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South Koreans Erect
12-Foot Bronze Statue
To Gen. MacArthur
NICHON, Korea, LTV—A 12-foot
statue in bronze of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur was unveiled yester
day at this west coast port where
his U.N. army staged its famous
landing seven years ago.
President Syngman Rhee said
in a speech read for him at the
ceremonies that the landing was
“one of the most memorable feats
in the history of warfare.”
The surprise landing broke the
back of the invading North Kor
ean army and would have spelled
complete victory in the Korean
War had not the Chinese Commu
nists intervened.
The $70,000 for the statue was
raised'by a committee of govern
ment officials and civil leaders
who received donations from
Koreans of all walks of life.
MacArthur was invited but was
-unable to attend.
Huge U.S. Base
In Spain Can
Handle A-Bombers
TORREJON, Spain, (JV-U. S.
airmen yesterday moved into the
first of four huge air bases being
built in Spain to handle the atom
ic jet bombers of the Strategic
Air Command.
About 1,000 airmen moved from
temporary quarters in Madrid to
this steadily growing base 15
miles northeast of the Spanish
capital. The Torrejon base will be
virtually complete by next sum
mer.
This largest air base in Spain
has a 13,400-foot runway, the
longest in Europe.
Planes and other equipment of
the UJS. 16th Air Force will move
in soon from Getafe Airport 15
miles south of Madrid.
The $62 million base has under
ground ammunition storage facil
ties and quarters for 4,000 airmen
and 500 officers. It is equipped to
handle large numbers of bomber
crews who will come here from
U.S. Strategic Air Command bas
es for training.
M & M Bank
Commended for
Year of Progress
According to a banking publi
cation for the Pacific Coast and
Alaska, the “Pacific Bank and
Business,” Alaskan banks had a
boost in deposits from $155 mil
lion to $163 million in the last
half of 1956.
One of the banks showing a
change with a substantial gain is
the “Miners and Merchants Bank
of Nome which is now in 14th
place. It became an affiliate of
Alaska National Bank of Fair
banks about a year ago, put the
heat on loan portfolio which was
boosted by 49 percent for the
year. Executive Vice President
Jim Manning introduced consum
er loans, and qualified for FHA
and otherwise brought some real
banking into the community.”
Dr. Woodcock
Opens Office At
MMM Hospital
It’s safe to get sick in Nome
now. Dr. William Woodcock of
Hot Springs, Ark., arrived Satur
day with Pan American Airways
and has opened his office in the
MMM Hospital.
Dr. Woodcock replaces Dr. Fred
Langsam who left about ttoo
months ago. During the interval
the community is indebted to
Mrs. Opal Catlin, superintendent
of the MMM Hospital, who has
kept a constant vigil over the
ills of the community with an
open ear and instant alertness.
She has made use of all visiting
doctors and medical men and
women in the vicinity, on land
and sea.
She has promptly dispatched
| emergency and serious cases to
other hospitals where there have
been doctors.
Dr. Woodcock, who was here a
month ago to look over the situa
tion, has closed his medical prac
tice in Arkansas to come, up to
Nome. He says that until the
backlog of work eases up here he
will be available from 9 until 12
o’clock in the morning and from
2 till 5 o’clock in the afternoon,
six days a week.
Delegate Bartlett
Here Until Tomorrow
Delegate E. L. Bartlett arrived
late Saturday evening from An
chorage and has been visiting
with his many friends in Nome.
He was scheduled to talk infor
mally at the Chamber of Com
merce noon luncheon today.
He plans to remain through to
morrow before continuing on his
annual trip through the territory.
He may be contacted at the Po
laris Hotel.
Man Found Trapped
Inside Burning Plane
South of Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Ufl—A crashed
and burning plane with one man
trapped inside was found Satur
day evening about 20 miles south
of the International Airport by
two Anchorage men returning
from a fishing trip.
The pair, pilots for Pacific
Northern Airlines, landed at the
crash scene but were too late to
save the crashed plane’s single
occupant.
They managed, however, to save
papers from the plane which in
dicated the craft was owned by
Robert Stanford, Anchorage. It
is believed he was the occupant
altho identification has not been
positive.
10 Persons Killed In Crash Of
Northeast Airlines Passenger DC3
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., UP>—A<
Northeast Airlines plane, headed
for New York thru a soupy fog
with 24 persons aboard crashed
in mucky Apponagansett swamp
just short of the New Bedford
airport last night.
The pilot, co-pilot and eight
passengers died in the crash
which tore the DC-3 plane apart.
Thirteen passengers and the
stewardess were injured. Five
names were on the danger list.
It took rescuers three hours to
reach the scene, just a half mile
short of the runway for which it
was headed.
Bodies were flung about in an
area 50 yards square.
Surviving injured and dead
were inched out of the swamp by
scores of rescuers who bridged
mud ponds with fire ladders. The
litters were passed, hand-to-hand
across these slippery, improvised
bridges.
The last survivor was brought
out just before 2 a.m. As dawn
broke, rescuers and investigators
saw hats, coats, other clothing and
luggage strewn about, some hang
ing from shattered tree limbs.
Wings were sheared from the
plane as it cut a 600-foot-long
swafh thru trees in its crash.
The plane had radioed it was
preparing to make an instrument
landing but no ftirther word came.
The craft was pointed toward the
instrument landing building when
found.
[ Rescuers and passengers ex
pressed belief the pilot must have
turned off the plane’s two engines
for there was no fire.
As one person said, “The smell
of gas was everywhere.”
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Adenauer
Wins Immense
Election Triumph
BONN, Germany, UP—Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer won an im
mense election triumph today and
immediately pledged that West
Germany would throw “all its
political and moral weight” be
hind the Western alliance.
The 81-year-old Chancellor was
returned to power for another
four years in yesterday’s voting
in a victory so complete that it
stunned his neutral-minded So
cialist opponents and surprised
even his own supporters. The
Communists in East Germany
were glum.
His Christian Democratic Union
(CDU), which won an absolute
majority for the first time in a
free German election four years
ago, not only retained that major
ity but increased it in an out
pouring of more than 31 million
votes.
Adenauer’s third straight na
tional election victory since the
West German Republic was creat
ed in 1949 was a heavy blow to
the Soviet Union and a triumph
for the United States.
Fearful of West Germany’s in
creasing economic and military
power, the Russians has pulled all
possible strings in an effort to de
feat the iron-willed Chancellor.
The Christian Democratic had
14,998,754 votes or 50.18 percent
of the total cast. They won 270
seats in the 497-seat Parliament.
Next Year’s Eniwetok Tests Will Be
Aimed at Perfecting Weapons For
Defense Against Nuclear Missiles
Smoky Mountain Bears
Stoke Up for Long
Winter Hibernation
ASHEVILLE, N. C., l£>—Park
ranger Norman Roy says the
Smoky Mountain bears, with
their long winter hibernation due
to start soon, apparently are gorg
ing themselves.
Two instances reported by Roy:
While several Boy Scouts looked
on helplessly, a big bear entered
their camp in the Hazel Creek
section of the Great Smoky Moun
tain National Park and downed
five dozen eggs and 42 boxes of
breakfast cereal.
And in a nearby orchard,' sev
eral bears climbed the trees,
ripped off many limbs, and ate
every apple in sight.
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Televiewers Alarmed
At Realistic Program
On Civil Defense
HARTFORD, Conn., WV—Tele
vision viewers in a 40-mile radius
from Hartford took for real a civil
defense telecast yesterday. About
a hundred of them telephoned
newspapers, the station and Hart
ford police in alarm.
The program showed a civil de
fense notion of what would hap
pen during an air attack by en
emy planes from the North Pole
region. Live studio news reports
by announcers were intermingled
with film clips showing an Army
missile base and the Air National
Guard in action.
Many people apparently did
not hear an announcement before
the program went on the air that
said it was a mock air raid test.
“I had no idea it would be so
effective,” said writer-director
Dan Morris of WHCT-TV.
40 Kiloton A-Blast
Set Off in Nevada
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., 0f»
—One of the biggest atomic blasts
of the 1957 test series flashed
across the desert sky at 5:50 a.m.
today. It is believed to have had
the power equivalent of about
40,000 tons of TNT.
A deep orange fireball, touched
with pink and purple, flared over
Yucca Flat. The mushroom cloud
so familiar in the tests rose rap
idly to about 50,000 feet. It was
feathery, and ice could be seen
forming at the top.
The stem, consisting of dirt
sucked up from the desert floor,
was a dirty looking purple. With
in five minutes the cloud began
breaking away from the stem.
This 20th shot of the series,
code-named Newton, was a de
vice exploded from a balloon
tethered 1,500 feet above the test
site.
* WASHINGTON (St—A new ser
ies of American nuclear tests in.
the mid-Pacific next year will be
aimed at perfecting weapons for
defense against missiles with
atomic or hydrogen warheads.
Announcing plans for the new
series in the Eniwetok proving
grounds, two government agen
cies said yesterday another “im
portant objective of the tests will
be the further development of nu
clear weapons with greatly re
duced radioactive fallout . . .”
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion and the Defense Department
said the United States repeatedly
has stated its willingness to sus
pend nuclear tests as part of a
disarmament agreement.
“Until such an agreement is ’at
tained,” they said in a joint state
ment, “continued development of
nuclear weapons is essential to
the defense of the United States
and of the free world.”
The United States, Russia, and
three other nations 10 days ago
ended more than five months of
disarmament talks. Both sides
i proposed plans for reduction of
j arms and suspension of nuclear
tests, but the negotiations .broke
up in disagreement. The U. N.
General Assembly, opening a new
session tomorrow, is expected to
discuss possible further steps.
Nationwide
Telephone
Strike Starts
NEW YORK, WV—Telephone
equipment installers struck across
the nation today and their picket
lines were honored by thousands
of telephone operators.
However, because of automatic
dial systems in most major cities,
there were few reports of delays
in local service. Supervisory per
sonnel manned the long distance
lines. There were some reports of
delays in those calls.
The strike began at 6 a.m., lo
cal time, spreading from the east
to the west coast into the various
time zones.
The installers walked out after
last minute efforts failed to bring
an agreement in the contract dis
pute between the Communica
tions Workers of America and the
Western Electric Co., manufactur
ing arm of the American Tele
phone & Telegraph Co.
The walkout affects 4 states
and the District of Columbia.
A new negotiation session was
called for this afternoon in New
York City in an attempt to settle
the strike.
In another phase of the negoti
ations, Western Electric and the
union reached an agreement on a
two-year contract covering 10,000
distribution and warehouse em
ployes in 31 cities across the
coun1 ry.