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VOL. LVIII No. 143 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1956 • Per Copy—15*
New Fighting Reported in Hungary
Between Rebels and Russian Army
BUDAPEST, Hungary, WV-Bu-i
dapest seethed with reports today
of new fighting between Hungar
ian rebels and the Russian Army
in the countryside.
The reports were spread from
mouth to mouth and were heard
by Western diplomats. Sizeable
bands of guerrilla freedom fight
ers were said to be battling from
forests and hills both in northern
and southern Hungary.
Pecs, a center of Hungary’s coal
and uranium mines, was named
as one of the chief redoubts of the
rebel holdouts. Communications
between Pecs and Budapest were
broken.
Some rumors in the capital said
shooting heard here yesterday was
artillery fire on Hungarian at
tackers. Another rumor said Rus
sians and Hungarians were fight
ing in the Bu^a section of the
capital this morning.
(The government controlled Bu
dapest radio explained that the
firing was an artillery salute at a
burial ceremony for Russian sol
diers killed in the rebellion.)
None of these reports could be
confirmed. Some of them appar
ently sprang from lack of confi
dence in the government con
trolled radio and newspaper.
Budapest people displayed their
disgust with the Communist Party
newspaper, Nepszabadsag, when
they burned stacks of the paper
in the streets yesterday.
But many people still buy the
paper because it is the only one
to give information on the Olym
pic games.
Reliable reports reaching Vien
na, in Austria, said guerrillas in
the Mecsek Mountain^ and around
Lake Balaton were attacking So
viet units nightly. The Russians
were said to have sent one of
their most energetic commanders
to the region to track down the
insurgents.
Costumes Arrive For
Pioneer Boof Garden
Amateur Entertainment
Beautiful, brilliant, dazzling
costumes, appropriate to the oc
casion have arrived for the cast
engaged in preparing for present
ing to the people of Nome one of
the most humorous, home - town
amateur plays ever witnessed in
this community.
All members of the cast are re
porting promptly for rehearsals
and have manifested a keen in
terest in the parts assigned to
them, with the result that after
yesterday’s full scale rehearsal,
the director said they are ready,
and confident of success.
That there will be surprises
goes without saying. But the play
as a whole will be fascinating and
gripping from the noment the
curtain rises until it is lowered
at the end of the last act. It will
be something the people of Nome
need for relaxation and enjoy
ment after a strenuous summer
and fall season of hard work in
all lines of industry and en
deaver with little or no time for
recreation.
Hungary Would
Let In Observers
From U.N. Later
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y;, 1*1—
Hungary today refused once more
to permit U.N. observers to enter
Hungary. It told Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold, however,
that he would be welcomed in
Budapest at a later date.
U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. immediately called the
Hungarian position most unsatis
factory.
Lodge said the Hungarian
agreement to accept a visit from
Hammarskjold at some indefinite
time in the future could not be
considered as compliance with
U.N. demands for an on-the-scene
inquiry into the Hungarian situa
tion.
Soon Enuough to Do Good
“The secretary general must be
able to go soon enough to do some
good,” Lodge said.
Lodge addressed the 79-nation
General Assembly as it began de
bate on a new resolution, spon
sored by the United States and 13
other countries, calling on both
Russia and Hungary to comply
with earlier U.N. decisions. These
included demands for the with
drawal of Soviet troops, the ces
sation of mass deportations of
Hungarians, and the admission
of U.N. observers to Hungary.
Hungary set forth its position
in a note from Acting Foreign
Minister Istvan Sebes to Ham
marskjold.
Contempt for U.N.
Lodge accused the Soviet Union
with contempt for tile purposes
and principles of the United Na
tions. Instead of withdrawing So
viet troops, he said, the Russians
had sent in more after the Assem
bly made its demand. He added
that it also was continuing the
deportations despite U.N. appeals.
“It is vital that we receive in
formation which impartial people
on the scene could observe,”
Lodge declared.
Car Out of Control Speeds Down Hill to Crowds;
Girl, 17, Wins Praise for Her Action at Wheel
WINDSOR, Conn., UP>—Down
the hill it came, hitting 70 or 75
miles an hour—a car gone crazy.
At the wheel, Cynthia Moran,
17, pounded furiously with her
foot on the brake. Her 14-year
old brother David sat frozen to
the front seat.
They were on their way to
church. It was 10 a.m. and the
crowds just a few blocks ahead
were crossing Broad Street head
ing for church. Traffic Patrolman
Robert Christensen was directing
them across.
Something had happened to the
car at the top of the hill. Sudden
ly the engine had roared up and
the car spurted ahead.
Cynthia couldn’t stop it. The
brakes didn’t hold. She couldn’t
get the gears into neutral. Noth
ing happened when she turned
off the ignition.
She leaned on the horn and
turned the car iitto the Espanade
—a grassy strip dividing north
south lanes on Broad Street.
Patrolman Christensen spotted
the car coming toward the
crowds. He shouted for them to
get back out of the way.
Cynthia came to the intersec
tion and by then managed to jam
the gears into reverse. The car
jolted and spun around, then
slammed into Albert Turgeon’s
car, coming the other way.
The cars stopped and Cynthia
and her brother jumped out. Tur
geon, 67, jumped out of his.
The cars, hooked bumper to
bumper, began to move again—in
a slow, crazy circle. But Patrol
man Christensen hopped onto the
car Cynthia had been driving,
flung open the hood and pulled
the wires from the coil in the
engine.
The crazy car stopped and Cyn
thia and her brother stood trem
bling among the crowd.
She told police the car, a 1956
sedan, had recently been repaired.
Police said they believed the link
age between the gas pedal and
the carburetor stuck.
The police didn’t arrest Cyn
thia. “She did a remarkable job
of handling the cat;,” they said.
5th Amendment
Pleaded 600 Times
In Hawaii Hearings
HONOLULU, UB—Rebuffed for
two days by longshore officials,
U. S. Senate investigators meet
again today in a hearing on Com
munism in Hawaii.
The Internal Security Subcom
mittee heard six witnesses plead
the 5th Amendment nearly 200
times since the hearings opened
Friday.
All six reluctant witnesses are
officers or former officers of Har
ry Bridges’ International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen's
Union. Thomas Yagi, Maui divi
sion director, refused 64 times to
answer on grounds that he might
incriminate himself.
The subcommittee is headed by
Sen. James O. Eastland, (D-Miss).
Former Gov. Ingram M. Stain
back told the senators the long
shore union was “Communist
controlled” and active in Hawaii
an politics.
Stainback testified the Pacific
Army commander in 1947, Gen.
John E. Hull, had shown him a
Communist plan to infiltrate Ha
waii. Stainback said persons list
ed as Communists by Hull still
have influence in the ILWU.
The longshore unioh has about
24,000 members in Hawaii dock,
sugar and pineapple industries.
Less than half of these walked
off their jobs Friday in a protest
demonstration against the sub
committee hearings.
Bridges has accused the East
land investigators of being “out
to wreck the union.”
GEN. LEWIS PICK DIES
WASHINGTON, W—Lt. Gen.
Lewis A. Pick, whose name was
linked with Army Engineer Corps
activities both at home and over
seas, died yesterday at the age
of 66 years.
He was chief of engineers from
1949 until he retired in 1953. He
gained wartime fame as the build
er of the Ledo road from India to
China. The 438-mile jungle road
was built in 57 days as a supply
route for U.S. and Chinese troops
in the China-Burma- India Thea
ter in World War II. It became
known as Pick’s Pike.
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
AGREE TO WITHDRAW
FROM EGYPT SOON
Councilmen Personally
Interviewing Taxpayers
On New Water Utility
Members of the Nome City
Council have taken on the job of
personally interviewing all the
taxpayers of the community on
their views of the proposed sew
erage and water system.
They are giving their time to
answer questions of taxpayers in
the part of town assigned to them
and educating them, when neces
sary, on the improvement this
project will give to the communi
ty economically and for health
protection.
Council members will report
their finding at the next council
meeting.
Internal Revenue Man From
Fairbanks Here For a Week
Theodore E. Weichbrodt from
the Fairbanks office of th^ De
partment of Internal Revenue,
will be in Nome for a week to
answer questions about the in
come tax. He will be in Room 106
at the Federal Building.
Canada Flies Relief
To Hungarian Refugees,
Will Take in 400
VANCOUVER, LP—A Canadian
Pacific Airlines polar flight, laden
with relief supplies for Hungarian
refugees, left Vancouver Airport
Saturday night bound for Vienna.
It is scheduled to return here
tomorrow with 50 refugees, the
first of 400 to be brought here on
airlift arranged by the federal
government. Four more similiar
flights are scheduled.
The relief supplies include food
and clothing donated to the Emer
gency Council for Hungarian aid.
Accommodations for the refu
gees are being arranged. So far,
300 offers of temporary accommo
dation have been received.
i LONDON Wl—Britain and France
bowed today to the will of the
United Nations and agreed to pull
their troops out of the Suez Canal
zone without delay.
Further, the British told Israel
it should get out of the captured
Gaza strip as well as Egypt’s Si
nai Peninsula and permit the strip
to be made a responsibility of the
United Nations.
In New York, U.N. Secretary
Dag Hammarskjold expressed his
hope the British and French forc
es will be out and the emergency
U.N. police force will have taken
command in Port Said by mid
December.
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
notified the House of Commons
that the commander of the Brit
ish-French invasion forces. Sir
Charles Keightley, has been in
structed to meet with U.N. offi
cials to work out a time table for
withdrawal.
“Given good faith on all sides,
it can be carried out in a short
time,” Lloyd said.
In Paris, Foreign Minister Chris
tian Pineau delivered a similar
statement to the French National
Assembly.
Lloyd’s announcement made it
clear that the invasion failed to
achieve what many members of
Britain’s ruling Conservative Par
ty had considered a prime objec
tive: to restore the Suez Canal to
international control.
He said U.N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold would soon
promote negotiations on the ca
nal’s control among representa
tives of Britain, France and
Egypt.
3 Boys Capture
Lynx Barehanded
FORT ST. JOHN, UB—Three 13
year-old boys have proven that
the Peace River country produces
some rugged, hardy sons.
They didn’t fight their weight
in wildcats. But they did capture
a clawing, snarling lynx with
their bare hands.
With torn clothes, lacerated
hands, scratches faces and badly
clawed legs, the boys marched to
their home at Taylor Flats, near
Fort St. John, with the still snarl
ing animal slung over a pole. But
the lynx was so badly mauled it
had to be shot.
The Wild West movie-like feat
was performed by Fraser and
Floyd Burnet and Murray Logan.
The boys live in a trailer camp at
Taylor Flats, where a bridge is
being constructed over the Peace
River for a railroad.
The boys, who lead a rugged
outdoor life, were on a skating
expedition when they encoun
tered the lynx. The animal, ap
parently cornered, showed fight
and the boys took up the chal
lenge.