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Warm Weather
In Europe Brings
Fresh Dangers
LONDON, UP)—Europe's killing
four-week cold wave was break
ing up today but violent rain
storms and landslides struck new
terror in Italy.
For the first time in the month
long siege, government meteorolo
gists confidently predicted an end
to the ireezeup.
It has claimed 919 lives and cost
an estimated $2 billion in crop
and property damage.
There were signs that the thaw
might prove almost as disastrous
as the freeze.
Rescue teams in France and
Italy swapped snow shovels for
sandbags as rivers swollen by the
melting snows threatened villages
and farms.
A creeping landslide at Vasto,
Italy, engulfed the community as
streams of slush poured down the
mountainside. Four hundred vil
lagers were homeless.
16 Suffer Fractures
In City Cold Snap
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., iff'—
Sixteen persons were suffering
from broken bones today, all from
the same cause, a fall.
An overnight thaw resulted in
a sheet of ice glazing sidewalks
and streets in swiftly dropping
temperatures Sunday. Several of
•those suffering fractures were en
route to church when they fell.
Hospitals didn’t keep a tab on
those treated for mere cuts and
bruises.
ENTERS CITY AT 70 MPH..
FAILS TO ATTRACT POLICE
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Iff)—Gordon
Hamilton, 27, came roaring into
downtown Louisville at 70 miles
per hour, but, as luck would have
it, there wasn’t a policeman in
sight.
Hamilton said yesterday he was
trying to attract attention because
a young hitchhiker had pulled a
piece of pipe from his pocket. The
youth took $4 from Hamilton
when he was forced to stop at a
traffic light.
New Chamber Officials Announced
At Banquet; Stan Morgan, President
One of the biggest turnouts in
several years attended the annual
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce Friday evening at the Pio
neer Hall for a buffet supper.
Tables were decorated with a
George Washington motif and in
dividual cherry trees were edible
favors for the guests.
Following the supper, outgoing
president, Dr. Fred Langsam,
thanked the Board of Directors
and members for their cooperation
during the year. The theme of his
remarks was on happiness and al
though different things make dif
ferent people happy he expressed
the feeling that Usefulness gives
more happiness than any other
one thing.
Dr. Langsam then turned the
meeting over to the new president,
Stan Morgan, who announced the
new board members elected to be:
Carl Glavinovich, vice presi
dent, James von der Heydt, secre
tary; James Walsh, treasurer; and
directors Dr. Langsam, Boyd Har
wood, Dewey Goodrich, Clinton
Gray and Ben Young.
Morgan reviewed the work of
the past year and the big job
Sen. Kennedy Uses -
Political Trick to Win
Votes for the Democrats
PROVIDENCE, R. I., (JV-Sen.
John F .Kennedy (D-Mass> used a
little-known political trick yester
day in an effort to win votes for
the Democrats.
He used a taxi Sunday to go to
Hope High School for a speech
and was going to give the driver
a substantial tip with a plea to
vote Democratic.
“But then I remembered some
thing Sen. Green had told,” Ken
nedy said. Kennedy and Green
(D-RI) both are considered to be
wealthy.
“Instead of a big tip,” Kennedy
said, “I gave him no tip at all and
told him to vote Republican.
ahead, urging all to take part, first
of all by renewing their member
ship or by taking out one for 1956.
He read from the by-laws the
goal of the Chamber as a body
which works for the good of the
community but never dictates. A
community is as strong as its
chamber and the problems here
are many.
President Morgan called on
Legislator Edith Bullock to ex
plain her views on the labor situa
tion and she expressed in well
chosen words the benefits as well
as the unfavorable features on
unionizing the community. She
stated that Nome has a unique
position in that the major year
round employment centers on
work with a marginal profit. If
the wages are hiked all the way
around, the cost of living auto
matically goes up and a steady
source of local income may be
jeopardized.
A new film, courtesy of Pan
American Airways, was shown on
skiing and featured the Olympics
in Norway.
New committees for the year
are:
Mining—Carl Glavinovich, Neil
W. Foster, Pete Sandvik.
Roads—Dewey Goodrich, John
McNees, Pete Reader, Richard E.
Lee.
Legislative—Jim von der Heydt,
Russell Hermann, Judge Walter
H. Hodge.
Civic Affairs—Jim Walsh, Wm.
Barber. Rev. Thos. Knudson, Rose
Silverman.
Transportation — Boyd Har
wood, Larry Galvin, Harry Gab
rielson, W. Golden.
Tourists—Dr. Langsam, L. Vir
ginia Brown, Chuck Reader, Paul
1 MandeviUe, Tommy Martin.
Publicity —Clinton Gray, Bar
bara Anderson, Ernie Gustafson.
Membership — Ben Young,
Charles Frazier, Rev. W. Meck
i lenburg, Arvo Saario.
RUSSIA ADOPTS NEW
FIVE-YEAR PLAN
MOSCOW, (/PI —The 20th con
gress of the Communist party
ended Saturday after adopting a
directive for the Soviet Union’s
new five-year plan and electing a
new central committee.
The man who had dominated
the 11-day session, party chief
Nikita Khrushchev, was in the
chair for the final session and it
was he who formally declared the
congress over.
The five-year plan directive
provides for a massive increase
in the output of heavy industry
during the coming five years. The
frequently stated object of the
Soviet leadership is to overtake
and surpass the United States in
industrial development.
The so-called collective leader
ship of the Soviet Union remained
unchanged at the close of the 20th
Congress. As First Secretary, Ni
kita Khrushchev remains boss of
the party.
Defense Minister Georgi Khu
kov became a candidate (alter
nate) member of the Central Com
mittee, known in Stalin’s Day as
the Politburo.
This once again spotlighted the
rising influence of the Soviet’s
armed forces in post-Stalin Mos
cow. During Stalin’s postwar re
gime Zhukov had been in eclipse.
15 Passengers Unhurt
As Airliner Crash-Lands
In Blinding Snowstorm
MOSCOW, Idaho, UP)—Fifteen
persons aboard a West Coast Air
lines DC-3 escaped serious injury
last night as the plane crash-land
ed in the midst of a blinding
snowstorm.
The plane landed on a hill in
the middle of the Palouse (Wash
ington) wheat country, about 3
miles northeast of the Moscow
Pullman Airport. The pilot and
a doctor who was on the plane
walked to a nearby farm house
and called the airpoYt.
The farmer went to the scene
with his tractor and brought the
five women passengers to the road
where an ambulance picked them
up. They spent the night in a
hotel.
Jets Make Record Time
In 2,400-Mile Nonstop Run
Langley Air Force Base, Vir
ginia UP)—Two Air Force jet F-84E
fighter-bombers have completed a
nonstop flight from California to
Langley AFB in 3 hours 34 min
utes—apparently record time.
The two fighters, averaging bet
ter than 670 mph., left Norton
AFB at San Bernardino, Calif.,
and covered the 2,400 miles with
out refueling. This was because of
unusually strong tail winds.
Newspaper Advertising
Set Record In January
NEW YORK, UP)—Newspapers
started out the new year with
record-breaking gains in advertis
ing, the American Newspaper
Publishers Assn, reported today.
Last month was the biggest
January in history. Nearly all cat
egories of advertising scored huge
gains over January 1955.
Dulles (’alls for More Foreign Aid
To Meet Soviet’s ‘New Look’ Policy
Tornadoes, Dust Storms
Bring Damage and Death
By the Associated Press
Tornadoes in Illinois, tornadic
winds in Ohio, and dust storms in
the Southwest left at least 10 dead
and scores of injured Saturday.
Property damage was heavy.
The twisters struck with de
structive force in at least four
southern Illinois communities.
In the Southwest, the season’s
worst dust storm blew out into the
Gulf of Mexico after lashing east
ern New Mexico, Oklahoma, west
Texas and parts of Kansas.
The howling “black blizzerd,”
fanning prairie fires, ripped off
roofs and kill three persons.
HOTEL ROOM BARE
AFTER THIEF'S DEPARTURE
DANVERS, Mass., UP)—A man
checked into the Coronet Hotel
Saturday night and Sunday when
he checked out the management
found these items missing:
Two table lamps, a pen stand
and pen, a mahogany night/ table,
an ashtray stand, four sheets, two
pillow cases, two foam rubber
pillows, two blankets, two bed
spreads, two bath towels, two
hand towels, two ashtrays, two
glass tumlers and a shower cur
tain.
Special Inquiry
Into Strength of
U.S. Air Force
WASHINGTON, G*P)—A special
subcommittee, including two of
the Senate’s sharpest critics of ad
ministration defense policies will
look into the strength and growth
of the U.S. Air Force.
Sens. Symington (D-Mo) and
Jackson (D-Wash), both of whom
carried their criticism into week
end public appearances, were in
cluded on the five-man group
named Saturday by Chairman
Russell (D-Ga) of the Senate
Armed Services Committee. Oth
ers are Sens. Ervin (D-NC), Sal
tonstall (R-Mass) and Duff <R-Pa>.
Symington served as secretary
of the Air Force under Truman.
Symington said the administra
tion has proposed reductions in
Army, Navy and Air Force funds.
Contending this country’s air
force may already be “second
best” to Russia, he said “if pres
ent policies continue, we are cer
tain to have it tomorrow.”
Jackson said more speed is
needed in development of the pro
posed 1,500-mile intermediate
range ballistic missile, in which
he said Russia apparently leads
this country.
He said Air Force Secretary
Quarles apparently is trying to
minimize the importance of that
weapon to prepare the American
people for news of Russia’s lead.
He referred to Quarle’s testi
mony before a House appropria
tions subcommittee that addition
of the missile to the Russian ar
senal would not materially change
the world balance of power.
» PHILADELPHIA UP>—Secretary
of State Dulles warned yesterday
Russian aims had not changed un
der a “new look” foreign policy. __
He said the United States could
defeat those aims under a pro
gram of continued and expanded
economic aid to needy countries.
In a speech at the Philadelphia
Bulletin Forum, Dulles said this
country’s basic policy is to try to
hasten the day when Russia will
be governed by “men who put the
welfare of the Russian people
above world conquest.”
He described the “new 1 )k"
Russian policy as emphasizing
“political cooperation with left
wing socialists, whom they for
merly detested” and putting heavy
stress on trade and economic as
sistance for less developed coun
tries.
Stating this policy had won for
Russia “a considerable popular
prestige” in some Asian and Afri
can countries, Dulles declared
confidently “we need not be pan
icked.”
Part of the answer to the new
Soviet threat, said Dulles, is for
Congress to grant authority asked
by the administration to commit
about $100 million a year for sev
eral years towards long-range
economic development projects in
Soviet target countries.
He said also the government
needs about $100 million more in
new money this year than it ob
tained last year to help counter
the Russian campaign.
In calling anew for greater lee
way in U.S. foreign spending, he
asserted that without this long
range authority sought by the Eis
enhower Administration “we take
a risk which is quite unjustified,
having regard to the small cost of
avoiding it.”
The effort of the President to
win congressional approval for
long-range foreign spending com
mitments has met, generally, with
disfavor among top leaders.
Pan Am to Assign
Stratocruisers to Alaska
Routes Except Nome
SEATTLE, UP) — Pan American
World Airways will assign Boeing
Stratocruisers to its Seattle -
Alaska routes next summer.
Donald E. McMorran, the line’s
regional traffic and sales super
intendent, said the first of the
double - decker planes will be
placed in daily service between
Seattle and Ketchikan and Juneau
in July.
During August, the Stratocruis
ers will begin flying nonstop from
Seattle to Fairbanks. Eventually,
the Stratocruisers will be as
signed to all Pan American routes
in Alaska with the exception of
the Nome run, which will be
served by DC4’s.
The Nome runway will not ac
commodate Statocruisers.
The DC6B’s now assigned to
Pan American’s Alaska runs will
be transferred to the firm’s Latin
American division.
The three Stratocruisers have
65 seats in the main cabin and
14 in the lower-deck lounge.