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VOL. LIV NO. 75 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1952 Per Copy—15*
Biggest Air Raid
Knocks Out Five
Red Power Plants
By STAN CARTER
SEOUL, (/P)—Five hundred Air
Force. Navy and Marine planes
knocked out five major Commun
ist hydro - electric plants and
blacked out much of North Korea
and parts of Manchuria in the
biggest air raid of the Korean
war Monday.
Pilots said they saw more than
200 Red MIG jets parked on a
Manchurian base within sight of
the target, but all stayed on the
ground. Every Allied plane re
turned safely, the Air Force said.
* Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus, U.S.
Fifth Air Force commander, said
the joint air strike demonstrated
“our mastery of the skies over
North Korea”
The worlds fourth largest
hydro-electric plant at Suiho,
about 30 miles up the Yalu river
from the Communist MIG base at
* Antung, was knocked out of ser
vice.
‘We shorted about 10 million
volts today,” said Lt. William
Taylor of Florence, Ala. “I’m sure
it'll make the folks in my home
town hpppy. Up until mid-after
noon my town had the fifth larg
est power plant <Wilson Dam* in
the world. This afternoon I have
helped change its status to the
fourth largest.”
Search On For Light
♦ Plane Down Between
North way and Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Civilian
and military aircraft searched a
wide area between here and
Northway Monday for a light
plane and its three occupants
missing on flight from the United
States.
The plane piloted by S. F.
1 Simonson of Little Rock, Ark.,
left Northway at 8:31 p.m. Friday.
With Simonson were Bob Steel
of the University of Arkansas
medical school and Joe McWil
lians of Wellington, Kas.
The CAA said Simonson re
ported at Northway the plane, a
gull-wing Stinson, had been hav
ing generator trouble. It was
equipped with emergency gear
and four days rations for all
* aboard.
Acheson In Europe For
Big Three Conferences
LONDON, (/P)—U.S. Secretary
of State Dean Acheson arrived
here today for Big Three talks he
said would deal with the “great
common tasks our three countries
are carrying forward.”
He told newsmen at London
airport his talks with British for
eign secretary Anthony Eden, and
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman would range over Eu
rope, the Far East and Korea.
Acheson, accompanied by his
wife, arrived aboard the presi
dential plane the Independence.
Dr. Philip Jessup, U.S ambassa
dor at large, and assistant Sec
, retary of State George Perkins
and Mrs Perkins, came with him.
At noon today thermometers on
Front Street registered 95 degrees!
U. N. To Free 27,000
Korean Civilians From
Prisoner of War Camps
MUNSAN, '(/P)—United Nations
truce negotiators told the Com
munists Monday that 27,000 Ko
rean civilians will be freed from
U.N. prison camps starting next
month. The Reds protested im
mediately, and violently.
North Korean Gen. Nam II ac
cused the Allies of disposing of
war prisoners “unilaterally.” He
: said the Communists. never have
recognized U.N. reclassification of
war prisoners.
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison
said most of the prisoners to be
released were swept into Allied
internment camps early in the
war and later were found to be
South Korean civilians.
He denied Red assertions that
the Allies want to keep war pri
soners as “cannon fodder.”
“The truth is,” Harrison said,
“that we desire to return the
maximum possible numbers to
your side who evidence the slight
est willingness to return to your
control.”
Rabbits Eat Army
Telephone Poles
At Big Delta
FAIRBANKS, f/P>—An Alaska
Wildlife expert had a gnawing
problem on his mind today.
He wants to find out why Alas
ka rabbits have suddenly devel
oped a taste for cedar telephone
poles.
Dr. John Buckley of the Wild
life Research Unit at the Univer
sity of Alaska received reports
rabbits were causing the Army no
end of trouble by chewing on
telephone poles in the vicinity of
Big Delta, 75 miles southeast of
here.
Dr. Buckley was skeptical, to
say the least, but he flew to Big
Delta to investigate the rabbit
tales.
He found they were absolutely
true.
Buckley said that for a dis
tance of eight miles south of the
Big Delta military base every
telephone pole is well chewed by
rabbits. There is a path leading
from the forest to each pole. The
poles are creosoted, but this ap
parently doesn’t discourage the
rabbits.
“I’ve seen many strange things
in the wild life-world,” Dr. Buck
ley said, “I’ve even investigated
a case where a porcupine ate the
tires from an automobile. But this
is the first time I’ve found rab
bits feeding on cedar poles.”
don McDonald, alaska
AIRLINES PILIT, ESCAPES
INJURY IN PLANE CRACKIP
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—An Alaska
Airlines pilot, Donald McDonald,
escaped injury Friday when he
crash - landed his single - engine
plane near Kiwalik on the Arc
tic coast, it was learned here Sun
day.
McDonald was flying from
Nome to Kotzebue but fog pre
vented him from landing at Kot
zebue and he was attempting to
fly to Candle when he crashed.
Sailors’ Union
Agrees Release
Ship to Nome
SEATTLE, June 21, </P)—Strik
ing sailors have agreed to clear
three big relief ships for belt
tightening Alaska, Mayor Allan
Pomeroy said Saturday.
He said the release was ar
ranged Friday in a three - way
telephone conference among Pom
eroy, Gov. Gruening and Maxie
Weisbarth, Seattle representative
of the SUP.
Two 10,000 - ton vessels will
carry supplies to Nome and to
southeastern Alaska. A 3,800-ton
refrigerator ship will bring fish
south from Alaska’s crowded
storage houses.
The sailors’ approval came a
few hours after Gov. Gruening
had said he was prepared to call
on military authorities for a ship
to relieve the suppy crisis at Sew
ard. The Military Sea Transporta
tion Service received a clearance
last week to send a 12,000-ton
vessel to Whittier, but no further
word on the ship has been heard
here.
Meanwhile the Alaska Freight
Lines reported freight was pour
ing into a local terminal for the
barge the company intends to
send north Wednesday with sup
plies for southeast Alaska points.
Father of Draft Law, UMT
James W. Wadsworth,
Dies of Cancer
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Funeral
services will be held Wednesday
for James W. Wadsworth, 74’,
former senator and representative
who sponsored pre-World War II
draft legislation and headed the
commission which drew up the
proposed Universal Military
Training program.
He died of cancer Saturday
night after a long illness.
Wadsworth was the fourth man
in American history to become a
member of the House of Repre
sentatives after serving in the
Senate.
The others were John Quincy
Adams, the sixth president; the
late Theodore Burton of Ohio;
and Sen. Matthew M. Neely.
A Republican from western
New York state, Wadsworth was
active throughout his career in
building up the nation’s defenses.
Senate Passes Bill Allow
Alaska Banks To Keep
Less Cash on Hand
WASHINGTON, (fi>) — The
Senate today passed a bill to re
duce the amount of cash Alaska
national banks are required to
keep on hand. The bill now goes
to the president for his signature.
The measure would cut the re
quirement from two-fifths to one
fifth of the bank’s required 15 per
cent reserve.
The two-fifth cash requirement
is not now necessary, a Senate
Banking Committee report said,
because currency shipments to
Alaska reach there in two days.
When the present requirements
were set, the report said, it took
two or three weeks to ship cur
rency to Alaska.
Eisenhower Flatly Denies
Truman Offered Him ’52
Democratic Nomination
DENVER, {JP) — Gen. Dwight
Eisenhower says President Tru
man never offered to help him
win the 1952 Democratic presi
dential nomination and adds that
he is not interested in any third
party move this year.
Last fall Arthur Krock of the
New York Times reported that
the President made such an offer,
and last night in a statement from
Washington, Krock stood by his
guns. The newsman stated he at
tributed to “a northern Demo
crat in an eminent public posi
tion” a report that in 1951 Tru
man told the general he stood
ready again to help him become
President. The source said the
general had turned the matter
aside, Krock stated.
“This northern Democrat said
that his informant was the Presi
dent,” the newsman stated.
In his book, “Crusade in Eu
rope,” Eisenhower wrote that at
Potsdam in 1945, the President
told him he would support him
for anything he wanted.
At a Dallas news conference
Sunday the general flatly denied
that Truman had offered to help
him win the ’52 Democratic nom
ination.
Legion Urges
Unconditional
Alaska Statehood
KETCHIKAN, (/P)— ‘MJncondi
tional statehood that guarantees
to the people of Alaska all rights
and privileges now afforded the
people of the other 48 states” is
the demand of the Alaskan Amer
ican Legion.
The desire for equal rights was
contained in one of 21 resolutions
adopted Friday at the territorial
Legion convention here.
Another resolution sought to
ban strikes that plug Alaska’s
supply lines; a third decried a re
ported 150 percent increase in the
number of Alaska Communists
while a drop of 30 percent was
claimed for the rest of the nation.
Others urged the continued ex
pansion of Alaska defenses, a
change in the handling of funds
for children in foster homes un
der the Alaska Juvenile code;
continued appropriations for the
U.S. Office of Civilian Markman
ship, Territorial Veterans Service
Council and Veterans Employ
ment Service;
Additional hospital space for
veterans in the Anchorage and
Fairbanks military hospitals; per
mission for veterans serving since
the Korean outbreak to qualify
for a territorial bonus or loan; an
increase in the size of veterans
home loans and the amount of
funds available; the setting up of
a Legion child welfare trust fund, j
ALASKA AMERICAN LEGION
ELECTS HARDCASTLE CMDR.
KETCHIKAN, (/P)—Richard M.
Hardcastle, Ketchikan, was elect
ed commander of the Alaska Am
erican Legion Sunday as the
legion closed its 1952 convention
here. Cordova was selected as the
site for the 1953 convention.
‘World in his Arms’
World Premiere
At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, </P) — Actress
Ann Blyth and her Hollywood
troupe gave a series of perform
ances at military installations and
hospitals over the weekend after
the -gala world premiere here of
the movie “World In His Arms.”
It was the first movie premiere
ever held in Alaska and the
movie moguls did it up in the
best Sunset Boulevard tradition.
Gov. Ernest Grueniing was on
hand to greet the Hollywood en
tourage. The producers flew a
group of newspaper and magazine
writers here for the occasion.
The headliner actress, dressed
in an evening gown and a white
parka, arrived at the theater in
a wheel-equipped do'g sled behind
white Siberian huskies.
The Hollywood troupe will ap
pear in Fairbanks for the open
ing of the show there Thurs
day and then will go to Big
Delta, Eielson and Ladd Air Force
bases before flying back here
Friday.
Germ Warfare Charges
Backfire On Russians
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (fP)
— The United States has put
Russia on the spot by demanding
a U.N.-sponsored inquiry into So
viet germ warfare charges.
This will leave the Communists
two possible courses (other than
the unlikely one of agreeing to
an investigation): Either Russia
can veto the proposal or Com
munist China and North Korea
can refuse to let investigators en
ter their territories.
In either case, the whole germ
warfare issue as a propaganda
move may ibackfire on Russia.
The question will come up for
debate this afternoon.
Taft Favors Statelier3 For
Hawaii But Not Alaska
WASHINGTON, (fP) — Senator
Robert A. Taft of Ohio said to
day he favors statehood for Haw
aii but doesn’t believe Alaska is
ready for similar status.
Taft expressed confidence he
will have a majority of Hawaii’s
eight delegates and a majority of
Alaska’s three to the GOP con
vention opening in Chicago July 7.
He said he wants to give Ha
waii statehood “but the adminis
tration wouldn’t let us vote on it
unless we voted on Alaska state
hood.”
The federal government owns
about 99 per cent of Alaska and
any senators elected from there
now would just be representatives
of the Interior Department,” he
said. “It wouldn’t make any dif
ference which administration was
in power, the senators would
simply have to represent that ad
ministration.”
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• • •
According to advices from
Sen. Pat McCarran of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee, the
Anchorage Bar Assn, has voted
not to recommend Earl Cooper
for District Judge for the Sec
ond Division.