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VOL~LVI No. 146 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1954 Per Copy—15?
G.I. Kills Comrade,
Bui Wanted To
-Get” His C.O.
FAIRBANKS, 9PI — Ladd Air
Force Army officials disclosed
Saturday that a 19-year-old Lo
mita, Calif., youth was shot at
the air base Wednesday night by
a soldier they said was “waiting
to get the battery commander.”
Victim of the shoting was Pvt.
Ralph E. Carlton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Burl C. Carlton, San Pedro,
Calif.
Charged with Carlton's slaying
is Pvt. Bryant Read, 19, of Los
Angeles. Both men were members
of Battery B, 93rd Antiaircraft
Battalion.
An official report of the in
cident said Read held a duty of
ficer, 2nd Lt. August Englehart,
and 15 enlisted men at bay in
the orderly room from 6:30 p.m.
to 10 p.m. Wednesday. Read was
quoted as saying he did not want
to hurt them but wanted to “get
the captain.”
At gunpoint he forced Lt.
Englehart to phone the captain’s
quarters every hour but the bat
tery commander, whose name was
not released, was not at home.
When Pvt. Carlton refused to
have his hands tied and argued
that Read was bluffing, Read be
gan firing, the report said. Five
bullets hit Carlton’s body, the
sixth nicked his shoulder. Read
then surrendered to the others.
Read later signed a statement
saying he was displeased with the
battery commander was conduct
ing the unit.
DarknessOvertakes Search
For Alaska Fishing Boat
Sinking Near Honolulu
HONOLULU, UPi—Darkness last
night overtook a search for the
•'Brothers,” a well-known Alaska,
and Puget Sound fishing boat
which radioed Sunday morning
she was smiting 70 miles north
west of Honolulu.
No trace of the boat or the two
men aboard had been found but
the search continued with surface
ships and radar planes. The miss
ing boat was carrying a large life
raft.
The two men were Arthur Ot
ness, 37, and his cousin, John Ot
nes.,, 30, of Tt'coma.
Ten Little Girls Killed In
Spain In Rush To See
Show In Church Basement
MIRANDA DE EBRO, Spain, UP)
—This northern Spanish city went
into full mourning today for the
mass funeral of 10 little girls
killed yesterday by a crowd of
children stampeding into a church
basement for a theatrical show.
Offices were closed and flags
were flown at half mast.
More than 300 hundred children
were lined up impatiently waiting
for a Christmas holiday program
to start in a theater in the base
ment of the church. They started
pushing and the doors flew open.
Girls in the front, ranging in age
from 6 to 12, were crushed, tram
pled underfoot and smothered.
A EC Head Says
; U.S. Leading Reds
in Nuclear Field
WASHINGTON, Wl—Chairman
Lewis L. Strauss ol the Atomic
Energy Commission <AEC> said
today the United States is “mak
ing very rapid and satisfactory
progress" and continues to lead
Russia in the nuclear weapons
field.
Asked in a copyrighted inter
view with the Magazine U. S.
News and World Report whether
this country is “substantially
ahead of Soviet Russia” in the
atomic arms race, Strauss replied:
“Yes. We started sooner. We
have more material to experi
ment with. We have more facili
ties. We believe we have more of
these very large experimental
machines. But, since I can’t look
behind the Iron Curtain, I can’t
be absolutely certain. Most im
portantly, we have a devoted
group of free men at work on the
problems.”
Strauss said the nation now has
about 8V£ billion dollars invested
in its atomic energy business, and
the present program contemplates
spending of about half a billion
dollars more on plants and equip
ment.
“Then,” he said, "we will be
running along with an operating
expenditure of about two billion
dollars a year ... for as long as
one can foresee.”
Asked whether the world is
getting more radioactive as more
and more atomic tests are conduc
ted, Strauss said “Yes, but not
significantly.”
Hed Cross To Collect
$85 Million In Fund
liaising Campaign
WASHINGTON, W — The Red
Cross has fixed as targets for its
fund raising campaign starting
next March the collection of 85
million dollars and the enlistment
of 30 million members.
Announcing the figures yester
day, Red Cross chairman E. Ro
land Harriman said the organiza
tion’s budget estimates include
$36,040,000 for services to the
armed forces and veterans, $ 14,
287,000 'for delivery of blood and
its derivatives to the sick and in
jured, $5,127,000 for disaster
work and $6,135,000 for first aid,
water safety and nursing training
programs.
Vancouver Jaycees Oiler
Rea! Comic Books In
Trade For ‘Horror’ Books
VANCOUVER, B.C., Itfl—More
than 8,000 comic books went up
in flames in a weekend civic dem
onstration against the crime and
horror types.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce offered a historical, animal
or nature lore book for every 10
crime or horror "comics” turned
in a downtown park. The en
thusiastic response from the
youngsters surprised even the
sponsors. A. J.C. leader described
it as “a slightly melodramatic
gesture” to put the spotlight on
undesirabe reading material for
children.
U.N. Waits For
Red Reply To
I)a<j Hammarskjold
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Wi
ll.N. Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold and his aides settled
down today to a spell of watchful
waiting for an answer from Red
China on Hammarskjold's pro
posed free-the-fliers trip to Pei
ping.
There was not comment im
mediately from U.N. officials on
a Peiping Radio broadcast early
today asserting the United Na
tions “has no right to interfere
with China’s sentencing of the
American spies.”
The broadcast, monitored in
Tokyo, made no direct reference
to Hammarskjold’s cable to Pre
mier Chou En-Lai Friday night
proposing that they meet in Pei
ping soon after Dec. 26 to discuss
the case of the fliers and all other
U.N. personnel still held captive
The radio blast repeated Pei
ping’s previous charges, which
the Soviet Union had aired in the
U.N. Assembly, that the jailed
Americans had “sneaked into
China by air to carry out espio
nage” and that “it is China’s . ...
sovereign right of punishing
spies.”
In authorizing Hammarskjold
to seek the release of the airmen
and other imprisoned U.N. per
sonnel, the U.N. Assembly ap
proved the U.S. contention they
were prisoners of war entitled to
release under the Korean armis
tice.
Regarding Peiping's failure so
far to reply to Hammarskjold’s
cable, a U.N. spokesman said last
night the secretary general would
not be disappointed if several
days elapsed before a formal an
swer came.
“The answer may come direct
ly, it may come roundabout,” the
spokesman said.
Alabama Atty. General,
In Mental Hospital. Is
Charged With Murder
GALVESTON, Tex., W —Ala
bama’s attorney general, Silas
Garrett III, today was served with
a fugitive warrant charging he
killed Albert L. Patterson, attor
ney-general elect of Alabama.
Garrett is being treated for a
mental and physical condition at
a hospital here.
Jules Damiana, first assistant
Galveston County atty. said the
fugitive warrant charged Garrett
“unlawfully and with malice
aforethought killed Albert L.
Patterson by shooting him with
a gun.”
Doctors at the hospital where
Garrett is being treated have said
he is too sick to be moved.
Garrett is a central figure in
the notorious Phenix City, Ala.,
cleanup.
Patterson, who crusaded against
vice, in his election campaign,
was killed lhst June 18.
Garrett, member of an aristo
cratic Alabama family, also faces
trial under a vote fraud indict
ment in connection with the pri
mary election in which Patterson
won the nomination.
Garrett also is under lunacy
charges.
Truman Says GOP
Foreign Policy Is
What He Set Up
PHILADELPHIA, t/P>-—Former
President Harry Truman said to
day America's foreign policy un
der the Republican Eisenhower
administration “is just what I set
up.”
He told a news conference that
in some ways the foreign policy
program isn’t working quite as
well because “we’ve lost a lot of
friends with fool statements by
people in high places.”
He didn’t identify the state
ments nor the people, but he re
peated that the Eisenhower for
eign policy and the Truman for
eign policy are similar: “Contin
ued support of the United Nations
for peace in the world.”
The ex-President came to Phil
adelphia, home of the Liberty
Bell and Independence Hall, to do
two things:
1. Present a priceless portrait of
Benjamin Franklin to Secretary
of Interior Douglas McKay for
permanent exhibition at Inde
pendence Hall.
2. Attend a testimonial $70-a
plate dinner tonight, the proceeds
of which will go toward establish
ment of the Harry S. Truman Li
bary in Independence, Mo.
He had an answer for every
question, said he “hoped” the Re
publican Party would split in two
but added that he was “afraid it
won’t.”
He said he still supports Adlai
Stevenson for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1956.
He said President Eisenhower
will “have a much easier time
with the Democratic Congress
than I did with a Republican
Congress because the Democrats
want to be helpful and will be
’helpful.”
New Salk Polio Vaccine
To Be Made Available To
Nation's 1st, 2nd Graders
NEW YORK, (if)—The National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
intends to make the Salk vaccine
available for all of the nation’s
first and second grade pupils if
last summer’s tests show the drug
is effective.
The announcement was made
by the foundation yesterday. The
University of Michigan is con
ducting evaluation of the tests
and the report on the study is
expected next spring.
Last Friday, Dr. Jonas Salk of
Pittsburgh, the discoverer of the
vaccine, said he has new evi
dence that his vaccine can create
powerful, long - lasting protection
against polio. He also said cur
rent experiments in the polio
work might lead to the vaccine’s
giving long - term protection
against the common cold and in
fluenza.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., (Ah —— A
YWCA group singing Christmas
carols here noticed something
slightly off.
A little investigation disclosed
that one girl, from even deeper
in the south, was adding a word
to the opening of the carol.
She sang: “O lil’ ol’ town of
Bethlehem ...”
Larson Reindeer
Herd Has Rough
Trip To Candle
Word has been received from
Pete Larson of the arrival Dec. 1
at Candle of his herd of approxi
mately 800 reindeer, accompanied
by Pete and his two sons, James
and Pete Jr., as herders.
Pete reports a tough trip with
constant storms along the 110-mile
route from Selawik Lake, the
point of origin. It was from the
Government herd of 3,500 deer
grazed in this district that the
Larsons cut out their 800 deer,
slightly over a month ago, and
began their 400-mile drive to
Nome and the future home range
of this transplanted band of rein
. deer.
Pete further reports the loss of
one of his ten sled dogs by chok
ing; also that he is driving two
sled deer in addition to the dog
team.
The general health of the trav
elers, including the deer, is good
and the caravan is enroute to
Taylor in the upper Kougarok,
where supplies will be brought to
them by plane.
Academy Award Winner
Broderick Crawford
Arrested for Drunkenness
WEST LOS ANGELES, M —
Police arrested actor Broderick
Crawford for drunkenness yes
terday after the rented car he,
another actor and actress Abigail
Adams were in, smashed into a
fence.
Miss Adams, the other actor,
Myron McCormik, 47, New York,
and Crawford, 44, were booked as
plain drunk and later released on
$20 bail each pending Municipal
Court appearance today.
Police said Crawford, winner of
an Academy Award, was arrested
with Miss Adams as they fought
to call a taxi from a Mandeville
Canyon home. They said McCor
mick was arrested in the auto
nearby.
Officers said the trio told them
they had attended an all-night
party, drove into Mandeville Can
yon by mistake, and were attempt
ing to find their way out when
the auto hit a fence.
When arrested, Miss Adams
was barefooted. Police said they
found a pair of women’s shoes
and a fur coat in the car.
Pope Pius Weaker Today
VATICAN CITY, W—Reliable
informants in the Vatican said'
Pope Pius XII was somewhat
weaker today, but a later official
statement said his condition had
showed a slight improvement.
Any change for the worse in
his condition would be the first
since the collapse which brought
him near death on Dec. 2. He has
made a slow, but steady, gain
ever since.
The reports, unofficial but re
liable, from within the Vatican
said the Pope was having diffi
culty in getting food down and
seemed to be feeling the strain of
Sunday’s big event—consecration
of his good friend Msgr. Giovanni
Battista Montini as Ardhbishop of
Milan.