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VOL. LXI No. 117 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1959 Per Copy—154
Dodgers Take 2nd
Series Game to Vie
On Even Terms
CHICAGO, UP) — The Los An
geles Dodgers, the club with a
comeback habit, went out' to
square the World Series in to
day’s second game against the Chi
cago White Sox, winning 4 to 3.
The go-go Sox put away an 11
0 victory in the opener of this
56th World Series yesterday, in
the most one-sided shutout since
the 1934 Series when Dizzy Dean
and'the St. Louis Cardinals beat
Detroit 11-0.
Two tremendous home runs by
Charlie Neal and a pinch-hit
homer by Chuck Essegian gave the
comeback Los Angeles Dodgers
their victory and tied the World
Series at one game each.
R H E
Los Angeles 000 010 300—4 9 1
Chicago 200 000 010—3 8 0
Severe Storms
Slam Into Denver
DENVER, UP) — Storm-battered
Colorado cities called today on
miltary men, state prisoners and
volunteers for help in a mammoth
cleanup job.
Intermittent snow and rain spit
out of leaded skies for the fifth
straight day.
At least five deaths were blamed
on the savage storm that struck
with midwinter fury Monday
night.
Mayor Dick Batterton, who said
Denver’s damage runs into mil
lions, said nearby Lowry Air Force
Base has assigned 50 men to help
the city clean up.
The U. S. Forest Service is
bringing in mechanized equip
ment to dispose of broken limbs
lining almost every street in the
city.
A half-dozen other cities were
in the same plight as Denver.
Streets were plugged with bro
ken branches ripped loose as the
snow, ranging from 15 inches at
Collorado Springs, piled crushing
weight on full-leafed trees.
At Canon City, volunteers from
the State Prison joined city offi
cials in clearing away the bat
tered foliage. City officials said
the job will take a month.
Hoffa Gives Accounting
To Labor Dept.; In Conflict
With News Statements
WASHINGTON, UP) — Team
sters Union President James Hoffa
has reported to the Labor Depart
ment that an incomplete feurvey
by the union has not turned up
any ex-convicts holding union
jobs in conflict with the new labor
law.
That accounting, in a letter to
Secretary of Labor James Mit
chell, appeared on its face to vary
from a statement which Hoffa
himself made at a news confer
ence Monday.
At that time Hoffa said he had
found five of the more than 10,
000 Teamsters officials and em
ployes disqualified. The law bars
any person from holding a union
job within five years after a cri
minal conviction.
He declined to name the five,
but said all the convictions will
be five years old next January.
All the men have been placed on
leave of absence until then,
Hoffa said.
Steelworkers Boss
‘Not Hopeful’ of
Quick Compromise
By JOHN MOODY
PITTSBURGH, UP) — David J.
McDonald, president of the strik
ing United Steelworkers Union,
expressed pessimism today about
a quick end to the nationwide 80
day-old steel strike.
As he arrived at a midtown ho
tel to resume negotiations with the
steel industry representatives, Mc
Donald was asked if he was still
as hopeful as he had been yes
terday.
“Well, I’m afraid I’m not
hopeful,” he replied'
R. Conrad Cooper, chief indus
try negotiator, arrived moments
after McDonald but declined to
comment on possibilities of an
early end to the costly strike.
Today’s session was the third
in two days since President Eis
enhower told both sides he wanted
to see quick progress.
The negotiators moved from
New York to Pittsburgh one day
after President Eisenhower called
both sides to Washington and —
in separate meetings — scolded
them for letting the costly dispute
drag on.
The President returns from a
vacation October 8 and his re
marks were widely interpreted as
meaning the United Steelworkers
and the industry have only until
then to break the long impasse
without direct government inter
vention.
The union is seeking a wage
package improvement that Mc
Donald estimated would cost the
industry about 15 cents an hour
for each man. The industry wants
workers to forego &ny improve
ments that would increase labor
costs.
Marvel of Universe
Still Awes Mortals
In Solar Blackout
Space - minded man stared at
the firmament today as it un
folded one of its most majestic
spectacles—a total eclipse of the
sun.
On both sides of the Atlantic,
observers watched as the moon
slowly blacked out the earth’s
source of light, leaving a radiant
corona shimmering in the dark
ened heavens.
Clouds obscured it for many
ground watchers in the Boston
area, and interfered somewhat
at Canary Island stations off the
coast of Africa — both sites at
which the eclipse was total.
Astronomers and students, how
ever, took to planes to soar above
the clouds for a clear view of the
celestial display.
On the earth below, the dawn
bright landscape turned to night
again as the sun disappeared.
It was so dark at noon on the
streets of Las Palmas, Canary Is
lands, that vehicles had to use
their headlights.
In many other parts of the
world, partial eclipses were seen.
In the Western Hemisphere, the
eclipse was visible in varying de
grees from Greenland to Florida
and as far west as Michigan.
SEATTLE, (#> — Marriage li
cense applications Wednesday in
cluded Wilfred A. Boucher, 25,
Nome, and Jo Ann Peterson, 23,
Sequim, Washington.
City Seeks Good Air View
Of Nome Right NOW
About a month ago the City of
Nome advertised far an aerial
view of Nome, which was to be
used as the cover illustration on
the October issue of “Western
City” magazine. Several pictures
were obtained from Frank
Whaley of Wien Airlines, bUt
word was received today that
they cannot be reproduced satis
factorily for a slick magazine
cover.
The City again is making a
request for several aerial views
of Nome — and they’re needed
right now because the magazine
has already gone to press. Any
one having a good aerial view,
suitable for reproduction, is asked
to notify City Clerk Bob Scott
immediately. The City feels that
a picture of Nome appearing on
the cover of a magazine such as
“Western City” will be very good
publicity indeed.
Atlantic, Gulf Ports
Traffic Frozen In
Sudden Walkout
NEW YORK, UP — Port activity
from Maine to Texas was para
lyzed today by a strike of union
dock workers. A threatened back
to-work movement by a big
Brooklyn local failed to mater
ialize.
The rebellion apparently was
squelched by top union leaders as
the vast shipping tieup entered
its second day on the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts.
An industry official put its cost
at 20 million dollars a day.
The Brooklyn 12,000-man local
of the International Longshore
men’s Association voted Thurs
day to call off the strike in its
territory, possibly as a result of
heavy damage suits threatened by
employers.
It wasn’t clear who ordered
them back, but a few minutes
later the union president, William
V. Bradley, reported from his
Manhattan headquarters that the
strike was 100 per cent effective
from Maine to Brownsville, Tex.
Along the coasts about 200
freighters were tied up. In the
port of New York, largest and
busiest in the nation, only a hand
ful of men were seen, in contrast
to the nearly 20,000* stevedores
employed daily.
The unexpected strike, which
stunned union leaders, waterfront
employers and mediation offi
cials, erupted early Thursday in
ports along the Gulf coast. It be
gan only a few hours after an
agreement reached here for a 15
day contract extension appeared
to have averted the threat of a
general walkout.
Health is Primary Mission
of Eisenhower’s Trip
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., UP —
President Eisenhower’s main mis
sion for today is this# Soak up
more sunshine in big doses.
The President, trying to get rid
of a persistent cold, arranged to
golf again at the challenging El
Dorado Country Club course at
the edge of the picturesque Santa
Rosa Mountains.
And again Eisenhower plans a
match with his host at this desert
resort, George E. Allen; William
E. Robinson of New York, board
chairman of Coca Cola, and Free
man Gosden, Amos of the Amos
and Andy radio team.
Congress Told Danger of Trend in
Reds’ Production Leading U.S. Effort
By EDMOND LE BRETON
WASHINGTON, W — Nikita
Khrushchev’s boast that the Soviet
economy is expanding more rap
idly than that of the United States
finds some support among spe
cialists reporting to Congress.
But the 16 technical papers
made public yesterday by the
Joint Economic Committee do not
reach the sweeping conclusions
the Soviet Premier voiced during
his visit: that Communism will
bury capitalism economically, or
that its pattern of society will take
over, just as capitalism sup
planted feudalism.
The committee had asked for
the analyses as part of a com
parative study it is making of the
Soviet and U. S. economies.
In terms merely of growth in
industrial output — not taking
into account the levels from which
they start nor the uses they find
for their products — the Soviets
show up well in the economic
analyses. But by the same yard
stick their industrial growth rate
exceeded that of the United States
for a time even under the czars.
In one paper prepared for the
committee, G. Warren Nutter of
the University of Virginia con- (
eluded that in the next five years
“it seems reasonably certain that
industrial growth will proceed
more rapidly in the Soviet Union
than in the United States.” But he
found “no definite evidence that
the Soviet economic system has
been able to generate more rapid
industrial growth over the long
run.”
Hans Heymann Jr., of the Rand
Corp., expressed doubt Khrush
chev seriously expects to match
the United States in *per capita
production by 1970. But Heymann
said the danger is not the timing
of such a triumph, but a trend in.
the Soviet favor — “the steady
and progressive diminution of the
U. S. lead,” he said, “would give
an immense boost to Soviet
prestige.” . *
Red Chinese Peace
Dance Tops Day of
Teeth Baring
TOKYO, UP) — To the strains
of “How Good the People’s Com
munes Are,” IWt million Chinese
danced and sang all night in Pei
ping’s Square of Heavenly Peace
to celebrate China’s first 10 years
of Red rule.
The noisy spectacle, which the
Communist New China News
Agency said was repeated
throughout the China mainland,
was witnessed by Soviet Premier
Khrushchev, Red Chinese Chair
man Mao Tze-Tung and other top
Communist from around the
world.
Today Khrushchev and Mao got
down to business again in their
third conference since the Rus
sian leader arrived Wednesday.
The fun-making came after a
huge military demonstration of ar
tillery pieces, tanks, jet bombers
and fighters and a parade of 700,
000 civilian marchers in the Chi
nese capitol.
After the big parade, the Red
news agency reported, “Workers,
students and commune workers
from the vicinity of the city be
gan to flock into the square, bring
ing with them Chinese and West
ern musical instruments.”
Khrushchev and the other Com
munist leaders watched from atop
the high gate in the square.
There was no word of whem
Khrushchev will return to Mos
cow. The Soviet leader came to
Peiping officially to attend yes
terday’s celebration of the 10th
anniversary of the Communist
capture of mainland China.
But he also is telling Mao and
his chief aides about his talks
with President Eisenhower and
his American visit, and presum
ably he is trying to bring Pei
ping’s policy in line with his new
peace line resulting from his
American trip.
NIXON HOME WITH VIRUS
WASHINGTON, UP) — Vice
President Richard M. Nixon can
celed his engagements yesterday
and remained at home because of
what doctors called a touch of
! virus.
Berlin Agreement
Said to be Reached
With Khrushchev
BERLIN, UP) —President Eisen
hower and Soviet Premier Nikita.
Khrushchev have laid the basis,
for an agreement on Berlin, the
West Berlin newspaper Telegraf
reported today from what it called
a reliable source. The Telegraf
has close ties with West Berlin
Mayor Willy Brandt.
According to the newspaper,
there are three main points of an
accord reached at the Camp
David talks:
1. A corridor would be estab
lished across the 110 miles of
Communist East German terri
tory separating West Berlin from
the remainder of West Germany.
2. Western troops would re
main in Berlin, not as occupants,
but to guarantee and supervise
the new arrangements.
3. The United States would not
object to a separate peace treaty
between the Soviet Union and
Communist East Germany.
Such an agreement would prob
ably be apposed by the West Ger
man government as giving in
creased prestige to the Commun
ist German state. It would also>
be interpreted as making the
prospect of reunifying the coun.
try even more remote.
Carolina Firemen Succeed
In Diminishing Gas Blaze
CHARLESTON, S. C., UP) — A
two-million-gallon gasoline tank
fire burned down to a flicker to
day. Firemen a^^peared optimistic
that their long battle would be
won.
Much of the danger of a sym
pathetic explosion and fire in
nearby storage tanks has been
averted.
The tank exploded before dawn
Thursday, destroying three houses
and injuring nine persons.
The cause of the blast, which
occurred not quite two days after
hurricane Gracie hurled itself
upon Charleston, has not been de
termined.
The tank was one of a cluster
of four in the 32-tank Esso Stan
dard Oil Co. refinery on the north
ern outskirts of the city.