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VOL. LX No. 79 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1958 Per Copy—15*
Dutch Airlies Over-the-Pole Service
To Japan, to be Started In November,
Described as Great Thing For Alaska
TOKYO, m — KLM Royal
Dutch Airlines has announced it
has received Japanese govern
ment permission to fly the north
pole route into Tokyo and will
start Japan-Amsterdam polar ser
vice twice a week next Novem
ber.
KLM public relations director
R. J. Vogels of the Hague said
the DC7C flights will stop en
route at Anchorage.
KLM thus becomes the third
European line, with Scandinavin
Airlines System and Air France,
to fly the route between Europe
and Japan,
In effect, it means daily ser
vice between Europe and Tokyo
over the north pole, KLM of
ficials said, since SAS and Air
France by November will be of
fering a total of five weekly
flights.
Vogels said the flight, which
takes 30 hours by DC7C can be
made in half the time with DC8
jets that KLM expects to put on
the polar route in 1960 or 1961.
“After that will be the atom
plane,” he said “by 1975 you can
be sure civil aviation will be using
atomic planes and making a
speed of not 1,000 but 1,400 kil
ometers an hour (900 mph).”
With the speed of the air travel,
he said “we’ll have to get rid
of visas and passports as soon as
possible. We talk about world
citizens and we must be world
citizens. We can’t wait weeks
and weeks for visas to go places
which are only hours away.”
Officials said pext fall’s daily
Japan-Europe flights by KLM,
SAS and Air France will mean
a big speedup in mail service and
other interchange between the
Pacific aW Western Europe.
“It will also become a great
thing for Alaska,” Vogels said.
None of the airlines on the
polar route is now allowed to
pick up or discharge passengers
during the refueling at Anchor
age. But Vogels predicted pass
enger rights eventually will be
opened, giving Alaskan travelers
a direct link to Europe.
Tourist Committee Plans
Carnival Games All Day
On The Fourth of July
Rain or shine, the Tourist
Committee of the C of C have
big plans for special 4th of July
carnival games which will be
played all day on the 4th under
the chairmanship of Johnnie
Stephensen whose leadership is
bringing out some interesting
floats for the parade.
The program will start with
children’s sports in the morning
at 10:00 under the chairmanship
of American Legion Post and
Bob Emmons. This will be fol
lowed by the free ice cream for
children under the direction of
the Nome Volunteer Fire Depart
ment.
Eskimo sports will start at
12:30 with high kicking, blanket
toss, rope tricks and other in
teresting features.
At 2:00 p.m. the Chamber of
Commerce sponsors a parade with
prizes for floats, best decorated
bicycles, and marching groups.
This will be followed by boat
races at Nome River at 3:00 p.m.
The American Legion will
sponsor a dance in the evening
at the School Auditorium.
8-weeks Influence Trial
Ends In Hung Jury
NEW YORK, UR — The trial
of Washington influence man
Henry Grunewald and two others
on charges of conspiring to fix
income tax cases ended in a hung
jury today in New York Federal
Court.
The jury had deliberated 3 days.
On trial with Grunewald,
known as the Dutchman, were
Daniel Bolich, a former assistant
commissioner of Internal Reve
nue, and New York lawyer Max
Halperin. The trial lasted 8
weeks.
Grunewald was accused of re
ceiving $160,000 in bribes to
quash prosecutions erf a dress
firm and wholesale meat company
for tax evasion.
The three v^ere convicted of
conspiracy in 1955, but the U.S.
Supreme Court reversed the con
viction on a legal technicality.
Congress Asked To
Revise Alaska’s
Game Laws
WASHINGTON, UR — Congress
has been asked to revise the
Alaska game law to give pro
tection on the high seas to the
soon-to-be state’s polar bear and
walrus.
Present law gives no protection
to the animals on the high seas
and unrestricted hunting has in
creased rapidly in recent years.
The proposed game law re
visions sent Congress by Secre-'
tary of the Interior Seaton would
not affect existing law which
permits natives to take walrus for
food and other subsistence uses.
Management and protection
of Alaska’s fish and game re
sources now rests with the sec
retary, with the Alaska Game
Commission acting in an ad
visory capacity. As proposed,
the commission—in line with the
policy followed in most states—
would prescribe the regulations,
subject to secretarial approval.
Seaton also recommended that
the new law prohibit waste of
game animals by outlawing the
slaying of an animal such as the
moose solely for its antlers.
Existing authority of the com
mission to require no-residents
to employ guides, the department
said, would be changed to per
mit adoption of regulations re
quiring all persons to hire guides
when engaged in hunting or
photographing certain species of
game or marine animals in speci
fied areas.
In addition to giving the com
mission added authority over
guide qualifications and activ
ities, the proposed revisions would
call for jail sentences from one
to five years in event the holder
is found guilty of violating game
laws.
Set For "Porgy and Bess" Burns
HOLLYWOOD, UR—A $2,400,000
fire before dawn today destroyed
the Samuel Goldwyn tstudio’s
biggest sound stage and sets ready
for a six-million-dollar movie
version of “Porgy and Bess.”
Plane Enroute To
Nome from Florida
Crashes in Texas
WINK, Tex., UP — A light
plane, en route from Florida to
Nome, Alaska, crash landed near
here yesterday, injuring two of
the four persons aboard.
Injured were Mrs. William M.
Rich, 40, West Palm Beach, Fla.,
who suffered possible internal
injuries; and her son, James R.,
6, who suffered shock. Both
are in the Winkler Memorial
Hospital. ,
Mr. Rich, 42-year-old West
Palm Beach frozen food manu
facturer and pilot of the plane
and three other of the couple’s
children were not injured.
Rich said the family left West
Palm Beach Sunday on a com
bination business and pleasure
trip to Nome. They landed at
the Wink airport to refuel.
Shortly after taking off the twin
engine Apache Piper Cub’s left
engine quit.
Rich said he was unable to
make it back to the airport and
set the plane down in a field.
The plane skidded sideways
through brush, tearing off the
left engine and part of a wing and
damaging the fuselage.
Tests to Start of Nuclear
Explosive Propulsion
For Space Vehicles
WASHINGTON, UP — A study
to see whether a series of small
nuclear explosives could be used
to propel a space vehicle was
ordered today by the Pentagon’s
Advanced Research Projects
Agency.
Roy W. Johenson, ARPA di
rector, announced that the air
research and development com
mand of the Air Force has been
authorized to award a “feasibility
study” contract to General Dy
namics Corporation’s atomic di
vision at San Diego, Calif.
Goldfine Charges Committee Is Using
Him “To Get” Presidential Aide Adams
WASHINGTON, UP — A law
yer for Bernard Goldfine said
today Goldfine charged off as a
business expense hotel bills paid
for Sherman Adams and the cost
of an expensive Oriental rug
which Adams has testified was
a loan.
Attorney Roger Robb gave this
account after a House hearing at
which Goldfine read a statement
denying there was anything out
of line in his relationship with
Adams.
Goldfine and Adams have pic
tured Goldfine’s favors as those
of friendship. They denied un
der oath that Adams pulled fed
eral strings for Golfine.(
But if the favors are shown
to have been written off as busi
ness expenses for tax purposes,
the subcommittee members said,
then that will show that Gold
fine meant to get a business value
in return.
The 67-year-old Boston indus
trialist, long-time friend and
patron of Adams, branded as
lies charges that Adams swung
federal favors to him.
His hospitality &id gifts to
Adams were not intended and
did not result in special favors
from government agencies for
his business interests. Golfine
said, and asked:
“Why doesn’t somebody write
about the things Gov. Adams
gave to my family over the
years?”
Goldfine came before a House
investigating committee with a
long prepared statement denying
any wrong-doing and hurled a
charge that embraced many Con
gress members that:
“All these expressions of hor
ror about what I asked Mr.
Adams to do are hypocrisy.”
Goldfine accused House in
vestigators of using him as a
“handy stick ... to hit some
one else over the head with”—
Adams.
And he pictured fellow Boston
millionaire John Fox, his prin
cipal accuser, as a sick man who
has told many lies “and will tell
many more I am sure.”
Even as Goldfine was testify
ing reporters sought to learn
from President Eisenhower wheth
er he is reconsidering his de
cision to keep Adams as his No.
1 aide. ,
Eisenhower refused to say.
But, in response to questions,
Eisenhower told his news con
ference the statement he made
two weeks ago in which he said
he needs Adams expressed his
conviction at that time.
No Statehood For Hawaii This Year
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49tli Star In
Fl^g Expected To
Increase Cost
NEW YORK, UP) — Flag prices
are expected to go up after Alas
ka is admitted to statehood.
So predicts William C. Wiggins,
sales manager of Annin & Co.,
the nation’s largest manufacturer
of flags and bunting. The price
increase will result from the
added cost of making a flag with
49 stars, he says.
Most likely design will be a
flag with a star field containing
seven rows of seven stars, says
Wiggins. Another possibility is
a field with five rows of five
stars alternating with four rows
of six stars—a pattern that would
easily permit addition of a 50th
star if Hawaii becomes a state
too.
Both designs are currently on
display in the toy department of
Macy’s New York Department
Store.
The making of Old Glory con
sumes some 25 million yards of
textile fabrics every year. Cot
ton is the most popular cloth,
but a blend of wool and nylon is
gaining favor.
Yardage may triple or even
quadruple in the first year that
the 49-star flag is in production.
President Says Cuts
In Foreign Aid Funds
Endangers Our Security
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower today accused
the House Appropriations Com
mittee of taking reckless risks
with the nation’s security in vot
ing to cut foreign aid funds near
ly 600 million dollars.
In a statement at a news con
ference, Eisenhower said emphat
ically that the committee “has
taken action that seriously en
dangers our security.”
WASHINGTON, UPI — Hawaii
statehood? Next year, perhaps
but not this year.
This was the appraisal today
of members of Congress close to
the situation, in the wake of final
congressional approval of state
hood for Alaska.
In the Senate, where a com
mittee-approved Hawaii state
hood bill hangs on the calendar,
Democratic whip Mike Mans
field conditioned further Senate
action on House passage of the
Hawaii bil,l.
In the House, Rep. Leo O’Brien,
chairman of the Territories Sub
committee. said a favorable vote
in the House committee on In
terior and Insular Affairs is the
most that can be hoped for this
year.
Considering prior commitments,
that vote is expected about July
9, or possibly a week later.
In the view of O’Brien and
other House members, that does
not leave enough time in the
present session to get the bill
through the House and to out
last a possible talkfest in the
Senate.
O’Brien said in his judgment it
would be wise not to try to force
the Hawaii bill through this year,
and thus risk failure that might
hurt the now excellent chances
of bringing Hawaii into the union
as the 50th state next year.
Ike Doubts
Soviet Intentions
For Summit Meet
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower accused Russia
today of having disrupted dip
lomatic preparations for a sum
mit conference. He said this
“cannot but cast doubt” on Sov
iet intentions toward a top level
meeting.
His accusation was in a letter
to Soviet Premier Nikata Khru
shchev The communication par
alleled similar messages from
leaders of Britain and France.
The Western officials told
Khrushchev:
1. They consider a summit
meeting desirable if it would prb
vide an opportunity for serious
East-West discussion of major
problems and for reaching im
portant agreements.
2. Charges by Khrushchev that
the Western powers are trying to
prevent a summit meeting by
proposing unacceptable issues, are
unwarranted. Khruschev made
such charges in letters June 11.
Eisenhower said the Soviet
government, is apparently un- .
willing “to negotiate seriously on
concrete points at issue” in pre
paration for a summit conference.
He added, however that in spite
of this “Western powers do not
propose to abandon hope or to
relax their efforts to seek solu
tions of the major outstanding
problems.”
TUESDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Baltimore 7-1, New York 5-2
Chicago 5, Cleveland 4
Boston 10, Washington 5
Kansas City 5, Detroit 1
National League
Chicago 9, San Francisco 5
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2
Milwaukee 1, Cincinnati 0
Los Angeles 9, St. Louis 3
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 3, Seattle 2
Spokane 4, Sacramento 2