U.S. Woman Photographer Ousted
From Hungary for Violating Border
By CARL HARTMAN
BUDAPEST, LT)—Mrs. Georgette
(Dickey) Chappelle, American
free-lance photographer, was sen
tenced Saturday to 50 days in jail
on charges of entering Hungary
illegally. The Budapest municipal
court immediately freed her be
cause she had already served this
time in custody and ordered her
to leave Hungary within 48 hours.
She had been in prison since
Dec. 5.
Mrs. Chapelle, 36, was released
in the custody of the U.N. lega
tion until her departure from
Hungary. U. S. Consul Richard
Selby, who attended her trial,
said she would stay in the resi
dence of Minister Edward Wailes.
Her co-defendent in the one
day trial, Hungarian Ferenc
Welsch, received a prison sen
tence of eight months. He said he
would appeal.
The judge told her she will be
permanently barred from Hun
gary.
She was brought before Judge
House Vote on
Alaska Statehood
Seen as 144 to 87
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON UR—If an Alas
ka statehood bill should come be
fore the House tomorrow—which
it won’t—supporters believe they
could count on at least 144 votes
for the bill and 87 against.
That’s the “hard core” pro and
con count showed on a new state
hood scorecard prepared for the
territory’s three-member unoffi
cial congressional delegation.
Dr. Ernest Bartley, professor
of political science at the Univer
sity of Florida, believes it’s ac
curate within a possible 5 to 10
percent. He helped in its prepara
tion largely as a hobby between
semesters in his regular teaching
job.
The count, which Bartley trans
posed to a U.S. map with differ
ent colors to reflect the varying
stands on statehood bills, is being
psed as a guide by “Senators”
William A. Egan and Ernest
Gruening and. “Representative”
Ralph Rivers in their visits with
Congress members.
Getting a high priority on the
calling list will be some 90 mem
bers classed as “waverers” be
cause of inconsistency on past
statehood votes and new mem
bers who have never been called
upon to take a stand on the issue.
S'--—
Lorant Timar in Budapest munic
ipal court. About 30 persons were
present, including two Americans,
Selby, and this reporter.
Mrs. Chapelle testified she was
a representative of the Interna
tional Rescue Committee, which
has been active in aiding refugees
escaping from Hungary.
She told the court she had no
intention of breaking the law
when she entered Hungary, but
she now understood—“from what
I have been told”—that she had
crossed the frontier illegally.
An English-speaking Hungari
an lawyer represented her.
Mrs. Chapelle appeared tired,
pale and worn. She wore*a long
brown overcoat over trousers.
Her hair was rolled up in back
and she wore glasses. She laughed
once or twice during questioning
by the court, once when she was
asked if the soldiers who arrested
her fired at her or over her head.
“I don’t know,” she replied.
Asked by the court if she had
any complaint about her treat
ment in jail, Mrs. Chapelle re
plied:
I have not been abused.”
She told the court she entered
Hungary with two refugees to de
liver some medicines—“a token
gift,” she called them—“to the
j first Hungarian doctor or hospital
11 could find.”
i
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Five More Scientists
May Fly to South Pole
To Collect IGY Data
By JAMES TOMLINSON
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
Five U.S. scientists may 'be flown
to the South' Pole station in a j
race against the bitter cold and i
the six-month antarctic winter. |
A dozen other Navy men and
scientists already are at the Am
undsen-Scott station set up by the
Americans at the South Pole to
collect data for the International
Geophysical Year. Rear Adm.
George Dufek, commander of the
U.S. Operation Deep Freeze, will
decide whether another flight to
the pole will be undertaken.
The decision depends on wheth
er Air Force Globemaster return
from New Zealand in time to
drop additional food and equip
ment at the polar station before
the winter night sets in. The
Globemasters are not expected
. for several weeks. The Americans
at the pole will get their last sight
of the sun March 22 and will not
see it again until late September.
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RADIO PROGRAM
ARMED FORCES RADIO SERVICE — NOME
___ 0
Monday
5:30—Music for Dining
6:00—News
6:15—Sports Caravan
6:30—Revenuers’ Romp
7:30—Conversation
8:00—Music fr. America
8:30—People Are Funny
9:00—Rocky Fortune
9:30—FBI in Peace & War
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—Martin Block
11:00—News
11:15—Musical Express
11:30—Land of Dreams
12:00—Sign Off
Tuesday
6:58—Sign On
7:00—News
7:15—Wea'her Roundup
7:18—Rise & Shine
8:15—Morning Devotions
8:30—Breakfast Club
9:00—Coffee Concert
10:00—Turn Back the Clock
10:30—Spotlite on a Star
10:45—Rex Koury
11:00—Bob Crosby
11:15—Latin Americana
11:30—Make Up Your Mind
11:45—Masters of Melody
12:00—News
12:15—Behind the Story
12:30—Platter Parade
1:00—Hillbilly Jamboree
2:00—Matinee
2:30—Music a la Carte
4:00—Curt Massey
4:15—Dinah Shore
4:30—One Man’s Family
4:45—Bing Crosby
5:00—Marines In Review
5:30—Music for Dining
6:00—News
6:15—Sports Caravan
0:30—Revenuers’ Romp
7:20—Invit. to Learning
8:00—Howard Barlow
8:30—The Honeymooners
9:00—John Steele. Advntr
9:30—Johnny Dollar
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—Martin Block
11:00—News
11:15—A Joy Forever
11:30—Land of Dreams
12:00—Sign Off
Wednesday
6:58—Sign On
7:00—News
7:15—Weather Roundup
7:18—Rise & Shine
8:15—Morning Devotions
8:30—Breakfast Club
9:00—Coffee Concert
10:00—Turn Back the Clock
10:30—Spotlite on a Star
10:45—Rex Koury
11:00—B"b Crosby
11:15—Swinging thru Dixie
11:3C—Make Up Your Mind
11:45—Masters of Melody
12:00—News
12:15—Behind the Story
12:30—Platter Parade
1:00—Hillbilly Jamboree
2:00—Matinee
2:30—Music a la Carte
4:00—Curt Massey
4:15—Frank Sinatra
4:30—One Man’s Family
4:45—Bing Crosby
5:00—Jack Carson
Police Seek Man
In Slaying of Two
Teen-Age Girls
CHICAGO Iff)—An intense search
was on today for “Frank,” the
man illiterate young Bennie Bed
well told police accompanied him
on a sex and drinking orgy which
ended in the slaying of two teen
age sisters.
Bed well, 21-year-old Skid Road
drifter, was booked last night cn
murder charges after he signed a
statement that he and a man he
knew only as “Frank” beat Bar
bara and Patricia Grimes, ageni
15 and 13, respectively, and then
dumped them nude and uncon
scious in a snowbank.
This was on the night of Jan.
13, the statement said, when tem
peratures in the Chicago area
were below zero. The girls’ bodies
were found nine da>rs later lying
near a culvert beside a lonely
road in suburban Willow Springs
after a rain and thaw melted
snow in the area.
The beating, according to Bed
well’s account, followed a seven
day binge during which he and
the other man took the girls on a
round of liquor and sex parties in
cheap taverns and rundown ho
tels on the city’s infamous Skid
Road—West Madison Street.
The girls disappeared on the
night of Dec. 28 after leaving
home to see a movie of their idol,
singer Elvis Presley.
Inf ormation Of f icer
Fired for Attack
On Mid-East Plan
WASHINGTON, The gov
tmment today fired an informa
tion officer in the Far East who
publicly denounced President Ei
senhower’s Middle East proposal
as “a blank check for one-man
rule.”
Charles Edmundson, U.S. Infor
mation Agency officer at Seoul,
made his criticism in Tokyo yes
terday.
He was fired today with this
terse announcement by the U.S.
Information Agency:
* “The public statement issued
in Tokyo by Charles Edmundson
is in violation of agency person
nel regulations. His resignation is
being requested and he is being
recalled to Washington.”
Agency officials said the regu
lations he violated are based on
the agency’s mission to “further
and carry out” U.S. policy—and
not to attempt to make it.
Edmundson handed newsmen
his “strictly personal statement”
during a stopover at Tokyo.
It charged “profiteers, grafters
and politicians” around the world
are getting hold of U.S. aid funds.
He objected to investigations of
State Department activity and
bans on travel by U.S. newsmen
to Communist China.
“I cannot conscientiously sup
port a foreign policy which I be
lieve may lead us beyond the
j brink and into atomic: war,” said
I Edmundson. He added he was
j prepared to resign if his bosses
objected to his views.
NOTICE
Individuals hauling garbage io
ihe City Dump are requested
NOT to dump it ALONG THE
ROAD.
Anyone not complying with
this request shall be arrested, and
fined.
By order of the Nome City
Council Committee on
Health & Sanitation.
Publ. Jan. 23, 25, 28, 1957.
WEATHER REPORT
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued cloudy tonight and
tomorrow with rain and drizzle
and occasional freezing drizzle
mixed with snow. Temperature
will remain in the high 20s and
low 30s.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation .27 in.
Highest temperature 35. low 32.
Max | wind 31 mph. from the ESE.
Sun rises 8. 57 a.m., sets 3:33 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 22, low -4. Extremes for this
date since 1907: high 39 in 1929,
low -46 in 1919.
Other Stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Barrow 0 Snow
Kotzebue 34 Rain
Gambell 37 Part cloudy
Nome 33 Rain, fog
Unalakieet 36 Rain
McGrath 36 Drizzle
Anchorage 35 Drizzle
Fairbanks 29 Snow
Juneau 30 Clear
Seattle 28 Clear
San Francisco 41 . , Rain
Buy Your Water From The Biggest Drip in Town. I
BRONSON WATER DELIVERY MAIN 19 j
WINTER SCHEDULE
D C - 3 Service
Fairbanks times are Alaska Standard—Others Bering Standard
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY
FAIRBANKS - KOTZEBUE - NOME - FAIRBANKS
With Stops at TANANA. HUGHES and GALENA
When Traffic Warrants
Leave Fairbanks 7:00 a.m. Arrive Nome 10:45 a.m.
Leave Nome 11:45 a.m. Arrive Fairbanks 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY
FAIRBANKS - NOME - KOTZEBUE - FAIRBANKS
Leave Fairbanks 7:00 a.m. Arrive Nome 9:15 a.m.
I Leave Nome 10:15 a.m. Arrive Fairbanks 4:00 p.m.
BUSH SERVICE TUESDAY
NOME - DEERING - CANDLE - KOTZEBUE
Arrive Nome 11:30 p.m. Leave Nome 12:25
J. R. (Dick) Miller, Station Manager