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Adm. Carney Says We Should Not
Plan on Atomic War Being Short
KANSAS CITY, UD—Adm. Rpb-*
ert B. Carney, chief of naval oper-!
ations, said today he does not
subscribe to the belief that in
event of an atomic war “it would
be all over in a few minutes.”
In an address prepared for the
Armed Forces Council here, Car
ney declared:
“I do not believe this is true no
matter how terrible the destruc
tion might be. I say this because
I do not believe that tough people,
on either side, are likely to give
up as long as they have anything
left to fight with. For that reason
the possibility of a dragged out
conflict must be reckoned with.
“Consequently, I believe we
must not let the initial phases of
an atomic struggle becloud our
thinking. Our plans must go be
yond an atomic cataclysm with
the strongest sense of emphasis
and determination that even un
der those unthinkable conditions,
free men still will fight to keep
friendly territory and the seas
from falling into the hands of an
enemy.”
Carney stressed that it is the
Navy’s mission to keep open the
sea lanes to U.S. allies and to
American forces abroad. He said
“nearly 25 percent of our Army
ground strength is deployed in
Europe” and the Air Force has
forces from Greenland to North
Africa. If the Atlantic sea chain
ever was broken, Carney added,
“NATO and the security of the
Western Hemisphere would be
gravely imperiled.”
SIG SUNDT, STEWARD
OF NORTH STAR FOR
23 YEARS, RETIRES
SEATTLE, UR—'When the North
Star leaves here today on her first
trip of the year to Alaska, things
won’t be the same.
Sig Sundt won’t be aboard.
The first North Star went into
service in 1932; the present North
Star has been in service since
1950. And neither one has made a
voyage without Sundt along as
chief steward.
Sundt has accompanied the
North Stars on 63 voyages to Al
aska and is known to the natives
of virtually every coastal city and
village in the territory, from
southeastern Alaska to Barrow.
He was also along when the
first North Star made two voyages
to the other end of the world, on
Antarctic expeditions in 1939 and
1941.
. But Sundt stepped out of gov
ernment employ and severed his
connection with the North Star
and the Alaska Native Service at
a retirement party in his honor at
the Steward Hotel here Saturday.
About 100 of Sundt’s friends
were present.
V. R. Farrell, head of the Alas
ka Native Service in Seattle, read
a letter of commendation from
Douglas McKay, secretary of the
interior, praising £undt as “al
ways a cheerful, patient and loyal
employe.” The letter accompanied
a silver medal from the depart
ment.
Women’s Federation
Favors Statehood
CHICAGO, UO—The Illinois
Federation of Business and Pro
fessional Women’s Clubs went on
record Saturday in favor of state
hood for Alaska and Hawaii.
A resolution said both territor
ies “have proven their ability to
assume” the status of states.
12 Naval Bombers
To Make World-Circling
Mobility Test Flight
NAHA, Okinawa, UP>—A self
sustaining flight girdling most of
the globe will begin here tomor
row for 12 long-range U.S. Naval
bombers.
Rear Adm. R. N. Kivette, com
mander of the U. S. Formosa
Patrol Force, said he was sending
Navy Patrol Squadron One on the
16,000-mile hop.
Carrying their own spare parts
and repair crews, the twin engine
Neptunes will fly via the Atlantic
to their home base at Whidbey
Island, Wash., Naval Air Station.
They expect to arrive May 5.
Stops enroute will include
Sangley Point in the Philippines,
Singapore, Ceylon, Naples, Port
Lyautey, the Azores, and quonset
points in Rhode Island and Hitch
inson Point Kansas.
“Patrol Squadron One will be
the first Navy patrol squadron to
complete a flight around the
world,” Kivette told reporters. He
added it is a “routine redeploy
ment” to test the unit’s mobility.
Two Boys Found Dead
In Abandoned Icebox
LOS ANGELES, l^—Two small
boys were found dead in an aban
doned ice box Friday night.
A search of several hours ended
when the bodies of Albert Are
balo, 8, and his small companion,
David Anthony Fennessy, 2, were
found by sheriff’s deputies. *
The old ice box was stored in a
tumble down chicken shed not
far from the boys’ homes. The
youngsters were found crouched
inside the box.
Man’s Body Recovered
KETCHIKAN, (JV-The body of
James Powers, 35, was recovered
from the bay here Saturday. Pow
ers disappeared almost two
months ago from a fishing boat
moored to a float. Survivors in
clude his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Sr., at Fall River, Mass.
Guardsmen Plan
First Peacetime '
Nationwide Alert
WASHINGTON, —A t any
hour during the next few days
the modern Minute Men of Massa
chusetts will hasten to Lexington
and Concord, as their ancestors
did nearly two centuries ago.
At the same time other National
Guardsmen will take their posts
throughout the country in the
organization’s first peacetime na
tionwide test alert.
The National Guard Bureau in
Washington said today all is ready
for the simulated emergency test
which will send more than 350,
000 Guardsmen to the duty posts.
The exact time and day of the
big experiment is being kept a
secret until the last minute, ex
cept to the adjutants general in
the various states, the District Of
Columbia and Alaska.
Although the alert itself will
last for only a few hours, Guard
units will continue training exer
cises for the remainder of the day.
In Alaska, two infantry battal
ions and the Territorial Air Guard
unit will move to their danger
stations.
Three Barrow Eskimos
Die, 10 Very 111 From
Drinking Wood Alcohol
FAIRBANKS, Three Eski
mos died yesterday and 10 others
are desperately ill at Point Bar
row after drinking wood alcohol
believed obtained from a con
struction project near the village.
Death of the trio was reported
by Forrest Soloman, Wien Alaska
Airlines agent, who said desperate
efforts are being made by Dr.
Edwin Draft to keep the men
awake.
Ladd Air Force Base officials
here have sent Maj. Robert Mor
gan, a doctor, with a medical
technician and supplies to aid the
stricken villagers.
Some of the 13 men first were
noted in a state of intoxication
Thursday, Soloman said in a radio
message to Fairbanks. By night
fall, all 13 had been picked up and
taken to a hospital.
Soloman said the dead were
Perry Tikluk, Chester Tingofak,
and Harry Panikuk.
Truman Testifies—
Threats to Peace
Should Be Taken to
General Assembly
WASHINGTON, lift—F o r m e r
President Truman said today
“current threats to world peace”
should be taken before the United
Nations General Assembly.
Truman appeared as a witness
before a Senate foreign relations
subcommittee which is consider
ing possible recommendations for
revisions of the U.N. Charter.
“Wherever we can, we should
use it <the U.N.),” Truman said.
Truman did not mention For
mosa or Red China. But his testi
mony carried the strong implica
tion he felt the United States
should air the Formosa question
before the U.N. General Assem
bly.
The Eisenhower Administration
has sought to arrange a cease-fire
in the Formosa area through the
U.N. The move collapsed when
Red China rejected a U.N. invita
tion to discuss the possibility.
The question of revising the
U.N. Charter is to come up auto
matically in the U.N. this year,
the 10th aniversary of its estab
lishment in 1945.
The Senate committee can only
make recommendations which it
would want the administration to
support in the U.N. itself. Before
formulating them, it is getting the
views of prominent citizens.
Herbert Hoover is to testify on
Thursday, and Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who has represented
this country at some U.N. sessions,
on Friday.
S^-Foot Snake Is
Stowaway on Plane
JACKSON, Tenn., (#)—Just as
Lt. Harry Scott of Jackson had
climbed to 1,500 feet in a National
Guard plane for a 500-mile cross
country flight, a snake stuck its
head out of the instrument panel.
“I didn’t ask his pedigree,” said
Scott. “At 1,500 feet snakes are
snakes to me.”
Scott and his companion, Sgt.
Bedford Lasley, were back on the
ground five minutes after takeoff.
Guardsmen had to take the in
strument panel out to remove the
snake, a 42-inch chicken snake.
They killed it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN DIES
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Airpower Buildup
Opposite F ormosa
AUGUSTA, Ga., MV—President
Eisenhower has received intelli
gence information that the Chi
nese Communists are engaged in
“an extensive buildup” of Red
airpower opposite Formosa, which
the U.S. is committed to defend.
Announcing this at Augusta
yesterday after a conference with
the President, Secretary of State
Dulles told newsmen the buildup
“has grave implications.” He de
scribed it as:
1. “More intense and more
broad in its scope” than the- Uni
ted States had been aware of until
a few days ago.
2. A buildup which “indicates a
higher degree of capability” on
the part of the Communists to
launch an attack “than we had
been aware of a few weeks ago.”
Fred Estaugh, Juneau,
Elected President of
Alaska Chamber
JUNEAU, (tf>—The new presi
dent of the Alaska Chamber of
Commerce is Juneau Atty. Fred
Eastaugh and the new secretary
treasurer is Joseph McLean, also
a Juneau attorney.
The two were elected at the an
nual convention in Juneau Satur
day. Eastaugh replaces Tormod
Bie of Seward and McLean suc
ceeds George Sharock of Anchor
age. George Jackson, Anchorage,
was named first vice president
and Jerry Nerland of Fairbanks
second vice president.
Speakers at the final session in
cluded Dr. William A. Keller of
the University of Alaska Educa
tion Dept, and Robert Woodcock
of the Stanford Research Insti
tute in Portland, Ore.
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Hungarian Reds
Reveal Purge of
Premier Nagy
BUDAPEST, Hungary, UP)—Hun
gary’s Communist Party made
public today its long-expected
purge of Premier Imre Nagy.
Former Deputy Premier Andras
Hegedus was elected' to Succeed
him as head of the government.
The Hungarian Parliament to
day elected Hegedus in a session
shortly after a party announce
ment said Nagy had been fired
and stripped of all party posts for
causing “grave damage to the
party, to the people’s democracy
and to our social building.”
Nagy was not present at the
Parliament session.
Joseph Mekis, president of the
Hungarian Trade Union Council,
was elected deputy premier to
succeed Hegedus.
The new premier, now 40, was
named agricultural minister and
one of two first deputy premiers
when Nagy replaced Party Chief
Matyas Rakosi as Premier in 1953.
Hegedus was released from the
agriculture post last year but con
tinued a deputy premier.
The brief party announcement
also said Mihaly Farkas had been
ousted from the party’s five-man
secretariat for supporting Nagy’s
ideas and expelled from the par
ty’s Political Committee and cen
tral leadership (the Central Com
mittee.
Scientist’s Work Was
Basis for Electronic
Industry and A-Bomb
PRINCETON, N.J., UP—Albert
Einstein, who became internation
ally famous at 26 for his theory of
relativity, died today after a four
day illness.
The 76-year-old world-acclaimed
scientist died at Princeton Hospi
tal at 1:15 a.m. of inflammation
of the gall bladder. A man who
shunned publicity, he had entered
the hospital Friday with only his
intimates knowing he was ill.
The shy, white-haired scholar
was credited with making possi
ble the atomic bomb by disclosing
a small quantity of matter could
produce vast amounts of energy.
Einstein stood as probably the
foremost theoretical mathemati
cian and physicist in the world.
As recently as 1950, he pub
lished a monumental mathemati
cal treatise, the Unified Field
Theory. This was hailed as a dar
ing type of mathematics which
sought to describe the forces of
the universe in a set of equations.
At the time of his death, Ein
stein was a professor emeritus at
the Institute for Advanced Study,
comprised of world-famous schol
ars and headed by Dr. Robert
Oppenheimer.
During his late years, he was
1 outspoken in many causes far re
' moved from the realm of theoreti
I cal physics.
On several occasions he advised
witnesses called before congres
sional subversive investigations
committees that they had a duty
to refuse to answer questions.
Einstein asked the President
for commutation of the death sen
tence of Julius and Ethel Rosen -
gerg, who were executed as atom
spies. He said he had to take the
stands because of “my passionate
sense eof social justice and social'
responsibilities.”
Einstein was born in Ulm, Ger
many in 1879 of middle class
Jewish parents. He came to the
United States in 1933 as a volun
tary exile from Germany, where
the Nazis listed him as “an enemy
of the state.”
Though few people understood
Einstein’s complex theories, his
work is one of the important bases
of today’s electronic and television
industries, and the great indus
trial developments which rely
partly on the laws of atomic mass
and energy.
He received the Nobel Prize in
physics in 1921 and the world
heaped honors and adulation
upon the modest scientist, who
pleaded:
“Let every man be respected as
an individual and no man idolized.
It is an irony of fate that I myself
have been the recipient of exces
sive admiration and respect from
my fellows through no fault of
my own.”
U.S. Coast Pilot 9 Gives
Data on Alaska Coasts
SEATTLE (51—A new edition of
United States Coast Pilot 9, giving
navigational information concern
ing the Alaska coast from Cape
Spencer to the Arctic Ocean, has
been published, the Coast and
Geodetic Survey said Saturday.
The new edition replaces one
issued in 1937. The title of Coast
Pilot 9 is also new: the old book
was titled “Alaska—Part II.”
A new feature in the book is
detailed information on ice break
up and freezeup for the various
ports in western Alaska.