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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 93NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1955Per Copy—15^
Gen. Hershey Of
Selective Service
Expected Saturday
General Lewis Hershey, direc
tor of Selective Service, is sched
uled to arrive here tomorrow via
Wien Airlines, and remain over
night. He will be accompanied by
Mrs. Hershey.
This is his first trip to Nome.
An informal dinner is planned
in his honer at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Cameron. Mr. Cam
eron is a member of the local
Selective Service Board. Other
members are: Antonio Polet, who
has been on the board since Gen.
Hershey’s appointment; Bert Bell
and Don Lyle.
Gen. Hershey began his associ
tion with the Selective Service in
1936 when he became secretary
and executive officer of the Joint
Army and Navy Selective Service
Committee, and supervised the
drafting of the first World War II
Selective Training and Service
Act in 1940.
Under Gen. Hershey’s super
vision, more than 16 million men
were registered in the October
1940 registration. It was this reg
istration which set the wheels in
motion for the ultimate expansion
of the U,S. armed forces to 16
million men before expiration of
the Selective Service Act of 1940.
Those inducted under the act
totaled more than 10 million,
which involved the registration
and classification of upwards of
40 million men.
The Selective Service Act of
1948 brought re-appointment of
General Hershey as director of
the Selective Service.
JULY 4 PHOTOS DISPLAYED
Through the courtesy of Major
W. Kell of Nome Field, an inter
esting group of Fourth of July
pictures are on display at the
Nugget office. They show several
of the speakers of the day, as well
as many local people who were at
the celebration.
Escaping Life Termer
Takes Bloodhounds Along
ALLEN, Okla., UP)—A 34-year
old life termer apparently has
made good his escape from the
Oklahoma State Penitentiary and
has taken six searching blood
hounds with him.
t Six carloads of officers thought
they had Louis Jones, 34, Ponca
City, Okla., surrounded early to
day in brush covered country near
Allen in southeastern Oklahoma.
The six bloodhounds, which
had been on Jones’ trail, rushed
into the area and the officers
closed in, guns ready. However,
when they converged, Jones had
vanished—the six bloodhounds
with him.
The handler of the bloodhounds
from the prison then confided to
officers that Jones, serving life
for first degree rape, had been a
trusty at the prison and, was as
signed to handling the dogs.
Several farmers later reported
they had seen Jones with the
dogs, apparently happy at his
heels, moving out of the area.
$20 Million for Air Force
Academy in Money Bill
Signed by Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, Iff?—President
Eisenhower has signed an appro
priation bill which includes $1,
894,996,300 for hundreds of Army,
Navy and Air Force construction
projects.
Not all of the money allowed
for military construction in the
year which began July 1 is new.
Some will come from transfer of
funds previously appropriated. *
Of the total, the Army received
$458,077,000; the Navy $422,628,
300; and Air Force $994,291,000.
Congress stipulated that $20
million is to be used to continue
construction of the new Air Force
academy at Colorado Springs. The
House originally declined to vote
any money for the academy after
complaints had been received that
original designs featured too
much glass and metal.
The Senate voted nearly $80
million for the academy construc
tion. Senate-House conferees then
agreed on the $20 million.
Senators Charge
GOP Unity Would
Get Bills Passed
WASHINGTON, WV—Several of
the Senate Democrats challenged
President Eisenhower today to
line up Republican support if he
wants Congress to pass programs
he terms vital to the nation’s
well being.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference yesterday “it would be
completely futile on my part to
say that in this . . . domestic field
. . . we have been as successful in
this past Congress as we should
have been.”
He said he has not dismissed
the possibility that a special ses
sion might be needed to deal with
highway legislation, but that he
has made no decision. Eisenhower
commented that “a special session
is a rather critical and serious
thing, and expensive thing.”
When Congress quit at mid
night Tuesday, most GOP leaders
were discounting the likelihood
of a special session. Eisenhower’s
plans to be out of Washington for
most of next month or longer
indicated there would be none
before fall, if then.
He said it was “absolutely vi
tal” that the legislators act when
they do return to Washington on
school construction, health, high
way and water resources laws.
Sen. Kerr (D-Okla) said that if
the President had been able to
enlist Republican support he al
ready would have on his desk
measures calling for an expanded
highway program and for federal
aid in construction of schools.
SS FORTUNA
SEATTLE, UP)—Alaska Steam
ship Co. officially announced the
new name of the Liberty ship it
bought last week.
The old SS Volunteer State will
become the Fortuna, named for
Fortuna Ledge, a town on the
Yukon River and for a strait just
north of Sitka.
Best Dam Site
In North America
Is on Yukon River
Col. Carl Y. Farrell, head of the
U.S. District Engineers in Alaska,
accompanied by his wife and
small daughter, was a visitor in
Nome yesterday.
While in Fairbanks, Farrell
talked at a meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce and surveyed
the work done by the military in
the past several years. He stated
that the work to date has centered
around Fairbanks and Anchorage,
but in the next three years half
of the appropriations will go to
remote stations in the territory.
He also discussed civil works
projects which come under his
jurisdiction, such as hydroelectric
sites, and mentioned that the fin
est and best dam site in North
America was at Rampart on the
Yukon.
If this dam is built, he stated,
the project would involve three
downstream dams and the water
j would be used four times.
“This is the world’s best poten
tial,” he declared.
Rampart is where the Nome
Fairbanks road crosses the Yukon
River.
While in Nome, Farrell looked
| over the harbor works and the
Nome Seawall, which are under
William Brown.
High Military Officials
Visit Nome on Tour
Of Alaskan Bases
A group of high military offi
cials visited Nome yesterday on a
tour of Alaskan bases.
In the party were Lyle S. Gar
lock, assistant secretary of the
Air Force; Lt. Gen. Charles N.
Stone, of the U.S.A.F.; Maj. Gen.
George R. Acheson, commander,
Alaska Air Command; Col.
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Schwartz of the Medical Corps,
ILS. Army; Col. Foote, U.S.A.F.,
and a Mr. Cooper.
Mrs. Garlock, Mrs. Stone and
Mrs. Acheson accompanied their
husbands on the tour.
Reuben B. Robertson
Sworn in as Deputy
Secretary of Defense
WASHINGTON, MV—Reuben B.
Robertson Jr. was sworn in !as
deputy secretary of defense today
in a White House ceremony that
produced a facetious reference to
the furore over retiring Secretary
of the Air Force Harold Talbott.
After Robertson had taken the
oath as successor to Robert S.
Anderson, Secretary of Defense
Wilson leaned over to President
Eisenhower and told him with a
smile that the new No. 2 man in
the Pentagon has “no conflict of
interest except his family and that
is accepted in all circles.”
Wilson’s mention of his new
deputy’s family stemmed from the
fact that Robertson was accom
panied by his wife and six chil
dren, ranging in age from 1 to 15
years. Also in the crowded Cabi
net room were his parents, from
Asheville, N.C.
Eisenhower to Give Russia New Offer
For Disarmament; Says Red China
. Is Still Branded Aggressor by U.N.
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Russia to Continue Study
Of Eisenhower Plan for
Military Info Exchange
MOSCOW (j¥)—Premier Bulgan
in said today his government will
continue to study President Eisen
hower’s proposal for an exchange
of military information and mu
tual aerial inspection.
Bulganin told the Supreme So
viet that Russia naturally prefers
its own disarmament proposal but
nevertheless will not refuse to
consider other sincere plans.
In this connection he said Eis
enhower’s proposal still is under
consideration. The Soviet Union
is trying to find ways to get the
positions of the two sides closer
together and find agreement, the
Premier asserted.
Alaska to Benefit
From Enlarged
Airport Program
WASHINGTON, UR—P a c i f i c
Northwest states and Alaska will
benefit to the tune of $2,788,456
from an enlarged airport con
struction program approved by
the 84th Congress.
The money will come from an
additional $42 Vi million voted for
this fiscal year and signed by
President Eisenhower Wednes
day. The 48 states and the terri
tories also will share in $63 mil
lion marked for airport work for
each of the next three years.
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
said the $42Vz million is in addi
tion to $20 million previously ap
propriated for the 1955-56 fiscal
year.
Allocation of the $20 million
fund will begin within a few
days, Weeks said, but distribu
tion of the larger fund will be
held up for 90 days so that revised
applications for airport develop
ment can be submitted.
Alaska will be allocated $1,125,
000 additional money for the cur
rent fiscal year, and $1,350,000
for each of the next three fiscal
years.
3 Vancouver Businessmen,
Pilot and Co-Pilot Missing
On Flight to Kitimat
VANCOUVER, B.C. (4*—Fifteen
planes took off today to scour the
coastal wilderness of British Col
umbia in a stepped-up search for
an amphibian aircraft missing
since Wednesday night with five
men aboard.
Low-hanging clouds had sty
mied an air search for the Grum
ann Mallard which disappeared
on a flight from Kemano to Kiti
mat. Aboard were three promin
ent Vancouver businessmen, the
pilot, and the co-pilot.
Construction and power plant
workers fanned out into the jag
ged mountain belt in three well
equipped ground parties.
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, W—President
Eisenhower plans to confront
Russia soon with a new set of
proposals for a disarmament in
spection system.
Soviet Premier Bulganin yes
terday rejected Eisenhower’s of
fer plan to trade military blue
prints with the Soviet Union, but
the President said he doesn’t un
derstand that the Premier closed
the door on negotiation to end the
arms race.
And Russia’s reported recent
atomic test explosions do not nec
essarily mean any change in the
Soviet’s friendly attitude toward
the West, Eisenhower said.
He appeared at a news confer
ence yesterday to be at least mod
erately optimistic that disarma
ment negotiations with Russia
will eventually lead to agreements
“fair ... to both sides” to reduce
the world’s arms burden and less
ening the. dangers of atomic war.
The President spoke more stern
ly, however, when the question
ing turned to Red China and pos
sible U. S. recognition of that
country. He made clear he is not
interested now in any future sum
mit meeting on Far Eastern prob
lems, and he said of recognition:
“Several times I have stated
that as long as Red China is
branded as an aggressor by the
United Nations, which it still is,
due to the fact that its armies are
in North Korea, we have no
choice of our own (about recogni
tion), and I don’t see how the
United Nations has a choice of its
own.
“There are other outstanding
complaints which I have outlined
time and again, and I have no
idea that under existing circum
stances there would be a change
... in our policy.”
Alaska Railroad
Income Increases
WASHINGTON UV-The Alaska
Railroad had a net income of $2,
661,561 for the year ended June
30, an increase of $1,942,036 over
the previous year.
In announcing this today, Un
dersecretary of the Interior Clar
ence A. Davis attributed the im
proved financial condition of the
railroad to continuing improve
ment in management. The gov
ernment owns the railroad and
the Interior Dept, operates it.
His announcement said the net
income will be devoted to addi
tions and betterment of the rail
road.
General Manager R. N. Whit
man, in his report on the 1954-55
operations, said that although
substantial sums were appropriat
ed by Congress in the past for re
habilitation of the railroad, much
remains to be done in order to
bring it up to standard.
He said it was expected that
costs of future rehabilitation
could be met from earnings.