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VOL. LVI No. 99 NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. AUGUST 23, 1954 _Per Copy—15^
Passenger Nearly
Crashes Plane
Near Wrangell
WRANGELL, UP>—A passenger
who shouted, “Have you met your
God?”, had to be forcibly sub
dued after seizing the steering
wheel of a plane near Wrangell
late Friday, the four occupants
reported.
Only by a narrow margin, pilot
Clarence J. Rhode said, was he
able to seize the controls back in
time to prevent the plane’s diving
into the water and carrying all
to their deaths.
Rhode, regional director of the
Fish and Wildlife Service, was on
leave and making a special flight
for the Alaska Coastal Airlines
from Juneau to Ketchikan.
The passenger was identified as
the Rev. Daniel Tyson, 38, a Bap
tist minister from Ketchikan.
Rhodes gave this account:
Near Wrangell, Tyson leaped
screaming from his seat and got
his hands on the steering wheel.
The plane started zooming down
ward.
Rhode fought his assailant off
and tried to right the craft. The
other three men aboard, Tildon
Pyree, Charles W. Wilson and
Lloyd Johansen, jumped to his
aid and overpowered the man.
Only then was Rhode able to
regain control of his ship, a few
hundred feet from the water.
He then flew the plane here
and Tyson was placed in the
Federal jail. Authorities said he
was suffering a nervous break
down.
Stockholm’s Perennial Hot
Weather Riots Flare Again
STOCKHOLM, UP)—Stockholm’s
perennial hot weather riots flared
again yesterday with the usual
busted noggins as thrill seekers
let off steam. Police, as in past
outbreaks, rounded up prostitutes,
hoodlums and other veteran
trouble makers.
Several persons were painfully
injured in yesterday’s rhubarb,
one of a long series which has
Swedish psychologists and edu
cators stumped.
One man was tossed through a
show windew into an art gallery
and was rushed to a hospital with
a slashed artery. A policeman
who tried to help him into an
ambulance had his jaw busted by
a group of hoodlums.
ALCIDE DE GASPERI BURIED
ROME, UP)—The bells of Rome’s
nearly 500 churches tolled mourn
fully today as a long, silent pro
cession accompanied Alcide De
Gasperi, Italy’s great postwar
premier, to his final resting place.
He died of a heart attack four
days ago.
No Reason For Troops To Stay In
Korea If They Don't Fight Reds
SEOUL, WV — South Korean
President Syngman Rhee showed
but little dismay today at the U.S.
announcement to withdraw many
of its troops from Korea. “There
is no use for foreign troops to stay
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Engineers Survey Kenai
Lakes for 80 Million KWH
Hyro-electric Plants
SEWARD, OP) — A government
engineering team has begun a
survey of Cooper and Crescent
lakes to determine their suitabil
ity for a multi - million dollar
hydroelectric plant to serve the
Kenai Peninsula and possibly
Anchorage.
Survey work will be completed
this year at the Cooper lake site,
and if time and appropriations
permit, the party will move to
Crescent lake 10 miles north
west to make a preliminary study.
A hydroelectric plant of. the
size proposed for the project
would generate 80 million kilo
watt hours annually.
Seward is the heaviest consum
er on the Kenai Peninsula with
an annual usage of 1,200,000 kwh
and with other peninsula com
munities using less, additional
power would be available for the
greater Anchorage area which al
ready is consuming the entire
power resources from the Eklutna
project.
Cost for‘generating power, as
computed by the Corps of Engi
neers, was 7.8 mills kwh at Coop
er lake and 8.3 mills kwh at
Crescent lake. The rate at Ek
lutna has been established af 11
mills.
PNA Clerk Who Accepted
Delivery of Payroll, Later
Stolen, Skips the Country
ANCHORAGE, l/PI— Investiga
tion into the theft of $20,000 cash
from the Pacific Northern Air
lines cargo office here last week
spread this weekend to the States
after the sudden departure of the
clerk who accepted delivery of
the money bag.
Anchorage police identified the
clerk as John Kelly, 25, and ar
rested his brother, James, 20, on
a charge of falsifying his applica
tion for a chauffeur’s license.
The clerk was reported to have
obtained passage on the regular
flight of Northwest Airlines to
Seattle. The brother tried unsuc
cessfully to buy a seat on the
same plane, police said.
He said his brother left town
because of the “embarrassment”
which the case was causing him.
Detective said the younger man
admitted he falsified his chauf
feur’s license application here,
concealing a previous criminal
record in Utah and giving the
wrong age.
$4335 Worth of Jewelry
Spirited From Fairbanks
Store During Open Hours
FAIRBANKS, l/PI—Two jewelry
display boxes containing 43 t dia
mond rings valued at $4,335 were
spirited out of a downtown jewel
ry store during business hours
Friday evening without anyone
seeing the theft.
Douglas Maddux told police the
theft was discovered at 10 p.m.
when his store at Third Ave. at
Lacey St. was being closed for
the night.
Maddux said the display boxes
disappeared while both he and
his partner where in the store and
while business was being carried
on.
Polio Breaks Out In
Palmer With 3 Cases
PALMER, UP)—Polio broke out
here kite last week with three
small children being stricken. The
case was the first in Palmer this
year.
The victims, two little girls, 12
months and 2-year-old, respec
tively and a 5-year-o’ld boy, are
being treated at an Anchorage
hospital.
A supply of gamma globulin to
help prevent the spread of the
crippling disease in the Matan
uska Valley was ordered sent
here by Dr. Jack Eason, regional
health officer.
Meanwhile, no new polio cases
have been reported recently at
Anchorage, where the year’s total
stands at 81, or at Seward, where
the 1954 figure is 50.
11 Die In Crash of Braniff
DC-3 During Wild Storm
MASON CITY, Iowa, UP) — A
Braniff International Airways
DC-3, warned not to land here
because of a wild storm, crashed
into a pasture yesterday killing
11- of the 19 persons abo'ard.
Eight were injured, two critically.
The violent mixture of heavy
wind, rain and hail had “socked
in” the Mason City field, and the
leaden skies made a landing im
possible.
The plane, northbound from
Memphis, Tenn., to Minneapolis,
was only about ten minutes out
from the field when they radioed
it to hold off landing because of
the storm.
The field never received an
answer, airline officials reported.
But they added that even had an
acknowledgement been sent it
might not have been heard be
cause of the heavy static.
Crack Santa Fe Chief
Derails, Killing Four
LOMAX, 111., UP) — The crack
streamliner Sante Fe Chief de
railed just east of Lomax yester
day afternoon enroute from Chi
cago to Los Angeles.
Of approximately 200 passen
gers, four were killed and 53 were
listed as among the injured. Of
the 91-car train only the loco
motive and a mail car held the
rails.
The rest zigzagged along the
track, some crashing into a paral
lel string of refrigerator cars on
another track. The cause of the
derailment was not immediately
determined.
Eisenhower to Help
Domestic Lead and Zinc
Instead of Tariff Boost
WASHINGTON, W—President
Eisenhower has decided to expand
government buying of newly
mined domestic lead and zinc in
stead of boosting tariffs in the
minerals.
He announced the plan Friday
as part of the nation’s long-term
stockpiling program.
Eisenhower said benefits of an
increase in import duties, recom
mended by the Tariff Commission,
were so uncertain he would not
seek them “at the expense at the
serious adverse consequences that
would follow for our internation
al relations.”
30 Young Air Corpsmen
Suspected of Membership
In Terrorist “Pachuco”
CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE,
111., UP)—Air Force officials an
nounced yesterday 30 young air
men had been seized as suspected
members of a secret youth terror
ist society they called “Pachuco.”
Col. Grover Wilson, technical
training group commander at the
base, said the men are in the
guardhouse being held for ques
tioning.
He said the questioning con
cerned “acts of violence and law
lessness ranging from AWOL of
fenses and marjuana addiction to
knife assaults on those who had
informed on the gang after sign
ing a pledge in blood to obey ‘the
laws of Pachuco’.”
Saturday morning segments of
the base’s complement of 15,000
airmen were assembled and or
dered to strip to the waist. Some
175 were found with “unexplain
ed marks or tattoos.” Many car
ried switch-blade knives.
After extensive questioning, all
but 30 of the 175 were released,
but kept under post arrest. The
remaining men, said Col. Wilson
were “surly and arrogant and liv
ing up to the code of Pachuco.”
Far East Commander Says
Navy Units Will Fire First
And Ask Questions Later
WASHINGTON, (#)—Adm. Felix
B. Stump, Pacific commander-in
chief, said today U,S. Navy units
off the Communist China main
land would fire on any Reds who
might approach “with obviously
hostile intent.”
Stump, who commands all Am
erican ground, sea and air forces
in the Pacific, said units of his
command would, in the face of
any obvious threat, fire without
waiting to be fired upon.
At the same time, he said “our
forces do have orders to1 scrupu
lously avoid provocative action.”
In a copyrighted interview with
the magazine U.S. News & World
Report, Stump said:
“The right to defend oneself
legally becomes available im
mediately when the fact of hostile
intent is recognized.”
When The Handcuff Is
On The Other Wrist —
It Is Not So Funny
NEW YORK, UPl—Patrick Hast
ings 29, thought it would be a
wonderful joke to handcuff his
friend Pvt. James Speer to his
bride of a few hours, Joan, and
then mail the keys to Alaska.
So he bought a pair of heavy
duty handcuffs for $15 and took
them along to the wedding re
ception Saturday night at a
Brooklyn hotel.
But Speer and his new wife
ducked out early, and there were
the handcuffs, sitting in their box.
So . . •
At 4 a.m. after two emergency
squad cops had worked an hour
and a half on the manacles, Hast
ings didn’t think the joke was so
funny.
Somebody at the party had
handcuffed Hastings to his own
wife.
President Vetoes
Pay Increase For
Federal Workers
DENVER, UP) — President Eisen
hower today killed a 5 per cent
pay increase voted by Congress
for 1,500,000 federal workers.
In a statement at his vacation
headquarters, the President said
he was announcing his veto of
the legislation “in order that fed
eral workers may not have to
undergo a period of uncertainty
as to my action.”
Congress passed the bill and
sent it to the White House last
Friday, just before it closed shop
on legislative matters.
“This measure,” the President
said, “because it ignores the ad
ministration’s recommendations
for postal rate increases, would
add $112,000,000 to the co'st of
operating the Post Office Depart
ment, which is operating at a
deficit of 400 million dollars this
year.
“It is well to remember that
since 1945 the accumulated Post
Office deficit has reached the
staggering total of four billion
dollars. Likewise, this measure
would add more than 200 million
dollars to Civil Service pay with
out providing any revenue to
meet it.”
Heroic Mountain Climber
Dies In Crevasse After
Saving Injured Companion
PORT ANGELES, Wash., UP) —
A mountain climber trapped in a
crevasse by his own heroism was
found dead late yesterday on tow
ering Mt. Olympus.
Doctors said Dr. Anthony Levy,
30, a University of California re
search biochemist from Berkeley
had been dead about nine hours
before his body was reached.
He had been trapped deep in
a crevasse at the top of the 7,954
foot peak which stands in the
center of Olympic National Park.
Ironically, it was Levy’ heroism
in rescuing a climbing companion
that led to his being entrapped
in the murky depths of the cre
vasse.
Levy, with four others, were
climbing the mountain Saturday
when one of the party, Dick Neal
of Seattle, slipped into the cre
vasse, breaking a leg in the fall.
Levy volunteered to go down
into the crevasse and help get
Neal out. The efforts to rescue
Neal were successful, but Levy,
exhausted by his efforts, could
not get out himself and attempts
by the other three to bring him
to the surface failed.
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Cleveland 12, Baltimore 1
Boston 8, New York 2
Detroit 7, Chicago 4
Philadelphia 3, Washington 2
National League
New York 5-5, Pittsburgh 4-3
Philadelphia 6-6, Brooklyn 2-0
Milwaukee 12, Chicago 8 .
St. Louis 9, Cincinanti 7
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 7-3, Portland 6-5
Los Angeles 4-1, Hollywood 0-2
Oakland 6-2, San Francisco 1-14
Sacramento 13^3, San Diego 8-0