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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 123 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1953 Per Copy—15^
ALASKA DAY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18
It will be 86 years ago next Sunday, October
18, that the Russian flag was lowered at Sitka
and the Stars and Stripes were raised.
Many things have happened in Alaska during
those 86 years making this historical period a
most colorful one.
Alaska is still being pushed around like a step
child but it has continued to thrive and prosper.
The settlers of Alaska have no doubts about
its future and know that the territory will soon
take its place as one of the richest and most self
sustaining states in the union.
4*2 Mile Tunnel For
Eklutna Power Project
Completed on Schedule
ANCHORAGE, (tf—A 4Vi mile
long tunnel was holed through
Thursday beneath Goat Mountain,
20 miles from Anchorage.
Two crews of veteran miners
broke through the last barrier
separating them in building a
tunnel which will be part of the
$33,000,000 Eklutna hydroelectric
project.
The digging has been going on
for 20 months and was completed
exactly on the date set by the
engineers several months ago.
Bureau of Reclamation officials
said the. engineering accuracy
was excellent—the two sections
met within a half inch of each
other horizontally and vertically.
The tunnel, 10 feet in diameter,
will now receive a concrete lin
ing before it will be ready to
carry water from nearby Lake
Eklutna to the powerhouse on the
Palmer highway.
Since the tunnel work started
in Jan., 1952, difficult earth form
ations and accidents plagued the
crewmen but no lives were lost.
One explosion, however, injured
17 men.
14-Year-Old TV Singer
Charged With Assault
Of 13-Year-Old Girl
LOS ANGELES, UP) — “Why, it
just didn’t happen.”
That’s the response, through an
attorney, of 14 - year - old singer
Jimmy Boyd to a civil suit accus
ing him and two other boys of
having assaulted a 13-year-old
girl.
The freckle - faced television
and recording singer, who became
famous with his rendition of “I
Saw Mommy Kissing Santa
Claus,” was named in a suit filed
in behalf of the girl’s mother. It
demands $35,000 damages and
alleges the girl was taken to a
secluded part of Griffith Park on
Sept. 24, assaulted and beaten.
Named with young Boyd were
Edward Slaughter, 17, and Wes
ley Seville, 16.
Sunday, being Alaska Day,
Territorial Offices will observe
the day by staying closed on
Monday, the 19 th.
Voters MUST Register Before 6 pm Saturday
President Eisenhower
Revisits His Home Town
ABILENE, Kan. UP—Dwight D.
Eisenhower came home Friday
for the first time since his elec
tion to the presidency and this
flag-decked town turned out vir
tually in a body to cheer its na
tive son.
The President spent several
hours reliving his boyhood years
—and sandwiched in a quick kiss
—on the cheek—for a high school
sweeheart, Mrs. Gladys Brooks.
-Mrs. Brooks, now widowed, ran
from the curb to the President’s
car after the chief executive had
strolled through the white frame
family home and visited the sleek
new museum that has been built
on an adjacent lot.
While bystanders cheered, Ei
senhower cordially greeted his
one-time girl friend and gave her
a fast peck on the cheek.
The climax of the visit was
Eisenhower’s stroll through his
old Abilene home, the white
house “on the wrong side of the
railroad tracks” where he and his
brothers—a rambunctious family,
by all accounts—grew to young
manhood.
British Protest Israel
Attack On Arab Village
LONDON, (#)—Britain protested
angrily to Israel Friday against
what the British said appeared to
be “an apparently calculated at
tack” o-n three Jordan villages in
which 56 Arabs were reported
killed and 15 wounded.
The U.N.-sponsored mixed arm
istice commission has already ac
cused Israel of aggression in the
attack, which occurred Wednes
day night. U.N. observers said the
attack was in retaliation for the
slaying of- a Jewish woman and
her two children by Arab raiders.
CORDOVAN CONSIDERED
FOR 2ND DIV. JUDGESHIP
According to the Anchorage
News, Walter Hodge of Cordova
is being considered as* federal
judge for the Second Division.
The report states that Hodge
was endorsed by the Third Divi
sion Republicans at the sajne time
Aimer Peterson was endorsed for
the same position by the Terri
torial Central Republican Com
mittee.
Threatened Break
Cancels Talks
To Anti-Reds
PANMUNJOM, UPi — Thousands
of impassioned North Korean pri
soners threatened to break out of
compounds in the Korean neutral
zone Friday, forcing cancellation
of the second day of Red attempts
to woo them back to Communism.
Menaced by hordes of massed
North Koreans in adjoining com
pounds, an Indian custodian bat
talion was assigned to force 50(^
POWs to hear Red interviewers
was withdrawn.
The Indian Command said
angry prisoners were set to- break
out of three nearby enclosures—
holding up to 7,500 North Koreans
—at the first show of force by
Indians, who were armed with
rifles and tear gas.
“Korean prisoners in all com
pounds of enclosure G were
drawn up in neat rows with the
front ranks of men stripped to
the waist and ready with gloves
to scale or break through the
barbed wire fencing on signal,”
the Indian Command said.
The Neutral Nations Repatria
tion Commission called off Fri
day’s scheduled explanations to
1,000 North Koreans after Maj.
Gen. S. P. Thorat, the Indian
commander, reported that to use
force in such an explosive situa
tion “would undoubtedly result
in heavy casualties.”
Meanwhile, some official U.N.
observers indicated they would
protest if the prisoners were drag
ged forcibly before Red explain
ers.
Thursday, the Indian Command
congratulated its troops on win
ning a battle of wills after 500
angry Chinese were persuaded to
attend Red explanations. But Fri
day, the battle went to the pri
soners, North Koreans this time.
“We’ve done all the appealing
we can,” said Indian Lt. Gen. K.
S. Thimayya.
Bobby Greenlease Grave
Reopened In Search For
Body of Thomas Marsh
KANSAS CITY, UP)—'The lime
filled grave of kidnap victim
Bobby Greenlease was re-opened
Friday, but officers found nothing
to indicate another body had been
buried there.
John Downs, prosecuting attor
ney of Buchanan County, directed
that the grave at St. Joseph, Mo.,
be reopened on the chance that
they might find the body of
Thomas Marsh, an ex-convict first
named by one of the kidnapers
as the slayer of the Greenlease
boy in the $600,000 kidnaping.
Carl Austin Hall, 34, and-Mrs.
Bonnie Brown Heady, 41, have
confessed they committed the
crime, and buried the boy’s body
in the yard of the woman’s home
gt St. Joseph, 60 miles northwest
of here.
Marsh, later absolved by Hall
and Mrs. Heady, has not been
located.
WINSTON CHURCHILL AWARDED
1953 NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE
Hugh J. Wade Removed
As Area Director Indian
Affairs In Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) — John €.
Foster, area director for the In
dian Bureau at Minneapolis, was
named Friday to serve as acting
area director in Alaska.
Secretary of the Interior Mc
Kay anonunced that Foster will
take over his new post at Juneau
Nov. 16 and will serve until selec
tion of a permanent successor to
Hugh J. Wade.
Wade, who has been area direc
tor in Alaska for three years, was
informed recently that for admin
istrative reasons his services will
no longer be required. No rea
sons were given for his dismissal.
Undamage MIG-15 Tested
By U. S. Jet Pilots
TOKYO, UP)—The Far East Air
Forces said Friday test filghts of
the Russian - built MIG - 15 jet
fighter plane flown to South Ko
rea by a deserting North Korean
pilot showed it slower than the
American F-86 Sabre that out
fought it throughout the Korean
fighting.
Gen. O. P. Weyland, FEAF
commander, said extensive tests
of the MIG on Okinawa by Am
erican test pilots furnished the
Air Force with “a great deal of
valuable information” which will
“enable our pilots to devise tactics
to better exploit the F-86 against
the MIG if they ever have to
fight again.”
Dressen Will Manage
Oakland Club in 1954
BROOKLYN, (JV-Charlie Dres
sen was given his official release
as manager of the Brooklyn
Dodgers Friday in order /to be
come manager of the Oakland
club of the Pacific Coast League
in 1954.
Dressen led the Oakland club
to a Pacific Coast League pen
nant in 1950 prior to taking over
the reins of the Dodgers in 1951.
Last Wednesday Dressen and
the Dodgers split over the length
of a new contract.
DEMOS' NEW THEME SONG
KETCHIKAN, LB—Newly elec
ted Precinct Chairman Jake Val
entine told a Democratic caucus
Wednesday night that the meeting
should be opened by singing the
party’s new theme song:
“On Wisconsin.”
196 VOTERS REGISTER
City Clerk Carrie McLain re
ported this morning that 196
voters have registered to date.
For the convenience of the bal
ance of eligible voters who have
not registered, the office of the
City Clerk will be open until six
o’clock tonight and tomorrow.
VOTERS MUST REGISTER IN
ORDER TO VOTE the City Clerk
warns.
By GUSTAV SVENSSON
Stockholm, Sweden, UP)—Prime
Minister Sir Winston Churchill
Thursday was awarded the 1953
Nobel Literature Prize for his
brilliant historical writings.
The famed British war leader
thus became the first maker of
history to receive a Nobel Prize
for reporting it.
The 175,292 - crown ($33,840)
award was announced by the
Swedish Academy after a brief
formal session Thursday after
noon.
The decision was clearly the
most unusual ever taken by the
academy, which has been distrib
uting the literary Nobel prizes
since the turn of the century.
Churchill was chosen winner
from a field of 25 candidates, in
cluding American writers Ernest
Hemingway and Carl Sandburg,
British Novelist Oraham Greene,
Italy’s Alberto Moravia and
France’s Albert Camus.
Only one historian has obtained
the award before Churchill—the
German Theodor Mommsen, who
received it 51 years ago at the age
of 85 for his history of ancient
Rome.
Churchill increased the number
of literary Nobel prizes won by
Britons to six. Only France has
won more—eight.
Churchill has wooed the beauty
of the English language through
much of his 78 crowded years.
The fabulous world statesman,
war leader, one of history’s no
blest orators, painter, star repor
ter, war correspondent and politi
cian once summed up his approach
to writing thus:
“Broadly speaking, the short
words are the best, and the old
words the best of all.”
Churchill’s brilliance as a writer
was overshadowed by his fame as
a statesman. Few people now re
member that a stream of books
began flowing from his pen as far
back as 1898.
Nor do many realize Sir Win
ston earned millions as an author.
He may be the largest individual
dollar earner in the British liter
ary world. His monumental World
War II memoirs alone are believed
to have yielded him almost three
million dollars.
Aussie Labor Wants No
Appeasement of Russia
SYDNEY, Australia, UP) — Two
top Australian labor union chiefs
told U.S. Vice President Richard
Nixon Friday their followers
“don’t want anything that smacks
of appeasement” in dealing with
the Soviet Union.
T. N. P. Dougherty, general
secretary of the Australian Work
ers’ Union, said he told the vice
president: “■The only way to find
out whether the Russian peace
overtures are genuine is to have
experts go through the Soviet
Union and determine the extent
of its military buildup.”