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VOL. LV'III No. 3_ NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1956Per Copy—15^
Wire Tapping Controversy Resolved
With Ban on Invasion of Privacy
By FLORENCE DOUTHIT
FAIRBANKS, MWThe Alaska
* Constitutional Convention Satur
day resolved a controversy over
wire tapping by writing a ban on
invasion of privacy into the con
stitution of the state-to-be.
Delegates voted 27-21 for this
amendment to the Bill of Rights
article:
«*■ “The right ot the people to pri
vacy and to be secure in (their per
sons, houses and other property,
papers and effects, against unrea
sonable searches, seizures or other
invasions of privacy shall not be
violated and no warrants shall be
issued but upon probable cause,
supported by oath or affirmation
and particularly describing the
place to be searched, the informa
tion sought, or the persons or
things to be seized.
“Information obtained in viola
tion of this section shall not be ad
missable evidence in any judicial
or other proceeding.”
The amendment was a compro
mise and the matter may be re
opened because one delegate an
nounced reconsideration of his
vote.
The original proposed amend
ment flatly prohibited wire tap
ping or obtaining unauthorized in
formation by other technical
means.
After lengthy debate, delegates
cast their votes for the substitute
version authorized by Delegates
R. E. Robertson, Edward Davis,
John Hellenthal, Ralph Rivers,
Katherine Nordale and Burke
Riley.
During the debate, Yule Kilcher
of Homer told delegates combining
the right of privacy and search
and seizures in one package con
fuses the issue.
“They should be treated separ
ately,” he said. “It’s too easy to
put pressure on the lower courts
in times of panic . . .” Davis, an
Anchorage lawyer, said if “gov
ernment officers can eavesdrop on
a home, it’s just a question of time
until there will be no liberty left.
Eventually everything will be in
the hands of the government.”
After the section was adopted,
Thomas Harris of Valdez arose on
a point of personal privilege.
“What we have done,” he said,
“is to legalize wire tapping for
police and government officials. I
think we have taken the first step
in a police state.”
Air Force \Vill
Increase Use of
Weather Balloons
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, Iff* — The Air
Force said yesterday it is aug
menting its high altitude weather
balloon program with the hope
that it will help explain the cycle
of floods, dust storms and hurri
canes which now batter the na
tion.
The use of huge “Moby Dick”
weather balloons hitherto has been
confined to the United States. But
Sunday’s announcement said 'the
program is toeing expanded “to
include other areas in the North
ern Hemisphere.”
A spokesman this would include
Alaska. Some balloons sent up
from there presumably would
drift eastward into Canada before
disintegrating into harmless frag
ments at altitudes ranging from
30,000 to 200,000 feet.
Additional research balloon sta
tions also will be set up in Europe
and Hawaii during 1956, the an
nouncement said.
The Air Force said the expand
ed program would be of “great use
in the International Geophysical
Year during 1957-58.” In that year
two score nations will join in
gathering a vast amount of infor
mation about weather, terrestial
magnetism, earthquakes, oceanog
raphy and other geophysical data.
The giant, plastic ballons, which
carry weather instruments, cam
eras, and equipment registering
cosmic rays and other data which
is radioed automatically to ground
stations, “often have been mistak
en for ‘flying saucers’,” the Air
Force said. It added that:
“Balloons are, in effect, minia
ture ‘satellites' that can remain
aloft for several days and thereby
collect continuous research.”
U. of Alaska Students
Petition Convention
To Set Voting Age at 18
FAIRBANKS, UP—Communica
tions read to the Constitutional
Convention Saturday included one
from the Associated Students of
the University of Alaska urging
that the voting age be set at 18.
(The convention earlier decided
upon 19.)
A petition was signed by 118
students. The accompanying letter
said the students feel the 18-year
limit would “promote and enhance
the interest in government of the
total electorate of the state for a
low voting age requirement would
plant a seed of interest in young
men and women at a time when
they are accepting their responsi
bilities as citizens and taxpayers.”
Mexican Holiday City
Rocked by Earthquakes;
Damage Heavy, 106 Hurt
ACAPULCO, Mexico, LP—'Mexi
co’s leading Pacific coast resort,
its swank hotels packed with visi
tors from North America, today
counted 106 injured and heavy
damage in the wake of six Sunday
earthquakes.
There were no dead, and no U.S.
citizens were reported among
those injured in the holiday cen
ter jammed with 35,000 inhabi
tants and thousands of tourists.
Fearful of further temblors,
hundreds spent la9t night on the
wide curved beaches, on the
streets and in cars.
Heaviest damage was to a slum
area. The mo9t spectacular single
case of damage was the collapse of
a four-story apartment building
under construction near the beach
front Hotel Papagayo.
One witness said the building
collapsed “like a punctured bal
loon.”
The shocks, first major Mexican
quakes in two years, were fe.t
over a wide area of southern Mex
ico. Skyscrapers swayed in Mexi
co City.
Two Big Army Convoys
Moving Up Rough Roads
To Exercise in Alaska
QUESNEL, B.C., UP—Two giant
U.S. Army truck conveys, com
prising Exercise Moose Horn,
stopped over in this central Brit
ish Columbia center during the
weekend on their long trek to
Fort Greely, Alaska.
The first of the 100-vehicle con
veys, comprising 1,400 men from
Fort Lewis, Wash., arrived here
Saturday and left early Sunday.
The second group arrived Sun
day at 9 a.m.
The exercise, commanded by
Col. Donald M. Callahan, is de
signed to test equipment and abil
ity of continental forces to support
Alaskan combat units 1,200 miles
away over rough highways.
Many men from southern states
complained of cold, which was
only a few degrees below zero and
just a teste of what they will face
farther north.
It Was Love at Second Sight With
Her Prince Charming, Says Kelly
CHICAGO UP)—Grace Kelly says
her romance with Prince Rainier
III was love at second sight.
Smiting happily, the honey
blonde actress told some 70 re
porters and photographers yester
day how she met and was courted
by the handsome monarch of tiny
Monaco. They intend to marry
after Easter.
“I’ve been in love before—but
never in love like this,’’ she said.
Miss Kelly said she met the
prince at his palace in Monte Car
lo last May, but she didn’t date
him and didn’t feel at all romantic
about him.
It was a different story Christ
mas Day at the home of her par
ents in Philadelphia.
Prince Rainier had Christmas
dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Austin of Margate, N.J., Miss Kel
ly’s aunt and uncle. After dinner
the Austins brought the prince
calling at the Kelly home.
“Then it apparently was love at
first sight, or rather second sight,”
Miss Kelly smiled.
“Rainier proposed some time
during Christmas week after ask
ing my father’s permission.”
She held up her hand, showing
the engagement ring of rubies and
diamonds, and another gift from
Rainier—a bracelet of heavy gold
links with a pendant Monaco gold
coin.
Grace's father, John B. Kelly, is
the son of an Irish immigrant, He
began as a bricklayer and now
owns the country’s largest brick
masonry firm. Miss Kelly is 26 and
her fiance 32.
The prince and Miss Kelly part
ed Saturday for the first time
since their engagement. She is en
route to Hollywood to complete a
motion picture. He is driving to
Florida for deep sea fishing.
Eisenhower Ready to Take Up Again
Full Duties of the Presidency
Stevenson Disagrees With
Eisenhower’s Message on
State of the Union
CHICAGO UFi—Adlai E. Steven
son says the nation’s relationships
with other countries have “never
been more perilous than now” and
that he can’t understand why
President Eisenhower pictured
them otherwise.
Stevenson tossed new criticism
at the President’s State of the Un
ion mesage in a TV interview
(CBS’s Face the Nation) Sunday.
He called the report to Congress
“less a State of the Union mes
sage than a state of the Republi
can Party message.” He said the
message was “political in tone.”
He said the President’s claim
that the U.S. maintain’s its lead in
international affairs was “a curi
ous statement ... it was not ac
curate.”
Stevenson said it “appears to be
the case” that the United States
has lost its military lead to Russia.
He said the Eisenhower Admin
istration has made many mistakes
in carrying out foregn policy—
among them Secretary of State
Dulles’ “unfortunate reference to
Goa in India.”
Dulles irked Indians by calling
Goa a “piovince” of Portugal” in
a joint statement with the Portu
guese foreign minister. The In
dians consider it a colony that
should be part of their country.
Delegates Assure
Just Treatment
In Investigations
FAIRBANKS, Delegates to
the Alaska Constitutional Conven
tion Saturday approved an amend
ment by Victor Rivers to guaran
tee “all persons to fair and just
treatment in the course of legisla
tive and executive investigations.”
“Here is a drastic field for
abuse,” Rivers said. “We must
protect the public from castigation
before indictment.”
Warren Taylor of Fairbanks
fold the convention there have
been what he described as
“shameful episodes” in the nation
al scene in past years.
“McCarthy (Sen. Joseph Mc
Carthy, R-Wis) established a pat
tern which we should not allow to
be emulated by any Alaska de
partment,” Taylor said. “We need
to curb such activities because
some day we might have some ice
berg McCarthy showing up here.”
Delegates debated at length on
a section of the constitution read
ing: “The privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus shall not be sus
pended unless, when in cases of
rebellion, invasion or imminent
peril, the public safety requires
it.”
The convention finally decided
that “imminent peril” was too
broad and left the door open to
abuse. As finally written, the sec
tion specified the writ of habeas
corpus can be suspend only in cas
es of rebellion or actual or immi
nent invasion.”
$ (By the Associated Frisss)
President Eisenhower says he is
ready to take up today “the full
duties of the presidency”—ibut
with the big question of his poli
tical future still undecided.
Regarding a possible second
term bid, Eisenhower yesterday
told a Key West, Fla., news con
ference:
“ . . . My mind is not fixed to
such an extent that it can’t be
changed.”
Most quarters were agreed this
did little to clarify Eisenhower’s
personal plans, though it may
have indicated he has reached a
tentative decision, one way or the
other.
Eisenhower said the state of his
heal h would be a big factor in
ais decision. On this score, the
magazine U.S. News and World
Report today released copyrighted
results of a poll it made of heart
specialists—asking them whether
they though the President fit to
run again.
About 60 percent of the 246
specialists who responded said
they think Eisenhower’s health
would permit him to serve a sec
ond term. The others said they did
not believe him phsyically fit to
run again.
The Journal of the American
Medical Assn., in an editorial said
“the questions are very definitely -
slanted politically” and that con
sultation without examination is
absurd.”
U.S. News said replies were re
ceived from about 62 percent of
the specialists who had been sent
questionnaires.
Elsewhere on the political scene.
Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio
told radio-TV interviewers yester
day that he “would be available”
for the Democratic presidential
nomination if it were offered him.
He added he does not seek the as
signment, though he does aim to
be Ohio’s “favorite son” candidate.
Lausche sidestepped questions
about his availability for the vice
presidential nomination.
‘Hellzapoppin’ Takes
Time Off Following
jChick Johnson’s Injury
HOOLYWOOD (/P—The musical
revue “Hellzapoppin” takes a brief
time off this week following the
accidental injury of comedian
Chick Johnson during Saturday
night’s performance.
While offstage at the Music Box
Theater, Johnson accidentally shot
himself in the left leg. He was
treated for powder burns and skin
lacerations and taken home.
Johnson and his partner, Ole
Olsen, have fired an estimated five
million rounds of blank ammuni
tion the last 20 years without any
such mishap, a spokesman said.
Stevenson’s Son Back at
Harvard After Accident
BOSTON, —John Fell Steven
son, 19, youngest son of Democra t
ic presidential aspirant Adlai
Stevenson, was back at his Har
vard studies today, apparently re
covered from injuries suffered in
an automobile accident in Decem
ber.