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VOL. LVIII No. 129 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1956 Per Copy—15*
HUNGARY’S RED GOVERNMENT
CONCEDES VICTORY TO REBELS
VIENNA, UP—Hungary’s Red
government virtually conceded
complete victory to the revolu
tionary forces yesterday and
called on the nation to prepare
for free elections. Premier Imre
Nagy announced the one-party
Communist system has been abol
ished.
The Communist Premier told
the nation he has called on the
Soviet army command to begin
immediate withdrawal of Soviet
troops from revolt-tom Budapest.
Two hours after Nagy went on
the air, radio Budapest broadcast
an announcement that Soviett
troops had started leaving Buda
pest. There was no indication yet
they were quitting Hungary.
There had been ominous reports
in Vienna that the Russians were
moving reinforcements to the cap
ital. One report was that tank
reinforcements were clanking
from Russia thru northeast Hun
gary; another that seven tank
columns were closing on Buda
pest from the southwest.
Fighting slacked off at the Ma
ria Terezia Barracks, a rebel
strong-point in the week of civil
war. Insurgents who had held out
against Soviet tank fire marched
out defiantly yesterday morning
and announced they would not
put down their arms until the
Russians had left Budapest.
Stevenson Claims
GOP Ignored
His Plan for Peace
By the Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson says the Eisen
hower Administration dismissed
a proposal he made to 'bring peace
to the troubled Middle East—an
area certain to figure largely in
debate during the last six days of
the U.S. presidential campaign.
Israeli military moves into
Egypt forced cancellation yester
day of President Eisenhower’s
own political plans. It left the
remainder of his campaign pro
gram in doubt.
Stevenson said in a Philadel
phia address last night that he
suggested nearly a year ago that
the United Nations undertake
“patrol duties in the area of ten
sion” to stop bloodshed and vio>
lence.
“Needless to say,” he continued,
“this proposal was dismissed by
the administration even as they
are now dismissing my suggestion
that we take prompt steps to stop
the experimental explosion of
hydrogen bombs.”
Eisenhower, who had scheduled
campaign rallies today in Dallas,
Oklahoma City and Memphis,
cancelled them yesterday and put
the rest of his political schedule
on a day-to-day basis. Another
campaign appearance at Philadel
phia tomorrow was also put on
the uncertain list.
Stevenson aides said he will
continue to focus attention on the
Middle East for the rest of the
campaign, to advance his continu
ing argument that Eisenhower
"has already withdrawn from the
full obligations of leadership.”
The government removed Peter
Kos, Hungarian delegate to the
United Nations, and announced
that a new delegate would be sent
to New York. Kos supported the
Soviet Union in opposing discus
sion of the Hungarian rebellion
by the Security Council last week.
Large sections of the country
were under rebel control.
John Thomas Smith, British
leader of a Western convoy of 18
vehicles which reached the bor
der town of Nickelsford from
Budapest, said "Russian tanks ap
peared more than ever in evi
dence today and there was still
shooting in the capital . . .”
Smith said convoys such as his
were bringing out 58 westerners,
including some Americans.
PIONEER GROUPS TO HOLD
HOMECOMING BANQUET
FOR ALASKANS SATURDAY
SEATTLE, WV-The 13th annual
homecoming banquet for residents
and former residents of Alaska
will be held at the Arctic Club
here Saturday night.
The occasion is sponsored by
the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers and
the Ladies of the Golden North.
HALLOWEEN TREATS
AND FIREWORKS TOO
FOR KIDS TONIGHT
A wrtiderful treat is in store
for the children of the community
this evening when Keith Hedreen
sets off a display of fireworks at
8 o'clock in Federal Square. The
fireworks will follow treats to be
given out at the City Hall at 7
o’clock.
After school this afternoon
treats are toeing distributed by
two business houses, Cavota’s
and the N.C. Store.
With such a generous program
planned for the entertainment of
the youth it is hoped that they
will reciprocate by refraining
from destructive or hazardous
pranks.
Dead X-2 Pilot
Got Buffeting
Before Crash
EDWARDS, Calif., —A cam
era mounted in the cockpit of the
Bell X-2 rocket plane shows that
Capt. Milburn G. Apt received a
violent buffeting before he was
killed in the crash of the experi
mental plane.
Photographs of the last mo
ments of flight of the needle
nosed craft that holds the world’s
speed and altitude records were
described yesterday by the Air
Force. They were not released,
however, on the grounds they are
classified.
They show that Apt, who was
making his first flight in the
plane, was thrown about the cock
pit when he went into a turn
after pushing the X-2 to a record
speed of 2,200 miles an hour.
The film shows Apt reaching
for the handle to detach the cock
pit capsule from the rest of the
plane. He was unable to eject
himself, however, and it smashed
to earth with him inside.
Israel and Egypt Forces Clash;
Britain, France Send Troops
Britain and France
Will Move Into Suez
Despite U.S. Pleas
LONDON, Iff*—Prime Minister
Eden said today that Britain and
France will move into the Suez
Canal Zone—with or without the
approval of the United States.
“We stand by what we said and
we shall carry it out,” he told the
House of Commons.
Eden refused to say whether
British and French forces have
landed on Egyptian soil. There
were unconfirmed reports from
the Middle East all day that the
landings had started. The latest,
from Israel radio, said British
troops went ashore in the Suez
area. There was no confirmation
from Cairo.
“We cannot accept that we have
to obtain the agreement of the
United States before acting in our
own vital interests,” Eden de
clared.
Eden declined to give the House
of Commons any details on action
to be taken by British and French
forces.
In an angry exchange, Labor
leaders Hugh Gaitskell shouted:
“This is really a fantastic situa
tion. It is the whole House and
the whole country which is wait
ing for an answer to this ques
tion.”
In what amounted to an appeal
for American understanding, the
Prime Minister said:
“It is sometimes a government’s
duty to make decisions for its own
country.”
His face flushed, Gaitskell asked
Eden “whether a decision has
been finally taken that British
and French forces shall invade
the canal zone of Egypt.”
Eden replied: “I am not going
to give the House any kind of ac
count of that action or what those
plans with our allies may be. We
stand by what we said and we
shall carry it out.”
Labor members were in an op
roar. There were angry shouts de
manding the Prime Minister re
sign.
Eden appeared to be addressing
his remarks as much to the world
at large as to the House.
He said free movement of ship
ping thru the Suez Canal is of
concern to the Americans, “but
it is not for them a matter of
survival as it is for us and all
Europe.”
Eden’s government had warned
Egyptian civilians to stay away
from all Egyptian airfields.
The British warning came as
massive British and French naval
and military formations deployed
themselves for a possible swoop
on the Suez Canal.
The warning appeared to be a
prelude to landings of planes or
dropping of parachute troops into
the canal area.
U.S. Stands By Pledge
To Aid Any Victim of
Middle East Aggression
WASHINGTON, MV-President
Eisenhower will go on nationwide
television and radio tonight to
discuss the Middle East crisis.
This was announced shortly be
fore noon today by the White
House, which also repeated that
the United States is still standing
by its pledge to assist any victim
of aggression in the Middle East.
Britain is reported to have in
formed the U.S. government that
it considers the pledge defunct.
The pledge bound .the United
States, Britain and France to
work together in the Middle East
to preserve peace.
Saying the President’s 15-min
ute talk would be “a non-political
report," White House Press Sec
retary Hagerty said that the
President would speak from his
White House office and discuss
“the developing situation in the
Middle East.”
Hagerty said further Eisenhow
er will “outline the American po
sition” regarding the tense situa
tion resulting from the Israeli
thrust into Egypt on Monday.
Since that time, Britain and
France have announced plans to
place troops in Egypt, and the two
governments joined yesterday in
vetoing a U.S. resolution in the
United Nations Security Council.
The U.S. resolution called for a
cease-fire in Egypt, and for other
U.N. member nations to refrain
from any use of force in that
area.
Hagerty said Eisenhower and
British Prime Minister Anthony
Eden have exchanged additional
personal messages regarding the
Middle East situation. The White
House announced dispatch of one
Eisenhower message to Eden yes
terday. In that one, also addressed
to French Premier Guy Mollet,
Eisenhower urged both the Brit
ish and the French to refrain
from use of force in the Middle
East.
Hagerty was asked whether Is
rael's Prime Minister, David Ben
Gurion, had replied to two mes
sages Eisenhower sent to him list
weekend. In those, the President
expressed grave concern over Is
rael’s mobilization and appealed
to Ben-Gurion to do nothing
“which would endanger the
peace.”
Hagerty said he did not know
whether Ben-Gurion had replied
—that he would have to check.
There were reports from sourc
es outside the White House that
the United States was ready to
cut off all economic aid to Israel
in a move to force Israeli troops
to withdraw from Egypt’s Sinai
Peninsula.
The United States has allocated
$256,979,214 in foreign aid to the
Israeli government during the
past eight years. All but $13,230,
517 of this had been spent by
Sept. 1 of this year.
Both Sides Claim
Gains in Middle East
By EDWIN SHANKE
CAIRO, UF>—Britain warned
Egyptians to clear out from all
Egyptian airfields today—appar
ently as a prelude to tfie expected
landing of a French-British expe
ditionary airborne force to seize
control of the Suez Canal.
Egypt announced it had put
Russian Migs into operation
against Israeli forces on the Sinai
Peninsula. Israel claimed the cap
ture of an Egyptian ship in Haifa
Harbor.
The Voice of Israel, a Jerusa
lem radio station, warned the ref
ugee-packed Gaza strip that it
soon would be cut off from Egypt.
It asserted Israeli military opera
tions in the Sinai Peninsula soon
would be concluded with the de
feat of Egyptian forces.
The Israelis claimed to have de
stroyed scores of Egyptian vehi
cles in air attacks on convoys east
of Ismailia, and claimed their
forces had reached within lO
miles of the Suez Canal, the “ulti
matum” line set by Britain and
France.
Egyptian military headquarters
announced it had sent its Soviet
built Migs into battle today and
that they had knocked down lO
Israeli planes. The Egyptians ad
mitted the loss of two of their
own planes.
The Egyptians said bombers
also had gone into action over
Israel’s territory and had de
stroyed and damaged Israeli air
fields.
The Egyptian high command
said the Egyptian air force wAs
busy all day today pounding Is
raeli troop concentrations and
convoys along the Egyptian fron
tier and hit 21 trucks full of sol
diers. destroying seven of them.
It added that heavy fighting
started last night between El
Auja, strategic frontier cross
roads, and Abou Ogueila (Abu
Awukila), 15 miles to the west.
The Israelis attacked three times
in an unsuccessful effort to break,
thru Egyptian positions and
“fighting is continuing,” the com
munique said.
Egypt rejected a demand from
London and Paris that the Israeli -
Egyptian fighting cease by 6:30
a.m. (8:30 p.m. PST Tuesday) and
troops be pulled back 10 miles
from each side of the Suez to let
the European troops in.
New Gadget Will Start
Engines in 65 Below
NEW YORK, UV-A revolution
ary device said to permit consis
tent starting for automotive and
airplane engines in temperatures
as low as 65 degrees below zero
is announced by Robert Reicn
helm Co., Wallingford, Conn.
Called the “Reichhelm gasifier,”
it will be used in the South Pole
area by Adm. Richard Byrd’s
Operation Deep Freeze.