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VOL. LV No. 121 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAYrOCTOBER 12, 1953_ Per Copy—15^
Tito Demands
Conference On
Future of Trieste
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, W)—
Yugoslavia today demanded a
conference ■with the United
States, Britain and Italy to dis
cuss last week’s ^ritish-Ameri
can decision on the future of
Trieste.
Yugoslavia also sent a protest
to the United Nations Secretary
General on the decision to with
draw British and American oc
cupation troops from Zone A of
the Trieste territory and turn it
over to Italian administration.
Yugoslavia’s new demands and
protest were made against a
background of increasing anti
American and anti-British feel
ing in Belgrade. In the latest out
burst an angry mob attacked a
U. S. diplomatic official and
smashed his nose.
The crowd was apparently
stirred by President Tito’s speech
in Skoplje yesterday in which he
warned he would send troops
marching into Trieste’s Zone A
“at the moment” Italian occupa
tion forces entered.
Military leaves were cancelled
for all Yugoslav troops but Brit
ish and American soldiers con
tinued preparations to withdraw
from Zone A.
A U.S. protest against today’s
attack evoked a reply that Yugo
slavia could not guarantee the
safety of the 200 Americans liv
ing in Belgrade.
Despite Tito’s threats, Western
officials in London, Washington
and Rome doubted that he would
go as far as war.
Witness in Murder Case
Refuses Bond, Prefers
Stay In Jail with Her Man
CHARLOTTE, N. C., UP) — A
comely office employe, being held
as a material witness, continued
to refuse bond and remained in
jail today with her employer who
police say bludgeoned his wife to
death.
The husband, Richard Russell,
39-year-old businessman charged
with murder, said he knew no
thing of his wif’es death last
Saturday. He told police he saw
his wife before be went to sleep
and found her body when he
awoke.
Russell said that his petite 39
year-old wife was “agreeable” to
his plans for a divorce but did
not know of his love for Miss
Barbara Griggs, 23, who worked
in his pest exterminating supply
business. Held under $5,000 bond
as a material witness, Miss Griggs
said she doesn’t want to leave the
jail where Russell is held with
out bond.
Eisenhower Recovers From
Bout With Intestinal Flu
WASHINGTON, (A — President
Eisenhower, apparently recover
ing from a bout with intestinal
flu which confined him to' quar
ters yesterday, was at his desk
tpday.
The White House press office
said “everything is on schedule”
for a crowded schedule of 10 ap
pointments.
Gilbert W. Skinner,
President Alaska
Steamship, Dies
SEATTLE, UP) — Gilbert W.
Skinner, 54 president of the Alas
ka Steamship Company, died of
a heart attack on his estate across
Lake Washington yesterday.
He had been ill some time but
was improved in recent months
and had visited his office daily
and made a motor trip east.
Born in Detroit, he came to the
Puget Sound area in 1911 with his
father, D.E. Skinner, who bought
the Port Blakely Mill Company.
Later the elder Skinner was an
owner in the Skinner-Eddy Cor
proation, which built ships here
during World War I.
The son entered business in
1921 as owner of the Washing
ton Bakeries. In 1926 he sold out
and formed the Alaska Pacific
Salmon Company, which oper
ated canneries in- Alaska. He
headed the company until last
year.
He was also a partner in the
Northland Transportation Com
pany from 1936 until the present.
In 1932 he succeeded his father
as president of Skinner-Eddy Cor
poration and in 1944 the firm
bought the Alaska Steamship
Company from the Kennicott
Copper Company.
His son D.E. Skinner^ is the
present vice president and gen
eral manager of the Alaska
Steamship Company.
He was a member of the Army
Ambulance Corps in World War
I, serving with one of the units
formed at the University of
Washington.
His widow, Leonore and two
daughters, Mrs. Robert J. Behn
ke, Medina, Wash., and Nancy, a
student at Mount Holyoke Col
lege, South Hadley, Mass., also
survive.
Bing Crosby Involved In
Traffic Smashup In Which
Three Are Hospitalized
LOS ANGELES, B—Bing Cros
by is nursing a wrenched back to
day after a weekend traffic ac
cident that injured three other
persons, one critically.
The crooner was driving his
$12,250 German car, a pale ivory
Mercedes - Benz, when the colli
sion with another automobile oc
curred early Sunday.
Three persons in the other car
were taken to Queen of Angels
hospital. Frank Verdugo, 32, a
Los Angeles city fireman, suffer
ed critical head injuries, the hos
pital reported. His wife, Lucy, 28,
suffered face cuts and bruises and
a possible broken nose. Eulalio
Pera, 25, Verdugo’s brother in law
who was asleep in the back of
the car, suffered bruises.
Crosby’s car was badly smashed
up.
PET FOOD SENT FLYING
LOS ANGELES, (ff)— It rained
cat’s and dog’s food here Friday.
Ten tons of canned pet food
flew through the air when a truck
and trailer carrying them collided
with an electric train.
Ten persons suffered minor in
juries.
Long Communist Trial
In Seattle Ends With
Conviction of Five
SEATTLE, (ff)—One of the long
est criminal trials in Pacific
Northwest history came to a close
here Saturday when a federal
court jury convicted five of six
persons charged with conspiracy
to teach and advocate the vio
lent overthrow of the govern
ment. >
The sixth defendant, labor
leader Karly Larsen, was acquit
ted by the six men and six women
jurors.
Scheduled to be sentenced Fri
day by Federal Judge William J.
Lindberg for violation of the
Smith Act of 1940 were:
Henry P. Huff, state chairman
of the Communist party.
Terry Pettus, northwest editor
of the Communist Daily Peoples’
World and a member of the
party’s district committee.
John S. Daschbach, a member
of the Communist party’s review
commission and chairman of the
state Civil Rights Congress.
Paul M. Bowen, leader of the
state Negro Communist move
ment and member of the party’s
northwest district committee.
Mrs. Barbara Hartle, organiza
tion secretary for the Communist
party’s northwest district.
They face a maximum sentence
of five years in prison or $10,000
fine or both. Defense attorneys
said yesterday they would appeal
the verdict.
The marathon trial began April
15, with seven defendants, but on
Aug. 2, two days before he was
scheduled to take the stand for
cross - examination, William J.
Pennock, president of the Wash
ington Pension Union, was found
dead in his Seattle home.
Government officials estimate
the trial cost $250,000. Some 40
witnesses were called to the
stand and about 15,000 pages of
official court transcriptions were
made.
Bandits Rob Supermarket
Getting $20,000 In Cash
SPOKANE, 'JP)— Two men held
up the Low Cost Market here
Sunday and escaped with the
largest haul, detectives said, in
the city’s history.
The men, both red - headed,
pulled a gun on a check girl
after buying soap and corn
flakes, then forced employes to
clean out the safe, load the money
in bags and carry them to a car
parked outside the supermarket.
H. E. Carmo, the store man
ager, said approximately $20,000
was in cash. The rest was in
checks.
Police said customers in the
store did not realize a hold-up
was taking place.
MINERAL IDENTIFICATION
KITS TO COST $20 TO $30
JUNEAU, UP) — Seventy-five
mineral identification kits, pre
pared by the University of Alaska
School of Mines, will be placed on
sale soon,at a price between $20
and $30, Mines Commissioner Phil
Holdsworth said Saturday. The
university also plans to publish a
handbook for the use of prospec
tors next spring, he added.
Solon Urges U.S.
Wartime Urgency
In ‘Bomb’ Program
INDIANAPOLIS, «P»—Rep. W.
Sterling Cole (R-NY) said today
the United States should assign
wartime urgency to its hydro'gen
bomb program because, he said,
Russia may shortly have “hun
dreds or even thousands” of H
bombs.
Cole, chairman of the Senate
House atomic energy committee,
said the Soviets “exploded a hy
drogen weapon” two months ago
today, and he declared:
“If our own hydrogen effort
falters, as it must not and need
not, the Soviets have it within
their capacity to outstrip us —
and outstrip us decisively—within
a relatively short period of time.
“Here is the stark arithmetic of
the matter: seven years elapsed
between Hiroshima and our own
hydrogen test of last fall; four
years elapsed between the first
Russian A-bomb that we detected
and Moscow’s hydrogen test.
These are not very comforting
statistics.
“The Soviets have progressed
with unexpected speed because
they have assigned supreme and
overriding priority to their proj
ect from the very outset.”
Cole, whose committee position
brings him up-to-date informa
tion on the U.S. atomic program,
spoke out in a speech prepared
for a meeting of state and na
tional officers of the American
Legion.
Nude Negro Jailed As
Suspect In Parker Slaying
In Prowler-Jittery Dallas
DALLAS, Tex., (#) — A nude
Negro was jailed early today
after he was captured by four or
five other Negroes in this prowler
jittery city.
Homicide Capt. Will Fritz said
he had been released only hours
earlier after being questioned in
the Sept. 30 rape-slaying of Mrs.
H. C. Parker, a pretty dime store
clerk. She was white.
The fatal attack on Mrs. Park
er culminated a series of sex
offenses here and several appear
ances of a naked Negro who en
tered homes by _ slitting screens.
Shocked Dallas residents made
runs on sporting goods stores to
arm themselves and formed
neighborhood patrols.
The Negroes caught the nude
man in this morning’s early hours
at an intersection near downtown
Dallas. They held him until of
ficers arrived.
His clothes were found in a
bundle hidden a short distance
away.
Fritz said he had been released
from city jail at 3:30 p.m. yes
terday after being questioned
with a number of other Negroes
in the Parker slaying.
The Negro • told officers the
other Negroes holding him had
stripped him of his clothing.
“I didn’t kill that woman,” the
suspect protested to arresting of
ficers immediately after they had
arrived.
Kidnapers Confess
To Murder Of
Bobby Greenlease
WASHINGTON, OP) — The FBI
said today Carl Austin Hall and
Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady have
confessed that they alone kid
naped Bobby Greenlease and
Hall killed the boy.
Director J. Edgar Hoover said
Hall, 34, and his 41-year-old girl
friend have confessed, too, that
Bobby’s grave was dug in her
back yard before the 6-year-old
child was abducted.
Hoover said it has been deter
mined that a point in Kansas,
about 12 miles from Kansas City,
Mo., where Bobby was adbucted,
was the actual site of the killing.
In this light, the federal gov
ernment ' is filing kidnaping
charges at Kansas City under the
Lindberg law.
This statute carries a possible
death penalty when the victim
of a kidnaping is harmed. The
federal law can be invoked only
when a state line is crossed.
With the confessions — which
Hoover said were signed state
ments—the FBI called off a hunt
for Tom Marsh, the tattooed man
whose name was brought into the
case soon after the arerst of Hall
and Mrs. Heady.
Hoover said Hall has now ab
solved Marsh of any connection
with the crime. As a result, the
FBI is making no search for
Marsh.
Hoover’s announcement said
nothing as to the $300,000 of
ransom money still unaccounted
for.
Bobby’s wealthy parents paid
$600,000 to the kidnapers.
Hall had little less than half
of this in his possession when
arrested.
His story at that time was that
he got drunk and must have lost
a suitcase containing half the
ransom money.
Reds Ready To Start
‘Explanations’ Wednesday
PANMUNJOM, <fl> — The Com
munists indicated today they are
ready to start interviews on Wed
nesday for North Korean and
Chinese war prisoners who re
The development came amidst
charges by the U.*N. Command
that the Reds had shipped crated
combat aircraft into North Korea
in violation of the armistice terms.
A UNC spokesman said an “ur
gent request” for investigation
had been handed the neutral na
tions supervisory commission, the
four - nation body charged with
policing the truce.
PRICE OF CUP OF COFFEE
GOING UP IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, (£)—ft looks like the
price of a cup of coffee in most
Chicago restaurants is going up—
to about 15 cents.
Chief factor in the expected
boost is the recent wholesale in
crease of 7 to 9 cents a pound in
the last month, said Donald Kie
sau, executive vice president of
the Chicago Restaurant Assn. He
also cited more pay for labor.
Most restaurants now charge
from 10 to 12 cents for a cup.