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Frank Degnan Candidacy Challenged;
172 Others in Race for Convention
JUNEAU—Of 179 who filed
nominating petitions last month
with clerks of court, 172 were cer
tified last week by Acting Gov.
Waino Hendickson as candidates
for 55 delegate positions in the
Alaska Constitutional Convention
to be held in November.
The seven not certified included
two who withdrew, one who was
disqualified for filing too late,
three disqualified because their
nominating petitions included too
few names, and one whose certifi
cation is being held in abeyance
pending a further check.
The last is Frank Degnan, for
mer member of the Territorial
House of Representatives from
Unalakleet, who was an employee
of the 22nd Legislature.
Degnan’s nominating petition
and the accompanying certificate
of acceptance were altered, Hen
drickson said, by changing the
election district for which he
would be a candidate from “7” to
“9”. A check is being made to de
termine whether the documents
were changed before or after they
were notarized.
Four other candidates have filed
from District 7, the Cape Nome
Wade Hampton election district,
which will send only one delegate
to the convention.* Four others
have filed also from District 9, the
Second Division at large, which
will send four delegates to the
convention.
A letter urging that Degnan be
disqualified from both races was
sent here by Maynard D. Lon
borg and Arthur D. Johnson, both
of Unalakleet and both candi
dates. Johnson is running from
No. 7 and Lonborg from No. 9.
Fred D. Crane of Kotzebue was
disqualified as a candidate in
election district No. 8, consisting
of the Fairhaven and Noatak-Ko
buk recording districts. His ac
ceptance of nomination was filed
long after the May 10 deadline,
Hendrickson said.
Two candidates are without op
position and thus certain of elec
tion. They are John H. Rosswok
of Cordova from District 10, and
John Cross of Kotzebue in District
8. If Degnan is ruled out as a can
didate in District 9, as is consid
ered here to be likely, the four
who have been certified in that
race will be without opposition,
as that district, the Second Divi
sion at large, will send four to the
convention. The candidates are
Peter Reader, John McNees, and
Howard Lyng, all of Nome, and
Maynard Lonborg of Unalakleet.
Six protests received here were
rejected after study, Hendrickson
said.
One, signed by Ludvig Ost, Eric
Johnson, Margaret Johnson and
Aaron A. Johnson, all of Fortuna
Ledge, challenged the candidacy
of the Rev. Paul J. O’Connor of
Andreafski in the Cape Nome
Wade Hampton district on the
grounds ditto marks were used on
his petition to show- the place of
residence of some signers and on
grounds that several of the signa
tures were in the same handwrit
ing.
Court Decision Holds
Insurance Co. Liable for
$11,600 Fine Paid Ecuador
SAN DIEGI, Calif., (#)—A court
decision holding an insurance
company liable for a fine owners
of an American tuna fishing ves
sel paid Ecuador was on file today.
The vessel, the clipper Sun Pa
cific, is one of eight American
ships seized and held by Ecuador
or Peru until fines were paid.
State Superior Court Judge C.
M. Munroe held the Glen Falls
Insurance Co., New York, was lia
ble for the $11,600 fine under its
policy.
Both Peru and Ecuador claim
sovereignty over the ocean for 200
miles offshore, and the fines were
assessed against the fishing ves
sels for operating without permits
within that area.
The U.S. State Department has
protested the seizures and it and
Congress have reaffirmed this
country’s position that the seas
are free beyond three miles from
shore.
Congress has also directed fed
eral officials to seek return of the
fines.
27 Cars, Trucks
On Square Knot
The Square Knot anchored in
the fog Saturday evening and has
been discharging freight. Walter
Sipprell arrived from Bethel,
where he has been assisting in the
discharging of freight from the
Susitna.
He states that 27 cars and
trucks arrived on the ship as well
as supplies for the new school ad
dition.
Most of the general cargo is
packed in cribs, over 450 of them,
as they proved to be very success
ful last year.
The ship is discharging slower
than expected although the
weather is perfect, due to a short
age of longshoremen. More long
shoremen are needed and those
interested may apply at the dock
office.
RCAF Plane Completes
3,800-Mile Mercy Flight
To Far North Station
EDMONTON, Alta. (/P)—A Royal
Canadian Air Force plane today
completed a 3,800-mile mercy
flight bringing an ailing weather
station employe back to civiliza
tion from his lonely post near the
North Pole.
The RCAF C-47 yesterday picked
up James Ashley, 39, who is be
lieved suffering appendicitis, at
Isachsen, halfway between the
Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
It landed there on a crude strip
marked on the melting ice of the
Gustav Adolph Sea.
The return flight of 1,900 miles
was made with only two refue'.ing
stops. The round trip is one of the
longest ever made by the RCAF
Tactical Command’s searcn and
rescue unit.
Highway Commissioner
Sees Much Progress for
Nome Roads This Season
Irving Reed, territorial highway
commissioner, is making a purvey
of road conditions in this area and
states, the Nome-Fairbanks Road
pected in this area this summer
by the Alaska Road Commission.
If conditions are favorable, he
states, the Some-Fairbahks Road
should be all the way to Salmon
Lake by fall and the Nome-Teller
Road well under way.
He states that the Teller Road
will follow the original plan by
way of Sunset Road, which takes
it through rich mining country,
now undeveloped because of lack
of transportation. This road will
eventually tie into Lost River
roads.
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MAN FALLS OUT OF BED.
DIES OF RESULTING CUTS
SEATTLE, LP—John Nelson, 64,
fell out of bed in his room Friday,
striking a broken bottle and cut
ting his throat with fatal results,
Coroner John Brill reported.
Drama Critic, 73, and
Actress, 45, Married
After 9-Year Engagement
NEW YORK, W)—Drama critic
George Jean Nathan, 73, and ac
tress Julie Haydon, 45, have been
married after a nine year engage
ment and 17 years following their
first meeting.
The wedding was performed by
Capt. Frank Siwik aboard the
cruise ship Santa Rosa. The skip
per yesterday notified Grace Lines
officials here that the ceremony
was performed when the vessel
was about 215 miles east of Cape
Hatteras.
The Nathans plan a honeymoon
on the island of Curacaco and
later will visit South America.
Neither had been married be
fore.
Eisenhower Speech Touches Off 10th
Anniversary of U.N.; Big 4 Foreign
Ministers Plan for Meeting Tonight
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Nimble Collegians May
Give U.S. Best Olympic
Track Team in History
LOS ANGELES (tf>—A bunch of
record-breaking collegians have
shown that the United States next
year could have its best Olympic
track and field team in history.
“From the standpoint of per
formance, I think it’ll be the
greatest we’ve ever had,’’ ?a’d
Minnesota’s Jim Kelly, chairman
of this nation’s Olympic Track
Committee.
He had watcnea five NCAA
records broken and one tied in the
meet ending Saturday. This week
he goes to Boulder, Colo., to see
many of these same college stars
and other amateurs compete in
the national AAU event.
The University of Southern
California won the NCAA but not
as easily as expected. It wasn’t
until- two Trojan pole vaulters
collected 10 points by finishing in
a four-way tie for second place in
that final event that the meet was
decided.
18 Patients Trapped in
Fire in Mental Hospital
TOKYO, —A pre-dawn fire
in a mental hospital at Ichikawa
Saturday killed 18 male patients
who had been locked in their
wards for the night.
Police said the fire was caused
by a short circuit. Within minutes
it raced through four wings of the
rambling wooden structure, 30
miles east of Tokyo in Chiba pre
fecture.
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Revolt - Bloodied Argentina Under
Military Control; Peron in Seclusion
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, MV
—Argentina’s new armed forces
chief, Gen. Franklin Lucero, today
pressed grimly ahead with efforts
to return revolt-bloodied Argen
tina to normal.
The 57-year-old army minister,
who vaulted into the spotlight
after his troops rescued President
Juan Peron’s government from
Thursday’s navy revolt, called on
the nation last night to stamp out
“false alarms” disturbing efforts
to restore peace.
He signed his communique as
“commander in chief of the forces
of repression.”
Lucero and other military lead
ers were to take part today in a
ceremony in bomb-blasted Plazo
de Mayo commemorating Gen.
Manuel Belgrano who created the
Argentine flag. The prominence
given the military in advance an
nouncements of the observance
underscored the army control of
the country.
(News dispatches from Argen
tina are subject to censorship im
posed after the revolt. But an
Associated Press dispatch from
Montevideo said Argentine refu>
>
gees in the Uruguayan capital had
learned in telephone calls to Bue
nos Aires that army leaders were
negotiating with Peron and the
navy in an effort to set up a
three-man ruling junta consisting
of Peron, Lucero and Rear Adm.
Alberto Teisaire, the vice presi
dent.)
Evidencing his new importance,
Lucero spent a crowded Sunday
morning inspecting security em
placements and troop positions in
the capital. Later he went to the
army ministry where he worked
the rest of the day on plans and
orders for the country.
In contrast, Peron remained in
seclusion in his residence. He did
not visit his temporary office n
the army ministry, where he had
moved after Thursday’s revolt de
stroyed his office in Government
House.
Lucero branded as completely
false reports that rebelious army
units were marching on Buenos
Aires from outlying regions, and
that there had been naval bom
bardments and garrison uprisings
in the interior.
SAN FRANCISCO W—President
Eisenhower urged the United Na
tions today to strive anew for “a
glorious way of life” in which
“the atom, dedicated once as
man’s slayer, will become his
most productive servant.”
Mis major address at the U.N.’s
10th anniversary ceremonies in
San Francisco included a pledge
that the U,S. will do everything in
its power to help the world move
toward that goal of peace at the
Big Four conference.
The President said this is the
“season of high hope for the
world.”
But Eisenhower maintained h»s
cautious attitude about the Big
Four conference with these words:
“Whether or not we shall reach
the initial decisions that will start
dismantling the terrible apparatus
of fear and mistrust and weapons
erected since the end of World
War II, I do not know.”
He said the basis for success of
the meeting next month in Geneva
could be simply put this way:
“It is that every individual at
that meeting be loyal to the spirit
of the United Nations and dedi
cated to the principle of its char
ter.” He said that would be the
U.S. attitude.
Commenting on the objective of
peace, the Prseident said: “It can
not be a mere stifling of the guis
—it must be a glorious way of
life. In that life the atom, dedi
cated once as man’s slayer, will
become his most productive ser
vant.
“lit will be a peace to inspire
confidence and faith so that all
peoples will be released from the
dread of war. Scientists will be
liberated to work always for men,
never against them.”
Eisenhower said he was confin
ing his remarks to the U.N. and
the U.S.’s answering loyalty” to it
because Secretary of State Dulles
would discuss the nation’s foreign
policy later this week. He said
Dulles will speak “with my full
confidence and concurrence.”
The Big Four foreign ministers
are preparing for a private huddle
tonight to plan the meeting of
their chiefs of government in
Geneva July 18.
The first direct contact between
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov and the western leaders
was established last night at a
dinner given by Colombian Am
bassador Eduardo Angel. There is
no information as to whether any
serious discussions were held, but
the two sides did have a chance to
sense the atmosphere which will
prevail tonight.
It was said Molotov believed
the meeting should not end with
out the U.N. takingxa stand, per
haps in the form of a resolution,
for peace. The 10th birthday meet
ing, under rules adopted by the
General Assembly, is supposed
merely to hear speeches on the
U.N. record and make no de
cisions of any kind.
Eisenhower will leave for the
return trip to Washington tonight.