jioxne-Qwned Newspaper
VOLUME XVI
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Friday, August 26, 1955
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~ NUMBER 182
Sorrell to take part in landing
supplies for Dew in Arctic
Many ships fight
ice-wind to unload
naval supplies
SEATTLE (/P) Four Coast
Guard cutters hiave been order
ed to the Arctic to assist ships
hampered by ice on a radiar
liine supply mission.
The Military Sea Transporta
tion Service here confirmed to
day that the cutters Sorrell,
Citrus, Clover and Bittersweet
were ordered yesterday to ren
dezvous at Kodiak and proceed
immediately to the Barrow
Sea, the northernmost tip of
Alaska.
MSTS spokesman said only
that the cutters were dispatch
ed for “light icebreaking duty”
in the Arctic. He said regula
tions prevented release of in
formiation concerning the Dew
Line — Defense Early Waring
Line — of radar stations being
built along the Arctic rim.
However, the Fairbanks News
Miner said today it had reports
from Barrow that the ice had
Closed in there and that there
were at least 11 slhiips in that
immediate area.
However, the Fairbanks
NewsJMiner said it had reports
from Barrow today that ice
blown insihore by winds was
blocking unloading operations.
These reports said about 24
large ships between Cape Lis
bourne and a point 50 miles
east of Barrow were circling
and attempting to unload cargo
to small boats able to reach the
beach.
These reports added that
there was virtually no opening
in the ice pack off Barrow to
day and unloading was virtual
ly stalled.
However Maj. Gen. Paul F.
Yount, chief of the army trans
portation corps, just returned
from an inspection of the Arc
V entchcombing
• Well the coasties are go
ing to have a nice cool time —
,for ai vacation from the “heat’’
of Southeastern Alaska.
—I—I—
• About the only ones inter
ested in the counting Statehood
Convention election are those
who believe that Alaska will
have statehood, by 1956 — so
What’s the use of a state con
stitution when statehood must
aWait a third party in the Un
ited States.
—|—I—
• Now if we were to declare
‘‘War” on the fifth division we
might be able to get our small
boat harbor and a lot of other
things Alaska needs.
-1-1
• Waltdh yourself while hunt
jnig _ we haven’t the Coast
Guard here to hunt for you.
tic supply mission, said “a tre
mendous lot of carlgo”0 already
has been discharged east of
B'anrow.
“The general schedule is be
ing pretty well adhered to,”
said Gehral Yount. “There
have been some delays due to
ice, but nothing critical thus
far.”
Yount said construction of
the Dew line would require a
shipping effort from Seattle
next summer at least equal in
volume to the 1955 lift.
First snow conies
to Barrow
FAIRBANKS (/P) Storms and
an unusually cold summer have
comlbined to hamper the unload
ing ol a- convoy of supply ships
carrying material for the Arctic
ra alar Dew line.
Reports from Barrow stated
that the ice is anchored firmly
to the shore line in and around
the Barrow region. No passage
has yet opened from more than
22 vessels heavily loaded with
equipment.
A storm forced 11 of the ships
to retreat southward to Cape
Lisbourne, where they are now
waiting for better conditions
before returning to Barrow.
The storm forced ice of the po
lar pack tight against the shore
where the ships hoped to un
load.
The first snowfall of the win
ter fell in Barrow this week
as the mercury began to drop.
There was apprehension there
that the ships would not be
able to unload their supplies
before the onset of winter.
Eskimos are also worried a
bcuif the visit of their annual
supply ship, the ANS vessel
North Star, There was fear
that it would not be able to
reach the village.
Warmest temperature record
ed at Rt. Barrow this summer
Was 58.
Cleveland Endian
1st baseman hit by
polio today
CLEVELAND (/P) Vic Wertz
Laird hitting Cleveland Indian
first basemlan and outfielder,
Has contracted infantile -paral
ysis, Dr. Don Kelly, the base
(ball Club’s doctor said today.
Wertz, 30, ws taken to Lake
side hospital before last might's
game with a fever. He had
complained of a headache.
Wertz, Obtained by the
Tribe from. Baltimore last
summer, Was the hitting star
for the Indians in the last
world series.
H-fe loss will be felt sorely
ibv the Indians in the Close Aim
erican league pennant race.
Wertz averaged .257 last sea
f (continued on page four,'
Hurricane Edith
churning far out
MIAMI (/P) Hurricane Edith
fifth of the year and third this
month, churned far out in the
Atlantic today and weather
men predicted it would grow
in size and intensity.
Still smiaiM as hurricanes go,
Edith had Winds of c 75 miles an
hour (hurricane force) or more
over a small area near the cen
ter after two days of whirling
in the open sea.
It wa*s approximately 1,100
miles' due east of Miami and
the same distance east south
east of Cape Hatteras. N. C.
Tribesmen begin
surrender to French
CASABLANCA </P> Between
50,000 and 60,000 Berber
tribesmen who sacked Moroc
can towns and massacred Eur
opeans last ^weekend began
turning over their firearms to
day to French forces.
The first to -.surrender were
members of the Zaian tribe
who rode down from the Atlas
mountains into Kbenifra, south
east of here, on Saturday.
At nearby Oued Zem.
French forces were preparing
for the surrender of another
Berber tribe — the Smaala —
who took pari in a massacre
of 80 Europeans in that min
ing town.
U. S. asks 4-day
post ponement of
Chinese talks
GENEVA f/P) The United
States today requested a four
day postponement of Satur
day's scheduled meeting with
Oomimiiinifet China on the ques
tion of Americans detained by
i‘h*» P-.rfng regime. There was
growing speculation that the
issue was near settlement.
U. S. ambassador) U. Alexis
Johnson who has been carrying
r i tftp talks with Red China’s
ambassador Wing Ping-Nan
wrvee Aug. 1. requested the
postponement. He gave no rea
son. The communists agreed to
the request and the next meet
ing was set for 8 a.m. Wednes
day.
The postponement request
Came on’ the heels of official
confirmation in New Delhi
that the United States is dus
cussing with India a proposal
involving the helm of prime min
ister Nehru’s government.
Indian officials said the Un
ited States suggested informal
ly that the Indian embassy in
teoh rimed or naoo 'rim.
Baseball today
I DETROIT (JP) Bill Tuttle
. stemmed his l-2th home run and
a pair of doubles today and led
j Detroit to a 5-4 victory over
I the Boston Red Sox, who fell
> 5M> games out of first place.
Dulles promises aid in Near
East in all fighting ceases
Will sign security
pact and arrange
big loan
NEW YORK (/P) Secretary
of State Duties, with President
Eisenhower’s authority today
offered Israel and the Arab
States an American security
treaty giularanteeinlgi their fron
tiers itf they will join in making
a permanent peace.
Dulles spoke out on Middle
East problems in a major policy
address prepared for the coun
cil on foreign relations.
Dulles said the United States
would be “'willing to help in the
Husband prefers
grandmother to
young wife
NEW YORK (/P) A tall, wil
lowy, 24-year-old blonde found
her 29-year-old husband in
another woman’s arms at 2 a.
m. Tlhe woman was a 51-year
old grandmother.
The wife hit the tiny, grav- j
haired grandmother over the)
head with one of the hus- >.
bands slboes, leading to some i
bangagains. The husand, t r ous
ers in hand, ran out the o ok
door ot me tfrooKiyn rooming
house where all three live.
The wife went to bed.
She woke u|p two hours lat
er and heard noises in the kit
chen the three share. She
peeked in — and there was
her husband with the other
woman again.
The husband punched his
wife in tht eye for butting in.
and she got a shiner.
He was locked up on an as
sault charge.
That’s the b*ow-by-blow ac
count related by the wife, Mrs.
Katherine Luther, before mag
istrate Anthony E. Maglio in
Brooklyn felony court yester
day.
The wife whs in court,
charged with felonious assault
for clouting the grandmother,
Mrs. Florence Davis. The
grandmother was in court to
press the charge.
The judge advised Mrs. Lu
ther: “I think ryou dbooild
move away from «that place.
You are faced with heavy com
petition. You have one beau
tiful shiner now. You wouldn’t
want another.”
The wife protested: “But at
least my husband should get
a younger woman.”
The judge paroled the wife
for a hearing Sept. 7.
As the two women left the
court, a policeman walked be
tween them to keep them apart
Meanwhile in Coney Island
court — some distance away
— husband Eddie was held in
$500 bail on an assault charge
lodged by his wife because of
the black eye.
search for a solution' to the
problem of drawing permiainent
boundaries between IsreaJl and
her Aralb neighbors.
! Further, he said there "might
(be an international loan to en
able Israel to pay compensation
which is due” mlany of the 900
GOO Arab refugees! who once
lived in territory now occupied
by Israel.
The secretary said he propos
ed these steps to end the Middle
Bast tension “las a friend of
both Israelis and Arabs.”
! The American offer, he said,
comes as a result of “deep and
anxious thought” over the sit
uation there.
In makinlg: known the Arner
lidan willingness to sign a for
mal treaty, Dulles said:
“President Eisenhower has
authorized me to say that given
a solution of the other related
problems, he woulld recommend
that the United States join in
formal treaty engagements to
prevent or thwart any effort by
either side to alter by force the
boundaries between Israel and
its Arab neighbors.
Anchorage area hit
by "big" rain
during week
ANCHORAGE (JP) Alaska
Railroad service between Fair
banks and Anchorage was wash
ed out by the record August
rainfall Which drenched most
of southern southwestern Alas
ka all day Wednesday and fbr
ought the night.
The ramipwginig1 waters hurt!
mg down from mountain ridges
swept away the approach to a
112 foot bridge and more than
100 feet of track in the Chulit
na area, near Indian river, 158
miles north of Anchorage.
Damage throughout the wash
out, area is extensive, railroad
officials said, but no estimate of
damage was available.
I. P. Cook, railroad chief en
gineer, said that this is the
worst continuous rainfall at An
ehorage for ten years.
The weather bureau readily
al-treed. pointing out a newr re
cord was set for rainfall during
a 24 hour period in August.
From 8 a. m. Wednesday to
8 a.'m. Thursday 1:65 inches of
ratio foil on the Anchorage area
the weatherman said. Since the
skie omened up Tuesday more
than 2.56 inches' of rain Was re
ported — more than the aver
age rainfall for the entire rnon
the of August.
I
Marine forecast from Friday
and Saturday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Yatoutatt westerly
winds 10 to 20 miph.
Partly cloudy with few rain
showers. Patches of fog tonight