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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 138NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1955Per Copy—15#
Commissioner Questions
22 Youngsters On Charges
Of Shoplifting In Stores
A total of 22 children from 8
to 15 years old were brought be
fore the U.S. Commissioner on a
complaint from the Territorial
Welfare Office for shoplifting.
The group included both boys
and girls who admitted taking
merchandise from the U.S. Merc,
Cavota’s, Nome Drug Store, Doro
thy’s, Nome Market, N.C. Store,
and the Glue Pot.
After being questioned by the
Commissioner, they were repri
manded and informed that if they
were caught shoplifting again the
authorities would not be so le
nient.
Riots in Bombay
Touched Off
By Communists
BOMBAY, India, Bombay
seethed in the grip of a pitched
battle between armed police and
stone-throwing demonstrators to
day. Five persons were reported
killed, at least 225 wounded, and
over 1,000 rioters were arrested.
It was the second successive
day of violence touched off by
Marathi-speaking Indians with
Communist and Socialist backing,
protesting Prime Minister Nehru’s
decision to create a separate Bom
bay city-state out of the big west
coast port.
More than 100 persons were in
jured in rioting yesterday. Gangs
milled through the streets, stoning
buses and trains, barricading the
main streets with huge boulders
and setting fire to buses.
The violence exceeded that in
last August’s anti-Portuguese riots
in Bombay.
Police and home guard forces
first tvilted under a barrage of
stones, then raised their rifles and
fired at the Communist-led dem
onstrators trying to reach the leg
. islature building.
The crowds set fire to three
buses and showered passing traffic
with rocks.
Man Accused Of Time Bomb Murders
Worked Six Days In Electrical Shop
DENVER (4V-John Gilbert Gra
ham, accused of murder in a time
bomb explosion aboard a commer
cial airliner that carried his moth
er, was reported today to have
worked in an electric shop shortly
before the fatal crash.
The Rocky Mountain News said
in a copyrighted article that Gra
ham worked six days in October
at the Denver shop. The paper
said he told his employer that he
would make more money else
where but wanted to learn the
trade.
The FBI, meanwhile, was
checking out a report of a store
keeper at Kremmling, Colo., 105
miles east- of Denver, that he is
. “pretty sure” a man he sold 20
sticks of dynamite to Oct. 29 was
Graham.
* Graham, the father of two chil
dren, is charged with murder in
the death of his mother, Mrs.
Daisie King, 54. She and 43 others
were killed in the United Airlines
plane crash near Longmont, Colo.,
Nov. 1. Mrs. King was on her way
to Anchorage.
Graham, who has denied the
act, was visited for a second time
in jail last night by his wife,
Gloria, was told reporters:
“111 believe he’s innocent as long
as he’s not proven guilty.”
Mrs. Graham, 22, in response
j to a reporter’s question, said she
would remain loyal to Graham,
“as every wife should be toward
her husband.”
The News said Graham’s em
ployment at the Ware Electric Co.
began Oct. 10 and lasted six days
—four days the first week and
two the next. Damon Ward, who
said he hired Graham, was quoted
by the newspaper as saying he
“thought it peculiar that Graham
should want to work in the place.”
Ward said he remarked about
this to Graham, and Graham re
plied that electrical equipment in
his restaurant occasionally needed
repairing. Graham operated a
drive-in restaurant in Denver
with his mother.
Ward said Graham asked him
about purchasing a timing device.
“I brought out a catalog and
showed him what we had,” Ward
said, “but he wasn’t interested.”
Joseph T. Grande, an employe
of the Royal Electric Supply Co.,
in Denver, has sai<^ he sold a tim
ing device to Graham Oct. 26.
The report of the dynamite pur
chase was by Lyman Brown, co
owner of the Brown Bros, shop
ping center in Kremling.
Three Cases of
Hepatitis Here,
Precautions Urged
Dr. F. Langsam, health officer,
has announced that there are
three cases of hepatitis, a liver in
fection, in town and urges the fol
lowing precautions:
He states that everyone should
sterilize drinking water by the
following methods — either boil
water for ten minutes and cover
tightly for storage or use Clorox.
If Clorox is used, one teaspoon to
50 gallons of water is recom
mended and it should be stirred
carefully and let stand at least 30
minutes before using.
Special precautions should also
be taken, especially with children,
making sure that hands are thor
oughly washed with soap after
using the toilet.
Symptons, stated the doctor are
similar to those of influenza, ac
companied by vomiting or pains
in the abdomen. Other symptoms
are the yellowing of the whites of
the eyes as in jaundice, and a
very dark urine.
There has been a severe epi
demic of hepatitis at Kotzebue
this past summer.
Heart Specialist Says
He Could Have Made
Stock Market “Killing”
BROOKLINE, Mass. (tfV—Boston
heart specialist Dr. Paul Dudley
White said yesterday with a smile
that he could have made a “kill
ing” on the stock market if he
had taken advantage of his posi
tion as consultant on President
Eisenhower’s illness.
Dr. White said his first bulletin
on the President’s condition was
estimated to have raised the value
of stocks by two billion dollars.
“I took no advantage of that,”
he told a meeting of the Brother
hood of Temple Emeth.
“If »I had gone in the morning
shaking my head sadly, and (then)
come out smiling, I could have
made money that day.”
Soviet Scientists Report
Fall of 300-Ton Meteorite
LONDON, UP)—Soviet scientists
reported today a 300-ton meteor
ite composed of the same elements
as the earth fell recently in the
Skiote Alin Mountains just north
of Vladivostok.
Reporting their finds, Moscow
radio said the meteorite broke
into hundreds of splinters upon
reaching the earth, the largest
weighing about three tons.
KHRUSHCHEV TAKES FALL
FROM BOY SCOUT BED
NEW DELHI, India, UP>—Nikita
Khrushchev, Russian Communist
Party boss, may doubt the effi
cacy of an Indian good luck sign
a pretty Indian girl dabbed on his
forehead today.
Half an hour later, in a Boy
Scout camp, Prime Minister Neh
ru stretched out on a string camp
bed and then asked Khrushchev
to try it as well. The bulky Rus
sian, who appears to outweigh
160-pound Nehru by at least 40
pounds, did so—and it collapsed
under him.
10 Experts Leave
On 1st Leg of Trip
To Antarctica
QUONSET POINT, R.I., Uf)—A
group of ten experts flew from the
Naval air station yesterday on the
first leg of a journey that will
carry them to the Antarctic.
The Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J.,
director of Boston College’s Wes
ton, Mass., Observatory and who
in 1954 headed an expedition that
reached the Magnetic North Pole
for the first time in history, will
go to the bottom of the world with
the Navy’s Operation Deepfreeze.
He will make seismographic
soundings of the ice-capped conti
nent.
The group from the 18th Air
Force from Donaldson AFB at
Greenville, S.C., are a survey par
ty to scout problems to be dealt
with by the Air Force next year
when it parachutes materials and
supplies to a group of volunteer
Seabees for the building of a base
directly at the South Pole.
Robert C. Haun of Cranston,
R.I., who has been commissioned
an accredited artist for the Ant
arctic expedition headed by Rear
Adm. Richard Byrd, joined the
Jesuit priest and fliers at Quonset.
The party left Quonset in a Na
vy transport plane for Albuquer
que, N.M., from where they will
go to California. There they will
board a plane to take them to Port
Lyttleton, N.Z., to join the ships
of the task force scheduled to ar
rive there early next month.
The Navy’s part in Deepfreeze
is to build four bases in the Ant
arctic to be occupied by U.S. sci
entists during the International
Geophysical Year, 1957-58,. when
11 nations send research groups
to the polar ice camp.
Man Digging in Garden
Strikes Bomb With Shovel
OJAI, Calif., iff)—L. W. Trimmer
went digging in his garden Sunday
and hit a bomb.
Fortunately, his shovel didn’t
touch the triggering device of the
20-inch Naval practice explosive.
Police theorized that the bomb
had fallen from a plane and em
bedded itself in the earth.
The residential trea was roped
off and a demolition squad dis
patched from the Navy’s con
struction battalion center.
Football Game in Nome? Chamber
Invites South Carolina Teams Up
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Russian Leaders
Attack West in
India Parliament
NEW DELHI, India, un—Soviet
Chiefs Nikolai Bulganin and Niki
ta Khrushchev opened a double
barreled attack on the West in the
Indian Parliament today.
They told the more than 700
members, in the presence of Prime
Minister Nehru, that Russia was
united with India in an “unending
battle for peace.”
Both criticized the West on the
grounds it was “attempting to fol
low policies based on a position of
strength.”
Soviet Premier Bulganin and
Communist Party Secretary Niki
ta Khrushchev are here on a good
will visit expected to last more
than two weeks. At a state ban
quet last night, Nehru warned
them not to expect that their good
will invasion would lead India
into the Communist bloc. Bluntly,
he said India was “in no camp
and no military alliance.”
“The foreign policy of the So
viet Union is a policy of peace and
friendship between nations.” Bul
ganin told the Parliament mem
bers, who frequently applauded.
“The people of the Soviet Union
feel a deep respect for the Indian
government’s efforts directed
against a policy of creating mili
tary aggressive alignments and
for the defense of collective
peace.”
Khrushchev, who followed Bul
ganin to the microphones, de
clared: “We cannot close our eyes
to the fact that the spirit of Gene
va causes indigestion to certain
persons. Certain circles in some
states are still trying to follow the
notorious policy of ‘from a posi
tion of strength,’ a policy of
threats by atomic weapons which
is a disgrace to modem civiliza
tion.”
7 Midshipmen Invade
West Point to Paint Sign
On Stadium’s Wall
WEST POINT, N.Y., UB—Seven
Annapolis midshipmen invaded
West Point this weekend to let the
cadets know how they felt about
next Saturday’s Army-Navy foot
ball game.
Early yesterday the middies
painted “Beat* Army” in big red
letters on the West Point skating
rink and on the walls of Michie
Stadium.
On fortress walls over the Hud
son River a “Beat Navy” neon
sign was altered to read “Beat A.”
Army precautions to protect
their mascot mule thwarted the
midshipmen’s principal advance
objective. The animal, they later
reported, was kept in a locked pen
inside a locked barn, with two
guards stationed beside the pen.
The midshipmen were on week
end leave and dressed in civilian
clothes. They reported they en
tered the academy grounds about
2 a.m. and avoided detection by
numerous Army guards during a
two-hour stay there.
After a long silence on the mat
ter, a West Point spokesman com
mented: “Anyone in civilian
clothes could have come in. This
is an open post. If they had been
in uniform it would have been
different.”
► COLUMBIA, S.C., UR—An ag
gressive Nome, Alaska Chamber
of Commerce Saturday offered to
provide a new home for the an
nual Clemson^South Carolina foot
ball game.
An official of the Nome organi
zation wrote South Carolina Coach.
Rex Enright that if the two Palm
etto State teams aren’t satisfied to
play the game as the feature of
the annual South Carolina State
Fair, “we’ll roll out the white car
pet (snow) . .
The chamber said its invitation
was prompted by the publication
in a national magazine (Sports
Illustrated) of a remark by En
right that the game belongs to the
people of South Carolina and will
be played where they want it,
even if it’s Nome, Alaska, on De
cember 20.”
Clemson boosters have been
pressuring for a home-and-home
schedule between the two teams
for years. The game is played as a
feature of the state’s fair at Col
umbia on what is known as “Big
Thursday.” This year the date fell
on Oct. 20. The South Carolina
legislature long ago declared the
day of the game a legal holiday.
The game site is Carolina Sta
dium, inside the state fairgrounds.
That is where South Carolina
plays all its home games, and
Clemson rooters say this gives
South Carolina the natural advan
tages.
Enright’s only comment on the
Nome invitation was that after
this season—his team has won
two, lost six—he may be looking
not only for a football game up
there, but a permanent residence.
“Slush ice is forming in the Ber
ing Sea,” the Nome chamber wrote
Enright, “and in a few weeks it
will be frozen over . . . during the
slack season when we have noth
ing much to do except argue with
each other, we would like to have
them (the people of South Caro
lina) hold their traditional foot
ball game in Nome.
“We will have the white carpet
(snow) out and dog teams for
transportation. We will be abl$ to
furnish parkas for the cheer lead
ers but will have to substitute ice
cream for hamburgers and hot
dogs.
“For entertainment between the
halves, there will be Eskimo
blanket tossing and dancing. For
mothers and children we can ar
range for Santa and his reindeer
to be here on the 20th of Decem
ber.”
6 Teen-Agers, 4 Musicians
Killed in Nebraska’s
Worst Auto Accident
WATERBURY, Nebraska UR—A
head-on collision, believed the
worst in Nebraska highway his
tory, killed 10 persons last night
—six teen-agers and four musi
cians.
Gov. C. J. Sanders, head of the
Nebraska Safety Patrol, said he
could recall no other highway ac
cident in the state taking so many
•lives. The previous high was be
lieved eight killed near Lexington
on Dec. 24, 1940.
The teen-agers were returning
to their farm homes near Ponca,
Neb. The Safety Patrol said a
front tire apparently blew out
near here and their car rammed
head-on into one carrying the mu
sicians, bound for an engagement
at Norfolk, Neb.