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VOL. LV NO. 92 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY,, AUGUST 3, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Flight to Nome Scheduled
By Senate Interior Group
WASHINGTON, U!)— Delegate
Bartlett said today the Senate In
terior Committee will hold its
first statehood hearing of the re
cess in Ketchikan Aug. 17.
The committee’s tentative sched
ule calls for other hearings in Ju
neau, Aug. 18; Fairbanks, Aug. 20;
Anchorage, Aug. 24.
A flight to Point Barrow and
Nome, with the latter as an over
night stop, is scheduled for Aug.
21.
The committee is to leave Seat
tle enroute to Alaska on Aug. 11.
Picture Stories In
National Publications
Will Boost Alaska
Interest in Alaskan travel will
be given a big boost this season
with the placement of several
picture stories in national publi
cations, according to information
received last week by the Alaska
Visitors Association.
Robert Halmi, internationally
famous photographer, who made
a trip through the territory at the
request of the association, has
written from New York that six
picture stories about the territory
have been placed with national
publications and that other edi
tors are considering additional
coverage.
The photographer requested that
editorial confidences be kept until
after publication but stated that
the stories covered areas from
Juneau to Nome and Point Hope
with one personality series in the
group.
Hawaii Governor
Deplores Blocking
Of Statehood Bill
SEATTLE, UP — Hawaii’s Gov.
King charged last night that the
move to consolidate the Hawaii
and Alaska statehood bills was an
effort to prevent the passage of
the Hawaii bill at this session of
Congress.
“We have every reason to be
lieve’ that if the measure were
brought out on the Senate floor
for a vote, it would pass,” King
sajd.
The bill to admit Hawaii as the
49th state of the Union has passed
the House. It is now pending be
fore the Senate Committee on In
terior and Insular Affairs, where
by an 8 to 7 vote, the Alaska
statehood bill was attached to it.
“It was very obviously an effort
- to delay things and prevent the
measure from coming to a vote in
the Senate by stalling the commit
tee,” King declared.
“Apparently it is the program
of the leadership of the Democrat
ic Party to insist that both Alas
ka and Hawaii be admitted at the
same time, or they used this
means of defeating both the state
hood bills.”
King said the fight for state
hood would be continued, how
ever. He plans to introduce a res
olution at the 45th annual gov
ernors conference which he is at
tending here. It asks the govern
ors to recommend for the seventh
successive time that Congress
promptly enact legislation to ad
mit Hawaii.
Debt Limit Action
Postponed As
Adjournment Near
WASHINGTON, UP— Congress
drove toward mid-afternoon ad
journment today after a White
House conference decided to post
pone action on raising the federal
debt limit until next year if pos
sible.
Acting Senate Leader Know
land CR-Calif) and Sen. Millikin
(R-Colo>, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, told news
men after a breakfast meeting
with President Eisenhower that
every effort would be made to
avoid a special session this fall to
act on the debt ceiling.
Eisenhower had proposed an
immediate $15 million dollar in
crease. The House voted approval
but the Senate Finance Commit
tee killed the measure Saturday.
Secretary of Treasury Humph
rey, who with Budget Director
Dodge sat in on the White House
meeting, said later the adminis
tration will operate under the
present 275 billion dollar debt
limit for the remainder of the
year if it is at all possible.
Sen. Byrd (D-Va) later asserted
that if the debt limit is raised by
$15 billions it will keep on going
up. «
“It will go to 290 billion, then it
will go to 300 billioti and we will
go straight over the brink to fin
ancial disaster,” Byrd told the
Senate.
Byrd, a key member of the Fin
ance Committee, led last week’s
successful fight against the Eisen
hower proposed debt ceiling in
crease.
He touched off a flurry of de
bate in the closing hoars of the
Senate session by saying any in
crease was “an incentive to ex
travagance.”
Sen. Douglas (D-Ill) intervened
with a statement that the govern
ment’s cash balance is scattered
among 12,000 banks which pay
no interest on the federal deposits.
“This amounts to a subsidy of
$150 million dollars a year to the
banks of this country,” Douglas
said.
More Gamma Globulin As
Immunization Planned
For Expectant Mothers
JUNEAU, (£)— Doctors dipped
into emergency reserves of gam
ma globulin Saturday to finish
this city’s mass polio immuniza
tion after being assured the stock
pile would be replaced.
It became apparent Friday that
earlier estimates, based on the last
census, putting the child popula
tion in the city at 1,740, were too
low. When the program ended,
1,998 children had been innocu
lated, handed a consoling lollipop
and sent on their way.
The Office of Civilian Health
promised 5,000 centimeters of the
globulin to replace the reserve
supply used and advised that ex
pectant mothers also be immu
nized. This is scheduled to begin
Wednesday.
Resolution for Statehood
For Alaska and Hawaii
Expected of Governors
SEATTLE, UP)—For the past six
years the annual governors con
ference has adopted a resolution
urging Congress to admit Alaska
and Hawaii to statehood.
The governors are expected to
adopt a similar resolution at their
45th annual meeting this week.
An official said they have ex
pressed no preference as to which
of the two territories should be
the 49th state.
He insisted vigorously that it
was purely coincidental that Gov.
B. Frank Heintzleman of Alaska
was assigned card No. 49.
Of Tax Reduction
SEATTLE, UP)— Four Republi
can governors, and at least one
Democrat, swung behind Presi
dent Eisenhower today in urging a
go-slow policy of tax reduction.
A strong voice of opposition to
the go-slow policy came from
Gov. James Bracken Lee of Utah,
long an outspoken exponent of
lower taxes, who commented:
“I don’t know httw you can cut
spending unless you cut taxes.”
Lee continued, in an interview,
that everyone agrees the budget
should be balanced but that a lot
of American people are getting
discouraged over continuing high
taxes.”
The Democrat favoring the go
slow policy was Gov. Lawrence
Wetherby of Kentucky.
The support formed as Eisen
hower planned a flying trip here
tonight, after Sen. Taft’s funeral,
to attend his first national con
ference of governors. He is sched
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Nation’s Leaders
Pay PartingTribute
To Senator Taft
• •
WASHINGTON, UP— President
Eisenhower and other leaders of
the nation paid a solemn parting'
tribute to Sen. Robert A. Taft to
day at a state funeral in the stohe
rotunda of the national capitol.
There were words of consola
tion from the Scriptures and in
prayers of Senate and House
chaplains. There was a glowing
eulogy from Taft’s Ohio colleague,
Sen. John W. Bricker: “In him
were personified the noblest at
tributes of the Republic—rever
ence of God and love of liberty.”
For these services, the casket
and catafalque holding the body
1 of the fallen senator—he died of
cancer Friday in New York—were
moved to the west side of the ro
tunda. Yesterday, while thousands
of plain people paid their homage,
it had rested in the exact center
of the vast chamber beneath the
massive capitol dome.
Temporary chairs for 900 were
in place for the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower, members of the
Taft family, cabinet members,
Supreme Court justices, military
chiefs, diplomats and the entire
membership of Senate and House. ■■
East Berlin Workers Clash With
Police In Protest Against Seizure
Of Western Food Gift Parcels
Dulles Leaves for Seoul
For Talks With Rhee on
Korea - U.S. Security Pact
McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE,
Wash., UP) — Secretary of State
Dulles today winged across the
Pacific toward Seoul and talks
with Korea President Syngman
Rhee on the wording of a Korean
American security pact.
Dulles, who was the dbject of
an angry blast by Red China’s
Peiping radio yesterday, left this
sprawling base south of Tacoma
at 6:15 p.m. last night after a
flight from Washington.
He was to make a short stop at
Shemya, at the western tip of the
Aleutian Island chain, before con
tinuing along the great circle route
to Korea.
Lomen Commercial and
Archie Ferguson Get
Aviation Dept. Contracts
The Lomen Commercial Co. was
awarded the contract to move two
D-8 tractors, scraper and other
equipment for the Alaska Avia
tion Dept, from Cape Romanzoff
to Hooper Bay. Their bid was
$1775 with Archie Ferguson bid
ding $2495.
Archie Ferguson was the only
bidder on the moving of steel
matting from Cape Spencer to
Gambel'l, bidding $18.65 a ton for
a total of 800 tons for approxi
mately $15,000. He plans to leave
today and it is reported that he
will also take the new radio and
transmitter to Gambell, which has
become so necessary since the de
parture of the U.S. Weather Bu
reau from the island.
Herman Porter and Bud Rob
erts, engineers for the depart
ment, leave today with Pilot O.
Tosch for Hooper Bay to survey
for a DC-3 field. Jim Clinton and
Gene Razuska are now working
out of Kotzebue on the fields for
Kivalina and the Kobuk.
Tony Schwamm reports that the
Quartz Creek field should be com
pleted by Friday of this week. A.
C. Whitehead of the Aviation De
partment is now putting in ‘the
final work on the cross strip.
An airfield at Selawik is in the
making, stated Tony Schwamm of
the Department of Aviation. The
Selawik field is to be made of
steel matting and will measure
1100 feet by 60 feet when com
pleted. This new field will be
available for year-around use.
At present, only ski planes can
land safely at Selawik.
RESTLESS PIANO SALESMAN
WARSAW, N.Y., UP) — Like to
keep on the move? Listen to the
saga of the Jay Smiths:
The retired piano salesman and
his wife have moved 41 times in
the 51 years they have been mar
ried—'but never had a piano.
“Too heavy to move,” Smith
commented. \
f BERLIN, UFi—East Berlin’s Red
radio reported fights in scores of
Russian zone communities today
where police beat back people
protesting a Communist ban on
traveling to West Berlin for free
food.
At Potsdam, said the radio, a
group of anti-Communists “tried
to incite the population to revolt.”
Rail stations in Eastern Ger
many were reported surrounded
by police to enforce the ban. Even
columns of bicyclists attempting
to ride to Berlin on the highways
were turned back.
The northwest German radio
broadcasting from the west said
workers retaliated with wide
spread strikes. Many workers at
the big Leuna synthetic fuel re
finery at Merseburg did not show
up for the Sunday night shift, the
radio said, and protest strikes
crippled the big electro-chemical
works at Bitterfeld and several
large plants at Jena, Madgeburg
and Erfurt. At numerous plants
day shifts started sit-downs, the
radio said.
The East Berlin radio said the
clash in Potsdam developed when
a band of 150 students from the
“Walter Ulbricht” school for
training Red agitators marched
against “fascist agitators” and put
them to flight.
The broadcast said there were
numerous other clashes in other
places where East Germans re
turning with their free food par
cels were attacked and their food
confiscated.
Thousands of hungry East Ber
liners swarmed into West Berlin
to food stations. Most East Ger
mans were kept away by the
blockade, though a few slipped
through.
Many of those who got to West
Berlin and received food parcels
were pounced on by police when
they returned to East Berlin, and
their packages confiscated. One .
estimate said 50,000 parcels were
seized in 24 hours.
The Communists used the stolen
food to open an “aid station for
West Berlin unemployed.” They
fired rockets which dropped prop
aganda leaflets in the American
sector inviting West Berlin
“needy” to come and get the food.
Alaska i\irlines Plane
Crashes on Takeoff
FAIRBANKS, dt- An Alaska
Airlines plane crashed on a take
off here Saturday night but the
two persons aboard escaped ser
rious injury.
The single-engine craft, heavily
laden with freight for interior Al
aska points, failed to clear a small
sandbar at the end of the takeoff
area adjacent to the International
Airport.
The plane hit the earth and
flipped over on its back. It was
damaged badly. The pilot, Irwin
Crane, 40, was treated for minor
bruises. A passenger was not in
jured.