Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Hero Dies,
Bewildered Victim of Peacetime
War Risk Now
Considered Best
Hope for Peace
By John M. Hightower
WASHINGTON, (*>—'The United
States faces today greater risk of
war with Red China than at any
time since the Korean War ended
18 months ago.
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of State Dulles are con
vinced that taking this risk, how
ever, affords the best long-range
hope for peace in the Far East. It
can be stated on excellent author
ity that both believe strongly in
the probability of peace.
In his message to Congress yes
terday, Eisenhower put the issue
squarely up to Red China: if the
Reds start an attack aimed at con
quering Formosa, the United
States is prepared to fight; if and
when the Reds are ready for
peace, the United States is pre
pared to make peace.
The decisions which underlie
this policy are decisions of a kind
that the administration in the past
has avoided, apparently in hope
that the Reds would not press the
issue to a showdown.
Several events this month fo
cussed the problem of Formosa,
the Chinese Nationalist seat of
governmeht, so sharply that ad
ministration leaders decided a
more clearly defined policy was
needed. Among them:
1. Leaders in the new Demo
crat;ic-con‘rolled Congress wanted
to know the full extent of firm
and potential American commit
ments in the area.
2. The Communists engaged in
a steady buildup of forces oppo
site Formosa and Peiping kept re
peating her intent to conquer the
island.
3. The Reds displayed effective
striking power in capturing last
week the small Nationalist-held
island of Yikiangshan.
4. Chiang Kai-Shek appealed
for U.S. help when the Reds
stepped up attacks on the Tachen
Islands, near Yikiangshan but
more important that it. The Ta
chens, 200 miles north of Formosa,
are close to the Communist main
land.
Y SACATON, Ariz., UPf—An Amer
ican Indian hero of modern war
is dead—a bewildered and disillu
sioned victim of peacetime.
Ira Hayes, one of the Marine
flag-raisers on Iwo Jima at the
climax of World War II, was
found dead Monday on the Saca
ton Indian Reservation. He was
32 years old.
The doctor’s verdict: overex
posure to freezing weather—too
much alcohol.
Hayes moment of glory atop
Mt. Suribachi in the Far Pacific
was the beginning of his downfall.
Back home in 1945, he was
looked up to by Arizona’s Indians
as a warrior who carried on the
tradition of their ancestors.
But for the chubby, friendly
Pima Indian, things didn’t go so
well.
“We hit the beach at Iwo with
250 men in my company,” Hayes
once recalled, “and left with 27
a month and a half later.
“I still think of those things all
the time.”
Once he was found on Chicago’s
skid row, wandering drunk and
incoherent—without shoes.
The Chicago Sun-Times started
a fund for Hayes, and a farm
equipment company gave him a
job.
But he didn’t last.
Another chance came from a
Hollywood family who hired him
as a chauffeur and handyman.
He landed in custody of Alco
holics Anonymous a few weeks
later.
“I’ve had a lot of chances, but
when things start looking good I
get that craving for whiskey and
foul up,” he said.
Hayes returned to the reserva
tion and stayed there—except for
one interruption.
With the two other survivors of
the flag-raising, John H. Bradley
of Antigo, Wis., and Rene Gagnon
of Manchester, N.H., Hayed at
tended unveiling ceremonies of a
statue in Washington commemor
ating them and their three dead
buddies.
The famous picture on which
the statue is based won the Pu
litzer Prize for former Associated
Press photographer Joe Rosen
thal. In it Hayes is the Marine
with the rifle slung over his
shoulder, second from the left.
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Flames Raze 5 Military
Buildings At Galena ■
Raging flames early Monday
morning completely destroyed
five buildings at Galena. At ap
proximately 2:05 a.m. a fire of
undetermined origin completely
razed the officer’s mess, enlisted
men’s mess, two quonset quarters
and an administrative building in
the military establishment at the
Galena air strip.
Operation “Snowbird” head
quarters had been established in
the administrative building.
In just a matter of minutes the
fire raced through the connected
buildings, completely enveloping
them in flames. Approximately
45 men quartered in the build
ings were forced to flee the blaz
ing inferno, many with only their
underwear to protect them from
the 20 degree temperature.
Members of the headquarters
staff of “Snowbird” operation
were among the men living in the
buildings. All rations were lost
and temporarily the Air Force is
to handle mess operations for the
some 300 men served by the
burned-out mess buildings.
NOTICE
Sales lax reports on retail sales
and services for the quarter end
ing Dec. 31, 1954, must be in the
City Clerk's Office by JANUARY
31. 1955.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Jan. 21, 26, 28, 1955.
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CAPE NOME PRECINCT. SECOND
DIVISION. TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
AGNES L. BREEN, deceased.
No. 999
Notice of Hearing
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And Determination of Inheritance
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that M. J.
Walsh, administrator w/w/a of the above
named estate, has filed his First and Final
Report and Account, and that the 7th day
of March, 1955, at the hour of ten o’clock
A.M. of said day, at the office of the
above named court, Nome, Alaska, has
by court order been fixed as the time
and place for a hearing on the said Re
port and Account; also, at such time
and place the court will determine and
adjudicate the heirs of this estate.
Objections, if any, to said report and
account and proof of heirship will b«
heard at this time.
DATED this 3rd day of January, 1955.
M. J. WALSH,
Administrator, w/w/a
Publ. Jan. 5, 12, 19. 26. 1955.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT. SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
EDWARD BREEN, deceased.
No. 998
Notice of Hearing
On Final Report and Account
And Determination of Inheritance
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that M. J.
Walsh, Administrator of the above named
estate, has filed his First and Final Re
port and Account, and that the 7th day
of March, 1955, at the hour of ten o’clock
A.M. of said day, at the office of the
above named court, Nome, Alaska, has
by court order been fixed as the time
and place for a hearing on the said Re
port and Account; also, at such time
and place the court will determine and
adjudicate the heirs of this estate.
Objections, if any, to said report and
account and proof of heirship will be
heard at this time.
DATED this 3rd day of January, 1955.
M. J. WALSH.
Administrator.
Publ. Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, 1955.
House Passes
Statehood
Memorial
By Jim Hutcheson
JUNEAU, (J*)—Alaska’s House
of Representatives has again
called for statehood, with unani
mous vote.
With machinegun speed under
suspension of rules, the 24 repres
entatives passed a measure yes
terday memorializing President
Eisenhower and Congress for im
mediate statehood on only the
second day of the 22nd Legisla
ture. It was sponsored by the 21
House Democrats.
It used such terms as “We, rep
resentatives of the citizens of Al
aska, again appeal to you,” and
“We remind you again.” And it
closed with an appeal that the
President and Congress “assume i
the heights of statesmanship and
dismiss all partisan concerns” in
the matter.
Senate Gets 21 Bills
While the Senate was deluged
yesterday forenoon on the first
day for introduction of bills with
21 measures, 17 of which origin
ated in the Legislative Council, it
was not until afternoon that the
flow started in the House. Then
four were filed along with three
1 memorials to federal officials.
The bills were headed by One
calling for a convention to draft
a state constitution for Alaska.
Floor Leader Dick Gruel, Fair
banks, described it as one which
will have “great importance and
impact on the residents of what
we now call the Territory of Al
aska.” He added that work on the
convehtion bill will be the biggest
job for the new House Statehood
Committee.
A somewhat lighter note was
sounded in the introduction of a
measure to name the willow ptar
migan as the territory’s official
bird. An anti-fireworks bill was
also introduced, which would ban
their sale or use in Alaska, except
for special occasions by permit.
One of the other bills, spon
sored by Rep. Hubert Gilbert,
Fairbanks Democrat, would pro
vide for special teacher training
courses in the University of Alas
ka and in community colleges.
Aimed to furnish mofe Alaska
trained teachers, it would provide
for a special teacher’s certificate
after two years of training and
would give priority to Alaskans in
teaching jobs.
Mental Health Memorial
Two other memorials took up
the widely discussed problem of
the care of Alaska’s mentally ill
and the contention Alaska is dis
criminated against in the matter
of getting proceeds from mineral
lands.
The one on the mentally ill de
scribes the present treatment of
mental cases in Alaska as “anti
quated, inhuman and cruel” and
urges steps to correct the situa
tion.
On mineral lands, the other
memorial said that states now
receive 90 percent of the profits
from them and Alaska should re
ceive similar treatment.
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