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VOL. LIX No. 109 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1957 Per Copy—15^
Eisenhower & Arkansas Governor
Will Discuss Integration Dispute
In Dramatic Face-to-Face Meeting
(By The Associated Press)
The federal-state deadlock over
school integration in Little Rock,
Ark., will be discussed Saturday
when Gov. Orval E. Faubus of
Arkansas and President Eisen
hower hold a dramatic face-to
face meeting at Newport, R.I.
The unusual session was ar
ranged Wednesday during a day
marked by sporadic violence and
a general lessening of tension in
southern localities where efforts
to mix the races in fclassrooms
have roused bitter feelings.
Faubus asked for the meeting
in a telegram and Eisenhower ac
cepted immediately. The talks
may help decide the future of
public school integration in the
South.
The Arkansas governor mes
saged the President he wanted to
abide by court orders directing
integration at Little Rock’s Cen
tral High School “consistent with
my rseponsibilities under the
Constitution of the United States
and that of Arkansas.”
The White House denounced
radio and TV comment that Gov.
Faubus had thrown in the sponge.
The struggle between the fed
eral government and the state
arose after Faubus called out the
National Guard Sept. 2 to prevent
violence and to keep Negroes out
of the high school. A federal
judge ordered the ♦ governor to
show why the troops should not
he removed and set Sept. 20 as
the date for a hearing on a tern
porary injunction.
City court action at Nashville
sent John Kasper, northern seg
regationist, to the workhouse
after he failed to raise a $200 fine
for his part in integration dem
onstrations.
Kasper was fined $50 each on
charges of vagrancy, loitering,
disorderly conduct and offensive
conduct. He still is in $25,000
bond on state charges of inciting
to riot.
City Judge Andrew Doyle told
Kasper that “if I had the author
ity, I would instruct police to take
you by the seat of the britches
and the nape of your neck and
throw you out of town.”
Nashville police used road
blocks to keep all demonstators
away from six grammar schools
where %irst grade classes were
mixed Monday.
Officers reported 39 persons
had been arrested since a pre
dawn dynamite blast Tuesday
wrecked the $500,000 grammar
school where one Negro pupil
was admitted the day before.
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Police at Birmingham, Ala., re
moved 76 Negro high school pu
pils from a bus after rocks were
thrown at white persons. All ex
cept five were released. One was
jailed; four were turned over to
juvenile court.
The Negroes were enroute to
an all-Negro school three white
men reported rocks were thrown
at them from the bus.
Syria’s Top Military Chiefs Say
Their Country Will Never Attack
DAMASCUS, Syria’, UP>—Syria’s
two top military chiefs have re
turned from urgent conferences
in Cairo, where they declared
Syria will never attack anyone,
including Israel.
Brig. Afif Bizry, leftist army
commander, and Lt. Col. Abdel
Hamid Serraj, army intelligence
chief, came back to Damascus
yesterday. There were no details
here on what they talked about
on their hurried trip to Cairo.
Newspapers in the Egyptian
capital, however, quoted them as
saying Syria will not make any
agressive military move with the
arms bought from the Soviet
Union..
There were other signs of an
easing of Middle East tension over
Syria.
Premier Sabri Assali told re
porters after another emergency
meeting of the Cabinet that there
was nothing new in the situation
and "nothing to be worried
about.” Yesterday’s Cabinet ses
sion was the fourth in four days.
The Cairo newspaper A1 Akh
bar Said Serraj firmly denied
charges that the Syrian army is
controlled by Communists.
Referring to increased U.S.
arms shipments to Syria’s neigh
bors, Serraj said: “The imperial
ists forget that Arab will never
kill his Syrian brother.”
The United States early this
week stepped up the arms deliv
eries after expressing fears over
increasingly close Damascus-Mos
cow relations and Soviet arms
shipments to Syria.
Bizry accused U.S. Secretary of
State Dulles of waging a war of
nerves against Syria. The army
chief also asserted the military
aid Syria has received from the
Soviet Union is for defense and
said Russia has never asked Syria
to sacrifice its independence.
FBI Takes Hand in
Investigating Blast
That Wrecked School
WASHINGTON, UFi—'The Jus
tice Department said today it has
information of ‘-‘possible signifi
! cance” concerning the 'dynamit
! ing of the Hattie Cotton School
in Nashville, Tenn., and is turning
it over to local authorities.
This was the first formal an
nouncement that FBI agents had
taken a hand in investigating the
blast Tuesday.
The explosion wrecked the half
million dollar school building. It
followed the admission of a Negro
child to the first grade there.
| Donald Jemeowruk
| Confesses Entering
i Hedreen Residence
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Donald Jemeowruk, 22, of Golo
vin signed a confession that he
entered the residence of Keith
Hedreen early Thursday morning
and when surprised by Mrs. Hed
reen attacked her.
He was arraigned in Commis
missioner’s Court today, charged
with burglary in a dwelling house
and bound over to the grand jury.
Mrs. Hedreen sustained in
juries to her head and throat
when she struggled with an as
sailant in her home early Thurs
day morning.
She is reported to have heard
noises downstairs from her up
stairs bedroom and upon coming
down to investigate, found that
entry had been made into the
house through the toilet which
has an outside service door.
The iassailant is reported to
have jumped her from behind a
chair in the living room attacking
her with a can opener attached
to his key ring.
Mrs. Hedreen did not recog
nize her attacker but he drop
ped his cap in the bathroom on
making his entrance. And it was
the cap which led to his arrest.
Jemeowruk was in the federal
jail having been sentenced to 60
days, 30 days suspended, on a
drunk and disorderly charge only
yesterday.
Woman Gives Birth
To 12th Daught er
MORRISTOWN, NJ., UP>—Mrs.
Raymond Beston gave birth to
her 12th daughter Wednesday—
a medical rarity. She has no sons.
Doctors said the chances of
having 12 of a kind are “slimmer
than slim.”
The mother, 41, and her hus
band,, a night watchman, wanted
a girl.
“We wouldn’t know what to do
with a boy,” she told a reporter.
The Bestons have 11 daughters.
The third child died at birth.
REPORT OF PROGRESS ON
ROADS IN SECOND DIVISION
TRAFFIC COUNT
A recently conducted traffic
count toy the BPR is as follows:
West City Limits, leading
to Municipal Airport 1100
Nome-Kougarok Road 400
East City Limits,
Nome - Solomon 248
Snake River Bridge,
Submarine Road 120
Sunset Road 30
Snake River Road > 20
Ophir Creek Road 9
Shovel Creek Road 5
Deering-Inmachuk Road 3
Candle Road 2
Dave Beck and Son
Enter Pleas of Innocent
On Charges of Fraud
TACOMA, WP>—Dave Beck has
i told a federal judge what he
hopes he can convince a jury next
spring—that he is innocent of a
charge of defrauding the govem
j ment of $184,000 in income taxes,
i The slightly nervous Teamsters
j Union president entered the for
mal plea yesterday. In it he de
i nied charges recently returned in
a seven-count indictment concern
ing his income for 1951-53.
With him in court and also en
i tering innocent pleas to charges
they conspired to aid Beck in thei
evasion were his son, Dave Jr., a
union organizer, and two other
teamster officials.
Navy Reducing
AEW Squadrons
In Both Oceans
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Navy
said today it is reducing by two
the number of aircraft squadrons
assigned to assist in the early
warning radar net both in the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but
said it will maintain a full ade
quate barrier patrol.
It said the four squadrons re
maining will be brought up to full
strength.
There are two major reasons
fo rthe reductions, the Navy said:
1. It has now determined after
actual experience in flying bar
rier patrols that it can fully carry
out its mission with less aircraft
than were originally assigned.
2. Reductions in operating
funds, as. put into effect by the
Defense' Department, require cer
tain reductions in the number of
aircraft and number of men on
duty during this fiscal year.
Two squadrons are required to
each ocean. The planes used on
the Airborne Early Warning
(AEW) operations are Supercon
stellations equipped with radar,
with crews of 26 men.
$ Construction work on Route 97
has progressed to Cottonwood Sta
tion, turnoff from the Seward
Peninsula Railroad to Pilgrim
Hot Springs, the Bureau of Public
Roads, Nome District, announced
Wednesday.
Bulldozers, under the direction
of Foreman B. L. Crosby, are con
structing those sections in this
area that can be built with a bull
dozer.
Bridge to Replace Solomon Ferry
The Grand Central Bridge ap
proaches are being finished by
the scraper crew under the direc
tion of Ralph Smith, who expects
to complete the fills within a day
or so.
Foreman John Norbert is be
ginning work on the Bonanza
Channel Bridge which will re
place the Solomon Ferry. He
plans to complete all work before
freeze-up.
The road up the East F<>rk of
the Solomon River has been
raised an average of five feet for
a distance of 3Vfe miles. This rais
es the grade thru the worst gla
ciering area and is expected to
permit the BPR to open this road
in June instead of July or August
as is now the case.
Foreman “Red” Snyder will
have this grade raise completed
shortly and will then begin plac
ing the approach fills for the
Bonanza Channel Bridge.
Teller Survey
The Teller Survey has pro
gressed to Sullivan City, a color
ful mining camp with the old
stores, saloon etc., still standing.
Locating Engineer Buel Hixson
expects to complete this survey
j to Teller late in October.
Bob Bartlett Expected
Here Tomorrow
Delegate Bob Bartlett is sched
uled to arrive Nome tomorrow /
for a week end visit in this area.
He plans to remain through Mon
day according to information re
ceived today by Jim von der
Heydt.
NORTHERN LIGHTS
SEEN IN STATES
SAN FRANCISCO, MV-North
ern lights—the aurora borealis—
spread across California skies
early today and generated excite
ment among spectators, many of
whom had never soon the phe
nominon before.
The weather bureau here said
it had received reports of the
shimmering light curtains from
all the way to the east coast, from
out in the Pacific halfway to Ha
waii • and from as far south as
Paso Robles, almost 200 miles
j south of here.
Arctic Club Carnval
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 * NOME SCHOOL AUDITORIUM * DOORS OPEN AT 7:30 P.M. * DOOR PRIZES
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