
The new rains followed cloud
bursts up to 11 inches that hit the
once drought-stricken sections of
west Texas yesterday.
A heavy morning downpour in
the Killeen area near Waco which
already had recieved up to 7.25
inches during the night, sent No
lan Creek on a fast rise.
Five Americans and
Ambassador’s Son
Killed in Plane Crash
MANILA, UP) — Five American
businessmen and Carlos Romulo,
Jr., eldest son of the Philippine
ambassador to the United States,
were killed Friday when their
plane crashed south of Manila.
The twin - engine Beechcraft
struck a mango tree in Batangas
province, apparently while at
tempting to land after running
out of a gas on a return trip from
Mindanao Island. There were no
survivors.
Young Romula, 32, was an at
torney and secretary of the Find
lay illar Timber Co. His wife said
he had gone along “just for the
ride” on the lumber inspection
trip.
* By WILTON WYNN
CAIRO, UP)—President Nasser is
sending Egyptian arms around
the Arab compass in an apparent
counteroffensive against the Ei
senhower doctrine.
There were reports of a dual
shift in the Middle East: a swing
toward stricter neutrality in Cairo
and Damascus, and a weakening
of support in pro-Western Leba
non for the anti-Communist U.S.
doctrine.
Nasser pushed Egyptian influ
ence with these moves:
1. The surprise landings of an
undisclosed number of Egyptian
troops at the Syrian port of Lata
kia yesterday was followed by a
formal display of Egyptian naval
force there.
2. Egypt announced it was send
ing to Libya a symbolic gift of
six armored cars and 100 to 200
rifles. Egypt offered arms to Tu
nisia in September and sent Vam
pire jet planes to the Saudi Ara
bian air force in August. Both
Libya and Tunisia endorsed the
Eisenhower policy and Saudi Ara
bian King Saud at least tacitly
approved it.
3. Egypt moved to weld strong
er military ties under the joint
command which includes Egyp
tian, Syrian and Arabian forces.
With the arrival of Egyptian
troops in Syria, preceded by
Egyptian technicians, the two
governments declared their de
termination to stand together
against any aggression from Tur
key.
Lebanon, previously under bit
ter attack from Egypt and Syria
over its endorsement of the Eisen
hower doctrine, was reported to
be asking the U.S. to let it renege
on that endorsement.
Lebanon might have little to
lose, since she has received almost
all her share of the $200 million
Congress appropriated for the
American Campaign against Com
munist aggression in the Middle
East.
King Saud, who is visiting in
Lebanon, was said to be urging
a Lebanese reversal as a contri
bution to Arab unity.
Top Satellite Specialist Predicts
U.S. Moonlet Life of Two Years
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
WASHINGTON, UP)—A top U.S.
satellite specialist predicts the
U.S. baby moon will stay aloft
“for a couple of years,” if it is
fired into its planned orbit.
At the same time, Dr. Fred L.
Whipple estimated in Cambridge,
Mass., last night that it would be
months before the Russian satel
lite drops back to earth.
Whipple is director of the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob
servatory at Cambridge, where
information from American ob
servations of the Russian sphere
is being assembled and analyzed.
Moonwatchers t the Smith
sonian Observatory got another
good look today at the third-stage
rocket which boosted Sputnik to
its orbit and took up an earth
girdling career of its own.
The high-flying rocket was said
to be brighter than any of the
stars visible in the dawn twilight
The scientists said they did not
get a look at the satellite itself,
believed to be following a few
minutes behind the rocket.
Moscow reported the rocket
was about 180 miles ahead of the
satellite today and increasing the
lead.
The United States, according to
present plans, will fire some small
test spheres in December, with
the launching of fully instrument
ed satellites expected to start in
March.