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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LVI No, 121 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Southern California
Blinded by 9-Day Smog
LOS ANGELES, I#) — Southern
California headed blindly into the
ninth day of its latest smog siege
today as an aroused Los Angeles
County grand jury called the Air
Pollution Control director on the
carpet.
Gov. Goodwin J. Knight pro
mised to fly down from Sacra
mento to see what he could see,
if anything.
However, Dr. J. Philip Samp
son, president of the Los Angeles
County Medical Assn., said tests
show the present smog concentra
tion is not dangerous and is about
30 per cent under the worst read
ings last year.
So long as the contamination
level does not exceed the read
ings of late 1953, he added, there
is no immediate danger to life.
John B. Kingsley, chairman of
the grand jury committee on gov
ernment honesty and efficiency,
planned sharp questions for Gor
don D. Larson, director of the
County Air Pollution Control Dis
trict.
Hurricane Hazel
Smashes Through
I North Carolina
I WILMINGTON, N. C„ UP) —
f Hurricane Hazel, still packing
winds of 100 miles an hour,
smashed its way northward thru
eastern North Carolina today
after wreaking havoc along 120
miles of the Carolina coastline.
There were no immediate re
ports of serious casualties among
the well-warned residents of the
coast. Most of them sought safer
quarters. A few minor injuries
were reported from falling debris.
Property damage ran into mil
lions of dollars as the storm tore
up coastal installations, washed
away houses and snarled com
munications. Heaviest damage
was caused by towering waves
generated by the windstorm.
It was moving north at about 27
miles an hour and the Weather
Bureau said it gradually would
lose force as it moved over the
land across North Carolina, Vir
ginia and into the North Atlantic
States.
Three freighters broke loose
from their moorings at Wilming
ton and were moving down the
Cape Fear River.
Rare Case of Tooth Being
Extracted From Boy’s Ear
BALTIMORE, WV-Pat Stilson,
10, pulled a loose tooth Tuesday
and was told he ought to put it
under a pillo'w and perhaps the
fairies would come along and re
place it with a lovely present.
But Pat isn’t the sort to be
careless with merchandise of such
high potential value. If he put
the tooth under his pillow, it
could be that one of the brothers
would make off with it, he rea
soned.
So he put the tooth in his ear
and went to sleep.
Yesterday, Pat had an ear ache.
His mother took him to Johns
Hopkins Hospital for the tooth’s
second extraction—this time from
Pat’s ear.
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RaftReachesSamoa
[After 115-Day
Pacific Crossing
j PAGO PAGO, American Samoa
15) — Slewed by heavy seas, the
balsa raft “Seven Little Sisters”
neared the end of its voyage from
Peru Friday, bobbing along at
the end of a towline from the
welcoming ship Manuatele.
Three hundred islanders in
colorful native costumes jammed
an area between the boat dock
and the customs shed to welcome
the tiny raft and its intrepid
skipper, 61 - year - old William
Willis.
Willis yelled to' Dr. D. D. Smith
of New York, aboard the Man
uatcle “I have no need of medi
cal assistance, everything is fine.”
Smith, three Samoans and
John P. Mosher of Parson, Kas.,
an officer aboard the Manuatele,
leaped overboard, swam to the
raft and accompanied Willis into
the harbor.
Willis, cleanly shaven and ap
parently in the pink of condition,
was asked what he would like
to eat at a welcoming banquet.
He replied, “anything, thank you,
anything except raw fish.”
Willis, a native Texan who now
lives in New York, set out from
Peru four months ago with a cat
and a parrot as his only com
panions.
The cat, he said, was in good
condition—but she had eaten the
parrot two days ago.
$80 MILLION REARMAMENT
IN JAPAN THREE-YEAR PLAN
TOKYO, (5)—Japan has drawn
up a three-year plan calling for
an outlay of 80 million dollars to
revive her aircraft and munitions
industries, the newspaper Asahi
reported.
Says Alaska’s Democratic
Swing Evidence Territory
Is Ready For Statehood
• ANCHORAGE, Iff)—Democratic
party leaders here quoted Adlai
Stevenson yesterday as saying
Tuesday’s territorial election pro
vided evidence “for #11 to see”
that Alaskans are ready for state
hood.
William Bittner, Anchorage
Democratic party official and for
mer head of the Third Division
territorial tax office, talked with
Stevenson by telephone at Taos,
N.M.
He quoted Stevenson as saying:
“If any further evidence were
needed that the people of Alaska
are ready for self government —
evidence incidentally which I do
not need because I have long since
been convinced of the validity of
their statehood cause—it would
be furnished by the action of the
people of Alaska in Tuesday’s
election.”
Stevenson added that by the
landslide vote for Democratic
candidates Alaskans showed how
completely they repudiated the
broken campaign promises and
the reactionary policies of the
Republican party.
The 1952 Democratic presiden
tial candidate also remarked that
Alaskans became “hep” in less
than two years.
North Star Departs With
King & Diomede Islanders
The North Star departed yes
terday for King Island and Dio
mede Island, taking about 150
natives to their winter homes on
these remotely isolated places.
Father Carroll accompanied the
King Island group and Mr. and
Mrs. David Trantham ^are the
ANS teachers there this year. The
teachers and the Alaska National
Guard possess radio communica
tion sets so that their isolation is
not as complete as it has been
in the past.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kuckuk
were the teachers going to Dio
mede Island.
On The National
Political Scene
iBy the Associated Press)
President Eisenhower, return
ing to Washington after eight
weeks in cool Colorado, stops off
in Indianapolis for a major speech
Friday night.
The Eisenhower address is de
scribed by the President's aides as
“nonpartisan” but Republican
leaders in farm areas are look
ing to that speech to help in their
party’s fight to retain control of
Congress.
Eisenhower, 64 years old Thurs
day, is due back in Washington
shortly after midnight aboard his
plane, the Columbine.
Secretary of Defense Wilson’s
widely quoted remark about dogs
and unemployed still was the sub
ject of considerable political dis
cussion. It even got some atten
tion from Moscow radio.
Wilson returned to Washington
last night and reporters asked him
whether he regarded the incident
as closed. “I would think so,” re
plied the Defense secretary. He
also said with a grin that he’s
“not in the humor” to' make any
more political speeches.
A Moscow radio commentator
called Wilson’s Detroit news con
ference remark a “scandal” and
he added: “Wilson's attack . . .
showed up the true attitude of the
Washington politicians toward
millions of people who are de
prived of work by the American
way of life.” He made no mention
of Wilson’s public apology in Chi
cago Wednesday night.
Sen. Sparkman, Democratic vice
presidential candidate in 1952,
Thursday night disputed Wilson’s
claim that “left wing opponents”
had twisted his remarks. Spark
man said Wilson’s exact words
“do the damage. No interpreta
tion is needed.”
The situation took something of
a twist when—after an anony
mous tipster phoned news offices
in Washington—a check of Senate
Labor Committee records showed
Reuther had used the figure of
speech “stir the animals up” in
testimony last January against an
administration sponsored poll of
workers in the question of strikes.
A CIO spokesman said later a
reading of the testimony “will
clearly show” Reuther was
“pleading against a return of the
law of the jungle and the spirit
of the jungle in collective bar
gaining.”
Democrats Sweep Tickets In All
Divisions Except The Second
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Two Airmen in F-94C Jet
With Jammed Landing
Gear, Safely “Slid” In
Hamilton Air Force Base, Calif,
ypi—Air Force officials today told
the story of two fliers who risk
ed their necks to save their
$500,000 F-94C Starfire jet and
literally “slid home” and kept
damage to $300.
Lt. Earl Tuttle, 25, pilot took
off with his radar observer, Lt.
Lawrence Bubba, 26, from Mc
Clelland Field near Sacramento
on a flight to Hamilton Field,
near San Rafael. Tuttle’s home is
Brementon, Wash. Bubba is from
Easton, Pa.
On the way, their landing gear
jammed.
Tuttle radioed ahead and Mc
Clelland Field oiled a 3,500-foot
long trip of runway for the land
ing.
Instead of abandoning the plane
by parachute, Tuttle and Bubba
cut the engine, brought the plane
onto the prepared runway and
skidded to a halt after 2,500 feet.
Territorial Standings
<186 precincts out of 264)
Delegate to Congress
E. L. Bartlett <D).16,891
Barbara Dimock (R).5,907
Labor Commissioner
H. J. Lannen (D).11,206
Henry Benson (R).11,028
Territorial Treasurer
Hugh Wade (D).12,246
Earle Hunter (R).10,067
Uranium Strike Reported
North of Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, WV-Officials of
the Territorial Dept, of Mines
plan an inspection trip soon to
check on reports of a sizeable sec
ondary uranium - bearing ore
strike in the Shirley Lake area
110 miles north of here.
Martin Jar, associate mine en
gineer, said either he or Mine
Commissioner Phil Holdworth,
will go to the area in the vicinity
of the junction because of the
widespread interest in the an
nounced findings.
George Kitchen, one of six An
chorage men filing claims in the
area, said additional claims are
expected to be filed by his group,
United States Mining Corp., and
by other groups of prospectors.
Kitchen said report of the find
ings had attracted approximately
100 prospectors to the area in the
past few days.
Ore samples have been sent to
the U.S. Geological Survey Office
at College, Alaska and to the U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission in
Washington, Ktichen said.
1,758 NEW POLIO CASES
REPORTED LAST WEEK
WASHINGTON, (M—There were
1,758 new polio cases last week,
471 more than in the correspond
ing week a year ago, the Public
Health Service reported today.
However, the service said in its
weekly summary the disease “is
expected to decrease rapidly dur
ing the next few weeks.” Last
week’s total was down 193 cases
from the preceding week.
(By the Associated Press)
In Alaska’s only close election
race, H. J. Lannen of Cordova
pulled into a 178-vote lead for
Labor Commissioner on the basis
of late returns yesterday.
The former business agent foT
the Cordova district fishermen’s
union, the Democratic candidate,
had 11,206 votes to 11,028 for
Henry Benson, the long-time Re
publican Labor Commissioner.
The tally included the vote
from 136 of Alaska’s 264 pre
cincts. It appeared possible that
absentee ballots might eventually
decide the contest.
The Democratic sweep contin
ued in all divisions except the
Second. With only 7 of 33 pre
Second. With only 9 of 37 pre
cincts reported, Foster and Beltz,
Democrats, lead Ipalook and
Laws, Republicans for the two
Senate seats. In the contest for
three House seats, Bullock, R,
lead the field with two Democrats,
Fagerstrom and Bronson, second
and third respectively.
Congressional Delegate E. L.
Bartlett continued to hold a near
ly three-to-one lead over his Re
publican opponent, Mrs. Barbara
Dimock. The Democrat had 16,891
to her 5,967.
For the other territorial office,
Hugh Wade built up his lead for
treasurer. He had 12,246 to 16,667
for Earle Hunter, Juneau banker.
In the three populous divisions
in which the vote count was de
cisive, the Democrats continued
to lead for all of the nine seats
in the territorial Senate and for
19 of the 24 House seats. Demo
crats led by wide margins in the
3rd Division for all legislative po
sitions.
In the 4th Division, the only
Republican “white hope” was
James Ryan, former territorial
school superintendent. He ranked
sixth in the race for five House
seats, but the 260-vote gap be
tween him and the fifth ranking
Democrat made his hopes pretty
dim.
In southeastern Alaska, Demo
crats clinched the two Senate po
sitions, but Republicans won two
of the six House seats.
Dutch Freighter Sinks
After Collision With
Barge In Lake Michigan
MILWAUKEE, Ml — A Dutch
cargo ship sank in Lake Michigan
last night after colliding with an
oil barge but all of its 29 crew
members were rescued. No one
was injured.
The Oranje Line motor ship
Prins Willem V, her starboard
bow caved in by a collision with
a Sinclair Oil Co. barge being
towed by a tug, went down in 80
feet of water three miles off the
Milwaukee harbor.
. The collision occurred in rough
water but there was no fog. Coast
Guardsmen who rescued the crew
said they plowed through six-foot
swells in their crash boats.
The 258-foot, 2,726 - ton ship,
carrying a general cargo, was out
bound from Milwaukee to Canada
and Europe.