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VOL. LVIII No. 92 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1956 Per Copy—15#
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All Japanese Claims -
To Lost Territory
Rejected by Russia
MOSCOW, <jT)—Soviet Foreign
Minister Dmitri* Shepilov today
rejected all Japanese territorial
claims, Japan's Foreign Minister
Mamoru Shigemitsu announced.
“If they don’t give up anything
that they grabbed during the
war, that 4s real power politics,”
Shigemitsu told reporters in dis
closing details of the second ses
sion of the Soviet-Japanese peace
conference.
Territorial claims were the crux
of 10 months odf negotiations that
broke down in London in March.
The Russians offered in London
to return Soviet-occupied Shiko
tan Island and the Habomasi off
Hokkaido. Japan, on its part, has
practically abandoned hope for
return of south Sakhalin and the
northern Kuriles, but stands vig
orously for return of the two
southernmost Kurile Islands, Ku
nasheri and Etorofu. These two
islands in effect remain the main
bone of contention.
Harriman Blasts
Moderation Policy
Of Stevenson
By the Associated Press
Averell Harriman loosed a new
blast last night at the kind of
moderatio'n embraced by Adlai E.
Stevenson, declaring that for a
Democrat it is the course to defeat
in November.
The New York governor also
assailed President .Eisenhower,
saying he had broken his 1952
campaign promises and followed
a middle-of-the-road path which
Harriman termed a “block to
progress.”
Harriman did not name Steven
son in addressing a $50-a-plate
dinner at Albany. But he obvious
ly had in mind his call for moder
ation in approaching major issues
of the 1956 campaign when he
said:
“There are some who advise us
to take it easy—who talk about
moderation as the spirit of the
times. For my part,, as governor
of New York—and as a Democrat
—I reject these counsels. They
are are counsels of defeat.”
Stevenson has challenged what he
calls Harriman’s implication that
Harriman is the logical heir to
the principles of the Roosevelt
and Truman Administrations.
And last night Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, a Stevenson backer,
told the New York Times that the
former Illinois governor “sup
ports the basic principles under
lying the general attitude of the
Democratic Party, and they are
the general approach of my hus
band and Mr. Truman."
TREASURY TO BORROW
S3 BILLION TO TIDE OVER
PERIOD OF LEAN TAXES
WASHINGTON, W—'The U. S.
Treasury today announced plans
to borrow $3 billion this month to
tide it over the period of lean
tax collections from now until
next spring.
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey said the issuance of
the anticipated certificates of in
debtedness will bear interest at
the rate of 2% percent.
Twilling Would
Pul More Reliance
On Atom Weapons
WASHINGTON, UP—Gen. Na
than F. Twining says that differ
ences between the Army, Navy
and Air Force have become “a
little sharper” in the 3VS years of
the Eisenhower Administration.
“As it is now, the Navy and
Army are watching me like a
hawk,” the Air Force chief of
staff told a Senate armed services
subcommittee investigating air
power.
"Every time I make a move,
they are making sure what I am
doing, and vice versa,” he said.
“I am watching the Navy and
Army, too, so you do have a sys
tem of controls. But that can also
lead to lack of development, too,
and that is dangerous for the
country.”
In his secret testimony given
June 19 and made public last
night, Twining also said the way
to reduce the nation’s huge de
fense budget is to put more re
liance on atomic weapons.
“We cannot afford to keep in
our armed forces conventional
forces for the old type of warfare
plus those for atomic warfare,”
Twining said. “We have got to
make up our minds which way
we are going to go . . .
“The nuclear weapon is here to
stay and they are going to be
used in war. We know that. So
let's build our forces around these
new weapdns. In this way we
could reduce our forces consid
erably.”
Arctic Ice Blocks
U.S. Supply Flotilla
To DEW Line Stations
SEATTLE, WV-The arctic has
raised a solid barrier of ice in the
way of ships that sailed from
Seattle last month to supply ra
dar stations of the DEW Line.
Task Force Commander Rear
Adm. G. C. Towner reported yes
terday that his 56-ship flfitilla
must lay to south and west of
Point Barrow until a change of
winds opens favorable leads in
the polar ice pack that now shuts
it off from its destinations along
the north rim of the continent.
The western sector of the DEW
Line, to be supplied by the ships
from Seattle, stretches 2,000 miles
to as far east as Shepherd Bay in
north central Canada, 200 miles
north of Hudson Bay.
MEASLES EPIDEMIC
AT ST. MICHAEL
The measles epidemic which
has been sweeping native villages
in the territory has reached St.
Michael on Norton Sound, Dr.
Richard Murphy, regional health
officer for the Alaska Department
of Health, said this week.
Thirty-one cases of measles in
the village were reported to the
department by Mrs. Olive Robert
son, public health nurse, during
the last week.
No help will be sent to the vil
lage, however, as Mrs. Robertson
has not asked for it. Dr. Murphy
said.
The department’s weekly com
municable disease report showed
that four cases of measles in An
chorage were reported last week.
Also in the city were two cases
of tuberculosis, one of scarlatina,
one of polio, two of mumps and
one of chicken pox.
Stassen Will Persevere
In Campaign to Nominate
Herter for Vice President
By the Associated Press
Among the Republicans, Harold
E. Stassen said he will persevere
in his campaign to have the GOP
National Convention nominate
Gov. Christian A. Herter of Mass
achusets as Eisenhower’s running
mate.
Outwardly undaunted by Her
ter’s statement that he will not
consent to having his name placed
before the convention, Stassen
said his consistent position has
been that Herter “must be draft
ed” as a replacement for Vice
President Nixon.
Herter told a Boston news con
ference he will not consent to
having his name put before the
San Francisco convention in com
petition with “my friend Dick
Nixon” since he has agreed to put
Nixon’s name in nomination.
He conceded he could not bar
any of the delegates from putting
up his name, however, s&ying,
they “are free, white and 21.”
FOUR DROWN IN SURF
PUSAN, Korea, (tfl—A U. S.
Army spokesman said four per
sons—a U.S. Air Force officer, an
Army private and two Canadian
nurses—presumably drowned on
Thursday in rough surf near here.
The announcement said high
waves dashed the four off rocks
and pulled them out to sea.
Britain, France Rush to Mobilize,
Plan for 24-Nation Conference
To Internationalize Suez Canal
By the Associated Press
Britain and France rushed
mobilization measures for a show
of strength in the Mediterranean
today and set the machinery in
motion for a 24-nation conference
on the Suez Canal.
American, British and French
foreign ministers hammered out
plans for the conference yester
day and agreed to ask Russia and
Egypt among others to meet in
London Aug. 16 to establish an
international authority over the
canal which Egypt nationalized
eight days ago.
Secretary of State Dulles re
turned to Washington from Lon
don and said he hopes the pro
posed conference will produce a
solution for the Suez crisis and
avert ‘‘the danger of violence.”
In Paris, Premier Guy Mollet
and Foreign Minister Christian
Pineau told the National Assem
bly the French government is de
termined “to use every means t<5
prevent Egypt from retaining
control” of the canal.
Canadians Worried They
Are Losing Sovereignty
To U S. at DEW Sites
OTTAWA (yP)—A House of Com
mons member said yesterday that
many Canadians are worried that
Canada is losing some of its sov
ereign rights in the arctic to the
United States.
Douglas Harkness, Progressive
Conservative member for Calgary
North, told Commons a Canadian
Northern Service officer or a
member of the mounted police
should be posted at every station
on the Distant Early Warning- ra
dar line being built by the U.S.
COSTUME PARTY AT
NUDISTS' CONVENTION
SAN DIEGO, (fll—A costume
contest at a nudist’s convention?
Why sure.
Attractiveness and novelty will
determine the winner at the Na
tional Nudist Council’s costume
party here this weekend. The
convention opens today, closes
Sunday.
And just what costume might a
nudist choose?
Well, said Mrs. Edith Church,
secretary foi the NNC, she won
one wearing a fig leaf sarong.
U.S. Air Force Jet Sets New Speed Record of 1900 MPH
By VERN HAUGLAND
AP Aviation Reporter
NEW ORLEANS, Gf>—The Air
Force has set a new unofficial
world speed record for airplanes
of 1,900 miles an hour, but the
Defense Department won’t for the
present allow the fapt to be con
firmed officially.
Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest Jr., a
34-year-old West Virginian, flew
the Bell X-2 rocket plane four
times as fast as a bullet travels—
and close to three times the speed
of sound—just last week, July 25,
over the southern California des
ert near Edwards AFB.
This was 250 miles an hour
faster than the 1,650 mph. at
tained by Maj. Charles Yeager
in a sister ship, the Bell X-1A, on
Dec. 12, 1953.
Everest was here attending the
Air Force Assn. Convention when
the news of his achievement
leaked out yesterday.
The X-2 is a multi-million-dol
lar flying laboratory, fitted with
a quarter ton of instruments to
measure temperatures, fuel con
sumption, stresses and strains at
extreme high speeds.
The X-2 is the first plane to be
designed specifically to explore
the thermal barrier—the problem
of ever increasing air-friction
heat as supersonic planes fly fast
er and faster.
The current official record,
timed by the International Aero
nautic Federation, is 1,132 miles
an hour, set last March 10 by the
British-built Fairey Delta re
search plane.
Several jet planes of the U.S.
Air Force and Navy have flown
faster than the Fairey, but the
Defense Department has not per
mitted them to make arrange
ments for an officially-judged
record attempt. The reason given
is to prevent inter-service rivalry.
Pineau, just returned from the
London conference, said that in
the light of past experience
France cannot believe anything
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel
Nasser says.
Britain already has dispatched
the invitations to the conference.
A source close to the Egyptian
government in Cairo said Presi
dent Nasser may reply tonight.
There were indications in Cairo
that his answer would be “no.”
Diplomatic sources here said
the conference would be held
whether Egypt and Russia attend
or not.
Spokesmen for West Germany,
Japan, Spain and New Zealand
already have indicated their gov
ernments would accept bids. But
no official acceptances had yet
been received.
At Portsmouth, England, the
aircraft carrier Theseus’ decks
were readied to carry 1,000 troops
to the eastern Mediterranean. She
was expected to sail Sunday. The
| aircraft carrier Bulwark and the
I cruiser Glasgow were to sail on
Monday.
British subjects in Egypt have
' been advised to consider leaving
| that country. The 2,700 Americans
in Egypt have been advised by
the State Department to stay out
of crowds and away from down
town Cairo during the tension.
ARC Transfer
Will Not Hurt
Road Progress
'Daily Alaska Empire)
JUNEAU, July 24—Alaskans
were assured today that the
transfer of the Alaska Road Com
mission to the jurisdiction of the
Bureau of Public Roads will ad
versely affect neither Alaskan
road construction nor personnel
of the agency.
ARC Director A. F. Ghiglione
said formal transfer of the ARC
from the Interior Department to
the Commerce Dept, will take
place Sept. 16. Ghiglione has just
returned from Washington, D.C.,
where he was called to discuss de
tails of the transfer with high
officials of both departments.
“I have been reassured that the
transfer will be accomplished
without any lost motion on our
existing highway program and
that our employes will be protect
ed,” Ghiglione said. “Commis
sioner of Ropds Charles D. Curtiss
asked me to tell our employes and
Alaskans in general that the
change won’t hurt anyone.”
It is expected that Deputy
Commissioner James C. Allen
will come to Alaska sometime
this fall to make a personal sur
vey of the entire ARC operation
before any major changes are
made in the agency.
Provision for the transfer of
the 50-year-old Alaska Road
Commission to the Bureau of
, Public Roads was contained in an
' amendment to the federal high
I way bill.