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VOL. LIII No. 118 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1951 ~~_Per Copy—154
100,000 XJN Troops
Launch Offensive
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (/P)—Chinese
frontline defenses appeared to be
crumbling in the west today be
fore an offensive of 100,000 United
Nations troops.
Battered Reds retreated north
ward in some sectors. Some hills
were completely abandoned after
days of bitter fighting. Elsewhere
only die-hard rear guards delayed
U.N. troops.
1. The air over northwest Ko
rea flamed with three jet battles
involving 220 planes. It was the
greatest number of jets ever re
, ported in action in one day. The
Fifth Air Force reported one Red
jet shot down, two damaged. It
said all Allied jets returned from
the first two battles.
2. Allied troops lashed forward
on each side of Heartbreak ridge
in a revival of warfare in the
mountainous east.
3. Reds were silent on Gen.
Ridgway’s invitation to pick a
new site in no-man’s-land to re
new disrupted cease-fire talks.
Red Korean political officers were
quoted as saying there would be
no negotiated truce in Korea in
the near future.
Russia Sets Off
2nd Atom Bomb
WASHINGTON, UP) — Russia
has exploded a second atomic
bomb and is pushing ahead with
production of nuclear weapons,
the White House announced yes
terday.
The announcement, coming just
two years and two weeks after
President Truman disclosed the
first atomic explosion in the So
viet, gave no further details.
But the announcement, coupled
with other developments at home
and abroad, raised anew the ques
tion whether atomic warfare
might flare in Korea.
In addition to announcement of
the new Russian bomb explosion,
there are these other facts:
1. An assertion by Senator Hick
enlooper (R-Iowa), member and
former chairman of the Senate
House Atomic Committee, that
powerful new atomic weapons are
available for use in Korea; that
he favors using them; but that
' it is a military decision.
2. The claim by Gen. Omar
Bradley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, while on a Far
East war zone trip, that U.N.
forces can fight the war to a suc
cessful “military conclusion” if
truce talks fail finally. The gen
eral did not make any explana
tion of how this would be done
against a numerically superior en
emy. Bradley returned to Wash
ington today after talks with com
manders in Korea.
DENVER, (JP)—The Internation
al Woodworkers of America (CIO)
will not take a no strike pledge as
asked by Economic Stabilizer
Charles E. Wilson.
“The IWA will not give a no
strike pledge as long as profiteers
gamble with the destinies of our
servicemen and the general pub
lic,” asserted union president
James E. Fadling of Portland, Ore.
Construction Slated For
Marks AFB Next Year
ANCHORAGE—A summary of
proposed Corps of Engineers Al
askan projects for the 1952-1953
season is shown in the new pros
pectus of construction soon to be
released, according to Colonel L.
E. Seeman, Alaska District Engi
neer.
The projects are grouped ac
cording to geographic location.
In the Fairbanks area there are
57 proposed jobs with 25 slated
for Eielson Air Force Base and
22 for Ladd Air Force Base. In
the Anchorage area 12 projects
are slated for Elmendorf Air Force
Base and 8 for Fort Richardson.
The breakdown for other areas
is three for Naknek, and one each
for Big Delta, Whittier, Haines,
and Marks Air Force Base. There
are four other projects proposed
for Alaska generally.
Clias. E. Wilson
Asked To Consider
Alaska Power Sites
ANCHORAGE, (£>)—'The Alaska
Development Board invited Chas.
E. Wilson, chief of the Office of
i
Defense Mobilization yesterday to
investigate the large number of
potential hydroelectric power sites
available in Alaska for large scale
aluminum plants.
The invitation followed recent
requests by Wilson that aluminum
producers consider the possibility
of moving their plants from the
Pacific Northwest to other areas
where power was more plentiful.
(The plan has virtually been
dropped and was only explora
tory.)
The Development Board said
Alaska had two sites which have
“complete natural protection from
possible attack, yet are readily
accessible to ocean navigation and
can produce almost 18 billion kilo
watt hours of firm power an
ually.”
The sites mentioned were the
Taiya Project, with an estimated
potential of 8,700,000,000 kilowatt
hours of power annually, and Cop
per River Valley, with a potential
of 8 billion kilowatt hours.
“We desire to do our part,”
the Board statement said, “of the
nation’s defense production. . . .
Alaska can add greatly to our
national wealth, and to the stock
pile of defense materials.”
Dulles Turns Down
Japan Ambassadorship
To Help Republicans
i WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman said Thursday John Fos
ter Dulles turned down appoint
ment as ambassador to Japan in
order to help keep the Republican
party from going isolationist.
The president told a news con
ference he offered the GOP for
eign policy advisor to the State
Department the Tokyo post when
Dulles called on him earlier this
week.
Mr. Truman said Dulles told
him he didn’t believe he should
take the job, that he thought he
should stay in civil life and try
to help save the Republican party
from going isolationist.
28-Year-Old Vet
Returns After 15
Minutes in Eternity
LONG BEACH, Calif., (#) —
Melvin Hewitt was dead, and now
he is -alive but he may not be the
same man he was before he spent
those 15 minutes in eternity.
Doctors speculated today on the
personality changes that may have
taken place while the 28-year-old
Navy veteran was lifeless yester
day.
Hewitt fell on the sidewalk early
yesterday morning. Friends rushed
him to a hospital in El Monte,
Calif., but doctors there said he
had been dead about 15 minutes.
Nevertheless they operated.
They cut a hole in his chest and
massaged his heart until Hewitt
began breathing. It was believed
to be the longest period in medi
cal history that a person has been
without life and then revived.
His condition remains “critical”
today but as his doctor says, “He’s
alive, and that’s very satisfactory.”
One of the two doctors who per
formed the thoractomy said Hew
itt’s brain may have been dam
jo ged in the 15 minutes it was
i without circulation of blood —
damaged enough to change the
man’s entire personality.
• “He may have even a complete
amnesia,” the doctor said.
Freighter Breaks
In Half In Atlantic
ELIZABETH CITY, N. J., (fP)—
The freighter Southern Isles broke
into halves and sank early today.
It carried a crew ctf 24 men. Hours
afterward the Coast Guard re
ported seven men rescued and five
bodies sighted.
The Southern Isles broke into
pieces about 200 miles southeast
o*f Cape Hattaras, N.C. The steam
ship Charlotte Lykes, about one
hour’s steaming time from the
stricken ship, rushed to the scene
and put out life boats for searches.
The stricken ship was traveling
rough waters, a residue of a hurri
cane which blew along this coast
only yesterday. The ship, a 2,000
ton vessel was a former landing
ship, tank, designed for carrying
supplies and personnel in military
amphibious landings.
Electrical Workers Strike
But Return In 3 Hours To
Atomic Power Laboratory
SCHENECTADY, N.Y., (/P) —
CIO workers struck the top-secret
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
this morning but called off the
walkout after three hours.
Five hundred members of Local
301, International Union of Elec
trical Workers, voted outside the
plant gates to return to their jobs
in the laboratory, which is devel
oping atomic power for U.S. Navy
submarines.
The laboratory, situated in
woods near Schenectady, is op
erated by the General Electric
Company for the Atomic Energy
Commission.
The workers struck over what
they called “local grievances,” de
spite an agreement on a new na
tional contract between the parent
IUE and General Electric.
British Oilmen Complete
Withdrawal From Iran
ABADAN, Iran, (#>)— British
oilmen completed their withdraw
al from Abadan yesterday and the
chief of Iran’s oil nationalization
program said they would never
return, except possibly as Iranian
company employes.
Hussein Makki, right hand man
to Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh in the oil nationalization
drive, said the Iranian navy
would shoot it out if any British
warships tried to blockade oil
shipments from Iran. The British
claim the oil stored in Abadan is
the property of the Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company, which Iran seized.
But an informed British source
here said even the British navy
has withdrawn.
Truman Says 95%
Of U.S. Secrets
Revealed Bv Press
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman said Thursday that his
executive order tightening control
over government information grew
out of publication of 95 percent
of our secrets “by the newspapers
and slick magazines.”
In a news conference which
started late and lasted longer than
usual, the president sparred with
newspapermen over the order and
declared he had no desire to sup
press freedom of speech.
The order was issued Sept. 25.
It empowers civilian as well as
military of the government agen
cies to withhold information which
they think might endanger the
national security, and establishes
uniform methods of “classifying”
such information.
Although the president's an
nouncement of the new order said
censorship was not involved, the
order has been widely attacked by
editors, publishers and many mem
bers of Congress as establishing
censorship at the source of infor
mation to which the public is
entitled.
Mr. Truman suggested that
newsmen should withhold even
some information made available
to them by authorized govern
ment agencies. Various reporters
at the news conference then ex
pressed puzzlement over just what
the president expects of them.
The president did not give the
newsmen any specific guidance.
He suggested that patriotism
should govern what they pub
lish regardless of what they re
ceive from government sources.
House Would Stop Bounty
On Alaska Bald Eagles
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1There is
no danger that the bald eagle,
the national emblem, will dis
appear in Alaska.
The House Merchant Marine
committee reported this yester
day in telling the House there is
no need to extend to Alaska the
continental ban against killing
bald eagles. A bill to prohibit
killing eagles in Alaska had been
proposed by Rep. Angell (R-Ore).
The committee said, however,
that it believes Alaska should give
bald eagles some protection by
stopping payment ctf bounties for
! eagles.
Giants and Yanks
Win Game Apiece
By JACK HAND
NEW YORK, (JP)—Steady Eddie
Lopat squared the World Series
for the New York Yankees today
by edging the New York Giants
3-1 with a five hitter in the second
game, watched by 66,018 fans at
Yankee Stadium.
The clubs move across the Har
lem river to the Polo Grounds to
morrow for the third game.
They’ll play the fourth and fifth
in the National League park Sun
day and Monday. If a sixth and
seventh are necessary they return
to the stadium Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
Monte Irvin of the Giants con
tinued his sensational series hit
ting with three singles to make
it seven hits in the series. The
most any man ever got in a series
was 12, a record held jointly by
four men.
Jim Hearn (17-9) was to pitch
for the Giants tomorrow against
Vic Raschi (21-10) in a battle of
righthanders.
The short score:
Giants . 000 000 100—1 5 1
Yankees . 110 000 Olx—3 6 0
Jansen, Spencer (7) and West
rum; Lopat and Berra. Hr: Yan
kees—Collins. Lp: Jansen.
FIRST GAME
First game Thursday, Oct. 4 at
Yankee Stadium:
Giants . 200 003 000—5 10 1
Kankees 010 000 000—1 7 1
Koslo and Westrum; Reynolds,
Hogue (7), Morgan (8) and Berra.
HR: Giants—Dark.
Financial figures for first game:
Attendance—65,673 paid.
Receipts—$311,077.06.
Players’ share—$158,649.31
Commissioner—$46,661.55.
Clubs and Leagues’ share —
$105,766.20.
Pitchers # No Longer
Afraid of DiMag
NEW YORK, (JP) — After the
Yankees lost the World Series
opener Thursday, the great Joe
DiMaggio is the first to recognize
the fact that opposing pitchers no
longer hold him in awe as they
once did.
“Did you know,” DiMag recalled
in the dressing room, “that Koslo
didn’t throw me a single ball?”
The 37-year-old DiMaggio says
he still hasn’t made up his mind
definitely whether to retire at the
end of the present season, as pre
dicted in the spring.
Stengel said, “It’s all up to Joe.
I want him back. Without him,
we couldn’t have won this pen
nant.”
Washington Huskies Play
Southern Cal. Tomorrow
SEATTLE, (>P)—That old quar
terback juggler, Howie Odell,
stuck by his choice for signal call
er today and said either Sam
Mitchell or Dean Rockey would
start tomorrow for Washington in
its Pacific Coast Conference foot
ball clash here with Southern Cal.
Coach Odell hasn’t come closer
than that in any of his pre-game
lineup listings todate but when the
team readied for the kickoff it was
always Mitchell who was running •
the team.