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VOL. LX No. 63 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1958 Per Copy—15^
France Faces Worst Postwar Crisis
As Civil War Now Threatens
PARIS, UPi — Premier Pierre
Pflimlin today warned an emer
gency session of parliament that
a civil war is threatening and
called on all Frenchmen to defend
their basic liberties.
The premier went before the
assembly as the Rightist drive to
boost Gen. Charles de Gaulle to
power spread through France
whose worst postwar crisis was
darkening hourly.
Insurgents in Algeria and Cor
sica claimed new successes.
They boasted their crusade to
put de Gaulle at the helm had
spread to French Equatorial and
West Africa, and New Caledonia
and Tahiti in the Pacific.
Renewed fighting /between
French and Tunisian forces in
Southern Tunisia posed . a grim
problem. The government, in an
effort to avert a Tunisian com
plaint to the Security reportedly
agreed to withdraw all French
troops to the north coast area
around the Bizerte Naval Base.
But there was no assurance the
military would honor the order.
In France the giant Communist
led Confederation of Labor called
on its members working in gov
ernment arsenals to “meet im
mediately to plan counteraction
against the Fascist aggression.”
This raised the possibility the
workers would try to seize arms
if Rightist mobs took to the
streets in support of de Gaulle.
Friends of de Gaulle reported
he would come to Paris to
night, and there were uncon
firmed rumors a meeting had
been arranged between him and
Pflimlin.
Previously de Gaule was cool
to an overture that he mediate
between the government and the
insurgents in Algria, but his
friends! said the general within
48 hours would issue a declar
ation deploring the insurrection in
Corsica. They added he would
say once again that he is avail
able to lead the government.
Nixon Endorses
Knowland For
Calif. Governor
RIVERSIDE, Calif., UP> — Vice
President Nixon sent a telegram
yesterday endorsing Sen. William
F. Knowland, (R-Calif) who
seeks the California Republican
nomination for governor.
The message from Washington,
D. C. was to a Republican rally
in Riverside that Knowland at
tended. The senator was in
California for a weekend of cam
paigning.
“As a Californian,” Nixon said,
“I am proud to be able to work
and vote for a man who in ev
ery respect will be worthy to
lead our state into the exciting
era in which it will become the
first $tate in the nation.” Cali
fornians predict their state’s pop
ulation will exceed New York’s
in a few years.
Bishop Sheen Says
Western World Is
Growing Soft
ST. LOUIS, UP) — Bishop Ful
ton J. Sheen says the Western
world is growing soft while Rus
sia “is strengthening itself by
discipline, self-denial and hard
ship.”'
He said Soviet schools teach
up to 800 more hours of science
in high schools than is taught in
colleges of the United States.
The Catholic Bishop said,
“This is typical of the general
softening of our culture.”
Bishop Sheen, National Direc
tor of the Society for the Propo
gation of the (Catholic) Faith
talked yesterday to the daily
world missionaries, a group of
lay people who pledge themselves
to aid Catholic missions by pray
ers, sacrifices and contributions.
B-57 Crash Kills Two Crewmen
CHAMPAIGN, 111., UPi — An
Air Force B-57 twin-jet bomber
crashed in a field shortly after
taking off from Chanute Air
Force Base yesterday, killing two
> crewmen aboard.
The victims were identified as
1st Lt. J. T. Flynn, pilot, of In
dianapolis, and Capt. B. H. Griggs,
navigator, of Philadelphia, both
stationed at Langley Air Force
Base, Va.
Campanella
Set To Begin
New Life
NEW YORK, UP) — A new life
dawned for Roy Campanella to
day.
The ex-Dodger catcher and
three-time most valuable play
er in the National League was
lifted out of bed and placed in
a wheel chair for the first time
since his. tragic automobile ac
cident on Jan. 28 left him para
lyzed from the waist doyvn.
His playing days over, Campy
not only found himself off his
■back, but all set to take up a
new job offered to him by Gov.
Averell Harriman.
The state’s chief executive
looked in on Campanella yes
terday and told him that an
$8,000-a-year post as deputy
boxing commissioner was his for
the asking.
“His face lit up and he said
he had always been interested in
boxing and would be glad to take
on the job,” reported Gov. Har
riman.
The governor said Campy can
start the job right now while
undergoing treatment at the New
York University-Bellevue Medi
.cal Center if he desires.
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U. S. Sets Off
Third Nuclear Blast
In This Year’s Series
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
third announced nuclear detona
tion in this year’s series took
place yesterday, the Defense De
partment and the Atomic Ener
gy Commission announced today.
No further details were given,
except that the test occurred at
the Eniwetok Proving Grounds
in the South Central Pacific.
The first announced test in
this year’s series, officially desig
nated “Hardtack,” was officially
confirmed May 11 after Rep.
•Charles O. Porter (D-Ore) made
it public. %
The second announced test shot
took place the following day.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion and the Pentagon said at the
start of this year’s nuclear tests
in the Pacific that some of the
detonations would be announced.
Road Contract Let
To B-E-C-K
For $215,899
The road contract for this sum
mer on Route 97 was let last
week and Beck and Associates
was the low bidder for $215,899.
The contract calls for 100,000
yards of gravel fill and 200,000
yard-miles of gravel haul.
The next lowest bid was sub
mitted by the Ramstead Con
struction Co., of Anchorage for
$218,236.50. Third was the bid
of Edman and Bronson, who had
the contract last year, for
$220,086.26.
Polio Shots To
Be Given Next
Monday, June 2
Public Health Nurse Margaret
Swanberg announced today that
the first mass polio innoculation
will be held one week from to
day, on Monday June 2. The
shots will be given at the Federal
Building from 2 to 4 in the af
ternoon and from 7 to 10 o’clock
in the evening.
All persons 19 years of age and
over are eligible for the innocu
lations. A maximum fee of
$1.00 will be charged—but lack
of funds will not preclude any
one from getting his “shot.”
Each person receiving his innocu
lation may give according to his
ability to pay, up to a maximum
of $1.00.
Dr. Woodcock, Margaret Swan
berg and Eunice Bergland will
administer the vaccine. The sec
ond shot will be given on June
30, and the third shot nine months
later.
All persons able to are urged
to get their shots in the afternoon,
leaving the evening free for those
who are working and unable to
come in during the day.
Senate Committee
Approves Nomination
Of Walter Hodge
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee today
approved President Eisenhower’s
nomination of Walter H. Hodge
to be U. S. Judge for Alaska’s
Division No. 2.
Alaska Airlines Gets
License To Serve
Liquor On Flights
•JUNEAU, UP) — Alaska Air
lines became the first air car
rier in the territory to obtain a
license for the sale of liquor on
its flights.
The Territorial Liquor Con
trol Board voted 4-0 to grant
Alaska Airline’s application for
a common carrier dispensary
license.
The airline, with headquarters
at Seattle, recently added DC6C
Starliner service from the states
to Fairbanks and Anchorage.
R. H. Herrnstein, treasurer of
the airline, signed the application
for the license. The applica
tion said the sale of alcoholic
beverages would be “confined to
aircraft in flight.”
Robert Summers And Paul
Glavinovich Home From U. of A.
Two students from the Uni
versity of Alaska came home
Saturday for the summer. They
are Robert Summers and Paul
Glavinovich.
McCormack Says Alaskan Statehood
Would Also Benefit United States
WASHINGTON, UP) — Rep.
John McCormack, House Demo
cratic leader, said today Alas
ka’s admission as a state would
be advantageous to the United
States as well as Alaska.
Opening the fifial day’s House
debate on the bill, the Massachu
setts congressman said there is
“no more strategic spot in the
world than Alaska” from the
standpoint of defense.
Pointing to Alaska’s rapid
growth since 1950, McCormack
predicted that as a state Alaska
would reach a population of
“some millions.”
Eighty-five per cent of Alaska’s
present population, he said, is
made up of the same stock which
developed the western half of
the nation.
The remaining 15 per cent, he
said, £re Eskimos and Aleuts
“and they are all loyal Ameri
cans.”
Debate on the 42-year-old is
sue will wind up today (1 p.m.
PST) with consideration of
amendments scheduled to start
tomorrow. A decisive vote prob
ably would not come before Wed
nesday.
Discussing the bill three days
last week, proponents challenged:
1. Alaska’s ability to sup
port statehood on grounds the
territorial economy is reliant up
on government spending. State
hood, they said, would foster gov
ernment by minorities by grant
ing Alaska’s approximately 210,000
population, the same Senate rep
resentation as New York, Penn
sylvania and other populous
states.
2. Alaska’s admission as a
precedent, leading to the granting
of statehood for Hawaii, Puerto
Rico and other United States
territories or possessions.
3. Provisions of the bill which
would give Alaska the right to
select some 182 million acres,
including mineral lands, of its
over-all 376 million acres as a
tax base. Opponents argued this
would be a giveaway of natural
Captain Survives Gravity
Pull of 11,000 Pounds
ALAMOGORDO, N. M., UP) — A
young Air Force captain has
withstood a gravity pull 83 times
the weight of his own body—
about twice as much as any man
before who lived to tell about it.
Capt. E. L. Beeding, 29, in a
special human endurance test at
Holloma Air Force Missile Devel
opment Center Friday, underwent
a gravity pull of about 11,000
pounds, or 83 times the weight
of his body.
Air Force spokesmen said the
highest number of “G’s”—the
number of times gravity is mul
tiplied—ever withstood before
was 40 by Lt. Col. John P. Strapp
in his famous rocket-sled ex
periments a few years ago.
Capt. Beeding was seated in an
upright and backward-facing po
sition on the research sled and
withstood the force for 1/10 sec
ond at a rate of onset of 5,000
“G’s” per second on the 120-foot
run.
Capt. Beeding went into shock
after the run but recovered about
10 minutes later. He was taken
to the base hospital for treat
ment of a vertebra and observa
tion, then released.
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resources belonging to all the
states.
Supporters of the bill count
ered, however, that Alaska al
ready provides many of the ser
vices required by statehood, that
extra costs would be relatively
small and its admission would
open resources to development
benefiting not only Alaska-’s
economy but also that of existing
states'.
Statehood for Alaska, the
supporters said, should be con
sidered on its awn merits and
not in relation to the future of
other territories or possessions
because each such proposal would
have to be passed upon by Con
gress.
Land grants have been made in
all admission bills, they said,
and are required particularly in
Alaska where 99 per cent of all
land now is owned by the federal
government. The grant to Alas
ka still would leave the new
state with control of less than
half its public lands.
Mineral lands, they said, have
been available since 1927 to
states in filling out land grants
made to them upon admission.
Alaska would be under more
rigid restriction than existing
states in that the bill proposes to
bar it from disposing of mineral
lands.
Statehood supporters also con
tend Alaska’s admission would
rid it of discriminations now
faced in taxation and transporta
tion, fulfill the implied promises
of self-government contained in
the 1867 treaty of cession under
which Alaska was obtained from
Russia and enhance world opin
ion of democratic procedures.
7 Drowned In
Attempt To Save
9-Year-Old Girl
ROCKPORT, Tex., MP> — Strug
gles of a drowning child drew 10
rescuers off a sunny beach late
yesterday and seven persons per
ished, including the little girl
the others tried to save.
Other victims were an Air
Force chaplin, the little girl’s
mother and four other children.
The tragic sequence started
after Janice Bailey, 9, stepped
into a deep hole off the small
public beach opposite this Texas
port on the Gulf of Mexico.
Leonard Berry, 40, an Air
Force priest from Syracuse, N. Y.,
dived in.
The father of another child,
also was drowned, and Janice’s
mother, Mrs. Mary Bailey, 26,
followed. Efforts to help were
made by seven other children,
including the four who went
down.
Wayne Bailey, an airman
from Foster Air Force Base at
neighboring Victoria, Tex., was
in the crowd of more than 3,000
persons who saw the bodies of
his wife and daughter pulled from
the water.
“That’s my wife!” he cried
out as Mrs. Bailey was brought
ashore dead. “Thats Father Ber
ry! “ Oh, my God—there comes
my daughter!”
Rockport fire chief Dick Fox,
who also heads the Arkansas
County Emergency Corps, said
most of the surf bathers knew
what was happening but there
was no panic.