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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 52 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956 Per Copy—15*
Martin Katexae
Is Suicide At
King Is. Village
Martin Katexae of King Island
is reported to have killed himself
with a .22 rifle some time during
the night at his home at King
Island Village.
His wife, Rose, and four chil
dren were there and according
to her statement he had been up
during the night getting wood and
she found his body early this mor
ning when she awoke and found
the house cold.
A coroner’s jury meeting at
2:30 this afternoon will seek to
determine if it was suicide.
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DID TURBULENCE ELIMINATE
TURBULENCE ELIMINATOR?
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., UP)—
Did turbulence eliminate the tur
bulence eliminator?
This will be one question in a
Navy inquiry into Lt. Bernard
Tesch’s mishap yesterday with a
new Delta Wing Douglas F-4D jet
fighter.
The plane’s heavily-weighted
“turbulence eliminator” and an
18-foot wing tank pulled free
from Tesch’s plane at 35,000 feet.
Both fell harmlessly into a field
near Morgan Hill.
PUPILS' GUM CHEWING
CAUSES LUNCH PRICE RAISE
MEADVILLE, Pa. (#>—Pupils in
Meadville High School were told
yesterday they faced an increase
in school cafeteria lunch prices
because of their gum chewing
habits. Seems the pupils leave
wads on cafeteria plates and it
was gumming up the dishwashing
machines.
John Frey, 61, Plans
Walk From Seattle
To Fairbanks in 3 Months
SEATTLE, OP—John Frey left
here today for Fairbanks and
points north—on foot!
The 61-year-old, sun-bronzed
hiker is a retired* surveyor from
Lincoln, Neb. He took up walking
as a full-time hobby two years
ago and since has covered 4,956
miles.
“And I never want to stop
walking,” Frey said firmly.
Frey has charted a course thru
British Columbia’s Fraser River
canyon and then along the Alaska
Highway. He expects to make
Fairbanks 2,300 miles and three
months from today.
“After Fairbanks, I may con
tinue to Fort Yukon because I
want to get to a town inside the
Arctic Circle,” Frey added.
Frey sets a pace that will take
him 22 miles or so in an 8Vfc-hour
day.
Young Motorist Drives
Thru Whirling Propeller
Of Parked Airliner
DENVER, HP)—A 21-year-old
motorist who drove throught the
whirling propeller of a parked
airliner last March 11 was fined
$200 in traffic court yesterday.
Bryce L. Bredehoft was convict
ed of reckless driving and destroy
ing city and private property.
Police said he ran his car thru
a fence surrounding the airport
and onto a runway where a giant
Trans-World Airways plane was
warming up. The propeller cut
huge slices in the car but Brede
hoft emerged with only head cuts.
He testified he had attended a
party and remembered nothing of
the incident.
Former‘Veep" Alben Barkley Collapses
And Dies While Making Political Talk
LEXINGTON, Va„ Wl — Sen.
Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, a
former Vice President of the
United States, collapsed and died
Monday on a political platform
which had known his tread for 51
years.
Barkley, 78, slumped to the
floor after a keynote address to
Washington and Lee University
students assembled in a mock
Democratic national convention.
Dr. Robert Munger, who arrived
seven minutes later as ambulance
attendants were attempting to ad
minister oxygen, said he died of
a heart attack.
Tuesday the storied “Veep” of
the Truman administration made
his final journey to Washington.
Burial will toe Friday in Barkley’s
home town, Paducah, Ky.
Barkley, who described himself
as “an old firehorse who has
heard the bell,” told the W & L
students he had arrived here un
certain about going to the Demo
cratic national convention in Chi
cago in August—but. had made up
his mind to attend. He said he
wouldn’t be a candidate for nom
ination for the presidency.
There were cries of “No, no,”
and when he had quieted the tu
mult he said:
“I have been in years gone by.
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WASHINGTON, UP>—The high
and mighty of official Washington,
led by President Eisenhower, and
scores of plain people paid a final
tribute today to Alben W. Bark
ley.
The President, diplomats, sena
tors, Cabinet members and Su
preme Court justices filled the
pews in the Foundry Methodist
Church at funeral services for
the storied “Veep” of the Truman
Administration.
And outside the gray stone
church, in a drizzle of rain, other
Americans stood silent.
Barkley’s body was to be re
moved later today, by a special
congressional train, to his home
town of Paducah, Kentucky, for
burial.
Unusual Snowfall Brings
Pennies From Heaven
MENOMINEE, Michigan, (A*>—It
snowed pennies from heaven in
Menominee County—a million of
them.
The unusual 4.2-inch fall in this
upper peninsula area near the
Wisconsin border Sunday brought
the year’s total to 60.3 inches.
That’s just more than the 60-inch
minimum required to qualify for
$10,000 in state aid for snow re
moval next year.
ONLY TWO
GUESS RIGHT
ON NENANA 1GE
(By the Associated Press)
NENANA—The ice at
Nenana went out yester
day at 11:24 a.m., bring
an end to this year’s ter
ritory-wide contest of
guessing.
Of the 104,000 guesses
made, two were correct.
They were made by Lil
lian Samuelson, of An
chorage, and the Savella
Pool, of Fairbanks.
Munz Airways
Plans Expansion
Says Jack Whaley
J J
William Munz has assumed the
ownership of Munz Airways again
with the retirement of Howard
Mays who has been operating the
business for the past year.
Jack Whaley, who has resigned
his executive position with Wien
Airlines, will be the new man
ager of Munz Airways, and Stan
ley Jenkins, formerly a mechanic
with Wien’s will be in charge of
maintenance.
Whaley stated this morning
that plans have been completed
to overhaul all present equipment
and maintain facilities for repair
ing aircraft other than their own.
He also stated that the company
is planning extensive expansion
with the first addition in equip
ment to be a new Cessna 180"
which has both wheels and skis,
which means that at this time of
year they can take off from the
Nome field on wheels and land in
a remote area on skis if neces
sary.
Both Whaley’s and Jenkins’
families will join them at Nome
as soon as housing is acquired.
Insurance Man
Predicts Inflation
Coming to U.S.
WASHINGTON, —'The board
chairman of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United
States said today “typical storm
signals of inflation are flying.”
Urging government action to
hold down rising prices, Ray D.
Murphy suggested in an address
at t^>e U.S. Chamber of Commerce
annual meeting that Congress
should arm the Federal Reserve
Board with standby power to con
trol consumer installment credit
and home mortgage terms.
“We are, of course, a rapidly
growing country, but the perform
ance in 1955 represented more
than normal growth,” he said. “It
was achieved by going heavily
into debt.”
The 1956 outlook is for a fur
ther boom in plant and equipment
spending, a sharp rise in steel
prices, and higher prices for oil
and other commodities, he added.
Dulles Flies to Paris; May Extend
NATO Politically and Economically
PARIS, Wl—U.S. Secretary of
§tate Dulles flew into Paris today
tb try to breathe some new life
into the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
Dulles came here for a weekend
meeting of the NATO Council of
Foreign Ministers, which may ex
pand the military alliance into
political and economic fields. Pos
sibly a new organization could
emerge in time.
Dulles was pictured in Wash
ington as coming to the meeting
of the 15-nation NATO Council
Friday without any specific blue
print. Officials there said he was
anxious to hear the views of other
governments.
But the secretary’s remarks on
leaving the U.S. capital and a
White House statement made it
Hickel Still Leads
Benson for Republican
National Committeeman
Returns from five more small
first division precincts cut four
more votes today from Walter
Hickel’s slim lead over Henry
Benson for Republican national
committeeman.
The Anchorage businessman’s
lead dropped to 344 as he picked
up 8 more votes while Benson was
getting 12.
It made the total for 219 of the
territory’s 280 precincts: Hickel
3,908; Benson 3,664.
Absentee ballots are expected
to decide the contest.
The clerk of court at Juneau
said today the 185 absentees in the
First Division will be counted
Tuesday.
Fairbanks reported 176 absen
tees for the Fourth Division, with
the total in the more populous
Third Division expected to be the
highest of all—and it is Hickel
territory.
Revenue Service
Slaps Liens on
Gov. Lee Properly
SALT LAKE CITY, UP)—Utah’s
Gov. J. Bracken Lee has accused
the federal government of trying
to duck a court test of the consti
tutionality of using income taxes
to finance its foreign aid program.
Lee made the accusation yester
day after the Internal Revenue
Service slapped liens on his prop
erty to collect the $1,203.10 it says
he owes in income taxes. The liens
didn’t have to be procured in
court.
The Republican governor says
he is refusing to pay the tax in
hopes of winning a court test of
the government’s right to spend
tax money for foreign aid.
Lee declared yesterday:
“As matters stand, a citizen
seemingly has no means to test a
constitutional question on govern
ment spending, despite the fact
our government derives its pow
ers from the people.”
He said the Internal Revenue
Service “has been vested with
more power than any government
agency should have.”
clear development of a program
of economic and possibly political
action for the “North Atlantic
community” would be given in
tensive study.
The use of the term “North At
lantic community” in both state
ments was considered significant.
That community includes such
non-NATO members as Spjin,
Sweden and Switzerland.
However, Dulles made it plain
he still regards the military as
pects of the Nato alliance as essen
pects of the NATO alliance as
essential. He said NATO’s strength
and unity had contributed to a
friendlier Soviet policy.
Other problems such as the Pal
estine and Cyprus crises and Rus
sian policy were certain to draw
Dulles’ attention also, particularly
at preliminary meetings with
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn
i Lloyd and French Foreign Minis
: ter Christian Pineau.
Lebanon Sides
With Syria
Against Israel
JERUSALEM, W)—Lebanon to
day lined up formally with Syria
in refusing to pledge a cease-fire
with Israel unless the Israelis
promise not to divert the Jordan
River.
Israel was reported to have al
ready turned down the Syrian de
mand for such a pledge.
Lebanon’s condition for a cease
fire agreement was conveyed in a
note to U.N. Secretary Genera!
Dag Hammarskjold as he left Jer
usalem for Damascus and last
minute talks with Syrian leaders
in the water dispute. The Leba
nese communication added urgen
cy to his appeal to Syria for an
unconditional cease-fire.
After Hammarskjold arrived in
Damascus, he and his aides imme
diately drove from the airport to
the Foreign Ministry to meet Syr
ian officials.
He had planned to leave today
for Rome to prepare his report for
the U.N. Security Council on his
Middle East peace mission.
Lebanon’s action was regarded
as significant chiefly for the added
support it gives Syria, since only
minor border incidents have oc
curred on the Israeli - Lebanon
frontier.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Sa
lim Lahoud said in his message
Lebanon supports Syria in de
manding a written pledge Israel
will not resume work on the Jor
dan River project. He also said
Lebanon reserves the right of self
defense against any Israeli at
tack.
Auto Race in Italy
Brings Death to Six
RAVANNA, Italy, UPt—British
race driver John Heath died today
of injuries received in Sunday’s
Mille Miglia automobile road race,
the bloodiest in 18 years.
Two other drivers, a German
and a Swiss, and three spectators
were killed. Nine drivers and
eight spectators were injured.