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VOL. LVIII No. 11 _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1956 Per Copy—154
Red Cross Appeals for
$8,000,000 Extra for
Flood and Disaster Relief
Calls for flood and disaster re
lief have been exceptionally high
this year, and the National Red
Cross is urgently appealing for
an additional $8,000,000 over and
above its regular budget to fortify
the yearly operating budget.
The chapter at Nome is being
asked to contribute $455 of this
amount, or an increase of $85
over the original asking for the
campaign for 1956.
In order to stand by our duty
to the Red Cross, it is urgent that
all persons interested in or con
nected with Red Cross meet at an
early date and plan the 1956 fund
drive.
yueen Elizabeth
To Visit Nigeria
LONDON, UP)—Queen Elizabeth
kissed her children goodby at
London Airport today and then
left by plane for a three-week
tour of Nigeria, on the African
west coast.
Seven-year-old Prince Charles
and little Princess Anne went
aboard the four-engine plane with
other members of the Royal Fam
ily to say farewell to the Queen
and her husband, the Duke of
Edinburgh.
The plane was the same one
that brought the young Elizabeth
back from Africa in 1952, when, i
at the outset of a world tour, she
learned her father had died and
she was Queen.
Nigeria once was the main
source of supply for the slave
trade and now is an industrial na
tion on the brink of self-govern
ment.
The timing of the Queen’s visit
is politically significant. It could
help promote the commonwealth
ideas among the Nigerians. And
it might give a fillip to British
trade, which, though still the
dominant factor in Nigeria’s econ
omy, has been falling off while
German trade with Nigeria has
been advancing.
Senator George Sees
No Threat of War
WASHINGTON, UP)—Senator
George tD-Ga) said today he is
convinced Russia is not preparing
for “a shooting war” and that he
sees no prospect of armed conflict
with the U.S.S.R. “in the immedi
ate future.”
George, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, in
an interview said he thinks the
Soviets have not changed a basic
objective of world conquest, but
“their tactics have shifted to the
economic front.”
Territory of Alaska
Collects $16,208,509 in
License Fees, Taxes in 55
JUNEAU—The Territory of Al
aska collected $16,208,509.90 in
license fees and taxes last year,
Tax Commissioner Karl Dewey
has announced.
The prepared statement recent
ly released shows some of the ma
jor revenue sources, from the Sec
ond Division to be as follows:
Business licenses, $19,349; liqu
or licenses (excise taxes) 16,994;
motor fuel oil, $77,481; net income
tax, $109,727; school tax, $10,845;
tobacco tax, $32,514.
The total of all license fees and
taxes collected from the Second
Division last year was $290,232.
Magnetic Storms
Threat to Radar
BOULDER, Colo., tP—A noted
geophysicist said last night that
magnetic storms may disturb the
radar defense warning systems in
Alaska, northern Canada and
Europe.
Dr. Sidney Chapman, president
of the International Geophysical
Year Committee, said that for this
reason studies of magnetic storms
are to be intensified by scientists.
Chapman, a Briton who has
been engaged in research at the
University of Colorado’s high al
titude observatory, spoke to stu
dents at the Boulder laboratories
of the National Bureau of Stand
ards.
“Magnetic storms disturb the
upper atmosphere’s job of helping
to keep radio waves traveling
around the earth instead of being
lost to outer space,” he said.
Such storms, he added, are
“wonderfully intricate and varied,
they challenge all our ability and
intelligence, they lead our
thoughts across interplanetary
space, they impel investigation of
processes within the atoms.”
Russia Plans to Build
A-Powered Icebreaker
LONDON, (/P)—The Moscow ra
dio reported today the Soviet Un
ion plans to build an atom-pow
ered icebreaker for research in
the North Polar region.
The radio also announced a num
ber of polar projects to be carried
out this year. These include set
ting up another drifting research
station to be known as North Pole
6. The Russians already have two
such stations set up on ice islands.
They are called North Pole 4 and
North Pole 5.
Abbott to Die for
Murder-Kidnaping
Of Schoolgirl, 14
OAKLAND, Calif., (A*>—Burton
Abbot was one of the prosecu
tion’s best witnesses at the trial
that convicted him of kidnaping
and murder, the jury foreman
said yesterday.
Abbott was condefned to death
in the gas chamber by the jury
that on Wednesday found that he
killed 14-year-old Stephanie Bry
an. The April 28 crime, which no
body witnessed, was called a sex
crime by the prosecution—“one
of the foulest and blackest in Cal
ifornia’s history.”
“What are you going to do with
a guy who lies right at you and
then laughingly admits it?” asked
the jury foreman.
Abbott’s red-haired wife, Geor
gia, a beauty parlor operator,
heard the condemnation of her
husband, father of her 4-year-old
son, Chris, in grim-faced silence.
It was Georgia’s discovery on
July 15 of Stephanie’s red purse
in the basement of the Abbott’s
Alameda home and her call to
police that first pointed suspicion
at Abbott. Next day FBI agents
dug up Stephanie’s brassiere and
books in the basement. Four days
later, dogs pointed the way to her
crude grave.
Dr. Paul Kirk, nationally known
criminologist, testified a soil test
showed that clay nine inches deep
in the grave matched clay from
Abbott’s boots. He said that two
strands of hair found in Abbott’s
car matched Stephanie’s head;
that 18 fibers matched those of
two sweaters, a petticoat and a
skirt.
Three From Nome
File For Primaries
Second Division now has three
candidates filing for the primary
election to the Alaska legislature
to be held April 24. Tuesday, Jan.
31 is the last day for filing of
candidacies.
So far, Rose Silverman, Demo
crat, has filed for the House of
Representatives; Lester Bronson,
Democrat, for the Senate, and
Charles D. Jones, Republican, for
the Senate.
Five Lost Sabres
Cost $2,000,000
TOKYO, MV-Five U.S. Sabre
jets crashed in the Far East today
—four after they ran out of fuel
near Okinawa and one in Japan.
The pilots escaped unhurt.
The loss, running to about two
million dollars, was the costliest
single day’s toll of Sabres in the
Far East since the Korean War.
An Air Force spokesman said
four Sabres were returning to
Okinawa from a brief training
flight when they changed course
to skirt bad weather and ran out
of fuel.
One pilot parachuted to safety
in northern Okinawa. The other
three landed in the East China
Sea. One was picked up by a Jap
anese ferry and two by an Air
Force amphibian rescue plane.
In Itazuke, Japan the fifth pilot
escaped with minor scratches
when his Sabre bounced into a
field of radishes on takeoff and
started to burn.
French Premier Shapes
New Cabinet With Help
Of Mendes-Franee
PARIS, Ml—Premier-designate
Guy Mollet and his ally, Pierre
Mendes-Franee, sought today to
shape up the French cabinet that
the Socialist leader will submit
for National Assembly approval
next week.
Mollet, head of the French So
cialist Party, and Mendes-Franee,
who leads the moderate radicals,
formed an alliance called the “Re
publican Front” that won them
some 160 assembly seats in the
recent election.
Although far short of a major
ity in the 596-member Assembly,
they claimed the right to head up
a new government. Other parties
disputed them only briefly and
apparently are prepared to let
them try to form a cabinet.
A WOMAN DRIVER'S LOGIC
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y., Ml—Sgt.
William O’Riley of the Lake
George police department reports
this explanation of a woman he
stopped for driving 60 mph. in
the village:
“Well, my tires are bad, and I
just wanted to get home before
they give out.”
Rainmaking Firm Hired
By Canadian Paper Plant
VANCOUVER, B.C., UV-While
heavy rains have been plaguing
the West Coast, a rainmaker firm
has been employed to try to bring
moisture to the normally wet
British Columbia coast.
Crown Zellerbach Canada, Ltd.,
said a water shortage has caused
a cutback of operations at its
paper plant at Ocean Falls, 300
miles north of here. The firm has
hired North American Weather
Consultants of Santa Barbara,
Calif., to "seed” clouds with silver
iodide in the hope of increasing
precipitation.
Khrushchev and Bulganin Appear
To Be Launching a Peace Offensive
To Regain Some Western Goodwill
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Byron Gillam Files for
Delegate to Congress
On Republican Ticket
FAIRBANKS — Byron A. Gil- |
lam, member of the Fairbanks
City Council and the Territorial
Board of Health, filed his can
didacy for the position of Dele
gate to Congress on the Repub
lican ticket Wednesday.
Known throughout Fairbanks
and most of the Interior as “The
Nevada Kid,” the name of the
supermarket which he has owned
and operated for more than half
a decade, Gillam is no stranger
to Alaskans throughout the ter
ritory.
Seward was the place where
Gillam began his Alaskan life in
1941. Folks there will recall his
days on the docks and later, the
days spent serving the biggest
asd best hamburgers to the hun
griest people in town. After this
came the Army years and from
there the scene moves to Fair
banks.
“Alaska has been good to me
and my family,” said Gillam,
“and I feel strongly that the best
is yet to come, for all Alaskans.”
Gillam also said: “I shall sup
port the candidacy of Sen. Wil
liam Knowland in Alaska’s pre
ferential presidential primary
ballot, as Sen. Knowland has
backed Alaska Statehood and has
offered to be Alaska’s senator
until Alaska has its own sen
ators.”
Diplomats Puzzle
With Skepticism
Over Soviet Letter
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, WV—The heart
of Soviet Premier Bulganin’s let
ter to President Eisenhower is
reported to be a proposal for a
treaty of friendship between Rus- :
sia and the United States, coupled
with the suggestion that this
would promote world peace.
U.S. officials are studying this
latest Soviet move seriously but
skeptically in the feeling that it
is almost certainly a propaganda
maneuver.
Bulganin is understood to have
proposed a pact pledging the U.S.
and the Soviet Union to settle
their differences within the
framework of the United Nations
charter and to avoid interference I
in each other’s internal affairs.
This latest Moscow initiative is
puzzling to diplomats. Just last
year Russia cancelled somewhat
similar treaties with Great Brit
ain and France in angry protest
over formation of the Western
European Union. The WEU is part
of the arrangement under which
West Germany is being rearmed
as a member both of WEU and
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization (NATO).
Since the U.S. is a major partic
ipant in this security setup as a
NATO member, the same reasons
which led Russia to cancel pacts
with Britain and France would
seem to operate in the case of
this country.
s By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UP> — Russian
bosses Nikolai Bulganin and Nik
ita S. Khrushchev appear to be
launching a new peace offensive
designed to revive the “spirit of
Geneva’’ and regain a measure of
Western goodwill.
The timing of their moves sug
gests, too, that they want to off
set in advance any criticism of
their recent behavior which
President Eisenhower and British
Prime Minister Eden may make
following talks here next week.
Two developments may signal
a renewed Soviet emphasis on
peace:
1. Premier Bulganin’s letter to
Eisenhower, delivered with full
diplomatic ceremony while the
contents have not been officially
disclosed, the letter was described
by the White House as friendly
in tone and containing “certain
ideas” for Eisenhower to “study
further in the interest of promot
ing world peace.”
2. An interview which Com
munist party boss Khrushchev
gave in Moscow to Marshall Mac
Duffie, a New York attorney who
is a long-time acquaintance. Mac
Duffie quoted Khrushchev as say
ing he thinks American leaders
including Eisenhower basically
strive for peace and do not want
war.
MacDuffie said he spent more
than three hours with Khrush
chev, whom he quoted as saying
Soviet leaders believe there
should be further relaxation of
international tensions.
He described all of Khrush
chev’s references to Eisenhower
as “very friendly.”
MacDuffie, now representing
the International Trade Shows of
New York, was chief of the
United Nations Relief and Re
habilitation Administration in the
Soviet Ukraine just after World
War II. He first met Khrushchev
then, and saw him again on trips
to Russia in 1953 and 1954.
He told newsmqn in Moscow
Khrushchev bracketed Sir An
thony Eden and French Premier
Edgar Faure among the Western
leaders who in the opinion of
Soviet officials do not want war.
KEFAUVER CHALLENGES
STEVENSON IN PRIMARY
ST. PAUL, Minn., L4V-Sen. Es
tes Kefauver (D-Tenn) will file
in the Minnesota presidential pri
mary, challenging Adlai Steven
son, who has the endorsement of
the Democratic-farmer-labor state
central committee.
Stevenson already has filed a
slate of delegates pledged to him.
‘Oh, It Dever Raids id
Suddy Califordia’
By the Assor tATED Press
A violent rainstorm which hit
areas in southern California, rout
ing hundreds from their homes,
closing schools and disrupting
business and industry, appeared
to be moderating today.
Torrential rain fell for the past
two days. More than seven inches
was reported in Los Angeles, one
of the heaviest falls in the city’s
history.
The storm left broad areas of
Los Angeles covered with water
during ihe height of the storm.