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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LVI No. 107 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1954_Per Copy—15^
Reds Release 3
Americans Held
More Than a Year
HONG KONG, LT)—Three Am
ericans, held captives of Com
munist China for more than a
year, have been ordered deported
from Kwangtung Province which
borders Hong Kong, Peiping radio
reported.
A broadcast yesterday identi
fied the trio as Richard Apple
gate, 37, of Medford, Ore., a Na
tional Broadcasting Co. corres
pondent; Donald Dixon, 25, New
York, an International News Ser
vice newsman, and Benjamin
Krasner, 30, Brooklyn, a ship cap
tain.
There was no indication when
or where the trio would be re
leased.
Peiping radio also said Hugh
Francis Redmond, former New
York businessman, had been con
victed of espionage in Shanghai
and sentenced to life in prison.
Peiping said the Applegate trio
was picked up by a Red coastal
defense unit March 21, 1953,
aboard Applegate’s yacht, Kert,
after it “intruded into China’s
territorial waters off Kwang
tung.”
The trio had planned to sail to
Macao, Portuguese colony on the
mainland, to pick up David Cicero
INS Newsphoto Service photo
grapher and return him to Hong
Kong.
Three Youths at
Wrangell Institute
Stricken With Polio
WRANGELL, I®—Three youths
have now been stricken with polio
at the Wrangell Institute, Dr. Da
vid L. Sparling, Alaska Native
Service physician, reported Fri
day.
The first case was that of a boy
sent to the institute from Seward
for the fall term, Dr. Sparling
said. Further admissions have
now been stopped until the out
break is controlled.
Dr. Sparling was ordered here
from the Alaska Native Service’s
Mount Edgecumbe Hospital near
. Sitka.
The cases are the first in
Wrangell in recent years.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Cleveland 4-3, New York 1-2 ,
Detroit 5-8, Washington 0-3
Chicago 5-7, Boston 3-5
National League
Baltimore 4-4, Philadelphia 3-5
Brooklyn 4-4, Chicago 2-3
St. Louis 4, New York 3
Philadelphia 5-1, Milwaukee 2-2
Pacific Coast League
Los Angeles 3-2, San Diego 2-7
Oakland 1-0, Hollywood 0-10
Seattle 10-2, San Francisco 3-5
$30,000 FIRE AT ELMENDORF
ANCHORAGE, UR —A wooden
supply warehouse and an am
bulance were destroyed by fire
Saturday at Elmendorf Air Force
Base, but several other ambul
ances in the building were moved
to safety.
Air Force officials estimated the
loss at about $30,000. Cause of
the fire has not been determined.
Hurricane Edna
Wreaks Heavy
Damage In Maine
PORTLAND, Maine, (/PI—Wash
ed-out highways, railroad tracks
and crops lay like a jagged wound
today across N territory raked by
death-dealing Hurricane Edna
from Massachusetts to Nova
Scotia.
The cost in lives mounted to
20—13 of them in New England,
including eight in Maine alone,
where autos were trapped in road
and bridge washouts by streams
that went wild under a record
eight inches rain.
Maine Gov. Burton M. Cross,
after an air survey, set loss there
at more than seven million dol
lars — on top of 10 million
wrought 12 days before by Hurri
cane Carol. Cross asked President
Eisenhower to declare Maine a
major disaster area.
Tif/o - thirds of Nova Scotia’s
four million dollar apple crop was
counted lost.
American Military Might
Will Thwart Any Red
Thurst at Formosa
DENVER, (jP)—President Eisen
hower said today the National
Security Council has reaffirmed
American policy of defending
“the vital interests of the U.S.
wherever they may arise.”
The President made the state
ment to newsmen in discussing an
extra-ordinary session of the Se
curity Council at the summer
White House yesterday.
The meeting was called by the
chief executive to discuss global
strategy for dealing with the Red
threat abroad.
After the session, Secretary of
States Dulles declared American
military might will thwart any
Chinese . Communists assault on
Nationalist Formosa.
But the Secretary kept the
Communists guessing as to whe
ther the United States will go to
the defense of the Chinese Nation
alist island of Quemoy, which has
been under shell fire from the
Red mainland.
In his informal statement to
newsmen, Eisenhower said that at
the top-sceret council meeting “no
specific decisions were advanced
for action.” Dulles hinted in ad
vance of the meeting yesterday
the council might chart some spe
cific policy with respect to Que
moy as related to overall defense
of Formosa by the U.S. Seventh
Fleet in the event of a Red assault
on that Chinese Nationalist bas
tion.
CALIFORNIA FLORISTS SEND
"PEACE" ROSES TO RUSSIA
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Wl — A
shipment of 17 white California
roses was on the way to Premier
Malenkov of Russia today as a
peace symbol for him and his 16
top associates in the Communist
government.
The roses were sent air express
by the California State Florists’
Association at the conclusion of
its annual convention here yes
terday as expressing “the hopes
of the Western world tar peace.”
Marciano Is 4-1
Favorite To Stop
Charles This Time
NEW YORK, UP) — Plenty of
backing for heavyweight cham
pion Rocky Marciano has sent the
odds soaring to 4-1 and better for
his return title bout with Ezzard
Charles at Yankee Stadium Wed
nesday night.
For a long time the odds favor
ing Marciano held at 18-5. With
the approach of the return bout
the support for the 30-year-old,
all-conquering champion has in
creased considerably. Most of the
wagering is on whether the 33
year-old Charles will be able to
go the full 15 rounds as he did
on June 17. Rocky is a 12-5
choice to stop Ezzy this time.
The broadshouldered, lean-hip
ped Charles will be the first ex
champion to get three cracks at
regaining the heavyweight crown.
Jim Corbett got two tries and
failed both times. Charles, too,
lost twice—to Jersey Joe Walcott
and Marciano.
Charles, however, is intent on
making ring history in a more
sensational fashion by becoming
the first former ruler ever to
grab back the heavyweight throne.
Charles, who has stopped 53 of
98 opponents, may try for a
knockout himself. And the champ,
who has won 40 of his 46 fights
by kayos, wants badly to knock
his man out this time.
Cleveland’s Two Wins
Over Yankees Sunday
Cinches A.L. Pennant
CLEVELAND, UP) — In the
Cleveland Indians’ dressing room,
manager A1 Lopez called yester
day “my finest day in baseball,”
and he’s been in it 30 years.
Around the curve of Municipal
Stadium, Casey Stengel locked
the clubhouse door of the New
York Yankees whose five - year
reign as American League champs
is near an end. No interviews.
Major League baseball’s big
gest crowd of fans — the 86,563
who saw the Tribe humble the
Yanks 4-1 and 3-2 in the stadium
sunshine and shadow — probably
would agree today that tho re
actions of Senor Lopez and Old
Case were about right.
Mathematically, the Yanks
can’t be eliminated before Wed
nesday afternoon, and it’s more
likely to happen Friday or Sat
urday. But only a miracle could
prevent it—a miracle such as the
Indians losing eight of their re
maining 10 games, while the
Yanks win all 11 they have left.
Lopez, pilot of three Indian
runners-up to the world cham
pion Yankees, had more to say
about his “finest day.”
“Guess I’ll have to admit now
that things are looking pretty
good,” he understated with a
chuckle.
ANCHORAGE, UP) —Folio cases
in Anchorage this year reached
the 100 mark Saturday as a 9
year-old boy was hospitalized
with the paralytic type of the
disease. Eleven patients are now
being treated in the polio wing
of Providence Hospital.
Talbott Says U.S.
Radar Defense Is
Really Effective
WASHINGTON, UP) —Air Force
Secretary Talbott said tonight the
United States is “much, less vul
nerable” to enemy air attack than
it was a year ago.
Talbott, interviewed on the
NBC television program, “Meet
the Press,” said he had noted im
pressive gains in air defenses on
a recent tour of far north instal
lations in the Alaskan area.
“Our network of defenses is
really laid out and effective,” he
said.
The Air Force Secretary said
that it was unlikely that any
enemy plane could get across
Alaska without being detected
unless it flew under 500 feet or
well above 45,000 feet.
He said there are “some vacant
spots” in the early warning radar
system across the Hudson Bay
area where any enemy planes
might get across, “but we will fill
in those gaps.”
Talbott said the U.S. air de
fense system is well prepared to
protect the nation aaginst attacks
by any of Russia’s B-29 type pis
ton engine bombers.
This is not yet the case, how
ever, against big jets at higher
altitudes—“but that is the place
we are going, and we are making
progress,” he said.
Modest California Beauty
Named 1955 Miss America
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., UP) — A
long-stemmed beauty from Cali
fornia, in the crown and robes
of a queen, embarks today on a
year-long whirlwind tour as the
1955 Miss America.
Nineteen-year-old Lee Ann
Meriwether of San Francisco,
who wants to be an actress and
says there’s no special boy friend
in her life right now, is modest
about her figure.
But the pageant judges, who
selected her from among 49 other
charmers Saturday night, were
more enthusiastic over l^ee’s mea
surements—which shape up this
way: bust 34Vfe, waist 22 and hips
35.
In her first interview with
newsmen yesterday, Lee confided
that she didn’t think she’d give
Marilyn Monroe much competi
tion and that the new “flat” look
by Dior “came just in time to
save me.”
Development Board
Officials to Meet in Nome
Th : Alaska Development Board
is scheduled to arrive from An
chorage Wednesday noon for a
two-day session. In the party ar
riving are William Bates, of
Ketchikan, T. Bie of Kodiak, Ken
Sheppard of Anchorage, Robert
Groseclose, and James Dalton.
They are accompanied by Alex
ander Baird, rqanager, and A1 An
derson, assistant manager of the
Board.
They will be met by the Second
Division member of the Board,
G. R. Jackson, and other civic
leaders who have planned a well
rounded program for their stay
and who will present problems of
this division. ^
Palmer Woman’s
Description Leads
To Arrest of Bandit
PALMER, UP — A sharp-eyed
woman’s description of a masked
man who robbed her of $11,224
led to the arrest four hours later
of a 64-year-old Alaskan who,
police said, blamed debts, gam
bling and liquor for his venture in
crime.
The prisoner, Joseph Perrin, an
Alaskan resident for more than
40 years, was arraigned before a
U.S. Commissioner in Anchorage
today on charges of armed rob
bery and kidnaping.
Palmer Police Chief Bemie
Bouwens said about $10,000 was
found hidden in a rubber boot in
Perrin’s garage. The rest, Bou
wens said, had been used by
Perrin to pay debts.
While awaiting arraignment in
Anchorage, Perrin said haltingly:
“You get into bad company.
You start gambling. You lose a
little and think you can make it
up. But you lose more and more
... I must have been crazy to
pull that stunt. I had been drink
ing and never would have done
it if I had been sober.”
The police said Perrin matched
the description given by Mrs.
Thema Ross, an employe of a
Palmer department store.
Mrs. Ross had left the Matan
uska Valley Bank with a sack of
money for cashing payroll checks,
and had started to drive away in
her car when a masked man rose
from the back and threatened her
with a knife.
The bandit forced her to drive
about a mile out of town where
he gagged and bound her. She
said that she caught a glimpse of
the man’s face as she was being
blindfolded, and recognized him
as a coal miner who previously
had cashed a payroll check at the
store.
“I had a mask made out of a
pillowslip,” Perrin said before his
arraignment. “It slipped a little
too far and she recognized me.”
McKinley Park Hotel
May Be Opened To
Public Next Summer
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Na
tional Park Service hopes to re
open McKinley Hotel in Alaska’s
McKinley National Park for pub
lic Occupancy next summer, an of
ficial said today.
George Hartzo'g, assistant chief
of concessions for the service, told
a reporter one or two operators
have expressed “tentative inter
est” in operating the hotel but
that nothing definite could be ex
pected until this winter.
He said also the park is ex
pected to be leased to the mili
tary again this winter as ih past
years. The hotel formerly was op
erated by the Alaska Railroad but
was turned over to the National
Park Service last year. The Ser
vice contracted with a concession
aire for the hotel’s operation but
cancelled its contract last month,
Hartzog said, when service “de
teriorated.” The hotel since has
been under a temporary operator
until its closing today for the win
ter season, he said.