Republican Quotation Draws Demo
Denunciation As ‘Lincoln Hoax’
French Diving Bell
Descends 13,288 Feet
In Atlantic Off Dakar
PARIS, UP—Two French naval
officers rode a diving bell 13,288
feet below the surface of the At
lantic Ocean off Dakar on the
west coast of Africa today, deeper
than man has ever gone before.
The plunge, 2Vz miles into the
ocean’s blackness, passed the
depth record set last Sept. 30 by
Prof. Auguste Piccard and his
son, Jacques, who dived in a
bathyscafe to 10,359 feet in the
Tyrrenhian Sea off the island of
Ponza, Italy.
Two Young Mothers
Right In Step When It
Comes To Having Babies
PASADENA, Calif., UP—T w o
young women were roommates in
the hospital when their first ba
bies were born on the same day
18 months ago. The hospital dis
closed Friday that they were
roommates again when their sec
ond babies were born on the same
day.
The mothers are Mrs. Charles R.
C. Salmon. 23, Pasadena, and Mrs.
Robert S. Woodford, 30, Altadena.
Pa-“dena and Altadena are ad
joining communities.
Soviet Kepablic For
Shortcomings, Mistakes
LONDON, P—The Kremlin de
nounced Saturday the premier of
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
for “shortcomings and mistakes”
and launched a campaign for a
“speedy liquidation” of Commu
nist errors in that central Asian
republic of the Soviet Union.
Moscow’ bared to the world its
troubles in the vast republic be
hind the Urals—rich in minerals
for the Soviet atomic program—
in a broadcast over the official
government radio at Alma Ata.
Eisenhower To Spent Five Days
At Palm Springs Next Week
WASHINGTON, P — President
Eisenhow’er, just back from a
Georgia quail hunt, will leave
Wednesday for five days of sun,
golf and work in Palm Springs,
Calif.
The White House announced
Monday the President plans to
leave by plane Wednesday after
noon and will return to Washing
ton next Monday.
Nationalist Reject Kai-Shek's
Request That He Step Down
TAIPEH, Formosa, P — The
central committee of Nationalist
China’s Kuomintang (ruling party)
today unanimously rejected Chi
ang Kai-Shek’s request to step
down from the Nationalist presi
dency.
The 32-man committc-e nomin
ated Chiang for a six-year term.
He said he would announce his
decision tomorrow.
» WASHINGTON, HV-The flood
of Republican oratory which each
year signals Abraham Lincoln’s
birthday \yas diminished a bit
i Saturday with the dropping of
j some quotations which the Demo
| crats leaped on as “a Lincoln
hoax.”
Postmaster General Summer
field removed from the text of
his speech at Akron, Ohio, Satur
day night what the Republican
National Committee described as
“the disputed quotation attributed
to Lincoln by reputable sources in
the past.”
It was Democratic National
Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell
I who cried “hoax” at the yet-to-be
delivered Summerfield speech.
Mitchell saw an advance copy
and accused the GOP speaker of
trying to make Lincoln sound like
a modern old-guard senator” by
quoting him as saying something
“that he never said.”
Back in 1950, the Democrats
went into the same matter and
imported that Harper’s Magazine
had found that the words were
the work of the Rev. J. H. Boet
cker, an Erie, Pa., preacher who
had become a lecturer of indus
trial relations.
Here are the words which
Summerfield’s text has said were
“attributed to Abraham Lincoln”:
“You cannot bring about pros
perity by discouraging thrift. You
cannot strengthen the weak by
weakening the strong. You cannot
help the wage earner by pulling
down the wage payer. You cannot
help the poor by destroying the
rich. You cannot establish sound
security on borrowed money. You
cannot build character and cour
age by taking away man’s initia
tive and independence. You can
not help men permanently by
doing for them what they could
and should do for themselves.”
The magazine article as reprint- j
ed in the Congressional Record
said Boetcker wrote the sentences
in 1916.
It said they were distributed
widely by the Committee for Con
stitutional Government, credited
to Boetcker, along with an authen- i
tic Lincoln statement.
Little Hope Held For
Rhees Offer To Send
Korea Troops to Indochina
WASHINGTON, wn—Little hope
was held by American diplomats
Saturday that anything would
come on Syngman Rhee’s offer of
troops to help France in the Indo
china War.
Although the offer of a South
Korean division ha.s yet to reach
the French officially, a French
; Embassy spokesman gave advance
j notice of a turndown Friday: he
said his government would reject
it for fear South Korean involve
ment would bring on open Red
Chinese intervention in the eight
year-old war.
Only 10 percent of India is over
7,000 feet above sea level.
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Kotzebue News
At a recent Arctic Circle Cham
ber of Commerce meeting a report
by Chairman N. G. Hanson on the
REA survey showed that of some
200 residences in Kotzebue 80 are
new since 1951.
Jack Bullock reported on the
progress of Kotzebue land mat
ters. Public posting of the Kotze
bue Townsite map has been made
and Lowell Puckett, regional di
rector of the Bureau of Land Man
agement and Kotzebue Townsite
trustee, is expected this spring
to complete this program which
will establish rights to land with
in the townsite area.
George Conwell, chairman of
the Arctic Dog Derby Races, told
of keen interest from outlying
villages and it is believed some
15 to 18 teams will cover the 30
mile course out of Kotzebue Feb.
18, 19 and 20 to determine who
will be entered in the Fairbanks
races and to compete for the cash
prizes. Coffee and doughnuts will
be served in the Community
Building under the direction of
Alice Connolly, president of the
Crippled Children’s Association
and chairman of the Building
Board of Directors, while racers
are on the course. A dance will be
held Saturday, Feb. 20, in honor
of the winning teams.
Chamber President Thomas Rich
ards brought to the attention of
the members the discussion held
during the recent visit of Dr. John
Buckley, of the University of Al
aska, and Ray Woolford, Fish and
Wildlife, on possible game law re
visions. A motion was carried to
have the secretary write to Secre
tary of the Interior and other in
terested parties asking for a two
week advance date on open season
for water fowl in the 2nd and 4th
Divisions.
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Bert Beltz and Willie Goodwin
have been well on the way to
making some kind of a record
with 19 wolves and two wolverine
shot from the air from January 5
to February 1st. Motor failure
forced a landing some 40 miles
above Noatak Village during some
of the coldest weather of the
year. A nearby cabin provided
fuel and supplies for three days
and nights until the hunters were
located and flown to Kotzebue
by Thomas Richards, Wien Air
lines pilot.
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Plans are being completed for
a Valentine Box Social to be held
in the* Community Building Feb
ruary 13, the proceeds to go to
the Crippled Children’s Assn, and
Building Fund. A square and folk
dancing club is becoming active
in Kotzebue with enthusiastic
supporters growing in number.
* * *
With the arrival of Ted Olson
of Seattle, partner of the N. G.
Hanson Trading Company, Mr.
and Mrs. Hanson are leaving for
several months’ visit in the States
for a combined business and
pleasure trip.
L. W. Poterson, well-known lo
cal bush pilot, left Kotzebue for
the States to join Dr. E. S. Rabeau
in lower California for a few
weeks’ surf fishing. The two
prominent Kotzebuites will return
by mid-March in Pete’s new plant.
French statisticians estimate
that 65 percent of French families
own one or more bicycle.
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H-Bomb Tests
Expected Soon
HONOLULU, UPL- Preparations
for the coming hydrogen bomb
tost series in the Pacific are near
ing a climax, according to indica
tions in this strategic mid-Pacific
staging area.
But there is no indication that
any of the planned series of tests
has actually started.
A recent rash of Pacific area
earthquakes has prompted specu
lation that an H-bomb already has
been exploded, but seismologists
flatly deny the possibility of any
such connection. They say the
biggest bomb yet devised by man
is still a peanut compared to the
eruptions of nature.
The tests, which will include the
first trial of an actual combat
designed hydrogen bomb, are ex
pected in two or three weeks.
Pioneers Run Second
In Whist Game Series
The second game in the annual
Pioneer Card Series was played
last Saturday evening with the
following heading the list of high
scorers: Grace Edman, Sally Car
righar, Susie Herman; Charles
Lewis, George Morin and Clar
ence Ausley. Mrs. Fred Rohn won
the door prize for the second
consecutive game.
The next game in the series,
will be on Saturday, March 6,
said chairman Jack Blattler.
The leaders for the trophies will
be announced later this week.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Ray Tveter,
M. Fitzhugh.
To Anchorage: Perry Huff, M.
Fitzhugh, Carrie Ohsaruk, Edith
Escholt.
To McGrath: Sig Krogstad, Er
nest McCullough.
From Unalakleet: Frances Aya
giak, R. E. Curtis, Sgt. R. Odom.
To Unalakleet: Glenn Lenert.
MRS. CHARLIE CHAPLAIN
I RENOUNCES CITIZENSHIP
LONDON, UP)—It’s official now.
The American-born Mrs. Charles
Chaplin is, like the film comedian
himself, a British subject.
Ona O’Neill Chaplin, 28, for
mally renounced her United States
citizenship in a five-minute cere
mony at the American Embassy
here Friday.
U.S. F-86D Sabre Jet
Crashes Into Mountain
When Instruments Fail
VANCOUVER, B.C., UB—A U.S.
F-86D Sabre jet, lost in rain
shrouded skies with useless in
struments, Friday crashed on a
mountain rising abruptly from the
harbor here.
McChord Air Force' Base near
Tacoma, Wash., said the pilot was
killed and identified him as Lt.
Lamar J. Barlow of Tacoma.
The pilot was last heard from
Friday noon when he reported he
was at 20,000 feet 15 miles north
west of Vancouver Airport and
that his instruments had failed.
Radar crews picked up the lone
jet and guided it through the
murk toward Vancouver. Barlow
asked for permission to land and
no more was heard from him.
Bits of wreckage were found
near a chairlift on Grouse Moun
tain, popular ski playground only
20 minutes from downtown Van
couver.
WATCHDOG STOLEN
BROCKTON, Mass., OP)—Thieves
broke into a shoe plant during the
night and took one item—a watch
dog named Judy.
Owner Kenneth Durling said
nothing else was missing.
LOSES TWO WAYS
OAKLAND, Calif., LW — Cliff
Lomborg was getting a haircut
when he saw a policeman about
to tag his car.
Lomborg dashed across the
street to talk the cop out of it.
He failed, and also got a ticket
for jaywalking.
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