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VOL. LIII No. 131 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1951 Per Copy—15c
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Propose By-pass
Buffer Zone
Stumbling Block
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — The
United Nations today proposed
by-passing the cease-fire buffer
zone stumbling block until a
Korean armistice is ready for
signing.
The U.N. suggested a perman
ent committee study the buffer
zone issue while negotiators go
ahead with talks on other points
that must be settled before the
fighting can end.
First indications were that the
Reds would reject the proposal.
A briefing officer said they called
it “unacceptable, unfair, unjust,
unreasonable.”
But, Brig. Gen. Wm. P. Nuchols
said, they did agree to study the
plan further. If the communists
agree to the proposal, the full
delegations would go to work on
these remaining points on the
agenda:
1. Concrete arrangements to
end the shooting and supervise
the truce.
2. Exchange of prisoners of
war.
3. Recommendations to the
governments of the various coun
tries concerned on both sides.
(The Reds’ demand that all for
eign troops be withdrawn from
Korea comes under this heading.)
Any one of these could develop
into as hard a nut to crack as
the location of the cease-fire buf
fer zone.
ARFS Is Heard
From Barrow To
Gulf of Alaska
MARKS AIR FORCE BASE,
Nome, Oct. 29—Due to the in
creased demand for better radio
reception in this sector, a new
vista of radio enjoyment opened
for radio listeners on Oct. 14
when the new AFRS station lo
cated at Marks Air Force Base,
returned to the air with new
studios and an increased power
of 1000 watts.
First tabulations of the huge
mail response, still arriving from
the interior and coastal outposts,
show that almost the complete
Alaska coast, from Point Barrow
to the Gulf of Alaska, and com
munities as far east as Fort Yu
kon, Alaska, and Dawson, Can
ada, are receiving and enjoying
AFRS programs, many for the
first time. Bering Sea islands
sugh as St. Lawrence, Pribilofs, I
and Little Diomede also report
excellent reception in their res
pective areas. Looking south, dis
tant communities such as Sew
ard, Sitka, Dillingham, and Mt.
Edgecumbe have reported good
reception.
Due to the increased number
of listeners in outlying areas, the
new station’s programming sched
ule has been completely re
vamped and now offers nine daily
newscasts plus the best radio
shows of the stateside networks
as released by AFRS in Los An
geles. Fifty per cent of the pro
gramming day is now held for
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Two Men In Cessna 140
Overdue On Trip From
Fairbanks to Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Search
was started yesterday for two
men, the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration reported overdue
Saturday night in their s ilver
colored Cessna 140 plane, headed
lrom Fairbanks to Anchorage.
The CAA said the pilot was a
man named Fouse, believed to be
connected with the Fairbanks Air
Service. The name of his pas
senger was not known here.
The pilot was flying contact
•along the Alaska railroad tracks.
The plane had no radio. CAA said
there was a possibility Fouse had
landed on one of the many small
fields between the two cities but
was not able to get word out.
U. N. Rejects
Demand China
Be Given Seat
PARIS, (7P)—The fifth United
Nations General Assembly re
jected at its final session today j
a Russian demand that the ques
tion of giving China’s seat to the
communists be given priority in
the sixth assembly, opening to
morrcfw.
The vote was 11 for, 20 against
and 11 abstentions.
Russia’s Jacob A. Malik threw
the explosive question of Chi
nese representation into what
diplomats had hoped would be a
non - controversial, ceremonial
wind-up of the fifth session.
He angrily declared “It is time
to put an end to this disgrace
ful attitude toward the Chinese
people.”
Ike and Truman
Confer Today
WASHINGTON, l/P)—President
Truman and Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower confer on western de
fense problems today in a confi
dential meeting affording an op
portunity to talk politics — if
either man wishes to do so.
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Another topic which adminis
tration officials said is due to
come up is a foreign policy speech
the President will make Wednes
day night. This is understood to
be concerned with a new Ameri
can move toward a settlement
with Russia, to be made in the
United Nations General Assembly
in Paris Tuesday.
The White House announced
Saturday that Mr. Truman will
make his address at 10:30 p.m.
EST Wednesday and that it will
be carried on all major radio and
television networks. It reported
ly will be built around a formula
for disarmament and atomic con
trols, peace in Korea and other
major East-West issues.
Eisenhower arrived in Wash- |
nigton yesterday afternoon and
told reporters he was here “for
one purpose only—to talk mili
tary affairs with my superiors in
the Pentagon and elsewhere in
Washington.”
Asked whether he would see
Senator Duff (R-Pa), who is
booming Eisenhower for the Re
publican presidential nomination
next year, the general replied he
has not heard from Duff “either
directly or indirectly in a long,
long time.”
Many Pay Homage To
Will Rogers On 72nd
Birthday Anniversary
CLAREMORE, Okla., (/P) —
More than 3,000 persons, includ
ing cowpokes, aviators, business
man and the curious, gathered at
the Will Rogers Memorial here
yesterday to pay homage to the
memory of the late humorist o*n
his 72nd birthday anniversary.
Rogers was killed with aviator
Wiley Post in a plane crash near
Point Barrow on Aug. 15, 1935.
W. T. (Bill) Piper, president of
the Piper Aviation Corp., Lock
haven, Pa., was the principal
speaker.
He said “Will, with his ana
lytic mind, saw the day coming
when aviation would span the
world and bring nations within
hours of each other.”
Says MacArthur
Will Stump For
Senator Taft
NEWBURG, N.Y., (^P)—If Sen.
Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) gets the
Republican presidential nomina
tion, says ex-congressman Hamil
ton Fish, Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur “will stump for him at every
whistle stop.”
And, Fish further predicts, Taft
“will carry a majority of both
northern and southern states” in
the 1952 election.
The former Republican con
gressman, in an address here Fri
day night, said MacArthur was
not interested “for himself” but
“wants to oust the so-called Dem
ocratic Socialists from office.
MacArthur could not be reached
for comment.
NEW AFRS RADIO STATION WIDELY HEARD
MARKS AIR FORCE BASE — Staff Sergeant Robert E. Brown, AFRS station manager, points out
to other staff members wide area now covered by the station's new transmitting facilities. Pins on
the map represent replies from the station's 2£-hour test broadcast, October 13, which marked it's
first day of operation. Other staff members, left to right. Corporal C. B. "Chuck" Chisam, Pfc.
Roy Leonard, Corporal Dudley HalL —AFRS Photo
U.S. Will Propose
World-Wide
Arms Census
PARIS, (/?)—'The United States
was reliably reported today to
have decided to propose a world
wide arm census including a com
plete accounting of all atomic
weapons.
The U.S. plan, which will be
placed before the United Nations
assembly here this week, calls for
a strict system of verification for
the atomic accounting. This may
prove to be the stumbling block
which could hold up indefinitely
any disclosure of the number of
atom bombs in the U.S. and Rus
sia.
Informed quarters said the
arms proposal was the heart of
the reported peace plan which
President Truman will announce
Wednesday night and which Sec
retary of State Acheson will lay
before the United Nations As
sembly, perhaps on Thursday.
Inclusion of atomic weapons in
the proposed arms census repre
sents a drastic change in the U.S.
policy. The census question has
been before the U.N. since 1948,
but was blocked by the Russian
veto because the U.S. refused to
include atomic weapons.
Fifth A-Bomb,
Biggest Yet,
Is Exploded
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (yP) — The
fifth atomic blast in the current
test series exploded at 8:31 ajn.
today.
Thirty seconds later the atomic
cloud customary in the detona
tions could be seen from Las
Vegas rising over the Yucca Flat
test site 75 miles ay ay.
It was a big one, perhaps the
biggest yet, observers here who
have seen the previous blasts re
ported.
An indication of the size and
potency of this detonation was
indicated by an unusual warning
from the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
Radio stations in a wide area
covering Goldfield, Beatty, and
Caliente, Nev., were asked to
warn residents to open windows
in their homes and stores.
Presumably this would be to
lessen effects of tremendous con
cussion expected.
Seven minutes after the deton
ation there was a perceptible
rumble in Las Vegas, along with
a sudden blast of wind.
The brilliant flash of the burst
was as bright, at least as the big
one last Thursday, the first det
onation in which troops partici
pated in atomic maneuvers.
CIO Will Seek $1,375,000
Campaign Fund In 1952
NEW YORK, (JP) — The CIO’s
Political Action Committee CPAC)
says it will seek a $1,375,000 cam
paign fund for the 1952 congres
sional elections.
The PAC adds that it will cam
paign in about 100 congressional
districts and in 11 senatorial elec
tions. The organization did not
identify the contests.