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Alaska to be Scene
Much Activity In
Geophysical Year
FAIRBANKS, UP)—All of Alas
ka will be the scene of increased
scientific activity during the next
geophysical year in 1957-58, said
Dr. C. T. Elvey, director of the
University of Alaska Geophysical
Institute.
Scientists had their first polar
year in 1882-83. As part of the
program an expedition was sent
to Point Barrow. It was decided
to hold these polar years every 50
years.
The second polar year occurred
in 1932-33 at which time Fair
banks became a major center for
study. Due to the rapid advances
made in science it was decided to
step up the interval 25 years and
widen the studies to embrace
many fields of science and re
name the period “geophysical”
year which will include polar
studies.
Dr. Sydney Chapman, visiting
professor of geophyics at the Uni
versity of Alaska, is president of
the special committee for the next
geophysical year. The committee
is composed of the representa
tives of 35 nations including the
U.S.S.R. Much preliminary work
in choosing subjects for study and
setting up scientific instruments
is involved.
The plan is to coordinate all
programs and areas. There will be
more than a dozen stations in Al
aska, including one at Nome.
The world - wide project will
cost around $100 million with the
United States being asked to put
up $32 million.
AIR FORCE BASES VIE FOR
FLYING SAFETY HONORS
OMAHA, Neb.„ UP)—Ramey Air
Force Base, Puerto Rico, tapped
the Strategic Air Command’s fly
ing safety totem pole for Septem
ber and moved into third place in
the base-of-the-year trophy com
petition, SAC flying safety of
ficials said today.
Ramey, accident free since the
beginning of the 1953 safe air
port campaign is third to Carswell
Air Force Base, Tex., in the base
of-the-year competition.
French Premier Pushes
Far-Reaching Economic
Accords With Germany
PARIS, UPI—A determined Pre
mier Pierre Mendes-France push
ed his program for far-reaching
economic accords with JVest Ger
many today, moving quickly to
follow up the Paris agreements
for adding German strength to
Western defense.
In a fireside radio chat last
night, the Premier told his people:
“France and Germany are two
countries whose nearness to one
another and whose resources and
production require their close
association together.”
His talk came a day after the
foreign ministers of 15 Western
nations signed protocols to three
treaties designed to make West
Germany a free and equal partner
in the Western alliance against the
threat of Red aggression.
Aeronautics Commission
To Hold Open Meeting
In Nome, October 26, 27
The Alaska Aeronautics and
Communications Commission is
holding its quarterly meeting in
Nome. The commission will dis
cuss the construction program for
1954 and will set up a program
for 1955-56 construction for the
Department of Aviation.
This meeting is scheduled for
Oct. 26 and 27 and is in keeping
with the commission’s policy of
rotating the place of meeting each
quarter, in order that the public
can present any problems to the
commission. Previous meetings
have been held in Anchorage, Ju
neau and Fairbanks, and this is
the first meeting to be held in the
Second Division.
Herman Porter, director of aer
onautics, states that the meeting
will be open to the public after a
short executive session.
Those in attendance will be M.
B. Kirkpatrick, chairman, Anchor
age; Jack Sherman, secretary,
Ketchikan; Wm. Munz, Nome;
Noel Wien, Fairbanks; J. Gerald
Williams, attorney general; Her
man Porter, director of aero
nautics; and Wm. Hixson, super
visor of communications.
All requests for communica
tions should be directed to Mr.
Hixson or the chairman of the
board.
Sons of Bandleader
Bob Crosby Run
Away From Home
HOLLYWOOD, —A neighbor
boy on horseback today found
bandleader Bob Crosby’s three
young sons, whose disappearance
before supper yesterday touched
off an all - night search by 90
policemen in rugged hills near
their home.
Thirteen - year - old Tim Well
man, son of movie director Wil
liam Wellman, spotted Christo
pher, 12, George Robert Jr., 10,
and Stephen, 8, in precipitous
Barrington Canyon, where he fre
quently had trapped bobcats and
coyotes.
The Crosby youngsters, who
vanished from home without a
word about 5 p.m., were laden
was camping gear. They were un
harmed.
Christopher said he and his
brothers, all nephews of crooner
Bing Crosby, left home because
“We don’t like our nurse.”
The children’s nurse is Miss
Teresa Flynn.
The Crosbys said Miss Flynn
had been with them three years
and is a “wonderful nurse.” “I
think the boys were upset because
she tried to make them clean up
their room,” Mrs. Crosby said.
Young Wellman said the boys
were cooking breakfast at a camp
fire when he found them. “They
told me to go away because they
weren’t going home,” Tim said.
‘But I told them I’d pound them
if they didn’t, and they finally
■> c ed up their stuff and came
iong.”
losby said the incident “just
■r.v s that they are normal,
<alihy little savages.”
Absentees To
Decide Lannen
Benson Race
JUNEAU—A count of absentee
ballots, to be made tomorrow,
Oct. 26, of which there are ap
proximately 750 throughout the
territory, will decide the outcome
of a closely contested race be
tween Henry Benson, Republican
incumbent, and H. J. Lannen,
Democratic challenger from Cor
dova, for the post of territorial
labor commissioner.
With the tally completed from
234 of the territory’s 264 precincts,
Lannen Wednesday had 12,434
votes to 12,260 for Benson. The
count of the absentee ballots will
begin next Tuesday in the clerk
of court offices at Juneau, Nome,
Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Other Democrats swept the ter
ritory-wide contests. E. L. Bart
lett, incumbent delegate to Con
gress, had 18,693 votes to 6,472 for
Mrs. Barbara Dimock, Republi
can.
Hugh J. Wade had 13,654 for
territorial treasurer against 11,012
for Earle Hunter, Republican.
All nine Senate seats at stake
were swept by Democrats, making
the party lineup in the upper
house of the 1955 legislature 12
Democrats to four Republicans.
In the House, the only Republi
cans elected were Mrs. Edith Bul
lock, Kotzebue, Second Division;
Joseph McLean, Juneau, and Ed
Locken, Peterson, First Division.
They withstood the Democratic
tide which took all ten seats in
the Third and all five in the
Fourth Division.
The 1955 House will be divided
21 to 3.
10 POLISH TOTS KILLED
BY WORLD WAR II BOMB
VIENNA, (#)—The Polish news
paper Zycie Warszaw said today
10 Polish, children were killed
when one of them stepped on an
unexploded World War II bomb
near Warsaw.
Sen. Margaret Smith
Spends Musical Sunday
In Russian Capital
MOSCOW, UP)—U.S. Sen. Mar
garet Chase Smith (R - Maine)
spent a musical Sunday in Mos
cow. She attended a recital by
the Red army chorus in the after
noon and went to a ballet per
formance at the Ballet Theater
Sunday night.
The senator said she had re
ceived no' reply as yet on her re
quest for an interview with Pre
mier Georgi Malenkov. She said
she plans to leave the Soviet
Union Thursday.
DEATH SENTENCE TO 21
AS RED SPIES IN IRAN
TEHRAN, Iran, UP! — An army
court sentenced five army and air
force officers to death today on
charges of participating in a So
viet spy network.
The sentences brought to 21
the number of condemned officers
who will face firing squads soon
unless n appeal court or the
Shah i' i venes.
Winds Whisk Away Smog
From L.A. But Fail To
Clear Up Smog Dispute
LOS ANGELES, tPi —Welcome
winds have whisked away the
smog but have failed to clear up
the down-to-earth dispute which
the eye-stinging stuff touched off.
Director Gordon Larson of the
County Air Pollution Control
District last night labeled Super
visor Herbert Legg’s suggestion
that he resign as a “political man
euver.”
The county grand jury made
final plans for a full-dress in
quiry into the smog situation to
morrow.
Gov. Goodwin Knight, who had
urged oil refineries to' shut down
to test their effect on the smog,
said last night “obviously there is
no point in such a shutdown dur
ing a period of smog-free days.”
However, he advised the oil com
panies to be prepared to close
down during the next smoke at
tack.
The refineries rejected his first
close-down appeal.
Campaign For
Control ofCongress
Enters Final Week
(By the Associated Press)
The campaign for control of
the 84th Congress today rolled
into its final week with both
■parties planning an 11th hour
speed-up of efforts to lure voters
still straddling the political fence.
The Republican National Com
mittee announced yesterday that
some 100 prominent Republicans
will make more than 250 speeches
in 36 states during the closing
days of the campaign.
GOP efforts will be climaxed
on election eve by a “get-out-the
vote” appeal by President Eisen
hower.
National economic conditions—
a prime issue in the campaign—
will be reviewed tonight by Eisen
hower in a nationally televised
“non-partisan” talk from Wash
ington.
Vice President Nixon told news
men in Salt Lake City, that he
believes the GOP campaign is
now “in exactly the right posi
tion.”
Nixon said Saturday the Com
munist party is fighting desper
ately for an anti-Eisenhower Con
gress. He said this partly because
the Democratic party has toler
ated the Red conspiracy and many
of its candidates belong to a “left
wing clique.”
In Salt Lake City, Nixon yes
terday commented on a recent
Adlai Stevenson statement that
the Vice President is directing a
GOP campaign that can be de
scribed as “McCarthyism in a
white collar.”
Nixon called this a “typical
snide and snobbish innuendo to
ward the millions of Americans
who work for a living in our
shops and factories . .
Nixon said the so-called blue
collar workers “have a much
keener and clearer understanding
of the threat of Communism at
home than he (Stevenson) has
displayed during his public ca
reer . .
Alaska Population
Shows 57.6 Pet.
Increase Since ’50
WASHINGTON, GW—The Cen
sus Bureau estimated yesterday
that Alaska has a population of
171.000 civilians on July 1 this
year, an increase of 57.6 per cent
since the last full census April 1,
1950. Hawaii gained 1.4 per cent
and Puerto Rico 0.7 per cent. Both
the Canal Zone and Virgin Is
lands lost population.
The Bureau said Nevada was
the nation’s fastest growing state
during the past four years while
West Virginia showed the great
est population decline.
West Virginia’s population drop
ped 2.9 per cent during the period
from April 1, 1950 to July 1,
1954 while Nevada showed a 33.1
per cent gain. Other states with
shrinking populations were Ark
ansas and New Hampshire. Gains
of more than 20 per cent were
registered for Arizona and Flor
ida.
The Bureau estimated the na
tion’s civilian population—which
excludes members of the armed
forces — totalled 159,084,000 last
July 1. This was an increase of
6.3 per cent from the 149,634,000
counted in the last full census.
Total population, including the
armed forces, was estimated at
162.414.000 as of July 1.
Nation’s Largest All-Girl
Family Forfeits Claim
With Birth of No. 14, a Boy
PITTSFIELD, Maine, UP) —
Thirteen sisters gained a brother
yesterday and lost their claim on
being the nation’s largest all-girl
family.
Six-pound, eight-ounce Leslie
Benjamin Brooks crossed up some
of the plans when he was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks at
their Snake Root Road farmhouse,
but he got a warm welcome none
theless from the 39-year-old
couple and the 13 Brooks daugh
ters aged 1 V6 to 16.
“Now that I have a boy I hope
it will be the end,” said Brooks, a
$50 a week truck driver.
A blue blanket was found in
which to swath the newcomer, but
as his surprised sister, Eunice,
16, pointed out, “Oh, dear! all
his clothes will be pink.”
The Broo'ks family had muster
ed a layette in pink for the ex
pected arrival of girl No. 14.
Barge with 1,000 Tons
Cargo Aboard Undamaged
After Going Aground
SEATTLE, UP) — A 208-foot
barge, aground since Wednesday
with a valuable cargo from Seat
tle was freed Saturday from a
Southeast Alaska beach.
Alaska Freight Lines said in
Seattle that the barge, towed by
the tug Kelly, will be returned to
Seattle. It is expected to arrive
Tuesday when 1,000 tons erf cargo,
all undamaged, will be transfer
red to another barge.
Cargo on the barge is contained
in 31 big trailer vans.
The barge ran aground in Snow
Passage near Wrangell during a
storm.