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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 84 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1955 Per Copy—15/
$10 Million Housing
Program for Alaska
Announced by Cole
WASHINGTON, Iff)—A $10 mil
lion housing program for Alaska
was announced today by Admin
istrator Albert M. Cole of the
Housing and Home Finance Agen
cy.
He said President Eisenhower
has authorized the Federal Na
tional Mortgage Assn, to provide
$10 million for purchase of mort
gages on residential, defense and
military housing.
The agency is authorized to use
up to $25 million for commitments
and purchases of whole mort
gages and 20 percent participation
in mortgages guaranteed by the
Veterans Administration or in
sured by the Federal Housing Ad
ministration covering residential
housing.
Congress to Pass
Eisenhower Plan
For Nat’l Reserve
WASHINGTON, (*—Some leg
islative horse trading between the
Senate and House was the only
barrier today to passage in some
form of President Eisenhower’s
ambitious National Reserve plan.
By a decisive 80-1 vote the
Senate last night approved its
own version of the plan to train
a combat-ready reserve of 2,900,
000 in the next four years, a four
fold increase.
There are some major differ
ences between the Senate and
House versions of the bill, and
neither would give Eisenhower
all he asked. A Senate-House con
ference committee will determine
the bill’s final form.
Both branches of Congress ap
proved the chief new feature of
allowing thousands of teen-age
youths to volunteer for brief ac
tive training with the regular
forces to be followed by active
reserve training for the remain
der of an eight-year period. The
Senate would permit volunteers
17-20 years old. The House voted
to limit them to 19 years or older
unless they had completed high
school.
Utopia May Be Coming,
Men—Women Now Hold
One Job of Every Three
LOS ANGELES, WV-Utopia
may be coming, men, but there
probably is no reason to quit work
right away.
Dr. Henry David, secretary of
the National Manpower Council,
says that if women continue to
take jobs at their present rate,
the day may come when men
won’t have to work at all. He told
a regional conference on woman
power yesterday that female em
ployment has increased 125 per
cent in the last 10 years. Man’s
employment has increased only
25 percent.
Last year, women held 20 mil
lion of the nation’s 64 million
jobs, said David.
The National Manpower Coun
cil was established under a Ford
Foundation grant in 1951 and is
gathering information about
women in jobs.
Foreign Ministers
Reach Agreement
On West’s Stand
By JOSEPH E. DYNAN
PARIS, UP>—The western Big
Three foreign ministers agreed
quickly today on their position
and strategy for the historic Ge
neva meeting with Russia’s top
political and military leaders.
In slightly more than three
hours, U-S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, British For
eign Secretary Harold MacMillan
and French Foreign Minister An
toine Pinay endorsed a detailed
draft of western conference plans.
These include a definite list of
topics the west will raise and the
stand it will take on each issue.
Pinay did not disclose what
subjects the west intends to bring
1 up at Geneva, but they were al
most certain, to include German
reunification, European security,
disarmament and French Premier
Edgar Faure’s new disarm-and
develop scheme to help backward
areas.
Pinay said he and the two other
ministers had discussed Faure’s
plan and added, “We’ve all had
that general idea for some time.”
He cited a statement of President
Eisenhower along the same gen
eral lines.
The documents approved today
will be submitted to the western
chiefs of government in Geneva
Sunday morning, Pinay said.
Eisenhower, Faure and British
Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden
will meet there with their foreign
ministers as a curtain raiser to
the sessions with the Kremlin’s
bosses on Monday.
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French Colonists
Riot in Protest of
Terror Bombing
CASABLANCA, Morocco, —
Angry mobs of French colonists
rioted through Casablanca until
early this morning, protesting a
terror bombing which killed six
Europeans and injured 35 others.
Before peace was restored in
the modern port city of 650,000
people, the toll stood at 10 dead
and at least 44 wounded.
What began as a pleasant eve
ning of Bastille Day celebrations
turned into a wild night of terror
when the big bomb went off last
night in the heart of Casablanca’s
European quarter.
The blast heard throughout the
city wrecked two sidewalk cafes
filled with persons celebrating the
holiday and smashed a nearby
automobile and two motorcycles.
Almost immediately thousands
of men swarmed into the streets,
shouting insults at new French
Resident General Gilbert Grand
val and other Europeans holding
moderate views on ways to end
the nationalist terrorism in this
North African protectorate.
Violence spread to the native
quarter when Moroccans hurled a
grenade at a passing police jeep,
injuring five policemen. The po
lice fired back, killing three Mor
occans and wounding others.
Soviet Delegates to Make
‘Sincere Effort’ to Solve
Problems at Geneva
MOSCOW (if)—Premier Bulgan
in declared today the Soviet dele
gation is leaving for Geneva to
morrow to make “a sincere ef
fort” to solve international prob
lems.
The Prime Minister told a news
conference that if the western
Big Three delegations make a
similar effort at Geneva there is
“no reason to believe that the
basis of a future peace cannot be
assured.” *
Bulganin received reporters in
side the Kremlin. He was accom
panied by the other four major
members of the 10-man Soviet
delegation to Geneva. They are
Communist Party Boss Nikita
Khrushchev, Soviet Foreign Min
ister V. M. Molotov, Defense Min
ister Andrei Gromyko.
Bulganin read a three-page
prepared statement in Russian
which was then translated into
English. There was no opportun
ity given to the 75 correspondents
to ask any questions.
House Group OIvs
Airport Aid Bill
WASHINGTON, —’The House
Commerce Committee today ap-j
proved, with slight changes, a
Senate-passed bijl for about a
quarter billion dollars worth of
federal aid for airports over the
next four years.
As okayed by the House group,
$40 million in grants would be
authorized, for public airports this
fiscal year and $60 million each
for the fiscal years 1957, 1958 and
1959.
Also approved was $2V2 million
for airport help this year in Alas
ka, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands, and three million
annually for 1957-5 . That makes
a total of $231 Vz million, a slight
cut from the 252 millions in the
Senate bill.
The measure is designed to con
tinue the program started in 1946
under which the federal govern
ment puts up funds, generally on
a 50-40 matching basis, for air
port improvements sponsored by
public bodies such as cities or
states.
Sunshine Last Month
Much Less Than Usual
Cloudiness averaged much more
than usual and the total sunshine
was considerably less than ever
recorded in June at Nome.
Temperatures last month aver
aged below normal with above
normal precipitation. Precipita
tion occurred on 22 days.
Average monthly temperature
for June 1955 in Nome was 42° F,
3.8 degrees less than normal. The
highest temperature was 56 on
June 10; the lowest, 29 on the 5th.
NOON WHISTLE
The noon whistle is to start
blowing again on July 18th, but
instead of blowing from the fire
station will bfe sounded from the
school house. The Civil Defense
siren will blow one short blast
to announce the noon hour.
Globemaster With 2 Engines Dead
Safely Completes Pacific Crossing
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Security Group Hopes
To Get Leads on Red
Activity to Present Time
WASHINGTON, .UB—Chairman
Eastland (D-Miss) said today the
Senate Internal Security subcom
mittee hopes to get leads on
“Communist activity down to the
present time” from its latest ser
ies of hearings. A score of persons
were named as having been Reds
in the late 1930s. Most of them
were in newspaper work at the
time. A few who still are all swore
they are not now Communist.
Eastland said the subcommittee
has had “witnesses from most of
the professions” in its sometimes
turbulent history, he added in an
interview. “We’ve gotten more
cooperation from newspapermen
than any other group in the
country.”
Eastland said he has no imme
diate plans for calling additional
witnesses.
Ira Henry Freeman, a veteran
New York Times reporter, told
the subcommittee yesterday he
had been a member of the Com
munist Party for about a year be
ginning early in 1938.
He said he was talked into join
ing by Milton Kaufman, then ex
ecutive secrtary of the New York
Newspaper Guild, and another
person now dead who was not
named publicly. The guild has
contended it eliminated Commu
nists from all positions of influ
ence years ago.
History’s Biggest
Mass Troop Airlift
Ends Successfully
ITAZUKE AIRBASE, Japan, Ufi
—The last huge plane in the
greatest mass troop airlift in his
tory was eastbound over the Paci
fic Ocean today.
Whep it reaches the United
States Sunday, two complete com
bat ready regiments will have ex
changed places halfway around
the world.
The Army said Operation Gyro
scope has “proved to the world the
feasibility of transporting battle
ready men to any part of the
world in a minimum of time.”
The last C-124 Globemaster
carried 69 men, complete with
arms and equipment, of the 187th
Angels from Hell Airborne Regi
mental Combat Team toward their
new home at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Thirty-six other Globemasters
preceded it.
They were among the 43 that
brought the 508th RCT from Ft.
Campbell, Ky., to Japan to replace
the 187th, veteran airborne regi
ment of both World War II and
the Korean War.
Not a plane or a man had been
lost in the history making air
switch, although one of the Uni
ted States-bound Globemasters
winged the last 700 miles to Cal
ifornia on only two engines.
f HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., UP)—For four tense, long
hours last night Capt. Theodore
Roosevelt held his mind and
nerves ready to ditch a Globe
master and 76 men in the fog-cov
ered Pacific.
But the ordeal ended in a safe
landing here with the big military
transport’s two starboard engines
dead. Two right hand tires blew
i out in the landing but Pilot Roose
velt, of Elyria, Ohio, held the
plane straight on the runway.
When it was all over, Roosevelt,
a seventh cousin of both Teddy
and Franklin D. Roosevelt, quiet
ly told reporters: “Everybody was
extremely calm.
“I was pretty sure we’d have
to ditch. Those paratroopers felt,
I guess, they could cope with
whatever came up.”
The Globemaster carried 79
! men of the 187 th Regimental Com
| bat Team (airborne) and its crew
of eight. It was on a Hickam
Field, Hawaii, to California flight
in the Operation Gyroscope trans
fer of the 187th from Japan to
Fort Bragg, N.C.
“We were about 10 minutes past
the point of equal time (point of
no return) when the first engine
went,” said Lt. Richard E. David
son, Alliance, Ohio, assistant nav
igator.
An hour later the second star
board engine failed. Roosevelt and
2nd Lt. Harry Simpson, Akron,
Ohio, co-pilot, were able to feath
er both propellors.
The homebound paratroopers
had to throw overboard all their
gear and souvenirs . . . collected
! over as many as five years in
Japan. They landed with just the
fatigue uniforms they wore and
their rifles.
The jettison operation ordered
by Roosevelt took 7,000 pounds of
load out of the plane.
Twelve planes, Grumman Alba
tross amphibians, escorted the
crippled Globemaster for the last
300 miles. Another plane was
ready to drop rafts.
Most of the 187th men aboard
acknowledged they had been
“plenty scared.”
Charles Brockman, specialist
3/C, told a reported: “That pilot,
he was real cool, man. He was the
greatest.”
Nomeites Urge Federal
With Wires, Letters to
Assure Stable Tin Price
Committees from the Chamber
of Commerce, City Council as
well as individuals have been
busy preparing and sending wires
.and letters to Delegate Bob Bart
lett, Secretary of Interior McKay,
and Congressman Walter Rogers,
chairman of the House subcom
mittee on Mines and Mining con
cerning the amending of the min
ing laws relative to minerals not
now covered.
These civic bodies are urging
that tin be included, and that an
assured stable price per pound be
established as well as an assured
market be set up.