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VOL. LIV No. 99 ' NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1952 Per Copy—15<
Russia and China
Begin Talks On
Int’national Issues
MOSCOW, (/P) — Russia and
China began consultations Mon
day on the international situation
and a number of specific Chinese
Soviet issues.
Here for the talks are Chinese
premier - foreign minister Chou
En-Lai and a large staff of Chi
nese military and industrial ex- j
perts. Provision for such consult
ation was laid down in the Feb.
14, 1950 Chinese -Soviet treaty.
High on the list of subjects under
discussion obviously *is the return
to China of the Chinese Chang
chung Railway and the military
base of Port Arthur. This was
provided for in the 1950 treaty,
to take place not later than the
end of 1952..
The nature of the top-level dis
cussions between the world’s big
gest Communist nations was kept
secret.
The Chinese got a full red-car
pet reception at the airport—in
dicating the high importance the
Russian government attaches to
the conference.
Chou’s last conference in Mos
cow, in January, 1950, preceded
the Korean war by six months.
He had conferred here once be
fore, shortly after the Chinese
Communists proclaimed their new
government in Peiping.
Flash Flood Drowns 39
Persons In English Town
LYNMOUTH, Eng., (/P)—Army
engineers blasted and bulldozed
their way Monday through the
debris of a flash flood believed to
have drowned 39 persons in Eng
land’s southwest resort coast.
Thus far nine bodies have been
recovered from among the rain
washed boulders and house
wreckage along a 15-mile stretch
of the Devon coast. Still missing
and presumed dead were 30 more
villagers and vacationers.
This picturesque vacation town
was almost washed into the sea
by water which poured over the
banks of the Lyn River at the
height of the flood early Satur
day morning.
First estimates put the property
damage in the whole flooded area
at over seven million pounds (al
most 20 million dollars).
Rain Bogs Korea Warfront
SEOUL, (/P) — Typhoon winds
and rains bogged fighting and
grounded warplanes in the Kor
ean war Monday.
The center of the storm, with
winds up to 90 miles an hour,
was expected to pass slightly
south of Seoul.
Counter-attacking Chinese, sup
ported by a 1,425 round mortar
artillery barrage, won a hill out
post on the east-central front
Sunday. It was the third time the
hill had changed hands in four
days of bitter hand - to - hand
fighting.
There was no report of any new
effort on the part of the Chinese
to retake Bunker Hill on the
western front from the US. Ma
rines.
13-Year-Old Utilizes
Boy Scout “Know How”
To Survive Week in Wilds
SONORA, Calif., (/P)—'Thirteen
year-old Brent Bradberry told a
hair-raising story Monday of how
he survived seven days alone in
the high Sierras using Boy Scout
know-how.
The husky Lynwood, Calif.,
youth walked into a fishing camp
Saturday, a week after he van
ished on a fishing trip. Doctors
here said his physical condition
was perfect, except for sore feet
and bruises.
Brent had a 13th birthday re
union at 1 a.m. with his father,
Wenzel Bradberry, who had just
returned from searching in an
other section of the mountains.
They planned to drive later in the
day to Los Angeles where the
father is an executive for Sears
Roebuck and Co.
Brent said he used his knowl
edge of woodcraft as he followed
small Cherry Creek downstream.
Estimates of the distance he
tramped, waded, swam and tum
bled ranged from 20 to 50 miles.
He said he frequently crossed his
own path in looking for trails.
Lewis Orders A
10-Day “Memorial”
Work Stoppage
WASHINGTON, (jP) — John L.
Lewis, in the midst of bargaining
for a new coal wage contract,
Saturday ordered his miners out
of the pits for a 10-day “mem
orial” work stoppage at the end
of this month.
Nothing was said on the an
nouncement to relate the move to
the negotiations but Lewis cus
tomarily uses the contract-per
mitted mourning period in con
nection with new contract talks.
Officially the purpose is com
memoration of the casualties of
mining disasters.
The designated period, announ
ced in the United Mine Workers
Journal, is Aug. 23 to Sept. 1,
inclusive. Aug. 23 falls on a Sat
urday when the miners custom
arily do not work. Sept. 1 is a
Monday. Thus the stoppage will
involve only six normal working
days.
Lewis has given notice that the
present coal mine wage contract
will expire Sept. 30, just under
a month after the men will be
going back to work after the
Memorial holiday.
While the selected dates put no
direct pressure on the contract
talks, they nevertheless will serve
to emphasize what will happen if
the negotiations do not produce
an agreement.
RENT CONTROL DECISION
COMING UP IN JUNEAU
JUNEAU, (^P) — After a warm
debate between landlords and
tenants, the Juneau City Coun
cil has delayed until next Thurs
d a y night its decision on the
continuation of rent controls.
The issue is whether the city
should continue controls after
Sept. 30. The council was told
that other “non-critical” cities of
southeastern Alaska, including
Ketchikan, were waiting to see
what Juneau does.
Air Nat’l Guard
To Be Organized
In Alaska Sept. 1
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The Air
Force Saturday announced plans
to established the first Air Na
tional Guard organization in
Alaska.
An air base squadron will be
formed at Anchorage next month
to recruit key personnel and set
up equipment and training pro
grams, and a Territorial Air
Guard headquarters will be
opened in Juneau on Sept. 1.
Maj. Gen. Earl T. Ricks, chief
of the Air Force division of the
National Guard Bureau, an
nounced that the first fighter-bom
er squadron will be activated next
July 1 at Anchorage, which will
be the operating headquarters of
Alaska’s first Air Guard squad
ron.
Fighter planes and cargo craft
will be assigned to the new Al
askan Guard outfit next spring
so that training can get under
way.
Training facilities for the unit
will be included in the proposed
construction program at the An
chorage International Airport.
Such construction normally in
cludes hangars and warehouses,
a motor maintenance building
and other smaller structures.
Lt. Gen. W. E. Kepner, com
mander - in - chief of the Alaska
Command, in commenting on the
announcement, said:
“The new Alaska Air National
Guard fills a long-standing need
in the Alaskan defense picture. I
am happy to welcome the new
unit into the Alaskan military
family.”
General Ricks said that “for
mation of the Alaskan National
Guard is a significant develop
ment in the defense planning of
this strategic northernmost fron*
tier of the United States. With
the activation of the Alaska Air
Guard every state and territory
of the United States will have
Air Guard units.
Alaska got her first recognized
land force National Guard units
in’ 1949. They now include two
Eskimo Scout Battalions and two
infantry battalions. They draw
their Arctic-bred-and-trained per
sonnel from a territory one-fifth
as large as that of the entire
United States.
Divorcee Pleads Guilty
To Running Off With
17 - Year - Old Boy
LOS ANGELES, (JP) — Mrs.
Virginia Letourneau, 28-year-old
blond divorcee who ran away
with a 17-year-old neighbor boy,
pleaded guilty in Superior Court
Friday to contributing to the de
linquency of a minor.
“Now if I could only see' Jimmy
I’d be really happy,” she said,
alternately weeping and smiling.
She and Jimmy Sherwin took
Mrs. Letourneau’s 12-year-old son
with them on a six-week junket
of six Western states. They were
arrested in Phoenix, Ariz.
Mrs. Letourneau is free on
$1,000 bond pending sentence.
Young Sherwin is a ward of
juvenile court.
U.S. Prices Have Risen
Less Since 1948 Than In
Britain, France,-Canada
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (£>)—
Americans may shudder at cur
rent price tags but a United Na
tions survey today indicated
prices have risen less in the U.S.
since 1948 than in such tightly
controlled nations as Britain,
Norway and Sweden.
Moreover, the U.S. held the line
against inflation better than such
uncontrolled countries as Canada,
France and Argentina, according
to figures released in the U.N.’s
latest monthly bulletin of stat
istics.
The survey showed U.S. prices
have gone up 10 per cent since
1948.
Figures for other countries in
cluded: “Britain, 28 per cent; Nor
way and Sweden, 31; Canada, 21;
France, 43; Argentina, 109.
Saboteurs Tamper
With Speedboats
Of Henry J. Kaiser
TAHOE CITY, Calif., ^—In
dustrialist Henry J. Kaiser Mon
day accused unknown saboteurs
who tampered with two speed
boats he had entered in races
here of “a murderous attempt on
my life.”
Damage to the powerboats was
discovered a half hour before
race time yesterday.
“I’m sure it was an attempt on
my life, one of the most dia
bolical things I’ve ever seen,” the
69-year-old steel-aluminum-auto
mobile magnate declared.
Harry Johnson, Tahoe City con
stable called on the case, said the
sabotage was crude and might be
the work of a crank, or of Lake
side residents who have com
plained that Kaiser’s boats are too
noisy.
The damage was discovered by
Kaiser’s mechanic and driver,
Max Collins, after he noticed a
hacksaw blade in the bottom of
the 32-foot Gold Cup racer “Hot
Metal.” The boat’s main drive
shaft had been sawed half way
through and the carburator blow
er had been stuffed with rags,
nuts and bolts. The bilge and hull
of a 24-foot runabout had been
soaked with an estimated five
gallons of gasoline, which could
have ignited at the slightest spark.
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Forest Fire Rages Over
35,000 Acres In B. C.
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VANCOUVER, B.C., (/P) — A
mammoth forest fire Saturday
churned destruction over an area
of possibly 35,000 acres in north
central British Columbia.
The blaze is but one of 150 fires
burning in the province. The
Bums Lake fire is by far the
greatest although a curtain of
smoke and dozens of spot fires
prevent the B.C. Forest Service
from judging its exact boundaries.
The fire is burning about eight
miles* from Burns Lake, roughly
400 miles northeast of Vancouver.
Part of it is in rolling slash
country but flames are also de
stroying valuable stands of virgin
spruce, pine and balsam.
Korean Vets to Get
$45-a-mo. Bonus for
Time Under Fire
WASHINGTON, (>P) — Military
experts said Monday it will take
them a long time to determine
how many Americans have been
under lire in Korea.
They will soon start paying $45
to tens of thousands of veterans
for every month in which they
spent six days within range of
enemy guns.
But the job of sorting out and
deciding claims will involve a
mountain of paper work and a
long time lag, experts in both
Congress and the Pentagon say.
The measure applies chiefly to
infantrymen in the Army and
Marines. Sen. Moody (D-Mich),
the sponsor, said the main pur
pose is to give hazardous duty
pay to men in the foxholes, thus
putting them on equal footing in
this respect with fliers, subma
riners and paratroopers.
Critics said the bill would dis
criminate against many combat
veterans unable to meet its re
quirements.
Nobody knows yet how many
servicemen and ex - servicemen
are eligible. To qualify, they must
have spent any six days in one
month under conditions subject
ing them to enemy fire.
Truce Negotiators To Meet
Tuesday But May Recess
MUNSAN, (/Py—United Nations
and Communist truce delegates
meet Tuesday at Panmunjom,
ending a week-long recess that
produced no visible hint of
progress.
The delegates probably will
pick up right where they left off
last week — arguing fruitlessly
over prisoner of war exchange,
the only issue blocking an armis
tice for Korea.
Since July 26 the truce teams
have met only once a week. At
each session, they * called another
seven-day recess.
A fourth straight recess in the
deadlocked talks may be called if
the negotiators again find nothing
new to discuss.
During the latest layoff, Com
munist radio broadcasts have
aired now-familiar propaganda
blasts at the Allied stand on pri
soner exchange. They continue to
accuse the Allies of blocking a
truce by insisting on retaining
Communist prisoners by force.
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Fifth Child In Family
Of Eight Stricken by Polio
TAYLOR, Wis., The fifth child
of the Helge Hjornezik family to
be stricken with polio was in a
hospital isolation ward Monday.
Danny Hjornezik, 4, became ill
Saturday. He is the youngest of
eight children.
The first of the family to con
tract the disease was Beatrice, 20.
She became ill Tuesday and died
Wednesday. Ardella, 12, and Ger
ald, 14, were hospitalized Thurs
day. While Beatrice’s funeral was
taking place Friday, Helge, Jr.,
16, was stricken.
The father is a Jackson County
highway department worker. The.
Hjornezik cases were the first re
ported in the county since Jan. 3.