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U.S. Hopeful Russia is Finally
Ready Take First Steps Toward
International Control of Atom
AUGUSTA, Ga., UD—President
Eisenhower Tuesday reaffirmed
the United States is confident that
“controls and reduction of arms
are possible, desirable and, in the
last reckoning, indispensable.”
The President’s view was set
forth in a statement issued at his
vacation headquarters after he
had conferred for 75 minutes with
Harold E. Stassen, his disarma
ment adviser.
Stassen flew to Augusta from
Washington for the conference
and made ready to start back to
London for resumption of United
Nations disramament talks there
today.
Those talks, which, started last
Ike and Labor Secretary
Mitchell To Discuss
New Labor Legislation
AUGUSTA, Ga., UD — Presi
dent Eisenhower Tuesday called
Secretary of Labor Mitchell to a
Thursday conference here to dis
cuss the possibility of legislation
to deal with situations such as
disclosed by the Senate' rackets
investigating committee.
In announcing the conference
<plans at Eisenhower’s vacation
•headquarters, White House Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty re
plied “yes” when asked whether
he looks for the administration to
ask that Congress enact legislation
In that field at this session.
But Hagerty stressed he does
not expect that Eisenhower and
Mitchell will get down to the
point of even any preliminary
draft of such legislation at their
Thursday session.
The press secretary also em
phasized that the President and
Mitchell plan to discuss other
phases of the general labor pic
ture and the possibility of legis
lation in such areas as union
health and welfare funds^
PIFLICATED PATRON PARKS
SCRANTON, Pa., UD — The
owner of a parking lot was puz
zled by the sight pf a lone, un
attended car on the premises
when he opened for business this
morning.
Under the blade of a wind
shield wiper was this scrawled
note: “I am drunk. I do not want
to drive. I parked here. Whatever
it costs I’ll pay.” The owner then
signed his name.
OREGON LEGISLATURE
BACKS STATEHOOD BILL
SALEM, Ore., Iff)—A memorial
asking Congress to grant state
hood to Alaska and Hawaii was
passed yesterday by the Oregon
House of Representatives. It was
passed by the Senate several
weeks ago.
month and recessed over the
Easter weekend, have caused
United States officials to be cau
tiously hopeful that Russia final
ly may be ready to take some
small first step toward bringing
the East - West atomic weapons
race under, international control.
A statement issued after the
Eisenhower - Stassen conference
at the Augusta National Golf
Club was carefully worded to
guard against any idea of exces
sive optimism.
The statement, by White House
press secretary James C. Hagerty,
said Eisenhower had encouraged
the U. S. delegation to London
headed by Stassen “to follow thru
thoroughly in the resumed nego
tiations which will start again in
London on Wednesday.”
Terror At The
Circus in “Ring of
Fear” at Theater
Cinemascope goes to the circus
in “Ring of Fear” the new War
ner Bros, production which opens
tonight at The Theater. Clyde
Beatty, Pat O’Brien, Mickey Spil
lane (making his screen debut)
and the entire Clyde Beatty
three-ring circus help provide the
thrills in this tale of a homicidal
fanatic who escapes from the
police and joins the circus as
ringmaster.
Playing himself in “Ring of
Fear” is Clyde Beatty, acknowl
edged the world’s most famous
wild animal trainer.
Pat O’Brien, perhaps best re
membered for his outstanding
portrayals in “Knute Rockne”
and “The Fighting 69,” plays the
manager of the Clyde Beatty cir
cus.
Mickey Spillane, world famous
as the creator of the Mike Ham
mer stories, makes his screen
debut in “Ring of Fear,” playing
himself.
Heading the supporting cast are
Sean McClory, Marian Carr and
John Bromfield.
Against the background of
Clyde Beatty’s 3 - ring circus a
story of murder and suspense is
played. When a series of myster
ious disasters befall the circus
during its tour of the country
Mickey Spillane accepts the chal
lenge of finding the killer and he
reportedly solves the mystery in
a manner similar to the way Mike
Hammer would handle it.
Nome Will See Traveling
Exhibition of Peacetime
Uses of Atomic Energy
James Walsh, retiring council
; man, was appointed by the City
Council at their Monday meeting
to fill a vacancy on the Nome
School Board caused by the res
ignation fo Mrs. Clinton Gray.
It was reported that Nome is
to be one of 14 Alaska cities to
have the privilege of seeing a
travelling exhibition of peacetime
applications of atomic energy.
The time of the exhibit will be
announced after a schedule is
made up for the territory.
A petition was received from
the Alaska Telephone and Tele
graph Co. for permission to raise
rates. The matter was tabled un
til the return of the mayor, who
■ is in Seattle on his annual trip
for the Northern Commercial Co.
A letter was read from Police
and Fire Chief Carl Webb stating
that he would not be applying
this year for his position, stating
that due to “strife and turmoil”
and “policies of the police com
missioner” he though it best not
to apply. Webb is scheduled to
leave Saturday.
Councilman Pete Reader pre
sided at the meeting in the ab
sence of Mayor Steffen Ander
sen.
Juneau Publisher
Bets Alaska Will
Not Become State
JUNEAU, UP—Newspaper pub
lisher William Prescott Allen has
offered to bet the assets of his
Juneau newspaper that the terri
tory does not become a state dur
■ ing this session of Congress.
He proposed the wager to C.
W. Snedden, publisher of the
Fairbanks News-Miner. Snedden,
in an exchange of telegrams made
public Tuesday, countered with
an offer of a $100,000 bet on
statehood against the possibility
of obtaining commonwealth stat
us and 20 years of federal tax
relief in the territory.
Allen, who also publishes pa
pers in Texas and Colorado, also
offered to debate statehood with
former Gov. Ernest Gruening,
now one of Alaska’s provisional
“senators” who is campaigning
for statehood in Washington.
Snedden, who said he could not
speak for Gruening, later said he
understood that Gruening would
agree to debate Allen next week
at Fairbanks.
Allen, in a long series of edi
torials in the Daily Alaska Em
pire here, has taken the position
that the so-called Alaska-Tennes
see plan congressional delegation
should forget statehood for the
present and concentrate on ob
taining federal tax relief for a
20-year period.
Snedden, long a statehood ad
vocate, appeared before a sub
committee of the House Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee on
March 12 in Washington in sup
port of statehood. The News
Miner has campaigned vigorously
for statehood for many years.
Photographer Snaps
Fall of Steelworker
From Spire of Church
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., US)—A 33
year-old steelworker fell to his
death Monday from a 150-foot
church tower while a Birming
ham News photographer recorded
the damatic plunge.
J. B. Standridge was one of
three workmen atop the tower.
He was helping to work the
steeple into position when a “gin”
pole, or boom, broke and the
steeple toppled over dragging him
to his death.
Ed Jones, the photographer, had
been assigned to make a series of
feature pictures as the steeple
neared completion at the Hunter
Street Baptist Church.
As Standridge clasped the
steeple framework, Jones clicked
his camera, switched plates by
habit, then decided to make one
more, “just to be ^ure.”
Jones lined up the tower in his
oamera. Then there was the sound
of splintering steel and tearir^
cables. The steeple toppled slow
ly, dragging Standridge from the
platform.
“I was almost paralyzed,” said
Jones. He said he used a Speed
Graphic and shot at a shutter
speed of 1/700 at F. 11.
NEW SERVICE BY SPCA?
PHILADELPHIA, UPi — The
Pennsylvania Society for the pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals
told this one today:
A woman called at one of the
society’s pet adoption centers just
before Easter and said she
wanted a just-so kitten for a pres
ent. In time he found one that
suited her. Then she turned to an
attendant and said brightly:
“Please gift-wrap it for me.”
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
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Girl Scouts Busy
Preparing for Annual
Awards Court Friday
Every Girl Scout is busy this
week preparing for the annual
Court scheduled to be held Fri
day evening in the multipurpose
room of the school.
In addition to the annual
awards, a fine program has been
prepared and refreshments are in
the making.
Both leaders and girls have had
an interesting year and plans are
now under way for the summer
encampment.
Not only parents but everyone
in the community is invited to
attend the affair stated the com
mittee in charge.
Mayflower II Reported
100 Miles Off Coast Of
England Enroute to U.S.
LONDON, UPi — Mayflower II
was reported about 100 miles off
England’s southernmost tip Tues
day, on her way to Plymouth,
Mass., to duplicate the voyage of
the Pilgrim fathers in 1620.
Land’s End radio, in contact
with the vessel, said the 180-ton
wooden sailing ship was set on
a west - southwest course and
making about five knots in a
gentle breeze.
The Mayflower, a replica of
the little ship that carried the
Pilgrim fathers to the new world,
is expected to arrive off the
United States in about six weeks.
She sailed from Plymouth, Eng
| land on Saturday.
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