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VOL. LVIII No. 113 ' NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1956 Per Copy—15<*
United States Offers to Put
Its Atom - Sharing Program Under
An International Peace Agency
By WILLIAM N. OTIS
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Itft—
The United States offered today
to put its whole atom-sharing pro
gram under the projected inter
national Atoms-for-Peace agency.
U.S. Ambassador James J.
Wadsworth made the offer in
opening general discussion at an
81-nation conference called here
to complete a constitution for the
agency.
He noted that this constitution,
or statute, would set4 up safe
guards against misuse of atomic
materials the agency distributed
for peaceful purposes. He said:
“The statute would also permit
the agency to apply its safeguards
to bilateral or multilateral ar
rangements otherwise not subject
to its supervision or control, if
the parties to such arrangements
so request.
“The United States hopes that
parties to bilateral arrangements
thruout the world will avail
themselves of this provision, thus
contributing toward the eventukl
establishment of a uniform system
of safeguards of universal appli
cation.
“If this is done . . . the United
States can look forward to mak
ing the agency the cornerstone of
its interrfttional activities in the
field of atomic energy.”
The United States has bilateral
agreements with 37 countries to
supply them with power or re
search reactors or radioactive iso
topes. Britain, the Soviet Union
and Canada are among other
countries that give help under
similar arrangements.
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THEFT OF PHONE CABLE
DISRUPTS TOWN'S SERVICE
ST. LOUIS, WV-Telephones all
over suburban Bellefontaine went
dead yesterday. Trouble shooters
arrived on the scene and found a
170-foot strecth of cable had been
stolen right off the poles.
Why would anyone do that?
Ed Hanneken, St. Louis county
detective, estimated the cable was
worth $200.
Nationalist Chinese Guns
Rake German Freighter
Seeking Storm Shelter
HONG KONG, (At—Nationalist
Chinese guns raked the German
freighter Monika, seeking shelter
from typhoon Gilda off the China
coast, altho her flag was clearly
visible, the West German consul
ate charged today.
The defense ministry in Taipeh
acknowledged the Nationalists
fired warning shots at an uniden
tified ship west of Quemoy Satur
day—when the Monka was under
attack. But it asserted the shots
fell well clear of the vessel.
A consulate spokesman said the
Monika, enroute from Hong Kong
to Japan with a nonstrategic car
go, gave normal identification sig
nals and hoisted her flag when
within lVfe miles of Ta Tan, the
biggest of the Tan Islands group
near Quemoy, and Amoy.
Ship’s officers said the 1,106
ton Monika ran into some 300
rounds of fire and took 10 direct
hits as she headed for Amoy har
bor.
ARAB BIG THREE
STICK TOGETHER
IN SUEZ CRISIS
CAIRO, Egypt, 0P>—'The Arab
1 big three wound up a three-day
conference in Saudi Arabia today
and broadcast a communique an
nouncing “full support” for Egypt
in the Suez Canal crisis.
“This problem concerns all the
Arab states,” said a joint commu
nique issued in Riyadh and broad
cast by Cairo radio. The commu
nique, signed by President Gamal
Abdel Nasser of Egypt, King Saud
of Saudi Arabia, and President
Shukri Kuwatly of Syria, said:
“The means to protect the in
terests of those states concerned
in navigation on the canal is to
enter into negotiations with
Egypt, owner of the canal, within
the spirit of the United Nations
and the Bandung conference res
olutions.”
The latter was a reference to
the Asian-African conference at
Bandung. Indonesia, last year.
U.S. Domestic Servants
Rapidly Disappearing
NEW YORK. WV—The vanishing
servant!
A study published today says
the domestic servant is swiftly
disappearing from the nation’s
labor force. There were 94 ser
vants for every 1,000 persons in
the early 1900s; today there are
only 34 per 1,000.
Prof. George J. Stigler of Col
umbia University, author of the
study, says the sharp decrease is
due to greater education, lowered
rate of immigration, progressive
equalization of income, and sim
plification of household tasks.
3rd and 4th Division Courts Are
Badly in Arrears in Undecided Cases
WASHINGTON iM—F e d e r a 1
courts in two Alaska judicial di
visions were singled out today for
their increasing backlog of unde
cided civil and criminal cases.
In his annual report to the chief
justice, Henry P. Chandler, chief
administrative officer for U. S.
courts, described the court in the
Third Division as “badly in ar
rears.”
And despite disposing of 520
civil cases as compared with 396
the previous year, the case back
log In the territory’s Fourth Di
vision increased for the 13th con
secutive year.
Chandler said the Third Divi
sion situation is “serious." He said
that “the Judicial Conference
recommendation of six years ago
for an additional judgeship for
that court is still pending without
legislative approval.”
For the year which ended June
30, 1956, Chandler reported the
following record of civil and
criminal cases by division:
First—Civil cases commenced
277, terminated 349, pending 250;
criminal cases commenced 32, ter
minated 32, pending 12.
Second—Civil cases commenced
54, terminated 43, pending 25;
criminal cases commenced 24, ter
minated 24 (one by transfer),
pending none.
Third—Civil cases commenced
1,268, terminated 1,314, pending
1,497. criminal cases commenced
206, terminated 209, pending 76.
Fourth—Civil cases commenced
613, terminated 520, pending 661;
criminal cases commenced 123,
terminated 119, pending 106.
Chandler also commended con
gressional action which permits
court commissioners in Alaska to
withhold as salary the fees which
they collect up to a maximum of
$12,500 a year.
“It is well known,” Chandler
said, "that salaries and prices are
both extraordinarily high in Alas
ka. This increase in the earnings
of the commissioners in Anchor
age and Fairbanks, the only two
commissioners who earn the pres
ent maximum, is very necessary
in order to compensate them
properly.” ,
Stevenson Starts
All-Out Attack on
Foreign Policy
By the Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson launched an
all-out Democratic attack today
on what he called a “dangerous
drift in foreign affairs.”
Stevenson, switching his presi
dential campaign aim to Eisen
hower Administration foreign
policy, said ,‘we must stop bluff
ing our enemies, boasting to our
friends, and misleading our peo
ple at home.”
In a hard-hitting address pre
pared for a rally in Tulsa, Steven
son told his audience:
“We cannot stop this dangerous :
drift in foreign affairs by pre
tending that all is well while Com
munist influence is spreading ev
erywhere, while North Africa is
in rebellion, while the guns are
loaded in the Formosa Strait, and
when the Suez life line of western
Europe is in peril for the first
time, when Arab nationalism is
rampant and Communism its os
tensible protector.”
Stevenson, now on a 6,790-mile
tour of western, midwestem and
southern states, also announced a
new tour starting next week. This
will take him by plane, train
and automobile to New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New
York, Connecticut, Rhode Island
and Massachusetts.
France, Britain Assured of Support
From U.S. in Decision to Take
Suez Canal Dispute to United Nations
WASHINGTON IjTI—France and
Britain were assured today of full
United States support in their de
cision to take the Suez Canal dis
pute with Egypt to the U.N. Se
curity Council on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Dulles said
last night he “thinks well” of the
move and believes it can lead to
a peaceful and just solution of
the canal crisis "if Egypt wants a
peaceful solution at all.”
In a radio-TV discussion of the
prolonged Suez controversy, Dul
les also made these other main
points:
1. He will suggest to Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey imme
diately that the present freeze on
Egyptian funds in this country be
broadened to prevent the pay
ment of canal tolls directly to
Egypt by American ship opera
tors. The tolls would be paid, in
stead, into blocked accounts in
this country. This tightening of
the economic screws on Egypt is
designed to bring American pol
icy on this point into line with
that of Britain and France.
2. American vessels going thru
Suez would, in Dulles’ opinion,
“hesitate a long time before tak
ing a Soviet pilot on board.” The
Egyptians have been hiring some
Soviet pilots. Dulles implied that
no ship captain could tell, whether
the pilot employed by Egypt
might also be a spy for Russia.
3. The danger of war over the
canal has “not been ended” altho
Dulles thinks “it has been re
duced” by recent moves of the
Western powers.
Dulles said he opposes use of
military measures except possibly
as a last resort, but added, “I
don’t think you can go on forever
asking people not to resort to
force.”
Soviet Diplomat Ousted
From Canada For Trying
To Learn Jets’ Secrets
OTTAWA, WV—Authorities an
nounced today that a Soviet dip
lomat was ordered out of Canada
and a Canadian civilian employe
of the Royal Candian Air Force
dismissed because of Russian ef
forts to learn the secrets of Cana
da’s new CF-105 jet fighter plane.
The Foreign Affairs Depart
ment said G. F. Popov, second
secretary of the Soviet embassy,
was orderd out of Canada July 12
and left a month later.
. A Defense Department official
said the Canadian civilian, a jun
ior employe at suburban Rock
cliffe Air Station, was dismissed
in June. The spokesman said the
man—the department declined to
name him—was asked to leave
after he made “a clean breast of
things.”
Press Secretary Replies
To Charges Relating
To Eisenhower’s Health
WASHINGTON, UPt—Presiden
tial Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty Saturday replied indi
rectly to Democratic charges re
lating to Eisenhower’s health. He
said Eisenhower is “feeling fine
and looking fine,” and is back on
a full work schedule.
A newsman had asked how the
President felt a year after he suf
fered his heart attack which was
a year ago today.
Hagerty said Eisenhower is ex
pected to have a general pre-elec
tion checkup about mid-October.
Eisenhower has said results of the
examination would be made pub
lic.
The President today was work
ing on a major farm address
scheduled for tomorrow night.
NOME STANDS STILL WHILE STATES PROGRESS
"Nome has changed very little
since my last visit here as gov
ernor of Alaska, nearly four years
ago,” Ernest Gruening told a
group of Nome citizens assembled
to hear him at City Hall Satur
day night.
“It has changed very little since
I first visited Nome in 1936, when
I was director of the Division of
Territories. That is my text. In
the same period of time every
city and town in the 48 states has
shown great improvements—fine
roads in. and out of them, new
inns, lodges and motels on those
roads, new public buildings, and
much else. Why has Nome stood
still when the rest of America has
gone forward?”
Alaska a Stepchild
“It is because Alaska is a terri
tory, a stepchild in the national
family, and has been so for 89
years,” said the speaker, who is a
candidate for the six-year term
in the United States Senate under
the Alaska - Tennessee Plan.
“Statehood, and only statehood,
will free us from the restrictions
and discriminations which have
held all Alaska back, and Nome
and the Second Division back
more than any other part of
Alaska.”
Discrimination Against Alaska
Stressing the Second Division’s
great need for roads and of con
necting it with the rest of Alaska.
Gruening pointed out that as a |
territory, Alaska has never re- .
ceived its proper hire of federal;
highway funds. He listed a num
ber of discriminations which add
ed up to the fact that Alaska has
been and is a colony. This was the
more inexcusable, he pointed out,
in that our nation was born as
the result of a revolt against colo
nialism 180 years ago, and that
our country is opposing colonial
ism in the rest of the world. And
while Alaska cannot get the mon
ey it needs for roads, airfields,
hospitals, water power develop
ment and much else, the federal
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