VOL. LVII No. 12NOME, ALASKA, FRJDAY, JANUARY 28.' 1955Per Copy—15^
Alaska House of Representatives
Memorializes Congress To End The
‘Cruel’ Treatment of Mentally 111
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, UP—Alaska’s House
of Representatives has called on
Congress to speed steps to end
what it calles the “antiquated, in
human and cruel” treatment of
the territory’s mentally ill.
Responsibility for their care, a
memorial to the national legisla
tors which was passed late yester
day said, is still federal responsi
bility. The out-of-date treatment
was described as occurring be
cause there is no institution in
Alaska for their proper care.
The memorial was sponsored by
Reps. Irene Ryan (D-Anchorage)
and Tom Stewart (D-Juneau).
Other top developments during
• an otherwise quiet day were:
Final approval of a measure to
appropriate $151,582 for session
expenses, after the Ways and
Means Committee had corrected
previous omissions. The appro
priation for the 1953 session was
$158,000.
Delay by the House of action on
a resolution calling on the govern
or to ask the government for a
loan to keep the Employment Se
curity Fund solvent. Final action
was expected today.
Introduction in the Senate of a
major highway construction bill
proposing the appropriation of a
million dollars to build highways
and roads under direction of the
territory’s Board of Road Com
missioners. It was introduced by
Sen. Howard Lyng.
Introduction of 10 Legislative
Council bills and three memorials
in the House. Earlier this week 17
council-sponsored bills were in
troduced in the Senate and the
entire batch rounds out the legis
lative objectives the council set
as a result of hearings and studies
since it was set up by the 1953
session.
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PATROLMEN’S PRINTS
SHOW NEW GUARD
AGAINST FIRE, THEFT
Did you see fresh footprints
outside your back door this morn
ing?
If your business house is any
place from the Polaris to the
Lincoln Bar on Front Street or
First Ave., the prints are there ev
ery night of the week and there is
no need of alarm because they are
those of City Patrolmen Charlie
O’Dell and Bill Gray, who patrol
the entire area, checking doors
and windows at irregular hours
throughout the night in addition
to the city-wide car patrol.
This is the most thorough fire
and burglary protection the city
has had in many years and prob
ably accounts for the low per
centage of burglaries this winter
to date.
The Police Department states
that business houses with living
quarters in the rear do not have
the doors of their residences
checked unless a request is made.
Consideration Statehood
I Legislation Resumes In
| House Insular Committee
i WASHINGTON, W—Consider
atibn of legislation to admit Alas
ka and Hawaii as states resumes
in the House Insular Affairs Com
mittee today.
Chairman Engle (D-Calif) called
the committee together to hear
Dr. John L. Taylor, its territories
consultant, give a section-by-sec
tion analysis of pending bills.
Largely for the benefit of 10
new committee members who
have not participated in past
statehood hearings, the session
was expected to point up issues
on which future committee con
sideration will revolve.
Although a majority of the
committee has indicated it favors
admitting the two territories as
states, opponents have indicated
they will seek a full airing of the
pros and cons.
Civil Defense Announces
Air Lift Food Supplies To
Needy Alaska Fishermen
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., UPl —
A 500-mile air lift to carry food
and supplies to an area in south
west Alaska was announced yes
terday by the Federal Civil De
! fense Administration.
The air lift is being established
by the Alaskan Air Command and
will carry supplies furnished by
the Department of Agriculture.
FCDA headquarters in Battle
Creek said the request for aid was
made by the territorial governor
and authorized by President
Eisenhower under the disaster
relief act. FCDA officials said the
hardship situation arose because
of a poor salmon fishing season.
About 1,800 families in the area
bounded by Bristol Bay on the
Bering Sea on the north and Ko
diak on the south will be served,
the FCDA said.
The airlift will fly from An
chorage with supplies transported
by water from Seattle to Seward
and from Seward to Anchorage
by rail.
It's Cold In The States
iBy the Associate.' Press)
The coldest weather of the win
ter swept into the east today,
spread into the South and held
fast in the Midwest.
Shivering easterners watched
thermometers plunge as far as an
unofficial 38 below zero at Sara
nac Lake, N.Y.
The thermometer dropped in
the daytime at Chicago, where it
usually rises after the sun ap
pears. It was 6 above there at
9 a.m.
Residents of the ice box regions
had plenty of company. Freezing
weather enveloped most of the
nation except for the Deep South
and Southwest.
HighTemperatures
Threatens Stymie
Cold Weather l est
By ELTON C. FAY
ELMENDORF AIR # FORCE
BASE, (#l — Army paratroopers,
1,800 strong, stood ready today
for a mass airborne attack on an
“enemy” area about 50 miles
north of here.
Overnight weather forecasts in
dicated first action of the air
borne strike, a phase of “Opera
tion Snow Bird,” Army-Air Force
cold weather maneuvers in the
far north, would be possible.
But those who remembered
three postponements and then
cancellation of a scheduled para
troop drop on “aggressor” forces
at Galena last week kept their
fingers crossed. Bad weather
scratched that part of the exer
cise.
The drop zone for today’s
scheduled attack is covered with,
more than three feet of snow,
ideal for testing of a snow-com
pacted runway to be built by the
paratroopers after they have
seized the area.
Troops participating came to
Alaska more than a week ago
from their Camp Campbell, Ky.,
post.
The troopers from the compar
atively warm south have been
training for Arctic fighting, but
weather throughout much of Al
aska for the last week has been
warmer than in years. There has
been no subzero cold in this area
since early in the month.
However, the snow blanket re
mains intact to provide some
cushion for paratroopers drop
ping from the skies with packs
of weapons and equipment weigh
ing 100 pounds or more.
Police At Loss For Motive
For Strangling Of Rich
Serge Rubinstein
NEW YORK, I/P—Police turned
to glamour girls today to help
them solve the mystery strangle
killing of millionaire draft dodger
Serge Rubinstein—man of “many
enemies.”
Virtually without clues, they
hoped the beauties he squired to
exclusive nightspots could throw
light on who might have hated
enough to kill.
They particularly wanted to
learn the identity of two men
who reportedly trailed the 46
year-old financier and his bru
nette model companion from one
of the nightspots only hours be
fore he was slain in his fortress
like Fifth Avenue mansion early
Thursday.
Business associates said Rubin
stein developed a roster of bitter
foes in his highly competitive
stock deals. One friend vowed it
was a “paid killing.”
Police virtually discarded rob
bery as a motive although the
bedroom where Rubinstein’s body
was found gave evidence of some
ransacking.
They pressed the possibility he
was killed in reprisal for his
woman chasing or shady financial
deals.
U. S. Forces Deployed From Alaska
To the Philippines, Ready to Strike
If Reds Start War Over Formosa
**No Justification” i
F or American
Defense Formosa
WASHINGTON, UH—;Sen. Leh
man (D-lib-NY> told the Senate
today that-“rash or reckless ac
tion” under the terms of the
House-approved fight-for-Formo
sa resolution could plunge this
country into war with Red China
without allies. .
Lehman called for a delay in
action as he opened the Senate’s
third day of debate on the propos
al. Sen. Morse (ind-Ore), an oppo
nent of the resolution, predicted,
however, a final vote would be
reached late today.
Morse, Lehman and a few oth
ers have sought to strip from the
measure authority under which
President Eisenhower could order
U.S. forces to defend Quemoy
and Matsu and to strike at the
Chinese mainland in case of a
Red buildup threatening Formosa.
Asserting it would be a “tragic
error” not to seek United Nations
action toward bringing peace in
the Formosa Strait, Lehman said
there is no “historical justifica
tion” for American defense of the
offshore islands of Quemoy and
Matsu.
Britain Asks Russia To
Influence Chinese Into
Formosan Cease-Fire
MOSCOW, liP — Britain asked
the Soviet Union today to try to
restrain the government of Com
munist China and bring about a
cease-fire over Formosa lest that
dispute break into a general war.
Sir William Hayter, the British
ambassador, talked at the Krem
lin for 30 minutes with V. M.
Molotov, the Soviet foreign min
ister. The British embassy said
Hayter acted with the advance
knowledge of the U.S. State De
partment.
The British ambassador sought
to enlist Soviet support for a
New Zealand move, backed by
Britain, in the United Nations Se
curity Council. This proposal aims
to bring about a cease-fire, and is
understood to include a proposal
to invite the Chinese Communists
to attend a Security Council
meeting to discuss a Formosan
peace.
The British embassy said Molo
tov’s reaction was “pretty limit
ed.”
All motor vehicles should have
their territorial license plates by
Feb. 28 stated Deputy Collector
Joe Kroninger of the 2nd Division
Territorial Tax Office located in
Nome.
Kroninger also cautioned driv
ers of motor vehicles to obtain
their territorial drivers licenses
at this time. The licenses are for
a two-year period and cost $4.
P By SPENCER MOOSA
TAIPEH, Formosa, —A high
i U.S. source said today he thought
American support would be ex
tended to the offshore islands of
Quemoy and Matsu, and conceded
that agreement in principle had
been reached on evacuation of the
Red-threatened Tachen islands.
He said that in event of a clash
with the Communists he was in
favor of giving the commander
opposing them full power “with
out any privileged sanctuaries.”
Final decision on a pullout
from the Tachens apparently
awaits congressional approval of
President Eisenhower’s fight-if
we-must Formosa policy.
Sabrejets of the U.S. 18th
Fighter-Bomber Wing have been
transferred from Okinawa and
the Philippines to Formosa to
support the U.S. 7th Fleet, al
ready in the area on combat
alert.
But U.S. ambassador Karl L.
Rankin said today he does not
feel there is great danger of an
important conflict breaking out if
the United States maintains its
firm attitude without being pro
vocative.
“I believe the stronger attitude
we take without being provoca
tive—and we will not be—the
better chance we have of avoid
ing war,” Rankin told a news con
ference.
<In Tokyo, a responsible Ameri
can source said U.S. aircraft in
the Far East have been deployed
to strike the Communists from
Alaska to the Philippines at a
moment’s notice if the Reds start
a real war over the Formosa
crisis.”
(“We are as alert as we can be
—we are ready to go to war this
minute,” the source said*.
A Nationalist deputy military
spokesman estimated the Reds
had massed 400,000 troops in the
two provinces opposite Formosa
and Chaing Kai-Shek’s string of
island outposts.
In Pearl Harbor, Adm. Felix B.
Stump declared the Reds would
“get the pants licked off them”
if they tried to invade Formosa.
Stump, U.S. Navy commander
in the Pacific, told newsmen Asia .
could erupt in a hot war if the
Communists want that but added,
“I don’t think it will get hot.”
Sens. Foster and Jones
Memorialize Govt. For
Ore Purchasing Program
JUNEAU, UP) — Two senators
from Nome joined yeterday in in
troducing a memorial to federal
government officials for a gov
ernment ore purchasing program
in Alaska. The sponsors are Sens.
Neal Foster, Democrat, and Chas.
D. Jones, Republican.
The memorial asks a program
in which a substantial partial
payment may be made to produc
ers of small lots of strategic min
erals at the point of production.
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