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* ( OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 65_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1956_Per Copy—15^
Russian Leaders Decry
Fingerprint Requirement
For Visitors to the U.S.
MISCOW Nikita S. Khrush
chev declared in a talk yesterday
with Isaac Stern, Russian-born
Airierican violinist, that no Soviet
citizens “will ever go to the Uni
ted States if they have to be fin
gerprinted.” He said Congress
ought to change the law.
Premier Nikolai Bulganin backed
up the Communist Party boss.
And Foreign lyiinister Molotov
chimed in: “Never! Never!”
The protests against the U.S.
immigration requirement for the
fingerprinting of non-official for
eign visitors were sounded over
champagne glasses at a British1
Embassy gardbn party honoring
the official birthday of 30-year
old Queen Elizabeth II
Washington has skirted the re
quirement by permitting some
small Russian delegations'—among
them farmers, churchmen and en
tertainers—to enter the United
States with official status. But
there may be a problem in the
case of such large Soviet cultural
groups as the Moisseyev Folk j
Dance Ensemble, scheduled to
leave for New York in the fall.
Violinist Stern, 35-year-old New
Yorker, has just completed a
highly acclaimed tour of Russia.
Four Killed as
Bomber Crashes
Between Houses
DENVER, Uft—Four men were
killed and four persons, including
a woman, were injured today
j when a twin-engine bomber
I crashed and exploded between
l two houses south of Lowry Air
I Force Base.
The B-25, enroute from Mc
Chord Air Force Base, Tacoma,
Wash., to Panama City, Fla., ap
parently lost power on take off.
The pilot radioed for an emer
gency landing shortly after leav
ing the field, where the plane had
stopped to refuel.
The faltering plane narrowly
missed a mother and her two
small children. Parts of the shat
tered craft smashed into a parked
car near the houses.
The rftother, Mrs. William Mor
gan, was in the front!yard of her
residence sprrinking the lawn. “I
heard something banging and
banging and I knew' it was going
to hit close,” she told a reporter.
Two of her children, ages 2 and
11, were playing nearby. I told
Gwenn to grab Billie and run,”
she said. “I ran for the house to
get the other two. Just as I got to
the door the plane hit right back
of the house and came bouncing
up next to it. I saw a woman
come staggering out. She col
lapsed under a tree. "
Lowry base hospital said one of
the four injured was in critical
condition. The three others were
fair. They included a member of
the Women’s Air Force.
Hagerty Predicts
Democrats Will Wage
Rough, Dirty Campaign
WASHINGTON, W—President
Eisenhower’s press secretary to
day predicted the Democrats will
wage a rough, tough and dirty
campaign this year.
Press Secretary James C. Hag
erty told a campaign conference
of National Citizens for Eisenhow
er the Democrats have no real
issue and so “they are going to
throw everything at us including
the kitchen sink.”
“It’s going to be rough . . . It’s
going to be dirty, and its going to
be tough,” said Hagerty.
Vice President Nixon, the final
speaker at the conference, pre
dicted the Republicans will score
an even bigger victory than in
1952 if there is a large tournout
of voters.
Alaska Given 50-50 Chance to Get In
Federal Highway Aid Program
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, (J5)—Inclusion of
Alaska in the Federal Highway
Aid Program was considered to
day to have a 50-50 chance to sur
vive House-Senate conferences on
the big highway bill.
This was the assessment given
by Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska)
after conferring with members
who will participate in the confer
ence. 1
The territory’s inclusion within
the program was approved for the
first time late Tuesday when the
Senate accepted an amendment by
Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore). No pro
vision for Alaska is made in the
House version of the bill.
As adopted by the Senate, Neu
berger’s amendment would give
Alaska $11,456,000 in federal mon
ey in the year beginning July 1,
1957. To this, it would have to add
$1,146,000 to meet a 10 percent
matching requirement. The terri
tory’s federal allocation would
grow as its population increased.
Because area is one of the fac
tors entering into the determina
tion of the federal allocation, Al
aska’s immense size works against
its success. Recognizing this, Neu
berger originally proposed that
only 50 percent of Alaska be con
sidered for allocation purposes.
When it was noted that even
this would weight the allocation
in Alaska’s favor at the expense
of other states, Neuberger pared
his figure to 40 percent and later
to one-third before the amend
ment was accepted.
Alaska’s present road program
is financed by direct congressional
appropriation.
Sen. Kerr <D-Okla> has referred
to the possibility of a formula
based on 100,000 square miles,
which would be slightly more
than half that involved in the
one-third proposal.
Bartlett said acceptance of any
thing less than one-third would
be “devastating” to Alaska’s road
program and would be less desir
able than present direct appro
priations.
Neuberger said today he con
siders it “extremely important to
the national defense” that the
amendment be held in conference.
He cited figures showing that
Alaska now has only 3,700 miles
of highway compared with 25,500
miles in Nevada, which is both
smaller and has Jess population
than the territory. Even Deleware,
he said, has 3,842 miles of high
way.
Pointing to Alaska’s proximity
to Russian territory, Neuberger
said it is well known that Russia
is carrying on an extensive high
way and railroad construction
program in Siberia.
He said he felt it was' “ridicu
lous” not to include Alaska within,
the program while both Hawaii
and Puerto Rico are covered.
Under the present method of
financing Alaska’s roads by direct
appropriation, the territory has
received from $4 million in 1948
to $27Vfc million in 1951. The ad
ministration request for this year
is $7,800,000.
Negro Voters
Could Assure
Republieau Win
WASHINGTON, ■<*>—A meeting
of the National Citizens for Eisen
hower Committee was told today
that if only 5 or 10 percent of Ne
gro voters could be persuaded to
switch their voting allegiance
from Democratic to Republican,
President Eisenhower and a Re
publican Congress “would almost
certainly be elected under present
circumstances."
Richard L. Tobm, public l’ela
tions director for the group, said
in a prepared talk that “every
Negro” must be convinced that
“he has a vested interest in the
election of a Republican House
and a Republican Senate.”
Eisenhower’s statement to the
same organization yesterday that
“the prestige of the United States
since the last war has never been
as high as it is this day” drew this
comment from Sen. Mansfield,
Montana Democrat:
“I wish I could be as sanguine
as the President. It appears to me
that the facts indicate that at the
present time the Soviet Union is
making all the positive moves.”
Of probable significance was an
Agriculture Department report
yesterday that the prifres of farm
products rose 3 percent between
mid-April and mid-May.
Democrats have professed to de
tect farm belt dissatisfaction with
Eisenhower Administration agri
culture policies. They traced this
to depressed farm prices, and they
hoped it would mean Democratic
victories in farm areas next No
vember.
Eskimo Woman
From Pt. Hope
Drowns in States
SEATTLE, (fft—A young Alaska
woman drowned in Puget Sound
last night despite efforts of a Se
attle housewife to save her.
Mrs. Caroline Long, 23, of Point
Hope, Alaska, an Eskimo patient
at the Laurel Beach Sanitorium,
died in the chilly water.
Mrs. Alison Beck, 35. of Seattle,
said she was sitting in her beach
home about 9 p.m. when she heard
women’s voices on the beach.
“I went outside and saw two
women,” she said. “When they
saw me, one of them stumbled
over a drift log and fell into the
water. The other walked on up
the beach.”
Mrs. Beck said she walked fully
clothed into' the water and tried
to pull the woman to safety, but
was unable to. Mrs. Long^ body
was recovered later.
A physician said the second
woman, Miss Rosa Sebwenna, 22,
of King Island, also a patient, was
too hysterical to talk about the
incident.
The women, both Eskimos, were
aw'ay from the sanatorium with
out permission, police said.
Mrs. Long is survived by her
husband John.
Northwest Rivers
On Rampage in
Thaw Weather
PORTLAND. *00—'The mighty
Columbia River, fed by melting
snows, surged higher on its banks
today and threatened dikes in a
populous southwestern Washing
ton area.
The danger was eased some
what by forecasts of cooler weath
er inland. This would slow the
snow melt that sent the river to
9.7 feet above flood stage in the
Vancouver, Wash., and yesterday.
The upper Snake River in
southeastern Idaho has spread
over 2,000 acres of farmland. And
mo^e probably will be covered
when the stream crests Saturday.
North of Vancouver, Wash., the
water was pouring over a crum
bled dike into a farm area. There
were no fatalities as scattered
families had been evacuated.
A little further north, at Ka
lama, the city council declared a
state of flood emergency and
called for volunteers to help sand
bag dikes.
At Kelso, the seeping water
had caused five breaks in the
town's sewage lines.
Water Skier Swept
To His Death Over
212 - Foot Waterfall
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, UR—'The
swift-running Snake River swept
a water skier over the brink of
212-foot Shoshone Falls Wednes
day as1 onlookers taking the Me
morial Day sun watched in horror
from the shore.
Still missing today was the body
of 32-year-old Melvin W. Hulbert
of Boise, Idaho.
Witnesses said Hulbert lost his
balance and fell into the water of
a lagoon about 1,000 yards up
stream from the falls, one of the
highest cataracts in the west. The
boat which had been towing him
and another craft made desperate,
dangerous last-minute passes in
an attempt to rescue him almost
at the brink.
The current swept him the last
hundred yards in a matter of
seconds.
Thursday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 9, Washington 6
Boston 4, Baltimore 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 3, New York 0
St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 3
Milwaukee 15, Chicago 8
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Vancouver 18, Los Angeles 13
Portland 3, San Francisco 0
Sacramento 6, Hollywood 2
Seattle 4, San Diego 3
Plant Sale — Playfield Benefit
i Sponsored by the Home Arts Club Saturday, 10:00 a.m., at the IN. C. Store