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VOL. LIII No. 86fr~7 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1951 Per Copy—15^
Korean Airlift
Transport Lost
With 38 Aboard
JUNEAU, (A5) — Rescue planes
fanned out over the rugged Alas
ka coastline today in an expand
ing search for a missing Korean
airlift transport and its 38 oc
cupants.
As the search for the Canadian
Pacific Airlines DC-4 widened
with a gradual improvement in
weather conditions, hope for the
occupants diminished. Searchers
said the area where the plane last
reported was one of the wildest
on the North American continent.
The transport, carrying among
its passengers 29 Americans in
cluding two “high-rated” civilians,
left Vancouver, B. C., late Friday
for Anchorage, Alaska, on the
first leg of a flight to Tokyo.
The pilot, Capt. Victor Fox, last
reported off Cape Spencer, Alas
ka, at 12:17 a.m. PST, Saturday.
Fox said the plane was on course
at 9,000 feet, about 80 miles due
west of Juneau, with a 5V£ hour
fuel supply.
Low flying planes searched
w’aters off the Alaska Panhandle
yesterday but poor visibility ham
pered their missions. Other planes
scanned mountain peaks above the
8,000 foot level without success.
Iran Announces Formula
For Negotiations With
British on Oil Dispute
TEHRAN, Iran, (JP)—An Iran
ian cabinet member said today a
formula has been found for re
A
opening negotiations with the Brit
e ish on the oil nationalization dis
pute.
The first specific statement of
progress in settling the critical
British - Iranian deadlock came
from Dr. Karim Saniabi, minister
of education, after conferring with
Premier Mossadegh, the cabinet,
and the Iranian oil nationalization
board.
Another member of the gov
ernment indicated that some for
mal announcement of the extent
and nature of the progress might
be made after continued talks to
night with President Truman’s
global trouble-shooter W. Averell
Harriman.
American League
^ SUNDAY RESULTS
New York 9-7—St. Louis 0-3
Cleveland 6-3—Philadelphia 4-1
Boston 10—Detroit 9
Washington 7-11—Chicago 6-5
National League
SUNDAY RESULTS
Brooklyn 9—St. Louis 2
Cincinnati 7-6—New York 3-9
Boston 5-2—Pittsburgh 3-5
Chicago 8-1—Philadelphia 7-0
Second game halted by Pennsyl
f vania’s curfew law after 7 innings
to be resumed at later date.
Pacific Coast League
SUNDAY RESULTS
- Seattle 5-2—Hollywood 3-1
San Francisco 5-2—Portland 3-0
Sacramento 5-0—Oakland ,1-10
San Diego 9-1—Los Angeles 4-3
KOREAN CEASE-FIRE
TALKS TO RESUME
ON WEDNESDAY
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (/P)—Allied negoti
ators gathered here again today,
armed with final D.N. instructions
for the resumption of Korean war
cease-fire talks in Kaesong Wed
nesday.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
of the five-man United Nations
I
team, flew back from Tokyo to
night after a series o*f conferences
with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.
The decisions made in Tokyo
probably will remain secret until
the ninth meeting of negotiators
in a Kaesong schoolhouse Wednes
day.
The Korean war will be 13
months o'ld Wednesday. Whether
it will end soon or flare up anew
in bloody fighting hinges on set
*
tlment of one vital question: shall
the question of withdrawal of all
foreign troops from Korea be
placed on the cease-fire agenda?
On the fighting front Fifth Air
Force headquarters reported 327
sorties flown by 6 p.m.
Little ground action was re
ported. The opposing armies
probed ahead of their front lines
with patrols but there was no
major engagement.
Peak of Midwest’s
Greatest Flood
Rolls South ■
ST. LOUIS, UP)—'The peak of
the Midwest’s greatest flood in
more than 100 years rolled south
of St. Louis today as nature fed
another diet of rainfall on the
water-soaked area.
The new rains, accompanied by
strong winds, aren’t expected to
bring the major Missouri and
Mississippi rivers back to their
record levels of last week, but
may keep remaining flood waters
from draining as rapidly as ex
pected.
Nine hundred workers, includ
ing 500 airmen from nearby Scott
Air Force Base, 111., were toiling
on levees reported in critical con
dition 60 miles south of here in
Perry County, Mo. A break there
would flood 23,500 acres of rich
farmland.
The peak of the flood rolled by
St. Louis early yesterday when
the river went to its highest stage
in 107 years. The top mark was
40.28 feet, just .02 of a foot high
er than the 1947 overflow.
Warrant Officer Filley
Takes Charge ACS Here
Warrant Officer Clarence Filley,
of the ACS, accompanied by his
wife, arrived from Seattle to take
over command of the ACS in this
area, replacing Capt. Pershing
Tousley who has been ordered to
Ft. Monmouth for further offi
cer’s training.
Warrant Officer Filley has been
with ACS for the past 10 years
and has been stationed in Anchor
age and Juneau, and is well ac
quainted with the needs and prob
lems in the north.
The Filleys will make their
home in the quarters now occu
pied by Capt. Tousley, who leaves
this week.
Adm.. Sherman,
Navy Chief, Dies
Of Heart Attack
NAPLES, Italy, (IP) — Admiral
Forrest P. Sherman, first airman
to head America’s Navy, starts
his last flight home tomorrow—
in death.
The 54-year-old U. S. Chief of
Naval Operations died in his
Naples hotel yesterday noon after
suffering two heart attacks. He
had just completed a tour of Eu
rope’s Atlantic Pact defense area.
He had also visited Generalissimo
Franco and was believed to have
reached a tentative agreement for
American use of Spanish air and
naval bases.
Mrs. Sherman was at her hus
band’s bedside when he died.
The Admiral’s body will be
taken tomorrow to Naples airport
■after simple services on the deck
of the American warship, U.S.S.
Mt. Olympus, anchored in the Bay
of Naples.
A message from President Tru
man said the “country’s loss is
great” and Secretary of State
Acheson hailed him as “a states
man who saw beyond the military
problems to the objectives of na
tional policy.”
Sherman replaced Adm. Louis
Denfield as Navy Chief in the
bitter squabble over unification of
the Army, Navy and Air Force. A
brilliant “flying admiral,” he was
jumped over the heads of nine
senior officers to become the
youngest chief of operations in
the Navy’s history.
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Nome Bov Scout
Finance Campaign
Will Be On Friday
The Annual Boy Scout Nome
Finance campaign for 1951 will
be held Friday, July 27, a one-day
affair, according to word from
Jack Dillon, chairman. As in the
past, he stated, the Scout drive
will be a concerted affair with
hopes for getting it all done on
the one day.
Initial plans were laid and team
captains selected in a meeting at
the City Hall Friday, July 20, with
Duane Force, Alaska Council
Field Executive from Fairbanks,
attending. At this meeting the
chairman was chosen, date set,
and the team system given con
sideration and chosen as the mode
of operation for the ’51 campaign.
Team captains named at the
meeting included Dewey Good
rich, Ben Young, Jim McLean,
Carl Glavinovich, Jim Walsh,
Keith Hedreen, Bob Red^away,
and Sam Mogg, Dillon explained.
A meeting of these men to sel
ect their teams and plan the kick
off breakfast, set for early Fri
day morning, was held at the City
■ Hall last Friday.
» Helen Frost, well-known Luth
eran missionary of the Teller area
and better known in that district
as “Sister Helen”, has been as
signed to Shishmaref, taking over
from Rev. Hartje, who has been
in Shishmaref for the past two
years. *
Bethlehem-Pacific Coast
Steel Plant Wants 18,000
Tons Scrap Iron Monthly
SEATTLE, OP)—The Bethlehem
Pacific Coast Steel Corp., wants
scrap and will go to almost any
distance to get it.
As witness: the corporation’s
scouts uncovered 2,000 tons of
scrap in the Nome area, and it’s
enroute here aboard an LST.
The 2,000-ton haul from Nome
consists largely of mining machin
ery, valves, rails, dredging buck
ets and smelter scrap. Les Knight,
Bethlehem executive said at least
two more shiploads of scrap will
be taken out of Alaska for use
in Seattle this year.
“We need about 18,000 tons of
scrap a month to keep going,”
Knight said. “The need is so ur
gent we have reached out as far
as Nome to get scrap. We have
sent scouts out and have commis
sioned scrap dealers to ferret it
out.”
Truman Assured
Of “Workable”
Control Bill
WASHINGTON, (iP)—President
Truman’s congressional leaders
told him today that they are con
fident a “workable” economics
control bill will be passed before
the July 31 deadline.
House speaker Rayburn told re
porters afterward that neither the
administration nor opponents of
the administration proposals “will
get all they want” but “I think
we will work out a pretty work
able bill in conference.”
The President told them, Vice
President Barkley and House
Democratic leader McCormack
that he hopes for a “workable”
bill.
The weekly meeting of the<
President and his leaders was de
voted largely to a briefing on the
military actions still going on in
Korea. The conferees wouldn’t
discuss what they were told by
military officials.
Eisenhower Opens
Atlantic Pact
(Headquarters
MARLY LE ROI, France, (JP)—
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
opened his new Atlantic Pact
headquarters today and declared
it to be the first Allied headquar
ters in history “set up in peace to
preserve peace and not wage war.”
The new headquarters, seat of
Western Defense planning, came
into existence at 12:25 p.m., after
a colorful ceremony presided over
by Eisenhower and Vincent Au
riol, President of France.
Generals, enlisted men and em
ployes of the 12 pact nations clus
tered in front of the headquarters
to witness the official handover
of the site to Eisenhower by the
president.
“It is our prayer,” said Eisen
hower, “that with high courage^
and with the support of our peo
ple and the grace of God, we
shall not fail in striving to lift
the fear of cellblocks and slave
camps.”
President Truman
Calls For Full
Speed Ahead On
Military Build-up
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman today told Congress it
probably will -be necessary tor
strengthen the armed forces be
yond the present goal of 3,500f
000 men, regardless of peace pros
pects in Korea.
He called for “full speed ahead”
on the military build-up, with no
yielding to those who would dis
card the anti-inflation control sys
tem “or shoot it full of holes.”
s The message, was Mr. Truman’s
midyear economic report. It went
to Congress along with a 255-page
economic review prepared by his
council of economic advisers.
tMr. Truman set his sights on a
$30,000,000,000 increase in the an
nual military spending rate in the
year ahead.
This, he said, will require up
to 2,000,000 more workers, a five
per cent boost in national output
despite cuts in civilian goods, plus
stiff taxes and controls to offset a
widening “inflationary gap.”
The President called the 3,500,
000-man strength of the armed
forces, now almost reached, an
“interim goal” which may be in
adequate against the world-wide
threat of Soviet ‘^blackmail” and
aggression.
“It now appears, as we review
our strategic situation in the light
of world events, that these goals
may need to be raised, whether
or not we have an armistice in
Korea,” he told the legislators.
“Fish Hogs” At
Cook Inlet Cause
Curtailment There
ANCHORAGE, (£>) — The “fish
hog” ravaging of a Cook Inlet
red salmon run resulted Saturday
in closing the waters to commer
cial fishing for an% additional 24
hours this week.
Clarence Rhode, regional direc
tor of the Fish and Wildlife Ser
v
vice, said his emergency closure
means there’ll only be 48 hours
of fishing allowed this week, on
Monday and on Friday.
He said the move was taken in
an attempt to save the remnant
of a big red salmon school which
was hard hit by an estimated 700
drift gillnet boats, the largest fleet
ever to fish a single Alaskan- area. -
Rhode’s closure came as H. J.
Emard, Anchorage cannery own
er, resident fishing unions and
others urged the F.W.S. to ban!i
drift gillnet boats from operating
in Cook Inlet.
In reply to the requests, Rhode
said he had no authority to out
law completely that specific type
of gear.
He said a stream survey showed
salmon escapement to Inlet
spawning grounds was “very
poor.” He added that the red
salmon pack to date already is
greatly in excess of last year.
Reports yesterday put estimates
of the Cook Inlet take at 500,000
to 750,000 reds, valued here at
$1.10 per fish.