Home-Owned Newspaper
VOLUME XVI
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Monday, October 31, 1955
10c a Copy
NUMBER 227
Dulles tries to destroy Iron
Curtain at Geneva meeting
Western Big Three
press for free flow
of news travel
GENEVA (/P) The United
States, Britain and France to
day presented to Russia a 17
point program tor free excha
nge of information and free
travel which would rip the
Iron Curtain to shreds.
The action came in a Big 4
conference session in which U.
S secretary of state Dulles. Brit
ish foreign secretary MadMil
liian andFrench foreign minis
ter Pinay ail urged Soviet for
eign minister Molotov to lift
restrictions on the exchange of
ideas between Soviet bloc and
the outer wo rid and end all
censorship on news from inside
Russia. |
Dulles announced the United
States today had eliminated
passport restrictions for Amer
icans traveling in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe.
Molotov called for broader in
formation exchanges and a
freer flow of trade and made an
apparent bid to get Red China
into agencies associated with
the United Nations. He asked
the United States, Britain and
France agree that “all states"
should be brought into interna
tional agencies like the interna
tional labor office.
In their longest session to
dale here — nearly five hours
— the four also took up once
more the deadlocked issues of
Germany and European secur
ity & Molotov demanded that
invitations be sent to East and
West Germany to join in the
V eatcheombing
• With the help of all the
newspapers in Great Britain
Princess Margaret finally made
•up her mind — Not to marn
the good looking guy.
It’s not surprising — when
3 girl in town gets too thick
with some man — everyone in
town takes an interest.
—I—I—
4| Think I’ll join Matthew J.
Quiddv tonight.
-1-1
0 Only forty more shopping
days until Christmas and I haiv
n’t an idea what to give.
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• It must be getting toward
winter — snow is creeping
down the hill and I don’t feel
like going without my hat and
coat these days.
—I—I—
• Aside from the bowl games
the football teams have, on an
■average, only four more games
left And as one man said Sat
urday “I don’t see what you
guys see in football — ju^t a
bunch of fellows wallowing
around in the mud.” Ah, but
just think of the thrills and
chills and spills.
discussions here on Germany.
The Western powers had al
ready come out flatly against
any detailings with the East Gar
man regime, which they do not
recognize.
Duties specieially noted that
free exchanges are now blocked
by Russia's “all-emlbraeing cen
sorship of press and radio” and
by the jamming of broadcasts
such as the voice of America.
To show willingness on the
pa^rt otf the West to make some
concrete moves to break down
the walls. Dulles said the Unit
ed States is aciing today om
passport restrictions.
Hereafter, American pass
ports will be valid for the So
viet Union and all the countries
of Eastern Europe with which
ihe United States “maintains
relations,” Dulles told the con
ference.
vcominued on page four)
New grade school
dedicated here
Friday evening
Despite a transformer fail-i
ure outside the building which
plunged 'ihe new Sitka grade
school into darkness for some
25 minutes Friday night, sev
eral hundred interested persons
waited patienltly in the dark un
til repairs could be made and
then inspected the various
rooms of the new building.
Earlier the formal dedica
tory program was held, with
presentation of the building by
Larry Branidit, superintendent
of the J. B. Warrack Company,
to James W. Huston, area dir
ector of the Alaska Public
Works; Mr. Huston in '.urn
presented the keys to the struc
ture to mayor Earl Shennett
who passed them on to Charles
Kidd, as president of the school
board.
Invocation and benediction
was by the Rev. Frederick
Knebel, while the dedication
prayer was given by the Rev.
Henry Chapman. Address of
’the evening, by Don Dafoe, ter
ritorial commissioner of educa
tion, recalled the estbblish
ment of the first school, in Sit
ka in 1841 — marking the first
school ever opened in the ter
ritory. Shortly after the trans
fer of the territory to the Uni
ted States in 1867. Sitka form
ed a town government and set
uip a city-operated school. Not
too long thereafter, the begin
nings of Sheldon Jackson
School followed.
Sitka’s new grade school, he
pointed out, marks another
milestone in the road of school
1 history in Sitka.
Flags for the new school
rooms were presented by Wil
‘ liiam Wyres on behalf of the
I Veterans of Foreign Wars. The
high school band played two
numbers.
After the lights were re
turned to service, the ladies otf
i ^continued on page three)
Margaret will not
wed Townsend
I LONDON (/P) Princess Mar
! glare t put duty before love to
night and announced she will
; not marry Peter Townsend.
The 25 year old princess’ an
nouncement wrote an end to a
romance that Shook the throne
and divided the nation.
She issued her announce
ment after a conference of
more than two hours with
Townsend, a 40 year old divor
ced commoner and father of 2
sons. Townsend left that con
ference — at Clarence House,
where Margaret lives with her
mother — looking sad faced
and serious.
“I wou/ld like it to be known
that I have decided not to mar
ry Group Cajplt. Peter Town
send.” the princess announced.
The princess is third in line
of succession to the throne. Her
decision recalled in contrast
ing lights an exactly contrary
decision taken nearly 20 years
algo by her unde David — King!
Edward VIII.
Israeli spokesman j
charges Egypt with
new violations
JERUSALEM (/P) An Isreali
military spokesman charged
Egyptian troops backed by au
tomatic fire crossed into Israe
li territory east of the Gaza
strip today.
He said an Israei unit drove
the Egyptians back across the
Armistice line. No casualties
on the Israeli side were report
ed.
The spokesman said the Bgyp
titan force came over the bor
der in the Nirim area, east of
the central sector of the Gaza
strip. At the same time, he said,
an Egyptian position opened
fire with medium automatic
weapons on an Israeli outpost.
Israeli authorities reported
late last week that an Egyptian
unit of platoon strength, sup
ported by mortar and machine
gun fire from across the bor
der tried twice to storm an Is
rael position in the Nirirn area
but flailed both times. A report
from Gaza quoted a U. N. spok
esmian as saying U. N. investi
gators bad found no evidence to
support the complaint, but the
Israeli foreign office said the
investigation had not even be
gun.
Earlier today Israel claimed
Egyptian planes, believed to
be vampire jets, made four
sorties over her territory yes
terday. A military spokesman
said they flew in at various
times during the day and were
seen over the demilitarized El
Auju-Nizana zone and over a
settlement east of the Gaza
snip.
An Israeli foreign minis ry
1 spokesman declared that up to
this morning the Egyptians
had refused to leave Israel
, territory in the El Auja-Nitza
na Zone, and “even U. N. mil
itary observers had been re
I fused permission by the Egyp
t tians to investigate their
■ troop concentrations there.”
I (continued on page four)
Eisenhower okays increase
requested in postal rates
All rates but 4th
i
class will be upped
if congress okays
! DENVER i/P) President Eisen
hower todlay approved plans of
posi .master (general Summer -
Reid to ask congress again
next January for increased
postage rates to wipe ant a de
ficit running at the rate of half
a billion dollars a year.
Summerfield told reporters
that the president miay aiSk for
an increase in the first class
| postage rate from 3 to 4 cents
an ounce and in the air mail
rate from 6 to 7 cents, but fin
al details and definite rate in
creases have not yet been work
ed out.
' Summerfield, the former Re
I pulbiitcan national committee
chairman and Eisenhower earn
paign manager in 1952, said he
had talked no politics with the
president during .heir 30 min
ute conference at Fitzsdmons
army hospital and he consider
ed any suich discussion at this
time would be “most inappro
priate.”
Wind and rain hit
northeastern part
of nation Sunday
by The Associated Press
A strong wind and rain storm
hit the northeastern state yes
terday. For a time there was
fear of floods, but latest re
ports today indicated this dan
ger had subsided.
The heavy downpour, parti
cularly in par s of New Jersey
New York and Connecticut,
raised flood fears in an area
made jittery by two flood dis
asters earlier this season. »
Connecticut, names* nit oy
previous floods. was put on a
preliminary flood alert last
night. However, early today
state police reported “nothing
much miateriaized” and there
seems to be little danger.
The weather bureau forecast
improved weather today, with
partly cloudy skies and scatter
| ed showers.
i Two deaths by drowning
, were blamed on the storm and
four other persons died in traf
fic accidew s during the down-'
pour yesterday.
In New York state more than ;
four inches of rain fell in some
parts Of the Cats'kill mountains
from late Saturday through yes
terdav (Sundtay).
A short, violent storm with'
. winds up to 100 mph tore thr-'
ough Nedrow. a Syracuse. NY, j
suburb, breaking windows and I
ripping airplanes from their
moorings at an airfield.
Elsewhere across the nation,
J rains of less than half an inch
hit the Ohio valley and Great
Lakes region and spun west
ward through the upper Miss
i issippin valley.
I It was raining in Seattle.
Suimmerlfiield staid congress
will be asked to increase first,
second and third class rates.
Suimimerfieiid called on Eisen
hower after the 65 year old
president’s doctors reported his
most extended period of walk
ing since he suffered his heart
attack Sept. 24. In another
milestone in Ms progress toward
recovery, the doctors omitted
for the first time in their 10:30
a. m. medical bulletin any re
ference to his making progress
“ without compfricati ons. ’ ’
White House news secretary
James C. Hagerty said that
there have been no complica
tions for such an extended' per
iod that doctors see no reason
to continue references to their
absence in the regular bulletins
The president walked more
than 100 feet around his room
thi's morning and willl repeat
this increase in his walking ex
ercise again this afternoon,
Hagenty said. Instead of walk
ing from his bed to a chair, as
he had been doing, he walked
two or three mimes around the
room this morning before sit
ting up in an easy chair.
He sat up in his chair for his
conference with Suimmerfield
in which he approved tentative
plans to ask congress again in
cither his “State of the Union”
or a special message for postal
increases sufficient to put the
post office departmen on “a j»ay
as you go basis.”
President Eisenhower still is
keeping mum aJbout his 1956
plans but he is back in the po
litical scrap with yet another
week or so to go before leaving
the hospital.
His activity in that rough and
tuimlble field is far from full
fledged, even from the stand
point of the rather reserved
role he played in it prior to his
Sept. 24 heart attack.
±3u't tne present s HW per
cent support: of embattled se
cretary of agriculture Benson
gave the Democrats notice over
the weekend that they can look
for Eisenhower to defend ad
ministration policies during
next year’s campaign — wheth
er he seeks re-election or not.
At another conference in the
president’s room at Fitzsiimons
Saturday, the president and
Benson discussed politically
hot farm problems for 30 min
utes. They talked mainly about
declining farm prices and how
to jack them up. and then ag
reed on a program aimed at
achieving that objective.
Afterward Eisenhower issu
ed a statement rejecting argu
ments — offered by many De
mocrats and some Republicans
— for return to high, rigid
farm price supports, now re
placed by the administration
system of flexible supports.
The White House called that
an all-out Eisenhower endorse
ment of Benson and said the
president never even has. tho
ught of ousting his secretary
of agricuture. There were re
ports last week — denied1 by
the White House — that some
o>f Benson’s cabinet colleagues
wanted to get rid of him.