_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIII No. 154 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1951 Per Copy—lop
Reds Hint Unlisted
U.S. Prisoners
Are Dead
By GEORGE A. McARTHUR
MUNSAN, Korea, (>P) — The
UN Command said Friday at least
450 American soldiers have died
in North Korean prison camps.
An official communique said
that is 77 per cent of United Na
tions troops known to have been
imprisoned in rear areas and not
accounted for in last week’s list
of living prisoners.
Simultaneously the communists
indicated a complete list of living
U.N. prisoners already is in Al
lied hands.
The 450 soldiers were not
among those listed on the com
munist roster of 11,559 prisoners.
They apparently were among 571
Americans the Reds said Wednes
day had died of disease or were
killed by Allied air raids or ar
tillery fire.
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho hinted Friday at Pan
munjom that the Reds would re
port that many other Americans,
not yet accounted for, had died of
disease or exposure in prison
camps.
Aside from hintmg at the fate
of American prisoners whose
names failed to appear on the Red
roster, communist negotiators of
fered no further accounting of
some 50,000 captured soldiers the
U.N. says have not been listed.
Meanwhile the war of words
raged on without letup. There
was no indication that the Ko
rean battle front was about to ex
plode into action even though the
30-day cease-fire line agreement
had expired Thursday midnight.
European Nations Meet
Try To Pool Men And
Munitions In One Army
By CARTER L. DAVIDSON
PARIS, (/P)—Cabinet ministers
of six Western European nations
met here Thursday in an effort to
pool their men and munitions into
a single European army. They re
mained silent on whether they
thought it could be done.
The foreign ministers included
Italy’s Alcide de Gasperi who is
also premier; France’s Robert!
Schuman; Belgium’s Paul Van
Zeeland; Holland’s Dirk U. Stik
ker; Luxembourg’s Joseph Bech;
•and Prof. Walter Hallstein of
West Germany’s “foreign office.”
The first issue before the min
isters was whether to run their
proposed unified army with a
single high commissioner or to
put it in the hands of a board
of commissioners.
The ministers remained non
committal on the prospects of
success.
KODIAK NIGHT CLUB
DAMAGED BY FIRE
KODIAK, (/P) — The Casino,
newest and most modem night
club in this military outpost town,
was damaged heavily by a Christ
mas Day fire.
A. J. Collins, formerly of Seat
tle, was the owner. Damage was
estimated at several thousand dol
lars. No patrons were in the place
at the time of the fire.
Two Persons Drown, One
Missing In Car Accident
On Cordova Bridge
CORDOVA, (/P) — Two persons
were found drowned Wednesday
in a car which plunged off the
Eyak River bridge and a third
person is also believed to have
been lost in the same mishap.
The bodies found in the auto
mobile were identified as those of
Leona Anderson, 18, and Fred
Arthur Petersen, 19, formerly of
Anchorage. Mike James, Jr., 19,
the owner of the automobile, also
is ibelieved to have been drowned.
James’ body has not been found.
James and Petersen are both
soldiers, stationed at army instal
lations at Whittier.
Radar Gunsight
Secret of Saber
Success Over MIGs
WIESBADEN, Germany, (/P)—
Is America’s super-secret radar
gunsight for jet fighters in Rus
sian hands?
Nobody knows for sure.
If it is, America has lost one
of its biggest edges in aerial com
bat against Russian made jets in
Korea.
Some officers at this big U.S.
air base in West Germany think
the secret is still safe. The clos
est they come to talking about its
principles is to say that “it does
everything but call the pilot for
breakfast.”
It is assumed the radar sight
has been used in combat by F-86
Sabre jets in Korea, although no
one will say so officially. Some
Sabre jets have been lost in com
bat but Air Force officers hope
the Russians haven’t got the sight.
“Each one of those things has
a special detonating device,” one
high officer explained. “A pilot
whose plane has been disabled
just touched a button and ‘bang,’
no more sight. Since it is fairly
rare for a pilot ter be killed out
right, we think no sights have
fallen into Russian hands.”
“If,” he added guardedly, “they
are in use in Korea.”
There has been no chance for
the Russians to get their hands
on a radar gunsight in Europe.
No U.S. Air Force planes are
equipped with them.
KOREAN SITUATION
SEOUL, Korea, (iP) — Outnum
bered American Sabre jets shot
a Red jet out of Korean skies Fri
day while Allied infantrymen re
captured Christmas hill on the
snow-covered battlefront.
The Fifth Air Force said UJS.
Sabres came out unscathed from
their 20-minute dogfight. The bat
tle was between 24 Sabres and
more than 70 MIG-15s. Another
high flying 60 MIGs in the same
area did not get mixed up in the
fight.
The fight for Christmas hill,
scene of the fiercest fighting in
31 days of twilight war on the
Korean front, was the only sizable
ground action reported.
The hill, towering beside Mun
dung valley, not far from Heart
break Ridge, is just an outpost on
the eastern front, but it has
changed hands repeatedly since
Christmas Day.
Steelworkers Defer
Work Sto ppage
Until Jan. 3
PITTSBURGH, (/P) — The na
tion will escape a crippling steel
strike on New Year’s Day—but
will have to face the threat again
on Jan. 3.
The wage-policy committee of
the CIO United Steelworkers
voted to defer a work stoppage
for at least three days. That gives
the special convention in Atlantic
City the final say on calling a
strike.
The convention also will make
the union’s formal answer to
President Truman’s appeal to
avert a strike and submit the
steel contract dispute to the Wage
Stabilization Board. The steel
companies already have agreed to
'be president’s proposal.
The action of the wage-po'licy
committee had been widely pre
dicted. Mr. Truman, who says
there must not be a steel strike
in view of the national defense
emergency, has declared he will
use every law in the books to
prevent a nationwide steel walk
out.
If the convention accepts the
President’s plan, the Wage Sta
bilization Board will study argu
ments o*f both sides and outline
recommendations. These will not
<be binding on either side.
Army Treats Senator’s
Son For Poison Ivy But
Illness Was Scarlet Fever
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Gillette (D-Ia) said Friday the
army had treated his son, Mark
Gillette, 21, “for poison ivy when
actually he was suffering from
scarlet fever.”
Gillette said the mistaken diag
nosis was made in October at the
army training center at Camp
Pickett, Va., and he was assured
later by army medical leaders
that what he termed medical in
competence there would be cor
rected.
Mark Gillette was inducted in
March under Selective Service at
Camp Meade, Md., and sent to
Camp Pickett for six weeks basic
infantry training, his father told
a reporter.
“He came home on a weekend
pass and was so seriously ill that
I had to carry him into the
house,” the Senator said. “We
called a civilian doctor and he
said Mark had an advanced case
of scarlet fever.”
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Admiral Spruance
Appointed Ambassador
To The Philippines
WASHINGTON, (£>) — Retired
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
was reported Friday to be Presi
dent Truman’s choice as the new
ambassador to the Philippines.
He had a meeting Thursday
with Secretary of State Acheson
and informed sources said he has
indicated he would accept the
post, as successor to Ambassador
Myron Cowen.
Spruance, now 65, retired three
years ago after a naval career
which included the post of war
commander of the Pacific fleet,
and since has made his home at
Del Monte, Calif.
Mother, Three Children
Perish In Barrow Fire
During 85 mph Gale
FAIRBANKS, (TP) — A mother
and three children perished in a
fire which destroyed a house in
five minutes during an 85-mile
an-hour gale at Point Barrow
Thursday.
Alaska Communications System
officials said the house was in the
native village and the victims
were Mrs. Ethel Olemaun and
three of her children identified
as Thomas, Lottie and Kathleen
Ruth.
Their father, Corp. Nathaniel
Olemaun, ACS station operator in
Barrow native village, and three
sons escaped with shock and
burns.
Churchill To Urge
Greater Exchange
Of Atomic Info.
WASHINGTON, (TP) — Prime
Minister Churchill probably will
urge a greater exchange of atomic
information between the United
States and Britain during his far
reaching conference with Presi
dent Truman.
Atomic energy is among the
dozen topics he has told the Am
erican government he wants to
take up in the course of his
visit here, late next week.
Both Britain and Canada, with
which the U.S. had a partnership
in atomic bomb development
during the war, have long felt
tight American restrictions on
atomic secrets were hampering
developments in that field.
Any change in these restrictions
however, would require not only
approval by the President but
action by Congress. Whether
either of these conditions will be
met in the predictable future is
something cm which informed of
ficials here will not even spec
ulate.
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Income Tax Expert Jailed
For Falsifying Returns
NEW YORK, (JP)— An income
tax expert has gone to prison for
falsifying his own 1947 state re
turn.
The tax consultant, 58-year-old
Morris Cooper-Smith, was sen
tenced yesterday to • one year in
jail and fined $1,000.
Special Sessions Justice Eugene
C. Schultz called Cooper-Smith a
“mathematical genius” but added:
“You prostituted your returns
in order to teach others to evade
the income tax laws.”
Kodiak Housing
Termed “ Deplorable”
WASHINGTON, (fl>) — The De
fense Production Administration
today certified six critical defense
housing areas for rent control and
expanded three other areas where
controls already are in effect.
The certification does not in
itself invoke rent controls, but
such action normally follows.
The areas include Kodiak, Al
aska, which previously had been
certified as a critical housing area.
“Most housing in Kodiak is
classed as poor in quality,” the
statement said. “Accommodations
on the outskirts are termed ‘de
plorable’.”
| Stassen Declared
Candidacy For
GOP Nomination
By LEE LINDER
PHILADELPHIA, (/P)—Harold
E. Stassen, former governor of
Minnesota, is going to make a sec
ond attempt to win the Republi
can nomination for President of
the United States.
Stassen, now president of the
University of Pennsylvania, yes
terday joined two other seasoned
GOP campaigners in the nomin
ation fight—U.S. Senator Robert
A. Taft and Gov. Earl Warren of
California.
There was immediate specula
tion that Stassen’s declaration
would slow down the drive of a
number of Republicans who have
been campaigning to get Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower into the
field. However, backers of the
general discounted such specula
tion.
Stassen said some time ago he
would endorse the general’s nom
ination — if Taft would do the
same.
In fact, the Minnesotan recent
ly asked Taft publicly to quit the
race and support, with Stassen,
the Eisenhower campaign.
But Thursday night, before ad
dressing millions of Americans on
a nationwide radio and television
simulcast, Stassen disavowed the
offer and said “It is all off now.”
“I am in the race without a
commitment to any other person,”
he declared.
Attacking the present adminis
tration’s foreign and domestic pol
icies as “failures” and “disaster
ous,” Stassen said he would offer
a “humanitarian and liberal pro
gram” to the American people.
Widow Who Returned
From “Grave” Seeking
Damages From Hospital
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—A 60
year-old widow is seeking dam
ages from the hospital where she
revived after having been pro
nounced dead.
Mrs. Theresa K. Butler filed a
$533.70 claim against the city
Thursday. She said staff mem
bers at Harbor Emergency Hos
pital “used excessive heat with
out proper temperature control
and burned my back, right arm
and leg and abdomen to bring me
back to consciousness.”
She said the $533.70 repre
sented doctor bills for treatments.
Mrs. Butler was found uncon
scious in her apartment Nov. 8,
pronounced dead by a doctor of
an overdose of sleeping pills, and
sent to a morgue. An attendant
noticed a faint pulse and sent her
to a hospital. Eventually she re
gained her faculties and departed
to* complete writing a book.
U. S. Battle Casualties
In Korea Now 103,418
WASHINGTON, (^—Announ
ced U.S. battle casualties in Ko
rea have risen to 103,418, includ
ing 17,670 battle deaths and 11,048
currently listed as missing in
action. The new totals were an
nounced by the Defense Depart
ment. The summary covers noti
fications to next of kin through
last Friday.