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VOL. LVII No. 146NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1955 Per Copy—154
Eskimos Urged
To Cooperate in
Diabetes Survey
A diabetes screening program is
being conducted in Nome by E. M.
Scott of the Arctic Health Re
search Center, U. S. Public Health
Service, Anchorage.
The purpose of the program is
to determine how serious the
problem of diabetes is in Eskimos,
to find any additional unknown
cases, and to ensure treatment
where it is found necessary.
Eskimos who are more than 35
years old are urged to come to the
Public Health Service Clinic in
the Federal Building to have a
small sample of blood taken for
testing. The clinic will be open
Friday, Saturday, Monday and
Tuesday between 9 and 12 and
1 and 5. The test requires only two
minutes, and it is hoped that all
older Eskimos in Nome will par
ticipate.
Diabetes has. been thought in
the past to be a rare disease in
Eskimos, but a sufficient number
of cases are known to justify a
thorough search for the condition.
In almost all cases, effective treat
ment of diabetes is possible.
Army Draft Quota For
February Is 6,000 —
Lowest Since 1950
WASHINGTON, UP—1The Army
today issued a draft call for 6,000
men in February, the lowest quota
since drafts were resumed in 1950,
after the start of the Korean War.
At the same time the Defense
Department said the previously
announced draft of 8,000 men for
the Army in January had been
reduced to 6,000.
The Navy, after asking for
10,000 draftees in November and
the same number in December,
announced that its volunteer en
listment and re - enlistment pro
gress makes further calls on Sel
ective Service unnecessary.
Husky Negro Poultry
Worker Confesses Slaying
Missing Lebanon Couple
BELLEVILLE, 111., UP) — The
mysterious disappearance of a
Lebanon, 111., couple 13 days ago
was solved today with the signed
confession of a 200-pound poultry
worker who led officers to the
bodies.
Harold Smith, 30, a carpenter,
and his wife, Arline, 35, each had
been shot through the head and
there was evidence they each had
been savagely beaten, authorities
said.
In the statement he signed, 34
year-old Fillmore Young, a Negro
of Carlyle, 111., claimed he does
not know why he ambushed the
couple in their isolated home.
Young, acquitted of murdering
his wife five years ago, was calm
and impassive when arrested. He
claimed he did not know the
Smitl^ when he stopped at their
modest home while enroute from
St. Louis to his home the night
of Nov. 27.
U.S. Asks Russians For
Third Time Identity Of
Two GIs They Arrested
BERLIN, IjP—For the third time
in two days, the U.S. Army of
ficially asked the Russians today
to identity two American soldiers
reported arrested in East Berlin
after a fight with a German actor.
The Army sent its latest de
mand to a higher level, Deputy
Commander I. A. Kotsiuba. The
two previous requests, to the liai
son and protocol office, failed to
produce a response.
Officers said they have been
unable to trace the identity of the
men through Army records. There
are no AWOL soldiers listed in
Berlin. Army officers said, how
ever, the men could have been
here on leave from stations in
West Germany.
Another Capone
Associate Slain
By Assassins
CHICAGO, — Assassin’s bul
lets killed another associate of
the old Capone crime syndicate
last night. *.;V •
Alex Louis Greenberg, wealthy
64-year-old brewer and reputed
or. ? - time mob financial adviser,
was the victim of the third gang
I style rubouts of syndicate buddies
in 17 months.
Greenberg was slain in a south
side street as he ard his wife
prepared to enter their car after
^dining at a restaurant.
Mrs. Greenberg said she knew
of no reason why her husband
was killed, but Police Capt. Thos.
McLaughlin said, “It appears as
though he was paying someone
and might have muffed a pay
ment.”
Police began rounding up known
hoodlums for questioning.
Greenberg had minor scrapes
with the law during prohibition.
Then, in 1943, he was called as
a witness in a New York City
trial to identify Capone hoodlums,
four of whom were convicted of
extorting money from the movie
industry. They were Charles Gioe,
Louis Campagna, Paul DeLucia
and Phillip D’Andrea.
Gangland tipsters rumored that
Greenberg was “rooting for the
government” at the trial.
Gioe was shot to death Aug. 18,
1954, and five days later another
syndicate hoodlum, Frank Mari
tote, alias Frank Diamond, was
slain hy a shotgun blast.
Campagna died of a heart at
tack in Florida earlier this year,
and D’Andrea died a natiuY\l
death in 1952 in California.
Paint Eggs — New Weapon
DENVER, UP — Something new
has been added to the arsenal of
a hand of vandals: eggs filled with
paint.
J. A. Davidek told police yes
terday two such eggs were thrown
at the front porch of his home.
He said the vandals apparently
punch a small hole in the shell,
drain the egg, and fill the shell
with paint.
Drive To Collect
Money For Xmas
Tree Starts Monday
Community Christmas Tree
work has been under way for sev
eral weeks with the Aurora Cir
cle decorating jars for collecting
contributions and taking over the
job of filling 750 Christmas stock
ings, chairman Mary Andersen re
ported today.
Collections for this Christmas
community event will start Mon
day by Mrs. Andersen and George
Chapman.
The tree has been promised by
Wien Airlines and according to
Barbara Anderson, local manager,
they expect it to be a 22-foot tree.
All children through the 4th
grade and pre-school children will
receive a Christmas stocking from
Santa himself cn Saturday mor
ning in the school auditorium,
where chairs will .be set up for
parents wth small children. On
Friday, Dec. 23rd, all children in
school above the 4th gradb will
get a special Christmas surprise.
In addition to this 20 good cheer
baskets will be prepared for the
most needy families in the com
munity. The families will be
selected by representatives’of the
lpcal church, s, the Dept, of Pub
lic Welfare and the Public Health
Nurse. The baskets, according to
chairman Andersen, include such
items as reindeer meat, potatoes,
onions, tea, and other essentials.
The Christmas Fund has a start
already with an anonymous do
nation received in July of $3, a
gift of $23.40 from the Air
Force, and $5 from Mrs. Ed An
derson. Everyone else is urged to
give generously next week and
individuals who wish to contrib
ute may leave or mail their con
tribution to the City Clerk.
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Khrushchev and Bulganin
Again Receive Flowery
Welcome In Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Kashmir, (^—Nik
ita Khrushchev and Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin flew into disputed
Kashmir today for another wel
come of garlands and flower
petals.
School children at the airport
9ang songs of welcome to the two
Russians who will make a 48-hour
tour of this famous resort state
in the Himalayan foothills.
Krushchev, secretary of the So
viet Communist party, usually has
replied to welcoming speeches
during the pair’s Asian tour but
this time Bulganin did the talk
ing.
The premier called the inhabi
tants of Kashmir — claimed by
both Inda and Pakistan — “great
people.” He added that the In
dians are united in the cause of
peace and can depend on the
Soviet peoples as their friends.
Hundreds of triumphal arches
decorated the 10-mile drive from
the airport into Srinagar. Big
crowds along the way cheered
and pelted the Russians with
flowers.
Dulles Says Our Massive
Relatiative Power Is ‘Firm
Foundation For Peace’
CHICAGO, —Western coun
tries, to meet Russia’s new chal
lenge to their security, must bol
ster their alliances and maintain
“selective retaliatory power,” says
Secretary of State Dulles.
Stating that the Russians have
had no change in purpose but
“merely in tactics,” Dulles said
last night “our capacity to retal
iate must be, and is, massive in
order to deter all forms of aggres
sion.”
“But if we have to use that
capacity,” he added, “such use
would be selective and adapted to
the occasion.”
The Secretary of State repeated
his massive retaliation theme in a
major foreign policy address at a
dinner meeting of the Illinois
Manufacturer’s Assn. When it was
first advanced some two years ago
it frightened some Europeans but
Dulles stressed it was “a firm
foundation for peace.”
Gruening Says
Alaska’s Biggest
Resource isScenery
FAIRBANKS, Ufi — “Scenery,"
says former Governor Ernest
Gruening, “is the ideal business.
You can’t wear out scenery by
looking at it.”
The remarks were included in
a talk Gruening made before the
Resources Committee of the Con
stitutional Convention. The tour
ist industry, he said, is Alaska’s
greatest potential resource.
Properly handled, he told the
delegates, this industry is an end- ■
less fountain of good will. He
saw a real fbture for it in Alaska
even though the territory is get
ting a late start and is handicap
ped by inadequate transportation
facilities.
He said mineral rights should be
safeguarded against big companies
moving in an sitting on land for
long periods of time. He spoke
against limiting land withdrawal
by big companies such as the Al
uminum Company of America,
however, saying they need more
land than normally allocated.
Gruening said he thought that
it should be left to the legisla
ture in allocated land when con
ditions warrant.
Christmas Buying Lifts
Retails Trade Sales Above
Last Year’s Boom Levels
NEW YORK, W) — Christmas
shopping picked up momentum in
the nation’s stores this week, lift
ing total retail trade well above
the boom levels of a year ago,
Dun & Bradstreet reported.
Biggest gains were scored by
specialty shops and department
stores. Total dollar volume was
“noticeably” higher than the pre
vious week and “moderately
above” last year’s buying pace.
“Hottest” items this week in
cluded gifts for the small fry—
toys, children’s clothing and juve
nile furniture.
Shall Alaska Call
Populated Areas
Nuna or Munipuk?
FAIRBANKS, lA) — Any miuts
from other munipuks in this ter
ritory who want to sound off
about what to name populated
areas in the future state of Alaska
are invited to show up tomorrow.
Suggestions will be listened to
with interest by the committee on
local government at the Constitu
tional Convention now in session
on the University of Alaska
campus.
The committee members are
considering what words to use to
designate their populated areas.
Ordinary states call them towns,
shires, parishes, borroughs, bergs,
even cities.
But the committee members
think this may not be suitable
for this land of the Aleut and
the Eskimo, the Indian and the
white man. So they have tenta
tively dressed up some words with
native derivatives and just a
dash of the white man’s tongue.
These include “nuna,” “nuna
puk,” and “Nunat” for areas, and
“miut” for people in the areas.
Nuna means inhabited areas,
nunapuk is big inhabited area and
nunat means fixed area in this
jargon. A suggestion added “puk”
which means big, to muni to make
munipuk or a big municipality.
None of it is final yet and any
one with ideas is invited to ex
press them in convention hall on
the campus at 9:30 tomorrow
morning.
Four-year-old Twins From
Barrow See Santa for First
Time In Seattle Store
SEATTLE, UFi — Four-year-old
twins, Peta and Robin Booth,
came all the way from Barrow, to
Seattle and found Santa Claus in
a department store window.
The girls, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. F. D. Booth, said one thing
they were looking forward to, on
their first trip “outside” was to
meet the old gent.
Peta told Santa Claus she wants
a doll and Robin would like a
washing machine. They both ag
reed with his suggestion that toy
refrigerators might be a good
idea.
The Booths stopped off here on
their way to San Francisco to
spend Christmas with relatives.
Alaska Allotted 1,053 cc.
Of Salk Polio Vaccine
WASHINGTON, (^—Washing
ton, Oregon and Alaska will share
in a new batch of Salk anti-polio
vaccine the U. S. Public Health.
Service released to the states and
territories Thursday.
The agency said a total of
1,017,054 cubic centimeters of the
vaccine, all made by Eli Lilly &
Co., of Indianapolis, will be dis
tributed, boosting the amount al
located since July to 13,458,491 cc.
The agency said Washington
will receive 16,830 cc. of Thurs
day’s release; Oregon 10,863 and
Alaska 1,053.
TOMORROW NIGHT
Stage Show Starts at 8 p.m.
Both School Doors Open 7 p.m.
PLUS GAMES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY — FREE REFRESHMENTS FOR ALL — DANCING — FUN AND PRIZES