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VOLUME XVI
Thursday, November 10, 1955
NUMBER 235
Russia turns down proposal
made by Pres. Eisenhower!
Molotov makes
Red policy plain
at Big 4 meeting
GENEVA (/P) Soviet foreign
minister Mold ov today reject
ed President Eisenhower’s pro
posal for American-Soviet aer
ial arms inspection in offering
to the foreign ministers’ confer
©nee a global disarmament pro
gram.
While praising Eisenhower’s
“good intentions.” Molotov toldj
ft he Big Four con ference Rus
sia's attitude toward the pro- j
postal as it stands is “negative”
*bui: would not neressarily be so
“under all conditions.”
He 'Jhen. in effect, stated eon
ditions which the United Sta
tes, Britain and France have
previously objected to.
Russia could approach the
Eisenhower plan directly, Mo
lotov said, “if measures under
it were 'to be taken in close re
lation to the task of reducing
arms and prohibiting atomic
weapons.”
Molotov demanded again that
the Big Four immediately re
nounce the use of atomic wea
pons as the first step to disarm
ament and invite other states
to join in the declaration. Bul:
his speech struck at the heart
of the proposition which Eisen
hower hade to the summit con
ference here in July.
Secretary of state Dulles told
the conference followinlg Mo
otovs statement that the pur
pose of Eisenhower’s plan was
to take a practical Step 'toward
disarmament by creating condi
| V eatchcombing
$ Brrr, is seems much cold
er than the thermometer says
it is — but then we didn’t have
a chance to get really warm all
summer lonig.
—M
• If you want to learn how
to keep to “wolf from the door”
Sdlika Cold Storage store will
be glad to show you. They have
a wolf killed by Lenny and
Clyde Peterson and Pete Crews
near Petersburg, and displayed
in their window. The men went
to the “Little-bit of Norway”
area on the Repeat for some
deer hurt (ing and returned with
the wolf and three bear as well
as a deer or two.
-1-1
• And speaking of hunting,
you’d better do your “beach
combing” fast —. only a few
more days left to bag venison—
legally.
—I—I— *
• All the hullalbalow about
the Big Four foreign ministers
conference Was along the “Gen
evia spirit” theme. Evidently
some of those spirits came ouit
of a bottle for now the Rus
sians are right back where
they were before that July
giab-tfesft. Let’s all go home.
tions of confidence and by mak
ing impossible “an effective
surprise attack with overwhelm
ing force.”
Dulles said his impression of
Molotov’s position is that “the
Soviet Union does not accept
President Eisenhowers propos
al as an initial step but does
accept the concept as a possible j
subsequent ^tep.”
He ridiculed Molotov’s attack
on the plan following the Hus
sian’s comment about the pre-1
sident’s “good intentions.”
Dulles said the urgent need
now in the continuing work on
disarmament in the United Na
tions subcommittee where all
the Big Pour are represented is
for studies by each government
of Vhe technical problems of set
ting up a control system. There
is no system now in existence
he declared, “which guarantees
thiat nucletar weapons can be
eliminated.” I
The United States felt able \
to make the offer of mutual i
arial inspection and an ex-,
chan/ge of military blueprints
“because our purposes are.
peaceful and our unwavering j
aim is never to use arms except
in self-defense,” Dulles said.
He added the record proves
peaceful purposes. The Unil.ed
States ended World War II
with 12 million men armed, he
said, and had reduced the fig
urlge to IV2 million by mid
1947. The force total rose to
3.600.000 during the Korean
war but has subsequently been
cut ,;o 2.900,000.
The fact thai; the United
States is not now disarming by
itself “does not mean thalt we
are a miliitiarisftic nation,” Dul
les continued. The United Sta
tes has learned the hard way, i
(continued on page four*
No paper tomorrow
Veterans' Day j
In observance of November
11, Veteran’s jDay, the Daily
Sitka (Sentinel will not publish, j
Most local stores also will be'
closed (for this legal holidoy. I
Next issue of “Your Home-1
Owned Newspaper” will be on
Monday.
Four top Soviet
architects ousted
from positions
MOSCOW i/P) The Soviet
Union has cracked down on
four of its top architects, in
cluding Alexander V. Vlasov,
who now is completing an in
spection tour of home building
techniques in the United j
States.
The government says the
nation's builders< have been
Wasting money on ornate dec
orations and skyscrapers and
disregarding the needs of the
people for housing.
Vlasov, who is president of ^
.he academy of architects of
the Soviet Union, was stripped ,
of his government decorations .
and dismissed as chief archi
tect of Moscow. The same ac
tion was taken algainst D. N.
Ohechulin.
Announcing the dismissals
last nigh., a government state
ment said two other nationally
known architects, Polykov and
Boretsky, were deprived of
their Stalin prize laureates.
A spokesman for the Acad
emy of Architects said Vlasov
was still president of the organ
ization. •
(Vlasov was in New York
with the other members of the,
l'O man Russian housing dele
gation when news of the dis
missal was received.)
Mryth Sarvela reports on
herring, after hearings
\
Plant operators
meet with trailers ’
for first time
Editor. Daily Sitka Sentinel: j
I want to make a personal re
port to the people of Sitka and 1
to all of those who contributed
to our herring cause and the
press is the most effective way
of reaching people. ‘
While in Juneau waiting for
the congressional committee
who was to hold a meeting,
there. I did research in the His'
torical Library and found some
interesting facts about our her
ring resource. The most; im
portant one, it seems to me, is
thait in the governor’s reports
from 1917 to 1954 that approx
irnai ely $89,044,000 has been
taken from the herring resour
ce of Alaska and practically
i nothing returned to the terri
tory for biological research.
This — in the face of the fact,
that the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice are required by an act of
Congress in 1924 to base their
regulations on BIOLOGICAL
RESEARCH. I
At the congressional hearing
in Juneau before Senator Mag
nuson of Washington, I made!
practically the same statements
that I did before the congres-1
sional hearing here, except that
I read David Howard’s state
ment and Captain Ed Hansen’s
alff'idavil: describing the lack of
herring spawn in this area.
I spent one afternoon at the
congressional hearings of Sen
ator Magnuson’s committee in;
Seattle. There I learned that'
the Fish and Wildlife Service'
in the past were, because of the
act of 1924, obliged to base their
regulations on the finding of
biologists. Seton Thompson,
who was not scheduled to ap
(continued on page three)
W. Knight named to one
of ist convention committees
William Egan
president of
convention
COLLEGE PLACE i/P) With
William Egan of Valdez wield
ing the president's gavel, del
egates to the Alaska constitu
tional convention turned to
day to the naming of a perma
nent rules committee and sel
ection of a permanent secre
tary.
Egan, named president yes
terday at a spirited election
that followed an address by
ormer Gov. Ernes): Gruening, ;
was to appoint the secretary,
completing the slate of direc
;ors for the convention.
Two persons prominently
mentioned for ; he post were
Katherine Nordale and Tom
All down but the
great big one
SEATTLE (j£P) The bowling
;hrill and frustration of a life
ime came last night to John
Richardson.
The 39 year old shipping
clerk rolled a 299 game in a
business men’s league match.
Alter his 11 straight strikes, it
looked like he had a perfect
300 game in the bag as pins fell
before his 12th ball. The No. 4
pin tottered but stood as the *
crowd moaned. 1
Richardson is a 174 average
bowler. His score for the night
was 169-299-141—609.
Four of five lost
airmen found in
night search
HONOLULU (/P) Four of
five airmen who bailed out of
their stricken flying boxcar
Wednesday with only forlorn
hope of rescue in the stormy
Pacific were picked up late in
the night and early today by a
navy tender.
The seaplane tender Floyds
Bay brought off the “miracul
ous” rescue after racing 75
miles through rain, wind and
10 foot swells to the scene 650
miles easi of Honolulu.
There in the darkness last
night the tender spotted the tiny
flashlights hooked to the life
belts of Lt. Kenneth E. With
ney, navigator, and airmen lc
Harry W. Brinegar. flight engin
eer.
That was between the hours
of 11 and 11:30 p. m. All thr
ough the night the Floyds Bay
plowed the tossing seas.
Than at about 6 a. m. today
the navy reported, lookouts on
the tender saw Lt. D. O Nelson,
the pilot, bobbing in the Pac
ific. The weather was moder
ating.
Shortly thereafter, the tend
er came upon Lt. D. M. Hib
bard, the co-pilot.
Stewart, both of Juneap.
In yesterday’s election, del
egates named Egan, a territor
! ial senator, president on Itihe
' third ballot. Egan polled 28 vo
tes to 15 for Viktor Rivers, An
chorage and 7 for E. B. Col
lins of Fairbanks. Ralph Riv
ers of Fairbanks was on the
first two ballots but was drop
ped on the third as required
by convention rules. He later
was elected second vice presi
dent.
Frank Peratrovich of Kla
wock was elected first vice
president.
Peratrovich won over James
Nolan of Wrangell. Mike
Walsh of Nome and Mildred
Hermann of Juneau on the
third ballot. Rivers beaji Nol
an on the first ballot for sec
ond vice president, 32-22.
Delegates gave a standing
ovation to Gruening after
hearing his demand for an end
to “Unil.ed States colonialism
in our nation’s dealings with
Alaska.”
COLLEGE (TP) Delegates ,to
the Alaska constitutional con
vention this momin(g elected
Thomas Stewart, Juneau attor
ney /to serve as permanent se
cretary. Stewart will serve di
rectly under president, William
Egan, as chief administrative
officer.
The delegates first debated
whether a top officer of the
statehood committee should ser
ve as secretary of the conven
tion. The temporary rules com
mittee came up witlh thte deci
sion that nothing in the legis
lation creating the convention
prevented Stewart from serv
ing.
George SundJborg of Juneau
and Kiaitherine Alexander, past
clerk of the senate but not a
delegate, were nominated for
the post of secretary but both
declined.
A vote on the motion to close
nominations with Stewart the
only person on the ballot pass
ed on roll call by 30 to 24.
A president-appointed nine
member permanent rules com
mittee is considering the matter
of setting up a system for estab
lishing the many committees
that must be set up. Most of
the delegates are eager to get
committees appointed and act
ual work on the constitution
! underway.
Nine delegates were also ap
pointed 'today to serve on a per
mane nit help committee. They
(contirp^pd on oa?e four)
Weatlher forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
Clear except partly cloudy to
occasionally cloudy wilih snow
showers exitreme south portion
and along Gulf coast.
Strong gusty northerly winds
| today diminiislhinig slowly to
| night and Friday.
Colder today and tonight.
No): quite so cold southwest
i and south portion Friday,