m NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. IllNOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1955Per Copy—15^
Rebels Refuse To
Negotiate Unless
Peron Resigns
By ROMAN JIMINEZ
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, LP—
President Juan D. Peron offered
today to negotiate with the Ar
gentine rebels, tout they refused
to talk unless he submits his un
conditional resignation.
A broadcast from Buenos Aires
said the decision to seek negoti
ations was taken because of in
surgent threats to bombard Bue
ons Aires and the city of Eva
Peron, capital of Buenos Aires
province. The rebel naval forces
have announced the bombard
ment of Mar Del Plata, a seaside
resort town 400 miles southwest
of Buenos Aires.
Claim and counterclaim from
each side continued to cloud the
exact situation of the revolt which
began Friday. A broadcast seek
ing negotiations, was repeated
regularly every few seconds. With
the announced purpose of avert
ing bloodshed, it asked that fight
ing cease at the present lines.
There was no immediate reac
tion from the rebel fleet in the
River Plate.
Telephone communication with
Argentina was disrupted yester
day afternoon and correspondents
in Buenos Aires were permitted
to send out only government com
muniques and other official in
formation.
U.S. Jet Crash, Killing 4 Japanese
TOKYO, UP) — A U.S. Shooting
Star jet crashed into several Jap
anese houses today near Hachioji,
50 miles west of Tokyo, killing
four Japanese and the pilot.
An investigation is under way.
The pilot’s name was withheld.
U.S. Congressman Gets
Punched For Interceding
In Family Quarrel
CHICAGO, UP) — A U.S. Con
gressman got punched three times
last night when he tried to break
up an argument over hot dogs be
tween an ex-convict and his wife.
Rep. Charles A. Boyle (D-Ill), a
first term congressman, told po
lice he was assaulted as he tried
to break up the argument. He
signed an assault complaint
against Thoren R. Gentry, 35. Po
lice later captured Gentry in his
apartment.
Boyle, 48, said he noticed Gen
try and his wife, Dora, 28, argu
ing as he alighted from his car
near his home. When he attempt
ed to intercede, Boyle said,
Gentry told him to “get opt of
here or I’ll kill you.”
Gentry later told police he and
his wife were arguing about hot
dogs. Gentry said he wanted to
buy her one but that she didn’t
want one.
The congressman related that
Gentry punched him in the chest
three times and then dragged Mrs.
Gentry into their nearby apart
ment after throwing a rock at
him. Boyle said he fled the scene
and called police.
Mrs. Gentry said it was “just
a family spat.”
jTwo White Men On Trial
For Murder of Negro Who
Whistled at White Woman
SUMNER, Miss., <iP)—The sen
sational trial of two white men
accused of murdering a Chicago
Negro boy began today.
Deputy sheriffs searched spec
tators for weapons as they walked
single-file in to the courtroom.
Sheriff H. C. Strider said he
has received more than 150
threatening letters “telling me I
wouldn’t live through this trial.”
“They’re not scaring me,” he
declared.
Dist. Atty. Gerald Chatham said
he would not question prospective
jurors on their opinions of death
as a penalty for murder. •
That apparently means the
state will not ask for a death
sentence for Roy Bryant, 24, and
his 35-year-old half-brother, J. W.
Milam.
Bryant and Milam are accused
of murdering Emmett Louis Till,
a husky Negro lad who stuttered
and allegedly sounded a- wolf
whistle at Mrs. Bryant, wife
of the grocery operator in near
by Money.
Rejected Board
Members Must
Return Funds*
JUNEAU, UP) — The Attorney
General’s Office has declared
that members of territorial boards
who were rejected by the last
legislature are not eligible to re
ceive travel pay while serving
out their terms until new mem
bers are appointed.
In a letter to Territorial Treas
urer Hugh Wade, who had ques
tioned the payment of travel and
per diem expenses to rejected
board appointees, the Attorney
General’s Office ruled that all
funds paid out to rejected board
appointees must be returned to
the territory.
The opinion specifically men
tions six board members reap
pointed by Gov. Heintzleman but
rejected by the legislature. All of
them have participated in board
activities since their rejection.
They are Maurice Johnson of
Fairbanks, Harold Strandberg of
Anchorage and Ben Young of
Nome, members of the Territor
ial Board of Road Commissioners,
and William Healy of Anchorage,
J.S. MacKinnon Sr., of Juneau
and E. B. Collins of Fairbanks,
members of the Territorial Police
Commission.
Travel pay for the six men
named in the opinion since their!
rejection amounts to about $2,375,
for trips from their homes to
board meetings.
Previously, the Attorney Gen
eral had ruled that board mem
bers appointed by the governor
and not acted upon by the legis
lature may not legally serve, ar
guing that failure by the legis
lature to act on an appointment
by the gvoemor amounted to a
rejection.
Gov. Heintzleman, however,
has held that until these board
members are replaced, they are
qualified to serve.
Sen. Howard Lyng
Seriously Injured
In Fall In Seattle
SEATTLE. !/P>—Territorial Sen.
Howard Lyng of Nome was in
jured gravely at 5:45 a.m. today
in a fall from his fifth floor room
in a Seattle hospital.
The 64-year-old legislator fell
to the roof of the hospital’s first
floor wing. He had been alone
in his room at the time. The fall
was discovered by a nurse who
heard Lyng strike the roof.
Hospital officials said Lyng suf
fered head cuts and other in
juries. He had entered the hos
pital Thursday evening, suffer
ing from what was described as
hypertension. He was undergoing
diagnosis.
Lyng’s physician described his
condition in mid-morning as too
critical to allow immediate sur
gery for his severe head injury.
The doctor said it was hoped that
minstrations to Lyng will get him
into condition that would allow
brain surgery.
The doctor said Lyng had
“seemed fine” yesterday and that
his nurse reported seeing him in
his room, only five or 10 minutes
before he fell.
British Foreign Office
Admits Two Vanished
Diplomats Were Spies
LONDON, UB — The Foreign
Office said today it “must be pre
sumed that two missing British
diplomats—Guy Burgess and Don
ald McLean — stole secret docu
ments and turned them over to
the Russians.
A spokesman told a news con
ference a government White
Paper will be issued on the case
which had been kept hush-hush
since the diplomats vanished four
years ago.
Breaking a long silence after
•the British press stirred up a
furore, the Foreign Office admit
ted last night “we believe” Bur
gess and MacLean were Soviet
spies for years before their de
fection.
The admission came after Vlad
imir Petrov, head of the Soviet
espionage ring in Australia who
defected to the West, wrote in the
newspaper The People that Bur
ges and MacLean had been spies
all the time they were in govern
ment service and skipped when
they found out they were under
investigation.
The Foreign Office spokesman
did not elaborate on the nature
of the documents they took with
them.
Russia and Finland Sign Treaty
Returning Naval Base To Finns
MOSCOW, UB — The Soviet
Union and Finland today signed
agreements returning the Pork
kala Naval Base near Helsinki to
Finland and extending their
treaty of friendship and coopera
tion for 20 years.
The Porkkala agreement in
cluded a promise by the Russians
to withdraw their forces from the
base within three months of its
ratification.
House Subcommittee On Territories
And Insular Affairs Takes Testimony
Here On Variety of Alaskan Problems
The subcommittee of the House
Committee on Territories and In
sular Affairs arrived unexpected
ly on Sunday instead of today and
were honored with a dinner last
evening which had originally
been scheduled for this evening.
The committee by-passed Kot
zebue due to an epidemic of con
tagious hepatitis reported in that
area.
In the party were: Rep. Leo W.
O’Brien (D-NY) chairman; Dele
gate Bob Bartlett, Rep. William
Dawson (R-Utah), Rep. Edith
Green (D-Ore), Rep. James B. Utt
(R-Calif), S. McFarland and J. L.
Taylor consultants. Also legal ad
visor George Abott, John Reid
of the Geological Survey from
Washington, D.C., Max Penrod of
the ANS, and Phillip Holdsworth,
Territorial Commissioner of
Mines.
Mrs. Green is the first congress
woman to visit Nome.
Mrs. Grade Pfost CD - Idaho)
arrived during the hearing this
morning with her husband.
At the dinner Sunday evening,
Ralph Lomen was master of cere
monies and directed the informal
talks during the evening with all
the congressmen and their assist
ants, praising Alaska Delegate
Bob Bartlett for the wonderful
work he is doing in Washington
and the high regard and Vespect
that all congressmen have for
him.
Rep. O’Brien suggested that Al
askans seriously consider accept
ing an omnibus bill for statehood
as a forerunner to full rights as
[ citizens of the United States.
All representatives present
spoke in favor of statehood.
This morning the public hear
ing started at 9 o’clock in the
Court Room of the Federal Build
ing. John McNees spoke on state
hood and eloquently expressed
the desires of Alaskans to be first
Hurricane lone Heads Up
Atlantic Seaboard, Moving
Inland Over N. Carolina ..
HATTERAS, N.C., Gf> — Hurri
cane lone whipped inland over
North Carolina today, and, sweep
ing northward, sent an appre
hensive chill up the North At
lantic seaboard.
lone’s gusts were clocked at
107 miles an hour as she swept
past the Marine Air Station at
Cherry Point, N.C.
“This is the strongest and larg
est hurricane to pass northward
through the middle Atlantic states
in recent years, and except for
slower movement, may be com
pared with Hurricane Hazel of
last October,” the Weather Bu
reau said. “No great loss of in
tensity is expected during today
and tonight. The indicated move
ment will bring the center to near
the Washington area around mid
night and into central Pennsyl
vania Tuesday morning.”
rate citizens and a part of the
Union.
Congresswoman Green pointed
out that her state was a non
contiguous territory at the time
it was admitted to the Union, so
Alaska would not be the first.
Ralph Lomen gave his views
on commonwealth status, stress
ing the importance of lighter tax
ation and more incentive for de
velopment, however legal advisor
George Abbott called attention to
the fact that the taxation would
still rest with Congress and it
would take a Supreme Court de
cision to allow Alaska to step
down from from its territorial
status, even if it wanted to be
come a commonwealth.
The committee questioned Mr.
Lomen on whether Alaskans
would consider an omnibus bill
as a stepping stone, and he an
swered in the affirmative.
Boyd Harwood gave a clear
picture on the transportation,
problem, urging that Congress
give special heed to the isolation
of Northwestern Alaska and its
dependency on a suitable airport,
stressing that unless immediate
action is taken, not even DC-4’s
will be able to land here next
spring.
Harwood said: “We know we
are expendable and have been
told by military leaders that we
are outside the perimeter of de
fense and we do not complain,
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Pair of Oldsters 70, and 85,
Rescued After Being Lost
On Uranium Hunting Trip
VANCOUVER, Wash., UP> — A
couple of perky oldsters who de
fied the wilderness for a week on
a can of beans, a bit of jelly and
a small packet of powdered milk
are alive today and recovering
from exhaustion and hunger in a
Vancouver hospital.
Charles Allger, S5, of Tacoma,
Wash., and Charles Dickens, 70,
of San Diego, Calif., generally
had been given up for dead when
they became lost while prospect
ing for uranium in the rumpled,
growth-tangled foothills of Mt. St.
Helens.
But they were found Saturday
night by three woodsmen and
brought back to civilization yes
terday by a stretcher party which
hacked four miles through the
forest growth and waded waist
deep in icy water to complete the
mission of mercy.
Attendants said the two men
were in “pretty good” condition
and content to just recline and
rest in the hospita when
the stretcher party "diem
yesterday, Allger refused at first
to ride. He tried a few stagger
ing steps, however, and gave in.
“We couldn’t have made it
through another night,” Dickens
told the trio that found than. He
and Alger were grimy, bearded
and brush-whipped when located
by the woodsmen.