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VOL. LVII No. 114 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1955Per Copy—15^
President Eisenhower’s Prospects
For Recovery From Heart Attack
Are Said To Be ‘Reasonably Good’
DENVER, WV-Dr. Paul Dudleys
White said today that barring un
foreseen complications, President
Eisenhower’s prospects for recov
ery from his heart attack “are
reasonably good.”
Dr. White of Boston is one of
the world’s foremost heart spec
ialists.
The latest word on Eisenhow
er’s condition came after his doc
tors had described his Saturday
heart attack as “moderate” —
neither mild nor serious.
Prayerful wishes for speedy re
covery of the President, who will
be 65 Oct. 14, poured into the
temporary White House from all
over the world.
At Fitszimmons Army hospital
where Eisenhower was taken Sat
urday afternoon, there was no
thought of the tremendous politi
cal impact of the heart seizure
which stunned the nation and
people all around the globe.
That concern—and it is huge—
was left to Republican party
leaders who until the President
was stricken had almost unani
mously , refused to entertain the
idea that he might not be avail
able for a second term.
Dr. White said it will be a week
or two before the full effect of
the attack is known.
It seemed to have raised an
overriding liklihood that Eisen
hower would decide against seek
ing re-election. He said himself
last Aug. 4 the state of his health
would be an important factor in
his decision.
Just a couple of weeks ago he
told Republican chairmen from
the 48 states to dismiss from their
minds the idea of the indispens
able man—and not to “pin your
flag . . . tightly to one mast . . .”
because, Eisenhower added “Hu
mans are frail and they are mor
tal.”
The President’s attack was first
described as a “mild coronary
thrombosis,” a clotting of blood
in a branch of the arteries which
supply blood to the heart muscles.
The dsignation “mild” was used
only once—in the Saturday after
non announcement that the Presi
dent had been stricken. The
switch to “moderate” came after
he had been examined by two
leading heart specialists who flew
here from the East.
One of them, Dr. Paul Dudley
White of Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston, defined “mod
erate” as “neither mild nor ser
ious” but something in between
those two medical yardsticks.
It was White who, before leav
ing Boston yesterday morning,
said “another term for President
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Eisenhower is quite conceivable.”
But he also said: Even if this
is a mild case (and he later called
it moderate”), the President will
have to take things easy for a
couple of months. If he gets by
the next two weeks, then you can
say he probably will be all right.”
Another Judge
Recommended
For 3rd Division
WASHINGTON, (*—'The direc
tor of the administrative office
for U.S. courts has Reiterated his
belief that Alaska’s 3rd Division
should have another federal
judge.
Henry P. Chandler, the official,
told Chief Justice Earl Warren
and members of the judicial con
ference of the United States that
the 3rd Division “has an extreme
ly heavy case load” and congested
dockets.
He backed this up in his annual
report with figures showing that
although the division closed 143
more civil cases in the 12 months
ended June 30 than it did the pre
vious year, its backing increased
by 177 cases to a total of 1,543.
He noted also that the 4th Div
ision “has fallen behind in the
disposition of civil cases and the
number of pending cases has in
creased in each of the past 12
years.”
Except for the 4th Division,
all Alaska courts showed a * de
cline in pending criminal cases at
the end of the year. There were
no such cases pending in the 2nd
Division, 12 in the 1st and in the
3rd the total fell off from 196 to
84. The pending criminal caseload
in the 4th Division climbed from
the previous year’s 71 to 105.
Lyng’s Death Leaves Legal Issue
On Write-in Candidates; Possible
Mike Walsh Gets Convention Seat
JUNEAU, UP—Territorial Sen.<
Howard Lyng’s death has left Al
aska officials with a legal issue
about write-in candidates.
They must determine whether a
write-in candidate must declare
his candidacy formally before the
votes for him can be considered
valid.
The Nome senator was one of
four unopposed candidates elected
Sept. 13 to the 2nd Division’s four
at-large seats in the Alaska Con
stitutional Convention. Lyng’s
death left one vacancy.
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The act providing for the con
vention election specifies that in
the event of the death of an elect
ed delegate the vacancy shall be
filled by the candidate who re
ceived the next highest number of
votes in the election district.
There were no other candidates’
names on the ballot for the four
at-large seats, but M. J. Walsh of
Nome received three write-in
votes.
Walsh had not sought a dele
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Russians Would
Warm The Arctic
With Pacific Water
LONDON, (£1 — The Russians
say they are thinking about build
ing a mammoth dam across the
Bering Strait and warming the
Arctic Ocean with Pacific Ocean
waters pumped across by atomic
power.
Alexander Markin, a member
of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
said over Moscow radio this
would transform the frozen north
in parts of Asia, North America
and Europe into habitable areas
with a temperate climate.
Markin didn’t mention the
floods it might cause along more
southerly coasts by melting the
polar ice cap.
Markin said Soviet engineers
visualize damming 55-mile Bering
Strait and then using hundreds
of giant pumps powered by an
atomic poWer station of two mil
lion killowat capacity to pump
Pacific Ocean water into the
polar sea.
“This would produce an arti
ficial warm current approximate
ly equal in volume to that of the
Golf Stream,” Markin said.
“Each year this current would
carry as much warmth into the
Arctic Ocean as is contained in
10 billion tons of oil. Of course
that would greatly moderate the
climate in the Arctic Zone and
the adjacent continents.
“Furthermore, by smashing the
famous Siberian anticyclone and
eliminating conditions that form
great masses of cold Arctic air,
we would deliver not only Asia'
and North America but also part
of Europe from the frigid breath
of the Arctic.”
The result, Markin said, would
“be something like discovering
new continents with a mild Eu
ropean climate and with wonder
ful natural resources. What is
now barren and frozen wilderness
would blossom.”
The National Security Council
Becomes Policy Making Agency In
Government Until Ike’s Recovery
WASHINGTON, — The!
United States government went to
work on a business as usual pol
icy today despite the loss of Presi
dent Eisenhower’s active leader
ship for an indefinite period.
The National Security Council
now becomes the most important
policy making agency in the gov
ernment. A strong advisory group,
it now affords the mechanism
through which Vice President
Nixon will act in some degree as
a substitute president, and others
can share problems which other
wise would be the President’s.
Assurances that the domestic
and foreign policies and opera
tions of the Eisenhower adminis
tration will go forward without a
hitch came quickly yesterday
from Nixon and three cabinet sec
retaries—Dulles of State, Humph
rey of Treasury and Benson of
Agriculture.
Eisenhower retains the full
powers of the presidency, but
many of his responsibilities and
much more of the work load that
normally would be his can be
delegated to others.
Even while recuperating from
the heart attack which struck
him Saturday, Eisenhower pre
sumably could sign papers and
make those decisions important
enough to be brought to his at
tention.
At Denver, White House Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty said
the Justice Department has been
Coastal Rambler Departs
For Nome From Seattle
With Large Varied Cargo
SEATTLE, UP) — Two signs of
approaching winter were in evi
dence at Pier 42, home of Alaska
Steamship Co. ships.
One was the departure of the
Coastal Rambler on the last voy
age of the year to Nome and
other Bering Sea ports, which
soon will be icebound until next
summer.
Aboard the Coastal Rambler
were large amounts of groceries,
fuel oil, gasoline and lubricating
oil, and lumber and other build
ing supplies for the areas around
St. Michael, Unalakleet, Nome
and Teller.
There were also large amounts
of beverages, a normal cargo
item, and a small shipment of
fireworks, an item which was
more puzzling at this time of year.
Another sign of approaching
winter was cargo being loaded on
the Square Sinnet, which left yes
terday for Seward.
Included were some 50 boys’
sleds and also a quantity of snow
shovels.
asked to decide what powers may
be delegated.
The Constitution provides that
the Vice President take over in
case of the removal of the Presi
dent, his death, resignation or
“inability to discharge the powers
and duties of office.”
Only when a President has died
has a Vice President ever taken
over, however. No President has
ever retired while in office, al
though the possibility was discus
sed after President Woodrow Wil
son suffered a stroke Oct. 2, 1919.
He finished out the 17 months of
his term and survived for three
more years.
Secretary Dulles told reporters
that Eisenhower has “forged a
team” of his top officials who
know their respective tasks. This
team, he added, can carry on with
full effectiveness permitting
“ample time” for the President
to recover without jeopardizing
the nation.
He said he himself planned to
continue with preparations for the
Geneva Big Four foreign minis
ters conference opening Oct. 27.
Secretary Humphrey, also em
phasizing the team aspect, told
newsmen “you can count on the
government continuing in the ab
sence of the President due to ill
ness the same as they would con
tinue in any other temporary ab
sence . . . the same policies will
carried out in the same way.”
Northwind Due In Seattle
Tuesday from The Arctic
SEATTLE, UP — The Coast
Guard icebreaker Northwind is
due in Seattle from the Arctic
tomorrow afternoon.
The ship spent the summer
opening paths through the ice for
cargo vessels carrying material
and equipment for the DEW Line
radar network north of Alaska
and Canada.
COPYCATS
TOKYO, UP—Japan’s Commun
ist party has taken up that old
capitalist pasttime of baseball.
The party has formed two
teams on its newspaper Red Flag.
Team colors: red, white and
blue.
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
New York 9-1, Boston 2-8
Detroit 6, Cleveland 2
Baltimore 5, Washington 4
Chicago 5, Kansas City 0
National League
New York 5-1, Philadelphia 2-3
Brooklyn 4, Pittsburgh 0
Cincinnati 13, Chicago 0
St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 5
“White Witch Doctor” Held Over
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