VOL. LVII No. 144_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1955__ Per Copy—15* '
Alaska Interceptors Always Alert
For Stuff From Across ‘The Creek’
LOS ANGELES, JP\ — In less
than five minutes alert U.S. jet
outfits at subzero Alaska bases
can be in the air to chop down
any sudden Russian assault, the
Los Angeles Times said yesterday.
Each wingtip of the Northrop
Scorpions is loaded with 52
folding-fin rockets. A combat op
erations center stands continuous
ly ready to chart the course,
speed, altitude and numbers of an
invading air fleet.
Pilots on alert duty have a
ready room with bunks to rest in
and a fireman’s pole for quick
scramble slide to the ground floor.
The Times’ aviation editor,
Marvin Miles, and photographer
Larry Sharkey flew to Ladd Air
Force Base, on a delivery flight
of Scorpion jets. Officers briefed
them, as much as security regula
tions would permit, on “the inner
workings of the elaborate combat
operation center at Ladd,” Miles
wrote.
The jet squadrons are ready, he
reported. “To hurtle north over
the rugged Brooks Range and the
Arctic ice or west across the
jagged - frozen Bering Strait to
ward Siberia 100 jet minutes
away.” The story continues:
Glacial winter weather numbs
the body, endangers flight and
makes survival on the ground pre
carious in case of bailout.
Combat crews are intensely
aware of “the stuff across the
creek” or “on the other side of
the fence,”as the Bering Strait and
the invisible boundary between
Alaska and Siberia are referred
to.
“They know the Chukotski Pen
insula is loaded with Mig 15s and
the faster, all-wreather version of
Mig 17s,” Miles wrote. But the
Russian plane which U. S. Air j
Force strategists at Ladd ’’consid-1
er most critically and analytical
ly is the IL28, a fast, twin-jet
bomber capable of lugging nuclear
and thermonuclear bombs at
speeds upward of 500 mph at
40,000 feet.
“There are IL28s across the
creek, too, plenty of them ap
parently, with the capability of
reaching deep into Alaska ... if
they have aerial refueling. The
twin-jet bombers and the swept
wing Migs are tracked regulaily
on Alaska’s outer - rim radar
scopes as they cruise on their side
of the fence and disappear into
Siberia.”
From the second that- the first
enemy blip shows on a remote
radar screen, all information
would be transmitted immediately
to the combat operation Center
and plotted on huge table maps
of Alaska. Blue-clad staffers are
“grimly reminiscent of croupiers
at a roulette table—but the stakes
would be far higher in this game.”
The system is arranged so all
information is relayed in seconds
to command headquarters at An
chorage, to the Colorado Springs
headquarters .of the Air Defense
Command, to Canadian defense
units and to Seattle, San Fran
cisco and other vital U.S. centers.
Bulganin Reviews Burmese Troops
In Town Penetrated Five Days Ago
By Insurgent Communist Kidnapers
MAYMO, Burma., Uf) — Soviet
Premier Nikolai Bulganin today
reviewed Burmese troops in this
old headquarters town which five
days ago was penetrated by an
insurgent band of Communist
kidnapers.
Soviet party boss Nikita Khrush
chev told a brigade of Burmese
troops and their officers that “to
keep an army is very expensive”
but such expenses were necessary
bcause of a “few countries which
still do not agree to disarmament.”
A few miles away companions
to the soldiers he addressed were
engaged in fighting through dense
jungle against Communist insurg
ents.
“We are spending our money on
an army, but it’s all going to fight
insurgents, including Burmese
Communists who are attempting
to destroy our democratic govern
ment,” said one Burmese official.
Nearly half of Burma’s budget
goes to defense.
On Dec. 1 a party of Commun
ist insurgents came into Maymo
and kidnaped two World Health
Organization doctors, one of them
an Italian, from an office about
300 yards from where Bulganin
and Khrushchev are staying. Con
sequently the army set up special
security precautions today.
Over the weekend Khrushchev
made blistering attacks on Bur
ma’s prewar British rulers in a
series of speeches at Mandalay
and Taunggyi. He said Russia
“■territorially belongs more to
Asia” than to Europe, and British
colonizers have been “sitting on
the necks” of the Burmese.
His all-out campaign on the
colonial theme continued despite
Moscow denials of an anti-British
statement attributed to him last
week at Rangoon.
Khurshchev renewed his attack
on the former rulers of Burma in
a speech on the banks of the Irra
waddy river.
“The colonizers who have been
here interfered with the develop
ment of your economy and the
development of your culture,” he
said. “And they tried to rule you
and convince you it was God who
sent them to rule you.
“They made profits while you
starved. As representatives of a
European nation, we are ashamed
about what those other Europeans
did before. But not all Europeans
think as did the colonizers.”
New Photoengraving
Process Uses Lightweight
Magnesium Printing Plates
APPLETON, Wis., U!)— An Ap
pleton man, who carried on re
search in a backyard shop, said
today he believes he has invented
a new photoengraving process to
produce high quality lightweight
magnesium printing plates in the
“amazing time of under one min
ute.”
Lester H. Doro, 37, said his
process “eliminates the use of
etching inks and powders.
According to Doro, the principal
advtantages of his process include,
in addition to the greater speed
than the 25 to 30 minutes required
to etch zinc plates now commonly
used, elimination of the need for
many skilled operators in the
etching process and provides a
lighter, harder, better wearing
plate.
Glenn Martin, One
Of Aviation’s Great
Pioneers, Dies at 69
BALTIMORE, W) — Glenn L.
Martin, one of aviation’s greatest
pioneers, died here last night of
a cerebral hemorrhage.
The 69-year-old founder of the
! Gleqn L. Martin Co. was stricken
i Sunday morning at Glenmar, his
big farm on Maryland’s eastern
shore of Chesapeake Bay.
Behind him stretched a fab
ulous career crammed with 'avia
tion “firsts.”
On Aug. 1, 1909, he made his
first successful test flight, with
the plane leaving the ground
under its own power. The Wright
Brothers, who flew a heavier
than-air plane in 1903, were still
experimenting with a propulsion
tower.
Nearly half a century later his
gigantic company was picked by
the government for the awesome
job of making and launching a
satellite of this planet.
In between, he was credited
with being the first to develop a
successful parachute which could
be opened by the jumper at will,
complete the first air mail flight,
and make the first extended flight
over ocean water.
His company claimed the con
struction of the first multi-pas
senger airplane, twin - engine
bomber, torpedo and dive bomb
ers, super-cargo ship, ground-to
air guided missile and many other
innovations of the industry with
which he grew up.
Martin built his first plane in
an abandoned church at Santa
Ana, Calif. It was a flimsy con
traption of bamboo and wooden
frame covered with sailcloth and
powered by an automobile engine.
He finished it in the flickering
light of a lamp held by his mother.
She had encouraged him through
early experiments which led a
family friend to call him “a wild
eyed, hallucinated visionary.” She
later accompanied hm as his only
passenger when he coaxed the
shuddering craft aloft.
Joe Louis To Marry
Cosmetics Manufacturer i
BUFFALO, N.Y., (#) — Former
heavyweight champion Joe Louis
and Miss Rose Morgan, New York
cosmetics manufacturer and
beauty shop operator, will be mar
ried in New York on Christmas
Day.
Louis, 41, and his fiancee, 42,
announced their engagement here
last night.
“We’re both very happy,” said
Joe.
Louis is here for the Paul An
drew* - Bob Satterfield heavy
weight bout Tuesday. He h^ been
supervising Andrews’ training.
The ex-champion said he met
Miss Morgan last summer at the
opening of a Las Vegas nightclub
in which he has an interest. Like
Louis, she is a Negro.
Ixmis was married twice and
twice divorced from the former
Marva Trotter. They have a
daughter, 12, and a son, 8.
Miss Morgan was married once
and divorced.
Army Sec. Bruckner
Touring Far East
TOKYO, UR—Secretary of the
Army Wilber Brucker arrived
Saturday night on a nine-day tour
of the far East. His mili'ary plane
was delayed over the Pacific by
adverse weather.
Tax Incentives and Prospectors
Problems Discussed At Public
Hearings Before The Convention
Eden and ke To
Meet In January on
Cold War Strategy
GETTYSBURG, Pa., GW —Brit
ish Prime Minister Eden will
confer with President Eisenhower
in Washington at the end of Jan
uary.
The White House announced
this today—obviously to plan cold
war strategy in the light of Rus
sia’s return to an openly belliger
ent attitude.
The announcement of the new
Washington talks was made while
Eisenhower was conferring here
with his special assistant in charge
of short-of-war planning, Nelson
Rockefeller.
White House Press Secretary
James Hagerty said, however,
there was no connection between
the Eisenhower - Rockefeller talk
and the forthcoming visit of Sir
Anthony Eden.
The announcement was perhaps
the strongest indication yet that
Eisenhower, recuperating here
from a September heart attack,
is getting ready to resume a full
role in national and international
affairs.
Malenkov May Be On
His Way To Power Again
In The Communist Party
LONDON, GW — Deposed Soviet
Premier Georgi Malenkov was
described in a Moscow radio
broadcast today as “first deputy
chairman of the U.S.S.R. council
of ministers.” That would make
him a first deputy premier, the
council being the Soviet equiva
lent of a government cabinet.
It was not clear whether Malen
kov is again moving up the ladder
of power in the Soviet Union.
Since he was forced out of the
Soviet premiership last February,
he had been described merely as
a deputy chairman—without the
first.
Twenty-five Cars Pile Up
On New Jersey Turnpike
SWEDESBORO, N. J., <*) —
Twenty-five cars piled up end to
end last night on the New Jersey
turnpike, causing minor injuries
to 13 persons, after one car stop
ped without pulling off the south
bound lane.
State police said the driver of
the first car was not hit and drove
on. Twenty of the other cars had
to be towed away.
Troopers said the pile-up occur
red near where a car braked to
avoid hitting the stopped vehicle.
Traffic was backed up for four
miles before the road could be
cleared.
PAIR ASSURED $30,000 WILL
BE ADEQUATE FOR TRIP
JUNEAU, Iff)—A Michigan cou
ple, eyeing a vacation trip to Al
aska, wrote to the Alaska Visitors
Association:
“Our budget is limited and we
only have $15,000 apiece to spend.”
They just wanted to make sure
the $30,000 would see them safely
up the Alaska Highway and thru
a month’s stay in the territory.
AVA Secretary Bernice Morgan
gave them quick assurance and
suggested they should be able to
buy a few souvenirs, too.
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Tax incent
ives and the problems of Alaska
prospectors topped the agenda
during two public hearings on fi
nances and resources at the Con
stitutional Convention Saturday.
Barrie White, secretary of the
finance committee, said the think
ing of that committe is to leave
tax incentives up to the future
state legislature.
From the audience, James Hur
ley of Palmer urged that “all ref
erence to tax exemptions be elimr
inated from the constitution and
left to the legislature and local
governments.”
Delegate Jack Hinckel of Ko
diak appeared before the finance
committee to urge that the con
stitution contain “a tax ceiling on.
non-income single family dwell
ings.” He said he didn’t know
where else but in the constitution
could relief be obtained for people
who work all their lives to es
tablish a fine home, then -find
after they are retired they can’t
pay taxes on it.
Mrs. Irene Ryan, a mining engi
neer and member of the territorial
legislature from Anchorage, was
principal speaker at the meeting
of the committee on resources.
Mrs. Ryan told the. committee
there should be no acreage limit
ations on mining properties. Min
ing acreage limits, she said, would
work against the people’s in
terests.
Mrs. Ryan also urged that
miners be allowed .to obtain pat
ents to their claims rather than
lease their land from the state.
Ernest Wolf, Fairbanks mining
engineer, said miners should be
able to obtain ownership of their
claims. A big incentive to pros
pecting is the right to sell or
lease patented mining claims, he
said, adding there has been only
one important discovery in Alaska
since 1914 and the industry is
“coasting on old reserves.” He
said there is a need for a pros
pecting incentive.
Delegate M. B. Marston said
that Canada was much more
lenient toward prospectors and
miners than Alaska. In Canada,
he said, prospectors are exempt
from taxes for three years on
a new mining operation.
B. D. Stewart, delegate from
Juneau, said a group in the Alas
ka legislatures “has tried to get
through laws to help prospectors
for years but has been prevented
by lobbyists.”
Documentary Evidence
Offered to Refute
Dealer Criticisms of GM
WASHINGTON, W—Harlow H.
Curtice, president of General Mo
tors Corp., has told inquiring sen
ators his firm will offer “docu
mentary evidence” which he says
will refute dealer criticisms of
GM policies.
Some of these dealers have
charged they were put under ex
cessive sales pressure, that dealer
ship franchises were taken away
arbitrarily and that they have
been forced to buy equipment that
they didn’t need.
Sen. O’Mahoney is acting chair
man of a Senate antitrust and
monopoly subcommittee which is
studying GM as an example of
corporate bigness. The hearings
were suspended until Tuesday.