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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIV No. 32 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1952 Per Copy—15^
Senate Probes Big
“Ship” Deal By
Clean-up Man
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Raymond
S. McKeough, former member of
the U.S. Maritime Commission,
described as illegal Friday a ship
deal involving government clean
up man Newbold Morris.
This was an incident not pre
viously mentioned in a Senate in
vestigation of big profit transac
tions in surplus government ves
sels.
McKeough, now a member of
the International Claims Commis
sion, testified as the last scheduled
major witness in the Senate in
quiry.
He tagged as illegal, in his op
inion, the much-explored deal
whereby ex-Rep. Joseph E. Casey
and a group of associates bought
three tapkers from the govern
ment and turned them over, at
$450,000 profit «to themselves, to
United Tanker Corp., a New York
shipping firm represented by
Morris.
Two of the tankers later en
gaged in carrying oil to Red
China, delivering the last of their
cargoes only about a month be
fore the Korean war began.
He told the Senate investiga
tions subcommittee he has for
gotten the name of the firm “this
Mr. Newbold Morris” represented.
But he said he recalled the firm
had purchased “two or three” dry
cargo vessels taken over by this
country after World War II as
“prizes of war,” then sought per
mission to re-sell them “to Nor
way or Denmark.”
McKeough said he resisted this
move. He said Morris tried with
out avail to induce him to change
his stand, but “I told him I should
n’t be loose with the other fel
low’s (taxpayer’s) money.”
Morris insisted there was no
“wrongdoing” at any point in
ship deals with which his law firm
was associated.
155 Injured Sue Sonja
Henie Ice Revue $4 Million
In Bleacher Collapse
BALTIMORE, (jP) —The Sonja
Henie Ice Revue and others are
being sued for a total Of $4,218,000
as a result of a bleacher collapse
at a show last week.
Approximately 155 of the 275
persons reported injured have
filed claims against the show.
A section of bleachers collapsed
last Thursday a few minutes be
fore the show was to go on.
Spokesmen for the ice show
said they carried $800,000 worth
of insurance covering such mis
haps.
SIX OF SEVEN ABOARD
C-47 PERISH AS PLANE |
CRASHES IN FLAMES
BAY MINETTE, Ala., {&)—An
Air Force C-47 cargo plane burst
into flames high in the air Thurs
day. Six of the seven men aboard
died as the ship smashed into a
pine thicket.
The seventh man parachuted
safely although his ’chute was
scorched by the intense flames.
First Lt. H. H. Howell, the in
jured airman, was picked up by
a Navv belicooter. He was ojilv
Russia Expected To Turn
Down Big Three Plan
For Austrian Peace
(By the Associated Press*
Russia is believed ready to fire
back a quick emphatic “no” to a
new Big Three proposal for a
streamlined Austrian peace treaty.
Officials say the Russian turn
down, if and when it comes, will
virtually kill the last Western
hope that a four-power peace
treaty for Austria is possible and
will continue Russia and Western
occupation of Austria until some
other way is found to break the
present stalemate.
In formal notes made public
Thursday, the United States, Brit
ain and France appealed to Mos
cow to agree to a 1,000-word,
eight-article pact which would
fully restore Austrian rule over
its territory.
At the same time, the United
States denounced Russia for stall
ing on a peace pact and failing
to' keep a 1943 promise to join the
West in insuring Austrian inde
pendence after the war.
15
As Two Super forts
Collide In Mid-Air
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, (JP)—
Two four-engine B-29 superfort
resses collided in the air about
35 miles north of here Wednes
day. Both crashed, killing all 15
airmen aboard.
Both bombers were on instru
ment training flights out of Ran
dolph Field here, their home base.
The ceiling and visibility were
practically unlimited.
Lt. Bill Adams, information of
ficer at Randolph, said there was
no way of knowing whether the
pilots were flying on instruments
when the planes collided.
When the pilot does practice
instrument flying, the co-pilot and
a third pilot in the nose act as
lookouts.
A witness to* the collision, D. C.
McDonald, superintendent of the
L. A. Norden ranch, said:
“One B-29 was coming in from
the left and rear of the other, as
if it was about to cross its course.
“When the two collided the tail
of one was clipped off and this
plane fell straight to the ground.
The plane that struck the other
one continued on its course and
maintained its altitude for a brief
time. No one parachuted. Then
the plane nosed down and
crashed.”
Serves The Bum Right!
DETROIT, (ff) — Yes, Thomas
N. Sugden told the judge, he did
push his neighbor’s car into a
tree and smash it up $57 worth.
But, he said, he had good cause.
A dozen times during the win
ter, he said, he shoveled snow to
clear a parking space in front
of his home.
But as soon as the space was
clear, Thomas Schellhose would
drive into it.
“Finally, in February, I got
mad,” Sugden said.
Traffic referee Rollin Shull sus
pended sentence Thursday on a
reckless driving charge and told
Sugden:
“T hnnp cnrincr pi pa re
Time Is Past For
U.N. “Ultimatum”
To Communists
TOKYO, (/P)—Rumors are crop
ping up again that the Allies are
getting ready to give the Reds
an “ultimatum.”
“Bunk—completely ridiculous,”
says Brig. Gen. William P. Nuch
ols, spokesman for the United Na
tions truce delegation.
Since the talks began last July,
there have been half a dozen
stalemates — hopeless-appearing
deadlocks where neither side
seemed able to take a backward
step.
Even if the Allies were consid
ering an ultimatum, what good
would it do?
The unqualified opinion off an
officer in this command, who
knows as much about what is
going on in Korea as anyone else,
is that four more divisions are
needed fo drive the Communists
back to the Yalu River.
“The advantage we held in July
is lost now, unless we build up
our strength,” he said.
The Allies still hold the upper
hand in the air. But the World
War II model B-29s making the
run up to MIG alley every night
aren’t getting any younger.
Researcher Announces
Jewish Race Holds Liquor
Better Than Any Other
LONDON, (>P)—A British re
searcher announced Friday Rus
sians, Italians and Jews carry
their liquor better than anybody
else in the world—and the people
who carry it worst are Ameri
cans, Swedes, Irishmen, Norwe
gians and Finns.
The findings were reported in
the Lancet, a British medical mag
azine, by H. Pullar Strecker,
superintendent of a mental hos
pital at Isle worth.
“Not only individuals, but
whole nations or races have better
heads for alcohol than others,” he
declared.
“At the top of the scale come
the Irish, who are notoriously
prone to pathological alcoholism.
At the bottom comes the Jewish
race, in which alcoholism is re
markably low.
“Next to the Jewish race come
the Italians, who, despite a high
national consumption of alcohol,
have a low alcoholism rate.”
Right next to the Italians he
rated the Russians.
Strecker based his article on
figures he said he obtained from
the United States, showing the
rate of pathological alcoholism
among people of foreign extrac
tion. —
DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK
ABOARD NAVY TRANSPORT
BAFFLES MEDICAL EXPERTS
HONOLULU, W —The attack
transport U.S.S. Bayfield was un
der strict quarantine here Friday
as Navy medical experts baffled
an outbreak of diphtheria among
members of the crew.
Eleven men were carried from
the ship to Tripler General Hos
pital. Navy spokesmen said seven
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Communist Guns And
Ships of U. S. Navy
Stage Artillery Duel
SEOUL, Korea, (#*)—The Ko
rean war quieted Friday after the
heaviest Red artillery operations
in weeks, including shell bursts
uncomfortably close to four Am
erican warships.
Shells from coastal guns strad
dled the cruiser Manchester and
destroyer Fox. American carrier
planes swept in to support the
two ships in the succeeding artil
lery duel with the Red artillery.
The sea - air attack silenced the
Communists emplacements.
In a separate action in the Won
san area, shore batteries fired at
the destroyers Kyes and McGinty.
“Roth ships received near misses,”
the Navy said, “but sustained no
damage.”
Along the 155 mile ground front
Red artillery fired 3,T55 rounds, a
U.S. Eighth Army spokesman
said. The U.S. 25th Infantry Div
ision in the Punchbowl sector re
ported it was the target of 1,390
rounds.
Truman Wins
Approval Shake-up
Internal Revenue
WASHINGTON, <iP)—Secretary
of the Treasury Snyder said Fri
day New York and Chicago have
been chosen as “pilot districts”
for the reorganization of the scan
dal-hit Internal Revenue service.
The administration won author
ity for its proposed top-to-bottom
shake up of the tax collecting
service when the Senate approved
the reorganization plan by a 53 to
37 vote.
It was President Truman’s big
gest triumph of the 1952 congres
sional session.
Sen. George <D-Ga), who fought
the plan bitterly, told a reporter,
“It’s now squarely up to the
President, the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue to clean up the
revenue bureau not only in Wash
ington but across the country.”
Snyder told a news conference
that the changes will be held up
briefly so that there will be no
interference with (1) the filing and
collection of this year’s income tax
returns, due Saturday, and (2) the
mailing of 30 million tax refund
checks, now in progress.
Fairbanksan, Held On
Robbery Charge, Foiled
In Jail Break Attempt
SALT LAKE CITY, (TP)—A 21
year-old Alaskan robbery suspect
Thursday night attacked a 64
year-old Salt Lake County jailer,
but was foiled in his escape at
tempt, Sheriff George Beckstead
reported.
Beckstead said John E. Burns,
a native of Fairbanks, Alaska,
grabbed Jailer Ed Fogle about the
neck and tried to wrest the of
ficer’s keys from him.
“He had a death grip on me,”
Fogle related.
Fogle was treated for a cut on
his head and numerous bruises
and scratches.
Burns is charged with the
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Ike’s Interest In
Nomination ;
Be Growing
(By the Associated Press)
Gen. Eisenhower’s interest in
the Republican presidential nom
ination seemed to be growing Fri
day as support mounted in the
wake of his clean sweep over
Sen. Taft in the New Hampshire
presidential primary.
Eisenhower’s Washington head
quarters late Thursday released
part of a letter from him to an
unnamed close friend which said
in effect he would not turn his
back on party workers and lead
ers later. It sounded like he was
telling those “in the rank and
file” he wouldn’t forget them if
elected.
In Washington, backers still
eager for him to return and put
up a fight—despite his statement
he will not take part in pre-con
vention campaigns—said the New
Hampshire victory was the “clear
cut call to political duty.” The
general said he would answer if
it came.
A former Taft supporter in New
Hampshire, Richard G Jordan of
Manchester, wrote the Ohio sen
ator to get behind Eisenhower,
and assure a GOP victory in No
vember.
Stassen, another GOP candi
date, said he has not promised to
deliver his delegation to Eisen
hower if he fails to win at Chi
cago in July. He said his support
ers, in such an event, can make
up their own minds whom to
support.
Taft said in Albuquerque he
still thinks he will have enough
delegates to win in Chicago.,
Warren, a fourth GOP ^candi
date, hammered away at the
Democratic administration, which,
he said has taken government
away from the people.
Thirsty Millionaire
Dons Viking Outfit;
Wife Sues for Divorce
SANTA MONICA, Calif., (IP)—
Millionaire Tureman Lindsay C.
Howard was so serious about his
drinking he sometimes dressed for
it—in a metal horned helmet and
a chain armor coat—according to
evidence introduced at his wife's
divorce trial.
The evidence was in the form of
photographs showing Howard in
the costume of the Vikings, a
drinking society whose motto is
“a Viking can always drink one
more."
Mrs. Judith Barrett Howard
charges extreme cruelty and ex
cessive drinking in her complaint.
She asked $10,000 monthly ali
mony and child support and a
share of community property.
FORMER PRESIDENT WCTU
DIES AT AGE OF 93
NEW YORK, (JP) — Mrs. Ella
Alexander Boole, 93, president of
the World Women's Christian
Temperance Union for 16 years
and once a candidate for U.S. sen
ator on the Prohibition ticket, died
Thursday.
Mrs. Boole succumbed from a