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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
~VOL. LVI No. 13 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Molotov Upsets
Plan To Consider
GermanUnification
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
BERLIN, UP) — French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault called
today for a United Nations dis
armament conference provided all
hostilities such as the Indochina
war are first ended and aggres
sion outlawed.
His proposal countered a dis
armament conference proposition
made yesterday by Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov.
Molotov asked the Big Four to
sponsor a worldwide disarmament
meeting which would include Red
China and other states that are
not now members of the United
Nations.
Raising of the disarmament
question apparently stymied for
the moment a concerted western
plan to force Russia into consid
ering German unification now.
The West, with Secretary Dulles
in the chair, had intended to bring
up the German question' immedi
ately after the session opened.
Word from behind the closed
doors of the conference hall, how
ever, was that Molotov immedi
ately took the floor and upset the
apple cart. Thereupon Bidault of
fered his resolution, calling for an
end of hostilities and for condem
nation of any encouragement or
support of aggression. It presum
ably was aimed at putting new
pressure on the Communist world
to end the war in Indochina.
After Bidault spoke, Britain’s
Foreign Secretary Eden took the
floor indicating that whether the
West likes it or not the conference
faced a full scale debate on a
topic that wasn’t even on the
agenda.
Mrs. James Roosevelt
Names Three Women As
Correspondents In Divorce
PASADENA, Calif., UR — Mrs.
James Roosevelt names three
women as correspondents in a suit
seeking separate maintenance
from the son of former President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two let
ters filed with the suit identify
nine other women as having been
intimate with her husband.
The letters, the suit charges,
were written to her by him in
1945.
Mrs. Romelle Schneider Roose
velt, 33, James’ former nurse,
seeks $2,000 a month support for
herself and $1,500 monthly sup
port of their three children.
Roosevelt, 46, who last week
announced he would be a candi
•' date for Congress from the 26th
California district, had filed his
■cv n suit for sepaarte maintenance
last Jan. 18.
Mrs. Roosevelt claimed Roose
unity assets alone
total two million dollars.
One of the purported letters in
troduced said in part:
“I feel that I owe it to 'you
to again assert that during said
period (three and one half years
immediately following their mar
riage) I have engaged in a course
of conduct involving a succession
of active adultery, disloyalty and
deception which have caused you
great and continuing mental and
physical suffering.”
Michael O’Shea Writes
Of Celebrities Who
Came To Nome Last Year
Michael O’Shea, columnist
whose enthusiasm for Nome
brought a group of celebrities
here last fall, writes to friends
here that he still dreams of Nome
and will be coming back again.
He revealed that he> is now pub
licity director for Motion Pictures
for Television, Inc. and handles
such shows as Duffy’s Tavern,
Flash Gordon, Janet Dean, Regis
tered Nurse, and others.
Danton Walker, New York col
umnist who was on the Nome
expedition, is getting ready for his
own TV show.
Peter Perri, famous photograph
er, sends greetings to his “No
man” friends.
Dorothy Arnold is in Mexico
and is planning a TV series. •
Michael Rayhill is doing fine
in TV in Hollywood, O’Shea re
ports, and Lynn Bowers is still
with Celebrity Service in Holly
wood and doing a column for
Screenland.
O’Shea said that more publicity
will be given Nome in the various
columns as spring approaches and
people start thinking of vacation
and traveling.
Alaska’s General Property
Tax Law Before Court
Of Appeals Today
JUNEAU, (/P) — Alaska’s “on
again, off again” general property
tax law goes to court in San
Francisco again today.
The law enacted by the Demo
cratic 1949 territorial legislature
and repealed by the 1953 Repub
lican controlled session is up for
its second hearing in the 9th U.S.
circuit court of appeals.
The issue at stake are the taxes
collected or due prior to the re
peal of the controversial law.
The appeal is by Luther C. Hess
of Fairbanks from the decision of
Judge George Folta of Juneau
that the law was legal.
Pre-Lenten Advertising
Responsible For Rise In
Alaska Salmon Prices
SEATTLE, MP> — Seattle salmon
brokers today report advancing
prices for canned salmon. It is
attributed in part to the relatively
low 1953 pack of Alaska pink sal
mon, in part to heavy orders, in
anticipation of a pre-Lenten pro
motion and advertising campaign.
In the past week pink salmon
prices have advanced $1 a case
to $19. Chum salmon prices also
have advanced about $1. The
higher-priced red salmon has not
been affected. Tuna prices are also
reported advancing.
Salmon, soup, milk and maca
roni groups are participating in a
joint advertising campaign, be
ginning next month. Some ad
vance orders for salmon are be
lieved in the trade to be due to
this promotion plan.
FILES FOR TREASURER
JUNEAU, UP)—Juneau account
ant Henry Leege filed Thursday
as a Republican candidate for the
office of Territorial Treasurer.
The only other candidate to
date is Hugh J. Wade, a Demo
crat.
Calls For Increase
In Big Bombers To
Deter Aggression
MADISON, Wis., UR—Gen. Na
than F. Twining said last night
that the plans for a 137-wing Air
Force by mid-1957 “call for an
increase in our long range bomber
force that is capable of striking
back at an aggressor wherever he
will be hurt most.”
The chief of air staff, in an ad
dress before the Madison Cham
ber of Commerce, said North Am
erican cities are now within reach
of hundreds of Russian planes op
erating across the Arctic.
“The best and perhaps the only
way to prevent Soviet bombers
from imDosing terrible destruction
on the United States is to main
tain the balance of long-range air
power in our favor,” he said.
At present, the Strategic Air
Command has about a half dozen
w’ings <30 planes to a wing) of
heavy bombers. All are combina
tion piston - jet engined Convair
B-36 models, which have a range
of about 12,000 miles.
A few months ago Air Secre
tary Talbott disclosed that enough
new eight-jet Boeing B-52s are on
order to provide substantially
more than seven wings of planes.
The B-52 is described officially
as even faster than the medium
B-47 which flies over 600 miles
an hour.
Kefauver Protests Army
$200 Million Contract
With General Motors
WASHINGTON, if) — Sen. Ke- j
fauver (D-Tenn) protested today
that the Ai'my had signed a 200
million-dollar contract for tanks
yesterday with a General Motors
subsidiary although asked to hold
it up pending a Senate investiga
tion.
Kefauver made this complaint
at opening of a public hearing on
the contract by the- Senate Armed
Services Committee.
“I don’t know why they didn’t
wait until this hearing,” Kefauver
said.
John Slezak, undersecretary of
the Army who handles procure
ment, was on hand to defend
award of the contract to a single
producer, Fisher Body Division of
General Motors. Chrysler was the
only other bidder.
Kefauver said no one charged
that “special pressure came from
any source to award” the exclu
sive contract to General Motors.
Instead, he said concentrating
defense production in a single
producer, instead of maintaining
a broad defense base with numer
ous producers, is the prime issue.
Abraham Lincoln of White
Mountain Dies In Juneau
JUNEAU, Uf) — Abraham Lin
coln, an Eskimo who helped or
ganize the Alaska Native Indus- :
tries Cooperative Association, died
Wednesday in Juneau. He was 50 !
years old.
The Cooperative, growing in i
six years to a million; dollar en- I
terprise, now has- 55 stores owned •
and operated by Eskimos, Indians j
and Aleuts. 1
Gov. Heintzleman Tells Senate
Committee Alaska Ready For
Statehood With Federal Funds
Congress Fails Provide
New District Judgeship
For Third Division
WASHINGTON, MP) — A com
promise bill agreed upon yester
day by a Senate-House committee
does not provide for any new
district court judgeship for Al
aska.
The*re have been strong' pres
sures for several years for crea
tion of a second judgeship at An
chorage where the great growth
of the past decade has pyramided
court duties.
The bill does, however, provide
for two new judgeships for the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
which handles cases on appeal
from district court of seven west
ern states, Alaska and Hawaii.
The bill is a compromise be
tween measures approved separ
ately by the two legislative
branches last year. It now must
be accepted by the House and
Senate before it goes to the White
House.
The Senate approved a new dis
trict judgeship for Alaska last
year but the House didn’t.
Tito Pledges
Independent
Foreign Policy
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, UP) —
President Tito was re - elected
unanimously by parliament today
after proclaiming Yugoslavia’s
willingness to do business with
all nations—including Russia and
the Soviet satellites—on a basis of
“mutual respect.”
The 61-ye.ar-old chief of this
Communist state, his hair mark
edly more- grey than a year ago
and his voice rasping occasionally
from a severe cold, was given an
ovation as he appeared before the
lawmakers to deliver a 70,000
word state-of-t’ne-nation message
before his election.
He pledged that Yugoslavia will
pursue an independent path in its
foreign policy despite friendly
overtures from Russia since last
spring after Stalin’s death.
But simultaneously, he made it
clear that he would not part com
pany wTith the west, which came
to this country’s aid after its
break with the Cominform in
1948.
Tito was the only candidate for
the presidency put forward by the
country’s only political party/the
Communist - ruled Socialistic Al
liance. His election was unani
mous. He will take his oath of
office Saturday before a joint
session of parliament.
—
Alligator 'Kisses' German Actress !
MUNICH, Germany, UP)—German
film actress Josefin Kipper was
“kissed” by an alligator Friday.
She held a ’gator two feet long
in her arms while posing for a
publicity still. Suddenly the ani
mal rolled his eyes, squirmed and
bit her twice on the lips. Miss
Kipper was taken to a hospital
for treatment.
> By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, (fl)—A reliable
source said after Alaska Governor
Heintzleman’s appearance at a
closed door session of the Senate
Territories subcommittee:
“You can say the governor
made a good witness for state
hood.”
One source described the gover
nor’s statements to the subcom
mittee as “quite contradictory”
to those he made last year at the
time of his nomination.
Asked directly if he thought
Alaska could support statehood
now, the governor reportedly re
plied that it could in, view of
amendments, already adopted by
the full committee, to provide the
new state with additional money
for roads and harbor surveys.
These amendment, adopted last
week, would authorize appropria
tion by the federal government
of 48 million dollars for road con
struction in the first six years of
Alaska statehood, beginning with
17 million in the first year and
scaling downward to one million
in the sixth.
It also would authorize appro
priations, on a sliding scale, for
operation and maintenance of Al
aska’s roads: 3 million dollars in ,
each of the first 5 years, 2 million
in each of the second 5 years and
1 million in each of the third 5
years.
The sources said Heintzleman
also proposed certain amendments
having the effbct of liberalizing
land laws in Alaska.
Substitute Bill For
T reaty-F o wer
Amendment
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Senator
Knowland of California, the Re
publican floor leader, announced
today that a substitute for the
Bricker treaty-power amendment
will be introduced in the Senate
today “with substantial Demo
cratic support.”
Knowland declined at a press
conference to say whether Sen.
Bricker (R-Ohio), whose proposed
constitutional amendment has
arouse*d vigorous opposition from
President Eisenhower, would join
in offering the proposal. Other
senators said this seemed unlike
ly
“It is now my belief that an
amendment will be offered today
with substantial bi-partisan sup
port—it will be introduced before
the Senate adjourns,” Knowland
said.
The Californian said the “sub
stantial progress” had been made
overnight in attempting to find
language on which influential
Republicans and Democrats could
agree.
Even if an agreement can be
reached which provides a middle
ground for many senators, the big
question seemed to be—
Can Senate leaders muster the
necessary two-thirds vote req
ed for a proposal to change tl. >
Constitution?