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VOL. LV NO. 148 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1953 ~ Per Copy—15<t
City Vehicles Must Pay
Territorial License Fees
JUNEAU, UP)—An attorney-gen
eral’s opinion will end the long
time practice of exempting city
owned motor vehicles* in Alaska
from territorial license fees, start
ing in 1954.
Tax Commissioner Karl F. Dew
ey has notified city clerks that
municipalities no longer will re
ceive free vehicles after the end
of the year.
Demos Dust Off
1952 Theme For
1954 Campaign
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — Demo
crats under the lead of Adlai E.
Stevenson are dusting off for use
in 1955 a 1952 campaign theme
that the country “never had it
so good” as when they were in
power.
This idea of prosperity and
good times under the Democratic
administration wasn’t enough last
year to overcome Republican cries
it was “time for a change” and
failed to put Stevenson in the
White House.
How well it and other issues
will work for the Democrats now
will be tested in next year’s ballot
box battle to snatch control of
Congress from GOP hands.
In any event, climbing living
costs, economic issues and fear
of depression got a heavy accent
ing over the weekend at a rally of
Democrats from 11 Atlantic Coast
states and the District of Colum
bia.
So did the question of subver
sion and Soviet espionage in gov
ernment, with Stevenson putting
in an appeal to the country to quit
raking over ashes of the past and
get on with combatting the inter
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12th Meeting of NATO
Ministers Told Eisenhower
Atomic Plan Has Promise
PARIS, UPi — French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault told the
opening session of the NATO min
isterial meeting today that Presi
dent Eisenhower’s plan for an
atomic pool for peace would di
vert an immense material power
from a deathly destruction toward
the peaceful progress of man
kind.”
Bidault, chairman of the meet
ing, declared to the nearly 50 for
eign, defense and finance minis
ters from the 14 North Atlantic
nations that a positive Soviet reply
to the Eisenhower proposal would
bring “incalculable political con
sequences.” He added:
“Never before would disarma
ment convey so many promises of
a happy life.”
The ministers crowded into the
huge conference room of the Palais
de Chaillot overlooking the Seine
River for their 12th meeting on
building up the defense of West
ern Europe.
Later today U.S. Secretary of
State Dulles was expected to tell
them they must press on with
their rearmament program no
matter what they hope will come
out of the Big Four’s projected
Berlin conference.
22 U.S. Prisoners
Stall Attempts To
Coax Them Home
PANMUNJOM, UP) — Indian Lt.
Gen. K. S. Thimayya said today
he believes 22 American prisoners
of the Korean war who refuse to
quit the Communists are attempt
ing to permanently stall off Allied
attempts to coax them home.
Thimayya said the Indian Com
mand would make every effort to
get the explanations started, but
there was little possibility they
would get under way in less than
four or five days.
Time is fast running out; the
explanation period ends Dec. 23.
Only hours before they were
scheduled to meet with American
explanation teams, the 22 balky
Americans refused to meet with
interviewers. They said they won’t ■
leave their barbed wire com
pounds unless fellow pro - Com
munist South Korean prisoners
also agree to attend the sessions.
This South Koreans have refused
to do for three days.
Meanwhile, the saddened moth
er who flew across the Pacific
from her Minnesota home in an
effort to see her prisoner son
received a letter from him bitter
ly attacking the United States.
Mrs. Portia Howe of Alden,
Minn., her eyes welling with
tears, read the letter from her
son, 20-year-old Pfc. Richard R.
Tenneson.
“Don’t misunderstand me,” it
said, “I still love my family, my
people and my country, and whe
ther you are able to unedrstand
it now or not, believe me when I
say that it is for them that I am
fighting and it is impossible for
me to live in the United States
because I want to live as I wish.
“United States authorities . . .
have probably told you that I was
forced, doped, brain washed or
some other horse manure that
they use to slander and defile
people like myself who will stand
up for his own thoughts and the
rights.”
Her face showing the strain of
the last few days, Mrs. Howe al
most broke down as she said,
“Where did I fail—I don’t know
where I failed.”
“I must find out where because
I have three other children and* I
must not make the same mistake.”
Six Soviet Climbers Died
In Attempt to Beat British
To Top of Mt, Everest
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UP — A
Swedish mountain climber and
explorer says the Russians tried
to beat the British to the top of
29,002-foot Mt. Everest but that
six of the Soviet climbers died in
the unsuccessful try.
Anders Bolinder, 29 - year - old
leader of a Swedish-Italian ex
pedition to the South American
Andes last year, told Stockholm
newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
yesterday of the reported Soviet
assault on the world’s highest
peak. He said the account came
from two Tibetan guides who fled
to Nepal.
Theater To Show 3-D
Picture “It Came From
Outer Space” This Week
The new management of the
local Theater announce a real
holiday treat foT Nome.
By special arrangement, N. C.
Finch, manager, has brought to
Nome the first 3-D picture ever
to be shown here. Everyone has
heard about 3-D but didn’t expect
to see it this winter at the North
American continent’s farthest
northwest theater!
On another page if this issue
full details have been announced
concerning the show which should
be sensational entertainment. The
name, ilIt Came From Outer
Space” alone indicates that it is
full of thrills.
Record Crowd
Jams Gym At
Roof Garden
Although the temperature was
20 below zero Saturday night, the
people of Nome turned out en
masse to attend the 4'5th Pioneer
Roof Garden. Long before the cur
tain raised to open the program,
every seat in the large gymnasium
was occupied and standing room
was at a premium. Young and old
were represented and all enjoyed
the evening to the fullest extent.
Dan Jones, president of Iglod
No. 1, introduced President-elect
Bob Scott who delivered the ad
dress of welcome which was en
thusiastically received. Bob, the
son of pioneer parents, in review
ing the history of those pioneers
who blazed the trail and endured
the hardships of frontier life in
Alaska, very appropriately paid a
well-deserved tribute to the brave
women who bore with patience
and fortitude the trials, hardships
and inconvenieces of those days
and shared with their husbands
the chill winds of adversity, sus
taining with courage and devotion
their faith and perseverence to
carry on, to sink one more shaft,
or move over the divide to the
next creek. It was a vivid por
trayal of early pioneer life and in
keeping with the occasion. It
was much appreciated by the
audience as evidenced by the ap
plause which followed.
Then came the march of the
Pioneers, men and women and the
customary singing of “Alaska, My
Alaska.”
Fred Bockman showed both
talent and theatrical training in
the splendid way he collected
local talent and built it into a
well coordinated program featur
ing a wide selection of entertain
ment.
“Theater Party” opened with a
vocal selection by John Shumaker
“Lady of Spain” sung to perfec
tion and featuring Harriet Trum
bull, followed by “Golden Ear
rings” with Lou Eberle as the ear
ring girl.
Pfc. Vernon Coombes and Pfc.
David Eaton then took over with
a professional rendition on their
guitars.
Sally Carrighar, Nome’s own
authoress, was then cleverly in
terviewed with Bobo, her dog
recently featured in a Saturday
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Alaska Land Commissioner And
Attorney General Don’t Agree On
Need Of Filing, Land Registration
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Workers Return To Sabre
Jet Factories For First
Time Since October 23
LOS ANGELES, UP—Settlement
of a multi-million-dollar strike
which h^s crippled production of
America’s fast Sabre jet and
Super Sabre planes was announ
ced today.
North American Aviation, Inc.,
spokesmen said the terms were
the same the company offered be
fore 33,000 members of the CIO
United Auto Workers walked out
Oct. 23 at plants in Los Angeles,
Fresno, Calif., and Columbus, O.
That means a Christmas pres
ent wage increase of 4 per cent,
or 8 to 20 cents an hour. Wage
scales before the strike ranged
from $1.42 to $2.32 hourly. The
union originally demanded 26
cents an hour then dropped to
10 to 20 cents hourly.
North American said the strike
through Friday had cost the av
erage worker $648.83 in wages.
The total loss to workers, the com
pany said, was $15,729,439. A to
tal of 16,286 strikers returned to
work before the settlement, the
company said.
Suspended Appeals Judge
In Germany Presides
Alone Over His Court
FRANKFURT, Germany, UP) —•
Suspended Chief Justice William
Clark presided defiantly — and
alone — Monday in the U. S.
appeals courtroom in Germany.
Continuing his opposition to
State Department orders suspend
ing him for insubordination and
dismissing him on Jan. 8 as “sur
plus,” the Princeton, N.J., judge
read a statement to photographers
and newsmen, heard two cases
argued briefly and said he would
not hold court Tuesday.
“There wouldn’t be any point
in doing it all over again,” he
added.
He said also he had not yet
decided whether to appear for
duty Jan. 18 when acting chief
justice Carl W. Fulghum of
Glenwood Springs, Colo., named
by the State Department to suc
ceed Clark, has scheduled the
court’s next session.
Fulghum did not appear in or
near the courtroom Monday.
BABY BORN WITH TWO
HEADS AND FOUR ARMS
INDIANAPOLIS, UP) — A baby
born Saturday with two heads
and four arms, remained in an
oxygen tank at Riley Hospital at
the Indiana University Medical
Center.
Doctors said the baby, possibly
the only such child ever born
alive, remained in critical condi
tion, though there has been some
very slight improvement.
The baby was bom by Caesar
ian section in Washington, Ind.,
to a 28-year-old mother of three
normal daughters.
ANCHORAGE, UR—Alaska’s land
commissioner and attorney gener
al don’t exactly see eye to eye on
whether the territory’s residents
should file those land registra
tions required by a 1953 act of the
legislature.
W. A. Chipperfield, the commis
sioner, said Friday foreclosure or
$5 liens for failure to file are un
likely.
J. Gerald Williams, Alaska’s le
gal eagle, said he did not concur.
“I wouldn’t bind the territory to
that,” Williams remarked when
told of Chipperfield’s views.
It was Williams’ declaration of
property ownership, filed last
week in the U. S. commissioner’s
office, which touched off a scram
ble on the part of property owners
to comply with the law before the
Dec. 31 deadline.
Office hours have been exten
ded by Chipperfield in an effort
to accommodate the property
owners scurrying to get under the
wire ahead of the $5 liability. If
they don’t file a sworn statement
of ownership of land by July 1,
the property is subject to fore
closure and sale.
An attempt by the city of An
chorage to relieve city residents of
the filing requirement met with
failure. The city said it would
turn over to the commissioner’s
office its entire tax list. Williams
said that wouldn’t be legal since
each owner must personally swear
to the correctness of the owner
ship statement.
“Although the intent of the law
is good,” Chipperfield said, “its
purpose is to a great extent ful
filled by registration records
maintained by various U.S. com
missioners and by cities, school
districts, public utility districts
and tax assessors.”
He said he will recommend to
the next legislature that the filing
requirement be eliminated entire
ly for all property owners within
cities or tax districts.
EARTHQUAKE IN PERU
LIMA, Peru, US)—The Peruvian
city of Tumbes, on the Ecuador
ean border, counted at least six
dead and many injured today fol
lowing a severe three - minute
earthquake.
The tremors Saturday, which
were not felt in Lima, destroyed
three churches and badly dam
aged a hospital and an army bar
racks in Tumbes, a city of 6,000.
EARTHQUAKE IN SIBERIA
FRANKFURT, Germany, Iff) —•
The Frankfurt Observatory on
Feldberg Mountain said a major
earthquake registered Saturday
night was believed to be in east
ern Soviet Siberia or on the Kam
chatka Peninsula.
It said the tremors started at
12:45 p.m. and were still being
recorded more than two hours
later.
EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY
FORLI, Itlay, U?)—A light earth
quake shook this central Italian
city this morning (2:12 EST).