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VOL. LX No. 107 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1958 _Per Copy—15<f
Red China
Presses For
Peace Talks
LONDON, (£> — Red China’s
Mao Tze-Tung today gave the
green light for talks. over the
Formosa situation with the
United States in Warsaw.
He said such talks “might lead
to some results provided both
sides wanted to settle the ques
tion.”
Mao, chairman of the Chinese
Communist Party, spoke to the
Red China Supreme State Council.
Ueiping Radio said:
“Chairman Mao was hopeful
about the ambassadorial talks be
tween China and the United
States which would begin in
Warsaw.
Red China’s premier Chou En
lai proposed talks with the
United States on the ambassa
dorial level last Saturday. The
talks were' broken off last De
cember after 73 meetings in
Geneva. *
The White House later issued
a statement welcoming the offer,
and said U. S. Ambassador Jacob
Beam in Warsaw was ready to
meet with Red China’s ambassa
dor there. -
Although Mao gave the go
ahead to the talks, Peiping radio
said he again attacked the United
‘ States.
“U. S. imperialism is creating
tension all over the world in an
attempt to attain its aggressive
aims and to enslave the peoples
of various countries,” he was
quoted.
“The present situation is fav
orable for people all over the
world who are fighting for
peace.”
Izaak Walton League
Proposes Removal of
Federal Control In Alaska
GLENVIEW, 111., — The
Izaak Walton League of America
has started a movement designed
to remove Federal control of Alas
kan fish and game.
The league, which met here
Saturday, adopted a resolution
which Burton H. Atwood, na
tional secretary, said is aimed at
a provision of Alaska Statehood
permitting the Secretary of the
Interior to retain jurisdiction over
Alaska’s fish and wildlife re
sources.
The league suggested Alaska’s
governor appoint a fish and game
commission with staggered terms
and that members be Alaskans
with established interest and
knowledge of fish and wildlife
management.
The resolution advocated the
members be selected on a bipar
tisan basis without arbitrary nu
merical representation for any
interest group or groups protected
by law.
It suggested a staff of profes
siohally trained fish and wildlife
administrators and technicians
serve under authority of the
commission.
HAWAII BUSINESS CONTINUES
AT RECORD HIGH LEVEL
HONOLULU, iff! — Business in
Hawaii continues at record high
levels, the Bank of Hawaii’s Sep
tember report said. The bank es
timated armed forces expendi
tures in Hawaii in the second
quarter at 83 million dollars, con
siderably more than any other
peace time quarter in Hawaii’s
history.
SUNDAY BASEBALL RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 1-0, New York 0-7.
C leveland 4, Chicago 3.
Boston j, Baltimore 5 (10 innings).
Kansas City 3, Detroit 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 3-1, Pittsburgh 1-4.
Chicago 6-4, San Francisco 4-19.
Cincinnati 6-9, Philadelphia 4-2.
Los Angeles 7, St. Louis 59.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Phoenix 3-9, Vancouver 2-6.
Spokane 4, Sacramento 1.
Seattle 4-5, Portland 3-8.
Salt Lake City 9-1, San Diego 5-3.
Miss Mississippi
Chosen Miss America
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., UP) —
A winsome brunette who sings in
a church choir and used to be
“the biggest tomboy you’ve ever
seen,” today wears the,crown of
Miss America 1959.
The 21-year-old college senior
was named the new Miss America
before a capacity Convention
Hall crowd of 11,000 and a na
tionwide television audience.
The 5-foot-5 southern belle,
who has brown eyes and an olive
complexion, burst into tears after
she was crowned by the outgoing
queen, Marilyn Van Derbur of
Denver, Colo.
“It might sound trite, but I had
no idea of winning — no idea at
all,” she later told newsmen. “I
feel very inadequate. It’s some
thing I can’t even comprehend.”
The new Miss America, who
weighs 124 pounds and measures
34Vfe-22-35, began her reign by
attending the coronation ball
early Sunday morning.
Mary Ann is studyig speech and
English at the University of Mis
sissippi and hopes to become an
actress. She plans to use th^ $10,?
000 she received as winner of the
pageant toward that end.
In addition, the new Miss Amer
ica receives about $140,000 in per
sonal appearance fees and other
prizes.
Jet Liner 707
Flown To Britain
For “Hush-Hush” Test
LONDON, UP) — America’s first
jet airliner, the Boeing 707, flew
the Atlantic today to show the
British how quiet it can be.
Flown by Pan American World
Airways, the big jetliner flew
from New York to London in 10
hours, 22 minutes, including stops
at Gander, Nfld., and Shannon,
Ireland.
When it comes into service, the
707 is scheduled to make the New
York-London crossing in 6V2
hours.
The Boeing 707 is to be tested
for noise at London Airport. If
the roar from its four engines is
found to be sufficiently low, the
pane will be allowed to operate
out of there.
Grandma Moses
Was 98 Sunday
EAGLE BRIDGE, N. Y„ UP) —
Famed painter Grandma Moses,
feeble and suffering from arthri
tis, spent her 98th birthday Sun
day carefully guarded from the
public.
Grandma was taken to an un
disclosed spot for the day. Lloyd
Moses, a son, said it was done to
protect her from excitement and
from the curious who might try
to visit her.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses —
Grandma’s real name — gained
world 'renown in her late years
with paintings of scenes in this
rural area.
Monitors Demand
Hoffa Dissolve
Alaska Merger
WASHINGTON, UR—'The Team
sters board of monitors today de
manded that union president
James R. Hoffa dissolve a mer
ger of two teamsters locals in
Alaska.
In another of their “orders of
recommendation’’ to Hoffa, the
court-appointed monitors said the
questipn of merger was unfairly
presented to Fairbanks Local 183
before it was amalgamated with
Anchorage Local 959.
“Thus a truly democratic ex
pression of opinion was pre
vented,” monitor chairman Mar
tin F. O’Donoghue wrote Hoffa.
The majority asked Hoffa to
dissolve the merger, establish the
locals separately again, with a
new temporary trusteeship for
Local 183. It was suggested thgt
neither Raymond Carr, former
trustee over the local, nor Robert
J. Dixon should be appointed
trustee.
They also recommended a com
plete audit of Local 183 affairs
for the past two years by an out
side firm.
It said new election should be
held next December for Local 183
to choose new officers so the
trusteeship could be removed and
the local operated by its own
officers.
Ligkining Kills Two
Children At Calif. Resort
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif., UP —
Lightning cracked down from a
sudden storm and killed two chil
dren and injured a third while
their father, former All America
football player Bob Reinhard,
watched helpless from a skiff on
the lake.
A moment after the tragedy
Sunday the storm ended and this
lake resort in the San Bernad
dino mountains was bathed in
sushine.
The lightning bolt exploded into
a plywood shack on the lake’s
shore where the three youngsters
had ducked out of the downpour.
Reinhard, one of the University
of California’s greatest linemen,
and later a professional star with
the old Los Angeles Dons and Los
Angeles Rams, was fishing on the
lake with his fourth child, Rob
ert-, 10.
Reinhard rowed ashore and hur
ried to the splintered and still
smoldering shack. He bundled the
three children into his station
wagon — without realizing that
two were dead — and drove to
a nearby hospital.
Alaska To Receive
$2*4 Million From
Federal Land Receipts
WASHINGTON, UP — Alaska
and Pacific Northwest states will
receive nearly 2Vi million dollars
as their share of resource receipts
from federal lands, the Interior
Department has announced.
Representatives of the Bureau
of Land Management will pre
sent the checks tQ the various
state officials, the payments for
the entire country amounts to
$18,713,347.74, a record.
They represent the shares of
mineral receipts for the period
from Jan. 1 through June 30, plus
the shares of annual receipts
from grazing leases, public land
timber sales and other resource
management activities.
Alaska receives $2,250,463; Ida
ho, $77,192; Oregon, $75»322, and
Washington, $19,570.
7th Fleet Convoys Defy Red
China’s 12 - Mile Sea Limit
By SPENCER MOOSA «
TAIPEI, Formosa, UP) — Red
Chinese reopened their artillery
war on the Nationalist offshore
islands today, blasting a Nation
alist supply ship at a Quemoy
beach, but making no attempt to
menace U. S. warships offshore.
The artillery bombardment,
ending a 2V2-day lull in the vest
pocket war, came after Nation
alist jets fought a furious air
battle with Red' MIGs off the
mainland near Swatow this morn
ing. The Nationalists claitned
seven MIGs shot down and two
damaged.
The Red artillery attack was
concentrated on Quemoy beach
areas. The supply ship suffered
two direct hits and exploded.
Presumably the ship ' was es
corted to Quemoy by U. S. war
ships. U. S. headquarters here re
fused to confirm or deny that the
supply ship was escorted to Que
moy. A blanket of secrecy was
thrown over escort operations.
But the Nationalists indicated
U. S.-'destroyers were near Que
moy at the time of the bombard
ment and well inside Red China’s
newly proclaimed 12-mile sea
border.
Adm. Wallace M. Beakley, com
mander of the U. S. 7th Flee,t
said Sunday American warship
escorts would be the routine
thing in the Formosa Strait now.
The first daylight escort was car
ried out Sunday and the Amer
ican ships remained a few miles
off the Quemoy beach and seven
miles off the Red mainland. U. S.
ships are staying outside the gen
erally recognized three-mile sea
limit of Red China but refuse to
abide by the Communists’ new
12-mile ruling.
The American action challenged
Pei-ping’s recent proclamation ex
tending Red China’s territorial
waters 12 miles out from the shore
and beyond Quemoy. The United
States rejected the extension,
saying it would continue to ob
serve the three-mile limit.
Plan 1,000-Car Caravan
To Drive Over Route
97 To Dawson Creek
KELOWNA, B: C., (# — Dele
gates to the Okanagan-Cariboo
Trail Assn, laid plans at their
convention here for the world’s
largest car caravan to travel the
1,500 miles from Bend, Ore., to
Dawson Creek, Y. T., na*t year.
There are some “ifs and buts”
to be overcome, however. First,
the organization wants assurance
from the British Columbia gov
ernment that the road within
the Canadian section will be
paved. Then, 1,000 intrepid driv
ers must be found.
Chester C. Imm, Wenatchee,
praised the idea as a means of
getting publicity for the organi
zation’s drive to extend U. S.
Highway 97 to Dawson Creek.
A similar caravan six years
ago traveled as far as Prince
George, B. C.
Stevenson Not
Seeking Demo.
Nomination In ’60
PARIS, UFi — “I shall not seek
the nomination,” said Adlai Ste
venson Saturday when asked
whether he again would run for
President. Then he told this story:
A holocaust had destroyed all
living things on earth except a
bedraggled, miserable gorilla.
Wandering the earth, hungry, -ex
hausted and discouraged, the gor
illa came -upon a cave at whose
entrance stood a beautiful lady
gorilla, apparently untouched.
“'How did you escape?” the gor
illa asked her. She indicated the
cave which had sheltered her
from the holocaust.
“We are the only two living
beings on earth,” she said.
“Lady,” the gorilla asked, after
thinking this over, “Have you got
anything to eat?”
The lady gorilla went deep into
the cave then emerged with a
big, red apple.
“Oh Lord,’ groaned the gorilla,
“Let’s not start that again.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional rain or
drizzle tonight and Tuesday. Low
I tonight. 42, high tomorrow 47.
20-Year-Old Mother
Has Sixth Child
NEW YORK, UP) — Thelma Mc
Kenna, 20, has given birth to
her sixth child.
The blue-eyed brunette gave
birth to an 8 -pound boy Sun
day at her home in Queens. She
was attended by her mother,
Thelma Mooby, a nurse.
The young mother was up and
around a few hours after the
birth and showed the new arrival
to James Jr., 5; Richard, 4; Ken
neth, 5; Sharon, 2, and Edward, 1.
Mrs. McKenna and her hus
band, James, 23, a $70-a-week
parking lot employe, were mar
ried when she was 13 and he
| was 16. «
Around-the-World
Flier Abandons
Flight In Corsica
BASTIA, Corsica, UP) — An
American pilot attempting a
round-the-world flight in a small
plane decided today to give it up
and fly home on a commercial
airliner.
Capt. Charles F. Banfe Jr., a
39-year-old Pan American World
Airways pilot from Palo Altpj
Calif., abandoned his try for a
word record after his single
engine plane crash landed in a
Corsican vineyard Sunday night.
Banfe said the fuel line went
wrong as he headed toward Rome
for his first stop since taking off
from Idlewild Airport in New
York Saturday.
He said the plane was not seri
ously damaged.
FREEZING WITH TEMP. 96 —
TRACY, Calif., (#) — It was 96
in Tracy, but Bobby Bates, 41
year-old transient, nearly froze
to death. He was asleep in an
empty refrigerator car when the
Tracy Ice and Development Co.
dumped five tons of ice around
Bobby through a chute. It took
men with shovels an hour to dig
Bates out.
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