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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVITI No. 56NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1956Per Copy—154
RUSSIAN WORKERS
MAY NOW QUIT JOBS
WITHOUT PERMISSION
MOSCOW, UP—The Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet has re
voked a series of laws which has
bound workers to their jobs.
A new order, dated April 25 and
made public today, said workers
may now quit without permission
of authorities after handing in
two weeks notice.
The old laws were put into ef
fect in 1940 as war loomed and
were added to during agricultural
difficulties of 1951 and 1952 when
they were applied to agricultural
workers.
The new labor regulations were
made public in a bulletin of the
Supreme Soviet. They were gen
erally regarded as revolutionary
in their effect on the Soviet work
ing man.
But the decree nowhere indi
cates that direction of labor to .
some specified area where needed
—such as Siberia or in virgin
lands—is done away with.
It merely returns to the worker
the right to quit one factory or
farm job and take another one.
Tornadic Winds Strike
Four Midwest States
Stormy weather raked sections
of the mid-continent today in the
wake of tornadic winds which
struck areas in Nebraska, Minne
sota, Iowa and Kansas.
Tornadoes yesterday skipped
across southern Nebraska, striking
near three communities. Another
twister damaged more than a
score of homes, business places
and farms in Rushmore, in south
western Minnesota, with an esti
mated loss of more than $100,000.
No injuries were reported in the
tornado-stricken area.
Winds of tornadic velocity, se
vere thunderstorms and hail
storms swept across the eastern
sections of Kansas and Nebraska
and extreme western Iowa.
Tornadic winds caused minor
property damage^at Lyons, and
Cassody, Kan., while farther up
north in Nebraska the twisters
skipped across areas near Juniata,
Doniphan and Arlington.
EISENHOWER PLANS
VISIT TO PANAMA
WASHINGTON, OP)—President
Eisenhower today accepted an in
vitation from the President of
Panama to attend a meeting of
Presidents of the other American
nations to come there for exer
cises commemorating the 130th
anniversary of the first Congress
of Panama.
That Congress was called in
1826 by liberator Simon Bolivar.
It is expected the President will
fly to Panama June 24, and re
main there two days.
Seattle Firm Is Low
Bidder On Nome Federal
Bldg. With $1,184,017 Bid
Mayor Steffen Andersen has re
ceived word from the N.C. office
in Seattle of the opening of bids
for the new Nome Federal Bldg.
The bid opening was on Tuesday,
May 7 and the low bidder was
Nels Mortensen Co., Inc., Seattle
building contractor, with a low
bid of $1,184,617. The next lowest
bidder was the B-E-C-K con
tractors.
4 DIE IN CRASH OF
NEW BRITISH JET
SHOREHAM, England, W)—A
four-engine Victory Valiant jet,
Britain’s new H-bomb carrier,
crashed near this coastal town to
day. Three of its four crew mem
bers were reported missing and
believed dead.
Police said the copilot para
chuted and was taken to a hos
pital. Six persons on the ground
were slightly injured by flying
debris.
The Victory Valiant is one of
the Royal Air Force’s hush-hush
“V” planes, designed to pack a
nuclear wallop in wartime. The
$2,800,000 plane was shown in
public for the first time in March.
The plane, armed with nuclear
weapons, could cause as much de
struction as a whole conventional
, bomber command.
I Alaska Nellie Dies
After Brief III ness
ANCHORAGE, Oft—Death has
claimed the life of one of the ter
ritory’s most storied characters—
Alaska Nellie.
She had been confined to bed
the past several days.
Alaska Nellie, whose real name
was Mrs. Nellie Neal Lawing, died
yesterday at her home at Lawing,
on Lake Kenai. She was 82.
Alaska Nellie was born in St.
Joseph, Mo., in 1874. She came to
Alaska in 1915 and the following
year was granted a government
contract to operate a roadhouse
n the newly-built Alaska Railroad
at Mile 45. She named the place
Grandview.
In 1923 Alaska Nellie moved to
another spot on the railroad, just
north of Seward, which now is
called Lawing.
There she converted an old
roadhouse into a museum, which
still contains many priceless items
including one of the best collec
tions of big game trophies in the
territory.
Mrs. Lawing published in the
early 1940s a book entitled “Alas
ka Nellie.” During numerous trips
by bus back and forth across the
United States she sold all of the
3,000 copies of the book printed.
ELECTION RESULTS
Second Division
Rep. Charles Fagerstrom and
John A. McNees are the winners
of the two Democratic nomina
tions for Territorial Senate seats
in the Second Division.
Tuesday after the count of ab
sentee ballots and the arrival of
the Stebbins returns the votes in
the three-way Democratic contest
stood: Fagerstrom 713, McNees
675, Rep. Lester Bronson 611.
In the general election Fager
strom and McNees will be run
ning against Rep. Edith Bullock
and Sen. Charles D. Jones, the
Republicans who ran without op
position in the primary.
The three nominees of each
party for the House are:
Democrats — James von der
Heydt, 815; Frank Degnan, 763,
and Eben Hopson, 733.
Republicans—W.W. Laws 712;
Clinton Gray 638, and Maynard
Londborg 485.
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Bartlett in Canada for
Talks on Proposed
Corridors Thru Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P*— Delegate
Bartlett left for Canada yesterday
to discuss with Canadian officials
proposals that Canada be given
access through southeast Alaska
to the Pacific Icean.
He met today in Ottawa with
Lester Pearson, Canada’s minister
for external affairs, and J. Aubrey
Simmons, member of the Canadi
an Parliament from the Yukon
Territory.
Asked whether he was prepared
to suggest any concessions which
Canada might make to this coun
try as means of obtaining the pro
posed land corridors, Bartlett said:
“I believe that in any such ar
rangement, our people would
want to think of the possibility of
utilizing the water power poten
tial.’’
Hiker to Fairbanks Gets
Rude Welcome to Canada
CHILLIWACK, B.C., —A 62
year-old native of Switzerland
walking from San Francisco to
Fairbanks, Alaska, said yesterday
his welcome to Canada was a
shower of stones.
Hiker John Frey said three
teen-age youths hurled stones at
him as he prepared to stop in
Abbotsford, B.C. shortly after he
crossed the U.S.-Canada border.
He said the boys shouted, “Hey,
Mr. Prospector.” He returned
their greeting and then a jagged
stone hit him on the back of the
neck, stunning him briefly.
Despite the incident he said,
| “It’s wonderful walking here.”
He left San Francisco March 1
and expects to reach Fairbanks
about August 1.
Stevenson Says Republican Money
Defeated Him in Minn. Primary
(Bv the Associated Press'
Adlai Stevenson says he has
learned Republican money was
used to help defeat him in the
Minnesota Democratic presiden
tial primary, and may “turn up in
Florida and California.”
But Sen. Estes Kefauver, who
upset Stevenson in Minnesota last
March, said he knows “nothing
about Republican contributions to
my campaign,” adding:
“It looks as if Mr. Stevenson is
preparing an alibi.”
Both Stevenson and Kefauver
are combing the Los Angeles area
for votes in advance of the vital
California primary June 5—their
last direct test before the Demo
cratic nominating convention in
August.
Before their California contest,
the two rival presidential aspir
ants also will clash in the Oregon
primary May 18 and in the Flor
ida primary May 29.
It was during a speech to a
meeting of labor leaders yester
day that Stevenson said he had
been infomied that what he de
scribed as “heavy financial con
tributoi’s” to the GOP had raised i
in one night “all the Republican
money needed to defeat me in
Minnesota.”
Stevenson told his audience that
“a man who helped manage the
1952 Eisenhower campaign” dis
cussed the money raising at a re
cent dinner in New York.
He named the speaker as John
R. (Tex) McCrary, a radio com
mentator, and quoted him as say
ing “that the men at the table
| were among the most influential
j in America, that in 1952 they had
| raised a large amount of money to
| elect President Eisenhower, and
| that a few weeks ago in one night
j they raised all the Republican
| money needed to defeat me in
j Minnesota.”
McCrary, in New York, offered
his own version.
He said there had been a dis
cussion of how small groups could
raise money for “what seem to be
impossible things.” In that con
nection he said he remarked:
“In the early days of raising
money for Eisenhower we found a
lot of Democrats eager to help,
just as I hear some Republicans
helped Kefauver in Minnesota.”
Political Briefs
The American Broadcasting Co.
has announced its radio and TV
networks will carry a Kefauver
Stevenson debate on May 21. It
will originate in Miami, Fla. The
two candidates also are expected
to be on the same platform in
Eugene, Ore., on May 15.
* * *
Former President Truman said
the Eisenhower Administration is
preparing for “another election
campaign of high-level presiden
tial smiles and low-level vice
presidential smears.” He accused
the administration of three years
of “concealment and complacen
cy.”
♦ * *
Sen. Lehman <D-NY> told a
Brooklyn audience last night that
members of his party “must admit
our own failures—the failure of
the Democratic Congress, for in
stance, to proceed more vigorously
and forthrightly with civil rights
legislation.”
e • *
In Alexandria, Minn., 34 volun
teer teams last night opened a
three-day experiment in biparti
san political fund-raising. Going
from door to door in a pouring
rain, they collected a total of $716
the first evening. The money will
be divided between the Republi
can and Democratic-Farmer-La
bor Party organizations. They
sponsored the experiment.
Firing Squads
Execute Two for
Midwest Murder
POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN,
Utah, (iV)—Volunteer firing squads
executed two midwestern men at
dawn today for a murder they
committed more than six years
ago.
Alfred Braasch, 30, of Reinbeck,
Iowa, and LeRoy Sullivan, 25, of
Kansas City, Mo., were convicted
of the 1949 slaying of a service
station attendant in Beaver, Utah.
Shaking hands betrayed the
taut nerves of the two killers as
they were strapped, side by side,
in execution chairs in the prison
compound. A shot of morphine
administered by a doctor quieted
them.
A black hood was placed over
the head of each and black, heart
shaped targets pinned over their
hearts.
Deputy Sheriff Charles Wells
read the death warrants. He then
asked the condemned men if they
had anything to say. They both
said “No.”
Wells waved his hat as a signal
and 10 rifles—five in each execu
tion squad—cracked in unison.
Four bullets drilled into the
targets pinned to each of the kill
ers. One rifle in each squad con
tained a blank shell—no one knew
which.
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