NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No. 101 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Red Chinese Make
Hit-Run Raid On
Nationalist Island
TOKYO, Uft—Communist China
today announced a small - scale
hit-and-run raid on Quemoy, a
Nationalist - held offshore island.
There was no indication that it
was a prelude to the Reds’ loudly
heralded threat o'f invasion of
Formosa.
A Peiping radio broadcast said
40 Communist soldiers made two
separate landings on Quemoy
Monday night killing 11 National
ist soldiers before pulling back to
the mainland 15 miles away.
U.S. officials in Washington
labeled the raid no more than a
skirmish and pointed out that
even the conquest of Quemoy
would leave the Reds far from
their goal of “liberating” For
mosa. *
The Nationalist stronghold lies
100 miles across the Formosa
Strait, guarded by the U.S. 7th
Fleet and an American-equipped
army of 600,000.
For several weeks Peiping has
been broadcasting almost daily
threats to “liberate” Formosa and
wipe out the Nationalist regime
of Chiang Kai-Shek.
Salmon Industry Says
1955 Regulations Will
Force Closure of Canneries
JIUNEAU, Wi—An Alaska Can
ned Salmon Industry official said
today that proposed new regula
tions for the 1955 salmon season
could result in closure of most of
southeast Alaska’s canneries next
season.
William C. Arnold, manager of
the Alaska Canned Salmon In
dustry, declined to amplify his
statement.
The Salmon Industry appeared
to be taking a dim view of the
Fish and Wildlife Service’s pol
icy, as outlined in proposals for
1955 regulations, that state “ad
justments of fishing times will be
made by amendment as changing
conditions in the fishery may dic
tate.”
FWS officials said packers want
a “set” season with no interfer
ence in fishing time. However,
FWS officials said their respon
sibility is to acheive adequate es
capement of salmon to spawning
grounds and “as no one can pre
dict salmon runs in advance we
must take action when the runs
occur.”
Bite On Wrist By Eskimo
Wife Wins Divorce For
California Husband
SANTA MONICA, Calif., UP) —
Testimony that his Eskimo wife
bit him because here mother-in
law had a new coat and she didn’t
won a divorce yesterday for Law
rence L. Bean, 24, a mapmaker.
The decree was granted on a
deposition by Bean, now in Wash
ington, D.C., and personal testi
mony by his mother, Mrs. Audrey
Bean. They declared the biting
occurred before Mrs. Grace Put
kuk Bean, 27, left for Fairbanks
with their two sons, aged 4 and 3.
Mrs. Bean testified that after
the couple separated last Nov. 12
her son came home with bloody
teeth marks on his wrists.
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Illness of Plane Passengers
From Orient Diagnosed
As Food Poisoning
SEATTLE, UPi — A Northwest
Orient Airlines plane from Man
ila landed here late yesterday
ending a trans-Pacific plane flight
delayed 12 hours in Alaska while
23 of its 59 passengers and crow
members were treated for an ail
ment tentatively diagnosed as
food poisoning.
The passengers, including 16
Japanese students enroute to
schools and universities in the
United States under Fulbright
scholarships, were weak but fully
recovered from the illness that
struck suddenly after the plane
arrived at Anchorage late yester
day.
Northwest said all but one of
the 23 who were stricken made
the trip here after they were re
leased from the Anchorage hos
pital. Lewis D. W. Buckie, who
boarded the plane at Manila, re
mained in Anchorage for addi
tional treatment, Northwest said.
His condition was described as
good.
What caused the illnes was still
being studied. Doctors at An
chorage said preliminary investi
gation indicated food poisoning.
Northwest said samples of left
over food were being examined.
Strange Gun Crosses Up
Army Sgt. Demonstrating
Game of Russian Roulette
MEMPHIS, Tenn., W — An
Army sergeant last night demon
strated the hit-or-miss game of
Russian roulette to persons in a
cafe.
The .38 revolver fired.
Sgt. Phillip Wilhelm, 40-year
old ROTC instructor at a Mem
phis high school, was reported in
“remarkably good condition” at a
hospital where he was taken after
the bullet crashed into his right
temple and emerged at the top
of his head.
Wilhelm blamed his bad luck
on the strange gun, the cylinder
of which rotates counter-clock
wise instead of the usual clock
wise.
“I couldn’t tell where the bul
let was,” the sergeant told hos
pital attendants.
MOOSE SEASON EXTENDED
JUNEAU—Residents of the Al
aska Peninsula area will have an
additional 15-day moose hunting
season this fall, Gov. Heintzleman
was advised yesterday from
Washington.
Recent Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice surveys reveal a greatly in
creased moose population on the
peninsula, and the FWS recom
mended the additional open sea
son.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
National League
Chicago 4-1, New York 3-2
Milwaukee 3, Philadelphia 2
Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1
American League
Cleveland 2, Washington 1
New York 11, Detroit 2
Chicago 8-1, Philadelphia 1-4
Baltimore 5, Boston 3
Pacific Coast League
Portland 7, San Francisco 5
Hollywood 7, Seattle 1
Los Angeles 14, Sacramento 2
San Diego 5, Oakland 4
Nehru Criticized
In Parliament for
‘Hostility’ to U.S.
NEW DELHI, India, UPI—’The
leader of India’s 60 million un
touchables criticized Prime Min
ister Nehru in Pariament Thurs
day for his insistence that co-ex
istence with the Communists is
necessary and for his “hostility”
toward the United States.
B. R. Ambedkar. Nehru’s law
minister until he broke with the
Prime Minister three years ago,
spoke up in a foreign policy de
bate which Nehru had launched
with a call for the world to accept
peaceful co-existence with the
Reds as the “only alternative” to
a world war.
This principle, said the leader
of India’s outcasts, had been “ad
opted without much thought by
the Prime Minister.”
The untouchables, who sweep
streets, skin dead animals and
perform other menial tasks, are
beneath the Hindu caste system.
Although outlawed in the In
dian constitution, discrimination
against untouchables such as re
strictions on their use of wells is
still widespread.
The former cabinet member said
Nehru has a “certain hostility”
toward the United States and
shows “repugnance” at anything
suggested by America. This, he
asserted, was one reason Nehru is
against the U.S.-proposed South
east Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO) project, adding that the
Prime Minister also fears Russian
reaction. t
‘T‘he keynote of our foreign
policy is to solve the problems of
other countries, but not our crwn,”
Ambedkar said.
Earlier in the debate Nehru
found himself in the unusual role
of defending the United States
when he told Communist ques
tioners he does not believe the
Americans are sending or will
send arms to the Portuguese In
dian settlements India wants to
take over.
Valdez Residents Donate
$720 To Polio Sufferers
In Anchorage And Seward
VALDEZ, UP>—-A check fcrr $720
was in the mails today to polio
sufferers in the Anchorage-Cook
Inlet-Seward areas.
The money was contributed by
Valdez 'residents during a three
day .drive led by Police Chief
Jack Antritter.
A letter accompanying the
money, sent to Anchorage Mayor
Maynard Taylor, expressed the
deepest sympathy to the people
Of Anchorage ahd Seward who
have been hard hit in a recent
polio outbreak.
Two New Polio Cases At
Anchorage—Total Now 86
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Two new
polio cases were reported here
yesterday bringing the total for
the Anchorage area to 86.
The latest victims were a boy,
3, and a girl, 11.
Total number of polio patients
in the hospital here now is 16.
No new cases were reported at
Seward or in the Matanuska Val
Examination Committee Recommends
Health Dept. Adopt More “Realistic”
Programs in Remote Areas of Alaska
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CAB Rules States-Alaska
Fares Must Be The Same
On DC-G’s and DC-4’s
WASHINGTON, 141—The Civil
Aeronautics Board’s Bureau of
Air Operations said yesterday the
same fares should be charged be
tween Seattle and Alaska on DC-4
aircraft as on faster, pressurized
DC-6 planes.
Alaska Airlines and Pacific
Northern Airlines, which use
DC-4’s contend it is unfair to
allow Pan American and North
west Airlines to operate DC-(5’s at
the same fares over their States
Alaska routes. They are seeking
lower rates for their service.
George Cosson, Bureau coun
sel, disputed Alaska and Pacific
Northern contentions in a brW
filed in the case.
“No differential should be es
tablished based upon equipment,”
he stated, and recommended.
1. A minimum fare of $90 one
way and $180 round trip should
be ordered between Seattle and
Fairbanks.
2. The minimum fare between
Seattle and Anchorage should be
$75 one way and $150 round trip.
3. The existing fares of Pan
American and Pacific Northern
between Seattle and other points
in Alaska should be established
as minimum reasonable fares.
4. The minimum fare between
Seattle and Anchorage for North
west’s first class Boeing Strato
cruiser service—the only strictly
first class service between the
States and Alaska — should be
$105 cme way and $189 round
trip.
D.A. Drops Last of Seven
Indictments Against
Stanley J. McCutcheon
ANCHORAGE, UPl—'The last re
maining count of a 1952 grand
jury indictment against two for
mer Union Bank officials, one of
whom is now dead, has been dis
missed by the U.S. Attorney on
grounds of insufficient evidence.
The original indictment accused
the late Andrew Hassman, the
bank head, and Stanley J. Mc
Cutcheon, secretary and director,
of seven misdemeanor counts. Six
of the seven counts were dismiss
ed in district court many months
ago. They involved principally
the nature of some of the bank’s
loans and an allegation of a fail
ure to call stockholders’ meetings
in 1950 and 1952.
The seventh count, now dismiss
ed, alleged that a $57,477 bank
loan was made to the Arctic Cold
Storage Co. of Anchorage in 1952
in excess of the legal loan limit.
McCutcheon is a former Demo
cratic Speaker of the Alaska
House of Representatives and is
a candidate for the House seat he
lost in the 1952 Republican land
slide.
The Union Bank was sold to the
First National Bank of Anchorage
after a five - day closure at the
time of the 1952 indictment.
ANCHORAGE, W—A quick end
to the Marine Health Program of
the Alaska Department of Health
has been recommended by the
Legislative Examination and In
vestigating Committee, chairman
Herald Stringer disclosed Thurs
day in a report to Dr. Asa Martin,
chairman of the Alaska Board of
Health.
The Legislative Committee re
commended an air transport pro
gram to replace present health
ships as a cheaper and more far
reaching solution, Stringer said.
Beaching of newly organized
marine units were among seven
major recommendations deemed
important enough to “warrant
immediate action,” the report
said.
Other recommendations called
for “direct assistance” instead of
“education” to aid remote villages
in developing adequate water sup
plies; sewage disposal; preopera
tion of more definitive informa
tive budgets; assignment of a
single person to the tuberculo
sis control program, and greater
use of chem-therapy in fighting
tuberculosis.
Stringer said the committee also
criticized what was called the
constant reduction of fund alloc
ations to vital liboratory research,
as well as other needed service,
in favor of “uneconomical” ma
rine units.
“The committee found no one
with independent judgment in the
matter who favored continuation
of the marine units,” the report
said.
Even most members of the De
partment of Health staff are not
in favor of the program although
“they are reluctant to express this
view in the face of Commissioner
C. Earl Albrecht’s contrary opin
ion,” the report said.
Commissioner Albrecht told the
committee marine units are need
ed, among other reasons, because
of a lack of facilities in remote
areas.
The committee agreed to hard
ships involved but said health
team* should not expect to find
the best of facilities in remote
places, the report said.
It went on to say all other
advantages of the marine pro
gram could be satisfied equally
well by an air transport program
which has been found practical
and economically feasible by pri
vate persons.
A' review of benefits of the
current program should be made
and if it doesn’t prove wise, fed
eral funds should be returned for
possible use later in other health
fields, the committee said.
In its recommendations for rur
al water supplies, the committee
suggested Army field purification
in its units as an example of
practical steps the Health De
partment could take to provide
good water rather than an edu
cation program which the com
mittee said it considers “unreal
istic.”