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VOL. LVII No. 97_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1955_Per Copy—15?
Second Rebellion
In Six Weeks At
Washington Prison
WALLA WALLA, Wash., (*) —
A dozen convicts armed with
home - made knives grabbed 14
hostages inside the walls of the
tense Washington State Peniten
tiary Sunday night but gave up
early today after persuasion by
telephone and tear gas.
No one was hurt.
It was the second revolt at the
i&ig prison in six weeks and War
den Lawrence Delmore Jr. said
yesterday’s rebels first tried to
free 15 inmate leaders of the
earlier outbreak.
They failed.
The 15 had been brought back
here only three . days ago from
isolation at the county jail at
Yakima. The attempt to free the
15 returnees fizzled when tear gas
dispersed the would-be liberators
and they were cornered with their
hostages. i
Delmore then put in a tele
phone call to their stronghold.
“You will be held answerable
for the safety of the hostages.” he
told them, “and there is no chance
of your succeeding. Release the
guards and return to your cells.”
Then he hung up..
The warden said the convicts
talked among themselves about a
half hour and decided to surren
der, “agreeing it was foolish to
have hostages.”
Delmore said the only conces
sion he made to the latest group
of rebels who held out only six
hours was to promise individual
interviews to hear complaints.
Philip Crosby, 21, Son Of
Bing Crosby, Breaks Back
In Automobile Smashup
RAYMOND, Wash., UfV-One of
crooner Bing Crosby’s sons, Pvt.
Philip L. Crosby, 21, is in a Ray
mond hospital today with a bro
ken back.
The young soldier from Ft.
Lewis drove through a guardrail
down a 20-foot embankment into
the Willapa River bed, trying to
get back to his Army KP duties
early yesterday.
Fortunately, the tide in Will
apa harbor, into which the river
flows, was out. Otherwise, author
ities said young Crosby would
have drowned.
His father, Bing, left a Spo
kane golf tournament to fly to
Raymond. Bing would allow no
hospital pictures taken of his son.
Philip had been in Aberdeen,
north of here, and took the wrong
road to return to Ft. Lewis, where j
he was due for KP duty at 5:30
a.m. He wound up in Raymond,
some 30 miles to the south.
He asked a pedestrian how to
get to the Fort. The man told
him he’d have to go back to
Aberdeen to get on the proper
road to Ft. Lewis. So Philip
started back. Three miles later his
car ripped five guard posts out
of a guardrail before tumbling
info the river bed.
He will be hospitalized several
weeks. As soon as possible, he
will be taken to Madigan Army
Hospital, at Ft. Lewis.
Jet Pilot and Workman
Die When Plane
Overshoots Runway
ANCHORAGE Uf)—An Air Force
jet pilot, whose plane killed a
construction worker when it over
shot an Elmendorf AFB runway
Thursday night, also died of his
burns and injuries Friday.
His crippled jet burst into
flames after catapulting across
railroad cracks and a heavily
traveled highway into a construc
tion area. The pilot’s radar ob
server escaped with bruises.
The worker was Ernest <Babe)
Evern, 28, of Anchorage, son of
Charlie and Alice Evern, formerly
of Candle and now of Puyallup,
Washington. Ernest was employ
ed by the Oaks Construction Co.
Evern’s brother Fred (Bud) was
working on the same project and
was an eye-witness to the tragedy.
He is also employed by Oaks Con
struction Co.
It has been several years
since Babe Evern worked at
Nome, when he was employed by
the CAA here. His father, Charlie
Evern, is a construction foreman
for CAA and was in Kotzebue
at the time of the accident.
His mother, Alice Evern, was*
a visitor in Nome early last
month when she was enroute to
Candle for a short stay.
Soviets Announce
Plans for Artificial
Earth Satellite
MOSCOW. UP>—Russia says she
has fired experimental rockets
with live animals aboard more
than 300 miles into space and
plans to follow up soon with arti
ficial earth satellites.
Space scientist A. G. Karpenko
told the newspaper “Moscow
Pravda” the satellites would
be launched in the “comparative
ly near future.” They will circle
the earth from pole to pole at
heights of from 125 to 1,250 miles,
he said.
American researchers have an
nounced experiments in which
mice and monkeys were shot into
space in rockets, but they have
not claimed the rockets went as
high as 300 miles. The U.S. alti
tude record was set in 1949 when
the WAC-V2 combination soared
250 miles.
The United States announced
last month it plans to launch
basketball - sized satellites be
tween July 1957, and December
1948, to speed around the earth
at 18,000 miles an hour and at
altitudes of 200 to 360 miles.
MRS. ROOSEVELT ENROUTE
TO BANGKOK MEETING
TOKYO, GW — Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, widow of the late Pres
sident Franklin D. Roosevelt, ar
rived in Tokyo today enroute to
Bangkok.
She will attend a meeting of
the World Federation of United
Nations Associations there. Dr.
David Gurewitch, Columbia Uni
versity profesor of medicine, is
accompanying her to the same
meeting.
Social Security
Man To Be Here
2 Days This Week
Everett Cummins, field repre
sentative for the Social Security
Administration, is scheduled to be
here on Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week to confer with
persons who have social security
problems or questions. He will
be at the Wallace Hotel.
A Social Security representa
tive usually makes a trip to Nome
about once or twice a year. The
purpose of the trip is to take all
claims of the over-65-year-olds
and survivors of workers and self
employed persons who have died.
They also strive to answer any
questions people have about their
Social Security accounts. Social
Security contributions represent
a sizable sum of money paid by
wage-earners and self-employed
persons and it is understandable
that they should check up every
so often to see what the record
shows. It is recommended that
social security card holders check
up on their accounts at least once
every three years.
Monthly payments are made to
the children of men who paid so
cial security contributions before
their death. Monthly payments
are also made to aged widows of
the contributors, who have died.
As an example, assuming a man
died now, leaving a widow and
two minor children, the family
might receive a maximum of
$197.10 per month plus a lump
sum death payment. Lump sum
death payments are also made to
the survivors even if no minor
children survive.
Monthly payments to a maxi
mum of $98.50 are made to con
tributors who have reached the
age of 65. After the age of 72
there is no requirement that the
individual be “retired” to draw
benefits.
There are about 3700 persons in
Alaska now drawing Old - Age
and Survivor’s Benefits under the
Social Security Act. They draw
about $175,000 per month making
OASI an important source of in
come for orphans and 65-year
olds.
The Old-Age and Survivors In
surance Program is not connected
with assistance payments made
by The Alaska Department of
Public Welfare. All OASI pay
ments are based on contributions
and are not based on need.
FLORIDA CITRUS QUEEN
HEADS DELEGATION OF 32
TO APPLE ASSN. CONVENTION
DETROIT, Ufi — The Interna
tional Apple Assn, opens its
convention today with 1,200 dele
gates and 32 questionable “guests.”
The 32 came here by chartered
airliner from Florida, led by
Florida’s citrus queen, Sally
Aurdary, 20.
“We aren’t here to ‘knock’ ap
ples,” the queen said somewhat
patronizingly, “but there's some
thing about an orange . . .”
Spokesmen for the apple grow
ers said they’ll reciprocate—or
retaliate — by sending a delega
tion to the Citrus Growers Assn,
convention Florida next month.
Airman Daniel Schmidt
Pleads with News and TV
Cameramen For Privacy
NEVADA CITY, Calif., UP) —
Airman Daniel C. Schmidt, dis
turbed and irritated from a long
day of homecoming, met his son
for the first time and held a
lengthy but inconclusive confer
ence with his remarried wife Sat
urday.
The meeting was held in pri
vate and the 22-year-old flier, a
prisoner of the Chinese Commun
ists for 32 months, said he would
have three or four more meetings
with his auburn-haired wife be
fore making any decision on his
marriage.
The wife, Una, says she mar
ried logger Alford Fine, 21, last
September in the belief Schmidt
had been killed when he and 10
other crewmen bailed out of a
B-29 over North Korea.
Schmidt’s 2Vfe - year - old son,
Danny Jr., was brought to the
law office of Una Schmid’t attor
ney for the reunion. After a
three-hour meeting with his wife,
Schmidt told reporters he had
nothing to say now. He said he
would remain in this high Sierra
community until “we get this
thing worked out.” And as he
had done before when he landed
at Travis Air Force Base, Schmidt
begged for privacy.
“Quit following us around,” he
asked television and newsreel
cameramen clustered in front of
the attorney’s office as he left.
Bloody and Bruised After
Being Washed Through
180-Foot Storm Drain
BALTIMORE, UP) — John W.
Calvert, husky 47-year-old crane
operator, stepped outside his sub
urban English Consul home yes
terday to clear debris from the
mouth of a storm drain.
Suddenly the swirling waters
whisked the 220 - pounder feet
first into the two-foot wide pipe.
Seconds later he was dumped
bloody and bruised into a 10-foot
pool—180 feet from the start of
his near-fatal trip.
Calvert suffered a gash on his
head and huge bruises on his
sides but he refused to go to a
hospital.
“I saw the face of death,” the
father of five said.
British Ease Restrictions
On Newsprint For First
Time Since World War II
LONDON, tW—Britain’s news
papers—hampered by newsprint
shortages since World War II—
will be able to get ration - free
suppies within six months.
The Board of Trade announced
that rationing will be eased an
other notch next Sunday, permit
ting papers to add two to four
pages.
By next March the 15-year-old
controls will be lifted completely,
the board said. Thereafter, news
print will be controlled only by
the amount avaiable and the
paper’s ability to pay for it.
During the war most papers
were limited to four pages daily,
but with gradual relaxations over
the past five years they now
range from 8 to 16 pages.
McKay Assures
Redmen He Looks
To Their Future
GALLUP, N.M., iff)—Thousands
of tribesmen trailed homeward
ward today, reassured by Interior
Secretary McKay he had a con
scientious eye on their future.
McKay spoke to them last night
at the closing performance of the
34th annual inter-tribal Indian
ceremony. He bore down on three
problems the tribesmen, them
selves, consider fundamental.
Those problems are land, health
and education. Flanked by lead
ers of many tribes and supported
by Indian Commissioner Glenn
Emmons, McKay reviewed brief
ly what the government has in
store for its tribal charges.
He promised the Indians that
the government has no intention
of liquidating all tribal land.
Reports to that effect have
caused much concern among In
dians recently.
Turning to Indian health, he
said: “The picture looks brighter
right now than ever before in
our history.”
McKay spoke on an additional
prime matter to all the 12,000
Indians gathered at their color
ful, fair-like ceremonial.
He told them:
“I firmly believe a trust rela
tionship such as we have in In
dian affairs is fundamentally bad
for any group of people. It en
! courages habits of dependency. It
discourages the kind of self
reliance and independent action
that his lifted this country to its
present position among the na
tions of the world.
“So there is no doubt in my
mind about what our long range
goal in Indian affairs should be.
Clearly it must be to work toward
the elimination of this trust re
lationship and toward the day of
full independence for all our citi
zens of Indian descent.”
Air Force Assn. Will Ask
5 Stars For Billy Mitchell
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — The
Air Force Assn, will ask Congress
to award the rank of General of
the Air Force to the late Billy
Mitchell, early advocate of strat
egic air power.
In a resolution adopted yester
day at the close of its week-long
national convention, the AFA said
it would seek the highest military
rank—(five stars)—for Mitchell
“in recognition of his pioneer
role in causing the acceptance of
air power as an instrument of
national policy.”
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
National League
New York 4-3, Pittsburgh 2-1
Philadelphia 3-4, Brooklyn 2-5
Milwaukee 4, Chicago 3
St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4
American League
Boston 9-2, Washington 6-1
New York 7-20, Baltimore 2-6
Chicago 5, Detroit 4
Kansas City 7, Cleveland 3
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 5-3, Oakland 0-0
San Diego 6-2, Los Angees 4-3
Hollywood 1-5, Seattle 5-6
San Frincisco 6-0, Portland 3-4