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The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-05-18
Two Moose Trapped On
Ice Float 1000 Miles
Down Yukon River

ANCHORAGE, Rt-An amateur
radio operator at Kaltag reported
to Civil Defense headquarters
here yesterday that two moose
caught on the ice of the Yukon
when it broke up have Travelled
more than a thousand miles on
the floe.
The Kaltag operator said the
moose were caught on the floe
at Holy Cross and eruised down
the river all afternoon. When last
seen the two moose were 1000
miles downstream, still watching
for a chance to escape their float
ing Jail.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-05-18
FBI Capture Last
Two of The Brink
Holdup Gang

BOSTON, R-FBI agents burst
into a tenement hideOut Wednes-
day to capture the last two of the
1l-man gang charged with the
$1,218,211 Drinks robbery.
Thomas F. Richardson, 40, and
James |. Faherty, AS, were nab
bed by six agents while they we're
eating a stew supper in a Dor
chester district flat.
On a chair near the supper
table were three fowl covered
pistols which they did not have
time to reach.
The agents entered the 3-story
brick building disguised as work
men and chance travellers. Forty
five seconds later they had hand
cuffs on the much-sought pair.
The agents confiscated the.
meager contents of the bedroom
kitchen bathroom flat, including
S5,00908 in rolled coins stored in
three beer cartons.
Authorities could not say i'm
mediately if the money was part
of the Drinks loot taken JAN
II, 1850.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-05-18
Three japanese Fishing
Boats Missing Near
Russia in Two Days

KUSHIRO, Hokkaido Island,
Japan, R-The 18-ton Mari Maru
No. /, crab fishing boat, is miss
ing and presumed seized by So
Wet authorities, Kyodo News Ser
vice reported yesterday.
The Maru had a four-man crew
and has been missing since Tues
day. She was fishing about II
miles northeast of Russian-occu-
pied Shikotan Island. 1t is the
third Japanese vessel missing near
Russian territory in two days.
Government officials in Tokyo
held an emergency meeting to
discuss the incidents.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-05-18
Russia Faces Manpower Shortage,
Calls on Youth to Maintain Quotas

LONDON B-The Soviet Union
today launched a new campaign
to enlist up to a half million
young Russians within the next
two years for development of ST.
IBERIA and other Asiatic regions.
Moscow radio announced the
drive in a fresh appeal broadcast
on the home service.
This tended to underscore re
ports that Russia is facing serious
manpoWer shortages in industry
and agriculture to maintain the
quotas set by the Krernlin's latest
fiVe-year plan. Some Western dip
lomats linked the Soviet an
nouncement that 100000 men
would be released from the Red
armed forces in the next year with
the pressing needs of industry and
agriculture.
The Moscow appeal was direct
ed at the Komsomol CYoung Com
munist League) organizations. It
urged them 'tto select from their
midst in 1861 from 100000 to
100000 young men and women"
for work in the eastern regions.
They are needed, the broadcast
said, in the building of new fac
tories, hydro-electric power sta
tons, coal pits, ore mines, and
other undertakings, including new
railways.
The broadcast noted that ST.
IBERIA includes up to rs percent of
the Soviet Unions coal deposits,
80 percent of its hydro power re
sources, four fifths of the coun-
try's timber, as we'll as large de
posts of rare metals and chemical
raw materials.
There is wide scope for the de
velopment of agriculture, and for
the production of grain and ami
NAL husbandry,' the broadcast
added.
The appeal was unusual in some
respects, for Moscow radio con-
coded the hardships faced by the
young workers at first but prom
ised that conditions would be i'm
proved rapidly for recreation and
entertainment.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-05-18
Adlai and Estes
Face Test Today in
Oregon Primary

Oregon Democrats voted to-
day on whether they prefer Adlai
Stevenson or Sen. Estes Kefauver
as their party's presidential can
didate
Neither mans name was on the
ballot in the Oregon primary, but
both have campaigned hard for
write-in votes. The one who gets
the most write-ins also will get
Oregon's 16 delegate votes at the
Democratic nominating conVen-
ton. Party cross-overs by voters
is not permitted.
Stevenson said yesterday he
feels every much better about my
in Oregon now and Cd
expect to win in tomorrow write
in primary"
Kefauver was somewhat more
cautious, saying, II think our
showing will be very good.
Gov. Averell Hartman of New
York, sounding more and more
like a man about to become an
active candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination,
said in Salt Lake City yesterday
he is "gratified by the support
shown me here in Utah and in
other western states"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-05-18
CAB Grants Num-
Temporary Authority
To Operate Airline

WASHINGTON, R-The Civil
Aeronautics Board granted Will
liam S. Num- of Nome, Alaska,
temporary authority yesterday to
operate the airline purchased from
him late in 1854 by Howard j.
Mays.
The authority will continue un-
til the CAB acts on NUNS May 8
application for approval of re-
purchase of the airline from Mays.
The CAB in December 1854,
approved the transfer of the GER
tificate of Num- Anyways to Mays.
It provided for a nonscheduled
service between all points on the
Seward Peninsula, and for sched-
uled routes between Nome and
Taylor, Alaska, and between Tay-
lor and Kotzebue by way of Can
die and Deering, Alaska.
Num- notified the CAB May
that Mays had left his business
and had assigned all his interests
to Num-.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-05-18
EisenhOWerS Honored by
WOmen's Press Club
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON, R-President
and Mrs. Eisenhower were honor
guests last night at a Women's
National Press Club dinner here.
The President watched, with
obvious enjoyment, a performance
lampooning both the Republicans
and the Democrats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
VA Hospital in Rockville
To Replace Mount Alto

tectural and technical services
for the new hospital. The
amount was granted by the
House and now is pending in
the Senate. Funds for construc-
ton will not be requested until
the fiscal 1858 budget.
The tract chosen is located of
the Rockville pike. south Of the
Hungerford Towne subdivision.
The Dawson Farm Land Deevlop-
ment Co.. headed by Don Cling
cry. Montgomery County de-
veloper has an option on the
land.
Both DR.. Edwin ]. Rose. man
ager Of Mount Alto, and his as
sistant. Ralph Webster. yester-
day expressed the opinion that
the site of the proposed new
structure will be within easy
range Of downtown Washington
patients. They pointed out that
many qualified emergency pa
tients are taken first to private
hospitals anyway and then,
when they are able to be moved,
are transferred to Mount Alto.
The institution is primarily a
general medical and surgical
hospital that has become well
known also as a diaenostic and
research center.
Its medical services are highly
regarded. On its consultant staff
are researchers and physicians
from the local medical schools.
Network Of Problems
But, physically, Mount Also is
riddled with an impossible net
work Of problems
The fact that it is antiquated
forces the expenditure OF huge
sums Of money for upkeep.
Nurses In different wards must
run up and down three flights
Of stairs to attend their patients.
And the patients. confined in
crowded rooms, have no place to
receive visitors or smoke except
on the porches. In the winter
there are. for some wards, no
smoking rooms at all because it
Is too cold to let patients relax
on the porches.
The porches used by patients
also serve as corridors and places
to store equipment and keep
trash cans.
In one ward, the medicine room
doubled as the only exit to the
corridor.
Sometimes" Or. Rose pointed
out. these areas are so crowded
you can hardly get through
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
Bockus Voted Star CUP
BY Arlington Federation

William A. Backus last night
was awarded The Evening Star
Cup for outstanding public serv.
ice in Arlington County by the
Arlington Civic Federation.
Mr.. Backus, an electronics en-
gineer. is a former president OF
the Glencarlyn Citizens Associ-
alton and has compiled a long
record of civic participation in
the county. He and his wife and
three sons live at 1892 South
Fifth street. Arlington.
The trophy and a citation were
presented at the .federation's an
nual dinner at Patton Hall, Fort
Myer. Edward B. Hincks, presi-
dent Of the federation, made the
awards after unanimous approval
of Mr.. Backus' nomination by
the delegates. About 100 at
tended. including members OF
the county delegation to the
General Assembly. members OF
the county board and school
board and other county officials
On Family Homestead
A graduate of Cornell Univer-
sity, Mr.. Backus lives at the
family homestead first occupied
by his parents in 1887 when they
settled in Arlington. He is treas
urer Of the federation and a
member of its executive and COM
development committees
He is also a delegate to the
Arlington Safety Council and was
a delegate to the School Board
Nominating Committee and
council. He is treasurer Of the
Citizens Committee for School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
Tissue Bank to Get
Dead Sailors Skin

The parents Of two sailors, ia
tally injured in an automobile
accident Sunday near the Ma
tional Airport, have donated part
of their remains to the skin It's
sue and bone bank at the Naval
Medical Center at Bethesda.
The sailors were Richard F,
McGuinnes. 20, whose parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis V. Nc
Guinness live in Medford, Mass,
and Lawrence w. Oberschlake,
%. son of Mrs. Richard C. Her.
rick Of Fort Thomas, KY.
A spokesman at the Naval
Hospital said the parents of both
have consented to donate the
tissue and bones to the bank.
There is. the Navy said. pos
sibility that this will be used to
save the life of a two-year-old
girl at the Medical Center who is
suffering from severe burns.
Mrs. Herrick. in Kentucky,
told the Navy that If the little
girl lives. Lawrence will not have
died in vain"
The Navy refused to reveal
further details about the girl be-
cause written consent from the
lchild's parents had not been OBJ
tanned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
Street Scenes .

A man telling a companion
as they walked along F street
near Ninth street NV: Then
I looked again, and / found
out l didn't have three aces
at all. / had only two" -.
A man getting out OF his
car on the Fourteenth Street
Bridge to remove a nail
studded board from one Of
the traffic lanes. -.
Crows nesting atop a house
at Twentieth and o streets
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
3 Firemen Injured
In Baltimore BIuze

BALTIMORE, May 8 (P.-
Eight firemen were injured when
a blaze burned out one building
and the top floors of another in
the downtown section last night,
Five Of the firemen required
hospital treatment and three
were treated at the scene. Most
were cut by splintering glass as
they worked their way close to
the flames. None was hurt seri-
ously.
The Quilted building was occu-
pied by the Hopkins Furniture
showrooms and by Lees auction
rooms in the adjacent building
More than 40 pieces Of equip
ment were brought to the scene
Of the six-alarm blaze. No dam
age estimate was Immediately
available.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
Meetings Listed
By Women Voters

The Arlington League OF
Women Voters will discuss
mental health at its unit meet
ings this month. The units will
meet as follows:
May 14-North Arlington, eve
ming, 8:l5 pm. Rock Spring
Neighborhood House: May IS
North Arlington, afternoon,
pm, Rock Spring Neighborhood
House North Arlington, morn
ing, 10 am, Rock Spring Neigh
borhood House; Clarendon. 8
pm. $500 North Sixteenth
street; May l6-Buckingham
day. 10 am. Buckingham Com
munity room, Buckingham, eve-
ming, 8 pm, Buckingham Com
munity room South Arlington
8 pm, darlington Administra-
ton building; May 17-Aurors
Hills-Barcroft, Sis pm, 4206
columbia pike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
District Offices
ASK MoreCash
Departments Tell
Needs to Senators

Increased funds for many de.
partments of the District gov.
eminent were requested yester.
day by city officials appearing
before the Stennis subcommit.
tee of Senate Appropriation
Committee.
| Witnesses sought not only the
restoration of cuts made by the
House involving highway ane
other construction funds, but
extra money for health, welfare
and other cityServices, as we'll.
A spokesman for the Health
Department urged an increase
over the funds in the House bill
of about $4,000 to take care Of
the medical charities program
for the care of INDECENT District
patients at ilon-prof1t private
hospitals and for some expansion
of services at the Districts sani-
torium at Glenn Dale. Md.
206 Million Asked
District officials are asking the
Senate committee to raise the
1857 budget to 1924 million fol
the year beginning July /. Thi.
would restore $2.6 million of the
$3.l million cut out by the House
City officials said this could b.
financed in the next fiscal veal
with a comfortable surplus, pro.
vided Congress comes through
with the authorized So million
increase in the Federal payment
The pending bill. as passed by
the House, calls for a Federal
payment of only $50 million
Since then Congress has enacted
a new revenue law for the Dis
trict, heavily raising District
taxes and also increasing the
Federal share from $40 million
to $23 million.
Treasury Loan Urged
officials told the Senate group
that, while their funds are in
good shape, they still need Treas
ury loans to carry on planned
programs before other financing
became available. They pointed
out the District would pay tc
the Treasury the going rate Of
interest" and that this program
has been authorized by Congress
j. N. Robertson. highway di.
rector, told the subcommittee 8
requested new loan of $5.4 mil.
lion would be used to finance
some important needs, including
the beginning Of a new north.
bound highway bridge across the
Potomac.
Donald Clemmer, director O
corrections, urged an increas,
over the House figure for his de.
partment for more guards at tn,
District Reformatory at Deco.
guam, Va. At night. there ar,
only two employees to guard 25t
prisoners, he said, and the stu.
alton is too open to meet tn,
needs"
There were appeals for NOR,
funds for the Recreation De
partment, particularly for {
proposed recreation center a.
Forty fifth and Van Ness streets
NV, for extra help for tn,
departments Of the surveyor, o.
licenses and inspections, Publ,
Welfare. and the Department O
Vehicles and Traffic, and tn,
Department Of Sanitary Engi'
neering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08

improvement and a member of
the Committee of 100.
Among his other community
enterprises has been leadership
OF Scout Cub den. He is scout
master Of Boy Scout Troop 166,
sponsored by his citizens asso-
citation. and participated in the
renovation Of the Glencarlyn Lii
brary and Community House. He
lis also a former president of the
Glencarlyn PTA.
Attributes Cited
The citation accompanying
the award read in part, "You
have been constantly alert as to
the rapidly changing conditions
in Arlington County, and the SUI
Iperior judgment. tireless indus
try. initiative, tact and admins
Itrative ability you displayed
throughout the year in all your
endeavors were of the highest
order"
The dinner meeting Also heard
a plea from C. Wynne Tolbert,
representing the county bar as
ISOLATION. for support OF the $2.2
million capital improvement
bond issue which Arlington vot-
ers will consider on June 5.
Mr.. Tolbert said the court
house addition, which would be
financed by the bond issue, is
now one of the county's most
pressing needs. With county
population more than doubled
in IS years, he said. the made
Iquacy of present facilities is
causing inefiiciency and incon-
venience in the operation of the
county government and courts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
Dinner Nets $4,000
For Jewish Appeal

The Greater Washington
United Jewish Appeal campaign
fund was swelled by $4,000
raised last night at the annual
IArlington-Fairfax United Jewish
Appeal dinner.
The amount brings the total
in the area campaign TO Sis mil
lion. The $4,000 was the largest
amount ever raised at an Ar
llington- Fairfax WA dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08

Hillman. with 1.544 won his own
party's nomination.
In all the races but one in
Montgomery. the seats at stake
we're created under constitu-
tional amendments passed by the
voters in 1854. The judgeships
carry $4,000 a year minimum
salaries.
Only Judge Lawlor fills a post
that was vacated. Early last
year. she was appointed to sue
coed former Montgomery Chief
Judge Charles w. Woodward
who retired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08

Inc long-aWalted end OF the
Mt. Alto Veterans Hospital may
be realized in about five years.
News that the Federal Gov
eminent had condemnation pro-
ceedings against 20 acres Of land
near Rockville. Md, as the site
for new $12 million. 500-bec
Veterans Administration hospi-
tai the replace the Georgetown
structure reverberated through
the Anticipated corridors yester-
day.
The suit was filed in the Dis
trict Court in Baltimore.
The present rambling set OF
buildings at 1850 Wisconsin ave-
nue. NV. has 1886 beds. Most OF
them are packed in rooms that
seem almost deliberately planned
to make adequate nursing diff
cult, if not impossible.
The oldest structures were
built in 1901 as a private girls
school OF domestic science. Dur
ing World War I the place was
turned into a hotel. Finally. in
1919. it was established as q
hospital and operated by the
United States Public Health
Service. In 1922 Mt. Alto was
taken over by the Veterans Blu
reau, now the Veterans Admin
istration.
Outskirts Of Rockville
The proposed new site is To-
Gated at the southeastern out
skirts Of Rockville on the old
Dawson farm. 1t was selected
according to the VA, because the
location complies with regula-
tons requiring new Federal
construction to be undertaken
away from strategic areas
whenever possible.
This has been part OF the
legislative and administrative
red tape that has delayed con-
struction Of the much needed
building, according to VA Of
ficials.
A few years ago, officials near
ly settled on the Nevius tract
across the river in Arlington
Then it was decided the Soldiers
Home grounds would be ideal
but the ONCE of Defense Mobili.
cation objected.
Initial Item Pending
Finally. it looks as though the
new VA hospital will have a
home. When finished, 1t is be-
lieved the old VA hospital in
Martinsburg, W. Va, will be
closed.
The VAS 1887 budget request
ed Sill million for design, archi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-08
Montgomery Battle
Won by Insurgents
Judge Fletcher Swomps
/ Opponents in z Parties

A former Republican Party
chief in Prince Georges County
yesterday defeated three Demo-
Gratis in their own party primary
and assured himself a 15-year
seat on the county's Circuit
Court bench.
Judge John Raymond Fletcher.
appointed to the bench in late
1854, swamped his opposition in
both Republican and Demo-
cratic primaries under the cross
filling system permitted in Judge
ship races.
In Montgomery County. Judges
Kathryn j. Lawlor and Thomas
M. Anderson, Republican APP
pointees of Gov. McKeldin, won
Ehandily over R. Duncan Clark in
the Republican primary.
Trail in Democratic Race
The two sitting judges, how
ever. trailed badly in the Demo-
cratic primary with County At
torney Charles M. Irelan and
Juvenile Court Judge Alfred D.
Noyes. both Democrats, getting
the nod.
Judge Fletcher was appointed
to the newly created judgeship
in Prince Georges shortly after
his defeat in 1854 for reelection
to the State Senate.
From 1916 to 1854, he was
chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee in the
county.
In the Democratic primary,
Judge Fletcher rolled up l0,772
votes to $500 for William Beall
Bowie, 1896 for Samuel w. H.
Meloy and 1857 for Frank l..
Anderson. All three are Demo-
Gratis. In the Republican pri-
mary. his 5,516 votes quadrupled
his nearest opponents tally.
Judge Lawlor, with an unoffi.
cial 5.215 votes topped the ball
loting in the Montgomery Re-
publican primary. Judge Ander-
son had 1896 votes.
Mr.. Irelan. an unsuccessful
candidate for the Democratic
congressional nomination two
years ago, got 1891 votes in the
Democratic primary. Judge NoyeS
was not far behind with 11,434.
The two Republican judges got
less than a quarter Of these
tallies.
Dorsey Is Winner
In st. Marys County. Philip
H. Dorsey, jr.. long recognized
as the Democratic. chief in the
county. won a lively fight for the
county's first full-time circuit
court judgeship.
Mr.. Dorsey polled 2,4S2 votes
in the Democratic primary to
defeat his nearest opponent, Will
liam A. Loker by 400 votes. In
the Republican primary, he beat
Mr.. Loker. son of a former Judge.
722 to 431. The third candidate
was John H. T. Briscoe, a former
States attorney and more rel
Gently chairman of the county
Democratic State Central Com
mittee.
In the past the Circuit Court
docket in the county has been
kept clean by the presence Of
judge one day a week.
Evans Bests Pitcher
In Anne Arundel County,
Matthew S. Evans, backed by
the powerful organization of
Ralph L. Lowman, won the
Democratic primary nosing out
Paul T. Pitcher, 3l-year-old
Korean War veteran.
Mr.. Evans polled $500 votes
to 5.240 for Mr.. Pitcher, the
other three candidates votes
were o. Bowie Duckett, 1896;
Noah A. Hillman, Republican,
1859. and George Sache, 290.
! A general election campaign.