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VOL. LVII. No. 85 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1955_Per Copy— 15<t
Wilson Overrides
Protests of Bigger
Atomic-Air Power
QUANTICO, Va„ UP) — Despite
protests from Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway and some congressmen,
Secretary of Defense Wilson plans
continued emphasis on a big
atomic - air power and • smaller
ground forces.
“Obviously I think the program
is about right or I’d be advocat
ing a different one,” Wilson told
a news conference yesterday at
the conclusion of the annual sec
retaries’ conference.
He said also that President
Eisenhower had approved his im
pounding of 46 million dollars
which Congress added to Eisen
hower’s Marine Corps budget to
offset a planned cut in Marine
strength. Wilson disclosed Thurs
day he had ordered the ’money
held up “while we take another
look.”
His comments on the overall
defense program came in response
to questions about a farewell let
ter Ridgway addressed to him be
fore retiring June 30 as Army
Chief of Staff. The general, long
an opponent of ground force cuts,
restated his arguments against
what he described as the admin
istration’s over-emphasis on air
nuclear weapons.
Wilson, who permitted release
of the letter Friday only after
some of its contents had appeared
in the press, said he had first
put a “confidential” label on it
because of the Geneva summit
conference which opens today.
“I didn’t think the timing was
• good,” he said. “The President
and Secretary Dulles have suf
ficient problems without any of
us adding to them.”
Wyoming Governor
Promises Prison Reforms
After Convicts Rebel
RAWLINS, Wyo., W—Wyoming
State Penitentiary operations
were back to normal today fol
lowing a 25 - hour riot which
ended early yesterday after a
face to face meeting between Gov.
Milward L. Simpson and convict
spokesmen.
The governor ordered the im
mediate discharge of two guards
and pledged a full scale investi
gation of the institution. He also
promised no general reprisal for
the insurrection.
Simpson also said he would
seek to improve prison medical
care and food, to increase recrea
tion facilities and time, to cut the
maximum for solitary confine
ment from six months to 30 days
and to establish an Inmate Coun
cil. Numerous other complaints
also will be studied, he said.
STEAMER IN TOW
SAN DIEGO, (M—A tug com
pany said one of its tugs was
taking the Margo - Pacific Line
steamer Mazatlan in tow Friday
night 300 miles south of here.
The Mazatlan, formerly the Al
aska Steamship Company’s Al
aska, was reported to have a bent
propellor. It is returning from
its first trip of a new service
between San Diego and Acapulco,
Mexico.
22 of 43 Passengers
Die In Crash of
Crowded Airliner
CHICAGO, (#> — Engineers are
examining each instrument and
part of a wrecked Braniff Air
liner today to determine why it
crashed in flames, killing 22 per
sons and injuring 21.
The twin - engined Convair,
loaded to capacity, was coming in
low for an instrument landing in
the early morning fog yesterday
when it clipped a gasoline station
sign at the edge of Midway Air
port, flipped over and plowed
into the ground.
The plane, enroute from Dallas
to Chicago, ticked against the 15
foot high electric sign, crashed a
fence and spun onto its back in
side the airport, one wing ripped
off and the other aflame.
The wreckage skidded nearly
half a mile, to within a few hun
dred yards of the airport fire sta
tion. Fast acting crash crews put
out the sea of gasoline flames
within three minutes, saving
many of the 43 persons aboard.
The crash was the second fatal
mishap of a Braniff Airways
plane in 25 years. The first was
Aug. 22, 1954, when 12 persons
were killed.
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Woman On Hunger Strike
Until Death In Protest Of
Draft of Doctors, Dentists
CORAL GABLES, Fla., UR —
Calling military service a “loss of
freedom,” a mother whose only
son has entered the U.S. Public
Health Service was on a hunger
strike today that she said would
last “until I die.”
Mrs. Martha Blumenbach said
she began her fast at 5:30 p.m.
Friday and has taken only three
quarts of water since. She said
she spends most of the time in
bed.
Her dentist son, Dr. Thomas
Blumenbach, 26, entered the Pub
lic Health Service at Savannah,
Ga., Friday. He agreed with his
mother’s action.
But her husband, though ap
posed to their son's donning a
uniform, said he opposes the
hunger strike.
The 52-year-old woman said
she h6ped her fasting would in
duce military officials to modify
draft laws to permit medical doc
tors and dentists to choose whe
ther they want to enter the mili
tary service or not.
She said her religious convic
tions induced her to begin the
fast.
SUNDAY BASEBALL
National League
1 Brooklyn 6-8, Cincinnati 2-5
Milwaukee 8-3, New York 7-1
St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 8
Philadelphia 12, Chicago 11
American League
Detroit 6, New York 5
Boston 6-5, Cleveland 0-6
Chicago 3 5, Baltimore 2-4
Washington 4, Kansas City 0
Pacific Coast League
S. Francisco 5-9, San Diego 1-5
Seattle 4-3, Oakland 2-2
Portland 9-8, Los Angeles 5-9
Hollywood 2-3, Sacramento 1-4
Hypnotism Used
As Anesthetic On
Mother with Polio
DALLAS, (#>—A team of doc
tors, balked by polio from giving
drugs, turned to hypnotism dtir
! ing the weekend to deliver a
| lusty-lunged son to a pretty, 32
| year-old woman.
Brunette Mrs. Edward J.
Schwartz arrived at Parkland
Memorial Hospital last Tuesday
with a spinal type polio. Her
legs and breathing muscles were
paralyzed. She was expecting a
child in less than five weeks.
. To complicate her condition,
Michael Edward Schwartz—as his
name turned out to be — was
pressing against his mother’s
chest area and further hamper
ing her breathing. Doctors de
cided Michael had better get out
of the way.
They couldn’t give Mrs.'
Schwartz a general anesthetic be- j
cause that would slow her breath
ing further. The polio germs were
in the spine, so they hesitated
to give a spinal anesthetic.
They called in a staff psycholo
gist from Southwestern Medical
School.
At 2:30 p.m. Saturday they
began their dramatic and novel
procedure. Mrs. Schwartz already
had a slit in her throat for a
tube with which to force oxygen
to her lungs because the upper
breathing passages might become
clogged. Drugs to start labor were
given and the psychologist hypno
tized her to relieve pain.
Six hours later, while doctors
and nurses worked anxiously, she
gave birth to Michael, 6 pounds.
The mother’s breathing im
proved “almost amazingly,” doc
tors said. She was returned to an
iron lung, however.
Jacqueline Auriol Of
France Sets World’s Speed
Record For Women
PARIS, —Jacqueline Auriol,
daughter - in - law of the former
■ French president, today official
ly became the world’s fastest
woman flier.
The International Aeronautica
Federation said Mrs. Auriol
reached a speed of 715.35 miles
an hour in a French-built Mystere
IV turbojet fighter May 31.
The previous woman’s world
air speed record was held by
Jacqueline Cochrane of America
at about 679 miles per hour.
This type of woman’s record
was discontinued July 1. Women
now must compete with men if
they want to establish a new rec
ord.
LUCKIEST MAN ALIVE
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE,
N.J., (Bh — Police termed this
motorist the luckiest man alive:
Edward Bryk, 36, of Philadel
phia, fell asleep at the wheel and
crashed into a utility pole on Rt.
9 at nearly Swainton yesterday.
The crash knocked down power
lines carrying 22,00.0 volts. Bryk
stepped from the car and, police
said, either missed the lines or
stepped on them at a time when
power was off for a few seconds.
He was treated for minor cuts.
Summit Conference Opens With
The West Laying Before Russia
Proposals For European Security
GENEVA, Uft—The summit con-<
ference opened today with the
Big Three Western powers lay
ing before Soviet Russia a series
of new proposals for European
security, built around a unified
Germany. •
In quick succession President
Eisenhower, French Premier Ed
gar Faure and British Prime Min
ister Eden advanced separate
ideas as to how Russia could be
safeguarded against a united and
rearmed Germany.
Eden also put forward a pro
posal that the Big Foi*' seek ag
reement on arms ceilings for Ger
many and neighboring countries,
with the four powers joining in a
system of control to prevent vio
lations.
Despite the appearance of a co
ordinated program by the West,
it was understood the leaders of
the U.S. delegation were concern
ed about ■ some of the proposals
in Faure’s speech. Informed quar
ters said the United States would
not be bound by points it had not
approved.
These included a proposal arms
reductions be controlled in the
New Los Angeles
Freeway Patrol Cars
To Be Nemisis of Speeders
LOS ANGELES, UD — If you
think you can outrun the cops
on the Los Angeles Freeways,
don’t try it.
You’ll lose, unless your car can
do well over 100 miles an hour.
The speeder’s nemesis is a new
police freeway interceptor car. It
can accelerate from a standstill
to 60 mph in 9 seconds. It will
do 45 in low, 85 in second and
well over 100 in high, developing
188 horsepower.
The interceptor carries such
extra equipment as a heavy pad
ded board for use in pushing
wreckage off traffic lanes, an
oversize fire extinguisher, a safety
belt for the driver, and tripod
racks to hold flares high so they
can be seen on hills and curves.
The speed wagons look just like
any other patrol car.
Fight Develops for Control
Of Libby, McNeill & Libby
Food Processing Concern
CHICAGO, (M—Management of
Libby, McNeill & Libby, large
midwest food processor, has urged
its stockholders not to be “de
ceived by misleading proxy mat
erial” being distributed by an
opposition group.
A stockholders committee which
seeks to wrest control from pres
ent management opened its cam
paign last week. The committee
has charged the company “under
present management, has the
poorest record of the major com
panies in the industry.”
Management made its plea in
a letter to stockholders mailed
yesterday.
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national budgets and Faure’s call
for inclusion of Germany in a
general European security organ
ization.
Eisenhower disclosed the West
would agree to consider new
guarantees for the Soviets if Rus
sio would go along on German
reunification.
He called for an end of the
“dreary exercises” of the cold
war and urged East-West negotia
tions on a unified Germany.
Eisenhower laid down a six
point program of action aimed at
ending the dangers of atomic
war, ushering in a period of
atomic plenty and ringing down
iron curtains all over the world.
He called for a reduction of
the world’s “burden of costly
armament” and at the same time
urged cessation of subversive act
ivities of international Commun
ism.
A cut in the arms burden he
said, “would and should insure
that part of the savings would
flow into the less developed areas
of the world to assist their econ
omic development.”
Unification of Germany should
be given top priority by the sum
mit meeting, Eisenhower said, but
the problem should be solved
with proper safeguards for Rus
sia’s “legitimate security inter
ests.”
The three basic policy declara
tions laid the foundation for the
coming discussions and set the
tone, so far as the West * was
concerned. Soviet Premier Bul
ganin was scheduled to outline his
views later in the day.
Khrushchev Takes
Over Eisenhower
Zhukov Meeting
GENEVA, UP)—President Eisen
hower and Georgi K. Zhukov
greeted each other warmly today
— but Nikita Khurshchev soon
took over the conversation.
Zhukov, Soviet defense minis
ter who is a delegate to the sum
mit conference, was talking with
Eisenhower for the first time
since late in 1945. Then Khrush
chev, boss of the Soviet Com
munist Party, came up. He grab
bed the President’s hand and said:
“Mr. President, my daughter
is getting married in Russia this
week and I suppose I should have
stayed for the ceremony, but I
didn’t. I wanted to come to Gen
eva and meet you.”
The meeting took place as the
summit conference got under way
at the Palace of Nations.
Press secretary James Hagerty
reported that Eisenhower’s first
greetings were extended to the
Russian delegation. The President
shook hands first with Premier
Bulganin, then with Khrushchev,
then Foreign Minister Molotov.
Then a “very enthusiastic meet
ing” with Zhukov came next.
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