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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
62nd Year No. 97 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1961Per Copy 15^
Navy to Freeze
26,800 Men on
Active Duty
WASHINGTON UP — The Navy
announced today it will freeze
on continued active duty about
26,800 enlisted men and officers
who otherwise would be leaving
active service.
These men will be held on duty
for periods varying from six
months to a year.
The order is part of the military
buildup program and is designed
to help the Navy expand toward
a new authorized strength of
657,000 from a present level of
about 626,000.
The involuntary extension of
active duty applies to both regu
lar and reserve personnel. It will
affect about 80 officers and 1,600
enlisted men whose present tours
of duty would begin to expire
next month.
During October, about 400 of
ficers and 2,800 enlisted men will
be affected.
The total over these and suc
ceeding months will involve 24,
000 enlisted men and 2,800 of
ficers.
WORLD WAR II ENDED
16 YEARS AGO TODAY
NEW YORK UP) — Sixteen years
ago today World War II ended
with the unconditional surrender
of Japan. The nation and the
world went wild with joy.
In cities, towns and villages
across the country celebrations
were the order of the day and
night. Revelry was rampant.
A half-millian persons jammed
New York’s Times Square.
Tn San Francisco, things got
In San Francisco, things got a
bit out of hand on Market Street,
Milling sailors, soldiers and civil
ians ripped up war bond booths
and started a bonfire. The flames
were 40 feet high before fire
trucks put them out.
On Aug. 14, 1945, the War Man
power Commission terminted con
tx'ols; the Navy cancelled a $6
billion shipbuilding program; the
Army announced draft calls would
be cut imnxediately.
Today there are billions more
for defense, the draft has been
stepped up, and the ordinary
citizen is wondering what will
develop from the crisis of Berlin.
Herbert Hoover to
Narrate TV Skit —
‘“Ordeal of a President”
NEW YORK UP> — “The Ordeal
of a President” — Woodrow Wil
son — will be televised by the
National Broadcasting Co. this
fall with narration by another for
mer President — Herbert Hoover.
NBC special projects director
Donald Hyatt said the script for
the program depicting the period
of Wilson’s high hopes and dis
illusionment after World War I
was written by Hoover himself.
Republican Hoover was Eu
ropean Relief Administrator dur
ing the administration of Demo
crat Wilson.
Mexico Asks Extradition
Of Plane Hijacker from Cuba
MEXICO CITY UR — Mexico
today decided to ask extradition
of Charles Albert Cadon from
Cuba for trial here for hijacking
a Pan American jetliner enroute
from Mexico to Guatemala last
week.
CAP Cadets Head
For Encampment Being
Held at Elmendorf AFB
Monica Boucher and Dave Hen
chon were scheduled to leave for
Anchorage yesterday, where they
will participate on the Senior
Staff of CAP during the ecamp- |
ment of CAP Cadets which starts
today.
The Alaska CAP Cadet Drill
team which competed in Colo
rado Springs last week, is expect
ed to be back and participate
also in the annual encampment
ment at Elmendorf AFB.
CAP Cadets who left here for
the annual CAP Cadet Encamp
ment will join the boys returning
from Colorado Spring, were: Pearl
Johnson, Ethel Kungesuk and
June Oman.
Returning from Colorado
Springs will be Tommy Boucher,
Charles Burnett, David Grant,
and Pepper Gray.
15-Year-Old Girl Heads
U.S. Swim Team in
International Competition
PHILADELPHIA — A sweet,
teen-age girl with a “killer com
plex” in the water heads the
youngest swim team ever picked
to represent the United States in
top-level international sports com
petition.
The lassie who is steel-hearted
in the pool and sugar and spice
out of it is Carolyn House, 15,
successor to the great Chris Von
Saltza as Queen of American
swimmers.
Freshly-crowned 200, 400 and
1,500 meter free-style champion
tops a squad of 12 swimmers and
two divers selected on their per
formances in the National AAU
Outdoor Championships to com
pete against Europe’s best in five
meets abroad Aug. 16-Sept. 5.
Bomber and Fuel
Tanker Collide -
Both Land Safely
SACRAMENTO, Calif. UP — For |
20 tense minutes, two damaged
jets — a bomber and a tanker —
circled high above the Pacific
after colliding.
Their skippers talked by radio
with Air Force brass and engi
neers from the company that
made the planes, trying to decide
whether to ditch 50 miles off the
coast or try to land at Mather Air
Force Base near here.
Finally, the planes were ordered
to Mather. They landed success
fully and none of the crew was in
jured.
The Air Force Sunday revealed
the details of the collision which
occurred at 5:44 p. m. Saturday.
Col. Merrill N. Moore told how
the KC-135 tanker and the B-52
bomber tangled but declined to
say if the B-52 carried nuclear
weapons.
The tanker had fueled the
bomber when one of its crew
members noticed smudges on the
B-52’s left wing, Moore related.
Lt. Col. Garland Smith of Sac
ramento moved his tanker close
to the bomber to take a look.
He had been asked to do this
by Capt. Charles Layton of Sacra
mento, pilot of the B-52.
The crash ripped two-thirds of
the stablizer section of the tail
assembly from the B-52 and tore
away an engine from the four- ,
engine KC-135.
American Nations
Unite in a Mighty
Push for Progress
n
PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay W
—Western Hemisphere statesmen
put the finishing touches today
on a historic declaration allying
the American States in a mighty
push for progress.
President Kennedy’s alliance for
progress program will become a
reality Wednesday when minis
ters of 20 American States—and
perhaps 21 — gather for a cere
monial signing of the declaration
of Punta Del Este. It will be the
final act in the Inter-American
Economic Conference which has
been meeting here since Aug. 5.
A U. S. source said Kennedy’s
representatives at the Inter-Amer
ican Conference feel strongly that
the alliance will inspire Latin
Americans to help themselves.
Self-help is one of the most im
portant aspects of participation in
the program.
“Most of the nations realize,”
the informant said, “that f they
are going to develop at all, they
must mobilize their own re.
sources.”
The United States plans to pour
more than a billion a year for
the next 10 years into Latin
American development. It hopes
this will be swelled a total of
$20 billion by other foreign aid
sources, including private in
| vestors and governments of Eu
| rope and Japan.
One big question remained as
the 12-day conference drew to a
close — and it makes little dif
ference which way it finally is
answered. That is whether the
Castro regime will sign the final
declaration.
Mormon Church In
Alaska Selects Leaders
ANCHORAGE UP) — Orson P.
Millet of Anchorage yesterday
was named to be state president
of the Church of Jesus Christ,
Latter Day Saints.
Millet was called to take the j
highest state church office avail
able by two apostles of the i
quorum of 12 apostles of the
Mormon Church, Elder Mark E.
Peterson and Elder Franklin D.
Richards.
A Fairbanks Supreme Court
justice, Harry Arend, was named
to be First Councilman of the
new Mormon Alaska State. Lloyd
Owen, an Anchorage RCA em
ployee, was named Second Coun
cilman.
Others named included Glen
Hargan, clerk; Milton C. Christ
ianson and Bruce Hooper, assist
ant clerks for Fairbanks and An
chorage, respectively; and nine
other councilmen
Jap Demonstration Fizzles
Out Against Mikoyar.
TOKYO UP) — A demonstration
by right-wing extremists protest
ing the arrival of Soviet First
Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mi
koyan fizzled . oday.
Some 1,600 anti-Mikoyan de
monstrators clashed with police
Friday. Today 7,000 police — the
largest ever mobilized for a
visitor — turned out to protect
the Soviet official at the airport
and along the 10-mile route to the
Soviet Embassy.
Thought for Today . . .
The most dangerous enemy to
truth and freedom among us is
the compact majority — Henrik
Ibsen.
Berlin Crisis
Mounts . . . JFK
Confers with Rusk
WASHINGTON 1# — President
Kennedy called in Secretary of
State Dean Rusk for a conference
on the mounting crisis over Ber
lin — presumably to discuss
counter measures the Western
powers may take against the Com
munist ban on the flight of re
fugees from Red rule into West
Berlin.
in another development Assist
ant Secretary of State Foy D.
Kohler arranged a meeting with
the ambassadors of Britain,
France and West Germany for
mid-afternoon to discuss actions
the West may take beyond the
lodging of a formal protest with
the Soviet commander in East
Berlin.
The range of actions, diplomats
said, includes a possible retalia
tory ban on travel from West Ger
many to East Germany — which
could be a blow to the East Ger
man economy.
Kennedy conferred for 50 min
utes with his ambassador to Rus
sia, Llewellyn Thompson, soon
after returning this morning from
a weekend at Hyannis Port, Mass.
Presumably Thompson reported
to Kennedy on his assessment of
the policy and recent threatening
behavior of Soviet Premier
Khrushchev with respect to West
Berlin. The best informed U. S.
diplomats are known to believe
that Khrushchev is showing signs
of frustration due to Western op
position to his Berlin demands
and at the same time he is in
! ereasinglv committing the Soviet
Union to a dangerous course. His
purpose is believed to be to ter
rorize U. S. allies in Western Eu
rope.
The ambassador plans to leave
Washington late today and fly
tonight from New York to Frank
furt. From Frankfurt, he will go
to join his family, now in Ger- !
many on vacation. Thompson said ;
he did not knew when he would |
return to Moscow.
Secretary Rusk denounced the j
Red crackdown on travel between
East and West Berlin as a “fla
grant violation” of agreements by
Russia to permit “free circula
tion” within the city and between
Berlin and the rest of Germany.
Eichmann's Sentence to
Be Handed Down in Nov.
JERUSALEM UP) — The trial
of Adolf Eichmann ended today
with an appeal from his defense
attorney for the court to “close
his file and judge him no more.”
Presiding Justice Moshe Landau
concluded the historic trial with
the announcement that judgement
and sentence will be handed down
in November.
Eichmann’s West German de
fense attorney. Robert Servatius.
had the last word in the 17-week
old trial and rejected the- com
plete case against the former
Gestapo colonel accused of re
sponsibility for the slaughter of
six million Eureopean Jews in
World War II.
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy. Low tonight 45,
high tomorrow 60. In the last 24
hours: High of 55, low of 42. Sun
rise at 3:47 a. m., sunset at 8:24
p. m. Temperatures a year ago
today: High of 63, low of 56. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 79 in 1S26, low 32 in
1943.
Sourdoughs to
Reminisce ()ld
Tales at Reunion
SEATTLE UP — Some will be
true and some not quite, but the
stories swapped at the 30th an
nual International Sour dough
Reunion Aug. 24-27 will be 24
carat fascination. Like how “the
Lucky Swede” got his nickname.
Alfred Lobley, 93, who rode
an old scow through the White
horse Rapids to the shining prom
ise of Alaska, tells the tale:
Lobley said “t h e Swede,’*
Charlie Anderson in private life,
“got his nickname when two city
slickers got him drunk at 40
Mile on the Yukon and sold him
a claim for $600.
It turned out, Lobley said, “An
derson sunk a shaft down 28 feet
and struck it rich.”
The oldtimers will talk about
people like “Sparerib Jimmy,” the
thin man; “Jerkine Sam,” who
drove a ten-horse team; “Deep
Hole Garrison,” who was the first
to sink a 100-foot shaft; and the
“Bible Kid,” who Lobley said
“got the name because of his
habit of giving a Bible reading on
a street corner so he could take
up a collection and get back into
a poker game.”
Then there was “Swiftwater
. Bill,” who created a stir when
j he visited Seattle in 1897 and
| threw gold nuggets out of his
j hotel window to crowds on the
! sidewalk below. And he tipped
j bellboys to page him as “King of
1 the Klondike.”
The men and women who pio
1 neered the Yukon during the
[ Gold Rush Days and afterward,
those who laid the foundations to
the 49th State, will come from all
over the country for the reunion.
It’ll be like the Stampede of
1897 — only this time they are
coming to Seattle to relive the
old times.
LEFTY WARREN SPAHN
POSTS 3001h WIN IN MAJORS
BOSTON OP — Lefty Warren
Sphan. fresh from his 300th pitch
ing victory, will be honored at
Fenway Park Aug. 21 when the
Boston Red Sox play Milwaukee
in an exhibition baseball game.
Richard Cardinal Cushing, Ro
man Catholic Archbisop of Bos
ton. will present the 40 year old
southpaw a special plaque for his
baseball achievements.
Sphan edged Chicago 2-1 for the
Braves Friday night for his 300th
milestone triumph.
Proceeds from the game are
ticketed for the Children’s Cancer
Research Foundation, Inc.
Cardinal Cicognani, Named New
Vatican Secretary of Staie
VATICAN CITY CP — Pope
John XXIII today named Amleto
Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani,
who for 25 years was the Apos
tolic delegate to the United States,
to be his new secretary of State.
Cardinal Cicognani succeeds
Cardinal Tardini. who died sud
denly on July 30.
The new Vatican Secretary of
State is 78, born Feb. 24, 1883,
at Brisighella, near Faenza, in
northern Italy.
GRAND JURY IN SESSION
The Grand Jury went into spe
cial session this morning in the
Superior Court and is expected to
continue in session through Wed
nesday. Next week several cases
will be tried, including some from
Kotzebue and Barrow besides
those originating here