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VOL. LVIII No. 13 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1956_Per Copy—154
Couple Reach Tip
Of S. America in
Jeep From Alaska
PANAMA, UP—A young Cali
fornia couple who set out from
the Arctic Circle nearly two years
ago to drive across land and water
to South America’s lower tip,
have notified friends they ac
complished their mission.
Frank and Helen Schreider of
Valley Center, Calif., report they
drove their amphibious Jeep
across the Strait of Magellan on
Jan. 17 and reached Usruaia, the
southernment settlement on Ar
gentine-held Tierra del Fuego.
Friends here said they received
greetings in the form of a Western
Hemisphere map, charting what
was termed “the most amphibious
expedition the length of the Am
ericas.”
The Schreiders left Circle City,
Alaska, in July 1954 in their spe
cially fitted Jeep. They followed
the western coastline, driving in
roadless sections along beaches
and oxcart trails.
They navigated the Pacific off
southern Costa Rica and churned
through the Atlantic off Panama.
At one point the Jeep motored
nine miles up a river in Costa
Rica.
The Schreiders plan to drive
back to Rio de Janeiro, then take
a ship to the United States.
(The distance actually traveled
by the Schreiders on their Jeep
journey was not available from
them. However, map measure
ments indicated they traveled ap
proximately 20,000 miles.)
Bartlett Asks Extension
Of District Judges’ Term
WASHINGTON, UP)—Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska introduced a
bill yesterday to provide an 8
year term for the district judges
of Alaska, who now serve 4-year
appointments.
Arctic Club To
Hold Dog Racing
Again This Spring
According to a decision an
nounced by the Arctic Club, Nome
will have 'dog racing again this
year.
Snow conditions being very fa
voragle for racing, considerable
interest is being shown after last
year’s race.
Although the purse has not
been announced, it is planned to
invite teams from villages in the
area and possibly run the races
on more than one day.
The club has set aside funds for
the race but are hoping that other
organizations will contribute in
"the interest of promoting interest
in this winter civic project. The
bigger the purse the more teams
can be attracted from outlying
villages.
WHEELS OF JUSTICE
TURN SLOW BUT SURE
COLUMBUS, Ohio, UP)— Fifteen
years ago, John Blackburn, now
of Alexandria, had his 17-jewel
Picket watch stolen in a Colum
bus burglary.
Yesterday, detectives found the
watch in a routine check of pawn
shops. Blackburn got it back.
Bartlett Urges $10,009,000 for Alaska
Public Works, Twice Bureau’s Request
WASHINGTON, UPl—Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska urged a House
appropriations subcommittee yes
terday to approve at least $10 mil
lion for Alaskan public works in
the year beginning July 1. The
Budget Bureau has recommended
$5 million.
“My information,” Bartlett tes
tified, “is that ‘solid’ projects ag
gregating more than $16 million
could be presented to you right [
now if clearance could be had.
That work is not only considered
essential; that work is essential.”
Bartlett said he “sincerely
hoped” that funds could be found
to replace the Talkeetna school
building at Anchorage which was
destroyed by fire last fall, and for
“much needed” school additions
at Denali and North Star.
For road construction, he said
the appropriation this year was
$6,300,000 and the Budget Bureau
is requesting $7,800,000 for the
new year. “Surely it is to be
hoped that this amount will be
allowed,” he said.
Bartlett noted that in a list of
Alaskan projects before the sub
committee there was only one
item having to do with construc
tion of a road recently begun.
That was a request for $500,000
for the Fairbanks-Nenana road.
“Everything else,” he said, “is
connected with further improve
ments of existing highways, or as
in the case of the Denali Highway,
moving toward completion of a
road started some time ago.”
Bartlett said he would like to
emphasize the “forgotten road”—
the “so-called Cordova Highway”
which would extend from Cor
dova to the Richardson Highway.
He said no funds were appro
priated the road for this year. He
asked that not less than $2,200,000
he added to the Alaska Road
Commission appropriations in the
coming year, specifically marked
for continuation of work on this
highway.
Bartlett said that “when the
day comes when Alaska has
achieved statehood ... it will not
be necessary to seek so many spe
cial appropriations.”
“In the meantime, Alaska does
remain in territorial status . . .
Alaska under the present set of
rules develops just as fast or just
as slowly, in generality, as the
federal government dictates.”
Bartlett endorsed the request of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs for
$5,682,222 for the Alaska Native
Service. He said he hoped the
subcommittee would approve a
request for $576,800 for six school
buildings and repairs and im
provements.
Bartlett also “endorsed” these
budget requests for Alaska: Na
tional Park Service, $735,264; Bu
reau of Land Management, $1,
752,650; Geological Survey, $2,
500,000; Bureau of Mines, $439,
087.
Gen. John Noyes Dies Here
Filings For Legislature
To date the following have filed
for the Legislature:
Charles Jones and Edith Bul
lock on the Republican ticket for
the Senate; Lester Bronson and
Charles Fagerstro'm on the Demo
cratic ticket for the Senate.
No one has filed for the House
on the Republican ticket to date.
On the Democratic ticket for
the House there is Rose Silver
man. The Clerk of the Court has
been advised that Eben Hobson of
Point Barrow has his papers in
the mail and will be on the Demo
cratic ticket for the house.
Gov. Patterson
Of Oregon Dies
Of Heart Attack
PORTLAND, Oregon, UP—Gov.
Paul Patterson of Oregon, who
was the top choice of Republican
Party leaders in Oregon to try
to unseat Democratic Sen. Wayne
Morse next fall, died of a heart
attack last night.
Patterson, who had announced
only four days ago that he would
make the race for the^Senate, was
conferring with political advisoi’s
at the exclusive Arlington Club in
Portland when he collapsed. He
was 55.
The doctor who reached the
governor’s side within five min
utes said Patterson died within 10
minutes of the attack at 9:50 p.m.
Republican leaders for months
had urged the governor to make
the race against Morse, the one
time Republican who left the
party in the 1952 presidential
campaign.
The only other Republican who
has entered the race is Elmer
Dietz, a dairyman who was elect
ed to the state legislature two
years ago when he led a success
ful campaign to remove Oregon’s
milk control act.
Patterson will be succeeded by
the new state Senate president,
Elmo E. Smith, 46, publisher of
a weekly newspaper in the small
eastern Oregon town of John Day
Smith also is a Republican.
Unwiped Windshield Plus
10 Weekends in Jail
LONG BEACH, Calif., UP—Be
cause he beat up a gasoline sta
tion attendant who refused to
wipe the windshield of his car,
Fred Goodall must serve 10 week
ends in jail.
Testimony developed that Good
all bought $1 worth of gasoline
last Nov. 19 and asked the atten
dant, Wallace E. Brown, to clean
his windshield, and when he re
fused, thrashed him. Goodall was
convicted of assault, and sen
tenced yesterday.
Citizens for Eisenhower
NEW YORK, MV-John Reed
Kilpatrick, chairman of the board
of Madison Square Garden and a
neophyte in politics, has accepted
the chairmanship of the National
Citizens for Eisenhower organiza
tion.
Nome Pilots Commended For
Rescue of Three Survivors
Brig. Gen. John Noyes, com-’
manding general of the Alaska
National Guard, died Monday
night at the MMM Hospital from
injuries received in the A.N.G.
plane accident which had kept all
bush pilots and military craft in
the area searching for two and
a half days for the plane which
disappeared in the blizzard Fri
day night.
After the search was organized
on Saturday under the co-ordin
ated direction of Capt. Wells of
the 74th Rescue Squadron and
the Civil Air Patrol under Phillip
Lancaster, bush planes and the
military worked together to cover
every hill and valley on Seward
Peninsula.
As soon as Rev. Bruckner and
Jim Walsh spotted the plane on
Monday noon, about five miles
north of Engstrom’s camp at
Basin Creek, pilot Martin Olson,
operations officer for CAP and
Lancaster made ,the first landing
near the wreck on a small saddle
on an adjoining mountain. They
climbed down the icy slope to the
wrecked plane.
Lancaster reports that they
found Major Kolb stretched out
in the plane, wrapped in a sleep
ing bag and other gear but un
able to move due to injuries.
General Noyes was unconscious
and still in his seat in the plane.
Lancaster contacted the 74th
Rescue plane which was circling
above and asked that paramedics
be dropped with supplies. Four
men then parachuted from the
plane to the scene. They were:
S/Sgt Charles R. Chapman,
T/Sgt. George E. Thomas, S/Sgt.
Eugene F. Armstrong and T/Sgt.
Martin J. Juback.
Shortly after the first plane
landed, Bill Munz accompanied
by Boyd Harwood, landed near
the first plane. Munz holds a
citation and medal for his brav
ery in a previous rescue of mili
tary personnel several years ago.
These four, Olson, Lancaster,
Munz and Harwood, then con
trived a stretcher and carried the
two injured men almost a mile
by a tortuous path to Munz’s
plane and he brought them to
the hospital.
In the meantime, Rev. Bruck
ner and Capt. Eaton had spotted
Sgt. August and Major Siegwart
walking down Nome River and
they picked them up and brought
them to the hospital.
Both August and Siegwart said
that Kolb radioed time and time
again but did not get any
answer and did not know if they
were being heard. CAA reports
that they heard the calls and
tried many frequencies trying to
contact the plane.
In an interview with Sgt. Aug
ust and Maj. Siegwart last night,
the major said:
“We knew we were going to
crash but there was no hysteria
or panic. I know I said a prayer.
When we hit I was thrown out
of the plane but both August and
I were conscious. We heard Maj.
Kolb groan and as soon as we
were able we laid him out in a
sleeping bag. We believed the
general was dead as we could
detect no pulse and being too ex
hausted to do anything further,
lay down to wait until the storm
abated, which was not until about
five o’clock Saturday morning.
“Then August climbed to the
top of the slippery mountain but
could not determine where we
were because a heavy fog lay
over the valley.”
Later Saturday when they heard
planes, August and Siegwart took
a parachute to the top of the
mountain, although Siegwart had
a badly injured leg.
August said, “I’ll bet we fell
40 times before we set fire to
the parachute but nobody saw the
smoke.”
It was on Saturday that they
again examined Gen. Noyes and
detected a faint pulse, the first
time they realized h# was still
alive. Kolb regained conscious
ness but was in great pain when
he tried to move so Siegwart and
Kolb realized they would have
to get help or they would all
freeze.
Siegwart said: “We climbed, or
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Two Feared Drowned
When Air Force Plane
Crash-Lands in River
PITTSBURGH (i¥»—S/Sgt. Wal
ter E. Soocey, 32, of Palmer, Al
aska, is one of two men feared
drowned yesterday when a twin
engine Air Force plane pancaked
into the icy Monongahela River.
The other missing man is Capt.
J. P. Ingram, Winifred, W. Va.
The,B-25 bomber, equipped as
a passenger plane, was forced
down when its fuel supply ran
out, an Air Force spokesman said.
The plane was carried down
stream by the 15 mph. current,
and sank in about 18 ft. of water.
Four exhausted survivors were
pulled from the 400-foot wide
stream. Melting snow and recent
heavy rains had swollen the nor
mally placid Monongahela.
Said one survivor, M/Sgt. Al
fred J. Alleman, 36: “I felt like a
block of ice when I was brought
into shore. I was hanging on a log
with the others but it couldn’t
support all of us and I set out for
shore because I guess I’m an
above average swimmer. I’m sure
glad I was. . . .”
A. A. Milne Dies at 74
HARTFIELD, England, The
father of Christopher Robin and
Winnie-the-Pooh, Alan Alexander
Milne, died last night at the age
of 74. He had been in poor health
for the past three years.
The author of the children’s
classics also was a noted play
wright, novelist, essayist and hu
morist. His hit plays included
“Mr. Pirn Passes By,” “The Dover
Road” and “Michael and Mary.”