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Company Official
Reveals Uranium
Found Near Nome
BOSTON, (/P)—A United States
Smelting Company official said
today a ufew samples” of ura
nium-containing ore has attracted
the interest of its Nome office.
An Alaska prospector brought
in the samples. An official cau
tioned that “a few hunks doesn’t
necessarily mean a deposit.” But
he said the concern is so anxious
to find uranium that its Nome of
fice is sending an engineer out for
a check as soon as 'the ground is
dear of snow, toward the end of
June.
The comment from the company
officials came after he was asked
about reports in Alaska mining
drcles in Seattle that a good ura
nium strike might have been
made.
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The local manager, Carl Glav
inovich, had no statement to make
at press time today as to where
the U. S. Smelting was interested.
Maragon Sentenced
Jail In Connection
45-Percenter’ Probe
WASHINGTON, (iP) — John
Maragon, who used to be a fre
quent caller at the White House,
went to jail today for lying in the
Senate’s “five percenter” inquiry
nearly two* years ago.
The one-time Kansas City boot
black is due to serve an eight to
24 month sentence. He went off
to jail after Federal District Judge
Jennings Bailey turned down a
plea that the sentence be sus
pended.
Maragon, who once was a friend
of President Truman’s military
aide, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughn,
heard his lawyers plea for mercy
with bowed head. His wife and
son, who is serving in the Air
Force, sat among the spectators.
Maragon’s attorney told the
judge that the Senate investigat
ing committee which made ‘the
five percenter inquiry, “was shoot
ing at turkeys and bagged a spar
row.”
Five percenters are those per
sons who charge a fee—usually
five per cent — for representing
others in business dealings with
the government.
23 Sailors Missing
After Shore Boat
Capsizes In Storm
NEWPORT, R. I., (/P)—Twenty
three men are missing after the
launch capsizing in which two
sailors perished yesterday, the
Navy said today.
“Several” of the missing, how
ever, may simply have overstayed
their leave the Navy said.
Twenty-six men were hospital
ized, four critically injured after
a 50-foot launch went down in
a howling northeaster Thursday.
The two men were lost in the
cold and churning seas as ship
mates from other launches dived
overboard to try to aid them. i
Bradley Upholds Truman
Firing MacArthur But
Objects to “Method”
WASHINGTON, (JP) — General
Bradley told Senators Thursday
he thinks President Truman was
right in firing Douglas MacArthur
but the “method” of doing “prob
ably could have been handled bet
ter.”
This implied criticism of the
summary fashion in which Mac
Arthur was dismissed, came at a
session with Senate investigators
in which Bradley also:
1. Disclosed that total U.S. cas
ualties in Korea—both battle and
non-battle—'total 1*1,955. This in
cludes 72,679 non-battle casualties
and 69,276 combat casualties, with
10,680 listed as killed in action
and 612 dead of non-combat
causes.
Non-combat casualties are those
resulting from such things as ac
cidents and illness. In this case,
it includes also the frost-bite vic
tims of last winter’s cold.
2. Testified the North Atlantic
Treaty nations “do not have the
capability, right now, of stopping
an aggression by Russia.”
3. Said that while Iran is a
danger point he is “not too sure
the Russians are going to start
something in Iran before they
start it somewhere else.”
4. Declared that in his opinion
the issue Of whether to admit Red
China to the United Nations
! should have no place in negoti
ating a settlement of the Korean
war.
Alaska Salmon Industry
Offers Fishermen 16 Pet.
Raise Over Last Year
j KETCHIKAN, (/P)—'The Alaska
| Salmon Industry upped the ante
to the International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s Union,
Affiliated Salmon Seiners Union
yesterday.
The industry offered 47 cents
each for pink salmon—predomin
ant species in Southeastern Alaska
—which is a 16 per cent increase
over last year’s 40 cents. The offer
also included:
Churns—70 cents each compared
with 60 cents last year; cohoes—
90 cents compared with 80; reds—
$1.03 compared with 90 cents; and
kings—$2.30 compared with $1.05.
I At A Glance ...
(By the Associated Press)
KOREAN FRONT—United Na
tions troops push four miles in
side Red Korea in hot pursuit Of
retreating Communists. Lt. Gen.
! Van Fleet says Allies now en
I gaged in all-out offensive. Visit
I task force blocking fleeing Reds
! north of border and says rapid
| pursuit tactics paying off in crush
ing enemy. General U! N. advance
meeting with only scattered resist
ance in west and west-central sec
tors. Opposition stiffer in East
where enemy fighting bitter rear
guard action.
MIDDLE EAST — Iranian pre
mier says any western attempt to
stop oil nationalizaition in Iran will
bring world to brink of new war.
Britain announced dispatch of
parachute brigade to Cyprus,
within easy range of troubled oil
area.
U. S. Hints First
Tests Made Of
Hydrogen Bomb
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
United States hinted today it has
made first tests of some kind of
a hydrogen bomb—perhaps Off a
“baby bomb” variety — and said
they were successful. ,
The language of the announce
ment was guarded. But it seemed
to indicate that this nation is at
least well on the way to perfect
ing the most powerful weapon the
world has ever known.
Announcing that a series of
atomic tests had been “success
fully carried out” at the super
secret Eniwetok proving grounds
in mid-Pacific, the Atomic Energy
Commission and the Defense De
partment in a joint statement de
clared:
“The test program included ex
periments contributing to thermo
nuclear weapons research.”
“Thermonuclear weapons”
means hydrogen bombs.
There was nothing in the an
nouncement to indicate whether or
not a hydrogen bomb of any ap
preciable size had been detonated
but it is reasonable to speculate
that at least a small amount of
hydrogen material was “wrapped
around” a regular a-bomb of the
uranium or plutonium type.
An a-bomb would be necessary
to provide the tremendous heat
necessary to set off a hydrogen
“fusion” reaction.
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Olaf Halverson Sets
Unusual 20-Year Record
Of Perfect Attendance
Olaf Halverson, High School
principal of Nome Public School
I has completed this 20th year of j
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teaching with an unusual perfect
attendance record. Mr. Halverson i
has been neither absent nor tardy
in his entire teaching career. He
states that he came close to break
ing this record during the flu epi
demic in 1918 but managed to <
carry on. <
Mr. Halverson has completed i
his fifth year with the Nome
School and is responsible for the
weekly astronomical news which
appears in the school column of «
every Friday issue of the Nugget.
Gen. Collins, Army Chief
Of Staff Concurs Decision
Relieve Gen. MacArthur
WASHINGTON, (JP) — General
J. Lawton Collins said today “We
are quite convinced” -that Russians
are flying some of the Communist
planes in Korea.
Collins, army chief of staff, also
said 'that equipment captured from
the Chinese Reds is ‘mostly Rus
sian.”
Collins was testifying at the
Senate inquiry into fo#eign policy
and the dismissal of Gen. Mac
Arthur.
He told the Senators “I did con
cur” in the decision to relieve
MacArthur of the Far Eastern
commands.
And, he said he felt that Mac
Arthur’s proposed Korean strategy
“would not be worth the increased
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risk of getting us now into a major
war.” This was the same argu
ment made by Secretary of De
fense Marshall and Gen. Bradley,
chairman of the joint chiefs of
staff who were earlier witnesses
in the hearings.
50,000 UN Fighting
Men In Korea In
12th Month Of War
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (Jf)
—-Unofficial figures indicate that
more than 50,000 fighting men of
16 other nations are in the line
with U. S. and Republic of Korea
forces as the Korean war enters
its 12th month today.
The figures are incomplete here
because the Pentagon declines to
release them all, a U. S. delega
tion spokesman said.
But delegation sources in the
U. N. and published figures com
bine to give a picture of the United
Nations team that has just staved
off another Communist offensive
in mid-Korea. The death stand of
the British Gloucestershire regi
ment in blunting the newest drive
centered fresh attention on what
the U.N. allies were doing.
William Angell Concludes
Six Years Superintendent
Of Nome Public School
Mr. and Mrs. William Angell,
who have been in Nome for the
past six years, depart for the States
on Sunday. They will visit with
their children and grandchildren
before taking up residence in
Wrangell, Alaska, where they will
be located next year.
Mr. Angell has been an active
leader of the Alaska National
Guard and Rotary Club and has
contributed generously of his time
to many civic projects whenever
called upon. Mrs. Angell has been
a most efficient, cheerful and ac
commodating “number please” for
the telephone company. They will
both be missed in the community
where they have made many
friends.
In appreciation for his work
luring the six years he has been
superintendent of the Nome School,
the student' body presented Mr.
Angell, this morning, with a beau
tiful hand-carved ivory desk piece,
appropriately engraved, as a token
af their recognition of his patience,
tolerance and understanding.
Ask Congress Vote
$8j/2 Billions For
For Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman asked Congress today to
vote a vast new foreign aid pro
gram costing $8,500,000,000 to help
thwart “Communist dreams of
world conquest.”
Of the total $6,250,000,000 will
go to strengthen the defenses of
this c:t roly’s friends around the
world, Mr. Truman told Congress.
He said the money is needed as
part of a plan to build up within
Russia “internal pressures” which
will cause Soviet leaders to aban
don their policy of aggression.
“It is too early to predict how
or when this policy wil change,**
he said in a special message sent
to Capitol Hill. “But this program
of mutual security will help to
bring about such a change.”
Mr. Truman said that for the
time being emphasis must be
placed on building up the free
world’s defenses to “put a stop
to the Kremlin’s hope of easy eon
quest.” But the economic aid is
needed, too, he added because
“growing prosperity in the free
countries will frustrate Soviet pol
itical warfare.”
The money the president re
quested would go to speed ship
ments of American weapons and
economic aid to nearly 50 friendly
countries. It covers the fiscal year
beginning July 1.
New Tax BUI Would
Yield $7,100,000,000
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
House Ways and Means commit
tee today completed preliminary
work on a tax bill estimated to
yield an additional $7,100,000,000.
In one last major change, the
committee decided to have un
changed the 10 percent tax on
radios, television sets, phono
graphs, phonograph records, and
musical instruments.
The committee turned the bill
over to ithe drafting service which
estimated it would be at least June
5 or 6 before it could be put into
legal language.
Estimated Red Casualties
In Korea 1,025,404
WASHINGTON, (£>) — Enemy
casualties in Korea -through May
23 were estimated at 1,025,404 by
the army today. This is 20,616
more than -the figure announced
through May 7.
Of the total 736,449 Chinese and
North Korean Reds were battle
casualties, 138,880 were non-com
bat losses and 150,075 were count
ed prisoners of war the army said.
Gen. Bradley yesterday dis
closed that U. S. casualties in Ko
rea had reached a total of 141,955,
of which 72,679 were non-battle
losses.
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LONDON, (iP>—King George VI
has a mild attack of influenza*
Buckingham Palace announced to
day.
The palace statement said the
king, who is 55, is being treated
in his room and has been forced
to cancel two official engagements
for today and tomorrow.