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VOL. LIX No. 112 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957 Per Copy—15^
NINE MEMBERS OF BOYS’ GANG
IMPLICATED IN BREAKING INTO
FOUR NOME WAREHOUSES
Nine juvenile boys, aged from
10 to 16 years, were implicated in
breaking into four warehouses be
longing to the Nome Market,
Charles Fagerstrom and Cavota’s
with damages aggregating $550.
According to the juvenile law
passed by the Last Legislature,
parents are held responsible and
the amount was divided among
the parents. Four of the boys are
supposed to work off their share
of the indebtedness.
One of the warehouses was en
tered by forcing a small boy thru
the opening while others were
opened by a pass key for master
locks. The boys had two of these
pass keys.
The offenders are required to
attend Sunday School wherever
they choose and must report to
their juvenile officer one after
noon a week.
It was revealed at the hearing
that some of the parents do not
know where their children are
for several days at a time; one of
ihem had been sleeping in the old
cars outside of the N. C. Machin
ery Shop at nights.
“It isn’t so much what they
took,” stated Don Hungerford, “as
the malicious destruction and
mess they made.”
General Sees B-58 Jet
As Valuable Weapon
After Fast Test Hop
FORT WORTH, Tex., OP)—After
flying a Convair delta-winged
B-58 at speeds up to 1,500 miles
an hour, Lt. Gen. C. S. Irvine said
Wednesday it “will fill an impor
tant place in our family of weap
ons.”
Irvine, Air Force deputy chief
of staff for materiel, made the ap
praisal on completing a two-hour
test hop in the needle-nosed jet
bomber.
He accompanied Pilot B. A.
Erickson on a dog-leg course
around the nation.
TOWN RELAXES
AFTER CYANIDE
IS CLEARED AWAY
THAMESVIL.L.E, Ont., (5V-The
1,100 residents of this southern
Ontario town heaved a collective
sigh of relief today. Workers had
removed 25,000 pounds of deadly
cyanide dumped in the streets by
a truck-train collision.
Chemical experts said all dan
gers from the poisonous dust and
pellets was past.
The cyanide—55 drums of cop
per cyanide dust and 155 drums
of sodium cyanide in egg-sized
pellets—was aboard a truck that
was chopped in two by a passen
ger train just before midnight
Wednesday.
Workmen using bulldozers and
trucks scraped up the spilled cy
anide yesterday and hauled it to
a disposal ditch two miles from
town.
9 Salvage Workers Die
As Sunken Ship Explodes
CASABLANCA, Morocco, UPV—
Ammunition exploded Wednesday
in a U.S. Liberty ship sunk in the
Allied landings 15 years ago.
The blast killed nine salvage
workers. A diver working on the
hulk 60 feet below the surface
apparently touched off the blast.
Court-Martial Planned
For Six Negro Marines
On Murder Charges
NAHA, Okinawa, Iff)—A court
martial on murder charges was
ordered today for six Negro U.S.
marines accused of attacking two
white American servicemen, kill
ing one and injuring the second.
Hospitalman Adrien R. Nokle
by, 19, Wells County, N.D., died
of injuries after he was beaten,
kicked and stomped in the as
sault at 1:15 a.m. Aug. 4. A second
victim was hospitalized with mi
nor injuries.
Teamster Group Wins Legal Round
In Fight To Block Election of Hoffa
WASHINGTON (#>—A group of
Teamster Union members in New
York is seeking to block elections
of James R. Hof fa as union presi
dent.
Federal District' Judge J. Dick
enson Letts indicated today he
would sign an order directing the
union to show cause why election
of new officers should not be de-1
layed.
The teamsters election conven
tion opens in Miami Sept. 30.
The New York group contends
teamster convention delegates
have been, designated illegally to
rig election of James R. Hoffa as
union president.
Judge Letts directed that at
torneys for the group prepare a
proposed order for his signature.
Letts said Teamsters officials
should be served with notice of
the hearing by Sept. 24. Most of
them are already in Florida for
convention preliminaries.
Godfrey P. Schmidt, attorney
representing a group of New
York area rank and file Team
ster members in the proceedings,
said the order he expected the
judge to sign this afternoon was
a victory.
He said it kept open a strong
possibility that the elections can
be blocked by federal court order
until such time as new convention
delegates can be chosen. He said
present delegates were “hand
picked” by Hoffa, the union’s
Midwest teamster boss, and retir
ing union president Dave Beck.
Both Hoffa and Beck are under
fire by the Senate Rackets Inves
tigating Committee and by the
parent AFL-CIO organisation for
alleged personal use of vast sums
of union funds and misuse of
union powers.
Schmidt told Judge Letts he
feared that unless a restraining
order was issued quickly Hoffa,
Beck and their cohorts might con
vene the convention ahead of its
scheduled Sept. 30 opening and
rush thru Hoffa’s election.
Beck and Hoffa Say
Teamsters Can Stand
Alone If Necessary
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., UP!—'Two
men in the drivers’ seat left no
doubt today of the Teamster
Union’s course, regardless of
whether the crusading AFL-CIO
makes the road a rocky one.
Dave Beck, retiring teamsters
president, and James it. Hoffa,
candidate to succeed him, both
said they hoped the union could
retain AFL-CIO affiliation but
not at the expense of sovereignty.
- “John L. Lewis was able to
stand alone with his (United Mine
Workers) union and in my judg
ment so can we if necessary,”
Beck told newsmen as he arrived
yesterday for conferences prelim
inary to the teamsters convention
that opens here Sept. 30.
“It’s up to the delegates of this
convention to decide who they
want for general president of the
Teamsters Union, and no one else
has anything to say about it,”
Hoffa said.
The AFL-CIO Ethical Practices
Committee has attacked both
Hoffa and Beck in its anti-corrup
tion drive.
Scientist Finds Vaccine Against Common Cold Virus
BALTIMORE, UPI—A 34-year
old Johns Hopkins scientist has
developed a vaccine which he said
showed it was highly effective
against a major common cold
virus.
Dr. Winston H. Price of the
Hopkins School of Hygiene and
Public Health said he has:.
1. Isolated the first "true"
virus of the common cold— one
responsible for 30 percent of
the cases he has studied over a
two-year period.
2. Developed a vaccine which, ;
in controlled tests on more than
400 persons, prevented colds
caused by the "JH virus" in 80
percent of the cases.
The possibility of mass produc
ing the vaccine is very good, Dr.
Price indicated, altho he begged
off answering questions about
commercial production.
But the scientists said the JH
virus has been sent to other lab
oratories and they have been able
to cultivate it using the methods
developed here.
Immunity is produced from
two shots of the vaccine, the
second following the first by
four weeks. Dr. Price said. He
could not say how long the im
munity would last.
Dr. Price said the vaccine was
made from killed JH virus and
produced no symptoms, discom
fort or side effects whatsoever in
persons who received it.
Reaction of the medical world
was as cautious as it was scarce.
Most researchers and virus ex
perts declined comment until they
have seen Dr. Price’s report.
HEARING OPENS ON
SCHOOL INTEGRATION
IN LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., OJV-The
history making hearing on a re
quested injunction against Gov.
Orval Faubus opened in U.S. Dis
trict Court at 10:04 a.m. today
with Faubus absent.
The governor was under sum
mons to appear in the case in
which the government is seeking
to enjoin him from further inter
ference with Integration at Little
Rock Central High School.
It was the second consecutive
day on virhich he declined to come
into court.
Governor Refuses Subpoena
Yesterday he refused a federal
court subpoena for another civil
rights lawsuit. The court clerk
said it was permissable for his
attorneys to represent him today.
The courtroom was jam-packed
and corridors outside were filled
Inside the small courtroom, one
side was completely filled with
white spectators, the other side
predominantly by Negroes with a
few white spectators.
Some of the white spectators
were recognized by newsmen as
having been among the crowds
that gathered outside Central
High after it was surrounded by
National Guardsmen.
The jury box was filled entirely
by reporters. No jury is used in
a case of this kind.
First Test of U.S. Authority
The case is the first test of
authority by the U.S. government
with a state government over the
emotion-torn issue of integrating
the public schools.
In one sense, it is the federal
government versus Gov. Faubus*
who, on the night of Sept. 2, sent
National Guardsmen to Central
High with instructions to turn
away Negroes who tried to enroll.
But in a broader sense the issue
goes back thru the pages of a
story as old as the republic itself
—the line of demarcation between
federal and state authority.
Clear and Simple Issue
The issue is clear and simple.
Did Faubus make illegal use of
the National Guard in ordering
the soldiers to keep the Negroes
from entering a school, violating
the Constitutional rights of the
students?
Or did the governor’s mandate
to maintain peace and order in
the state give him the right to use
the Guardsmen on such a mission?
Was there genuine danger that
violence would break out if the
Negroes—10 students who had
been screened and otherwise test
ed by the Little Rock Board of
Education—enrolled in the high
School and sat down in classrooms
beside the white students?
400-Page FBI Report
Faubus insists that he received
warnings, with detailed informa
tion, that this would touch off
violence threatening the safety of
the community.
The government, using FBI
agents, is reported to have
checked the points of this same
information, and to have gathered
other evidence. A 400-page FBI
report is ready for use in court.
Another Month
Needed to Close In
New Federal Bldg.
The new Federal Building,
which has been under construc
tion all summer by the Nels Mor
tenson and Co. of Seattle has the
outside construction of the Jail
and Post Office floors completed.
The top floor, which will house
the Courtroom and offices, has
now been started with the sides
being raised for this part of the
project. After this the roof and
penthouse will complete the clos
ing in of the building.
It is estimated by C. V. Stevens,
construction engineer of General
Service, that about another month
is needed to completely close in
the building.
The boilers have been installed
in the basement as well as a
12,000-gallon oil tank to the west
of the building. This will be put
into operation as soon as a few
additional parts arrive on the last
boat.
BIG YEAR FOR
SPORTING FIREARMS
NEW YORK, UP)—“Nine months
ago we decided that this would be
a big selling year for sporting fire
arms, and we were right.”
So says W. Miller Hurley, vice
president and general manager of
the 91-year-old Winchester-West
ern division of Olin Mathieson
Chemical Corp.
Industry sales are running 10
percent ahead of last year, said
Hurley in an interview.
By ^he industry, he refers to
the 10 manufacturing firms that
sell between $80 and $100 million
worth of guns annually to sports
men. Civilian ammunition sales
add another $100 million to the
business.
A plentiful supply of game is
contributing to the good year,
Hurley said.
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