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VOL. LVIII No. 99 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1956 _Per Copy—15^
Russians Plan To Boost
Volga By Reversing Flow
Of Two Arctic Rivers
NEW YORK, UP — The New
York Times quotes an American
magazine publisher as being told
by former Soviet Premier Georgi
Malenkov of a plan to boost the
power output of the Volga river
by reversing the flow of two
Arctic rivers.
The newspaper said the plan
was discussed by Malenkov in an
interview with Shelton Fischer,
publisher of Power magazine.
Malenkov, now minister of
electric power stations, said the
Volga project already was on the
engineering drafting boards.
It is designed to stablize the
year - round waterflow in the
Volga. Malenkov estimated that
power production would be in
creased by 11 billion kilowatt
hours when the rivers had been
reversed.
The project calls for reversing
the flow of the Pechora and Vy
chegda rivers and linking them
with the Volga through the Suk
hona river, which rises near Volo
gada very close to the watershed
of the upper Volga.
It Was Bad Luck When
She Drilled for Water
And Got Oil Instead
GEORGETOWN, Texas, OP—
“It’s just revolting,” said Mrs. W.
H. Percy when drillers struck oil
instead of water on her property
near here.
“My grass, shrubs and trees are
dying in the drought and still I
have no water," she said yester
day, “I can’t even run my air con
ditioner on oil.”
Mrs. Percy began drilling for
water when her well went dry
this summer.
“But what it it’s a paying
well?” she was asked.
"That’s different; then I can
afford to drill another water
'well,” she said.
Tydings Withdraws From
Maryland Seriate Race
Because of Poor Health
BALTIMORE, OP—The dramat
ic withdrawal of Millard E. Tyd
ings left Maryland Democrats to
day looking for a new candidate
to oppose GOP Sen. John Mar
shall Butler in the November
elections.
Tydings, who was out to regain
the seat he held for 24 years be
fore Butler defeated him in a
controversial 1950 race, last night
announced he was quitting his
comeback campaign because of ill
health.
Now 66, the tall, spare veteran
of clashes with the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Sen.
McCarthy has been suffering
from a severe case of shingles.
He was stricken shortly after
beating George Mahoney, Balti
more paving contractor, by a ra
zor’s edge margin in the primary.
Tydings, who had been hospit
alized 46 days by the shingles
virus which painfully attacks
nerve endings, told a small group
of political associates at his home
yesterday doctors had warned
h>m a strenuous campaign might
cause a recurrence.
GOP Plank for
Alaska Statehood
Virtually Certain
SAN FRANCISCO, UP—Planks
calling for immediate statehood
for Alaska and Hawaii are virtu
ally certain to be included in the
Republican platform, it was re
ported today.
One GOP official, who declined
use of his name, said the Alaska
plank probably will be “with mil
itary reservations.” The Hawaii
plank, he said, would be similar
to the one adopted by the party
four years ago.
Alaska’s national committee
man, Walter Hickel of Anchorage,
said “We are going to have a
statehood plank or we’ll tear the
place apart.”
Robert Groseclose of Fairbanks,
GOP territorial chairman, said “it
would be a blow to the Republi
can Party and the territory if im
mediate statehood were left out
of the Republican platform.”
Groseclose said the territory
also wants a moritorium on the
federal income tax for 20 years
after it becomes a state.
He said the territory wanted
the 20-year moritorium to make
up for some $50 million a year
that it has been pouring into the
federal Treasury as a territory.
The four-man delegation is un
der instructions to cast its votes
for the renomination of President
Eisenhower and Vice President
Richard Nixon.
British Film Star and
Three Others Dunked
In Pool During Party
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., UP>—
Actress Diana Dors and her hus
band, Dennis Hamilton, were
nursing injuries today and so
was the photographer they say
pushed them into their swimming
pool during a gay housewarming.
The British couple went into
the water at the shallow end of
the pool last night along with two
male guests. All were fully
clothed.
The other two in the dunked
quartet were Miss Dors’ agent,
Louis Sehurr. and .her dress de
signer, Howard Shoup.
The photographer, Stuart Saw
yer, 32, of the United Press, was
slugged in a fight that followed.
Hamilton admitted striking Saw
yer, who later flatly denied push
ing anyone.
Miss Dors complained of a sore
back and was put to bed. Her
physician said she received “nu
merous bruises and abrasions”
and said X rays would be taken.
The doctor said Hamilton’s
hand also was hurt and X rays
would be taken to determine if he
broke it when he hit Sawyer.
Sawyer, a United Press employe
for seven years, suffered a possi
ble broken nose, facial lacerations
and bruises on the face, head and
ribs, a physician reported.
A number of film notables
were among the large group of
persons invited to the lavish
party.
IN THE ROADSTEAD
The U.S.C.G. Winona, just back
from its first trip to the arctic, is
anchored in the roadstead.
States Rights Party
Endorses T. Coleman
Andrews for Nominee
NEW ORLEANS, UP—'The Lou
isiana States Rights Party has en
dorsed former Internal Revenue
Commissioner T. Coleman An
drews as its presidential nominee,
and has taken a stand against
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii,
and federal aid to education.
State Chairman Robert G.
Chandler of Shreveport said,
however, the selection of a nom
inee is subject to the will of a
national States Rights convention,
which the Louisiana group has
scheduled in three weeks.
Chandler said his group is ne
gotiating with several other south
ern states to call a presidential
nominating convention.
Ike Backs Policy
Of No Passports
To Red China
WASHINGTON, UR—President
Eisenhower today gave his “full
concurrence” to a State Depart
ment policy of refusing to grant
valid passports to newsmen to
visit Red China.
Acting Secretary of State Her
bert Hoover Jr. disclosed the
White House support in a terse
one-sentence statement. It said:
“The acting secretary of state
today stated the President has
authorized the department to
make clear the President’s full
concurrence in the policy state
ment issued by the State Depart
ment on Aug. 7, 1956, regarding
travel to Communist China.”
In its Aug. 7 statement, the de
partment noted some American
newsmen had been invited by the
Peiping regime to visit Commu
nist China. The State Department
promptly turned thumbs down on
allowing them to go.
The department said after a
careful review it has decided to
continue a ban on granting pass
ports good for travel to Red Chi
na, even to newsmen.
It gave as its reason Red Chi
na’s delay in freeing Americans
now in jail, in violation of a pre
vious pledge to allow them to go
home quickly.
Liner With 1,000 Aboard
Collides With Ship in Fog
QUEBEC, UR—The 18,152-ton
liner Homeric, packed with 1,000
passengers from Europe, collided
in dense fog with a moored ves
sel, the 9,800-ton Columbia, in
Quebec harbor Saturday. No in
juries were reported.
The Homeric, under tow to her
berth, ripped a gash in the Col
umbia’s side and crushed some
lifeboats.
Fog was so thick tug crews
could not see the other shore of
the St. Lawrence River, about a
half mile away.
SOVIET GARMENT INDUSTRY
WILL GLUE INSTEAD OF SEW
LONDON UR—Moscow radio to
day said the Soviet Ministry of
Light Industries has decided to
speed up clothing production by
“gluing the seams of clothing to
gether instead of sewing them.”
The broadcast gdve no details
of the glue to be used.
GOP Chairman Says Democrats
Have Said All That Needs Saying
About Each Other and Their Team
SAN FRANCISCO W—Republi-<
can National Chairman Leonard
W. Hall today pledged a “free and
open convention” on nomination
of presidential and vice presiden
tial candidates, and adoption of a
platform.
Presiding over the opening ses
sion of the GOP convention, Hall
told the delegates in a prepared
speech:
“You and you alone will choose
our presidential nominee . . . our
vice presidential nominee . . . and
adopt the platform of our party.”
The renomination of President
Eisenhower is a foregone conclu
sion, and the selection of Vice
President Nixon to run with him
again is regarded as a virtual cer
tainty—despite the efforts of
Presidential Aide Harold Stassen
to replace Nixon on the ticket
with Gov. Christian Herter of
Massachusetts.
Hall, who has backed Nixon all
along, made no mention of the
Stassen drive, but he said at one
SHAKING, HAND IS SORE
SAN FRANCISCO, (Jft—If Gov.
Arthur B. Langlie’s gestures are
not up to snuff when he makes
his Republican convention key
note speech this afternoon, there
is a reason.
He has shaken hands with so
many people since his arrival
here Friday he has developed a
sore hand.
Alaska Airlines
Is Expanding Its
Service, Facilities
SEATTLE, —Alaska Airlines
will launch luxury DC-6B service
on its Seattle-Tacoma to Alaska
and Anchorage-Fairbanks routes
some time next year—and turbo
props or turbojets are only five
or six years away.
David and Ralph Starkey, vice
presidents for traffic and sales,
outlined an extensive program
for expansion and improvement
of the company’s service within
Alaska and between the States
and the territory.
Alaska Airlines is planning a
new ticket office in downtown
Seattle, president Nelson David
said. A $30,000 new ticket and
cargo office is under construction
at Nome. A new $30,000 cargo
and maintenance building was
erected at Fairbanks last year.
The Anchorage ticket office, mod
ernized at a cost of $20,000, is
said to compare favorably with
those of the States. Property and
a building have been acquired at
Kotzebue.
The company now is in the pro
cess of moving into a large, new
overhaul, stores and office hang
ar at Paine Field near Everett.
“At present, Alaska Airlines’
business is far ahead of last
year’s, and there is every indica
tion that next year’s will surpass
1955,” said Starkey.
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point:
"In this hall hang the pictures
of two men whose official con
duct during the last 3VS years has
brought the smile back to the
faces of America . . .
"I refer to that great native
Californian, who is one of our
hosts, Vice President Richard M,
Nixon, and the greatest President
of our times, Dwight D. Eisen
hower.”
Hall laced his speech with digs
at the Democrats, who last week
nominated Adlai Stevenson to
run again as their presidential
candidate, and chose Sen. Estes
Kefauver of Tennessee as vice
presidential nominee.
“There is nothing that we need
say about Adlai Stevenson that
Kefauver hasn’t already said,”
Hall told the delegates, referring
to some of the hard words ex
changed by Stevenson and Kefau
ver when they were battling in
presidential primaries last spring.
“There is nothing that we need
say about the Stevenson-Kefauver
ticket that Harry Truman hasn’t
already said,” Hall added.
The GOP chairman was allud
ing to remarks made by former
President Truman in the early
part of the Democratic conven
tion, when Truman was backing
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York for the presidential nomina
tion.
At that time, Truman said he
didn’t think much of Stevenson
as a fighter and he criticized Ste
venson’s espousal of “modera
tion.”
Later, when Stevenson won the
nomination, Truman took it back
and pledged his full support to
the Democratic ticket.
Record Heat Saturday
There was a hot time in the
old town last Saturday when the
mercury soared to a new high
of 70 degrees for August 18. This
peak was reached at 10:35 in the
morning.
The previous high mark for the
date was 69 degrees recorded in
ldl7.
It wasn’t all sunshine though,
as during the afternoon it rained
like a veritable cloudburst and
people returning from out in the
hills said they witnessed several
thunderstorms during the day.
Many people took advantage
of the early promise of sunshine
to get out into the countrywide to
pick blueberries.
Top Catholic Official
Of Great Britain Dies
LONDON, UP—Bernard Cardi
nal Griffin, archbishop of West
minster and Britain’s highest Ro
man Catholic prelate, died today
after a heart attack. He was 57
and had been in poor health for
the past five years.
The prelate, who had suffered
four heart attacks since 1951, died
while on a vacation in Cornwall.