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• VOL. LVII No. 92 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1955 Per Copy—15^
Browns Buy The
Theater, Will Put
In Cinemascope
Virginia and Willie Brown to
day announced the purchase of
the theater building and the ad
jacent building which housed the
Golden Goose Bar, from Frank
Coplin.
The new owners said that reno
vations have already been started
to enlarge the theater and set up
a full Cinemascope screen for the
enjoyment of the theater-goers of
Nome. The ceiling of the theater
is being raised and Other im
provements are being made im
mediately.
The Golden Goosp building will
become a waiting room so that it
will not be necessary to wait in
the street before show time, a
convenience which will be greatly
appreciated during the winter and
will add greatly to the appear
ance of the theater.
A program of excellent shows
has been secured from the best
of Columbia, M-G-M, 20th Cen
tury, Paramount, Universal Inter
national and Republic studios, it
was announced.
Mrs. Brown stated this mor
ning that the theater will not
be closed during renovations and
a full schedule of pictures will
eontinue uninterrupted.
The first show under the new
ownership starts Sunday, with
the showing of “Titanic,” starring
Clifton Webb. Willie Brown said
this picture is “terrific” and will
toe shown two days, Sunday and
Monday, Aug. 7 and 8.
North Korean MP Sgt.
Goes Over To Allies
SEOUL, UP>—A North Korean
Community military police ser
geant crossed to the Allied side
today and asked for political
asylum, the U.S. 8th Army said.
The Army said Sgt. Yi Kyong
Pin declared he wanted to come
south after watching both his own
Communist army and the U. N.
forces in the joint demilitarized
zone.
The Army statement reported
Yi, a veteran of five years in
the North Korean army, said he
had been thinking of defecting
since 1953. He said the “attitude
and morale” of the U.N. troops
he saw was an important factor.
The Army did not report where
Yi had been taken. ®
Presumably he was being ques
tioned by intelligence officers.
100-Degree Temperatures
Prevail Across the Nation
Temperatures headed into the
<M)-100 range again today in mid
summer’s persistent and wide
spread heat w#ve.
The long range forecast indi
cated there will be no general
break in the steaming, scorching
weather for several days.
At least 45 persons ha\^ died
from the 90-plus heat. * m
The 100 degree line ; :erday
extended from California ^ New
York. Top reading was 109 at
Paso Robles, Calif., located about
midway in the Salinas Valley
along the coast. It was 100 at La
Guardia Airport in New York.
Returning Airman
To Be Met by Wife
Who Is Remarried
CISCO GROVE, Calif., UP) — A
thin 20-year-old girl today faced
the biggest decision of her life:
whether to return to the airman
husband she thought was dead or
stay with the man she married
later and loves.
“I knew it was coming, but I
didn’t know when,” said Mrs. Al
ford Fine, who as 17, wed Airman
2/C Daniel Schmidt of Coeur
D’ Alene, Idaho, and bore his
son after he left for overseas.
Now she is the wife of a husky
21-year-old logging camp tractor
operator. They live in a small
trailer a few miles from this tiny
highway town in the high Sierras.
Only Monday she learned that
Schmidt is one of 11 American
airmen due for momentary re
lease by the Chinese Communists
after 2Vz years of imprisonment
on spy charges. He went over
seas 37 months ago.
She’s flying to meet Schmidt
when he arrives in this country.
With her will go her 2Vz year-old
son Danny, a dark-eyed young
ster who has never seen his
father.
“I honestly don’t know what
I’m going to do,” she told a re
porter. “Naturally, I‘m tickled he
is returning. Whatever I decide,
the decision will be my own.”
She said she married Fine two
months before learning from the
Air Force that her husband was
alive and well as a war prisoner.
“I make a mistake,” she said,
“but isn’t everyone entitled to one
mistake?”
Mrs. Fine said she had never
been officially told that Schmidt
was dead. She received notifica
tion only that he was missing
somewhere in Korea.
Of Schmidt, she says: “I loved
him very much. After all, he is
the father of my child. But I was
only with him a few weeks before
he went overseas.”
Of Fine: “We’re very happy.
I don’t like it up here in the
woods but he’s been a good hus
band and I love him.”
Fine himself says little about
the strange situation.
11 U.S. Airmen Freed By
Chinese Are Expected In
Hong Kong Tomorrow
HONG KONG, Iff) — The daily
train from Communist Canton to
the Hong Kong border arrived to
day without the 11 U.S. airmen
being freed by Communist China.
Apparently they were to arrive
tomorrow, as the Reds announced
previously.
The next Canton train was due
at 1:30 Thursday, or 11:30 EST
Wednesday night.
Two U.S. Air Force C-54 trans
ports waited at Hong Kong’s Kai
Tak Airport to rush the men to
the Philippines for a stay of two
or three days. Then they will be
flown direct to the West Coast
for a reunion with their families
at either McChord Air Base near
Seattle or Travis Air Base near
San Francisco.
“We met and fell in love. That’s
about all there is to tell,” he said.
Scholarship At
U. of A. Awarded
To George Bell
George Bell, graduate of Nome
High School and Boy Scout leader
here, has received word that he
has been awarded the Alaska Na
tive Scholarship for this area to
the University of Alaska.
Bell is among the first to re
ceive this award, which is made
available through the territory by
the Bronson-McNabb Bill enacted
by the last legislature.
In awarding the first ten native
scholarships under the bill and
two-year appropriation, Registrar
Irene Gardner of the University
of Alaska said the scholarship
committee was greatly pleased
with the number and quality of
applicants.
Under this bill, up to ten new
students per year receive a maxi
mum of $800 to cover university
expenses for the year. And if they
maintain a “C” average, they are
to receive board and room for a
maximum of three additional
years.
Others in the initial group se
lected are Gladys Andrews of
Dillingham, Karl Ashenfelter of
White Mountain, Allen Baldwin
of Aniak and James Gregg of
Candle. Others are Elmer Ipalook,
Kotzebue; Oscar Kawagley, Beth
el; Alice Mishakoff, Kenai; Rob
ert Norton, Kodiak; and Rosita
Zamora, Juneau.
Named as alternates were Gary
Longley of Nome, Nolan Hamm of
Anchorage, John Burdett and Jo
seph Wilson of Juneau.
These scholarships are open to
students between the ages of 17
and 25 who are eligible for college
entrance and who have at least
one-fourth native blood.
Applications for the 1956-57
school year should be sent to the
registrar before April 16, 1956.
Talbott’s Resignation
Called “Easy Way Out”
For President Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, UP) — Paul M.
Butler, chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee, said
President Eisenhower chose “the
easy way out” in accepting the
resignation of Harold E. Talbott
as Secretary of the Air Force.
He said the President had side
stepped the issue of ethics.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference last week he would read
the record of a Senate investiga
tion of Talbott’s outside business
interests and make his decision
on Talbott on the basis of ethics
involved.
The White House announced
Talbott’s resignation Monday.
Accepting it, Eisenhower said
Talbott had made the “right” de
cision. Talbott will step out on
Aug. 13.
Butler issued a statement call
ing the Talbott resignation “a
case of unpunished unethical
conduct.”
Butler also criticized Atty. Gen.
Herbert Brownell’s part in the
matter. He said Brownell had
known for some months that the
propriety of Talbott’s conduct had
been questioned.
Congress Adjourns Amid Good
Humor and Mutual Compliments
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Bulgaria Admits Two
Fighter Planes Shot Down
Israeli Plane Last Week
LONDON, UP)—Communist Bul
garia admitted today that two of
her fighter planes shot down an
Israeli airliner last Wednesday.
The Sofia government said it
would “discover and punish those
responsible for the catastrophe.”
All 58 persons aboard the air
liner, including 12 Americans,
were killed in the crash. The
plane, which had gotten off
course, went down just north of
the Bulgarian-Greek border.
Previously the Bulgarians had
said Red anti-aircraft guns down
ed the airliner and promised par
tial payment for the million
dollar plane. But the Israeli For
eign Ministry said Monday that
Israeli investigators who inspect
ed the wreckage saw “numerous
bullet holes” and gained “the
definite impression” that they
came from machinegun fire.
The Bulgarian announcement
also conceded that the “organs of
the antiaircraft defense” which
shot down the American - built
Constellation were “too hasty.”
“They did not take all the
necessary measures to force the
plane to land.”
Defendant Turns
Courtroom Into
Death Chamber
CARLISLE, Pa., UP) — A gun
toting defendant, shouting that
justice had deserted him, turned
a Pennsylvania courtroom into a
death chamber yesterday — the
second time this has happened in
the Keystone State in the past 18
months.
Percy Haines, 60, of Newville,
R. D., 2, whipped out a pistol,
shouted he was getting a “raw
deal” when ordered to pay his
wife $50 monthly for support, and
fired four times—killing a lawyer
and injuring three others, in
cluding the presiding judge.
Haines was charged with mur
der and held without bail.
Victim of the bizarre slaying
was John D. Faller, 41-year-old
Carlisle attorney who was repre
senting Haines’ ex-wife, Lulu, 60,
in the non-support action.
Mrs. Haines, struck in the ab
domen, was reported in “criti
cal” condition.
Judge Mark E. Garber was hit
in the upper right arm and doc
tors said there was a possibility
it might be necessary to amputate.
George Black 50, an attorney
associated with Faller, was struck
in the left arm.
The circumstances of the shoot
ing paralleled a slaying in War
ren County Common Pleas Court
in 1954.
Norman Moon, 29, a defendant
in a non-support action brought
by his wife, shot and killed Judge
Allison D. Wade as he sat on the
bench.
> By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, UP) — Bitter
wrangles of the last few days
turned to mutual compliments
and rollicking good humor as
Congress ended its seven-month
session early today.
President Eisenhower relayed
his regards and apparently an
over-all satisfaction to the Demo
cratic-controlled Congress which
had strongly supported him in
foreign policy matters and given
him much he asked in the domes
tic field.
A half-dozen major bills and
scores of lesser ones had been
rushed to his desk in the final
long day and night of this first
session of the 84th Congress.
These included bills on hous
ing, polio vaccine, the local tran
sit strike, defence production loans
to small business and a money
bill to finance Congress itself.
Eisenhower had expressed dis
pleasure with some features of
the housing bill, but some Repub
lican leaders discounted the talk
that he might summon a special
session to deal with the issue
again.
Barring a special session, Con
gress will return next Jan. 3.
Adjournment came two work
ing days after the target date
which Democratic leaders had
fixed.
That was fairly remarkable.
Congress has frequently missed
by as much as two weeks in re
cent years.
Unapproved were controversial
proposals for construction of
atomic merchant vessels, highway
building, school construction, ex
emption of natural gas producers
from federal regulation, upper
Colorado River development, cus
toms simplification, rigid farm
price supports and expanded So
cial Security benefits.
All these measures were pass
ed by one house but ignored by
the other. They remain alive to
touch off new disputes in the 1956
election year session.
Looming on the horizon for
1956 when the Democrats still
will control both houses, barring
upsets caused by deaths, are ex
pected new proposals to cut taxes
and a showdown fight over
Democratic - supported efforts to
restore rigid farm price supports
Tom Beltz Reports Thirty
Ships Arrive At Barrow
Tom Beltz, who is working at
Barrow for the P.S. & D. Co.f
reports that he enjoyed a rare
sight four days ago when about
30 ships hove into sight at Bar
row and were standing off shore
waiting for ice conditions to im
prove so they could unload.
A total of 117 ships are expect
ed to move into the Arctic this
summer, the largest Arctic con
voy ever made.
It is reported there will be 60
cargo ships, 11 tankers, four pas
senger ships, 8 icebreakers, and
34 special vessels, including float
ing docks. The flotilla, it is re
ported, will carry 750,000 tons of
cargo and 4,000,000 barrels of
petroleum products.