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VOL. LVII No. 88NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1955Per Copy—15#
No Secret Agreements Made in
Geneva, Eisenhower Tells Leaders
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Two Housewives Drive
Across Country in 1902
Car; Will Drive to Alaska
LONG BEACH, Calif., (M—1Two
housewives who’ve just driven a
1902 'Sears-Roebuck motor buggy
here from Pennsylvania now plan
to pilot it to Alaska.
The two-cylinder, eight-horse
power horseless carriage arrived
a week ago yesterday with Mrs.
Kitty Ruth Partridge, 41, Long
Beach, arid Mrs. Margaret Wand
baugh, 42, of nearby Compton.
“Family tradition” was Mrs.
Partridge’s explanation of the 26
day drive from York, Pa., where
she and Mrs. Wandbaugh were
childhood chums.
Her father, J. J. Ruth, of York,
drove the car across country and
back in 1948. Her late great uncle,
Marcellus Diehl, of York, drove it
to San Francisco, she said, about
1906.
In the recent jaunt the two
women braved rain, winds, sand
storms and 126-degree heat. The
car broke down three times
Mrs. Partridge’s husband fol
lowed in a sedan towing a trailer
carrying spare parts for the old
car and sleeping equipment.
Mrs. Partridge said after they
rest up from the 3,100-mile trip
and overhaul the buggy they’ll
head for Alaska—probably in Oc
tober.
Ex-U.S. POWs
Return From Red
China to Hawaii
HONOLULU, UP>—Three former
American prisoners of war, who
once turned their backs on the
United States, sailed late Satur
day night on the last leg of their
journey home.
They had 14 hours of complete
freedom on this beautiful Ameri
can territorial island before the
liner departed at 10 p.m.
The trio told a news conference
that it was a radio speech by
President Eisenhower that promp
ted them to try to get the Chinese
Reds to let them come home.
They said the speech, about five
months ago, concerned interna
tional trade and that they were
impressed by its emphasis on
peace.
The three are William C. Cow
art, 22, Dalton, Ga.; Lewis W.
Briggs, 22, Jacksonville, Tex., and
Otho G. Bell, 24, Hillsboro, Miss.,
and Olympia, Wash. They had re
fused repatriation after the Kor
ean Armistice and went to Red
China instead.
The three dishonorably dis
charged Korean veterans seemed
relaxed. They told the shipboard
press conference on their arrival
yesterday they were ready to face
the consequences for their deci
sion to remain with the Reds.
Cowart did most of the talking.
He obviously exercised influence
over his companions and twice
cut them short when they started
to answer questions he said should
go unanswered.
> WASHINGTON, President
Eisenhower told Congressional
leaders today that no secret
agreements of any kind were
made at the Big Four meetings
nor were any “private papers”
initialed.
Members of Congress gave this
word to reporters after a briefing
at the White House by Eisenhow
er and Secretary of State Dulles
on the President’s sessions in Ge
neva with Russian, British and
French leaders.
Later, Presidential Press Sec
retary James C. Hagerty said:
“The President expressed the
belief that the outstanding feature
of the (Geneva) meeting was the
apparently sincere desire ex
pressed by the Soviet delegation
to discuss world problems in the
future in an atmosphere of friend
liness and a willingness to sit
down together to work out differ
ences.
“The President added that this,
of course, is a hopeful develop
ment but quite naturally does not
of itself warrant any relaxation
of the mutural security measures
we and our allies of the free world
are now pursuing.”
Asked whether China was dis
cussed, Hagerty told reporters it
was, but only in the light of a
State Dept, announcement that
ambassadorial representatives of
this country and Red China will
meet in Geneva next Monday to
discuss repatriation of citizens
and other matters.
Hagerty said Secretary Dulles
gave the Congress members a de
tailed presentation of the day to
day discussions at Geneva and an
analysis of the conference’s final
directive to the Big Four foreign
ministers, who are to meet in Oc
tober.
Congressional leaders of both
parties were invited to tj^e White
House this morning to get a brief
ing from the President and Secre
tary of State on the Geneva ses
sions. Afterward, they spoke of
the meeting in such terms as
“very satisfactory,” “helpful” and
“hopeful.”
GOP Senate Leader Knowland
said: “It was the most construc
tive bipartisan session, I believe,
that we have had. The President
and the Secretary of State made
a full report.”
U.S. Hot Spell Broken
By Cool Air From Canada
Northern and eastern United
States welcomed its cheapest im
port from Canada—cool air.
The vast mass which lowered
temperatures as much as 15 de
grees rolled southward today af
ter bringing respite from some 10
days of 90-degree weather to New
England, the middle Atlantic
coast, the Great Lakes and north
ern Ohio Valley regions.
The breakup of the heat wave
was accompanied in many places
by violent storms. Two tornadoes
were reported in Missouri Satur
day night, and severe thunder -
; storms struck Chicago and St.
Louis. There was little damage
and no reported casualties.
Gov. Heintzleman
To Attend Public
Meeting Tonight
Governor B. Frank Heintzleman
arrived today at noon with Wien
Airlines from Kotzebue where he
spent a day interviewing resi
dents of that area.
Gov. Heintzleman is traveling
alone and expects to confer with
members of the 2nd Division dele
gation to the Legislature and
others in this area. He plans to
leave for Anchorage tomorrow.
'Mayor Andersen has announced
that an informal meeting will be
held this evening at the City Hall
starting at 8 o’clock, for all per
sons interested in meeting with
the governor.
The regular Nome City Coun
cil meeting, scheduled for this
time, will be held at 7 o’clock,
preceding the special meeting.
Tomorrow the governor will be
the guest of the N.W.A. Cham
ber of Commerce at a luncheon
starting at 11 o’clock. The regu
lar Chamber luncheon, usually
held at noon, has been advanced
an hour so that Gov. Heintzleman
can attend before boarding the
plane for Anchorage.
Territorial Police
Open Office Here
The Territorial Police have es
tablished an office in the Second
Division with headquarters at
Nome. Emery Chappie has arrived
from Fairbanks and his office will
be in the Territorial Tax Office
on Front Street.
Among his first actions, Of
ficer Chappie will issue driver’s
licenses according to the recent
ly enacted law. All persons who
apply for a license in the future,
he advises, will be required to
take an examination, but those
who already possess a license will
not be required to do so. Also,
under the new law, driver’s li
censes will be renewed every
two years on the driver’s birth
day. Officer Chappie stated that
the two-year license is now being
issued for a fee of $2.
Young people under 18 are re
quired to have their parent’s con
sent before being issued a driver’s
license.
Another feature of the new li
cense system will be that once
licensed, each person will receive
the same license number with
each renewal. Drivers who al
ready have their 1955 license may
get their new-system license now
without additional charge.
Officer Chappie will serve the
entire Second Division and plans
to make his first trip to Unala
kleet in the very near future.
UNPERTURBED FISHERMEN
AMAZE DOWNED PILOT
CINCINNATI, OP)—A pilot yes
terday crash-landed his aircraft
on a small private lake northeast
of here. What amazed him most,
said uninjured Carl Minion, 30,
was the way fishermen on the
lake shore kept right on casting
and reeling as if airplanes plum
meted into the lake every hour.
U.S. and Red China to Meet Next Week
In Geneva on Ministerial Level
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Three Billion Dollar
Ship Replacement
Program Started
WASHINGTON, (tfU-The com
mittee of American Steamship
Lines says six American-flag
steamship companies are taking
the first steps in a $3 billion ship
replacement program.
The committee said last night
these and 10 other American lines
will participate in the next few
years in “the largest peacetime
ship replacement program in the
nation’s history.”
It said the private firms will
bear about 60 percent of the cost
of replacing obsolete vessels, with
the federal government supplying
the rest of the needed funds.
Britain Makes It Tougher
For Installment Buyers
To Combat Inflation
LONDON, —Britain today
made it tougher to buy on the in
stallment plan. The government
boosted the required down pay
ment to a third of the total pur
chase price.
In a move to combat inflation
threatening Britain’s prospei^y
boom, Chancellor of the Exchequ
er Richard A. Butler told the
House of Commons the minimum
down payment on shch items as
automobiles, radios and TV sets
would be raised from 15 to 33
percent.
Stocks tumbled on the London
stock exchange. Some brokers
called it “Black Monday.”
The chancellor said Britain was
absorbing too much of her pro
duction at home and “we cannot
be satisfied with the way in which
our balance of payments and our
reserves are moving.”
’Roadaplane’
Passes All Tests
PONTIAC, Mich., (#)—A combi
nation airplane-automobile built
by Dewey Bryan, 33-year-old
General Motors test driver, passed
highway and airway tests over the
weekend.
Bryan, of nearby Milford, be
lieves his “Roadaplane” is the
first to carry its folding wings
down the highway. Other road
able planes, he says, leave their
wings at the airport or haul them
in a trailer.
The single seater weighs 600
pounds ‘and has a 40-horsepower
engine that gives it a highway
speed of 50 miles an hour and an
air speed of 60. It lands at 25 to
30 mph.
It is a pusher type, with the
propeller behind the pilot’s com
partment. The propeller furnishes
driving power aloft or aground.
Bryan says his Roadaplane is
the result of 10 years of dreaming,
3Vz years of building, and about
$250 cash, in addition to parts
salvaged from a sports plane he
and his brother, Max, built in
1950. The wings came from a
crashed sailplane.
» WASHINGTON Ufi—‘The United
! States and Red China will send
ambassadors to Geneva next Mon
day to discuss “repatriation of
civilians” who want to return to
their own countries and “certain
other practical matters.”
The State Department said U.
Alexis Johnson, ambassador to
Czechoslavakia, would represent
the United States. Johnson is to
fly to Washington for quick con
sultations with Secretary of State
Dulles before the talks begin.
Press Officer Henry Suydam of
the State Department reported
India and Burma had arranged
for the meeting on backstage dis
cussions with Red China and the
United States.
The major purpose” of the Ge
neva meeting from the American
view, Suydam said, will be to ob
tain the release of some 51 Amer
icans held in Red China, including
11 American fliers.
An announcement of the talks,
agreed upon with Red China via
diplomatic channels, said:
“As a result of communications
between the United States and
the Peoples’ Republic of China
through the diplomatic channels
of the United Kingdom, it has
been agreed that the talks held in
the last year between consular
representatives of both sides at
Geneva should be conducted on
ambassadorial level in order to
aid in settling the matter of re
patriation of civilians who desire
to return to their respective coun
tries and to facilitate further dis
cussions and settlement of certain
other practical matters now at is
sue between both sides.
“The first meeting of ambassa
dorial representatives of both
sides will take place on Aug. 1,
1955, at Geneva.”
The department, in a separate
announcement, emphasized key
ing the talks to the ambassadorial
level does not in any way “involve
recognition” of Red China.
Only last night Sen. George
(D-Ga), chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, had
called for “face-to-face” talks be
tween the two governments.
George, however, proposed a
broad-range meeting of foreign
ministers. The nature of the meet
ing announced today would be a
move in that direction, but on a
lower level and presumably with
a limited agenda.
Announcement of the forth
coming talks also followed an of
ficial statement in New Delhi that
Indian Prime Minister Nehru had
recently exchanged messages with
President Eisenhower and Prime
Minister Eden of Great Britain.
Reliable informants said last
week the exchange between Eis
enhower and Nehru concerned
tension in the Formosa area and
the freeing of American airmen
imprisoned in Communist China.
TOMBSTONE CRUSHES CHILD
OLD BUCKENN, England, (#—
A 350-pound tombstone toppled
over and killed 9-year-old Tim
othy Pointen as he left church
here yesterday.