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VOL. LIX No. 95 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1957 Per Copy—15*
Hurricane Bertha
Is New Threat
To Gulf States
NEW ORLEANS, <£)—Tropical
storm Bertha ballooned into a
full-fledged hurricane today and
aimed its deadly punch at the
west Louisiana and upper Texas
coasts along a 125-mile front.
The weather bureau’s advisory
at 10 a.m. (OST) located the hur
ricane, traveling roughly in the
same path as its killer predeces
sor Audrey six weeks ago, about
140 miles southeast of Lake
Charles, La.
The storm’s highest winds were
estimated at 75 miles per hour
-within about 30 miles of the cen
ter with gales flaring out 100
miles from the center.
Bertha was expected to contin
ue a slow trek between west and
northwest at 10 to 12 mph. for the
next 12 hours. The advisory
warned that tides would reach
five to six feet between Galves
ton and Sabine, Tex., located on
the Louisiana border. Tides, nor
mally one foot, were expected
to be three to five feet along the
central Louisiana coast.
The area threatened includes
the strip of Louisiana laid waste
by Audrey, which claimed more
than 500 lives and reaped prop
erty damage in the millions.
But despite the threat of Ber
tha’s punishing winds and flood
ing tides, some hardy residents
of the Cameron area refused to
leave.
Residents of several low-lying
areas, including Cameron Parish
which bore the brunt of Audrey,
had been evacuated.
$11,500,000 Deleted
From Air Force
Projects in Alaska
WASHINGTON, 1*1—The Sen
ate Armed Forces Committee an
nounced yesterday it has deleted
$11,500,000 for various Air Force
projects in Alaska as contained
in a military public works auth
orization bill passed by the House.
However, it increased the sum
for housing at the Adak Naval
Station from $1,005,000 to $2,555,
000.
The $11,500,000 for the Air
Force would have covered opera
tional, training, maintenance, sup
ply, administration, hospital, med
ical and community facilities,
troop housing, utilities, ground
improvements and land acquisi
tion at various locations. The or
iginal bill carried $18,652,000 for
Air Force construction.
The authorization bill is for the
1957-58 fiscal year.
Dr. Woodcock of Arkansas
Here Looking Town Over
Dr. Wm. Woodcock from Little
Rock, Arkansas, has been in
Nome for the past 24 hours sur
veying the potentialities of the
community and the MMM Hos
pital.
If he is favorably impressed
Dr. Woodcock may return soon
to practice medicine here. He was
to leave via Wien Airlines today.
Imagine Meeting You Here. Dear
DETROIT, (#£-Anthony Kania
was driving home from work yes
terday night when he met his
wife, Helen, who was enroute to
the store in her car.
The two crashed into each
other while driving between
parked cars lining both sides of
a narrow street.
Neither is going to prosecute
the other.
WARNING
There has been lost from the
bargfe which was aground for sev
eral days one box of 50 blasting
caps. It is assumed it was washed
overboard while the barge was
grounded off the seawall.
The caps are of the electric
type with 8-foot wires attached.
They are extremely dangerous
and if found should be reported
to the police immediately.
7th Set of Twins
In 14 Years Born to
Farmhand’s Wife
PINE RIDGE, S.D., UP) — Birth
of their seventh set of twins in
14 years to the James Big Crows
was so routine their father didn’t
even bother to go to the hospital
to pace a corridor.
“It wasn‘t any surprise; the
doctor said it probably would be
doubles again,” said Mrs. Mar
cella Big Crow. “You sort of get
used to it after a while.”
Big Crow, a temporarily un
employed farmhand, was philo
sophical about Tuesday’s arrival
of the new twins, who round out
a family of 15 children.
He was concerned most about
finding room for the new arrivals
in the two-room shack where the
family lives at the edge of the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Altogether, Mrs. Big Crow has
had 18 children, but three, in
cluding a girl twin, have died.
Mrs. Big Crow, 34, conceded
that the tiny cabin sometimes
gets pretty crowded. But not all
the 15 children are at home all
the time. Eight are in school and
the older ones usually spent quite
a bit of time “just visiting
around” with relatives or neigh
bors.
“We got by before, we’ll get
by again,” was the parents’ atti
tude.
Mrs. Big Crow is not a twin
nor is her husband. But she is a
sister of two sets of twins and
there are a couple of more dou
bles in the paternal family.
Conferees Agree
On $366,000,000
Foreign Aid Bill
WASHINGTON, Congress
was presented today with a $3,
366,000,000 foreign aid program
embodying a first step toward a
long range program of economic
help abroad.
President Eisenhower has urged
such a program.
Senate and House conferees
last night agreed on a compromise
foreign aid bill, slashed $498,410,
000 below the $3,864,410,000 Ei
senhower asked for military, eco
nomic and technical assistance
abroad. In doing so, the conferees
just about split the $500,000,000
difference between Senate and
House totals.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D
Tex), the majority leader, said a
crowded schedule may delay
Senate action on the bill until
Monday.
The totals may be cut even
deeper in a later appropriations
bill to finance the spending for
whjch the foreign aid bill sets
ceilings. But the compromise
measure represents a partial con
gressional acceptance of the long
range concept.
Ttree Plead
Guilty to Spying
For Soviet Union
NEW YORK, UR—Jacob Albam,
64, a former Brooklyn tea and
spice dealer, and Mrs. Myra So
ble, 52, were sentenced to bVz
years in prison each today for
spying for the Soviet Union.
Her husband, Jack, 54, a third
member of the espionage ring,
was to be sentenced later. All
three had pleaded guilty.
Both Albam and Mrs. Soble
appeared shocked when Federal
District Judge Richard H. Levet
pronounced the sentences.
Thruout the preliminaries, the
blonde Mrs. Soble wept softly.
Albam, bespectacled and balding,
had stared nervously at the floor,
walls and ceiling.
Nervously pacing a corridor
outside the courtroom was the
Sobles’ 17-year-old son Lawrence,
who repeatedly has expressed
faith in his parents.
At the time of their arrest last
January he said he was “more
I than 100 percent certain” they
were not spies. After they plead
ed guilty last April, the youth
said:
“Whatever they did it was to
protect the lives of my grandpar
ents or other innocent persons.”
The Sobles and Albam all came
to the United States as European
refugees.
Three Icebreakers
Across
| Northwest Passage
SEATTLE, UP) — Three Coast
Guard icebreakers have crunched
more ‘than half way across the
top of the North American conti
nent, the Navy reported Wednes
day in the quest for a deep
water northwest passage.
They are the icebreakers Spar,
Bramble and Storis, part of the
46-ship flotilla that sailed from
Seattle last month on the annual
arctic supply mission to the DEW
Line.
Before the expedition departed
the Navy announced that the
three Coast Guard ships and the
Canadian icebreaker Laborador
would try to force their way east
through the ice and discover a
practical deep-draft northwest
passage. Such a passage might be
used by Navy ships for escape
from the Arctic if ice barred their
way back around Point Barrow
to the west coast.
A few exploratory shallow
draft vessels have traversed a
northwest passage in the past few
years, but no course has been
found that could be navigated by
ships with a 16-foot draft.
Wednesday’s report was the
first word on the expedition’s
progress. It said: “After being
dangerously beset by polar ice in
the vicinity of Stapleton Bay, the
vessels have broken clear and ere
proceeding eastward. At last re
port the three vessels had worked
their way thru concentrated ice
down Union Street, enroute to
Coronation Gulf and Cambridge
Bay.”
The dispatch also said the Spar
had sheared off the tip of a pro
pellor blade in the ice but still
is under way.
Other ships in this year’s DEW
Line mission have completed a
third of their job of delivering
supplies to radar stations along
the DEW Line’s 1,750-mile west
ern sector, and the Nayy reports
work “progressing favorably.” i
Giant C-97 Transport Flies 1,000
Miles to Safety on Two Engines
j Mrs. Eisenhower Still
| Recovering Satisfactorily
WASHINGTON MV-Mrs. Dwight
D. Eisenhower’s recovery pro
! gress was described today as still
•‘most satisfactory.” At the same
time it was established that the
operation which she underwent
Tuesday involved removal of the
uterus.
The White House never has
specified the nature of the two
hour operation beyond saying it
was for a non-cancerous condi
tion and that it was “not serious.”
Other sources, however, identi
fied the surgery as the procedure
technically called hysterectomy.
Boy Scout Fund
Drive Starts Here
Monday Morning
The annual Boy Scout financial
drive will start with a “kick-off”
breakfast on Monday, Aug. 12 at
8 a.m. at the Bering Sea Club.
This drive is to finance the
Western Area Council, Midnight
Sun District, in its program to
carry out all scout activities in
the Nome area. Such activities
include two Boy Scout troops, one
Cub Scout pack and one Explorer
post. The Western Alaska Coun
cil supervises generally all of
such activities including the camp
program. Todd Y. Purcell is the
area Scout director who makes
frequent trips to Nome and who
will attend the breakfast.
Team captains and co-workers
chosen by the Nome District
Scout Committee are as follows:
George Bayer and Gordon Os
borne, Keith Hedreen and Jerry
Manning, Stan Morgan and Clint
Gray, Jim Walsh and Don Hun
gerford, Ben Young and Willard
Mecklenburg, Ernie Bohrer and
Dick Miller, Joe Kroninger and
Sgt. Bill Granfield, Bill Barber
and Ash Craft, Carl Glavinovich
and Bill Cameron, and Roscoe
Wilke and Tommy Martin.
Steve Andersen is general
chairman of the drive and Jim
von der Heydt is secretary-trea
surer.
B.C. Unemployment
Increasing Sharply, May
Approach 1930 Level
VANCOUVER UP)—Employment
prospects in British Columbia are
making officials increasingly de
spondent.
These men say the indications
are that unemployment in the
province next winter may be the
worst in years—possibly since the
1930s.
The Unemployment Insurance
Commission’s monthly report for
July, released yesterday, says 16,
000 workers are unemployed in
Vancouver alcoe, 5,000 more than
at the same time last year. Jobs
available dropped sharply.
G. F. Watson, executive secre
tary of the Vancouver Commun
ity Chest’s family and child wel
fare division, called it “a poten
tially more serious problem than
at any time since the Depression.”
Heavy layoofs have been re
ported in construction, several
logging companies have an
nounced shutdowns and layoffs,
and opportunities for work in
most other industries are near nil.
*> By JIM BECKER
and CHARLES TURNER
HONOLULU UB—“I wasn’t call
I ing the shots—the good Lord
was.”
That’s Maj. Samuel Tyson’s ex
planation of how he kept his gi
ant C-97 Military Air Transport
aloft 6Vz hours on two engines
yesterday for 1,000 miles over the
i Pacific with 67 people aboard.
Tyson, a 37-year-old veteran of
World War II, the Korean War
and the Berlin airlift who comes
from Council Bluffs, Iowa, pilot
ed the giant plane into Hilo, Ha
waii, at 11:25 a.m. yesterday. Two
of its engines had quit just be
yond the point of no return from
Travis Air Force Base, Calif., to
Hickam AFB, Oahu.
“It never occurred to me that
we would ditch,” said Tyson. “I’m
a coward,” he grinned. “I can’t
swim very far. The water’s cold.” .
More seriously he said, “I’d de
termined to take things as they
came. After the first shock of re
' alizing we were in danger, and
after the adrenaline shot into me,
I thought clearer and acted bet
ter. I had confidence in myself.”
Tyson, who already has two
Distinguished Flying Crosses, has
been recommended for another.
Tyson landed his nine crewmen
and 57 passengers safely after a
last minute ordeal when the land
ing gear didn’t lower. Two flight
engineers worked the big wheel
down by an emergency hand
crank. The wheel housing had.
jammed because the No. 2 engine
had been damaged when the No. 1
propellor flew off.
The big plane landed smoothly
in spite of the yaw created by the
two engines on only one side.
Passengers and crew emerged
dripping with sweat. Not only
had they been “sweating it out”
for nearly sever hours: all vents
had been closed.
Action Completed on
Airways Modernization
Board for Jet Age
| WASHINGTON —'The Senate
completed action yesterday on
President Eisenhower’s request
for a special “airways moderni
zation board” to plan for jet age
expansion and the safety of civil
and military aviation.
Members will include the Sec
retary of Defense, the Secretary
of Commerce, and a $20,500 a
year aviation expert.
The board will have broad
powers to reorganize and coordi
nate all federal controls over avi
ation, using present agencies and
their experts.
The President asked the legisla
tion in a letter to Congress April
11 which supported recommenda
tions by Edward P. Curtis, special
White House assistant on avia
tion matters.
British Royal Couple
Will See U.S. Football
WASHINGTON, I#—Britain’s
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince
Philip will take in an American
football game on their visit to the
United States Oct. 16-21. They
wall see the Maryland-North Car
olina game at College Park, Md.
The visit to the Maryland cam
pus was a surprise addition to the
list of formal engagements for the
royal couple. The schedule other
wise includes the usual state
events- and previously announced
visits to Williamsburg and James
town, Va.