y
m
»
m
m
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOlTlIII No. 99 • NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1951 Per Copy—15#
Son of Mr. and Mrs.
Pearse Walsh Dies]
Suddenly in Seattle
Relatives and friends of Mr. and j
Mrs. Pearse Walsh were shocked
and grieved to hear of the sudden
death of their little son Billy, who'
was two years old in May.
Mrs. Walsh left Saturday morn
ing for the States with her son on
the Pan American, arriving in
Seattle Saturday evening about
seven o'clock. The child is re
ported to have collapsed when
landing in Seattle and was rushed
to the hospital where he died
shoTtly after.
Pearse Walsh and his father,
M. J. Walsh, left immediately
with Alaska Airlines and were
scheduled to arrive in Seattle this
mornnig.
Charge U.N. Forces
Ambush Reds In
Neutrality Zone
J
MUNSAN, Korea, (TP)— Allied
and Communist subcommittees
met briefly in Kaesong today as a
new crisis threatened efforts to
stop the Korean war.
General headquarters in Tokyo
said “partisan forces of either I
side” may be trying to wreck ar-'
mistice negotiations,
said ‘Partisan forces of either side’
may be trying to wheck armistice
negotiations.
The statement was in reply to
Red charges that U.N. forces am
bushed a Red patrol inside Kae
song’s five-mile neutral zone Sun
day. A Chinese patrol leader was
killed and a Chinese soldier seri
ously injured.
There was no report of progress
from the secret talks. But the neg
otiators agreed to meet again
Tuesday.
The subcommittees are trying
t o hammer out a compromise
agreement on the question of a
cease-fire buffer zone. The main
delegations argued this point for
ten days and found themselves
completely deadlocked.
The Communists want the buf
fer zone to straddle the 38th para
llel, old political dividing line be
tween North and South Korea.
The United Nations Command
wants it generally along present
battle lines, most of which are
north of 38.
Both sides have indicated a will
ingness to compromise.
United Nations staff officers at
Kaesong today refused to let Al
lied newsmen sit on the verandah
of the conference building, or
stand near the two entranceways.
To Ask Congress For
Additional Flood Relief
WASHINGTON, (#>)—President
Truman is preparing a special
message to Congress asking addi
tional relief and rehabilitation
funds for fkfod stricken areas of
the mid-west.
Congress already has voted the
President a .$25,000,000 fund to
cope with the immediate emer
gency caused by the floods in
Missouri, Kansas, and other mid
western states. Much of this
money already has been allocated.
S. H. Lorain, Head of
Bureau of Mines, In
Nome Over Week-end
S. H. Lorain, head of Region
No. 1 of the U.S. Bureau of Mines
with offices at Juneau, passed
through Nome over the week end
in the interest of mining activities
in this area. He was accompan
ied by K. Kadow of the U. S. Tin
Mines.
While here, Mr. Lorain, who is
interested in getting roads into
the areas where there is strat
4
egic minerals, met with Dan Jones
of the Territorial Assay Office,
and also with Antonio Polet of the
Alaska Development Board. He
was very interested in the mineral
deposits between here and Teller
to further warrant the road so ur
gently needed between these two
points.
He was acquainted with the iron
ore deposits originally staked by
Peter Esch many years ago in the
Sinruk area, as well as the anti
mony deposits held so many years
by Head and Strand. Bismuth and
its recent development as well as
the background stories of these
and other minerals were of con
siderable interest to him he said.
He stated that his department
was anxious to assist in all ways
possible, especially in roads where
development was retarded due to
inaccessibility.
Cannery Tender
Sinks with $40,000
Worth of Salmon
ANCHORAGE, (jP)—'The can
nery tender Smith, a converted
sub-chaser, sank in the Gulf of
Alaska Thursday enroute from
Anchorage to Seattle with $40,000
in canned salmon aboard. Ten
crewmen were savedi
Word of the sinking was re
ceived Saturday by Mrs. Henry
Emard of the Emard Packing Co.,
which owned the vessel. The ship
was valued between $70,000 and
$75,000.
The Smith, one of the fastest
boats in Alaska, left here Sunday,
with the Katherine Kane, another
Emard ship. Although the Emards
received no details "of the sinking,
they said they were informed the
Smith crew was taken aboard by
the Kane and headed for Seattle.
Pioneers Urge
Statehood Now
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—A reso
lution urging immediate statehood
for Alaska was adopted Saturday
by Alaska gold rush veterans at
tending the annual international
sourdough reunion.
The action was taken after Ar
chie McLean Hawks, Santa Bar
bara, Calif., warned some 400 del
egates: uRed Russia now has a
base on Big Diomede Island, less
than 18 miles away from Ameri
can soil on Little Diomede Island
in the Bering Straits.
“Alaska must be made a state
so that America’s northernmost
outpost can be better defended
against another ‘Pearl Harbor’.”
Larry Galvin, of the Nome
Hardware, was called to the States
suddenly on business and stated
that he planned to return next
week.
• I
Mayor Chas. Jones
Invites Dewey
To Visit Nome
*Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who is
scheduled to arrive in Juneau
from New Zealand tomorrow, will
be given a public reception there
with Governor and Mrs. Ernest
Gruening as hosts.
Dewey is accompanied by his
secretary, two newspaper men, and
a security man, and are arriving
by Pan American about one o’clock
tomorrow.
Ketchikan, Anchorage and Fair
banks are included in his Alaska
| itinerary. Mayor Charles Jones,
upon finding out that Nome was
being by-passed, wired Gover
nor Dewey, extending an invita
tion from the people of Nome.
Due to the fact that the trip is
being made in the interest of Al
askan defenses, it seems only right
that Governor Dewey should see
first hand, the part of Alaska that
is “outside the perimeter of de
fense” while he is in the country,
and get a personal eye view of
our needs.
Aliens In Country
More Dangerous
Than Invasion
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
McCarren (D-Nev) said today a
massive, illegal infiltration of
aliens into’ this country is “poten
tially more dangerous” than an
armed invasion.
The influx would provide an
enemy nation “a ready-made fifth
column,” McCarran said.
The secret testimony of immig
ration officials, he said in a state
ment, showed:
1. Aliens illegally in this coun
try are countable in the millions,
and may total 5,000,000.
2. Among them are “militant
communists, Sicilian bandits and
other criminals in vast numbers.
3. The Immigration Service has
made only small efforts to locate
and deport these unwanted for
eigners because of a variety of
factors, including lack of staff and
money.
Another member of the subcom
mittee, Senator O’Conor (D-Md)
said in a separate statement that
Windsor, Ontario, and Cuba are
assembly points for aliens seeking
illegal entry into the U.S. He said
arrests for attempted entry from
Mexico total 500,000 a year.
PORTLAND, (JP) — Scheduled
daily airline service between Port
land and Alaska began Saturday
when an Alaskan Airlines DC-4
left the Portland airport for Fair
banks and Anchorage.
Connections are available at the
two northern points for other Al
askan terminals. Planes leave
Portland at 8 a.m. and arrive at
Fairbanks at 3:40 pun. and at An
chorage at 6 p.m. A stop is made
at Seattle to take on fuel, cargo
and passengers.
A second air transport company
will begin operating the Portland
Alaskan route in September when
the Pacific Northern Airlines starts
its service.
Search Continues For
Hudson And Party
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Improving
weather permitted planes to re
sume their search over the week
end for bush pilot Gene Hudson
and his three passengers.
They have been overdue since
Wednesday night on a flight from
Talkeetna to Wolford Lake, 170
miles northeast of here.
The passengers were Elmer
“Red” Wolford and his two teen
age sons, Larry Lee and Steven.
The Alaska Department of Avi
ation offered today to pay all gas
and oil bills for private pilots en
gaged in the search.
F-85 Sabre Jet Sets
World Speed Mark
635.4 Miles an Hour
DETROIT, (/P) — Col. Fred J.
Ascani of Rockford, 111., broke the
world and American records for
a 100-kilometer (62-mile) closed
course Sunday in the Thompson
Trophy race. Flying an F-86 Sabre
jet fighter, Ascani average 628.698
miles an hour, compared with a
world record of 605.230 miles an
hour established in 1948 by a
British-made Sapphire.
In -a Friday warmup Col. As
cani averaged 635.411 miles an
hour in a run officially-timed by
the National Aeronautics Associ
ation. NAA officials said this
would be certified to the Federa
tion Aeronautic Internationale for
a new world’s record for -a closed
course.
Col. Keith K. Compton of St.
Joseph, Mo., set a new transcon
tinental Bendix Trophy record
with an average speed of 553.761
in an F-86 Sabre flying between
Muroc Air Base, Calif., and De
troit.
Soviets Funnel Trade
From Central Asia
NEW DELHI, India, (/P)—Rus
sia has switched the traditional
north-south flow of central Asian
trade, says U. S. Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas, and
is funnelling it into the Soviet
Union.
The mountain-climbing jurist—
just back from a hike along In
dia’s Tibetan border — said last
night that normal commerce is
drying up “as a result of the pro
gram of the Soviets for channel
ing trade into their country or
into the hands of their satellites.”
“This is an effective weapon
politically as well as economically,
and its weight is already being
felt in the great ‘midlands’ region
between communist Asia and the
still democratic nations like Pak
istan and India,” Douglas said.
Baruch Asserts, “Well
Come Out All Right”
NEW YORK, (/P)—Bernard M.
Baruch, observing his 81st birth
day yesterday, said that the best
advice for Americans in the pres
ent emergency is that they “don’t
bellyache.”
Baruch, long an adv^er to pres
idents, assured that “we’ll come
out of this all right.”
He listed the Kremlin and infla
tion as this country’s two main
enemies as he appealed to Ameri
cans to “get to work.”
#
Tex Ziegler Crash
Lands Plane With
Two Passengers
ANCHORAGE, (A5)—Three men
in a small plane which crash
landed afire in trees between
Skwentna and Rainy Pass Thurs
day night were being treated at
Elmendorf Air Force Base hos
pital after a speedy rescue.
Bush pilot Tex Ziegler and pas
sengers Arthur Burk, a Civil
Aeronautics Administration mech
anic and an unidentified 16-year
old youth were aboard the plane
when it caught afire.
Just before landing, Ziegler sent
a frantic last-minute radio mes
sage: “Plane on fire, am making
crash landing into trees near Long
Hill Lake.”
The CAA station at Skwentna,
about 130 miles northwest of
here, heard the message, and so
did a Fish ad Wildlife Service
plane flying from McGrath to An
chorage.
A Tenth Rescue Squadron heli
copter from Lake Hood, Anchor
age, spotted the wreckage and
flew the survivors to Lake Pon
tilla, about 15 miles away. Then
the Fish and Wildlife plane landed
on the lake, picked up the men
and flew them to Anchorage.
Burk was badly burned and
may have internal injuries. Zieg
ler was burned about the hands
and face. The youth escaped un
scathed.
Arthur Burk
Dies From Burns
ANCHORAGE, (AP) — Arthur
Burk, 45, one of three persons
■aboard a small flaming plane
which crash-landed in trees be
tween Skwentna and Rainy Pass
Thursday night, died from burns
in an Air Force hospital here Sat
urday.
The pilot, Tex Ziegler, was re
ported improved. The third person
aboard, an unidentified 16-year
old youth, escaped unscathed.
The plane went down about 130
miles northwest of here. It was
awned by Bud Branham.
Burk, a Civil Aeronautics Auth
ority generator specialist, had
been married only about a month.
The surviving widow lives here.
Burk’s mother lives in Medford,
Oregon.
Mrs. G. R. Jackson left for Se
attle Saturday with her daughter
Kathy, whom she is placing in a
private school there for the win
ter. She plans to return soon.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
Philadelphia 15—New York 1
Cleveland 4-6—Chicago 0-7
Detroit 5-6—St. Louis 2-2
Boston 8—Washington 3
National League
Boston 13—Brooklyn 4
St. Louis 5-5—Cincinnati 4-1
Pittsburgh 4-5—Chicago 2-4
New York 5—Philadelphia 4
Coast League
San Francisco 9-10 — Portland
5-6
Seattle 8-4—Los Angeles 5-3
Hollywood 9-<6—San Diego 2-3
Sacramento 2-4—Oakland 0-10