iome-Owned Newspaper
VOLUME XVI
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
° Member of The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 31, 1955
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NUMBER 185
Many congressmen will be
in Alaska in September
Four groups wifi
visit territory to
hold hearings
'by Frank W. Viailile
WASHINGTON (JP) Congress
begins its (annual invasion of
Alaska next month.
'Beginning (in mid-Septem
ber 'and running tihrouigh the
end of the year, four house
and senate subcommittees
plan on-the-spot inquiries into
Aliaslkian problems on which
they must legislate.
Most ambitious is the three
weeks schedule which will
take the house territories sub
committee into 19 Alaskan
communities and cover nearly
every phase of territorial life.
Others will concentrate on spe
cific subjects and major cities
Plans of three senate sub
committees still are tentative
in some respects. This much is
definite:
Hearings on juvenile delin
quency will ‘be held in Juneau
and probably Anchorage and
Fairbanks Sept. 15-22 under,
the direction of Sen. Langer
(R-ND).
Sen. ''Miaignuson (D-Wash)
will take members of his in
terstate and foreign commerce
committee ito Juneau and An
chorage in mid-October to look
into problems of air and wat
er 'transportation, airport de
velopment, small Iboat 'basins
and iprelbalbly ifkherias. Repub
lican 'Sens. Potter of Michigan
and Bricker of Ohio plan to
accompany him.
Late in November or early
December, the mining suibcom
mittee of the senate insular af
fairs committee will go to Jun
eau and Nome ifor hearings
on legislation to provide an in
centive program to spur tin ex
ploration and development.
The house territories com
mittee hearings, under Rep.
O’Brien (D-NY). will open in
Foirr-i-nks Sent. 15 and close in
Ketchikan Oot. 3. In between
V eatchcomblng
V
• Wouldn’t you know it0 —
“Storm Warning” and a conven
tion coming up this weekend.
• A Ibiig horse race today that
is being watched carefully —
but the American league race
still has a lot of interest for
baseball fans.
-H
• A very active Democrat is
now asking “How much are the
Republicans payinig Harry Tin
man to make speeches and win
the coming election for the
GOP?” As if I knew.
—|—|—
• Well, well wouldn’t you
know it — the sun comes out
right after I talk about Storm
Warnings.
the group plans to visit or take
testimony n Pit. Barrow, Kot
zebue, Nome, Anchorajge, Pal
mer. Seward, Homer, Cordova
Dillingham, Kodiak, Juneau,
Sitka, Wrangell, Petersburg,
Craig, Hydalburig and Klawock.
Members describe tihe trip
as the first comprehensive on
the-spot series of hearings in
Alaska since the late 1940’s
Matters to tbe studied include
| such varied subjects as the
; various self rule proposals
! industrial possibilities, resousrc |
| es, transportation, Indians,)
mental health and public land'
problems. j
George Abbot, committee |
counsel, puts it this way: < j
“We hope to be able to take
the record of this hearing and 1
stamp it "This Is Alaska’.
At least seven members have
indicated their intention to
take in all or part of the series.
In addition to O'Brien, they in
j elude Democrats Mrs. Green
(Ore) and Sisk (Calif) and Re
publicans Slay lot (Pa), D a wson
(Utah), Chenowfcth (Colo) and
Qtt (Calif). Delegate Bartlett
(D-Alaska) will join the group
in Alaska.
Red president ill
VIENNA (tP) Prague radio
announced today that commu
nist Czechoslovakia’s president
Antonin Zapotcky suffered a
heart attack last night.
The bulletin staid his condi
tion improved after treatment
and he spent a quiet night
with his 'blood pressure and j
pulse normal.
Baseball today
CHICAGO (7P) Outfielder Jim
'Rivera lashed two home runs
to account for all the runs as
the Chicago White Sox beat
the Boston Red Sox 4-2 todlay
and maintained their ha,M
game dead over the Cleveland
Indians.
DETROIT (IP} The Detroit
Tigers, given a break -through
an interference play, beat the
Washington Senators 7-4 on
pinchhitter Earl Torgreson's
three run homer in the 7th.
NEW YORK \/P) The New
York Giants made it three in
a row over Cinicinnati todlay.
defeating the Cincinnati Red
legs 5-0 ‘behind the seven hit
shutout pitching of Rulben Go
mez. Rookie Gail Harris’ 11th
home run and a speoacular catch
by Willie Mays featured the
game.
CLEVElLAND (/P) Southpaw
Herb Score, Cleveland rookie,
beat Baltimore 5-1 today with
a three hitter and iflanned 13 to
push his season strikeout total
to 209. After the Indians scor
ed five runs off Bill Wight in
the first inning and there were
no out. Hector Brown came in
and held the Tribe hittless thr
I ry'gh eight innings.
NasKau wins
CHICAGO (JF) Nashua de
feated Swaps in their $100,000
winner take all match race at
Washington Park today. The
winning margin was several
lengths. Jockey Eddie Arcaro
rode Nashua to his victory. The
win boosted Nashua’s life-time
earnings too $882,000.
The time for the mile and
one-quarter test was 2 minutes,
1 and one-fifth seconds.
Waterfront fire
at Ketchikan .
KETCHIKAN (/P) A water
front fire caused damage esti
mated at $75,000 nere yester
day. It destroyed 'the Gouroff
apiartments, which! had just
been rebuilt since a fire this
spring; boat storage facilities
were also destroyed.
Kee 'Boat Storage and about
60 small boats and motors were
also in the path of the fire
which was daused by an explo
si on of a boat.
Georgia Pacific
pays deposit to FS
JUINEAU (/P) The Georgia
Pacific Alaska Company today
deposited an additional $ 75,000
with the U. S. forest service as
guarantee to assume the final
awiard and execute the con
tract for the huge Tongass for
est timlber tract.
The firm, a iwlholly owned
I subsidiary of the Georgia-Pac
ific Plywood Company, depos
j ited the money with the forest
! service office in Portland, Ore.
! The guarantee (brings to $100,
! 000 the amount on deposit
I with the forest service,,
| At the timlber sale here two
i weeks ago, the firm deposited
$25,000 as an initial guarantee.
Pan Am faces
strike threat from
transport workers
NEW YORK (JP) Mainten-'
ance and flight service person-'
nel of Pan American World;
Airways Wave authorized their
union to call a strike any time
after their labor contract o ex
pires at midnight tonight.
No specific strike deadline
was set and federal mediation
sessions today are expected to
defer any immediate walkout
The CIO Transport Workers
union said a strike would af
fect Pan Am operations all a
: round the world. A spokesman
for the company said tlhs would
depend on how many employ
es in the far-flung Pan Am sys
tern obeyed the strike call.
The union announced0 yester
day 98 per cent of some 6.000
workers had authorized a
strike in voting at New York,
Miami. Houston, Brownsville,
Tex., San Francisco Seattle,
New Oilcans, San Juan, P. R,
(continue? on page four;
Israel balks at cease-fire as
proposed by U. N. in Gaza
Demands Egypt
take blame for
Starting violence .
JBRUSiMM (/P>- Isreal bridl
ed today at joining Egypt in a
eease-tfire on 'the strife-torn
Graz& front, demanding Egypt
first take the blame for start
ing 'border violence thlat con
tinued into the seventh straight
day.
Israel’s resentment was aim
ed in part at the phrasing of
the°U. N. proposed cease-fire
order. An Israeli government
siposkesman here said df put
“Israel, which was (being at
tacked and invaded (by terror
ist hands, on the same level as
Egypt, which is the attacker.”
It was regarded highly unlike
ly Egypt would acknowledge|
itself the 'alggressor.
Egypt agreed Tuesday to
a,cease-fire beginning at 6 p. m.
tojlay. The proposal was design
ed to halt the weeklong out
break of pitched hat ties, infil
trations. and ambushes that has
! left more than a 20 of Israelis
and Egyptians dead and many
more wounded.
In Cairo, an Egyptian com
munique said Egyptian com
mandos had entered Israeli ter
Peron offers his
resignation as CGT
demands he stay
BUENOS AIRES (/P) Presi
dent Juan D. Peron offered to
resign today. The response
was mass demonstrations of
strength by his followers who
insisted that he continue in
office.
The preident addressed his
offer to the central confedera
tion of Labor (CGT) and 0 the
leadership of his own Peron
sita party. Both0 clearly had
been primed to receive and re
ject it. ° . *
The long message siaid:
“The time for fighting has
passed. The .time has come to
work and consolidate our rev
olutionary gains. I offer my re
tirement to insure pacification
I do not want to be $n obstacle
.0 it is not possible to de
stroy what we have built.”
“They apeak of civil war,
it corttinued. “I do not believe
it ^vill happen here. There
will be oeace or dictatorship.
I have no taste for dictatorship
I,f that is the solution, someone
else will have to do it.”
First word »f the message
came in a broadcast by Hugo
di Pieoro. CGT secretary, who
summoned workers to the Pla
za de Mayo in the heart off the
capital and to plazas in other
cities and towns and instructed
them to remain there until the
president withdraws his resig
nation offer. ,.-j
casting station only six miles
from Tel Aviv. It said the com
mandos also toad (blasted1 two
Israeli armored oars near Mag
dal.
These commandos were be
lieved to Ibe (irregulars operat
ing across the Ifrontier in retal
it ion for continuing Israeli at
tacks, (according to Egyptian
observers. Bel fore the Cairo com
muhique was issued, Egyptian
newspapers said commandos
had penetrated Israel for about
15 miles yesterday to carry out
“punitive action” aganst the
population, killing 10 to 20
Israelis.
The only reference to such
raids from the Israeli side was
the announcemetn by a military
spokesman here that infiltrators
fixed (after midnight on a mili
tary car near Falujato in south
f"’n Israel, wounding one of
the occupants.
Canadian (Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Burns, chief of staff to the U.
N. Palestine (truce observers
commission, is trying strenuous
ly to restore peace to 'the trou
bled (border area where at least
21 Israelis and 8 Egyptians
have been killed Since last
Thursday.
Flood damage not
as great as feared
at first glance
WASHINGTON (JP) A White'
House conference on flood re
lief took stock of the situation
in six northeastern sfiates today
and concluded that the damage
there is not tas great as first
estimated'.
t Val Peterson, civil defense
administrator land coordinator
of the Ifeideral rehabilitation
job, told a news1 conference af
ter a two-hour session of 10 a
gency heads that relief and re
habilitation is not going to
cost the federal government
as mludh las it first believed.
Peterson emphasized, howev
er, that there is still a big job
to be done. He said the con
. ference decided to “keep push
‘ ing” until it is done,
j Peterson presided at the con
j ference which was set up by
‘White House staff members at
: the request of President Eis
enhower. now vacationing in
'co’’*'’’“ved or fnuri
Marine forecast from Wednes
dlay to Thursday.
STORM WARNING
An increasing pressure grad
ient will cause winds of 25 to
40 mph with strong gusts over
the outside water Dixon En
trance to Yakutat this after
noon and tonight.
Cloudy with1 intermittent
rain becoming stead rain this
afternoon and tonight. Exten
iise fog tonight.