VOTE FOR
JAMES A. von der HEYDT
Democratic Candidate for Territorial Senate
if Able, progressive, and with experience in legal and
legislative problems.
if Former U.S. District Attorney for the Second Division,
and now in private law practice.
if A resident of the Second Division for many years.
An Alaskan Who Will Work For Alaska’s Future
PRIMARY ELECTION, TUESDAY. APRIL 27. 1954
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Earthquake Alarms
Thousands in
Central California
WATSONVILLE, Calif., OP—The
strongest earthquake in central
California in nearly two years
jolted a 150-mile stretch along
the coast yesterday, frightening
thousands, causing widespread
minor damage to buildings and
temporarily blocking a highway
east of here.
A panicked crowd of some 500
rushed for the doorways of a dog
show at the fairgrounds five rhiles
north of here, bruising a 16-year
old girl. She was the only injury
reported.
The shocks, recorded by the
University of California seismo
graph for 20 minutes, were felt
throughout the San Francisco Bay
area, 90 miles to the north. News
papers, radio stations and the
Associated Press there were
swamped with anxious telephone
queries.
The U.C. seismograph at Berke
ly registered an intensity of 5.2 on
the 10-point Richter scale, com
pared to more than 7 for the 1952
Kern County quake in which five
died and 814 for the disastrous
1906 San Francisco temblor.
Dr. Perry Byerly, university
seismologist, said the shocks cen
tered about 75 miles south of
Berkely. Reports indicated the
towns of Hollister, Gilroy and
Watsonville got the worst shaking.
COP PREFERS TO STAND
OKLAHOMA CITY, OP — Most
cops long for the day when they
can stop pounding a beat and get
a desk or cruising job, but with
Detective James Doyle it’s the
other way around.
After his pistol discharged and
creased his bottom, he said he
was in no shape to continue rid
ing and sitting duty.
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3 Teachers, 10 Schoolboys
Victims of Snowstorm
OBERTRAUN, Austria, UP)—A
search party Saturday found the
bodies of 3 German teachers and
6 of 10 teen-age schoolboys who
were trapped in a snowstorm on
Austria’s 9,000-foot Dachstein
Mountain nine days ago.
The dead students and their
teachers all were found in the
neighborhood of a makeshift camp
site, where the group apparently
spent one night before they froze
to death without food or shelter.
Hollyday Denies
! FHA Didn’t Protect
Home Owners
WASHINGTON, UP)—Guy T. O.
Hollyday, recently ousted as fed
eral housing commissioner, has
taken issue with a top Justice De
partment official's . charge that
FHA felt no responsibility for
protecting home owners from
preying repair salesmen.
Hollyday told the Senate Bank
ing Committee Friday that FHA
was “greatly concerned” over the
welfare of home owners who use
government-insured loans to re
furbish their houses.
Hollyday’s resignation, request
ed by the White House nearly
two weeks ago, was accompanied
by allegations of widespread ir
regularities in the FHA’s program
of insuring loans for home repair
and charges that some apartment
house builders pocketed many
millions of dollars by obtaining
government-guaranteed loans big
ger than their construction costs.
Hollyday himself was not accused
of wrongdoing, but rather of fail
ing to act vigorously enough
against the reported abuses.
The Senate has voted the Bank
ing Committee $150,000 to finance
its probe into the housing scan
dals.
Percy Ipalook
Republican
Candidate
FOR THE SENATE
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Member of Legislature
In 1949, 1951 and 1953
Sun - Powered
Battery Made of
Silicon Revealed
NEW YORK, UO—A (battery that
is made of silicon and powered by
the sun has been developed by
Bell Telephone Laboratories.
The battery already can create
enough electric power to accom
plish a number of things, such as
carry a voice a short distance over
a telephone wire, broadcast from
a miniature portable radio trans
mitter and run a toy ferris wheel.
Company officials say that, with
further. development, the sun
shine batteries promise to supply
all the power for long rural tele
phone lines. They would supply
power even on cloudy days, and
charge up storage units to- permit
night operation.
The invention was demonstrated
to newsmen at the Bell Telephone
Laboratories at Murray Hill, N.J.,
and made public last night. The
battery shown was the size of a
man’s hand.
The battery is made of razor
thin strips of silicon, the material
of which sand is made. As sun
light strikes the silicon, a flow of
electric current is created in
atoms in the strips.
The batteries for rural telephone
lines would be a foot square.
The sunshine batteries, as ex
plained by Bell officials, could
run walkie-talkie radios and pow
er mobile electrical equipment for
military or civilian purposes. If
they could be made big enough
and cheaply enough, they possibly
could provide current for lights,
television sets and refrigerators
in homes.
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Air Forcg B-17 Crashes
In Landing When
Landing Gear Buckles
CHEYENNE, MV-An Air Force
B-17 crashed while landing at
the Cheyenne airport Saturday.
All six men aboard, including
Maj. Gen. E. L. Eubank, scram
bled to safety.
The plane did not burn. The
right landing gear buckled when
the plane landed short on the
runway. Air Force officers said
the drag link on the right land
ing gear broke.
Eubank, commanding general
of the technical training Air Force
baseat Gulfport, Miss., is the Air
Force’s oldest pilot in length of
flight service.
Gen. Eubank is scheduled to re
time from the Air Force at the
end of the year. He is one of
seven permanent major generals
who will reach the mandatory
retirement age of 62 during the
year. He bgan his aviation career
during World War I.
Administration’s Program
Has Lessened War Threat,
Says Vice President
TUCSON, Ariz., UP)—The Eisen
hower administration’s “middle
of the road” program has dimin
ished the threat of World War III
and averted national bankruptcy
at home, contends Vice President
Nixon.
But he declared in a speech
Friday night the Republican pol
icy must be reaffirmed by the
voters or there will be a swing
far to the left.
Nixon, speaking to a Young Re
publican conference attended by
delegates from 11 western states,
said the Democratic party now is
controlled by its left wing faction.
That group, he asserted, has a
strong Socialistic tendency.
Daylight Saving Starts
NEW YORK, UP—Daylight Sav
ing Time went into effect yes
terday at 2 a.m. in 18 states and
the District of Columbia.
There will be no daylight in the
State of Washington.
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Yoshida Keeps
Power After
Stormy Session
TOKYO, (4*)—The Japanese
House of Representatives late •
Saturday defeated a no-confi
dence vote against the pro-Ameri
can administration of Prime Min
ister Shigeru Yoshida in a stormy
debate climaxing the nation’s
greatest post-war political crisis.
The victory for the 75-year-old
“Old Fox” of Japanese politics
came when the House, defeated by
a 228-208 vote a no-confidence
motion based mainly on domestic
issues. ;
The virtually unprecedented vic
tory marked the first time in the
75-year modern political history
of Japan that a prime minister
had fought and won against vio
lent opposition, scandal and the
almost-solid opposition of the
press.
All of Japan’s major newspa
pers and most of the smaller one§
denounced the crusty Prime Min
ister as a power-hungry old man
who should step down.
The decision came after more
than a score of Progressives—
Japan’s second conservative party
—walked out of the House to give
Yoshida’s Liberal (conservative)
party a majority.
Actor Peter Lawford Weds
NEW YORK, MV-Actor Peter
Lawford, a British nobleman’s
son who worked his way up from
movie usher to star, and Patricia
Kennedy, member of a noted Am
erican family, were wed Saturday
in a ceremony attended only by
relatives and friends.
The wedding was held in the
Church of St. Thomas More (Ra
man Catholic) at 4 p.m.
Miss Kennedy is the second of
the Kennedy daughters to wed an
Englishman. The other, Kathleen,
married Britain’s Lord Harting
ton. Kathleen and her husband
were both killed in wartime plane
crashes.
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