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VOL. LVIII No. 119 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 1956_Per Copy—15#
Weather Factor Said To Be Cause
Of Bush Plane Crash in Which
Five Were Killed Last Tuesday
The body of John Hutchinson,
pilot of the Alaska Airlines Stin
son plane which crashed near
Cape Nome last Tuesday killing
himself and four' passengers, has
been flown to Newark, N.J. for
burial at Chatham, N.J., which
is his home and where his moth
er and sister reside.
The CAB and CAA have com
pleted their investigation and it
is reported that as far as can be
determined an unexpected weath
er factor was the cause of the
accident. Exactly what happened
will never be known.
An early report that the plane
may have hit k wire or pole of
the old ACS station at Cape Nome
has been ruled out after a thor
ough check of the various parts
of the plane had been made. The
engine of the plane is still buried
in several feet of mud and will
probably remain there until
spring, stated a company spokes
man.
The gold cleanup carried by
Don Stewart, mining man who
was killed, was located during the
investigation, and was reported
to contain around $2,000.
During the summer, Hutchin
son arranged charter flights for
trips within the Second Division
which proved very popular.
Hutchinson had been flying the
bush in this area since last Feb
ruary and had many years of ex
perience before coming to Alaska,
part of which was in Nevada. In
Korea he served with the U.S.
Marine Corps and froze his feet
in rescue work there.
Reaction Continues on Stevenson
Proposal to Stop H-Boml) Tests
And End Military Draft Soon
By the Associated Press
Reaction to Adlai E. Stevenson’s
campaign proposals on the sub
jects of halting H-bomb tests and
the military draft today high
lighted a weekend of increasing
political warfare.
Criticism came from President
Eisenhower and other Republi
cans, while Democrats leaped to
Stevenson’s defense. It seemed
probable Stevenson himself soon
would re-enter the fray.
The Democratic presidential
candidate on several occasions
has said the United States should
take the lead in ending tests of
nuclear weapons, sometimes qual
ifying this with the priviso that
other nations do the same. He has
said the draft should be ended “at
the earliest possible moment con
sistent with the national safety."
Eisenhower led Republicans in
replying to both proposals, issuing
a White House statement on the
nuclear tests Friday night and a
draft statement Saturday night.
Eisenhower said selective ser
vice is indispensable under pres
ent world conditions. “Loose talk
of soon ending the draft,” he said,
would be seen by other nations
"as letting down our guard.”
He said this nation “is main
taining its military strength to
safeguard the American people in
their homes, to deter hostile at
tack at home and abroad, and to
encourage the prospect of world
peace. This administration is de
termined to continue that
strength.”
Stevenson has called for a fresh
appraisal of selective service in
the light of modern advances in
warfare. He said in September
the draft is “wasteful” and inef
ficient."
Eisenhower said “to call the
draft wasteful . . . evidences ei
ther ignorance of our military
needs” or a willingness to take a
chance with our national safety.
Nearing the end of a campaign
swing thru the east, Stevenson
called Saturday for defeat of the
Eisenhower Administration be
cause, he said, it offers “too little
presidential leadership” and the
danger of “industrial feudalism."
“Republicans put on a big smile
around election time,” Stevenson
said, but “left alone, they will
lead us into a new age of indus
trial feudalism, where small en
terprise disappears and everyone
works for the giant corporations-.”
In Washington yesterday, Vice
President Nixon told a Zionist or
ganization the U.S. Near East pol
icy should be kept out of partisan
politics. But Sen. Estes Kefauver,
his Democratic vice presidential
opponent, critically attacked the
administration’s foreign policy
record in speaking to the same
audience.
Kefauver continues his political
touring today with speeches in
Dover and Wilmington, Del. Nix
on launches another one tomor
row in Texas, scheduling stops et
Fort Worth, San Antonio and El
Paso.
Nixon issued a statement yes
terday saying he intends, insofar
as his campaign schedule permits
“to nail personally on the spot
every distortion and every mis
representation of the Eisenhower
record” by Stevenson. He said
Stevenson is making “ill-judged,
ill-timed, ill phrased remarks”
which “must not go unanswered.”
SENATE APPROVED 20 OF 22
NOMINATIONS THIS YEAR
FOR ALASKA POSTMASTERS
WASHINGTON, UV-The Sen
ate approved 20 of the 22 nomina
tions submitted by President Eis
enhower this year for postmaster
ships in Alaska.
The Alaska nominations which
failed of approval (Chugiak and
Ketchikan) apparently did so for
lack of time. The names were not
received by the Senate Post Of
fice Committee until July, when
Congressional attention was di
rected toward adjournment.
Tin Price Went Up
Last Month Due to
Suez Canal Crisis
(Terr. Dept, of Mines Bulletin)
The Suez Canal situation caused
a flurry of excitement and a short
period of scare buying in the tin
market during the past month
which sent the price up to 107.9
cents a pound at one point.
The price has eased back to
103V4 cents and will probably
drop further, but it could go back
up again if the Canal situation
grows worse.
The significance of this infor
mation is that it points again to
the strategic importance of Alas
ka’s tin deposits on the Seward
Peninsula.
Extradition to Fairbanks
Of Audrey Cutting
Approved in Denver
DENVER, liW—Dist. Judge Jo
seph M. McDonald Friday ap
proved the extradition of Mrs,
Audrey Cutting to Fairbanks,
Alaska, on a charge of embez
zlement.
However, he granted a 60-day
stay of the order. Mrs. Cutting’s
attorney, Francis Mancini, said
this will allow time to file an
appeal with the Colorado Su
preme Court.
Mrs. Cutting is free under
$1,000 bond. Mancini said the
charge accuses her of embezzle
ment of $1,000 in a Fairbanks
real estate transaction. She lived
in Fairbanks about 10 years, the
attorney said, but now lives here.
Nehru Attacks
India’s Reds as
Trouble Makers
NEW DELHI, Prime Minis
ter Nehru, a good friend to the
Soviet and Chinese Communists,
yesterday leveled a vehement at
tack at India’s Reds.
Addressing Congress Party
workers at Alipore, he asserted:
“It's foolish to think Commu
nism will solve India’s problems.
It will only result in violence,
class war, hatred, civil strife and
nothing else.”
India’s Communists, he contin
ued, “have no originality of their
own. They swear by whatever
en:! nates from Moscow and fol
low it with religious fanaticism.”
Asking if the Indian Reds
“want to repeat in India the whole
struggle of Russia under the Len
in leadership,” Nehru said his
country “cannot afford all that
process of fighting: we cannot
fritter our energies in fighting."
“The Russians, he added, “made
Stalin their god, but after his
death called him a traitor. This
is the result of adopting the wrong
path.”
I..
Polls open tomorrow morn
ing at 8:00 a.m. and will remain
open until 8:00 p.m.
Judges for the election are
Fred Rohn, Reca Godsbe, and
Loretta Waldheim.
Clerks are Anna Snyder and
Christie Waldheim.
Both Parties Predict a Record
Turnout of Voters Tomorrow
I
After Hotlv Contested Campaign
By WILLIAM T. TOBIN
Associated Press Correspondent
Alaska voters go to the polls
tomorrow 'Tuesday) to cut up^a
political cake that has been baked
in one of the territory’s hottest
campaign ovens—and they will
add the icing by electing for the
first time for two U.S. senators
and one U.S. representative.
National political leaders will
be watching the outcome in this
presidential election year to see
if once again Alaska will point a
trend in the November balloting
in the states.
From a territorial standpoint,
main interest will center on the
six-man race for U.S. Senate
and House seats under the Alas
ka-Tennessee Plan, and in the
more official baffle for the job
of delegate to Congress.
Also at stake are the 24 seats
in the Territorial House of Rep
resentatives and nine Alaska
Senate seats, and the offices of
Alaska attorney general and
Alaska highway engineer.
The voting is expected to be
heavy at the more than 270 pre
cincts in the territory. Just how
heavy no one will predict, but it
appears certain that more than
30,000 votes will be cast.
Felix J. Toner, chairman of the
Democratic Central Committee
for the territory, has predicted “a
sweeping victory” for his party.
But he added that the ‘‘Demo
crats may lose a few seats” in the
territorial House and Senate^ “Af
ter all,” he said, “if we do any
better than last time it would
have to be a unanimous Demo
cratic victory.”
In the 1954 election, the Dem
ocrats won control of the terri
torial House with 21 members
against three Republicans, and
won all of the eight Senate con
tests. With holdovers, it gave
them a 12 to 4 margin in the
1955 Senate.
Republican Byron A. Gillam,
former Fairbanks merchant who
has staged an exhaustive cam
paign against Delegate E. L. Bart
lett, long-time Democratic repre
sentative in Washington, said:
“Weve found a tremendous in
I terest in the election. The voting
will be heavy—perhaps the heav
iest in the history of Alaska. And
we think the Republicans will
win.”
The Bartlett-Gillam battle, car
ried to the voters in a series of
debates from Ketchikan to Nome,
has been the most bitter of the
campaign.
Gillam has referred to Bart
lett as "a nice man" with a rec
ord o! "12 years of failure" in
Washington. Bartlett has called
Gillam "the Nevada Kid," and
then changed that to "the Nev
ada Kidder" because of Gil
lam's "promises of impossible
lax relief."
Six ardent supporters of state
hood are candidates under the
Alaska-Tennessee Plan. The plan
1 seeks to force statehood by send
| ing three men to Congress and
| demanding that they be recog
nized and seated. The plan was
approved last April as an adden
dum to the Alaska Constitution.
The Democrats have nominated
as unofficial U.S. senators former
Gov. Ernest Gruening, seeking a
six-year term, and William A.
Egan of Valdez, long-time Alaska
legislator and president of the
Constitutional Convention, who is
bidding for a four-year term.
Ralph J. Rivers, Fairbanks at
torney, who resigned his seat in
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Police Seek Youth, 17, as Suspect in
Rape-Slaying of Devout Girl, 20
LANCASTER, Calif., OTi—Auth- j
orities sought further clues today |
in the rape-slaying, of a young, \
religious-minded girl who was
stabbed to death with a carving
knife.
The body of Jody Diane Bur
ford, 20, was found yesterday
sprawled on the living room floor
of the house she had managed for
her father and younger brother
since the divorce of her parents.
The body was clad in pajamas.
Sheriff’s deputies said a medi
cal examination confirmed she
had been raped. The wooden han
dled carving knife was found in
the room, its blade broken off
near the hilt. Investigators said
the victim was stabbed five times.
Officers issued an all points
bulletin seeking Charles Raymond
Elms, 17, believed to be an ac
quaintance of Jody’s brother, for
questioning in the case. The youth
was reported to be missing since
late Saturday night.
The body was found by the
victim’s brother, Hal Burford Jr.,
15, and a friend, Robert Alonzo,
also 15.
The brother told officers the
telephone, with the receiver off,
lay near the body “as tho she was .
desperately trying to call for
help.”
The father was vacationing in
St. Louis. He is employed at near
by Edwards Air Force Base. The
mother is remarried and lives in
Anchorage, Alaska.
Neighbors did not know the
name of the man she married, but
said her first name is “Bessie.”
Neighbors described Jody as
devoutly religious. They said she
attended a Bible institute in Los
Angeles recently and had been
working as a physician’s recep
tionist.
She was last seen alive at a
social in the interdenominational
Roosevelt Community Church on
Saturday night. A well-thumbed
Bible was found at the head of
| her bed.