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64 th Year No. 91
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1963
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U.S. Armv Patrols I
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Search For Korean!
Suicide Squads
By ROBERT EUNSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
SEOUL, Korea, (/P>— Spotlights
tonight illuminated the banks of
the Imjin River where reinforced
U. S. Army patrols searched for
North Korean Communist suicide
squads.
Soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and
7th Infantry Division took some
solace in the news that the lives
of three dead buddies had been
avenged. Two were killed in an
ambush Monday and the third in
a brushfire fight Tuesday.
“Ballistic tests have proven con
clusively that submachine guns
taken from the two North Koreans
killed Tuesday afternoon are the
same used in the Monday morning
ambush attack,” the U. N. Com
mand spokesman said.
The two North Koreans killed
were carrying U.S. currency and
armed with Russian automatic
weapons and hand grenades.
Increased enemy activity along
the 18^-mile front patrolled by
the cavalry led to the order for
searchlights to brighten the area.
Associated Press photographer
Sam Jones reported that sentries
had been exchanging fire with
North Korean patrols every night
this week.
South Korean Defense Minister
told a news conference he regard
ed the ambush incident as a “sin
ister scheme to create tension
along the Korean front” to check
the Soviet Union’s movement to
ward the Western world.
Scientist Dies On
Floating Ice Island
FAIRBANKS W — A U. S.
scientist on a floating ice island
in the Arctic Ocean—whose illness
was diagnosed July 11 by a doctor
circling overhead in a plane—died
Saturday, it was learned here.
He was identified as Jerome A.
Hirschman, 39. a scientist for the
Geophysics and Polar Research In
stitute at the University of Wis
consin.
Hirschman was one of nine men
on Arlis II located about 100
miles from the North Pole. It is
one of two manned ice islands in
the Arctic conducting studies for
the United States.
The scientist became ill July 9.
Since no plane can land on the
island due to slush, a doctor flew
over the area and from radio mes
sages decided Hirschman was suf
fering from pneumonia compli
cated by asthma.
Medical supplies were dropped.
A plane equipped with an aerial
retrieving device was flown from
Colorado and arrived here July 15.
Hirschman’s condition, however,
appeared to improve, according to
radio reports from the ice island
to the Arctic Research Laboratory
at Pt. Barrow which maintains
the station.
The attempt to snatch the scien
tist from the isolated research sta
tion was cancelled.
There was no immediate word
from officials on how the body
will be removed.
U.S.C.G. Clover In Roadstead
The U.S. C.G. Clover arrived in
the roadstead this morning on its
annual trip to this area and its
crew is busy setting up the harbor
lights.
Four Demo Senators
Introduce Substitute For
JFK s Rail Strike Bill
WASHINGTON GP— Four Dem
ocratic senators today introduced
a substitute for President Ken
nedy’s rail labor dispute bill call
ing for 60 days of additional bar
gaining under the eyes of a spe
cial congressional committee.
The substitute would carry out
proposals of the five railway op
erating brotherhoods and the AFL
CIO.
It was sponsored by Sens. Clair
Engle, Calif., Ralph Yarborough,
Tex., Vance Hartke, Ind., and E.L.
Bartlett of Alaska. All are mem
bers of the Commerce Committee
now considering the Kennedy plan
to work the work rules controver
sy over to the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Engle said he was offering the
proposal because he believed “it
will be impossible for us to resolve
the questions involved in this con
troversy” within the four weeks
before the strike deadline.
Under the substitute, both sides
would be directed to resume bar
gaining. A strike or lock-out
would be barred for the 60-day
period of the resolution.
Alaska Ferry Crewmen
Get Tour Host Lessons
JUNEAU GP — A tour host
school for all crewmen aboard the
state’s three southeast ferries is
being conducted in Skagway, the
Department of Public Works said
today.
Held aboard the vesesls while
they are docked at Skagway, the
tour host school is being con
ducted by Don Dickey, manager of
the Alaska State Chamber of Com
merce.
Dickey is being asisted by A1
Ritchie, traffic manager for the
ferry system, Mike Miller of the
Alaska Travel Division, and Capt.
Merle Adlum, assistant business
agent for the Inland Boatmen’s
Union and the Masters, Mates and
Pilots Union.
Woman Pilot and Husband
Safely Fly Polar Route
In Single Engine Plane
BODOE, Norway UP — Navigator
Einar Pedersen and his pilot wife
Ingrid have carried out their
North Pole crossing in a single
engine plane are expected to land
at Bodoe Airport late tonight.
A spokesman for the Bodoe
Flight Information Center said the
couple passed Prince Carls Fore
land at Spitsbergen at 3 p.m. (10
a.m. EST>. Their white and red
Cessna was due at Bode at 11:36
p.m.
They took off Monday from
Fairbanks and made a stop at
Greenland Tuesday.
The spokesman quoted the
couple as saying flying conditions
across the Arctic Ocean were ex
cellent.
ANCHORAGE UP — M. G. Geb
hart, executive director of the Al
aska S ta t e Housing Authority
since 1955, leaves his $21,000-a
year post today by order of the
agency’s board.
Gebhart said last week he would
resign Oct. 23 at the request of
the governor, but said he was now
giving up the post immediately on
direction of Albert R. Vacura of
Fairbanks, chairman of the State
Housing Board of Commissioners.
Gebhart blamed his firing on
politics.
Secretary Rusk and Five
Senators Go to Moscow
For Treaty Signing
WASHINGTON ttfi — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk and a bi
partisan delegation including five
senators will leave for Moscow
Friday night to attend the formal
signing of the nuclear test ban
treaty.
The White House announced the
plan today and named the sena
torial delegates as Democrats J.
W. Fulbright of Arkansas, Hubert
Humphrey of Minnesota and John
O. Pastore of Rhode Island; and
Republicans Leverett Saltonstall
of Massachusetts and George Aiken
of Vermont.
The list notably omitted Sen.
Everett Dirksen, the Senate Re
publican lead and Sen. Bourke B.
Hickenlooper, senior GOP member
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Both of these Republican lead
ers have indicated they did not
want to attend the Moscow sign
ing and have left it open as to
how they might vote on the atomic
test ban treaty when it comes be
fore the Senate for ratification.
A White House source told
newsmen that neither Sen. Mike
Mansfield, the Democratic leader,
nor Dirksen had been invited be
cause of a feeling that their pres
ence was needed here in view of
the Senate work load.
The formal ceremony for sign
ing the treaty is expected to take
place Monday in Moscow.
Secretary General U Thant said
at United Nations headquarters
that he would be on hand for the
event.
Justice Dept. Files Suit
To Force Registration of
Negroes In Birmingham
WASHINGTON OP — The Jus
tice Department filed its largest
voting registration suit to date to
day, urging a federal court to or
der the immediate registration of
more than 2,000 negroes in Bir
mingham, Ala.
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy,
said the suit, filed in U.S. District
Court in Birmingham, demanded
that local registration officials be
ordered to stop discriminating
against negro applicants.
Birmingham is the largest city
in which the department has
sought through court action to se
cure equal voting rights for ne
groes. Today’s was the 43rd voting
suit filed, the eighth in Alabama.
The heart of the complaint is
that voting registration forms are
used as strict tests for negroes but
not whites, the department said.
Only about 14,000 of 116,100 eli
gible negroes are registered to
vote in the county, the department
said, while about 120,000 of the
256,000 eligible whites are regis
tered.
CIA AGENT EXECUTED
MIAMI, Fla. 0P» — Four men,
one of them identified as an agent
of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency, were executed by Fidel
Castro firing squads today, the
Cuban radio reported.
An early broadcast said the al
leged CIA agent was shot a dawn.
Later broadcasts reported the ex
ecution of three companions.
The Cuban radio said three
other men were given 20-year pri
son terms by a Havana revolu
tionary tribunal, another man was
sentenced to 12 years in prison for
counter-revolutionary activity.
Ward, Gravely 111 From
Overdose of Drugs, Is
Convicted of Vice Charges
LONDON W — Dr. Stephen :
Ward was convicted today of two j
charges of living on the immoral
earnings of prostitutes.
The society osteopath, lying
gravely ill in a London hospital
from an overdose of drugs, was
found innocent on three other
vice charges against him.
The verdict was reached on the
trial’s eighth day by the jury of
11 men and one woman after W2.
hours of deliberation.
Conviction on all prison charges
might have meant a sentence of
25 years in prison.
Court officials said Justice Sir
Archie Marshall would not sen
tence Ward, if convicted, until he
is well enough to be present.
Ward still was in a coma five
hours after admission to the hos
pital. Doctors and nurses were ad
ministering oxygen in an effort
to bring him around.
Christine Keeler, alleged by the
prosecution to be the star attrac
tion in a circus of prostitutes run
by Ward, was stunned.
Hospital authorities indicated
Ward was expected to recover.
Ward, 50, an osteopath and
artist, was found unconscious this
morning by a friend in whose
Chelsea District flat he spent the
night.
STEWART TOCKTOO
CHARGED WITH MURDER
OF PERRY ENINGOWUK
An inquest was held yesterday
in the death of Perry Eningowuk
and the verdict of the coroner’s
jury was that the man died of
stab wounds made by a sharp in
strument, not self inflicted. They
found that Stewart Tocktoo may
be guilty of the crime and a war
rant was issued for his arrest. He
is still hospitalized from self in
flicted wounds.
The jury was composed of Robt.
Steele, Ron Engstrom, Sgt. Posey,
H. Berkhart, Timothy Kinnick,
and Robert Smith.
The Weather: Mostly cloudy,
scattered showers, little change in
temperature. Lowest expected to
night 47, the high tomorrow 57.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 61, lowest 50. Sunrise at
3:01 a.m., sunset at 9:13 p.m.
Indications Are
China and Russia
Near Formal Break
TOKYO ijP — Red China offi
cially rejected the U.S.-British
Soviet nuclear test ban agree
ments today in an attack on the
Soviet government indicating Pe
king may be near a formal break
with Moscow.
A government statement distri
buted by the official New China
news agency said the Peking re
gime would not adhere to the pact
initialed in Moscow last week be
cause the agreement’s main pur
pose was to bar Red China from
obtaining nuclear weapons.
The statement described the
partial test ban pact as a “dirty
fraud” and said it was signed
“to prevent all the threatened
peace-loving countries, including
China, from increasing their de
fense capability.”
“The indisputable facts prove,”
it said, “that the policy pursued
by the Soviet government is one
of allying with the forces of war
to oppose the forces of peace, ally
ing with imperialism to oppose
socialism, allying with the United
States to oppose China, and ally
ing with the reactionaries of all
countries to oppose the people of
the world.”
There is no record of a similar
public criticism by the Peking
government of Russia. The langu
age was the kind usually employed
by a government which contem
plates some serious step in re
lation to the other.
The Chinese and Russians have
in the past few years used end
less words to criticize each other.
But until today they have done
on only on the Communist party
level.
Democratic Representative
Elected In Pennsylvania
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Fred
B. Rooney, 37, a Democrat, has
been elected to fill the unexpired
term of the late U.S. Rep. Francis
E. Walter in a special election.
Rooney said his victory over Re
publican Robert Bartlett was “a
decisive vindication of President
Kennedy whose policies were un
der attack” in the campaign,
and a repudiation of Republican
Gov. William W. Scranton.
Pearse Walsh and Don Hoover Leave
For Washington to Appeal For Funds
For Nome’s Sewer and Water Project
Sen. Pearse Walsh and Mayor I
Don Hoover left this morning for
Washington, D.C., to make a per
sonal appeal for funds from the
Accelerated Public Works for the
water and sewage plant needed
here to replace the primitive
honey buckets now in use. All
other parts of the state have re
ceived aid except northwestern
Alaska.
The people of Nome voted al- I
most unanimously in favor of the
project and have now backed up
their decision by giving cash don
ations from $1 to $100 to pay
the expenses of this two-man dele- j
gation under the leadership of the j
Chamber of Commerce.
Cash contributions have come
from all types of people over
whelmingly spontaneous, stated
Frank Couch and Victor Charles i
who headed the committee to col
lect the fund. They were aston
ished how unanimous the response
tf
of the community in its desire to
have plumbing and water facilities
not only from the health stand
point but because without this im
provement, Nome is seriously
handicapped in receiving finan
cial aid to improve homes or busi
ness.
The price of gold has almost
closed down the gold industry
with the dredges of the U.S. Smelt
ing Co. now idle and new industry
is dependent on the community
having the facilities sought.
Never have the people taken
such a keen interest in a civic
project as they have shown in
this water and sewage improve
ment and they will be watching
keenly for the report from the
delegates and their findings on
why northwestern Alaska gets by
passed as there is a strong feel
ing that political pressure has
been brought to bear from areas
where there are more voters than
here.