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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX NO. 53_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1957 Per Copy-^15^
Senator Joseph McCarthy Dies,
Ending Turbulent Political Career
WASHINGTON, UPt—A turbu- j
lent chapter in American history
has closed with the death of Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin
—admired by some as an anti
communist patriot, but denounced
by others as a witch-hunter.
McCarthy died late yesterday
of an acute liver inflammation
five days after he entered the
naval hospital in nearby Bethes
da, Md. He was 47.
The Wisconsin Republican’s
death reduces to 46 the number of
GOP senators. There are 49 Dem
ocrats in the Senate. His succes-1
sor probably will be chosen in a
special election this fall.
For a time in the early 1950s,
McCarthy was a dominant figure
whose searches for Communists
in government and elsewhere
aroused bitter controversy. His
influence was felt far and wide.
Three years ago, he reached I
his peak in a battle with the Army j
which he charged was trying to j
hinder his hunt for subversives. !
The Army accused McCarthy of!
browbeating some of its officers
called before his Senate investi
gations subcommittee.
Growing out of that investiga- j
tion was a Senate probe of his !
conduct and a censure vote j
against him. That was the begin- I
ning of his eclipse.
By the time of his death, he had
become just another senator.
In his heyday, McCarthy tan
gled with other senators and with
two Presidents—Dwight D. Eisen
hower and Harry S. Truman.
But yesterday these old feuds
went unmentioned as erstwhile
foes and friends alike voiced re
gret at McCarthy’s passing and
praised him as a “fighting patriot
. . . courageous fighter . . . man of
strong convictions . . fine fellow.”
Eisenhower, who had omitted
McCarthy from the White House
social list in recent years, ex
pressed his “profound sympathy”
for the senator’s widow. Truman,
who once referred to McCarthy as
a pathological case, said in New
York he was “very sorry” to hear
of the senator’s death.
Acute hepatitis—the illness that
killed McCarthy—was the last of
a series of ailments that dogged
him during the past few years. He
had been hospitalized from time
to time for sinus, bursitis, a nag
ging old knee injury and a rup
ture in his midsection.
McCarthy, sinking rapidly, was
given the last rites of the Roman
Catholic Church an hour before
his death at 6:02 p.m., EDT.
Mrs. McCarthy was at his bed
side when he died. The senator
also leaves an infant daughter the
McCarthys adopted early this
year. ,
Border Fighting
Between Honduras
And Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, UP)—•
President Luis Somoza told a
cheering throng last night a tiny
Nicaraguan force had wrested the
border town of Mocoron from a
Honduran garrison five times its
size.
As the crowd exulted, the
President’s brother, Gen. Anasta
sio Somoza Jr., shouted that the
Nicaraguan flag is flying over the
Indian settlement on Central
America’s Caribbean coast. The
two countries have disputed the
border for years.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, UP)
—The Honduran government to
day claimed it still holds the bor
der town of Morocon, focal point
of fighting between Honduras and
Nicaragua. It denies reports from
Managua that Nicaraguan troops
seized the town.
The government announced al
so that a formation of seven mili
tary planes machinegunned a
town in the disputed border re
gion between Honduras and Nic
aragua yesterday.
Two Bandits Grab
$19,253 From Bank
ATLANTA Ufr—Two men wear
ing stockings over their heads
robbed the 10th Street branch of
the Citizens and Southern Nation
al Bank of $19,253 just before the
bank opened this morning.
The bandits held up two em
ployes as they were transferring
money from the bank to a drive
in window at the rear of the bank.
Gene Jully, the hbad teller, was
rolling the money out of the main
part of the bank to the drive-in
windows when the two men
grabbed the money. Both held re
! volvers.
Jolly said the men ran to a
parked car and drove off.
Clyde Kammerer
Long Beach Home
Destroyed by Fire
The Clyde Kammerer residence
in Long Beach was destroyed by
fire early this month according to
word received by the American
Legion post here.
Mrs. Kammerer and her twin
boys, who were born here, lost
all their belongings and their
furniture in the fire. The house
was insured but the furniture was
not.
According to a newspaper clip
ping of the fire, a neighbor heard
Mrs. Kammerer cry for help and
rushed in to help save the three
and-a-half-year-old twins.
Clyde Kammerer has been para
lyzed since he was in an auto
accident here about three years
ago and since then has been a
patient in the Veterans Hospital
at Long Beach, Calif.
The American Legion, Nome
Post 19, and the Legion Auxiliary
are taking up a collection to help
the Kammerers and anyone who
wishes to donate may do so by
contacting Bob Scott at the City
Hall.
Local Merchants
Surveyed for Possibility
Of Commercial Radio
Dick Palmquist of the Gospel
Broadcasters is conducting a sur
vey of Nome business houses to
determine the extent to which a
commercial radio station could
expect local support.
The proposed station was orig
inally announced to be a non
commercial station.
However, the backers of the
proposed station are interested in
determining the amount of adver
tising revenne which might be
obtained here.
Claim Jumping
On Alaska Oil
Lands Reported
WASHINGTON, (ID—Rep. Pelly
i (R-Wash) today asked Interior
j Secretary Seaton to investigate
reports of claim jumping on
Alaskan oil lands, declaring “We
may well have a national scandal
in the . making, rivaling any in
our past history.”
“Informational sources avail
able to me,” Pelly wrote Seaton,
“indicate that one of the biggest!
scrambles for leases in our history
is under way in Alaska on a
‘winner-take-all, no holds barred’
basis.
“I am informed ‘lease sharks’
with connections in every land
office in Alaska and through into
Washington, D.C., with batteries
of legal counsel at their disposal,
are busy punching technical holes j
in every block of lease applica-1
tions which have adequate geo
logical background.”
Secret Testimony
On March 2 Crash
Of Alaska Airlines
SEATTLE {&—Secret testimony
will be taken in Seattle and Se
quim, Wash., next week by the
Civil Aeronautics Board on the
March 2 crash of an Alaska Air
lines passenger plane.
The four-engined craft rammed
a foothill and burned southeast
of Port Angeles, killing four per
sons. The plane was inbound to
Seattle from Fairbanks.
The CAB has barred the public
and all news media from the
hearings set for Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. Sen. Warren G.
Magnuson of Washington, chair
man of the Senate Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee,
charged in Washington that the
CAB procedure “amounts to cen
sorship.”
Big Russian Naval
Maneuvers Reported
Off Coast of Murmansk
OSLO, Of)—The Oslo newspaper
Aftenposten said today Norweg
ian whalers have reported big
Russian naval maneuvers off the
coast of Murmansk.
The paper quoted one whaling
captain as saying “the maneuvers
were going full steam” when his
vessel arrived off Murmansk Apr.
10. Ships and planes “seemed to
be everywhere,” he said.
Dulles at NATO Meeting Calls On
Russia to End Division of Germany
Before ‘Injustices Become Intolerable’
BONN, Germany (Bfi—Secretary
of State John Foster Dulle§ called
on Russia today to end the divi
sion of Germany “before its in
justices become intolerable.”
Dulles told the North Atlantic
council of foreign ministers the
Soviet Union’s protestations of
peace “indeed ring hollow when
they forcibly divide a great peo
ple.”
He said that both on humani
tarian and legal grounds the con
tinued split of the country could
not be justified.
Dulles spoke after West Ger
man Foreign Minister Heinrich
von Brentano called upon the 15- j
nation alliance to support his
government’s demands for reuni
fication quickly.
Brentano’s statement was, in
part, an effort to bolster Chancel
Eastern Railroads Get OK
For Another Fare Boost
WASHINGTON, The Inter
state Commerce Commission to
day authorized eight large east
ern railroads to increase first class
fares again by about 15 percent.
This gives them an over-all in
crease of 20 percent above the
fare levels of Jan. 1.
House Approves
Omnibus Bill
On Appropriations
WASHINGTON M—'The House
Appropriations Committee today
refused to approve a $50 million
allotment to finance the federal
flood insurance program ap
proved at the last session of Con
gress.
The committee’s action was
taken in approving an omnibus
appropriation bill allotting a total
of $79,840,788 'to miscellaneous
agencies, mainly for use during
the remaining two months of the
present fiscal year.
Based on total requests for $15,
555,615,566 to date, the over-all
cut is 8.1 percent.
The Senate has not yet acted on
any of the regular appropriations
bills.
The committee also turned
down requests for one million
dollars for preliminary work on
construction of a bridge across
the Panama Canal at Balboa, and
$800,000 for studies of housing
design and construction, supply
and demand and the mortgage
market. ,
But it approved $65 million for
veterans readjustment benefits,
$159,000 to erect crypts and ar
range for interment of unknown
soldiers of World War II and the
I
Korean War in Arlington Ceme
tery next year, and $1,300,000 to
build a U.S. pavilion at an inter
national exhibition in Brussels,
Belgium.
The money approved for veter
ans benefits was $12 million less
than the President requested.
| lor Konrad Adenauer’s political
stock for general elections com
ing up in September.
Von Brentano told the minis
ters the leaders of the federal
German republic are doing all
they can to insure that the Red
ruled people of East Germany
take no “imprudent actions” that
could only aggravate their misery
and lead to terrorism.
He then issued this warning:
“But there are situations in
which the suffering, caused by
oppression, and where the moral
and material misery reach limits
where reason no longer dictates
action and where desperation and
a just anger break out with the
violence of a volcanic eruption.”
The council was reported to
have endorsed plans for another
appraisal of the German problem
—presumably with the aim of ex
ploring ways of speeding the
quest for a settlement. The U.S.,
Britain, France and West Ger
many decided to assign senior
diplomats to the task in Bonn
around mid-May.
The group will have at least
two firm directives from the four
governments:
1. Starting point of any Ger
man settlement must be free,
German-wide elections for an all
German government which would
join in negotiations for a final
peace treaty.
2. Arrangements for any system
of East-West security in Europe
I must follow—not precede—Ger
man reunification.
Program Expanded for
Checking Radioactivity
Of Atmosphere
WASHINGTON, UP>—An expan
sion of the program for atmo
spheric radioactivity checking has
been announced by the Public
Health Service.
A spokesman said the sites for
about 10 new monitoring stations
will be designated within two
weeks. A spokesman said, the net
work of 30 stations which operat
ed last summer in the States,
Alaska and Hawaii also will be
continued or re-established.
The 1956 stations which will
continue this year include Seattle,
Portland, Honolulu, Anchorage,
and Juneau. The stations will be
operated by state and local health
departments.
Girl, 7, Gives Eisenhower
First Memorial Poppy
WASHINGTON,WW—Seven-year
old Kathy Zeller of Eierrington,
111., handed President Eisenhower
yesterday the American Legion’s
first 1957 memorial poppy.
The paper poppies are made by
disabled veterans to honor the
nation’s war dead and raise funds
for veterans and child welfare
and rehabilitation programs.
The poppies will be sold on
street corners in the week before
j Memorial Day.