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Scientists Find
Ready-Made Air
Field In Arctic
NEWARK, N.J., UP)— Wilbur E,
Dow Jr., of Short Hills, admir
alty lawyer who returned this
week from an Arctic expedition,
said Saturday he found a ready
made site for a modern air base
directly across the North Pole
from major Russian bases.
Dow said in an interview with
the Newark Sunday News the site
is located on Prince of Wales Is
land off the Canadian Northwest
Territories.
“We found a three-mile long
dry river bed at sea level run
ning into the sea which could be
easily converted into an airstrip,”
he told the newspaper. “We made
a regultr speedway on the hard
strip racing our jeep up and down
it whenever we had the oppor
tunity.”
The strip is protected from
crosswinds by its location, he
said. Dow and his associates, who
included the Rev. Daniel Linehan,
head of the Weston Observatory,
Weston, Mass., charted and map
ped the area and turned their data
over to Canadian authorities.
Dow declined to give the exact
location of the potential airbase
on the 18,000 square-mile island.
Dow said major Russian air
bases are known to be located in
Soviet Arctic regions on the op
posite side of the North Pole
and that 60 per cent of the Rus
sian air force has been reported
stationed there.
Hormel Packing Heir
Arrested In Narcotics
Case In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, (J>> — An early
morning arrest put George A.
Hormel II, musician and meat
packing fortune heir, in jail for
10 hours in a narcotics case high
lighted by an encounter between
arresting officers and Hormel’s
friend, actress Rita Moreno.
Hormel, 26, divorced from
French actress Leslie Caron, is
free today on $1,500 bond on a
habeas corpus writ returnable on
Thursday in Superior Court.
At a press conference arranged
by her studio last night Miss Mor
eno, 22, who wasn’t arrested, said
“When the officers said they
were O’Grady and O’Connor, I
thought it was a gag. But I didn’t
kick him, I just pushed him in
the stomach and slapped his right
hand.”
Sgt. John O’Grady, of the police;
narcotics detail, who was in the
arresting party with Matthew
O’Connor, state narcotics inspec
tor, had a different version.
“I was met by 100 pounds of
wildcat,” said O’Grady, claiming
that Miss Moreno kicked and
struck him.
Hormel was arrested in front of
his Laurel Canyon home by the
officers who said they found 13
marijuana cigarettes above the
sun visor of his automobile. He
had just come from a night club
where he plays the piano with
a trio. O’Grady said a parking
lot near the night club had been
under investigation for several
weeks as “a hot bed of marijuana
peddling.”
Development Board
Members Visit Tin
Mine At Lost River
The Alaska Development Board
manager and assistant manager,
accompanied by Ralph Lomen,
through the courtesy of Alaska
Airlines made a special flight to
Lost River, where they spent sev
eral hours seeing the reality of
the only tin mine in North Amer
ica.
The party was met at the Lost
River airfield by the manager,
Everett Hoagland, who took them
to the camp for a briefing on what
they would see. They were then
conducted, each with his own
light, through the mine at mill
level for a distance of about 400
feet with explanations from the
manager. Every phase of the proc
ess was followed from the mine
to the mill and from the mill to
the final concentrates which went
into barrels.
Hoagland explained that 110
tons of ore were being processed
daily with an operating profit. He
also explained how more explora
tory work should be done so that
the capacity of the mine could be
stepped up to 200 or 250 tons a
day.
The Board was agreeably sur
prised and impressed with the
project and realized that the gov
ernment money expended for the
preliminary cost was a small
amount for the returns to come.
The Board, with the exception
of William Bates, left for Anchor
age upon returning here.
$700 Gold Cache Found
In Old Stove Pipe
VICTOR, N. Y., UP) — When
Michael Barry was a little boy he
used to stuff his treasures into
an old stove pipe above, the celing
of a second-floor bedroom.
Now 12, Michael went explor
ing over the weekend and found
a rusty wrench, water pistol and
an old comic book.
Michael thrust his arm—longer
now — further back in the pipe
and drew out a rusty can con
taining $700 in gold coins.
The Barry family figured that
Michael’s grand mother might
have hidden the money 50 years
ago. When she was in her 80s,
they recalled, she used to point
to the ceiling and say “There’s
gold up there.” No one believed
her.
The money probably will go
toward a scholarship fund for
Michael, his family said. Gold
currency was withdrawn from
circulation in 1933.
Chilean Government
Decrees State of Siege
SANTIAGO, Chile, UP) — The
government decreed a state of
siege (modified martial law) in
most of Chile today.
The government imposed the
state of siege for six months and
said it took the action “because
of. the danger of a movement aim
ed at destroying our democratic
way of life.” The action was
taken despite the apparent solu
tion to the recent strike of cop
per miners.
Last week various political par
ties expressed opposition to de
mands for extraordinary powers
in the face of the strike.
$200,000 Fire In
Anchorage P.U.
Power Plant
ANCHORAGE, IfPi—A fire and
explosion ripped through the An
chorage Public Utilities diesel
plant here Saturday night, caus
ing damage estimated at nearly a
quarter of a million dollars. Sev
eral firemen were injured fight
ing the blaze.
City manager George Shannon
said the fire apparently was
touched off by an overheated
diesel motor, one of five in the
plant. An explosion followed the
fire, shattering windows.
Shannon said one of the ex
pensive diesels was a total loss.
The other four were heavily
damaged but salvagable. Shan
non estimated damage to the
$600,000 plant at $200,000.
The fire and explosion dealt a
serious blow to the city’s power
supply, Shannon said.
In all, 32 firemen battled the
blaze with eight fire trucks, in
cluding two from Elmendorf Air
Eorce Base. There were no hy
drants in the vicinity of the diesel
plant and the firefighters had to
run more than a mile of hose to
get water with which to fight the
flames.
Air Force Lets Contract
For 2nd Plant To Produce
Its F-100 Jet Fighter
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Air
Force has taken steps to set up
a second plant to turn out the
F-100, its most modern jet fighter
capable of flying at least 755
miles an hour at sea level and
faster at high altitudes.
It announced Saturday night a
100-million-dollar contract with
North American Aviation, a pro
ducer of the F-100 at Los Angeles,
the new contract calls for the
tooling up of North American’s
plant at Columbus, Ohio, to pro
duce the plane.
The Air Force did not disclose
how many planes are called for
in the new contract, but it said
deliveries are expected from the
Columbus plant within a year.
The same announcement said
F-lOOs from the Los Angeles plant
will start going to tactical units
within a few weeks.
Jimmy Goldsmith Gets
Back 4-Month Daughter
From The Grandparents
PARIS, UP)—British hotel scion
Jimmy Goldsmith says he will
leave his kidnap charge on the
police books even though his
multi-millionaire in-laws, the Bo
livian Patinos, have returned his
frail 4-months-old daughter Isa
bela.
Obeying a court order, the Pat
inos sent the baby to Goldsmith’s
apartment yesterday, four days
after he charged “unknown per
sons” had abducted her soon after
he returned from a business trip
to West Africa. He had left the
infant with her grandmather,
Mrs. Antenor Patino.
Despite the young father’s still
pending charge, it appeared like
ly the French police would happ
ily let the matter fade out now
that he has his child back.
Sexy American Polar
Bear Wins Right To
Work In Great Britain
By COLIN FROST
LONDON, (iP)—Aurora, an Am
erican polar bear with sex appeal,
won the right today to work her
wiles on Britain.
After a hectic two-hour confer
ence, top officials of the govern
ment board of trade decided to
lift the ban on Aurora’s entry and
let her in.
Aurora was shipped here as too
hot to handle from a Chicago
zoo where she stirred five male
polars to a fighting passion of
rivalry.
She came as a free gift to Man
chester’s Bellevue zoo, but the
board of trade barred her entry
into the country on her arrival
aboard a freighter.
Gerald lies, Bellevue zoo super
intendent, called the board of
trade ban “fantastic” and sped
from Manchester to protest.
The board of trade had said
earlier: “Polar bears are not es
sential imports so they are ban
ned. As we do not allow com
mercial zoos to buy polar bears
in America, we cannot allow
them to accept them as gifts. That
might lead to abuse.”
Explaining the board’s change
of heart today, an official spokes
man said: “We have, for the first
time, got the full story. Since it
is now quite clear the bear came
here as a gift, we have decided to
cut through the red tape and let
her come ashore.”
Treasury Will Borrow
Four Billion On Sept. 23
In Short Term Notes
WASHINGTON, Ufi — The gov
ernment announced Monday it
will borrow four billion dollars
Oct. 4 on two-year, seven-months
treasury notes to pay 1% per cent
interest.
Secretary of the Treasury Hum
phrey said books on the sale of
the new issue will be open one
day only, on Sept. 23.
The new notes will be dated
Oct. 4, 1954, to mature May 15,
1957.
The Treasury pulled a surprise
in the fall financing by not in
cluding a tax anticipation secur
ity.
Following visits here on Thurs
day and Friday by committees
representing the nation’s banking
and investment associations, it
had been reported that the treas
ury would borrow between three
and four billion dollars and that
this would be divided between a
tax anticipation issue and a note
or a short term bond.
10,000 Rock Island School
Children Inoculated
In Mass Vaccination
ROCK ISLAND, 111., WT—In an
attempt to halt the march of
polio, some 10,000 Rock Island
school children yesterday were in
oculated with gamma globulin,
the nation’s largest mass inocu
lation this year.
So far this year, 37 polio cases
have been reported in the city
and another 41 in Rock Island
County. In 1953 there were 14
city cases and 7 county cases re
ported.
Ike To Lead GOP
In Week of Heavy
Campaigning
(By the Associated Press)
Top Republicans, led by Presi
dent Eisenhower, headed into a
week of heavy campaigning to
day, apparently eager to douse the
optimism voiced by Democrats at
their Indianapolis campaign kick
off.
The President will leave his
Colorado vacation headquarters
Wednesday for a three-day west
ern speaking tour calculated to
boost GOP chances in the Nov. 2
election for control of the next
Congress.
Also for the Republicans, Vice
President Nixon and House
Speaker Martin resume campaign
barnstorming today after a Sun
day layoff.
Democratic leaders, leaving In
dianapolis yesterday after the
party pep rally, made no secret
of their optimism.
Adlai Stevenson sparked the
session with an address Saturday
night. He said' America “is ready
for a fresh start.” He accused the
Republican administration of
“giveaway government” and of
allowing an “alarming deterior
ation of our world position.”
Nixon, resting in Minneapolis
yesterday, took time out for a
news conference at which he dis
puted Stevenson’s major conten
tions. Nixon said Stevenson had
made no constructive suggestions
of his own on world issues.
“The people are entitled to
know what Stevenson’s actions
would have been in these cases,"
Nixon said.
Stephen A. Mitchell, the Demo
cratic National chairman, told a
party audience in Cleveland last
night that “the Democratic tide
is rolling.” He said the GOP’s 1
loss of the Maine governorship
a week ago has put it in a “mood
of desperation.”
Two big labor groups made pol
itical pronouncements yesterday.
The three top officers of the CIO
United Steelworkers Union, in a
report on the eve of the group’s
Atlantic City, N.J., convention,
contended Eisenhower broke his
pledge to the workingman and
heads an “anti-labor” administra
tion.
In Los Angeles, the executive
council of the AFL said the GOP
“promptly fulfilled” campaign
promises to business but “cam
paign pledges to labor and the
farmer have been brazenly bro
ken.”
Eisenhower will address the
AFL convention in Los Angeles
Friday.
Rhee Asserts Economic
Recovery Hindered by
Pro-Japanese Americans
SEOUL, (tfl — President Syng
man Rhee asserted today that
South Korea’s economic recovery
is being handicapped by “pro
Japanese Americans.”
The 79 - year - old executive
charged that American officials
are hurting South Korea’s re
building program by “making ef
forts to give Japan every possible
dollar out at U.S. aid funds to
Korea.”