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Plane Rescuing
Rouse and O'Brien
is Stormbound
FAIRBANKS, i/P)—An amateur
pilot and his companion on an ill
starred pleasure flight were snow
bound at an Alaska village today,
i awaiting clearing weather to
make the trip back to civilization.
Bush pilot Bob Vanderpool took
off yesterday from Stoney River,
a village 250 miles west of An
chorage, with Bob Rouse and
Viola O’Brien, hero and heroine
of an epic Alaska rescue last
week, but was turned back by a
snowstorm.
t The bush pilot, last Friday,
plucked Miss O’Brien from an
icy river where a light plane with
Rouse at the controls made a
crash landing Nov. 2 on a plea
sure flight from Fairbanks to An
chorage.
Rouse stumbled 35 miles over :
rugged terrain covered by 12 in
ches of snow to carry word of
the accident to Stoney River, an j
Eskimo village.
j
v « Reports received here indicated
both Rouse and Miss O’Brien
were in good condition despite
the two-week ordeal in frigid
snow-swept interior Alaska.
Acheson Presents
West Disarmament
Plan To The U.N.
PARIS, i>P)—U.S. Secretary of
State Doan Acheson introduced
the west’s disarmament plan to
day and fervently appealed for
its acceptance to “open a broad
/ highway on which we can all
march together.”
Soviet foreign minister Andrei
Vishinsky listened impassively as
Acheson urged all countries not
“to turn aside into the noisome
alleys of propaganda.”
Acheson was asking the U.N.,
in its 60-nation political commit
tee, to adopt a program which
would set up a 12-nation disarm
ament commission to start the
ball rolling in a step-by-step
supervised arms reduction as pro
posed by the U.S., France and
Britain.
The resolution which Acheson
introduced for the western Big
Three calls for strictly controlled,
gradual disarmament and a cen
sus of all weapons, including the
atomic.
, “We can seize this great oppor
tunity for peace,” Acheson said
in a conciliatory speech which
was greeted with great applause
from the committee “or we can
fritter it away.”
The secretary of state made no
direct mention of the Soviet
4 Union.
Geisha Girls Win Out
In Two-W(eek Strike
TOKYO, (/P)—Tokyo’s kimono
clad Geisha girls are going back
to work after a two-week strike.
The colorful entertainers who
sing, dance and pour tea in party
restaurants, won everything they
asked — two million yen ($5,000)
in back pay and a union shop.
The restaurant owners came to
terms today.
Mary Pickford To Star
In One More Picture
NEW YORK, (/P)—Mary Pick
ford, once known as “America’s
Sweetheart,” is coming out of a
19 - year retirement from the
screen to star in just one more
film.
The 58-year-old actress will
play the role of a librarian* in
the film, “The Library” to be
made by Columbia Pictures.
Her return to the screen
matches in many ways the movie
comeback of another early Holly
wood queen, Gloria Swanson.
Since her retirement from act
ing, Miss Pickford has continued
to be active in the management
and ownership phases of the film
industry. She was one of the
founders of the United Artists
producing and distributing organ
izations.
Miss Pickford married her one
time leading man, Buddy Rogers,
in 1937. Rogers is now conductor
of his own television show.
Previously she' was married to
Owen Moore and Douglas Fair
banks, Sr.
Truman Starts
Administration
House-Cleaning
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman’s confidants said today
the firing of Assistant Attorney
General Theron Lamar Caudle is
the beginning of a sweeping ad
ministration house-cleaning.
The President reportedly has
sent out word to fire, retire, or
get the resignation of all gov
ernment executives whose outside
activities, however legal, might
provide fodder for Republican
campaign oratory.
Sources at Key West, Florida,
where the President is spending
his vacation, said he is deter
mined to weed out those who
might lay his administration open
to charges of corruption.
“This is just the beginning,”
said Rep. King OD-Calif), chair
man of the House Ways and
Me-ans subcommittee, which has
been unearthing corruption and
misconduct in the internal rev
enue service.
Mr. Truman announced Caudle
resigned by request because he
had “engaged in outside activi
ties” inconsistent with his posi
tion as head of the Justice De
partment tax division.
In an emotional interview fol
lowing the President’s announce
ment, Caudle said, “My heart is
broken.”
“I have nothing to hide from
anybody,” he said of his four
years as tax prosecution chief.
Ford Motor Co. Assets
Almost A Billion and Half
BOSTON, (/P)—'The Ford Motor
Co., today reported its assets on
Dec. 31, 1950 were $1,469,091,000
up $126,742,000 over the previous
year.
The statement signed by Henry
Ford II, president, and by the
treasurer, L. E. Briggs and seven
directors reports that earnings re
tained for use in business in 1950
were $623,769,000 — a gain of
$59,357,000 from the preceding
year.
Lack of Money
<)nly Obstacle
To Alaska TV
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Strictly a
matter of economics — that’s the
view of the Federal Communica
tions Commission on the future of
television in Alaska.
From an engineering stand
point, it’s ready to go as soon as
the commission lifts a three-year
old freeze on station construction.
That may be February—possibly
even earlier in Alaska where the
long distances between popula
tion centers eliminate the possi
bility of interference when sta
tions are too close together.
The financial outlay, however,
may cool the enthusiasm of any
prospective promoter. It costs
from $250,000 to $500,000 to build
a TV station, and $100,000 a year
or so to operate. Whether Alaska’s
cities are large enough to produce
that kind of advertising revenue
is a question outside FCC’s juris
diction.
So far no one has indicated
willingness to take the gamble.
The commission announced re
cently it has tentatively allocated
19 stations to six Alaska commun
ities—all in the “very high fre
quency channels receivable by
sets now on the market.
Most of the allocations—six—
went to Fairbanks; four to An
chorage; three each to Juneau and
Ketchikan; two to Seward and
one to Sitka.
The Fairbanks allocations, inci
dentally, are a good illustration
of the lack of station interference
expected in the territory. Seattle,
many times larger in population*
will have only four VHF stations
to prevent interference with other
stations allocated to nearby Ta
coma.
Egyptian Police
And British Army
Clash at Ishmaila
ISHMAILIA, Egypt, </P)—Brit
ish forces “occupied” the Suez
Canal Zone trouble center today
as the casualty list climbed to 14
dead and 31 wounded from two
week-end battles between British
troops and Egyptian police.
On the British side, four offi
cers were killed—one on Satur
day — and four soldiers and two
civilians wounded. Egyptian au
thorities announced that six po
licemen and four civilians were
killed, and 25 police wounded in
the 24-hour period of sporadic
fighting.
A British spokesman described
yesterday’s fighting as a “flare-up
of the Saturday night battle” in
which a British army officer was
killed.
He said a military patrol jeep
was fired on yesterday afternoon
as it passed headquarters of the
Egyptian police.
“This appeared to be the sig
nal for gunfire to open from all
directions, from rooftops and
doorways.
Troops from the British head
quarters were rushed to the city
and returned the Egyptian fire.
S. S. George Walton
Sinks at End of Tow-Cable
ABOARD COAST GUARD
CUTTER NORTHWIND, off the
Washington coast, (/P) — The ill
fated Liberty ship S. S. George
Walton is either lost or sunk in
heavy seas, 50-odd miles north
west of Cape Flattery.
Crewman aboard the seagoing
tug Barbara Foss radioed the es
corting Northwind last night that
their tow cable was fast to some
thing on the bottom. Heavy 15
foot seas and driving 50-mile
winds made it impossible to de
termine exactly the Walton’s
status, the tug reported. The Wal
ton could not be seen on radar
screens on either the Northwind
or the Barbara Foss.
The first radio report to the
Northwind said the Foss crewmen
were cutting the tow cable with a
torch because the heavy pull on
it was causing the tug’s stern to
pull down and part of the counter
was already damaged.
The Walton first burned Nov. 6,
350 miles northwest of Cape Flat
tery, resulting the loss of six
crewmen.
Senator To Probe
Tax Returns Of
Top Racketeers
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Senator
Williams (R-Del) is starting his
own search for tax collection
scandals. He’ll concentrate on
“five or six of the top racketeers
in the country,” he said today.
Williams, who is credited by his
Republican colleagues with set
ting off the current house probe
of scandals in the federal revenue
gathering service, said yesterday
he will demand still deeper dig
ging.
He followed this with today’s
disclosure that he’s doing some
digging of his own into the tax
cases of some big-time criminals.
He wouldn’t reveal their names,
he said, for “fear of tipping them
off to* cover up, or possible loss of
government records involving
them.
“I’m making a detailed case
j study of just how they were
treated on tax returns, collections
and prosecutions by federal tax
officials,” Williams told a report
er. “There has been a lot of criti
cism and rumor about preferen
tial treatment of these racketeers
by tax officials. I have asked trea
sury officials for full details on
these cases.”
Emperor Hirohito Signs
li.S.-Japan Security Pact
TOKYO, (JP) — Emperor Hiro
hito today signed the Japanese
peace treaty and the U.S.-Japan
Security Pact.
His signature, at Nara, where
he is on tour, completed Japanese
action on the documents. The Diet
gave its approval yesterday.
The United States Senate was
expected to do likewise early next
year. The pacts were agreed upon
in September in San Francisco.
The emperor’s signature was
affixed just 18 days short of the
10th anniversary of Japan’s at
tack on Pearl Harbor.
Reds Study U.N.
Plan For Armistice
in 30 Days in Korea
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Red
cease-fire delegates today pro
mised to give their overall reply
Wednesday to an Allied proposal
for an armistice in 30 days in
Korea.
At the close of an hour and
15 - minute session at Panmun
jom, they asked and got a re
cess through Tuesday. They
wanted to study a plan keyed to
a truce line which courses up to
more than 25 miles north of
parallel 38.
The Reds apparently want to
refer the matter to Peiping where
Red China’s foreign minister
Chou En-Lai today issued a state
ment backing up a Russian pro
posal that parallel 38 be the line
of demarcation for divided Korea.
The Allies have proposed that
the present line of battle contact
across Korea be accepted as a
temporary demarcation line now
and that such a line become the
permanent cease-fire line if a
full armistice is signed within 30
days.
If all armistice problems are
not settled in 30 days, the U.N.
plan calls for a new demarcation
line to be fixed, based on “such
conditions as will be at the time
mutually agreed to by the dele
gates of both sides.” Continued
fighting might have changed it
by then. •
Governor Warren
Opens Campaign
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (£>)—Gov.
Earl Warren of California has op
ened his campaign for the Re
publican presidential nomination
with proposals that his party take
a middle of the road course and
support demands of the people for
social progress.
In the initial speech of his cam
paign Friday night the 60-year
old governor declared that the
Republican party has never been
radical and must never become
reactionary.
He said the party should stand
for:
Honesty in government; a bi
partisan foreign policy; support of
the United Nations; medical care
on reasonable terms; slum clear
ance, and “the right of every seg
ment of our society to a measure
of security.”
ALL-ALASKA DIRECTORY
LONG BEACH, Calif., (JP) —
preparation of the first all-Alaska
directory in the history of the
territory has been announced by
the General Telephone Directory
Company. The firm said the di
rectory will cover more area than
any single telephone directory in
the world.
It is expected that the new di
rectory will be ready for distri
bution by February and listings
will be closed on December 28.
The all-Alaska directory is be
ing published under contract for
the Alaska Telephone Corpora
tion by the General Telephone Di
rectory Company, which pub
lishes telephone directories in 27
states.
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