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VOL. LIII No. 128 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1951 _•_Per Copy—15r
Greyhound Bus
Careens Off
Bay Bridge
OAKLAND, Cal., (JP) — Seven
persons were smashed to death
and 21 others lay in hospital beds
today—most of them in serious
condition — after an incredibly
freakish bus disaster.
A Greyhound bus careened off
a ramp at the Oakland end of the
Bay Bridge and plunged 40 feet
to a railroad track below, just
before dawn Sunday.
Of the 29 persons aboard only
Air Force Lt. John R. Haber, 24,
* of Camp Stoneman, Calif., was
able to walk away from the hos
pital after treatment for minor
cuts and bruises.
Twelve of the injured were re
ported in critical condition.
The almost unbelievable se
quence started when a passenger
car knocked a huge hunk of
concrete onto the roadway less
than three minutes before the
ponderous bus hove into sight |
from the opposite direction.
The loaded bus, inbound for the j
Oakland bus depot after a night
run from Salt Lake City, smacked
the concrete block, blew a tire
and went out of control. It ripped
out a section of the stout retain
ing rail and fell into the dark
ness below.
It took an hour and 49 minutes
for rescuers to extricate the 28
passengers and the driver, who
was killed.
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Two Persons Perish In
Anchorage Restaurant Fire
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Fire de- ;
- stroyed Olivera’s restaurant yes- |
terday, claiming the lives of a
man and a woman who lived in
upstairs rooms.
Neither of the victims was
identified immediately.
Firemen said the man was
trapped in a narrow window
while trying to escape the flames.
The woman was found on the
floor of a room.
The owner of the restaurant,
Jay Kennedy, also was sleeping
in an upstairs room when the fire
broke out. He escaped by jump
ing to a low roof -and later was
hospitalized for treatment for
shock.
Fire Chief George Burns esti
mated the loss at $50,000, par
tially covered by insurance.
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1 Two Marine Officers
Awarded Congressional
Medal of Honor
v WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman today tendered the na- ;
tion’s highest award for heroes—
the Congressional Medal of Honor
t —to two 'young Marine officers
who achieved “incredible vic
tories” in the fighting in Korea.
The ceremony was in the rose
garden of the White House for
Majors Reginald R. Myers, 31, of
Poise, Idaho, and Carl L. Sitter,
29, of Pueblo, Colo.
Mr. Truman spoke of his “very
great pleasure” in being able to
help honor “two very brave
young men.” He has said he
would rather have the Congres
sional Medal of Honor than oc
cupy the White House.
Jack Benny Picketed But
Pickets Listen To Him
Via Portable Radio
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — They
picketed Jack Benny yesterday,
but while the pickets walked back
and forth on the sidewalk they
listened to the Jack Benny show
over a portable radio.
In addition to the radio, the
pickets carried a sign reading:
“Jack Benny patronizes the non
union Hillcrest Country Club.”
Officials of two AFL unions,
the Building Service Employes
and the Culinary Workers, said
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Benny has been crossing their
picket lines at the club. Benny is
a union man himself. He belongs
to the AFL Screen Actors Guild.
“We think he’s a great com
edian,” said Jack de Po of the
Service Union, “but he’s writing
at Hillcrest.”
Pickets Withdrawn!
From Oak Ridge
Atomic Project
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., (/P) —
Picket lines were withdrawn to
day from vital atomic plant con
struction projects on which work
had been halted by striking AFL
plumbers.
Leaders of the Plumbers’ Union
acting on orders from internation
al headquarters, called off the
pickets shortly before noon.
J. E. Hutton, business agent of
Plumbers—Local 103, said mem
bers of the union would meet
later in the day to decide whether
to return to work.
Hundreds of other AFL crafts
men had honored the picket lines,
which patrolled the gates to the
restricted plant area of this gov
ernment-owned city for the third
straight work day.
“We hope this means that the
strike is over,” an Atomic Energy
Commission spokesman said.
Judith Coplon, Convicted
Russian Spy, Expecting
Baby In February
NEW YORK, (/P)—Judith Cop
lon, former Justice Department
employe found guilty of spying
for Russia, is expecting a baby
in February.
The 29-year-old woman, who is
now Mrs. Albert H. Socolov, was
reported “feeling fine” Saturday
by her husband, who also is one
of her attorneys.
She is appealing a conviction
by a federal court in Washington
for removing secret government
documents with the intent of giv
ing them to Russia.
She was married after the con
victions.
Reds Arrest Nun For
Mistreatment Of Children
HONG KONG, (JP) — Catholic
sources said today Chinese Reds
have arrested a Canadian nun,
Sister Raymond Marie (Rose
Alma LaRose), on charges of
cruelty to orphans.
The 46-year-old nun is Sister
Superior of the Kweiyang Or
phanage in Kweichow Province.
She came to China 15 years ago.
U.N. Will Not
Consider Red’s
Buffer Proposal
MUNSAN, Korea., (/P) — The
United Nations made it “perfect
ly clear” to the communists that
their proposed Korean armistice
buffer zone cannot be considered
“any further.”
The official U. N. spokesman
said the Allied proposal for a
line generally along the present
battlefront was “not a flat take
it or leave it position,” the U.N.
is ready to make minor refine
ments or modifications.
The Allies want to establish
the buffer zone mostly in North
Korea along the present battle
line.
^he rejected communist pro
posal called for United Nations
withdrawals as much as 15 miles,
and Brig. Gen. Nuchols, official
U.N. spokesman, said, “tend to
leave U.N. forces in an exposed
position and therefore exposed to
a certain threat.”
Nuchols said the U.N. sugges
tion was “a realistic one” and
added “there is no fat on this
proposal that can be trimmed off
by compromise.” *
Maj. Gen. Henry Hodes, a sub
committee delegate, spelled out
the U.N. views on where the con
tact line was as of Friday mid
night. The communists agreed in
principle but found “certain dis
crepancies.”
Willingness of the communists
to discuss a line of contact in
dicated the Reds were prepared
to listen further to what the U.N.
had to say about a cease-fire line.
UMT Envisions
Training 800,000
American Youth
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Law
makers today predicted hot de
bate in Congress next year over
a government commission’s call
for Universal Military Training as
long-range protection in the “mor
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The new National Security
Training Commission’s blueprint
for UMT envisions eventual train
ing for 800,000 American youths
annually at a cost which could
run to more than $40 billions the
first year.
The commission urged that im
plementing legislation it recom
mended be approved “without
delay” when Congress reconvenes
next January. A start at the ear
liest practicable time is impera
tive, the commission declared, be
cause “the clear prospect is that
the present generation must live
in danger for many years.”
An enemy today can strike di
rectly at the United States by
sea or air, so “the American peo
ple must be prepared, like their
forebearers who pushed the fron
tier westward, to meet a savage
and deadly attack at any mo
ment.”
The commission said “the re
turn to frontier conditions de
mands a frontier response” to
have every physically and men
tally able youth 18 years old
trained for six months in the “art
of survival and self defense.”
Eisenhower’s Presidential
Plans Must Be Made
Known Early In Year
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower probably
will be advised soon that if he is
willing to become a candidate for
the Republican presidential nom
ination he should say so by Jan
uary.
Paul G. Hoffman, former head
of the Economic Cooperation Ad
ministration, has indicated in con
ferences with Republican of
ficials here he plans to carry such
word to the general shortly.
Senator Duff (R-Pa), scheduled
for a visit to Gen. Eisenhower’s
Paris headquarters in the next
few weeks, said in a week-end
radio* broadcast that the general’s
plans “will have to be very un
qualifiedly known very early in
the year.”
Gov. Dewey Terms
Intra-Union Dock
Strike “Intolerable'
NEW YORK, (/P>—A big squad
of stevedores edged their way
onto a strike-bound pier today,
while some 200 policemen held
back a surging, angry throng of
some 250 pickets.
Some 100 non-strikers, support
ers of AFL longshore boss Joseph
Ryan, filtered hastily past the
massed pickets at pier 90 on the
Hudson River where the Queen
Elizabeth is docked.
The pickets shouted strong
taunts, but there was no violence.
The back-to-work maneuver
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was only isolated, however, and
left the rest of the vast waterfront
here—except for military piers—
closed tight. A total of 123 ships
were strike-bound.
In Albany, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey said it was “intolerable”
that an intra-union fight should
tie up the docks, and ordered the
state mediation board to step into
the dispute.
ANG Ends First
Training Session
In Far North
WASHINGTON, (>P) — The
Alaska National Guard, with two
battalions of Eskimo Scouts, are
winding up their first field train
ing session in the far north terri
tory where an enemy might seek
to invade by stelath.
The Defense Department, issu
ing an account of the battalions’
personnel and operations, noted
Saturday that the Eskimo Scouts
“are on duty virtually the clock
around,” even when no formal
maneuvers are under way.
“They are expected to observe
unusual movements on incidents
of possible significance and they
maintain their vigilance virtually
on a 24-hour, seven day a week
basis,” the statement said.
Most of the Scouts are Eskimo
hunters, trappers and fishermen
from the western and northern
areas of Alaska who earn their
living — and at the same time
maintain a vital watch—on the
very frontier of the North Ameri
can continent, the 2,200 miles of
rugged coastline along the Bering
Sea and Arctic Ocean.
Flash of Medium
A-Bomb Visible
For 225 Miles
LAS VEGAS, Nev., </P) — The
United States now has at least
three arrows to its atomic strong
bow.
Joining the select company of
the large A-bomb and the baby
A-bomb yesterday was a medium
sized weapon which gave off a
brief, brilliant freakish cloud ef
fect in another test by the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The moderate, by comparison,
bomb was dropped by a B-29 in
a daylight demonstration yester
day morning.
Unlike the pallid baby blast last
Monday, yesterday’s detonation
caused a rumble heard as far
away as Bigibear, Calif., 225
miles away, and St. George, Utah,
130 miles off. An aviator flying
at about 11,000 feet over Kaibab
Forest, Utah, reported seeing the
flash some 200 miles distant. It
also was widely seen in Las
Vegas and other southern Nevada
communities but was felt by com
paratively few persons. There was
no damage reported.
Yesterday’s bomb—unofficially
the 19th major nuclear explosion
by the U.S.—flashed white, then
glowed red for perhaps two sec
onds before sending up a column
of smoke and the familiar atomic
mushroom.
Changing through various
colors from grey to purple to
brown to pink, the nuclear cloud
assumed a “V” shape which
stretched widely across the sky
before it finally disintegrated
three hours after the blast. At
its peak, the cloud rose to prob
ably 10,000 feet and attained a
width of nearly 50 miles.
KOREAN SITUATION
U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea (/P)—Scream
ing Chinese communists three
times today charged a Allied-held
hill mass southeast of Kumsong
but failed to regain the positions
Allied foyes took three days ago.
Whooshing mortar fire pounded
Allied infantrymen as the Reds
rolled down a slope facing the
U.N.-held hills on the central
front.
Between 80 and 90 communist
jets were sighted Monday over
northwest Korea 'but a Fifth Air
Force officer said the Reds were
n’t aggressive and went out of
their way to avoid tangling with
our pilots. Red ground fire, how
ever, knocked two Allied planes
out of the air. There was no
chance of the pilots surviving the
Air Force said.
Dionne Quints Greet
Elizabeth and Philip
NORTH BAY, Ont., (JP) —
Decked out in trim new suits, the
Dionne quintuplets greeted Prin
cess Elizabeth and the Duke of
Edinburgh here today.
Marie, Annettte, Cecile, Emilie
and Yvonne, now 17, curtsied for
the princess during a brief stop
over on the royal tour.
Most of North Bay’s 18,500 resi
dents and thousands from the sur
rounding area were present to
greet Elizabeth and Philip, too.
They are enroute to Montreal.