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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLTlVI No. 149 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Exercise Snow
Bird to Include
Mass Pa rad r op
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE
BASE. Headquarters, Alaska Com
mand—Exercise Snow Bird, a
' joint Army-Air Force arctic train
ing maneuver, will be held in
Alaska from Jan. 13-Feb. 13, 1955,
the Public Information Office an
nounced here today.
Included in the maneuver plan
will be the largest mass paradrop
of men and materials ever at
tempted in Alaska and the con
struction of a snow-compacted
runway on frozen tundra under
simulated combat conditions.
Purpose of the exercise is to
provide intensive joint training
as well as to test the ability of
Army and Air Force personnel
and equipment to operate and
function in the extreme cold of
interior Alaska against a theoreti
cal enemy. Past weather statistics
for the area indicate troops may
expect to face prolonged sub-zero
temperatures which will range as
• low as the minus 50s.
Participating in addition to Al
aska-based troops will be the
503rd Airborne Regimental Com
bat Team of the 11th Airborne
Division, which will be airlifted
from Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
U.N. Secretary General
In Stockholm, Plans to
Visit Peiping After Dec. 26
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UP—
U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold announced last night
after a meeting with Communist
China’s ambassador to Sweden
that he still plans to leave for
Peiping sometime after Dee. 26
but the exact date has not been
set.
As Hammarskjold conferred at
a luncheon with the envoy, Gen.
Keng Piao, Pieping Radio broad
cast further legal arguments
against the release of the U.S.
fliers China is holding as spies.
The radio quoted a brief by a
Chinese judge that the Korean
armistice applied only to the
North Koreans and the Chinese
“volunteers” in Korea, not to the
Chinese peasants and police the
broadcast said had captured the
airmen.
An official announcement from
Hammarskjold said his 2V£-hour
discussion with Keng was on
practical matters concerning his
mission to China. The secretary
general will seek the release of
the American airmen and all other
U.N. personnel still held by the
Chinese since the Korean War.
X-RAY EXAM OPEN
TO ALL TUE. & WED.
The X-ray unit which has been
working at the Federal Building
since Thursday had processed 757
persons by midmorning.
Due to the Christmas rush the
original schedule of taking peo
ple alphabetically has been aban
doned for the convenience of
everyone.
Anyone can get his X ray taken
during the following hours:
Tuesday
1:30 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00
Wednesday
9:30 to 12 and 1:30 to 4:00
The 6 to 8 session on Tuesday
is for the convenience of persons
who cannot come in during the
day.
Remember to get your X ray
—and remind your neighbor, too!
Dulles Returns
From Successful
Paris Meeting
WASHINGTON, W—Secretary
of State Dulles arrived back in
Washington today from the North
Atlantic Treaty Council meeting
at Paris, which he said had made
“very important decisions unani
mously and in good spirit.”
With Dulles aboard a Military
Air Transport Service Constella
tion were Secretary of the Treas
ury Humphrey and Foreign Aid
Chief Harold Stassen.
Dulles joked about the brisk
weather in an off-the-cuff state
ment. He only grinned, however,
when asked, “is it as cold as this
where you came from?”
He said he was glad he had had
the opportunity in Paris to talk
with British Foreign Minister An
thony Eden and French Premier
Mendes-France.
“This enabled us to exchange
views on a good many matters,”
Dulles said.
“We did not try to make any
decision, but it brough our think
ing in line and was very useful."
The NATO council session was
called primarily to review the
NATO defense buildup during the
past six months. Its main decision
was to include nuclear weapons
in western European defense, al
though the 14 NATO nations re
served responsibility for putting
such plans into action.
The council also affirmed Uni
ted Nations efforts toward dis
armament with control of arms
production, agreed that Soviet
policy and power still posed a
threat to the West and applauded
economic progress of the western
allies.
Report Against
Tax-Free Groups
Called ‘Biased’
WASHINGTON, UPi—Spokesmen
for several foundations have hit
back with such terms as “biased”
and “flimsy” at*a House commit
tee report accusing the giant tax
free groups of promoting a social
ism of “far greater menace” at
home than Communism.
The report was issued last night
over the signatures of the three
Republicans on a special live
member committee headed by
Rep. Reece (R-Tenn). One of them,
Rep. Goodwin (Mass*, dissented
from many of the conclusions, in
cluding the one that the founda
tions promote socialism.
Reps. Wayne L. Hays 'Ohio'
and Pfost (Idaho', the two Demo
cratic members, filed a blistering
dissent attacking the 416-page
report as a “crackpot” view by
persons suffering from "fear sick
ness.” They put primary blame on
the committee staff.
The report signed by the GOP
members pictured the nation’s big
foundations as comprising an “in
terlock” and "an intellectual car
tel” which, it declared, wields
tremendous leftwing power over
the nation’s thought and policies.
The 12-page opinion by the
Democrats declared the investiga
tion was dominated from the start
by a "theme of prejudgement”
against the foundations “like the
theme of doom in a tragic opera.”
The GOP report said the foun
dations influence national policies
through the power of the purse
(“public” money because of the
foundations’ tax-exempt status'
amplified through a host of “in
termediate” organizations, such
as information clearing houses
and professional societies. It said
professional foundation adminis
trators, not the big-name trustees,
wield the actual power.
Five Die in Attempt
To Scale British Isle’s
Highest Mountain
FORT WILLIAM, Scotland, W
—Five members of a Royal Navy
recreation party attempting to
scale Mt. Ben Nevis fell to their
deaths from an icy 900-foot preci
pice yesterday.
The victims included three
petty officers, a midshipman and
a member of the Wrens, the wo
men’s service. Other navy climb
ers located the bodies but were
unable to recover them from a
deep, rocky gully.
Ben Nevis, 4,406 feet in height,
is the British Isles’ highest moun
tain.
Military Meets With Nome Civic
Leaders to Explain Aim In Placing
Local Establishments 40ff Limits’
2(> of 32 Killed in
Crash of Italian Airliner
NEW YORK, iff)—A large sec
tion of the forward end of the
Italian airliner that crashed Sat
urday with a loss of 26 lives was
hauled to the service of Jamaica
Bay by salvage workers today,
and immediately began to break
apart.
It is believed the unrecovered
bodies of 17 of the victims were
entrapped in the craft. Nine bod
ies have been found and six per
sons of the 32 aboard the Rome
New York liner survived.
Pope Pius XII Prepares
Christmas Message;
Better Health Evidenced
VATICAN CITY, (ffl—Ailing
Pope Pius XII is working on a
brief Christmas message he will
broadcast to the world over the
Vatican radio at noon Friday.
On Christmas Day he plans to
appear in the window of his study
and bless a throng gathered below
in St. Peter’s Square.
Despite the planned briefness
of his Christmas message, Vatican
observers took the announcement
as a new evidence of the Pope’s
gradual improvement from the
illness that threatened his life 18
days ago.
The pontiff left the Vatican this
afternoon for a 30-minute auto
mobile ride and walk in the gar
dens. It was the third successive
daily outing for the Pope.
Russia Warns Britain
Mutual Aid Pact Scrapped
If Paris Accords Ratified
MOSCOW, UP—Russia today
threatened to scrap the British
Soviet mutual assistance treaty
if the Paris agreements to rearm
West Germany are ratified.
This warning was in a note
handed to British Ambassador
Sir William Hayter by Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko at the Foreign Ministry.
Russia warned France last week
that the Kremlin planned to scrap
the French-Soviet treaty if the
Paris agreements are ratified.
The British-Soviet treaty, de
signed to run for 20 years, was
signed by British Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden and Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov in
London, May 26, 1942.
The Armed Forces Disciplin
ary Control Board held an open
meeting last Friday afternoon
with local businessmen and civic
leaders as guests.
The purpose of the meeting was
to explain the procedure and
necessity of placing local estab
lishments “off limits” or “out of
bounds” to servicemen, as certain
rumors circulated around town
had misrepresented the purpose
and aims of the organization.
Chairman of the board was Lt.
Col. Walter Borden, who is re
ported to have conducted the
meeting in a superb manner. It
was explained to the civilian
guests present that such things
discipline, prostitution, venereal
disease, liquor violations, disorder
and other undesirable conditions
including sanitation of eating and
drinking establishments, and fire
hazards.
It was also explained to the
local group that the board meets
regularly every month and civil
ians with problems may confer
with them if the board is notified
beforehand.
Owners of establishments who
do not conform to the standards
set by the military are kept in
formed and will not be placed off
limits if they correct their dis
crepancies. If, however, the own
ers do not conform and the es
tablishments are put off limits,
notification by registered letter
will come from Ladd AFB.
The Board hopes that their
agency will be used as a channel
of communication through Nome
so that problems between civilian
agencies and the military can be
handled more directly and with
out misunderstanding.
Actually in the case of sanita
tion their inspections are a pro
tection for the civilian popula
tion as well and should be con
sidered seriously.
Mendes-France Confidence
Vote Sharply Reduced
PARIS, OPI—The French Nation
al Assembly today gave Premier
Mendes-France a vote of confi
dence—310 to 172—on his Indo
china policies, thus clearing the
way for a four-day debate on
German rearmament.
The number of the Premier’s
supporters was sharply reduced,
however, from his total on previ
ous votes of confidence since he
took office six months ago.
“SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
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4 Nome Hardware Store
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FROM 2 TIL 4
OPEN EVENINGS TIL 8 MONDAY THRU THURSDAY