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Republicans Urge
Alaska Statehood
Without Partition
McKINLEY PARK, UP)—'Terri
torial Republicans Saturday night
passed a resolution urging the
congressional House of Represent
atives to uncork the Alaska state
hood bill now bottled up in the
Rules Committee.
And they also urged statehood
without partition.
Another major development of
the territorial convention’s first
day was an attack on the U.S.
Eish & Wildlife Service by Dor
othy Prior of Anchorage.
She charged that FWS regula
tions and consolidations of can
nery operations this year will
leave 2,000 Alaska residents with
out income and on relief.
She said 90 per cent of the
fishermen to be hired are outsid
ers.
Territorial Highway Engineer
Irving Reed reported that on a
recent three-day study of the area
he concluded that the fault lies
with FWS regulation which re
strict gear instead of the number
of fish, to conform with the limit
of million fish.
Cash Cole of Fairbanks was
named permanent convention
chairman. Chester Peterson of
Anchorage defeated Dorothy Prior
in a tussle for convention secre
tary. Ninety delegates, alternates
and proxies attended of a possible
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Object Of His Affection
Made This Fat Boy
Reduce—307 to 170 lbs. .
ATLANTA, UP) — Marvin “Fat”
Samples, a parking lot attendant,
fell in love—all 307 pounds of
him.
The object of his affections was
attracted but adamant. Chop off
127 pounds, she said, and we’ll
see.
The 35-year-old Samples did
just that, going on a rigid diet
and getting his weight down to
180 in only 8 months time. Max
ine Baxley, a pretty brunette,
said yes and they were married.
The bridegroom didn’t stop. He
kept on dieting and now weighs
a mere 170. How did he do it?
“I just ate steak and tomatoes,”
Samples said, “and drank all the
black coffee I wanted. I was ter
ribly hungry the first few weeks
but then I got accustomed to eat
ing less, and it didn’t bother me.”
He used to wear size 58 pants.
Ncrw he wears 32’s. His shirt size
was 20 and now its 15V2. Samples
got rid of sagging, flabby skin by
climbing a rope and doing gym
nastics on a filing station grease
rack.
Five Drown At The Dalles
THE DALLES, Ore., UP) — Five
persons drowned in the flood
swollen Columbia River while
pleasure boating west of here last
evening.
Sgt. Robert W. Tower said a
witness on shore reported that
the outboard motor of the boat,
about 15 feet long, apparently de
veloped trouble and that craft
then spun into whirlpool and cap
sized.
Chief of McCarthy’s
Investigators Disputes
Army Mens’ Testimony
WASHINGTON, (jB—-Francis P.
Carr testified today Army officials
repeatedly linked talk of special
Army treatment for Pvt. G. David
Schine with efforts to stop Sen.
McCarthy’s investigation of Reds
in the Army, then turned to
speaking of Schine is a “hostage.”
The chubby chief of staff for
McCarthy’s investigations sub
committee named Secretary of
the Army Stevens as having en
gaged in talk of preferential treat
ment for Schine.
But he said only Army coun
selor John G. Adams, to his
knowledge, spoke of Schine as a
“hostage.”
Carr disputed much testimony
given earlier in the McCarthy
Army hearings by Adams and by
Stevens.
Carr, a rotund former FBI man,
was called to the witness chair
when the hearings subcommittee
convened for its 33rd day.
Anchorage Man To Search
For $90,000 In Gold Said
To Be In Sunken Yukon
ANCHORAGE, (ifUAn Anchor
age man said Saturday he is going
to prowl through the sunken hulk
of the SS Yukon for some 250
pounds of gold which the Alaska
Steamship Co. says isn’t there.
Jimmy Sumpter told the Anch
orage Times that he and others
already have salvage operations
underway over the ship which
sank in 200 feet of water Feb
ruary 3, 1946, in the Gulf of
Alaska with a loss of 12 lives.
Sumpter said he had learned
the Yukon carried gold in its
cargo and that it was being ship
ped to Seattle by a Fairbanks
bank.
In Seattle, however, a spokes
man for the steamship company
said no such cargo was aboard
the ship so far as the company
knew and that no claim ever had
been put in for the gold’s value
by any shipper.
The spokesman, Sid Hayman,
said it was unlikely a shipment of
250 pounds of gold would want to
keep the matter secret and not
request compensation for the loss.
Sumpter estimated the value of
the 250 pounds of gold at $90,000.
WORDS "UNDER GOD"
INSERTED IN PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE TO FLAG
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower signed a bill today in
serting the words “under God”
into the pledge of allegiance to
the flag, and said in a statement
this will strengthen the “spiritual
weapons which forever will be
our country’s most powerful re
source.”
Dairy Price Support Upped 5 Pet.
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The House
Agriculture Committee voted to
day to raise the dairy support
price from 75 to 80 per cent of
parity between next Sept. 1 and
April 1, 1955.
Agriculture Department sources
said the effect would be to raise
retail butter prices by about 3
cents a pound and cheese by IVz
to 2 cents.
Indian Bureau
Expands Disease
Prevention Plan
WASHINGTON, UPh-A greatly
expanded disease prevention pro
gram among Indians in the west
and in native villages in Alaska
will be launched today.
The Indian Bureau announced
it is enlarging its field staff of
qualified sanitary engineers sta
tioned in area offices and agency
headquarters. Engineers will be
assigned at Juneau and other
stateside points.
The Bureau said the program is
“designed to bring the benefits
of modern sanitation and personal
hygiene directly into Indian
homes and communities in the
western states and in the native
villages of Alaska.”
It said sanitation work has been
carried on for many years on a
limited scale.
Now the program is being
broadened under plans developed
by Commissioner Glenn L. Em
mons “into an intensive drive
against unsanitary environmental
conditions which are chiefly re
sponsible for disease such as ty
phoid fever, dysentery and in
fectious hepatitis among the In
dian population,” the Bureau
said.
Special emphasis will be given
to the development and protection
of water supplies, the construc
tion and maintenance of low-cost
privies and garbage pits, fly
screening of homes, and control
of insect breeding places.
The plans call for initiation of
a pilot project in Alaska involv
ing training of six native sani
tarian aides and their assignment
to villages where their services
are most urgently needed.
U.S. Stops Shipment Of
Antiaircraft Shells From
Switzerland to Guatemala
HAMBURG, Germany, L/P)—The
U.S. High Commission announced
today six tons of Swiss antiair
craft shells being shipped to
Guatemala have been held up in
this free port.
German authorities said the
shipment was listed as 20-milli
meter dummy shells without ex
plosives. But American officials
said they believed it was live am;
munition.
The U.S. government regards
shipments of arms to leftist-lean
ing Guatemala as a threat to the
security of the Panama Canal.
U.S. tauthorities throughout the
world have been ordered to' pre
vent the flow of arms to the Cen
tral American country following
the delivery recently of a 10 mil
lion dollar shipment to Guate
mala from Poland aboard a Swed
ish ship.
Atom Sub Nautilus
To Get Guided Missile
MIAMI BEACH, If)—1The Navy
will arm its first atomic sub
marine, the Nautilus, with the
Regulus guided missile.
James H. Smith Jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Air, an
nounced this Friday night before
the Aviation Writers Association,
at its annual meeting.
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Record Heat, High Winds
And Thunderstorms
Plague Sections of U.S.
(By the Associated Press'
Early morning temperatures in
the 70 and 80s presaged another
scorcher for much of the eastern
half of the nation today after
record 95s for June 13 were set
in Baltimore and Chicago.
Muggy heat lay like a blanket
eastward from the great plains,
with some moderation in the
northern and eastern Great Lakes
and northern New England por
tions.
Thunderstorms were common
in some areas. This form of re
lief from the heat carried with
it damaging high winds, hail and
flash floods.
Three deaths were attributed to
the violent weather.
Posse Takes 19-Year-Old
.22 Rifle “Duelist”
ELGIN, 111., —A 19-year-old
boy who waited in vain for two
days for another youth to show
up for a duel with .22 rifles was
seized Sunday by a posse formed
in the belief the duel was on.
The challenger, who Police
Chief Factly said took a few pot
shots at encircling officers, is
William Frenchak. Factly said he
gave up meekly when posse mem
bers closed in. He hadn’t eaten or
slept during his vigil.
Police said Frenchak told of
quarreling with LeRoy Snow, 19,
over two girls Thursday night and
issued a challenge for a duel with
rifles at a gravel pit.
“You stand &t one end and I’ll
stand at the other and only one
will leave,” Franchak was quoted
Frenchak went to the pit with
rifle and ammunition Friday
night.
Snow? He told the police he
thought it was just a joke and
went swimming instead.
Radical-Socialist To Form
France’s 20th Cabinet
Since World War II
PARIS, UP — Pierre Mendes
France, who wants to negotiate
with Ho Chi Minh to end the
war in Indochina, agreed today to
try to form France’s 20th postwar
cabinet.
Many political figures doubted
whether the 47-year-old econom
ic and financial expert could get
a majority in the divided Nation
al Assembly to go along with
his policy, which calls for cutting
down expenditures in Indochina
and slowing down France’s mili
tary buildup in Europe.
Mendes-France was nominated
last night by President Rene Coty
to succeed retiring Premier Joseph
Laniel, defeated Saturday in a
National Assembly confidence
vote.
Mendes-France is a leader of
the Assembly’s Radical Socialist
bloc which was credited with
bringing down the Laniel govern
ment.
e In Continent’s
CD. Exercise
* (By the Associated Press)
l5fe skipped a beat today as
millions of Americans and Can
adians heeded wailing air raid
sirens in the continent’s first in
ternational civil defense exercise.
With grim, disciplined make
believe, young and old abruptly
dropped their daily pursuits and,
in city after city, sought shelter
against the fury of mock atomic
annihilation.
Early reports indicated that the
public’s brief paracipation, no
more than 10 minutes in most
cases, was successful.
But here and there a hitch
developed. The alarm system
didn’t go off properly, so there
was some confusion in the Penta
gon, nerve center of America’s
military might, as to whether or
not the test had started. Wardens
passed the word.
President Eisenhower himself
led the surge toward shelter. With
the entire White House staff, the
chief executive hurried to base
ment refuge areas.
The vast exercise assumed that
widespread havoc was wrought
by successful enemy bomb drops
over 54 American and Canadian
cities from Peurto Rico to Ha
waii, to Juneau and Anchorage,
Alaska.
While the public’s role was
limited to taking shelter briefly,
the exercise continued for hours
and days for tens of thousands of
Civil Defense corpsmen.
New York City alcme was pre
sumed to be the target of three
atomic weapons, one “Ground
Zero” in the heart of midtown
Manhattan, one in downtown
Brooklyn and one in the Bronx.
Each was supposed to be eight
times as powerful as the one that
demolished Hiroshima.
New York’s death toll was put
at 2,175,000.
The exercise began with a “yel
low” (lemon juice) signal giving
CD personnel half an hour’s not
ice of impending disaster.
The “red” (apple jack) alert,
signalling the need for cover
came 30 minutes later, to be fol
lowing in 10 minutes by the
“white” (snowman) all clear.
In those 10 minutes, little of
consequence was accomplished in
teeming New York.
Eisenhower Aide Hints
No Second Term if
Demos Win Fall Elections
WASHINGTON, (fl) — President
Eisenhower’s top aide has dropped,
a hint that a Democratic vic
tory in the fall congressional elec
tions could make Eisenhower
think of retiring to his Gettys
burg, Pa., farm after his four
year term.
The aide, Sherman Adams, said
in an informal talk to the Citizens
for Eisenhower Congressional
Committee that he doesn’t know
what the President might do in
1956.
But he said loss of Congress to
the Democrats in November could
be one of “certain conditions that
might make a certain farm in
Pennsylvania an attractive place
to retire to.”