Mobs Riot in Bombay After Killings
Of Demonstrators in Portuguese India
Pioneer Hotel Fire
Damage Suit Opens;
$49,000 Damages Asked
FAIRBANKS—A $49,000 civil
suit against George Gilberson, the
owner of the Pioneer Hotel in
Fairbanks, was opened Friday in
the U.S. district court here.
The suit was a result of injur
ies suffered by Christine and Ted
Ulrickson in the disastrous Pio
neer Hotel fire of 1952.
Both Ulricksons, guests at the
hotel at the time of the fire, suf
fered extensive injuries in the
fire and were hospitalized here
for months.
Mrs. Ulrickson is asking $29,000
damages. Ulrickson has asked for
damages totaling $20,000. Mrs. Ul
rickson was hospitalized from
July 14 until Nov. 24, while Ul
rickson was in St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal from July 14 until Oct. 15,
1952.
In the fire that completely de
stroyed the old Fairbanks land
mark, five persons lost their lives
while many more received burns
and injuries. The hotel has never
been rebuilt.
Fairbanks Attorney Ralph Riv
ers and an outside attorney, M.
Casey, are representing the Ul
ricksons, who have combined
their cases. Gilbertson is being
defended by Walter Sczudlo and
Charles J. Clasby.
Eisenhower Calls for
Another World Meeting
On Peaceful Use of Atom
GENEVA —Lewis L. Strauss,
chairman of the U.S. Atomic En
ergy Commission, announced yes
terday that President Eisenhower
favored a second world confer
ence on peaceful uses of atomic
energy to be held in two or three
years.
Strauss made his statement at a
luncheon attended by top mem
bers of the American delegation
to the current atoms-for-peace
conference, including members of
the Joint Congressional Commit
tee on atomic energy.
He said it would be out of order
for a formal proposal to be laid
before the present meeting but
added that the U.S. delegates to
the United Nations presumably
would initiate a proposal “in due
course.”
Strauss said the discussions
here and the informal contacts
between atomic experts would
produce in the next two years
much progress and many new dis
coveries in this field.
UTILITIES BOARD MEETING
TONIGHT AT THE CITY HALL
The regular monthly meeting
of of the Nome Light and Power
Utilities Board is to be held to
night starting at 7:30 at the City
Hall. The meeting is public and
all interested persons are invited
to attend.
Board members are: Dewey
Goodrich, Thomas Martin, Harry
Lewis, Nels Swanberg Jr., and
Elmer Straub.
BOMBAY, India, iff)—Inflamed
over Monday’s bloodshed in Por
tuguese India, frenzied mobs of
Indians rioted through Bombay
Tuesdtey. They hoisted the Indian
flag over the Portuguese consu
ls t e, forced newspapers, shops
and business houses to close, and
surrounded government buildings.
Demonstrators shouted “Nehru
—leave Delhi and lead us to Goa”
as they stoned the consulate and
smashed its windows. The consu
late personnel had been evacuated
earlier.
Police opened fire on the mob,
wounding three demonstrators.
Beginning at dawn, more than
15G.000 Indians marched past the
consulate screaming demands for
military action against the three
small Portuguese territories north
and south of Bombay. Guards
there Monday killed an undeter
mined number of “nonviolent”
Indian marchers demanding the
cession of the areas to India.
In new Delhi, Prime Minister
Nehru told the Indian Parliament
that his government would not be
“provoked” by the killings into
military action against Portugal.
He said he would continue to
seek the transfer of Portuguese
India, the last foreign territory in
the country, by peaceful means.
(In Lisbon, the Portuguese For
eign Ministry said an unknown
number of Indians had been killed
and wounded Monday. It said
“the Portuguese authorities were
obliged to meet violence with vio
lence . . . the responsibility for
this bloodshed rests entirely upon
the persons who encouraged, per
mitted and abetted the invasion.”
(The Portuguese communique
said the Indian demonstrators
were expelled, “although a few
individuals may still lurk in less
accessible areas.” The communi
que added: “The Portuguese Gov
ernment formally protests to the
Government of India against the
serious violations of sovereignty
perpetrated.”)
Justice William Douglas
Given Friendly Interview
Enroute to Siberia
LONDON, Ofi—U.S. Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas,
who used to be regarded by the
Russians as a spy, was the sub
ject of a friendly interview broad
cast by Moscow radio yesterday.
The jurist is touring the Soviet
Union with Robert F. Kennedy,
counsel for the Senate Committee
on government operations.
Moscow radio said one of its
correspondents, talking with Jus
tice Douglas at the Kaganovich
cooperative farm near Tashkent,
South Kazakhstan, asked him
how the Soviet people were re
ceiving him.
“Very well,” Douglas was quot
ed as replying. “The people here
are very friendly and very kind.”
The broadcast said Douglas told
the interviewer he and Kennedy
had chosen their own route and
were free to go where they
pleased. They are now heading
into Siberia.
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3,000 Troops Sail
With Supplies for
Arctic Radar Posts
WASHINGTON, MV-The Army
said Tuesday -that 3,000 specially
trained troops are nearing the
destinations at which they will
unload 200,000 tons of supplies for
an arctic radar network.
The equipment is for the Dis
tant Early Warning or “DEW”
line, the northernmost radar net
spanning the North American
continent.
This radar net is a joint ven-1
ture of the U.S. and Canada and
is aimed at providing, when com
pleted, early warning of any pos
sible trans-polar air attack.
Units of the Army Transporta
tion Corps have been augmented
by Army Engineers, Quartermas
ter and Chemical Corps troops for
the cargo handling operations,
which will be done under con
stant hazards of fog, ice, and
storm.
Two task forces, one working
from the Atlantic side and the
other from the Pacific, left Seattle
and Norfolk, Va. last month.
The Pacific task force will pass
Point Barrow east bound this
month and proceed through the
Beaufort Sea into the Canadian
arctic, dropping off men, equip
ment and small cargo vessels en
route. The transports will have to
be back into the Pacific by late
September.
The Atlantic force is divided
into two groups. One recently ar
rived on the coast of Baffin Bay
and will be joined shortly by the
other. These two groups will be
unloading along the Baffin coast
until late September.
Baby Electrocuted By
Chewing Thru Insulation
MIDLOTHIAN, Scotland, W—
A teething baby chewed through
the insulation of an electric wire
here Monday and was electro
cuted. Mrs. Mary Maxwell said
her year-old son David “had been
biting at everything he could get
his hands on.”
“He must have been attracted
by the wire’s red covering,” she
said.
The tuna fish has been timed
by scientists at a speed of 44
miles per hour.
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