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VOL. LIII NoHh NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1951 ~ Per Copy—15^
Jet Ace Gabreski
Asserts MIG Pilots
Are Getting Better
U.N. COMMAND HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (£>)—Allied pilots
today destroyed or damaged 14
communist planes over northwest
Korea in history’s greatest day of
all-jet battles.
There were 256 jets in action.
The number dwarfed all previous
jet actions for a single day.
“The MIG war is getting grim
mer,” said Col. Francis S. Gabre
ski, America’s leading ace. “Their
planes are better, their pilots are
better and their system is better.
“Whoever is flying these MIGs
is using some of the old German
Luftwaffe tricks. They are as
good as any German pilots I met
in the last war.”
(Gabreski’s comments, the range
of the new Red jets and the un
usual eagerness of their pilots in
seeking battle hinted the com- ■
munists may have thrown a newer
model jet, probably the MIG-19,
into the sharpening air war.)
Seventy-seven Allied jets tan
gled with 120 Russian-type MIGs
in a roaring duel Wednesday mor
ning over northwest Korea’s MIG
alley. It was the biggest single
jet fight of all time.
Then 24 American Thunderjets
swooshed back into MIG alley in
the afternoon and clashed with 35
MIGs. The Reds forced the Thun
derjets to jettison their bombs
before they had made their target
runs.
On the ground, Allied forces
stormed again at heartbreak ridge
in their five-weeks drive to take
the height commanding a key
communist supply area.
U.N. Rejects Communist
Suggestion For Full-dress
Truce Talks at Kaesong
By DON HUTH
TOKYO, W—The United Na
tions command rejected another
communist suggestion that full
dress Korean truce talks be re
sumed immediately.
The Allies insisted that arrange
ments first be made to prevent
further interruptions when the
meetings •are resumed.
The Reds made their repeat
proposal at a meeting of Allied
and communist liaison officers in
Kaesong, Korea, site of the stalled
cease-fire talks.
Peiping radio said the commun
ists suggested that the full truce
talks be resumed Thursday but
the Allies ‘<fagain resorted to the
old stalling tactics of discussing
conditions first.”
Bartlett Requests That
Alaska Be Declared
Critical Housing Area
WASHINGTON, (/P)_ Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska renewed today
his appeal that Alaska be declared
a critical housing area.
“My recent trip to Alaska served
to confirm my belief such a desig
nation should be made without de
lay,” he said in a statement.
The action is a preliminary to
the relaxing of credit controls in
order to stimulate more construc
tion.
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Last Ship For Bering
Sea Sails Today
SEATTLE, (^)—The last ship
scheduled to go to Nome and other
ports on the western edge of
Alaska this season will leave Seat
tle Wednesday.
The Square Knot was assigned
by the Alaska Steamship Co. to
make the final trip before winter.
She will call at Unalaska, Naknek,
St. Michael, Unalakleet, Nome and
Teller.
No more ships will visit those
ports until next May or June.
Only three other commercial
vessels this season have gone to
the Bering Sea and the Arctic.
Anchorage Moose Hunting
Party 10 Days Overdue
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—An exten
sive air search was launched yes
terday for five Anchorage resi
dents 10 days overdue on a moose
hunting trip by dory into the
Alexander Creek area.
Numerous private planes joined
in the search.
The missing are Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Burdett, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
son Anderson and Rex Hall.
The party left Sept. 10 in their
22-foot dory, powered by two out
board motors. They planned to
return Sept. 15.
The Alexander Creek area is
about 40 boat miles from Anchor
age. Although the creek area is
considered safe, Cook Inlet waters
leading to it have tides which are
often treacherous for small craft.
Burdett and Anderson are part
owners of the City Cab Campany
here and Hall is a driver.
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Catholic Church
Inaugurates New Seattle
Ecclesiastic Province
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Roman
Catholic Church formally inaugu
rated the new Ecclesiastic Pro
vince of Seattle in solemn cere
monies at St: James Cathedral to
day.
Five archbishops, 18 bishops, 11
monsignori and five provincials
of religious orders were here for
the elevation of the Most Rev.
Thomas A. Connolly to the newly
created archbishopric, and the in
stallation of the Most Rev. Jo
seph P. Dougherty as the bishop
of the new province.
Among high church prelates in
attendance was the Most Rev.
Dermot O’Flanagan, bishop-elect
of the new Juneau, Alaska, dio
cese.
21-lb. King Salmon Wins
Dodge Sedan In Seattle
Times Salmon Derby
SEATTLE, (/P)— A 21-pound
king salmon won a new (Dodge)
four-door sedan and a cup em
blematic of the Seattle Times City
Salmon Derby championship for
John Sigaeff Monday.
He boated the prize - winning
fish off Ballard, where 85 of the
116 salmon caught in the Derby
were hooked. The others were
hauled in from Elliott Bay.
There were only 72 women
qualifiers among the 953 finalists
who fished Monday, but women
took two of the five automobile
awards. They were Mrs. E. Han
sonn with a 20-lb., 3 oz., fish and
Mrs. Fumi Sakamoto, 11-9.
AFL Names 19
Senators, Targets
In 1952 Elections
SAN FRANCISCO, (ff) — The
American Federation of Labor
yesterday named 19 U.S. Sena
tors it considers chief congres
sional targets in the 1952 elections.
Joseph D. Keenan, retiring di
rector of labor’s League for Politi
cal Education, in a speech to con
vention delegates, described the
Senators as “short-sighted and
anti-labor.”
Describing the Senators as “the
men who gave you the Taft-Hart
ley Bill,” Keenan urged the defeat
among others, of:
Senators Brewster (R - Maine);
Flanders (R-Vt); Martin (R-Penn);
Smith (R-N.J.); Williams (R-Del.);
O’Connor (D - Md.); and Harry
Byrd (D-Va.), whom he described
as “dean of all dixiecrats”; and
Cain (R-Wash.)
Keenan declared there was “an
excellent chance” of defeating
“several of them.” A net gain of
nine seats “is all we need for a
friendly Senate majority,” he said.
“The Taft-Hartley law is a time
bomb,” the AFL speaker told the,
convention. “When they want tcf |
explode it, they can destroy the
labor movement.”
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Fisheries To Try
Stock Interior Lake
With Rainbows
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — The first
large scale attempt to stock rain
bow trout in an interior Alaska
lake has been started at Ost Lake,
50 miles south of Faribanks.
The lake is now being cleared
of all scrap fish under the direc
tion of Clarence L. Anderson,
Territorial Director of Fisheries.
Next spring it will be planted
with thousands of rainbow. It is
the first of a large number of
lakes the department hopes to'
clear and then restock.
(A program of poisoning “scrap”
fish in lakes and then restocking
them with trout has been carried
on extensively and successfully
in Washington state).
&eavy demands of rapidly
growing cities and military bases
are blamed for the depletion of
the Alaskan lakes.
Serious Shortage of Milk
For Military Overseas
SEATTLE, (/P)—A serious short
age of milk for overseas military
personnel was reported Tuesday
by Seattle Port of Embarkation
officials.
They said the quartermaster
market center here is 70 per cent
short of its quota this month. The
market center chiefly f services
troops in Alaska, and secondarily
the Far East.
An even greater shortage was
predicted for October. Conse
quently Alaska troops have been
getting “reconstituted” (powdered)
milk.
A spokesman blamed the short
age on a decline in cattle popu
lation and an exodus in workers
from the dairy industry. Shortage
of rain was an additional reason
in the Pacific Northwest dairy
area.
Kenai Mt. “Wreckage”
Is Just a Hunk of Ice
ANCHORAGE, (tf>) — A land
rescue team came out of the Kenai
Lake region near Seward Mon
day with word that “wreckage”
reported sighted last week was
“just a hunk of ice.”
“The object was an ice forma
tion which, to an untrained eye,
could easily be mistaken for an
airplane at a distance,” said Lt.
Richard Marsh, head of land op
erations for the 10th Rescue
Squadron.
Marsh and T/Sgt. William Mur
phy were sent to investigate the
object, sighted by a construction
worker, in the possibility the
’’wreckage” he reported might
have been that of a Korean airlift
plane which vanished July 21
with 38 aboard.
OPS Makes Nation
Wide Check 500
Slaughterhouses
WASHINGTON, (£>>—'The gov
ernment yesterday threw all
available price control personnel
into a nation-wide pre - dawn
check of some 500 slaughter
houses in a drive to stamp out
illegal practices in the handling
of beef.
Price enforcement Director Ed
ward IP. Morgan said slaughter
ing operations in more than 50
cities were being checked. He ex
pected hundreds of packers would
come under inspection before
nightfall.
OPS agents were ordered to in
spect records of slaughterers, their
cattle weights, scales and invoices.
The agency said the aim is to
determine whether they are pur
chasing livestock in compliance
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with the control law, and whether
anyone is selling beef at illegal
prices.
Alaska Salmon Pack
Totals 3,338,418 Cases
161,415 Over Last Year
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (£>)—The Fish
and Wildlife Service said today
that the Alaska pack of salmon
through Sept. 6 totaled 3,338,418
cases, 161,415 more than last year.
The agency said the yield in a
normal year averages about 5,500,
000 cases.
The service estimated the total
United States and Alaska salmon
pack this year at about 4,500,000
cases, an increase of about 500,000
over the 4950 figure and a de
crease of about 525,000 from the
1949 total.
Twenty Persons Killed In
European Train Wreck
VIENNA, (/P) — The Vienna
Rome Express crashed into a sta
tionary freight early today, kill
ing 20 persons and injuring 10
seriously.
The disaster occurred in a mid
night fog 55 miles southeast of
Vienna. The crash telescoped the
wooden first class coach where
the 20 persons were killed. A
heavy baggage car, rammed into
the air by the force of the crash,
fell on top of the passenger coach
and buried the occupants.
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Attlee Asks HST’s.
Personal Help In
Iran Oil Dispute
LONDON, (jP)—Prime Minister
Attlee is asking President Tru
man’s personal help in Britain’s
crucial oil dispute with Iran, in
formed sources said today.
Britain protested in the strong
est terms in Tehran earlier today
against an Iranian edict ordering
some 300 British oil men to quit
the world’s biggest refinery in
Abadan by Oct. 3.
In a personal message to Tru
man, informed sources said, Att
lee likely will make it clear that
Britain is determined to stay on
in Abadan.
British government leaders have
hinted they might order the use
of force to keep the technicians
at Aabadan.
If Britain takes a more force
ful line toward Iran it would pose
grave international problems for
all the North Atlantic Pact allies.
Iran has a mutual defense
treaty with Russia, signed in 1921,
that entitles Russia to send troops
into Iran if Iran is invaded. It
must be taken into account in the
reckoning on whether force should
be used at Abadan.
King George Reported
Gaining Strength After
Serious Lung Operation
LONDON, (/P) — King George’s
doctors reported today the mon
arch spent a less restful night
but still keeps on gaining strength
after Sunday’s dangerous lung
operation.
One medical expert said the
phrase “less restful night” need
not necessarily cause any con
cern. He explained that the doc
tors probably have cut down the
amount of opiates given to the
king to ease his pain in the period
immediately after the operation in
which all or part of a lung was
cut out.
Elizabeth and Philip
Postpone Tour of
Canada and U.S.
LONDON, (^P)—A Buckingham
Palace spokesman said tonight the
Canadian-American tour of Prin
cess Elizabeth and her husband,
the Duke of Edinburgh, has been
postponed because of the king’s
serious illness.
The spokesman said a formal
statement from the palace on the
change in plans would be forth
coming shortly.
In Ottawa, a Canadian govern
ment official said the postpone
ment would be for a minimum of
two weeks.
Netherlands Grants U. S.
Fifty-Year Lease On
American War Cemetery
THE HAGUE, (JP)—The Nether
lands have granted the United
States a 50-year lease on the
grounds of the second biggest Am
erican war cemetery in Europe,
Margraten, the foreign office an
nounced today. It is near Maas
tricht, in the southeastern corner
of the country.
Eight thousand American World
War II dead are buried there.