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VOL. LX No. 53 • NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1958 _Per Copy—15^
Ike’s Jobless
Relief Bill
Passes Hoijse
WASHINGTON, UP> — The
Eisenhower administration’s emer
gency jobless relief bill, safely
through the House, today faced
expected efforts to broaden it
in the Senate.
Its House passage yesterday
was a defeat for Democratic
leaders, who saw their own pro
gram swamped under charges of
“dole” and “socialism” and final
ly shunted aside by a 222-164 vote.
The House went on to pass the
administration bill 370-17.
A coalition of Republicans and
Southern Democrats carried the
day for President Eisenhower’s
plan. This calls for pay-back
assistance to the states for tem
porary extension of unemploy
ment benefits to workers who
exhaust their rights under state
systems between July 1, 1957 and
April 1, 1959.
House Democrats, however,
were looking to the Senate to
restore some of the key features
of their defeated 1 Vfe billion dol
lar plan of federal grants for
most of the nation’s jobless work
ers. Republicans attributed de
feat of the Democratic bill to
their contention that “it went too I
far” by including relief pro-'
visions for workers not now el- j
igible for benefits under state in- '
surance systems. *
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Here’s How It Looks
For Territorial Offices
In General Election
JUNEAU, L¥> — Thomas J.
Moore of Anchorage apparently
has won the Democratic nomi
nation as a candidate for Com
missioner of Labor in the October
general election.
On the basis of unofficial re
sults from 146 of the territory’s
285 precincts in Tuesday’s pri
mary election, Moore was leading
his nearest party rival by more
than 1,000 votes—and his lead
seemed to be slowly increasing
as returns filtered in from outly
ing areas.
Moore had polled 5,480 votes to
4,343 for Russell K. Young.
A third Democratic primary can
didate, Dale Hirt, was out of
the running with 2,098 votes in
the incomplete returns.
In other races for the fall
election, the candidates will line
up this way:
Democratic incumbent E. L.
Bartlett against Republican Paul
Robison of Anchorage for Dele
gate to Congress; incumbent Hugh
J. Wade, a Juneau Democrat,
against Karl F. Dewey, Juneau
Republican, and Niilo Koponen,
Fairbanks member of the Alaska
Party, for Territorial Treasurer.
$787,545 Allotted To
Alaska Under Federal
Aid To School Districts
WASHINGTON, (/PI — The of
fice of Education announced yes
terday allocation of $787,545 to
Alaska under the program of
federal aid for school districts
affected by federal activities.
Here are the Alaska alloca
tions:
Board of Education, Territory
of Alaska, $222,800; Palmer in
dependent district, $81,235; Fair
banks independent district, $303,
425; North Pole District, 4th
District, $43,690; Kodiak indepen
dent District, 3rd Judicial Dis
trict, $136,595.
Short Brothers
Here to Re-Survey
| City Streets/
At a special meeting of the City
Council held yesterday noon,
proposed re-survey of city streets,
alleys etc. of the City of Nome
j by John and Don Short was ac
cepted and has already started.
The original survey of 1904
and the re-survey in the burned
area in 1935 will be incorporated
and a complete new city plat
will be drawn up.
The city agreement with the
Short Brothers will include the
construction of permanent con
crete street markers, with one or
more corners on every block and
will include the labor, maps and
all essentials for the work which
is expected to take over three
months.
The new plat when completed
will indicate the positions of all
monuments and bearings and dis
tances, giving dimensions of
blocks, lots, streets and alleys,
in such a manner that further
computation will not be necessary
to establish any lot corner.
Jury, Out 2 Days,
Finds Salinas Guilty
of 2nd Degree Arson
Steve Salinas was found guilty
of arson in the second degree, and
not guilty of burning with intent
to defraud the insurer.
The jury was out for two days
before reaching the verdict.
Second degree ar^on is de
fined in the Alaska Law as re
lation to any building or struct
ure while arson in the first de
gree limits the crime to a dwell
ing.
Atomic Test Gate
Crashers Land In
Jail In Honolulu
HONOLULU, UP) — The defiant
four-man crew of the ketch Gold
en Rule was held today in Hono
lulu’s century-old city jail after
a shortlived attempt to sail to the
mid-Pacific nuclear test zone
against court orders.
The skipper of the 30-foot
boat, former Navy Lt. Cmdr. Al
bert Smith Bigelow of Cos Cob,
Conn., and his mates spurned bail
yesterday when arraigned on
charges of criminal contempt of
court.
Their aim was to protest against
nuclear tests planned at the
Eniwetock proving grounds.
They set sail after Federal
Judge Jon Wiig issued an in
junction against their leaving
Honolulu and banning them
from the nuclear test zone. ,
About 30 minutes later they
were intercepted by a Coast Guard
cutter a mile and a half off shore
and towed back.
Alaska Woman Dies Of
Injuries From Aufo Crash
PHOENIX, Ariz., Ml — An
Alaska woman died yesterday in
a local hospital of injuries in a
head-on auto collision April 25
about 80 miles northwest of
Phoenix.
The victim was Mary Jean
Johnson, 36, Anchorage.
Arizona Highway Patrolman
Bill Hanger said she was a pas
senger in a car driven by her
husband, Dr. Calvin T. Johnson,
34, when it slammed head-on in
to another auto. Johnson and six
others were injured, two of
them seriously.
| Air Force Chief
Backs Defense
Reorganization
WASHINGTON, Gfl — Gen.
Thomas D. White, Air Force
Chief of Staff, unreservedly
I backed President Eisenhower’s
! defense reorganization bill in
! testimony before the House Armed
Services Committee today.
“I support the reorganization
bill as proposed .by the President,”.
White said.
And when Rep. Brooks (D-La)
asked for suggestions on a sub
stitute bill, White said he had
none.
Brooks’ question was open con
firmation for reports that such
a measure is in preparation.
“I recognize the committee
feels some provisions should be
set out in more detail,” White
said. “I would not quarrel over
language if the objectives were
accomplished.”
That was a restatement of what
Eisenhower and Secretary of
Defense MsElroy have been say
ing.
“I completely agree with the
President’s concept that separate
ground, sea and air warfare are
gone forever and that peacetime
preparation and organization must
conform to this fact,” White went
on. “It is essential that our com
bat forces be organized into . . .
unified commands and that our
strategic and tactical planning
be completely unified.”
52-Ship Fleet
To Make Arctic
Resupply Mission
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Mil
itary Sea Transportation Service
(MSTS) announced that the first
of a 52-ship fleet to be used in
this season’s resupply of bases
in the far north will sail from
New York today.
The cargo ship Redbud, put
ting out from New York, will
head for bases in the Eastern
Arctic.
This will be the ninth year of
of Arctic resupply under direc
tion of MSTS. The object is to
replenish supplies or deliver
building material for the Distant
Early Warning Line (Dewline),
air fields and sealing stations. '
Vice Adm. John M. Will, MSTS
Commander, said commercial
ships will be used in this sea
son’s operation to supply Dew
line points extending from Point
Barrow to the Central Canadian
north.
Working with the commercial
ships in the western sector will
be one MSTS cargo ship, the
USS Union, which will sail from
San Francisco.
From East Coast ports will
sail 48 other MSTS ships carrying
supplies for bases in Greenland,
Labrador, Newfoundland and
Baffin Island.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Boston 7, Kansas City 6
Chicago 4, Baltimore 3
Cleveland 3, Washington 1
National League
Chicago 3, Milwaukee 2
Philadelphia 7, San Francisco 0
Pittsburgh 8, Los Angeles 3
Pacific Coast League
Salt Lake City 19, Vancouver 5
Sacramento 2, Portland 0
Phoenix 2, San Diego 0
Seattle 5, Spokane 4
Soviets Label Eisenhower’s Aerial
Arctic Inspection Plan “Gimmick”
"UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP)—
The Soviet Union today denounced
the Eisenhower Arctic inspection
plan as a “gimmick” to get mili
tary intelligence in Soviet terri
tory.
A Soviet diplomat said a veto
was evident.
Soviet Delegate Arkady A.
Sobolev told the U. N. Security
Council that Russia’s position had
remained unchanged> despite the
appeal of U. N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold.
He took a slap at the Secretary
General for getting into the
fight and made it clear that Ham
marskjold’s relations with the
Soviet Union had been harmed.
In effect Sobolev tossed back
at President Eisenhower the lat
ter’s charge that the Soviet an
nouncement on the suspension
of nuclear tests was a gimmick.
Sobolev did not say specifically
how he would vote on the pend
ing U. S. proposal for immediate
technical talks on Arctic inspec
tion, but he rejected the plan
with such vigor a veto appeared
imminent.
He insisted thtat the whole
idea must be referred to a sum
mit conference without prelim
inary discussion.
Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Cab
ot Lodge acknowledged that the
proposed inspection plan would
certainly collect military infor
mation. He added, however,
that this would be done under
international control and only
with the consent of the nations
involved.
Then he Jtold the Russians that
the flights of nuclear-armed
U. S. planes over the Arctic
might be curbed by the proposed
plan.
“If you really mean wh§t you
say about the American flights,”
he said, “your course is perfectly
clear. You have but to vote for
the U. S. resolution.”
Statistics Show
People May Be
Buying More
WASHINGTON, UP) — New
govern ment statistics indie ate
people may be starting to buy
more. This could be a hopeful
economic sign.
Reports to the Federal Reserve
Board and the Commerce De
partment reflected a March pick
up in business at department
stores and wholesale establish
ments.
But other reports issued yes
terday showed the key auto in
dustry still running in low gear.
At the same time, the Treasury
Department was rushing income
tax refunds to millions of Amer
icans in hopes this money wuld
be spent and thus help bring
about economic recovery.
Jet Interceptor
Missing At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Airborne
searchers were combing Cook
Inlet off Anchorage for signs of
a jet fighter-interceptor missing
since early today after failing
to return from a night flying
mission.
The convair F 102A Delta Dag
ger took off from Elmendorf Air
Force Base with two other jets
last night. It was last seen in
the vicinity of. the base about
20 minutes later.
The Air Force identified the
pilot of the missing jet as 1st
Lt. Carl E. Sandmeter, 27, De
troit. His wife and two children
live at Elmendorf.
Two Big Airliners
Suffer Landing Mishaps
NEWARK, N. J. UP) — An East
em Air Lines plane from Miami,
Fla., overshot the runway af
ter landing at Newark airport
today in a ground fog and plowed
to halt in a soggy grass field.
The 42 passengers and five
crewmen walked out unhurt, but
several had to be treated for
shock.
The landing gear of the plane,
a DC-7B, collapsed as the ship
rolled onto the grass. The left
wing dug into the earth.
An Israeli airliner, inbound
from London, landed safely at
New York’s Idlewild airport this
morning with one wheel missing.
The plane carried 63 passengers
and a crew of eleven.
Yesterday’s Wien Flight
Was First To Make
PAA Seattle Connection
Yesterday’s Wien flight was
the first Nome to Seattle con
nection. t
The Wien flight which left
here yesterday at 8:15 was the
first in the new direct to Seattle
schedule with Pan American Air
ways.
Passengers who left on that
flight at 8:15 were scheduled to
arrive in Seattle last evening
about 11:00 p.m. after a one hour
lay over in Fairbanks.
This direct service from Nome
to the states has been scheduled
for Monday, Thursday and Fri
day of each week as will be found
in both the P. A. A. and Wien
advertisement in this issue.
Fourteen Entries Will
Run In Kentucky
Derby Tomorrow
LOUISVILLE, Ky, UP) — Jet’s
Alibi and Can Trust were with
drawn from the Kentucky Derby
today leaving a field of 14
awaiting post call tomorrow for
one of America’s most colorful
races.
If all start at 4:30 p.m., PST,
the race will gross $160,500, with
$116,400 going to the winner.
Additional scratches will reduce
the purse by $1,250 for each with
drawal from the IVi mile race.
Trainer Ivan Parke said a hoof
injury forced him to withdraw
Jet’s Alibi, leaving Maine Chance
Farm with a two-horse entt-y,
Jewel’s Reward and Ebony Pearl.
Tim Tam, from the Calumet
Farm, was expected to be the
favorite at about 2-1. Silky Sul
livan was held at 5 to 2 in the
early line and the Maine Chance
entry at 7 to 2.
Eighty sportswriters polled on
the race picked Tim Tam, Jew
el’s Reward and Silky Sullivan,
in that order.
Miner Rogers. Former Skagway
Sourdough, Dies At Age Of 87
BREMERTON, Wash., UP) _
Miner E. Rogers, 87, Alaskan
sourdough who lived at Skagway
most of his life, died in a nursing
home here Wednesday.
Surviving are a son, E. A.
Rogers, Bremerton; a daughter,
Mrs. Ellen R. MacMillan, Ketch
ikan; three grandchildren and
five great grandchildren.