VOL. LVI No. 8NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1954Per Copy—15c
Dulles Says Soviet
Veto Principal
Weakness of U.N.
WASHINGTON, UP!—Secretary
of States Dulles said today Red
China fails to qualify for mem
bership in the United Nations be
cause it does not respect “the
elemental decencies of interna
tional conduct.”
Dulles spoke out in a prepared
statement to a Senate Foreign Re
lations subcommittee which began
considering possible ways of
amending the United Nations
charter.
Sen. Wiley (R-Wis , chairman of
the committee, agreed with Dulles
in a statement that the U.N. had
“shortcomings and weaknesses.”
But Wiley s a id proposals to
amend the U.N. charter, as called
for under the charter itself, should
be aimed at preserving and
strengthening the international
organization—not at undercutting
it or wiping it out.
Dulles, in his statement to the
committee, said he must admit
the high hopes of those who
founded the U.N. at San Fran
cisco in 1945 have not been real
ized. He said there were two rea
sons: over-optimism on all sides
at the start, and Soviet lack of
cooperation to the point of vio
lating “the spirit and indeed the
language of the charter.”
Dulles said “the greatest weak
ness” of the U.N. charter was the
Security Council’s “inability to
discharge its ‘primary responsib
ility for the maintenance of inter
national peace and security’.”
This inability, he said, arises
principally from the Soviet’s fre
quent use of the veto power.
The Soviet veto, he said, has
excluded from the U.N. “family
of nations” Austria, Cambodia,
Ceylon, Finland, Eire, Italy, Jor
dan, Japan, South Korea, Laos,
Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Viet
nam.
Will Propose Use of Govt.
Farm Products Surpluses
To Aid Friendly Countries
WASHINGTON,, UP) — President
Eisenhower soon will ask Con
gress for authority to use up to
one billion dollars worth of sur
plus farm products to strengthen
the economies of friendly coun
tries.
This plan was disclosed today
by Seci'etary of Agriculture Ben
son in a statement before the Sen
ate Agriculture Committee, out
lining the administration’s new
farm program.
The proposed use of govern
ment surpluses — which Benson
said today now exceed $5,500,000,
000 — would be in addition to
$2,500,000,000 worth of surpluses
which would be “insulated” from
regular commercial supplies for
special uses. Such uses would be
for disaster relief, the school
lunch program and for stockpil
ing for national emergencies.
The “insulating” idea was ad
vanced by the President a week
ago in a special message to Con
gress outlining his farm program.
Details of how the overseas sur
plus program would be handled
were not specified in Benson’s
statement.
Two From Nome To Make
Inaugural Flight Of New
Pan American DC-6
In this issue, Pan American
Airways announces the first flight
of their new DC-6 planes on the
Alaska route.
The 300-plus mile an hour speed
of these new planes will make pos
sible reduction in travel time of
about 25 per cent it is reported.
At the same time lower rates are
in the offing for Alaskans.
Passengers will ride in a cabin
which is pressurized, sound insul
ated and fully air conditioned to
maintain living room comfort re
gardless of outside temperature or
flight altitude. This enables the
planes to climb to 20,000 feet or
more—well above the weather—
without causing the slightest dis
comfort of the passengers or crew.
Inaugurating the new service
will be featured toy a special flight
on Thursday with representatives
of the cities in Alaska served by
PAA.
Guests on this flight from Nome
will be Dewey Goodrich, president
of the Chamber of Commerce, and
Emily Boucher, publisher of the
Nome Nugget.
In addition to Alaskan guests
on the flight will toe representa
tives of Douglas Aircraft Corp.
and Seattle business people.
Yugoslav Communists
Expel Vice Pres. Djilas
For Airing Political View’s
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, WPS —
The Communist party’s central
committee has expelled vice
president Milovan Djilas from its
ranks after hearing President
Marshal Tito denounce his top
aide. Tito said Djilas attempted to
“liquidate” the Red party in.
Yugoslavia and sought to adopt
the capitalistic system.
Immediately after the 100-mem
ber committee, meeting yesterday
in extraordinary session, issued its
unanimous decree firing him,
Djilas resigned as chairman of the
Yugoslav parliament.
He also repented his actions,
confessing that his attitude had
been wrong. He denied that he
opposed Tito and his policies and
swore he still was a “true Marx
ist.”
Djilas’ purge from the party
leadership climaxed the most dis
rupting politico-social controversy
among Yugoslavia’s rulers since
the war.
Though the party committee
confined itself mainly to Djilas’
political views, the writings that
brought down the Red wrath were
his criticisms of the wives of other
top Communists.
Djilas charged in- a long article
in “new thought” that some of
the ladies of the “inner circle”—
itself a bad term to the Reds—
had snubbed the actress wife of
one official. Without mentioning
names, he made it clear he was
talking about the recent bride of
chief of staff Gen. Peko Dapcevic.
The excuse for giving her the
cold shoulder, said Djilas, was
•that she had not been a wartime
partisan fighter like many of the
other leaders. He pointed out she
was only 13 at the time of the
war.
Propose Govt,
Bolster Private
Health Insurance
WASHINGTON, (iP) — President
Eisenhower proposed Monday
that the government bolster pri
vate insurance plans as a step
toward bettering the health of all
Americans.
In a special message to Con
gress, Eisenhower asked for 25
million dollars to start a system
of government re - insurance of
private plans, to help take care
of e-xtraordinary expenses be
yond those now covered.
The President also proposed a
five year plan for expansion of
the program for rehabilitation of
the disabled. Under it a total of
660,000 disabled persons would be
returned “to places of full res
ponsibility” as actively working
citizens.
Eisenhower’s plan “rejecting
the socialization of medicine,”
also called for (A) continuation of
present Public Health Service pro
grams, <B) a new, simplified for
mula for grants-in-aid to the
states for health purposes, and
(C) a stepped up program of con
struction of medical care facilities.
The President told Congress the
total private medical bill of the
nation now exceeds nine billion
dollars a year — an average of
$200 a family—and still is rising.
He said the emphasis in dealing
with the problem must remain
essentially on private care, but
that the government can and
must help.
“Freedom, consent, and indi
vidual responsibility are funda
mental to our system,” he said.
“In the field of medical care,
this means that the traditional
relationship of the physician and
his patient, and the right of the
individual to elect freely the man
ner of his care in illness, must
be preserved.
“In adhering to this principle,
and rejecting the socialization of
medicine, we can still confident
ly commit ourselves to certain
national health goals.”
“One such goal is • that the
means for achieving good health
should be accessible to all. A per
son’s location, occupation, age,
race, creed or financial status
should not keep him from enjoy
ing this access.”
Three Auto Crashes Kill
20 Perseus Saturday Night
(By the Associated Press)
Three middle-of-the night auto
accidents across the country early
Sunday killed a total of 20 per
sons.
Seven died and two were hurt
critically in a head-on crash of
two cars near Sanford, N.C.
Six teen-age boys were killed
racing down Highway 61 when
they smashed into a bridge near
Imperial, Mo.
And seven persons were killed
in a head-on crash n%ar Azusa,
Calif. — six of the victims being
youngsters returning from a high
school dance.
Civil War Vet Critically 111
AUSTIN, Tex., UP — Thomas
Evans Riddle, 107, one of the last
five living Civil War veterans, lay
critically ill today of pneumonia.
ANS Tries To Stop
Payroll Checks To
ANICA Employees
SEATTLE, UP) — Pay checks
issued to employes of the Alaska
Native Industries Co-Operative
Association probably were to be
honored by banks Monday, Louis
C. Peters, manager said.
Peters said an Alaska Native
Service official had informed a
member of his staff that the
checks would be honored.
Peters said that earlier the
service had directed a bank not
to honor the checks.
United States District Judge
William J. Lindberg recently re
fused to grant a temporary injunc
tion to put Association assets in
federal hands.
Passing Ship Breaks Up Ice
Thru Which Three Are Fishing
MUSKEGON, Mich., iff) —Sev
enty stranded fishermen rode an
ice floe for three hours yesterday
on Bear Lake after waves from
a passing Lake Michigan oil tank
er caused an ice breakup.
Police, firemen and volunteers
brought the fishermen to shore in
rescue boats. None was harmed.
But fire chief Ed Klecka, who
guided the rescue operations, was
treated for chill and frost-bitten
hands and feet.
Bear Lake connects with Lake
Michikan.
Pinkertons Lose 9 Revolvers
NEW YORK, UP!—The Pinkerton
Detective Agency had a mystery
on its hands today and called in
city police to help.
The national agency said an in
ventory of its firearms stock,
made prior to filing for renewal
of licenses, showed nin© .38 cali
ber guns out of 400 licensed wea
pons are missing.
New Yoi'k City police have is
sued a 13-state alarm for the
guns.
Serum Dropped
On Polio-Stricken
St. Paul Island
JUNEAU, m—Serum for the
polio-stricken island of St. Paul
in the Pribilofs was paradropped
by an Air Force 10th Rescue
Squadron plane from Anchorage
late Friday.
The paradrop was made neces
sary because weather made a
plane landing impossible.
The death toll on the tiny island
inhabited by 360 Aleut seal hunt
ers and U.S. agents, remains at
two. Eleven other tpersons have
been stricken by the dread disease
but no new cases have been re
ported.
Meanwhile, the Health Depart
ment said it had received disturb
ing reports from Reeve Aleutian
Airways pilots that four people
are “sick” at the village of Akutan
at the eastern end of the Aleutians
300 miles south of the Pribilofs.
Health Department officials were
investigating as it was known that
Pribilof Islanders had been visit
ing Akutan. The Health Depart
ment feared the Akutan villagers
reported sick may be victims of
polio carried there from the Prib
ilofs.
Florida Sen. Favors
Statehood For
Alaska Over T.H,
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Smathers CD-Fla) said today he
will join other senators in intro
ducing a bill to require approval
by a two-thirds majority vote in
each house of Congress and three
fourths of the state legislatures
for admission of new states to
the union.
All that is needed now is a
majority vote in both the House
and Senate and approval by the
President.
The Florida senator said his op
position to statehood for Hawaii
is “not sectional with me and
has nothing to do with civil
rights.” It stems, he said, from
reports on Communism in Ha
waii and the recent testimony be
fore the Senate committee of for
mer Gov. Ingram Stainback of
Hawaii.
“Stainback said the Communist
conditions in Hawaii have wors
ened since 1950, and who is more
qualified to speak than Stain
back?”
Smathers said he is against
making a state of any non-con
tiguous territory “because it is a
bad practice to start and once we
let the door open we might as
well open the barriers all the
way.”
He said he favors Alaska over
Hawaii for statehood, if any are
to be admitted, “because the
people are much more like we
are, understand our history and
conditions.” /
Smathers said if the Hawaii bill
wins committee approval attempts
probably will be made on the
floor of the Senate to add Alaska
to the legislation.
Thimayya Says Freeing of
POWs Will Violate
Korean Armistice
PANMUNJOM, LP) — Indian Lt.
Gen. K. S. Thimayya told the U.N.
Command again today it will vio
late the Korean armistice if it
frees anti - Communist prisoners
before their fate is decided by
Allied - Red agreement or by a
peace conference.
The Allies, however, went
ahead with plans to free more
than 22,000 Korean and Chinese
anti-Red POWs as civilians by
Saturday—a course the UNC says
is required by the armistice terms.
Hilkey Robinson Dies In
Seattle At Age of 67
SEATTLE, UP! — Hilkey Robin
son, retired pioneer Alaska store
operator, died Friday night in a
Seattle hospital. He had been ill
two years. *
Masonic funeral services will be
held Tuesday.
Robinson, 67, and his father,
Herbert Greenburg, Los Angeles,
operated general stores in Nome,
Kotzebue, Candle and other Alas
ka gold mining camps.
Robinson sold out about a year
ago and went to Seattle to live. /
Robinson was born Feb 22,
1886, in Russia.
He was a member of the
Masons, Alaska Yukon Pioneer. ,
and B’nai B’rith.
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