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VOL. LX No. 72 * NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, * JUNE 16, 1958 Per Copy—15^
Jerome Trigg Jr.
Injured In 2-Car
Crash Saturday
Jerome Trigg, Jr. is hospital
ized with a broken leg, broken
near the hip, from a collision of
his car with that of Robert Dick
son who received head and elbow
injuries requiring stitches.
Hannah Ahmasuk, who was a
passenger in the Trigg car re
ceived minor cuts and bruises.
Both cars were completely
wrecked on the Bessie Road at
the City Field where the accident
occurred.
The cause of the accident is
being investigated by the U. S.
Marshall.
Tito Defends
Acceptance Of
Aid From U.S.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, UP)—
President Tito and the Soviet
bloc swapped broadside yester
day. Tito defended his accep
tance of U. S. aid, and Peiping
radio compared him to Judas Is
cariot for taking American help.
Tito asked a crowd of 50,000
in the coal mining town of Labin
what right Nikita Khrushchev
had to attack Yugoslavia for
getting U. S. aid when the Soviet
Premier himself was soliciting
credit from Washington.
The Yuvoslav President said
American aid had been sent to his
country after his break with
Stalin in 1949 “because hunger
threatened here and in order to
help us protect our independence
against Stalin.”
Yugoslavia needs American
wheat, cotton, fats and other
products, and “the American
wheat is no worse than the
Russian, which we do not re
ceive,” he continued.
The Yugoslav leader said
Khrushchev’s attack on his in
dependent brand of Communism
“insulted not only the Yugo
slav leadership but the Yugo
slav people, too ... we will re
main faithful to our principles I
and stick to our just road.” |
Pied Piper
To Open The
Festival Parade
"Once Upon A Time" Parade
Nome’s first Midnight Sun Fes
tival will be officially opened
at 2 p.m. Friday June 20 to the
strains of “The Pied Piper.”
At that signal the young in
heart will pick up a favorite toy
or pet and hasten to follow the
Piper as of yore.
It is expected that Little Boy
Blue, Jack and Jill, Little Miss
Muffet,. Little Jack Horner, Lit
tle Bo Peep and all the others
will be there.
The not-so-young but still hap
py-hearted may be seen as Moth
er Goose, The Old Woman Who
Lived in a Shoe, the Wicked Old
Witch or in many other ways
perhaps clowns from some far,
far away circus may hear the J
music of the Pied Piper and
join in the parade. Of course
witches should know that strange
things may happen to them on
such a day.
There will be prizes for gay
est costume, for the most inter
esting pet, the most original toy,
for the happiest smile, and for
the Wandering Minstrel who
most pleases the children. So if
you can play the comb, harmon
ica,, guitar or any otherinstru
ment, bring it along.
Although the parhde starts at
the School grounds, the Pied
Piper will welcome any of the
children along the way which will
be down B street and across
Front Street. The small children
may prefer to join in in front of
the Polaris—any place along the
way says the Pied Piper.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Kansas City 17-9, Boston 6-4
Detroit 2-3, New York 0-0
Chicago 3-4, Baltimore 0-0
Cleveland 5-4, Washington 3-2
National League
Cincinnati 7-4, Chicago 0-2
Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 2
San Francisco 3, Philadelphia 1
Pittsburgh 12, Los Angeles 1
Pacific Coast League
San' Diego 3-7, Sacramento 2-2
Seattle 4-1, Vancouver 2-3
Spokane 7, Portland 2
Salt Lake City 7-9, Phoepix 3-8
I I ' f .PijH
Presidential Aide Adams Under Fire
WASHINGTON, UP) — House
investigators produced evidence
today that industrialist Bernard
Goldfine paid bills for Sherman
Adams at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel in New York at about the
time a government agency was
closing out a case against Gold
fine.
Adams is President Eisen
hower’s No. 1 aide. The Waldorf
bills for Adams and Mrs. Adams
came to $267.05.
They were run up at the plush
New York hotel in January and
February 1954.
In the same period, investigator
Francis X. McLaughlin told a
House Subcommittee, the Federal
Trade Commission was settling
a complaint against Goldfine’s
Northfield Mills.
A Goldfine textile company
promised it would halt alleged
mislabeling of certain cloth, and
that the matter was closed on
that basis.
The law provides various al
ternative actions in cases of
charges of mislabeling. One is
an agreement not to do it again.
In cases of violations considered
willful the Federal Trade Com
mission can prosecute criminally
in the courts and, if there is a
conviction the penalties can run
up to $5,000 fine and a year’s im
prisonment.
Later Goldfine and some of
his mills were involved in other
charges of alleged mislabeling.
This resulted in a “cease and de
sist” order, to which Goldfine
and the companies consented,
though admitting no wrong-doing.
While the House Subcommittee
headed by Rep. Oren Harris (D
Ark) received today’s testimony,
| White House press secretary
Hagarty told a news conference
he had no information that Gold
fine ever offered President Eisen
hower a suit of clothes.
The question came up when
reporter Sarah McLendon said
her newspaper has information
that Goldfine likes to make gifts
of clothes to his friends and has
given suits to some members of
the White House staff “and
probably offered one” to Eisen
hower.
“I have no knowledge of that”
Hagerty replied.
! Gov’t. Not
Liable For
j Gold Shutdown
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Su
preme Court decided today that
j the federal government was
i not liable for compensation to
| gold mine owners because of
the closing of their operations
| during World War II. Jus
I tice Burton delivered the 7-2
decision. Justices Frankfurter
and Harland dissented.
U. S. Army Contacts
East Germany For
Release of 9 Airmen
BERLIN, UP) — Communist
East Germany said Saturday a
U. S. Army Colonel paid an of
ficial call at its Foreign Ministry
to seek the release of nine U. S.
Army prisoners.
Th official East Germany news
agency ADN said the call—first
direct contact between the East
German regime and the United
States—was made by Col. Robert
P. McQuail, accompanied by a
major.
ADN said East Germany’s Dep
uty Foreign Minister Otto Win
zer told McQuail that his govern
ment was ready to settle the af
fair quickly if McQuail was fully
competent to negotiate.
Winzer insisted McQuail show
he had been fully authorized by
the U. S. government to take up
this international matter.
Another meeting between Mc
Quail and the East German of
ficial was arranged for today,
ADN said.
The ADN announcement indi
cated the way now was open for
the quick release of the nine
Americans whose helicopter was
lost in a thunderstorm and
strayed across the iron curtain a
week ago.
- i
A1 Williams, Speed
King of Last Generation
Dead At 61 Of Cancer
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., UP)—
Maj. Alford (Al) Williams, speed
flier of a generation ago, and a
fighter for air power and a sep
arate Air Force, died of cancer
at a hospital yesterday1 at the
age of 61. He lived on a nearby
farm.
Williams conceived dive bomb
ing 35 years ago and was the
first man to fly 300 miles an
hour.
His single-seat, custom-built
fighter plane, the Gulfhawk, in
which he flew around the coun
try,. is enshrined in the Smith
sonian Institution as “the plane
that taught young America to
fly.”
U. S. Senators
Congratulated For
Courtesy In Debate
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen.
Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) con
gratulated his fellow senators
for the care and courtesy they
use in debate.
He did so by calling attention
to what Australians have been
doing. Goldwater said the Aus
sie House of Representatives re
cently adopted a new code on
debate which will prevent mem
bers from calling each other
“such names as assassin, cad,
blood-drinker, cur, miserable
body-snatcher, sewer rat, gas-bug,
ignoramus, political Montreal, la
dog, or slimy reptile.”
Southern Senators Predict Statehood
For Alaska Will Induce New Members
To Support All Handout Proposals
WASHINGTON, UP) — Virgin
ia’s senators predicted today that
statehood for Alaska would loosen
Uncle Sam’s purse strings.
Both Sen. Harry F. Byrd and
Sen. A. Willis Robertson, Demo
crats, said they will oppose leg
islation to admit the big territory
as the 49th state.
The bill, which passed the
House May 28 by a vote of 208
to 166, may come up for Senate
consideration next week. 9
Byrd said he believes Alaska
is not only unable to support a
state government but that the
two additional votes from Alas
kan senators might tip the bal
ance toward more government
spending.
“For the last few years there
have been close voting between
the radical and conservative
spenders,” Byrd said. “Thev two
Alaska senators might have the
controlling votes.”
A similar view was expressed
by Robertson in a separate in
terview.
“Since Alaska would have to
be heavily subsidized,” Robertson
said, “the two Alaskan senators
would be induced to support all
other handodt proposals to get
federal handouts for Alaska.”
Robertson said the compara
tively small population of Alaska
is another argument against
granting statehood.
“At the present time the popu
lation including the military, is
just a little more than one third
that of a normal congressional
district,” he said. “The white
population in Alaska, excluding
the military, is about that of
Roanoke City.”
Delegate E. L. Bartlett said
supporters of Alaska statehood
contend Alaskans can support a
state government and are ready
to tax themselves to do so.
Concerning added government
spending, Bartlett said what Alas
kan senators may do remains for
•the future to determine.
“However, I’d be inclined to
agree that they would vote by and
large with the western group of
senators. Some may contend this
is too much government spend
ing, others will say it is spend
ing for the development of re
sources.”
State Dept. Not
Empowered To
Deny Passports
WASHINGTON, UP — The Su
preme Court ruled today the
State Department was wrong in
denying passports to two appli
cants who refused to sign non
Communist affidavits.
The ruling applied to Rockwell
Kent, 75-year-old artist, and Dr.
Walter Briehl, Los Angeles psy
f chiatrist.
Justice Douglas delivered the
5-4 decision. Justice Clark wrote
a dissenting opinion, joined by
Justices Burton, Harlan and
Whittaker.
Joining Douglas in the majority
were Chief Justice Warren and
Justices Black, Frankfurter and
Brennan.
Douglas said in the majority
opinion that “we will not readily
infer that Congress gave the
Secretary of State unbridled dis
cretion” to withhold passports.
Douglas said the court would
be faced with important consti
tutional questions if it were to
hold that Congress had given the
Secretary authority .to withhold
passports to citizens because of
their beliefs or associations.
Douglas said laws on which the
Secretary of State relied in deny
ing passports to Kent and Briehl
did not in fact give the Secre
tary the kind of authority he
exercised.
Sentimental Journey
ST. LOUIS, UP — Tonight come
dian Bob Hope takes a sentimen
tal journey.
At the St. Louis Municipal
Opera he’ll appear in “Roberta”
as band leader Huckleberry
Haines, a role he created 25 years
ago on Broadway. The role
started him on the way to being
one of the wealthiest, best known
—and most loved comedians in
show business.
“I’m getting a kick out of this,”
he commented. “It’s great to be
back in a book show.”
Soviet TU-104 Jet
Afraid. to Fly
Over Tlie U.S.
WASHINGTON, UPl — The U. S.
Air Force dismissed as “a fig
ment of somebody’s imagination”
today a report a Soviet airliner,
visiting in Canada, could not
make a planned flight because
of the possibility of interception
by U. S. fighters.
It said the Russian visitors
never officially evidenced any
desire^to fly from Sea Island air
port, Vancouver, to Victoria,
British Columbia—a trip that
might have touched on U. S. air
space.
- In answer to an inquiry, an
Air Force Spokesman said the
TU-104 jet airliner could have
filed an intended flight plan with
the Ci\iil Aeronautics Adminis
tration but did not.
The plane, biggest attraction at
Centennial Air Show, was sched
uled to fly 75 miles from Sea
Island Airport to Victoria.
It flew instead in the greater
Vancouver area after Royal Ca
nadian Air Force officials said
they had been unable to gain
assurances from the U. S. Air
Force that the Soviet aircraft
would not be challenged by U. S.
fighters should it cross the inter
national boundary.
A spokesman for the U. S. Air
Defense Command at McChord
Air Force Base near Tacoma,
Wash., said he had no knowledge
of the TU-104’s proposed flight.
He said any plane that filed
an approved flight plan with the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
as approaching tj. S. territory
would not be challenged.
“We challenge only those air
craft that cannot be identified,”
the spokesman added. %
WASHINGTON, ST~ Gary
Paxton, Sitka, and Robert Wells,
Anchorage, have «been accepted
for entrance to West Point.
The two, nominated by Dele
gate E. Li. (Bob) Bartlett will
enter the academy July 1.