22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 64 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1961 Per Copy 15tf
138 Barrow Eskimos Defy Federal
Migratory Waterfowl Regulations
BARROW, Alaska UP! — Native
resentment over federal laws
which prohibit them from taking
migratory waterfowl for food dur
ing certain times of the year
flared into the open Monday
night.
One hundred and thirty-eight
Eskimos defied the federal regu
lations by bringing to a mass
meeting eider ducks they had
taken Sunday and Monday, dur
ing the closed season.
The meeting was touched off
by the arrest Saturday of two
Eskimo hunters by the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service agents. The
Eskimos’ guns and the ducks and
geese they had in their posses
sion were confiscated.
Monday night, 138 natives of
this huge Eskimo village on the
shores of the Arctic Ocean brought
illegal ducks to the meeting and
signed a statement saying they
had taken the fowl out of season.
“They want to show the federal
government that they are stand
ing together in this fight for their
right to take food, as they have
for centuries,” the Rev. John
Chambers, a Presbyterian mission
ary at Barrow, said.
At the same meeting, some 300
natives signed a petition to Pres
ident Kennedy asking him to give
them the right to hunt migratory
waterfowl for food at any time
of the year and seek revisions in
a tripartite treaty on which fed
eral waterfowl regulations are
based, in part. ,
The treaty, signed by the United
States, Canada and Mexico, was
designed to prevent the slaughter
of waterfowl during their spring
and fall migrations.
The Rev. Mr. Chambers said
the petition would be circulated
at all Eskimo villages between
„ Barrow and Wales, at the tip of
the Seward Peninsula.
“It is a matter of having food
or going hungry for many of
these natives,” the Rev. Mr.
Chambers said. “They must have
a change in the tarnished treaty
and the federal hunting regula
tions to keep their families fed.”
“As it is now, the federal gov
ernment won’t let the natives take
ducks and geese while the they
are in the Arctic, but after the
birds go south, where they are
killed by the thousands of white
sportsmen, the government says
to the hungry natives, ‘now you
can hunt.’ ”
The problem is one of long
Crippled U.S. Airliner
Limps Hundreds of Miles
To a Smooth Landing
SHANNON, Ireland UP) — A
crippled American airliner with
104 persons aboard — mostly
women and children — today
limped hundreds of miles over
the Atlantic to a smooth landing
here.
The Super-Constellation ferry
ing U. S. military personnel and
their families from Germany to
McGuire Air Force Base, N. J.,
was forced to turn back two hours
after leaving Shannon when one
of its four propellors ran wild
and the pilot could not feather it.
One of the aircraft escorting
President Kennedy to Europe of
fered assistance but was not
needed. A Pan American airliner
on the vicinity shepherded the
crippled plane to safety.
Forty children were among the
95 passengers aboard the airliner,
20 of them babies in arms.
standing along the Arctic slope
and along Alaska’s West Coast.
Gov. Egan’s office has been in
contact with federal authorities
in hopes that something could be
done to permit natives to take
waterfowl for food in any season,
but, because a foreign treaty was
| involved, progress has been negli
gible, to date.
The 1916 treaty between the
United States, Mexico and Great
Britain, acting for Canada, pro
hibits a migratory waterfowl
! hunting date in North America
earlier than Sept. 1 and speci
fically forbids hunting of the
birds between March 10 and
I Sept. 1 of each year.
Migratory waterfowl seasons
vary for different areas of the
four main flyways, with earlier
i seasons nc.mally set in the north
J ern areas.
Waterfowl shooting opened in
all sections of Alaska on Sept. 1
last year and the season on ducks,
geese, brant and coot closed on
Dec. 3. The jacksnipe season
| ended on Oct. 15. The 1962 sea
| sons have not been set.
The Fish and Wildlife Service’s
! regional office in Juneau said the
northward migration of waterfowl
j to nesting areas in Arctic Alas
ka is normally completed during
the month of May. The birds
; start south again in July, with
' the southern migration continu
ing until mid-September.
FNA and Northwest
Protest Alaska Airlines
Freight Rate Reduction
WASHINGTON UD — Pacific
Northern Airlines and Northwest
Airlines have filed complaints
with the Civil Aeronautics Board
against a proposal by Alaska Air
lines to reduce freight rates be
tween Portland and Seattle and
Anchorage.
They said the proposal could
disrupt the entire air cargo rate
structure in Alaska.
Alaska Airlines wants to re
duce the rate on cargo shipments
of more than 100 pounds from 19
to 17 cents a pound, and the cen
tral rate on volume shipments
from 16 cents a pound on ship
ments of more than 1,000 pounds
to 13Vfe cents a pound on ship
ments of 8,000 pounds or more.
The specific rates for eggs, meats
and poultry products would be
lowered to 13 cents for shipments
over 500 pounds.
The opposing airlines said the
present rates have been in effect
since 1953, with no complaints
from the public, and yield the
airlines reasonable returns.
Pacific Northern estimated that
the proposal would subject more
than $500,000 of its annual air
freight to diversion.
Insurance Cos. May Pay Up
To $100 Million in Death Claims
NEW YORK 0PI — Life insur
ance companies may pay more
than $100 million this summer in
death claims arising from acci
dents, the Institute of Life In
surance said.
It predicted that between 30,000
and 35,000 persons would die in
the United States because of acci
dents unless Americans put more
emphasis on safety during the
1961 vacation season. Accidental
deaths usually run 4 to 8 per cent
higher than other months during
the summer.
RAFAEL TRUJILLO OF
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
ASSASSINATED
By The Associated Press
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, die- !
tator of the Dominican Republic
tor 31 years, was reported today }
to have been assassinated. This
word reached President Kennedy
in Paris and the State Depart
ment in Washington.
Direct communication between
the Dominican Republic and the
United States, as well as with
Haiti, adjacent to Dominican Re
public, was cut off.
The State Department said it
had “received unconfirmed re
ports” that the 69-year-old dic
tator has been assassinated. But
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, apparently ac
cepted it as a fact.
“In view of the assassination
of Rafael Trujillo, Secretary of
States Rusk will not come to
Paris,” Salinger told reporters in
the French capital. Rusk had been
scheduled to leave Washington to
night and join President Kennedy j
in Paris and Vienna.
By transatlantic telephone Ken
nedy asked Rusk to keep in close
touch with the situation.
The State Department in Wash
ington said:
“The Department as received
unconfirmed reports that Gen
eralissimo Rafael Trujillo of the
Dominican Republic has been as
sassinated.
“Reports from travelers ar
riving in a nearby country say j
that an unusually tense situation |
exists.”
Traffic Deaths
Reach New High
Over Memorial Day
By The Associated Press
Observance of the four-day
Memorial Day holiday cost the
nation a toll of more than 450
lives in traffic accidents, the worst
nighway record for any Memorial
Day holiday in history.
Late reports pushed the total
nf traffic fatalities far above the
previous record of 413 for a 102
nour Memorial holiday. The for
mer record was set in 1957.
Only three states, Hawaii, Del
aware, Rhode Island and the Dis
trict of Columbia went through
the four-day period — Saturday
through Tuesday — without a
single traffic death.
California, Michigan, and Illi
nois topped the list of states with
each reporting more than 30
highway deaths.
The only extended sipring or
summer holiday traffic death toll
to exceed the total this Memorial
Day was the 491 recorded during
the 102-hour Fourth-of-July ob
servance in 1950.
This year’s heavy toll on the
highways compared with 367 traf
fic deaths for last year’s three
day Memorial Day weekend.
Other violent fatalities during the
four - day weekend i ncluded
drownings not involving boats, in
boating accidents and from mis
cellaneous mishaps.
Traffic 457
Boating 40
Drowning 62
Miscellaneous 116
Total 675
Kennedy and De Gaulle Reaeli
General Agreement on Berlin Crisis
By John M. Hightower
PARIS — President Kennedy
and President De Gaulle were
reported in general agreement on
Berlin today and Kennedy told
the French Chief of State that
U. S. military forces will remain
in Europe as long as they are re
quired.
The U. S. forces, Kennedy said,
will be “ready to meet any
threat with whatever response is
needed.”
“And both of us also know,”
Kennedy declared, “that neither
ally would ever ignore the alli
ance to risk war, or to accept
retreat, or to act out of narrow
isolation.”
The American President made
this policy declaration at a din
ner at the Elysee Palace when he
rose to toast the French Presi
dent.
Reach General Agreement
Kennedy’s statement followed
by a few hours the official dis
closure that De Gaulle and he
had reached “general agreement”
on the Berlin problem.
The words used by Kennedy
seemed to remove any doubt that
their agreement was to stand firm
and uncompromising in defense
of West Berlin against Soviet
pressures.
In most of the toast Kennedy
paid tribute to France as a great
nation with a brilliant history and
to De Gaulle as one of its great
est leaders.
Kennedy said the French and
American revolutions had been
two of the great events of the
past 200 years and that the ideals
of those revolutions still inspire
the new nations of the world. The
United States and France, Ken
neay saia, are unitea to preserve
S those ideals.
Receives 101-Gun Salute
Kennedy began his first ven
ture in summit diplomacy abroad
with De Gaulle after receiving a
101-gun salute and a warm wel
come from the people of Paris.
The spped with which the “gen
eral agreement” was reached in
dicated that Kennedy welcomed
De Gaulle’s firmness on the Ber
lin issue and that De Gaulle was
reassured by the policy position
Kennedy stated.
The streets of the French capi
tal, brilliant with red, white and
blue flags against the soft green
foliage of spring, wore a gay and
festive air. But the political at
mosphere was grimmer. On Sat
urday, Kennedy will meet Soviet
Premier Khrushchev in Vienna,
under the threat of a new Berlin
crisis later this year.
Kennedy on his arrival pub
licly assured De Gaulle that their
own talks in his view are as im
portant as his meeting with the
Soviet Premier.
The young American leader
called on De Gaulle, senior states
man of the Western Big Three,
just two hours after his jet air
liner landed at Orly Airport.
De Gaulle, 70, greeted Kennedy,
44, with obvious warmth in his
handshake. In his resonant, roll
ing French he told Kennedy:” You
are most welcome to France.”
Russian Population Increases
MOSCOW iJPi — The population
of the Soviet Union grew by 3,
828,000 during 1960, according to
Sergei Kurashow, Soviet Minister
of Health. This would bring the
total population to an estimated
216 million.
U.S. Surgeon Gen.
Says New Drug Mas
Cured Cancer
WASHINGTON — U. S.
Surgeon Gen. Luther Terry says
“we have experience with a drug
which has almost certainly cured
cancer in man.”
He stressed, in an interview
Tuesday night over the radio,
that the drug cures only a type
of cancer which affects pregnant
women.
“This is a very exciting thing.
Now this is a very specific type
of cancer in which there are not
a great number of cases, but it’s
one of the widely growing can
cers that happen to originate in
the womb of a pregnant woman
in the membranes,” he said.
“And in the past when this
cancer has arisen, it’s been wide
ly growing and fatal in every
instance. We have just passed the
stage now, where, after treatment
of a group of these cases over a
long period of time, we feel hope
ful, in fact, almost confident that
we have gotten actual cures.”
He did not mention the name
of the drug.
The surgeon general said, how
ever, there were many types of
cancer, and added: “It’s very like
ly that when we find a cure for
one type of cancer it will not
necessarily be applicable to an
other type of cancer. In other
words, something that — a drug
— that might cure cancer of the
breast, might not cure cancer of
the lung or cancer of the in
testine.”
A spokesman for the National
Institute of Health, a Division of
the U. S. Public Health Service,
said about half of the 60 women
cancer patients treated with the
chemical over a period of years
had survived.
Young Texan Wins
The Indianapolis
Memorial Day Race
INDIANAPOLIS UF> — Youth
was server! at the Indianapolis
Speedway yesterday and the main
portion went to A. J. Foyt, of
Houston, Texas.
The 26-year-old Foyt, one of
the youngest drivers in the pro
fession, won the 500-Mile Motor
Derby after a tremendous duel
with Eddie Sachs down the home
stretch.
The race was run at near record
speed and in perfect weather. Cars
were forced out laterally by the
dozen and one wholesale crash
sent five to the sidelines but with
nobody seriously injured.
The only thing that marred this
golden anniversary renewal of
U. S.’s greatest motor car race
was a fatality on the northwest
turn. A track guard was run down
and killed by a fire truck sent
to help when Eddie Johnson’s
car spun out of control and caught
fire.
Foyt and Sachs were always
close to the leaders and for a
time alternated in leading each
other. One by one the pacemakers
dropped out.
Then it came down to Foyt,
Sachs and Roger Ward.
Sachs got the lead and Foyt
right after him with Ward in
3rd place.
A new average speed record was
set at 140.135 mph. The old rec
ord was set by Jim Rathmann in
1960 at 138.281 mph.