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VOL. LV1II No. 149 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1956 ^ Per Copy—15#
12 IN CAR KILLED AT CROSSING!
WHEN STRUCK BY FAST TRAIN I
PHOENIX, Ariz., UP)—Twelve'S
persons were killed today when
the old model car into which they
were jammed collided with a
crack passenger train at the west
■ ern end of Phoenix.
A thirteenth occupant of the
car, an 18-month-old girl, was
critically injured.
It was the worst wreck of its
kind on record.
The death toll, originally placed
at 11, was raised at midmorning
when police searching thru brush
at the accident scene found the
body of a young boy.
Bodies were scattered over a
large area. The body of a woman
weighing about 250 pounds was
found 300 feet from the car’s
chassis.
None of the dead has been
identified positively.
No one on the train, the South
ern Pacific’s Golden Gate Limit
ed, was injured.
In fact, no one on the train
knew about the accident until
they pulled into Union Station,
about three miles from the crash
scene. Crew members then spot
ted bits of human flesh and a car
fender on the forward truck of
the second half of the diesel en
gine.
Mortuary attendants said the
mangled bodies were those of five
men, three women, four csildren.
Police said witnesses told of
seeing the crowded car speeding
toward the crossing at 35th Ave.
at 75 to 80 miles an hour.
The Limited was traveling at
75 miles an hour.
Tme train crew said they had
felt a “jar” but didn’t know at
the time what it was.
A motorist driving nearby saw
the accident and said:
“It sounded like a hammer hit
ting a two-by-four.”
The train paused two hours at
the station for minor repairs, then
proceeded on its way from Los
Angeles to Chicago.
The accident took place at a
level crossing marked only by a
standard wooden railroad sign.
FBI Thwarts Plot
To Kidnap Son of
Teamsters’ President
SEATTLE, UP—The Post-Intel
ligencer, in a copyrighted story,
said today that Dave Beck Jr.,
35-yetr-old son of the president
of the International Teamsters
Union, was the intended victim of
a kidnap plot thwarted by the
FBI.
According to the P-I, the
scheme was hatched at a peni
tentiary, “believed to be Leaven
worth,” several months ago.
The story said one of the prison
inmates who planned the kidnap- |
ing, was to “proceed to Seattle1
upon being released on parole.
The FBI, told of the plot, made
an effort to nab the parolee when
he arrived here. Failing, the FBI
called in Back Sr. and his son
and told them of the plot, gave
Beck Jr. careful instructions on
procedures for his protection.
Tennessee Plan Pair
Heid Up by Deep Snow
From Seattle Dates
FAIRBANKS, UP—Alaska's
“Tennessee Plan” senator and
congressman have been held up
by deep snow on the Hart cutoff
and have given up hope of reach
ing Seattle in time for activities
scheduled there today.
This information came in a
telephone call for “Senator” Wil
liam Egan at Prince George, 515
miles north of Vancouver. Egan
said in the preceding 12 hours the
two-car party consisting of Mr.
and Mrs. Egan and ‘Rep.” and
Mrs. Ralph Rivers had travelled
only 253 miles.
Up to the time they hit the
heavy snow in British Columbia,
the party had been on schedule,
despite bitter cold which reached
at one time 62 degrees below zero.
Satchmo Gets Warm Welcome As He
Arrives in London to Play His Trumpet
For Relief of Hungarian Refugees
By EDDIE GILLMORE
LONDON WV—Louis Armstrong
blew into London today to play
his famous trumpet for Hungar
ian relief. The 56-year-old jazz
man, who learned his music in a
New Orleans school for waifs,
found himself in select company.
At the airport to welcome him
was the Hon. Gerald Lascelles,
first cousin of Queen Elizabeth
II, and the Marquis and Mar
chioness of Donegal.
"Satchmo,” said the Hon. Ger
ald, “all London welcomes you.”
“Thank you, daddy,” Mid Arm
strong. “It was a rough flight
over the ocean from New York,
but I’d fly anywhere for Sir Cul
lum Welch, the Lord Mayor.”
Armstrong will appear at Roy
al Festival Hall tomorrow night,
accompanied by the 100-piece
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
for the lord mayor of London’s
Hungarian relief fund.
Despite the first day of gaso
line rationing, a small jazz band
and 50 Armstrong fans showed
up at the airport to greet Satch-1
mo. “What’s that button in your
lapel?” a British reported asked.
“That’s my fraternity button,”
said Satchmo. “Some college
fraternity made me a member.”
“College?” asked the puzzled
reporter. “I didn’t know you ever
attended college.”
Satchmo, who never went be
yond the fifth grade, replied:
“Well, sir, I’ve played at ’an
awful lot of universities.”
“What did you take up at col
lege?” persisted the reporter.
“Everything that wasn’t nailed
down,” laughed Armstrong.
Measles and Pneumoni^
Epidemic at Perryville;
Nine Persons Evacuated
ANCHORAGE, UV-A Coast
Guard cutter has evacuated nine
persons from Perryville where
an outbreak of measles and pneu
monia was, reported.
About 20 of the 125 villagers
are affected. The nine are en
route to Kodiak for treatment
and possible evacuation to An
chorage.
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Workers’ Strike
Ends in Hungary
As Winter Sets In
By ENDRE MARTON
and RICHARD KASISCHKE
BUDAPEST, UP*—'The Hungar
an workers' sitdown strike ap
peared to be ended today in Bu
dapest and the provinces. Lack
of coal and power still hampered
production.
Work resumed at the Bejolan
nis electrical equipment plant,
center of the new wave of slow
downs and sitdowns last week
protesting the arrest of two lead
ers of the Budapest Central Work
ers’ Council.
The two labor leaders, Sandor
Racz and Sandor Bari, have not
been released by the Soviet-sup
ported government. But the threat
of hunger and winter cold ap
peared to have broken the strike.
A Hungarian army lieutenant
barred Western correspondents
who tried to enter the Bejolannis
plant to talk to some of the 6,000
workers employed there. The of
ficer said the plant had been de-r
dared a military area and was
occupied by Hungarian troops
and police.
Along with the back-to-work
movement, reports of widespread
guerilla activities in the Hungar
ian countryside and large-scale
desertions by Russian troops gen
erally were discounted in Buda
pest.
But most Western observers
agreed that the Russians have
lost a satellite, and that Hungary
will never slip back into the sub
servience to Moscow which char
acterized the regime of Stalinist
Matyas Rakosi.
British and U.N.
Troops Guard
Evacuation
By LEONARD LENNINGTON
PORT SAID, W)—British troops
joined U.N. police today in guard
ing the evacuation of 384 Italian
residents of Port Said.
The British troops, reported by
their commander to have killed
27 Egyptian guerrillas in a moon
light battle early Sunday, moved
out of their beachhead area and
ringed the four blocks around the
Italian consulate as a precaution.
Norwegian and Danish soldiers
of the U.N. police force formed
an outer barrier. But there was
no sign of trouble.
Many of the Italians—men,
women and children eager to get
out before the British and French
complete their withdrawal—had
spent last night in the big, white
consulate building. British trucks
carfied them to the waterfront.
Lt. G. N. Sir Hugh Stockwell,
commander of the British-French
task force, said the last-fling bat
tle had cost the life of one British
major, killed on patrol, as against
27 Egyptians killed and an unde
termined number wounded.
British and French units staged
their power drive against the
guerillas Saturday night and ear
ly Sunday thru Port Said’s dark
streets and twisting alleys. The
attack was launched after a Brit
ish officer was killed by a grenade
hurled from ambush.
There was speculation that the
guerillas may be members of the
outlawed nationalist brotherhood
of Moslems trying to put Egypt
President Nasser in an embarras
sing situation.
4 Killed in Bush Plane
Crash at Tin City
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Russia Charges
Hungarian Rebellion
Stimulated from Outside
WASHINGTON, MV-Russia to
day charged the rebellion in Hun
gary against Communist rule was
“stimulated from the outside.” j
Soviet Charge D’Affaires Sergi!
Striganov reported he told this
to the State Department during
a call on Deputy Under Secretary
Robert Murphy.
Striganov also said he had “res
olutely declined” to accept an
American protest against the
massing of Soviet tanks in front
of the American legation nearly
two weeks ago.
At "the time, Hungarians were
appealing for American aid in
their battle against Red forces.
GASOLINE RATIONING
STARTS TODAY FOR
BRITISH MOTORISTS
LONDON, M1)—Today was cou
pon day for British motorists.
Gasoline and oil products went
on ration for the first time since
post-World War II restrictions
were lifted in 1950.
The new rationing, made nec
essary by closure of the Suez Ca
nal, limits automobile owners to
the equivalent of 200 miles per
month. Oil allocations for home
heating and industry also are cut
sharply.
Government spokesmen said
garages should have plenty of
gasoline on hand to meet the
needs of coupon cashers. Most
garages were closed yesterday
and sales generally have been
limited to a few gallons per cus
tomer during the past several
weeks.
The price of gasoline varies ac
cording to quality, with the aver
age six shillings <84 cents) for an
imperial gallon, or the equivalent
of 70 cents for a U.S. gallon.
The price has jumped about 20
cents because of the added cost
of shipping oil products around
the Cape of Good Hope and a
new government tax to make up
lost revenue.
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89 Korean Orphans Arrive in U.S.
To Start New Lives in Foster Homes
SAN FRANCISCO, (J>—Eighty
nine Korean orphans arrived on
a Pan American airliner today to
begin new lives in their foster
American homes.
Some of the children cried.
Others laughed. Most of them
were bewildered.
The eldest is only seven. A doz
en were infants in bassinets. The
average age was between two
and three years.
As the children emerged from
the DC-7C chartered by Henry
Holt, an Oregon farmer, photog
raphers and newsreelmen bathed
them in 'camera lights.
California families adopted 3?
orphans, and Oregon homes are
taking in 17. The others are going
to homes thruout the nation.
Fourteen adults, besides Holt,
escorted the youngsters from
Seoul. Before resuming their
journeys, the children will get a
night’s sleep in private homes,
hotels and motels.
The airlift of Korean orphans
is a project of Holt, who lives on
a farm near Creswell, Ore. He
originally had planned to bring 74
children on this trip.
At the lasrt minute he pleaded
with Capt. Richard Campbell, the
pilot, to let him take more. Camp
bell told Holt he could provide
life jackets and life rafts for 91
children. Holt herded 17 more
orphans aboard.
Holt said he was racing against
a Dec. 31 deadline of a special
immigration provision. He plans
to make one more trip.
Cooperating with a religious
aid organization, World Vision,
Inc., Holt has been bringing Ko
rean waifs to the U.S. in groups
since last year. This planeload
raised the total to almost 250.
1 An Alaska Airlines bush plane,
a Stinson, crashed and burned at
Tin City yesterday while at
tempting a landing.
Pilot Ralph Liebert and three
passengers, whose names are
being withheld until positive
identification is made, were all
killed, it was reported.
Liebert was a young pilot, re
ported to be 21 years of ago, who
earlier this fall missed the ill
fated flight which took the lives
of Pilot John Hutchison and
three passengers when it crashed
at Cape Nome. Due to a delay in
Anchorage he was not aboard
the plane with Hutchison at the
time of the accident.
NATO Calls For
Crisis Settlement
Through the U.N.
PARIS, W—Leaders of the At
lantic alliance set out Saturday
on a vigorous course calling for
a settlement of the Middle East
crisis thru the United Nations.
Big three agreement on this
point tended to restore pre-Suez
unity, but some continuing cool
ness was noted.
The course was charted by the
council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Oroganization (NATO) in
a four-day session that ended
here last night. A communique
issued by the foreign, defense and
finance ministers of the 15 mem
ber countries covered a wide
sweep of problems concerning
NATO security and plans for
closer political liaison.
They noted the threat to world
peace by the Soviet penetration
of the Middle East and agreed to
keep developments in the area
under close observation.
The ministers contrasted the
“brutal suppression of the heroic
Hungarian people" with “Soviet
public -professions.” They called
on the U.N. “through the pressure
of world public opinion, to induce
the Soviets to withdraw their
forces from Hungary and to right
the wrongs done to the Hungarian
people.”