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VOL. LIV No. 23_ t NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1952 Per Copy—15.
Gen. MacArthur
Does Not Support
Ike's Candidacy
(By the Associated Press>
Gen. Douglas MacArthur is on
record Friday that he does not
support Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower “for political office.”
And, he said in a statement
issued in New York Thursday, he
has no* personal hatred of Presi
dent Truman.”
“My criticism of the present ad
ministration are much more fun
damental,” MacArthur added.
“They go to the grave issues in
volving the ideals, stability and
security of the nation.”
He said he has a warm per
sonal feeling for Eisenhower, but:
“I do not support his candidacy
as I have no slightest knowledge
of his political beliefs or his
views on many grave issues which
now confront our nation.”
Harold Stassen, addressing the
New York City Republican Club,
ripped into government corrup
tion, asked Congress to look into
the source of Attorney General
McGrath’s “accumulated wealth,”
and said he felt Taft had the
“poorest chance” of all Republi
cans to win the nomination.
Asked about Stassen’s refer
ence to unconfirmed rumors that
McGrath had become a million
aire while in public office, the
attorney general said he “has no
desire and there is no necessity
to comment beyond thanking
candidate Stassen for the com
pliment.”
Navy Rescues Burned
Couple From Island
KODIAK, Alaska — A Navy
passenger plane R4D made a suc
cessful landing on the beach of
Chirikof Island Thursday and
evacuated Mr. and Mrs. Len All
mon both suffering from facial
burns received from a kerosene
refrigerator explosion.
The patients, sole inhabitants of
this tiny island were flown to
the naval station at Kodiak
where they were taken to the
Kodiak Griffin Memorial Hospit
al. Condition of the couple was
not announced.
The Navy passenger plane was
piloted by former Pacific North
ern Airlines flier Lt. Max Roush
man, USN.
Although badly burned, Mr.
and Mrs. Allmon stationed them
selves at each end of the 4000
foot beach and directed the Navy
plane in for the landing.
Yale Honors Son Of
k. Former Alaska Governor
SEATTLE, (/P) — Hugh P.
Brady, son of the late John G.
Brady, one-time governor of Al
aska, has been awarded the Yale
medal in ceremonies at New
Haven, Conn., for outstanding
service to the school. He was one
of 15 recipients of the award
given the first time this year in
connection with Yale’s 250th an
niversary.
Brady, a wholesale lumberman
and a graduate of the class of
1914, is a past president of the
Seattle Yale Club. *
Alaska Statehood Bill
Scheduled For Vote
Next Wednesday
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
question o*f Alaskan statehood
marked time in the Senate today
as both sides prepared to rally
their forces for an all-out drive
next week.
The statehood legislation is
scheduled to come to a vote next
Wednesday on a motion that it
be sent back to committee for
hearings.
Senator Magnuson (D - Wash)
said statehood for the territory is
a necessity if Alaska is to be
developed by anything but “some
sort of socialism or government
ownership.”
Senators Hendrickson (R-NJ)
and Murray (D-Mont) also en
dorsed the legislation.
The New Jersey senator said
the lawmakers have a “solemn
obligation” to support the bill
because of endorsement given
statehood in the platforms of the
two major political parties.
He told the Senate arguments
against admission of Alaska “can
not withstand cold logic.”
The Senate was told in a letter
by Acting Secretary of Defense
William C. Foster that Alaska’s
strategic importance makes its de
fense “mandatory” and that de
fense could be strengthened by
statehood.
Truce Negotiators
Exchange Compromise
Package Deals
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Allied
and communist truce negotiators
offered each other compromise
package deals on troop rotation
and ports of entry Friday.
Each side said “No.”
But their differences were nar
rowed to only one port, of entry
and 5,000 men in the monthly ro
tation ceiling.
Originally the difference was
nine port of entry and 70,000 men.
Once again the U.N. rejected
the Reds’ nomination of Soviet
Russia as a member of the neu
tral inspection commission.
Repercussions of the commun
ist-led riot which left 69 Koreans
dead and 142 wounded in an
Allied compound for civilian pri
soners were expected in the ^uce
talks on prisoner exchange.
Observers said Red delegates
probably would try to use the
Koje Island incident as a lever
to get their own way in the deli
cate negotiations for exchanging
prisoners and displaced civilians.
SIX BIDS RECEIVED BY CAA
FOR AIR TERMINALS AT
ANCHORAGE. FAIRBANKS
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Six bids
covering a wide dollar range were
received by the Civil Aeronautics
Administration Monday for ter
minal buildings at Anchorage and
Fairbanks International airports.
Lump-sum bids on the An
chorage basic project ranged from
a bid of $1,589,000 by the Carson
Construction Company to $1,806,
854 by Birch-Lytle-Green.
Pacific Construction Co. was
low at $706,000 on lump-sum bids
on the Fairbanks basic project,
followed by Boen Sealand at
$776,000 and Birch-Lytle-Green,
$993,660.
Stan McCutcheon
Promises 2nd Div.
Judge “Very Soon”
Stanley McCutcheon, National
Democratic Committeeman, met
with the Second Division Com
mittee Wednesday evening in an
endeavor to get the immediate
appointment of a judge for the
Second Division.
Mr. McCutcheon told the com
mittee that the “Third Division
was most vigorously opposed to
consolidation of the Second and
Third Divisions.” He stated that
now that Alaska was on the
threshold of statehood, it was no
time to talk about reducing any
part of governmental set-up. Now
is the time to plan for the future
and the development that is
bound to come, he said.
McCutcheon, when interviewed,
denied any ambition to seek the
judgeship for himself and said
the Second Division could be sure
that an appointment would be
announced very soon.
Taft and Radio
Commentator In
TV Argument
NEW YORK, (/P) — Sen. Taft
accused commentator Tex Mc
Crary of calling him a liar on.
a television program Thursday
night.
The audience booed and cheered
as the two men exchanged hot
words over a passage relating to
President Truman in Taft’s re
cent book, “A Foreign Policy For
Americans.” The argument was
on the Dumont Network program
“Author Meets the Critic.”
In the book, McCrary said, the
senator “was careless with the
truth.” To back up his contention,
McCrary said the senator was
wrong when he said President
Truman had not conferred with
Congress on the Korean war for
weeks after its outbreak. Mc
Crary said the President had
talked with nine Democratic and
five Republican senators “within
61 hours” after the conflict
started.,
Taft said his own statement was
correct “because 14 senators are
not the Senate of the United
States,” and added:
“You have called me a liar
when you first opened this pro
position, and I want you to with
draw that statement.”
The studio audience broke out
with boos and cheers and had to
be quieted before the program
could continue.
McCrary then quoted Taft as
saying in his book that “power
without foresight leads to dis
aster.” He said Taft has proclaim
ed himself for the Marshall
Plan “once the Russian threat
was apparent.”
Adding that Taft had tried,
sometimes successfully, to cut
Marshall Plan fund§, from 1947
to 1950, McCrary asked:
“Senator, when did the Russian
threat become apparent to you?”
“You are saying I was against
the Marshall Plan,” Taft replied.
“I’m saying that I think it could
have done as much good on half
the money.”
Non-Skeds Propose Govt.
Provide Transport Planes
On Reserve Basis
.WASHINGTON, </P) — The
presidents of some 50 independent
or non-scheduled airlines today
agreed to ask Congress for de
velopment by the government of
large transport-type aircraft.
These planes would be leased
to airline operators, with half the
profits from their operation to be
returned to the government os
rentals or installments on pur
chase.
The group, members of the Air
eoach Transport Association, pro
posed that to be eligible to take
part in this program, an airline
must have 75 per cent of its op
erating personnel as members of
the organized reserves.
Said Amos E. Heacock, associa
tion president:
“Under this bill, the military
would have a mobilized airlift re
serve which would be brought
into action in event of a national
emergency, simply by issuing the
proper orders.”
The association, concluding a
four-day meeting, blasted “un
scrupulous” independent ticket
agents “who have cast discredit
on the independent aircraft in
dustry.”
♦
Free Transportation in
U.S. & Canada Not Wrong,
Declares Churchill
LONDON, (JP)—Prime Minister
Churchill stoutly denies he did
wrong by accepting free rides on
steamships and trains during his
January visit to the United States
and Canada.
He said Wednesday in the
House of Commons, “The gifts
and services of the Cunard
(Steamship) Company, as well as
those of the United States and
Canadian railways, were not to
ministers but to the British tax
payers.” Conservative supporters
backed him up with loud cheers.
He was hitting back at oppo
sition charges that he failed in his
duty by “the acceptance of gifts
from commercial undertakings.”
The value of the boat rides
given Churchill and Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden was 1,752
pounds ($4,905). The train trips
cost considerably less.
(In New York, spokesmen for
the New York Central and Penn
sylvania Railways said all their
bills had been —or would be —
paid by the British delegation to
the United Nations or reimbursed
by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Giving free transportation, they
said, violates Interstate Commerce
Commission regulations.
LAND BETWEEN FAIRBANKS
AND BIG DELTA TO BECOME
AVAILABLE THIS YEAR
FAIRBANKS, (£>)—Land in the
Harding and Birch Lakes vicinity,
between Fairbanks and Big Delta,
is due to become available this
year to persons wanting to claim
small tracts for summer homes.
Fred Weiler, District Land Of
fice manager, announced the new
policy. At present, public land
closer than a quarter mile to the
Richardson Highway is not avail
able.
Reds,Lead Riot
In Korean Civilian
Prison Camp
PUSAN, Korea, {IP) — Combat
hardened troops of the U.S. 27th
Wolfhound regiment smashed a
Communist-led riot in a Korean
civilian prisoner compound Mon
day. The fight left 70 dead and
165 injured.
Announced American casualties
were one killed, one wounded
and 22 injured slightly. The other
69 dead and 152 injured were in
terned Korean civilians.
U.S. authorities said the rioters
attacked with a vicious array of
homemade weapons — steel pick
ets, blackjacks, iron pipe, metal
tent pole spikes, barbed wire
flails, wooden clubs, rocks and
knives.
About 1,500 of the 5,000 Korean
civilians in Compound No. 62 on
Koje stormed in a screaming mob
•against the U.S. guards. Author
ities said no Communist prisoners
of war took part in the outbreak.
A high ranking officer said the
compound was filled with “the
worst kind of Communists.”
Most of the prisoners, the of
ficer said, were South Korean
civilians who had been impressed
into service by the Reds during
their penetrations south of paral
lel 38.
The Eighth Army said the riot
was Communist planned and led.
“Carefull organization and
planning were evident in the col
lection of weapons manufactured
for this assault,” the army said.
U. S. ‘Colonization’
Of Japan Protested
By Tokyo Crowds
TOKYO, (JP) — Thousands of
Japanese demonstrated against
the “colonization” of Japan by
the United States Thursday. Four
teen policemen were injured as
violence erupted in Tokyo, Kyodo
News Agency reported.
Kyodo said Japanese commu
nists designated Thursday as
“Anti-Colonization-of-Japan Day”
and organized demonstrations
protesting “American interfer
ence.”
The injured policemen were
stoned by 400 demonstrators in
the Omori district, Kyodo said.
Three hundred students and
workers clashed with 300 police
in a northwestern suburb.
Alaska Broadcasting
System Plans $100,000
Improvements This Year
SEATTLE, (/P)—Plans for im
provements costing a total of
about $100,000 at three Alaska
radio stations were announced
today by William J. Wagner,
president of Alaska Broadcasting
System.
Wagner said all the projects
are subject to Federal Communi
cations System approval. Work is
scheduled to start as soon as the
FCC approves, and o be com
pleted by next fall.
The stations involved are: at
Fairbanks, KFRB; Juneau, KINY;
and Ketchikan, KTF^N.