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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. LVI No. 113 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1954 Per Copy—15#
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, U?\—The U. S.
and Canadian governments an
nounced jointly today that they
plan to build a new early
warning radar system far north of
anything yet constructed. The an
nouncement was made simulta
neously in Washington and Otta
wa.
Such an early warning system
would increase the advance warn
ing time if hostile planes were to
approach the continent from the
north polar regions—a route the
Russians might take if they were
seeking to attack.
WEATHER OUTLOOK GOOD
FOR START OF SERIES
NEW YORK, I/P—The weather
man said today that “Wednesday
looks like not too bad a day” for
the start of the World Series.
The outlook is for partly cloudy
weather for the first game, with
afternoon temperatures between
65 and 70.
Big Waves Wallop
Hundred of Bathers
Escaping L.A. Heat Wave
LOS ANGELES, UP—Ten-foot
ground swells injured hundreds
of bathers who flocked to the
beaches yesterday to escape a
temperature of 91 degrees here.
Six persons required hospital
treatment after being buffeted by
the booming combers. Lifeguards
rescued 80 persons at Los Ange
les County beaches.
Lifeguard Capt. John F. Dillon
said “literally hundreds of people
were cut and bruised by the
waves.”
Lifeguards patrolled Venice and
Playa Del Ray Beaches in jeeps,
warning parents to keep unatten
ded youngsters out of the ram
paging Pacific.
Nome Link With
Highway System
Now In Progress
FAIRBANKS—The first stage
of a trunk line road which will
eventually connect Nome with the
rest of the Alaska highway sys
tem is presently under construc
tion, according to Irving McKay
Reed, territorial highway engi
neer.
He said that the work now in
progress will probably carry the
road as far south as Manila Creek,
10 miles fom the old tramway
crossing of the river which is 21
miles from Nome.
According to Reed, the route
will be pushed on over Nugget
Divide into the Kougarok water
shed and by the end of 1956 the
road is expected to reach the
Kougarok road. This will tie a
large and important mining area
directly with Nome for the first
time, Reed said. Tlje Kougarok
road now runs for 30 miles from
Bunker Hill to Taylor.
The remainder of the road to
Council will be built by the Road
Commission and the federal gov
ernment, he said. Where it will
go from Council has not yet been
decided, as both Fairbaiks and
Anchorage want the trunk line
highway from Nome to head in
their direction.
Reed hopes that after the Kou
garok road is tied with Nome,
that roads will be built between
Nome and Teller, and Teller and
the Lost River mining area.
MOUNT AIRY, N.C., (if)—A
hangover from a kerosene drink
ing spree was just too much for
Paul Flynn’s cow. She’s dead.
The cow got into a washtub
filled with kerosene recently and
guzzled three to five gallons.
Mitchell Calls Lie Nixon’s Claim
Thousands of Reds Ousted by GOP
<By the Associated Press)
Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn) has
told voters in Oregon, visited last
week by President Eisenhower,
that he believes “the great cru
sade of the Republicans has sput
tered, backed up and stopped.”
Taking the stump for Oregon
Democrats entered in the Nov. 2
congressional election, Kefauver
last night told a Klamath Falls
audience, “If the day is to be
saved, we’ve got to get back to
the policies of Woodrow Wilson,
Franklin D. Roosovelt and that
great Republican senator, Arthur
Vandenberg of Michigan.”
Eisenhower visited Oregon last
Thursday for the . dedication of
McNary Dam, on the Oregon
Washington boundary.
At the summer White House in
Denver, an Eisenhower aide said
yesterday the President’s three
day swing through the Far West
drew “tremendously enthusiastic”
responses from GOP leaders all
over the country.
Vice President Nixon will be
gin his second campaign tour this
week, in the Northeast, and his
office yesterday announced plans
for a third swing, Oct. 4-14. Nix
on’s third tour will take him to
Kentucky, Iowa, Ohio, Colorado,
California and Texas.
A statement by Nixon at Huron,
S.D., a week ago was termed “an
outright lie” yesterday by Stephen
A. Mitchell, Democratic National
chairman.
Mitchell jumped on Nixon for
saying the Eisenhower Adminis
tration has “kicked the Commu
nists out of government, not by
the hundreds, but by the thou
sands.”
Asked on an NBC radio-TV
interview whether he was accus
ing Nixon of “an outright lie,”
Mitchell replied:
“Yes; is that clear?”
Adlai Stevenson, the 1952 Dem
ocratic presidential candidate, ad
dressed a Minneapolis rally Sat
urday night. He said:
“During the past few months I
think we have all sensed that
things have not been going well;
that the government is not work
ing as it should.”
Election of a Democratic Con
gress, Stevenson said, would end
“fluttering foreign policy,” “dom
estic political fratricide,” and “an
era that will bear the indelible
stamp of ‘McCarthyism.’ ”
Adm. Donald MacMillan
Back From 30th Polar Trip
But Plans Another Soon
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine,
(/PI—Rear Adm. Donald B. Mac
Millan, 79-year-old explorer, re
turned yesterday from his 30th
trip to the far north, but already
is making plans for another voy
age there next year.
In the three months since he
sailed from here, MacMillan said
his 81-i'oot schooner bucked winds
of 120 miles an hour at times on
.he trip to within 11 degrees of
the North Pole.
“Never had anything like it for
gales and foul weather,” said
MacMillan, but that makes it the
more interesting.
He said the storms were so vio
lent on the 8,000-mile journey
that the scheduled arrival time
here was delayed two weeks.
1,500 Perish in
Howling Typhoon
In North Japan
TOKYO, UP)—An estimated 1,500
persons perished in a howling
typhoon which struck northern
Japan last night, including nearly
1,000 who died when a huge sea
going ferry capsized.
The bodies of 17 Americans
have been recovered so far and
perhaps 50 more are missing, offi
cials announced.
' Authorities said 590 bodies have
been found and a national policy
spokesman estimated that 500
bodies will be recovered from the
capsized ferry.
The great storm, generating
winds up to 110 miles an hour, ap
parently had whirled harmlessly
into the Japan Sea when suddenly
it curled back and struck the
northern island of Hokkaido al
most without warning.
The result was Japan’s greatest
maritime disaster.
Giant waves in Tsugaru Straits
sank five big ferries, four of
which carried no passengers, and
hundreds of small craft.
A fire virtually wiped out Twa
nai, a city of 23,000 on Hokkaido’s
west coast, and police reported
disastrous landslides and floods
throughout Hokkaido.
Communications and power lines
were wrecked. Rail lines and
highways were blocked.
The most terrible disaster oc
curred in Hakodate Harbor, where
the big ocean ferry Toya Maru,
carrying 1,252 passengers and
crewmen, smashed into rocks and
turned turtle.
Forty-three railroad cars were
hurled about inside the hull.
A survivor described the strick
en vessel as “a hell on earth.”
Eyewitnesses said the sickle
shaped harbor and its mile-long
coast resembled a great naval dis
aster scene of the Pacific war.
Wrecks of five ships and literally
hundreds of small craft littered
the beach.
The sand was dotted with bod
ies, many wearing life jackets
which had failed to save their
lives in the raging surf.
Special Senate Group Recommends
McCarthy Be Censured by Senate
On 2 of 5 Categories of Charges
Col. Raymond Robins,
Successful Ex-Klondiker,
Dies at 81 after Active Life
BROOKSVILLE, Fla., Wl—Col.
Raymond Robins, who dedicated
his life to helping the little man
after h© became rich from hunt
ing gold in Alaska, was buried
today. He died at the age of 81.
He was buried at private ser
vices beside the grave of his wife
who died nine years ago.
Few men led a more active life;
a friend and adviser to three
Presidents, gold hunter, lawyer,
adventurer, social worker, poli
tician.
He was close to President The
dore Roosevelt, was a confident
to former President Herbert
Hoover and urged President
Franklin D. Roosevelt to recognize
Russia in 1933.
Robins was making a name for
himself as a young lawyer in San
Francisco when he became a gold
hunter in the Klondike.
After striking it rich he devoted
his life—and his wealth—to social
work and philanthropies.
Three Crewmen Escape
From Crashed B-47
SALINA, Kansas, (IP)—A B-47
jet bomber crashed into a ditch
and burst into flames after over
shooting a runway at the Smoky
Hill Air Base here late Friday
but three crewmen escaped in
jury. One fire-fighter was hos
pitalized.
Lt. Leon M. Shaddox, base infor
mation officer, said the giant six
engine bomber had just landed
from a routine training flight but
for some unknown reason did not
stop.
Russia May Open
Vast Frontiers to
Foreign Tourists
LONDON, UPi—Soviet Russia
may be preparing to open its vast
frontiers to foreign tourists.
“Two vice presidents of tourists
will attend our ninth general as
sembly in London opening tomor
row,” the International Union of
Travel Organizations says. “This
is the first time since the war
that the Russians have attended
one of our meetings. We believe
their interest indicates they have
decided to take a step they have
hinted at for years.”
Intourist is the Soviet Union’s
state-operated agency set up to
handle foreign tourists. Before
the war it maintained offices in
many countries and yearly
brought several thousand foreign
travellers to Russia. The year be
fore Intourist closed its London
offices in 1938, more than 1,300
British visitors went to the Soviet
Union.
Last January the Communist
London Daily Worker said negoti
ations were under way to open
Intourist’s bureau here but so far
nothing has happened.
9 WASHINGTON, UFl—A special
Senate committee recommended
Monday that the Senate censure
Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Unanimously, the committee of
three Republicans and three Dem
ocrats said that such public con
demnation—which might have
great effect on McCarthy’s politi
cal future—was warranted by:
1. Incidents of a contemptuous
attitude by McCarthy toward the
Senate and its committees.
2. The Wisconsin Republican’s
abusive language about other
senators.
3. His “inexcusable” treatment
of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker,
the Army officer who was called
before McCarthy’s investigations
subcommittee last February as a
witness.
Actually, the committee lumped
the contempt of the Senate and
abusive language counts in a
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ABS to Start
Public Poll on
Statehood Issue
(By the Associated Press)
The Alaska Broadcasting Sys
tem announced today it is starting
a public poll in the territory on
the issues of “statehood now” or
commonwealth status for Alaska.
President William J. Wagner,
in announcing the test of pubilc
sentiment, said Alaskans were
being asked to express their pref
erence on one of four stands:
statehood now, eventual state
hood, continuance of territorial
status or a change to a common
wealth type of government.
Wagner said persons participat
ing in the “straw vote” will be
required to sign their names, al
though they will not be divulged.
The purpose, he explained, is to
allow the judges to check for du
plications and guard against any
cramming of the ballot boxes.
Wagner said the ABS believes
“it would be in the public interest
to ascertain how Alaskans feel on
the subject.”
There has been no poll on state
hood in the territory since 1946.
At that time the vote was 9,630
for and 6,882 against. However,
some critics of the outcome con
tended that the ballot proposition
did not specifically say “immedi
ate statehood.” The common
wealth counter-proposal has come
to the fore only recently.
DEAR BURGLAR
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Mrs. Paul
ine Lalor, believing that the some
one she heard moving around her
bedroom was her husband, asked
sleepily:
“What’s the matter, dear?”
“Nothing,” was the reply.
“Are you ill?” she asked.
“No.”
When she awakened again after
daylight yesterday, she found her
bureau had been ransacked and
$54 cash taken. Her husband had
remained peacefully asleep in the
adjoining room.