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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 120 - NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1955_Per Copy—15*
Harriman, Stevenson asd Symington
In Spotlight for Presidency Race
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(By the Associated Prbss)
The names of Averell Harriman,
Adlai Stevenson and Stuart Sy
mington showed up the political
spotlight yesterday as it focused
on the developing race for the
1956 Democratic presidential nom
ination.
Republican eyes continued to
turn to the recuperating President
Eisenhower: will he run again?
How about the GOP choice if he
doesn’t?
Harriman, the New York gov
ernor whom his state’s Democratic
leaders are pushing for president,
caught attention in a TV inter
view. He has repeatedly said “I’m
ter Adlai” Stevenson.
I^e said that again yesterday,
but this time added he has “no
obligation” and is “not at all mor
ally bound” to support Stevenson
at the Democratic National Con
vention next year.
The governor said he is not now
a candidate for the presidency.
But he said he does not believe a
man 64 years old (Harriman will
be 64 next month) is too old to
serve as president.
Stevenson, who hasn’t said yet
whether he’ll run again, got a
boost from the nation’s capital,
where a Stevenson-for-President
club was organized.
Reporting on a survey of Demo
cratic governors and other party
leaders, the Wall Street Journal
said today:
“The replies leave no doubt
that, right now, Mr. Stevenson is
clearly in the lead. But Gov. Har
riman of New York must- be con
sidered a serious contender. And
Tennessee’s Sen. Kefauver is a
definite threat to front runners
Stevenson and Harriman. Right
now no other candidate is being
considered.”
In Sikeston, Mo., home-state
backers of Sen. Symington pre
pared for “preliminary” discus
sions on a proposed “Symington
for President” campaign at a
meeting of state Democrats next
Saturday. The senator himself fre
quently has disclaimed any presi
dential aspirations for 1956.
Maj. Gen. Walter Agee j
Named Next Commander
Of Civil Air Patrol
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Air
Force today named Maj. Gen.
Walter R. Agee, 50, as the next
commander of its civilian auxili
ary, the Civil Air Patrol.
Agee will be assigned as vice
commander until Maj. Gen. Lucas
V. Beau, CAP commander in chief
for the past eight years, leaves
active Air Force duty. Beau re
tired from the Air Force Aug. 31,
but was voluntarily recalled the
next day for an indefinite term.
Agee has been commander of
the 3320th Technical Training
Wing of the Air Training Com
mand at Amarillo air base, Texas,
for the past two. years. He served
as commander of the 39th Depot
Wing, Elmendorf AFB in 1951,
and as deputy commander of the
Alaskan Air Command in 1952.
Mickey Cohen Released
From Federal Prison
STEILACOOM, (#>—Mickey Co
hen is on his way back to Los An
geles, where his name used to be
mentioned in connection with
rackets before he served close to
four years for income tax inva
sion.
The pudgy and balding Cohen
was freed from McNeil Island
Federal Penetentiary yesterday.
Cohen told reporters he was go
ing back to Los Angeles. He told
a Los Angeles Examiner reporter
he was thinking of opening a bar
and grill in Beverly Hills on the
so-called Miracle Mile.
Cause Sought of
Air Liner Crash
That Killed 66
LARAMIE, Wyo., UP>—Investi
gators sifted through the shattered
fragments of a four-engine plane
on snow-crusted Medicine Bow
Peak Saturday seeking an explan
ation of the nation’s worst com
mercial air lines crash in which j
66 persons were killed Thursday.
W. A. Patterson, United Air
Lines president, said the New
York-to-San Francisco DC-4 coach
flight was 25 miles west of the
established airway when it
smashed into the 12,005-foot peak,
40 miles west of here in southern
Wyoming.
“Why the aircraft was off its
course is not known . . .” Patter
son said. “The cause is being
sought in a complete investigation
now being conducted by the Civil
Aeronautics Board and our com
pany.”
The pilot, C. C. Cooke, 34, of
Menlo Park, Calif., had flown the
route hundreds of times during
his 12 years service with United.
The plane departed from Denver
for Salt Lake City more than 80
minutes behind schedule.
There was speculation Cooke
was trying to make up some of the
time by taking a “short cut”
across the Snowy Range or. turbu
lent winds pulled him off course.
Former Big Leaguer
Stabbed to Death After
Ejecting Three From Bar
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, UPL
Howie Fox, 34, who pitched for
three Major League baseball
clubs, was stabbed to death after
he ejected three young men from
his tavern in the early morning
hours yesterday.
Two college students and anoth
er man werd booked by police.
Witnesses said Fox was stabbed
three times in front of his tavern
and died crawling toward the
door. His bartender, 47, was crit
ically slashed.
One of the students had a se
vere cut over his right eye. It was
caused, he told police, when he
was struck by Fox with what
looked to him like a miniature
baseball bat.
Seattle Couple Celebrate
50th Wedding Anniversary
And 50 Years in One Home
SEATTLE, UR—Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Blurock celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary
here Sunday. They were married
in Seattle and have lived in the
same house for 50 years.
Blurlock crossed the plains from
Missouri to the Pacific Northwest
with his family in 1876. He worked
for the government in Alaska,
helping establish communication
systems, before he began his ca
reer on the Seattle waterfront.
Blurock says he’s 87. He doesn’t
know his wife’s age.
Air Force to Drop
500 Tons Supplies
At South Pole
WASHINGTON, Wl—The Air
Force said Saturday night that its
planes will drop 500 tons of build
ing equipment and supplies at
the South Pole from October 1956
through March 1957.
The material will be used to
build and provision a station for
civilian scientists who will make
antarctic polar observations dur
ing the International Geophysical
Year.
The Tactical Air Command, as
signed the air-drop task, appoint
ed the 18th Air Force, at Green
ville, S.C. to carry out the mission.
Aircraft and crews of the 18th
will fly to Christ Church, New
Zealand a year from now and set
up a major overhaul base there.
From Christ Church the planes
will fly 2,300 miles to an ice field
to be built by the Navy’s Task
Force 43 at McMurdo Sound, 400
miles west of Little America.
There will be a series of drop
missions, each of them more than
1,700 miles for the nonstop round
trip. Air Force experts pointed out
that the flights will be much more
rugged and hazardous than those
conducted by the 18th in the far
north last winter in support of
the “DEW” radar line being con
structed along Canada’s northern
rim.
Medical Report Heightens
Prospect Eisenhower Will
Retire at End of Term
DENVER, U!)—President Eisen
hower continued to progress satis
factorily today as he cheerfully
resigned himself to a long period
of recovery and convalescence,
which may keep him out of the
Wh-ite House the rest of the year.
The prospects that he will retire
at the end of his present term
were heightened, however, by ex
pert medical opinion that it is im
possible to say now whether he
will be “physically able” to run
again.
While his progress from his
heart attack of Sept. 24 has been
satisfactory, and his morale is
high, he has agreed to a decision
of his doctors to keep him at Fitz
simmons Army Hospital for as
long as the second week in No
vember.
The President, who will observe
his 65th birthday next Friday, met
with Vice President Nixon Sunday
for the second day in a row, and
Adolph Hitler and Eva Broun Suicides
Told by Eye Witness Released by Reds
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Ground Observer Corps
At Koyuk Effects Rescue
Of Sick Eskimo Boy .
Alaska’s Ground Observer Corps,
set up under the 11th Air Divi
sion (def) of Ladd AFB was the !
vital link in a rescue chain re
cently for a critically ill Eskimo
boy.
The child, a pupil in a mission
school at Koyuk, was down with a
temperature of 105.4 degrees when
his condition was reported to an
Air Force “Sadie Hawkins” (mon
itoring) station at Galena by T.
Regan, the Koyuk schoolmaster
and local GOC chief.
The Air Force station immedi
ately notified the CAA, which dis
patched a plane to pick up the
boy. Within an hour he was under
medical care at the Nome hospital.
The Ground Observer Corps
communications network is the
only emergency contact that Koy
uk, an isolated little village about
100 miles south of Nome, has with
the outside world.
The Koyuk observer crew, con
sisting of about 40 Eskimo school
children under the direction of
Rogan, also figured in the notifi
cation of a T-33 crash in that area
last November.
Molotov Will Go
To Conference
Despite Mistake
MOSCOW, (£*>—Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov said today he
will leave by air on Oct. 25 for the
Geneva Big Four foreign minis
ters’ conference opening two days
later.
Molotov’s announcement stopped
cold speculation in Western diplo
matic circles here that his self
criticism, published in the latest
issue of the magazine Communist
might mean he wouldn’t be going
to Geneva.
In a 50CV«vord letter printed by
the magazine Communist, Molotov
confessed he had made a mistake
in a speech to the Supreme Soviet
on Feb. 8 when he referred to the
Soviet Union as a country where
“the foundation of socialist socie
ty already existed.”
What he should have said, he
explained, was that the Soviet
Union has already built a socialist
society superstructure and is
ready to proceed to Communism.
Such an error, he said, was the
oretically and politically danger
ous, and a contradiction of numer
ous official party decisions.
The Supreme Soviet to which
Molotov spoke was the one at
which Georgi Malenkov resigned
as Premier and also confessed
faults.
Nixon Trip Postponed
DENVER, WV—The White House
today announced postponement of
Vice President Nixon’s scheduled
November trip to the Near East
because of President Eisenhower’s
illness.
> BERLIN WP)—A roaring gasoline
blaze consumed the bodies - of
Adolph Hitler and his bride, Eva
Braun, while about 10 men of Hit
ler’s staff watched in the garden
outside the Fuehrer’s Berlin air
raid shelter in 1945.
That was the story—bottled up
by the Russians for 10 years—told
as an eyewitness account by Heinz
Linge, Hitler’s valet, who returned
over the weekend from a decade
of captivity in the Soviet Union.
“Hitler shot himself, Eva Braun
took poison,” said Linge in an
interview yesterday.
“I carried his body out of the
bunker, and then helped pour gas
oline over it. We watched it burn
for about five minutes.”
The body of Eva, Hitler’s mis
tress until he married her the day
before the double suicide, was
carried out from the underground
boudoir and dumped on the grass
in the chancellery garden by Otto
Guensche, an adjutant, while So
viet artillery shells were flying
overhead, Linge said. Hitler’s
chauffeur had tried to carry, out
the body, but it was too heavy for
him.
Linge’s story was matched in
part by another returning POW,
SS Gen. Hans Bauer, Hitler’s per
sonal pilot. Bauer told newsmen
in West Germany he was in the
bunker on April 30, the day of the
suicides.
“I went into Hitler’s apartment
in the bunker to get my last or
ders,” he said. “Hitler said good
bye to me then, remarking that he
would now take his own life since
the military situation had become
hopeless.”
Bauer said he learned when he
returned two hours later that the
two had killed themselves but he
did not actually see the bodies.
Linge and Bauer may be sum
moned to testify before a Berch
tesgarten court which is expected
to rule this month whether Hitler
is dead. He has never been de
clared legally dead.
Kefauver Told Eisenhower
Democrats Will Sweep
Congress and Presidency
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SEOUL, —Sen. Kefauver said
today he recently told President
Eisenhower the Democrats will
sweep both the presidency and
Congress in next year’s elections.
Kefauver, who tried unsuccess
fully to capture the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1952,
refused to say whether he will try
again next year.
Kefauver arrived from Japan
after a tour of Russia and south
east Asia.
He said he came to Korea to ob
tain information for his Senate
Armed Services Committee, He
plans to meet with President
Syngman Rhee tomorrow and to
visit U.S. troops before leaving for
Tokyo and rome Wednesday.
He said earlier in Tokyo he
thinks America’s big Far Eastern
aid program needs “reappraisal’*
in some countries but is generally
“well handled.”