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Communists Admit
They Are Holding
Unreported POWs
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — The
Communists admitted Wednesday
they hold unreported prisoners
and tried to use them as a club
in Korean truce negotiations.
The Reds said they would sup
ply the names of these prisoners
“in due time”—but only after the
Allies furnished data the Com
munists have been demanding.
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby reported
sharply that the U.N. Command
would furnish additional prisoner
data on an exchange basis or not
at all.
The Red admission followed a
demand by Libby that the Com
munists account for 174 additional
prisoners. Most of these are Am
ericans. Some are British.
This makes a total of 1,621
United Nations soldiers and 50,000
Republic of Korea troops for
which the U.N. has demanded an
accounting.^
None of them were listed in the
original list of 11,500 prisoners of
war the Reds turned over Dec. 18.
Reds Charge
Allies Waging
Germ Warfare
WASHINGTON, (JP)—Secretary
of State Acheson has challenged
the Communists to submit to im
partial investigation their “fan
tastic” charge that the Allies are
waging germ warfare in Korea.
In a sharply - worded state
ment Tuesday, Acheson said:
“We have denied this nonsense
about germ warfare in Korea be
fore. We would not bother to deny
it again were it not for the fact
that the Communists are spread
ing these charges around the
world at the same time they are
stalling in the truce negotiations.”
As in the .past, Acheson said,
the United States again “wel
comes an impartial investigation
by an international agency such
as the International Committee
of the Red Cross.”
The secretary said there ap
pears to be a serious plague epi
demic in Communist - controlled
Korea. But he emphasized that it
was due to the Red’s inability to
care for the people, not to a “fan
tastic plot” by the United Nations.
Supreme Court Holds
$50 Too Much for Alaska
Non-Resident Fish License
WASHINGTON, (IP)— The Su
preme Court holds that Alaska
may not charge $50 for a non
resident fishing license compared
with only $5 for a resident license.
The 6-3 decision Monday was
delivered by Justice Frankfurter,
Chief Justice Vinson, and Jus
tices Clark and Minton dissenting.
The opinion cited a previous de
cision that states have the power
“to charge non-residents a dif
ferential which would merely
compensate the state for any
added enforcement burden they
may impose or for any conserva
t i o n expenditures from taxes
EMIL FISHER PASSED
AWAY THIS MORNING
t
Emil Fisher, 57, last survivor
of the tragic airplane crash last
week which took the lives of the
pilot and two other passengers,
died early this morning at the
MMM Hospital from injuries sus
tained.
He is survived by his wife, who
resides in Nome, and two sons.
Vernon Fisher of Hamilton City,
Calif., and Everett Fisher of Al
buquerque, N.M., and their fam
ilies.
Mr. Fisher was well-known
throughout Alaska, having been
the Alaska Native Service for
many years, teaching in villages
throughout this area. He was also
located at Mt. Edgecumbe before
returning to Nome for a second
i t
assignment here.
He was well liked by both the
native people and whites and re
ently was paid a tribute by Sally
Carrighar in her article in the
Saturday Evening Post on the
village of Unalakleet, where he
had taught.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced after the arrival of
one of Mr. Fisher’s sons from the
States.
Mr. Fisher was a member of
the Animas Lodge No. 15, F&AM
of Farmington, N.M.; the New
Mexico Consistory No. 1 of Santa
Fe, N.M.; and the Ballut Abyad
Temple of the Shrine at Albu
querque, N.M.
Problems Result From
Ruling Against $50
Fishing License Fee
JUNEAU, UP) — Alaska faces
two new problems as a result
of the supreme court ruling
against different fees for resident
and non-resident fishermen, Atty.
Gen. J. Gerald Williams said
Tuesday.
One problem is whether non
residents who failed to protest
the $50 license fee will be eli
gible for refunds, Williams said.
The other concerns an act passed
by the legislature creating a fund
for the care of sick and disabled
fishermen. License fees went into
the fund. c
Williams said the law provides
that only those who protested the
fees at the time they were paid
are eligible for refunds.
The fate of the fisermen’s fund
cannot be immediately deter
mined, the attorney general said,
but it probably will be left up to
the next legislature.
Embezzler of $37,000
Arrested by FBI
LONG BEACH, Calif., (JP)—Mi
chael Orrick, 36, was arrested by
Long Beach police here Monday
and held for the FBI in connec
tion with a $37,000 Seattle em
bezzlement.
Police said the man, listed by
the FBI as Allen L. Orrick, has
been sought since November, 1950,
as a fugitive. They said Orrick,
formerly a traveling auditor for
the Alaskan Packers Association
of Seattle is accused of converting
a Montreal, Que., bank check to
his own use.
He frad been working here as a
Highlights Of
Address Bv
Bob Reeve
Following a dinner last evening
at the Bering Sea Club sponsored
by the Republican Club, Bob
Reeve, candidate on the Repub
lican ticket for Delegate to Con
gress, addressed the public at the
Dream Theater.
Reeves minced no words and
pulled no punches in blasting the
present administration for its
“neglect and malfeasance in of
fice.”
“From the mightiest nation in
the world, we have spent our way
into humiliation before the eyes
of the world. Fifth rate commun
ist satellite nations seize our citi
zens with impunity, and in abject
submission we ransom them.”
“When funds provided by the
80th Congress in 1950 for the de
fense of Alaska were withheld
from their appropriated purpose
by President Truman, Alaska was
left in a most vulnerable position.
I feel sure that this was a direct
factor in the Communist decision
to move into Korea as we had
seemingly let our guard down.
Their action was further encou
raged by the public statement,
made by Secretary of .State Ache
son, that we would defend only
certain areas. Korea, the Com
munist hotbed, was not among
them.”
“If the billions of dollars that
had been appropriated by the
80th Congress for the expansion
of the Army and Navy had been
u«*ed for that purpose—we would
and could have shown our ene
mies that we were prepared to
defend Alaska and our country to
the fullest.”
“Nome and the Seward Penin
sula were just plain thrown to the
dogs as far as local defenses were
concerned. Don’t blame your mili
tary leaders. They were doing
their level best with the pitifully
few tools that the present admin
istration had given them.”
Reeve called attention to the
fact that the breakwater was ac
complished through the untiring
efforts of “two staunch Republi
cans, Grant Jackson and Carl
Lomen” by funds appropriated
by a Republican Congress “the
same Congress that appropriated
funds that would have protected
you from the Communists.”
In reference to the United
States, Canada and Japan fishing
treaty of Dec. 14, 1951, he stated,
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U.S. Planes Shoot Down
Five MIGs Wednesday
SEOUL, Korea, (JP)—American
warplanes surprised a flight of
Communist MIG-15 jets Wednes
day and shot down at least five
near the Yalu River.
The wild 30-minute morning
battle was touched off when 28
F-86 Sabre jets pounced on a
flight of 70 MIGs as the Reds
came out of their Manchurian
sanctuary.
“We caught them by surprise
and bounced the whole forma
tion,” an Air Force officer said.
It was the biggest bag of Red
jets since Jan. 25, when Sabre
Firing of One Government
Worker Costs Taxpayers
$6,000 In Paper Work
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Firing
one government worker is so com
plicated, says Sen. Johnston (D
SC), it costs the taxpayers $6,000
in paper work.
He told the Senate Tuesday his
Civil Service Committee found
many other peculiarities in the
complicated Civil Service layoff
system.
One unidentified agency, he
said, ran up a bill of $159,000 in
dismissing 25 people. Johnston re
lated these details of the case:
1. The agency spent 4V£ months
in an attempt to discharge 164
workers. This entailed 1,553 “pa
per actions.”
2. Only 25 employes of the 164
actually were dropped.
3. The reshuffling involved was
so damaging to morale at least
297 employes quit.
4. The agency found itself in
the “ridiculous position of having
to recruit new employes.”
He criticized the Civil Service
Commission’s layoff system which
he said hds 26 different categories
and subcategories of job retention
rights.
CAB Hearing May
Have Travel Tip
For Alaskans
fAP Special Washington Service'
WASHINGTON, (/P)— A Civil
Aeronautics Board hearing Tues
day may have developed an econ
omy tip for traveling Alaskans,
who are overlooking bargain air
line rates.
It was brought out during an
examiner’s hearing on an appli
cation by Alaska Airlines to carry
mail on its loop service operation
between Anchorage and Bethel.
The flight runs from Anchorage
to Bethel by a northern route
through McGrath, Flat, Anniak
and Nyak, and returns over a
southern route through Nyak,
King Salmon (Naknek) Iliamna
and Anchorage. It has an alter
nate route between Iliamna and
Anchorage by way of Homer and
Kernia.
• Henry W. Bierds of Seattle,
airlines vice-president, said Alas
ka now operates the service four
times weekly — two trips each
wav.
Under questioning by Theodore
Seamans, Northern Consolidated
Airlines attorney, Bierds testified
that a passenger flying from An
chorage to King Salmon would
pay only $41.50 whether he took
the short or long way around.
Examiner F. Merritt Ruhlen
asked “What’s to prevent him
from going the long way and get
ting off at Bethel? If he does,
wouldn’t you be losing $18^50?”
Bierds conceded that such
would be the case, but said Al
askans were not taking advantage
of the point.
“I f Alaskan travelers don’t
catch this, they’re not as smart
as travelers in -the United States,”
commented Ruhlen.
The hearing, in which Alaska’s
application is opposed by both
Northern Consolidated and Paci
fic Northern Airlines, is expected
Sen. Connolly’s
Remarks Anger
Hawaiians
HONOLULU, {/P)—Angry pro
tests are developing against Sen
ator Connally’s remarks on Ha
waii in debate Monday in Wash
ihgton.
Connally (D-Tex) in a Sepate
speech said he was a better Am
erican “than a great many people
living in Hawaii” many of whom
“are not of American descent.”
President Gregg Sinclair of the
University of Hawaii headed a
campaign calling on mainland
born Americans here to join in a
protest message.
President Henry A. White of
Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Co. sent
the Texas senator a radiogram
taking issue with his remarks
particularly your statement you
are a better Amerian than a great
many people who live in Hawaii.”
Dr. Katsumi Kometani, mem
ber of the 100th Battalion Club,
said the veterans would seek to
send a delegation to Washington
to lay a protest before President
TrUman.
Kometani recalled that Hawaii’s
442nd regiment of Hawaii-born
Japanese rescued trapped, ele
ments o*f the Texas 36th division
in Italy in World War II.
Statehood Legislation
For Alaska and Hawaii
Shunted into Background
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Statehood
legislation for Hawaii and Alaska
was shunted into the background
Tuesday after the Senate voted
to consider first the ownership of
submerged oil lands.
Advocates of bringing Alaska
into the union staved off a return
of that bill to committee Monday
but backers of the Hawaii meas
ure were beaten in a stormy re
bellion against the Senate lead
ership.
Senator Smith (R-NJ) pumped
new life into the Alaska bill by *
moving to reconsider the 45-44
vote by which the Senate sent it
back to committee for hearings
last Wednesday. It was not known
when an effort will be made to
seek a vote. A motion to recon
sider a vote may be before the
Senate indefinitely.
Calls For Postponement
Of Fight Over Rich
Submerged Oil Lands
WASHINGTON. (fP) — Senator
O’Mahoney (D-Wy) has called
for a bill that will “postpone the
controversy and produce the oil.”
He was speaking of the fight over
oil-rich submerged lands along
American coastlines.
O’Mahoney and Sen. Anderson
(D-NM), are sponsors of a pend
ing resolution giving the Secre
tary of the Interior control of the
lands beneath of the marginal seas
until a permanent solution to the
problem is found. They declared
the resolution would permit oil
! companies to continue underwater
explorations.
Noting, that the states-versus
federal government fight has been
going on for 14 years. O’Mahoney *
asserted yesterday the interim
control bill would “postpone the