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VOLUME XVI
Monday. November 28, 1955
NUMBER 245
Knowlond questions use of
present 'sanctuary principle'
Calls for informed
citizenry on foreign
affairs matters
ANCHORAGE </P) Sen. Wil
liam F. Knowland of California
in Alaska to receive an honor
ary doctor of laws degree,
questioned here Saturday
night whether the so-called
“sanctuary principle” should
now 'be followed (by the na
tion’s air forces.
The senate Republican lead
er addressed a $10-a-plate fund
raisinjg dinner. Tomorrow he
will speak before a special con
vocation of the University of
Alaska 'alt College, and receive
the honorary degree.
Knowland, discussing possi
ble aggression from the Far
East, said:
“If Soviet type bombers,
with Chinese communist mark
ings, commit aggression and
penetrate our radar screens in
Alaska and Canada, is ithe
sanctuary principle to limit
our strategic air command to
targets on the mainland of
China?
“The life of our republic and
the free world may fee at stake
in the first critical 46 'hours.”
Knowland also called for a
eitizenry informed on foreign
affairs and said “we are rapid
ly approaching one of the
great turning points of history
“The policies we follow will
determine to a large extent
whether communism moves
forward, or backward, during
the current decade.”
The Californian listed what
he called the accomplishments
of the Eisenhower administra
tion and praised secretary of
agriculture Benson ito the 350
Republicans who jammed an
Anchorage country club to
hear him. *
At another point in his ad
dree, Knowland said if the
people of the Soviet Union
“‘really fear” aggression from a
unified Germany or the free
world the western powers
could agree to guarantee the
V eatchcombfng
• I wasn’t nearly as cold last
night as I’ve been most niights
this last week. Must be be
cause it warmed up a little.
0 “I was surprised you did
n’t print.” was remark
to me recently. But when we
checked up just one “fact” was
right and .that one was so dif
ferent that there was no story
at this time. Oh. well, we didn’t
print ift because there wasn’t
anything to it._
• ’Tis but two weeks until
the last Christmas boat mail
is igoinfg souith. Give the post
office crew a break — and mail
your packages early.
-Hf
• A lot of people have beer
a lot of Places doing a lot o:
things. But most of us staj
light at home.
prewworld war II Soviet fron
tiers “and no more.”
I “It is my (belief,” Knowland
said, “there should be no Eur
opean security pact with the
; Soviet Union by the free world
until Soviet forces have been
withdrawn from the satellite
states of eastern Europe, as
they are obligated by treaty
! agreement to do.”
! He listed these as accomplish
ments of the administration:
1. 65 million people gainful
ly employed, the “highest rec
ord of employment in the na
. ion’s history.”
2. The previous Truman bud
get reduced by over 10 billion
dollars.
3. The American people
“have (been given a IV2 billion
dollar tax reduction, the larg
est in the nation’s history.”
4. The “stalemated” war in
Korea ended. .
5. Walge price controls abol
ished to encourage free enter
prise.
6. The policy of the admini- ;
stration “to reduce, not -in
,continued on page four) j
Hall optimistic that
Eisenhower will
be 1956 candidate
GETTYSBURG. Pa. </P) Rep j
j ublican chairman Leonard W. j
: Hall said today after a meeting!
with President Eisenhower he!
now believes Eisenhower will
seek a second term “if he feels
he is able.”
Hall me" reporters after hold
ing with the chief executive
the first all-out political confer
ence Eisenhower has had since
I his Sept. 24 heart attack.
The na'ional chairman said
j Eisenhower’s second term plans
were not discussed “as a specif
i ic situation” at their 45 min
: ute meetin/g, but he added he
| felt “very much encouraged”
as a result of rhe meeting.
“T feel better about it (the
president’s running) after the
mating this mornMg,” Hall
said.
| The Republican chairman
eame here ibis morning to give
Eisenhower “a rundown on
politics.”
Hall paid he expected much
to depend on late January (phy
sical examinations which are
f<wrvt)oced to show whether Ei
wWKn'WPr’c recovery from his
heart attack is complete.
Hall said Eisenhower made
no promises about running a
gain- “He didn’t sav yes, and
he didn’t say no.”
But Hall offered as his “per
sons! opinion” the comment “I
tVnrvk lie will (run) if he feels
he’s able ”
And Hall said he feels more
o-Kmistio about the president’s
running than he did when they
ioc-f root Tha+ was in Denver,
two weeks before Eisenhower
. was stricken.
Hall said th° president de
j ^r>^>c-fratpd in the;r foTV he has
j kent in close touch with Polit
ical affainc during his illness.
Ho ioid Eisenhower has “a con
tinuing interest that eo?<; be
yound today or tomorrow.”
Truman denies he
used profanity
regarding Nixon
LOS ANGELES (JP) The Los
Angeles Examiner today quot
ed one of its reporters as say
injg former President Harry S.
Truman said yesterday of vice
president Nixon:
“J don’t even want to discuss
that .Don’t even men
tion his name to me.”
The Los Angeles Times quot
ed Truman: “I don’t like the
. and I don’t care wfho
knows it!”
But Truman, who arrived
here yesterday, denied making
the statements. A spokesman
at it he Beverly Hills home of
oilman Edwin Pauley, where
Truman is staying, quoted the
ex-president as saying he
“would never speak in any
such way of anybody holding
the office of vice president.
Both newspapers said the
quotes were Truman’s response j
at the air port when reporters J
asked what his reaction would
foe to Nixon (becoming the 1956
Republican candidate for pres
ident.
The spokesman quoted Tru
man as saying he said instead:
“You know how I feel, so don’t
talk to me about Mr. Nixon.”
Truman arrived by plane
from Seattle to address a $100
a-plate banquet tonight to
raise funds for the Truman li
brary, now under construe ion
at Independence, Mo.
Heilscher dies
SEATTLE (JP) John F. Heil
sdher, 89, pioneer Alaska trad
er, died yesterday.
Heilscher was a packing
house salesman, prospector and
trader in Alaska in the early
1900's. He was a member of the
Alaska-Yukon Pioneers.
Two sons, Ernest J., Seattle,
and iHeiber.t H., Anchorage,
survive.
Frigid air grips
portion of nation
by The Associated Press
Frigid air — termed the
most severe of the late autumn
season by the weather bureau
— gripped a vast portion of
the nation today.
The cold Arctic air covered
the country from the Rockies
to the Appalachians and reach
ed from the Canadian border
into .the western (gulf states.
The cold snap, said the wea
ther bureau, had just about ex
pended its force in the south
early today and was moving
eastward at about 30 miles per
hour.
Cold wave conditions oecame
the rule rather than the excep
tion for most of the Great Lakes
and Ohio Valley as well as .the
middle and upper Mississippi
valley. The cold was accomipan
ied by gusty winds and snow
flurries.
It slicked roads in parts of
the midwest to add driving per
ils to motorists returning home
i from an extended Thanksgiving
holiday weekend.
Sunday midnight temipera
j tures 'hovered ahound the zero
| mark or below in parts of Wis
consin, Minnesota and North
Dakota and Minnesota.
Convention asked to give
Natives 160 acres of land
I
Long convention
now appears to be
a certainty
FAIRBANKS {JP) Delegates
to ithe Alaska constitutional con
vention today opened their
fourth week of work here on
the document tJhat is to be (.he
foundation for tine new State
of Alaska. A long convention
appears to be a certain y, with
some delegates predicting (that
it will continue for the 'full 75
days authorized by the legis
lature.
Among the new proposals
under consideration (by the con
vention was one presented by
Col. M. R. Marston, original or
ganizer of the Alaska National
Guard’s Eskimo Scout battal
ions. Marston proposed that the
new state give all Indians,
Aleuts and Eskimos 160 acres
of land free of charge.
He said his proposal was in
no way connected with the is
sue of abroginal rights to land.
Col. Marston delivered a dra
matie speech at a plenary ses
sion held here Saturday in
which he charged present land
laws make it virtually impos
sible for natives to obtain title
to land used for campsites or
homes.
Livestock barn
totally destroyed
at Spenard Sunday
ANCHORAGE (/P) One of
the bigfgest livestock barns in
the Anchorage area went up in
smoke early yesterday and the
loss was expected to exceed
$30,000.
Trapped inside the raging
inferno were 26 calves, seven
sows and 2,000 chickens. A
large heating plant, some as
sorted farm equipment and a
quantity of feed also were lost
The fire consumed the barn
of Harry Suggitt, well known
Spenard businessman, farmer
and former fire department
board official, located almost
five miles from the Spenard
shopping center.
Suggitt, a volunteer fireman
himself , battled the flames with
his part time firemen friends
more than a half hour, but the
blaze had too much of a head
start.
I spenara Tire cmei is.en nsn
j er said the 'bit® barn, the equiv
alent of a three story building,
was a mass of flames when his
men arrived shortly after 2 am
Fisher said it was impossible
to save the livestock and any
of the building by' the time the
blaze <was discovered and fire
men were called. He said his
men used the limited supply of
water from their*two trucks to
save some smaller structures
nearby.
Suiggitt, incidentally, had re
turned from Palmer only a few
hours earlier where he had help
j ed Palmer volunteers fight a
S $50,000 "fire which partially
destroyed the American Legion
| building there.
He charged that a new civil
zaiion is sweeping over native
villages, depriving natives of
rights and all land.
"‘(Petitions for overhauling
land laws lay in the land office
gathering dust and they will
end there,” he said. “The Great
White Fa ther is too far away
and has too many agents.”
Col. Marsten said he has
spent three years trying to get
the title to land at Unalakleet
turned over to Eskimos there.
But he said the “complicated
ramifications” of the present
land laws make iit virtually
impossible for natives to ob
tain .property to land (they have
; occupied for generations.
The delegate from Spenard
changed that military has er
ected installations at Unalak
leet and has overrun land that
has ibeen owned by natives
without title for generations.
Delegates were pleased with
the results of their first pub
lic hearings and have schedul
ed more in the future.
On Saturday, one speaker,
Vera Banks of Fairbanks cbarg
ed that civil liberty is not a
reality in Alaska. She said that
discrimination against negroes
in selling and renting of prop
erty exists in Fairbanks and
other places.
Others who addressed the
committee hearings included
Lee Gardner of Fairbanks. Rev
John Stokes and Norman Hogg
also of Fairbanks.
Delegates rose in protest
when delegate Barrie White of
Anchorage made a proposal
that members of the general
public be required to register
I in the manner of lobbists when
[addressing the convention com
j mi t tees.
I He received some support
from delegate Gedrge Sund
borg of Juneau who believed
that the delegates should know
if a certain speaker is being
paid to appear.
The proposal was referred
to committee.
Palmer Legion
building destroyed
PALMER (/P) The $50,000
American Legion (building was
destroyed by fire Saturday af
ternoon as volunteer firemen
toiled futilely in 15 below zero
weather to extinguish the blaze
The fire is believed to have
s arted in the basement of the
single story frame structure:.
More than a hundred volun
teers from widely scattered
parts of the Matanuska valley
were called after rhe blaze was
discovered at 1:30 p. m. They
| were directed by fire chief R'ay
; Lancaster, who also is the Pal
| mer Legion commander.
Marine forecast from Mon
day to Tuesday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance ito Cape Fairweatiher
gusty southeasterly winds 15
to 30 mpth.
Cloudy. Intermittent rain or
snow, *