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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No, 127 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Plans to Develop
Whitehorse As
Capital of Y.T.
OTTAWA, Wl—The government
has announced plans for the de
velopment of Whitehorse as capi
tal of the Yukon Territory and
hub of the northwest, including
bridging of the Yukon River and
establishment of a $3,000,000 hos
pital on a new development site.
The announcement said the
rapid development of mining has
added to the economic importance
of Whitehorse since the war and
in the future the city is likely to
benefit substantially from the
vast new hydroelectric possibili
ties of the Yukon watershed.
A 300-foot bridge costing $750,
000 would be thrown across the
Yukon River to open a new area
east of Whitehorse whose expan
sion now is hampered by low
lying industrial land of the north;
rough, steep terrain to' the south;
and a military airport reserve to
the west.
The new site would be opened
for home-building, but the biggest
single project would be a modern,
,120-bed hospital to serve as the
focal point of the northern health
service in the Yukon.
Prospectors heading for the
Klondike in the Gold Rush of
1898 gave Whitehorse its start. It
remained important as the head
of water transportation on the
Yukon and later as the terminus
of the White Pass and Yukon
Railway which connects it with
the Pacific at Skagway, Alaska.
The war brought the Alaska
Highway to Whitehorse’s door,
providing a road link to Edmon
ton.
Sex Maniac Kills
6-Year-Old Girl
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., UP) — The
nude body of a pretty 6-year-old
girl who left her nearby Cone
maugh home to play Halloween
“trick-or-treat” was found today
in the ghostly surroundings of a
graveyard. Conemaugh police
chief George Fesko said the child
was murdered by a sex fiend.
Fesko said the death “is the
work of a sex maniac,” and added:
“We are rounding up all known
sex degenerates for questioning.”
Fesko said the little girl’s face
and body were bruised and “blood
was running from her mouth.”
WRECKAGE OF MISSING C-47
SPOTTED IN FRENCH ALPS
NICE, France, UP) — The wreck
age of a plane believed to be that
Of a U.S. Air Force C-47 missing
since Sunday was discovered in
-the French Alps north of here
today by a searching helicopter.
The missing plane disappeared
on a flight from Rome to Lyon,
France, Sunday afternoon. It was
carrying 15 passengers and a crew
of six, all American Air Force
personnel based at Manston, Eng
land.
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1st Scout Battalion
Assembles To Go
To Camp Denali
Capt. B. Holta, who was attached
to the 1st Scout Battalion and sta
tioned here recently, has been
busy directing the shuttling of
members of the battalion from
the villages to Nome, Kotzebue
and Unalakleet by bush plane
preparatory to the flight to1 Camp
Denali at Anchorage for the big
encampment being held there
next week.
Saturday and Sunday the Scouts
will be picked up from these
three sectors and taken to Camp
Denali. It is expected, Holta stat
ed, that over 400 scouts would be
taken from this area for the man
euvers.
Directing the assembling at
Kotzebue is Lt. Tommy Richards,
and at Unalakleet, Lt. Fred
Kachatag.
Capt. Holta and Maj. Borden
will accompany the group as will
Percy Ipalook, who is chaplain.
The 1st Scout Battalion is ex
pected to be prominent in the
Veterans Day parade on Nov. 11
at Anchorage.
Terri. Federation of Labor
Turns Down Resolution
Criticizing Alaska U.S.C.
ANCHORAGE, UP)—'The Alaska
Territorial Federation of Labor
has turned down a resolution
which criticized the Employment
Security Commission as an “in
efficient operation.”
Tom Canifax, chairman of the
committee on resolution, told the
convention delegates the commit
tee “felt it should be well satis
fied with labor members of the
commission.”
The convention approved a
resolution protesting any curtail
ment of air service between the
States and Alaska.
In another resolution approved
by the convention, the legisla
ture was asked to revise and im
prove the Alaska teachers retire
ment system and to revise the ter
ritorial school code to afford
more protection to teachers whose
contracts have been canceled.
Mario Lanza Sings Again,
For First Time On TV
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Mario
Lanza proved to a nation-wide
television audience last night he
still can sing.
Last month he merely mouthed
the words to two-year-old records
in making his TV debut on CBS’
“Shower of Stars.” A source close
to the singer said then a stren
uous reducing program had im
paired his voice.
The husky tenor sang an aria
from the opera “Tosca” and “One
Day” from “The Vagabond King.”
He told a reporter he got
$40,000 for last night’s perform
ance, the same sum he said he
received for his debut to old
records.
Eisenhower and
Stevenson In The
Political Spotlight
(By the Associated Press)
President Eisenhower plunged
into hard-hitting, eleventh hour
personal campaigning today with
jabs at the Democrats on the Com
munists-in-government issue and
a contention the opposition party
never brought prosperity except
through war.
Eisenhower, on a four-state,
one-day air tour, was replying
indirectly to Democrat Adlai Ste
venson by mentioning the Com
munist issue.
Only last night, Stevenson had
chided Eisenhower in a speech at
Trenton, N.J., for the way Vice
President Nixon and other Re
publican campaigners have talked
about Reds in government.
The 1952 Democratic presiden
tial candidate said Eisenhower
had told a news conference Wed
nesday he didn’t know about GOP
use of the “Communism” issue.
He said he wondered if Eisen
hower and Nixon were on speak
ing terms.
On the unemployment question,
the President pledged that his
administration will do anything
possible to find,jobs for those out
of work.
“I do assure you this,” he said.
“As long as there is a single Am
erican without work . . . this
government will seek a better so
lution” to unemployment.
“We won’t go to war-in order
to get work.”
Eisenhower told the airport
crowd at Cleveland that his ad
ministration has given the Ameri
can people the kind of govern
ment they wanted.
“We were tired of hearing the
word Communist,” he said. “And
every time it was mentioned, it
was called a red herring.”
Eisenhower’s big last - moment
effort on behalf of GOP congres
sional candidates really began last
night. He attended an enthusi
astic Citizens for Eisenhower din
ner in Washington, and told it
that “confusion can be avoided
and steady progress assured (in
the next two years of his admin
istration) only by electing a Re
publican majority to the Con
gress.”
This was disputed by Stevenson
who said at Trenton that “a Dem
ocratic majority in the Congress
coud be trusted to support the
President on basic questions of
security and welfare.”
Actually, Stevenson declared,
the Republicans seemed to be
united mainly on what he called
“the give-away.” He added: “In
the give-away field, in favors for
the few at the expense of the
many, the Republican philosophy
appears to be clear and its pur
poses fixed.”
Koyuk Villagers Commended By
Air Force Officials For Rescue
Of Jet Pilot From Norton Sound
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Lannen Leads Benson
By 14 Votes For Post
Of Labor Commissioner
(By the Associated Press)
Alaska’s absentee ballot count
ing has thrown the race for labor
commissioner into what is prob
aby the closest one in history for
a territorial office.
As of noon Wednesday, H. J.
Lannen’s lead over Henry Benson,
the long-time Republican labor
commissioner, had been cut to a
slim 18 votes, on the basis of un
official tabulations by the Associ
ated Press.
The totals were: Lannen 12,835;
Benson 12,817.
With the receipt today of the
two last outstanding precincts in
the Second Division, Haycock and
Savoonga, Benson gained four
votes on Lannen, polling 43 to 39
in the the precincts. Thus Benson
still trails Lannen by 14 votes.
Army Sends Another
Atomic Weapon, Honest
John Rocket, To Europe
WASHINGTON, Ml—The Army
announced today it is sending to
Western Europe another defense
weapon which is capable of carry
ing an atomic warhead. Several
batteries of the new long-range
rocket called Honest John will be
deployed to Europe within the
next few months to support Gen.
Alfred Gruenther’s North Atlan
tic Organization forces. The Army
noted this is the third type of
new atomic weapon to be sent
Overseas for the defense of West
ern Europe.
Union Official Takes
Issue With Statement By
Former Undersecretary
ANCHORAGE, UP)—A union of
ficial took issue here yesterday
with a statement made this week
in Seattle by former Interior
Undersecretary Ralph A. Tudor
about the number of boilermakers
on the Alaska Railroad.
Tudor said the road’s payroll
had been cut 30 per cent without
affecting service, adding that al
though the road no longer uses
steam boilers an Interior Depart
ment survey recently found 27
boilermakers and an equal num
ber of helpers still on the payroll.
The president of Lodge 708, In
ternational Brotherhood of Boil
ermakers, Richard L. Moyer, said,
“I don’t know where Tudor got
his information but he certainly
was incorrect.” Moyer said the
road now has six boilermakers,
five helpers, one apprentice and
one welder.
SWEETWATER, Tex., UP) —
Police opined it was a clean
minded thief who turned up in
Sweetwater.
He stole the bathtub from a
residence Wednesday night.
> FAIRBANKS, UPT—Eskimo vil
lagers who risked their lives and
lost four dogs while on a rescue
mission that saved the life of an
Airman were commended today
by Air Force officials.
The rescue occurred after a jet
trainer plane from Eielson Air
Force Base exploded Oct. 16 over
Norton Sound.
Eskimos of the village of Koyuk
on the Sound sighted smoke and
notified their village school teach
er, Edward Rogan, who made a
sighting on the smoke from the
plane and estimated it at 20
miles.
Guided by this pinpoint esti
mate, Air Force officials said,
rescue squadron planes quickly
located cme survivor, 2nd Lt.
Nicholas Howell of Lompoc, Calif.
Howell had landed in the Sound
and waded ashore, where he was
picked up the next day.
Meanwhile, the Eskimos of Koy
uk harnessed dog teams and head
ed out on the ice covering the
Sound to’ search for the other man
aboard the plane.
The smoke was offshore in an
area of open drift ice which had
not frozen solid and was quite
treacherous.
One of the Eskimos, Roger Nas
suk, fell into the frigid water with
his team. He was in the water 15
minutes before being pulled out.
Four of his dogs froze to death.
The Eskimos slept at night on
the broken ice floes in sub-freez
ing weather and continued search
ing for the other airman, 2nd Lt.
Richard Lill of Chicago, until
hope was given up. Lt. Lill now is
presumed dead.
The commendation was given
the village in a letter addressed
to the residents. It said “Your
efforts prove that the small vil
lages of Alaska make up part of
the first line of defense of Am
erica. Your alertness in spotting
this plane could have been a
warning of the approach of en
emy aircraft.”
McCarthy Predicts Senate
Will Censure Him Nov. 8
WASHINGTON, CD—Sen. Mc
Carthy predicted today the Sen
ate will vote to censure him at its
special session -beginning Nov. 8.
He said he feels very few mem
bers will consider the evidence
with an open mind. His statement
here was the first time, he has
stated his expectation of censure
in so many words.
W. GERMAN OFFICIAL DIES
OLDENBURG, Germany, ID —
Dr. Hermann Ehlers, president of
the West German lower house of
parliament—and the man Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer had
counted on to lead the fight for
ratification of the Paris agree
ment—died today.
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