121 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No, 143 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1954 Per Copy—15^
Stevenson Says
Eisenhower Can he
Defeated in 1956
NEW ORLEANS, UPI—Adlai E.
Stevenson today was reported ad
vising party leaders he believes
President Eisenhower can be de
feated in any 1956 reelection bid
if Democrats pound away at what
he regards as the unpopularity of
the Republican Party.
Stevenson’s view, as interpreted
by those who talked to him dur
ing a Demcratic rally which ended
here Saturday, was that Eisen
hower himself is likely to retain
for the next two years a measure
of the personal popularity which
gave the general his sweeping
presidential victory over Steven
son in 1952.
But Stevenson evidently be
lieves that Republicans will con
tinue to demonstrate in the next
two years what Paul M. Butler,
Democratic national chairman
elect, yesterday called the GOP’s
“incapacity to govern.”
Butler put the finger directly
on Eisenhower at a news confer
ence, asserting:
“We intend to call to the atten
tion of the American people Pres
ident Eisenhower’s lack of cap
acity to govern and to unite the
people. The responsibility is with
the President to see that the na
tion is united and there is ever
increasing evidence of his lack of
capacity to do it.”
500 Buffalo Slaughtered
To Balance Range and
Supply Christmas Roasts
OTTAWA, Ont., (/B—About 500
buffaloes in the world’s largest
herd are being slaughtered, and
there’ll be buffalo roasts on some
Canadian tables this Christmas.
The herd number is 12,000 to
15,000. It is at Wood Buffalo Na
tional Park, straddling the border
between Alberta and the North
west Territories. It is reduced
every year by riflemen in order
to keep it down to a size the range
can support.
The meat will be sold o the
Indian Affairs Branch for Indians
in need of fresh meat, to church
missions and Hudson Bay Co.
stores and trading posts in the
far north. About half will go to
packinghouses for sale outside
the territories. This is the first
time the meat is available to the
packinghouses.
Too Much Winter for
Southern Boy Back in
States From Pribilof Is.
DENVER, 14*)—Francis Whit
field is a southern boy who has
had his fill of snow for a while.
On St. Paul Island, in the Ber
ing Sea, where he has been a me
teorologist for; the US. Weather
Bureau, the stuff piles up in 15
foot drifts.
Whitfield, 24, of Picayune, Miss,
is at National Jewish Hospital for
treatment of lung congestion re
sulting from a bout of pneumonia.
He and his pretty wife, Betty Jo,
flew here yesterday from Anchor
age. • ■
Whitfield’s ailment began with
a sore throat that turned into
pneumonia.
Tax Collections
Vow $1 Million
Beliiinl Last Year
JUNEAU—Territorial tax col
collections in November slipped
$361,676.84 below the same month
of 1953 and left the treasury for
the 11 months to date with $1,
019,650.70 less revenue in 1954
than last year, Tax Commissioner
Karl Dewey announced last week.
Total collections in November
were $1,619,854.62.
The more than $1 million by
which 1954 falls short of last year
in territorial tax collections can
be accounted for almost entirely
in two categories of taxes, Dewey
said. Fish traps and raw fish lev
ies are $623,530.04 off the 1953
pace, while the net income tax is
down $287,123.
The commissioner described as
significant a $45,828 drop in
school tax collections, indicating
there are some 9,200 fewer eli
gible employees in Alaska this
year than last.
Territorial income tax collec
tions for the year were running
ahead of 1953 through the first
ten months, but were $340,000 less
last month than they were in
November of 1953, Dewey said.
A reduction in the federal in
come tax rate, to which the Alas
ka tax is tied, was largely re
sponsible for the decline, though
the number of earners and total
earnings were also less.
Congressman Says U.S.
To Get Socialized Medicine
If Doctors Don’t Cut Prices
SALT LAKE CITY, UP>—A Min
nesota congressman and physician
says the country will turn to so
cialized medicine because of the
high cost of private medical care,
unless American medical associa
tions “police” their member phys
icians better.
Rep. Walter H. Judd (R-Minn),
a medical • man himself, arrived
yesterday for two lectures.
“If the doctors of the nation
will cooperate by keeping fees
down,” he said, “socialized medi
cine will never be necessary.
“If they do not,” he told the
Tribune, “the people will demand
government - controlled medicine
in an effort to gain more care for
more people, even though such
care would be mediocre.”
“Gone With the Wind”
In 2nd Year in Berlin
BERLIN, OP)—A revival of the
motion picture “Gone With the
Wind” began its second year in
Berlin today. It is the longest con
tinuous run of a movie in Ger
many.
The picture, first shown before
World War II, has been seen by
more than 500,000 persons in its
revival here. The theater manage
ment said three copies of the film
have ben worn out during the
first year’s run of more than 1,000
performances.
.Nixon’s Father ^Rallies
■FULLERTON, Calif., Uti—Frank
Nixon, 76, father of five children,
including Vice President Richard
Nixon, is reported in good condi
tion after an operation for the
treatment of a broken hip.
Pope Pius Better,
Broadcasts From
Bed to Romans
VATICAN CITY, Wl—A Vati
can source reported today that
Pope Pius XII has passed his
third fairly restful night in a row
since he began rallying from the
illness that has threatened his
life.
The source said the 78-year-old
pontiff still appeared to be gain
ing strength in his battle to sur
mount the recurrence of gastritis
and hiccups with which he suf
fered a severe collapse Dec. 2.
As evidence of his improvement
the leader of the world’s Roman
Catholics swallowed a little broth
yesterday—the first food he had
taken by mouth in a week—and
later broadcast a few words to
the people of Rome through a
microphone held to his lips as he
lay in bed.
A Vatican press spokesman an
nounced last night: “The pope’s
gradual improvement continues.”
The pope’s voice was carried
directly by loudspeaker to 5
throng of 50,000 worshipping in
St. Peter’s Basilica nearby and
was broadcast by the Vatican
radio. West European networks
picked up the broadcast and re
cording was made for American
listeners.
At one point, the voice of the
stricken leader of Roman Cath
olicism faded slightly. But mostly
he spoke firmly and in cadence,
preceding his customary benedic
tion with this brief message:
“To our dear children of be
loved Rome, whom we feel as
close to us in prayer as we are
close to the Divine Master in our
suffering and in our fulfillment of
his ever-good and benign will, we
impart, with our heart turned to
the Lord and the immaculate Vir
gin, our paternal apostolic bene
diction.”
Released U.S. Flier
Says Chinese Reds
Hold More POWs
HONG KONG, l£>—Squadron
leader Andrew R. (Andy) Mac
Kenzie, a Canadian flier shot
down in the Korean War and just
freed from imprisonment in Red
China, says the Chinese are still
holding some American war pris
oners in his prison camp.
The 34-year-old air ace report
ed upon reaching Hong Kong yes
terday that the Americans he
knows about—all Air Force fliers
—had been allowed to write home
and it was known in the U.S.
that they were prisoners.
He added that they do not in
clude any of the 13 Americans
recently sentenced by Peiping on
spy charges.
MacKenzie reached freedom
two years to the day after he was
shot down near the Yalu River in
North Korea while flying as an
exchange officer with the U.S.
Air Force.
Appearing thin but otherwise
healthy, he arrived in the custody
of three Red Chinese guards. He
wore a blue padded Chinese uni
form.
Radii, Union Offers to Release 2
Strikebound Alaska Steam Ships
To Get Christmas Mail to Alaska
Sally Carrighar Article
On Children Appears in
Dec. 4 Issue of Post
Nome’s favorite authoress, Sally
Carrighar, has done it again! An
other fascinating feature story in
the Saturday Evening Pos^ with
three pages of color pictures ap
pears in the issue of December 4.
The article is about the “Best
Mannered Children in the World,”
and features Nome and Unala
kleet, and many familiar faces are
pictured.
The magazine with the article
is expected to be on local news
stands soon.
Ohio Senatorial Victory
Shrinks to 2,918 Votes
COLUMBUS, Ohio, I4>i—The
Ohio senatorial victory of Repub
lican Rep. George H. Bender
shrank to 2,918 votes in a recount,
a compilation of unofficial fig
ures by the secretary of state’s
office shows.
Sen. Thomas A. Burke <D-Ohio>,
who petitioned for the recount,
gained 3,123 votes in the second
tally. The official canvas showed
Bender won by 6,041 votes.
Temperature at Snag
Drops to 52 Below, But
Residents Used to It
EDMONTON, Alta., I/P)—The
weather man here got word today
that the temperature at Snag, in
the Yukon, got up to 38 below
zero Sunday, after a low the night
before of 52 below.
But to the JO-odd residents of
Snag, that’s not bad. The mer
cury got down to 82 below in Feb
ruary 1947, the lowest ever reg
istered in North America. The
lowest on record is 90 below, re
corded in Siberia in 1892.
Honeymooning Couple
Burned to Death in Wreck
EAST LANSING, Mich., I4’l—A
young couple driving from their
Detroit wedding reception to a
honeymoon in Grand Rapids,
Mich,, died yesterday in the flam
ing wreckage of their car while
helpless witnesses watched.
Marvin R. Foerster, 20, of St.
Clair Shores, and his bride of less
than 12 hours, Rhea Mae, 18,
were trapped in their car after it
missed a curve and crashed into
a tree near East Lansing.
Police made identification from
the couple’s charred marriage
certificate.
THREE-GENERATION GIFT
BOOSTS CHILDREN'S FUND
SEATTLE, UR—A $30 contribu
tion sent by Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Parrenfeltz and “our children,
grandchildren and great grand
children,” of Fairbanks, Alaska,
has helped boost the Seattle Post
Intelligencer’s Christmas Fund to
aid needy youngsters.
The fund total reached $10,748.12
yesterday.
> SEATTLE, (ill—An offer to re
lease two more strikebound Alas
ka Steamship Ccr. vessels so their
Christmas cargo may reach Al
aska in time for the holiday was
announced yesterday.
The proposal, made in a tele
gram from W. R. Steinberg, presi
dent of the American Radio Assn.,
to Melville McKinstry, general
manager of Alaska Steam, said
the union had received many re
quests from “labor and govern
ment.” The ships are the Susitna
and the Coastal Monarch.
The telegram said the offer was
made on condition that the steam
ship company, “by return tele
gram, agree that the existing col
lective bargaining agreement be
tween the Pacific Maritime Assn,
and the union will remain in full
force and effect, and that it will
not take any action, punitive or
otherwise” in connection with
any union member or crewmen on
the two ships.
“There is no desire on the part
of the A-R-A membership to de
prive the people of Alaska of en
joying the traditional Christmas
holiday,” the message said.
McKinstry and D. E. Skinner,
president of Alaska Steam, left
for San Francisco yesterday im
mediately after receiving Stein
berg’s offer. They planned to dis
cuss the offer with Steinberg and
the PMA, of which it is a member.
The Employers' Maritime Assn,
contends it never ratified a con
tract last year with the radio op
erators so there is no “bargaining
agreement” with the union.
Hurricanes Bring
Wide Destruction
To Southern States
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., U1V
Tornadoes dipped suddenly out of
leaden skies in eastern Alabama
and western Georgia Sunday and
killed one person, injured at least
48 and wrecked scores of homes.
Property losses ran into hun
dreds of dollars. Alabama counted
57 homes destroyed and 100 more
damaged while Georgia reported
220 badly battered and sorpe de
molished.
Grim Alabama National Guard
troops, under orders to shoot if
necessary, guarded Wellington’s
shattered homes against looters
while Red Cross and Salvation
Army teams aided stricken resi
dents.
The off-season tornadoes, cre
ated when a cold front collides
with warm, moist air from the
Gulf of Mexico, struck along a
50-mile-wide path on either side
of the Alabama-Georgia line.
Four violent twisters swirled
across 13 rural communities in
Alabama and others hit four sec
tions of Georgia. High winds ard
savage thunderstorms occurred in
a number of other sections. Winds
raked southwest Atlanta and de
stroyed a fram house owned by
Police Chief Herbert Jenkins, who
was not in it at the time.