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VOL. LVI No. 68 NOMETALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Nome Voters Ratify
Ordinance 367 By 176-35
Nome voters showed plainly
that they understand the need for
the construction of the addition to
the school by voting 176 to 35 in
favor of the ratification of Ordin
ance No. 367 to vacate a portion
of 3rd Ave. to make room for the
school construction.
Russia Replacing
Propeller Bombers
By Long-range Jets
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., — A
high-ranking Air Force officer
said today that Soviet Russia be
fore long may replace its B-29
propellor - driven bombers with
long-range jets capable of strik
ing any part of the United States.
Gen. O. P. Weyland, command
er of the U.S. Tactical Air Force
at Langley Air Force Base, Va.,
cited this possibility in discussing
the emphasis that Russia is plac
ing in jet fighter aircraft. He also'
said the Soviets had just about
completed conversion of their
light bombers to jet.
As a parallel to this “formid
able atom - carrying force” of
20,000 airplines, Weyland added,
the Reds have increased their
stockpile of atomic weapons and
have developed nuclear or hydro
gen-bombs weapons.
Weyland, in a prepared address,
said that the Communist time
table still is flexible—“They are
in no hurry to become involved in
a decisive military campaign and
will move cautiously as long as
we have superiority in air power.”
The former chief of the Far East
Air Forces spoke at a meeting of
the Aviation Writers Association.
Another speaker, C. W. La
pierre, general manager of the
General Electric Co. jet engine
division, said a jet engine devel
oped by the company for the Air
Force three years ago produces
the equivalent of 30,000 horse
power, sufficient to drive a mod
ern ocean liner. The engine is
not in production, but is used for
research.
S.C. Governor Pledged To
Find Way To Maintain
Separate Schools System
COLUMBIA, S.C., UP)—Lt. Gov.
George Bell Timmerman Jr., 42
year-old son of a U.S. district
judge, will succeed James F.
Byrnes as South Carolina’s gover
nor.
He rolled to an overwhelming
3-2 victory over Lester L. Bates in
yesterday’s Democratic primary
marked by light voting. Nomina
tion is equivalent to election.
Timmerman is pledged to find
ing some way to maintain the
state’s system of separate schools
for whites and negroes despite the
U.S. Supreme Court decision that
it is unconstitutional.
WORLD'S BEER CAPITAL
NOW HAS MILK BAR
MUNICH, Germany, UP — A
milk bar was opened today in the
Bavarian state parliament build
ing in Munich, often called the
beer capital of the world.
NATO Commander
Says Russia Would
Lose A War Now
LONDON, CP)—NATO’s supreme
commander in Europe, U.S. Gen.
Alfred M. Gruenther, warned
Russia last night that the West
will meet a Soviet attack with
“every weapon in our arsenal,”
including atomic bombs.
“In our thinking we visualize
the use of atomic bombs in tlie
support of our ground troops. We
also visualize the use of atomic
bombs on targets in enemy terri
tory,” Gruenther told a D-Day an
niversary dinner at which Prime
Minister Churchill also spoke and
the Duke of Edinburgh presided.
“If war with Russia should
come this year, the NATO com
mander said, “the Soviet Union
would be defeated.”
“I do not want to say we would
win,” he added, “because I am
sure in a third world war there
would ibe no winner.”
Gruenther also told his audi
ence he was not sure time was
on the side of the West. Russia’s
industrial and atomic stockpiles
are mounting, he explained.
But at present, he said, the So
viets have no answer to the Al
lies’ long-range aircraft. He cited
the big American B-47 jet bomb
er “a plane which can fly so fast
and so high that there is no de
fense aaginst it in 1954.”
Gruenther told of one B-47
which recently flew the Atlantic
in 4 hours 34 minutes.
Churchill told the West that
“Peace through strength must be
our guiding star.”
French Planes Pound
Vietminh Concentrations
HANOI, Indochina, UR—French
planes, tanks and artillery pound
ed small concentrations of Com
munist-led Vietminh guerrillas in
the Red River delta today.
The main rebel forces mean
while took a firmer hold on their
semi-circle of positions just out
side the Delta defense perimeter,
strengthening the pincers they are
expected to try to close soon
around the war capital.
A French high command spokes
man said upwards of 100 Viet
minh were killed or captured in
mopping up operations within a
few miles from Hanoi. French
Union losses were relatively light,
the spokesman added.
The French announced they
would return 267 seriously wound
ed and ill Vietminh troops on
June 11 and another 302 June 14.
Senate To Look Into Navy
Withholding Commissions
Of 3 Academy Graduates
WASHINGTON, UR — The Sen
ate is going to look into a Navy
action withholding commissions,
pending a security check, from
three June graduates of the U.S.
Naval Academy.
Chairman Ferguson (R-Mich)
saaid the Senate Republican Pol
icy Committee ordered the in
quiry because it could not under
stand why the Navy had educated
the three men for four years “at
very great expense” without com
pleting such a check.
Solomon People Contract
Trichinosis From Eating
Undercooked Bear Meat
Dr. Langsam left for Solomon
today to attend an epidemic of
trichinosis, one case of which has
-been brought to the MMM Hos
pital.
The epidemic resulted from eat
ing undercooked bear meat and
the doctor cautions that anyone
indulging in the eating of bear
should be very careful that the
meat be well cooked. He recom
mends that half an hour be al
lowed for each pound of meat
being co'oked.
Trichinosis is a form of disease
caused by a parasitic worm and
starts with painful intestinal
swelling and later effects both the
heart and respiratory systems.
Economic Adviser
Says U.S. Poised
For Upswing
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower’s chief economic ad
viser says the nation’s economy is
poised for an early upturn, spur
red by new developments in de
fense and business expansion
spending.
Dr. Arthur F. Burns, chairman
of the President’s Council of Ec
onomic Advisers, told a news con
ference yesterday that if unem
ployment follows its usual season
al pattern, there would be about
four million jobless by July. That
would be nearly 700,000 more
than the government has reported
as out of work last month.
But, Bums said he expects a
rising trend of business activity
to whittle unemployment sharply
in the fall.
“There is evidence that the de
cline has leveled off,” Burns said.
“The records indicate an earlier
upturn . . . there are very en
couraging signs for an overall re
covery in the near future in non
agricultural industry.”
$150,000 Damage Suit
Filed Against Bing and
Gary Crosby for Accident
SAN JOSE, Calif., [ff>—Another
damage suit, filed against Bing
Crosby and his son Gary yester
day, brings to a total of $155,000
claims arising from an automo
bile collision of May 24 involving
the famed singer’s son.
Carlos Alvemaz asked $15,000
for injuries he said he received
in the accident. Felix Olvares, 24,
a Mexican national, was killed.
County officials have said nei
ther driver appeared to be at
fault.
NAVY PLANE WITH 17 MEN
MISSING JAPAN TO OKINAWA
TOKYO, UP)—A U.S. Navy am
phibian plane carrying 17 men is
missing on a flight between Japan
and Okinawa, the Navy said to
night.
Air Force and Navy planes and
Japanese and ILS. ships searched
the sea but found no trace of the
plane. Weather was bad in the
area.
Democrats Poll Big Majorities
In California Primary Election
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Five Climbers Return
From Ascent of North
Peak of Mt. McKinley
FAIRBANKS, Iff)—Five climb
ers who were on Mt. McKinley
throughout the dramatic rescue of
injured George Argus returned to
Mt. McKinley lodge yesterday and
reported they reached the moun
tain’s 19,450-foot north peak on
May 27.
They said they heard unusual
aerial activity around them on
and after May 28, and they guess
ed then that something had hap
pened to the other party led by
Elton Thayer, who* died in a 1,000
foot fall high on the mountain.
Later they entered an aban
doned cabin at a lower elevation
and found a note left by Morton
Wood and Leslie Viereck as the
two were coming down to get aid
for Argus, who was taken off by
a rescue team and helicopter.
They were the third group to
reach the north peak, which is
slightly lower than the 20,300-foot
south peak climbed by the Thayer
party before the accident.
French and Italian
Navy Sailors Stage
Free-For-All In Seattle
SEATTLE, UPl—A club-swing
ing free for-all involving some 30
visiting French and Italian navy
sailors broke out here late last
night.
All available downtown police
men joined with armed forces
police to break up the fights be
tween the two groups of sailors.
The melee ended quickly and no
arrests were made. Police said no
one was injured enough to re
quire hospitalization. *
The sailors were in Seattle to
man ships being turned over to
their governments by the United
States.
Navy officials and police were
unable to determine the cause of
the fighting, but theorized the
trouble stemmed from Nationalist
feelings aroused during World
War n.
Measles Epidemic Strikes
Down 774 Greenlanders
GODTHAAB, Greenland, UP) —
More than half of Godthaab’s
1,486 Greenlanders are down with
the measles and medical officers
expect the rest to be stricken soon.
Officials said a total of 774 per
sons in the town, the big Arctic
island’s administrative capital,
have become ill since the epi
demic broke out a month ago.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Washington 5, Cleveland 3
Chicago 9, Philadelphia 3
Detroit 8, New York 0
Baltimore 7, Boston 4
National League
St. Louis 10, Brooklyn 3
New York 6, Milwaukee 5
Chicago 6, Philadelphia 5
. Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 0
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 7, os Angeles 4
San Diego 7, Sacramento 2
Oakland 3, San Francisco 1
* SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Cali
fornia’s unique run-on-both-tick
ets political system was shaken by
a surprising Democratic vote in
yesterday’s primary election.
The Democratic surge overrode
national party criticism of James
Roosevelt and helped the eldest
son of the late New Deal presi
dent win nomination for Congress
from heavily Democratic Los An
geles. He’ll oppose Republican
Theodore Owings in November.
Similarly, Rep. Robert L. Con
don (D-Calif), also renounced by
Democratic National Chairman
Stephen Mitchell, was renomin
ated and will face John F. Bald
win, the Republican he defeated
in 1952.
And right down the line, Demo
crats nominated Democrats for
national and state offices — in
sharp contrast to previous elec
tions when many Republicans,
filing on both tickets, won both
nominations and thus were elected
in the primary.
Democratic voters obviously
paid no heed to charges of in
fidelity against Roosevelt by his
estranged wife and to the listing
of Condon as a security risk by
the Atomic Energy Commission.
Roosevelt called his wife’s accusa
tions untrue. Condon testified he
was never a Communist member
or sympathizer.
Gov. Goodwin J. Knight easily
won his own Republican nomin
ation for that office but trailed
Richard P. Graves on the Demo
cratic ticket.
The returns all added up to a
repudiation of the double nomin
ation tradition in California and
a reawakening of partisan vot
ing. And three little letters prob
ably had a lot to do with it.
The Democratic trend came in
an election in which candidates
continued the crossfiling system
of running on both tickets. But
for the first time in 40 years the
ballot identified them by party.
The abbreviation, “Dem,” or
“Rep,” followed the names.
The Democrats for years have
outnumbered Republicans — by
760,000 for yesterday’s election —
but under the crossfiling without
party labels Republican incum
bents usually won in both tickets.
Creator Reveals Reddy
Fox Will Never Catch
Up With Peter Rabbit
ST. JOHN, N.B., 3—Thornton
W. Burgess let the world in on
a literary secret today — Reddy
Fox isn’t ever going to catch up
with Peter Rabbit.
The 80-year-old author-natural
ist, whose fictional animals have
delighted children for 42 years,
said in an interview he plans to
keep Peter always one jump
ahead of his hungry, crafty pur
suer.
“There never will be a tragedy
in the Burgess bedtime stories,”
the author added firmly. “It
comes into a child’s life soon
enough.”
Burgess is vacationing in New
Brunswick. He said he dbesn’t
plan to retire for another 20 years
—not until he’s 100.