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VOL. LIX No. 94 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1957 Per Copy—15*
Utmost Hope Held
Russia Will Accept
Disarmament Plan
WASHINGTON, Wf—President
Eisenhower said today he is view
ing with the utmost hope the
prospect the Russians will accept
th£ aerial and ground inspection
plan put forward by Secretary of
State Dulles in the London Dis
armament talks.
The President said general dis
armament would follow step by
step almost automatically if the
U.S. proposal should be accepted.
But first, he said, there must
be some little progress toward
mutual trust between the Com
munist world and the West.
Plug for Foreign Aid
The Chief Executive put in an
emphatic plug for his foreign aid
program, up before a Senate
House conference committee.
He said the welfare of the Unit
ed States demands that the gov
ernment show generosity and a
spirit of cooperation over a long
term to help other nations learn
that they can live in freedom and
increased prosperity.
Long-term economic aid auth
ority is the center of the big fight
on foreign aid.
Eisenhower said he knows of
no better dollar investment than
the one provided by ttve mutual
security program.
New Map of Alaska
Is Most Geologic One
Published Since 1938
WASHINGTON, 14*—A new ge
ologic map of Alaska has been
published by the Geological Sur
vey. It costs $2.
The Interior Department says
the map is the most geologic one
of A’aska published- since 1938
and is based on all known geo
logy of the territory. The map is
a single sheet 42" x 54".
The geology is compiled on a
planimetric base on, a scale of
1 : 2,500,000, or one inch equal to
about 40 miles.
The map shows by patterns and
colors the distribution of 56 units
of sedimentary, metamorphic and
igneous, rocks. Know major faults
also are delineated.
LAW GETTING TOUGHER
ON GUN-TOTING TEXANS
HOUSTON, (A*)—'The Law is get
ting tougher on pistol-toting
Texans.
Police Chief Carl Shuptrine,
alarmed at the 87 fatal shootings
in Houston This year, said all de
fendants involved in shootings
where someone is wounded or
killed, also will be charged with
illegally carrying ^ gun.
“In the past, we have filed only ,
the more serious charge—murder
or assault to murder, but too
many defendants go scot free”
when the grand jury refuses to
indict them, he said.
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Eisenhower Asks
$500,000 to Get Set
For Flu Outbreak
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower asked Congress today
for $500,000 to enable the Public
Health Service to get set for any
outbreak of Asiatic flu.
He also asked for authority to
transfer about $2 million of Pub
lic Health Service funds for use
against such an epidemic if it
begins to develop.
Surgeon General LeRoy E.
Burney said last week “there is a
very definite probability” of a
large U.S. outbreak of the dis
ease this fall or winter. He said
he does not anticipate a high
death rate.
Announcing Eisenhower’s mon
ey requests, the White House said
the supplemental appropriations
would not increase the 1957-58
spending total since the money
was contemplated in Eisenhower’s
budget.
Oliver Hardy of
Comedy Team
Dies of Stroke
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,
Iff)—Oliver Hardy, 62, the rotund
half of the movie comedy team of
Laurel and Hardy, died today.
He suffered a paralytic stroke
last Sept. 12 and had been inca
pacitated , since. He hadn’t even
| been able to speak since he was
j stricken.
Laurel and Hardy were the
movies’ top comedy team for
years after the advent of sound.
Their films are still tremendously
popular on television.
Hardy’s wife was at his side
at the end.
Stan Laurel, 67, lives with his
wife at nearby Malibu. “He’s not
well,’’ said Mrs. Laurel. “He’s in
bed. He heard yesterday that Mr.
Hardy had taken a turn for the
worse and he was upset about it."
Hardy v^as once described as an
elephant on tippy-toe.
He was the personification of
exasperation, , his wee moustache
quivering as he battled his lugu
brious little partner, Laurel,
about. He was a forlorn gallant,
in a too-small derby, always
eager to stumble over his mincing
feet in going to the aid of a fair
lady.
Russian Held
On Spy Charge
EDINBURG, Texas, (ff)—Feder
al authorities today held a Rus
sian colonel on a spy indictment
charge and described him as the
highest ranking Soviet national
ever arrested in the United States
as an intelligence agent.
New York federal officers, who
placed the intelligence agent de
scription on the man, named him
as Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, 21.
The chief border control in
spector for this area, J. Eldon
Taylor, said the man was held in
the alien detention center near
here under the name of Emil
Goldfus.
Taylor refused to allow news
men to talk to Abel.
j House Appropriations Group Cuts
j $279 Million From Air Force Bill,
Warns Against More Extravagance
20-Kiloton A-Bomb
Touched Off
On Nevada Flat
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., UP).
—A jolting, orange-flaring atom
ic blast was touched off at 5:25
a.m. today at the Nevada proving
grounds. It collapsed a Navy
blimp moored 10,000 yards (over
5V£ miles) away.
The 11th shot of the summer
test series also sharply jostled
newsmen and 750 military ob
servers at News Nob 10 miles dis
tant. «.
The atomic device was fired
| from a balloon tethered 1,100 feet
over the Yucca Flat test area. Its
force was estimated at about 20
kilotons—same as that of the
bomb dropped on the Japanese
city of Hiroshima' just 12 years
ago yesterday.
A group of pacifist demonstra
j tors, who came to the edge of the
test area yesterday to protest the
series of atomic explosions, were
camped this morning at Camp
Mercury, 65 miles away. They
said they didn’t interrupt their
I prayers to watch the blast.
ARMY OFFICER SAFE j
AFTER WANDERING
12 DAYS IN WILDS
EASTON, Wash., (JV-Twelve I
frustrating days qf aimless wan
derings in the Cascade Mountains
west of here ended for a rugged
young Army officer yesterday,
when he walked out to safety on
a logging road.
Limping slightly from a knee
sprain, Lt. Robert M. Hayashida
was otherwise unhurt, altho tired,
hungry and grimy.
Hayashida, 22, a company com
mander at Ft. Lewis, Wash., van
ished July 25 when he left his
temporary station at the Yakima
firing center on a fishing trip.
He said he started walking in
the direction of some potholes he
had noted on a map. He was un
able to find them and became lost
trying to return to his camp.
Hayashida said he ate Army
rations until they ran out and
then subsisted solely on huckle
berries. He cached his .22 rifle,
an Army pistol and fishing pole
when they became too heavy. He
finally reached safety by walking
toward the sun each afternoon.
RUSSIAN "MILLIONAIRESS"
IS PRODUCTIVE MILKMAID
LONDON, UP)—Moscow radio
reported today the Soviet Union
has produced a “millionairess.”
She is a dairy maid on a Siber
ian collect^ye farm who has just
extracted her millionth liter of
milk from the cows under her
care. A liter is 1% pints.
The broadcast said the dairy
maid has been working on the
farm for 25 years.
» WASHINGTON OP)—The House
Appropriations Committee yester
day slashed $279,158,380 from a
supplemental money bill and told
the Air Force not to make its new
academy “a monument to govern
ment extravagance.”
It approved $1,581,590,587 of
the $1,860,748,967 President Ei
senhower had requested for mis
cellaneous programs, mainly for
military construction.
The over-all total included ap
proximately $40 million for the
Territory of Alaska.
These projects included:
Reserve forces construction—
Alaska Air Command, $22,871,
000.
Overseas—Alaska general, $658,
000; EielSon Air Force Base,
$258,000; Ft. Greeley, $1,891,000;
Ladd AFB, $1,870,000; Ft. Rich
ardson, $6,447,000, and tactical
sites, $4,910",000.
Overseas supply facilities—Adak
Naval Station, $1,550,000.
The committee cut $8,332,000
from the $29,169,000 requested
for construction at the new Air
Force Academy af Colorado
Springs, Colo^ It expressed dis
satisfaction over “the evident lack
of concern for cost factors” shown
by the Air Force in building its
new academy.
Some contracts have been let at
costs as much as three times orig
inal estimates, it said.
Air Force officials, the commit-\
tee said, seemingly have ignored
their previous estimates that the
total cost of the new academy
would not exceed $126 million.
For military construction the
committee recommended $1,521,
500,000 of the $1,764,500,000 re
quested. It complained of “a lack
of coordination and agreement
on objectives between the office
of the secretary of defense and
the three services” in the family
housing field.
EISENHOWER
CONSIDERS McELROY
FOR DEFENSE CHIEF
WASHINGTON, UR—President
Eisenhower said today he is con
sidering appointing Neil McElroy
as Secretary of Defense as soon
as the routine investigation of the
Ohio manufacturer has been com
pleted.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference he regards McElroy, the
president of Proctor & Gamble
Co., Cincinnati, as one of the most
capable and highest types of men
in the country.
The President said that a long
time ago Secretary of Defense
Wilson told him he would like to
get out of the government before
preparation of a new fiscal year
budget becomes part of the daily
work. Such budget studies ordin
arily begin in September.
McElroy has been here on a
three-day visit conferring with
Eisenhower and Wilson and going
over defense problems.