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Evening star., 1955-07-28
CopitoI Tronsit Offers
ToGive Up Franchise

than SO a share, including the
cost to the company Of tearing
up the street car tracks and re-
paving the streets.
Mr.. Wolfson said that he would
oppose public ownership. that it
would solve no difficulties and
would cost the people a lot Of
money. He repeated his accusa-
tions against the Public Utilities
Commission of having contrib
Iuted to the company's difficulties
and said that he and the COM
.pany were the victims of dis
honest dealing.
Rap Wolfson Attackers
The company offer did not
mitigate the fight it has been
having with the District Com
Imissioners.
In a separate statement. Mr..
IBroadwater explained the move
was meant only for the reason
|of getting the wheels rolling
again"
It criticized what it called the
Commissioners desire to "get
Wolfson out of town." to the
Idetriment of 2.500 other stock
holders.
The statement said the desire
Ito revoke the franchise and seize
the company's property had
been uppermost in the Commis-
Isioners' mind.
However, it offered the serv-
ices of officers of the company in
cooperating with the Commits
sioners in finding some other
company to operate the lines
here.
What bearing the company
offer will have on pending legis-
lation remained to be seen. The
Senate was about due to act or
the Commissioners bill, but 9
word from them probably viii
call this off and bring about
some other type of legislation.
After % days there still is nj
evidence Capital Transit and thu
AFL Transit Union can settl'
their differences by negotiation
Yesterday they had a chatty ane
Iamicable meeting, but there wa
nothing behind the friendly ban
tier to get the wheels rolling
Union Demands Unchanged
i So far the parties are still
ldeadlocked on the company
Ioffer Of a 10-cent hourly increas'
Evening star., 1955-07-28
ID Pickets Seized
After Cor Stoning

RICHMOND. Ind, July "a
tlR.-Thirteen men and one
woman picketing the two Per-
fleet Circle plants in Richmond
were arrested today after the
stoning of an automobile of a
worker who was entering one OF
the plants.
Ofhcers called a street depart
Iment truck to haul the 13 men
Ito police headquarters. The
woman was transported in a
police car. All were charged
with malicious trespass.
Police Chief Lucas Rohe said
the stones cracked the wind
shield Of the car. broke a rear
window and dented the body.
Among those arrested was
Russell Merrill. 81. Mishawaka,
Ind, an international repre-
sentative of the CIO.
The two Richmond plants Of
the piston ring firm were open
again today and Howard Martin.
personnel manager, said about
half the normal working force
reported.
The company has asked for
AN injunction against mass
lpicketing.
The CIO United Auto Workers
Union started the strike Mon
day in a contract dispute here
and at the plants at Hagerstown
and New Castle.
Evening star., 1955-07-28

on wages and IS a month on
pensions. The union hasn't ever
come down from its opening
figures of IS cents and a new,
high-priced pension plan.
Based on an estimated loss of
$270.000 a day, the strike already
has cost more than $6.7 million.
What the House is going to do
will be settled at an afternoon
meeting of the House District
Committee. The closed session
will consider a number of plans
in addition to the Commissioners.
but may defer action now until
the Commissioners decide about
the company offer to pull out.
Another meeting today was
that of the Board of Trade Fact
finding Committee composed OF
William e. Leahy, Msgr. Philip
M. Hannah and Richard P
Dunn. Mr.. Leahy, who is chair
man, said they would go ovel
ground already covered ano
chart a course.
Evening star., 1955-07-28
Let City Heads Fulfill
Pledge, Broodwoter Says

E. Cleueland Giddinos. Cap |
ital Transit Uice president, in
charge OF public relations.
made public the tollolGing
press release at the same time
he reDealed the contents OF the
letter to the District Commits
sioners containing the transit
otter to get out:
In view of the impasse that
has been reached in the transit
strike and the desire of the d. c.
Commissioners to foster legisla-
tion which would lead to the
seizure of Capital Transit Co.
and the revocation of its fran
chise. the board of directors OF
Capital Transit Co. at their
meeting held this morning
THURSDAY July 28) authorized
the president of the company,
j. A. B. BroadWater, to make a
formalized voluntary offer Diet
ter attached which would ac-
complish the Commissioner
purpose without litigation and
on more favorable terms than
that it proposed by their own
legislation.
"The desire to revoke the
franchise and seize the COM
pany's property has been upper
most in the minds of the District
Commissioners" Mr.. BroadWater
stated. They have admitted
that the Justification for their
action is on the basis of get
Wolfson out of town They also
admit that the company has
been efficiently operated and
that the service has been ade-
quate to meet public nds. What
the Commissioners have not rec
ognized, or failed to recognize
willingly, is that there are $500
stockholders other than Mr..
Wolfson and his group. The
great urge to economically gull
lotine the other stockholders has
been made without regard to
them.
1.-THE board spent considerable
time this morning discussing and
reviewing the present status OF
the strike. They were unani-
nous in reaching the conclusion
that it was hopeless to get the
union to see that their demands
could not be met and expect the
public to pay such fase as would
be needed to meet such demands
The cry for the economic
scalp of Lou Wolfson has blinded
the good sense of some groups
although there are substantial.
number of businessmen in towr
who have the interests of the
community as much at heart a:
the three Commissioners, who
have opposed the proposal fol
seizure and revocation of Capita
Transit's franchise.
The board felt it owed it tt
the community to make the
proposal contained in my lettel
to the Commissioners. 1t did S;
only after profound discussion
of the consequences. They have
no desire in making the propose
to do other than provide the op
portunity to get the wheels roll
ing again. If the Commissioners
agree to the proposal. they car
bring about the legislation neces
sary to enter into agreement
This would then give them
free hand to settle with labor
fix what fare they feel is neces'
sary and in the process avoit
the litigation that certstnl,
would result from their presen
bill.
The board also has instructed
Evening star., 1955-07-28
u. S. Red Ouks Thrive
In Sherwood Forest

NOTTINGHAM, England. July
% (R.-American red oaks are
taking the place of England's
historic trees in Sherwood For
est, storied home of Robin Hood.
Foresters in charge of the re-
planting explained that modern
England's smoke-laden atmos-
phere stunts the growth of the
English oak.
Evening star., 1955-07-28

the officers of the company to
cooperate with the Commission
erS in aiding them to obtain 9TH
ers than the present company to
operate the transit lines. I un-
derstand, from statements, made
by Senator Morse and by MFR.
Mclaughlin, that this will not
be difficult to do. Mr.. McLaugh-
lin has stated that at least two
approaches have been made to
the Commissioners. We think
now is the time for them to full
fill their promises to the COM
munity,"
Evening star., 1955-07-28

Continued from First rage
who two weeks ago was the star
witness at Senate District sub
committee hearing. promised his
full support in the plan. The
letter to the Commissioners read:
"If you are willing to enter
into such a contract, the Board
Iof Directors will. with all possible
speed, submit the matter to the
stockholders for their approval,
and I have the assurance that
IMr. Wolfson and his family VIII
vote their stock in favor OF such
q proposal"
Get a New Union Offer
Mr.. Wolfson called at The
IStar Office today and reported
| the action of the Capital Trans
lit board.
He said the action resulted
from a meeting with the union
yesterday, at which the union
presented a final counter-offer
that would cost the company
lin the neighborhood OF $2.5
million. He said that to accept
1.-THE offer would mean deficit
and a giving away of property
that belonged to the stockhold-
ers and that he would not as
sume that responsibility as the
money did not belong to him.
He repeated a statement pre-
lviously made in testimony be-
fore the Senate District Com
Imittee, that he would person.
ally take 20 per cent of the stock
of the company-at a price in
the neighborhoo dof SO to $12
Ia share-if four Washington
residents, or a group of them,
would purchase the remaining
80 per cent.
| He said he would then retire
from all connection with the
management of the company
and devote any earninsg the
company might make to the
"publici service" of running q
transit line, provided the pur-
chasers of the remaining stock
would agree to do the same
thing.
| Would Liquidate in Year
Asked why he did not sell hi:
own stock now and that helt
by his family and get out of the
J, transit operation here, he sale
:. that he would not do so unles:
!. all stockholders were given thu
same opportunity to dispose O
: their stock on the same terms
that he sold his own.
! He said that if the Commis-
u sioners accepted his PROPOSE
j. ton, seizure of the company
!, would be prevented, but that h
would operate the company fol
|, year without profit, provided
the extra cost of meeting the
!. union demands necessary to gel
the men back to work was paiC
by the District. At the end o1
the year he said. he would pro-
ceed to liquidate the company
/ Mr.. Wolfson said that liquida.
tion of the company probably
, would yield the stockholders ir
: the neighborhood of not les
Evening star., 1955-07-28
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Evening star., 1955-07-28

sion that appears to be present
in the mass transportation
system locally. y.
"As we see it, the already
abused riding public would thus
Evening star., 1955-07-28

be subjected to more abuse at
the hands Of the fiy-by-nights
which such q move would
naturally bring into the public
transportation industry"
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Dulles Closes Big Four Conference
With Attack on Soviet's Resistance
To Free Elections In East Germany

GENEVA R-tSecretary of State
Dulles told the final session of the
Geneva conference today that So
Wet Premier Nikolai Bulganin
apparently had sent Foreign Min
lister Molotov here with orders
not to discuss seriously" the re-
unification of Germany.
Dulles blamed Soviet resistance
to reuniting Germany through
free elections on fear that such an
action would threaten Moscow's
hold on the Communist satellite
countries of eastern Europe.
Dulles spoke after the Big Four
agreed without argument to break
up the present conference without
any specific time or place for an
other meeting.
They did this by accepting a
communique which they agreed
to issue later today. It was very
brief document registering by inn
plicatiOn the total failure of the
meeting to provide solutions or
make substantial progress on any
of the great East-West issues and
particularly on Germany.
The communique was described
as reporting only that the foreign
ministers had met as their chiefs
directed them to at the summit
conference in July, that they had
covered their assigned problems
in their discussions, that they
would now report back to their
chiefs and that they would rec
ommend that the future course of
their discussions be settled thru
diplomatic channels.
Dulles, who is to report to Pres
ident Eisenhower tomorrow, said
the President has closely fol-
lowed this conference on day-to-
day basis.
Eisenhower, he went on, twill
Continued on Page Five,
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Troops Training
For Long Trek to
Alaskan Exercise

FORT LEWIS, R-In prepare
ton for next January's 3,000-mile
trek to Alaska over the Alcan
highway, more than 1000 Fort
Lewis soldiers started three weeks
of cold weather training on the
snowy slopes of the Cascade
Mountains east. of here.
With mukluks, fur-topped par
kas and glazing white snow suits,
a battalion combat team from the
5th Infantry Regiment set up tenn
porary training quarters at the
former Ranger Greek CCC camp.
Task force commander, 1t. Col.
Donald M. Callahan of St. Paul,
Mimi, said the training is to pre-
pare the troops for Exercise
Moosehorn, an operation designed
to test the feasibility Of reinforc-
ing Alaska defense by moving
men over the Alcan Highway.
The troops will follow the Alcan
Highway to Fort Richardson, be-
ginning Jan. A. The 3,000-mile trip
is expected to take Is days, with
maintenance stops planned at
Dawson Greek and Whitehorse on
the Canadian Yukon.
Callahan said the exercise will
train soldiers to survive anci fight
in temperatures that may plum
met as low as so or so degrees
below zero.
He said "the dreaded wind chill
Of the arctic will Waw' adds real
danger to the paper threat posed
by the mythical enemy the troops
will battle in a freight climaxing
the maneuver."
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Cruening, Roden, Metcalf File Suit
Against Empire for 1852 Article

and he was referred to only as
governor of Alaska"
He was croSs-examined at length
by H. L. Faulkner, counsel for the
newspaper, who tried to show that
the Empires criticism of Gruen-
ing resulted from disapproYal of
politics rather than personal ami
mostly.
Under questioning by Faulkner,
Gruening said the ferry fund was
set up in a special bank account
to expedite immediate payment of
creWmen. He denied it was s'pri-
vate" bank account, although
funds were disbursed solely by
r. E. Coughlin, ferry purser.
Gruening said he did not know
whether bond was required of
Coughlin, whether a shortage in
the fund was revealed in a 1852
audit of territorial funds by Sc
attic auditing firm, or whether
Coughlin issued checks to leash, I"
as stated in the Empire.
The reading of a long deposi-
ton from E. j. Small, former
Empire newsman, was started af-
ter the former governor left the
witness stand.
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Dulles Report to US.
On Geneva Conference
Expected This FRIDAY

GETTYSBURG, Pa, 1.-THE
White House announced today it
has requested radio and television
time for Secretary of State Dulles
to report to the American people
on the Geneva conference after
his talks here with President Els
enhower tomorrow and Friday.
Press Secretary Hagerty said he
expects Dulles to deliver his re-
port on the new deadlock between
East and West Friday night from
Washington.
The announcement came as the
President, kept indoors by cold
and rain, dictated letters and read
at his country home.
Because Of the weather, Eisen-
hover dropped plans to open up
shop in his new downtown Gettys-
burg office today.
Tomorrow shapes up as the
busiest day for the President, i'm
terms of official business, since
his Sept. "a heart attack.
Besides a conference with Sec
rotary of Commerce Weeks, he
will see Budget Director Rowland
Hughes and take personal hand
in charting the governments
spending course for the next fiscal
year. Then at pm. Dulles is due
in with a report on Geneva.
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Czech-BOrn Contestant
Wins $4,000 by Knowing
American History

NEW YORK, R-Czech-born
Steven Frolich, a Princeton, Nj,
seed dealer, has won $4,000 by
answering another question in his
American history category on
'"The $4,000 Question" CHS tele-
vision and radio show.
On the show last night he
named the parts Of the United
States purchased from France in
1903, Spain in 1919, Mexico in
1853, Russia in 1867, and Denmark
in 1917.
Naming the Presidents in office
at the time, he ratified off Louisi-
ana, Florida, the Gadsden Pur-
chase, Alaska, and the Virgin Is
lands.
A blonde psychologist, DR.. Joyce
Brothers of New York, won $4,000
in her boxing category by giving
the ring names of four heavy
weight champions after she was
given their real names.
They were Rocco Magchegiano
Rocky Marciano), Arnold Ray
mond Cream Jersey Joe Walcott),
Joseph Paul Zukauskas Jack
Sharkey), and Noah Brusso Tom-
my Burns).
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Delegate and Mrs.
Bartlett Here
Until Friday

Delegate and Mrs. Bob Bartlett
arrived today from Fairbanks
where they have been attending
the opening of the Constitutional
Convention. They plan to remain
here until Friday. This is Mrs.
Bartlett's first visit to Nome.
While here they will be enter
tanned by friends and meet with
civic groups to discuss problems
Of this area.
President Langsam Of the NV.
Alaska Chamber of Commerce has
arranged for members of the
Chamber and Nome City Council
to meet with Mr.. and Mrs. Bart
lett informally Thursday after
noon from 4 until 6 at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. Jack
son.
At the opening of the Consti-
tutional Convention Delegate
Bartlett gave an address in which
he compared Alaska's convention
with that of the framing of the
national Constitution in 1887. He
said:
''In your individual capacities
as delegates and in your collec-
tive capacity as a convention you
are charged with the writing of a
document and the establishment
of state government which will,
insofar as fallible human beings
are capable, be in the interests Of
all the people of Alaska. This is
the challenge which confronts
you; this is the challenge you must
meet; here you are, each and
every one Of you, marked out by
destiny not only to confront the
judgment of your peers, your
fellow citizens, but to have your
names inscribed forever in Alaska
history.
1.-THE answer. to the many prob
lens and issues which face you
will be forged in the tradition of
American democratic government.
These answers are seldom of the
type which are obvious, or which
are all black or all white. The is
sues which face democratic
people are only occasionally sus-
ceptible Of solutions satisfactory
to each and every one of the citi-
zenS of a state"
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Northwest Chamber of Commerce
Protests 'Inadequacy' Of Nome's
Sales Tax In Letter to Council

The Northwestern Alaska Cham
Der Of Commerce, protesting the
"inadequacy" of Nome's city sales
tax, has sent the following letter,
dated October %, 1855, to Mayor
Steffen Andersen and the Nome
City Council. The letter is signed
by the Chamber president, DR..
Fred Langsam
1--WE wish to point out the mad
equacy of our present sales tax. Its
discrimination against local bust
nessmen, and its unfairness to
taxpayers Of Nome who purchase
locally. To say nothing of the
much needed taxes lost to the
City of Nome.
while the present sales tax is
an easy and successful method of
raising taxes for operating the
City of Nome, it has loopholes
whereby the city loses many tax
dollars each year and places an
undue share of the tax burden on
part of the taxpayers of Nome. It
forces on the individual who
wishes to purchase in, Nome an
additional two percent that he
would not have to pay if he pur-
chased his supplies outside the
City of Nome.
'It is paradoxical that the indi-
vidual who does not have the
funds to send outside" for his
winter supplies is forced to pay
this tax to maintain our schools,
roads and pay city employees sal
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16

KETCHIKAN, R)-"I was ter
ribly shocked, deeply disturbed,
and felt as if a piledriver had hit
me on the head" former Gov. Err
nest Gruening said yesterday in
describing his feelings after read
the Juneau Empire of Sept. Is,
1852.
The issue in question carried a
news story and an editorial which
discussed the special Chilkoot Fer
ry fund established by the Terri
torial Board of Road Commission
ers. The two items are the basis
of a 100000 libel suit brought
against the Empire by Gruening,
Henry Roden, former territorial
treasurer, and Frank Metcalfe,
former territorial highway engi-
neer.
Gruening testified the story eli
NAKED campaign waged against
his administration over a period
of years. Articles and editorials
dating back to Nov. 1916 were
submitted in support of this claim.
The former governor said his
name was deleted deliberately
from news stories in the Empire
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16

aries, while the individual who is
fortunate enough to have suffi-
cient funds can send "outside" for
his supplies and does not have to
pay this tax, while they enjoy the
benefits Of our schools, roads, and
full protection of the Fire and
Police Department.
''It discriminates against the
local businessman competing
against stateside firms, as he is
forced to collect two percent above
the regular price, which the ''out-
side" firm does not have to do
For instance, Nome firm selling
a $4,000 automobile here in Nome
would be forced to. charge $50
more. than stateside auto COM
pany that does not contribute one
iota to the welfare of the commu-
nifty. By the same token, Nome
business house would have to col
lect an additional $40 on every
$1,000 worth of merchandise he
would sell in competition with
Outside" firms.
eve urge this august body to
study our present sales tax and
find remedy to plug the loop
holes, whether it be amending our
present sales tax or writing a new
consumers tax, so that each citi-
zen will pay his just, proportion
ate share of the cost of city gov
eminent and the Nome business
man will be on the same competi-
tive basis as Stateside firms.
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Army Engineers to Spend
Over 500 Million on
Alaska, Pacific Northwest

PORTLAND, tR--Army Engi-
neers said Tuesday that they will
spend more than 500 million in
public works in the Pacific North
west and Alaska in the current
fiscal year ending next June.
The Engineers said about half
Of it is yet to be spent on jobs for
which bids will be opened in the
next seven months.
These jobs were listed for AL
aska: one million dollars in four
harbor projec.s at Metlakatla, Pc
tersburg, Seward and Wrangell.
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
Adlai Stevenson
Says He'll Run
Run Again In so

CHICAGO R-Adlai E. Steven
son said Tuesday 81 shall be a
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for president next
year."
Stevenson, his party's 1852 cam
didate for president, issued
statement saying:
81 shall do all I can to persuade
my party to entrust that immense
responsibility tome again because:
First, l believe it important for
the Democratic Party to resume
the executive direction of our ma
tional affairs;
Second, I am assured that my
candidacy would be welcomed by
representative people in and out
of my party throughout the coun-
try;
Third, I believe any citizen
should make whatever contribu-
ton he can to the search for a
safer, saner world"
Stevenson said today it would
be foolish to say the people would
not take into account the survival
chances of a presidential candi-
date, but he will not make health
an issue in his campaign.
Announcing that he will enter
the March 20 Minnesota presiden-
tial primary, Stevenson answered
wide range of questions at
mammoth news conference.
One of these questions con-
cerned the health of President
Eisenhower and of Sen. Lyndon
B. johnson of Texas, the Senate
Democratic leader. Both men suf-
fered heart attacks in recent
months. Stevenson said he hopes
and prays Johnson's ''misfortunes
in no way limits his future activi-
ties or his usefulness"
"And the same goes for anyone
else, especially the President of
the United States" he declared.
Sen. Johnson has been repre-
sented as working for wide-open
Democratic nominating conven-
ton, a circumstance that has con-
WINGED some friends of Stevenson
that the Texas senator may not be
in Stevenson's corner at that con-
vention. Johnson is considered in
some quarters as possible candi-
date for the nomination.
The Nome nugget., 1955-11-16
MOVIE DIRECTOR DIES

HOLLYWOOD, R-Movie Di-
rector Lloyd Bacon, who turned
out such hits as "The Singing
Fool" and "The French Line" is
dead at SIS Of cerebral hemor-
rhage. He had been i'll more than
year. He died in st. Joseph's
hospital in nearby Burbank.