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Alaska's fossil fields yielded a rich harvest last summer to
Dr. Otto Geist, research associate in paleontology at the Uni
versity of Alaska. Pictured is an unusual modern-day specimen
he brought from a bay near Keewalik in Kotzebue Sound, a 13
foot skeleton of a male narwhal with an ivory tusk a yard long.
Usually this whale is found in North Atlantic waters around
Baffin Bay in Greenland. Apparently only three tusks of this
mammal have been previously found in Alaska—on St. Lawrence
Island, the beach near Nome, and at Wainwright.
George Molo of Candle and Robert Sherman of Keewalik dis
covered the narwhal, and Mrs. Jim Sherman, Robert's mother,
helped Dr. Geist dissect and skeletonize it. The Cooperative
Wildlife Research Unit on campus wil study the skeleton, and
the tusk and skull will be placed in the musuem.
Dr. Geist believes that another narwhal killed the specimen he
obtained because he found the ti£ of a narwhal tusk imbedded
in the jaw. This discovery indicates that a second narwhal is in
Alaskan waters, and possibly a tuskless female over which the
two males were fighting, something some naturalists have
theorized does not occur.
Indian Chief Predicts
Long, Hard Winter
From Muskrat Skins
ST. REGIS, Quebec, iff)—A 77
year-old Mohawk Indian chief
says the long fur on muskrats
bodes a long and hard winter for
the northeastern United States
and southeastern Canada.
Mitchell George, a chief of the
Six Nations Indian Confederacy
and the nation’s weather oracle,
annually makes a prediction.
An examination of more than a
hundred muskrat hides, he says,
shows the fur on the animals is
about two inches long this fall,
compared with about one inch in
past mild winters.
Pan American Airliner
Flies New York to Rome
In Record Time
ROME, (J) — A Pan American
World Airways DC - 7C airliner
landed in Rome today 11 hours
and 33 minutes after taking off
from New York. This is the fast
est time in which a passenger
airliner has made the non - stop
4,350-mile trip.
Favorable tail winds helped the
airplane hit a top speed of 440
mph and an average speed of
380.
The previous fastest time for
the flight was 12 -hours and 20
minutes. This was done five days
ago by another Pan Am plane.
Sinatra Denounces Rock V Roll
As Phony, False, Dirty and Ugly
PARIS, UP)—Singer Frank Sina
tra denounced rock ’n’ roll today
as a phony, false and dirty and
said it was “sung, played and
written for the most part by cret
inous goons.”
The famed crooner, writing in
the magazine Western World pub
lished here, praised the influence
of American jazz and popular mu
sic as a way of winning friends
and influencing people thruout
the world.
“My only deep sorrow,” he said,
“is the unrelenting insistence of
recording and motion picture
companies upon purveying the
most brutal, ugly, degenerate,
viscious form of expression it has
been my displeasure to hear—
I naturally I refer to the bulk of
| rock ’n’ roll.
| “It fosters almost totally nega
tive and destructive reactions in
young people. It smells phony and
false. It is sung, played and writ
ten for the most part by cretinous
goons and by means of its almost
imbecilic reiterations and sly,
lewd—in plain fact dirty—lyrics,
and, as I said before, it manages
to be the martial music of every
side-burned delinquent on the
face of the earth.
“This rancid smelling aphrodis
iac I deplore. But, in spite of it,
the contribution of American mu
sic to the world could be said to
have one of the healthiest effects
of all our contributions.”
U.S. Sub Nautilus
Sails 1,000 Miles
Under Arctic Ice
SAN FRANCISCO, (^—Secre
tary of the Navy Thomas S- Gates
says the atomic-power submarine
Nautilus has “scored another
first” by travelling 1,000 miles
under the arctic ice pack in 5V£
days and gathering operational
and scientific data.
In a press release, Gates noted
that the Nautilus now has an op
erational sister ship, the Sea Wolf,
cm which President Eisenhower
made a brief cruise last month.
“In addition to these two true
submersibles, we have approved
up thru the 1958 shipbuilding
program 17 additional nuclear
submarines,” he said.
The Navy calls the atomic
powered craft “true submersi
bles” because they can stay under
way for long periods—in contrast
with ordinary subs which require
frequent surface contact for
oxygen.
Soviet Ambassador
Proposes Direct Air
Service U.S. to Moscow
WASHINGTON UPi—Soviet Am
bassador Georgi Zarubin today
proposed direct airline service be
tween the United States and Rus
sia. It was one of 52 projects to
spur greater U.S.-Soviet exchang
es.
Zarubin'spent 75 minutes at the
State Department with William
S. B. Lacey, State Department
officer in charge of East-West
cultural-scientific exchanges.
Sources close to the talks said
Zarubin proposed exchange visits
toy American congressmen and
members of Russia’s Supreme So
viet. He also proposed swapping
university students between Mos
cow University and Columbia and
j Harvard.
MENDERES WINS
NEW TERM AS
TURKEY’S P.M.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Itfk-Ad
nan Menderes won a new term as
Turkey’s Prime Minister today
while his pro-Western nation
faced its gravest foreign crisis
since World War II.
Menderes’ Democratic Party
won 397 seats in the National As
sembly. The People’s Republican
Party won 178 and the small
Freedom and Nation Parties got
four seats each.
The only effect the election was
expected to have on the Turkish
Syrian border crisis was to give
Turkish leaders more time to deal
with it. Since the campaigning
began, the Turks have paid little
heed to the Syrian charges of
Turkish plans to attack and So
viet threats to intervene if fight
ing broke out.
Turkey denied the charges and
said the troop reinforcements
along the Syrian border were
j there on defensive maneuvers.
| Foreign journalists visiting the
| border area found the army in
J defensive positions, placed well
back of the actual demarcation
j line.
ZHUKOV OUSTED AS
RED MILITARY CfflEF
Kotzebue, Barrow
Get Long-Distance
Telephone Service
SEATTLE, —Long-distance
telephone service to Point Barrow
and Kotzebue was established
Saturday.
Calls will be handled by the
Army’s Alaska Communication
System on a relay system thru its
toll center in Anchorage.
The new service is made possi
ble thru use of recently construct
ed White Alice and DEW Line
facilities. Long - distance calls
will be routed by ACS from Point
Barrow and Kotzebue to the ACS
toll center in Anchorage and from
there to any part of the world.
Toll charges from the arctic
points to New York will be $9.90
for three minutes in daytime and
$8.25 at night. Rates to Seattle
will be $9.08 by day and $7.43 by
night.
Inauguration ceremonies at Pt.
Barrow included a call from the
president of the village of Barrow
Council to ACS officials.
Australian Plane Makes
First Nonstop Flight
Honolulu to Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia, UR — A
Qantas Empire Airways Super
Constellation today ' completed
the first nonstop flight by a com
mercial airliner from Honolulu
to Sydney.
The big ship flew more than
| 5,000 miles in a little more than
22 hours. The plane was on a
delivery flight from the Lock
heed Aircraft Corp. plant at Bur
bank, Calif.
S> By ROY ESSOYAN
MOSCOW UP)—Westerners today
expressed belief that Marshal
Georgi K. Zhukov has been down
graded in a Communist Party
move to assert its full authority
over the armed forces.
The curt announcement Satur
day that Zhukov was “relieved”
as defense minister created the
impreession among Western ob
servers in Moscow that the Rus
sian war hero was being shunted,
aside, whatever new position he
might get.
Some observers said Zhukov
might be shunted off to a politi
cal job, leaving Nikita Khrush
chev as the unchallenged big boss
of Soviet domestic and foreign
policies.
Correspondents found it easy to
clear with the censors a predic
tion Zhukov would be divorced
from the armed forces and be ap
pointed a first deputy premier.
(Another speculative gambit
passed f>y Moscow censors is that
the post of Russian ambassador to
Washington might be an ideal
post for Zhukov.
(Moscow censors sometimes use
their authority to amend corres
pondents’ cables as well as to de
lete material. Censors may pass
speculation when they apparently
have information to indicate it is
right.)
Pravda, official newspaper of
the Communist Party, sharply re
minded its readers today that the
unity of the party must be con
sidered “indestructible.”
The title of the editorial, “Inde
structible Unity of Party and Peo
ple,” was exactly the same as the
editorial used last June to explain
to party readers the reasons for
the anti-party purge of Molotov
and Kaganovich.
There is a good possibility that
Zhukov and Khrushchev did not
see eye to eye on foreign policy.
Saint-or-Sinner Convict Captured
After Spreading Trail of Terror
LAVA HOT SPRINGS, Idaho,
U?)—A saint-or-sinner convict who
spread a trail of terror across two
states slept peacefully in a jail
cell today after his mother, in a
long-distance phone call, con
vinced him to surrender.
Willard Arthur Brown, 23, was
pictured by his mother as a gentle
and lonesome man who escaped
from prison so he could be with
her.
Brown’s surrender at the iso
lated ranchhouse two miles west
of here ended a full-scale man
hunt that centered in Idaho but
involved officers in Utah, Mon
tana and Wyoming.
Surrounded by police, Brown
asked permission to call his moth
er. Police agreed. She told Brown
to give up and he said, “Okay,
mother, I’ll do it for you.”
Brown walked out into the light
drizzle, put his 30-30 rifle down
on the ground, and surrendered.
While police pondered what
charges should be filed, and
where, Brown got his first sleep
of a 26-hour period in which he:
Escaped from the Montana
State Prison at Deer Lodge;
Stole at least four cars, the ri
fle, money and clothes;
Kidnaped a 23-year-old mother
of three and held her for nine
harrowing hours. She charges he
raped her at gunpoint. Brown de
nies it;
Forced two Canadian hunters
to drive him across eastern .Idaho*
robbed them, then bound them
with a tom shirt and drove away.
Later, fearing police were clos_
ing in, Brown holed up in the J
ranchhouse occupied by a 72
year-old man who was baby-sit
ting with his three grandchildren
while the parents were at church.
It was here that police found
him, permitted the phone call to
be made, then accepted the sur
prise surrender.