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VOL. LVI No. 135 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Harold Salisbury
Wins Award For
Best Alaska Poetry
The Alaska chapter of the Lea
gue of Western Writers have an
nounced that Harold Salisbury of
Nome is the winner of an award
for the best poetry written this
year in Alaska.
The league recently held a con
ference in Anchorage. The poem
he submitted is “Crossin’ Icy
Strait” and will appear in his
collection of Alaskan poems
which is currently being pub
lished and will be available early
in December.
The poems are outstanding and
rich with descriptions of the
beauties, adventures and wonders
of Alaska.
The versatile poet is also an
artist and has been generous with
unusual and original illustrations
which will make it a treasured
gift item for Christmas.
Salisbury is also a talented
singer and has a well-trained
bass voice. He is well known here
and in Juneau.
Los Angeles Host To
Prime Ministers of Three
Scandinavian Countries
LOS ANGELES, UPI—Scandin
avian travelers who participated
in establishment of one-day ser
vice between Southern California
and Denmark prepared today for
three days of civic hospitality.
The Scandinavian Airlines Sys
tem plane, Helge Viking, brought
Prince Axel of Denmark, prime
ministers Hans Hedtoft, Oscar
Torp and Tage Erlander of Den
mark, Norway and Sweden, res
pectively, and newsmen from
Copenhagen to Los Angeles in 27
hours, 10 minutes, arriving yes
terday afternoon.
A sister ship, the Royal Viking,
carried Lt. Gov. Harold J. Powers
of California, Mayor Norris Poul
son of Los Angeles, actors Jean
Hersholt and Walter Pidgeon and
newsmen from Los Angeles to
Copenhagen in 23 hours, 56 min
utes, landing early yesterday.
Prince Axel commented on ar
rival that within six months the
flights “will become a much
needed routine service.”
Novelist Edna Ferber
In Alaska On Visit
' FAIRBANKS, UP)—Edna Ferber,
the well known novelist, is visit
ing in Alaska this week.
She said she flew up from
Seattle for a quick look to satisfy
an old desire.
Unlike most visitors to the
north, she explained: “I didn’t
want to visit Alaska in the sum
mer but in winter when it would
be more like Alaska.”
Miss Ferber is from New York.
Wholesale Food Prices Index
Climbs For 4ih Straight Week
NEW YORK, UPI — Wholesale
food prices as measured by the
Dun & Bradstreet index climbed
this week for the fourth week in
a row.
The index registered $6.88, up
from $6.80 a week ago and $6.51
in the same week last year.
Goodrich Considers
All-Alaska Chamber
Meeting Most Successful
Dewey Goodrich, vice president
of the All-Alaska Chamber of
Commerce, returned yesterday
from Anchorage, where he attend
ed the annual meeting.
He states that he considered it
the most successful meeting the
organization has ever had and the
best attended, with possibly 500
participating and all chambers in
the territory except Ketchikan
represented as well as Stateside
representation.
Excellent speakers provided an
unusually fine program.
Most interesting to Goodrich
were the discussions on transpor
tation and resources.
He states that the possibilities
of sea-trains to Alaska were pre
sented and definite fact-finding
will be announced within the
week.
In regard to resources he re
ports many developments, out
standing being the great impor
tance put on hydro-electric poten
tial throughout the territory. This
potential, according to the speak
ers, can produce cheaper power
for Alaska than can that of any
of the States.
Another phase of resources of
high importance was the fact,
brought out by Stretton of Stan
dard Oil Co., that seven major oil
companies are now drilling for
oil and it is certain that they
would not be doing this unless
they were pretty certain the oil
is in the territory in abundance.
Seattle C of C Official
Says Alaska Should Get
Cut of N.W. Tourist Biz
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Alaska
should “cut in” on some of the
Pacific Northwest’s tourist busi
ness, Stanley E. Stretton, presi
dent of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, said yesterday.
Washington State had a 150
million dollar income from tour
ists last year, he told the Fair
banks Chamber of Comemrce, and
added:
“Alaska should share in that.
It should have a program to at
tract some of the many who at
tend conventions in the North
west each year.”
The Seattle businessman also
said interest in the Alaska High
way was growing constantly and
that many in the military service
who have traveled the road have
become emissaries for the terri
tory.
“At all the All-Alaska Chamber
of Commerce sessions last week
there were discussions of oil,
mining, pulp mills and industrial
developments — all big business
ventures, involving large invest
ments,” he continued.
“But you also have a tourist
industry that can be developed
with comparatively small cost and
investment of energy.”
REAL LIFE ROLE
HONG KONG, UP) — Fifty-one
Russian refugees from Red China
have been hired here to appear
in a movie starring Clark Gable.
Their parts — Russian refugees
from Red China. ’ _
News-Miner Cited
By AP Editors For
Story Coverage
TAMPA, Fla., UP) — The Fair
banks News-Miner won a cita
tion from the Associated Press
Managing Editors' Assn, today for
outstanding coverage of a Mt. Mc
Kinley climbing accident and res
cue efforts.
The citation from the nation
wide group of newspaper editors
was based on the News-Miner’s
exceptional coverage of a four
man expedition’s mishap on the
20.300-foot Alaska mountain last
May. One climber, injured in a
fall that killed a companion, was
rescued after spending eight day£
alone in a tent 14,000 feet up
the mountain.
The AP Editors’ citation com
mended the News - Miner “for
editor Jack Ryan’s swift relay to
the AP of reporter-photographer
James Douthit's vivid description
of the rescue operations.” It
added this resulted in “sharing
with AP members an interesting
and exclusive account.”
The stories of the thrilling res
cue, fast, accurate and complete
despite difficult communications,
were published throughout the
country.
Eisenhower Tells Leaders
Of Both Parties Bipartisan
Approach Is Essential
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today told Democratic
and Republican congressional
leaders it is “essential to have a
continuing bipartisan approach to
foreign affairs and national secur
ity matters.”
Meeting with Democratic chiefs
of the incoming 8^th Congress for
the first time since the election,
the President declared such an
approach is necessary ‘in the best
interest of our nation, regardless
of which political party controls
the Congress.”
The views Eisenhower express
ed to the leaders of both parties
were outlined to newsmen by
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, after a two hour
and 15 minute conference.
Earlier Sen. Wiley (R-Wis), now
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, had report
ed the President promised “abso
lute cooperation and collabora
tion” with the Democrats. Wiley
left the meeting early.
10,000-Ton Coastwise Line
Freighter Returns To
Seattle After Grounding
SEATTLE, UP) — The Alaska
bound freighter North Beacon
limped into Seattle late yester
day after three hours aground on
an island near Victoria, B. C.,
early in the day.
The 10,000-ton Coastwise Line
vessel suffered some hull damage
but no damage to cargo, an of
ficial reported.
The North Beacon, bound from
Portland to Seward, ran into
heavy weather in the Strait of
Juan de Fuca and called for
assistance at 6 a.m. Tuesday after
going ashore. Tugs pulled her
free and she proceeded here.
U. S. Warns Russia To Take Steps
Prevent Further Aerial Incidents
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Compromise of McCarthy
Censure “Torpedoed” By
Move For New Charge
WASHINGTON, UR—Sen. Mon
roney (D-Okla) said today that
chances for a compromise of the
McCarthy censure resolution were
“torpedoed” by the new move to
charge Sen. McCarthy with con
tinuing contempt of the Senate in
current debate.
Monroney said the speech yes
terday by Sen. Watkins, Utah Re
publican who headed the special
six-man censure committee, had
a “terrific impact” on the Senate.
Watkins told the Senate Mc
Carthy had been contemptuous
“under our very noses” in de
scribing the committee as the “un
witting handmaiden” of the Com
munists. He called for a new cen
sure count. Sen. Bennett iR-Utah)
announced he would offer one
later.
Senators who have been angl
ing for a compromise recognized
the day’s development as a set
back but were not giving up hope.
Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill), a McCar
thy supporter and a leading force
in the compromise efforts, said
“You never can tell until you
try.”
Lionel Barrymore’s Body
Will Be Interred Next To
Wife and Brother John
HOLLYWOOD, (/PI — The body
of Lionel Barrymore will be
placed in a crypt next to those of
his wife and brother John follow
ing Roman Catholic funeral ser
vices Thursday.
A requiem mass will be said at
10 a.m. in the tiny chapel of Cal
vary Cemetery for the patriarch
of the American stage and
screen’s “Royal Family.”
The 76-year-old actor died Mon
day of heart congestion.
Honorary pallbearers will in
clude Eddie (Rochester) Ander
son, Lew Ayres, Francis X. Bush
man, author Gene Fowler, Bob
Hope, L. B. Meyer, Mickey Roon
ey, Dore Schary, Robert Taylor,
Spencer Tracy, Darryl Zanuck,
and director Frank Capra.
Alaska Legislative Council
Recommends Creation Of
Full-Time Budget Post
JUNEAU, (/PI — Alaska’s Legis
lative Council has recommended
creation of a full - time post of
budget director for the territory.
Other proposals, all of which
are expected to come before the
1955 legislature in bill form, in
clude:
A centra'l purchasing and ac
counting system; continuous post
auditing of the territory’s busi
ness under a system which would
give a full picture of what the
exact- financial situation is at all
times; fixing of July 1 as the
start of the territory’s fiscal and
appropriations year, to conform
with the federal operations.
The latter move would mean
the 1955 legislature would have
1$; mat appropriations for 27
months instead of the present 24.
MOSCOW, IP) — The United
States warned Russia today it
will be forced to act to protect
its planes on legitimate missions
unless the Russians take steps to
prevent further aerial incidents
between the two nations.
A note delivered by the U. S.
embassy to the Soviet foreign
ministry asked the Soviet Union
to clamp down on such cases as
the destruction of a U.S. RB-29
photo-mapping bomber by Soviet
jet fighters Nov. 7.
Referring to that incident,
which Moscow has blamed on
the Americans, the note said:
“Such actions are in flagrant con
tradictions to recent statements
by high Soviet officials that the
Soviet Union seeks to abate inter
national tension.”
(The use of Sabrejet fighter es
corts, which proved more than a
match for Russia’s Migs in Korea,
is one of the means which has
been debated in Washington for
the protection of reconnaissance
and transport planes assigned to
work anywhere near the Red
orbit i.
The new note rejected the So
viet version that the American
plane intruded into Soviet air
space and repeated the American
version.
“The United States govern
ment,” the note said, “further
shares the concern of the Japa
nese government that the Soviet
government not only continues il
legally to occupy Japanese terri
tory in the Habonai Islands, but
also carries out unprovoked at
tacks on U.S. aircraft legally op
erating in this region.”
The American note, unusually
mild in tone, concluded that: “The
United States government re
asserts and reserves its rights re
garding reparation for human and
material losses” incurred in the
Nov. 7 incident.
Hoppy Has Narrow Squeak
With Aussie Boomerang
ADELAIDE, Australia, IP) —
Hopalong Cassidy—actor William
Boyd—almost came to the end of
the long, long trail at Adelaide’s
Norwood Oval last night.
The idol of American young
sters stepped forward on the stage
in the center of the arena to speak
to the crowd during an exhibition,
of boomerang throwing.
At that moment the wind
caught the fast-traveling missile,
dipping it under the awning of
the stage. Hoppy heard the whis
tling, ducked quickly, and the
boomerang missed his head by
inches. It came within three feet
of his wife.
The boomerang later was pre
sented to Hoppy.
Seward Big Game Guide Dies
SEATTLE, (PI — Jack Penning
ton, 48, former big game guide
at Seward, died here Monday.
Born in Texas, he lived in
Seattle many years before going
to Seward in 1945. He returned
to Seattle last January.
His widow, Margaret, and a
daughter survive.