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Catastrophic Accident May Have
Caused Russia To End Atom Tests
WASHINGTON MP) — The re
cent Soviet nuclear tests werb
“the dirtiest radioactive debris
tests the world has ever known.”
That’s the view of Sen. Hum
phrey (D-MinnJ who said yester
day there pobably is a great deal
of evidence to back a Danish re
port that a catastrophic accident
caused a halt in the Russian test
series. The report said the mis
hap caused radioactive fallout to
increase to the danger point
over Russia and many neigh
boring states.
Denmark’s biggest newspaper,
Berlingske Tidende, said in Cop
enhagen yesterday the accident
was probably the real reason for
Russia’s unilaterial decision to
stop testing nuclear weapons,
saying the Russians could not
risk continuing tests of arms
with serious defects.
The paper did not specify the
nature of the reported accident,
but said it was caused by an er
roneous estimate of meteorologi
cal factors.
The Danish paper recalled that
the Russians barred diplomats
and other foreigners from south
ern parts of the Soviet Union
for about two weeks before
Easter.
“Presumably,” the paper said,
“the Soviet government wanted
to prevent foreigners from re
I porting unrest and anxiety among
Lthe population because of the
I atomic accident.”
Humphrey, chairman of a Sen
ate Disarmament Subcommittee,
told a TV panel that heavy fall
out from the Russian tests fell on
parts of the United States as well
as on Scandinavia, Northern
Europe and Japan.
The Danish report came a day
after Humphrey said the Rus
sians had touched off ’ an under
ground blast on March 25, and
that this explosion was detected
j by seismic stations up to 5,650
miles away.
Harry Truman Proposes $5 Billion
Tax Cut For Small Income Taxpayers
WASHINGTON, UP> — Harry S.
Truman today proposed a five
billion dollar tax cut for low and
middle income taxpayers to fight
the economic recession. He al
so urged a big increase in govern
ment spending.
The former President who des
cribed himself as a “retired Miss
ouri farmer” delivered a wide
ranging discourse on the current
economic situation to the House
banking and currency committee
He larded his views with pep
pery jabs at the Eisenhower ad
ministration. The country, Tru
man opined, would not be in the
shape it is if the administration
had taken quicker action.
“We might not be altogether
successful in preventing economic
downturns,” Truman said, “but
at least we can make that our
goal and not try to brush re
cessions aside by pretending that
they are a good thing.”
In addition to a tax cut and
higher spending, Truman urged
immediate expansion of the Un
employmnt Compensation system
and increased Social Security
benefits.
He also backed a community
public works bill providing two
billion dollars in loans to states
and local communities, and an
area redevelopment program tc
help create new jobs in areas of
chronic unemployment.
Finally Truman urged relief to
small business through making
available additional equity cap
ital for small firms.
Big measures are necessary to
meet the needs for bigger econ
omic strength, he said, adding
greater and greater strength is
a “stark necessity for continued
national survival.”
The hearings by the committee
marked the return of Congress
from a 10-day Easter holiday for
the last half of a session which
must cope with the problems of
unemployment and a business
slump.
His proposed five-billion dol
lar tax cut for middle and low
income families, Truman said, is
the quickest way to put more
spending power into the hands of
the average American home.
Truman said such tax relief
was also the “surest and safest
way toward a balanced Federal
budget” because it would help
restore maximum employment
and help lift total national pro
duction.
To offset revenue. losses from
the tax reduction, Truman said
Congress should close up what
he called glaring tax loopholes.
He said that could bring in about
two billion dollars in tax reve
nues now being lost.
American Pianist
Wins Contest
In Moscow
MOSCOW, UP) — Van Cliburn,
a 6-foot-4 Texan whose piano
playing excited the Russians even
more than thejr own products, to
day was named the winner of
a gruelling international music
contest that drew contestants
from all over the Communist
world.
The 23-year-old pianist from
Kilgore, Tex., was one of two
Americans who reached the finals
of the Tchaikovsky international
piano competition. Daniel Pol
lack of Los Angeles was rated
last among nine finalists.
Even before Cliburn played in
the finals Friday night, music
loving Moscovites had heard of
his keyboard skill. They jammed
the hall for his appearance and
called him back for an encore
despite contest rules against it.
Cliburn, who won 24,000 rubles
(officially $6,250) as first prize
and a short concert tour in the
Soviet Union, said he was ex
hausted but happy when the
news was leaked to him and the
other winners late last night.
In Kilgore, Cliburn’s mother,
a one-time concert pianist who
taught her son until he went to
New York to study in 1951, said
she and her husband Harvey, an
oil company executive, were
thrilled to death.
Nomerama Theater
Installs All New
Magnetic Sound
The Nomerama management is
justified in “proudly presenting”
a group of the finest film pro
duced starting as of Wednesday
night of this week with “The
Tall Man” starring Clark Gable.
Nome now ranks with the best
in sound equipment and is one
of the few theaters in Alaska
to have magnetic sound. For
many months the entertainment
team of Brown and Brown at
the Nomerama have been work
ing on the highly technical equip
ment so that these features may
be shown to Nome audiences.
Delicate instruments, intricate
and complicated sound equipment
have noW been installed and
“we’re ready to show” says Willie
Brown.
Sound effects now have depth
giving a quality to both the spo
ken voice and music.
Part of the Nugget staff had
a preview Saturday and here is
a peek at what is in store for j
Nome.
In “The Tall Man,” starring
Clark Gable and Jane Russell,
the blizzard is so real you get
cold and chilly just watching and
hearing it. This is Gable’s best
picture since “Gone With the
Wind.”
Then there is “Carousel” star
ring Gordon McRae and Shirley
Jones, with beautiful music and
never to be forgotten scenery.
Voices and sounds seem to come
from whatever part of the screen
the characters are placed.
We can’t wait to see more of
the peek we got of “Good Morn
ing Miss Dove,” starring Jenni
fer Jones.
The Nugget staff saw just
enough of the “Man Who Never
Was” to know that they can’t
miss it when it is scheduled.
Starring Clifton Webb and Gloria
Grahame this amazing spy story
keeps you on the edge of your
seat from the very first of the
film, will be shown next Sunday
and Monday. “Operation Mince
meat” will also be a must on our
program.
And then there is “The King
and I” with Deborah Kerr and
Yul Brynner.
A round of applause should be
given after these performances
to the management of the Nom
erama who have gone to great
expense to give Nome the best
in entertainment.
The management wishes to ex
press appreciation to Hap Eberle,
A1 Braun, Sgt. Pepple and Andy
Loesch for their advice and help
on technical problems.
Eisenhower To Make
Major Speech On
Nation’s Economy May 20
WASHINGTON, UPi — Presi
dent Eisenhower will make a
major speech on the nation’s
economy the evening of May 20
in New York.
Announcing this today, the
White House said Eisenhower
will address the concluding din
ner session at the annual meet
ing of the American Manage
ment Assn, conference on eco
nomic mobilization.
James C. Hagerty, Presidential
press secretary, said he is inform
ing the major television and
radio networks regarding Eisen
hower’s decesion to make the
speech. There has been no word
yet on whether the networks
will carry it.
New York Congressman Charges
Statehood For Alaska And Hawaii
Is Major Communist Conspiracy
Egan and Gruening
Ask TV Time To
Rebut Rep. Pillion
WASHINGTON, UR — Alas
ka’s unofficial Senators Friday
asked the Columbia Broadcasting
System to give statehood advo
cates a chance to rebut a nation
wide television appearance by
Rep. Pillion (R-NY), a statehood
opponent.
“Sens.” Ernest Gruening and
William Egan, two of the three
member delegation sent here by
Alaskans to push for statehood,
made the request.
Ted Koop, network director
of Washington news and public
affairs, said Pillion had protes
ted a recent program presented
by Edward Murrow on statehood
for Alaska and Hawaii “had not
given the opponents a fair shake.”
Pillion opposes statehood for
either territory on grounds the
small population in Alaska and
Hawaii should not have equal
Senate representation with New
York’s much larger population.
In New York, Sig Michael
son, CBS vice president in charge
of public affairs, said he saw no
j reason for the network to com
mit itself for time to Gruening
and Egan until “we hear what j
Pillion says.”
Sputnik II Fell
Over West Indies
Last Night
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UP) —
Scientists said today Sputnik II,
history’s first passenger-carrying
satellite, apparently fell apart
over the West Indies last night.
They said a single sighting
from Denver, Colo., indicated the
heavy rocket motor of the Soviet
man-made moon might have
made one .more lap around the
world than the rest of Sputnik.
The Denver sighting was an hour
and a half after the supposed
crack-up over the West Indies.
Dr. John White of the Smit
sonian Astrophysical Observa
tory said today’s best evidence
that the Soviet moon is down is
the total lack of further sight
ings after the one at 10:12 (EST)
last night from Denver.
The rocket would have made
another pass down the west
coast 88 minutes later if it had
been still aloft. Numerous moon
watch teams throughout the west,
and Stanford University’s radar
telescope at Palo Alto, Calif.,
failed to pick up this passage.
Sputnik II fooled the profes
sors’ prediction of the hour of the
time of its death by gliding
around the world a half dozen
times longer than expected last
night.
The dog rocket was seen glow
ing like a hot poker from air
friction over New England at
8:47 p.m. (EST) last night, the ob
i servatory said.
Eight minutes later it was re
ported in flames over the West
Indies. If it continued a min
ute more, it would have been
lost in Brazilian jungles.
> WASHINGTON, UP) — Rep.
Pillion (R-NY) said yesterday
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii
“is a major objective of the Com
munist conspiracy to which Har
ry Bridges and his union lend
themselves.”
Pillion, a member of the House
Interior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee, made his comment on a
CRS-TV program.
“Statehood for Alaska and Ha
waii,” he said, “is repugnant to
the proper apportionment of rep
resentation for a national democ
racy. It violates our ideals of
political equality.”
Pillion declared “the Commu
nist power in Hawaii emanates
from two unions, the Internation
al Longshoremen and Ware
housemen Union and the two
United Public Workers Union—
both of these unions were ex
pelled by the CIO in 1950 on the
ground that ‘their policies follow
the Communist Party’ and that
‘Communists control these
unions’.”
“The International Fishermen
and Allied Workers of America
is the largest union in Alaska,”
he added. “It was expelled from
the CIO in 1950 as being Com
munist controlled. The next day
it joined Bridges’ ILWU. It is
Bridges’ beachhead in Alaska,
today.
“Just as soon as statehood is
granted, Bridges can send 100
organizers into Alaska. It will
be ‘apple pie’ to take over pol
itics,” Pillion said.
In granting statehood to Ha
waii, Pillion said, “we actually
invite four Soviet agents to take
seats in our Congress. They
will be carefully selected by
[ Communists agents, cleverly fol
lowing the Soviet party line,
although always appearing to be
merely ‘liberal’.”
Lack of Tail Winds
Forces Strato Jet To
Abandon Record Flight
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE,
Mass, iff) — Lack of tail winds has
forced a huge jet tanker to aban
don its attempt to set a non
stop record from Yokota, Japan,
to Madrid, Spain.
The 4-engine stratojet tanker
plane set down at Westover yes
terday after streaking 7,000 miles.
The plane carried enough fuel
for a 10,000-mile flight, but fav
orable jet stream winds were
needed to push it to 11,487 miles
to Madrid.
At dawn yesterday, the jet
with its crew of seven and a civil
ian streaked out over the At
lantic, but when it got 660 miles
| out the crew decided it would
| never make it to Madrid.
■ It reversed its course and land
I ed at Westover 79 minutes later.
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| Through Ship Cargo Service
j California-Alaska Discontinued
SEATTLE — The joint Alaska
' Steamship Company - Coastwise
Line through cargo service be
! tween California and Alaska
points is being discontinued.
Thirty-day notice of cancella
tion of concurrence in the Coast
wise tariff has been given "he
Federal Maritime Adm.nistra
1 tion.