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VOL. LVIII No. 103 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1956 _Per Copy—15^
Nasser Will Meet With West But
Doesn’t Say When; British and
French Impatience Increases Tension
LONDON, li¥)—President Nasser
will meet in Cairo with the five
nation Suez Canal commitee head
ed by Australian Prime Minister
Robert G. Menzies, an official
Egyptian o^urce disclosed there
today.
But the informant. said he could
not reveal the time for the meet
ing, which Menzies has asked be
held this week.
There were signs of British and
French impatience over delays in
getting down to the actual talks
with Nasser on the West-spon
sored plan for international con
trol of the Suez waterway.
AFL-CIO Votes
To Support Team
Of Adlai and Estes
By the Associated Press
The AFL-CIO Executive Coun
cil decided by a split vote yester
day to recommend that the 15
million members of the big union
support Stevenson and Kefauver.
The council action reportedly
was against the advice of AFL
CIO President George Meany—
who has counseled against a tieup
with either party—but Meany
pledged to support the decision
whole-heartedly.
Stevenson was described as "de
lighted” at the news.
There was no immediate com
ment from the White House on
the behalf of Eisenhower.
However, in Washington, Vice
President Nixon issued a state
ment saying he is "confident” that
American workers will support
the Eisenhower Administration
despite the Executive Council’s
action. Nixon added that “we rec
ognize the right of the AFL-CIO
leaders to take a personal stand
on candidates and issues" but he
felt sure “the leaders of organized
labor do not intend to try to bind
their members or dictate to them
how they should think or vote.”
Hope for 1957 Tax Cut Fades as
Only $700 Million Surplus Estimated
WASHINGTON \&>—A new fed
eral budget estimate, boosting the
anticipated surplus to a modest
$700 million, today left little
ground for hope of tax cuts in
1957.
One high administration source
said the black-ink margin now
foreseeable for fiscal 1957 “is still
too narrow to justify any reduc
tion.”
The mid-year budget review,
issued last night by Secretary of
the Treasury Humphrey and
Budget Director Percival F. Brun
dage, showed estimated revenues
soaring to $69.8 billion, up $4.3
billion from the government in
come forecast by President Eisen
hower in his January ■*'budget
message to Congress.
But it also showed federal
spending amounting to a peace
time record of $69.1 billion in the
year which started July 1.
That is 34 billion beyond Eisen
hower’s spending estimate and
absorbs most of the revenue gains
arising from unparalleled nation
al income and boom-level corpor
ate profits.
The result is that the anticipat
ed surplus, figured in January to
be a little more than $400 million,
now is reckoned at $700 million.
But that figure is much less than
in the fiscal 1956 surplus of $1,
754,000,000 which the administra
tion considered too small to justi
fy tax cuts this year.
The British were suspicious that
Nasser had cooked up a spy plot
at this time to head off criticism
at home that he was backing
down by agreeing to listen to the
West-sponsored plan for the Suez
Canal.
Egypt’s sudden arrest of two
Britons as spies yesterday threw
new fuel on the smouldering dis
pute with Great Britain—already
threatening to burst into flame
over the canal seizure.
The West’s plan for the canal
drew the support of 18 nations at
the London Suez conference last
week. The 18 nations named a
five-nation committee headed by
Menzies, who asked the Nasser
government last Friday if he
would agree to listen to the com
mittee’s explanation of the West
ern plan. Nasser’s reply did not
come until yesterday.
Another communication is now
awaited by Menzies agreeing for
mally to a place and time.
Sir George Young, a British
Foreign Office spokesman, said
Britain will not stand for “an
“endless chain of conferences.”
Maurice Faure, state secretary
at the French Foreign Ministry,
took a similar stand. He said his
country would not tolerate the
prospect of talks with Egypt bog
ging down “in eternal palaver.”
The arrest of the two Britons
added to tension stirred up by
Nasser’s seizure of the Suez Canal
Co. They seemed certain to in
crease sentiment in Britain for a
tough policy toward Egypt—pos
sibly including the use of military
force.
OLDSTERS SURPRISED THEY
WERE OBJECT OF SEARCH
TACOMA, Wt—Two elderly Ta
coma prospectors who went ura
nium hunting with home-made
instruments walked into Ashford,
near Mt. Rainier, yesterday after
noon after a week’s absence.
The men, Charles Allger, 86,
and Oe Castle, 90, were a little
upset when they learned a search
had been on for them since last
Saturday.
2nd Body Found
Off China Coast
WASHINGTON, UP—The Navy
today announced recovery of the
second body of a crewman of the
patrol plane which was shot down
off the China coast last Thursday.
The first body was found 'last
Friday in an area about 90 miles
southeast of Shanghai and near
the eastern fringe of the islands
which flank the coast of south
China.
A brief message from the 7th
Fleet, charged with search opera
tions in the area, said that the
body of the second crew member
was found by a U.S. destroyer in
the general vicinity where bits of
wreckage and the first body were
previously recovered.
Communist China has conceded
her planes shot down an aircraft
off the China coast last Thursday
but insists the plane belonged to
the Chinese Nationalists.
Doolittle Predicts Crossing U.S.
By Plane in Less Than 3 Hours
By ROBERT EUNSON
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—In the
not too distant future, you will be
able to take off in New York and
land in San Francisco before you
took off.
This is the opinion of the man
who won the first Bendix Trophy
race in 1931 and went on to set a
transcontinental record of 12
hours.
"We now have fighter planes
in the 1,000-mile-per-hour class,”
Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle said in
an interview. “It is only a matter
of time until commercial aircraft
will be flying across the continent
in less than three hours.’'
Arrive Before You Leave
With the aid of the three-hour
time differential from coast to
coast, this would mean arriving
before you left, by the clock.
This week marks the 25th an
New Party Names
Former IRS Chief
For Candidate
In Fort Worth, Texas, a new
political party came up with its
own national ticket. A “Constitu
tion Party” convention named T.
Coleman Andrews of Virginia
and Thomas Werdel of California
as its candidates for president and
vice president.
Andrews, an Eisenhower ap
pointee, formerly headed the In
ternal Revenue Service. Since re
signing he has been a frequent
critic of the nation’s income tax
laws. Werdel is a former Repub
lican congressman.
At Richmond, Va., Andrews
said, “Evidently the determina
tion of disfranchised Democrats
and Republicans to vote for
something they believe in is even
more intense and widespread than
I had thought.”
He said, however, he has told
leaders of the Constitution Party
he does not see how he can turn
aside from business duties to con
duct a political campaign.
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niversary of the Bendix Trophy
race—aviation’s equivalent of the
Kentucky Derby or the Indianap
olis speedway classic.
Doolittle won that first race in
1931 from Los Angeles to Cleve
land, refueled, took off for New
York and became the first man
to cross the continent in 12 hours.
Now with the Shell Oil Co.
here, Doolittle looks more like
the man in the gray flannel suit
than the man who used to break
air speed records and went on to
bomb Tokyo and command the
mighty Eighth Air Force in Eur
ope.
'VJ>. of Odd Jobs'
He said his position now is
“vice president in charge of odd
jobs."
Nearly 60, Doolittle hasn’t flown
much for the past eight years, but
is still in the Air Force Reserve.
Doolittle said he would not care
to predict the three hour trans
continental flight for commercial
aircraft. “When I started flying
almost 40 years ago, I could not
begin to conceive the ranges and
speed aircraft would have today.
I am equally incapable, today, of
saying what they will be 40 years
from now.”
7 WHO BAILED OUT
FEARED DEAD BUT
PLANE LANDS SAFELY
ANCHORAGE, UPV—Air Force
and Civil Air Patrol planes were
searching yesterday for seven
airmen who parachuted from a
crippled KC-97 *Stratotanker.
The seven airmen and Lt. Rob
ert Ofaltus, the co-pilot, bailed
out of the aerial fueling station
Monday. Moore was found on
bleak Fire Island, 14 miles from
here.
It was feared the other men
floated down into the waters of
frigid Cook Inlet, where their
chances of survival would be slim.
The pilot of the 8 tra to tanker,
Capt. Alva L. Wilkerson glided
the plane into a safe landing at
Elmendorf AFB after the bailout.
City Sales Tax Shows Increase;
Playfield To Be Graveled Soon
King Island Village will have
fire protection very soon, accord
ing to a report given at the City
Council meeting Tuesday night.
Through the courtesy of CAA and
the use of their poles, a fire phone
direct from the village to the
fire station is being installed this
week.
The Council expressed appreci
ation to the CAA for the use of
their road grader during the past
month while the city equipment
was out of operation due to a
breakdown.
The application to Alaska Pub
lic Works for, a water and sewer
age loan, is awaiting the return
of City Attorney James von der
Heydt who has been in Chicago
as a delegate to the Democratic
convention. Also awaiting his re
turn is the completion of the sale
of property by the Northern Com
mercial Co. for the new Alaska
National Guard headquarters on
Mettier Way and Front Street.
Work cm Playfield
The graveling of the school
playfield is expected to begin
very soon as the buildings now on
the location are being moved and
the property north of the school
vacated.
The Council voted the sale of
the east 20 feet of Lot 11 in
Block 51 to Pearse Walsh for $50.
The Police report showed the
following for the month of July:
87 Arrests In July
87 arrests made, $1184 collected
in fines, two dogs disposed of,
three ambulance calls, three traf
fic tickets issued, six juvenile
and 53 other complaints investi
gated.
The Fire. Dept, report showed
only three fires in July with neg
ligible damage reported.
The Health Nurse reported only
two cases of communicable dis
ease, mumps, and 72 x-rays taken.
These were in addition to the
mass x-ray program during the
month when 1070 x-rays were
taken. *
Sales Tax Receipts Up
Second quarter sales tax re
ports showed a total of $15,459.59
collected which compares with
$12,140.83 collected for the same
period last year.
The Chief of Police called at
tention to the fact that an ordin
ance passed two years ago had
not been enforced. This ordinance
calls for a taxi cab license of
$15 per cab per year. All taxi
operators are being informed that
the license fee is to be collected
for this year.
Two Cab Drivers Suspended
The Council also took action
suspending the licenses of taxi
drivers Wallace Merrill and Dean
Martin following their conviction
in Commissioner’s Court for sell
ing liquor to minors.
A conference is scheduled with
the school contractors for deter
mining who is responsible for the
condition of the roads around the
school, some of which are impass
ible due to the muck deposited
while excavating for the founda
tion.
A 3-Greats-Grandmother
For Believe It or Not
NYKOEBING, Denmark, UR—
Mrs. Mette Marie Petersen be
came a great-great-great-gyand
mother yesterday. Her great
great-granddaughter gave birth to
a baby girl.
All the female links in the
chain are still alive. Mrs. Peter
sen is 100 years old, her daughter
is 80, her daughter is 60, her
daughter is 40, and, Ingelise Niel
son, the new mother, is 20; •
M - Kincome Down
NEW YORK, m—Morrison
Knudsen Co. today reported a net
income of $1,896,961, 'equal to 93
cents a share for the six months
ending June 30. This compared
with $2,564,743 or $1.24 a share
a year ago.