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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS,
VOL. LVI No. 152 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1954 Per Copy—15^
German Chancellor Says
Atomic Weapons Control
Will Ease World Tension
WASHINGTON. W—Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer of West Ger
many says he has hope an effec
tive system oi' controlling atomic
weapons will be found and that it
will in turn lead to a general eas
ing of world tensions.
“Once the terror of the atomic
weapons has been banished, then
such a change of the mental at
mosphere among nations will, I
think, occur that one can arrive
at reasonable arrangements,” Ad
enauer said in a copyrighted in
terview with the Magazine U.S.
News and World Report.
Asked how he views the pros
pects for “truly peaceful coexist
ence" with the Soviet world, Ad
enauer replied:
“In my opinion, the decisive
question is whether it will be
possible to reach an agreement in
the matter of atomic weapons. If
that were achieved, I trust the
decisive step will have been taken,
and I have the hope, just because
of the dreadfulness of those weap
ons, that it will succeed.”
Codger, 93, Gives
Ideas on Tobacco,
Alcohol, Women
LOS ANGELES, UP)—At the age
of 93, Thomas N. Camfield offers
the opinion that “All this stuff
you read about the dangers of
tobacco and alcohol are a. lot of
hot air.”
Camfield, Los Angeles real es
tate man, took some time yester
day to give his views on life—and
women—to a reporter in his room
at the Jonathan Club, where he
has lived for 30 years.
“I start my day with my corn
cob,” said Camfield. “As soon as
I wake up I go back to bed and
smoke my head off. And I have a
cigar after breakfast and dinner.”
He said he also has a glass of
port before breakfast and drink
of whiskey before dinner.
“Best thing I ever did in the
whole world was never to get
married. I never wanted to have
anyone telling me where to head
in. And I never wanted a home.
"I’ve known a lot of women
and they’re wonderful. But when
ever I got tired of one, there were
always plenty more.’
"Millions of them.”
McCarthy Plans War of
Words on Free World
Trade With Red China
WASHINGTON, UPi—Sen. Mc
Carthy iR-Wis' said yesterday tl
flow of goods from the free world
to Communist China is steadily
increasing and he plans to intens
ify his campaign against it.
McCarthy said in an interview
he plans to do “a lot of public
speaking after the first of the
year” to emphasize his contention
that Red China should be block
aded—“not a naval blockade by
U.S. warships,” he added, “but a
blockade brought about by cutting
off aid to nations which do trade
with the Reds.”
President, Dulles
Confer on Vote of
French Assembly
ANGUSTA, Ga., (/?)—President
Eisenhower, awaiting France’s
crucial vote on West German re
armament, had another long tele
phone consultation with Secretary
of State Dulles this morning.
The White House reported tiiat
Dulles told the President there
was very little information at the
present time on the progress of
debate in the French National
Assembly.
The plan to rearm the Germans
as an equal partner in the free
western alliance must run the
course of five more votes in the
Assembly, and indications were
it would be late in the day before
the final decision was reached.
If the French reject the plan,
the President may return at once
to Washington to grapple with a
new world situation. His personal
plane, Columbine III, is standing
by at Bush Field near Augusta.
If German rearmament is ap
proved, Eisenhower will probably
stay at his holiday retreat until
Jan. 3, working on his first mess
ages to the new Congress and
playing some golf.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said it has been
decided to send the President’s
budget message to Congress Jan.
17 and follow with the economic
report Jan. 20.
CALIFORNIA MAILS 5.000,000
AUTO LICENSE STATEMENTS
LOS ANGELES, W)—The State
of California puts out a mailing of
five million today.
It’s the cards and fee statements
for 1955 automobile licenses. Sim
ilar cards already have been sent
to owners of 1,062,000 trucks,
trailers, buses and cabs. I
Spellman Praises U.S.
Doctors and Nurses
PUSAN, Korea, */P)—-Francis
Cardinal Spellman, nearing the
end of his fourth straight Christ
mas visit to Korea, today paid
tribute.to U.S. doctors, nurses and
soldiers for their “generosity in
helping the sick and suffering
among the Korean people.”
The Roman Catholic archbishop
of New York praised the medics
in a sermon to some 3,000 U.S.
servicemen who packed the audi
torium of the U.S. consulate in
Pusan.
FIRES FROM FESTIVE FOWL
EASTHAMPTON, Mass., UFI—
The fire records today showed
three alarms were spunded on
Christmas Day.
All were for turkeys burning in
ovens.
Russia Reported
Wooing Japan
Thru Satellites
TOKYO, (JPI—Russia was report
ed today to be wooing Jap'an via
Communist satellite embassies in
Paris.
Japan is replying with a cau
tious wait-and-see attitude.
A report from Paris said Com
munist Poland sounded out Ja
pan's French ambassador on the
possibility of renewing diplomatic
relations with Russia and Poland.
Foreign Minister Mamoru Shig
emitsu reportedly instructed Ja
pan’s ambassador to Paris, Ku
mao Nishimura, to reply cautious
ly to Stanislaw Gaiweski, Polish
ambassador to France.
Gaiweski reportedly contacted
Nishimura about 10 days ago. He
is said to have offered Warsaw’s
good offices re-establishing Jap
anese-Soviet relations.
Chou En Lai Says China Won’t
Rest Till Formosa Is “Liberated”
TOKYO, Cfl>>—Red China’s Pre-)
mier Chou En-Lai, in one of his
most bristling statements to date,
says “the Chinese people will
never halt” until the Red flag
flies over Formosa, island holdout
of Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese Na
tionalists.
Chou voiced this latest Commu
nist threat to capture Formosa be
fore a government-sanctioned con
sultative conference in Peiping
last Tuesday.
Peiping Radio did not broad
cast Chou’s remarks until yester
day •lin- quoted Chou as say
“Taiwan t i- ormusai is China's
territory and the Chinese people
will never halt until Taiwan is
liberated . . . the Chinese people
resolutely demand that the U.S.
withdraw all its armed forces
from Taiwan.”
Chou at the same time boasted
China no longer is a weak nation
and would not beg for peace at
the price of territorial claims.
He called the recently-signed
mutual defense treaty under
which the United States promised
v
' z
to defend Formosa and the nearly
Pescadores as “a great menace to
peace in the Far East and Asia.”
The .Chinese Communist leader
charged that the United States
attempted “to cover up the ag
gressive substance of the . . .
treaty" by creating “a great clam
or about the . . . U.S. spies that
had been justly convicted in Chi
na.”
That was Chou’s only refer
ence to the 11 U.S. airmen im
prisoned by the Reds on spy
charges. He made no mention of
U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold’s projected trip to Pei
ping to seek the airmen’s release.
LAST CHANCE FOR X-RAYS
2-4 AND 6-8 TUESDAY P.M.
Allperson who have failed to
get their chest x-rays up till now
are requested by Dr. Wenberg to
get therli at the Federal Bldg,
tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. and
from 6 to 8 p.m. This will be the
last chane for x-rays to be taken
for the equipment is to be packed
for shipment immediately there
after.
McKay Defends His Partnership
Program In Developing Resources
McKay Says Alaska RR.
Has Been Put on Paying
Basis in His Administration
SALEM, Ore., (J’l—Interior Sec
retary McKay declared today that
drastic measures have been taken
to conserve Alaska’s fishing in
dustry, with many streams being
closed to purse seining. He pre
dicted the measures would pay off
around 1956 by increased salmon
runs.
His remarks on Alaska were
contained in a speech prepared
for delivery at the Chamber of
Commerce in Salem, his home
town.
The secretary said the govern
ment-owned railroad has been put
on a paying basis during his ad
ministration.
He declared the railroad made
a $750,000 profit in the year ended
last June 30 and rates were re
duced and service improved. Mc
Kay said the railroad lost $750,
000 in the year ended June 30,
1953.
(Text of McKay’s comments on
Alaska appears on Page Two.
Radioactive
Cockroaches
Proven Hardy
By Rennie Taylor
Associated Press Science Reporter
BERKELEY, Calif., lift—Radio
active cockroaches have demon
stated how the species can invade
homes, even passing through wat
er traps in the plumbing, two
U.S. Public Health experts report
ed today.
Sewer cockroaches in Phoenix,
Ariz., were regimented for the
experiment. The results showed
that the insects, which are poten
tial disease carriers, migrate as
much as 200 feet when they be
come overcrowded or when forced
out of their colonies by backed-up
sewage.
The experiment was reported
to the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AA
AS) by William B. Jackson and
Paul P. Maier of the Public Health
Service Communicable Disease
Center in Atlanta, Ga.
It was carried out by playing a
sort of dirty trick on the insects—
the roaches in one sewer manhole
were lured out with ripe bananas
and collected with a vacuum
cleaner.
These insects were sprayed with
radioactive phosphorus, which
didn’t hurt them but mad9 them
traceable with a geiger counter.
They were p«t back into their
hole. Then another colony of 1,500
roaches was trapped from a near
by manhole and dumped into the
radioactive colony. The second
group of roaches was. not made
radioactive.
The idea was to produce over
crowding and see how many of
the radioactive insects would
leave their own home under such
circumstances.
SALEM, Ore., UP)—Interior Sec
retary McKay reviewed the ac
complishments of his two-year
old administration, insisting the
only alternatives to his partner
ship program of developing nat
ural resources would be “complete
stagnation” or “collectivism and
pure socialism.”
In an address prepared for de
livery at the Chamber of Com
merce, McKay said his program,
attacked as a “give away” by
Democrats, is being accomplished
under laws that existed during
the Roosevelt and Truman Ad
ministrations.
Our political opponents pro
claim that any transfer to any
individual or any right to lease,
develop or acquire any of this
property, even though it may be
in compliance with federal laws,
is a give-away,” McKay declared.
The only alternatives to his
policy, he continued, would be to
let the land remain undeveloped
in a state of “complete stagnation”
or to let the government develop
it and have “collectivism and pure
socialism.”
McKay said his power partner
ship policy already is paying off.
Non-federal utilities propose to
develop 35 new hydroelectric
projects in the Pacific Northwest.
He proposed that the federal
government “will continue to
meet its responsibility in the con
struction of large multipurpose
projects which are beyond the
means of local, public or private
enterprise.”
Leases of federal oil lands in
the Gulf of Mexico, he said, will
net the government at least six
billion dollars. He cited this as an
example of his partnership pro
gram.
,By the end of 1955, he said,
every child on the Navajo Indian
reservation will be in school be
cause of new schools built at his
direction. Two years ago, he said,
half of the 28,000 Navajo children
had never been to school.
Military Pay Raise Plans
Aimed at Keeping Skilled
Technicians in Uniform
WASHINGTON, MV-Asst. Sec
retary of Defense Fred Seaton
says administration proposals for
military pay raises would not
affect the ordinary private but
would aim at keeping skilled tech
nicians in uniform.
Yeaton said Congress will be
asked to approve pay hikes on a
selective basis “for men who—
particularly in the Air Force—re
quire considerable training or
have special skills.
In an NBC TV-radio interview,
Seaton listed proposals to improve
overseas housing and medical aid
for dependents, and a rotation
system for returning men from
overseas, as more important than
pay raises.
Asked about reports that Gen.
Matthew Ridgway, Army chief of
staff, was protesting a proposed
cut in Army manpower, Seaton
said he would not expect Ridgway
to be enthusiastic about it.