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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LVIU No. 70_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1956_ Per Copy—15* Radioactive Rain Falls On Victoria, B.C. VICTORIA, B.C. m—‘“Hpt rain” fell or. Victoria during the week end, the Pacific Naval Laboratory said last night. The radioactive rain was re ported by Dr. William English, head of the Marine Physics Group at ^the laboratory. “Two gallons of the rain water would have given a radioactive count somewhat less than a lumi nous wristwatoh,” he said. “The counting rate was several times the ordinary background, but it was not dangerous at all.” Dr. English believes the cause of radioactivity in the rain was the hydrogen bomb explosion over Bikini 23 days ago. Pilot Ingebrigtson Body Recovered WINNIPEG, Man., UP—A week long search for heroic arctic pilot Gunnar Ingebrigtson ended today with the recovery of his body and that of mechanic Ron Taylor from the burned-out wreckage of their single-engine plane. The wreckage was spotted on the tundra, 800 miles north of Winnipeg. Ingebrigtson, 31, whose daring exploits in rescuing others made him one of the best-known fliers in the Canadian north, had been missing since June 5 on a 45-mile flight across the barren lands. He was traveling from Eskimo Point on the west shore of Hudson Bay to McConnel River with Taylor. Hero of scores of mercy filghts, Ingebrigtson’s most famous came in 1949, when he helped rescue 12 men, including six Eskimos, after they had crash-landed their RCAE plane, wheels up, on an ice floe in Hudson Bay. UNSEASONABLE SIGNATURE BOSTON, UN— While the tem perature in Boston read 91 degrees yesterday. Massachusetts Gov. Herter signed into law an act making an additional 1175,000 available for snow removal work. The money was for payment of back charges for removal of hurt winter's heavy snows. Meeting of Dulles and Clhou Kn-lai j Must Wait Beds' Improved Behavior WASHINGTON, <*~-State De partment officials ruled out today any meeting between Secretary Dulles and Premier-Foreign Min* tster CHou En-lai of Communiet China until the Reds substantially change their behavior The State Department last night made dear two steps are of prt marv importance m pr*Unun*ri«n> tor such a foreign minister's con-j tor* nee: ). The Red Chmm must ~ful flir their agreement of laet Sept, 10 to permit 13 Amertcsm* impris oned in China to return home S. Petptng must maim a “tom* j ingfui renunciation of die use or j threat of force in connection withj its claims on Formosa, the home of Ctuaag Kai-shek's Chinese Na tionalist government The statement was issued after the Red Chinese regime had dis closed a proposal made at Geneva # ' Anthropologist Examines Relics In Sledge I. Cave Dr. Otto Giest from the Uni versity «of Alaska anthropological department, arrived Tuesday to investigate the old Eskimo items found in a cave on Sledge Island by Dave Walluk about two weeks ago. Dr. Giest was taken to Sledge Island today by Dave Walluk in •his skin boat to examine the find. After an examination of some of the items here, Dr. Giest in dicated that they were not as old as had been first thought, but he would not make a statement until* he has examined the cave and its contents on the island. Permits for the examination of ruins, the excavation of archeo logical sites, and the gathering of objects of antiquity are obtained from the secretary of the Interior, who apparently has delegated this authority to the National Park Service. Such permits are given primari ly to state ind federal museums, colleges and universities. The Uni versity of Alaska holds such a permit. Objects found on such sites as Sledge Island are the property of the government and are turned over to accredited museums and universities for public displays. Anyone appropriating objects of antiquity or injuring the sites is subject to a fine of $500 or im prisonment of up to 90 days. COON CAPTURED PRIVIDENCE, R I., (P—Two special agents battled and cap tured their prey on the ledge of a 10th floor office building in the downtown business district yes terday. Then the two agents from the Society for the Prevention of Cru elty to Animals asked: "How did the raccoon get to the 10th floor of en office building?” on May It. This called for a quick agreement on hie general renun ciation at force by the United States and Red China and for a Duties-Chou masting by July 11. That proposal was ^rejected by the State Department, and offi cials sakl there is not the slightest chance of getting *uch a meeting as long as the Communists con tinue on theur present line. Talks are being held at Geneva between US. Ambassador U Al exis Johnson and Red Chinese Knvoy Wang Ptng-nan They have been concerned recently with die question ef die ranunctattoo ot force Ihrlcdtcaity Johnson has prodded Wang to get the Reds to release the Americans remaining to China The Red* have argued MM m* all Chinese la the United State* are f*ae to ga home The State De partment says all of them are Mining Company Charged As Unfair to Labor SEATTLE (*>—The National La bor Relations Board reported to day it is investigating an unfair labor practice complaints filed against the United States Smelt ing, Refining and Mining Co. by the Electrical Workers Union, Lo cal 1150, of Fairbanks. The Electrical Workers Union, seeking a wage increase and pen sion plan from the company, said it was refused financial data which the union contended the company should provide. President Takes up Official Business, Will See Adenauer WASHINGTON, Iff*—President Eisenhower took up a consider able amount of official work today although suffering discomfort in the wake of his emergency opera tion. Eisenhower held a 25-minute meeting with key White House staff members, signed 27 bills and other official documents. He also arranged to meet tomorrow in his Walter Reed Hospital room with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. An aide said Eisenhower “looked and sounded quite chipper’’ and did some personal dictating to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. This included a message of thanks to Mexican President Ruiz Cor tines, vjrho telephoned good wishes to the President earlier in the week. “We did a lot of work this morning,’' White House Press Sec retary James C. Hagerty said. He spoke to a news conference about an hour before the lunchtime med ical bulletin. The bills signed by the Presi dent ranged from a $424,6244®® appropriation for the Interior De partment to private relief bills and other minor measures such as the transfer of a few acres of land in Muskogee, Oki* Hagerty showed considerable irritation at reporters’ detailed questions relating to Eisenhower s condition “Why the hell don’t you wait until tomorrow he de manded at one point. At another point, when asked about reports the President is highly annoyed by the drainage tube running through his nostrils into the in testinal tract, Hagerty exploded he has said "18.000 times it isn’t comfortable He asked wh<*t else reporters would expect him to say. These moments of irritation were exceptional, however British Humor LONDON. OP—A cartoonist for the Daily Mali gave hu own pre view of the US preealenUal cam paign today The cartoon showed a candidate standing on a tram’s bach plat form. above him Use sigh “Vote the Republican ttchat." A doctor, pointing to a ntdictl chart, la saying to a group of hiUbdliee standing on (ha teach* from the position of the post operative teaama on dm deurn. and the absence of advene coro nary reaction—you wdl readily appreciate, therefore . . .* Landslide Smothers Six Children Playing in Brooklyn Excavation NEW YORK- With a whis-< pering rush, a wall of sandy earth swept down on a group of chil dren playing in a Brooklyn exca vation last night. Six of them— two girls and four boys—were smothered to death. Officials began an investigation to determine if negligence was in volved. It was suppertime in the teem ing Williamsburg section, a dis trict of aging, closely-packed ten ements. Nine youngsters appar ently were digging a tunnel in the soft sand at the foot of the 30-foot wall of the excavation. Eleven-year-old Marie Stani kunas had been sent to call her brother and sister home for sup per. She saw them in the hole. Just then the earth moved. Marie screamed and grabbed Waste of Atomic Power Plants Seen as Threat Scientists Study Danger Of Coming Atomic Age By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, OB—Accumu lated waste from industrial plants in the coming atomic power age may contain more latent, lethal radioactivity than would be let loose in a nuclear war. This is one of the conclusions of the National Academy of Sci ences after a year-long study of radiation dangers from all sources —nuclear weapon testing, atomic power production, medical uses. At one point, the report forecast that when an atomic power indus try has been developed on a worldwide basis, the accumula tion of its radioactive waste prod ucts “may represent more radia tion than would be released m an atomic war." The scientists said in a 62,000 word report ami a news confer ence that steps should be taken now to guard man against radia tion danger from all sources. They suggested keeping a “radi ological history" of each individ ual—a continuing record of the amount of exposure |o radiation from X-ray pictures, medical treatment, in laboratories, or pow er plants, and from fall-out as re sult of bomb tests. Dr. Warren Weaver, chairman of the academy's Genetics Com tniUee, said he thinks people are spending unnecessarily too much of the slight tolerance to radiation which nature adore* them He called “stupid" the use of X rays for fitting shoos and spoke out against X ray snapshots of infants -just so the mother can aae the skeleton of her baby is beautiful fy formed ’ Genetics was s subject far ma jor attention in the report. Over exposure la radiation by the par *»*s can cause mutation of chil dren born to them or their de scendants, it said I - another sister, Dolores. The cas cading sand swirled around her ankles and sucked off her shoes, but the two girls escaped. A post office employe heard the screaming and arrived in time to pull out nine-year-old Anatole Bykov alive, but seriously injured. Marie pulled a fire alarm box. Soon the pit was swarming with police and fire rescue workers. The six children were pulled out soon, but they could not be re vived. Frantic parents and relatives poured down from the surround ing tenements. A grandmother comforted Marie on the sidewalk above the hole. She heard a wailing cry from the mother, Mrs. Thereas Staniku nas, as her children, Michael, 10, Lorraine, 5, were uncovered. “Don’t look, Don’t look,” the grandmother told Marie, turning her away. “Which one?” she called down. “Both,” came back the cry, and the family burst into wild sobbing. Another mother, in her frenzy of grief, beat her head against a wooden fence. The other dead children were John William McKenzie, 9; John T. Kotov, 7; Anna Ortiz, 8; and Louis Nitti, 6. Mayor Robert F. Wagner or dered four city departments to join forces in an investigation. The excavation was for a Brooklyn-Queens expressway, a state project. EXTRA $200,000 WILL BE ENOUGH TO START NEW FEDERAL BLDG. Mayor Andersen has received a note from Delegate Bartlett re garding the supplemental appro priation sought to start the con struction this season of a UJS Post Office and Courthouse at Nome, The original amount ap propriated was $1400,000 but it was not thought sufficient and the General Services Administra tion requested an additional ap propriation of $300,000 On June 0, President Eisen hower requested a $200,000 sup plemental appropriation for the Nome project. $100,000 less than that asked by the General Ser vices AdnrumetraUon. However Del, Bartlett said that GSA officials had informed him dud if the $200,000 is made avail , able it will be sufficient Contempt of Congress Proceedings to Start Against Paul Robeson WASHINGTON The House Committee on Uu American Ac : Uvtttes formally voted 7-0 today to start contempt of Congress pro ceedings against Negro singer Paul Robeson la a stormy to—itm yestorady. | Robeson refused to say whether ; he to a Communist and catted the I committee members “bad Amen