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Berserk Gunman
Wanted Duel With
Police Captain
CHARLESTON, 111., UP) — A ber
serk gunman who had held his
half-sister hostage while a force
of lawmen ringed his house laid
down his arms and walked out
without gunfire yesterday.
Kenneth E. Adkins, 22, also
released his half-sister, Mrs. Myra
Irene Kennedy, 34, of Paris, with
out ^harnrf.
The end of the tense vigil
around the white frame house
came after Marvin Beil, a lawyer,
talked with Adkins for about 10
minutes, explaining his rights.
It came also as the force of law
men were loading up for a blast
on the house with tear gas.
Authorities said they felt Adkins
was giving them a run-around and
might keep the community in
turmoil.
His desperate strategy was
aimed at forcing a gun duel to
death with a Charleston police
captain, Logan Cox.
He blamed Cox for “three
fourths of my trouble” and his
parents — Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Adkins — for the other fourth.
“They never spanked me when
I needed discipline,” Adkins said.
“They always calleaThe police,
and Cox usually was the one that
came.
“You can’t raise children unless
you discipline them yourself —
not call the police to do it for
you.”
Before he gave up, Adkins had
demanded that Cox face up to
him in a western-style shoot
down.
China Floods Expected
To Slow Reds’ Plans
TOKYO, UPi — China’s age-old
flood scourge is dealing a heavy
blow to the Communist regime’s
plans to continue the “great leap
forward” in 1959.
Torrential rains have been lash
ing south and central China for
a week. Broadcasts admit floods
have inundated 900 square miles
in Kwantung Province alone, but
mobilization of some three million
persons to combat the menace in
dicates the flooded area is much
(greater.
Peiping Radio said harvesting
of crops is going ahead normally
in other sections of the vast coun
» try. But weather forecasts in To
| kyo reported that the warm air
* front which brought the down
pour to Kwantung has moved to
j ward the thickly settled lower
Yangtze Valley.
The rains also have brought
death and destruction to the adja
cent British colony of Hong Kong.
Tropical thunderstorms have
killed 45 Chinese there, and 5,000
are homeless.
I ‘Electronic Doctor’ Shown
At Moscow Progress Fair
MOSCOW, UP) — An electronic
doctor flashing diagnoses of 100
illnesses on a lighted screen was
one of the exhibts of a “national
achievements” fair the Russians
opened here yesterday.
The doctor is made up of two
electronic memory bases into
which physicians feed data on
the patient’s symptoms. The news
paper Soviet Fleet said it should
be a great aid as an assistant
physician in hospitals.
MIG Attacks U. S.
Navy Patrol Plane
YOKOSUKA, Japan, UP) — A
U. S. Navy plane crew told today
how Communist MIG fighters
raked their patrol plane with 15
to 20 bursts of machinegun fire
and sent it limping home with
two of its four engines out and
one of the 14 crewmen wounded.
The airmen told a news con
ference two “or possibly three”
Red-starred jets — their nation
ality still a mystery — had
swooped down suddenly on the
turbo-prop P-4M Mercutor while
it was over international waters
off the east coast of North Korea
Tuesday.
The tail gun was knocked out
and the gunner wounded on the
second of six Communist runs be
fore he could open fire. The
plane’s two other 20-mm. machine
guns were unable to fire because
of missing parts.
The attack was broken off as
the plane started to limp back
to Japan. It was met by two Air
Force Sabre jet fighters that an
swered its call for help, but the
MIGs had vanished long before.
Rear Adm. Frederick S. With
ington, commander of U. S. Naval
forces in Japan, said emphatically
U. S. patrols would continue in
the area.
“We are not going to admit that
the Sea of Japan is a Russian
Lake,” he declared.
The attack was started at an al
titude of 7,000 feet. The incident,
the Pentagon said, took place at
12:36 p.m. Tuesday, Japanese
time.
Similar incidents have been oc
curring in the Far East area for
years.
Liberace Wins Libel Suit
LONDON, UPt — A high court
jury awarded American entertain
er Liberace $22,400 damages today
in a libel suit against the London
Daily Mirror.
THURSDAY LUNCHEON WILL
HONOR FAIRBANKS LIONS
A no-host luncheon will be
given at the Bering Sea Club to
honor the Lions Club delegation
on Thursday noon, sponsored by
the NWA Chamber of Commerce.
Gromyko Granted
Day’s Delay
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, UP) — Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko tbday
asked and got a 24-hour delay in
givihg his answer to a new West
ern plan for a Berlin stopgap
settlement. This averted a break
down in the foreign ministers
meeting. v
« Western ministers agreed to
delay in the hope that Gromyko
will negotiate on their proposal.
It offered him a compromise,
face-saving deal, which would
open the way to a summit con
ference.
Under the Western plan, it was
disclosed, the Western powers de
clared their readiness to have
German personnel operate check
points on the Berlin supply lines.
This is an offer to accept dealings
with Communist East German au
thorities more or less as agents
of the Soviet Union.
The West refuses to recognize
the East German regime. A ma
jor point in the current crisis is
the Soviet threat to turn over to
the East Germans control of the
lines supplying the British, French
and U. S. garrisons in West Ber
lin, 110 miles inside East Ger
many.
Ike Will Welcome
Any Geneva Gain
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, W — President
Eisenhower said today the Geneva
foreign ministers talks seem to
have reached an impasse, and
prospects for a summit conference
are no brighter.
The President told a news con
ference, however, that he still
would be wiling to go to a heads
I of-government meeting if any
kind of reasonable progress can
be made at Geneva.
And, Eisenhower said in re
sponse to a question, that he
doesn’t necessarily mean there
must be progress specifically on
the Berlin situation.
eH said he has in mind any
kind of reasonable progress on
East-West problems generally.
Democrat Advises White
House Steel Settlement
PHILADELPHIA, UPI — Senator
Stuart Symington (D-Mo) yester
day called on President Eisen
hower to summon both sides in
the steel dispute to a White House
conference to break the bargain
ing stalemate.
“I believe the President should
call Dave McDonald of the Steel
workers Union and Roger Bough
(U. S. Steel Corp. chairman) to
the White House right now to try
to head off a strike,” Symington
said.
Evening Ceremony Will Mark First
Wien F-27 Landing At Nome Field
The initial flight of the nevH
Fairchild F-27 by Wien Airlines j
is scheduled to arrive tonight
about 8 p.m. /nth a delegation
from the Lions Club of Fairbanks,
who will overnight here.
A short ceremony has been
planned to honor the occasion of
the arrival of this fast new plane
of Wien Airlints, as well as to
welcome the 40-member Lion’s
Club to Nome. The public is in
vited to participate with their
attendance at the historical occa
sion tonight.
The dinner originally announced
for Wednesday evening has been
cancelled at the request of the
visitors. They will be honored in
stead with a no-host luncheon on
Thursday noon at the Bering Sea
Club.
Among the officials arriving on
tonight’s flight will be Noel Wien,
vice president of the company.
Noel Wien arrived in Nome for
the first time on June 15, 1925, in
a Fokker F-3 and carried three
passengers from Fairbanks to
Nome with a gas stop at Ruby.
Ttotal flying time was about
seven hours, with an air speed
of approximately 85 miles per
hour. The fare was $500 per per
son.
On the flight today Noel Wien
will arrive on a 40-passenger,
pressurized turbo-prop jet pow
ered by two powerful Dart 7 en
gines cruising at well over 300
miles per hour, which will make
the flying time to Nome under
two hours.
Alaska’s Courts
Set in Motion By
Appellate Ruling
WASHINGTON, UP) — Govern
ment officals here say that a U. S.
court of appeals decison yesterday
automatically sets in motion
Alaska’s plans for complete state
court system of its own.
The Ninth Circuit Court in San
Francisco ruled that it has no jur
isdiction in appeals under the
present court setup in the State
of Alaska.
The Alaska Legislature at a ses
sion earlier this year adopted a
law providng that if the San Fran
cisco court made that ruling, the
new state would start at once on
the task of creating eight new
state trial courts located at stra
tegic cites, and a three-member
Alaskan Supreme Court to handle
appeals from these state courts.
This court system is authorized
by Alaska’s State Constitution.
When Alaska became the 49th
state last Januarp 3, the four old
territorial federal courts became
interim state courts.
Bud Hagberg, vice president
and manager of traffic and sales,
who started with Wien Airlines in
1938, is also scheduled to arrive
today.
Oldest employe in the Nome
area is Harry Lewis, who first
started working for Wien in 1935.
On hand or the celebration will
be John Cross, station manager
at Kotzebue and a veteran Wien
bush pilot.
Also attending the inaugural of
the prop-jet will be Carrie Mc
Lain, whose husband, it is re
ported, helped service the Wien
planes in the ’20’s when they
landed on Snake River. Pearse
Walsh recalled that the cans of
gas were transported to the plane
in the McLain baby sled, from,
their residence on Belmont Point.
Other guests on this special
flight will be the five Midnight
Sun Festival Queen candidates,
Myrtle Chambers, Monica Bou
cher, Susanne Fagerstrom, Bunny
Doyle and Alice Glavinovich.
Reigning Queen Mary Jo Swan
berg will accompany the girls,
and they will be chaperoned by
Mrs. Emily Boucher and Mrs. F.
Rhodes and other guests.
The Fairbanks Lions group in
cludes: Lou Joy, Bud Hilton
Harry Gayley, Lions president,
Mel Harris, Bob Hardin, Bob Hast
ings, Ken Knox, Stan Davis, Tom
Mills, Bob Walker, Louie Bian
chi, Dr. Forest, Frank Lawson;
Larry Meath, Barney Fish, Jim
Muir, Don Foster, Glenn Willacy,
Norm Kangas, Steve Karakash,
Leo Schlottfelt, Elmer Gagnan,
Dick Sticha, Jewell Jolly, Reed
Pfanmiller, Denny Breaid Don
Smith, Don Stein, A1 Otter (PAA
new sales manager for Pacific
Alaska Division), John Griffith,
Bill Gentry, Chuck Hoyt, and rep
resentatives from the News Miner,
Jessens, KFAR, KFRB, and KTVF.
In the Wien group are Dick
King, chief pilot, Bob Murphy,
co-pilot, Cliff Everts, third offi
cer, Sue Butler, stewardess; Noel
Wien, -vice president, and Bud
Hagberg, vice-president, traffic
and sales.
The Nome group will return
Thursday evening, at which time
the Fairbanks Lions will depart.
Elliott Roosevelt Acquitted
Of D.W.I. Charge
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., UP) — El
liott Roosevelt, 58, son of the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
was acquitted last week of drunk
en driving.
Roosevelt was arrested the mor
ning of April 4 when he was found
asleep behind the wheel of his
parked car in this resort town.
PUBLIC INVITED TO NOME AIR TERMINAL TONIGHT
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