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VOL. LIX No. 106 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1957 Per Copy—15^
Five Senators Ask Suspension of
Plans to Move Juneau ANS Office
WASHINGTON UPt—Five Pacif
ic Northwest senators have asked
the Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare to suspend its
plans to move the Alaska Native
Service area office from Juneau
to Anchorage.
The request was made by Sens.
Magnuson and Jackson, Washing
ton, and Morse and Neuberger,
Oregon, and Murray of Montana.
All are Democrats.
The letter said: “We suggest
that no action be taken until there
are more satisfactory answers to
the questions herein proposed.”
The proposed move is sched
uled for completion by next June
1. It would affect 25 employes.
Harold W. Curran, executive
officer of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, estimated potential sav
ings thru consolidation of the Ju
neau area office with the area
suboffice at Anchorage at about
$100,000 a year.
In their letter, however, the
five senators said the contention
that financial savings would re
sult “seems to be less than solidly
supported.”
The senators said relocation of
the Juneau office would move it
away from concentrations of na
tive populations such as the ap
proximately 6,000 Indians of
southeast Alaska, and added:
"If a move were to be made
on the basis of bringing the
services closer to the largest
number of people to be served,
the office might be more profit
baly moved to Nome . • . By
any standard of reasoning. An
chorage is betwixt & between,"
The senators also contended an
office in Juneau would permit
better coordination with territor
ial officials and departments, such
as the governor a;nd the Alaska
Department of Health, both with
headquarters in the capital city.
1,250 Homeless
As Typhoon Bess
Strikes Japan
TOKYO, —Typhoon Bess
slammed into southern Japan
with 30-mile-per-hour winds and
heavy rain tonight, destroying or
damaging 250 houses and halting
train, bus and air service.
National police said two per
sons were missing and 1,250
homeless in the southern island of
Kyushu. Heavy loss of rice crops
is expected.
The storm, advancing north
ward on a more than 300-mile
front at 20 miles an hour, is ex
pected to lash the crowded To
kyo-Yokohama area with winds
reaching 90 m.p.h. by Saturday
afternoon.
Center winds have been clocked
at 115 miles an hour.
The course of the storm is not
certaain, but U.S. and Japanese
weathermen fear it will advance
up either Japanese # coast, raking
all four islands of Kyushu, Hon
shu, Shikoku and Hokkaido.
U.S. Relations
Seen Likely With
Bulgaria, Albania
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The Unit
ed States is considering easing an
Il-year ban on travel by Ameri
cans to Communist Albania, site
of naval bases for Soviet war
ship.
The State Department is re
ported weighing this move as a
follow-up to its surprise action
yesterday ending a seven-year
embargo on all American visits to
Bulgaria, another Russian satel
lite.
Easing the ban on travel to Bul
garia appeared to foreshadow the
eventual renewal of U.S. diplo
matic relations with that state.
Tiny Albania has been out of
bounds for Americans since the
end of World War II, mainly be
cause the Red government there
has shown no signs of wanting
normal relations with the U.S.
Within the past few weeks,
however, the prime ministers of
both Bulgaria and Albania have
told American reporters they
want to restore full diplomatic
contact with the U.S.
Restoring diplomatic relations
would give American officials
listening posts within Bulgaria
and Albania, sirnilar to those in
other Red-ruled lands.
Two Passenger-Catfrying
Freighters Assigned to
States-Alaska Run
SEATTLE, —Permanent as-1
signment of two fast, passenger
carrying C-2 freighters to service
between Alaska and the United
States was announced Thursday
by the Coastwise Line.
The ships were assigned to the
run temporarily 'this summer.
They gave Seattle its first ocean
passenger link with Alaska since
withdrawal of passenger service
by the Alaska Steamship Co. in
1954.
Each ship has accommodations
for 12 passengers, as well as re
frigerated and general cargo. Be
ides Seattle, they also touch at
Long Beach, San Francisco and
Portland on the way north.
Ashes of Explorer
Will Be Scattered Over
Site He Named Thule
ANCHORAGE UP)—'The ashes of
Peter Freuchen, famed Danish ex
plorer, will be scattered over one
of the sites which he named dur
ing his years of arctic explora
tions—Thule, Greenland.
Freuchen, 71, died here Monday
of a heart attack. He was enroute
to polar regions with a party of
I explorers to assist in making a
l him for Lowell Thomas television j
■ productions.
Freuchen’s body was flown to
j Seattle Wednesday for cremation,
i The ashes were returned to An
| chorage, then flown to Greenland
j for services.
I Cuba Smashes
Rebel Uprising;
75 Casualties
HAVANA, Cuba, (^—President
Fulgencio Batista’s government
said today it had smashed an up
rising of rebels and naval and
maritime police dissidents in
south central Cuba. It put total
casualties at about 75.
A high command announcement
said 40 to 50 rebels were killed or
wounded. It reported government
losses at 12 killed, 13 wounded.
The government poured in its
planes, tanks and troops after 400
rebels seized police headquarters
in downtown Cienfuegos and
threatened to take control over
the port city of 52,000.
Planes dropped bombs. Troops
j attacked police headquarters with
i heavy machineguns and small
I arms. The rebels were driven
[ from the building and survivors
scattered into the nearby hills.
The High Command statement
said revolutionaries disguised in
Cuba navy sailors’ uniforms first
attacked Cienfuegos naval post
early yesterday, “murdering sev
eral members of the naval post
while they were sleeping.”
The attackers were dislodged in
bloody fighting and fled into na
| tional police headquarters, which
other rebels had captured.
The High Command accused
former President Carrlos Prio
Socarras of masterminding yes
terday’s day-long revolt.
Prio was ousted by Batista in
1952 and took refuge in Miami.
He has repeatedly denied govern
ment charges of plotting against
Batista.
The service chiefs were asked
| about the situation in the Sierra
Maestra of eastern Cuba where
rebel Ridel Castro is holed up,
one of them told reporters “That
is a problem that is in the process
of liquidation.”
Rules Published
For Alaska to Select
Mental Health Lands
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Bur
eau of Land Management today
published its proposed regulation
under which Alaska will select
1,000,000 acres to help finance its
mental nealth program.
Publication in the Federal Reg
ister gives interested parties 30
days to submit written comments
or suggestions on the proposal to
the BLM office here.
The 1956 mental health act,
under which Alaska assumed ad
ministration of the program pre
viously handled by the federal
government, authorized the terri
[ tory to elect a million acres of
| vacant, 4 unappropriated and un
j reserved public lands. It has until
I July 28, 1966, to make its choice.
With its title, Alaska would re
ceive all rights to minerals in the
| land.
The regulation would require
publication by the territory in a
newspaper once a week for five
weeks of a notice allowing all
persons who oppose any selection
to file objections.
Four Arrested at Little Rock
Demonstration Against Integration
Arctic Club
Carnival Planned
For This Month
Plans for the .Arctic Club Car
nival this month are getting well
organized with Pete Reader and
Bob Oliver as co-chairmen for the
occasion.
Bill Golden, Russ Hermann and
Jack Reed will officiate at game
tables; Grace Edrnan will have
charge of the Fish Pond; Maurice
Kelliher, Bill Barber and Bill Ull
rich will have dart balloons, base
ball throws and other interesting
games.
Frank Johnson will have charge
of a specialty novelty sales booth.
Bob and Barbara Royce will be
chairmen of the dance being held
in the Multi-Purpose Room.
Joe Kroninger is in charge of
tickets and promotion.
Food served during the evening
of fun will be under the auspices
of the PTA, while the Beta Sigma
Phi will serve cotton candy.
Wilbur Arnold will have charge
of the construction of booths with
Pete Walsh co-ordinating the
planning and layout for the eve
ning.
Chair-Swinging Brawl
At Church Convention
Over Election of President
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UP)—Forces
opposed to the reelection of a
Chicago pastor as president of the
nation’s largest Negro religious
group have indicated they may
take the matter to court.
Dispute over the matter yester
day resulted in four on-the-spot
arrests by police at the National
Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.,
following a chair-swinging brawl
on the speakers platform.
Dr. Joseph H. Jackson was re
elected Wednesday after he per
sonally ruled a 1952 amendment
limiting the president to four one
year terms was uncontitutional.
He claimed his re-election by ac
claimation was unanimous.
But the opposition forces yes
terday stormed the platform and
demanded the minutes of Wed
nesday’s meeting be read. Some
one tried to remove one or two of
them forcibly and a chair-swing
ing free-for-all broke out.
Court-Martial Will Try
American GI for Fatal
Shooting of Korean
SEOUL, UPt—Pfc. Martin Mills
of Brooklyn will be tried by a
general court-martial later this
month for the fatal shooting of a
Korean civilian, an Army spokes
man said today.
Mills was a guard on a pipeline
in the port city of Inchon. The
Army said he fired warning shots
on Aug. 25 to prevent several
Koreans from climbing on the
pipeline. One of the shots rico
cheted off a body of water, hitting
one of the Koreans who died soon
afterwards.
v LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, —(A
Suspicious National Guardsmen,
blocking integration made their
arrests at Central High School
today. Four Minneapolis white
men were taken into custody and
three were escorted out of the
city.
One youth, about 25, carried a
sheath knife four to five inches
long. He was placed in his own
automobile and driven away from
the scene by police and kept at
their headquarters.
The other three were taken by
Guardsmen from the #scene and
turned over to state police. Police
said they would be escorted out
of town.
The young man was heard to
describe his knife as a “souvenir”
and say he was on a “sightseeing
tour.” He had a camera.
Heavily armed Guardsmen still
ringed the high school today, but
a smaller crowd of demonstrators
appeared across the street from
the campus.
The future of the smouldering
integration crisis appeared to be
in the hands of a federal judge
j who will hear a school board plea
for a truce.
Early today a cross was burned,
outside the home of Mayor Wood
row Mann, who has criticized the
mobilization pf state troops.
Judge Ronald Davies will hear
the school board’s petition at 10
a.m. tomorrow. Twice within the
past week Davies has ordered ra
cial mixing to proceed now. ,
The crowd of white citizens
across from the campus dropped
to about 100 today as the school
opened. Yesterday at that hour
the crowd totaled about 250, and
swelled to around. 700 during the
day—the largest of the week’s
demonstrations.
Altho relaxed tension was evi
dent among the Guardsmen, two
halftracks remained at each end
of the block, and several military
trucks were parked in the street.
President Eisenhower has urged
Arkansas officials to cooperate
with a federal court order to inte
grate the school, where the armed
militiamen have stopped Negro
pupils who wanted to report for
classes in the all-white school.
And the President planned to
interrupt his vacation tomorrow
and return to Washington, where
he will confer with Atty. Gen.
Brownell on the Little Rock case.
Eisenhower telegraphed Gov.
Orval Faubus of Arkansas, who
ordered National Guardsmen to
Central High School on Monday
night, that as President he would
use every legal means to uphold
the U.S. Constitution.
another major school inte
gration development, a federal
judge yesterday told school Offi
cials at Dallas, Texas, that inte
gration in public schools is the
law of the land.
U.S. District Judge William H.
Atwell said segregation in Dallas
must end after the Christmas
holidays. He has twice been over
ruled by a court of appeals when
he tried to allow Dallas more time
for integration.