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VOL. LVIII No. 128 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1956 Per Copy—15#
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK
SOLD TO FIRM IN FAIRBANKS
Jackson, in Retiring,
Assures No Change
In Bank Operation
Mr. G. R. Jackson today an
nounced the sale of the Miners
and Merchants Bank of Alaska
in Nome to a group of Fairbanks
businessmen affiliated with the
Alaska National Bank of Fair
banks. The new owners will as
sume management of the bank
shortly after the first of the year.
Granville Richard Jackson is
one of Nome’s Pioneers, having
come to Nome in 1904. He began
his career in Nome as a messen
ger boy for the Signal Corps.
In 1905 he joined the staff of
the Alaska Banking and Safe De
posit Company. Later he was
affiliated with the Nome Bank
and Trust Company. While he
was cashier for the Wild Goose
Mining and Trading Company, he
was appointed bank examiner for
the local banks.
In 1921 Mr. Jackson took over
the Miners and Merchants Bank
and later became its president.
After the fire in 1934, he built
the new bank building.
Mr. Jackson has been active in
community affairs, serving as
RUSSIAN SENTRY SHOOTS
BRITISH CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, OB—The British For
eign Office was advised today that
Noel Barber, a correspondent for
the London Daily Mail, was shot
in the head by a Russian sentry
while covering the fighting in
Budapest.
The wound was reported to be
not serious.
Russian Action
In Hungary Gets
No Support in U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N.C., (*>—
Western U.N. delegates expressed
satisfaction today over the solid
support they received both inside
and outside the Security Council
for their effort to end the blood
shed in Hpngary.
Messages poured in from gov
ernments all over the world back
ing up the West's demands that
Russia halt her military interven
tion. Some Western diplomats felt
that this public pressure, plus the
reported demands of the Hungar
ian government, might produce
results.
The council recessed its discus
sions temporarily after 5Vi hours
of debate in an extraordinary
Sunday session. Private talks
were in progress to determine
what the next step would be.
In the council debate the Soviet
Union failed to rally a single
country to support her claim that
the United States had started all
the trouble in Hungary and that
Soviet troops were only helping
the Hungarian government re
store order.
The Western delegates made no
formal proposals to the council
but directed their demands di
rectly at Russia. In some cases,
the language was sharp.
president of the Northwestern
Alaska Chamber of Commerce
from 1936 to 1940. He was arctic
recorder for the Arctic Brother
hood, secretary of the Log Cabin
Club, and served on the Nome
School Board.
•He has been a member of the
Alaska Development Board and
belongs to the Pioneers of Alaska.
In retiring, Mr. Jackson wishes
to assure the people of this sec
tion of Alaska that the new own
ers will conduct the bank in a
progressive and most satisfactory
manner for the best interests of
the entire community. They have
announced that there will be no
change in the operation of the
bank.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, with
their daughter Kathleen, will
leave Nome about January 15.
Dr. Cumming To
Open Private
Dental Office Soon
Dr. R.J. Cumming, new dentist
for Nome, who arrived last week,
has anouneed that the ANS den
tal clinic, which will be located in
the officers of the late Dr. M.
Kennedy at the MMM Hospital
are being renovated and will be
ready for appointments soon.
This office is limited to Eskimo
beneficiaries and will be by ap
pointment only, made by calling
the clinic.
The rest of the population will
be served from an office located
in the former Specialty Sales of
fice on Front St. with appoint
ments being taken startirfg Nov. 1.
It is preferred that those hav
ing emergency work get the early
appointments as well as those
needing dentures or denture re
pairs.
Dr. Cumming plans to devote
Saturday to work on children.
Hours available for each service
as well as a permanent office will
be announced later.
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Doctors Report
Eisenhower Is*In
Excellent Health
WASHINGTON,' UV-President
Eisenhower “gives every appear-,
ance of being in excellent health,”
in the opinion of eight doctors
who gave him a new physical
checkup.
Their findings were made pub
lic late yesterday by White House
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty.
The doctors declined to hold a
news conference to discuss their
report.
The examination, conducted at
the Army’s Walter Reed Hospital
over the weekend, had been prom
ised the voters by Eisenhower in
advance of the Nov. 6 election.
Of the abdominal surgery, the
formal report said:
“The President has made an
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Hungarian Reds Give Up;
Russia Sends More Troops
Communist Secret
Police Dissolved
VIENNA, US—Radio Budapest
announced late today an agree
ment has been reached for rebels
to turn in their arms and for Rus
sian troops to quit Budapest.
At the same time, the govern
ment-controlled radio announced
that Interior Minister Ferenc
Muennich had dissolved the dread
Communist secret police.
Muennich announced that the
secret police guilty of todture and
oppression would be punished.
The agreement concerning the
surrender of rebel arms was con
cluded by Defense Minister Kar
oly Janza. It was not announced
who negotiated for the forces of
the rebellion.
The broadcast said the agree
ment provided that Russian army
forces will leave Budapest 24
hours after rebel weapons have
been delivered.
Sporadic fighting again raked
Budapest early in the day despite
Premier Imre Nagy’s promise to
pull Russian troops out of the
bloodstained city and to meet
other demands of the rebellious
Hungarians.
Budapest radio reported shortly
after 10 a.m. that there had been
shooting in the capital’s 11th dis
trict during the night and that
“there still are elements who want
to disturb the peace.”
The broadcast added that “armed
workers’ units” searching houses
for arms were met with gunfire.
The rebels claimed complete
control over a strip of western
Hungary 100 miles long and 50
miles wide, only 19 miles west of
Budapest at its northern limit.
Rebel banners were reported fly
ing all over western Hungary and
in cities thruout the land.
The Budapest radio announced
Soviet troops had begun pulling
out of the battle-scarred capital
as Nagy promised. But Russian
tanks and big guns still were re
ported camped in the heart of the
city.
The rebel radio at Gyoer, in
northwest Hungary, reported it
had received information from
northeast Hungary that a with
drawal of Russian troops in the
border area there took place dur
ing the night. There was no con
firmation of the report from any
other source.
By ENDRE MARTON
BUDAPEST. Hungary, (if)—
The Hungarian Conun uniat gov
ernment has virtually capitu
lated to a six-day national revo
lution led by a few thousand
daring young men.
The most important conces
sion in principle is that the re
gime acknowledged this revo
lution is a great national op*
rising "caused by the grave
crimes of the past decade."
All other concessions derive
from this one.
The regime threw in the
sponge. It was reported by a
whole nation, represented by
those few thousand young men.
London and Bonn
. Report Russia Moving
Troops to Hungary
LONDON, —Foreign Secre
tary Selwyn Lloyd said today the
Soviet Union is pouring more
troops into strife-tom Hungary
instead of withdrawing units al
ready there.
He told the House of Commons
some Soviet units and the Hun
garian security police “behaved
with the utmost ruthlessness" in
attempting to put down the Hun
garian revolt.
“With regard to Soviet troops,
our latest information is that they
have not yet withdrawn from
Budapest,” he said. “Our informa
tion is that further Soviet troops
are being moved into Hungary
and brought to the capital.”
At the same time, the West
German Ministry for All-German
Affairs announced in Bonn Soviet
conscripts are reported moving
into Communist East Germany to
join the big Russian military force
there. The ministry said it got the
news from a monitored broadcast
of a Soviet station to Russian
troops.
It was not made clear whether
the conscripts were for troops
who have returned to Russia or
for Soviet divisions reported
moved into Poland during the
Warsaw crisis that preceded the
Hungarian uprising last week.
Lloyd maintained there is no
justification in the Warsaw treaty
—the Red eastern European mili
tary alliance—for the use of Rus
sian troops against Hungarians or
for the reinforcement of Soviet
units in that country.
“While the Hungarian govern
ment may have been entitled to
agree to the presence of Soviet
troops in their country under the
Warsaw treaty, it is quite a dif
ferent thing to use those troops
to repress the Hungarian popula
tion and to call in additional So
viet forces for that purpose,”
Lloyd said.
1,267 New Immigrants
Help Celebrate Statue of
Liberty’s 70th Anniversary
NEW YORK, Jh—The Statue of
Liberty celebrated her 70th birth
day yesterday with 1,267 new im
migrants as special guests.
The refugees from 24 lands
caught their first glimpse of the
world symbol of freedom as they
steamed into New York Harbor
aboard a Navy transport.
A 21-gun salute boomed across
the harbor in a salute to the pale
green lady who has held aloft a
welcoming beacon at the gateway
to America since 1886.
The bii'.hday party also saw the
name of' the statue’s home offi
cially ch. nged from Bedloe’s Is
land to Liberty Island.
Israel Mobilizes Reserves as Result
Of New Arab Military Alliance
By the Associated Press
Israel mobilized its reserves
and the United States began the
evacuation of some of its citizens
from four Middle East states to
day in the biggest Arab-Israeli
war scare since 1948.
Israel, announcing the callup
of reserve battalions in what it
termed a “partial mobilization,”
denied it had any aggressive in
tent.
Tension in Israel has mounted
since Jordan, which has the long
est frontier with Israel of any
Arab state, formed a joint mili
tary command with Syria and
Egypt last week. A pro-Egyptian
parliament was elected in Jordan
a week ago.
President Eisenhower, taking a
grave view of the mobilization,
sent two messages to Israeli Pre
mier David Ben-Gurion, caution
ing him avoid acts “which would
endanger the peace.”
Washington reports said Israel
had mobilized from 150,000 to
200,000 men along her frontiers.
On the Israeli side, regular
traffic and business were slowed
by a heavy movement of troops,
guns, tanks and reservists.
From 7,000 to 8,000 Americans
in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria
were affected by State Depart
ment warnings and orders to
leave for points of safety. Tour
ists, business people and others
in the four countries not perform
ing “essential functions” were
urged to leave. Dependents of
U.S. government officials will be
evacuated “as soon as possible”
by commercial planes, they were
told.
The air of crisis was heightened
by the announcement of Israeli
military authorities today that
three suicide bands of Arab com
mandos had crossed into Israel
from the Egyptian held Gaza strip
last night and two of the groups
were captured.
Political Weather Vane
Shows Victory for Ike
BALTIMORE UPV—As Poly goes,
so goes the nation.
It has been true in the last six
presidential elections.
Friday,! the. students at Balti
more Polytechnic Institute took
another straw vote. The winner
by overwhelming margin was
President Eisenhower: Ike 1,823
votes, Stevenson 781.