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VOL. LVII No, 16NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1955Per Copy—150
Pinay, Premier Of
France In 1952,
To Form Cabinet
PARIS, (#> — Antoine Pinay, a
Conservative who once said he
would “never go back into that
bear cage,” sought support today
for his second term as French
premier.
The 63-year-old owner of a
small-town tannery agreed last
night to try to form France’s 21st
postwar government, succeeding
the cabinet of Pierre Mendes
France. Pinay told newsmen he
hoped to have his list of pros
pective ministers ready by Thurs
day.
One of the longer - lived of
France’s numerous postwar pre
miers, Pinay headed the govern
ment for 9Vz months in 1952. He
won considerable personal popu
larity with his Conservative
“Save the Franc” fiscal policy
which checked rising prices
though it did not solve France’s
basic economic ills. Facing three
confidence votes and considered
certain to. lose all of them, he re
signed Dec. 23, 1952, and vowed
never again.
fn Bonn, meanwhile, West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer told a meeting of his Chris
tion Democratic party’s district
leaders that any new French gov
ernment could continue Mendes
France’s support of the Paris
treaties but that French ratifica
tion would be delayed. He urged
his followers to push ahead with
German approval of the pacts.
Army and Navy To
Conduct Manuevers
On The West Coast
SAN FRANCISCO, UP — Fifty
ships and a 6,000-man regimental
cdmbat team will participate in
joint Army and Navy training
exercises along the West Coast
during the latter half of March.
The exercises, March 14-30,
were announced today by the
maneuver directors, Lt. Gen. W.
G. Wyman, 6th Army command
er, and Vice Adm. W. K. Phillips,
commander, 1st Fleet.
The participating ships will be
from the Pacific Fleet and the
regimental combat team will be
from the 2nd Infantry Division,
Ft. Lewis, Wash.
Exercises will include embark
ation of the combat team at a
simulated advance base in Puget
Sound and an amphibious landing
at San Simeon Bay, Calif. The
Army troops will move inland to
the Hunter Liggett military reser
vation to strike at the rear of an
assumed aggressor force.
ROSEMARY CLOONEY IS
MOTHER FOR FIRST TIME
SANTA MONICA, Calif,, UP —
Singer Rosemary Clooney gave
birth to a 7-pound 9-ounce boy
here today. She is married to
actor Jose Ferrer. The child,
Miguel Jose, is their first.
Sabres Down Two
Attacking Migs
Over Yellow Sea
TOKYO, (/P — American F - 86
Sabrejets shot down two of eight
attacking Communist MIG swept
wing jet fighters Saturday in the
biggest air battle since the end
of the Korea war in July, 1953.
The U.S. Air Force, in a terse
announcement, reported the Rus
sian-built fighters attacked a U.S.
RB-45 reconnaissance bomber and
its covering flight of Sabres over
the Yellow Sea between Korea
and Red China.
The U.S. fliers were from Osan
Air Force Base, 40 miles south
of Skous, Korea.
“The other six attackers re
turned to Communist territory,”
the announcement said.
The Air Force said the RB-45
was “on a reconnaissance mission
over the Yellow Sea when the
four-engined jet bomber was at
tacked by four Russian - built
MIG-15s. At the same time four
other MIGs attacked the escort
ing jet fighters flying top cover.”
The Sabres, which ran up a
12-1 edge over the MIGs in the
Korean war, were from the 4th
Fighter - Interceptor Wing trans
ferred from Japan to forward |
bases in Korea during the present
Fomosa crisis.
Job-Seekers Warned
No Sitka Pulp Mill Work,
SITKA, (Jf)—A warning to
would-be job-seekers rushing to
Sitka was issued Friday by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Noting that several dozen la
borers have arrived in the past
few days, presumably as a result
of an erroneous report of work
starting by fall at a pulp mill
project, the chamber said it want
ed to make clear the pulp mill is
still in the planning stage.
The chamber said at this pres
ent time it appears unlikely that
construction can begin on the pulp
mill before 1956. The chamber
said there already is a surplus of
labor here.
Scandinavian Airlines
To Be Welcomed by
Nome Officials Wednesday
The Scandinavian Airlines is
scheduled to stop in Nome Wed
nesday for about an hour on a
familiarization flight throughout
the territory.
Chamber of Commerce officials
are making tentative plans to
greet the crew and officials upon
their arrival and if time permits
take them on a short tour.
Anyone having transportation
they wish to offer may contact
Boyd Harwood at the Nome Drug
Store.
No definite plans can be an
nounced as the time of arrival is
not known at this time.
Legislature Enters
Its Third Week
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, MP1—Alaska’s legisla
ture swung into their third week’s
work today.
Legislation on major issues
such as the budget, taxation and
bolstering the employment secur
ity fund has begun to take shape.
Equally encouraging, proposed
ways by which the yawning gap
of 12 million dollars between es
timated revenue and requested
appropriations can be drastically
sliced are before the lawmakers.
Committees of both branches
have swung into conferences with
various departments and agencies
to decide on the final appropria
tions they will get. There’s little
chance many will get what they
asked.
In the week just past, Governor
Heintzleman’s budget expert lent
a helping hand. Wielding a sharp
knife, he pared the big budget
requests at the top and then went
to work at the bottom to recom
mend what specific increases
could be justified over 1954.
Tonight Henry Harmon, direc
tor of the Department of Public
Welfare, will outline his requests
at an open hearing of the House
Ways and Means and Health and
Welfare Committees.
The first order of business in
the Senate was to be continuance
of a hearing and debate on whe
ther the legislature should ask
the governor to apply immediate
ly for a federal loan to bolster the
dwindling Employment Security
Benefits fund.
On Saturday the Senate match
ed previous House action in ap
proving a memorial to the fed
eral government designed to ob
tain profits for the territory from
mining land leases, as in the
states.
The measure said each state
gets 90 per cent of the profits
leasing of coal or other mineral
lands within its borders. It asks
enactment by Congress of a reso
lution now before it to end such
discrimination against Alaska.
A half dozen new measures
were also introduced.
In turn, they would do these
things:
Repeal completely the territor
ial law against outdoor advertis
ing along highways.
Set up a new law to examine
and license dentists under the
territory’s dental board (by Reps.
Ray Plummer, Lester Bronson,
Burke Riley and Warren Taylor).
Among other things the measure
would set up reciprocity by which
dentists practicing in the States
could start work in the territory
without taking a beginner’s ex
amination.
CITY MANAGER RESIGNS
KODIAK, (if)—City Manager
Robert Share has tendered his
resignation, effective Feb. 11. He
said his reasons were personal.
Evacuation of Tachens Begins Under
Protection of Mighty Seventh Fleet
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Administration, With
Britain, New Zealand,
Weigh New Moves
WASHINGTON, UP) — T h e
Eisenhower administration, in
close consultation with Britain
and New Zealand, weighed pos
sible new moves today to ease
the tense Formosa situation.
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of State Dulles had a long
conference at the White House.
Afterward, Dulles went to the
State Dept, for meetings with Sir
Leslie Knox Munro, New Zea
land’s ambassador and chief U.
N. delegate, and Sir Roger Ma
kins, the British ambassador.
There was no official hint as
to what might be under consider
ation. Reports from London, how
ever, said the possibility of some
kind of unwritten cease-fire ag
reement was being explored in
diplomatic talks.
The New York Times said the
United States would urge the
United Nations to send a “peace
observation” mission to Formosa
and the Pescadores to report any
aggressive action in that area.
President Instructs CAB
Deny Northwest Airlines
Transpacific Certificate
WASHINGTON UP)—Presidential
approval of a modified order reg
ulating transpacific air routes
probably won’t come until late to
day at the earliest, a White House
spokesman said.
The transpacific case kicked up
a storm of protest last week after
the Civil Aeronautics Board an
nounced that in line w’ith presi
dential instructions it would deny
Northwest Airlines renewal of its
permit for a route linking Seattle,
Portland and Hawaii. The board
previously had voted to renew
Northwest’s certificate for the
route.
Members of Congress from Min
nesota, Montana, Washington and
Oregon protested the decision
which would leave Pan American
World Airways as the sole opera
tor between the Northwest and
Hawaii.
SIBERIAN TOWN GETS TV
THREE TIMES A WEEK
LONDON, UP) — Television has
reached Siberia, Moscow radio
reported today.
The broadcast said residents of
the Siberian towns of Tomsk,
1,800 miles east of Moscow, can
see programs three times a week
on dozens of sets which have
been installed in homes. A town
TV center where the public can
watch was promised for later this
year.
Experimental telecasts have
begun in Omsk, another Siberian
town 1,400 miles east of Moscow’,
the radio reported.
By SPENCER MOOSA
and FRED HAMPSON
TAIPEH, Formosa, UP) — The
evacuation of the Tachens sped
forward today under the protec
tion of the mighty U.S. 7th Fleet,
whose carrier pilots said they
there fired on by Red antiair
craft guns.
Red torpedo boats cruised 17
miles away but made no attempt
to interfere with the huge and
dangerous task of bringing off
30,000 Nationalist soldiers and
civilians. A patrol party of U.S.
Marines went ashore to help with
the operation.
First to leave the imperiled Ta
chens were civilians, most of
whom are on lower Tachen, the
southern island of the group.
Lt. Gen. Liu Lien - Yi, com
mander of the Tachen garrison,
declared he still had no orders
from President ‘Chiang Kai-Shek
to quit the islands.
U.S. pilots reported seeing ex
plosions on Yikiangshan, eight
miles to the north of the Ta
chens, but the Reds made no
move to interfere. It was spec
ulated the explosions came from
demolition work on Yikiangshan.
Nationalist sources reported
that an advance guard of U.S. and
Nationalist forces got the evacu
ation under way last night, while
ships of the U.S. 7th Fleet were
still some distance away from the
threatened islands.
(The Navy in Washington said
the task force of 75 ships in
cluded six carriers with some 500
planes, two cruisers, 36 destroy
ers and other warships*.
Eden Asks Russia To
Urge Restraint On China
In Formosa Situation
LONDON, — Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden said today
Britain has asked the Soviet gov
ernment to urge restraint on the
Chinese Communists in the deli
cate situation now existing off
the China coast.
Approaches were made Jan. 28
by the British ambassador in Mos
cow, Sir William Hayter, Eden
told the House of Commons.
Eden has talked with the Soviet
charge d’affaires here.
Eden refused to be drawn into
a detailed discussion of the moves
saying:
“Conversations are taking
place between a number of gov
ernments and diplomacy must be
given its chance to do some work
about this ...”
Commonwealth prime minis
ters now meeting here have been
casting about for several days in
search of a formula to bring a
cease-fire in Formosa Strait. This
effort was intensified after the
Chinese Communists rejected a
United Nations invitation to at
tend cease-fire talks.
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