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VOL. LVII No, 54_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1955 Per Copy—15*
New Military
Convertiplane
Passes l ests
WASHINGTON. UP) — A St.
Louis aircraft firm has tested
successfully a new military air
plane which takes off vertically,
moves forward like a convention
al craft and then lands like a
helicopter.
The Defense Department yes
terday disclosed this aeronautical
“first” achieyed by the McDon
ell Aircraft Corp.’s XV-1 Con
vertiplane.
Flown by test pilot John R.
Noll, the convertiplane’s over
head rotor lifted it off the ground
in the same fashion as a helicop
ter. After climbing to a safe alti
tude, Noll shifted power from the
rotor to a pusher-type propellor
behind the cabin and the plane
moved forward. In landing, Noll
reversed the procedure and the
machine settled vertically to
earth.
McDonnell thus became the
first company to put a converti
plane through a successful air
test of the helicopter-plane-heli
copter cycle.
*The XV-l’s forward speed in>
the test was not disclosed. But
the convertiplane is designed to
fly faster than 170 miles an hour.
One observer estimated the con
version to forward flight and
back again was accomplished at
about 4,000 feet in the air.
The SV-1 is designed to carry
three passengers, or two litter
patients and a medical attendant,
in addition to its pilot.
Aleutian Waters Yield
Remains Of Two Missing
Japanese Fishing Boats
TOKYO, — Aleutian waters
have yielded the remains of two
missing Japanese vessels which
disappeared a week ago with 45
men.
The oil-covered bodies of nine
crewmen of a missing Japanese
research ship were found yester
day drifting in Aleutian waters.
Life jackets identified them
with the 15-ton fishery research
ship Hatsushio Maru. It had been
missing since it radioed May 1
that it wasi running aground at
Agattu Island.
The Hatsushio Maru was mak
ing a survey of salmon and sea
trout in the Aleutian area.
Other Japanese fishing boats
reported finding debris from a
second missing boat, the fishing
craft Hoko Maru with 21 aboard,
last heard from April 30 when it
radioed it was in trouble in Aleu
tian waters.
The Coast Guard said it was
“presumed lost with all aboard.”
House Votes To Restore
Rigid Farm Price Supports
WASHINGTON, <JV_The House
voted yesterday to restore high
rigid farm price supports in a
second display of the Democratic
leadership’s ability to flex its pol
itical muscles in defiance of the
Eisenhower administration.
As proved to be the case earlier
when it voted to cut everybody’s
taxes by $20, nothing seemed
likely to come of this new move
—at least this year.
The vote was 206-201 to scrap
the flexible system of price sup
ports which Congress approved
last year at the urging of the ad
ministration. There is obvious
Senate reluctance to go along.
Boy Scout Training
Enables Chuck Snyder
To Save Child’s Life
Jimmy Apok, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Apok,iowes his life to
the quick thinking of Chuckie
Snyder, high school son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Snyder.
Chuckie spotted the child lying
face down in a puddle, turned
him over and found him to be un
conscious. He applied his Boy
Scout training and gave the boy
artifical respiration.
In the meantime, other boys
ran for help and flagged a passing
truck.
Chuck states that after he had
worked some water out of the
child’s lungs, Jimmy regained
consciousness and started to cry.
He was then taken to the hospital
where treatment was given by Dr.
F. Langsam.
Nine Army Veterans Fly
To Moscow For Reunion
With Russian Soldiers
NEW YORK, UP) — Nine Army
veterans were winging across the
Atlantic today on the first leg of
a flight to Moscow and a re
union with Russian soldiers they
met at the Elbe River just before
Germany surrendered 10 years
ago.
The group, calling itself the
American Veterans of the Elbe
Meeting, got funds for round-trip
tickets to Paris through an ap
peal on a television program
(Strike It Rich*. The Russian gov
ernment will take them from
Paris to Moscow and back.
The reunion is set for May 9,
although the actual anniversary of
the river meeting was April 25,
1945.
Before their plane took off last
night, one of the group, William
Weisel of Cincinnati, said: “We
are hoping to plant a little seed
of brotherhood. We know we
won’t stop the cold war over
night but we hope that this trip
will contribute a little bit toward
ending it.”
Nine Men Perish In Fire
In Chicago Flophouse
CHICAGO, M — Fire flashed
through a flophouse early today
killing nine men and injuring at
least 12 others.
The blaze at the Comfort Hotel
at 919 W. Madison St. was the
second tragic fire in a Skid Row
hostelry this year. A flash fire in
the Barton Hotel on Feb. 12 took
the lives of 29 men.
About 77 men were sleeping in
tiny cubicles in the five - story
Comfort Hotel when the first
alarm was sounded. An estimated
55 got out of the building safely.
Most of the men were trapped
in 6x7 foot cubicles walled with
corrugated iron with chicken wire
ceilings for which they paid 65
cents a night. '
Firemen said the building con
tained about 100 of these tiny
cubicles.
Officers said some of the men
were in drunken stupors and had
to be taken out by force.
THURSDAY BASEBALL
American League
Detroit 3, Boston 2
National League
Brooklyn 4, St. Louis 3
Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee 4
New %ork 6, Chicago 3
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 5, Sacramento 0
San Diego 5, Portland 1
Hollywood 2, San Francisco 1
Oakland 7, Los Angeles 6
Release New Polio j
Vaccine Halted
Pending Study
WASHINGTON, (*— Surgeon
General Leonard Scheele said to
day federal release of any addi
tional Salk polio vaccine has
been halted pending a complete
study of the situation by top
medical scientists.
Scheele told the House Bank
ing Committee that production of
the vaccine is continuing but
federal review and approval of
additional'supplies has been held
up now “for several days.”
Scheele, head of the U.S. Pub
lic Health Service, said the pro
gram of releasing vaccine thus
has been “brought to a standstill”
for the time being.
Earlier, he had said, he feels
confident, however, that a* con
ference of scientists now under
way here will conclude that the
vaccine is excellent and that na
tionwide inoculation should be
continued.
Scheele said there has been no
effort to prevent vaccinations
from supplies already released,
or to slow down production. The
only slow-down, he emphasized,
had been in federal review and
approval of the vaccine before it
is released.
Manufacturers send the gov
ernment a sample from each
batch of vaccine they prepare.
The batch is not released Until
the government gives approval.
Leading American Race
Horse Trainer Suicides By
Leaping Off Bay Bridge
SAN FRANCISCO, W — Robert
Hyatt (Red) McDaniel, at 44, one
of the leading trainers in Ameri
can horse racing, drove his beige
colored Cadillac to the middle of
the towering San Francisco-Oak
land Bay Bridge yesterday and
for some unexplained reason
jumped to his death.
The Coast Guard recovered the
body 24 minutes after three wit
nesses saw him vault over the
railing of the upper deck. Mc
Daniel’s wallet, left in the front
seat of the automobile, contained
no notes or information concern
ing a motive.
McDaniel, who established a
new turf record in 1953 as trainer
of 211 winning horses, saddled
Poona II in winning the $100,000
added Santa Anita Handicap last
February.
Eisenhower Confers With
Military, Foreign Advisers
WASHINGTON, UV- President
Eisenhower conferred for 30 min
utes today with his key military
and foreign affairs advisers. The
White House said they discussed
“a routine National Security
Council matter.”
Meeting with the President
were Secretary of State Dulles,
Secretary of Defense Wilson, Un
dersecretary of State Herbert
Hoover Jr., and Admiral Arthur
W. Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
The session was held a few
hours in advance of Dulles’ sched
uled departure for Paris meetings
on Far Eastern problems and
Wsetern Europe’s defense.
In Paris, Dulles will attend a
meeting of the North Atlantic
Treaty Council at which West
Germany will become the 15th
member.
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Atom Test Shows Right Kind Of
Home Can Survive Nuclear Attack
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
and BILL BECKER
SURVIVAL CITY, Nev., UP —
The frightening and sobering
reality of survival in the atomic
age was driven home to Ameri
cans today as the damage to this
desert test community was to
taled.
The mighty shock wave of yes
terday’s atomic explosion buried
the Darling family—fortunately
only mannequins—in their home
on Doomsday Drive, wiped out
their neighbors next door and
the folks down the block.
The 4,700 foot row, however,
was not a complete loss—two out
of four homes withstood the gi
gantic pressure of the biggest
open test shot ever held in the
United States. Its power was
equal to 35,000 tons of TNT.
But the home at the 5,500 foot
mark especially built and rein
forced—did not stand up perhaps
as well as expected. The roof was
.blown completely off, much of
the front caved in and all win
dows smashed.
The Darling family’s fate and
that of their neighbors—especial
ly the luckier ones—pointed up
one object lesson: You can sur
vive a nuclear attack if you have
the right kind of home.
Fifteen members of the Dar
ling family “perished" in the
collapse of their two-story brick
and cinder block home. The walls
blew out, the chimney fell in
sections as though sliced by some
multiple scythe. The family
never had a chance.
But Civilian Defense workers
planned to enter the basement
after unsafe timbers are removed
to see whether perhaps two per
sons in a corner shelter may have
survived. The single story frame
rambler next door was a total
loss except for the specially con
structed bathroom shelter. This
Gov. Heintzleman Starts
Search For Expert To
Head New Finance Dept.
JUNEAU, —Governor Heint
zleman has started the search for
an expert to install Alaska’s new
finance and budgeting system. *
The act passed by the 1955 leg
islature to create a new Depart
ment of Finance provided that
the governor should arrange for
putting the system into effect.
The governor expects to inter
view several applicants' in Seattle
this weekend.
The actual director of the de
partment is to be named later
after arrangements have been
made for activating the depart
ment July 1.
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Servicemen in Outposts
Will Have Chance to
Learn Native Handicraft
Miss Margaret Hanscom, who
teaches handicrafts to servicemen
at Ladd Field, has been in this
area for several days learning
methods of ivory and baleen carv
ing, which she plans to teach,
along with other crafts.
An interesting new project will
be the teaching of crafts at the
outposts in this area, where ser
vicemen will learn to use native
tools to produce jewelry and fur
footwear from local materials. .
She was accompanied by Capt.
Ruth Shew, who was here last
May on Armed Forces Day.
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withstood the blast so solidly
that only one pane out of eight
was blown out of the rear win
dow.
Otherwise, the story in the two
hardest hit homes was the same;
no walls, shredded crossbeams
and joists, naked and crumbling
plaster, mute but utter destruc
tion
A big multi-ton hydraulic press
standing just behind the Dar
lings’ home gave staunch testi
mony to the difference between
frame and mortar and solid steel.
But even more dramatic and
pointed a lesson to ponder: two
one - story, flat - roofed masonry
homes a little farther down on
Doomsday Drive suffered only
cracked walls and loss of win
dows. Every single pane of glass
was blown out of the homes at
4,700 feet—% of a mile.
The aluminum garage door on
one of the masonry homes was
shredded: only the hinges re
mained to let the observer know
that there once was a door.
In the same home, the blast
buckled the lid of a food freezer
and ripped the blouse of a man
nequin seated in the kitchen.
Particles of window glass were
driven into the paint on a steel
cabinet. •
Isabel Miller To
| Do W elfare W ork
In S.E. Alaska
Isabel Miller, territorial wel
fare worker, was honored at a
tea yesterday given by Esther
McCoy, Margaret McDonald and
Clara Salisbury at the resi- .
dence of Miss McCoy. Mrs. W. B.
McCarthy, Mrs. Fritz Carlson,
Mrs. Roy Snyder and Margaret
Wilson poured during the after
noon.
Miss Miller has been active
•here for the past year and a half,
participating in the Sunday
School work of the Methodist
Church, organizing the Mothers’
Club and the Baby sitter as well
as other youth activities. She
leaves the Welfare Department to
become a social worker for the
Presbyterian Church in South
eastern Alaska.
Her work here has consisted of:
1) Casework service to parents
and children around behavior
problems, 2) cooperation with
courts, schools, churches and oth
er community resources on the
prevention and correction of de
linquency, 3) Development of
foster homes in Nome and thru
out the Second Division, 4) con
sultation with families and the
courts to clarify the legal status
of children in need of adoption;
5) Organization of a Mother’s
Club, which, among other accom
plishments, brought Mrs. Lydia
Fohn-Hansen, home economist, to
Nome for a week of demonstra
tions, 6) promotion of baby sit
ters’ classes, certification and
employemnt, 7) Circulation of lit
erature on child care and family
life, and 8) consultation with
children’s institutions on policies
of admission, program, and dis
charge.
The community hopes that the
Welfare Department will be able
to send another child welfare
worker to fill this position in the
near future.