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VOL. LVII No. 95 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1955 Per Copy—15^
Secy. Weeks Defies
House Orders To
Produce Records
WASHINGTON, WP1— Secretary
of Commerce Weeks and his Busi
ness Advisory Council today de
fied orders of a House committee
to produce back records and files.
Walter S. White, $25,000-a-year
executive director of the Council,
appeared before the House Anti
trust subcommittee in response
to a subpoena and challenged the
committee’s legal right to require
production of all the Council’s
files.
The Council, composed of about
200 top business executives, acts
as economic and business adviser
to Weeks.
White produced a letter from
Weeks stating the records are in
possession of the Commerce De
partment and White has no right
or authority to deliver any of
them to “any person or any of
the committees of Qpngress.”
Subcommittee chairman Celler
(D-NY) promptly declared the
Council’s defiance would be re
ferred to all members of the com
mittee to decide if contempt of
Congress was involved.
White was subpoenaed last Fri
day to culminate a running feud
between Celler and Secretary
Weeks over the subcommittee’s
investigation of “dollar a year”
businessmen serving the depart
ment in an advisory capacity
without compensation while
drawing their regular pay from
private business firms.
Air Force Says Mrs. Una
Schmidt Was Notified
Her Husband Was Alive
WASHINGTON, UF> — The Air
Force says it sent a telegram and
a letter to Mrs. Una Schmidt in
June 1954 to notify her that her
airman husband, Daniel Schmidt,
was reported a prisoner in Red
China.
Mrs. Schmidt has told reporters
that not until November 1954 was
she notified Schmidt was a pri
soner of war. That was two
months after she had married Al
ford Fine, 21, she said, in the
belief Schmidt was dead.
Schmidt, 22, is one of 11 Ameri
can airmen recently released by
the Communists. They are sched
uled to arrive Friday at Travis
Air Force base near San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Schmidt’s lawyer said she
has taken her son, Danny, 2Vfe,
whom Schmidt has never seen,
and is living apart from Fine, a
logging worker. The 20-year-old
woman is in seclusion with her
son in a house trailer near Nev
ada City, Calif., and was not
available for comment on the Air
Force statement.
753cc Salk Vaccine
Allocated To Alaska
WASHINGTON, — The
Health Service released yester
day another 1,177,068 shots of
Salk polio vaccine for use by
state or local public agencies for
private physicians. The alloca
tions included 753 cubic centi
meters to Alaska.
Eleven Returned Airmen
Now Enroute To Hawaii
TOKYO, W —Eleven U.S. air
men who spent 32 long months
in Communist captivity sped east
ward across the Pacific toward
home and family today.
Two plush C-54 air transports
—one Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
famed Bataan — left Tachikawa
| Air Base with the men early this
afternoon. After a 27-hour lay
over in Hawaii they are due at
Travis Air Force Base, Calif.,
Friday morning.
Aboard the Bataan are Col.
John Knox Arnold Jr., Capt.
John Vaadi, Capt. Elmer F. Lle
wellyn, Airman Harry M. Ben
jamin Jr. and Airman John W.
Thompson, III.
The second group in a sister
ship decorated and outfitted ex
actly like the Bataan, included
Maj. Wiliam H. Baumer, Lt. Wal
lace L. Brown, Lt. John W. Buck,
T/Sgt. Howard W. Brown, Air
man Steven E. Kiba and Airman
Daniel C. Schmidt.
In Honolulu the men will be
welcomed today by pretty girls
bearing flower leis. After a brief
news conference, an Air Force
spokesman said the men “will be
free to go anywhere and do any
thing they want—just like tour
ists.”
South Koreans
Again Try Assault
Inspection Teams
SEOUL, UP) — Three hundred
shouting Koreans, ignoring a “no
violence” edict by their president,
stormed the causeway to Wolmi
Island again today but were turn
ed back by U.S. troops manning
tear gas guns and fire hoses.
The milling demonstrators, con
tinuing South Korea’s campaign
to drive out Communist members
of neutral inspection teams, broke
up quickly before the determined
stand.
Waving banners and chanting
slogans, the mob drove as far as
barbed wire barricades thrown up
by the Americans, then faltered
and retreated.
They were trying to reach the
billets of Czech and Polish mem
bers of the inspection groups sta
tioned on the island just outside
the port of Inchon.
It was the third attempt to
storm the island in five days.
The disorders began last Satur
day with an ultimatum for the
Communist inspectors to get out
by midnight next Saturday.
Twenty-two Americans and 80
Koreans have been injured, none
seriously.
Filipino Champion Kayoes
Bantamweight Contender
MANILA, (tf)—Little Cezar de
fended his Philippine bantam
weight crown tonight by knock
ing out Italian flyweight king
Nazareeno Gianelli in the second
round of a scheduled 12 - round
bout.
The Filipino farm boy stopped
the Italian challenger with a left
hook to the midsection.
Gianelli is the No. 3 contender
for the world flyweight crown.
Canada Looks To
Atom As Major
Source of Power
GENEVA, (S)—Canada reported
today that within 10 years she
may be producing atomic power
that can compete in some areas
with coal and water power.
And from 1970 on, two Can
adian experts told the 72-nation
Atoms-For-Peace Conference that
atomic power may begin to
emerge “as a major if not the
major, source of electricty in
Canada.”
J. Davis, an economist of Can
ada’s Department of Trade and
Commerce ,and W.B. Lewis, re
search vice president of the Dom
inion’s atomic project at Chalk
River, Ont., made the report.
They told delegates to the U.N.
sponsored meeting that the per
formance of one of Canada’s re
search reactors and other studies
raised the possibility of produc
ing power at seven mills per kilo
watt hour within the next 10
years.
“Atomic energy plants with an
even better performance than
this may well be under construc
tion in Canada before 1965,” they
added.
The Canadians said that be
cause of their country’s abundant
water and coal resources, nuclear
power must drop below eight
mills before it can compete “any
where in Canada.”
Woman Charges Bathing
Suit Became Transparent
And Sues For $20,000
CHARLESTON, S. C., UP> —
Claudia A. Hamilton of Dillon
County says she went swimming
in a new bathing suit at a South
Carolina beach and when she
emerged she suffered the follow
ing:
Mortification and humiliation,
shock, permanent injury to her
nerves and “pyschic injury to
her' personality.”
The bathing suit, from the
waist down, became transparent,
she claims in her suit for $20,000
against the Glamor Shops, Inc.,
of New York.
Crowds spotted her rising from
the sea in a semi-nude state,
she claims, and a friend rushed
to knock her back into the water
to cover her from gaping males.
She said she was forced to walk
the gauntlet up the strand en
cased in a towel “for protection
from the leers of the public . .
Japan Will Ask Return
Of Islands From Russia
TOKYO, Ub — Foreign Office
sources were quoted today as say
ing Japan will ask return of the
Kuriles, Habomai, Shikotan and
South Sakhalin islands in a pro
.posed World War II peace treaty
with Russia.
The agency said the proposal
will also provide for a fishing
agreement, the mutual waiving of
claims to World War II repara
tions, a trade treaty, Soviet back
ing for Japan’s admission to the
United Nations and non-interven
tion in each other’s affairs.
Eisenhower Will Ask
For Major Changes In
Military Reserve Program
WASHINGTON, (AV-President
Eisenhower says he’ll ask Con
gress early next year to make ma
jor changes in the new military
reserve program, which he signed
into law yesterday.
He said the measure, product of
three months of Congressional
wrangling, “falls short” of his
recommendation.
The goal of the new program
is expansion of the 700,000-man
“ready” reserve to 2,900,000 men.
Eisenhower wanted this goal met
by 1960, saying it was vital to his
plan for reducing the active
armed forces. But changes made
by Congress in effect postponed
the full reserve buildup by two
years.
The President complained the
bill fails to grant authority to
draft men for the reserves “if suf
ficient numbers to meet military
requirements are not obtained
voluntarily.”
Dulles Appeals To
Korea To Avoid
Violent Action
WASHINGTON, Ub —Secretary
of State Dulles appealed to South
Korea today to exercise patience
and avoid violent action in ef
forts to oust truce supervisors
from the country.
Dulles asserted emphatically at
a news conference that the United
States intends to live up to its
obligations to protect the truce
team members — who include
Communist Czechs and Poles.
South Koreans have staged vio
lent demonstrations against the
truce teams, in which a number
of American soldiers have been
injured, none seriously. Korean
President Syngman Rhee has de
manded they get out of his coun
try.
Dulles agreed with South Kor
ean charges that these Reds are
little more than spies, but he
said he does not think informa
tion they pick up can imperil
the Republic of Korea.
Dulles also rejected, in re
sponse to questions, the whole
idea of trying to unify Korea or
any other divided nation in to
day’s world by force.
Dulles said because of the de
vastation of atomic war the
country might be unified only for
insects and not for people. He
added he doubts whether that
would be satisfactory even to the
hot-tempered, red-hating South
Koreans.
Margaret Truman On
6-Week Tour of Europe
LE HAVRE, France, Ub—Mar
garet Truman arrived aboard the
liner United States today for a
six-week tour of Europe.
Traveling alone, the daughter
of the former U. S. President
boarded a train for Paris. She
will go on to Salzburg, Austria,
to join Guri Lie, daughter of
former U. N. Secretary General
Trygve Lie. The two will tour
central Europe, attending the
music festival at Salszurg and
the film festival at Venice.
Demo Says Ike Is
‘Old Man’ And May
Not Run In 1956
CHICAGO, Uf) — Democratic
Gov. G. Mermen Williams today
described President Eisenhower
as “an old man” who may not
want a second term but who is
likely to be forced by Republi
cans into running in 1956.
Williams, who said he is leav
ing the door open to the possibil
ity that he may seek his own
party’s nomination, told reporters
at the 47th Annual Governor’s
Conference, “a lot of things can
happen before next year’s party
conventions.
“President Eisenhower is an
old man,” Williams said. “He may
die before the campaign starts.”
Eisenhower is 64 years old.
When a reporter remarked this
seemed “a cold-blooded state
ment,” Williams supplemented it
by saying Adlai E. Stevenson, the
1952 Democratic nominee, “or any
of us may die before that time.”
Williams noted if Eisenhower
runs and is re-elected, he will be
come the nation’s oldest Presi
dent before he completes a new
four-year term.
He accused Eisenhower of “re
pudiating his promises” made to
the farmers in the 1952 campaign,
adding that “the farmers have
become the forgotten men of our
economy.” He said the segment
of labor that voted for Eisen
hower in 1952 suffered “quick,
disillusionment.”
55-Year-Old Shoemaker,
Who Minds His Daddy,
Wins $32,000 TV Prize
NEW YORK, Ub — Shoemaker
Gino Prato—still accustomed to
following his father’s advice at
the age of 55 — has taken his
$32,000 and give up on “The
$64,000 Question.”
A cable from Papa Prato in
Italy advised:” Stop where you
are. That’s enough this way. Re
gards, Daddy.”
And that’s what the Bronx
cobbler, with the pleasing ways
and amazing operatic lore, did
last night.
Before a jammed studio and a
vStet television audience, Prato
took a check for the $32,000 he
had won so far. He translated the
cable from Genoa, and said:
“Because I take my daddy’s ad
vice all my life, I accept.”
Prato said he received the
cable from his 92-year-old father
this week, in the midst of a
dilemma over a deluge of “do”
and “don’t” advice from well
wishers.
No one yet has tried for the ■,
grand prize on the CBS-TV give
away show.
Two Alaska Cities Awarded
Matching Funds For Airports
WASHINGTON, 'The Com
merce Department has allocated
20 million dollars in federal air
port aid to 205 communities all
over the country. The cities must
match the grants dollar - for -
dollar. The grants include:
Petersburg seaplane base $75,
000 and Bethel Municipal Airport
j $14,370.