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VOL. LVI No.. 90 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Waitresses Now
Air Force Base
Serve Chow at
ENID, Okla., W)—A GI’s dream
—dressed in a trim, white wait
ress uniform—greeted Vance Air
■Force Base airmen as they went
to chow this morning.
Enlisted men blinked their eyes
and decided that it wasn’t a
dream after all. They were real
girls — in the flesh — dishing up
scrambled eggs with a smile.
The way the men reacted, you
would have thought they were
sailors.
It was only the second day of
the Air Force’s experiment at
turning kitchen police duty over
to a catering service. But the
trial, due to' continue for 11
months, was immediately pro
nounced a tremendous success.
“Everyone was very enthusias
tic, especially the enlisted men
who ordinarily pull KP every
15 or 20 days,” said Lt. Joseph
A. Hays, public information of
ficer.
The girls loved it, too.
Sharon Ruch, a stenographer
for the catering firm who helped
in the kitchen the first day, said
she liked it so' well she’s'thinking
of discarding her typewriter for
an apron.
Cafeteria style still prevails.
But instead of the old trays where
the gravy slopped over on the
apple pie, good chinaware is used.
The girls clean off the tables, too.
Col. Chester Gilger, commander
of the base, ate with the enlisted
men and hailed the Innovation as
a wonderful thing.
“It remains to be seen whether
the arrangement is economical,”
he remarked, “but it does boost
morale 100 percent and frees the
men for more important training
duty.”
He said if the experiment
proves successful here, civilians
might be hired at permanent
bases all over the country. But
don’t look for the KP to become
the vanishing service man. The
Air Force will continue to have
its own kitchen staffs for field
and overseas duty.
Betty Farrington Elected
Successor to Late Husband
As Delegate To Congress
HONOLULU, UP — Hawaiians
have elected Mrs. Betty Farring
ton to succeed her late husband
as territorial delegate to the U.S.
Congress. She is the first woman
to hold the office.
A Republican and strong advo
cate of statehood for Hawaii, Mrs.
Farrington received 43,247 votes
in Saturday’s election—more than
twice as many as Democratic can
didate Delbert Metzger.
Farrington died recently in
Washington. He was publisher of
the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Bombs Throw At Neutral
Nation Inspection Compound
SEOUL, UP—Three crude • Kor
ean-made .bombs were tossed at
the Neutral Nations Inspection
Team compound at the west coast
port of Munsan last night but
caused no injury or damage, the
ILS. 8th Army said today. Only
one of the bombs, made from
ejnpty beer cans, exploded.
Norblad Protests
Ending Portland
Alaska Air Service
WASHINGTON, W—Rep. Ncrr
blad (R-Ore) has protested a Civil
Aeronautics Board examiner’s
recommendation for discontinu
ance of air service between Port
land, Ore., and Alaska.
The examiner’s recommenda
tion, now before the board, calls
for ending the service now pro
vided by Pacific Northern and Al
aska Airlines.
Norblad wrote CAB chairman
Chan Gurney that the effect of
such a decision “would be to pro
vide Seattle with a monopoly on
air traffic into Alaska.” He as
serted :
“The monopoly which Seattle
has had in many fields of en
deavor in connection with Alaska
over a period of years has been
one of the greatest and most ma
terial factors in limiting the de
velopment of that territory.”
Portland, he said, ranks second
as a traffic generating source for
Alaska, is a logical connecting
point for interline air service and
is a focal point for all West Coast
rail, bus, air and steamship ser
vice.
He said Portland is Alaska’s
main source of supply for certain
products and shipment of these
products to Alaska would be ma
terially hampered if air service
were discontinued.
Two Unidentified Men
Perish In Juneau Fire
JUNEAU, m—Two unidentified
men perished in a fire early yes
terday morning which totally de
stroyed an early-day Juneau resi
dence.
Cause of the fire at the home,
near the present Willoughby
Avenue has not been determined.
The home was a mass of flames
when the fire was discovered.
Firemen fought he blaze two
hours before they could enter the
structure, when they found the
two bodies.
The owner of the property,
Catherine Williams, was away at
the time of the fire. She said she
could not be sure who the vic
tims were.
A fire in the same residence
about a year ago claimed two
lives by suffocation.
MAN STARVES TO DEATH
WITH OVER $6,000 IN BANK
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., W) —
After John J. Panso, 75, died of
malnutrition in St. Vincent’s hos
pital last night, police searched
his basement flat.
They found a bankbook show
ing deposits totaling $6,000 and
two uncashed income tax refund
checks for 1952-1953 amounting
to $200.
The hospital reported that Pan
so, found unconscious Saturday
night, aparently hadn’t eaten in a
week.
Reds Deport Residents 4 Villages
MUNICH, Germany, Ufi—Resi
dents of four villages in eastern
Czechoslovakia have been deport
ed to provide a training area
which may be used by a Czech
atomic artillery regiment, Radio
Free Europe said today.
63,882 Fur Seal
Worth 5 Million
Taken In Pribilofs
JUNEAU, UP)—A total of 63,882
fur seal skins — worth 5 million
dollars when processed and fin
ished—were taken in this year’s
Pribilof Island seal killing oper
ations.
The announcement was made
by Clarence Olson, manager of
the government’s fur seal refuge
which is administered by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
. Olson said the fur take this
year was about the same as for
each of the last two years. He
said about 350 were employed in
the season’s operation, including
300 AJeuts from the Aleutian Is
lands, and 40 Eskimos from the
Kuskokwim area.
A crew of 35 men from the
Foulke Fur Company of St. Louis,
Mo., has been in the Pribilofs to
handle blubbering and prepare
the skins for shipment. The skins
will be processed in St. Louis for
sale in the semi-annual fur sales
held in the spring and fall of
next year.
A share of the proceeds from
the sale of fur skins is turned
over to the FWS for Pribilof Is
land government operations and
also for other FWS activities in
the territory.
Guatemalan Forces
In Battle With
Military Cadets
■ GUATEMALA, UP) — A quarrel
between Guatemalan military
cadets and the “liberation forces”
of Col. Carlos Castillo Armas,
chief of the country’s ruling junta
erupted into a battle today. Two
persons were killed and several
wounded.
The fighting caused reports
that the cadets and some others
had revolted in sympathy with
the deposed leftist government of
Jacobo Arbenz.
But later it appeared the fight
was an intra-mural conflict be
tween the cadets and members of
the Castillo Armas army, victors
in the June-July revolution.
The fight started at 4 p.m. near
Roosevelt Hospital where forces
of the Castillo Armas army are
encamped. A cadet was killed,
and virtually the entire body of
cadets then attacked the encamp
ment. Firing from rifles, machine
guns and mortars was heard for
about two hours.
Armas’ military chiefs moved
forces into position for an attack
on the military academy and gov
ernment plahes were given orders
to attack the school.
Government Forces In Control
WASHINGTON, UP)—The State
Department said today it has re
ceived official information that
“military forces supporting the
government (of Guatemala) are
apparently firmly in control.”
Press officer Lincoln White re
ferred to the events in Guatemala
as a “disturbance” and said there
was shooting early today “in
which several score cadets were
said to have participated.”
Administration’s Universal Military
Service Plan Is Geared “To The Day
Of Active War With Soviet Union”
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Pole Reaches Asylum On
Same Ship That American
Scientist Flees To Reds
LONDON, (£>— Britain granted
temporary asylum today to a
young Polish stowaway who
sought freedom in the west aboard
the same ship on which an Ameri
can scientist chose to flee behind
the iron curtain.
The dramatic switch of allegi
ance by the half-starved 24-year
old Pole, Antoni Klimowicz, and
the 26-year-old American physi
ologist, Dr. Joseph Cort, stirred
emotions in Britain.
Klimowicz wept as he thanked
police who snatched him from
Communist hands on the 3,219
ton tanker Jaroslaw Dabrowski
in the Thames Saturday night
after he had been caught as a
stowaway.
Dr. Cort, a self-styed former
Communist, sailed with the ship
early Sunday on his way to
Czechoslovakia — leaving behind
a charge that he faced ‘political
persecution and victimization” if
he returned to the United States.
Britain refused to grant Cort
political asylum after Washing
ton called him home to explain
why he failed to report for mili
tary service under the draft.
FBI Arrest Four More
Top Reds In Colorado
DENVER, UP! — U.S. Commis
sioner Joseph D. vNeff set bond
at $100,000 each early today for
four top Communists nabbed to
gether only one block from the
Colorado capitol building by FBI
agents.
The arrest of the four, along
with that of Mrs. Patricia Blau
in Los Angeles, was announced in
Washington by FBI director J.
Edgar Hoover. All were arrested
on warrants charging them with
violation of the Smith Act.
That law, under which a total
of 115 Communist party function
aries have been arrested since
1949, makes it a crime to teach
or advocate the forcible over
throw of the U.S. government.
Those arrested were Arthur
Bary, 42, chairman of the Colora
do Communist Party and region
al organizer for Colorado, Wyo
ming, Montana, Utah and New
Mexico; Anna Correa Bary, 29,
his wife and former organizer of
the Communist party in Denver;
Harold Zeppelin, 28, Communist
party organizer for Colorado; and
Lewis Martin Johnson, 34, head
of-the Communist party in Utah.
Marciano-Ezzard Title
Bout Set For Sept. 15
NEW YORK, Ml—Rocky Mar
ciano will defend his heavyweight
title against Ezzard Charles on
Sept. 15 at Yankee Stadium, pro
moter Jim Norris said today.
The two fighters agreed last
week to the return bout but the
date and site had not been de
cided. i . . t
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f WASHINGTON, GP> — The ad
| ministration has approved a uni
versal military service plan gear
ed, in the words of Asst. Secretary
of Defense Hannah, “to the day
of active war with the Soviet
Union . . . the only war that
counts.”
Hannah announced National
Security Council approval of the
new program at a news confer
ence Saturday, his last after 18
months as the Pentagon's man
power chief. He returns to his job
as president of Michigan State
College next week.
The plan, which resembles pre- ,
vious Universay Military Training
blueprints, would have to be
okayed by Congress to become
law. The legislators have turned
down similar proposals in the
past.
All qualified men under the Na
tional Security Council’s policy
would be required to serve in the
armed services. Those who didn’t
enlist in a service of their choice
would be inducted.
Army and Air Force reserve or
ganization as they now exist
would be done away with and the
National Guard, now under con
trol of the various states except
in wartime, would become in ef
fect a Federal National Guard.
All Army and Air Force men
would automatically be assigned
to guard units after they finished
regular service. Present law calls
for an eight-year tour in the re
serves but provides no compul
sion on the reservists to take an
active part. Hannah said he favors
putting teeth in the law by recom
mending automatic reinduction
for those who don’t stay active
in the reserves.
Primary Elections To
Select Candidates For
3 Senate, 41 House Seats
(By the Associated Press)
Primary elections in four states
tomorrow will determine candi
dates for the November elections,
but lack of major contests indi
cates a light vote.
Three Senate seats and 41 in
the House of Representatives are
at issue in the voting in Kansas,
Missouri, Michigan and West Vir
ginia. Kansas and Michigan also
name candidates for governor.
Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich), chair
man of the GOP Senate Policy
Committee, is unopposed for re
nomination and Sens. Schoeppel
(R-Kan) and Neoly (D-WVAl have
not campaigned strongly against
what they consider light opposi
tion. J
In Michigan, major interest
centers in selection of a Republi
can opponent for Democratic Gov.
G. Mennen Williams, who is un
opposed for renomination to an
unprecedented fourth term.
Missouri’s biggest primary fight
has been waged between Rep.
Dewey Short (R-Mo), chairman of
the House Armed Services Com
mitee, and state Sen. Noel Cox.
All six Kansas Congres mem
bers are seeking renomination.