2E NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No. 35 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Third Div. Republican Convention
Marked By Factional Controversy,
Refusal Endorse Gov. Heintzleman
PALMER, UP) — Third Division*
Republican wound up late Satur
day night a divisional convention
that was marked by factional con
troversy and a refusal to endorse
the administration of Governor
Heintaleman.
The motion for endorsement of
the governor failed to muster suf
ficient strength on the floor and
it was sent to the resolutions
committee, where it was tabled.
The floor vote was 47-27.
The convention passed unani
mously two statehood resolutions, j
One commended Sen. Butler (R
Neb) for abandoning his early op
position to statehood and devot
ing his efforts toward seeking
enactment of legislation now be- j
fore Congress.
The second called on President
Eisenhower to support and en
dorse statehood for Alaska.
The so-called “old guard” ele- :
ments of the party lost a battle
for control of the convention as
a group which called itself the j
“progressives” took over key po-i
sitions and dominated committees. {
Victor Gill of Anchorage was el- j
ected divisional chairman.
The delegates without debate I
adopted a 26-plank platform, with ‘
17 “splinters,” or sub-headings.
The party pledged to support |
President Eisenhower, endorsing
his leadership in what the party
called restoration of peace; com
batting of Communism and com
batting “threatened bankruptcy
through inflation.”
Construction of hospitals and
nursing homes; University of Al
aska expansion; more road con
struction funds; opposition to fish
traps; mining tax and land law
revision were supported.
Other items advocated were
compulsory automobile insurance
and equal treatment of all Alas
kans regardless of color or creed.
Walter J. Hickel, candidate for
National Committeeman, criticized
sharply one of the visitations
which preceded the appointment
of Heintzleman as governor last
year. Without mentioning names,
he referred clearly to the visit to
Juneau of Ralph Cake of Oregon,
close advisor to Interior Secretary
McKay.
“It is. asinine for a man to
fly from some state, like Oregon,
all the way to Juneau where Al
askans roll out the carpet and
entertain him, then the man flies
back home and decides who will
be governor here,” Hickel assert
ed.
McCarthy May Leave Investigating
Committee \\ hile It Looks Into His
Controversy with Army Sec. Stevens
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WASHINGTON, UP)—Sentiment*
appeared to be building up among
Senate Republican leaders today
that Sen. McCarthy should step
all the way off his Investigations
subcommittee while it looks into
his roaring quarrel with the
Army.
From McCarthy came announce
ment of a tentative decision not
to do so and a suggestion that
the committee employ lie detec
tors to get at the truth of his
controversy with Secretary of the
Army Robert T. Stevens.
McCarthy, voicing “complete
confidence in this scientific instru
ment when it is. operating proper
ly,” said he will suggest the use
of the lie detector if all the wit
nesses agree. He plans to testify
himself.
Sen. Knowland, GOP floor lead
er, said he doesn’t want to inter
fere in the committee’s functions,
but he thinks McCarthy should
volunteer not to question wit
nesses nor to vote on issues before
the group.
McCarthy said, “I shall be a
witness and I do wish to cross
examine other witnesses. In all
fairness, I feel this right to cross
examination should be extended
to the Army officers involved . . .”
That was his reaction to a
Democratic suggestion that was
made Saturday night by Senator
Symington (D-Mo), who said that
if McCarthy wants to “appear in
the triple role of accusing witness
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June Haver and Fred
MacMurray Deny
Rumors They Will Wed
HOLLYWOOD, UP — Actress
June Haver and actor Fred Mac
Murray are back from South
America today both denying they
have wedding plans.
“No, we do not,” Miss Haver
replied when asked if she and
MacMurray contemplated mar
riage. His reply was “Ask Joan
Fontaine.”
MacMurray, 45, and a widower,
referred to reports that the act
ress had said in Miami, Fla., that
he and Miss Haver, 27, were plan
ning a wedding.
Miss Haver, 27, was divorced
from trumpet player Jimmy Zito‘
six years ago. She entered a con
vent last year with the expressed
intention of becoming a nun, but
left after several months and re
turned to Hollywood.
Miss Haver’s stepfather and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Ottestadt, a woman reporter and
a press agent became overzealous
in their attempts to meet the re
turnees and were hustled into the
U.S. customs headquarters.
The Ottestadts and the reporter
had to submit to routine vaccina
tion before being allowed out
again. The press agent was able
to establish to officers’ satisfac
tion that she had been vaccinated
for small pox recently.
Secretary McKay
To Visit Alaska
Late In July
WASHINGTON, — Secretary
of the Interior McKay will make
his first official inspection trip to
Alaska in July, he announced to
day.
It will be the first time a Sec
retary of Interior has visited Al
aska since 1946. The visit that
year by Julius A. Krug was the
first since before 1933, officials
told a reporter.
The Secretary’s office said the
exact time and the itinerary had
not been decided but that tenta
tive plans call for McKay to be
in Alaska about 10 days during
the latter part of July.
One official said the plan is
for the secretary to visit Anchor
age, Fairbanks and Juneau with
the possibility of stops at Barrow,
Nome, Cordova and other smaller
communities. He said it was hoped
the secretary could ride on the
Alaska Railroad and also visit Mt.
McKinley.
The official announcement said
McKay will review the activities
of all Interior Department agen
cies in the territory. He will be
accompanied by a group of de
partment officials.
Japanese Repatriates Say
Rich Gold Strike Made
In Northeastern Siberia
TOKYO, l/P — Japanese repat
riates from Russia say a gold rush
is on in northeast Siberia where
Japanese and German prisoners of
war discovered nuggets “some
times bigger than a kidney bean,”
the newspaper Sangyo' Keizai re
ported Sunday.
The paper, quoting three Japa
nese said the deposit is in the
Kilyma Valley of northeast Si
beria and is spread over an area
larger than Japan.
Yoshio Kashiwabara, one of the
three, said a Russian mining engi
neer told him the deposit—fully
exploited — could yield enough
gold to “wreck the world gold
market.”
The three repatriates were
among more than 400 civilians
and prisoners of war who re
turned to Japan Saturday from
years of Russian imprisonment
and labor.
Swedish-Born Anchorage
Skier Wins Donner Trail
Memorial Ski Marathon
EMMIGRANT GAP, Calif., CD
— A 29-year-old Swedish - ibom
Alaskan, Sven Johansson, won the
6th Annual Donner Trail Mem
orial Ski Marathon last weekend.
Johansson, representing the An
chorage Ski Club, covered the
tough 25-mile course in 3 hours,
31 minutes and 24 seconds. A
native of Boden, Sweden, Johans
son came to the United States two
years ago. He has taken out nat
uralization papers and hopes to
represent the U.S. in the 1956
Olympics.
The race was run in an inter
mittent snow storm but the course
was fast. Johansson started in 10th
place but surged to 'the front at
the 3-mile mark. From there on
out, he broke trail all the way.
Rabies, Disease That Affects Nervous
System, Always Fatal Once it Develops
Police Chief Clyde Glass reports':
that eight dogs have either been |
killed or died where they were
tied in the last eight days from
rabies.
The dogs have been found in
widely scattered areas: two in the
east end of town, one near the
school, one near the old Road
Commission garages, one on B
Street and two on Steadman Ave.
Included among the dogs was
one of the huge pack-carrying
dogs of E. Bachelder, a familiar
pet around town with his pack
sacks of religicrus tracts.
Rabies is a disease that affects
the nervous system, including the
brain and spinal cord, of animals
and man. Once it develops, it is
always fatal.
The disease is caused by a virus
present in the saliva of infected
animals. It is usually injected into
another animal or a person by a
bite.
The bite of infected dogs ac
counts for 90 percent of human
cases in the United States, though
cats, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, and
all warm-blooded animals may
contract the disease and occasion
ally spread it. Recently the inci
dence of fox rabies has soared and
a number of people have been j
attacked by rabid foxes.
The disease may also be trans
ferred if the saliva of the infected
animal comes in contact with open
wounds.
Symptoms of Rabies
"FURIOUS” TYPE—One of the
first symptoms is the changed
disposition of the animal. A pre
viously playful dog becomes sul
len, prefers to be alone, and re
fuses food. A day or so later it
grows unnaturally restless. It may
lie down for a moment, then jump
up suddenly, move to another
place, lie down again only to re
peat its restless movements.
Restraint increases its nervous
ness and irritation. It may attack
strangers without warning.
As the disease progresses, the
dog snarls viciously, barks and
growls at imaginary objects, and
may chase and bite other animals
with which it had previously lived
in harmony. If free, it may wan
der long distances from home, and
unless killed, will keep on, biting
as it goes, until it drops from
paralysis or exhaustion.
The furious type also is ob
served in other animals including
cats, foxes, cattle, swine, squirrels,
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More Than Mail Involved In Renewal
Of Ship Contract To Serve Aleutians
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Missing C-47 Found On
Iceland Glacier, And
Those Aboard Safe
ST. JOHN’S, Nfld., Wl—U.S. Air
Force officials said last night a
C-47 missing since last Wednesday
day has been spotted on a Green
land glacier. Five crewmen and
two civilian scientists aboard were
reported safe.
The plane, equipped with Arc
tic survival equipment, had made
an emergency landing after run
ning out of fuel. Search planes
located it 200 miles north of its
base at Thule, Greenland, Satur
day.
The Northeast Air Force Com
mand said the plane was search
ing for “Fletcher’s Island,” a giant
ice floe under investigation as a
possible air base.
Autobahn Accident
Telescopes
DARMSTADT, Germany, Ub—A
motorcycle rammed into a parked
trailer truck in a dense fog on
the Frankfurt - Munich autobahn
near Darmstadt Monday and its
rider was killed.
Two trailer trucks stopped at
the scene. Two other motorcycles
smashed into the rear truck, kill
ing both the motorcyclists.
Another truck, unable to stop
in time, hit the wreckage and
hurled the two bodies over an
embankment.
A fourth motorcycle plunged
into that truck. The rider and a
companion were injured critically.
Six automobiles piled up in the
opposite lane. Traffic was stalled
for two hours.
» SEATTLE, UP—More than mail
is involved in the question of
whether a ship or a plane is to
carry letters to the Aleutian Is
lands, the manager of Berger
Transportation Company said Sat
urday.
The fact that the issue is in
doubt, was brought into the open
last week by the mayor’s Marti
time Advisory Committee. The
committee said it had learned that
the Post Office Department plan
ned to give the contract to an air
line in Alaska when the present
contract with the Berger company
expires June 30.
“A plane can’t serve the area,”
E. J. Townsend, manager of the
Berger company, says.
Sure a plane is faster than a
ship. But at the 21 ports in the
Aleutian chain which we serve
with our ship, the Garland, there
are only two airports of any size.
They’re at Cold Bay and Dutch
Harbor. What about the other 19
places?
“In good weather, of course, a
float plane could land at those
points—but in the Aleutians there
are a good many months that you
don’t have good weather.”
“On our last trip,” Townsend
explained, “we delivered the mail
in 70 knot winds. At one place we
were hove to for 18 hours.
“What could an amphibian
plane do in a 70-knot wind?”
When the Garland reached Ko
diak on that voyage, Townsend
added, she was coated with more
than 50 tons of ice.
It is only the mail contract that
keeps the service to the Aleu
tians going, but the residents need
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