Riots Rage
In Capitol Of
Belgian Congo
LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Con
go, — Thirty-four people are
reported killed and about 100
seriously injured in two days of
rioting in Leopoldville, the Bel
gian Congo capital.
Shops have been set on fire,
Catholic missions ransacked, and
schools and police headquarters
burned out.
Europeans have been stoned and
shot at and mission priests have
been beaten by the rioting Afri
cans.
Most of the dead were believed
to be Africans shot by police or
troops.
A state of siege has been pro
claimed. .
Barbed wire barricades have
been set up. Firearms have been
distributed to the European pop
ulation.
But the situation remained high
ly explosive because native lead
ers apparently had lost control of
their followers.
The riots started Sunday with
a political meeting of Congolese
at which future independence for
the Congo was mentioned. The
crowd started shouting, “We want
independence now.”
The crowd burst out of the Af
rican area into the Avenue De
Gaulle, a street of low buildings
with shops selling goods for Af
ricans. Most of the shops are run
by Greeks and Portuguese. The
Africans broke into the shops, ran
sacked them and set them on fire.
Deputy Premier
Mikoyan On Tour
Of United States
CLEVELAND, Ohio, UP) — Anas
tas I. Mikoyan, No. 2 man of the
Kremlin, arrived in Cleveland to
day to start a 13-day coast-to
coast tour. He bustled off a plane
and down a couple lines of police.
Several hundred picketing na
tionality groups were blocked back
by ropes.
Cyrus Eaton, Cleveland indus
trialist, and his wife greeted Mi
koyan, Mrs. Eaton speaking in
Russian.
Mikoyan told her it was very
good to speak Russian with her,
and solicitously advised the 75
year-old Eaton, who will be his
host here, that he should wear a
hat on his white-haired head, lest
he catch cold.
Several hundred Iron Curtain
country nationality groups had
gathered at the airport. They car
ried such signs as “Blackmailer,”
“Mikoyan, your hands are red
with Russian blood.”
Mikoyan inspected the cockpit
of the Vickers Viscount and talked
with the pilot and copilot during
the flight.
He told them one of his brothers
was an airplane engineer. That
was Artem Mikoyan, co-designer
of the Mig series of fighters. He
said also that he had one pilot
son killed in the war and another
son who is still a pilot.
After an overnight stay as the
guest of millionaire Eaton, Mi
koyan will go on to Detroit and
the West Coast before returning
to Washington January 19 for
talks with President Eisenhower.
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New Year Traffic
Deaths Reach 377
CHICAGO, [ff\ — The nation’s
traffic death toll during the long
j New Year weekend, a final count
shows, was 377 — 13 less than the
National Safety Council’s pre
holiday estimte.
Final tabulations for the four
day period from New Year’s Eve
to midnight Sunday also showed
61 persons lost their lives in fires
and 113 were killed in miscellan
eous type accidents for an over
all total of 551. The traffic toll
compared with the record 409 set
in the four-day New Year holiday j
•period of 1956-57.
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Valdez Invites
Legislature To
Hold Session There
The City of Valdez has extended
an invitation to the first state
legislature to hold its session in
Vldez, as there is not enough
room in Juneau.
Their resolution stated that Val
dez has buildings, halls, schools,
apartments, hotels, motels, and
houses which could accommodate
500 extra people in reasonable
housing at rates of $50 to $80 a
month, and hotel rooms at 60 dol
lars a month.
They urge consideration to be
given to their invitation also be
cause they feel that the state
capiiol must be more centrally lo
cated to serve the whole of Alas-1
ka to better advantage.
Further reasons given included
the fact that Valdez has two air
ports, and is connected by high
way, year-round paved roads to
all major Western Alaska cities.
Mrs. Lois Aulrey and children
left here Monday after a brief
visit with relatives and friends.
She will be joining her husband
soon in Madrid, Spain, where they
will make their home for 3 years.
Her husband is stationed there
with the U. S. Air Force.
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Bryan Dickey.
Discharged — Wm. Oquilluk,
Ada Kononasek, George Enyow
ruk, Nina Angongak, Isaac
Piscoya.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled Dy the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Fair today and tonight, with
little temperature change; in
creasing cloudiness and warmer
Thursday. Low tonight -10. High
tomorrow 5 above.
HAWAII STATEHOOD BILL
IS PLANNED FOR FEBRUARY
WASHINGTON, 0P>—'The chair
man of the Senate Territories Sub
committee today predicted com
miaee approval of an Hawaii
Statehood bill by the end of Feb
rury or early March.
Senator Henry M. Jackson »D
Wash) said he expected hearings
on the bill would be held for a
couple of days early in the ses
sion.
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7 Airmen Die
In Barracks Fire
At Syracuse
SYRACUSE, N. Y., UP> — Wind
blown fire killed at least seven
Student airmen and injured 13
yesterday as they fought like ani
mals to escape from their barracks
dormitory at Syracuse University.
"It was like animals trying to get
cut of a cage,” moaned Sgt. Peter
Dowling, 25, Kalamazoo, Mich., in
his hospital bed.
The one-story prefabricated bar
! racks housed 45 Air Force men
' assigned to the university to study
Russian.
Officials said the fire appar
ently started from a heating unit
as the students slept.
Winds up to 50 miles an hour
wmpped the flames into “a river
of fire,” said Donald Dowling, 19,
Rochester, another of the injured.
Peter Dowling, unrelated to
Donald, told of trying to reach a
fire extinguisher outside his room.
“But the fire and smoke were
so great that I couldn’t stand it,”
he told reporters. “Everybody was
jumping out of windows.”
Many of the men were cut by
window glass.
The 22-room, clapboard-type
building, in the university’s Sky
top housing development on a hill
overlooking the city, “went up like
a matchbox,” Dowling said.
The students had just arrived
to take a nine-month crash pro
gram that stresses Russian. The
program, established in the 1940’s,
is subsidized by the government
for the Air Force.
ICC Takes Over
Rate Making Powers
For 49th State
WASHINGTON, UP — The In
terstate Commerce Commission
today announced it has issued
temporary operating authorities
to 30 Alaskan motor carriers hand
ling passengers and freight which
previously operated under Terri
torial authority.
The ICC became vested with
rate-making powers for such car
riers only after Alaska became a
state last Saturday.
The commission said it is now
processing some 50 applications j
by truckers headquartered in the j
other 48 states who want to op
erate between their present terri
tories and Alaska, via the Alcan
Highway.
Vernon Kuzgruk is serving a
[ sentence of 120 days in the Fed
eral Jail on a drunk and disor
derly charge. 60 days of the sen
tence has been suspended.
NOTICE
All business assessments must
be turned in to the City Clerk's
Office by January 10, 1959.
ROBERT F. SCOTT,
4 Municipal Assessor.
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Anchorage Storm Causes
Extensive Damage
ANCHORAGE, UP\ — Strong
northerly winds buffeted Alaska’s
largest city last night. Early re
ports indicated damage was wide
spread, but not too serious. The
winds continued today.
The most severe blow of the
season, racing gusts of up to 50
miles an hour, knocked down
signs, posts and trees.
Fresh snow which fell here over
the weekend was whipped into
blinding blizzard-like fury, drift
ing heavily across streets and
highways and causing hazardous
driving conditions.
Anchorage area schools dis
missed classes early and many
office employes and store workers
left their jobs to head for home,
meetings and organizational af
fairs were cancelled.
Brief power failures were ex
perienced in some sections, extra
power line crews, along with fire
fighting personnel, were alerted
to stand by in case of emergency.
Flight schedules into Anchorage
were disrupted, with some planes
being diverted to other fields in
south central Alaska.
Seth Ekstrom, Early-Day Pioneer,
Dead At 89 In Seattle
SEATTLE, UP) — Seth Ekstrom,
89, Pacific Northwest pioneer who
went to Alaska in the gold rush
and “made his strike,” died of
a stroke here Saturday.
Ekstrom was born in Sweden
and came to the United States in
1886. He went to Portland, Ore.,
in 1887 and to Dawson, Y. T., in
1897, and later found gold in
Nome. He came to Seattle in 1917
and lived on his property invest
ments.
He was a member of the Alaska
Yukon Pioneers.
Explosions Rip
Buildings In
Turkish Capitol
By WEBB McKINLEY
ISTANBUL, t#t — An explosion
ripped apart two buildings includ
ing two newspaper plants, in the
old central part of Istanbul Tues
day.
Police said 14 bodies were re
covered and several more were
believed still 'buried in the debris.
They said 87 were injured.
It was feared as many as 30 may
have lost their lives.
Three of the dead were pas
sengers in a crowded bus which
lumbered past the four story buil
dings at the moment of the blast.
The bus was crushed beneath the
debris.
Other victims were sitting in a
coffee shop on the ground floor
of a small hotel across the street.
Cause of the explosion was not
determined, but the injured own
er of the building which housed
the newspapers Istanbul Ekspczs
and Yeni Gazete said it appeared
to come from a warehouse in the
rear where chemicals, including
oxygen flasks, were stored.
Bulent Gencer, secretary of the
Yeni Gazete, said he had put his
head on his desk for a short nap.
“I was dozing when suddenly I
heard a huge rumbling noise and
felt myself falling, still in my
chair like in an elevator,” he said.
“I fell three floors and found my
self on the ground floor.”
Still in his chair and partly
trapped by a fallen beam, he was
pulled to safety 20 minutes later.
His only injury was a sprained
back.
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