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VOL. LV No. 120NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1953 _Per Copy—15?
Some Officers
Think Hall Killed
Bobby Greenlease
ST. LOUIS, liPI—The kidnapers
of Bobby Greenlease, handcuffed
together, were whisked from the
St. Louis city jail to the nearby
Federal building today and were
arraigned on federal extortion
charges.
Both waived preliminary hear
ing and the bond under which
they were held was kept at
$100,000 each.
It was not immediately known
what would be done next for the
pair, Carl Austin Hall, the con
fessed ringleader of the kidnap
plot, and Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Heady, 41 the widow who lured
the 6-year-old boy from his pri
vate school in Kansas City on
Sept. 28.
The Justice Department in
Washington announced yesterday
that the State of Missouri will be
given jurisdiction in the case.
But no decision has been an
nounced on whether the pair will
be tried at Kansas City, where
they have been charged with kid
naping, or at St. Joseph, where
murder charges have been placed
against them.
The FBI withheld a nationwide
alert for Thomas John Marsh, the
ex-convict implicated in the case
by Hall, but police from coast to
coast were on the lookout.
Hall told officers he turned the
Greenlease boy over to Marsh and
later found the child dead in the
basement of Mrs. Heady’s home.
He claims he hasn’t seen Marsh
since.
Some officers say they believe
Hall was the killer, and have ex
pressed doubt that Hall and Mrs.
Heady had an accomplice. There
has been some speculation that
Marsh is dead.
Sen. Butler Favors Statehood If.
New Bill Treats Alaska Fairly
City Election At North
Pole “All Tied Up”
NORTH POLE, Alaska, UP) —
Kids, maybe you think Santa
Claus (only 77 more days to
Christmas) is the only resident of
North Pole. Well, he isn’t. It’s so
darn crowded up here they’ve
gone and elected a mayor and city
council and it turned into the
doggonedest ball - up you ever
heard.
Two fellorws—Everett Dahl and
James Ford — were running for
mayor and when the votes were
counted they both had 20. Had
everybody in kinda sweat won
dering what to do and then they
found out that two of the four
council races had a tie vote, too.
They were 31-31 and 28-28.
They settled it yesterday with
the deadlocked candidates stand
ing in front of the election judges
who settled the problem by toss
ing a coin.
It’s Mayor Dahl now.
North Pole is south of the North
Pole, only 14 miles from Fair
banks, in fact.
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen. But
ler announced Thursday he plans
a meeting with Secretary of the
Interior McKay this week to dis
cuss proposed statehood for Al
aska.
Butler heads the Senate com
mittee on Interior and Insular Af
fairs which has pending an ad
ministration bill to admit Hawaii
to the union, and a non-adminis
tration bill to admit Alaska.
The Senator, who supported the
Hawaiian statehood bill in the
1953 session of Congress, told
newsmen he also would vote to
admit Alaska “If we can get a
bill which I think treats Alaska
fairly.”
Such a measure, he said, in fair
ness to its people should provide
that the new state “should com
prise practically all of what is
now the territory of Alaska.” He
said the Interior Department long
has advocated keeping most of the
territory under federal control,
exempt from statehood.
Butler said he expects to tell
McKay that Alaskans “should
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British Boot Prime
Minister of Guiana
Out of Office as Red
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,
iff)—Britain booted out the prime
minister and five other cabinet
members today with the announ
ced purpose of preventing Com
munists from taking over the
British Guiana government.
Gov. Sir Alfred Savage declared
a state of emergency under which
the six-months-old constitution is
to be scrapped. The British charg
ed there was a Red plot to turn
this South American rum and
sugar colony “into a totalitarian
state subservient to Moscow.”
These steps followed the arrival
of British troops in the colony,
which is sandwiched between
Brazil and Venezuela on the ap
proaches to the Panama Canal.
This colony of 450,000 people is
Britain’s only holding on the
South American continent. Nearly
half the population came from or
trace their ancestry to India. Most
of the others are of Negro or Am
erican Indian stock.
Prime Minister Jeddie Jagan
and the ousted ministers threat
ened to take the dispute with
Britain to London, Washington
and the United Nations. Jagan and
his American-born wife, the for
mer Janet Rosenberg, have denied
they are Communists and that
their political party, the leftwing
People’s Progressive party is Mos
cow-dominated.
CORDOVA VOTERS APPROVE
CITY MANAGER PLAN
CORDOVA, UPl—Cordova voters
approved the city manager form
of government and re - elected
Mayor Will H. Chase in Wednes
day’s election. A proposed $90,000
bond issue for a new telephone
system was turned down.
Dr. Chase received 227 votes to
83 for C. Mathech.
Russia Increasing
Capabilities Of
Delivering 6Bomb’
WASH INGTON UPl — President
Eisenhower says Russia possesses
an increasing capability of deliv
ering an atomic attack on the
United States, but he does not
think the threat of war shadows
America’s doorstep now.
And, in the fullest official U.S.
statement since Moscow claimed
mastery of the awesome hydrogen
bomb, the President said yester
day the Soviets have “a weapon,
or the forerunner of a weapon, of
power far in excess of the con
ventional (atomic) types.”
Eisenhower’s assurance at his
news conference that his admin
istration is moving to meet this
capability was generally applaud
ed by lawmakers.
But Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn)
said the President may have cre
ated “another layer of secrecy on
all too secret a subject.” Com
plaining that Eisenhower, said
nothing of continental defense,
Kefauver asked for a Senate
Armed Services Committee hear
ing on the subject.
In a formal statement at his
news conference, Eisenhower
also:
1. Announced that he has asked
all members of his administration
“to refrain from comment on So
viet nuclear capabilities unless
they first check their statements”
with Lewis L. Strauss, the AEC
chairman.
2. Declared the U. S. atomic
stockpile “is large and increasing
steadily,” and that it includes
weapons for use in the specific
tasks assigned the Army, Navy
and Air Force.
Slovenes Protest
Turning Trieste
Over To Italy
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, W —
New demonstrations broke out
here today against the United
States, Great Britain and Italy as
President Tito and his cabinet met
to formulate new protests against
Italian occupation of the major
part of the bitterly-disputed Tri
est territory.
Rifle-carrying troops on horse
back held back throngs which
swarmed in front of the three em
bassies in angry protest against
the British - American announce
ment they would withdraw their
troops from Trieste port and the
surrounding territory and turn it
over to the Italians.
The mobs had pelted property
occupied by the three foreign na
tions with stones until early to
day, smashing windows and dam
aging automobiles.
Tito hastily summoned his cab
inet into emergency sesion. The
government was expected to de
liver a strong note of protest to
the two Western powers later to
day.
There was speculation here that
Tito might rush troop reinforce
ments to the border in an effort
to delay the British - American
-withdrawal.
Nationwide Tests Of Perfected Polio
Vaccine Announced For Next Year
40 CASES POLIO IN ALASKA
REPORTED JAN. TO OCT.
JUNEAU, UP> — Forty cases of
poliomylitis were reported in Al
aska from January to October, the
Alaska Department of Health re
ported Thursday.
Twelve of the cases were in the
Anchorage area, eight of them
since the middle of August. The
Juneau area had 15, Ketchikan 6,
Fairbanks 5, and Haines and
Moose Pass 1 each.
Mitchell, New Sec.
Of Labor, Neither
Rich nor Plumber
WASHINGTON, UPl — James P.
Mitchell was sworn in today as
Secretary of Labor and attended
his first cabinet meeting.
Mitchell, 52 - year - old former
New York City department store
executive with long experience in
labor relations, took the oath in
ceremonies at the White House
with President Eisenhower look
ing on.
The New Jersey Republican,
who says he is “neither a plumber
nor a millionaire,” had been assis
tant Secretary of the Army until
Eisenhower announced the new
appointment Thursday.
He succeeds Martin P. Durkin,
a Democrat who quit a month ago
and went back to his job as AFL
Plumbers Union president.
While Durkin was in the cabi
net, administration critics claimed
it was composed entirely of mil
lionaires except for one plumber,
Durkin.
Mitchell declined to discuss the
Taft - Hartley controversy with
newsmen.
The selection of Mitchell was
generally acclaimed by Republi
cans and Democrats and by some
labor leaders.
However, AFL vice president
A1 Hayes, who heads the AFL
Machinists Union, called the
choice of Mitchell “incredible” —•
the same word used by the late
Sen. Robert Taft when Eisen
hower picked Durkin.
CIO president Walter Reuther
said Mitchell enjoys “a good re
putation” among unions.
Allies Plan To Get
Explanations To POWs
Underway By Monday
PANMUNJOM, UP)—The Allies
today offered a compromise plan
that could get explanations to re
luctant prisoners of war started
by Monday.
The U.N. Command said it is
willing to work round-the-clock
to cut the time of building tem
porary explanation centers for the
Communists from 7 to 5 days.
The Reds will use the centers
to interview 22,500 Chinese and
North Koreans who have refused
to return to Communism.
The Neutral Nations Repatria
tion Commission in a letter Thurs
day indirectly accused the Allies
of trying to stall the start of Red
persuasion attempts in an effort
to cut down the explanation per
iod, which ends Christmas Eve.
' iviiAivii, r ia., un—rerrecuon oi
an experimental polio vaccine to
a point justifying inauguration of
plans for nationwide vaccination
tests on hundreds of thousands of
children, perhaps early next year,
was announced today.
It’s the vaccine whose develop
ment first was announced last
spring by Dr. Jonas E. Salk of the
University of Pittsburgh, working
under a March of Dimes grant.
Today’s announcement consti
tutes first word that it is now
ready—as soon as details can be
worked out—for the supreme test
which will determine whether it
can ultimately be released for
general use.
It was disclosed that additional
preliminary research on humans
since last spring has greatly
strengthened hopes for the vac
cine, and that it’s also been found
possible to improve it and to pro
duce it in a variety of forms, each
of which may have particular ad
vantages in the fight against the
great childhood crippler.
Dr. Salk made the historic an
nouncement that science had at
last achieved a material safe, po
tent and promising enough to be
put to the acid test of determining
whether it protects against the
disease under natural conditions
of exposure. He said large-scale
production was possible.
He told the American Academy
of Pediatrics that the vaccine —
early proven to be capable of
preventing polio in experimental
animals—has now been tested in
637 humans, including 163 de
scribed in his original report last
spring.
Immediately after he spoke, the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, which is supporting the
vaccine research, announced in
auguration of plans for a nation
wide test, and a spokesman said
the March of Dimes organization
had earmarked $7,500,000 for the
purpose.
Florence Chadwick Swims
The Historic Hellespont,
Her 4th Channel Conquest
CANNAKALE, Turkey, (fl —
Florence Chadwick of San Diego,
Calif., today swam both ways
across the Hellespont, the Turkish
Dardanelles.
This was the fourth channel
conquest in little more than a
month for the American swimmer.
On Sept. 4' she swam the English
Channel from England to France
in the record time of 14 hours and
42 minutes. She was forced to quit
because of the cold after two and
a quarter miles of a return trip.
On Sept. 20 Miss Chadwick
broke all records swimming the
Straits of Gibraltar from Europe
to Africa in five hours, six min
utes.
Two days ago she swam the
tricky Bosporus from Europe to
Asia and then back to Europe in
1 hour, 14 minutes, 7 seconds.
Miss Chadwick entered the Hel
lespont today four miles north of
Channakale and swam the same
course as that followed by the
mythical Greek, Leander.
She completed the round trip
in 1 hour, 58 minutes, 8 seconds.