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Musical Treat
Coming to Nome
On May 13
The Nome Rotary Club has an
nounced they are sponsoring a
musical concert on May 13. Nome
will be treated to a five-man wind
ensemble of the San Francisco
Symphony which is one of the
concerts sponsored in Alaska by
the Alaska Music Trail series.
The artists who will perform
are Merrill Jordon, flute; Merrill
Remington, oboe; Frealon Bib
bins, clarinet; Raymond Ojeda,
bassoon, and William Sabatini,
French horn. .
The ensemble was founded in
1938 by Pierre Monteaux, the fa
mous conductor of the San Fran
cisco Symphony. The artists—all
first-chair members—came from
such famous orchestras as the
National Symphony, Columbia
Broadcasting, NBC Orchestra, the
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the
Berkshire Music Center, Buffalo
Symphony and Curtis School of
. Music.
This will be a rare treat and
the first of the Alaska Music Trail
to visit Nome. Ticket sale will be
announced next week.
Striking Texas Convicts,
Who Demanded “Three
Squares” a Day, Subdued
HUNTSVILLE, Tex., (JV-Meek
and hungry, 52 tough convicts
who demonstrated for nearly 30
hours for “three squares” a day
ate two meals today in their dark
maximum security cells.
Sullen, naked and thirsty from
the hot Texas sun, they returned
to their cells quietly yesterday
after giving up nearly 30 hours
after their ^bloodless strike began.
The convicts Wednesday re
fused to return to their cells at
the state prison after an exer
cise period. T.hey chanted that
they wanted three square meals
a day instead of the two they
received. Prison system manager
O. (B. Ellis told them “nothing
doing.”
Ellis* explained to newsmen that
the maximum security prisoners,
most of them in solitary confine
ment much of the time, did no
work and did not need the three
meals a day which working con
victs on the state’s prison farms
get.
Ellis safd the convicts a 11
would receive the same punish
ment: loss of reading and exercise
privileges and meals served in
their cells for 30 days.
Alaska Children To Get
Two Doses Salk Vaccine
JUNEAU, UP) — Two doses of
Salk polio vaccine, at intervals
of two to four weeks, were de
creed today for the Alaska lower
grade children who are to receive
the inoculations.
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Alaska’s
health commissioner, announced
the two-shot technique after re
civing word that it is to be the
national procedure. It was the
recommendation of Dr. Jonas
Salk, the discoverer of the vac
cine.
"Desperadoes of the West”
NEW SERIAL _ AT THE THEATER _ STARTS TONIGHT
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Man Chosen As Fifth
Member ESC Commission
Declines The Position
KETCHIKAN, UP—R. L. Jern
berg, chairman of the Alaska Un
employment Security Commis
sion, said today there will be a
delay in the selection of a fifth
commission member because the
man agreed upon by the present
four members has declined the
position.
The ESC law passed by the re
cent special session of the legis
lature provides tor a fifth mem
ber to be selected by the present
four members to represent the
public and serve as chairman.
The present commission is com
posed of two labor and two man
agement members: It has been
deadlocked over major adminis
trative policies.
Demos Told There
Is Definite Trend
To Their Party
WASHINGTON, UP)—Democrats
assembled for a two - day rally
heard from national chairman
Paul M. Butler today that pros
pects for a Democratic victory in.
1956 “are bright regardless of
wljo is heading the Republican
ticket.”
In a report prepared for a meet
ing of the party’s national com
mittee, Butler said Democratic
hopes are high despite what he
called “efforts of the high-priced
Republican propaganda experts to
persuade the press and public”
that President Eisenhower is un
! beatable.
Butler said there is a “definite
Democratic trend running right
now,” and added the Republican j
administration is “setting the j
same old pattern—service to the
lew—which has brought the Re
publican party to so many nation
al defeats in the past few years.”
“You do not have to look far
to see that the issues which
brought defeat to Thomas E.
Dewey and victory to Harry S.
Truman in 1948 are going to be
very much in the public eye dur
ing the 1956 campaign,” he said.
Wife of Jimmy Doolittle
To Visit Nome April 26-28
Mrs. James Doolittle, wife of
Gen. James Doolittle, a former
Nomeite and well-known Alas
kan, accompanied by wives of
other distinguished military men
in the territory, are scheduled to
come to Nome on a special tour
on April 26th and remain until
April 28th.
Barbara Anderson of Wien Air
lines heads the reception commit
tee which is planning a very full
program for the group. She will
be assisted by several organiza
tions in the community as well as
individual^ to make their visit as
interesting as possible.
Other members of the party in
clude Mrs. Joseph Atkinson, wife
of Gen. J. H. Atkinson, command
er in chief of Alaska’s armed
forces; Mrs, Alan Bennet, wife of
Gen. T. Alan Bennet, 11th Air
Division commander; Mrs. Hugh
Parker, wife of Gen. Hugh Park
er, deputy commander, Alaska
Air Command.
Democrat Leader
Backs Ike's Policy
On Quemoy, Matsu
AUGUSTA, Ga., (* — Backing
President Eisenhower, Senator
George (D-Ga) said last night the
cause of peace would not be ad
vanced by any public announce
ment of whether the U.S. would
defend Quemoy and Matsu.
And George, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee suggested the issue of
whether those Chinese Nationalist
offshore islands should be defend
ed has become a “football of
politics.”
The Democratic congressional
leader’s stand amounted to indir
ect criticism of such Republican
Senators as Knowland of Califor
nia and Bridges of New Hamp
shire. Both GOP leaders have
called for a declaration of the
administration’s intentions re
garding Quemoy and Matsu.
George said he knows quite
well what Eisenhower will do if
and when he is faced with a
decision whether to defend the
off-shore islands.
“He will do what good men
always do,” George declared, his
voice breaking with emotion. “He
will go into his closet and, face
to face with his God, make his
decision.
“And I for one don’t want to
force his hand in making that
decision.”
The President has given no hint
of his plans, but he does have
the authorization of Congress to
defend “related areas” in any
general # defense of Formosa
against any assault by Red China.
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The Korean War
Cost The U. S.
18 Billion Dollars
PHILADELPHIA,'LP) — The
United States spent about 18 bil
lion dollars to fight the Korean
war, Asst. Secretary of Defense
H. Struve Hensel estimated today
The Army alone spent more
than 16 billions, not including
the pay of troops, Hensel com
mented in an address prepared
for the World Affairs Council,
and he added: “the war in Korea
was a small war; for a long time
we did not even regard it as a
real war,”
During the last 5Vz years, Hen
sel said, the United States has
spent about 172 billion dollars on
its own forces “and only about
11 billion dollars in the creation
of military strength among our
allies.” Member nations of the
North Atlantic Treaty organiza
tions in Europe during the same
period spent about 35 billions of
the^r own budgets, Hensel esti
mated.
He said President Eisenhower’s
“request for new military alliance
appropriations in the coming fis
cal year, $1,400,000,000, is modest
— modest in the abstract, more
modest when laid alongside our
own defense budget of approxi
mately’ 35 billion dollars, and still
more modest when compared with
the cost of even a small war.”
B-47 Jet Bomber Lands
At Nome Field On Return
From Flight To Tokyo
The first B-47 to land at Nome
Field brought out an audience to
see the big craft make a landing
here with the aid of parachutes to
cut down the speed.
The huge ship, which can fly
at 600 miles an hour, is reported
to have been to Tokyo and back
yesterday and was enroute to its
Alaskan base, when it landed
I here. It left late last night.
Warren Says He
Will Not Be A
Candidate In ’56
WASHINGTON, MV-Chief Jus
tice Earl Warren today issued a
statement saying he will not be a
candidate for President of the
United States and that “I will
not change this decision under
any circumstances or conditions.”
The Supreme Court chief issued
his statement following publica
tion of a poll last Wednesday
which indicated that he was first
choice for the Republican nomin
ation in 1956 if President Eisen
hower decided not to run for a
second time.
Warren is a former Republican
; governor of California. He ran for
vice president in 1948 on the Re
publican ticket with Thomas E.
Dewey, then governor of New
York.
The text of Warren’s statement:
“My name has been used as a
possible candidate for the presi
dency.
“This has been a matter of em
barrassment to me because it re
flects upon the performance of
my duties as Chief Justice of the
United States.
“When I accepted that position,
it was with the fixed purpose of
leaving politics permanently for
service on the court. That is still
my purpose. It is irrevocable. I
will not change it under any cir
cumstances or conditions.
“Be they many or few, the re
maining useful years of my life
are dedicate to the service of the
Supreme Court of the United
States, in which work I am in
creasingly happy.”
The Gallup poll published last
Wednesday said 25 per cent of
Republicans and 31 per cent of
independent voters covered by
the survey favored Warren for
the nomination-if President Eisen
hower should decide not to run
again.
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ILL HEALTH FORCES A.V.A.
PRESIDENT TO RESIGN
JUNEAU, lif)—The Alaska Visi
tors’ Assn, reported yesterday that
Marshall Crutcher’s physician has
advised him that he no longer will
be able to carry on with his
duties as president of the organi
zation.
The Kodiak banker, who spent
a strenuous 60 days as legisla
tive representative of the Alaska
Bankers’ Assn., has been con
fined to his hotel room all this
week. His son, Bayard, arrived in
Juneau today to accompany him
to the states when he is able to
travel. There were no details on
the nature of his illness.
Two Minors Die
At Barrow From
Poisoned Alcohol
Two are dead, three are critic
ally ill and eight are hospitalized
at Point Barrow from poisoned
alcohol, according to advices re
ceived here today.
The report also said that all of
the victims are minors and that
the alcohol was obtained from a
civilian worker in the area, who
is being detained.
U:S. Attorney Russell Hermann
is scheduled to leave immediately
for Barrow, accompanied by dep
uty marshal Maurice Kelliher.
U.S. Marshal Ben Mozee said
here today that there is no deputy
marshal stationed at Barrow al
though a request has been made
several times in the past for a
deputy to be placed there.
Government Will Seek
Fairest Method of
Distributing Vaccine
WASHINGTON, UV-The fair
est possible method of distribut
ing supplies of Salk polio vaccine
will be sought at a government
sponsored meeting- of doctors,
health officials and manufactur
ers here on April 22.
Announcing this last night, Sec
retary of Welfare Hobby said:
“The objective . . . will be to
carry out the President’s direc
tive to explore every possible
means for assuring equal oppor
tunity for immunization of all
those who wish it as quickly as
possible.”
The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis endorsed yes
terday the method recommended
by Dr. Jonas Salk, discoverer of
the vaccine. The previous tests
have involved three injections
over a period of a few weeks.
The new method calls for two
shots, two to four weeks apart,
with a third to be administered
seven months later as a “booster.”
PACHYDERM'S PROBOSCIS
PICKS PURSE FROM POCKET
COLUMBUS, Ohio, UPI — Ever
have your pocket picked by an
elephant?
A 12 - year - old Canadian girl
says it happened to her.
In a letter to city council yes
terday, Grace Russ of London,
Ontario, said she (was touring the
Columbus zoo one day last week
when:
“One of the elephants grabbed
, my wallet and swallowed it.”
Grace says she lost $5.60 ahd
some pictures. She asked city
council to reimburse her. Council
will consider the clain next Mon
day.
THURSDAY BASEBALL
American League
Boston 8, New York 4
Cleveland 5, Detroit 3
Chicago 7, Kansas City 1
National League
Chicago 6, Cincinnati 4
Brooklyn 10, New York 8
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3
St. Louis, 8, Milwaukee 7
Pacific Coast League
Los Angeles 4, San Diego 1
Sacramento 4, Oakland 3
; San Francisco 4, Portland 3
Hollywood 7, Seattle 2