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Severe Damage
From Heat W ave,
No Relief Seen
(By the Associated Press'
A prolonged heat wave, after
weeks of hot and dry weather,
showed no signs o'f a letup today
in wide areas in the eastern half
of the nation.
The damage from the summer’s
unseasonable weather, with no
heavy rains in many areas, was
widespread.
The death toll from causes at
tributed to the current heat wave
mounted to at least 58. Thousands
have been treated for heat pros
rtation.
Damage to crops in several
states appeared soaring into the
millions of dollars. In Missouri
alone, officials estimated the farm :
income loss from drought would
total S150 million.
In Iowa, one of the leading corn
states, a Farm Bureau official said
the hot weather of the last week
alone had cut the state’s prospec
tive corn yield by at least 15 per
cent. Corn damage was also re
ported in Illinois, South Dakota,
. Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, Ohio.
Temperature records toppled
again yesterday in nearly every
section of the swelter-belt. It was
the same in many cities yesterday
as it has been for more than a
week—readings in the high 90s
and in some cities above 100.
Chicago’s 101 degree tempera
ture yesterday marked the eighth
straight day of temperatures over
95. It was 102 in Cincinnati, 100
in Indianapolis and Nashville, 99
in Washington, D.C. New York’s
93 was a record for the date and
* the eighth straight day above 90. I
Famous Violinist
Among 41 Killed
In Plane Crash
NICE, Ffance, UP'—An Orient
bound French airliner crashed in
flames late last night on the side
of a 10,000-foot Alpine peak, kill
ing France’s most famous violin
ist, Jacques Thibaud, and 41 other
persons.
The giant four-engined Air
France plane was on a regularly
scheduled flight to Saigon and
Hong Kong when it smashed near
the towering summit of Mt. Cem
et, in southeast France 100 miles
north of this Riviera resort.
There were 'no survivors. Air
France officials could give no
cause for the crash, which oc
curred an hSlir and a half after
the big plane left Paris’ only fjeld.
With Thibaud were his daugh
ter Suzanne and his accompanist.
They were enroute to' Japan for
concerts.
Thibaud, 72, was the second
great violinist killed in recent
years in an air crash. The brilliant
young woman player Ginete Ne
veu died in 1949 when another
French liner crashed into a moun
tain in the Azores while enroute
to the United States.
Sen. Bridges Expects
Balanced Budget by July
WASHINGTON, UP)—Sen.Bridges
said today he expects the national
budget to be balanced in the fiscal
year which begins next July 1.
“If there are no new complica
tions in the international situation
of a major consequence, there is
a reasonable chance to balance
the budget,” said Bridges, chair
man of the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
New LWY Community Center To Be
Formally Dedicated Tomorrow Night
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Brig. Gen. John Noyes
Named Acting Adjutant
General of National Guard
JUNEAU — Gov. Frank Heint
zleman announced today the ap
pointment of Brig. Gen. John R.
Noyes as acting adjutant general
of the Alaska National Guard.
General Noyes signed the oath of
office before the governor at Ju
neau Sept. 1.
He had retired from active ser
vice on July 31 after a military
career closely linked with Alas
ka’s development. He first came
to Alaska as a second lieutenant
in 1926 and has served on many
engineering projects in the terri
tory since that date. For three
years he had charge of the Alaska
Road Commission.
As adjutant general of the Al
t aska National Guard, subject to
confirmation by the White House,
General Noyes will be in charge
of the colorful Eskimo Scout bat
talions and infantry battalions lo
cated at more than 70 points thru
out Alaska. He will also have
supervision over the Alaska Air
National Guard units at Juneau
and Anchorage.
) Tomorrow evening the Lavinia
Wallace Young Community Cen
ter will be formally dedicated
with two distinguished guests tak
ing part in the ceremony.
Mrs. J. N. Rodeheaver, vice
president of the Woman’s Divi
sion of Christian Service, and
Emma Burris, executive secretary
of social welfare and medical
work, are due to arrive Thursday
noon by way of Kotzebue and will
be the main speakers at the dedi
cation.
The Lavinia Wallace Young
Community Center has been
working since 1911 for the good
of the community. It was started
originally to assist the Eskimo
people who did not understand
the American language.
Funds for the center were raised
by a missionary-minded woman
in California, the record shows,
named Lavinia Wallace Young,
who made the mission possible.
Through the years the LWY
Community Center has grown to
meet the needs of the old and the
young of the community. It now
has a program of classes and rec
reation for all age groups, starting
with pre-school children.
The single building has long
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Eisenhower Assures Iran
U.S. Is Interested in
Helping Her Financially
FRASER, Colo., (#>— President
Eisenhower has assured the new
government of Iran “sympathetic”
American consideration of its ur
gent appeal for financial aid.
In another move obviously de
signed to win Iran to the western
world and away from any align
ment with the Soviet I^nion, the
President last night made public
a message to Premier Zahedi of
Iran promising immediate help in
the nation’s economic crisis.
Eisenhower’s message, made
public at his vacation headquar
ters here, mentioned no specific
amount of financial assistance
this country might provide. Zahe
di mentioned no figure, either,
but did say the aid Iran now is
receiving from the United States
is inadequate to tide his nation
over its financial crisis.
Nome To Have ‘
Museum
Arriving with the Wien’s Mon
day group was Miss Jorgi Gourlie,
representing the Alaska Travel
Bureau, Seattle. Miss Gourlie was
an overnight guest of the Wallace
Hotel.
She enjoyed the bus tour, she
states, and believes Nome to be
a great attraction to visitors plan
ning trips to- Alaska.
Before leaving for Anchorage
Tuesday via Alaska Airlines she
was entertained by Miss Sally
Carrighar, Nome’s Book-of-the
month author (“Icebound Sum
mer.”)
Miss Carrighar outlined her lat
est project, that of establishing
and maintaining a museum, where
visitors can see how the first gold
miners lived.
In the museum will be cooking
utensils, tools, shovels, gold pans
and other furnishings. There
will also be a collection minerals
found in this area.
Among exhibits, it is also pro
posed to have the prospectors’
companionable dogs, who pulled
his loaded sled from home to gold
camp.
Not to be overlooked by any
miner who wanted to keep clean
was the Finnish bath house, and
it is planned to show how this
was furnished.
Also contemplated to complete
Sally’s project is a two-story
building in which will be dis
played, museum-style, relics of
the early days, and a library of
books and records pertaining to
Nome, Sally states.
Every Nomeite will recognize
this as a project of real worth to
the city, .as visitors will find it
of great interest. No one having
Nome’s future in mind should
overlook the opportunity of mak
ing this project successful.
Miss Gourlie believes the pro
ject to be a necessity for Nome,
and said she knows from experi
ence that travelers demand the
opportunity to have such places
to visit. She urges all groups in
Nome to push the plan to comple
tion for 1954.
Miss Gourlie also believes that
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Dulles Warns Communists That
Red Chinese Aggression Might
Provoke War By West Against China
Plane Vanishes In
Pacific Northwest
With 21 Soldiers
SEATTLE, MP) — Late and
wrapped in a blanket of cloudy
that lay like a shroud over its
course, a military-chartered plane
with 21 or 22 soldiers and two
civilians aboard vanished some
where in the Pacific Northwest
last night.
The twin-engined Regina Air
lines craft left Monterey, Calif., at
1:40 p.m., PST, and last was heard
from over Portland, Ore., five
hours and 48 minutes later.
It was then eight minutes over
due at McChord Air Force Base,
Tacoma, with its load of soldiers
from Fort Ord, Calif., but the
pilot made no mention of being in
trouble.
Regina Airlines officials in Se
attle said the plane would have
exhausted its fuel supply by 8:20
p.m. This, and the possibility it
had encountered difficulty enroute
to Portland, led to the belief the
plane probably came down some
where between Portland and Tol
edo.
Career Workers
Plan Fight For
Job Rights
WASHINGTON, UP) — Several
hundred career government work
ers plan a fight for job rights they
say have been .taken from them
in a drive to cut down the federal
payroll.
Some 300 of them have formed
a new organization in an attempt
to get President Eisenhower to
guarantee them jobs somewhere
in the government when curtail
ments eliminate the positions they
have been holding.
By next June, government offi
cials estimate, a total of 180,000
positions will be eliminated to cut
expenses.
The majority are supposed to
come from the ranks of tempor
ary employes who mostly joined
government service in the World
War II and post-Korea booms.
But an unknown number of car
eer workers already have been let
out by blanket reductions.
“They are mostly little people,”
says Mrs. Katherine Crowley, sec
retary of the new “Federal Civil
Service Separated Career Employ
es Association.” She said she lost
her job as a government attorney
after 22 years’ service, last July.
“One woman who worked as
clerk for the Internal Revenue
Bureau for 35 years when she got
her dismissal notice,” Mrs. Crow
ley said in an interview. “One
man with five children said he
has not worked since April.”
These people lose civil service
protection when their positions
are eliminated.
» ST. LOUIS, W — Secretary of
State Dulles solemnly warned the
Communist world today that Red
Chinese aggression against Korea
or Indochina might provoke war
by the West against China itself.
In doing so, he appeared to be
laying down a new government
policy of telling potential aggres
sors in advance where the United
States will fight to protect its se
curity.
The Chinese Communists must
realize now, he said, that “they
could no longer count” on the
“priviliged sanctuary” of Man
churian air and supply bases in
the event they renew aggression
against South Korea.
As for Indochina, the secretary
noted in a foreign policy speech,
prepared for the American Legion
convention that Communist China
is training, equipping and supply
ing Communist rebels in Indo
china.
Dulles then declared:
“There is the risk that, as in
Korea, Red China might send its
own army into Indochina. The
Chinese Communist regime should
realize that such a second aggres
sion could not occur without
grave consequences which might
not be confined to Indochina.
“I say this soberly in the inter
est of peace and in the hope of
preventing another aggressor mis
calculation.”
Dulles told the veterans the
Korean War has taught the United
States “a lesson which we expedt
to apply in the interest of future
peace.” The lesson, he said, is this:
“If events are likely which will
in fact lead us to fight, let us
make clear our intention in ad
vance; then we shall probably not
have to fight.”
He said many informed people
think that both World War II
and the Korean conflict came
about because the aggressors mis
calculated and thought that the
Americans would not fight.
Gen. Wainwright Dies
SAN ANTONIO, Gen. Jon
athan M. Wainwright, 70, hero of
Corregidor died to'day at Brooke
Army Hospital.
The heroic “Skinny” comman
ded the U.S. Army in its last stand
before the Philippines fell to the
Japanese in World War II.
Another Atom Explosion
Detected in Russia
WASHINGTON, UP>—Russia has
produced another atomic explo
sion, the government announced
last night, and evidence thus far
available to U,S. experts indicates
it was not a hydrogen blast, al
though perhaps of considerable
power.
The date was Aug. 23, the At
omic Energy Commission (AEC)
statement said, and “the explosion
was in the same range of energy
release as our recent Nevada tests,
and would appear to be part of
a series.”