._OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL LIV NO. 68 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1952 Per Copy—15?
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Gen. Ridgway Observes
Eighth Anniversay Of
Normandy D-Day
NORMANDY BEACH, France,
(J.p) — Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
marked the eighth anniversary
Friday of the Normandy D-Day
with a warning to the “lords of
Communism” that another war
* would bring dreadful suffering to
us, but it would bring destruc
tion to them and their power.”
Ridgway spoke at ceremonies
on Utah Beach commemorating
the thousands who died there in
the June 6, 1944, invasion that
launched the final conquest of
Nazi Germany.
Ridgway said the nations of the
West now have banded them
selves together in North Atlantic
Treaty Alliance “whose sole and
enduring aim is to maintain the
freedom and to preserve the peace
we have so lately re-won at so
fearful a cost. “The alternative
was slavery ... We have aggres
sive intent toward none.”
* “Captain Harry" Attends
35th Division Reunion
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman left here Friday for
Springfield, Mo., to attend the
annual reunion of the 35th Divi
sion, the World War I unit in
which he served.
The President wore a. blue suit
made of Italian silk which he said
his daughter brought him from
her trip to Europe last year.
Accompanied by his military
f aides and his press secretary, Tru
man looked forward to a get-to
gether with his old buddies of the
12th Field Artillery, who know
him as “Captain Harry.”
His appearance at Springfield
will be highlighted by an address
Friday in the Shrine mosque be
fore he flies back to Washington.
At Panmunjom . . .
* MUNSAN, (/P) — Allied truce
negotiators said Friday the U.N.
Command never will follow the
path of “betrayal, force and blood
shed” by bowing to Red demands
for blanket repatriation of some
170,000 Allied-held war prisoners.
Maj. Gen. Wm. K. Harrison,
chief U.N delegate, said accept
ance of the Communist proposal
would “mean an abandonment of
the principles of human rights.”
> North Korean Gen. Nam 11 said
Allied refusal to repatriate pri
soners who do not want to go
home is “devoid of any reason,
any precedent and any legal
basis . . .”
Before the fruitless 58-minute
session began Communist staff of
v ficers filed a formal complaint
that an Allied artillery barrage
landed near the truce talk site,
Panmunjom, Thursday and that
three civilians were wounded by
shell fragments which hurtled into
the neutral zone
.
Eisenhower Talk
Reveals He Is
Conservative GOP
ABILENE, Kan., •(£>)—Gen. Ei
senhower’s plunge into the tur
bulent pool of politics produced
the well-defined impression Fri
day he is in the conservative camp
of Republicans.
There isn’t any concise defini
tion of conservatism but the five
star general talked at a home
town news conference here yes
terday like a man the average
Southern Democrat could go
along with on many issues.
This was particularly true of
the handling the candidate for the
Republican presidential nomina
tion gave the explosive civil rights
issue.
He said, in effect, that no one
can legislate civil rights, adding
that the states should decide whe
ther to establish their own Fair
Employment Practice Commission.
Assuming the Republicans pick
either Eisenhower or Sen. Taft as
their nominee, the party will go
into the November campaign with
out a champion of the compulsory
type of FEPC many racial minor
ities are demanding as a test case
on civil rights.
Taft has proposed a voluntary
FEPC, with no powers to enforce
its pronouncements against racial,
religious and other discrimination
in industrial hirings and firings.
Super-Secret B-45 Jet
Crashes, Burns In Japan
TOKYO, (/P) — A super-secret
B-45 jet bomber caught fire and
crashed not far from Tokyo Fri
day but the three crewmen para
chuted safely. None was injured. .
The B-45 four - jet Tornado
bomber was flown here for test
ing and evaluation. It crashed a
few minutes after taking off from
a base near Tokyo.
An Air Force spokesman said a
limted number of B-45s have been
in the Far East secretly for more
than a year. There has been no
announcement of their speed or
performance.
King Peak In Yukon Terr.,
Only Unclimbed Mountain
In N.A. To Be Assaulted
SEATTLE, (/P)—Members o*f an
expedition that will attempt to
climb 17,000-foot King peak in
the Yukon will leave soon for
Yakutat, Alaska.
From there the nine climbers
and their equipment will be land
ed on Quintino Sella glacier by
plane.
The 'expedition will be headed
by Pete Schoening of Seattle.
Members said King peak, in the
southwest corner of Yukon Ter
ritory, near Mount Logan, is the
highest unclimbed mountain on
the North American continent.
I
Governor Long Declares
Hawaiian Food and Drug
Shortage Is “Critical”
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — At
least 47 West Coast ships were
tied up Friday by the AiFL Sailors
strike and Gov. Oren E. Long of
: Hawaii again appealed to the
union to clear relief ships to the
islands. He said Hawaii has a
“critical” food and drug shortage.
The union turned down the ap
peal, saying it was “merely a pres
sure move by Matson” Navigation
Co. Union officials in San Fran
cisco said “there is no emergency
in Hawaii” and added that East
Coast ships not involved in the
two-week-old tie-up were enroute
to Honolulu.
Earlier this week, Harry Lunde
| berg, Sailors Union of the Pacific
secretary, branded the governor’s
first appeal as “cheap propa
ganda.”
Desert Mouse Almost
Upset Man’s Atomic Plans
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (/P) — A
desert mouse, haled up in a sen
sitive camera at a forward area
of the Yucca Flat testing ground,
nearly upset the best laid plans
of men for setting off the eighth
atomic blast in the spring series.
Coaxings of scientists and army
top brass Thursday failed to*
budge the smug mouse. He was
finally wooed from his perch with
a slice of cheese. He then was
flipped into a case containing 750
other mice, blueboods of the
scientific world, being used at the
test. #
The test would have been post
poned if the mouse had not been
coaxed from the camera, test site
officials said. Effect of curiosity
and atomic radiation upon the in
quisitive mouse remained to be
seen.
Around the World In 14
Months On $100 To Win
Wife and $5,000 Stake
TURIN, Italy, </P) — Fred W.
Lamberts of Manila, bent on win
ning a wife and $5,000 by hitch
hiking around the world in 14
months on $100, left Thursday for
Yugoslavia.
Lamberts, 22, told reporters he
made the bet with a* rival in
Manila. He arrived in Turin by
way of Alaska, the United States,
Portugal, Spain, France, the Low
Countries and Switzerland. He
now hopes to traverse the Bal
kans, Africa and Asia to reach
Manila by Dec. 23.
“If she (the girl) has forgotten,
I still will have the $5,000, grinned
Fred.
, Lamberts identiifed the girl as
Jean Adams of Manila.
He said the $5,000 would give
them the money they would need
to get married and furnish a
home.
Removal of Ceiling
On Spuds Jumps
Prices $4 a Sack
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The gov
ernment reported Friday that
wholesale prices of white potatoes
shot up as much as $1 to $4 per
hundred pounds overnight after
the removal of price ceilings.
The OPS listed the controls late
Thursday after the Senate had
voted to exempt fresh fruits and
vegetables from price controls be
ginning July 1.
An OPS reports showed that
California long white potatoes
were selling in New York Thurs
day at $6.28 to $6.81 per hundred
pounds. Friday the quotations
ranged from $8.50 to’ $9.50.
A produce buyer for a large
eastern store chain said:
“A lot of speculators are going
to get caught with high - priced
spuds, and when the dumping
begins, these abnormal prices will
soon become history.”
NO POTATO FAMINE
AT THIS BASEBALL GAME!
CORNING, N.Y., (/P) — Every
fan who pays to attend a baseball
game here Sunday night will re
ceive a valuable door prize—one
potato.
The largest family attending
will get a whole peck. The game
will match the Corning Athletics
against the Jamestown Falcons in
a Class D Poney League contest.
Sabres Bag 7 MIGs Friday
SEOUL, (/P)—U.S. Sabre pilots
shot down seven Russian - built
MIG-15s and damaged two Friday
as the Red jets swooped on Allied
fighter - bombers blasting North
Korean rail lines near Manchuria,
the Air Force announced.
The MIG kills were the first
announced since Saturday.
U.S. Fifth Air Force said its
planes todate have destroyed 316
MIGs, probably destroyed 58 and
damaged 507 in the Korean war.
In the heaviest fighting Thurs
day, dug-in North Koreans blast
ed Allied raiders on the mountain
ous eastern front with grenades
and an artillery and mortar bar
rage.
P.O. RUNS OUT OF FUNDS;
SO BILL IS PASSED TO GRANT
P.O. WORKERS' BACK PAY
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Congress
whipped an appropriation bill
through both Houses Thursday
and President Truman signed it,
putting meaning back into the pay
days of half a million postal
workers.
About half the money in the
bill was for post office work done
in May. The postal employes did
not get their usual checks on
June 1 because the post office
run out of salary funds. The ap
propriation was for $971,342,651.
Taft Believes Ike’s Abilene
Speech Improves His
Chances for Nomination
CINCINNATI, <>P) — Sen. Taft
believes his chances for the Re
publican presidential nomination
have been improved since Gen.
Eisenhower’s speech at Abilene,
Kas., Wednesday.
The Ohio senator didn’t elabor
ate, but that was the answer he
gave to a question put to him
Thursday night on a radio broad
cast.
Discussion of Gen. Eisenhower’s
speech also brought a statement
from Taft that he had the impres
sion the general favors repeal of
the Taft-Hartley labor law.
On the subject of the war in
Korea, Sen. Taft said, “I would
try to make peace even though
it may be an unsatisfactory
peace.”
The senator renewed his plea
for a strong air force which he
said was necessary to protect the
nation. He said it was “perfectly
ridiculous” to spend $10,000,000,
000 to aid Europe at the expense
of a strong air force.
Taft added that the United
States would be open to air attack
from Siberia or across the Arctic
even though there was a “wall of
men across Europe.”
Russian Navy Conducting
War Manuevers Off Japan
KUSHIRO, Japan, (£>)—Russian
warships and planes are reported
conducting war maneuvers off the
eastern tip of Hokkaido, northern
most Japanese island, Kyodo news
agency said Friday.
The report said shell vibrations
could be felt at Nosappu Point,
on the tip of Nemuro Peninsula.
Target craft of about 150 tons are
taking part in the maneuvers, it
added.
Hokkaido crab fishermen are
refusing to leave their ports dur
ing the maneuvers. Kyodo added.
JAPANESE FISHING VESSELS
SEIZED BY RUSSIANS
TOKYO, — The newspaper
Yomiuri reported two Japanese
fishing vessels were taken in cus
tody Friday by Russian patrol
ships off the eastern coast of
Hokkaido, northernmost Japanese
island.
Since the Pacific war, Russia
has seized about 160 Japanese
fishing boats and their crews al
legedly for infringing on Russian
proclaimed territorial waters.
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
ASKS FOR HIGHER RATES
WASHINGTON, (Jp) — The
Western Union Telegraph Co.,
petitioned the government Friday
for authority to raise its domes
tic message and money order rates
9.3 per cent. It said the boost is
needed to pay its employes more
money.
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