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Val Peterson Seen Sure
As Nominee for Head of
Civil Aeronautics Board
OMAMA, uW—The World-Her
ald today quoted a “high Republi
can source” as saying Federal
Civil Defense Administrator Val
Peterson “almost certainly” will
ibe named chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
The former Nebraska governor
has been rumored as a possible
nominee to replace Ross Ribley,
•board chairman, who was nomin
ated Friday by President Eisen
hower to be a federal district
judge in Oklahoma.
The World-Herald quoted Pe
terson as saying all he knew about
the possibility of going to CAB
was what he had read in the
newspapers. He said, though, he
had rejected several weeks ago a
position outside the government
that would have pjnd him consid
erably more than his present $17,
500 salary. The CAB post pays
$15,000.
Two Seward Men
Feared Drowned
ANCHORAGE, UP!—A wind
squall which came up shortly
after two Seward men set out
across Resurrection Bay Thursday
night is believed to have cost
them their lives.
The men, Harvey Doyle and
Roy White, civilian employes on
a dock building project at Sew
ard, left Seward for Benard Is
land in a 5-foot boat powered
with a 25-horsepower motor.
Shortly after, high winds swept
the bay and the men never
reached the island, a trip of about
10 miles. Turbulent weather pre
vented an aerial search yesterday
and it was feared the men could
not have survived a night in the
open even if they did manage to
make shore.
The boat carried no provisions
for staying out at night and tem
peratures have been far below
zero. Search officials say they be
lieve the boat was swamped dur
ing the storm because no trace of
it has been found.
Nome’s Hospital
Congratulated by
Blue Cross Group
Sne"i'al to the Nome Nugeet
SEATTLE—The Maynard-Mac
Dougall Memorial Hospital was
congratulated today for its part
in making possible the enrollment
of 50 million members in the na
tion’s Blue Cross plans.
" A report released today in Chi
cago by the Blue Cross Commis
sion, indicated that membership
in the 86 affiliated local plans
reached 50,174,164 as of the end
of 1955, making Blue Cross the
largest voluntary organization of
its kind in the world.
W. A. Heath, president of the
Washington-Alaska Blue Cross
plan, said that a special a >n-d
recognizing the Nome homitnl’s
part in making this me e shin
possible is being preser* J n 'ts
administrator. The Maynard-Mac
Dougall Memorial Plospit 1 is
among 118 sponsoring hospitals o’
the plan.
Heath pointed out that Blue
Cross growth has been achieved
in just 25 years, and that now al
most one-third of the nation has
paid for hospital care in advance
through the American Hospital
Association-sponsored, nonprofit
plan.
Nationally, Blue Cross mem
bers paid almost one billion dol
lars in subscription charges last
year, with $885 million paid back
to hospitals for members’ care.
The local plan, serving about 170,
000 residents of Washington and
Alaska, paid $4,133,698 for hospi
tal and medical care of members
last year.
Atomic Power for Japan
jW a,;n Five Years
TOKYO, UP!—Japan will be gen
erating a omic power within five
years, Matsuzaro Shoriki, chair
man of Japan’s atomic energy
commission, told a committee of
Parliament today.
Shoriki said Japan will concen
tra e* its atomic research on power
generation and isotopes.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
AGENT KILLED IN
VALDEZ ACCIDENT
VALDEZ, Alaska, UP—A ship
ping crib toppled in a high wind
and fatally injured Darwin Dib
ble, Alaska Steamship Co. Valdez
agent, on the waterfront Sunday.
Despite an emergency operation
at the Valdez Community Hospi
tal, Dibble died of head injuries
at noon today. A longshoreman
with whom he was working was
less seriously hurt.
Dibble, 36, was vice president
of the Valdez Chamber of Com
merce. He was a graduate of the
University of Washington and he
held unlimited masters licenses.
Supplies Dropped
To Thousands of
European Towns
LONDON, UP—Fresh snowstorms
heaped more misery today on
freezing western Europe. The toll
of recorded weather deaths went
up to 347 for the past two weeks
and scores were missing.
A Greek air force Dakota with
17 aboard was reported missing
on a mercy flight to drop supplies
to snowbound villages in Mace
donia.
Avalanches struck at least six
Yugoslav villages and authorities
said they feared “a great number
of people” were trapped. At least
10 workers were reported killed
at Etrezimir, and "three at Tor
beski.
The known death toll by coun
tries: France 84, Britain 45, Italy
52, Germany 22, Greece 26, Yugo
slavia 34, Denmark 19, Turkey 16,
Holland 12, Portugal 10, Austria 9,
Switzerland 4, Sweden 4, Spain 2,
Belgium 4, Cyprus 2, Tripoli 2.
Western Europe’s worst cold
wave of the 20th century went
into a third week with only tem
porary relief in sight.
American military forces on the
continent were mobilized for mer
cy detail. The U.S. Air Force in
Germany sent 22 flying boxcars
loaded with relief supplies for
Italy, where more than 100 com
munities are snowbound.
Off England’s east coast, a 30
knot wind piled the 5,408-ton
Brazilian freighter Loide-Hondur
us and the 540-ton British tug
Rumania on a sandbank.
More than 100 ships were ice
bound in the famed Kattegat be
tween Sweden and Denmark as
aircraft from both nations joined
forces in directing icebreakers in
churning a path throught the ice.
Ice floes sank a gondola in the
canals of Venice.
BARTENDER'S SHOTS CUT
CITY'S MAIN POWER LINE
PHOENIX, Ariz. UP)—Bartender
Jim Smith fired a few shots at a
prowler last night. The shots
missed, but they cut a main power
line, throwing half of North Phoe
nix into darkness.
Smith told reporters, “I’d like
to tell all about it. But I’ve got a
bar full of customers and a bar
full of liquor, and man, it’s dark
in here.”
The prowler? Escaoed in the
dark.
Leading Democratic Candidates Are
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At Odds on One Issue of Segregation
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By thf Associatfd Prfss
Another round of comment on
civil fights questions leaves Adlai
Stevenson and Averell Harriman
differing sharply on one issue
growing out of the segregation
dispute.
Harriman, governor of New
York and an “inactive” candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination for which Stevenson
is campaigning, said last night he
favors barring federal grants to
schools that resist desegregation.
Stevenson, however, said that it
wouldn’t help reduce race preju
dice to cut off southern states
from “the means of improving the
educational standards of all their
people.”
In a statement issued at Port
land, Ore., Stevenson also said he
thinks it is “essential” that the
segregration issue be kep. out of
this year’s presidential campaign.
Among the Republicans, Na
tional Chairman- Leonard Hall
i said ves'erday he hopes the Dem
ocratic nominee will be picked by
former President Truman “be
1 cause T want the American people
to have a choice between what
they now have and what they
had under Mr. Truman.”
Hall said in a TV interview he
hopes Truman “gets into this situ
ation with bo'h feet.”
As for the GOP candidate, Hall
repeated he is operating on “the
absolute, definite and positive
theory” President Eisenhower will
seek a second term.
The school aid issue dividing
Stevenson and Harriman stems
from an amendment proposed by
Rep. Powell (D-NY) to a federal
school construction program that
is pending in Congress. It would
prohibit allocation of federal
funds to communities resisting in
tegration.
Eisenhower has opposed this
amendment.
Eden and Eisenhower Sure There’s
No Danger to Human Rare in A-Tests
LONDON, liP)—Prime Minister
Eden said today he and President
Eisenhower presently are con
vinced their countries can go
ahead with testing of hydrogen
weapons without endangering the
human race.
In a report to the House of
Commons on his recent talks in
Washington, Eden said he dis
cussed with Eisenhower “the pos
sible regulation or limitation of
nuclear weapon tests.”
Referring to expressions of fear
regarding possible radiation effect
of further nuclear tests, he said:
“But I am bound to report that
Her Majesty’s Government and
the U.S. Government at present
share the conviction that the radi
ation dose to human beings aris
ing from the testing of megaton
weapons at the present rate is
insignificant compared with the
radiation dose received from na
ural causes.
In a general review of the talks
with Eisenhower, Eden said he
and Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd “were impressed by the re
newed vigor and enduring friend
ship of the President of the United
States.
The Prime Minister said he and
the President agreed on the action
to be taken in the explosive Mid
C-119 CRASHES BUT
CREW BAILS OUT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. UP)—An Air
Force C-119 ferry crew bailed out
yesterday after the plane’s con
trols went haywire a few minutes
before a fuel stop.
The plane clashed and burned
about six miles east of here and
about 12 miles from Stewart AFB,
Smyrna, Tenn., where it was
scheduled to land.
The crew was ferrying the
plane from Hagerstown, Md., to
their home base at Randolph
Field, Texas.
The copilot was treated at a
hospital for face lacerations. The
other three landed unhurt.
BREAKS WOODEN LEG ON
FRESHLY WAXED FLOOR
BLAND, Va. (jPI—John Richard- j
son walked into his house here
from work yesterday, fell on his
wife’s freshly-waxed floor and
broke his leg.
He was back at work today, tho,
at State Road Camp 31. where he
is a guard. The leg he broke was
his wooden one.
Hotel Manager
Found Murdered
FAIRBANKS, GPt—The badly
beaten body of Sylvester Johnson,
Fairbanks Hotel manager, was
found behind a garage yesterday.
Sylvester had been missing
since January 19.
Investigating officers said the
body was wrapped in a green
bedspread and light canvas. Po
lice are questioning several per
sons and one man has been jailed.
Officers said it appeared John
son had been struck from behind.
X rays are being taken in an
effort to determine the cause of
death.
die East and Europe to preserve
peace and western security. But
he acknowledged “certain differ
ences between us about Far East
ern policy,” adding:
“We discussed these together.
We have not receded from our
position, nor, is it fair to say, have
the U. S. Government modified
theirs."
Eden obviously referred to Eis
enhower’s refusal to accent the ’
British view that Chiang Kai
shek’s Nationalist Chinese should
be withdrawn from the offshore
islands to Formosa. The British
believe peace can best be pre
served in the Formosan Strait if
the Nationalists abandon Quemoy
and the Matsus, leaving a 100
mile water buffer between the
Red-held mainland and Formosa.
Soviet Warns on
Foreign Troops
In Middle East
MOSCOW, Utv-The Soviet Un
ion issued a warning tonight
against use of any foreign troops
in the Middle East without a prior
agreement and U.N. approval.
This country has said any ex
pansion of “aggressive activities’'
in the area will fall within the
Soviet orbit of interest.
A statement handed to foreign
correspondents at the Soviet For
eign Ministry here said:
“Any act such as the entry of
foreign troops on the territory of
nations of the Middle and Near
East, without the prior agreement
of interested governments and
without the sanction of the Secur
ity Council of the United Nations,
would be a rude disruption of the
principles of the United Nations
and the sovereignty of a number
of nations."
The Foreign Ministry said the
statement was issued as a result
of the Eisenhower-Eden declara
tion in Washington. This ex
pressed willingness to support any
U.N. action to preserve peace in
the Middle East.
There has been talk of an in
ternational army to guard the
frontiers between Israel and Arab
countries.
“As far as the Soviet Union is
concerned,” the statement ^aid,
“the Soviet Union will defend the
freedom, independence and prin
ciple of non-interference in the
internal affairs of countries of
the Middle and Near East. To
gether with other interested gov
ernments, it will support the se
curity of this area.”
Seven U.S. Airmen
Found Safe in Boat After
3-Day Air-Sea Search
TOKYO WV Seven U.S. airmen
—target of a three-day air-sea
search—were found safe and
sound today aboard their crash
boat. It had run out of gas be
tween Japan and Korea.
An Air Force spokesman said
the men had nosed their 85-foot
craft into a cove of Korea’s south
west tip Friday when they ran
out of gas and a storm came up: