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VOL, LVII No. 141NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1955Per Copy—15^
, U.S. Congressmen
Held In Berlin For
4 Hours By Reds
BERLIN, t/P> — Two American
congressmen were held yesterday
in the Russian sector of Berlin for
more than four hours. The inci
dent challenged some of the Al
lied occupation rights in this four
power city.
U. S. officials disclosed East
German Communist police de
tained Rep. Harold C. Ostertag
OR-NY), Osterag’s wife, Rep. Ed
ward P. Boland (D - Mass), and
their escort officer, Lt. James T.
McQueen, of Mullins, S.C.
The party was held at pistol
point at the Russian war memorial
center in Trepow. The German
police contended the visitors had
violated the laws of the Commun
ist state by using an automobile
equipped with a two-way radio.
U.S. authorities said the Rus
sians supported this claim later
in the day when the Americans’
release was secured. American of
ficials took this to mean that the
laws of the East German republic
now could be applied to Allied
personnel entering East Berlin.
This would in effect, weaken, if
not destroy, the four-power char
acter of the divided, occupied city.
The party was touring in an
Army sedan of the type used by
the U.S. mission accredited to the
Soviet zone. The mission has
never been involved in any inci
dent over the use of its two-way
radio.
Believes Ike Will
Seek Second Term
If He Is Able
GETTYSBURG, Pa., I* — Re
^publican chairman Leonard W.
Hall said today after a meeting
with President Eisenhower he
now believes Eisenhower will seek
a second term “if he feels he is
able.”
Hall met reporters after hold
ing with the chief executive the
first all-out political conference
Eisenhower has had since his
Sept. 24 heart attack.
The national chairman said
Eisenhower’s second term plans
were not discussed “as a specific
situation” at their 45 - minute
meeting, but he added he felt
“very much encouraged” as a re
sult of the meeting.
Hall said he expected much to
depend on late January physical
examinations which are supposed
to show whether Eisenhower’s
recovery from his heart attack is
complete.
Hall said Eisenhower made no
promises about running again:
“He didn’t say yes and he didn't
say no.”
Hall said the President demon
strated in their talk he has kept
in close touch with political af
fairs during his illness. He said
Eisenhower has “a continuing in
terest that goes beyond today or
tomorrow.”
Newspapers Quote
Truman Calling
Nixon So-and-So
LOS ANGELES, UP! — The Los
Angeles Examiner today quoted
one of its reporters as saying for
mer President Harry S. Truman
said yesterday of Vice President
Nixon:
“I don’t even want to, discuss
that-. Don’t even men
tion his name to me.”
The Los Angeles times quoted
Truman: “1 don’t like the — —
.and I don’t care who knows
it!”
' But Truman, who arrived here
yesterday, denied making the
statements. A spokesman at the
Beverly Hills home of Edwin
Pauley, where Truman in stay
ing, quoted the ex-president as
saying he “would never speak in
any such way of anybody hold
ing the office of vice president.
Both newspapers said the
quotes were Truman’s response at
the airpot when reporters asked
what his reaction would be to
Nixon becoming the 1956 Repub
lican candidate for President.
The spokesman quoted Truman
as saying he said instead: “You
know how I feel so don’t talk
to me about Mr. Nixon.”
Truman arrived by plane from
Seattle to address a $100-a-plate
banquet tonight to raise funds for
the Truman library, now under
construction at Independence, Mo.
John Gilbert Graham
Given Until Dec. 9
To Enter A Plea
DENVER, — John Gilbert
Graham, 23, charged with the
murder of his mother who died
with 43 others in the explosion
of a United Air Lines plane, to
day was granted until Dec. 9 to
enter a plea.
District Judge Edward J. Keat
ing granted the delay during a
seven-minute court hearing.
John J. Gibbons, named by the
court Friday as counsel for Gra
ham, told Judge Keating, “we are
in no position to enter a plea in
this matter. We would like at
least two weeks.”
Dist. Atty. Bert M. Keating, who
is no relation to the judge, said
he had no objection to a two-week
continuance but he re-emphasized
he wants a speedy trial.
Graham’s mother, Mrs. Daisie
King, 54, was among 44 persons
carried to their deaths when the
plane burst into pieces in flight
near Longjnont, Colo., only 11
minutes after taking off from the
Denver airport Nov. 1.
CHICAGO, — Icy roads
caused an estimated 1,000 traffic
accidents in Chicago during a six
hour period ending at 9 p.m. last
night, police said. Only a few ser
ious injuries were reported.
A light afternoon snow turned
the city streets into sheets of ice
as the temperature dropped to
near zero by nightfall.
Canada Fears U.S.
Will Stop Project
To Hat •ness Yukon
VICTORIA, B.C., UP>—Fear that
the United States may wreck Can
ada’s ambition to harness the fast
flowing Yukon River as part of
a huge northwestern power proj
ect was voiced today before the
Gordon Economic Commission.
Northwest Power Industries
Ltd., the Ventures-Frobisher Com
pany working on Yukon - Nass
river power plans, said it is pro
posing the Nass river as the first
stage development because it sees
as yet no clear road in getting the
Yukon project actually started.
The Yukon cuts through the in
ternational border between the
Yukon and Alaska and flows to
the Bering Sea. The Nass, lo
cated in upper British Columbia,
flows south within British Colum
bia boundaries. No international
problems are involved, the com
pany said.
Together, the two projects, the
Nass and the Yukon, could pro
duce a total of some 6,335,000
horsepower, providing low - cost
energy which could pave the way
for an industrial boom in north
ern B.C.
The Nass River begins in a
mountainous area 250 miles north
of Prince Rupert. It flows south,
roughly paralleling the Alaska
Panhandle border about 60 miles
west of the boundary line, and en
ters the Portland Canal and Pacif
ic Ocean about 50 miles north of
Prince Rupert.
But the Yukon would*be by far
the biggest project, ultimately
producing some 4,900,000 horse
power against 455,000 for the
Nass.
The company said: “The Yukon
river power plan, known as the
Yukon-Atlin-Atku power project,
involves the diversion of upper
Yukon waters southerly into Brit
ish Columbia. As these waters
naturally flow through Alaska to
the Bering Sea, there is a poten
tially serious international factor
involved.
“The Nass river project, being
a wholly provincial stream, comes
within the jurisdiction of the pro
vince. No jurisdictional delays are
involved.’’
University of Washington
Football Team Rebels
Against jCoach Cherberg
SEATTLE, UP>—Principals in the
University of Washington football
coaching controversy marked time
Monday awaiting an official Uni
versity investigation of the rebel
lion of some 30 players against
head coach Johnny Cherberg.
Declaring the situation “has
gotten out of hand,” H. P. Ever
est, University vice president, said
Saturday the president’s office is
studying the dispute that devel
oped last week when a group of
players, protesting Cherberg’s
coaching methods, urged athletic
director Harvey Cassill to ask the
cosch to resign.
Sen. Knowland Tells Anchorage
Republicans He Will Support
Statehood For Alaska, Hawaii
ANCHORAGE, (£> — Sen. Wil
liam F. Knowland of California,
in Alaska to receive an honorary
doctor of laws degree, questioned
here Saturday night whether the
so-called “sanctuary principle”
should not be followed by the
nation’s air forces.
The Senate Republican leader
addressed a $10-a-plate fund-rais
ing dinner. Tomorrow he will
speak before a special convocation
of the University of Alaska at
College, and receive the honorary
degree.
Knowland, discussing possible
aggression from the Far East,
said:
“If Soviet -type bombers, with
Chinese Communist markings,
commit aggression and penetrate
our radar screens in Alaska and
Canada, is the sanctuary principle
to limit our Strategic Air Com
mand to targets on the mainland
of China?
“The life of our republic and the
free world may be at stake in the
first critical 48 hours.”
Knowland also called for a citi
zenry informed on foreign affairs
and said “we are rapidly ap
proaching one of the great turn
ing points of history.
“The policies we follow will
determine to a large extent wheth
er Communism moves forward,
or backward, during the current
decade.”
The -Californian listed what he
called the accomplishments of the
Eisenhower administration and
praised Secretary Of Agriculture
Benson to the 350 Republicans
who jammed an Anchorage coun
try club to hear him.
Matron Strangled In
Escape of Five Girls
From Detention Home
AKRON, Ohio, (jP—Five young
girls carried out a well rehearsed
plan to trick a gray haired mat
ron and escape from the Summit
County detention home last night.
The tightly bound matron was
strangled to death before help
reached her.
Early today two of the girls
walked into police headquarters
and gave themselves up. An ac
quaintance and a brother of one
of the girls had talked them into
the surrender.
The victim of the escape was
Mrs. Eula Bonham, 59, who had
been a matron at the home for
16 years. Her body was found on
the floor of the dormitory. She
had been bound with cloth belts
from the print house dresses that
the girls wore. A washrag, soaked
with ammonia which the girls had
been hoarding from the cleaning
duties, had been jammed into her
mouth.
Mrs. Bonham, whose first mar
riage ended in divorce years ago,
had planned to be married Thurs
day to an Akron rubber wor :er.
ANCHORAGE, tP) — Senator
Knowland (R-Calif) told a group
of Anchorage Republicans who
greeted him at the airport Satur
day that he would do all in his
power to make Alaska “one of the
great states of our American
union.”
“As long as I have a voice and
vote in the Senate,” he declared,
“I shall do whatever is in my
power to expedite statehood for
Alaska and Hawaii.”
Knowland cited Alaska’s popu
lation (an estimated 200,000) as
being greater than that of 18 ter
ritories at the time they were ad
mitted to statehood. He said it is
almost three times the population
California had when it was ad
mitted to the union without even
passing through the apprentice
ship of territorial government.
Arguments of distance and time
are no longer valid, he said,
against the admission of “our two
organized territories.”
“Alaska will develop far more
rapidly as a state with its own
elected state officials and senators
and representatives in Congress
than under territorial status.”
U.S. Canada, Japan and
Russia Discuss Hunting
Fur Seals In The Pacific
WASHINGTON U!)—Four North
Pacific powers—the U.S., Japan,
Canada and Russia—are meeting
here today to discuss a new inter
national agreement covering the
hunting of fur seals in the Pacific.
The United States is seeking to
restore international regulations
which long forbade hunting of
seals in the open seas and restrict
ed their killing to three estab
lished rookeries between the Prib
ilof Islands in the Aleutians and
the Commander Islands, off Si
beria.
Japan withdrew from the inter
national agreement in 1941 at the
outbreak of World War II. But
under an informal exchange of
notes in 1951 between Secretary
of State Dulles and then Premier
Shigeru Yoshida, the Japanese
government agreed to refrain
from illegal sealing on the high
seas.
The biggest change in the seal
ing situation came about when
Russia took over a Japanese rook
ery as the result of the war. There
is some concern now that unless
the agreement is renewed, there
may be an increase in indiscrim
inate sealing which experts say
could lead to the ultimate destruc
tion of valuable fur seal herds.
Under an executive agreement
wTith the U.S., the Canadians re
ceive a $500,000 annual share of
the catch for agreeing not* to en
gage in open sea (pelagic) sealing.
The conference, expected to last
three weeks, will attempt to bring
back into force an original 1911
I s aling agreement
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