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Doomed Captain of Sinking Tuva
Calmly Reports Plight Over Radio
KODIAK, Ifi—A sea captain
facing death on a sinking ship
talked calmly by radio of his
plight until the ship made the fa
tal plunge, two seamen reported
Saturday.
Capt. N. Thomsen of the Aleu
tian mailboat expansion said he
and mate Einer Petersen listened
to the final words of the skipper
of the Motorship Tuva before the
Tuva sank in the storm-swept
Gulf of Alaska.
“. . . We’re taking on water very
fast. We have our lifejackets on
and are planning to abandon
ship,” Thomsen quoted the skip
per. “Water is now coming up
rapidly. It is up to my knees, so
I guess I had better sign off.”
The Tuva, a modem motor ves
sel with a four-man crew, was
last reported Wednesday off Cape
St. Elias while sailing from Seat
tle to Kodiak with a cargo of dy
namite for a road construction
project.
An oil slick and pieces of cargo
were found in the gulf Saturday
near where the Tuva was last re
ported. There was no sign of sur
vivors.
At Seattle, an officer of the Far
North' Tug and Barge Co. identi
fied the four as Julian Morrison,
the master; John Hoxie of Den
ver; Luther Yacoff of White
Mountain, Alaska; and Sheldon
(Chic) Barnes of Seattle.
Thomsen said he and Peterson
heard the Tuva’s distress call as
they sailed their mailboat here.
“The voice of the skipper was
the calmest we ever heard for
anyone facing certain death,”
said Thomsen.
Just before the Tuva went off
the air, Thomsen said, "the skip
per said goodbye to somebody.”
“These were his last words."
Luther Yacoff was the son of
Agnes Komokuk of White Mt.,
who moved to Nome recently.
Luther worked for Alaska Air
lines here several years ago.
U. N. Council Expected to Agree on
Basis for Settlement of Suez Dispute
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UT)—
The U.N. Security Council was
called on Saturday to approve six
principles on which Britain,
France and Egypt have agreed to
base settlement of their Suez
Canal dispute.
The Council was expected to
give unanimous endorsement to a
resolution being drafted by Brit
ain and France, but there were
signs a long debate might precede
the vote.
Agreement on the six principles
was reported to the Council in a
two-hour secret session Friday
night. They called for freedom of
navigation, respect for Egyptian
sovereignty, insulation of the ca
nal from national politics, fixing
of tolls by agreement between
Egypt and the users, use of a fair
part of the dues for canal im
provement, and arbitration of any
disputes between Egypt and the
expropriated Suez Canal Co.
President Eisenhower, on a tel
evision interview in Washington,
hailed the development as “most
gratifying.” He declared it looked
as tho “a very great crisis is be
hind us.J’
Secretary of State Dulles was
reported highly pleased over the
latest step and said there seemed
to be solid ground for a favorable
outcome.
The agreement resulted from
six private huddles among British
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd.
French Foreign Minister Chris
tian Pineau, Egyptian Foreign
Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and
■U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold.
The talks started at Hanwnqr
skjold's invitation Tuesday night
while the Council was deadlocked
over a British-French resolution
declaring that Egypt's July 26
nationalization of the 103-mile
canal endangered freedom of
passage.
The agreement was concluded
in the secretary general’s office
only a few hours before the
Council met Friday.
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Teacher Objects
To Suspension for
Punishing Pupils
BRIGHTON, Colo., l*V—Grade
school teacher Esther B. Bogle,
suspended for taping the mouths
of three pupils who talked, assert
ed Saturday that another reason
prompted efforts to take away
her job.
“The school board is trying to
make room for the home town
married women,” she declared.
“They do this all the time. Every
year somebody gets it over some
little thing.”
Miss Bogle, 56, a Kansas native
who has taught for 35 years, said
she won’t resign.
She conceded she had placed
two-inch str^s of adhesive tape
on the mouths of three fifth grade
girls for about an hour after they
talked in class last month.
Irate parents appeared at a
school board meeting last week
end and Miss Bogle has been sus
pended since Wednesday.
School Supt. Walter Vikan said
some parents also accused her of
striking children on occasion, and
the dark-haired teacher retorted:
“Why, .everyone in the building
does that. You almost have to.”
Miss Dogle said the teachers
do not make a practice of beating
their pupils but “we just pop them
•ne now and then.”
As for resigning, she said:
“Why should I? If I resigned
now it would be like admitting
I’ve been too strict with the chil
dren, and I don’t feel I have."
Vikan said it would be up to
the parents to sign a complaint
directed at revoking Miss Bogle's
teaching certificate. No complaint
has yet been submitted.
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British Sailor Sets Record
For Deep Sea Diving
LONDON, Iff)—A world deep
sea diving record of 600 feet was
claimed Saturday by the British
Admiralty for a Royal Navy sail
or who made the descent in Nor
wegian waters. The old record of
535 feet was set in 1948 by an
other British diver.
mmm Hospital
Admitted: Jackie Ozenna, Phil
Richard, Grace Teayoumeak,
Agatha Sbwenna, Jennie Oksok
taruk.
Discharged: Diane Murray,
Anna Bourdon, Phil Gray, Ned
Boucher, Jerry Griggs, Phillip
Richard.
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RUSSIAN SLEEPING HABITS
CRITICIZED BY AMERICAN
MATTRESS MANUFACTURER
NEW YORK, art—1“Russia is not
sleeping properly,” says a mat
tress company executive just back
from the Soviet Union.
John F. Hubbell said on his re
turn yesterday that a thin, cotton
filled mattress used on many Rus
sian beds is at fault.
He said he paid 170 rubles—
about $42.50—for one of the Rus
sian mattresses.
“If this were put on a special
sale here in a department store
for five dollars,” Hubbell said,
"they wouldn’t sell any.”
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Deering. 32 2 24 3 2 3 13 19 6 21 21 7 21 9 3 25 4 22 3 20 4 21
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White Mountain. 22 11 14 19 21 11 17 20 19 8 16 21 16 11 20 10 15 16 17 13 17 14
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