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VOL. LVIII No. 59 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956 Per Copy—15*
Shishmaref Woman With
42 Grandchildren Wins
Prizes in Anchorage
Mrs. Dolly Komakhuk of Shish
maref who went to Anchorage
last week, won crystal ware,
boxed chocolates, a photograph,
and an oak keg planter filled with
plants from Carr’s Food Center
for being the mother with the
most grandchildren in a Mothers
Day contest.
Originally from Nome, Mrs. Ko
makhuk has 42 grandchildren and
32 great-grandchildren.
Three girls, 15 years old, tied
for the award for the youngest
mother, said Edward Wolden,
manager.
CAB Grants Munz
Temporary Authority
To Operate Airline
WASHINGTON, OP)—The Civil
Aeronautics Board granted Wil
liam S. Munz of Nome, Alaska,
temporary authority yesterday to
operate the airline puchased from
him late in 1954 by Howard J.
Mays.
The authority will continue un
til the CAB acts on Munz’s May 9
application for approval of re- ,
purchase of the airline from Mays, i
The CAB in December 1954,
approved the transfer of the cer
tificate of Munz Airways to Mays.
It provided for a nonscheduled
servide between all points on the
Seward Peninsula, and for sched
uled routes between Nome and
Taylor, Alaska, and between Tay
lor and Kotzebue by way of Can
die and Deering, Alaska.
Munz notified the CAB May 1
that Mays had left his business
and had assigned all his interests
to Munz.
Sen. Frank Barr Moves
To Portland, Will Keep
Seat in Alaska Senate
Territorial Senator Frank Barr
and his wife and two children,
Lynn, 7, and Sharon, 12, will leave
Fairbanks Sunday to make their
home in Portland, Ore., after sell
ing their home.
Barr has purchased the Fir
Grove Trailer Park at the edge of
the Oregon city. He is on a leave
of absence from Alaska Airlines,
an organisation he has been asso- |
ciated with for the past 10 years.
as a bush pilot.
Bai r does not intend to resign
his seat in the Territorial Senate
and will vote in Alaska next fall,
he said this week.
Two Moose Trapped On
Ice Float 1,000 Miles
Down Yukon River
ANCHORAGE, (A*>—An amateur
radio operator at Kaltag reported
to Civil Defense headquarters
here yesterday that two moose
caught on the ice of the Yukon
when it broke up have traveled
more than a thousand miles on
the floe.
The Kaltag operator said the
moose were caught on the floe
• at Holy Cross and cruised down
the river all afternoon. When last
seen the two moose were 1,000
miles downstream, still watching
lor a chance to escape their float
ing jail.
Adlai and Estes
Face Test Today in
Oregon Primary
Oregon Democrats voted to
day on whether they prefer Adlai
Stevenson or Sen. Estes Kefauver
as their party’s presidential can
didate.
Neither man’s name was on t'he
ballot in the Oregon primary, but
both have campaigned hard for
write-in votes. The one who gets
the most write-ins also will get
Oregon’s 16 delegate votes at the
Democratic nominating conven
tion. Party cross-overs by voters
is not permitted.
Stevenson said yesterday he
feels “very much better about my
prospects in Oregon now and (I)
expect to win in tomorrow’s write
in primary.”
Kefauver was somewhat more
cautious, saying, “I think our
showing will be very good.
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
ifork, sounding more and more
ike a man about to become an
ictive candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination,
*aid in Salt Lake City yesterday
le is “gratified by the support
shown me here in Utah and in
>ther western states.”
S l>l Arrests tour
In Theft <if Secret
Government Paper
NEWARK, N.J. UP)—Three busi
nessmen and an Air Force ser
geant were arrested by the FBI
yesterday in the theft of a secret
government document—but a de
fense lawyer said today it was far
from a spy case.
The FBI, in announcing the ar
rests, gave the case an aura of
mystery by refusing to describe
the document or tell what degree
of classification it bore.
The FBI charged the sergeant
with stealing the document and
the other three with conspiracy.
All were released under bond.
But early today, U.S. Commis
sioner Thomas W. Clohosey, who
arraigned one of the businessmen,
said he thought the document was
“a classified list of Army or Air
Force personnel.”
Later, William Furst, attorney
representing the two owners of a
uniform and emblem firm, ex
pressed the same view, saying
such a list could be used for direct
mail solicitation by the firm.
“Apparently they obtained mail
ing lists of military personnel so
they could be solicited for uni
forms,” Furst said. “This has been
blown up fantastically into an
apparent case of espionage when
nothing could be further from the
truth."
Sgt. Harold E. Brill, 28, was ar
rested at the Manhattan Air Force
Base, Brooklyn, and charged with
the actual theft of the document,
which the FBI said has been re
covered. It was taken from the
Brooklyn terminal, the FBI said.
Brill, married and the father of
1 child, was released in $500 bail.
Two of the businessmen—Sid
ney M. Stern, 38, and Seymore
Hindman, 39, both of East Orange
—own the Distinctive Emblem and
Uniform Corp. there.
Josephine Murray and
Grandson, David Lee,
Drowned At Solomon
Word has been received from
Solomon that Josephine Murray,
an Eskimo woman and her grand
son, David Lee, were drowned in
Solomon river.
The bodies have not yet been
recovered according to the report.
Two daughters, Betty and Kath- I
leen Murray, arrived from An
chorage today with their uncle,
Andrew Kalarak.
Three small children are left
motherless at Solomon, Helen,
aged 9, James 7, and Mabel 5.
The father, James Murray, is
serving a sentence at the McNeil
Island Penitentiary.
The deceased also leaves a bro
ther, John Kalarak of Seattle.
‘Happy’ Marriage of
Movie Star Jeanne Crain !
Goes On The Rocks
LOS ANGELES, UP — Jeanne
Crain accuses her husband, Paul
Brinkman, of beating her uncon
scious, ripping off her clothes and
threatening to disfigure her so
that “she would never work again
arid no man would ever look at
her again.”
On another occasion, the film
star alleges in an amended div
arce complaint filed Wednesday,
“be grabbed her hair and beat
her head against the bed until she
agreed to submit to him.”
The complaint pictured the 10
year marriage, long regarded as
one of the movie colony's hap
piest, as one of its most hectic.
The glamorous, 30-year-old act
ress accused the 37-year-old for
mer actor and radio manufacturer
of:
Engaging in “relationship”
with other women and of merely
taking pity on himself after a
magazine article accused him of
an affair with another girl.
CANCER FUND DRIVE
NETS $676 IN NOME
Mrs. Verna von der Heydt,
chairman of the American Cancer
Society fund drive in Nome re
cently, announced today that the
collections amounted to $676.32.
This amount included $<34 realized
from the style show at the
Theater sponsored by L. Virginia
Brown.
Mrs. von der Heydt expressed
her appreciation to everyone who
contributed in any way to the
fund drive.
Three Japanese Fishing
Boats Missing Near
Russia in Two Days
KUSHIRO, Hokkaido Island,
Japan, UP)—'The 18-ton Mari Maru
No. 1, a crab fishing boat, is miss
ing and presumed seized by So
viet authorities, Kyodo News Ser
vice reported yesterday.
The Maru had a four-man crew
and has been missing since Tues
day. She was fishing about 12
miles northeast of Russian-occu
pied Shikotan Island. It is the
third Japanese vessel missing near
Russian territory in two days.
Government officials in Tokyo
held an emergency meeting to
discuss the incidents.
Russia Faces Manpower Shortage,
(-alls on Youth to Maintain Quotas
Eisenhowers Honored by
Women's Press Club
By the Assoc tated Press
WASHINGTON, Iff)—President
and Mrs. Eisenhower were honor
guests last night at a Women’s
National Press Club dinner here.
The President watched, with
obvious enjoyment, a performance
lampooning both the Republicans
and the Democrats.
Eisenhower Calls
Experts to Study
New Soviet Move
WASHINGTON, Iff!—President
Eisenhower has appointed an
eight-member task force to study
the implications of Russia’s an
nounced military manpower cut
back. ,
Harold Stassen, the President’s
special assistant on disarmament,
told a news conference today that
the group will assemble in Wash
ington May 29.
Stassen said the group, includ
ing military, nuclear and econom
ic experts, would also review
Stassen’s seven weeks of disarma
ment negotiations with Russia and j
other countries at London recent
ly, “including my talks with Bul
ganin and Khrushchev.’’
Presumably, the group would
also plan any move the United
States might make in response to
the Soviet announcement that, by
next May 1, the Soviet military
forces will be reduced by 1,200,
000 men.
The eight task force members,
who will have aides working with
them, and the special subjects of
each are:
Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, nucle
ar; Gen. James H. Doolittle, air;
Gen. Walter Beddell Smith, army;
Adm. Oswald S. Colclough, navy.
Benjamin Fairless, steel; Walter
L. Cisler, power and industry:
Dr. Harold Moulton, military
budgets; and Dr. James B. Fisk,
communications.
McKay Gets Competition
From Hitchcock in Effort
To Unseat Sen. Morse
(By the Associated Press!
Sharing national interest in the
Oregon primary with Stevenson
and Kefauver was a hot fight be
tween former Secretary of the In
terior Douglas McKay and Phil
Hitchcock, a onetime state legis
lator. Both McKay apd Hitchcock
are seeking the Republican sena
torial nomination.
The Oregon primary election is
being held today. No results are
yet available.
Incumbent Sen., Wayne Morse,
a Republican - turned - Democrat,
has only minor opposition in the
Democratic primary.
McKay—often the target of
Democratic “giveaway” charges
while he was in the Eisenhower
cabinet—entered the Senate con
test with the President’s “best
wishes.” Hitchcock, too, is running
| as an administration supporter.
' LONDON OW—The Soviet Union
today launched a new campaign
to enlist up to a half million
young Russians within the next
two years for development of Si
beria and other Asiatic regions.
Moscow radio announced the
drive in a fresh appeal broadcast
on the home service.
This tended to underscore re
ports that Russia is facing serious
manpower shortages in industry
and agriculture to maintain the
quotas set by the Kremlin’s latest
five-year plan. Some Western dip
lomats linked the Soviet an
nouncement that 1,200,000 men
would be released from the Red
armed forces in the next year with
the pressing needs of industry and
agriculture.
The Moscow appeal was direct
ed at the Komsomol ryoung Com
munist League) organizations. It
urged them “to select from their
midst in 1956-57 from 400,000 to
500,000 young men and women”
for work in the eastern regions.
They are needed, the broadcast
said, in the building of new fac
tories, hydro-electric power sta
tions, coal pits, ore mines, and
other undertakings, including new
railways.
The broadcast noted that Si
beria includes up to 75 percent of
the Soviet Union’s coal deposits.
80 percent of its hydro power re
sources, four-fifths of the coun
try’s timber, as well as large de
posits of rare metals and chemical
raw materials.
“There is wide scope for the de
velopment of agriculture, and for
the production of grain and ani
mal husbandry,” the broadcast
added.
The appeal was unusual in some
respects, for Moscow radio con
ceded the hardships faced by the
young workers at first but prom
ised that conditions would be im
proved rapidly for recreation and
entertainment. ,
FBI Capture Last
Two of The ttrink
Holdup Gang
BOSTON, W)—FBI agents burst
into a tenement hideout Wednes
day to capture the last two of the
11-man gang charged with the
$1,218,211 Brink’s robbery.
Thomas F. Richardson, 49, and
James I. Faherty, 45, were nab
bed by six agents while they were
eating a stew supper in a Dor
chester district flat.
On a chair near the supper
table were three towl - covered
pistols which they did not have
time to reach.
The agents entered the 3-story
brick building disguised as work
men and chance travelers. Forty
five seconds later they had hand
cuffs on the much-sought pair.
The agents confiscated the
meager contents of the bedroom
kitchen - bathroom flat, including
$5,009.08 in rolled coins stored in
three beer cartons.
Authorities could not say im
mediately if the money was part
of the Brink’s loot taken Jan.
17, 1950.