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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
. VOL. LXI No. 49 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1959_Per Copy—15*
Seaton Promises
Fast Action On
Fish-Game Switch
WASHINGTON, UPi — Secretary
of the Irterior Seaton yesterday
promised Alaska’s Congressional
delegation a “most expeditious”
study of fish and game legislation
which may result in transfer of
administration over Alaska’s fish
and game resources to the state.
He gave the assurance to Sens.
Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruen
ing and Rep. Ralph Rivers, Alas
ka Democrats, after their delivery
of copies of legislation enacted by
the recent Alaska State Legisla
ture.
The Alaska statehood bill re
tained federal jurisdiction over
the fish and game pending a de
termination by the Secretary that
the Legislature had acted in a
manner demonstrating Alaska’s
abilty to manage the resource in
“the broad national interest.”
Seaton’s certification that he
has made such a finding must lay
before Congress for 90 legislative
days before the transfer would be
come effective on the following
January 1.
Included in the file of material
handed to Seaton were copies of
the state laws prohibting opera
tion of fish traps in Alaska, creat
ing a board of fish and game, set
ting a schedule of nonresident
fishing and hunting fees and pro
viding for the organization of the
executive branch of the Alaska
state government.
Furs Stolen from Seattle
Hotel Found Near Chicago
CHICAGO, (R — An ex-convict
and a Hollywood, Fla., scrap deal
er were sentenced Thursday to five
years imprisonment for posses
sion and interstate transportation
of furs tolen from the Olympic
Hotel in Seattle two years ago.
The men, Harold Hadesman, 41,
of Chicago, and Sam Pers, alias
Sam Pearce, 54, of Hollywood,
Fla., were also fined $500 each.
FBI agents had testified they
recovered 43 stolen furs, valued
at $49,000 from the trunk of a
car parked in suburban Franklin
Park on September 17, 1957.
Robbers stole 49 furs from a
fur show in the Olympic Hotel in
September, 1957.
HAWAII ELDER STATESMAN
TO RUN FOR U. S. SENATE
HONOLULU, (R — Wilfred C.
Tsukiyama announced yesterday
he will run for one of Hawaii’s
two U. S. Senate seats under
statehood.
Tsukiyama, 62, was graduated
from Coe College, Iowa, and the
University of Chicago Law School.
He is the elder statesman among
Hawaii legislators of Japanese
ancestry.
He is the second Republican to
announce for the Senate. Five
Democrats also are in the race.
CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS TO
U. S. NUMBER ONE-THIRD OF
NEW CANADIAN CITIZENS
TORONTO, (R — For every
three immigrants who arrived in
Canada last year, at least one
Canadian moved to the United
States.
Immigration Minister Ellen
Fairclough said last night 124,531
immigrants were received in Can
ada in 1958 and 45,000 Canadians
took up residence in the United
\ States. There were 10,846 migrants
from the United States to Canada.
Southern Senators
Renege In Altering
New Labor Bill
WASHINGTON, UP> — A “Bill
of Rights” amendment written in
to the Kennedy Labor Regulation
Bill appeared today to be losing
some of its southern support.
Sen. John Stennis (D-Missl told
a newsman he was having second
thoughts on the amendment and
that he believed some of his south
ern colleagues were, too.
The amendment, by Sen. John
L. McClellan (D-Ark), was adopted
47-46 Wednesday, largely on the
votes of Republicans and southern
Democrats.
A host of other amendment pro
posals awaited action as the Sen
ators moved into what most hoped
would be the final day of debate
on the hotly disputed measure.
Remaining to be settled are
three major issues:
1. Whether to write in a pro
vision strengthening the Taft
Hartley law sections aimed at
secondary boycotts.
2. Whether to insert a provision
sharply limiting organizational
i picketing.
3. Whether to try to modify or
knock out the Bill of Rights
amendment.
The Senate acted on 18 amend
ments in an 11-hour session Thurs
day.
Stennis made his comments
about the Bill of Rights amend
ment after a huddle of southern
ers with Majority Leader Lyndon
B. Johnson (D-Texl.
Japan Premier’s Party
Takes Lead in Elections
TOKYO, UP — Japan’s ruling
conservatives won an overwhelm
ing victory today in state and
local elections. Their prizes in
cluded the important governor
ships of Tokyo, Osaka and Hok
kaido, all hotly contested races.
Of the 21 state prefecture gov
eronrs’ posts at stake Thursday,
six went to members of Premier
Nobusuke Kishi’s Conservative
Liberal Democrats and one to an
opposition Socialist.
The remaining 15 went to In
dependents — nine of them sup
ported by 'both the Liberal-Demo
crats and the Socialists, four by
the Liberal-Democrats only and
one by the Socialists.
Kishi’s party also' pulled far
ahead in balloting for the 2,657
seats in Japan’s 46 state assem
blies. Incomplete returns gave
them 1,207 to the Socialists’ 316.
LIONS IN THE STREETS
EVANSVILLE, Ind., UP — Mes
ker Zoo has animals, and soon
it will be able to travel.
The Lions Club decided that the
zoo should go to those who can’t
go to the zoo. It bought an old
truck and is fitting it up with six
small cages and four large ones.
The show will go on the road in
the summer.
The Lions Club put one condi
tion on its gift. The exhibit must
always contain a lion cub.
TWO-TIME LOSER '
COLUMBUS, Ohio, UP — John
Volz, a defendant on the losing
end of a civil suit, had just one
question for municipal court Judge
Wilbur L. Shull after the judge
ordered him to pay a gas station
operator $86.31. The question:
Was he, Volz, entitled to trading
stamps for the amount he had to
pay? The answer: No.
Nehru Invites Chou
Envoys To Visit
Dalai Lama Retreat
M'USSOORIE, India, UPC-Prime
Minister Nehru today invited Chi
nese Communist representatives
and their puppet ruler of Tibet,
the Panchen Lama, to visit the
Dalai Lama at his refuge here
in North India.
Nehru said he hoped the Dalai
Lama, Tibet’s 23-year-old spiritual
and temporal ruler, would return
to Lhasa, the Tibetan capitol. It
was an obvious bid to reconcile
the Red Chinese government and
the Tibetan God-King^, who fled
from Communist domination of
his homeland.
The Indian Prime Minister
made his peace overture in an im
promptu news conference two
hours before meeting with the
Dalai Lama.
The Prime Minister said “the
door is open” for the Chinese
ambassador to India or any high
representative of the Peiping gov
ernment to see the Tibetan exec
utive, who has set up headquar
trs in exile in this Himalayan hill
station.
As to Red Chinese charges that
the Dalai Lama had been kid
naped and brought here under
duress, Nehru said it was not so.
“There is security, and we are
making certain arrangements for
the protection of the Dalai Lama,
but that’s a different matter from
being under duress,” he said.
Commenting on statements in
Peiping attributed to the Panchen
Lama that “expansionist elements”
in India were stirring up ^he Ti
betan revolt, Nehru said “What
the Panchen Lama had said, as
reported, does not do justice to
India, China, Tibet or the Pan
chen Lama.”
Magnuson Advocates
Bering Tunnel, Bridge —
For ‘Highway to Paris’
WASHINGTON, OP)—Sen. War
ren G. Magnuson plugged for one
of his pet projects — a Bering Sea
tunnel or bridge — during ques
tioning Thursday of Lewis Strauss
whose nomination as Secretary of
Commerce is now before a Sen
ate committee.
“Some day,” Magnuson said,
“some of us will be driving
through Alaska on our way to
Asia and Europe.”
Magnuson told Strauss he hoped
it “won’t be too long before we
have an international highway
system” with a tunnel beneath
the Bering Sea which would per
mit motorists to drive from Wash
ington, D. C., to Paris.
Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa), said
he was willing to go along with
Magnuson as much as possible.
But, said Sen. Scott, “I’ll strong
ly oppose a bridge from Califor
nia to Hawai.”
NAVY LAUNCHES GUIDED
MISSILE DESTROYER
SEATTLE, —The Navy’s new
guided missile destroyer, USS
Towers, slid down the ways at
the Todd Shipyards Corp. plant
here yesterday.
The 3,370-ton vessel will be
equipped with a battery of new
Tartar surface-to-air missiles.
The ship was named for Adm.
John Henry Towers, a pioneer
naval aviator who died in 1955.
The ship was cristened by Adm.
Tower’s daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel
P. Rotureau Jr., Pensacola, Fla.
Magnuson Complains U. S. Idle While
Russians Chart ‘Every Bit’ of Pacific
WASHINGTON, UP> — Sen.
Warren Magnuson says the Rus
sians have charted every bit of
the Pacific Ocean right up to the
U. S. coastline and “know how
deep they can sink their missile
ships.”
“There is no question who is
ahead in this field; we have done
nothing,” Magnuson said yester
day at a Senate Commerce Com
mittee hearing on the nomina
tion of Lewis L. Strauss as Sec
retary of Commerce.
Strauss agreed with Magnuson
that the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey, which comes under the Com
merce Department, is inadequate
ly equipped. Strauss said a study
is underway to determine whether
to request additional funds for it.
Magnuson said this country is
lagging far behind the Russians
in exploring the deeps of the
world’s oceans and warned that,
with the coming of underwater
firing missile submarines, “this
really is something we had better
take a •good look at.”
Panama Officials
Find More Arms,
Revolt Evidence
PANAMA, Ufl — National
guardsmen today reported finding
a second cache of arms on the
beach where Roberto Arias and a
rebel band landed six days ago.
Arias,' fugitive husband of bal
lerina Dame Margot Fonteyn,
was still eluding patrols search
ing the coast and hills around
Santa Clara, 75 miles wet of the
capitol.
The rebels were believed well
armed. Several empty boxes which
officials said presumably con
tained rifles were found.
The latest arms cache included
24 pistols, 3 revolvers, 5 loaded
cartridge belts and 1,000 rounds
of amunition. A similar cache was
found Wednesday.
A government prosecutor said
new evidence showed that Dame
Margot was aware of her 41-year
old husband’s plot to overthrow
President Ernest de La Guardia.
The famed British dancer was
expelled from Panama Wednesday
after questioning. She professed
ignorance of any revolutionary
activities. She flew to New ork
and on to London Thursday, still
refusing to talk about the revolt.
Dist. Atty. Francisco Alvarado
told newsmen he would not have
let the dancer <go had he then
had letters found in a beach cot
tage near Sar\ta Clara Wednesday.
Alvarado said the letters — ad
dressed to the dancer and ‘ her
husband — were written by Judy
Thasham, a British friend living
in New York. The letter to Dame
Margot said “The plot thickens
very much” and referred to
“strange calls from Alastair to
me.” Authorities identified Alas
tair as a friend of Aras who vis
ited Panama recently.
Officials said a memo found in
the cottage showed Arias had
drawn more than a half million
dollars in the last 18 months from
American movie star John Wayne.
Wayne told newsmen in Cali
fornia he was a long-time friend
of Arias and that they were asso
ciated in a shrimp company along
with other stockholders. He ex
pressed surprise that Arias could
be mixed up in any revolutionary
activities.
Magnuson said the Coast and
Geodetic Survey lacks sufficient
ships, and Straus agreed that it
is inadequately equipped.
He said a study of its needs now
is underway and will carry great
weight with him in deciding whe
ther to urge President Eisenhower
to request additional funds.
Magnuson, in telling of the ac
tivities of the Russians, referred
to a report he had. When Strauss
asked if a copy could be made
available to him, Magnuson said
he had obtained it from the Coast
and Geodetic Survey.
Later Magnuson told newsmen
that the Russian had been quite
free in supplying information to
the Coast and Geodetic Survey
about the Pacific charting activi
ties of their ship Vityaz.
He said the Russians had done
extensive core drilling on the bot
tom of the Pacific, adding this
was important for finding out
where and for how long nuclear
submarines could sit on the bot
tom of the ocean.
j California Legislature
I Ends Party,-Mixing In
Primary Voting
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UP) —
Californians can kiss cross-filing
goodbye. «
The Senate yesterday joined
with the Assembly in voting to
abolish the unique system which
allows candidates to run on both
party tickets in state primary
elections.
Senate approval, 22-13, sent the
legislation to Gov. Edmund G.
Brown for his certain signature.
The Democratic chief executive
advocated repeal of cross-filing in
his inaugural message.
The Assembly passed the bill
by a wide margin.
A reform Legislature installed
cross-filing 46 years ago. It long
had helped incumbents win re
election in the primary. Until re
cently, most offices were held by
Republicans.
Repeal of the law has been a
fixture in the state Democratic
platform. This is the first Dem
cratic Legislature since 1898. Dem
ocrats snapped up all but one
state office last fall.
The overturn of cross-filing will
mean the end of widespread
double nominations in state pri
maries. Republicans will be able
to vote only for Republican candi
dates and Democrats for Demo
cratic candidates.
IT'S A BIRDDD !
RICHMOND, Va., UP) — A pesky
wild turkey no longer plagues the
wild blue yonder at Richmond’s
Byrd Field.
For two weeks, the fowl had
given pilots the jitters by his an
tics during takeoffs and landings.
The airport security officer,
Charles C. Wilson, ended the haz
ard Thursday with a .22 rifle
equipped with a telescopic sight.
THURSDAY BASEBALL
National League
Philadelphia 4, Milwaukee 3.
Chicago 6, St. Louis 1.
American League
Cleveland 10, Detroit 4.
Washington 3, New York 2.
Baltimore 8, Boston 7.
Pacifc Coast League
Spokane 3, San Diego 1.
Sacramento 3, Vancouver 0.
Phoenix 6, Portland 3.
Salt Lake City 9, Seattle 0.