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Reds Accept U. N.
Proposal For
Cease-Fire Talks
TOKYO, (/P) — Red Korea to
night urged its soldiers to fight
on while the world waited for
news of an expected armistice.
Pyongyang radio repeated Chi
nese and North Korean accept
ance of a United Nations proposal
for cease-fire talks.
But the Reds made this clear:
They are claiming victory in the
year-old conflict.
The North Korean Communist
station started each broadcast
with -this statement:
“The Anglo-American aggres
sors have at last realized failure
of their sinister attempt and that
is why they are seeking peace.”
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, su
preme Allied commander, had pro
posed Saturday that a meeting be
held aboard -the Danish hospital
ship Jutlandia in Wonsan Harbor.
He said Vie would proposed a date,
if the Reds agreed to the meeting.
Ridgway has not indicated his
reaction to the Red acceptance
message.
diplomatic circles in Washing
ton said Ridgway already has his
.full instructions and authority to
• leal with the Communists.
The world talked of peace, but
it was “business as usual” on the
?hting lines.
Bullet In Brain
Gnd of Bloody
Career For Irwin
FLEMINGTON, N. J., (JP) —
Meek-looking Warren Lee Irwin
ended his bloody career of mur
der, kidnap and rape by firing
a bullet into his brain in a rain
drenched clump of poison ivy.
The target of New Jersey’s
greatest manhunt was found
shortly after noon yesterday —
sprawled on his back, a trickle
of blood still oozing from a .38
caliber bullet hole in his left
temple.
The body of the 27-year-old
desperado lay about one quarter
of a mile from where he aban
doned 17-year-old Carolyn Bar
ker, his last captive, and plunged
into the woods to escape capture
Saturday.
State police and FBI agents
said Irwin definitely killed him
self, thus carrying out his vow
that he’d never be taken alive.
Shortage Skeet Shoot Shells
Bring your own ammunition to
the skeet shocft on the 4th of July
^ admonishes Chairman Wallace
Mclvor as there is -a shortage of
this kind of amunition in town,
and the city is unable to get a
sufficient amount to supply all
those who may wish to participate
in this popular event for the
skilled marksmen.
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Fred Cc^rdoa Dies of
Heart Attack at Tin City
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Fred Bourdon, aged 57, well
known Nomeite, passed away from
a heart attack while working fdr
the Pacific Electrical Co. Contrac
tors at Tin City.
Mr. Bourdon has lived in Nome
since 1900, when he came here
with his father.
He leaves his wife, Bessie, and
ten children—Ethel Mogg, Fred
-Bourdon, Ina Watson, Lucy Beltz,
George Bourdon, Lydia Heald,
Gene and Emery Bourdon, Jennie
Bourdon and Betty Schmidt. There
are twenty grandchildren.
Mr. Bourdon was a veteran of
World War I, belonging to the
first contingent that left Nome.
He has been a member of the Am
erican Legion since it was organ
ized here. He was also a member
of the Pioneers of Alaska.
The funeral has been announced
for 9:0Cf a.m. Tuesday morning,
with Father Carrol of Kotzebue
performing the m-ass. The Ameri
can Legion will have charge of the
funeral and pallbearers.
Street Car Strike
Paralyzes Capital
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A para
lyzing strike of street cars today
forced thousands of workers in
the nation’s capital to walk, hitch
hike and take taxis to their jobs.
Thousands of others, who ordin
arily leave their automobiles at
home, drove to their offices. To
accommodate the extra cars pour
ing into the downtown area, park
ing was permitted on some sec
tions of idle street car tracks and
restrictions were lifted in many
no-parking zones.
Although the strike got under
way Sunday, the full impact was
not felt until today. Street cars
and buses of the Capital Transit
Co. ordinary carry about 260,000
passengers — mostly government
workers—on working days.
Fires and Floods
In Seven States
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The twin fury of fire and flood
today gripped seven states after
laying waste vast sections of for
est and farm land.
Flames already’ had seared at
least 84,840 acres of forest. A half
million acres of bottomland in
Kansas and Missouri have been
washed by rampant waters.
Forest fires raged in five west
ern states. One death was blamed
on fire fighting operations which
involved hundreds of men.
The Pacific Northwest’s biggest
fire was in British Columbia
where an uncontrolled blaze raged
over 20,000 acres on Vancouver
Island. Foresters sdld only rain
could stop the fire, but there was
no rain in sight.
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Armistice May
Kill Wage And
Price Controls
WASHINGTON, {JP) — Senator
Aiken (R-Vt) said today an armis
tice in Korea might cause Con
gress to let price and wage con
trols die at the end of this month.
“I think an armistice, if one is
negotiated, would pretty well
wipe out whatever little need
there may be now for those con
trols,” Aiken declared. President
Truman signed on Saturday stop
gap legislation continuing wage,
price and rent controls through
July 31. He acted a few hours be
fore the midnight deadline when
the controls program otherwise
would have lapsed.
The stop-gap measure prohibits
any price rollbacks this month—
a ban which Price Director Mi
chael V. DiSalle said would cost
consumers some $10 billion a year
if made permanent.
On Saturday night, just a few
hours before the no-rollback law
took effect, DiSalle’s Office of
Price Stabilization froze existing
price ceilings. The idea, the agency
explained, was to eliminate all
requirements for price rollbacks
and to freeze price ceilings which
were in effect June 30.
Alaska Fishermen
Strike Termed
“Irresponsible”
SEATTLE, </P) — The Congress
of Industrial Organizations chal
lenged the right of the Seafarers’
International Union (AFL) to
take over 1,400 strkiing salmon
cannery workers in Bristol Bay
Saturday.
Boy W. Atkinson, regional CIO
director, informed the Alaska Sal
mon Industry, Inc., that the CIO
was ready to open contract nego
tiations for the cannery workers.
Atkinson said the CIO does not
recognize any picket lines in what
he described as the “jurisdictional
dispute” now going cm in Bristol
Bay.
Meanwhile, George Johansen,
secretary-treasurer of the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union issued a state
ment in which he charged leaders
of the Alaska strike with being
“irresponsible.”
“They are jeopardizing the pro
duction of food during a national
emergency; they threaten to de
prive resident fishermen and can
nery workers of a season’s earn
ings, and they are jeopardizing the
welfare of other workers and the
industry.”
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The De
fense Department reported today
Army Pfc. Bussell J. Lentz, of
Fairbanks, Alaska, has been
wounded in Korea.
Lentz is the son of Jess Lentz,
General Delivery, Fairbanks.
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Capt. Lemmon, MFAB
Commander, To Make
Fourth of July Address
Capt. S. J. Lemmon is the new
commanding officer for Marks Air
Force Base, replacing Capt. Calvin
McKay, who has been here for
the past year.
Capt. Lemmon, whose home is
in Florida, comes directly from a
California assignment to takeover
in Nome.
As commanding officer hero, he
has been asked to make the Fourth
of July address and has most
kindly accepted the honor.
He has further cooperated with
the city of Nome for the big cele
bration by having two flights of
his men from MAFB lead the
Fourth c?f July parade, which is
scheduled for the first event of
the day’s celebration. According
to Capt. Lemmon, there will be
about sixty men and officers tak
ing part in the ceremony.
United Air Lines
DC-6 Crashes,
Killing 50 Persons
FORT COLLINS, Colo., (JP) —
Investigators pieced together t{ie
sterry of Colorado’s worst air tra
gedy, and believed the 50 persons
aboard a United Air Lines DC-6
had no warning death loomed in
the cloud shrouded Rockies.
None lived to tell of the final
moments Saturday on Flight 610,
making its first San Francisco
Chicago run after a 10-day pilot
strike.
The plane stopped briefly at
Salt Lake City and headed for
its next stop at Denver, At 1:46
a.m. Pilot James R. Appleby re
ported he was at 15,000 feet over
Cheyenne, Wyo., turning south
and dropping down to get in the
landing pattern for Denver. Ten
minutes later he said he was at
8,300 feet. That was the last word.
14-Year-Old Boy Burns To
Death in Fireworks Stand
COMPTON, Calif., (IP) — Trap
ped in an exploding fireworks
stand, 14-year-old Fred Marion
Rich was burned to death yester
day.
Police believe the fire may have
started when a passing motorist
flicked away a cigarette or lighted
match.
The boy, who came here recent
ly from Dallas, Tex., was working
as a night watchman when the
flames broke out. The stand ex
ploded in a burst of pyroteohnics
that lasted five minutes.
Typhoon Hits Japan
TOKYO, (JP) — A typhoon
caused at least 13 deaths and dam
aged much property yesterday on
Kyushu, southernmost island of
Japan.
It was blowing itself out today
as it moved northeastward toward
Awaji Island.
Seven Top U.S.
Reds Ordered To
Go To Prison
NEW YORK, <;P) — Federal
Judge Sylvester J. Ryan today
ordered seven top Communists to
begin serving prison terms and
issued bench warrants for four
who failed to surrender.
Ten of the 11 had been sen
tenced to five years imprisonment
for teaching the violent overthrow
of the United States government.
One had received a three year
term.
Those ordered arrested were
Henry Winston, 35, organizational
secretary of the party; Gus Hall,
39, Ohio State chairman; Robert
Thompson, New York state chair
man, and Gilbert Green, Illinois
chairman.
All had been at liberty under
bail of $20,000 each, furnished by
the Civil Rights Congress, which
the U. S. Attorney General’s of
fice has branded as subversive.
Supreme Court Justice
Douglas On Way To Asia
NEW YORK, — Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas
is on his way to Asia in search
of new specimens for his botany
collection. He also hopes to record
wild-life noises.
He plans to spend two months
in the Himalayan and Hindo-Kush
mountains. During the trip, he
will pass through Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Tibet.
National League
Sunday Results
Brooklyn 2—Philadelphia 0
New York 4—Bocton 1
Chicago 7-7—Cincinatti 0-5
St. Louis 5—-Pittsburgh 4
Saturday's Results
Boston 19—New York 7
Brooklyn 14—Philadelphia 8
St. Louis 8—'Pittsburgh 4
American League
Sunday Results
New York 5—Boston 2
Cleveland 2-2—Detroit 1-0
Philadelphia 10-3—Washington
7-2
Saturday Results
Boston 3—New York 1
* Cleveland 3—Detroit 1
St. Louis 4—Chicago 3
Pacific Coast League
Sunday Results
San Francisco 5-4—San Diego
4-6
Seattle 2-1—Oakland 1-0
Los Angeles 6-2—Portland 5-4
Hollywood 8-1—Sacramento 7-5
Saturday Results
San Francisco 6—San Diego 4
Portland 5—Los Angeles 2
Hollywood 7—Sacramento 5
Oakland 2—Seattle 1
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