Military Asks
‘Father Tom’
For Science Info
ANCHORAGE—The Alaskan Air
Command recently asked help
from Father Thomas P. Cunning
ham, a Jesuit priest. The Air
Force needed information about
setting up a scientific station in
the Arctic Ocean.
The priest received the needed
information through 22 years of
ministering to Eskimos north of
the Arctic Circle. For 10 of these
years he served on Little Diomede
Island in the Bering Sea, only
three miles from Siberia.
He is known to those he serves
as “Father Tom.”
Father Cunningham’s headquar
ters have been at Point Barrow,
since 1954. More than half of the
time, however, he is driving his
dog team to native villages or fly
ing longer hops in bush planes.
Father Cunningham was born
and raised in New Zealand, at
tended school in Belgium, was or
dained in Montreal and first came
to Alaska in 1925.
His travels have taken him to
every corner" of the territory, and
he is one of the few white men
who can talk to the Eskimos in
their own dialect.
He has also written books on
military survival.
New B.C. Railway Link
Opens News Era for
Wealth-Laden Northland
VANCOUVER, B.C., M—A new
era for British Columbia’s wealth
laden northland opened Monday.
The first train rolled over the
$10,000,000, 40-mile extension of
the Pacific Great Eastern Railway
from Vancouver to Squamish, B.C.
And, a start was made from
Dawson Creek, B.C., on the West
Coast Transmission Co.’s $152,
000,000 gas pipeline to link Van
couver with the riches of the
Peace River underground.
On the government-owned PGE,
it was a 44-year-old dream come
true when the last link was forged
and Railway Minister Ralph Chet
wynd rode the first rain from
Squamish to West Vancouver.
The railroad was started in 1912
by a private concern and taken
over by the government during
the first world war.
As for the pipeline, it will not
bring gas to Vancouver until 1957.
In the forests near Dawson Creek
and Fort St. John, drills drive
every day down to the natural gas
trapped beneath a layer of shale,
10,000 feet below the earth’s sur
face.
No one knows the extent of the
giant gas field there Five trillion
cubic feet have already been prov
en and the sedimentary basin
stretches all the way to the arctic
House Committee Votes Down Move
To Send Statehood Bill to Floor
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By Harrison Humphries «
WASHINGTON, (*>—The House
Interior Committee Tuesday voted
down a move to send the Hawaii
Statehood Bill to the House floor.
The 14-11 vote came on a mo
tion by Rep. O’Brien (D-NY>, the
chairman of the Territories Com
mittee, to table a motion by Rep.
Saylor <R-Pa) to take O’Brien’s
statehood bill from the committee.
O’Brien said the Saylor motion
was “a gesture in the dying hours
of this session of Congress.”
“While it might be politically
helpful to some members advocat
ing statehood, it would be an ulti
mate detriment to the statehood
ambitions of the people of Ha
waii,” he said.
O’Brien also said the ultimate
effect of voting for *he Saylor mo
tion to approve Hawaii statehood
would be to vote, against statehood
for Alaska.
Saylor said, however, if his mo
tion were approved he would en
ter a similar motion on behalf of
Military Has Spent
Over $1,300,000,000
In Alaska Since 1940
WASHINGTON, M—'The Army,
Navy and Air Force since 1940
have spent more than $1,300,000,
000 in Alaska construction.
This does not include $51,500,
000 the'three services are asking
for the 12-month period beginning
July 1.
The total was disclosed Tuesday
with he release by the House Ap
propriations Committee of testi
mony given recently by the Air
Force in support of appropriation
requests.
By individual branches, the
post 1940 investment, not includ
ing money sought for the coming
year, includes: Air Force, $805,
000,000; Army, $371,500,000; and
Navy, $185,000,000.
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the Alaska Statehood Bill.
Two* Republicans voted with 12
Democrats to table the Saylor
proposal. Eleven Republican voted
against the O’Brien motion.
Chairman Engle (D-Califi of the
full Interior Committee said he
believed it would be a mistake “to
move unless wc can see our way
to the goal post.”
He said the statehood bill is
major legislation and the present
congressional session is far ad
vanced. He said that advocates of
statehood have 400 years of se
niority against them in the House,
when the years of service of
Speaker Rayburn, former Speaker
i Martin and the chairman and
' ranking Republican member of
! the Rules Committee and other
, leaders are added up.
) Saylor said the full committee’s
j action amounted under the House
' rules to an instruction to the sub
| committee not to. give any further
| consideration to the Hawaii State
i hood bill at thi session of Con
gress.
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5-Foot Pet Boa Hides
For Week to Shed Skin
ORANGE, N.J., tAV-Conrad, a
boa constrictor, is back with the
Ernest Hofmanns after a week’s
disappearance. —
When five-footer Conrad disap
peared the Hofmann family was
plunged in gloom. But Ernest Hof
mann, a student of reptilian hab
its, took thought and decided that
Conrad must have sneaked away
to shed its skin.
A likely place for the under
taking, Hofmann considered, was
the deeper recesses of the flooring
where Conrad normally lay near
an opening.
So Hofmann tore up sections of
the floor and there was the snake,
only half shed and a sorry sight.
The Hofmanns were so happy
io see Conrad all they could think
of was a good meal for their pet
—and no scolding.
Mrs. Sipprell Opens Alaska
Steamshop Office Here
Mrs. Walter Sipprell was an
arrival in town last week and she
Jias opened the Alaska Steam Of
fice in preparation for the 1956
season. Walter Sipprell is now at
Bethel attending the discharging
of an Alaska Line vessel there.
He is expected to come to Nome
when the SS Tonsina arrives.
Argentine Authorities
Push Hunt for Second
Top Rebel Leader
BUENOS AIRES, IP—Argentine
authorities pushed a dogged hunt
today for a second top leader of
last weekend's rebellion after seiz
ing and speedily executing his
chief in the uprising.
Still sought was Gen. Raul Tan
•co, an army leader in the regime
of ousted President Juan Peron,
Executed by a firing squad last
night was Gen. Juan Joee Valle,
who had hoped to become presi
dent if the revolt succeeded. Fed
eral spokesmen said police were
fat hot pursuit of Taneo but they
gave no details. The government
earlier asserted Taneo had bec.i
selected to take over as vice presi
dent under Valle
Monday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 4-1. Beaton 1-5
Washington 44. Kansas City 3-1
Baltimore 1, Detroit 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn A St Lottie •
Philadelphia A Milwaukee 3
Tuesday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Kansas City A Washington 3
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Detroit A Bauuasore I
Mew York A Chicago S
Boston A Cleveland 7
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago A New York 3
Brooklyn A St. Louis 4
Philadelphia A Cincinnati 3
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 7, Portland 4
Sacramento A V—eaireer 4
Hollywood A San Diego 5
San Franc wro A Seattle 3
Legal Bleaks at The Neat Nugget
Traveling Truman
Calls Russian Claim
Pure Propaganda Lie
PARIS, Wft—'“Pure propaganda
and just a lie out of the whole
| cloth in the usual Russian man
! ner.” That was Harry Truman’s
j reply today to Moscow radio’s
claim Russia had tried to stop the
i United States from dropping the
j atomic bomb on Japan.
The Soviet radio, in a Japanese
1 language broadcast heard in To
kyo, charged the United States
went ahead with the atomic bomb
ing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
“to bring fear of atomic weapons
and use (that fear) as a political
threat on peoples of various coun
tries.”
The former President, who
made the final decision to drop
the bomb, told newsmen in his
hotel lobby here the Russians then
“knew nothing about the atomic
bomb.”
PAN AMERICAN
Passengers arriving Tuesday:
Paul Glavinovich, John White,
i Schultz, Murphy, Bigford, Nulte,
! Langren, Lund, Tripp.
To Fairbanks: Albin Poison,
Hazel Snyder, Deryl Ivey, R.
Simpleman, Sgt. Stahr, Amos
Ramsey, Wm. Collins.
To Seattle: Mrs. Violet Glass,
Kenneth King, Mr. Wiche-s, Al
bert Pastad, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Mitchell and three children, and
Frank Carlson.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Unalakleet: Sophie Wall.
From McGrath: E. Williams and
A. Cumminifs.
From Anchorage: Flora Bur
nett, Amolld Nelson, Harry Mar
tin, Robt. DeMlnt. H. G. Gabriel
i son, Sgt. Walter Farion.
To Anchorage: T. R. Haynte,
; Bill Anaruk, Ray Malone, D. E
; Farter, Herb Doddridge, Mr. and
i Mrs. Peter Curran, Jessie Moore,
j Joe Oneha.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy tonight and to
morrow with widely scattered
I rain shower*. Temperatures in
the 44)’t tonight rising to the tO’i
| Thursday.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
I? am today precipitation 2 in
Highest temperature 62, lowest 31
Max wind 13 mph from the S W
Sunrise at I 22 am, sunact at
I 10:42 pm
A year ago today, high 33, tow
36 Extremes this date since 1007
highest 72 in 1040, lowest 28 in
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