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VOL. LVin No. 124 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1956 Per Copy—15#
Three Await Rescue After 20 Days
In Frozen Wastes of North Canada
YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest
Territories, Canada, UPi—A plucky
woman, her husband and a hardy
pilot yesterday huddled in an im
poverished shelter on an isolated
arctic lake to await rescue after
20 harrowing days and nights in
the frozen wastes of the North
west Territories.
So far, only fragments are
known of the story-book adven
ture that began nearly three
weeks ago when a group of four
left Coppermine on Coronation
Gulf, 90 miles north of the Arctic
Circle for what should have been
a four-hour, 318-mile flight south
west to Norman Wells on the
Mackenzie River.
As it turned out, fog and prob
ably snow, too, drove the little
Cessna-195s 300 miles off course
and forced them down miles from
civilization. A shortage of fuel
and continued bad weather pre
vented the planes from taking off
again.
Their primitive camp was
sighted Wednesday by an RCAF
Flying Boxcar after veteran arctic
pilot Dick Warner, a fourth mem
ber of the party, had struggled
for seven days thru 36 miles of
treacherous muskeg swamp and
nearly impenetrable brush to
reach a mining camp, 1-30 miles
northwest of Yollowknife.
A red blinker light flashed sig
nals as the Boxcar circled and
parachuted supplies to fisheries
expert John G. Hunter, 34, his
28-year-old wife and George Gon
zalez, a pilot from the Argentine.
The group, whose two aban
doned light aircraft lay close by,
waved to the RCAF plane as it
droned overhead.
Early yesterday the RCAF and
at least one civilian pilot planned
to fly ski-equipped planes to the
site, only 150 miles south of the
Arctic Circle. Their chief obstacle
is that ice, now forming during
the fall freezeup, may not be hard
enough to land on.
Warner, meanwhile, resting at
the Rayrock property of the Yel
lowknife Mines Ltd., also is
stranded because of the ice con
ditions. There is radio contact be
tween the camp and Yellowknife
but no planes can get in or out.
Pilot Warner said that altho
food ran short after 12 days, the
downed party was equipped with
fishing nets and were able to
catch fish. Each had a warm sleep
ing bag and apparently suffered
little from the biting winds and
below freezing temperatures.
Eisenhower Says Way to Defend
Peace and Freedom Is Not to
Abandon Draft and H-Bomb Tests
By the Associated Prese
Before leaving the Pacific
Northwest, Eisenhower battered
some more at Stevenson’s pro
posals that this country take the
lead in seeking a way to end the
H-bomb tests, and that consider
ation be given to ending the mili
tary draft in the “foreseeable fu
ture.”
Speaking last night in Portland
Eisenhower told a cheering crowd
and a nationwide TV-radio audi
ence that:
“I have not promised you—nor
do I ever intend to—that the way
to defend peace or freedom is to
abandon simultaneously our mili
tary draft and testing of our most
advanced military weapons, under
the circumstances of today’s
world.
“For I know—as I believe all
Americans know—that without
strength in this world of today,
the road to surrender is paved
with good intentions . . .’’
Eisenhower once again did not
mention Stevenson’s name as he
hit his opponent on the draft and
H-bomb test questions, and de
scribed as “frivolous” the charge
by Stevenson and other Demo
crats that the GOP administration
has been giving away the coun
try’s natural resources to private
business interests.
Eisenhower was scheduled to
make a major speech tonight in
the Hollywood Bowl in Los An
geles. White House Press Secre
tary James C. Hagerty said “the
President plans to continue to lay
the facts of the campaign on the
line.” He did not elaborate.
Meantime, Nixon rounded out
a 14-state swing with scheduled
appearances in Wilmington, Del.,
and Baltimore, Md. After a week
end of rest at his Washington
home, the vice president will set
out Monday on a tour, via train,
through another batch of states.
Strange Boat
Drifts Ashore at
King Is. Village
According to a report received
by Chief of Police Carl Webb, a
boat has drifted into shore at the
King Island Village which does
not belong in this immediate area.
The boat is about 18 feet long
and about four feet wide across
the beam at the stern, which is
painted gray.
Outriggers on both sides of the
boat are about two feet long and
might be of spruce, it is reported.
A 10-horsepower Johnson motor
is attached.
Some of the tools in the tool kit
carry the initials “L. M.”
Rev. Roald Amundson is con
tacting the coastwise villages for
information.
Bear Still Champ
After Rampage of
Car Smashing
NELSON, B. C., —A huge,
rogue grizzly is still undisputed
monarch of the Gray Creek Sum
mit country, after routing hunters
and prospectors and damaging
three vehicles.
“I was never so scared in my
life," Roy Fisher said of his ex
perience when the bear reared up
30 feet away from him as a flash
light shone in his eyes in mid
night blackness.
Harry Franklin and Fisher were
camped in tents on a hunting trip.
They heard a crash as the bear
attacked Fisher’s pickup truck.
The animal ripped, off a tar
paulin, scattered the truck’s con
tents, smashed to matchsticks a
food box made of half-inch ply
wood. The hunters’ provisions
were chewed and scattered.
“When I went out with the
flashlight, that bear just stood up
beside the truck and glared and
held his ground,” Fisher said.
“That bear stood a head higher
than the top of the truck, and I’d
swear his eyes were eight inches
apart,” Fisher said.
The men took refuge in a cabin
nearby.
A mile further up the road, the
marauder tore the glass out of
one door of a truck and destroyed
the upholstery.
Parked nearby was a sedan
owned by Bob Stfeiner, a Blair
more, Alberta, geologist. The bear
climbed on the hood and the top
of the car, both of which col
lapsed under its weight, broke off
a head lamp, and ripped the
chrome trim off the side windows.
Navy Plane of Antarctic Expedition
Crashes on Ice Shelf, Killing Three
Atomic Fishing
Boats Predicted
WASHINGTON, WV-An “atom
ic fishing boat” that would use
the atom’s energy to lure, capture,
sterilize, and refrigerate or can
the fish is envisioned by a Uni
versity of Wisconsin scientist.
Dr. Arthur D. Hasler says the
atomic “luring” would be done
like this:
The ship’s atomic reactor, in
addition to propelling the ship,
would furnish enough current to
electrify the water in the sea near
the vessel—and thereby attract
the fish to a point where they
could be pumped aboard.
Such ships, he told a Senate
House atomic subcommittee,
would be valuable for “the ‘have
not’ nations such as India or Ja
pan, where their ships have to go
rather long distances into the
tropical seas to harvest the crop
of fishes, such as tuna.”
At present, he said, if the ships
are at sea for long periods in
warm climates the fish spoil.
AMERICAN LEGION PICKS
BOSTON FOR CONVENTION
INDIANAPOLIS MB—'The Amer
ican Legion’s National Executive
Committee chose Boston Wednes
day as the city for its 42nd na
tional convention Aug. 28 to Sept.
1, 1960.
The Executive Committee also
reaffirmed its annual recommen
dation for statehood for Alaska.
» WASHINGTON, Iff—A Navy
plane carrying advance units of
this year’s South Polar expedition
crashed on the antarctic ice shelf
yesterday, killing three men and
injuring five others, three critic
ally.
The Navy here said five other
planes landed safely after the
2,250-mile flight from New Zea
land to McMurdo Sound.
AH were carrying advance units
of a scientific expedition to the
antarctic area for new work in
connection with the International
Geophysical Year, in which many
nations are sharing their scientif
ic discoveries.
The Navy had only meagre de
tails of the crash, but official dis
patches did specify that it took
place “while attempting a land
ing.”
Reports from New Zealand said
the five planes which landed safe
ly barely made the air strip be
fore communications almost went
,out.
Additional flights from New
Zealand were halted temporarily
by a white-out blizzard, one of the
antarctic’s worst features.
Rear Adm. George Dufek, com
mander of Operation Deepfreeze,
had made the trip a day in ad
vance df the fatal flight.
The Navy listed the dead as Lit.
David M. Carey, the plane’s pilot,
of White Plains, N.Y. and former
ly of Yakima, Wash.; Aviation.
Machinists Mate 1. C. Marion O.
Marzke, Warsaw, N.C.; and Avi
ation Electronic Tech. Charles S.
Miller, Providence, R.I.
Stevenson Says Benson’s Friendship to
Farmers Depends on Election Nearness
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By the Associated Press
Adlai E. Stevenson said today a
vote for President Eisenhower is
a vote for Secretary of Agricul
ture Benson, “whose friendship
for the farmer”—in Stevenson’s
words—“depends on the proxim
ity of an election.”
In similar fashion, Stevenson
attacked Vice President Nixon
and other close administration as
sociates of Eisenhower in a speedh
the Democratic presidential can
didate prepared for a campaign
stop in Lexington, Ky.
Stevenson turned southward af
ter whistle-stopping thru Michi
gan and Ohio and headed for
Kentucky, which he won from
Eisenhower by only 700 votes in
1952.
One of Stevenson’s top strate
gists voiced the opinion that the
current battle for the White House
has reached a stage where he said
the as-yet undecided voters may
determine the outcome.
“I believe we have stopped the
other side in its tracks,” said
James E. Finnegan, Stevenson’s
campaign manager. “We have
reached a point where neither
side is gaining. All we have to do
now is get the undecided people
in our column and we’ll win this
election."
In his Lexington speech, Ste
venson said that if Eisenhower is
re-elected, “the Republican Party
leadership team will take over.”
“It means,” Stevenson said,
“that a vote for Eisenhower is a
vote for Richard Nixon,. because
if the Republican President does
n’t want or can’t be the real lead
er of the Republican Party after
the election, his vice president
can and wants to be.”
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