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Ike Turns Down Friend JL JL IS OPEN TO PUBLIC! Delegates to the Ataka Constitutional Convention Invite everyone Interested to attend the sessions. Hours are from 9 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and with extra sessions from 7:00 to 9:40 pjn.

some evenlnfs. (Phone 5830 to ascertain which evenings.) Regular bns service to Constitution Hall at the University. aiHy LATE ws Mine EDITION "America't Farthest North Daily Newspaper" Member of The Associated Prett VOL XXXIV Per Copy FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1956 Twelve Pages No. 23 GENERAL NOYES HISSING Ike Rejects Red Plan For 'Cooperation' President Wary Of 20-Year-Plan Presented to Him WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 W)--President Eisenhower today turned down, in effect, a Soviet proposal for a 20-year United States-Russian friendship treaty but left the door open for further talks between the two countries.

The White House made public Soviet Premier Bulganin's message to the President earlier this week, Eisenhower's reply and the draft of a friendship treaty which the Soviet premier had enclosed. Bulganin proposed that the United States and Russia agree "in conformity with the provisions of the charter of the United Nations to settle Jill their international disputes by peaceful means." Eisenhower said in reply that "the present state of international tension" has been brought about by the Russians and "was not prevented by the words of the (United Nations) charter." "How can we hope that the present situation would be cured merely by repeating those words (of the charter) in a bilateral farm?" the President asked Bulr ganin. He went on to say: "I wonder whether again going through a treaty-making procedure, and this time on a bilateral basis only, might indeed work against the cause of peace by (Continued on Page 2) Russian-Japan War May Cease TOKYO. Jan. 28, --Major Tokyo newspapers said today Russia has informed Japan unofficially it wants to end the state of war between the two countries and exchange ambassadors.

Sources in the foreign ministry, bypassed by the Soviet feeler, said Japan will Ignore any such proposal unless it is advanced at deadlocked Russia-Japan peace treaty talks in London. Kyodo news service said Russia sent word may unilaterally declare World War II with Japan at an end as early as next Monday--depending on Japan's reaction to reported proposals that ambassadors take over the London talks. Polio Ball To Highlight Weekend A full two days of social activities again this weekend will give Fairbanksans another "boost" through the normally slow-moving and quiet month of Jamiary. The gala "March of Dimes" ball at the Elk's clubhouse is expected to bring out hundreds of residents this evening, and the dedication of Johnson-Alexis hall will take many civilian dignitaries to Ladd Air Force base tomorrow afternoon. This is the second of three activity-packed weekends in this area.

Last Sunday two formal dedication programs, a tea and art exhibit attracted crowds of over 500 persons at each event. Next weekend major interest will center around formal signing of Alaska's proposed state constitution as the historic Constitutional Convention comes to a close here. Eighth Ball Tonight's ball, to victims of infantile paralysis, is sponsored for the eighth consecutive year by the Fairbanks Business and Professional Women's club. All proceeds will go to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis with the hall, a 7-piece orchestra and floor show from Club Rendezvous donated for the fund-raising affair. Semi-formal, the ball gets underway at 8 p.m.

with the grand march scheduled at 10 o'clock. Admission will be $5 a couple. Bases Stay In Business. By A. ROBERT SMITH Kerns-Miner Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON --The defense department has yet to close down any of the military-run business- type activities at its various installations in Alaska which have drawn protests from local businessmen.

Yet, throughout the United States, the department Is closing down a wide variety of operations at military bases--from dry cleaning shops to paint manufac- plants under Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson's policy of getting the military out of business-type activities. Complaints from businessmen in Anchorage and Fairbanks have come to Del. Bartlett and the committees of congress that deal with such problems. They claim hat the army and air force have set up various enterprises need- essly which are in direct com- jetition with similar services pro- ided privately by local businessmen.

Congress has been generally agreeable to closing down many of-these activities, with the ex(Continued on Page 2) Juneau Man Electrocuted By Transmitter Efforts to Save Life of Engineer Are Not Successful JUNEAU, Jan. 28 UP)--Gordon Burnett, chief engineer for radio station KINY for the past 10 years, was electrocuted early this morning while working on the station's five thousand watt transmitter. William J. Wagner, station owner who is here supervising the installation of a television station found Burnett after noticing at 7:20 a.m. that the station's broadcast schedule had not been started and telephone calls to the transmitter one mile south of Juneau went unanswered.

Broke Door Wagner and Jerry McKinley, operations engineer for KINY-TV, broke open the locked door of the transmitter building and found Burnett lying on the floor in front of the transmitter. The men called the volunteer fire department to bring, a resuscitator and ambulance and notified two local physicians. They applied artificial respiration until firemen arrived.at 8:30. The physicians gave Burnett a heart injection and continued other efforts to revive him but were not successful. Burnett" was pronounced dead shortly before 9 a.m..

and physicians estimated that lie had been killed by the electrical shock over an hour before. No Heart Trouble They performed a partial autopsy later this morning and decided that the death was definitely due to electrical shock, thus ruling out a suspicion that a heart condition might have been involved. Burnett is survived by his wife and three children who live at Auke Bay outside of Juneau. Bill of Rights Goes Through Convention Without Dissent By FLORENCE DOUTHIT through the final passage yester- With only nine days left before facing an inflexible deadline, delegates to the constitutional convention have voted six articles as a permanent part of the proposed Alaska State Constitution. The Bill of Rights article went QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds "Sure, the egg is small--so it that bird house yon got in the News-Miner Want Ads:" THE PICTURE of that's you contentment when yon think of the amazing results a News-Miner Classified Ad produces.

Focus on your ad today Call 2261. day with unanimous acceptance. Six delegates voted against final approval of the legislative article and there were four dissenting votes on both the suffrage article and the article covering health, education and welfare. No protest was made during the third reading of the suffrage article over the voting age, now definitely set at 19.,. Having fought It every iach of the way through the second reading, opponents apparently decided against the final, clearly futile, effort.

Major Criticism The major criticism of the legislative article was centered around three provisions, origination of Impeachment proceedings in the senate instead of the house, veto by joint assembly of the legislature rather than separately by each house, annual sessions with no set time limit and a large assembly, 40 members In the house and 20 in the senate. The convention now Is alternating between work on the executive article in its third reading, and first consideration of the ordinances' article. The latter report contains the so-called Tennessee plan and a provision for abolition of fish raps. Neither of these two con- (Continned oa Fate 2) Airliner Loads Eight Million In Rough Gems LONDON, Jan. 28 (R--A New York-bound Stratocruiser carrying 47 passengers and a fabulous cargo of diamonds ran into mechanical trouble over the today and turned back to London.

The craft landed safely with one of its four engines cut off. A heavy police detail guarded the plane while engineers fixed a propeller. The plane took off again later. In the hold of the British Overseas Airways Corp. plane was an ordinary registered postal package carrying rough diamonds valued at $8,400,000.

One was a 426- carat stone which diamond magnate Sir Ernest Oppenhelmer has called the most magnificent ever found in South Africa. London's Diamond Trading Co. put the gems in the mail yesterday consigned to Harry Winston. New York, Spokesmen said it was the biggest single of rough diamonds ever made to one QUOTA CLUB GIFT--Mrs. Lois Tait (right) presents two' otoscopes- for use in examining the ear canals of school students here to J.

Ellsworth McCarthy, high school- principal. Witnessing the gift presentation (left to right) are Mrs. HarrJtt Morton, for Main loaool and Ltthrop hlrh and Mrs. Portia Roberts, nurse for the Denili, Nordale and College rrctfe schools. Mrs.

Talt, a member of (Photo By PMl't Studio) the Quota board of directors, appeared on behalf of Mrs. Angela. Johnson, club president. McCarthy 'represented Dr. James C.

Ryan, superintendent of schools. This is the second major rift by the club to the school system here In conjunction with their international project of aid to the htrd-of-hearing. An audiometer, one of three now used in the schools here, wts given byQuota more than a year ago. PLANE Alaska National Guard Chief Overdue on Flight Near Nome Rescue Squadrons Open Search for Two Men Overdue on Flight to Shishmaref; Missing Official Well Known in Alaska By VAL GREUEL An intensive aerial search is underway over northwest Alaska today for a missing plane which carried Gen. John R.

Noyes, adjutant general for the Alaska National guard, and military pilot from Fort Richardson, identified only as Major Kolb. The aircraft disappeared yesterday on a flight from Nome to Shishmaref. No has been received from the pilot since he took off from Nome shortly before noon. 'A joint search mission by the 74th Air Rescue squadron at Ladd AFB and the 10th ARS at Elmendorf near Anchorage got under- Unemployment Benefits Flow Alter 7-Day Stoppage "JUNEAU, Jan. 28, (5)--Unemployment benefit check; are rolling again.

After a week-long stoppage in processing of the checks because of an employment security commission dispute over the status of former Acting Director Arthur Hedges processing of checks resumed late yesterday. Hedges; who was dismissed as acting director after a Graham Speaks MADRAS, India, Jan. 28, American Evangelist Billy Graham has wound up his Madras visit after speaking to more than 100,000 Indians in a four-day series of meetings. His' largest audience--more than 50,000 persons--turned out for his final sermon Thursday. Graham speaks next' at Kottay- am, on the southwest tip of the Indian subcontinent, today and Saturday.

Fishermen Seek Longer Season, Minimum Prices VANCOUVER, F. Jan. 28, Delegates for more than 4,000 B. Washington and Alaska Fishermen met here yesterday to organize a fight for minimum halibut prices and a longer, more even fishing season. --The fishermen are obtain contracts similar to those which the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (Ind.) has with canneries In this province.

Homer Stevens, secretary oi the B. C. union, -said fishermen want to spread the season out and. eliminate the annual races to the halibut grounds which result in a glut. "A present the B.

C. halibut season lasts.only 20 days. In that time the fleet lands 26,000,000 pounds of fish. Prices drop and most of the catch has to be frozen. "If we can spread out fishing over a longer period, prices will be maintained at a more economic level and the public will get more fresh halibut" A Increasing- nick cloudiness this afternoon, beeominr partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and' Sunday.

The low tonight -18; high Sunday -5; low last night -28, high yesterday -L Temperature at noon today -IS. Sunrise Sunday, January 19, MS 3:22 Alaskan Experts Hold Symposium On Polio Problems Approximately 60 scientists from all over Alaska attended the second 'symposium on Arctic Radio Propagation at the University of Alaska geophysical institute Thursday. Dr. C. T.

Elvey, director of the institute, and Dr. C. Gordon assistant director, stated that the purpose of the symposium was to describe some of the new advances in radio propagation research and to enable the scientists to discuss mutual prob- lemi. Due to the large attendance, most of the- meetings were held in the Brooks Memorial Mines building. There were representatives from the federal communications commission, force, navy, civil aeronautics administration, national bureau of standards, Alaska communications system, and firms active in Arctic radio communications.

by the four-man commission last Saturday, late Friday said he is signing checks.again and they will begin to flow through the malls this morning. He the benefits section of the ESC agency wtyl work through the day processing the checks. Hedges decided to proceed as agent" of the commission after 'discussing the matter by telephone with ESC chairman Robert Jernberg of Ketchikan Hedges said he has' no other duties and his title of acting director has been removed from the name plate used to contersign the benefit checks. The: ESC agency meanwhile, is still without an administrative director, Money Tied Up In excess of $250,000 has been tied up by the dispute between the labor and management representatives on the commission. are 7,348 checks to be signed, Hedges'said.

He added that checks for Veterans and Federal 'employees would be held up temporarily, howeyer, because they' require a different processing- procedure and involve federal funds. Asked io Quit Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman stepped into the ESC dispute Friday and asked all four mem- hen to resign. The commission- eii.are Jernberg and Lyle Anderson of Anchorage, management representatives, and Bob Dixon of Fairbanks and John Van Heusen of Anchorage, labor members.

Late Jeraberg was reported by the Associated Press from Ketchikan as saying the governor's action "definitely is in the public interest." He said giving the governor an opportunity to name a new ESC commission would put the program "back on an even keeL" Liquor Dumping EUREKA, Jan. 28, State and federal agents of the Food and Drug administration are dumping a huge supply of wine and whisky, today, but they aren't saying where. They did away 'with three ruckloads of bear Thursday and didn't inform the thirsty about that either. How-come? during the holiday floods, ai tot of drinkables were- under water. The administration might have become contamroateir.

Brewers, vineyards and distillers offered to replace the stocks free. Fire Levels Cabin Owned By 'Ranger' Two trailer houses were hit by fire-In the Fairbanks area on Friday. A trailer and log cabin belonging to television performer Harold A. (Ranger Will) Willbanks was destroyed by flames. One occupied by Ladd Field airman James E.

Good damaged! Willbanks had just recently moved into town. His trailer home was unoccupied since last when he left a small stove burning in the attached cabin to the plumbing from freezing, he told the police. At about 10 p.m. Friday night motorists on the Richardson highway miles south of Fairbanks discovered that the roadside structure was burning. No fire equipment was available in that locality and the trailer and cabin burned to the ground.

Willbanks told police that the place was fully furnished and was valued at about $12,000. He -said that it was insured. Good's trailer house caught fire about 7:30 p.m. City firemen answering the call to the Model trailer court, where it was located, extinguished the blaze. Damage was held to burned walls and ceiling in-the front of the trailer near the stove.

Some scorching occurred outside the burned areas. Damages from the flames were listed by the fire department at. approximately $1,200. The structure was. not covered by insurance, firemen said.

The blaze was believed to have been caused by a small oil stove in the trailer. way today. Two SA-16's took off from Ladd early this morning for the Seward peninsula. Former Road Man General Noyel, who has headed the ANG since Sept. 1, 1953, was on an inspection of guard facilities throughout northern Alaska.

The 53-year-old former Alaska Road Commission chief makes his home in Juneau. Married, and the father of two sons, Noyes has been in and out of Alaska on military engineering assignments since 1926 and is well-known throughout the territory. Headed ARC He came north first as an officer in the regular army to take over duties with the Alaska Road Commission when it was under jurisdiction of the Department of the Army. He headed the ARC under Interior Department control between 1048 and 1951. Pan Am Cuts Gl's Fares WASHINGTON, Jan.

28, UP)-Pan said American yesterday World Airways it would slash roundtrip fares for military personnel between Pacific and Alaska areas and the United States from 10 to 30 per cent Feb. 26. Special Discount The 10 per cent discount will apply for travel between Hawaii and Alaska and the United States, the 30 per cent reduction will apply between U. S. possessions in the Pacific area, or countries in the Orient and Australia, and Hawaii or the mainland.

Pan American said savings under the new fares would total $25- on a Honolulu-San Francisco round trip, $233 between Guam and Los Angeles, $10 between Juneau and Seattle, $297 Manila- Portland, and $263 between Saigon and Honolulu. Similar Reduction Last week United Airlines offered a similar reduction for military personnel stationed in Honolulu, on round trip tickets to Los Angeles or San Francisco. United's special coach excursion fare for persons in uniform, over that route, effective Feb. 26 would be $225. Heinlzleman, Egan to Speak At Signing of Constitution final arrangements for the official signing of the proposed Alaska State Constitution were approved Friday afternoon by delegates to the constitutional convention.

Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman and William Egan, president of the convention, will be the speakers at the signing, scheduled Feb. 5. at 2 p.m.

in the gymnasium at the University of Alaska. Six printed documents and one land written, multi-sheath scroll will be signed by the 35 framers of the proposed constitution. The signing of -the constitution will take place after the Invoca- ion, the calling of the roll and he governor's speech. This will followed by a prayer of dedi- ation and an address by Egan. Last Page Available Only the last page of the hand written document will be avail- for signing, John Coghlll Nenana delegate and chairman of the administration committee, said.

The scribing will be done in Los Altos, by Warren W. Ferris, former chief designer and calligrapher of the government printing office. The scroll copy will be of folded parchment measuring 12 by 18 Parchment also will be used for the printed documents, of which 100 copies are being made. The text will be printed In double columns. Each delegate to the convention will receive a copy.

Convention delegates have decided to keep the ceremony simple. Only a few dignitaries will be seated on the platform. There will be no reserved seats. The spotlight, Coghill said, will be en the constitution, City News In Postal Visitor J. C.

Craig, industrial engineer for the post office department from Washington, D. C. is in Fairbanks today on a one-day visit Craig's trip to Alaska is in conjunction with a proposed change from canvas bags to paper sacks for carrying mail to and from the territory. The department has contemplated this switch for some time feeling it would effect a savings on shipping costs to use- a lighter weight material as a mail container. He will return to his Washington office tomorrow.

New AFL Plane Two veteran Alaska bush pilots, Bill Lavery and Dor Gilbertson. flew a new Canadian-made Beaver aircraft to Fairbanks late this week for use by Alaska Freight Lines in the Arctic. The plane was picked up in Ontario, Canada. Lavery is now living In Seattle but returned north to help ferry the plane for AFL. He formerly flew for AFL between Fairbanks and their "Cat" train operations in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic.

PAA Communicator T. 'R. (Ray) Runnels, communications technician for Pan American World Airways, is in Fairbanks from his Seattle office to Inspect communications facilities of the airline here. Runnells will fly to Juneau for an inspection Tuesday. He is communications superintendent for PAA's Alaska division.

FHA Man Here R. C. Magnusson, assistant director for the Federal Housing Authority In Alaska, is here from his Anchorage office." Magnusson, who will be in Fairbanks until early next week, is conferring with the local FHA director, Danny Walsh, and with directors of both local banks on FHA projects in" this area. Change In Arrival The charter flight bringing basketball fans home from Anchorage is scheduled to arrive at International Airport between 2:30 and 3 o'clock tomorrow after-noon, it was announced this morning. AAtTW Study Group The January study group of the AAUW will meet Monday at 8 p.m.

at the home of Mrs. Victor Hessler, University of Alaska, for a demonstration of weaving. Since space is limited, the committee suggests members planning to attend call Ellen Whitcher. "I'm gonna hafta take it easy this weekend. I'm plumb exhausted from worrying.

Been tryin' to figure out what to do this weekend.".