(Home-Owned Newspaper
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 1, 1955
10c a Copy
— NUMBER 228
VOLUME XVI
Sec. McKay blasts Demos for
politcal purpose actions
Cites Harriman,
Stevenson as prime
examples of trend
LONGVIEW. WASH (/P) Sec j
reiary of the interior McKay |
said here last night he expects
President Eisenhower to make
a fuilil recovery and lead the
Republican party to victory in
1056.
He did not elaborate and he
> did not specifically say he ex
pected President Eisenhower to
head the Republican ticket a
giain.
The cabinet member and ifor
imer (governor of Oregon spent
35 minutes with the president
last week at Denver. He addres
sed a Cowlitz county Republi
can fund-raising dinner here.
Secretary McKay tossed
barbs at Adlai Stevenson and
Averell Harriman in a speech j
in "which he said Democrats
have exaggerated the farm
problem in a desparate search I
for a campaign issue.
He referred to Stevenson and ;
Harriman as two leading Demo
crats who make much of their
eoncern for the welfare of the
.little man for purely political
purposes.
He referred to Governor Har
rimian of New York as one who
“was born into this world with
nothing to his name ibut the
Union Pacific railroad.”
He referred to recent photo
graph of Stevenson, in Ber
muda in shorts and “grinning
at a lap-eared donkey,” and de
dared the 1954 Democratic pre
eidenfcial nominee had gone
there with a wealthy industrial
ist Shortly ‘after sayinlg in Flo
rida that the Republican party
is teh party of the rich, for the
rich and by the rich.
V eatchcombmg
• AiP tasked Fairbanks a ques
tion 'todiay and received this
answer:
“We sorry but up to our necks
in murders tand robberies and
haven’t rounded that up yet.’
Boy what a town to live in!
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« From the number of oafeis
and their size presented at the
doors tor “trick or treat” the
younger fry thought they were
going to get enough “treats” to
last them all winter.
—I—I—
• Joel Campbell ds paying a
visit to Sitka (where he at one
time knew even the names of
tihe dogs) and ’finds that the
city has changed — 'but that we
have as many dogs, even if he
can’t name them all.
• When I was a kid we did
n’t have “trick or treat” we just
“tricked.” So I got a great
kick out of helping Ace make
the rounds. Yes, I received a
couple bf “treats” along with
the youPgster.
McKay noted tlhiat Democrats
had labeled him “Give-Away *
McKay,” and he challenged
any one to name anything he
has given away.
“You might be surprised, af-1
ter all the cries of give-away,”
he declared, “to learn that our
National Park system is larger
today than it has ever been.” !
The cabinet member said the
nation is enjoying peace and
prosperity 'as a result of the
“affirmative program” of Pre- j
sident Eisenhower, and that
every member of “the presid
ent’s team” is doing his part to
see that the progress is contin-'
ued.
He said the president had ex
pressed deep interest in and ^
lull support of Interior depart i
ment policies during their Den ■
ver conference.
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£isenhower will !
jenferfnin foreign
visitors at hospital
DENVER (/P) President Ei
senhower will he 'host at Fitz
simons army hospital Nov. 9th
to president Carlos Cas.illo
Armas otl Guatemala.
The Guatemalan chief execu
tive, leader of te 1954 success
ful rebellion against the then
communist-dominated govern
ment of that country, will be
Edsenhower’s second visitor
from another nation since he
was hospitalized with a heart
attack Sept. 24.
The first will be field mar
shal Lord . Montgomery of
Great Britain, who will call on
Eisenhower Saturday.
Castillo-Armas arrived in
Washington yesterday and was!
greeted there by vice president
Nixon. The original plan was
for him to be the guest of Ei
senhower but th$ president’s
illness caused a revision of the
! plans.
■ The Nov. 9 engagement ruled
: out any possibility of Eisen
hower leaving the hospital be
! lore the next day. His doctors
have said if his recovery con
, tinues to go well he would be
discharged' from the hospital
; some time between Nov. 5 and
i 12.
j Indications now are that he
| probably will leave the hospital
| about Nov. 11.
{ Eisenhower, now well eno
, ugh to discard virtually all
[ medicine, has made it quite
! clear he is in no hurry to say
whether he will run again.
And postmaster general Ar
thur Summertfield is the latest
to indicate that most of Eisen
hower’s top strategists of 1952
are against putting any pres
I sure on him for an early deci
; sion.
j Sumimerfield came ou of a 30
minute conference at Fitzsim
ons army hospital yesterday
sayinlg there had been no dis
cussion of the 65 year old Ei
senhower’s political plans for
* 1956.
New school burns
Anchorage
ANCHORAGE (IP) Fire de
stroyed the new Talkeetna
school building here early today
with loss estimated at $573,000.
The blaze wias discovered at!
1:10 a. m., and firemen were i
still battling the smouldering
flames some three hours later, j
The school was one of the new
est of the Anchorage independ
ent school district. It opened
this Hall, serving some 500 pu
pils from the Mountain View
district and the children of a
number of military families.
Fairbanks thieves
grab $6,000 miss
another $1,000 |
FAIRBANKS (JP) Thieves
who bound and gagged the at
tendant last night made off
with $6,000 (from the safe of
the Southside Liquor Store here
The robbery was commited as
local law enforcement officers
were engalged in an intensive
man hunt for a man who blud
geoned to leat'h a storekeeper
in an earlier robbery yesterday
A customer Of the store en-1
tered it to find the lights turn
ed off about 10 p. m. last night
He heard kicking and pounding
in the referigerator.
Opening the refrigerator
door he found the attendant
bound and gagged. The attend
ant said at least two holdup
men accosted him wi.h a gun
and bound him.
The bandits took $6,000 from
the safe. They missed an addi
tional thousand in the cash re
gister.
Store owner killed j
by Fairbanks
holdup man
Fairbanks </P) Mrs. Lemipi
Bodman. 57, proprietor of a
small neighborhood (grocery
store, was beaten to death yes
terday by a holdup man who es
caped with approximately $75 ;
taken if ram the cash register, j
Hours later, territorial pol
ice announced the arrest of i
Corp. Thomas E. Richardson,
stationed with an army unit at
Ladd air {force base, for ques
tioning. Early today, authori
ties said he signed a confes
sion.
Investigators said he was ta
ken into custody after he cash
ed in $15 in small change in
payment df a Ibil'l shortly after
the death of Mrs. Bodman. A
witness who saw a man fleeing
from the store furnished police
. with a description which tallies
I with Richardson, officers re
I ported.
Mrs. Bodman, a widow, was
| found dying in her small store
j about 3:37 p.m. Doctors said
she had been bludgeoned wi:h
; a blunt instrument. She was
‘ pronounced dead on arrival at
ia hospital.
Big Three will turn down
plan proposed by Molotov
Same old story
but with different
words, says West
GENEVA (IP) The Western
powers lined up solidly today
against Soviet foreign minister
Molotov’s latest European se
curity treaty iplian. They regard
ed it as an effort to confuse
the issue of German unity and
freeze the present division of
Europe.
Moscow’s master diplomat
Northwest Trade
wants joint group
on transportation
SEATTLE (/P) The Pacific
Northwest Trade Association to
day urged the United States and
Canadian governments to prom
ptly establish a joint commis
sion to plan rail and highway
links to Alaska.
The association acted by re
solution in the closing of its
two day conference here.
At the urging of Gov. B.
Frank Heintzieman of Alaska,
the trade group asked the house
of representatives to take im
mediate action when it con
venes in January on a measure
passed earlier this year by the
senate under the sponsorship of
senator Warren G. Magnuson.
Magnuson’s measure would
instruct the State department
to negotiate with the Canadian
government to establish the
commission.
To implement the proposed
American action, mayor Cyril
A. Coyne of Skagway success
fully proposed an amendment
to the Association resolution
urging that Canada act prompt
Coyne was unsuiccessitui an a
motion to instruct W. T. Trip
lett, Spokane Association pre
sident. to appoint a commi.tee
to begin studies on rail and
highway connections and re
port to the Assoc iut in’s next
meeting at Victoria in May.
The purpose of the joint com
mission, it was explained,
would be to plan for highway
and railroad connections to Al
aska alonlg «a route behind the
coastal range. This would be of
particular advantage to panhan
die cities such las Ketchikan,
Petersburg, Juneau and Skag
way. ■
The present Alaska 'highway
is too far east to provide con
nection to the Alaska panhan
dle cities.
Norton Clapp. Seattle busi
nessman, pointed out that high
way and rail connections on
the proposed new route would
open uip valuable mineral and
timber resources, now largely
j inaccssifble.
I Glenn Carrington, Seattle &
' Alaska businessman, predicted
the house of representatives
will pass Magnuson’s measure
, when it convenes.
sprung his /proposal, which on
the surface contained conces
sions to the Western viewpoint
at the closing stage off yester
day’s session. ,
By his tinning he made a ibid
to dominate the conference
news throughout today when
the conference is in recess.
At the request of French for
eign minister Pinay the dele
gates took the day dff because
this is All ©taints Day, a holi
day in France.
U. S. secretary of state Dul
les used the break to make a
one-day flying trip to Madrid
to meet wih Generalissimo Fra
nco.
The official comments of
Dulles, Pinay and' British for
eign secretary MacMillan of
Molotov’s plan therefore will
not be forthcoming until Wed
nesday.
But within hours after the
Molotov plan was launched dip
lomats in the Western camp
passed the word that it chanlg1
ed in no way Russia’s key posi
tion — her opposition to the
unification of Germany except
on her own terms.
What Molotov proposed was
that the Great Powers, East
and West Germany and nations
neighboring Germany, sign a
provisional “treaty on security
in Europe.”
tl would leave the North At
lantic Treaty Organization in
existence.
It would renounce war.
It would guarantee aid to any
member state which was at
tacked1.
You can't believe
fill you hear
KEY WEST. Fla. (JP) “Some
one is tryinlg to (break into my
house using an electric saw,”
a woman screamed into the
telephone.
Police Sgt. F. A. Caso, mind
rul of recent epidenic of bur
glaries, rushed two squad cars
to the woman’s home. The offi
cers parked a short distance a
way, approached quietly and
surrounded the house.
Finding no one, they went
inside to question the woman.
“Why, they’re still trying to
get in,” she said. “Listen to that
saw!’
Noting that the woman wore
a hearing aid, the officers ask
ed to examine it. It was out of
order, and making a noise just
like a saw biting through wood
'ea&eet%
Marine forecast Iftam Tues
day to Wednesday.
STORM WARNING
A strong (pressure gradient
' will cause northerly winds of
I 30 to 40 rniph today and tonight
! End of warning.
Outside waters Yakut at to
Dixon Enrance easterly winds
10 to 20 imph.
CLEAR