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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 48 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1956 _Per Copy—15<f
Eyes of Nation W ill Be on Results
Of Stevenson-Kefauver Poll Contest
In Alaska Primary Election Tomorrow
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Alaskans vote tomorrow in a
“triple threat” election which will
be viewed throughout the nation
with special interest because of
the Adlai Stevenson-Estes Kefau
ver popularity showdown.
To residents of the territory, a
major issue is the vote on ratifica
tion of the proposed statehood
constitution.
The three ballots to be given a
voter at the polls cover these is
sues:
1. A choice of both parties’ can
didates for the legislature from an
over-all field of 101 candidates,
plus territory-wide contests for
the Democratic nomination for
delegate to Congress and contests
in both parties for highway engi
neer;
2. Ratification of the proposed
constitution, plus the issues of the
“Tennessee Plan” proposal for
election of two non-voting XJ.S.
senators and a proposition on
abolishing fishtraps;
3. The territory’s first presiden
tial preference primary in history,
in which Alaskans, who can’t
vote for President, get a chance
to express a choice as to the can
didates between whom they would
like the nation to choose next
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36 Outboard Motorboats
Missing in Race Found
After Big Air-Sea Search
LONG BEACH, Calif., (if)—'The
Coast Guard relaxed a little today
after one of the biggest air-sea
search operations in years found
36 outboard motorboats once re
ported missing in a race from the
mainland to Santa Catalina Island.
Cowboy star Roy Rogers and
actor John Dereck were among
some 80 persons lost.
There were 209 boats entered in
the race which began Saturday
morning, sponsored by U. S.
Sportsmen, Inc.
It should have been a quick
jaunt for the little speedsters. The
winner, Bud Doyle, 26, Winter
haven Fla., made the 21-mile run
in 37 minutes.
But foggy weather, ground
swells and perhaps of lack of sea
going savvy on the part of the
weekend pilots played havoc with
the race. Many returned to main
land ports, others got lost or ran
out of fuel, or both.
The search started with air
planes before darkness Saturday
and lasted for 27 hours before
all were reported safe.
EISENHOWER TO TEST RUSSIA’S
NEW FOREIGN POLICY OF PEACE
By John M. Hightower
WASHINGTON, (tft—'The Eisen
hower Administration is develop
ing its own test of the widely ad
vertised peaceful purposes behind
Russia’s new look foreign policy.
The heart of the challenge as
defined by President Eisenhower
is that Russia’s leaders should
wipe out the “wrongs of Stalin”
which he said still prevail against
other nations. He said those
wrongs include the division of
Germany and Korea, the Euro
pean satellite regimes and the
uncertainty of peace in Asia.
Eisenhower laid out his ideas
on Soviet relations in a speech
before the annual dinner of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors (ASNE> Saturday night.
In an off-the-cuff addition to
his speech, Eisenhower listed a
series of what he termed “cold
war victories.” He said he doesn’t
believe anyone knows who is win
ning the cold war, but added that
those who say the West is winning
“can point to some facts rather
than merely allegations.”
Eisenhower proposed the crea
tion of a sort of brain trust to ad
vise the government on foreign
policy, a “rotating advisory board”
of private citizens, he called it.
Without going into detail, Eis
enhower said such men would be
free of the responsibilities of of
fice and would be able to “devote
their brains to the job.
At the same tiirte he renewed
his appeal for a long-range U.S.
foreign aid program, an issue now
pending before Congress. He said
that as a former colonial subject
of the British Empire, the United
States understands and respects
the views of nations more recently
free and accepts “the right of each
nation to choose its own path to
the future.”
The Alaska
Tennessee Plan
By BOB BARTLETT
WASHINGTON — Tomorrow
Alaskans will have an opportun
ity which came to Americans of
earlier generations as new' states
were carved out in our westward
march, and which may never be
repeated again in the history of
our country, to place their stamp
of approval upon a constitution
for a new state, together with
settling upon a method to hasten
statehood.
That method is the Alaska-Ten
nessee Plan covered in Proposi
tion No. 2. Approval of this plan
w'ill enable us to direct to mod
ern usage a system of bringing
statehood sooner, which has been
uniformly successful in the past.
If course no one can give guaran
tees that it will now succeed.
But I have never known Alaskans
to demand insurance against
every contingency. No one guar
antees the prospector’s success
when he goes to the hills. His
frontier spirit drives him in
search of his goal and in our
search for statehood we should be
no less daring and imaginative
than our ancestors in their quest
for statehood and our Alaska pio
neers who established our land.
Last January 19, in a message
to President William A. Egan of
the Constitutional Convention, I
endorsed the Alaska - Tennessee
Plan. There has been nothing
since then which has caused me
in the slightest degree to continue
other than warm advocacy of this,
the only reasonable and sensible
suggestion which has been offered
to achieve statehood.
It is my hope this plan and
the Constitution itself will be
adopted by overwhelming major
ities.
Veteran Bush Pilot
Killed in Collision With
Air Force Jet Trainer
ANCHORAGE, UP>—The body of
a veteran Wasu bush pilot was
found Saturday in the wreckage
of an Air National Guard jet
trainer plane which collided with
another jet over Cook Inlet here
Friday.
A rescue group from Elmendorf
air base found the body of Capt.
Blinn F. Webster in the cockpit
of the crashed plane.
Webster, a veteran Northwest
Consolidated Air Lines pilot and
an Air National Guard flier, was
the only victim of the crash. Three
others parachuted to safety after
Webster’s plane and an Air Force
jet trainer hit in midair.
Khrushchev Warns Fist-Shakers
In Britain That Russian Can Send
H-lVIissiles to Anywhere on Earth
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300 Troops Practice
For Unloading Operation
At Arctic Radar Sites
SEATTLE, UP—Three hundred
men will storm West Point Beach
at Fort Lawton at 7 a.m. Thursday
in a dress rehearsal for a big Al
aska job.
For 48 hours, the troops work
ing around the clock in 12-hour
shifts will shuttle cargo between
a 'ship and the shore, using about
40 vehicles, landing crafts and
cranes.
The troops are scheduled to un
j load supplies in western Alaska
this summer. The cargo will be
for radar sites.
The operation, known as Mona
Lisa, will be one of three resupply
missions in which ships and troops
from Seattle will take part. The
others will take supplies and
equipment to the Pribilof Islands
j and to radar stations on the arctic
beaches of Alaska and Canada.
Boy Wins $100,000
With Knowledge
Of Stock Market
TUJUNGA, Calif., WV-Ten-year
old Leonard Ross, the wizard of
Wall Street information, isn’t a
genius, he “just worked and stud
ied,” says his father.
William Ross, 56, a Los Angeles
accountant, said yesterday that
Lennie, who won $100,000 on the j
NBC-TV “Big Surprise” show Sat
urday, was more interested in
politics than the stock market.
However, the father said he let
his son select some of Mrs. Ross’
stock last year and “they’ve
earned at least 107 percent.”
As for the $100,000, the father
said: “It’s all his. I don’t get any
of it.”
Lennie and his mother are ex
pected to return from New York
in about a week.
The boy answered five compli
cated questions about the stock
market Saturday night, becoming
the fourth contestant to capture
the top money.
Lennie said in New York he
would give some of the money to
charity, see that his grandmother
gets a trip to Montreal, his father
some new hi-fi recordings and his
mother a tape recorder.
BIRMINGHAM, England, IS'—
Communist Party Boss Nikita
Khrushchev boasted today the So
viet Union will soon have guided
missiles with H-bomb warheads
which could “hit every point in
the world.”
Khrushchev made the statement
in warning jeerers in the West:
“Never shake your fist at a Rus
sian.”
Speaking in Russian without
notes at a chamber of commerce
luncheon, he showed he was net
tled by booing crowds who met
him and Premier Nikolai Bulgan
in here on the sixth day of their
10-day visit to Britain.
The full impact of Khrushchev’s
words seemed lost in the bustle of
the luncheon, but an official trans
lation by the Soviet News Agency
, Tass underlined his implied threat:
“We shall have in the near fu
| ture a guided missile with an H
bornb warhead which can hit
j every point in the world.”
Khrushchev disclosed, too, the
Russians have already exploded
an H-bomb from a plane.
“The United States only now is
intending to do this. The United
States’ first H-bomb explosion
was from a ground installation.”
Earlier, jeering demonstrators
carrying anti-Communist banners
heckled Khrushchev and Bulganin
during a whirlwind tour of Bir
mingham by the Russians.
Obviously excited, Khrushchev
told the luncheon that he and Bul
ganin had seen placards “attack
ing us and Russia and we have
heard the cries of many people.
We have seen fists shaken at us.
“I would remind the man with
the fist that attempts have been
made previously to speak to us in
that manner. Never shake your
fist at a Russian. Hitler tried to
attack ns with a clenched fist and
now he is in his grave.”
HOSTILITIES RESUME
IN QUEMOY AREA
TAIPEH, Formosa, GP—Nation
alist and Communist Chinese gun
ners dueled heavily in the Amoy
Quemoy area today.
A Nationalist communique said
Reds fired 340 shells at Quemoy
before lapsing into silence under
vigorous Nationalist retaliation.
Without mentioning military
casualties, it reported the Commu
nist fire destroyed nine homes on
the island, killed two civilians and
wounded three.
V YES on Alaska’s Constitution
O Y E S on Alaska-Tennesee Plan
T YES on Abolition of Fish Traps
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