VOL. LX I No. 67 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1959 . - Per Copy—15*
Hawaii Governor
Hints Legislators
Pilfer Supplies
By ROBERT TUCKMAN
HONOLULU, UPl —■■ Territorial
Governor William F. Quinn has
ordered a formal investigation of
removal of office equipment and
supplies from Senate chambers
after the last Territorial Legisla
ture adjourned May 11.
Quinn, a Republican running for
Governor in Hawaii’s first state
election July 28, issued a state
ment Sunday asking legislators to
“account for their stewardship”
of public property. He followed
this up Wednesday with a direc
tive for an inventory.
Some members of the Democra
tic-controlled Legislature were
accused indirectly of making off
with desk sets, chairs, desks, vac
uum cleaners, typewriters, filing
cabinets and other equipment
after their last session as a ter
ritorial body.
Some senators conceded taking
the articles but contended such
practice was traditional.
Some others said they had paid
for the articles.
Newspapers, radio stations and
some Republicans are making a
big to-do of it. Newspapers report
the equipment involved is worth
several thousand dollars.
The acting president, Democrat
Senator Matsuki Arashiro, and
the Senate Accounts Committee
chairman, Senator John C. Duarte,
agreed to cooperate in the inves
tigation.
“So far as the Legislature goes,
it has always been done,” Ara
shiro said.
“The Legislature gets new
things every session. Who, as a
legislator, wants to use something
that has been used by someone
else?”
Arashiro said he gave his Senate
desk set to school children for
souvenirs.
Duarte said 852 pounds of such
furnishings were sent to him by
plane to his Maui Island home.
But he said he paid lor them. The
shipment includes a desk, four
chairs, a foam rubber couch, a
filing cabinet, a fan, a typewriter
and stand, a TV set and two car
tons of miscellaneous items.
Duarte, whose committee is
charged with keeping track of
equipment, said someone sent him
a rug but he hadn’t bought that,
so he shipped it back.
WEATHER FORECAST
Decreasing cold tonight, warmer
Saturday. Low tonight 45, high
tomorrow 60-65.
Sunrise at 1:39 a.m., sunset
at 11:23 p.m.
(New Canadian Foreign
Secretary Appointed
| OTTAWA, UP> — Howard Green,
I 63. Vancouver lawyer, was sworn
in yesterday as Canada’s new
foreign secretary. He succeeds
Sidney E. Smith, who died March
17. Green, who has been Federal
Public Works Minister since June,
1957, will keep that portfolio also
until his departmental estimates
for 1959-60 have been passed
through the House of Commons.
Ecuador Riots Kill
16, Injure 200
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, W —
Guayaquil counted 16 dead and
nearly 200 injured yesterday after
two nights of rioting which degen
erated Wednesday night into
looting.
The rioters burned down the
headquarters of the security police
in this big tropical port city and
sacked about 40 stores, two big
markets and even an orphanage.
About 100 persons were caught
with looted goods. They were
jailed for trials by courts martial
set up under the martial law de
creed throughout this predomi
nantly Indian nation by President
Camilo Ponce.
Col. Luis Pineiros, military
commander in Guayaquil, said |
the situation finally was brought \
under control at midnight with j
the help of university and high j
school students. The students had |
started the demonstration.
“When the students realized i
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that the mob was engaged in wild I
looting, they reacted patriotically I
and gave us their assistance,” j
Pineiros said. “The situation be
came exceedingly serious, but
was finally brought under
control.” . _
The renewed rioting grew out of
funeral services for six of the
j eight _ persons killed in clashes
Tuesday night.
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Three Sign Up As Entrants
In Festival Queen Contest
There are now three candidates
for the Queen of the Midnight Sun
j Festival, it has been announced
; by chairman Del Kampmann.
.
Bunny Doyle, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Doyle, and college
freshman from the University of
Alaska; Monica Boucher, daughter
of Mr. and Mds. Clement Boucher
and a High School junior, and
Alice Glavinovich, daughter of
: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Glavinovich,
and graduate of Nome High.
This year’s contest does not re
quire the girls to get out and sell
tickets for the most votes. To
qualify, the girls are required to
sell 250 tickets only.
Air Force Fails
In First Attempt
To Orbit Mice
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., UP) — Four black
mice, blasted aloft in an Air Force
attempt to return a living creature
from a satellite for the first time,
apparently didn’t make it.
The Air Force wanted them to
orbit the earth in a satellite, Dis
coverer III, for 26 hours, then
parachute in their air-conditioned
capsule.
However, something went
wrong. The two-stage Thor mis
sile roared into space Wednesday
as scheduled and sent back radio
signals for 13 minutes. Then the
signals stopped. The Air Force
said if has heard nothing since.
Six hours after the firing, the
Ballistic Missile Division said:
“Based on information presently
available, it is believed that the
Discoverer did not achieve an
orbit.”
The 787-foot-long projectile was
presumed to have burned up on
re-entering the atmosphere. It
was considered highly unlikely
that it could have escaped the
earth’s pull, because of speed
factors.
Planes had been poised to try
a difficult aerial catch over the
Pacific. But officials had given
them only one chance in 700 of
succeeding.
The mice, pick of their breed,
would have been the first crea
tures retrieved alive from orbit.
Two monkeys were fired into
space from Cape Canaveral by
the Army May 28, but their trip
covered only 1,500 miles. They
were not intended to go into orbit.
Information from Wednesday’s
launching will be used in plan
ning the Project Mercury attempt
to put man in orbit some two
years from now.
Dead Monkey Astronaut
To be Mounted for Exhibit
ROCHESTER, N. Y., UP) The
body of Able, the space-flying
rhesus monkey, will be mounted
by a Rochester taxidermy com
pany for nse in armed forces
exhibits.
The Ward’s Natural Science Es
tablishment, Inc., said Thursday
the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology in Washington had
asked it to stuff and mount the
seven-pound astronaut.
Able soared into space in the
nose cone of a Jupiter missile last
month with another monkey,
Baker.
Able died Monday at Ft. Knox,
Ky., while scientists were re
moving recording instruments
used in the historic flight.
| Mystery Jets
Approach Seattle ■
Tokyo Airliner
By GENE KRAMER
TOKYO, MP) — Jet planes be
lieved to be Russian made three
observation approaches on an
American airliner over the North
Pacific yesterday more than 200
miles off Soviet territory, North
west Airlines reported.
The U. S. Air Force said it had
no planes in the area at the time,
prompting speculation that Soviet
fighters had approached the
Seattle - to- To kyo Northwest
DC-7C.
The plane crew reported that
the closest approach came within
two or three miles but the plane
of planes did not cross in front
of the airliner.
The American plane continued
on course and reached Tokyo
ahead of schedule. Its 46 passen
gers were asleep and apparently
unaware of the incident.
A Northwest spokesman said
•the mystery planes appeared when
the airliner was some 200 miles
southeast of the Soviet Union’s
Kamchatka Peninsula, at 50 de
grees 50 minutes north latitude,
162 degrees 55 minutes east lon
gitude, and in the center of the
busy commercial airlane used by
five U. S., Canadian and European
companies.
Siberian-based Soviet jets have
recently been reported patroling
the region of the Great Circle air
lane between Japan and Alaska.
An, airline spokesman said from
vapor trails and specks in the
dawn sky, it was assumed two or
three jets -were involved. The
planes dropped two flares, pre
sumably to identify the American
aircraft.
The airliner was flying at 20,
000 feet.
! Navy Sights Soviet
Sub in N. Atlantic
WASHINGTON* UP) — The Navy
has reported sighting of a Soviet
submarine in waters about 150 to
200 miles south of Iceland on
'May 29.
The vessel was spotted on the
surface by the U. S. submarine
Grenadier and a Navy patrol
plane, engaged in exercises in the
area.
The report was made public by
the Navyjfi response to inquiries.
It was noted that the Soviet sub
was operating in an area common
ly used by Soviet ships in enter
ing the Atlantic from the Barents
| Sea.
Western Powers
Will Not Abandon
W. Berlin -- Herter
GENEVA, 1JFi — Secretary of
State Christian Herter charged
today that Russia’s real purpose
in the Big Four conference here
is to strip West Berlin of the pro
tecting presence of the Western
powers and clear the way for its
eventual annexation by Commu
nist East Germany.
In a strongly worded speech to
a conference session at the Palace
of Nations, Herter told Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
the Western powers will not aban
don two million West Berliners or
impose any new status upon them
against their will.
The Big Four went into semi
public session after spending most
of their fourth week here in secret
talks at villas of the various min
isters, -
Information on Herfer’s speech
became available while today’s
meeting was still in progress.
He said Gromyko stated some
days ago that the preferred Soviet
solution for the Berlin problem is
annexation of the city to East
Germany.
Failing this, Herter declared,
the Soviet minister has fallen back
on a roundabout approach to the
same end. He has asked the United
States, Britain and France to give
up their occupation rights in West
Berlin — war-won rights which
they possess independently of any
Soviet agreement.
Gromyko has hinted, by some
accounts, that Russia may be will
ing to concede the right of the
Western Allies to maintain their
garrisons in West Berlin indef
initely.
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man and a millionaire is that the
former worries over his next
meal, and the latter worries over
his last meal.
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