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VOL. LVIII No. 54 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1956_Per Copy—15^
Jim Bailey Beat
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LOS ANGELES, UP>—Australian
John Landy gets another chance
to break his mile record at Fresno
on Saturday but he won’t get an
other shot at his conqueror and
Tellow countryman Jim Bailey
until fall.
Bailey, the University of Oregon
junior and collegiate mile cham
pion, beat Landy and smashed the
American mile record here Satur
day with a 3:58.6 performance—
the first mile ever run under four
minutes in the United States.
Next on Jim’s calendar is the
Pacific Coast Conference North
ern Division meet which won’t
permit a rematch with Landy at
Fresno’s West Coast relays. Then
Bailey will riyi in defense of his
NCAA title and in August head
back to Australia in quest of a
spot on the Olympic team.
That’s when the business stu
dent whose home is in Sydney,
will probably next meet school
master Landy of Melbourne.
“I’m confident of running bet
ter'at Fresno,” said Landy after
losing by a stride to his country
man. “I am satisfied with the
time. I didn’t think he’d run bet
ter than 4:02.”
John was clocked a( 3:58.7, com
pared with his world mark of
3:58, set in 1954 at Turku, Fin
land. He made no excuses for his
defeat by the powerful Bailey,
who took over the lead about 110
yards from the finish.
Seven U.S. Servicemen
Killed in Traffic
Accident in France
ROBERT ESPAGNE, France, I#
—Seven American servicemen,
driving in a small French car
from Paris back to their U.S. .Air
Force base near this city, were
killed last night in a traffic acci
dent.
Military authorities said the car
crashed into the back of a big
truck. The truck driver was re
ported unhurt. Names of the dead
were withheld pending notifica
tion of their relatives.
Court Martial Ordered
To Try Sergeant for
Death ol‘ Six on March
WASHINGTON, Itfl—The Navy
Saturday ordered a court-martial
j to convene May 14 or soon there
; after to try S, Sgt. Matthew C.
j McKeon for the disciplinary
! march drownings of six marine
j recruits at Parris I-land, S.C.
A marine spokesman at Parris
Island confirmed this after it was
reported by the Washington Eve
I ning Star.
I Charges against McKeon in
clude manslaughter, which carries
a maximum penalty on conviction
of 10 years in prison.
The marines, in a report to Con
gress, charged that McKeon, a
drill instructor at the South Caro
lina base, led the recruits to their
death April 8 while under the in
fluence of vodka..
Loretta Ann Snyder
Wins Firland Scholarship
At Univ. of Washington i
SEATTLE, i#1—Awards, schol
arships and grants were presented
to 97 students, including one for
merly of Nome, at the annual
honors day convocation of the
University of Washington School
of Medicine Saturday.
Loretta Ann Snyder, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Snyder of
Nome, was named dinner of the
Firland Health Graduates’ Assn.
Scholarship, given to former tu
berculosis patients.
Miss Snyder was living with
her parents in Anchorage when
she left to attend the University
of Washington. She was born in
| Nome.
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Sunday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4-4, Chicago 0-0
i Baltimore 4-6, Detroit 3-2
Kansas City 10-13, Wash. 7-3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 2-6, Chicago 1-6
Cincinnati 10-11, Phila. 2-9
St. Louis 5-4, New York 4-5
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 5-5, San Diego 4-7
Sacramento 7-0, S. Fran. 3-1
Portland 6-7, Seattle 4-0
Nome School Band Gives Outstanding
Concert to Capacity Audience Friday
The Nome School auditorium
was filled to capacity Friday eve
ning for the Nome School Band
concert.
The 50 members of the band
wore their colorful new orange
and black uniforms complete with
plumes and marched in from the
rear of the auditorium in an im
pressive and colorful opening.
Under the direction of Robert
Heath, who has worked *with them
for the past three years, they pre
sented an outstanding program of
band music, featuring well known
marches as well as swing, folk
and classical music in a well-bal
anced variety.
Soloists were Peter Barber on
the trombone and Charlene Hudg
ins on the clarinet.
The Majorettes were a new fea
ture with the band this year with
their twirling batons.
The Pioneers of Alaska Igloo
No. 1, through their spokesman,
Frank Morris, presented the band,
gleeelub and dramatics depart
ment with $150 for new equip
ment as an expression of the ap
preciation of the community for
entertainment afforded by these
activities in the school.
Saturday evening the members
of the band entertained their par
ents with a party at the Pioneer
Hall. Games were played, movies
were shown, and the band mem
bers enjoyed hearing a recording
of their concert.
The band presented Mr. Heath
with a beautiful carving set as a
token of appreciation and the
parents presented him with an
envelope of greenbacks.
Mr. Heath will be teaching at
Sitka next year.
Jobless Porter
Admits Guilt in
Church Shooting
NEW YORK (i*P—Toducrchi Sava,
61, jobless porter wanted for ques
tioning in a fatal church shooting,
surrendered to the district attor
ney today.
Several hours later police said
that he had “made an admission”
in connection with the wild fray
last Saturday midnight in front of
St. Dumitru’s Romanian Orthodox
Church.
“I understand I’m wanted for
questioning,” the man reportedly
said as he walked into the office
of Dist. Atty. Frank S. Hogan at
about 9:10 a.m.
The man disappeared immedi
ately after the shooting. In his
room in a house opposite the
church on West 78th Street detec
tives found a rifle and ammuni
tion.
The church warden. Vasili Cu
cuia, 66, was killed and five per
sons received minor wounds when
a fusillate of shots peppered a
crowd of worshipers entering the
church for Romanian Orthodox
Easter services.
No motive has been established
for the shooting.
Former Romanian Princess Ile
ana, one of the worshipers, said
the sniper “tried to kill either me
or the priest or both of us.”
She said the sniper may have
been “a tool of the Communists.”
“They hate the church and the
royal family tremendously,” she
added.
The ex-Princess is a sister of
the late King Carol of Romania.
The church’s priest, the Very
Rev. Florian Galdau, was twice
jailed by the Communists in Bu
charest before coming here as a
refugee. He said Sava was a
“trained agent” of the Commun
ists and was sent to make trouble.
Sava “has threatened me and
very many others of the Congre
gation." Father Galdau added.
The priest said Sava rejected
last week to hanging a picture of
the late Jueen Marie of Romania
in an exhibition of peasant art at
the church. He was not a member
of the congregation.
But police denied any Commu
nist angle to the shooting.
Dog Helps Save Baby
Buried in Beach Sand
By Unwed Mother
FIUMICINO, Italy, Id*)—A 10
month-old boy, buried 16 hours in
beach sands by an unwed mother
who said she couldn’t feed him,
was alive and well today—thanks
to a hunting dog.
Police held the 36-year-old
mother on an open charge. They
quoted her as saying, “I had noth
ing to give him.”
The baby had been buried in a
foot-deep hole on the beach west
of Rome. Two hunters followed'
their dog to the spot yesterday
morning. They found part of the
baby’s head and one hand exposed
after the dog had pawed the sand.
The baby’s body was blue, but
emergency treatment restored him
to normal in a few hours.
Police said the mother has three
other children.
VOTES NO GOOD IN 9 PRECINCTS
OF 2nd DIVISION, SAYS ATTORNEY
ANCHORAGE, l/P — Clifford j
Groh, Anchorage attorney,
charged Friday he has found nu
merous irregularities in voting in
nine precincts of the Second Divi
sion in the primary election.
Groh told the Anchorage Times
he thought the irregularities
would be sufficient grounds for
throwing out the entire precinct
voting because there is no way
of separating legal from illegal
ballots.
In seven precincts, he said, more
ballots were counted than were
officially cast. The proof, Groh
related, was obtained by totaling
the votes for national committee
man and coming up, in each in
| Primary Election Returns
(Are Just About Completed
The Primary Election returns
1 are just about completed for the
Second Division. Point Hope and
Shungnak precinct returns are
in but there is some question as
to the'legality of the Shungnak
returns since the election supplies
were late getting there and the
people had to write out their own
ballots. The Point Hope return
is included on Page Three.
The Shungnak return will be
printed if and when its legality
is determined.
The Stebbins precinct is the
only one yet to come.
The absentee ballots will be
counted tomorrow, Tuesday, at
2 p.m. and there are about 150
of these.
L\ nrion Johnson
Defeats Shivers in
Texas Primary
By the Associated Press
A weekend political highlight
was Senate Majority Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson’s crushing defeat
of Texas Gov. Alvan Shivers in a
fight for control of the state’s
Democratic Party machinery.
Johnson forces gained control
of the state’s May 22 Democratic
convention in 5,000 precinct con
ventions Saturday. The state con
vention picks the Texas delega
tion to the national convention.
Shivers had made states rights
the big issue in the fight. He con
tended ‘‘the Washington crowd,”
including Johnson and House
Speaker Rayburn of Texas, was
attempting to force centralized di
rectives on Texas.
Johnson is pledged to work to
ward party unity in the national
campaign. Shivers, who has been
cool toward most current Demo
cratic presidential possibilities,
has indicated he might again sup
port Eisenhower, as he did in 1952.
Rayburn, an ardent opponent of
“conservative” Texas Democrats
represented by Shivers, was a
leader of the drive to get for
Johnson both a favorite son desig
nation and the post of leader of
the / Democratic delegation. He
called the results “an- overwhelm
ing victory for the Democratic
Party.”
stance, with a total greater than
the number of voters in the pre
cinct.
"It appears,” Groh said, “the
voters were given both Republi
can and Democratic ballots and
cast them instead of using just
one ballot as they s'hould.”
He said the same type of ir
regularity was found in the presi
dential preference total in two
other precincts. Precincts in which
Groh said he found the irregular
ities were Mountain Village,
Noorvik, Wales, Selawik, Golovin,
Shishmaref, Wainwright, Shak
toolik and Hooper Bay.
Throwing out the ballots in
these precincts could materially
improve the lead held by Walter
Hickel over Henry Benson for
Republican National Committee
man. Benson would lose 156 votes
! in these precincts and Hickel 36.
Groh said he probably would
ask the canvassing board in Ju
neau and Governor Heiptzleman
to throw out the votes.
H-Bomb Test
| Postponed for
Second Time
By ELTON C. FAY
ABOARD USS MT. McKIN
LEY, Bikini Atoll, UP—Cautious
H-bomb testers again today post
poned firing shot Cherokee.
Dr. William E. Ogle, acting sci
i entific test director for joint Task
Force U, said the American test
might take place Thursday, Bikini
time (Wednesday, U.S. time). But
he also told newsmen he would
not be surprised if the blast was
delayed until May 15.
The blast originally was slated
tentatively for Tuesday and then
for Wednesday.
Weather conditions were blamed
each time.
The big bomb is to be fired at
several thousand feet after a drop
from an intercontinental bomber,
the multijet B-52.
Testers decided to wait on the
weather to make sure radioactive
fallout doesn’t drift outside the
established danger zone as it did
in 1954, when the Lucky Dragon,
a Japanese fishing boat, was dust
ed with fallout and its crew of 23
sickened. One died.
The delay was announced as the
Japanese press commented tem
perately on America’s need for
conducting the tests but expressed
the firm conviction that all such
tests should end.
Tokyo Shimbun, expressing re
gret that America has disregarded
Japan’s request that the tests be
suspended, noted that the United
States "is taking every precaution
to avoid bad effects from the ex
periments” this time.
Mainichi Shimbun said that “as
long as there is no agreement
among the United States, Great
Britain and Soviet Russia to pro
hibit nuclear weapons ... it is
difficult to ask anyone to halt such
experiments,” and that “Jtpari
must continue ... to seek such a
change.”