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Nome Explorers
' Canoeing Through
Wilds to Teller
Explorer Post 776, Boy Scouts
of America, left a noon yesterday
for the most interesting trip the
group has ever planned. They
were transported by car to Cotton
wood, where they were to pitch
camp for the night. They planned
to start out this morning in their
eight canoes on the Pilgrim River,
up the Kuzatrin and Kruzamapa,
the Tuksuk, and finally to Teller,
to return home by boat or plane.
The group is expected to be gone
not less than ten days.
Five of the canoes were made
by the Scouts themselves, of fiber
glass, and one canoe is made of
canvas, and two are aluminum
boats.
In the party are Ash Craft, ad
visor, Sam Ailak, who will act
as guide up the winding rivers,
and Edgar Bibb, who .will photo
graph the trip. Explorers in the
group are Ray Arnold, Rod Bou
cher, both Life Scouts; Taylor
Moto Jr., and David Craft, Star
Scouts; and the following first
class Scouts: Eddie Johnsen,
Johnnie Herman, Freddie Kuge
suk, Bob Oman, Curtis Chunn,
Danny Rockne, Billy Muller, Er
nie Ailak, Charlie Nershak and
Wayne Wittie.
NLRB Cites Interior Air
Carrier for Union Boycott
FAIRBANKS, UR — A National
Labor Relations Board examiner
reported today that Interior En
terprises Inc., airline making
charter flights out of Fairbanks,
discriminated against pilots in dis
charging them August 10-13, 1957.
Examiner James R. Hemingway,
in a recommendation to the full
NLRB, called upon the line to
cease discouraging membership
in Teamsters Local 959, Fairbanks,
and offer reinstatement and make
up lost pay to 15 men.
In a footnote, the examiner said
he had heard unofficillay that at
least two of the pilots had died
since testifying at . the hearing on
the case, and that back pay for
them should run to the date of
their death.
In 1957 the line had planes
based at Fairbanks, Point Barrow
and Barter Island and was mak
ing charter flights for the Air
Force to Dew Line stations.
Polar Bear Cub Arrives In
Capitol City’s 84-Degrees
WASHINGTON, UP) — A frisky
little female polar bear cub ar
rived from Alaska Saturday to
take up residence in Washington’s
zoo. She was greeted with a small
reception and a thermometer read
ing of 84 degrees.
The cub, found wandering near
Oliktok, Alaska, by Fish and Wild
life Service employes, was met by
a battery of photographers, a
press agent who thoughtfully
brought along a dried fish, and
various unoccupied airline em
ployes.
A local television station
fWMAL) paid the three-month-old
cub’s travel expenses after Fish
and Wildlife and the zoo an
nounced they had no funds avail
able to pay the air-freight charges.
The station announced it will
run a contest to name the cub,
open to area children under
age 12.
Louisiana Governor’s Bid
For Freedom Up For
Quick Court Action
BATON ROUGE, La., UPt—Gov
ernor Earl K. Long’s new attor
ney, Joe Arthur Sims, said today
the Governor’s bid for freedom
from a mental clinic might devel
op in the courts as early as Wed
nesday.
Sims, an old political buddy,
said he nvill see Governor Long
again this afternoon.
Sims declined any comment on
why the Governor still wants to
pursute legal action rather than to
seek the rest under hospital care
that physicians say he needs.
Lt. Gov. Lether Frazar, mean
while, still not clear whether he
is acting Governor, indicated he
expected a legal answer to that
headache Tuesday, instead of to
day.
Louisiana, faced with a tangled
routine of government because of
the presence within the state of
her ailing Governor, may find the
answers to some momentous ques
tions this week:
1. Is Governor Long legally
insane?
2. If not, can he get out of a
state mental hospital?
3. Meanwhile, who is the state’s
chief executive?
Physicians who visited Long
Sunday at Southeast Louisiana
Hospital, reported he was “quite
cooperative and his general condi
tion satisfactory.”
Miami-Fairbanks Flight
Now Numbers 10 Planes
OMAHA, — The leader of a
Miami to Fairbanks flight reported
after landing here yesterday that
the Alaska-bound air caravan now
numbers 10 light planes.
There were only three when the
planes left Miami Friday.
Harry B. Collins of North Mi
ami, the cruise director, said more
are expected to join the party,
called the Flying 49ers, as it wings
northward. The planes arrived
here one or two at a time.
The fliers planned to spend the
night here. They were told they
could xpect reasonably good wea
ther tomorrow as they headed
north to Bismark, N. D.
The flight is scheduled to reach
Fairbanks June 27. Members want
to be in Juneau July 4th for cere
monies marking the new state’s
admission to the union.
Life Imprisonment Sentences Given
Four Youthful Florida Co-ed-Rapists
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., UP) — All
four white youths convicted of
raping a Negro co-ed were handed
life prison sentences today by Cir
cuit Judge W. May Walker.
Life sentences were the max
imum possible under the June 14
verdict of guilty with a recom
mendation of mercy.
The electric chair would have
been automatic if the jury had
not recommended mercy. No
white man ever has gone to the
chair in Florida or any other state
for raping a Negro.
In pronouncing sentence the
white-haired 54-year-old jurist
told the four he had never imposed
less than a death sentence or life
imprisonment on conviction of
rape.
The four youths paled as the
sentence was pronounced but
showed no other trace of emotion.
Herter Reports on
Geneva Stalemate
WASHINGTON, UP — Secretary
of State Herter today gave Presi
dent Eisenhower an hour-long re
port on the deadlocked Geneva
foreign ministers talks, now re
cessed until July 13.
After the conference, Herter
confirmed he will go on nation
wide television and radio Tuesday
night at 8 p.m. EST., to tell the
American people about the thus
far futile efforts to reach agree
ment with the Soviet Union re
garding Berlin and other problems.
A reporter asked about pros
pects for an eventual summit con
ference of the Western heads of
government with Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
“That is something I just don’t
want to go into at the present
time,” Herter replied.
Herter flew in Sunday from the
iruitless first round of the foreign
ministers meeting. He said then
the Soviets had revealed that
their real aim is to absorb free
West Berlin and keep Germany
divided until they can bring the
whole country under Communist"
influence.
U. S. authorities figured the
best course for the West was to
stand firm and see what the Soviet
Union comes up with when the
Geneva foreign ministers confer
ence resumes July 13. That meet
ing recessed Saturday after six
weeks of deadlock.
Washington’s view was that
Britain, France and the United
States had hit rock bottom in the
concessions they could offer the
U.S.S.R. on Berlin. But officials
intended to return to Geneva still
willing to bargain sincerely if the
Reds, forsaking their uncompro
mising stand, will do so too.
HARRIMAN REFUSED VISA
BY COMMUNIST CHINA
MOSCOW, OP — Communist
China has refused to give W.
Averill Harriman a visa to visit
the country as a journalist.
Harriman, former Governor of
New York, said the Peiping gov
ernment told him a new applica
tion from him would be considered
next year.
Harriman is now touring the So
viet Union and writing articles
for an American syndicate.
Under Florida law, parole from
a life sentence is possible after
six months but lifers convicted of
rape customarily serve at least 10
years before being considered for
parole.
The four drawing life sentences
were Ted Collingsworth, 23, a tele
phone company lineman; David
Beagles, a husky 18-yead-old high
school senior; Patrick Scarbor
ough, a 20-year old Air Force
man and Ollie Stoutamire, a skin
ny, pale-faced 16-year-old high
school dropout.
Judge Walker told the four as
he prepared to pronounced sen
tence, “You have been convicted
of a very serious offense. It is an
offense that is horrible and under
horrible circumstances. The court
feeis sorry for you and for the
prosecutrix (the 19-year-old co-'
ed). You aie fortunate that the
jury recommended mercy.”
Judges Elect Princess Alice to Reign As
Queen of 1959 Midnight Sun Festival
‘Shipwreck’ Kelly
Hero of Rome
Hotel Blaze
ROME, UP! — Former football
star John Sims (Shipwreck) Kelly
— robed in Kelly green — rushed
American and European tourists
from an early Sunday morning
hotel blaze that took three lives.
“To everyone he was the man
in the green bathrobe — the man
who did most to get the guests out
of their rooms,” said Charles M.
Gilman of Gilman, Conn.
The ex-footballer -at the Uni
versity of Kentucky, now 49, made
repeated trips back into the hotel
to warn other guests and help
them out.
He himself said he “didn’t do
anything but wake people up”
after hearing the screams of hotel
maids as they jumped or fell from
the top story of the five-floor Am
bascciatori Hotel on Rome’s famed
Via Veneto.
Although some of the guests
managed to pack their bags before
fleeing to the street, a few slipped
into the first thing they could
grab. Kelly’s wife, the former
Carol Henon of Boston, donned
a plaid bathing suit.
The Kellys are on a European
vacation. Kelly was divorced from
former glamor deb Brenda Fra
zier in 1956 after 15 years of
marriage.
‘A Juvenile Delinquent By
Any other Name . .
WASHINGTON, UP) — A kid
holds up a store. All police know
is his nickname: Bugle Head. How
do.they pick Bugle Head up?
Police in Washington solve the
problem with a file of more than
10,000 nicknames.
Expanded every day by arrest
and investigation reports, the file
matches nicknames with the reg
ular names of many of the city’s
young troublemakers. A nickname
could be the clue that solves a case.
Police said the old standbys
were most popular: Sonny, Butch
and Buddy. But Baby Brother,
Country, Duck, Bubbles and Blue
are moving up.
Others on the list include Bub
ba, Frog,-Fat Daddy, Bird Brain,
Heavy, Dog, Greasy Squirrel,
Thorn Head, Ape, Big Head, Bean
Bucket, Carrot Nose and Chow
Mein.
One fellow is called Appetite.
Police put his name in the files
after arresting him for breaking
into a restaurant.
Senate Confirms O’Donnell
For Far East Air Command
WASHINGTON. UP) — The Sen
ate confirmed by unanimous voice
vote today the promotion of Em
mett O’Donnell Jr. .to the tem
porary rank of full general in the
Air Force. The rank goes with
his Far East air command.
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith <R
Me), who criticized O’Donnell, was
not present.
At the same time the Senate
approved the promotion of John
Bruce Mendaris, chief of the
Army Ballistic Missiles Gommand,
to permanent rank as a major
general.
Alice Glavinovich. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Glavinovich.
was chosen Queen of the Midnight
Sun Festival Saturday night at the
Coronation Ball. The three out-of
town judges were Kay Peterson,
chief stewardess for Wien Air
lines; Bill Shaffer of Scandinavian
Airlines, and Phil Hoon, photog
rapher of Fairbanks.
Queen Alice was presented with
a savings account of $100 at the
M & M Bank. She also received
another $100 for selling the most
festival tickets. This award was
made at a dinner Friday evening
when the judges met with the '
queen aspirants at the Seaview
dining room.
All the princesses received
lovely charm bracelets with ap
propriate engravings for tlje oc
casion. The Queen was also the
recipient of queen gifts from
Polet’s, Cavota’s, Dorothy’s, the
North Star, and M’Lord and Lady
Shop. All the contestants were
guests of Wien Airlines to Fair
banks on the F-27.
Hugo Eckhardt of Kotzebue was
awarded his choice of a parka or
polar bear.
17 Festival Parade Entries
There were 17 entries in the
Festival Parade Saturday evening,
all colorful and original. The pa
rade was headed by the Grand
Marshal, Mayor Steve Andersen,
chauffuered by Carl Glavinovich
and led by the Volunteer Fire De
partment and Police Department
vehicles, conducted by Chief of
Police John Marvik. This was fol
lowed by the Golden Nugget Float,
with Queen of the 1958 Festival,
Mary Jo Swanberg, and Junior
Miss Contestant Diane Lee. Then
proceeded the Queen candidates
for 1959.
The 30-piece colorful Nome
High School Band followed next,
in full uniform.
Other Colorful Floats
Other floats included the Civil
Air Patrol and Cadets, depicting a
plane and rescue crew; Pioneer
Igloo No. 1, with real pioneers
taking out the pay dirt; Pioneer
Women Auxiliary with two gen
erations of pioneering families;
Beta Sigma Phi, with members on
old Moonlight Water pipe wagon
pulled by the Obermire Model A
Ford; the Arctic Clubbers, with a
float pulled by a dog team; Old.
Woman in A Shoe, with Granny
Harwood and grandchildren; N. C.
Store with museum relics and
colorful models in pioneer gowns;
Nomerama Theater, with can-can
girls; KNOM, with a scene from
one of Jhe western shows; Race
car, driven by Pete Hahn.
Among the colorful “charac
ters” in the parade were Walter
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SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
Washington 4-7, Detroit 3-5.
Cleveland 4-5, New York 2-4.
Kansas City 7, Baltimore 0.
Chicago 3, Boston 2.
National League
St. Louis 5-8, Pittsburgh 1-10.
Chicago 4, Philadelphia 0.
Milwaukee 13, San Francisco 3.
Cincinnati 17, Los Angeles 3.
Pacific Coast League
Salt Lake City 8-3, Seattle 3-1.
San Diego 4-3, Portland 3-5.
Vancouver 7, Sacramento 3.
Spokane 6, Phoenix 1.