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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 55 _NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1955 Per Copy—15*
AVERY RESIGNS AS
WARD S CHAIRMAN
CHICAGO, W—Sewell L. Av
ery, 81, resigned today as chair
man of Montgomery Ward and
’ Co., along with the firm’s presi
dent who helped fight off Louis
E. Wolfson’s drive to capture con
trol of the mail order house.
Edmund A. Krider, 42, Ward
president who trouped the coun
try to line up shareholders behind
the Avery management, resigned
and pledged “my full support” to
John A. Barr, 47, who was named
to succed Avery as chairman of
the board and of the executive
committee.
The retiring president called
Barr an “excellent choice for
chairman and with his leadership
Montgomery Ward is assured an
excellent future of growth, pros
perity and service to the business
. community.”
Vet’s Body Found
Shot and Robbed
Enroute to Alaska
CALGARY, Alberta, Ufi—Police
are investigating the possibility
that an American veteran, shot
twice in the back of the head Sat
urday and thrown into a subur
ban ditch, may have been mur
dered for the money he carried in
his pocket.
Norman G. Yesney, 23, of Niag
ra Falls, N.Y., had been carrying
between $200 and $500 when he
left home April 28 enroute to Al
aska. He never used a wallet,
police learned.
Yesney may have been shot
with 'his own pistol. Police said
the .22-caliber pistol he had been
carrying in his car has not been
found.
His body was found six miles
from the city limits—near the
home of a farmer who later told
police he heard loud voices and
what he believed to be six shots
fired shortly after midnight. The
farmer looked outside, saw noth
ing and didn’t investigate further.
The body was found bound,
gagged, and fully clothed. Yes
ney’s hands and feet had been
taped together and what appeared
to be a man’s dress shirt tied
tightly around his neck.
5 Nenana Ice Moved
I Today At 2:13 p.m.
The Nenana Ice moved this
afternoon at 2:13 p.m. with 20
correct guesses on the minute,
none however from Nome.
The nearest guess from Nome
was by Carl Hill at 2:03 p.m.
Former Alaska Woman
Jumps to Death From
Seattle Aurora Bridge
SEATTLE, —A former Alaska
woman pushed a baby buggy with
two small children in it across
Aurora Bridge Saturday and then,
returning to mid-span and park
ing the carriage there, leaped to
her death in Lake Union below.
A notebook in her purse carried
the notation “Frances Long was
born in Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 4,
1918.” Her purse also contained
letters from welfare departments
in Alaska, Tacoma and Seattle. A
brother was believed to live some
where in Alaska.
The children were Mary Ellen,
6 months old, and Steven, 2. The
baby girl was taken to King Coun
ty Hospital for safekeeping and
the boy to the King County Youth
Service Center.
Scores of persons saw the trag
edy as automobile traffic had
been slowed down. The woman’s
body was quickly recovered.
Her letters indicated she had i
worked as a housekeeper at Mil
ton, near Tacoma, last year and
had lived with the children in one
room in a small Seattle hotel
since Feb. 16.
The clerk, John Dolphin, said
later: “She was a very quiet wo
man. She lived alone except for
the two children and didn’t go out
much and didn’t have any visi
tors.”
Orson Welles Marries
LONDON, (A*) — Orson Welles,
one-time boy wonder of the Am
erican theater, honeymooned to
day with his new bride. She is
dark-haired Countess di Girgalco,
an Italian actress better known
as Paoula Mori.
Welles, 40 Friday, was wed to
the 24-year-old starlet Sunday in
an early morning ceremony
Magnuson Promises
Congress Investigation on
Vaccine Polio ‘Confusion’
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP)—A Sen
ate committee investigation into
“the muddled confusion” sur
rounding the Salk polio vaccine
will be started early next week,
Sen. Magnuson <D-Wash> said
Sunday.
Magnuson, chairman of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, said that after a telephone
conversation with officials in
Washington, D.C., he “decided
that congressional action in the
situation is mandatory.”
His committee, he said, “has the
responsibility for interstate move
ment of all commodities affecting
the health and welfare of our cit
izens.”
“The committee appreciates that
all concerned are trying to work
out the best possible solution, but
the responsibility of Congress in
this matter is such that we would
be derelict if we did not make a
searching investigation,” Magnu
son declared.
Adenauer Confers
As Chancellor of
Sovereign Nation
PARIS, (if*)—In his first interna
tional conference as head of a
sovereign nation, West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met
Saturday with U.S. Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles to plan
Germany’s role in Western diplo
matic strategy. *
They met at the American Em
bassy. They were expected to
evaluate a new Western approach
to the Soviet Union with a request
for a four-power conference that
could reunify Germany and lead
to an all-German peace treaty.
The U.S., Britain and France
have virtually decided to suggest
such a meeting in the very near
future.
The chief Western concern at
this moment is the effect in Ger
many of the Austrian settlement,
now in sight, which binds Austria
to remain aloof from any military
alliance such as NATO.
Adenauer’s government has al
ready signed up for NATO, and
the Chancellor himself is sched
uled to join the NATO council to
day, after putting the new seven
nation Western European Union
<WEU> into motion Saturday. The
WEU is a military alliance linking
West Germany with France, Brit
ain, Italy, Belgium, Holland and
Luxembourg.
Canada s Going Ahead
W ith Mass Inoculations
Of Salk Polio Serum
OTTAWA, UP-—Canada is going
ahead with its mass inoculation of
school children against polio de
spite the U. S. Government’s
: “strong recommendation” that the
immunizations in the U.S. be halt
red temporarily.
Health Minister Paul Martin
announced last night, after a
check with deputies overt the
country, that “approximately half
a million Canadian children have
been inoculated without unfavor
able reaction.”
Vaccine used the Canadian pro
gram is prepared by the Univer
sity of Toronto’s Connaught Lab
oratories.
House Votes Today for First Time
On Consideration of Statehood Bill
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP)—For the first
time in the long fight over state
hood, the House today gets to vote
whether it will consider a bill to
admit both Alaska and Hawaii as
states.
Before voting on statehood it
self, the House must decide first
whether to consider the bill under
rules limiting debate and barring
amendments.
Unofficial reports—by support
ers of statehood—say membership
polls by House Democratic and
Republican organization indicate |
a majority will support the com-1
bined bill if it comes to a vote, i
But they concede it will be close, j
Should the statehood supporters j
' successfully pass this hurdle, the I
bill itself would come up for seven i
hours debate. A final vote would!
i come, tomorrow.
Ironically, one proposal which
the President has said might ease
his opposition to Alaska can’t
come before the House under the
no-amendment procedure. This is
a proposal which would more than
double that portion of Alaska in
which the bill as now drawn
would permit the Chief Executive
to set up special defense areas
with exclusive military jurisdic
tion.
The House previously has passed
bills to admit Hawaii only—in
1947, 1950 and 1953. It approved
an Alaska bill in 1950.
The Senate last year amended
the 1953 House bill to include Al
aska as well as Hawaii, but the
House leadership refused to per
mit the measure to go to a confer
ence Committee. /
Some superstitious supporters of
statehood point out that individual
bills have been approved by a
Republican House under a Demo
cratic President (1950b and a Re
publican House under a Republi
can President (1953b This time—
with a Democratic Congress and a
Republican President—they think
could be the charm.
But they’ve got their fingers
crossed.
Government Calls Halt to Mass
Inoculations of Salk Polio Vaccine;
Surgeon Gen. Still Sure of Serum
Super Fish Fry
CAMOGLI, Italy, OP)—This Ital
ian Riviera resort contends it put
on the world’s biggest fish fry
yesterday. From noon to nightfall
all comers were served from a
one-ton frying pan over an out
door fire.
An estimated 45,000 came and
ate 10,120 poiunds of fish.
The occasion was celebration of
the Feast of Santa Fortunato, pro
tector of the community.
Truman Wields Shovels,
Breaking Dirt for Start
Of Memorial Library
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., UP)—A
jovial Harry S. Truman did a bit
of digging yesterday—his 71st
birthday anniversary—-on a proj
ect that’s been closest to his heart
since leaving the White House.
Th^. former President used a
couple of shovels, both gold pla
ted, to make an official ground
breaking start on the Truman
Memorial Library.
It will be a $1,750,000 structure
housing the official and personal
papers he collected during more
than seven years as President.
Dr. Elmer Ellis, University of
Missouri president, was the prin
cipal speaker at the ceremonies.
He called the Truman papers thei
core to an expanded library and
museum of items and relics that
“in the next 100 years will come
to light as bearing in important J
ways on President Truman’s |
career.”
94-Year-Old Doctor
Is Father of Second Son
Born to 32-Year-Old Wife
CLINTON, Iowa, l;P)—Dr. John
D. Hullinger, 94-year-old Clinton
physician, is the proud father of
another boy—the second born of
his marriage three years ago.
The 10-pound baby, described
by the elderly doctor as “feeling
fine and looking fit as a fiddle”
was born early Sunday to 32-year
old Mrs. Hullinger.
“We didn’t need anyone else,”
said the doctor, who now has
brought 3,309 babies into the
world during his 63 years of prac
tice as a country doctor.
“I bossed the whole job myself,
my wife behaved like a good fel
low, and both mother and son are i
getting along fine.”
Dr. Hullinger, reported to be |
the oldest active practitioner in i
the United States, gained consid- j
erable public attention 22 months
ago when his first son, John Jr.,
was born.
Nenana Fire Destroys
Restaurant and Bar
NENANA, (ff)—This ice breakup
happy tch-vn fought an early morn
ing fire which damaged or de- j
stroyed four* buildings for six
hours before the flames were con
trolled yesterday'.
Firemen * were handicapped as
the fire station pumps had been
shut off and the only available
water was in the neafby Tanana
River. The town’s leaditig restaur
ant and bar were destroyed but
the Alaska Railroad station was
only slightly singed.
> WASHINGTON, W—The gov
ernment Saturday called a halt to
mass antipolio inoculations pend
ing a report on the safety of pres
ent vaccine supplies.
Surgeon General Leonard A.
Scheele announced the recom
mendation after a day-and-night
session of experts investigating
the “manufacture and testing” of
Salk vaccine.
The move reversed Scheele’s
earlier position. He said Friday
the Public Health Service had
temporarily withheld clearance of
all new batches of the serum, but
suggested that vaccinations con
tinue with existing stocks that had
been okayed.
Scheele voiced confidence yes
terday that the five laboratories
which are now turning out the
Salk serum would get a clean bill
of health.
He likewise pronounced the
vaccine every bit as safe and as *
effective as originally announced.
He assured parents who chil
dren have been vaccinated that
“in the very best judgment of the
Public Health Service, they have
no cause for alarm.”
Meanwhile, another case of pos
sible polio W3s reported among in
oculated youngsters. A 6-year-old
Detroit boy was taken sick 11
days after treatment of vaccine
produced by Parke Davis Labora
tories. The company declined to
comment except to say “we have
confidence in our vaccine.”
Some 44 cases, 41 of them para
lytic, had been reported as of
Friday, May 6
JUNEAU, GP—Alaska’s Salk po
lio vaccination program will be
delayed several days.
Territorial Health Commission
er C. E. Albrecht anounced the
postponement today following re
ceipt of the recommendations of
the United States surgeon gener
al’s office. He will advise territor
ial authorities when to proceed.
SENATE PASSES
ALASKA JOBLESS
LOAN BILL
WASHINGTON (#>—The Senate
passed a bill today authorizing
Alaska to apply for a loan to re
build its bankrupt Unemployment
Compensation Fund. Passage was
bv a voice .vote.
The bill, which now goes to the
House, waives a restriction against
deficit financing written into Al
aska’s Organic Act in 1912.^The
attorney general has held the rev
striction barred Alaska from seek
ing loans authorized by Congress
last year.
Alaska’s Unemployment Com
pensation Fund has been exhaust
ed twice this year. It now is oper
ating with money advanced by the
Territorial gislature.
Sen. Jackson CD-Wash), sponsor
of the bill and chairman of the
Senate Territories subcommittee,
said prompt passage is necessary
“to prevent suffering and econ
omic dislocation in Alaska.” He
said there are 9,000'compensation
claimants in the territory.
Under the bill, Alaska would be
eligible to seek a loan of slightly
more than three million dollars.