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43 Buildings
At Nome Field
Offered for Bid
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 27—Forty
three excess buildings located at
Marks Air Force Base (Nome') are
being offered for sale to the high
est bidders by the Alaska District
Corps of Engineers.
The buildings include various
sized frame structure, Quonset
huts and Cowan huts. The build
ings may be examined at any time
by prospective bidders.
Bid forms and further informa
tion can be obtained from the
Real Estate Division, Alaska Dis;
trict Corps of Engineers, Anchor
age, Alaska.
Bids will be opened at 11 a.m.
on Jan. 28 at the Anchorage of
fice.
Mona Lisa Suffers
Slight Damage
After Stone Xhrow
PARIS, Wl—The Louvre says
only slight damage was done by a
Bolivian who hurled a stone at
one of the world’s most famous
paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s
Mona Lisa.
The attack was made by Hugo
Unjaga Villegas, 42, who has been
living in a Salvation Army shel
ter. He said he “had a stone in
my pocket and suddenly decided
to throw it.”
The rock shattered the glass
protecting the painting and also
chipped some paint from the fig
• ure’s elbow. The museum said the
damage “can be repaired easily
and the painting will be back in
its place in a few days.”
Unjaga Villegas was charged
with defacing public property
and violating the law limiting
alien residence in France.
Eisenhower Will Press for
Civil Eights Legislation
WASHINGTON, LH—President
Eisenhower today told Republi
can congressional leaders he in
tends to press for action in the
new Congress on his controver
sial civil rights program.
HUNGARIAN DELEGATION WILL
RETURN TO U.N. FRIDAY
Hungary Has Received
$63 Mi’lion Foreign Aid
By RICHARD R. KASISCHKE
BUDAPEST, UT>—The Commu
nist Party newspaper Nepszabad
sag said today Hungary plans to
return to the U.N. General As
sembly Friday.
The Hungarian delegation, led
by Foreign Minister Imre Yor
vath, walked out of the Assembly
Dec. 11, protesting alleged U.N.
interference in Hungary’s inter
nal affairs. He blamed the United
States primarily for influencing
the Assembly, which was then
about to adopt a resolution con
demning Russian intervention to
crush an anti-Soviet Hungarian
revolt.
The newspaper estimated for
eign aid received after the rebel
lion at 700 million forints <$63
million'. It stressed contributions
by Russia and Red China but also
mentioned $20 million received
from the United States and aid
from West Germany and Finland.
(The newspaper apparently re
ferred to relief contributions, in
cluding Red Cross^ aid.)
Nepszabadsag announced a new
$50 million loan by Russia to
Premier Janos Kadar’s govern
ment, which needs much more
help to rebuild the revolt-shat
tered economy.
It expressed hope that “West
ern countries also will contribute
substantial loans to aleviate our
economic difficulties.”
Some economists say it will
take $400 million in hard cur
rency to put Hungary back on its
feet.
Meanwhile, unemployment in
Hungary continues to mount.
Lagging coal production is at the
heart of Hungary’s crippled econ
omy, and it has been speculated
many of the thousands of factory
workers on forced layoffs may be
put to work in the mines.
NASSER WILL VISIT
RUSSIA IN 1957
LONDON, (jT)—Moscow radio
said Saturday Egyptian President
Nasser will visit the Soviet Union
next year.
Nasser was quoted as telling a
Soviet Red Cross delegation in
Cairo that he “certainly” would
make the trip during 1957.
Nasser had been scheduled to
visit Russia last August, but that
trip was called off because of the
Suez Canal crisis.
Hungarians Find
Law in America
Has a Heart
CHICAGO, W—Two Hungarian
refugees, in trouble after celebrat
ing receipts of their first Ameri
can paycheck, have found that the
US. law has a heart.
Louis Scorba, 29, and Bela San
dor, 21, received their first pay
checks as American laborers Sat
urday and celebrated by “having
a few” in the home of their Amer
ican sponsor, William E. Traynor,
a tax consultant.
A fight developed and police
were called. The Hungarians were
charged with disorderly conduct.
In holiday court yesterday,
Judge Cecil Corbett Smith lis
tened as Traynor told how the
two men were never exposed to
much drinking in Hungary and
weren’t up to handling it. Tray
nor said he was sure it wouldn’t
happen again.
Judge Smith told the pair that
“America has extended its hospi
tality to you, and your conduct
should reflect your gratitude.”
He then smiled and dismissed
the charges.
President Tito Starts
New Year by Hunting
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, UP)—
President Tito will start the New
Year hunting wild mountain
goats in the snow-covered Slov
enian Mountains.
“I don’t’ like celebrating the
New Year in some closed place,”
the Yugoslav leader told Borba,
his party organ, before taking off
for a two-day holiday with his
wife and a handful of close
friends.
The New Year is Yugoslavia’s
major winter holiday.
Alaska Delegation
Arrives in Capital
To Seek Statehood
V ' iSHINGTON, —A voteless
three-member Alaska delegation
is here today to push the terri
tory’s quest for statehood.
Two of the group—Sen.-elect
William Egan of Valdez and Eep.
elect Ralph Rivers of Fairbanks
—arrived last night with their
wives after being “snowed in”
Saturday night in southern Vir
ginia.
They were welcomed by Ernest
Gruening, former Alaska govedn
or and also an Alaskan senator
elect.
The Alaskans were elected by
territorial residents in October to
push Alaska’s statehood ambi
tions before Congress. The pro
cedure, known as the Tennessee
Plan, follows the method used by
that state and several others of
electing senators and representa
tives prior to admission in an ef
fort to spur congressional action.
The Alaskans will have no
vote in Congress.
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Champ Liar
Tells Sad Tale of
Doomed Hogs
BURLINGTON, Wis., OB—An
“earthy” story of hogs who were
doomed to death by sticky soil
today won Albert D. Hopkins of
Madison, Wis., the title of World
Champion Liar of 1956.
The Burlington Liar’s Club se
lected Hopkin’s tale of hogs’ tails
from a collection of varied fabri
cations.
Hopkins, a 49-year-old electro
plater, won the club’s “gold plat
ed, diamond studded” medal for
relating:
“Out in South Dakota they
have a clay-like soil they call
gumbo. The gumbo roads are
smooth and hard as glass when
dry, but when wet the gumbo
balls up under the fenders until
it locks the wheels on a car.
“Last year, during a wet spell,
a farmer’s hogs got a little ball of
gumbo on their tails. As they
walked around, it got bigger and
bigger until the weight of it
pulled their skin back so tight
they couldn’t get their eyes shut
—and they died from lack of
sleep.”
Hopkins thus became the first
Wisconsin resident in 26 years to
win the annual lying champion
ship and bring the medal back to
its home state.
Informed of his victory, he
said: “People have told me I was
a liar, but I didn’t think I was
that good.”
He said he got the idea for his
winning tale 20 years ago while
living at Winner, S.D.
CHARLES FRANCIS COE,
FICTION WRITER, DIES
PALM BEACH, Florida,
Charles Francis Coe, 66, writer
of sports and crime tales of the
Roaring Twenties, died Friday
after a long illness.
The Buffalo, N.Y., native was
a practicing lawyer in Florida, a
newspaperman, criminologist and
motion picture executive as well
as an author.
Coe joined the L.S. Navy at 17
and became welterweight boxing
champion of the fleet. For five
years he boxed professionally,
then turned to fiction writing.
16 Americans at South Pole Get
Radio Greeting From Russians as
They Welcome In the New Year
Fair Weather Predicted
For Most of U.S. Jan. 1
By the Associated Press
Snow, which has already im
mobilized portions of New Eng
land, was in prospect today for
most of the middle and north At
lantic coast states and a dusting
of snow flurries was in the works
in the Great Lakes region.
Patches of fog in the valleys
and showers was forecast for the
Pacific Northwest whjle the rest
of the nation was to enjoy gener
ally fair weather on the last day
of 1956.
The Weather Bureau said that
prevailing fair weather is antici
pated over most of the nation on
New Year’s Day.
Family Killed in
Burning Crash
Of Light Plane
PUYALLUP, Wash. Wt—A light
plane’s crash in flames, after a
wing apparently ripped off on a
sharp pull-out attempt, killed a
well known University of Wash
ington faculty member, his wife
and her son three miles north of
here yesterday.
The victims were Cornelius
Root, 47; his wife, June, also 47;
and her son by a previous mar
riage, Joseph Herb, 19, a student
at Lewis and Clarl^ College in
Portland.
The Roots had homes both in
Seattle and Mount Vernon.
Root was making an approach
to Boeing Field at Seattle, 30
miles to the north of here, when
the plane went down.
Wreckage from the plane was
scattered over a three-quarter
mile area. The tail section and
one of the plane’s wings was
found on a forested hillside. The :
remainder of the plane and the i
burned and battered bodies of its :
occupants were found in a pas
ture below.
A CAA investigator said after
a preliminary probe that appar
ently Root, making an unfamil
iar “blind” landing, had not re
alized his glide angle and speed
was excessive until he burst thru
the overcast.
When he tried to pull up, the
CAA man said, the “abnormal
stress” literally sheared one wing
from the plane and the wing
smashed back into the tail sec
tion.
German General
To Head NATO
BONN, Germany, IP—Informed
sources said here today a German
general will be named n xl year
as commander of NATO land
forces in central Europe. Lt. Gen.
Hans Speidel, 59, is the probable
choice.
Such an appointment would
mark the first high military post
for a German in the western alli
ance since World War II.
The Bonn sources said Speidel
would succeed Gen. Marcel Car
pentier of France.
Speidel was chief of staff .to
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in
North Africa.
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
Tue., Jan. 1, W)—The 16 Ameri
cans now at the South Pole could
celebrate the New Year 24 times
in 24 hours if they could stand
the pace.
All the world’s 24 time meridi
ans converge at the pole, and
there are no neighbors to com
plain about the noise.
But the Seabees at the polar
science station they have nearly
completed for the International
Geophysical Year station saluted
the New Year only once, at the
same midnight all U.S. antarctic
bases observe.
That came at 7 a.m. EST, since
all bases for Operation Deep
Freeze are all on what the Navy
calls “mike time.” It’s the time
used in New Zealand, 17 hours
ahead of New York.
Among the Deep Freeze force's
New Year greetings was one from
the head of Russia’s antarctic ex
pedition. Dr. Mikhail Somov ra
dioed Read Adm. George Dufek,
the Deep Freeze commander, to
“wish you personally and the
entire personnel of the U.S. Ant
arctic Expedition a Happy New
Year which is expected to be a
year of close cooperation between
the polar explorers of our country
in Antarctica.”
The message came from the
main Russian outpost at Mirney
Ayr, on the Indian Ocean side of
Antarctica more than 1,000 miles
from McMurdo Sound. Russian
and American meteorologists have
been exchanging weather infor
mation for more than a year, but
Somov’s message was the first
with details of the Russian expe
dition’s progress.
Social Security
Taxes Will Go
Up Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, i*—Social Se
curity taxes go up tomorrow—to
affect some 69Vi million persons
during 1957.
They also will begin to apply
for the first time to members of
the armed services.
The rate for covered workers
and their employers will rise
from 2 percent on each to 2 Vi
percent on each, or from a total
of 4 percent to 4 Vi percent. This
is estimated to apply to about 63
million persons over the course
of the year 1957. *
Fore about 6Vi million self
employed persons ’covered by old
age and survivors insurance, the
rate goes up from 3 percent to 3%
percent.
The taxes apply on the first
$4,200 of annual income.
A social security spokesman
said the tax ncrease was voted
by Congress to meet anticipated
costs of the new program provid
ing disability cash benefits at age
50 for qualified workers.
The 1956 changes passed by
Congress also provide for cash
benefits to women at age 62 for
the first time; for benefits to dis
abled children of qualified retired
or deceased workers, and extend
ed social security coverage to
members of the armed services.