22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 70 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1955 Per Copy—15^
Stevenson Says
To Want Peace
Is to Compromise
OBERLIN, Ohio, UR—Adlai E.
Stevenson urged today that the
forthcoming “conference at the
summit” be approached with an
attitude of bargaining.
The former Democratic presi
dential candidate, speaking at
commencement exercises at Ober
lin College, told the gathering of
students that “our role is to keep
our hopes high but our heads
clear.”
He added that every suggestion
must be considered “honestly and
dispassionately.” He said that the
United Stat.es should look for ba
ses of agreement anfl ... be
willing to take some reasonable
chances.”
“To want peace is to want com
promise,” the former Illinois gov
ernor said. “It is not to demand
perfection but to be willing to ac
cept something less, perhaps much
less, than perfection—but better
than the alternative which is a
sharpening and prolonging of ugly
dangerous tensions.”
The talks among the heads of
the governments of the U.S., Rus
sia, France and England are ex
pected to take place in Geneva,
possibly around the end of July.
Secretary of State Dulles and
other members of the Eisenhower
Administration currently are pre
paring for the meetings.
Historic Bomb Wing
Converts to Stratojets
WICHITA, Kansas, (JV-The Air
Force’s historic 509th Bomb Wing
—which dropped the world’s first
A-bombs on Hiroshima and Naga
saki—will convert from piston
driven B-50 Superfortresses to
B-47 Stratojets.
Boeing Airplane Co. said the
first two swept-wing Stratojets
for that Strategic Air Command
wing at Walker Air Force Base,
Roswell, N.M., were scheduled to
be flown from its Wichita division
to Roswell. '
$1,200,000 For Nome
Post Office Passes Senate
Washington News Letter
The Senate last week approved
the appropriation of $1,200,000 for
construction of a post office and
courthouse at Nome in passing the
1956 fiscal year money bill for
Independent Offices.
The project, which will be sub
ject to conference as the House
had allowed $1 million, is neces
sary because of deterioration of
the present building due to sub
soil conditions.
It is estimated that the final
cost of the building will be $1,
335,000, with completion antici
pated in 1958.
Fairbanks Church Partly
Destroyed by Fire
FAIRBANKS, (A”)—A fire of un
determined origin partly de
stroyed the Church of Christ in
Fairbanks Friday.
Fire Chief Eugene B. Woodcox
estimated the damage would ex
ceed $13,000. Most of the roof and
the rear cf the building were
burned.
A vacation Bible school had
ended shortly before
Red China and Japan
In 1-Year Fishing Pact
To Stop Red Sefeures
TOKYO, (tf)—A one-year fishing
agreement between Red China
and private Japanese interests
goes into effect at midnight.
It divides the Yellow and East
China Seas into six authorized
fishing areas and provides three
refugee ports in each nation for
vessels in distress.
The private agreement was
signed April 15 after three months
of negotiations
Th^ 11-man delegation opened
talks with the Reds in Peiping on
Jan. 9. One of their main purpos
es was to get some kind of a
protective guarantee for Japanese
fishing boats operating in the
Yellow and East China Seas,
where at least 158 boats and 1,909
crewmen have been seized by Red
patrols in the last four years.
Peron Police Raid Catholics In Refuge
Following Church-State Riots Sunday
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, UPV
—Federal police raided the Epis
copal Palace of Argentina’s Ro
man Catholic primate early today
and arrested 430 men who had
taken refuge there after rioting
between Catholics and backers of
President Juan D. Peron in the
street outside.
Shooting and stone throwing
marked last night’s rioting with
casualties estimated at 23 injured,
including 10 with gunshot
wounds.
Worshipers were caught inside
the adjacent Metropolitan Cathe
dral by the fighting late yesterday
in the Plazo de Mayo. Police and
firemen finally restored order
with tear gas and chemical foam,
•but many were afraid to leave.
They moved into the Episcopal
Palace through a connecting door
way and barricaded the doors
with benches, desks and chairs.
The primate, Santiago Luis Car
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dinal Copello, 75, was absent. He
was reported ill and staying at his
suburban San Isidro home. But
many priests were on hand when
the police appeared.
A police communique said those
arrested were suspected of start
ing rumors the Cathedral had
been burned, that the rumors
were intended to produce dis
turbance.
Amid Argentina’s gravest poli
tical crisis in, two years, Peron
marshaled his forces for support.
He called congress into urgent
session, held a special meeting of
his cabinet and arranged to make
a nationwide broadcast tonight.
Eight persons were injured by
flying stones in Sunday street
fighting. Bands shouted “Long
live Peron! Down with the Pope!”
The cries clashed in the plaza
with Catholics chanting “Long
live Christ the King!”
Congress Makes
$3,500,000 Slash
In Alaska Budget
WASHINGTON, June 11, (M—
Congress has cut $3,500,000 from
President Eisenhower’s budget re
quests for the Alaska Road Com
mission and for Alaska public
works.
It approved $6,300,000 for the
commission for construction and
maintenance of roads and $3,000,
000 for public works in the terri
tory during the fiscal year start
ing July 1.
The funds were included in a
compromise bill carrying $317,
573,677 for the Interior Depart
ment and related agencies. The
bill was sent to the White House
Wednesday. President Eisenhower
is expected to sign it next week.
The administration had re
quested $7,800,000 for the Road
Commission and $5,000,000 for
public works. In agreeing to set
the latter figure at $3,000,000 a
Senate-House conference commit
tee warned Alaska to make up
part of the cut by spending a
“contingency fund” of $1,700,000
which it has available from past
appropriations.
The House originally alloted
$4,800,000 for the Road Commis
sion and Public Works. The Sen
ate restored the full budget re
quests for both the ARC and pub
lic Works. The final compromise
was worked out by a Senate
House conference committee.
79 Killed in Worst
Disaster in History
Of Auto Racing
LE MANS, France, Ub—A mass
funeral will be held in Le Mans’
600-year-old Gothifc cathedral to
morrow for 79 persons killed in
the worst disaster in the history
of auto racing.
The toll rose today with the
; death of two of 76 persons in
jured Saturday when French driv
er Pierre Levegh’s big silver Mer
cedes-Benz hit another racer dur
ing the annual 24-hour sports car
race, caromed across the track
and plowed flaming into the
crowd packed 20 deep against the
barrier.
One American was among the
injured spectators. Most of the
dead, including 15 women and 2
children, were believed to have
been French, although several of
the bodies still had not been iden
tified early today. Driver Levegh
also was among those killed.
Despite the tragedy the famous
24-hour road race for sports cars
was carried to its conclusion, with
Mike Hathorn and co-driver Ivor
Bueb of Britain winning in a
three-liter Jaguar at a record
breaking average speed of 107.067
miles per hour.
Officials said halting the race
would have cluttered roads lead
ing to the track with the 250,000
spectators at a time when ambu
lances and rescue workers already
were having trouble reaching the
site.
GM Follows Ford in Guaranteeing
Annual Wage to CIO Auto Workers
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Actor Walter Hampden
Dies Enroute to Studio
HOLLYWOOD, L3V-Death has
ended the lengthy career of Actor
Walter Hampden, 75, who per
formed on stage, screen and tele
vision and was particularly noted
for his Shakespearean roles.
The veteran succumbed Satur
day after suffering a stroke while
enroute to a motion picture studio
to start work on a new film.
In accordance with his final
wishes, the body will be cremated
and the ashes returned to New
York. He maintained his home at
Ridgefield, Connecticut.
He is survived by his widow,
English Actress Mabel Moore, a
son and a daughter, all of Ridge
field.
Paramedic Jumps
From Helicopter
In Water Rescue
ANCHORAGE, Ub—An Air Force
paramedic jumped from a heli
copter into Cook Inlet Saturday
night to save a radar observer
who had been in the frigid water
for 90 minutes after an emergency
bail-out.
The rescued airman was 2nd Lt.
Elvon Anderson, of the 66th
Fighter Interceptor Squadron. He
had been ordered to parachute
from an F-89D jet by the pilot
after the plane developed engine
trouble.
But it was a bone-chilling res
cue for Anderson. After the 71st
Air Rescue Squadron paramedic,
Airman 1/c Howard C. Griffus,
dropped into the water to attach
a harness to the man who was too
cold to do it himself, it was im
possible to draw the latter up
into the helicopter. The rescue
craft had to fly to Susitna Flats
with Anderson dangling below in
the chilly air.
Meanwhile, an SA-16 Albatross
landed at the scene and picked up
the hero of the rescue, Paramedic
Griffus, who by that time was
getting mighty cold himself.
Lt. Anderson, who spent the 90
minutes in the water, was report
ed today to be suffering from
shock and exposure.
The plane from which he was
ejected also survived the incident
safely. Paul J. Leming Jr., who
had ordered Anderson to para
chute, succeeded in landing safely
at Elmendorf Base.
THE LANGUAGE BARRIER
EDMONTON, Alta., UP) — A
scene in a busy Edmonton hos
pital yesterday:
A credit manager (A) spoke
only English, the outgoing patient
(B) only Italian.
A painter (C) working nearby,
spoke Italian and French, but not
English.
The cashier (D) spoke English
and French, but no Italian.
B told C who told D who told
A, who got the information he
wanted: how much to be paid on
the bill.
f By GLENN ENGLE , '
DETROIT, UP*—'The CIO United
! Auto Workers Union today nailed
down at General Motors Corp. the
same guaranteed wage plan it
won a week ago from Ford.
Walter Reuther, UAW presi
dent, thus firmly established the
controversial employer-paid sup
plemental unemployment benefit
system in the auto industry, an
important beachhead from which
he hopes to launch it into other
industries.
The three-year agreement was
hammered out in a predawn set
tlement after more than 37 hours
of bargaining broken only by
brief recesses.
More than 40 of GM’s 119
plants across the nation were hit
by walkouts ‘as the negotiations
dragged on hours after the union’s
midnight strike deadline. The
strikers were expected to return
to their jobs quickly with little
loss in auto production.
The GM pact closely followed the
recent Ford Motor Co. contract
in nearly every respect. It calls
for improvements in pay, pen
sions, vacations and holidays sim
ilar to those worked out at Ford.
In addition, it grants the UAW
a full union shop for the first
time, meaning that GM’s relative
ly few non-union workers must
now join the union to keep their
jobs.
An additional 5,000 GM em
ployes represented by the CIO
International Union of Electrical
Workers were given the same
economic benefits under an agree
ment reached an hour after the
UAW settlement was Announced.
Reuther called the GM settle
ment “an extremely significant
and far reaching contract” costing
the corporation $600 million over
the three-year period. Reuther
said it was worth better than 20
cents an hour per employe, like '•
the Ford contract. GM President
Harlow H. Curtice said it assured
the vast GM auto empire of three
more years of labor peace.
Curtice, however, was less than
enthusiastic about the guaranteed
wage plan won by the union. He
intimated that GM agreed to it
only because Ford had first given
in. Curtis said the guaranteed
wage plan was “exceedingly com
plicated and will require some
time to fully appraise,” but GM
nevertheless had accepted it.
GM, like Ford, agreed to guar
antee laid-off workers 60 to 65
percent of regular take-home pay,
including state unemployment
compensation benefits, for a max
imum of 26 weeks. GM will con
tribute five cents an hour per
worker toward a $150 million
trust to finance the plan over the
next three years.
FLAG DAY TOMORROW
Tomorrow is Flag Day. A time
to display the national colors and
remember that it represents the
free world—free people.
Let’s have a flag on every
'business house and every home!