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May Settle
Buffer Zone
Deadlock
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) —United
Nations delegates suggested today
i that a subcommittee be set up to
break through the formality of
Korean truce negotiations and at
tempt to settle the buffer zone
deadlock.
Red delegates showed interest,
a U.N. spokesman said.
Simultaneously, U.N. command
headquarters in Tokyo announced
that the Allies, if necessary, will
continue “destroying or driving
out of Korea” the Red Chinese
and Korean armies.
At Kaesong the chief U.N. dele
gate, Vice Adm. Joy proposed
seating the committee in an air
of informality.
He proposed the subcommittee
“meet around rather than across
the table.” They would thus es
cape “the formality of utterances”
which he said contributed to the
three-week-old dispute over
^ where to place a military dividing
line across Korea that would sep
arate opposing armies during an
armistice.
Both delegations appeared more
cheerful than usual when they left
the meeting place, and newsmen
on the scene hinted the Beds
might be willing to discuss a de
marcation line based on the pres
ent battle front, as the Allies de
mand.
Third Riot In 3 Months
At Utah Penitentiary
POINT-OF- THE - MOUNTAIN,
^ ¥ Utah, (/P)—The third riot in as
many months at Utah’s new
multi-million dollar prison was
put down without bloodshed yes
terday.
And as it ended with the re
lease of two prison officers who
had been held hostage under
threat of death most of the day,
embattled state officials announ
ced a new and tougher era at
the institution where 472 inmates
are housed.
The State Board of Corrections
% ordered that all men be confined
to their cells. “Only those who
have definite work assignmentsI
will be allowed to leave their
quarters at any time—except on
signed permission of the warden,”
said the board statement.
The uprising ended when Jos
^ eph W. Dudler, State Commis
sioner of Public Safety and Super
intendent of the Highway Patrol,
conferred with the rioting pri
/ soners.
Allies Have Plans
Which Should Deter
Soviet Aggression
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
House Foreign Affairs Committee
said today the Allies have plans
‘which should deter Soviet aggres
sion or defeat it if launched.”
A committee report said details
^ of the plans were given to the
t group at secret hearings on the
administration’s $8,500,000,000 for
eign aid program.
While optimistic on the eventual
outcome, the committee warned
that any war would be a long
one.
Four Nome Girls Attend
Civil Air Patrol Cadet
Camp Near Anchorage
The first four girls from the
Civil Air Patrol Cadets, to take
part in the summer encampment,
left yesterday for the CAP Cadet
camp for girls at Willow, Alaska.
Capt. V. Stone, CAP liaison of
ficer, made the flight from Anch
orage headquarters to take the
girls to the camp, which is near
Anchorage.
Those attending the two weeks
encampment are Jerry and Ruth
Fagerstrom, Joan Longley, and
Ruth Nershak.
The boys who are members of
the CAP Cadets are scheduled to
leave this week-end for two weeks
at McChcrrd Field, near Tacoma,
Washington. It is reported that
ten boys are scheduled to take
advantage of this wonderful op
portunity. Several of the boys
have never been away from Nome.
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At Least 11 Die As
B-50 Crashes Into
Apartment House
SEATTLE, (JP)—Charred, smol
dering rubble and melted metal
marked the pyre today where at
least 11 persons were consumed in
gasoline-fed flames spewed out
from a crashed B-50 Air Force
bomber.
Those who lived remembered
the hot breath of death that swept
through a hillside apartment
house into which the medium
bomber plunged Monday after
noon, moments after taking off
on a routine check-crut flight.
Dozens of persons in Seattle’s
south end industrial section saw
the doomed plane suddenly lose
altitude from 700 feet up and veer
off sharply to the right.
A wing dipped violently, the
B-50 flicked against the side of a
brewery, then plowed into the
frame and brick Lester Apart
ments on the hill behind.
Six of the dead were members
of the plane’s crew—three Air
Force men and three flight ana- j
lysts from the nearby Boeing Air
plane Company, maker of the
B-50. The other five known vic
tims were dwellers in the 49
unit apartment house whose en
tire north end was destroyed.
Firemen probed the still-hot
debris until midnight, searching
for the remains of others who
might have been trapped in the
inferno touched off by* the plane’s
3,500 gallons of high test gasoline
and 300 gallons of oil.
Votes Alabama Town
Dry By Mistake
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., </P)—'The
blushing city commission, which
accidentally voted Birmingham
dry last week, have made the
town legally wet again.
The commission had intended
to outlaw only drinking of Bay
Rum, paint remover, and other
“skid row” substitutes for alco
holic beverages. City attorneys
discovered, several hours too late,
that the resolution covered too
much territory.
A carefully drawn law which
rectified the error was passed
yesterday.
Matanuska Valley
Claim Laid Before
Claim Commission
WASHINGTON, '(/P) — Indians
who once roamed the rich Mata
nuska Valley in Alaska, want the
government to pay for their being
deprived of it.
The claim of the Indians, now
living at Palmer, Alaska, was the
last filed with the Indian Claims
Commission before a deadline
Monday.
Like many of the claims, it
specified no specific amount, leav
ing that to the Claims Commis
sion. That body has until April,
1957, to clear up the 645 cases
pending before it.
The Palmer Indians contend
they have been deprived of the
continued use of the Matanuska
Valley lands and adjoining waters
on which they formerly lived.
Their claim, filed by William H.
Olsen, Anchorage attorney, was
submitted through the Interior
Department’s Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Officials estimated the Indian
claims for all of the United States
and Alaska may total 15 billion
dollars.
A five-year period in which
they could file their claims against
the government expired Monday.
In all, 645 claims were put be
fore the Indian Claims Commis
sion.
John D. Rockefeller, 77,
Marries Widow, 56
NEW YORK, >(/P) — John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., 77-year-old multi
millionaire, and Mrs. Martha Baird
Allen were married today in Pro
vidence, R. I., it was announced
here.
The bride, who is 56, was the
widow of Arthur M. Allen, a
prominent Providence lawyer and
a classmate of Rockefeller’s at
Brown University. She is a for
mer concert pianist.
Rockefeller was attended by his
son, John D., 3rd. Two other sons,
Nelson and David also were pres
ent.
Rockefeller, like his father is
identified with philanthropy.
The two' together have made
capital gifts of more than $725,
000,000. Gifts by the son alone
exceed $200,000,000.
The personal wealth of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., has been esti
mated at between $250,000,000
and $400,000,000.
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TUESDAY RESULTS
National League
New York 4—Brooklyn 2
Boston 4—Philadelphia 2
Chicago 5—St. Louis 4
American League
Cleveland 6—Detroit 1
Boston 7—Philadelphia 4
New York €—Washington 3
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4—Sacramento 1
Portland 7—San Diego 4
Hollywood 7—Oakland 6
Los Angeles 6—San Francisco 2
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Spurlocks Transferred
To Portland Office of
Alaska Airlines
i
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spurlock,
who have been in charge of Alas
ka Airlines operations here, have
announced their transfer to the
new Portland office.
Their many friends are reluc
tant to see them leave but are glad
that their good work here has
been rewarded with the advance
ment to a larger post.
Their home, on First Ave. has
been purchased by Boyd Harwood.
Their successor will be announced
at the end of the week, according
to Paul Spurlock.
Douglas Refuses
Dem. Nomination
For President
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senator
Douglas CD-Ill) said today he will
not be a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for president.
Douglas asked withdrawal of
petitions being circulated in Ore
gon to place his name on the
ballot for next May’s presidential
primary there.
Monroe Sweetland, Oregon
State Democratic chairman, said
after a White House conference
with President Truman that a
petition was being circulated to
place the name of Douglas on the
ballot.
Sweetland said he told Mr. Tru
man that there is “overwhelming”
sentiment among Oregon Demo
crats for the president to seek
re-election. He said Mr. Truman
“listened” but gave no hint of his
plans.
This byplay brought an asser
tion from Senator Brewster
(R-Me) that if the president will
make it clear he wants the Demo
cratic nomination, the Republi
cans will pick Senator Taft CR
Ohio) as his opponent.
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House Advocates
Severance Commercial
Relations Czechoslovakia
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
House today unanimously advo
cated immediate severance of
i
commercial relations with Czecho
slovakia until William N. Oatis is
freed from a Prague jail.
By a standing vote of 231 to 0
the chamber passed and sent to
the Senate a resolution expressing
the sense of Congress that such
action should be taken.
It then ordered a roll-call vote
to confirm the standing count.
Deleted from the resolution was
an earlier provision advocating
eventual severance of diplomatic
ties with Czechoslovakia if Oatis
isn’t freed in 90 days.
Shortages May Completely
Halt Auto Production
DETROIT, (P)—Possibility of a
complete halting of auto produc
tion because of materials short
ages is suggested by Ward’s Auto
motive Reports in its current is
sue.
The publication says a “com
plete standstill” may come in
early October “following a grad
ual shutdown of component-fur
nishing departments and vendors
during the final weeks of Sep
tember.
William Randolph
Hearst to be Buried
In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, in death,
was back today in the city by the
Golden Gate where he began his
sensational newspaper career.
Accompanied by four of the five
sons who have followed him in
the newspaper profession, the
famed publisher’s body was flown
from Beverly Hills, where Hearst
died yesterday at the age of 88. A
series of cerebral strokes endedi
his life.
Funeral arrangements were
awaiting the arrival from New
York of his widow, Mrs. Millicent
Willson Hearst, who is accompan
ied by a fifth son, John.
Hearst’s 57 - page typewritten
will already has been filed for
probate in Los Angeles. His wid
ow was left $1,500,000 in cash and
the income from a $6,000,000 trust
fund.
Former screen actress Marion
Davies, in a codicil dated Aug. 15,
1947, was bequeathed the publish
er’s Beverly Hills home but a
codicil, dated Sept. 8, 1948, re
voked the request without ex
planation.
His five sons are to get enough
preferred stock to realize an an
nual income erf $150,000 to be
added to 100 shares of common
stock in the Hearst Corporation.
Slayer Awaiting Execution
Escapes From Death House
CHICAGO, (/P)—A rapist and
slayer awaiting electrocution,
beat a guard to death and es
caped over the wall of the Cook
County jail last night.
Police ordered to “shoot to kill’'
were combing the city today for
the fugutive, Harry Williams, 20
years old, six foot, two inch Negro
who had been sentenced to die
Sept. 14 for murder. He is armed
with the riot gun of the guard he
killed.
Threat That Russian Subs
May Enter Korean War
Revealed by Navy Sec.
WASHINGTON, (^—Secretary
of the Navy Kimball believes the
Russians may throw submarines
into the Korean war if the Kae
song truce talks fail.
“It’s a very real threat and
we’re alive to it,” he said last
night in a radio interview. He ex
pressed the view that the threat
of Soviet submarine intervention
is greater than the threat of in
creased Red air power.
320 Korea Casualties
WASHINGTON, {^ — Announ
ced U.S. battle casualties in Ko
rea reached 80,750 today, an in
crease of 320 since last week. This
is the lowest weekly increase
since the first weekly summary
was issued last Aug. 7.
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Senator
Douglas (D-Ill) thinks % President
Truman “is underneath the mis
tletoe” and “in a position to be
kissed”—for reelection in 1952.
That’s the way Douglas an
swered a reporter who asked if
he thought Mr. Truman would be
running again for the presidency.