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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
vni.: LIV No. 38 NOMErALASKA, FRIDAyTmARCH 28, 1952 . Per Copy— In
U.S. Spending 167
Millions Daily
For Military
WASHINGTON, (/P) — If there
is no stepped up fighting in Korea
and no general war in the next
year, says Secretary of Defense
Lovett, the U.S. will spend 167
million dollars a day for mili
tary security until 1954.
After that expenditures can be
gin to taper off, he told Con
gress. But if military action in
i creases the cost will go still
higher.
He said the 52 billion dollars
in new funds requested by the
Defense Department for the fiscal
year starting July 1 was based on
the “calculated risk” of a status
quo.
It was reached, Lovett added
after paring down a 73 billion
dollar budget aimed at putting the
Army and Marines into “an ac
ceptable state of readiness” by
July 1, 1953, and at bringing the
Navy and Air Force to that state
later.
Naval Aviation Doing
More Shooting In Korea
Than In World War II
WASHINGTON, {A3) — It may
not be an official war, but naval
aviation is doing more shooting
in the Korean “police action’’ than
it did in the official war against
Japan.
Statistics on the part naval
aviation is playing in the present
disturbance were given the House
Appropriations Committee by Vice
Adm. John H. Cassady during
hearings on the 1953 Navy bud
get. The committee was told naval
aviation has “fired about half as
much ammunition, dropped two
thirds as many bombs and fired
more rockets than we did in the
entire Pacific war from 1941
through 1945.”
During the 19-month Korean
conflict period, he said, 309 Navy
planes were lost to enemy action,
all but one to ground fire.
Crippled Northwest DC-4
Lands At King Salmon
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — A char
tered Northwest airliner with 45
persons aboard landed safely at
King Salmon airport on the Alas
ka Peninsula Thursday after it
had los$ one of its four engines.
Bad weather in the Aleutians
prevented a scheduled landing at
Shemya Island, it was reported
here, and the big plane turned
back for King Salmon Wednes
day night.
Early Thursday, the crew ra
dioed the plane had lost an en
gine. A later message said the
ship flew the last 400 miles on
three engines and landed safely.
The DC-4 was chartered by
Northwest Airlines to the armed
forces.
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Air Force “Ice Islanders”
Signal Passing B-29
To Drop More Equipment
ANCHORAGE, {/P)—-“Party all
right. We plan be here some time.
Drop us new potbelly stove, low
range thermometer.”
This was part of a message re
ceived from three men on a float
ing ice island in the Arctic Ocean
about 90 miles from the North
Pole by the crew of an Air Force
B-29 Tuesday as it passed over
!he island on a regular flight to
the pole.
The ice islanders, who have
been living on a five-by eight
mile chunk of ice since March 19,
contacted the B-29, as it headed
for the pole, on a walkie-talkie,
their only means of communica
tion with the outside world.
They asked also that a C-47
scheduled to land on the island
within the next few days with
another scientist and a communi
cations man, bring as much equip
ment as possible.
The semi - permanent weather
camp is located on what has been
named Fletcher’s Island after Lt.
Col. Joseph O. Fletcher, veteran
Arctic explorer, who commands
the expedition.
The camp was set up with 30
days supplies on hand: More sup
plies and equipment will be
landed by a C-47 but the camp
will continue to be supplied main
ly by air drop.
CAA Conference To
Open Here Monday
CAA personnel began to arrive
today from the Alaska regional
office in Anchorage and from
nearby CAA stations in connec
tion with a management and
supervisory training conference to
be held here starting Monday,
March 31.
Station manager Robert L. Hall
stated that supervisory personnel
from the U. S. Weather Bureau
would also attend.
It is expected that Allen D.
Hulen, eighth region deputy ad
ministrator, will make the open
ing address. These conferences
are part of the management im
provement program initiated by
presidential order for all govern
ment agencies. Civil Aeronautics
Administration in Alaska has al
ready held conferences at Annette
Juneau and Kodiak and will hold
meetings soon at Fairbanks and
Anchorage.
Conference subjects on the pro
gram for the Nome meeting in
clude training, supervisor-em
ployee relations, utilization, work
mprovement methods, principles
Df management and conference
leadership. Leaders of the confer
ence will be District Supervisor
t. L. Thomas, Airways Engineer
Lansom B. Harvey and Electron
ics Maintenance Inspector Robert
V. Edlund. The meeting will be
conducted by Regional Training
I "“‘"icer F. M. B. Merrithew.
Name of MAFB
Officially Changed
To Nome Field
Marks Air Force Base is now
officially a thing of the past. From,
now on, it has been reported, the
U.S. Air Force base here will be
known as Nome Field. A military
spokesman stated that the change
has been made to avoid confusion
for planes landing on the Air
Force field.
The rise and fall of Marks Air
Force Base will be an interesting
chapter some day when historians
record how and why the base was
built during World War II and
how it was practically abandoned
—as far as protection is concerned
— by our military leaders who
placed 12,000 good Americans out
side the “perimeter of defense”
where they still remain.
Yes, here they remain, facing
the fact that in the event of
war warning stations throughout
the area will alert and prepare
our military forces to defend the
nation, but as for the 12,000 souls
in Northwestern Alaska — they
stand to be abandoned as no pro
tection is known to have been
planned for them. What will his
torians say about that?
Ranchers Avenge
Slaying Of Three
Neighbors
MERRIMAN, Neb., (A5) —Grim
Nebraska ranchers avenged the
killing of three neighbors Thurs
day by cornering the gunman in a
shed and firing bullet after bullet
until the triple-slayer cried out:
“I'm through. Come and get
me!"
The angry posse poured into the
building and dragged out 32-year
old Blaine Ellis, still clutching his
shotgun.
Mortally wounded, Ellis gasped
out the phrases “They bawled me
out" and “just the meanness in
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me.
Officers said it was the dying
man’s admission * that he killed
Mr. and Mrs. George Mensinger
and a neighbor, Deo Gardner,
Thursday morning.
Mensinger, 28, was the oper
ator of a 3,000 acre ranch five
miles south of Merriman. He was
killed by a shotgun blast through
the front doorway erf his farm
home. His wife, Elaine, 24, was
wounded but reached a telephone
and gave the alarm. Another shot
killed her and wounded her 10
month-old baby.
Gardner, 50 and another neigh
bor, Cliff McDonald, had started
for the Mensinger ranch when
they met the assailant. Gardner
was killed by a pistol shot and
McDonald wounded by a shotgun
blast.
Nine Men of ‘Ski Jump’
Marooned 700 Miles From
Barrow by Plane Mishap
SEATTLE, (/P)—Nine men in a
Navy polar expedition are ma
rooned on the ice 700 miles north
of Point Barrow, because of a
plane takeoff mishap, a Post In
telligencer correspondent reported
today.
The plane commander, Cmdr.
F. M. Ward, radioed expedition
headquarters that none of the
nine were injured and that they
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had food for four days. They have
shelter and plenty of gasoline for
fuel.
The dispatch from the Post-In
telligencer correspondent at Bar
row said the left landing gear of
the Navy plane collapsed on take
off from a station on the polar
ice cap. The Navy’s expedition,
called Ski Jump is establishing
two stations north of Barrow pre
paratory to landing a party on a
floating ice island near the North
Pole.
Comdr. V. J. Coley, heading
the expedition, said he expected
to fly to the stranded group’s
rescue Sunday after repairs are
made on another Navy plane that
encountered trouble previously.
Jonesville Coal Mine and
United Mine Workers
Agree on Alaska Contract
PALMER, Alaska, {JP) — The
Evans Jones coal mine at Jones
ville and the United Mine Work
ers of America have agreed to a
new contract establishing Alaska’s
first union welfare and retire
ment fund, a union official an
nounced Friday.
Irwin Doyle, president of UMW
Local 7901, said the agreement,
reached after a week of negotia
tions, provides $3.60 an hour pay
scfale for most of the 150 em
ployes of the mine. The pay in
crease is subject to approval by
the Wage Stabilization Board.
Doyle said the welfare and re
tirement fund will be financed by
a 30-cent per ton royalty to be
paid by the management. It will
provide pensions for widows and
for Evan Jones employes over 60
years of age who have qualifying
years of service, and also provide
hospitalization benefits for em
ployes and their families.
BANGKOK RADIO PLAYS
"MAN FROM MARS" SCARE
BANGKOK, Thailand, (/P) —
Bangkok had its “man from Mars”
scare Thursday night. A radio
broadcast warned “the world is
faced by calamity caused by dan
gerous rays from another planet.”
It was hours before many lis
teners learned that it was a fic
tion broadcast as part of a Thai
Royal Air Force anniversary cele
bration.
The story told of a mad scien
tist harnessing cosmic force to
destroy the earth.
Associates Say
Ike Will Resign
In May from NATO
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
Allied Powers in Europe, </P) —»
Among Allied officers at SHAPE
there is little doubt that their
boss, Gen. Eisenhower, will sub
mit his resignation shortly after
his annual report is published
next Wednesday.
The general himself has said
nothing of the sort, but staff of
ficers believe he would like / to
leave here some time during the
last two weeks of May, after tha
Oregon presidential primary.
To depart at that time, he like
ly would write his resignation
letter to President Truman—pro
bably to be submitted through
Defense Secretary Lovett — at
least a month before he leaves.
It would take that long for the
resignation to be approved by the
14 nations contributing to his Al
lied command, and to get their
approval for a successor.
Restaurant Prices Froze
At February 3-9 Level
WASHINGTON, </P) — Restau
rant meal prices have been frozen,
effective April 7, at their Feb. 3-9
level.
And operators must post by
April 25 the ceilings on their main
food and drink items.
The Office of Price Stabiliza
tion issued the order Thursday
night. It said restaurants could
change their prices up or down
only on OPS orders. These would
be based primarily on significant
changes in the Bureau of Labor
Statistics* monthly wholesale
food price index.
Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall
said he foresaw no general
changes in restaurant prices since
food costs are “fairly well stabil
ized.**
Kodiak Storm Damages
Aleutian Islands Mailboat
KODIAK, </P)—Repairs at sea
by crewmen during a heavy storm
with 80 mile winds averted a pos
sible sea tragedy for 27 crewmen
and passengers aboard the 150
f o o t Seward - Kodiak - Aleutian
chain mailboat Garland, it was
learned Friday.
The vessel radioed Coast Guard
headquarters here for help, re
porting it was drifting in heavy
seas south of Kodiak Island and
its steering gear was damaged.
It finally limped into Port Ali
tak, on the south end of Kodiak
Island. A Coast Guard cutter has
been ordered to escort the vessel
to Kodiak for repairs.
The Garland sails once a month
from Seattle on the 5,400 mile
voyage, is the only passenger ves
sel giving regular year ’round ser
vice west of Kodiak.
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