OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 112 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1952 Per Copy—15*
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Polio Cases In U.S.
Expected to Top
50,000 This Year
A.P. Science Reporter
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
NEW YORK, OP) — Polio is
grimly marching toward its worst
year in the nation’s history.
The expectation is at least
50.000 cases this year—far above
I949’s record 42,366.
Twenty - one states hape epi
demic rates, that is 20 cases per
100.000 population.
By Sept. 13, the nation had
31,391 cases of polio, as against
23,060 at the same time in the
“worst year” of 1949.
In 1949, polio reached a peak
in mid-August, with a decline in
new cases each week thereafter.
The b i g worry is yet unan
swered: has polio reached its peak
yet this year? Each week, the to
tal of new cases has risen to new
highs foT four straight weeks,
with 4,032 cases in the week ended
Sept. 13.
“It looks as though we must
anticipate over 50,000 cases for
1952,” says Dr. Hart E. Van Riper,
foundation medical director.
Joseph Short, 48, White
House Press Secretary,
Dies Sudenly at Home
WASHINGTON, i/P) — White
House press secretary Joseph K.
Short, 48, died suddenly Thursday
night at his home in nearby Alex
andria, Va.
No immediate cause of de2\th
was given. Mrs. Short, the former
Beth Campbell, said she heard
him fall upstairs, ran up and
found his heart had stopped.
Short, a native of Vicksburg,
Miss, had been President Tru
man's press secretary since Dec.
18, 1950. A newsman since 1925,
he succeeded Charles G. Ross,
who collapsed and died at his
desk.
The White House said Short be
came ill last Tuesday night and
was hospitalized with a virus in
fection. He returned home Mon
day to recuperate.
Reds CaTSt 55th U.N. Veto
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., f/P)—
Russia’s Jacob A. Malik today
cast three more vetoes to block
the admission of three Indochi
nese countries — Viet Nam, Laos
and Cambodia — to the United
Nations.
These brought to 55 the total
number of vetoes cast by Russia.
Only one other country has ever
used it. France did it twice.
The vote on each of the three
countries was identical—10 to one
in favor, the one being enough to
defeat the proposal for admission.
Malik told the Security Council
these countries were puppets of
France and were not eligible for
membership. He urged the council
to approve the application the
Vietminh, the rival Communist
supported regime.
Huge U.S. Air Base
Revealed In Arctic
Greenland
THULE, Greenland, (/P) •_ The
United States is building a huge
strategic air base in the high
Arctic wastelands of Greenland,
less than 1,000 miles from the
North Pole and on the polar air
routes long-range bombers would
use in any future war.
U.S. officials took many of the
security wraps of{ this fantastic
project Thursday for a group of
U.S. and Danish reporters. Some
jet interceptor planes already are
using the still unfinished airfield
on the northwest corner of Dan
ish-owned Greenland.
Thule Air Force Base and its
installations have been built up
in the past 18 months on one of
the few sizeable flat areas on
Greenland’s rocky west coast. The
90,000-acre project is set in a
1 wide amphitheater, walled at the
back by the island’s perpetual ice
cap. At the front.a fjord runs
down to iceberg-crammed Baffin
Bay.
Beating the problems of polar
cold and flint-hard ground, con
structions have laid miles of pav
ing for runways and have built
hangars, machine shops and hous
ing. A 1,200 -foot radio tower i
keeps the base in touch with
other links in the chain of U.S.
! defenses.
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Cost of Living Index
In Mid-August Climbed
To New All-Time High
WASHINGTON, </P)—The gov
ernment reported today that liv
ing costs reached another new
high in mid - August, the third
straight month they have set a
new record.
The index prepared by the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics rose to
191.1 per cent of the 1935-39 av
erage. This is 12.3 per cent above
! the pre-Korean period and three
per cent above a year ago.
Superforts In Daylight
Firebomb Raids
SEOUL, (/P) — B-29 Superforts
Friday seared Communist targets
on Korea’s east coast with 300
tons of fire bombs in their first
daylight raid in nearly a year.
Thirty-three B-29s from Japan
and Okinawa made the blazing at
tack on Red installations near the
port of Hungnam.
Brig. Gen. Wiley D. Ganey, boss
of all B-29s in the Far East, per
sonally led the late afternoon
strike against Red barracks and
stockpiles along the North Korea
main coastal railway. The planes
used electronic aiming equipment
to drop clusters of fused incen
diary bombs through the clouds.
Fast Sabre jet interceptors flew
cover for the giant bombers.
U.N. fighter-bombers hammer
ed at the Reds in support of
ground troops in furious western
front battles.
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U. S. ROBOTS LAUNCHED
FROM CARRIER AT SEA START
AGE PUSH-BUTTON WARFARE
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WASHINGTON, (£*)—American
robot planes launched at sea have
blasted enemy targets in Korea,
ushering in the age of push-but
ton warfare.
The Navy told for the first time
Wednesday the story of a robot
attack on a Korean military tar
get Sept. 1.
It told of an outmoded airplane
launched by catapult from the
deck of an aircraft carrier off the
Korean coast, escorted by radio
controls to its target and then un
leased on a heavily-defended spot
into which no piloted plane dared
to go.
The whole process was wit
nessed from beginning to end on
a television screen on the ship. A
camera was installed in the cock
pit of the robot plane and it re
corded for posterity the historic
flight.
Lt. Cmdr. Lawrence A. Kurtz,
directed the world’s first robot
plane attack, told reporters at a
Tokyo news conference that this
nation has enough guided missiles
on hand to sustain large-scale ro
bot campaigns in Korea.
He. painted this frightening pic
ture of warfare of the future:
Aircraft carriers speeding around
the globe and unloosing robot
planes carrying atomic bombs.
Pilotless planes unerringly seek
1 ing out their targets and explod
ing their deadly charges with
maximum force.
Large-scale robot attacks against
which there are no defenses.
Kurtz said the Navy has “im
mediately available enough mis
siles to mount a sustained large
scale robot campaign in Korea.”
He declined to say how many
are available, nor would he say
whether missiles still are being
used against Korean targets.
The idea of a guided missile it
self is not new. The Germans
used the V-2 rocket with devasta
ting effect in World War II and
the Japanese Kamikaze (“suicide” >
plane was a type of guided missile.
But the American robot plane
used in Korea, Kurtz said, is
“more effective and maneuver
able.”
“In one strike,” he said, “a
guided missile — Navy Hellcat —
scored a direct hit on the small
supporting pile of a North Korean
bridge, wrecking the entire struc
ture” „
Someone asked him if the robot
would displace the big atom-car
rying bombers like the B-36.
“Eventually, it could,” Kurtz
said. “It’s a question of time.”
Lewis Wins Hard Coal
Royalty Boost; Seeks Same
From Soft Coal Owners
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John L.
Lewis tucked a hard coal royalty
boost into his trophy belt Thurs
day and began trying to win over
soft coal owners one by one to
his contract terms.
Lewis, head of the United Mine
Workers Union <UMW), was re
ported dangling an exemption
from next Monday’s expected
northern soft coal strike in front
of some big Illinois operators.
The union reached an interim
agreement Wednesday with the
anthracite (hard coal) operators to
boost that industry’s welfare fund
royalty — financing miners’ pen
sions and other benefits—from 30
to 50 cents a ton.
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Travel Agent On Trial
For “False Tip” In
Owen Lattimore Case
SEATTLE, (/P) — Defense de
mands that Owen Lattimore be
subpoenaed highlighted the open
ing sesson of Harry A. Jarvinen’s
“false tip” trial in federal dis
trict court here Thursday.
A Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion agent’s testimony concerning
knowledge of the activities of
Lattimore, John Hopkins Univer
sity professor and Far Eastern ex
pert, brought the demand from
Jarvinen’s attorney.
Jarvinen, 32 - year - old travel
agency executive, is accused of
falsely telling the FBI and the
Central Intelligence Agency that
Lattimore bought tickets here for
a trip to Russia last June.
As a result of the tip, the State
Department barred Lattimore
from leaving the country. The de
partment later lifted the ban and
publicly apologized to Lattimore.
Coast Guard Staff
To Decide Need
Of Station In Nome
Capt. W. W. Kenner, command
er of the 17th Coast Guard Dis
trict, has sent notice that he and
a party of nine of his staff are !
arriving on Sept. 25 tor discuss
with representatives of the com
munity the re-establishment of a
Coast Guard station in Nome »as
requested by the Chamber of
Commerce after the disaster
which took the lives of eight men
last month.
Further announcement as to
time and place o'f the hearing will
be made early next week.
Nasook of North Prefers
Tuktoyuktuk to Big City
VANCOUVER, B. C., (/P) —
Nasook of the North took his first
look at a big city today.
His verdict: he’s heading back
to Tuktoyaktuk to trap muskrat.
“I’d rather be trapped by ice
than by all these people,” said
Nasook, an Eskimo whose English
name is Michael Amos.
Nasook is a deckhand aboard
■the Hudson’s Bay Company Arc
tic supply- ship Fort Hearrte,
which docked here this week after
a 3,500-mile voyage from its base
port, Tuktoyaktuk, inside the Arc
tic Circle.
Nasook was scheduled to re
main here all winter as caretaker
on the 379-ton vessel, scheduled
to undergo routine inspection,
carried out every five years.
“I don’t want to live in Van
couver, even in the harbor on the
Fort Hearne,” said Nasook in good
English. “I’m going to my own
country and make $700 trapping
muskrat this winter.”
Disclosure Nixon’s $16,000
Non-official Expense
Account Stirs Furor
(By the Associated Press)
The disclosure of the Republi
can vice-presidential candidate’s
non - official California expense
account caused a campaign furor
Friday, and brought from Gen.
Eisenhower a defense of his run
ning-mate as “an honest man.”
The GOP presidential candidate
released a statement aboard his
campaign train after word gort ou;
that Sen. Richard Nixon had ac
cepted $16,000 from wealthy sup
porters.
“There has recently been level
ed against Nixon a charge of un
ethical practices. I believe Dick
Nixon to be an honest man. I
,am confident that he will place
all the facts before the American
people fairly and squarely.”
There were Democratic charges
that Nixon was “mcmally wrong”
in accepting the money, and that
he should quit the vice presiden
tial race. Nixon replied that was
just “a typical left wing smear.”
There was no doubt many of
Eisenhower’s advisors considered
the Nixon matter a serious politi
cal setback.
Existence of Nixon’s non-politi
cal expense fund was reported
yesterday by a wealthy California
tax attorney who said he helped
raise the money because Nixon’s
legal expense . fund was not
enough for a senator representing
California.
Nixon said he used the money
—and gave no favors in return—
to finance certain things he did
not believe should be charged up
to the taxpayers. These included
postage for mail for which he pre
ferred not to use his free mailing
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