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VOL. LVI No. 130 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1954 Per Copy—15^
U.S. Ready to Start
Talks Toward
Atoms For Peace
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., </P>—
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. told the
U.N. today the United States is
ready to start talks with other
countries on bilateral agreements
to furnish atomic materials for
research reactors overseas as part
of a program to share atomic
konw-how for peace.
The chief American delegate to
the U.N. announced to the Gen
eral Assembly’s 60-nation political
committee that this would be a
gigantic forward step for 1955 in
President Eisenhower’s plans for
an international pool of atomic
energy for peaceful purposes.
Outlining a program of action
for the next year—even before a
proposed international agency is
created to oversee the atoms for
peace program — Lodge said the
United States is ready to train
persons to operate nuclear react
ors, to offer courses in nuclear
safety, and to invite 150 foreign
cancer experts to visit American
cancer research facilities and
swap views with U.S. doctors.
As Lodge spoke there was no
word from Moscow whether the
Russians had changed their minds
and decided to go along with the
Eisenhower proposals. With nego
tiations still under way between
Washington and Moscow, Lodge
made clear that the door is still
open to the Russians to join the
President’s program.
Will Rogers Praised As
Greatest Boosted That
Aviation Ever Had
CLAREMONE, Okla., UP) —Top
aviation leaders at a ceremony
honoring the late Will Rogers on
the 75th anniversary of his birth
yesterday praised the humorist as
the greatest booster air transport
ation ever had.
The day - long event observed
the opening 16 years ago of Clare
more’s Will Rogers Memorial
Building.
Rogers, who first flew as a
passenger in 1920, “became one
of the greatest boosters air trans
portation has ever had,” said Earl
D. Johnson, president Of the Air
Transport Assn., Washington, D.C.
Other aviation dignitaries hon
oring Rogers, who along with
pilot Wiley Post, was killed in
1935 in an Alaskan plane crash,
included 'C.R. Smith, president of
American Airlines; Roscoe Turn
er, speed pilot; Thomas F. Ryan
III, chairman erf Braniff Interna
tional Airways’ executive com
mittee; and Keith Khale, presi
dent of Central Airlines.
Among the estimated 5,000 vis
itors were Josh Lee, member of
the Civil Aeronautics Board; Sen.
Mike Monroney (D-Okla); Rogers’
son Jimmy, and a number of high
ranking officers.
Wreckage of Plane And
One Survivor Seen At
Site of S.E. Alaska Crash
JUNEAU, (fli—Scattered wreck
age of a commercial airplane
missing with three persons aboard
was sighted on a summit near
Pelican City at daybreak today
and aerial searchers reported see
ing one survivor at the scene.
The Alaska Coastal Grumman
Widgeon crashed yesterday after
noon on a flight from Pelican City
to Hoonah.
The pilot was James Rinehart,
J2. The two passengers were
identified as Mr. and Mrs. C.
Joseph of Sitka.
The airline did not receive a
report until early today that the
plane had vanished late yesterday
afternoon.
The plane crashed during a
rainstorm in Inlet Pass between
Lisianski Inlet and Tenaki Inlet.
The wreckage was badly scatter
ed. It is about 10 miles from
Pelican City.
A survivor could be seen wav
ing at a search plane.
Democrats Win Control
Of Hawaii Legislature
For First Time In 54 Years
HONOLULU, Nov. 3 — Demo
crats today won control of Ha
waii’s legislature for the first time
since the territory was organized
54 years ago, but again re-elected
a Republican Delegate to Con
gress. Mrs. Betty Farrington was
assured of returning to Congress
when she built up a 579-vote lead
with only one small precinct un
reported. The vote was 69,663 to
69,084 for John A. Burns, Demo
crat.
Eisenhower Sends Collins
To Indochina to Help Keep
S. Viet Nam From Reds
WASHINGTON, (fl—Gen. J.
Lawton Collins is speeding toward
Indochina on a mission for Presi
dent Eisenhower aimed at finding
out how to help divided Viet Nam
from falling completely to the
Communists.
Collins, former Army chief of
staff, will have the personal rank
of ambassador as a special repre
sentative of the President. A
White House announcement on
Wendesday night said his mission
is diplomatic—not military.
Collins will, in fact, bridge a
gap between the transfer of Don
ald R. Heath to a new assignment
and the arrival of a successor to
Heath not yet appointed.
The trouble-shooting task as
signed Collins is expected to re
sult in recommendations by him
to Eisenhower for extensive Am
erican operations designed to sta
bilize South Viet Nam and bolster
the government of Premier Ngo
Dinh Diem.
Bartlett Will Seek
Release of Alaska
Share Timber Sales
WASHINGTON, Wl — Delegate
Bartlett said today he will meet
soon with Agriculture and Forest
Service officials concerning pos
sible release of nearly lVfe mil
lion dollars in timber sale receipts
from Alaska’s Tongass National
Forest.
Distribution of the funds was
held up by Congress several years
ago pending settlement of native
claims to the land.
Bartlett said he has been in
formed that at the end of Sep
tember impounded Tongass funds
totalled $1,428,662. He_ said they
are increasing at the rate of
$65,000-a-month or about $450,000
for the end of the seven-month
logging season.
Bartlett said the Tongass re
ceipts would be split three ways:
25 per cent to the territory for
public schools, 10 per cent to the
Dept, of Agriculture for roads and
trails to the Tongass Forest and
65 per cent to the federal trea
sury.
Bartlett said he felt Alaska was
being done “an increasing dis
service” by the impoundment in
view of its school and road needs.
He said he believes legislation
should be introduced to do away
with the impoundment entirely or
at least insofar as it applies to
the 25 per cent which would go
to the territory.
Bartlett recalled that the Al
aska statehood bill as approved
by the Senate last spring included
a provision doing away with the
special Tongass fund and author
izing congressional appropriation
of such sums as might become
necessary to pay judgment, if
any, resulting from the native
claims on Tongass lands. The bill
did not pass the House.
Federal Mediator Calls On
Employers, Unions To End
Juneau Restuarant Strike
SEATTLE, —Regional Media
tion Service Director Harry Lewis
acting on requests from both sides
in the 25-day hotel and restaurant
workers strike at Juneau, agreed
Thursday to accept jurisdiction
and offered his help in efforts
to reach a settlement.
He urged both employers and
the Hotel and Restaurant Em
ployes Union, Local 871, however,
to make another attempt to settle
the dispute over wages and work
ing conditions themselves.
Pickets still marched yesterday
in front of nine Juneau hotels
and restaurants. An unofficial
survey made there said approxi
mately 87 per cent of such Juneau
employes were working for estab
lishments which have not agreed
to the union’s demands.
Airliner With Crippled
Nose Wheel Lands Safely
With 16 Passengers
WASHINGTON, UP)—An Ameri
can Airlines plane with 16 persons
aboard skidded to a safe landing
at National Airport today with a
crippled nose wheel.
The plane circled for some two
hours—to lessen the fuel load—
before attempting the landing.
On the touchdown, the two-en
gine craft rolled halfway down
the runway on its two main
wheels.
Then as the plane levelled, the
nose wheel slowly folded under
and the plane skidded to a halt
on its aluminum nose.
The airport was tense, with
ambulances and fire trucks stand
ing by the runway, as the big
plane made its approach. A cheer
went up from onlookers as the
plane ground to a halt without
more serious damage.
Navy Seaplane Jet
Fighter Crashes
In Demonstration
By Vern Haugland
SAN DIEGO, Calif., UP) — The
Convair FY2Y1 Sea - Dart, the
world’s fastest seaplane, broke
apart, burst into flames and
plunged into San Diego Harbor
yesterday.
Its pilot, Charles E. Richbourg,
rode the fore part of the delta
wing, needle-nosed jet fighter to
his death before the shocked eyes
of hundreds of spectators, among
them his wife, Margaret.
The Navy promptly launched
an investigation, and today had
divers exploring the bottom of
the bay, some 40 feet deep, for
bits of wreckage which might help
explain the accident.
Capt. F. K. Slason, Navy Bu
reau of Aeronautics representa
tive at the Convair plant here,
said he was at a complete loss as
to the cause.
Richbourg had taken the Sea
Dart off from the bay only a few
minutes earlier on a regular test
flight which a group of more than
a hundred visiting aviation writ
ers had been invited to watch.
The Navy was especially proud of
its ownership of the world’s first
jet powered seaplane fighter be
cause of the way in which it com
bined the speed of land-based jets
with the versatility of water
based aircraft.
VOTER REASSURED
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, WP)—
Election judges still were chuck
ling about the indignant woman
voter during Tuesday’s general
election who stuck her head out
of the voting booth and declared:
“Why, Eisenhower’s name isn’t
on this ballot.”
She was calmed down when it
was explained the President isn’t
up for reelection this year.
President Invites
Both Party Leaders
For Consultation
WASHINGTON, Iff! — President
Eisenhower today invited Repub
lican and Democratic congression
al leaders to a White House brief
ing on foreign affairs Nov. 17.
The White House said the ses
sion is being called “in line with
the President’s established policy
of keeping leaders of both parties
fully advised on foreign rela
tions.”
The meeting will take part with
Republicans still in control of
Congress, but with the Democrats
ready to take over when the 84th
Congress convenes in January.
Bipartisan consultation on for
eign policy has been undertaken
periodically during the first two
years of the Eisenhower admin
istration. But the President’s call
for the meeting on Nov. 17 seem
ed to underscore his stated desire
to cooperate in every way pos
sible with the new Democratic
leadership.
Sen. Knowland, Senate Repub
lican leader, had breakfasted with
Eisenhower and outlined the
Pfesident’s stand to newsmen
afterward.
Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex),
slated to step up in the new ses
sion to Knowland’s present posi
tion as majority leader, already
had promised to meet the Presi
dent “more than half way” in
tackling the nation’s problems.
Democrats meanwhile were
mulling over the problems—and
even the advisibility — of taking
over in the Senate and House.
Although several veteran Sen
ators expressed some misgivings
about the wisdom of moving to
take control of the Senate with
the narrow margin given them as
a result of Tuesday’s elections,
Democratic leader Lyndon John
son said:
“Apparently there will be a
majority of the members of the
Senate sufficient to organize it.
Editorial Advice Followed
By All Voters Except One
FARMINGTON, Mo., GD—Voters
followed Jess Stewart’s editorial
advice—with one exception. The
exception was Jess Stewart.
Stewart, editor of the weekly
Farmington Press, Wednesday
was reelected St. Francois Coun
ty circuit clerk despite his editor
ial campaigning for his own de
feat.
Voters, however, heeded his ad
vice to oust all other incumbents
in the county—10 Republicans
and one Democrat went out of
office.
Stewart, a Democrat, had urged
the people to support his Repub
lican opponent and criticized him
self for dividing his time between
the county office and his news
paper.
YOUTH FOR CF RIST
Saturday Night 8 O’clock Community Methodist Church Rev. Roald Amundsen, Speaker Everybody Welcome