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Sitka Sentine
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
iGca Copy
VOLUME XVI
Tuesday, August 23, 1955
NUMBER 179
French cali-up troops to help
put down trouble in Morocco
French armor and j
planes move on
tribesmen in hills
IX LES BAINS (IP) Premier
Edgar Faure tonight announced
the call-up of an undisclosed
number of army reservists to
reinforce the French troops
fighting to put down the rebel
lion in North Africa.
The premier said he had de
cided, in agreement with de
fense minister Gen. Pierre Koe
nig, to call up a crtain number
of reservists, including some in
France.
He said it was possible a
meeting of the cabinet would
be held in the next few days.
Apparently answering ru
mors circulating in Casablanca
today that resident general Gil
bert Grandval might be recall
ed as a result of the bloody dis
orders of last weekend, Faure
came out strongly in defense of
Grandval.
“It would be unjust to accuse
a man or a policy,’’ he said, j
“The campaign against the re
sident general is abominable
and should be stigmatized as
such. Nobody can say that the
difficulties Morocco has been
through are due to the resident
general.”
CASABLANCA UP) Armored
French columns under fighter
plane cover struck today in ov
erwhelming strength at the
mountain stronkibolds of Mor
occan tribesmen who launched
an insurrection Saturday.
Heavy reinforcing columns
set out last niglht from Rabat
and Meknes to join the already
IV
eatchcombing
• The more I discuss the re
cent Salmon Derby the more I
find that others didn’t get any
Salmon, either. As for fislh, lots
hooked onto rook cod and other j
bottom fish — the prize being j
a sea cucumber.
—I—I—
• We don’t see how the Der
by can be any bigger until we
get more boats for participants
to fish from. At times some of
the vessels used were so crowd,
ed that a deep breath made;
everyone in the skiff move.
—I I
• And the people on the east
coast complain about our wea
ther — at least, so far. we have
rain and blows but not like the
one that just his the Atlantic
coast. Thank goodness it hap
pened in the summer and not
in mid winter.
• Ketchikan has polio!!! So,
we must all be prepared to help
continue to fight this dread
ddsease with our dimes when
the time comes. We can’t stop
now when victory is so near.
strong Frenah forces cutting
off the Ksaba Talda area east of
Qued Zem.
French officials would not
disdlose the number of troops
employed bult said, “when you
go into those mountains, you
don’t do it with 50 men.”
Allthough the operation was
characterized as a “punitive ex
pedition,” French officials said
there would be no “repres
sion,” which in French mili
tary terminology means no
mass executions.
The main targets of the ex
pedition are the 4,000 Berber
tribesmen, formerly friendly
to the French, wiho rode out of
the hills to raid Oued Zem,
where about 80 Frenchmen
were slaughtered and mutili
ated.
Although no official figures
for the still growing weekend
death tell were available,
French officials acknowledged
privately that it might reach
1,000 in Morocco alone. In Al
geria, hundreds more casual
ties were reported.
Last night, fresh troops clog
ged the roads moving towards
tik e Atlas Mountains and some
villages in the border hills'
were evacuated. ;
French newspapers here call
ed the operation the nrost im- j
portant since those 30 years
ago When the Rifs under fierce
Abd El Rrirn were put down, j
Plane crashes in
i
midst of negro area
killing nine or more
CHARLESTON, S. C. f/P) A
f:.3imir*sr C119 flying boxcar
Crashed, exploded and burned
in a negro area near the Char
leston air force base today, kil
ling nine or more airmen and
civilians.
The base puptic miormauon
office said five of the 11 crew
members were killed. None of
the six survivors ,was believed
injured critically.
Bodies of four civilians were
found shortly after firemen and
policemen were able to probe
into the wreckage of the plane
| and three houses it hit in the
I densely populated Liberty Park
community. Flaming debris
vias hurled over a wide area.
The plane wiais- on a routine
night flight..
The air force identified the
dead crewmen as Capt. Robert
L. McNeal of Windber, Pa.,
the pilot: 1st Lt. Francis L. Me
Shane, North Charleston. S. C.:
2nd Lt. James John M'aher.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., airman 3-C
Keith Halls, Smith, Wyo.; and
airman 2-C John W. damn. Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
The Clil9 was attached to the
456th troop carrier wing of the
18th air force. It had taken off
with another military transport
ship. A North Charleston fire
j roan said he heard both planes
' (continued on page four?
One dead, five in
hospital from polio
in Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN (IP) Help was
being sent from Seattle today
to oomibat a poliomyelitis out
break in which one person
died and five others are hos
pitalized.
Andrew Dyakanoftf, 26, a
millwtrigjhit helper at the Ketch
ikan spruce mills, died of bul
bar polio Sunday night.
Two of the other polio pa
tients, Dianny Lee Womack
and Lillian Leask. have been
sent to the states for treat
ment.
A doctor and nurse were fly
ing here from Seattle today at
request of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis. An
iron lcng and hot pack machine
were flown from Seattle yes
terday.
Full list of Salmon
Derby winners
'Planning to have a formal a
wiard night later in the week,
the Sitka Sportsmen’s Assn,
has released the complete list
of those who entered fish in the
recent three day Salmon Derby
Prizes to be awarded each
entry will be announced at the
time and it is hoped a place
large enough to hold all those
wishing to be present will be,
available soon. When the place
and time are arranged it will be
announced in the Daily Sitka
Sentinel.
Fish entered in the Derby
was hold to fish buyers on the
Sitka Fish Exchange for $240.
62, according to those in charge
of the Derby.
The complete list is as follows'
1 — Charles Burlison 38 lb-4
2 — Roekv Gutierrez 29 lb.-6
3 — Stan Westover 27 lb-13
4 — Harvey Williams 22 lb-1
5 — Marie Williams 21 lb-5
6 — Nick Pelayo 16 lb-8
7 — Ted Halrris 14 lb-10
8 — Herb Didrickson 14 lb-8
9 — John Ballard 14 lb-4
10 — Ronald McClain 13 lb-15
11 — M. C, Stair 13 lb-7
12 & 13 — IJarrv Pollen —
John Sam 13 lb-4
14 & 15 — Harriet Roberts —
Roy Levine 13 lb.-2.
16 — Lester Roberts 13-1
17 — Carl Baivorsen 12 lb-10
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Six charged at
Wrangell Monday
| WRANGELL CP) The cap
j tain off the seiner Marc ell.
i John McCullough, and Leon
j Ay?or; were arraigned in U. S.
I commissioners court Monday
; on changes of bribing a stream
j guard at Port Houghton the
| last week of July. Tlhey were
; ordered held in $1,000 bond
j each. pending trial.
; Pouir crew members, Chang
ed with conspiracy to bribe
Frank Churchill were each
held in $500 bond. They in
cluded William Reach, H. C.
Selph and Henry McCullough.
Eisenhower may call special
session to help eastern states
Appeals to all to
give to Red Cross
to relieve suffering
by Marvin L. Arrowsmith
WASHINGTON (JP) Presi
dent Eisenhower flew over the
flood devastated northeastern
states todlay and then pledged
he would summon a special ses
sion of congress if necessary to
assure adequate aid.
For the moment, he appeal
ed to Americans everywhere
to dig deep into their pockets
and help the homeless and suf
faring through the Red Cross.
With cities paralyzed and in
dustries flattened, the situation
is one requiring every agency
to do everything possible^ Eisen
hewer said.
And, looking into the future,
he promised a study of flood pre
venition and flood insurance
possibilities.
Eisenhower flew overnight
iron! his vacation retreat in
Colorado to have a personal
look at the flood damage and
confer with governors of the af
flicted states. His plan was to
make a general aerial inspec
tion, but the weather was mur
ky over New England and visi
bility was zero at many points.
It was drizzlinlg rain and an
instrument landing was requir
ed when his plane, the Colum
bine III, finally put down at
Hartford, Conn., at 8:44 a. m.
Before flying on to Washing
ton, the president conferred
with the governors ot the north
eastern states and represeta
tives of the governors of North
and Souith Carolina. The south
ern states were hard hit when
hurricanes Connie and Diane
swept in from the sea.
It was at Hartford that Eisen j
hower appealed for quick and
generous contributions to the j
Red Cross, which, he noted,
can spend its money without j
Rain falls on flood
stricken states {
by The Associated Press
Rain fell todiay along the
i Atlantic coastal states, hitting
some of the flood-stricken ar
eas. »
Showers were general from
North Carolina northiwatrd to
eastern New York and New
England. Earlier showers and
thundershowers were reported
in the Ohio valley and north
ern Appalachians. including
the flood area of Pennsylvania
and New York.
Thundershowerts also were
reported this morning from the
Texas Panhandle eastward a
cross Oklahoma to Arkansas
and in the south and central
sections of Minnesota.
Heaviest rainifall was in the
middle Atlantic states. Nearly
2 inches fell at Baltimore
1.40 inches at Washington, D.
C.. and .91 inches at Atlantic
City.
the limitations necessarily at
tached to government funds.
It was there, too, that he said
he would caM congress into spe
cial session if necessary.
Plying on here, the presiden
tial plane arrived at 11:32 a. m.
The president dinove straight
from the airport to tihe White
House where he planned a con
frence later in the day with se
cretary of state Dollies.
The White House announced
civil defense administrator Val
Peterson would fly back from
Hartford later today and confer
with the president om tJhe flood
situation. Thetre was no indica
tion whether the president plan
ned any action relating to the
disaster at this time.
Eisenhower laid heavy stress
on Red Cross contributions in
his Hartford statement. He said
in a broadcast:
“In my opinion everybody
within the sound of my voice
will sleep better tonight if he
turns in everything that he can
spare to meet this great disaster
that has happened to our fellow
Americans.”
Then he added-:
“I hope you will do it instant
ly so that by tomorrow night
Mr. Roland Barriman here, the
president of the Red Cross, will
know that he doesn’t have to
be meager or stingy in the al
locations he makes to these
areas.”
Hlahrlimlan joined in the drama
tic presidential ptlea, and point
ed' out that the federal and
state governments are restrict
ed by law as to the amount of
aid Which can be provided in
such situations.
by The Associated Press
New hone came today for
flood scarred northeastern
states as President Eisenhower
pledged “everything that is
possible” in federal helip — ev
en to convening an extraordin
ary session of congress.
“If necessary, I shall caH a
special session,” be said after
an aerial survey of the strick
en region 'and a conference
with state governors.
But he also urged nation
wide. generous gifts to the Red
Cro'hs to aid in relieving the
dire, widespread individual
want, caused by what he term
ed “this great disaster.”
Such donations, he said, will
go “to people who are in need,
to human beings, not just to
cleaning roads and rebuilding
schools, but to .people that are
bunglry, or cold and have no
place to go.
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Marine foreclast from Tues
day to Wednesday.
Ouitside waters Dixon En
trance to Yaikiutiat westerly
winds 5 to 10 mrph.
Cloudy. Occasional rain or
drizzle and patches of fog north
of Caipe Decision.
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