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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No, 116NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1953Per Copy—15^
345 Taxpayers
Entitled To Vote
At Oct. 19 Election
A total of 345 voters will be en
titled to participate in the special
bond election for the new school
addition on October 19, it was
learned at the City Council meet
ing last Monday night. This is the
total of real and personal tax
payers as listed on the 1952 tax
roll.
According to the city attorney
and the city clerk all voters must
register before noon October 17 to
be entitled to vote. It will require
65 percent of the votes cast to
favor the important issue and get
a school addition adequate for
the needs of the children of the
community.
Because of the importance of
the issue and the need for every
voter to know how the school is
being financed through the tobac
co tax and other questions that
have arisen, the City Council has
announced an open meeting fo~
Monday, Oct. 5, at the school
auditorium.
It was announced at the council
meeting that the new pumper unit
would be kept in storage for emer
gencies and the civil defense siren
would not be installed at this time
because of the expense involved.
It was also announced that an
extra effort would be made by the
street committee to keep the
streets graded as long as possible
before the freeze-up.
The city clerk announced the
receipt of letter and telegram from
the Harstad & Metcalf Assn., stat
ing that the value of the Northern
Light and Power Company sub
stantially exceeded the price of
ferred to the city for purchase of
the plant.
Vishinsky Tells U.N.
Neutrals Must Be Part Of
Korea Political Conference
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP)—
Russia told the United Nations to
day “There was ncf possibility of
hoping” the proposed Korean pol
itical conference will take place
unless the Allies reconsider their
decision banning neutrals from
the parley.
Chief U.S. delegate, Henry Cab
ot Lodge, Jr., immediately de
nounced the statement as a “mere
maneuver” designed to force the
U.N. to change its mind.
Lodge said the whole question
of inviting India and other neu
trals had already been debated
and defeated and there was no
heed to take it up again now.
Lodge declared that the only
threat to the conference came
from chief Soviet delegate Andrei
Vishinsky and added: “I assume
the Chinese Communists are cap
able of speaking for themselves
on this point without the good
offices orf the Soviet Union.”
Before the meeting, the United
States and Britain were confi
dent they had enough votes to
prevent reopening of debate on
the question. Whether Vishinsky’s
warning on possible collapse of
conference plans would have an
adverse effect was not immediate
ly apparent.
Artificially High
Costs Keep Alaska
Mines Undeveloped
ANCHORAGE, UH — Robert
Campbell, president of Camray
Mines, Ltd., Toronto, Canada, says
that artificially high costs are
keeping Alaska mines undevel
oped.
Campbell made the observation'
after a “prospecting trip for good
investment properties.”
“There are mineral deposits
here that, if they were in Canada,
would have drills down and 500
people working them,” he said.
He blamed high labor costs, plus
government cost, plus construc
tion for what he calls the arti
ficially high price structure.
“That will have to' level off,”
Campbell said, before much de
velopment is possible in the min
ing field. Campbell said he was.
interested in iron and copper de
posits as well as manganese, lead
and zinc. Campbell said he be
lieved American, capital spent in
Alaska might come by way of
Canada because Canadian regula
tions on stocks and securities are
less restricted.
“Government subsidies for de
velopment of mining would not
be necessary,” he said, “if the in
vestors were not taxed too much.
The Canadians feel government
money should be spent on schools
and hospitals and the people left
to spend their own on the devel
opment of resources.”
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Gruening and Bartlett
Deny Any Plans To
Change Occupations
JUNEAU, UP\ — Ex-Gov. Ernest
Gruening declined yesterday to
confirm or deny reports he might
seek the Democratic nomination
for the congressional delegate seat
of E. L. Bartlett.
“I am a private citizen,” com
mented the former governor, “and
what would Bartlett do?”
There have been persistent but
unconfirmed rumors that Bartlett
might enter the newspaper busi
ness and leave his seat in Con
gress open. Bartlett was a Fair
banks reporter before he went to
Washington, D.C., as an aide to
Judge Anthony Dimond during
the latter’s congressional service.
Bartlett told a Juneau reporter
last Friday, in connection with
the newspaper rumors:
“At this time I am not con
templating the purchase or oper
ation of a newspaper anywhere in
Alaska.”
U.S. To Increase Aid to Indochina
WASHINGTON, ffl - T h e
United States and France jointly
announced plans Wednesday to
step up the anti-Communist war
in Indochina with a 385 million
dollar increase in American as
sistance over the next 15 months.
Must Determine Soviet Intentions
WASHINGTON, (^ — President
Eisenhower said today Russia’s
ability to make a hydrogen bomb
makes it more important than
ever to determine Soviet inten
tions toward the west.
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Lawyer Persuades
Miner to Face
Fraud Charges
SEATTLE, UP) — The persuasive
arguments of W. F. Webber, a
Seattle attorney, accomplished
something yesterday that thou
sands of pictures in that many
postoffices have failed to do—
they brought Lloyd J. Moore, 60,
back to face a Montana mail fraud
charge.
Moore, otherwise known as
Warren F. Cottrelle, flew to Seat
tle from Vancouver, B.C., with
Webber, an attorney for the Se
curities and Exchange Commis
sion. He came here voluntarily,
after discussing with Webber a
10-year-old indictment returned
against him at Great Falls, Mont.,
and surrendered to the U.S. Mar
shal.
His trouble with the federal
authorities stems from his activi
ties in conjunction with the lost
Wheelbarrow mine located in Pot
latch, Idaho. ,
Legend has it that about the
turn of the century the original
finders waded knee deep in gold,
scooped up $20,000 worth lying
on the ground. ,
One partner, the legend said,
shot the other and took bff, leav
ing dead partner and Wheelbar
row. Moore says he and a friend
found the skeleton in 1935 with
the bullet-pierced skull and the
wheelbarrow. Word got around,
including an appearance on a na
tional radio program, and “people
wanted to buy into it,” Moore
said.
About 1,200 persons in Idaho,
Washington, Montana, Oregon and
Canada bought stock in the ven
ture, Webber says, and Moore
dropped from sight. He was lo
cated recently in the Cariboo
country of British Columbia after
roaming about Canada, settling
briefly in Toronto, Montreal and
Vancouver. ,
Moore says the charges are
“just a misunderstanding” that he
wants to get cleared up.
Meanwhile, he told a reporter,
“I’ve got a pretty good deal in
that mine up in the Cariboo
country . . .”
ILA Longshoremen To
Strike New York City and
11 Eastern Ports Tonight
NEW YORK, — Longshore
men announced shortly after noon
today that a strike in New York
and 11 other east coast ports was
“on,” to take effect at midnight
tonight.
In Washington, however, Presi
dent Eisenhower hinted the ad
ministration is considering invok
ing the Taft-Hartley law to head
off the strike.
The International Longshore
men’s Association, recently ousted
from the American Federation of
Labor, had announced previously
that noon was the deadline for
employers to meet the union wage
and other demands.
Patrick Connolly, ILA executive
vice president, said the employers
informed the ILA at noon they
were “standing on their previous
offer”—unacceptable to the ILA.
Nome Eligible For
And Courthouse
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Eisenhower Names
Gov. Earl Warren
As Chief Justice
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today named-"'Gov.
Earl Warren of California to be
Chief Justice of the United States.
The President told his news con
ference the 62-year-old Warren,
a Republican, will make a great
chief justice, and that he will be
on the bench of the high court
when it opens its fall session Mon
day.
The recess appointment of War
ren as successor to the late Chief
Justice Fred M. Vinson is subject
to Senate confirmation when Con
gress reconvenes in January.
Warren’s appointment has been
so widely predicted that the Presi
dent, in announcing it, remarked
that he was confirming something
that was hardly news.
The President described War
ren as a man with a reputation
for integrity, honesty and middle
of the road politics.
He went on to say the new
chief justice is experienced in
government and in the law—that
he is healthy and strong.
Eisenhower added with a laugh
that Warren at 62 is relatively
young—if, he said, you can call
a man about Eisenhower’s own
age relatively young.
McCarrey and Plummer
Considered For 3rd Div.
Federal Judge and D. A.
WASHINGTON, (#) — A Repub
lican National Committee spokes
man said today J. L. McCarrey
and William Plummer, both of
Anchorage are being considered
for appointment as federal judge
and U.S. attorney, respectively for
the 3rd judicial division, Alaska.
The spokesman told a reporter
McCarrey and Plummer are being
considered along with several
others whose names were not
made public.
Congressional Delegate Bartlett
was quoted in Juneau as having
predicted that McCarrey and R.
E. Plummer are the probable ap
pointees. The check was made
with Washington after Anchorage
sources pointed out that Bartlett
probably mentioned the wrong
Plummer because William is the
family Republican and Ray is a
Democrat.
No National Retail Sales Tax
WASHINGTON, Ml — President
Eisenhower said today his admin
istration has no intention of pro
posing a retail sales tax. He did
not rule out, however, the pos
sibility of a manufacturer’s excise
tax.
Never Broke Agreement
WASHINGTON, UP) — With a
flash of anger, President Eisen
hower said today he never has
knowingly broken an agreement
with an associate. The statement
was made in reference to the
resignation of Martin Durkin from
his cabinet.
New Postoffice
; To Cost $1,780,000
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WASHINGTON, (A — Fourteen
Alaska communities are rated by
the General Services Administra
tion as eligible for new federal
buildings.
The communities’ needs were
outlined by GSA in the agency’s
biennial report to Congress. Sim
ilar reports in recent years have
brought no results. Congress has
neither appropriated money nor
authorized appropriations for such
construction since prior to World
War II.
Only one of the 14 federal struc
tures which GSA feels are re
quired in Alaska has been author
ized by Congress. That is the com
bined postoffice and federal office
building in Anchorage. GSA esti
mates its maximum cost at $9,
955,000.
The remaining Alaska projects
would require special authoriza
tion by Congress in addition to
subsequent appropriations.
Included in the suggested Alas
ka projects are a border station
for the Alaska Highway, $540,000
and a federal and territorial build
ing in Juneau, $2,090,000. \
Other suggested buildings, with
proposed cost limits:
Nome, posioffice and court
house, $1,780,000; Fairbanks, post
office and courthouse, $1,100,000;
Ketchikan postoffice, courthouse,
customhouse and jail, $780,000;
Kodiak, postoffice and federal of
fice building, $1,010,000; Moun
tain View, postoffice, $430,000;
Palmer, postoffice, $980,000; Pet
ersburg, postoffice and federal of
fice building, $970,000; Seward,
postoffice and courthouse, $1,510,
000; Spenard, postoffice, $340,000;
Valdez, postoffice, $300,000; Whit
tier, postoffice, $290,000.
Seward Housewife and
18-Months-01d Son
Vanish On Monday
ANCHORAGE, (ffl — A 23-year
old housewife, Mrs. Carol Breiten
bach, and her 18-month-old son
vanished without explanation
from Seward after leaving her
home Monday to pick up groceries
and the mail. She has not been
seen since.
Officials said the prolonged ab
sence of Mrs. Breitenbach and the
boy without any trace developing,
leads them to fear foul play may
be involved.
The missing woman’s husband,
Eugene, an Alaska Railroad
checker, said his wife left their
home one mile north of Seward
at 10 a.m., with the baby on the
trip to the store and postoffice.
She took the family automobile
and he had to walk into Seward
in the afternoon when she failed
to return. No one has reported
seeing her or the baby come into
Seward and the car has not been
found.
Roadhouses and gas stations
along the road to Anchorage have
been checked but no trace was
uncovered. Breitenbach said she
would have had to stop for gas to
take the trip to Anchorage.