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VOL. LXII No. 9 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1960Per Copy 151
Two Plane Crashes
Take 60 Lives
In Hills of Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey, Iff) — Two
planes crashed in Turkey a fevf
hours apart yesterday and all the
58 persons aboard them were be
lieved killed.
Wreckage of a U. S. Navy plane
that disappeared with 16 aboard
on a daylight flight from Rota,
Spain, to the U. S. air base at
Adana, Turkey, was sighted to
day on Karanfil Mountain, 15
miles horthwest of Adana. Tur
kish sources said there was no
sign of life.
All 44 persons aboard were lost
in' the crash of a Scandinavian
Airlines jet last night on a hill
near Ankara, 250 miles to the
northwest.
The Ankara disaster was the
third crash of a commercial air
liner since 1960 began less than
three weeks ago. It brought the
death toll for commercial avia
tion this year to 126.
The U. S. Navy plane was a
twin-engine P-4M reconnaissance
amphibian. *
The SAS plane was a French
built twin-jet Caravelle. It was
the first commercial crash for the
Caravelle since Air France and
the Scandinavian line began
using it a year ago.
The plane encountered heavy
rain and wind as it approached
Ankara, but airport experts said
the crash “was caused by tech
nical reasons — not the weather.”
U. S. Army Secretary
Doubts Soviet'Forces
Are Being Reduced
WASHINGTON, UR — Secretary
of the Army Wilber Brucker
today questioned the claim of
Soviet Premier Khrushchev that
Communist military forces aje
being reduced.
Brucker told the Senate Armed
Services Committee that “175 So
viet line divisions now consist
predominantly of armored and
mechanized types.”
“Our evidence indicates that,
despite Soviet claims, there has
been no significant reduction in
these or other types of military
forces,” the Army Secretary
said in a long summary of rela
tive army defense forces made
available to newsmen. He was a
witness in the Senate committee’s
review of the U. S. defense posi
tion in relation to the new budget.
Brucker made a strong plea for
more modern tanks, aircraft, mis
siles, small atomic weapons, guns
and other new equipment for the
U. S. Army in the next fiscal
year.
In advance of Brucker’s testi
mony, Senator Richard Russell
(D-Ga) said he is “not happy about
lack of an adequate airlift” to
move U. S. ground forces to
places where brush-fire wars
may threaten.
JUST TESTING . . .
DETROIT, UR — When Maurice
Shields appeared before Judge
George Murphy Tuesday he was
asked why he led police on a 20
mile chase at speeds sometimes
exceeding 105 miles an hour.
Shields, 21, told the judge “I
heard some engine noises and I
wanted to work them out.” He
was sentenced to 20 days in jail
and placed on a year of no
driving probation.
Friday Senate Hearing
To Consider Appointment
Of Hodge as Federal Judge
WASHINGTON, M — The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee has
scheduled a hearing for Friday on
the nomination of Alaska Su
preme Court Judge Walter H.
Hodge to be U. S. District Judge
in Alaska.
Hodge, 63-year-old Republican,
is expected to attend the hearing.
He was a judge at Nome before
being named to the state’s high
court last July.
Alaska Senators Ernest Gruen
ing and Bob Bartlett, both Dem
ocrats, announced prior to the
nomination their first choice for
the appointment was Vernon
Fonbes of Fairbanks.
But they said they would sup
port confirmation of Hodge if he
were nominated.
Under the Alaska Statehood
Act, one federal district will re
place the four currently operat
ing in the state.
House Budget Choppers
Plan to Pare Two Billion
WASHINGTON, (#) — A cut to
two billion dollars or more in new
appropriations was the minimum
goal of House Appropriations
Committee leaders today as they
started work on the 1961 federal
budget.
“We should be able to cut at
i least two billion dollars,” said
chairman Clarence Cannon (D
Mo) in an interview.
“A couple of billion or more,”
said Representative Taber of New
York, senior Republican, com
menting on budget-cutting pros
pects.
Both men are influential in
determining the size of new ap
propriations bills which finance
the federal budget. Both singled
out civilian personnel as an area
for sharp cuts and large money
savings.
Former Parcel
Post Limitations
Best for New States
WASHINGTON, lift — Hawaii
and Alaska senators joined today
in introducing a bill to increase
the size and weight limitations
on parcel post packages mailed
to and from the two new states.
Chairman Olin Johnston (D-SC)
of the Senate Post Office Com
mittee is another co-sponsor of
the measure.
While territories, Hawaii and
Alaska had special limitations —
up to 100 inches in combined
length and girth and 70 pounds on
each parcel post package.
As states, the more restrictive
limitations for first class post
offices in the other state became
effective in Hawaii and Alaka —
72 inches and 40 pounds.
Sen. Oren Long CD-Hawaii)
said the application of the
smaller size restrictions has added
to the transportation cost of
users of parcel post.
Expressing belief that the eco
nomic growth of the new states
requires full development of
every means of communication
with the mainland, Long said res
toration of the old parcel post
limits would > promote trade
materially.
WEATHER FORECAST
Decreasing cloudiness today,
partly cloudy tonight and Thurs
day. Low expected tonight, -10,
high tomorrow 0.
Nome data last 24 hours,
Temperatures—highest 8, lowest
Temperatures — highest 8, lowest
-28. Maximum wind, 43 miles an
hour from the north. Sunrise at
9:20 a.m., sunset at 3:06 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures a year ago today — High 32,
low 18. Extremes this date since
1907 — Highest 36 in 1940, low
est'-31 in 1947.
Fairbanks, Anchorage Gain Top Party
Positions At Close of Demo Convention
KETCHIKAN, UP) — The Fair
banks and Anchorage districts
swept their candidates into four
of the top five positions in the
State Democratic Party during the
closing hours late Monday after
noon at the state convention here.
Except for a contest for the
position of national committee
man, the officers listed by the
nomination committee were ac
cepted unanimously by the dele
gates.
HelleMhal Named Chairman
John Hellenthal, of Anchorage,
was named chairman of the Alas
ka Democratic Central Committee;
James Fisher, Anchorage, secre
tary; Mrs'. Helen Fischer, Anchor
age, national committeewoman.
The lone Southeastern Alaska
member in the top governing
group is Mrs. Janette Edwards,
Ketchikan, who is Southeast Divi
sion chairman.
For the position of Democratic
National Committeeman, the
nominating committee, headed by
Dick Greuel, advanced the name
of Alex Miller, the incumbent
from Fairbanks, and the Southeast
District nominated from the floor
Felix Toner of Juneau.
In balloting by “unit rule”
among the four districts, Miller
gained all the 60 votes of the
Northwest, Central and South
Central Districts against the 20
tallies of the Southeast.
The delegates postponed until
their next meeting at Anchorage
discussion of reapportionment.
The convention picked 18 dele
gates to the national convention
at Los Angeles next summer and
stuck to tradition by sending them
uninstructed. Each delegate will
have Vz vote and the delegation
will be bound by the unit rule.
The national convention dele
gates will be headed by Governor
William Egan. They include Sen
ator Bartlett, Frank Peratrovich,
Felix Toner and Mrs. Pat Gil
more of the Southeast District;
William Beltz, Senator Gruening,
John McNees and Mike Walsh,
Northwest District; Stan McCut
cheon, R. E. McFarland, Wendell
Kay and Governor Egan of the
South Central District; Eugene
Brazeau, Lew Dischner, Dick
Greuel and Bob Giersdorf, Cen
tral District. ,
Central committeemen picked
include W. C. Stump, Alice Her
rigan, Berling Strand, Thomas
Stewart, Neal Foster, John Mc
Nees, Lorena Gray, Eben Hop
son, Robert McFarland, Quincy
Benton, Pearl Gibson, Wendell
Kay, Dick Greuel, Lew Dischner,
Ruth Monroe and Peggy Giers
dorf.
Fred Hanford and Mrs. H. H.
McCutcheon of Anchorage and
Mike Walsh of Nome were named
electors.
Eisenhower Assures Continued Record
Prosperity, In New Government Thrift
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, UT> — Presi
dent Eisenhower today assured
Congress that America’s rising
prosperity can go on breaking
records through 1960 “and well
beyond” if his budget is kept bal
anced, the debt reduced, and in
flation curbed.
In his annual economic report,
third and last of the major White
House messages each session, Eis
enhower foresaw national output
vaulting to nearly 750 billion dol
lars a year by the end of the
1960s.
That would be half again as
great as the 500-billion-dollar
production peak in sight this year.
The hazards that threaten this
golden goal — inflation and spec
ulation, hastening the onset of re
cessions — can be overcome, Eis
enhower gaid, by a resolute effort
of the government and the public
to:
1. Restore an economy in which
price reduction, as well as price
increases, are “normal and
frequent.”
2. Build a “well-informed and
vigilant public opinion" that will
resist the attempts of business or
labor * “arbitrarily to establish
prices or wages that are incon
sistent with the general welfare.”
3. Achieve a sizeable budget
surplus and devote it wholly to
reducing the ' 200-billion-dollar
federal debt. His fiscal 1961 bud
get, sent to Congress Monday,
forecasts a $4,200,000,000 surplus.
Calls For Removal of Interesl
Ceiling on Federal Bonds
The President gave only one
other legislative proposal equal
priority. He called urgently —
for the fourth time in two weeks
— for removal of the 4V4 per
cent interest ceiling on federal
bonds.
But he repeated most of the 79
legislative requests he sent to
Congress in his budget message
Monday.
There was no reference at all
to general tax reduction — not
even the heavily hedged prospect,
voiced in the budget message, that
“the next administration and the
next Congress” might be able to
consider some relief.
By demonstrating the govern
ment’s ability and* determination
to control its spending, he said,
Congress can provide potent help
in restraining inflation, promoting
sound growth, and “strengthen
ing confidence in the dollar at
home and abroad.”
Eisenhower indicated that, de
spite the painful impact of last
fall’s 116-day steel strike, he will
resist any moves in Congress to
restrict collective bargaining or
regulate private wage and price
decisions.
Soviet General
Denounces Japan -
U. S. Arms Treaty
MOSCOW, UP — The comman
der of Soviet forces in the Far
East today denounced the new
U. S.-Japanese security pact as a
move against the Soviet Union.
He warned that because of the
treaty, the Kremlin might not
honor its promise to return two
islands seized 'from Japan in
World War II.
Colonel General Penkovsky de
clared that in signing the new
pact, Japanese Prime Minister
Kishi “may reap a whirlwind.”
He warned that in the event of
war, Japan risks “retaliatory
blows of devastating power.”
Writing in Pravda, Penkovsky
said he thought the Soviet people
would consider the Soviet Union
released from its promise to re
turn the tiny islands of Habomai
and Shikotan, since “it is clear
to everybody they will be used
by foreign armed forces.”
The two islands are just off the
northeast tip of the Japanese
island of Hokkaido and adjoin the
Soviet-occupied Kurile Islands.
The Soviet Union promised to
return Habomai and Shikotan on
the signing of a peace treaty with
Japan, but there has been no
progress toward a treaty beyond
a joint declaration in late 1956
ending the state of war between
Japan and the Soviet Union.
PLANE DELAYED IN BOSTON
FOR BOMB CHECK
BOSTON, UP) — A Pan Amer
ican World Airways plane was
delayed three hours Tuesday
sight when a crank telephoned
that he had put a bomb aboard.
After a search failed to turn up
any bomb the plane took off for
Vienna, via London and Frank
furt.
Mystery Deepens On
Cause of Plane Bombing
WILMINGTON, N. C., UP* — A
new note of mystery was injected
today into the January 6 crash
of a National Airlines plane in
which 34 persons were killed.
A wallet found on the body of
Connecticut Attorney Julian
Frank was reported to have con
tained no money. It was said to
have yields only identification
cards and an advertisement for
shoes.
The lack of money was taken
in some quarters to mean that
Frank had boarded the plane for
Miami with no thought of re
turning.
Senator Mike Monroney, chair
man of a Senate subcommittee
studying the crash, previously
had expressed belief that the
plane was blown up by a bomb
carried by Frank.
However, airline officials in
New York have said that their
records showed Frank had
booked a return trip on the day
after the crash.
An investigation had centered
on Frank because he recently
had insured himself for nearly
$900,000.
Father’s All Broken Up!
COLUMBUS, Ga., UPi — Wal
lace Evans, 23, paced the hospital
corridor nervously as all pros
pective first-time fathers are
supposed to do.
A smiling doctor appeared and
broke the news: “You are the
father of twin boys.”
That just started the breaking.
The 6-foot, 200-pound father hit
the floor in a dead faint. He broke
his nose, cut his lip, sprained his
back and knocked out a tooth.
In semi-consciousness, he was
wheeled away for first aid then
hospitalized 24 hours for shock.
The twins and the mother were
in fine condition today.