Si NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA-—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 65
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1962
Per Copy 15£
Eichmann Pays
For His Crimes
On the Gallows
By Garven Hudgins
TEL AVIV. Israel Ufi — De
fiant to the end, Adolf Eichmann
walked firmly to the gallows last
night and paid with his life for his
role in Nazi Germany’s systematic
extermination of 6 mililon Eu
ropean Jews.
The young state of Israel hanged
the former Gestapo colonel at two
minutes before midnight on an
• improvised scaffold in a third
story storeroom of Ramleh prison
near Tel Aviv.
It was the first execution in the
14-year history of this Jewish na
tion which counts among its citi
zens thousands of relatives of Jews
whom Eichmann, 56, helped speed
to death in Hitler’s gas chambers.
Eichmann’s body was cremated
quickly and the ashes scattered
upon the waters of the Mediter
ranean.
Eichmann was cool and unre
pentant as this Jewish nation car
ried to conclusion its announced
determination to record the his
tory of the Nazi program and
mete out justice in the name of all
Jews.
A faint smile on his face, Eich
mann spurned the traditional black
hood and even chided his jailers;
for making it difficult for him to
Sflptaxi|SR&$ne gallows’ trap door. • i
‘‘My belief was correct,” the
former head of the Gestapo Jewish
Affairs Section declared. “I had to
obey the rules of war and my
flag. I am ready.”
At a command from an Israeli
guard, Eichmann stepped to the
trap door and lunged to his death
almost in a single motion.
Death was instantaneous, prison
officials said.
Eichmann was condemned to
death last December by a special
three-judge tribunal which found
him guilty of acts of unparalleled
enormity against the Jewish people
and against humanity — the only
crime subject to capital punish
ment in Israel.
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DISARAMENT TALKS
WILL TAKE A RECESS
GENEVA <*> — The Western
powers and the Soviet Union re
luctantly agreed today to a neu
tralist proposal for a summer re
cess of the disarmament talks.
The 17-nation conference will
go into recess in mid-June and re
convene Monday, July 16. The in
terruption of the talks, which
opened March 15, was proposed by
the eight non-aligned participants
—Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India,
Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and the
United Arab Republic.
Acting U.S. delegate Charles C.
Stelle, Gen. E. L. Burns of Canada,
British Minister of State Joseph
B. Godber and Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister V. Zorin delivered
virtually identical statements say
ing they would have preferred to
continue negotiations, but were
willing to take into account the
views of other delegations.
ALASKA’S FIRST FERRY TO
BE LAUNCHED MONDAY
SEATTLE IS*) — The first of three
new ferries for Alaska will be
launched here Monday evening by
Mrs. Wm. Egan, wife of the Alaska
governor.
Guests will include the governor,
Richard A. Downing, Commissioner
of Public Works; Bafford E. Lewel
len, Director of Marine Transpor
tation; Jacques Norvell, Asst. Reve
nue Commissioner, and Morris
Ford, Director of Tourism and
Economic Development.
The ferry, the MV Malaspina,
will be launched at Puget Sound
Bridge and Drydock on Harbor
Island. The vessel is 352 feet long
and will carry 500 passengers and
109 automobiles.
It will be used on a route be
tween Prince Rupert, B.C., and
Haines, Alaska. Service will begin
in September.
STOCK MARKET SPURTS UP
NEW YORK UP) — The Stock
Market put on a new show of
strength late this afternoon, cut
ting earlier losses.
It weathered an outbreak of
profit-taking by traders who
bought on the early week slide and
cashed in their gains.
Trading, which had been over
whelming during the great fall and
rise, died down somewhat. The
New York Stock Exchange’s ticker
tape fell 19 minutes behind trans
actions this morning, but caught
nn during the afternoon. The vol
ume, up to 2 p.m. was 4.38 mil
lion shares, compared with 6.42
million in the like period yester
day.
At the height of profit-taking
losses of key stocks ranged up to
around $2 with some wider movers.
The recovery shaved these and
gains appeared in the list.
Air Force Plans
To Take Over
ACS July 1st
WASHINGTON UP) — The Air
Force plans to take over operation
of the government-owned Alaska
Communications System July 1.
This was announced today by the
Alaska congressional delegation,
which said the Air Force had ad
vised the proposed transfer from
the Army Has been submitted to
the Armed Services Committees of
Congress.
Unless one of the committee dis
approves, the transfer will become
effective July 1.
The shift is a managerial one and
will have no effect on civilian com
munications services provided by
the system, operated by the Army
since it was established by Con
gress in 1900.
Along with military communica
tions, the system provides service
for the general public, commercial
enterprises and state and federal
agencies. Its gross annual commer
cial receipts currently are about $10
million.
The transfer will involve 962
acres of land and $16,969,877 in
communications lines and other
properties.
Soviets Hike
Consumer Prices
On Meat and Butter
By Preston Grover
MOSCOW UPi — The Soviet
Union today hiked consumer
prices of meat and butter to fi
nance the country’s lagging agri
cultural program in the face of
food shortages.
Butter — up 25 per cent — will
cost $1.83 a pound; pork and beef
—up 30 per cent— will retail for
88 cents a pound.
The effect of the increases are
measured against salaries much
lower than those in most foreign
countries. A semi-skilled Soviet
worker gets the equivalent of $88
a month, professional and semi
professional people about $222 a
month.
The government announcement
said that the increased charges
were necessary because there was
no other means of raising money
to pay the increased expenses on
farms.
Blame was placed in part upon
the United States. The statement
said it was not possible to “switch
funds to increasing the output of
livestock products at the expense of
the country’s defensive capacity.
“We do not live in a vacuum.
While imperialism exists, the dan
ger of new wars will remain. It
is no secret that international re
action, with United States at th«
head, now is engaged in sabrt
rattling, conducts a feverish arms
race and harbors plans for a sur
prise rocket nuclear attack on th(
USSR and the other socialist coun
tries. Its politicians and general*
speak openly of this.”
The announcement made it plain
that people in the cities are going
to bear the lion’s share of the bur
den of the increased prices. That
will tend to level out the living
standards of the city and country
groups. Normally city people have
lived better in the Soviet Union
because of a sharp salary and in
come advantage accorded them
from the time of the revolution.
Rear Adm. Shields Takes
Over 17th Coast Guard Dist.
JUNEAU iSl — Rear Admiral
Shields is scheduled to relieve Rear
Admiral Christopher C. Knapp, of
the duties of Commander, 17th
Coast Guard District during change
of command ceremonies this after
noon at the Coast Guard moorings
in Juneau.
Adm. Shields arrived in Juneau
Wednesday from Gape May, N.J.,
where he was commanding officer
of the Coast Guard receiving
center.
Adm. Knapp will depart Juneau
3unday for Honolulu, Hawaii,
where he will assume command of
the 14th Coast Guard District, the
Eirst week of July.
lure Is Dairy Month
JUNEAU Wl — Gov. Wm. Egan
today proclaimed the month of
June as Dairy Month in Alaska
emphasizing the importance of this
expanding industry to the State
of Alaska.
BENNY GOODMAN WILL
JOIN RUSSIAN JAZZMEN
IN A JAM SESSION
MOSCOW Iff) — Benny Goodman
blew his black clarinet under the
walls of the Kremlin today in one
of the wierdest jazz sessions Red
Square has ever seen — if not
the first.
Goodman lifted his trumpet in
the air near the candy twist turrets
of St. Basils Cathedral and played
“Yankee Doodle Dandy.” He was
a long way from Lenin’s Tomb,
which also is in the square, so 300
or 400 Moscovites clustered around
didn’t take it amiss.
He then played “Midnight in
Moscow,” known in these parts as
“Moscow Evening.”
At that moment a trio of guards
who had been relieved of their
turn at 'watching over the Lenin
Tomb, marched past. As they turn
ed into the Kremlin gate, Goodman
played a little melody know as
“Pop Goes the Weasel.”
It was all part of a day in which
the American jazzman promised
to join Russian jazzmen in a jam
session when he returns to Mos
cow early in July after a tour of
the provinces.
Goodman also got a promise
from one of the Soviet Union’ lead
ing composers, Aram Khachatur
yan, to do a piece for the Good
man orchestra.
Judge Disagrees . . .
LONDON UP) — Mrs. Grace Jones
sued her husband Cecil for di
vorce yesterday on the grounds he
re-arranged the furniture in her
’ absence to give his chair the best
' angle on the television set. This,
J she said, was cruelty. The judge
disagreed and dismissed her peti
tion.
First U.S. High
Altitude Blast Is
Scheduled Tonight
HONOLULU W — The first oi
the government’s high-altitude nu
clear tests is scheduled for 10 p.m.
Friday, (7 a.m. EST Saturday).
The flash is expected to be seen
in Hawaii, about 700 miles north
east of the Johnston Island test
site, said the announcement of the
blast issue by the Pearl Harbor
headquarters of Joint Task Force
8.
The announcement said the shot
will be the first of three and pos
sibly four high-altitude blasts. The
first will have a force of less than
one megaton. A megaton is equiva
lent to one million tons of TNT.
It will be detonated probably at
an altitude of 30 to 40 miles.
A spokesman said weather or
other factors could delay the test.
If there is a delay of more than
five hours, the shot will be sched
uled another day, he added.
Airlines have been notified by
the Federal Aviation Agency that
high-frequency radio communica
tions will be affected.
Airlines plan to change sched
ules to adjust to the communica
tions blackout. Japan Air Lines
said it will route planes between,
Honolulu and Tokyo 200 to 250
miles north of their regular course.
Alaska Airlines
Gets Another
Bomb Threat
FAIRBANKS — The rash of
bomb threats against commercial
passenger planes departing from
Anchorage continued last night, as
another bomb threat involved
Alaska Airlines’ Golden Nugget
Convair 880M jet caused a two
hour delay of the Fairbanks-bound
aircraft.
Airline authorities said here to
day that an anonymous telephone
call was received by operations
agent Bill Palmer at Anchorage
International Airport at 10:05 last
night warning that a bomb was
aboard the Fairbanks and Seattle
bound aircraft.
Once again the plane was un
loaded, searched, baggage and
mail sacks checked, and passengers
interviewed by the FBI. Once
again, no bomb was found in the
plane, carrying 51 passengers and
six crew members, and the craft
took off.
This is the fourth bomb threat
received at Anchorage Internation
al Airport in the past three weeks.
The first threat involved a Pacific
1 Northern Airlines plane, while the
j last three involved Alaska Airlines
planes, one of which was air
bom at the time of the threat. %
IKOUGAROK ROAD RIDS *
Following are the bids report
ed at the bid opening in Juneau
yesterday on the construction of
the Nome-Kougarok Road:
Rivers Construction Co. of Fair
banks, $611,436.
Alcan Pacific Co., of Seattle,
$671,889.
E & B Construction Co., Nome,
$688,428.
McLaughlin - Beck, of Seattle,
$1,471,678.
The engineers estimate for the
job was $661,006.
ASTRONAUT GLENN
WILL MISS FESTIVAL HERB
Sen. Lester Bronson recently
asked Sen. Bob Bartlett to invite
astronaut John Glenn Jr. to the
Midnight Sun Festival. In turning
down the invitation, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion, said . . Glenn has such
I an important role in the flights
remaining in the Mercury Project
that he finds it almost impossible
to meet definite dates for such ap
pearances.”
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