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Marciano-Charles
Fight To Start At
11 Tonight, EDT
NEW YORK, Iff)—Heavyweight
champion Rocky Marciano, weigh
ing in for the second time in
three days, tipped the beam at
187 pounds for his twice-post
poned heavyweight title bout with
Ezzard Charles at Yankee Sta
dium tonight. Charles weighed
192V&. i
Harry Markson, director of the
International Boxing Club, said
approximately $25,000 had been
returned to ticket holders who
would be unable to attend to
night’s twice-postponed affair.
Weather forecasts for the bout,
now scheduled to start at 11 p.m.,
EDT, after having been rained out
both Wednesday and Thursday
nights, continued to be good. The
temperature was expected to
hover near the 60 mark with
gentle to moderate winds under
cloudy skies.
Scientists Report
Finding Oil Near
Magnetic Pole
BOSTON, UR—There’s oil in the
frozen wastes around the mean
dering magnetic pole, a scientific
expedition reported today upon
its return from an exploratory
voyage of more than 8,000 miles
aboard the fishing vessel Monte
Carlo.
Heading the scientific staff was
the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J.,
director of the Boston College
seismograph station, who com
piled records which may show the
expedition was first to localize
the pole, an area rather than a
precise point on the globe, the
northwest corner of Prince of
Wales Island near Cape Dundas,
about 1,100 miles from the true
North Pole.
The magnetic pole, however,
does not occupy a stable position.
That is why navigation charts
show its rate of variation in re
lation to the pole at the top of
the earth.
Fr. Linehan said that other ex
peditions which claimed to have
located the magnetic pole used
the old dip needle method while
his party used the modern in
duction method which he de
scribed as more accurate.
Capt. Wilbur Dow Jr., of Short
Hills, N.J., skipper of the 78-foot
vessel, joined with Fr. Linehan in
saying the magnetic pole had been
located in a “relatively small tri
angle.”
Approach of winter forced the
expedition to retreat before it
could complete observations. On
several occasions the sturdy fish
ing vessel was caught in ice and
once she was freed by Canada’s
new Arctic patrol vessel Labor
ador.
Fr. Linehan pursued seismo
graph work on Prince of Wales
Island and at Emily Bay. He
found enough oil seeping from
rocks at Prirjpe of Wales and
Edgeworth Islands to smear the
hands, he said, but no indica
tions of uranium. Any oil found
in the area would be the property
of Canada.
Dulles Confers with Eden
On How To Put German
Troops In West Defense
LONDON, UPl — John Foster
Dulles talked at length today
with Britain’s government lead
ers on the question of how to put
German soldiers into Western de
fense. He arrived from Bonn al
ready in agreement with Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer that
West Germany should be treated
as an equal partner in arms.
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden also was just back from a
tour of continental capitals with
the same topic uppermost in talks
with East European leaders. At
his last stop, in Paris, Eden and
Premier Pierre Mendes - France,
issued a joint communique which
a French Foreign Office spokes
man said meant there was basic
agreement on Eden’s idea for a
seven-nation West European de
fense alliance including West Ger
many, Britain and France.
Later, however, there were
published reports Mendes-France
had attached many ifs and con
ditions to this basic agreement.
Informed sources said details are
to be worked out at a conference
in London beginning about Sep
tember 27.
Today is 20th Anniversary
Of Disasterous Fire Which
Razed City of Nome In ’34
Twenty years ago today a fire
destroyed the entire business dis
trict of Nome and extended as far
as D Street into the residential
district. High winds swept the fire
ahead of the fire department, de
stroying all hose and fire fighting
equipment.
It was all over in four hours,
residents will recollect, and no
lives were lost. By nightfall every
one had a roof over his head and
food from Little Creek was avail
able.
By Associated Press the news
of the disaster was broadcast and
the Nugget was printed on a mim
eograph until the Alaska Steam
ship Co. could send special cargo
ships to rebuild and restock Nome
for the winter.
First is still one of the biggest
hazards of living in Nome and
residents are urged with the com
ing of winter to check their stoves
and flues and to clean them as
the weather starts to get colder.
Forestry Men To Survey
Unalakleet Spruce In
Response to C of C Report
In response to one of the re
commendations of the Chamber
of Commerce in its Report to the
Secretary, announcement has been
made from Governor Heintzle
man’s office that the Bureau of
Land Management is sending a
crew of forestry men to Unala
kleet soon to make a reconnais
sance of the spruce in that area.
The governor suggests that any
one in the area who is familiar
with the timber and wishes to cut
it, make application now under
existing regulations. Inquiries
should be directed to R. R. Robin
son, Area Forestry Officer, Bu
reau of Land Management, An
chorage; or to Wallace Fixsen,
District Forester at McGrath, in
whose district Unalakleet is lo
cated.
Development
Board Feted by
Nome Chamber
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce held a special luncheon to
day to honor the Alaska Develop
ment Board who are having their
first official meeting here since
the appointment of some new
members.
Announcement was made that
Ken Sheppard of Anchorage is the
new president of the board, other
members being Robert Groseclose,
Fairbanks; William Bates, Ketch
ikan; Grant Jackson, Nome; and
Tormod Bie, Seward, Alaska.
Also attending the meeting are
Alexander Baird, manager of the
Board; A1 Anderson, Anchorage,
assistant manager.
All the members were infor
mally introduced and responded
with a few words. This was fol
lowed by an excellent report from
Baird, who gave a summary of
the all-over picture of the work
of the Development Board.
Baird showed the importance of
placing on the market, at this
stage in the development of the
territory, those products which
can be sold on the competitive
market. First in this category is
pulp because of the demand at
this time.
Second on the list is coal, of
major importance if it can be pro
duced to meet the prices of coal
from other parts of the country.
The importance of this meeting
of the Development Board is to
get together and understand the
needs of each part of the territory
and set up a working plan to help
all parts of the territory in its
growth.
Also attending the luncheon
was Ralph Starkey, vice president
of Alaska Airlines, who extended
to the ADB members a special
invitation from his company to
take a trip to Lost River tomor
row. There they will see the only
tin mine in North America in op
eration; then on to Wales and
Little Diomede Island and a quick
look into tomorrow when they
cross the International Date Line.
Kentucky Governor Loses
Wrestling Match With
Alligator at State Fair
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UP) — A
downright disrespectful alligator
taught Gov. Lawrence Wetherby
a lesson:
It’s easier to wrestle with pol
itics than reptiles.
The governor was attending the
Kentucky State Fair yesterday
when he was invited to go one
round with the 20-year-old, 8-foot
175-pound critter, a feature of
the water show.
After noting that the reptile’s
mouth was tied, Wetherby grab
bed it undpr the chin and twist
ed. The alligator did a somer
sault, landed on its belly and
began lashing out with its long
tail. Forsaking dignity, the gov
emr jumped.
And he leaped again when the
•critter let fly with a second
swing.
That ended the performance
for the governor, who decided
he’d rather drive an ostrich. He
did that last year at the fair.
Former North Korean
Jet Pilot Enrolls In
University of Delaware
NEWARK, Del., UP)—Kenny No,
the former Communist pilot who
flew a MIG-15 jet fighter from
out behind Korea’s iron curtain a
year ago—and collected $100,000
reward—enrolled this week as a
freshman at the University of
Delaware.
From Gen. Mark Clark, the
man responsible for the award,
came hearty congratulations.
“He’s doing the right thing,”
Gen. Clark told the Associated
Press by telephone from Charles
ton, S.C., where he heads the
military school, The Citadel.
The young Korean lieutenant
flew into fame by delivering to
the U.S. Air Force its first com
plete and undamaged MIG at
Kempo airfield near Seoul Sept.
21, 1953. He said at the time that
he had known nothing of the
$100,000 award.
Swimming Pool Goes
Splash But Pieces Will
Make Outdoor Barbecue
MONTEREY, Calif., UP) — The
Jim Bright family planned to
throw a neighborhood party last
night celebrating completion of
their swimming pool.
But the party was a bust. So
was the pool, built above ground
of concrete blocks. Water pres
sure caused one side of it to burst
out with a roar yesterday, scat
tering the blocks.
But the Brights and their chil
dren still have the do-it-yourself
spirit. They plan to build a bar
becue pit from the remnants of
the pool.
She's Got Him Under Her Skin
SEATTLE, W>—Mrs. Zelma M.
Ashley got a divorce yesterday
because she was allergic to her
husband.
She told Superior Judge Mal
colm Douglas that her face broke
out “all over” in a rash be
cause of the way her husband,
Lonnie, treated her.
The rash cleared right up,
though, she said, when they sep
arated.
Polio Peak Not Seen Yet
Despite 2,000 New Cases
In Nation Last Week
WASHINGTON, W)—1The Public
Health Service Thursday listed
2,121 new cases of polio over the
nation for last week, an increase
of 16 over the preceding week.
However, an official told a re
porter the slight increase did not
alter the belief that the peak for
this year has been reached.
The weekly summary noted that
last" week’s total was “below the
2,200 cases reported for each of
the last two weeks in August.”
Through last Saturday 21,332
cases of infantile paralysis had
been reported, compared with 22,
436 in the similar 1953 period and
31,261 in the 1952 span.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 4, Detroit 2
National League
New York 6-6, Milwaukee 2-2
Cincinnati 9, Brooklyn 3
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 4, Hollywood 3
Soviets Announce
Detonation Of New
Atomic Weapon
MOSCOW, UP) — The Soviet
Union anounced today it has ex
ploded “one o-f a type of atomic
weapons” with “valuable results.”
The brief announcement by the
official news agency Tass said the
test “will enable Soviet scientists
and engineers to solve success
fully problems of defense from
atomic attack.”
Tass gave no details on where
the explosion took place or what
type of weapon was involved.
In Tokyo, the Kyodo News Ser
vice reported that the meteoro
logical laboratory o’f Kyoto Uni
versity had recorded unusual in
strument readings on Aug. 26
similar to those observed when
the United States made atomic
tests at the Bikini atoll.
A spokesman for the central
meteorological observatory said
there was no accompanying evi
dence of radioactive particles or
radiation.
There was no immediate reac
tion to the Russian announcement
from American officials.
American Scientist
Speculates On Type
Of Weapon Exploded
WASHINGTON, W—Dr. Ralph
Lapp, an atomic scientist, specu
lated today that Russia may have
exploded an atomic warhead de
signed for use in airplane cannon,
antiaircraft guns or field artillery
pieces.
Lapp, though not now con
nected with the government at
omic program, worked on the
Manhattan project which pro
duced the first American A-bomb.
He told a reporter that still an
other possible interpretation of
Russia’s announcement last night
that it had conducted a new
atomic test is this:
Soviet weapon experts may
have been studying the effects
on buildings and other structures
“to see what structures would be
needed as defense against any
hydrogen bomb attack.”
But Lapp said he considered it
more likely that the Soviets were
trying out “a series of warheads
for air-to-air use or ground-to-air
missiles to be used in shooting
down strategic bombers.”
184-Foot Ski Slide With
200 Tons Crushed Ice
Erected At Soldier Field
CHICAGO, UP) — The incon
gruous sight of a 184-foot slide,
spread with 200 tons of ground
ice, and rising to the upper
reaches of huge Soldier Field, will
greet 60 skiers for a three-day
jumping carnival beginning to
night.
The exhibitions in the lake
front stadium, usually occupied
by football, auto racing or civic
and religious outings, are spon
sored by the Norge Ski Club.
The organization claims that
the artificial slide — a steel
ribbed stand towering over one
of the stadium’s colonnaded sides
—is the largest ever constructed.