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VOL LVIII No 147 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1956 _ Per Copy—15#
U.S. Will Supply NATO Allies
With Weapons to Fire Atomic
Charge But Will Keep Warheads
PARIS, tif>—The United States
today promised to supply modern
weapons, capable of firing atomic
charges, to its NATO allies but
made it clear that the U.S. will
retain possession of the atomic
warheads.
A U.S. source said the new
weapons to made available have
“dual capacity,” meaning that
they can fire either conventional
or nuclear explosives.
He said that because of the U.S.
law prohibiting transfer of mili
tary atomic elements to foreign
countries, only the conventional
explosives would be furnished to
allies of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization <NATO>.
The U.S. promise came in a
15-minute report by Defense Sec
retary Charles E. Wilson in an
swer to requests from European
NATO members for tactical
atomic weapons. Wilson spoke at
a closed session of the ministerial
council of the 15-nation alliance.
The council session also named
EISENROWER RETURNS
FROM 18-DAY VACATION
WASHINGTON, WV-President
Eisenhower is wearing a bit of
adhesive tape on the fourth fin
ger of his right hand.
His press secretary said it cov
ers “a rough spot”—not a blister
—resulting from golfing at Au
gusta, Ga., where the President
spent the last 18 days.
> —•
Divorce Plans Uncertain
In Spirit of Christmas
LOS ANGELES, Oft—In the
spirit of Christmas, William C.
Nichols and his estranged wife,
Ilene, put aside their differences
and went shopping for presents
for their three children.
They agreed on all the gifts.
They agreed also on Nichol's child
support payments—$25 a week.
When they reached domestic
relations court yesterday, her
lawyer, E.* Lloyd Sanders, told
Judge Elmer D. Doyle there was
n’t anything for him to do.
“Maybe they don't need a di
vorce and maybe we can get this
family together for Christmas,”
said the court.
Mrs. Nichols said she was going
to dinner with her husband, and
“I don’t know if it will lead to
anything like a reconciliation, but
he's going to be my steady date
for a while.”
Her lawyer said he will rebate
his $175 fee if they reconciled be
fore Christmas.
Firm Announces First
Exploratory Oil Well
In Southeast Alaska
DENVER UP*—Colorado Oil and
Gas Corp. announced yesterday
the first exploratory well on its
Alaskan acreage will be started
early next year with Frankfort
Oil Co., a division of the Calvert
Distilling Co.
It will be about three miles
southwest of the ice-free port of
Yakutat. The site is near the cen
ter of a block of some 1,100,000
acres in the southeast Alaskan
panhandle, extending along the
Gulf of Alaska from Icy Bay to
Cape Fairweather. The area is
approximately 1,000 miles north
west of Seattle.
•
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul
Henri Spaak, a middle-of-the
road socialist, as its new secre
tary general. Spaak, one of the
leading workers for a united Eu
rope, succeeds Lord Ismay of
Britain. Ismay retires in April
after holding the post for five
years.
The European allies of the U.S.
have expressed their mounting
desires to transform their armed
forces in line with the realities
of the atomic age.
The selection of Spaak as sec
retary general of NATO had been
a certainty before the foreign,
finance and defense ministers of
the organization opened their
meeting here this week. But the
Belgian held back until his col
leagues agreed to give him much
more authority and prestige than
was held by the primarily admin
istrative post which Ismay filled.
The ministers agreed yesterday
to give Spaak power to intervene
as a mediator in such disputes
between members as the British
Turkish-Greek conflict over Cy
prus.
Spaak, 57, has headed Bel
gium’s foreign office so often that
a friend once termed him “per
manent foreign minister." In 1946
he was the first president of the
U.N. General Assembly.
Franz-Joseph Strauss, the West
German defense minister, con
ceded that thefull West German
contribution of 12 divisions to
NATO defense will not be ready
until 1959. He said, however, that
West Germany will make a “sig
nificant” contribution in the com
ing year.
Davis Resigns
Interior Dept. Job
' WASHINGTON, UPt—President
Eisenhower today accepted the
resignation of Clarence A. Davis
as under secretary of the Interior,
effective Jan. 4.
Davis wrote the President a
week ago that “personal consid
erations” made the resignation
necessary. He will return to pri
vate practice of law, with offices
here and at Lincoln, Neb.
Noting that a policy statement
on use and conservation of water,
on which he had cooperated with
other government officials, now
has been submitted to Congress,
1 Davis said it seemed an appropri
i ate time to resign.
In a letter of reply, Eisenhower
1 expressed his “personal thanks
for the devoted service” he said
Davis had given.
When Douglas McKay resigned
as secretary of Interior, it was
widely expected that Davis would
be named to take his place. But
Eisenhower chose Fred A. Seaton,
another Nebraskan.
LaMarca Sentenced to
Sing Sing Electric Chair
MINEOLA, N.Y., Angelo
LaMarca, the kidnap slayer of
baby Peter Weinberger, was sen
tenced today to die in Sing Sing
Prison's electric chair the week
j of January 28.
LaMarca, 31-year-old mechanic
and cab driver, kidnaped the
baby last July 4 and abandoned
his to die in a thicket.
Irish Rebel Group
Protest British
Rule in Raid
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, UP)
—Three police barracks were at
tacked and communications lines
were cut early today in fresh
raids by Irish Republican Army
(IRA) partisans.
A crude dynamite bomb blew
open the door ot a barracks at
Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh.
The raiders were beaten off
after an exchange of shots.
The IRA, outlawed in the Irish
Republic as well as the north,
acknowledged responsibility for a
senes of raids into five of the
northern counties Wednesday. It
declared in a statement issued in
Dublin that “resistance to British
rule in occupied Ireland has not
entered a decisive stage.”
AH But $1,600 Found
Of $42,000 Taken in
Seattle Bank Holdup
SEATTLE, UP)—The FBI yester
day announced the recovery of
another $14,000 of the $42,000
taken Nov. 19 in the holdup of the
West Seattle branch of the Peo
ple’s National Bank of Washing
ton.
Only $1,600 remains not found.
Two Seattle men are awaiting
trial on bank robbery charges in
connection with the holdup.
Four Workers Perish
When Cement Truck
Topples Into Ditch
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., UP)—Four
laborers stood in a sewer ditch
yesterday, waiting for a 28-ton
mixer truck to start pouring 7V4
cubic yards of cement for them
to spread.
Suddenly, five feet of roadway
crumbled beneath the backing
truck’s wheels. The ponderous
mass up-ended. There were
screams—cut short by 32 tons of
metal and concrete that crushed
and entombed all four of the men.
One of the men fought gamely
for survival in the hardening ce
ment as rescue teams adminis
tered plasma and worked with
pneumatic drills.
“You’re goona get me out, are
n't you?” the victim kept asking.
“Sure . we are," he was reas
sured. But he died, still pinned
down, three hours later.
All the victims were Miami
Negroes.
Man Knocks on Wrong
Door; Is Slain by
Two Shotgun Biasts
OLYMPIA, Wash. Dr. Ken
neth L. Partlow, Thurston county
coroner, has set next Tuesday as
the date for an inquest into the
“mistake slaying” of William
Ward, a golfing companion of
high state officials.
Ward, 58, was killed by a shot
gun blast fired thru a door early
yesterday when he apparently
mistook the home of a neighbor
for his own.
Louis Dungan, 34, the neigh
bor, told Sheriff Clarence Van
Allen he fired two shots thru his
back door after failing to receive
an answer to his demand that a
person pounding on the door
identify himself.
Ward's home is only two doors
from Dungan’s near the golf club,
four miles west of Olympia. Both
houses are red brick.
Another General Strike Starts
When Reds Arrest Two Leaders
Of Budapest Workers’ Council
Two Convicts Escape
From Radio-TV Studio
During Prison Program
l
HOUSTON, Wi—Two convicts
escaped yesterday from Radio
Station KPRC, kidnaped a Hou
ston man and drove him around
the city for two hours before they
disappeared into a wooded area.
The convicts were identified as
Robert McDonnell, 25, and Paul
E. Myre, 25. McDonnell is serving
a 50-year term for a series of
liquor store robberies, and Myre
was serving five years for a Fort
Worth robbery.
The two were among 16 con
victs brought from Ramsey Pris
on Farm in Brazoria County to
the studios of KPRC and KPRC
TV to record the prison system’s
weekly show, “Behind Prison
Doors.”
The convicts walked out a door
not watched by guards. A few
blocks from the station they
flagged down a telephone com
pany truck driven by Joseph G.
Kennedy, 27.
Kennedy said Myre drove the
truck and asked for instructions
on how to reach U.S. Highway 59.
After two hours of riding with
the convicts, Kennedy was forced
from the car.
South Pole Drop
Includes Real Pole
But No Tree
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
UP—The South Pole now really
has a pole, put its white Christ
mas may not be graced by a tree.
The Pole’s pole, a heavy length
of bamboo striped with black and
yellow paint, was dropped to the
24-man American polar party
Wednesday. But that cargo flight
was the last until the Navy Air
Force, Santa Claus or somebody
comes up with some more avia
tion gasoline.
Waiting here for distribution
to the U.S. Deep Freeze groups
the eight Christmas trees flown
in from Oregon. One was to be
dropped at the pole. How to get it
there is the problem.
A new supply of airplane fuel
is aboard the tanker Nespelen,
1,000 miles away from this ant
arctic base. An icebreaker will
have to clear part of its .path to
McMurdo. The arrival date is
uncertain.
The 24 men at the South Pole,
most of them Seabees, are build
ing a scientific base for observa
tions d uring the International
Geophysical Year.
Whether the polar party gets
its Christmas tree or not, it al
ready has gratefully acknowl
edged one portion of a cargo drop
made this week. Lt. Richard A.
Bowers of Harrisburg, Pa., head
of the construction crew at the
Pole, reported his men were de
lighted to find a load of beer had
been parachuted down safely.
A 24-volume encyclopedia was
dropped at the same time. But It
did not fare so well. The chute
bearing the books failed to open
and the books plummeted out of
sight beneath the soft snow.
» By ENDRE MARTON
BUDAPEST, (AV-Tens of thou
sands of Budapest workers quit
work again yesterday only a few
hours after returning to their
factories at the end of two-day
nationalwide general strike.
The new walkout was in pro
test against the arrest of the
chairman of the Budapest Central
Workers’ Council and his chief
assistant by the Russian-imposed
government of Premier Janos
Kadar.
Informed sources reported the
boss of Russia’s secret police, Gen.
Ivan Serov, has taken over con
trol of Kadar’s government in a
desperate effort to end the con
tinuing widespread resistance to
Communism and Moscow control.
Russians in Charge
The situation in Hungary was
so chaotic that the Russians were
reported running matters entire
ly. A Hungarian source said Ser
ov “is now running what is left
of the Kadar regime, whose mem
bers are fighting among them
selves.”
Serov is an expert at repres
sion and deportation.
The new strike was touched off
by the arrests of Sanfor Racz,
head of the Central Workers’
Council, and his deputy, Sandor
Bari.
The walkout spread rapidly
among plants in the capital when
the workers heard of the arrests.
More stoppages were expected to
follow in provincial cities and
towns when- they got the news.
80 Percent Strike
An estimated 28,000 workers in
Hungary’s biggest industrial com
plex—the huge Csepel Iron and
Steel Works south of Budapest—
defied Russian tanks and troops
today to stage the new strike.
Abo--. 80 percent of the Csepel
works' force of more than 36,000
joined thousands of workers in
demanding that puppet Premier
Janos Kadar’s regime release the
workers' two top labor leaders.
The workers reported to their
plants but refused to produce.
At Budapest’s biggest electrical
products plant, the Bejolannis
electric factory, 6,000 workers re
fused to man their machines in
defiance of troops and police who
had seized their plant.
Troops and Police Defied
The Csepel protestors were de
fying Russian officers and troops
as well as Hungarian Communist
militia and police.
A Kadar government commis
sion headed by two Soviet army
colonels marched into the huge
works yesterday, declared the
plants workers’ council dissolved
and took over. But it could not
force the workers to produce.
A Csepel worker outside the
plant’s gates told Western report
ers:
“When they think they can ar
bitrarily arrest our leaders they
have another think coming.”
Russian Soldiers in Factories
The workers said Russian offi
cers and soldiers were inside the
plant and posted at strategic
points to support forces of armed
Hungarian military and police.
Some chimneys were smoking
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