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VOL. LV No, 111 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 19531 Per Copy—15^
Chamber Outlines
Local Problems
To Del. Bartlett
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce board meeting,
called for Wednesday evening by
President Dewey Goodrich to meet
with Alaska Development Board
members Don Goodman, Anchor
age, and W. Bates, Ketchikan, and
Alaska Delegate E. L. "Bob” Bart
lett, was postponed to Thursday
evening due to the late arrival of
Delegate Bartlett. Mr. Goodrich
invited members and other citi
zens of Nome interested in public
matters to attend.
A representative group of busi
ness men and women gathered in
Mr. Goodrich's apartment to pre
sent local and division problems
to the delegate.
Brought to Bartlett’s attention
and for general discussion were
such important matters as the mil
itary defenses of Nome and the
Second Division and the need for
roads.
Mentioned were a trunk high
way from Nome to Fairbanks and
feeder roads in the Nome area,
such as further construction and
completion of the road to the
Kougarok mining district and the
Teller road.
The construction of a road from
Unalakleet to Kaltag was also dis
cussed. Such a road would handle
freight out of Seattle; such freight
is now transported by the Alaska
Railroad, unloaded at Nenana and
transferred to river barges for
Holy Cross and other villages on
the Yukon. A Unalakleet-Kaltag
road would benefit the people of
Unalakleet and Kaltag instead of
Nenana and Seward receiving all
financial and other rewards for
handling freight paid for by peo
ple of the Second Division. Such
a road would greatly assist the
economy of the people of Unala
kleet.
Carl Glavinovich was appointed
to write a summary for Delegate
Bartlett on road development
achievements and projected im
provements in this area.
Delegate Bartlett stated he was
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Parts of Bodies Of
Two Women Found
In Ellis Hall Search
KETCHIKAN, UP—Parts of the
bodies of two women were found
Thursday by a shore party from
the Coast Guard Cutter Kimball
searching the beaches of Boca de
Quarda for Ellis Hall, missing
New Mexico oilman, and four
other plane crash victims.
A message from the Kimball said
the remains were those of Mrs.
Hall and one r f the two daughters
who were aboard the plane when
it disappeared a month ago.
Coast Guard officials here said
it appeared likely the bodies had
been broken up in a long fall or
from an explosion since the mes
sage said only parts were found.
Search has centered m the tidal
basin area 35 miles southeast of
Ketchikan since wreckage identi
fied as from Hall’s twin-engine
plane was found Tuesday.
Also with the Halls on the ill
fated flight was Patrick Hibben,
17, of Albuquerque.
The search group said it is as
sumed that the three women were
in the back of the plane and were
thrown out when it broke open.
If the theory is correct, and Hall
and Hibben were in the cockpit,
they may have gone into the
water with the main part of the
fuselage.
senator McCarthy
TO GET NEW BOSS
WASHINGTON, (£)— Sen. Mc
Carthy and Miss Jean Kerr, for
mer research assistant in his of
cie, are to be married.
Mrs. William P. Kerr, mother
of the bride-to-be, announced the
engagement Thursday. The wed
ding will be Sept. 29 in St. Mat
thews (Roman Catholic) Cathedral
here.
Miss Kerr, 29, was employed in
McCarthy’s office from 1948 until
1952.
A brunette, she was voted the
most beautiful girl at George
Washington University in 1945
while a student at that school.
“Col. Williams Day” Is New Venture
In Public Relations By People of Nome
The “Colonel Williams Day”<j
program as sponsored by the City I
of Nome assisted by the Chamber
of Commerce, an entirely new
venture in public relations on the
part of the people of Nome, to
make clear and understandable
their appreciation of the fine and
friendly cooperation on the part
of the commander of Nome Field,
1 Lt. Col. Harold I. Williams,
, U.S.A.F., with the city officials
and the people of Nome during
his tour of duty here.
The gratitude and sincere
friendliness of the officials and
citizens, is in part, expressed by
Mayor Andersen and the mem
bers of the City Council, in of
ficially proclaiming Wednesday,
, Sept. 23 as “Colonel Williams
% Day.”
Part of the day’s program will
include entertainment of the en
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listd personnel under Col. Wil
liams’ command. That portion of
the Army and Air Force personnel
not then engaged in assigned
duties, will be guests of the city
for a tour by bus through the
city and mining district.
The commanding general of
the Alaskan Command, Lt. Gen.
Joseph H. Atkinson, Maj. Gen.
W. M. Miley, U.S. Army; Maj.
Gen. George R. Acheson, U.S.A.F.;
Brig. Gen. Donald B. Smith,
U.S.A.F., have been invited by
Mayor Andersen to be in the city
and at .the banquet honoring Col.
Williams in the Bering Sea Club
at 7:30 Wednesday evening.
Col. Williams and military
guests will preceed the buses car
rying enlisted personnel into the
city. Superintendent Angell plans
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SOVIET “BOMB” ANNOUNCEMENT
BRINGS SWIFT U. S. REACTION
Claim Success of
“New Type”
Atomic Bombs
MOSCOW, Ufi—The Soviet gov
ernment today claimed successful
tests of “new type” atomic bombs
in recent weeks but said it still
wants an international ban on
destruction weapons.
The announcement by the So
viet news agency Tass said the
blasts occurred “in the last few
weeks” but gave no details of the
“new type” weapons tested.
(In Washington, a spokesman
for the U.S. Atomic Energy Com
mission said the Russian announ
cement “merely confirms” the
AEC’s statement Aug. 31 that a
fission — atomic — explosion of
about the same power as recent
U.S. tests in Nevada had taken
place Aug. 23 in Russia. The pre
vious statement added the explo
sion “would appear to be part
of a series.”
(The American spokesman em
phasized again that the Aug. 23
explosion was a “fission,” or at
omic, blast. Observers in Wash
ington concluded from this that
the Soviet explosion apparently
did not involve the thermonuclear
reactions of a hydrogen bomb.
(Moscow’s announcement stir
red speculation at United Nations
headquarters in New York that it
was timed to pave the way for
new Soviet disarmament propos
als to the U.N. Assembly, which
has just opened its eighth annual
session in New York).
The Soviet statement said that
although the Soviet Union “is able
to give attention to the produc
tion of atomic bombs,” it would
pursue a policy of attempting to
reach agreement with other na
tions on arms cuts and the pro
hibition of mass destruction wea
pons under strict international
control.
U.S. Tags 193 Cities
Probable Targets
Of Atomic Attack
WASHINGTON, OP — In the
wake of Russia’s H-bomb announ
cement, the United States govern
ment has tagged 193 American
cities as probable targets of at
omic attack—70 of them as “criti
cal.”
But the list “does not purport
to include all possible targets,”
the Federal Civil Defense Admin
istration said in issuing it last
night.
“For security reasons,” it added
“certain targets that have nation
al or military significance, in
cluding the atomic energy instal
lations, have not been lisled.”
It was the first disclosure of
areas officially designated as pro
bable A-bomb targets.
The only Alaska city listed was
Juneau.
(Other potential targets in the
Territory presumably were omit
ted on the ground that they were
of a military nature).
Issuance of the new list came
six weeks after Russia claimed
mastery of the dread hydrogen
bomb and two days after muni
cipal legal officers reported some
cities are thinking about aban
doning civil defense programs
unless more federal aid is forth
coming.
All state capitals are named, but
not as critical targets unless in
dustrially important. Other cities
having 50,000 population or more
are classed in the non - critical
group.
The 70 critical targets, embrac
ing a population of 67,750,982 are
population centers having at least
40,000 manufacturing workers and
at least one city with a popula
tion of 50,000. Washington, D.C.,
was included because it is the
nation’s capital.
B-36s Try Out Base
At Thule, 1,700
Miles From Russia
THULE AIR FORCE BASE,
Greenland, U)—B-36 bombers of
the United States Air Force al
ready are beginning to try out
this new air base at the top of
the world as a springboard for
strikes at Eurasia should Russia
turn to war.
A half dozen of the far-ranging
B-36s have come in here during
recent months, it now may be dis
closed, from their home bases
3,000 miles away in the United
States.
Here at this northern tip of
Greenland is the northernmost of
the chain of bases operated by the
Northeast Air Command.
And only 1,700 miles away on
a direct line, describing an arc
over the polar ice, is the coast
line of the Russian mainland with
munitions-making cities and the
capital lying a.,few hours beyond.
But this powerful air base in
the ice and rocks of the Arctic is
much more than a springboard
for the 12,000-mile B-36s.
It brings Russia in a retalia
tory bombing war within range
of the swift-flying B-47 jet bomb
ers or the older piston-engined
B-29s and B-50s.
All three types of the medium
bombers have operated into and
out of Thule either in routine
training operations or experi
mentally.
Thule and the bases south of
here in Greenland and Laborador
also exist as a system of warning
for and interception of a sudden
strike by Red long range bombers.
At Thule is based the 318th
Fighter - Interceptor Squadron of
F-94 jets.
Reporters who arrived at
Thule this time after a visit a
year ago found all but some minor
construction is completed.
Reds Claim Only POWs
They Now Hold Are Those
Refusing Repatriation
MiUNSAN, Iff) — A Red corres
pondent said Friday the only Al
lied war prisoners still in Red
hands are* “the handful which
won’t go back.” The Communists
said later 10 or more of those
have changed their minds and
will be returned Saturday.
The Communists have said pre
viously they were holding about
300 South Koreans and about 20
non-Koreans who had refused to
return home. Some Americans
were believed to be among the
score of non-Koreans.
The Reds have given no official
answer to an Allied demand for
an accounting of what happened
to about 3,400 Allied troops —
more than 90 of them Americans
—whom the U.N. says were once
konwn to be captives.
Communist correspondent Wil
fred Burchett of the Paris L’Hu
manite told newsmen at Panmun
jom the Reds are checking the list
carefully.
8-Year-Old Siamese Twins
Separated Successfully By
Team of Eight Surgeons
NEW ORLEANS, tff)—A team of
eight surgeons separated Louisi
ana’s Siamese twins Thursday
after operating two hours.
The surgeons separated the low
er intestinal tract that the eight
year-old girls shared after divid
ing a fused vertebra that also
joined them.
“The condition of the twins is
very satisfactory” following the
separation, a staff surgeon re
ported and expressed hope that
both girls would survive.
The surgeons split into two
teams of four each to finish the
work on each girl individually.
If both girls survive, the sur
geons believe they will have writ
ten a new page in medical history.
A spokesman at New Orleans
Foundation Hospital said that
never before have both twins sur
vived such an operation.
The girls are the daughters of
Mayor and Mrs. Ashton J. Mouton
of Lafayette.
Fire Destroys Wrangell Building
WRANGELL, Iff)—Fire destroy
ed the Nolan building here Thurs
day night with a loss estimated at
$100,000.
The building, owned by Terri
torial Senator James D. Nolan,
housed Wrangell’s only drug store,
a candy shop and four apart
ments.
Nolan, who estimated the loss,
said the building was only par
tially insured.
PROCLAMATION
I. Steffen Andersen, Mayor
of the City of Nome, Alaska, do
proclaim September 23, 1953, as
Colonel Williams Day, in appre
ciation of the fine cooperation
with the community offered by
Colonel Harold I. Williams,
commanding officer of Nome
Field, during his tour of duty.
Fitting observance of the day
shall be made to show the grati
tude of the citizens of Nome to
Colonel Williams and the mili
tary personnel.
Steffen Andersen,
Mayor of Nome