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VOL. LVII No. 96NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1955Per Copy—15^
Tension Increases in South Korea as
Saturday Midnight Deadline Nears
SEOUL, S. Korea, U!)—A South'
Korean fisherman was shot and
killed today and riots continued
in rising tension over President
Syngman Rhee’s demand that the
pro-Communist truce inspectors
get out of Korea by Saturday
midnight. Two other Koreans
were wounded.
An informed source said, mean
while, that Rhee advised the U.S.
government he could not control
South Korean demonstrators un
less U-S. troops guarding truce
team personnel put away their
weapons.
An informed source said Gen.
L. L. Lemnitzer, United Nations i
commander, in a Thursday con
ference with Rhee, charged—and
Rhee heatedly denied—that the
Korean demonstrations were gov
ernment inspired.
At Panmunjom, U.S. Maj. Gen.
Harlan C. Parks told a stormy
military Armistice Commission
session that “illegal” activities by
Polish and Czech NNSC members
had provoked the seething dem
onstrations in South Korea.
An 8th Army spokesman said a
U.S. soldier guard aboard a ship
in Inchon Harbor had fired his
Stevenson Agrees
With Harriman on
Nomination Plans
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO, UP>—Adlai E. Stev
enson and Gov. Averell Harriman
of New York apparently have
reached an informal working
agreement aimed at bringing one
of them the 1956 Democratic
presidential nomination.
Associates confirmed that the
former Illinois governor, who was
beaten by President Eisenhower
in 1952, has come to an under
standing with Harriman under
which Stevenson will get first
crack at next year’s party prize.
These associates said, however,
that if it becomes apparent at any
point in the next 12 months that
Stevenson is unlikely to make the
grade, he could be expected to
attempt to shift his strength
quickly to Harriman.
Together, Stevenson and Harri
man represent the two potentially
most powerful voting blocs in
next summer’s convention. Start
ing with his Illinois home base
vote of 60, Stevenson has wide
support within the party ranks.
There is some doubt, however,
that he could muster sufficient
votes to win thfe nomination with
out New York’s 94 in the early
balloting.
HONEYMOONERS MAKING
FRESH START IN HEAVEN
TOKYO, Uf)—Newlyweds com
mitted suicide by throwing them
selves in the path of a train yes
terday.
A note found beside the 22
year-old couple, Sadao Sato and
his bride of three days, Kioko,
read: “We found it impossible to
love each other. We shall make a
fresh start in heaven.”
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carbine at three Koreans in a boat.
He said the guard spotted them
trying to steal canned milk from
a barge. The guard’s action, he
said, had no connection with any
anti-truce team demonstration.
The Korean national police,
however, insisted that three Ko
rean fishermen were hit by fire
from a U.S.'* Army patrol boat
guarding Wolmi Island, NNSC
team headquarters.
The 8th Army confirmed that a
Korean died of gunshot wounds.
It said his two wounded compan
ions, found in a boat that drifted
into the U.S. Army anchorage at
Inchon, had been hospitalized.
More than 1,000 South Koreans
again tried to storm Wolmi after
the shooting incident, but before
its details were known. The Ko
reans looped ropes around steel
gate posts of the NNSC compound
and tried to pull them down. U.S.
soldiers used tear gas grenades in
breaking up the mob’s drive.
Hurricane Connie Races
North Along Seaboard
With 75-MPH. Winds
WASHINGTON, UP—Hurricane
Connie, losing some of its punch
but still a menace, raced north
ward along the North Carolina
coast today with 75-mile winds
and destructive, pounding high
tides.
The Weather Bureau here said
tfie whirling tropical storm, on an
erratic course, bore inland at 9
a.m., EST near the resort and
fishing town of Morehead City,
N.C. Two hours later it was 60
miles west of Cape Hatteras,
N.C., lashing small fishing vil
lages along the Carolina capes
and the mainland along Pamlico
Sound.
Cherry Point, N.C., just north
of Morehead 'City and the site of
a giant marine base, reported top
wind gusts of 75 miles an hour,
reduced from the 100-mile wallop
packed around the hurricane cen
ter as it approached the shore.
An 11 a.m. advisory said hur
ricane force winds (75 miles an
hoiir) extended outward only 50
miles east of the center and a
shorter distance other directions.
Arco, Idaho (Pop. 1,200), Was First Town in U.S. to Use
Light and Power Produced From Nuclear Energy
GENEVA, Of)—American atomic
scientists announced a distinction
today for Arco, Idaho (pop. 1,200).
It was cited as the first commun
ity in the United States to use
light and power produced from
nuclear energy.
The scientists said Arco re
ceived its entire supply of elec
tricity for more than an hour last
July 17 from an experimental
power plant operated by the Ar
gonne National Laboratory at the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s
national reactor testing station
20 miles away.
A U.S. spokesman said “the
people of Arco didn’t even know
about it.”
The experimental plant is
known as Borax, an abbreviation
for “boiling water experiment.”
It generates more than 2,000 kilo
watts of electricity. The an
nouncement said:
“The simplcity of construction,
ease of operation, low cost and
high degree of safety suggest that
this type of small power plant is
suitable for use in remote areas or
in conjunction with mining or
manufacturing operations.”
Along the same line, Russian
scientists are exhibiting at the
conference a model of a 5,000
kilowatt atomic power station in
the Moscow region which they
say has been furnishing power
since the summer of 1954.
The U.S. announcement gave
this description of the reactor
used in the experiment:
“The reactor consists of a pres
sure vessel containing an assem
blage of enriched uranium bear
ing plates submerged in water,
plus a number of neutron absorb
ing control rods. The water circu
lates through the reactor core by
natural convection and steam,
produced by the heat created by
the fissioning of uranium atoms,
is conducted to the turbo-genera
tor located in a nearby building.”
U.S. Ambassador Peurifoy
Killed Near Bangkok in
Car - Truck Collision
BANGKOK, Thailand, (/P)—A
car-truck crash today killed TJ.S.
Ambassador John E. Peurifoy, 48,
a diplomatic trouble shooter who
starred in settlement of Guate
mala’s 1954 civil war.
A man who liked fast sports
cars, Peurifoy and his 9-year-old
son Daniel perished when his
Ford Thunderbird collided head
on with a truck on a narrow
bridge 125 miles south of Bang
kok.
The ambassador’s other son,
Clinton Peurifoy, 14, was injured
critically in the smashup.
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Nike Missile To Be
Installed in Alaska
In Strategic Areas
Announcement that Nike in
stallations will be built in Alaska
was made by U.S. officials yes
terday.
Nike installations are deployed
throughout the United States as a
defense for industrial, highly pop
ulated and strategic areas, and
have been integrated into the
Army-Air Force Defense Team.
In Alaska, bases for Nike, the
Army’s new antiaircraft weapon,
a guided missile with a speed
faster than sound, will protect
important defense installations in
the key areas of Anchorage and
Fairbanks.
Essentially, the Nike system
consists of two parts: an expend
able missile and ground-based
launching and control equipment.
Named after the goddess of vic
tory of Greek mythology, the
Nike (rhymes with high key) is
approximately 20 feet long and
about one foot in diameter, with
two sets of fins*. The missile and
booster together weigh slightly
more than one ton.
A Nike installation constitutes
no danger to the surrounding area
nor to personnel of the unit itself.
The war-head is constructed to
explode only in flight. It has a
self-destructive feature so that it
will not crash and explode.
Site determination is based on
tactical and technical suitability,
the least possible disruption of the
civilian community, and economy
to the government.
Timmy Walsh, Aged 4, Found Safe
Five Miles From Snake River Camp
After 18 Hours Of All-Out Search
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Arthur Godfrey Damages
Plane Wing in Takeoff
TETERBORO, N.J., U!)—Arthur
Godfrey, who’s had trouble before
at Teterboro Airport, damaged
the right wing of his plane yes
terday when it hit a ground light.
According to an airport spokes
man, the red-haired entertainer
was taxiing his DC-3 on the run
way in preparation for takeoff
for his Virginia home.
No one was hurt and the wing
was damaged only slightly in hit
ting fhe light. The damage being
repaired, Godfrey was expected
to take off some time today.
In March 1954, Godfrey’s pilot
license was suspended for six
months for flying low over the
Teterboro control tower two
months previously.
Marciano-Moore Title
Bout Set for Sept. 20
NEW YORK, UP) — The Rocky
Marciano - Archie Moore heavy
weight title fight at Yankee Sta
dium Sept. 20 will be broadcast
over 350 stations as the ABC net
work. The broadcast also will be
handled by stations in Alaska,
Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and
Cuba and by the Armed Forces
Radio Network.
Polio in Boston
Called Epidemic
BOSTON, (fl)—Sixty-eight new
polio cases were reported in Mass
achusetts yesterday. Boston re
ported 21 cases.
The State Public Health Dept,
said the total since the first of the
year is 1,106.
State health officials sent out
an appeal for nurses in the emer
gency which they labeled for the
first time as an epidemic—a “mild
epidemic.”
The New England polio total
Thursday climbed to 1,408 as 85
new cases were reported in the
six-state area. At this time Last
year 263 cases were listed.
* Little Timmy Walsh, four-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Walsh, who disappeared at about
dinner time last night, was lo
cated at noon today about five
miles from where he was last
seen.
The Walsh family had driven
to the Henry Ullrich camp, about
9V£ miles out the Snake River
Road for a picnic supper last
evening, it is reported, and
Timmy was last seen at about
five o’clock throwing rocks in a
gully near the camp. When the
family and friends in the party
failed to locate him other cars
driving up the Snake River Road
were stopped and alerted and
everyone in the area joined in
the search.
With the realization that it
would get dark by 10 o’clock, the
whole community was alerted by
AFRS and by 9 o’clock over 50
cars had driven out to the scene
and more than 200 persons were
searching the tundra, river, and
willows. Some of the searchers
forded the icy Snake River and
searched as far as three miles
from the camp. The river is
very swift and waist deep in
spots. The search continued until
darkness fell.
After dark, portable electric
generators and searchlights were
rushed from town by the Alaska
Communications System and the
Alaska National Guard and the
search continued.
At daybreak, a cordon of pos
sibly 100 men formed a line at
arm’s-length intervals and cover
ed every foot of the area for a
mile around the camp without
finding a trace of the small tow
headed youngster.
Timmy is one of seven Walsh
children, having a brother and
five sisters. * f
As soon as it was light enough
to see to fly the Civil Air Pat
rol started searching the area
from the air in the Covenant
Church plane piloted by Rev. Don
Bruckner with Fred Dingledie as
observer. Other plane pilots
joining in the search included
Howard Mays, Martin Olsen, Dr.
M. Kennedy and Nancy Lee
Baker.
Bloodhounds were brought
from Anchorage by Ron Thiel
and arrived by Alaska Airline’s
morning flight and joined in the
hunt.
Volunteers from town, who
lacked transportation, were taken
out by bus to aid in the search
and all branches of the military
and local authorities participated.
At about noon today, Martin
Olsen, bush pilot for Howard
Mays, accompanied by John Mc
Nees, spotted the child about
five miles from the Ullrich camp,
up in the mountains, in a gen
erally northeasterly direction.
The area had been checked by
plane earlier and a big bear had
been spotted in the vicinity.
From all reports, the child had
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