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President’s Remark Releases Flood
Of Democratic Comment on His
Health as Issue in 1956 Campaign
By the Associated Press
A weekind flood of Democratic
comment on President Eisenhow
er’s health effectively removed
any remaining doubts on whether
the subject will be a 1956 cam
paign issue.
Eisenhower himself helped to
open the dikes with an offhand
comment in Panama that “I have
n’t much strength but I keep
going.” Reporters also heard him
precede the remark with a state
ment that he was feeling fine.
Eisenhower made the comment
during a wreath-laying ceremony
at the Inter-American Presidents’
Conference.
Eisenhower looked chipper at
the Panama meeting. Later, he
appeared to tire in the sweltering
heat of a long program, but he
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seemed to stand it better than
some of his fellow Presidents.
Home front reaction to Eisen
hower’s comment, however, was
swift. Democratic Chairman Paul
Butler used it as a springboard to
speculate that Eisenhower might
not be the Republican candidate
this year after all.
Butler quoted Eisenhower as
saying some months ago his sta
tus as a candidate would depend
on his health at the tipne of the
GOP National Convention.
Now, Butler said, “we read . . .
that although he was feeling fair
ly well, that he was feeling quite
weak, but trying to keep going
on with his duties."
Miss Bertha Adkins, director
for women’s activities for the Re
publican National Committee,
said in a televised debate with
her Democratic counterpart that
the people have “great confi
dence” that Eisenhower would
not be seeking another term “un
less he thought he was equal to
it.”
In another TV appearance,
Sen. Magnuson <D-Wash> said he
thinks Eisenhower’s health should
not be a campaign issue, but “the
people of my state have a legit
imate right to know the state of
Mr. Eisenhower’s health.”
Carmine De Sapio, political
mentor to Gov. Averell Harriman
of New York, said “for the past
10 or 12 months we haven’t had
a President in the White House.”
De Sapio said" a so-called ‘team’
—a group of individuals who are
not responsible to the people,
who were not elected by the peo
ple—have been pretty much run
ning our government.”
High-Jackers Rob
Gillette's Sluiee
B<»xes Near Anvil
High - jacking of sluice boxes,
one of the colorful, unlawful acts
of the gold rush days, is sup
posed to be a thing of the past.
But last week the sluice boxes
of Ben Gillette, who mines on
Specimen Gulch, near Anvil
Creek, were cleaned out during
the night while he was asleep.
The matter was reported to the
U.S. Marshall, who with his dep
uties, put in about two days, it
is reported, apprehending the
two men who carried off the gold
Some of the gold and quick
silver has been turned over to the
Marshal’s Office, and it is being
held pending the filing of a com
plaint against the two men.
However, the culprits claim
that they assumed the mine to be
abandoned, it is reported, and
that they had no intent to rob
the sluice boxes. According to a
reliable source they plan to make
full restititution.
Small Boy Trapped in
50-Acre Brush Fire
GLENDALE, Calif. W>—A small
boy who liked to build forts
while playing in the Verdugo hills
died in the middle of a 50-acre
brush fire.
The body of Michael David
Lewis, 10, of Glendale, was found
yesterday in a canyon scorched
by the blaze which was controlled
Saturday afternoon.
Search for the boy began Satur
day night after he failed to come
home for supper. His family had
n’t worried before that because
■they knew Michael was at home
in the hills.
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Anchorage Stages
Mock Air Raid and
Civil Defense Test
ANCHORAGE, W>—Practically
the entire population of this city
of 15,000 persons was evacuated
yesterday morning in a civilian
defense test as sirens sounded for
a mock air raid.
Warned in advance of the test
by newspapers, radio and TV,
many of the residents left yester
day with their families for mile
posts, resorts and family cabins.
Officially the evacuation test
started at 7 a.m. Families loaded
children and emergency supplies
in cars and took off for designat
ed shelter spots out of the city.
On the way they picked up pedes
trians who waited at specified
spots. Leading the exodus were
Army vans.
Assisting in the evacuation
were the American Legion, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars and other
organizations. Doctors and nurses
were mobilized. All business firms
including bars and restaurants
locked their doors.
In the afternoon, when the “all
clear” sounded, the citizens start
ed their return and Anchorage
came to life again.
Returning evacuees said it had
been mostly like a picnic with
bright, sunny weather. Civilian
defense officials were delighted
with the cooperation received in
the training exercise.
SON OF JOAN BLONDELL
AND DICK POWELL WEDS
HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART
NEW YORK, UPt—Norman Scott
Powell, son of film stars Joan
Blondell and Dick Powell, is on
a honeymoon trip with his high
school sweetheart.
Young Powell and Ann Mc
Dowell, a petite blonde, were
married yesterday in his mother’s
east side apartment. Both are 21.
Eisenhower, at Panama Conference,
Calls for Inter-American Cooperation
To Combat Disease and Ignorance
Body of Robert Gallahorn,
Lost In Storm Last Year,
Is F'ound and Identified
The body of Robert Gallahorn,
missing since, last fall when he
was lost during the storm which
wrecked a B. & R. tug of Kotze
bue near Shishmaref, was found
near Wales and brought in last
week.
Mrs. Carrie Gallahorn, the
widow, identified what was left
of the body.
Standard Oil Co.
Scientists Develop
Wax-Free Oil
CHICAGO, (JV-The Standard
Oil Company tIndiana> said today
its scientists have solved one of
the problems that has plagued the
oil industry for years—how to
make lubricating oils that are en
tirely free of wax.
Joseph K. Robert, general man
ager of research and develop
ment for the company, said the
new process makes use of a phe
nomenon observed for the first
time during World War II.
It was discovered that urea, a
colorless, crystalline compound
containing nitrogen, would unite
with the wax in the oil, forming
a compound that can be filtered.
The wax in lubricating oils sol
idifies at extremely low tempera
tures and prevents proper circu
lation of the oil, the company
said. Conventional methods of re
moving wax from oil stocks, it
added, do not remove enough wax
to permit oil flow at these tem
peratures.
PANAMA, UP)—President Eisen
hower, nearing the end of his
visit to Panama, said today that
on this trip “I have'fceen improv
ing every day, I’ve felt better
every day.”
Here as a convalescent for a
Pan American conference, Eisen
hower made the remark to Presi
dent-Elect Herman Siles Zuazo
of Bolivia.
The Bolivian asked Eisenhower
how he felt as the two were part
ing after conferring at the U.S.
Embassy. Eisenhower looked as
if he were feeling all right, even
though he was up late last night
after a busy day in which he
urged hemisphere unity in ad
vancing human welfare.
Eisenhower stretched his good
will mission through an extra
day to be host at the U.S. Em
bassy to 10 other American Pres
idents or Presidents-elect in a
series of half-hour talks. He was
slated to take off on the return
flight to Washington at 5 p.m.
Bering Standard Time.
The U.S. Chief Executive al
ready has talked to eight other
national leaders who came here
for the conference. Still conva
lescing from his June 9 intestinal
operation, he has appeared tired
at times, but "in the main he
seemed to relish the proceedings.
The party, which commemor
ates the first Pan-American Con
ference called by Simon Bolivar,
the South American liberator 130
years ago, ended yesterday. It
closed in an historic setting with
the signing of a declaration of
principles and 3 Vi hours of
speeches.
Eisenhower took only nine
minutes for his address. He made
one major point—the Americas
already have put together a
mechanism for meeting aggres
sion or Communist intervention
in their affairs. “Let us join to
find ways which will enable our
peoples to combat the ravages of
disease, poverty and ignorance,”
he declared.
He proposed forming, in effect,
a commission of human prob
lems with a representative of
each of the 21 American republics
to offer “practical suggestions in
the economic, financial, social
and technical fields.
Such a commission, he said,
could consider ways to hasten
“the beneficial use of nuclear
forces throughout the hemisphere
—both in industry and in com
batting disease . . .”
He said he had decided to name
his brother Milton as U.S. repre
sentative on the proposed new
commission.
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Sea Monster Washeii Up on Beach Puzzles Everyone
By BOB KEDERICK
Dally Alaska Empire Staff Writer
Y U K A T A T, Alaska, OW—A
frighteningly huge carcass, con
servatively estimated at more
than 100 feet long and 15 feet
wide at the broadest visible point,
has washed up on the sandy,
wind-swept shore of the Gulf of
Alaska, 60 miles southeast of here.
The hairy-coated monster has
mystified the few persons who
have seen it, including me.
Prehistoric Beast ?
Speculation as to what it might
be have ranged from an extinct
prehistoric beast long encased in
a nearby glacier to some warm
blooded sea animal.
Much of the carcass is now
buried in the sand 125 feet from
the ocean’s edge on the shore of
Dry Harbor, 15 miles southwest
of the mouth of the Akwe River.
The area is about 10 miles from
fountains in which many glaciers
come down to the sea.
(At Seattle, Trevor Kincaid, re
tired University of Washington
zoologist, said the description did
not fit any prehistoric creature he
knew about and that the hair on
it precluded its belonging to the
living whale or elephant families.
Zoologist Mystified
(He suggested efforts be made
to preserve some of its skeletal
structure, or the skull and jaws
or teeth, or its hide and hair, in
effort to identify it.)
A veteran Alaska guide, Earl
Fleming, discovered the monster
two months ago. A few weeks
ago, Dan Mortenson and Clint
Mortenson, operators of a small
fishing camp at the mouth of the
Akwe, viewed it and said more
than 60 feet of its length was
above the sand at that time.
Wide Eye Sockets
Its head measures 5Vi feet in
width. The eye sockets, with
fragments of decaying flesh still
clinging to them, are between 7
and 9 inches in diameter. The
sockets are approximately 42
inches apart.
Reddish-brown hair about two
inches long covers the thick, de
caying hide. Thick, oily-like
blood flowed freely from puffy
parts of the flesh when poked
with a stick or shovel.
No blubber or fat is visible on
the carcass and the crimson flesh
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