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VOL. LIX NO. 45_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1957 =' per CopyI-15*
Nome CAP Hosts
Yesterday To
Visiting Officers
Nome Squadron of Civil Air
Patrol was host yesterday to
members of the Alaska Wing
Headquarters staff, from Anchor
age. The visitors arrived by USAF
aircraft at about 8:30 a.m. to
confer with local squadron per
sonnel.
Though they arrived on short
notice Capt. Lancaster contacted
all local CAP members that could
be reached and a great deal was
accomplished in the several meet
ings that took place during the
day.
While Senior members were
discussing various problems with
Wing officers, the Cadets met in
the Legion Hall with Cadet Major
Arlene Anderson of the Alaska
Wing Advisory Council, who pre
sented the latest details of the
Cadet training program, foreign
exchange and encampment. The
Cadets were then addressed by
Col. Harry Stiver, Wing Com
mander.
In the visiting party were: Col.
Harry Stiver, wing commander;
Lt. Col. James Carter, executive
officer; Maj. Florence Parry, per
sonnel officer; Capt. Wm. Whit
worth, communications officer;
Capt. Robert Hall, Cadet training
officer; Lt. Ollie Trower, public
information officer; W/O Wm.
Nihmi, senior training officer;
and Cadet Maj. Arlene Anderson,
of the Cadet Advisory Council.
Co-pilot of the USAF C-47
bringing the personnel to Nome
was Maj. Daniel Schaible, USAF,
of the USAF/CAP liaison office.
M/Sgt. Harry Koch, USAF, of the
liaison office, accompanied Maj.
Schaible.
Sir Anthony Edep’s
Response to Operation
‘Has Been Good’
BOSTON, (tf)—A hospital bulle
tin said today that Sir Anthony
Eden’s response to Saturday’s op
eration fbr a bile duct obstruction
“has been good.”
It said he spent a satisfactory
night.
Eden’s personal physician who
observed the operation, was back
in London today and said doctors
hoped Eden might be out of the
hospital in three weeks.
VOROSHILOV
VISITS PEIPING
HONG KONG, UP>—Soviet Pres
ident Klementi Voroshilov ar
rived in Peiping in a Russian jet
airliner today for a 2(bday state
visit to Communist China.
Chairman of the Republic Mao
Tze-tung, Premier Chou En-lai
and other government leaders
greeted him. From China, Vorosh
ilov will go to Indonesia to visit
President Sukarno.
Vice Chairman Chu Ten hailed
Voroshilov’s visit as evidence that
the friendship between Russia
and Red China is “unbreakable.”
Peiping radio said “thunderous
cheers of many thousands of peo
ple who gathered three hours be
fore the plane’s landing welcomed
the beloved guest.”
14 DIE IN
HOME FOR AGED
MONTREAL, WV—Relatives to
day streamed through the city
morgue trying to identify charred
victims of a fire that swept a sub
urban old-people’s home, killing
14 residents.
Most of the aged victims, crip
pled or bedridden, had been un
able to escape the blaze that en
gulfed the two-story converted
farmhouse within minutes.
The manager of the home said
there were only 29 persons in the
building at the time and 15 sur
vivors had been accounted for.
Firemen believe the blaze was
caused by a short circuit.
Movie Camera
Solves Bank
Robbery Quickly
CLEVELAND UP)—The startling
solution to a bank holdup, in
which a movie camera made its
debut as an arm of the police, has
been making headlines here, but
in the background are two old
fashioned detectives who noticed
a red-haired girl in a restaurant.
The detectives, admired the
“walk” of a girl in a restaurant
three hours before the St. Clair
Savings & Loan Co. was robbed
of $2,387 Friday noon.
At 4:30 p.m. Friday the twoj
were among a group who saw the
two-minute film from a hidden
movie camera at the bank. In the
picture they saw a girl who
walked confidently to a cash
drawer.
The detectives went back to the
restaurant where they had seen
the red-haired girl among the
customers. There they located a
truck driver who was seen talk
ing to the girl.
The detectives got her home ad
dress and identified her as Miss
Wanda Dicenzi, 18, of Cleveland.
The investigation resulted in
the surrender of 18-year-old Rose
Donnell and Steven Ray Thomas,
24, and the capture of Miss Di
cenzi—all within three hours af
ter the holdup. All but $600 was
recovered.
Miss O’Donnell admitted driv
j ing the getaway car, police said.
Miss Dicenzi was located on the
tip of a woman who saw the hold
up on television.'
Thomas said, “I almost fell on
my face when I saw the pictures
late Friday in the Cleveland
News.”
Four years of preparation went
into the two-minute movie.
The 16-millimeter Army sur
plus gun camera had been in
stalled just the previous day, and
final tests had not been made
when the man and his pretty
blonde accomplice walked into
the bank, each carrying pistols,
and demanding money.
Elsie Rapic, 19-year-old teller,
stepped on an alarm pedal to start
the movie camera grinding and
signal police at the central station.
The pictures, slightly fuzzy be
cause of vibration near the cam
era, show the gunman, a hand
kerchief over the lower part of
his face, pointing his pistol while
the woman walks confidently
around the counter to get the
money from a cash drawer.
Easter Parade
Benefit a Success
1 The Easter Parade held at The
j Theater Saturday was a big suc
j cess with many interesting new
j spring clothes being modeled.
Cooperating business houses
j for this hospital benefit were the
I Polar Curio, Northern Commer
I cial Co., Dorothy’s, North Star
j Bakery, Nome Nugget, Polet’s,
Cavota’s, and Nome Skin Sewers.
Individuals making their own
clothes featured at the show in
cluded Mrs. George Weyer, Gay
Weyer, Mrs. Andy Peterson, Phyl
lis Gumming, Phyllis Webb and
Mrs. Kolb.
Original models of about 1900
were featured by Christie Wald
heim and Mrs. Janet Douglas.
An Easter bouquet background
and stage settings of apple blos
soms set off the models of both
women’s and children’s clothes
for school, sport, dress and par
ties, showing a wide variety of
lovely garments available in the
local stores.
The show opened with a Bunny
Cottontail skit.
Later in the show, Jeannie
Mogg and Ike Obermeir did a
specialty dance and at the close
of the Parade Ann Peterson and
Gay Weyer did a couple of clever
pantomimes.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown, own
ers of The Theatre who made the
show possible, expressed appreci
ation to the many who had assist
ed, especially Mrs. James Man
ning for her work with the mod
els and Mrs. Frank Morris as
commentator.
Roberta Ross, teacher at Nome
School, and Norris Finch of the
ARC were responsible for the
stage set, and Mr. and Mrs. Brown
for coordinating the show and
facilities. Jim Blanning furnished
the material for scenery and Ike
Obermeir was carpenter. Mrs.
Tuttle was cashier for the day.
From the morning; matinee and
afternoon Parade $121.15 was
taken in for the MMM Hospital.
BREAKING EVEN
PARKERSBURG, W. Va., (4V- j
Attached to an income tax return
received by the Internal Revenue
Service office here was this note':
“Ours is strictly a non-profit
organization. That wasn’t the way
we planned it, but that’s the way
it worked out.”
INDIAN GIRL
SOLD 3 TIMES
CALCUTTA, India, (#)—A vil
lager’s daughter in Teghra, in
northeast India, said she was sold
three times in six months before
escaping from her last buyer and
returning home.
Culcutta newspapers today said
this was the girl’s story:
She was tubercular and her
father too poor to pay for medical
treatment. A relative took her to
Patna, the state capital, promising
to pay for her treatment.
In Patna, the relative sold her
for 400 rupees ($80). She was re
sold for 1,000 rupees ($200) and
again for 2,200 rupees ($440).
The girl said she fled one night
from the home of her third pur
chaser and took refuge with Hin
du priests in a neighboring vil
lage.
20 MILLION
PIECES OF MAIL
FOR N.Y. POSTMEN
NEW YORK, —It was a
Christmas mail crush in mid
April for New York’s postmen
today.
Letter carriers struggled out on
their routes with an estimated 20
million pieces of mail accumulat
ed during the post office’s week
end deficit holiday.
“This is comparable to Christ
mas or, if possible, worse,” com
mented one bag-laden courier.
Officials predicted that all first
class mail here would be distrib
uted during the day. They said
the temporary shutdown saved
$60,000 in wages paid substitute
carriers and clerks during the
usual six-day work week.
Khalidi
Jordan Premier
After Crisis
AMMAN, Jordan, UP—Hussein
Fakhri Khalidi, a pro-Western
political leader, was named Jor
dan’s new Premier today. This
was a victory for King Hussein in
a six-day-old Cabinet crisis.
The seven-man Cabinet in
cludes Suleiman Nabulsi, the left
wing Nationalist Socialist Party
leader dismissed as Premier last
Wednesday.
(Dispatches from Amman are
under censorship. Earlier advices
reaching Damascus pictured Hus
sein as gaining steadily in a bold
struggle to purge pro-Egyptian
leaders from Jordan’s army and
political life. Yesterday Hussein
exiled the Jordan army’s pro
Egyptian chief of staff. Despite
this, the major elements of the
Jordan army were apparently be
hind the King.)
Tension has gripped Jordan
during the past few days of the
crisis. But it was generally hoped
now that the country will return
to normal.
The Cabinet was top heavy
with Independents. Besides Khal
idi, who is an Independent, the
new government will have five
other Independents and one Na
tional Socialist.
Khalidi’s success at forming a
government came as a surprise.
Last official information given
out earlier today reported that
Said Mufti was still trying to set
up a Cabinet.
Hussein emerged from the cri
sis with a greater stature than
ever. Khalidi is a Palestine refu
gee. This is important, since Pal
estinians form more than a third
of the population.
The Eisenhower Doctrine for
the Middle East actually set off
the crisis. Then it developed into
a struggle for power between ex
tremists and moderates.
Top Soviet Officials
Negotiate in Romania
LONDON, UFi—Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko and
Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov
arrived in Bucharest today, Mos
cow radio reported.
The broadcast said they axe to
negotiate on matters connected
with the “temporary presence of
Soviet troops in Romania.”
Dog Race
Winner Breaks
Old Record
The Nome-Hastings Dog Race
was run yesterday over a very
rough course with 12 entries and
last year’s winner taking first
prize again as well as beating his
own time.
Winner of the $500,000 prize
was Chester Topkok of Teller
driving nine dogs in a record time
of 1 hour 27 minutes 58 seconds.
His last year’s record for the same
course was 1:35.30.
Billy Cameron states that Top
kok’s time establishes a new rec
ord. Billy Cameron lias held the
record over this course since the
early 1920s with a time of 1:29:31.
At that time he raced his own
team against Leonard Seppala,
the well known sweepstakes win
ner.
Second prize went to Isaac Ok
leasuk of Teller with eight dogs.
He covered the course in 1:34:27
and was awarded $275.
Leonard Ottituk of Teller Mis
sion placed third with nine dogs
! and total time of 1:40:10 and was
awarded a prize of $100.00.
Frank Ahnangnatoguk of Nome
with nine dogs placed fourth with
1:44:19 and won $50.00.
Ed Punguk of White Mountain
was ten seconds behind, winning
the fifth prize of $50.00 in 1:44:29.
Other racers and their times
are as follows:
John Komak, Nome, 1:45:24.
David Amoktoolik, Golovin,
1:46:45.
Tommy Amoktoolik, 1:50:25.
Robert Tocktoo, Teller, 1:52:23.
Sam Ahwinona, Nome, 1:56:45.
Ernest Weyanna, 1:59:39.
Ben Herman, 2:03:37.
The committee, headed by Bob
Carpenter, announced that Sgt.
Granfield of the ANG has been
awarded the shotgun, which was
given in connection with the
races.
The Arctic Club Committee,
headed by Carpenter, Bill Barber
and Joe Kroninger, should be en
couraged to make plans for next
year and keep dog racing going in
the town where racing originated.
Runaway Ships
Threaten Bridge
PORTLAND, Oregon, UP)—Two
runaway ocean-going ships yes
terday seemed about to crash
through a Willamette River
bridge when two tiny fireboats
chugged to the rescue.
They shoved their noses against
the runaways and, while unable
to stop the big ships, slowed them
down so that the bridge still was
standing after the ships ground
inexorably against the steel girder
structure.
A raging storm with gusts up
i to 73 miles an hour had tom the
two condemned ships away from
a wrecking dock on the river.
Wind and current sent the ships,
lashed together side by side, bear
ing down on the bridge, a half
mile downstream.
The crash tore out 75 feet of
railing and crumpled 50 feet of
sidewalk on the bridge. The gale
balked efforts to remove the ships
for eight hours.