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VOL. LVII No. 44 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1955Per Copy—15^
Peiping Charges Airliner Carrying
Delegates To Bandung Conference
Sabotaged By U.S. Secret Agents
HONG KONG, UFi — Hong
Kong’s government ordered a full
police investigation today into the
crash of an Indian airliner char
tered by Red China. But the Brit
ish colonial authorties said the
possibility the plane was sabot
aged here — as Peiping radio
charged — was “extremely re
mote.”
U.S. officials in Washington and
Hong Kong dismissed the Com
' munist charges as “ridiculous”
and “utter nonsense.” The plane’s
owners, Air India International,
confirmed mechanical trouble had
delayed its departure from Bom
bay for Hong Kong for several
hours.
In London, a British Foreign
Office spokesman expressed re
gret at the “unfortunate acci
• dent.” He added that it was clear
authorities in Hong Kong took
adequate precautions to safeguard
the plane after a warning from
Britain’s diplomatic representa
tives in Peiping that Chinese Na
tionalist sympathizers might stir
up trouble there.
The four-engine Constellation
went down Monday night in the
China Sea between Borneo and
Malaya. Nineteen persons were
aboard, including eight Chinese
Communists enroute to the Afri
can - Asian conference in Indo
nesia next week.
Three Indians aboard the plane
—two crewmen and an engineer
traveling as a passenger — have
been rescued. They are aboard a
British frigate enroute to Singa
pore.
A Peiping broadcast last night
charged the crash was “pre
arranged by secret agents” of the
United States and Nationalist
China.
The airliner came here on a
regular flight Monday with pas
sengers from India. After dis
charging them, it refueled during
an hour’s stopover and then took
off for North Borneo and Indo
nesia with the party from Peiping.
One of the passengers from
India, Luigi Pirola of Milan, Italy,
said in Tokyo today that the
plane’s captain had complained
heated in Bombay that the craft
was not airworthy.
U.S. Population Estimated
At 164,367,000 On March 1
WASHINGTON, \t?i — The Cen
sus Bureau today estimated the
nation’s population at approxi
mately 164,367,000 on March 1.
This figure, which includes
armed forces overseas, was an in
crease of 2,825,000, or 1.7 per cent
in a year. It was also 13,250,000
of 8.8 per cent, higher than the
total for the last general census
on April 1, 1950.
Seattle Great Northern
Superintendent Named
Manager of Alaska R.R.
WASHINGTON, i# — Reginald !
N.' Whitman, 45, Seattle, was ap
pointed manager of the Alaska!
Railroad today.
Whitman, division superintend- j
ent of the Great Northern Rail-!
road at Seattle, succeeds Frank E.1
Kalbaugh in the S18,000-a-year!
job of running the government
owned railroad.
Kalbaugh, who had been on
leave from the Southern Pacific
Railroad was recalled, effective
April 1, to become vice president
of Southern Pacific Pipe Lines,
Inc., a subsidiary.
Whitnfan has been an official of
the Great Northern 18 years. He
will be sworn in at a ceremony
here April 18.
Air Force Man Shot Four
Times In Fairbanks Bar
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Air Airj
Force man from Eielson Base was i
shot four times and wounded j
critically at a South Fairbanks j
bar early yesterday.
Police identified the man as
Leon McClain Jr., Airman Second
Class, of the 58th Weather Re
connaissance Squadron at Eielson.
Patrolman Frank Wirth said he
went to Murry’s Bar in response
to a call from hostess Caroline
Hughes. Wirth said he arrived in
time to hear shots and he found
the man lying at the rear entrance
of the building.
Miss Hughes was held for ques
tioning.
EXPORT CONTROLS PUT
ON SALK POLIO VACCINE
WASHINGTON, W — The gov
ernment today slapped export
controls on the Salk polio vac
cine.
The Commerce Dept, said the
controls will be maintained until
production of the vaccine is suf
ficient to meet both anticipated
domestic and foreign demands.
Under the control system, li
censes would be required for any
shipment abroad except to Can
ada.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Cleveland 5, Chicago 1
Kansas City 6, Detroit 2
Boston 7, Baltimore 1
National League
Chicago 14, St. Louis 4
Milwaukee 4, Cincinnati 2
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 5, Seattle 4
San Diego 2, Los Angeles 1
Sacramento 3, Oakland 2
Portland 4, San Francisco 2
Secretary Wilson Sharply Limits
Giving Out Military Information
By Defense Dept. Personnel
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Spring Blizzard Paralyzes
Colorado with Snow Drifts
CHEYENNE, Wyo., UP — Bat
tered to a standstill by the sec
ond spring blizzard within 10
days, eastern Wyoming burrowed
from under a paralyzing blanket
of snow today.
Highway crews worked over
time in Wyoming, Colorado, and
Nebraska to clear roads. The
soggy mass drifted in some spots
higher than the automobiles it
stalled by the score.
Seventeen inches fell at Chey
enne, closing schools, stranding
motorists and blocking even main
downtown thoroughfares.
Motorists marooned in cars
were rescued by late yesterday
with the exception of about 100
persons stranded on U.S. 85 near
Rockport, Colo. They were be
lieved safe as rotary plows
crunched slowly into the area.
U.S. ARMY TOTS ABROAD
TO GET FREE VACCINE
HEIDELBERG, Germany, OP —
The new Salk polio vaccine will
be offered free to 45,000 U.S.
Army children in France and
Germany starting June 1 or
sooner. v
In announcing this today, the
Army’s European headquarters
said the immunization would be
on a voluntary basis, at the con
sent of parents.
> WASHINGTON, UO— Secretary
of Defense Wilson says “We must
stop giving out potential enemies
so much information” about new
weapons.
This, Wilson explained yester
day, is why he issued a sharp new
order setting limits on the giving
out of military information and
speeches by Defense personnel.
In a news conference, Wilson
stoutly denied censorship or any
attempt at avoiding adverse criti
cism was intended.
“It should be clearly under
stood,” the secretary said, “the
directive was r^ot intended to be
interpreted as an effort to curb
the proper flow of information to
the public ...”
He said he wouldn’t “be a party
to trying to cover up something
that ought to be exposed for the
good of the Defense Department.”
What then did Wilson’s March
27 directive mean when it said
information released by the mili
tary should “constitute a con
structive contribution to the pri
mary mission of the Department
of Defense?”
At what does the order aim?
“It is a little hard to define
real quickly. Propriety and policy
are involved, as well as what
might be called the technical side
of it.”
Here/ Wilson touched on an
other issue raised by his order—
the refusal to take into consider
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NOME HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS -A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
“The Little Dog Laughed”
V HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM THURSDAY, APRIL 14 8:00 P.M. $1.00 free nursery
Salk Vaccine Found 80-90 Percent
Effective in Preventing Paralytic
Polio; More Improvement Assured
New Vaccine To Be
Available to Nomeites;
Free to 1st & 2d Graders
■Dr. Fred Langsam has stated
that the vaccine will be given at
the Nome School free of charge to
the first and second grade stu
dents before school is put.
The treatment of three injec
tions will be made available to
anyone in the community, stated
the doctor, for $10.00 to cover
costs, as soon as the vaccine is
received. It is recommended for
people from six months old to 40
years of age and for pregnant
women.
Seattle Committee Asks
Senate Group Probe MSTS
West Coast Operations
SEATTLE, UP)—Sen. Magnuson
(D-Wash), chairman of the Inter
state and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee, was. asked to investigate
the Military Sea Transport Ser
vice’s West Coast operations.
The Seattle Maritime Advisory
Committee, in a letter to Magnu
son, specifically asked that the
committee probe the reason why
San Francisco headquarters of
MSTS orders its transports to sail
the southern route to Japan
rather than the northern great
circle route from the Pacific
Northwest.
The Maritime Advisory Com
mittee has charged that the south
ern routings are politically-inspir
ed in order to effect the transfer
of ‘Seattle-based transports of San
Francisco.
That charge was repeated in a
separate letter to Vice Adm. F. C.
Denebrink, commander of MSTS. j
Denebrink has answered pre
vious charges by saying the south
ern route is preferred because of
heavy weather off the Aleutians
on the great circle route.
The Maritime Advisory Com
mittee, in its letter countered
Denebrink’s answer by saying
many maritime men hold the
southern route to be rougher than
the northern route. The commit
tee said MSTS captains prefer the
northern route but were prevent
ed from saying so without jeop
ardizing their Civil Service jobs.
HARRY TRUMAN'S PITCH
NOT SO GOOD, SAYS MRS.
KANSAS CITY, Ufi—Mrs. Harry
Truman doesn’t think much of
her husband’s baseball pitching
ability.
Shortly before the former presi
dent was scheduled to throw out
the first ball in the Kansas City
Athletics’ opener against Detroit
yesterday, Mrs. Truman was ask
ed which hand her husband
would use.
“I don’t know,” she replied,
“and I don’t believe he knows
yet. He’s not very good either
way.”
oy Aiion jl.. Diaicesiee
Associated Press Science Reporter
ANN ARBOR, Mich., (#—The
Salk polio vaccine works—safely,
potently—and can virtually end
the icy fear that long has gripped
the hearts of parents.
The vaccine was officially de
clared Tuesday to have proved to
be 80 to 90 percent effective in
preventing paralytic polio.
In Washington, it was announced
Secretary of Welfare Hobby will
formally license the vaccine for
general use at 1 p.m. today.
Young Dr. Jonas E. Salk, who
developed it, declared he is cer
tain it can be potentially made
almost 100 percent potent to
smash polio’s terror and tragedies.
The triumph of the vaccine was
announced in an atmosphere of
supercharged excitment by Eh*.
Thomas Francis Jr. of the Univer
sity of Michigan at a scientific
meeting.
Point by point, he detailed the
saving of life and limb from a
vaccine made of safely killed polio
virus:
Only 71 of 440,000 vaccinated
children paralyzed by polio last
summer.
In comparison, 445 unvaccinat
ed children were paralyzed.
Only 113 cases of proven polio
among the vaccinated children,
many recovering with no damage.
But 750 cases of proven polio
among the nonvaccinated.
Not one child dead of polio
among vaccinated youngsters, ex
1 eluding one who died after re
ceiving only his second shot of
vaccine and undergoing surgery
for tonsil removal during a polio
epidemic.
Fiftten killed by the vicious
disease among about 1,400,000
children not vaccinated.
Man Bites Dog Is Old
Stuff Now — This Guy
Chewed Up A Lion
LONDON, UP)—The story about
the man who bit a dog is old
stuff—this guy chewed a lion.
The latest report of the Uganda
Gahie and Fisheries Dept, tells
how a guard named Gabrielle
Ogwok sank his teeth into the
king of the beasts.
Ogwok was stalking a bush
buck—a small antelope—when he
discovered a . lion was stalking
him. He wounded the lion, but
had to run to a nearby farm for
help and more ammunition.
With the manager of the farm,
Ogwok trailed the lion for three
hours. Then the lion turned,
sprang on the guard and dug his
teeth into Ogwok’s thigh.
Not to be outdone, Ogwok dug
his molars into the lion’s flank.
The fartn manager finished off
Leo and freed Ogwok. The gov
ernment report added:
“The game ranger who later
examined the animal’s skin was
surprised at the damage inflicted
by Ogwok’s teeth.”