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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIII No. 126 [NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1951Per Copy—15<r
Govt. Reserves
Land Alongside
Alaska Highways
WASHINGTON, (A>)—The fed
eral government reserved to itself
today a broad swath or roadbank
along the 1,800 miles of highway
system in Alaska.
For the Alaska Highway, this
strip is 600 feet wide. An Inter
ior Department order withdrew
all lands lying within 300 feet
on either side of the highway’s
center line from all forms of ap
propriation under the Public
Land Laws, and reserved it for
highway purposes.
For several other through high
ways, the strip is 300 feet wide—
150 feet from the center line on
either side. This applies to the
Richardson, Glenn, Haines, Sew
ard-Anchorage, Anchorage-Lake
Spenard and Fairbanks - College
Highways.
Along lesser roadways, the de
partment put into effect an “ease
ment” instead of a withdrawal.
This meant that settlement and
private ownership would be per
mitted so that if road plans later
were changed and the rights-of
way or easemetus abandoned, the
roadway land w .'.Id be acquired
automatically by adjacent owners.
The Nome-Council troad and
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the Nome-Bessie Road fall into
this arrangement, where 100 feet
along each side of the center line
is protected by easements.
Tanks and Jets In
Action In Korea
U.S. 8th ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (/P)—Fifteen Allied
tanks again shot up battered
Kumsong on the central front as
a great jet battle raged across
North Korea in the fourth straight
day of air fighting.
The tanks killed an estimated
85 (Chinese and destroyed 24
bunkers in a raid into a valley
just west of Kumsong. They re
turned safely to their lines
through Red artillery fire.
This fourth day of air fight
ing broke out when MIGs jumped
Sabre jets covering B-29s as they
dumped 150 bombs weighing 1,000
pounds each on a 5,000-foot single
track bridge at Sunchon in north
west Korea.
In Tuesday’s air battle three of
nine Superforts attacking the
Namsi airfield were shot down.
The other six were damaged but
got back to Allied bases. B-29
gunners were credited with five
if the eight Red jets reported shot
down and one or two probables.
U.N. fighter pilots said they
damaged 10 other enemy planes.
Casualties In Korea
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Announ- |
ced U.S. battle casualties in Korea j
reached 92,997 today, an increase'
of 2,062 since last week.
The Defense Department’s
weekly summary based on noti
fications to families through last
Friday reported:
Last New
Week Total
Killed in action .13,731 13,985 \
Wounded .64,777 66,535
Missing .12,427 12,477 j
Total ...90,935 92,997 j
Armistice Talks
Reopen Tomorrow
MUNSAN,, Korea, </P) — Allied
and communist negotiators will
I re-open Korean armistice talks to
morrow. They will tackle first the
knotty problem of where to es
tablish a buffer zone.
The five-man delegations will
meet at Panmunjom, a roadside
i village six miles east of Red-held
Kaesong where the search for a
I cease - fire agreement was sus
pended Aug. 23 by the Reds.
Panmunjom is accessible to each
side withooit having to travel
through enemy territory. The tiny
! town now has the appearance of
an American carnival. Armistice
activities are housed in circus
like tents. Huge colored balloons
and searchlights ring the confer
ence area to warn warplanes
away from the neutral zone.
Resumption of the conference
talks was made possible when the
communists Wednesday ratified
i security ground . rules drafted by
U.N. and communist liaison offic
ers in 12 meetings at Panmun
jom since Oct. 10.
Fire Sweeps Catholic
Hospital In Dallas But
No One Is Injured
DALLAS, (/P)—Fire swept the
roof and top floor of the west
wing of St. Paul’s Hospital early
today, forcing about 250 patients
■ out into the chill October morn
ing.
No one was reported injured.
There was no panic, no hysteria.
“No one even fainted,” said Sister
Alberta, Mother Superior of the
hospital.
Sister Alberta said she awoke
in her fifth floor room and saw
a timber smoldering and red over
her head.
“I ran to the switchboard op
erator and told her to call the
fire department,” she said, “and
then I hurried back into our
quarters to wake the other sis
ters.”
Nurses immediately ran to their
patients and began helping them
out of bed. Nuns, doctors and per
sons passing by helped get the
patients out.
Warships Cover British
Merchantships Clearing
Through Suez Canal
CAIRO, (/P) — Guns of British
warships covered British mer
chantships clearing through the
Suez Canal today against orders
of the Egyptian government.
The Suez and the Cairo areas
were quiet after violent outbursts
of anti-British rioting, and the
government issued stern warnings
against new outbursts.
But tension between the Brit
ish and the Egyptians quickened.
A British naval spokesman in
°airo said Egypt deliberately was
“trying to make things difficult”
for the British at the canal en
trances, Port Said and Suez, and
that the Egyptians broke a pre
vious arrangement to clear Brit
ish ships carrying supplies for
Britain’s military forces in the
canal zone.
The British maintained a bristl
ing armed defense along the
canal.
Tension Marks
Sixth Anniversary
Of United Nations
PARIS, {lP)—In an atmosphere
of tension and fear of war, peo
ples around the world today
marked the sixth anniversary of
the United Nations, the world or
ganization dedicated to the task
of preserving peace.
France marxed tne aay oy giv
ing the U.N. a golden key to the
palace which will be the world
organization’s home in November.
In open air ceremonies, For
eign Minister Robert Schuman
handed U. N. Secretary General
Trygve Lie the key to the Palais
de Chaillot where the General
Assembly will open its sixth ses
sion Nov. 6.
Lie said that international re
lations were far from reflecting
the harmony of the site—one of
the most beautiful Paris neigh
borhoods — but “the United Na
tions must keep on striving to es
tablish harmony, or, at least, some
form of peaceful co-existence be
tween conflicting interests and
ideologies in the world.”
Oct. 24 is celebrated as U.N.
day because the charter officially
came into force Oct. 24, 1945.
There were observances in al
most every world capital.
In Moscow, the government
newspaper Izvestia charged that
the U.N. had become the tool of
British and American imperial
ists.
President Says
Russians Foolish
To Oppose The
United Nations
WASHINGTON, (/r) — Presi
dent Truman told the Russians
today they are “utterly foolish”
to oppose nations banded together
to seek “peace and justice.”
Speaking on the anniversary of
the birth of the United Nations,
the President declared:
“I hope the time will not be
far distant when the leaders of
the Soviet Union and their satel
lites will come to see it is utterly
foolish to oppose the united will
of all the other peoples of the
world for peace and justice.
“But so long as the forces of
aggression are attacking the
United Nations, there must be no
weakening — there must be no
slackening of our efforts to check
aggression and to build up the
defense of the free world.
“It is up to us here at home
to back up these men of many
nations who are fighting for us
and for the freedom of the world
in Korea.”
The President spoke at the lay
ing of the cornerstone for the
building of a District of Columbia
Red Cross chapter.
SEATTLE, {/P) — George N.
Apostol, Seattle attorney, has re
signed as* a special assistant at
torney general of Alaska and as
sumed a position as territorial
enforcement officer for the Office
of Price Stabilization.
The job carries a salary of
^10,450 per year. He is married
°nd has three child^n.
N.Y. Strike Moves
Toward Settlement
NEW YORK, (JPj—A leader of.
rebel longshoremen whose wild
oat strike has paralyzed the
world’s biggest port today made a
conditional back-to-work offer.
At the .same time federal medi
ator John Burke said “it looks
like things are beginning to move
along” toward a settlement.
His "statement came as handling
of military cargoes, crippled for
more than a week, was partially
restored.
The back-to-work deal was of
fered by John J. Sampson, who
has spearheaded the unauthorized
walkout. It has snow-balled to
piers at Boston and Albany, im
mobilizing a total of 123 ships.
It was the first sign of a break
in the nine-day-old strike, which
has stopped most rail shipments
to New York City, virtually dead
ened the entire two-state port,
and idled up to 30,000 men.
In Staten Island, some 300
stevedores braved boos and cat
calls of a picket line to “shape
up” on military docks. Part of
them left for lunch, however, and
did not return to work.
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New Plan to End
Iranian-British
Oil Dispute
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A new
plan to end the Iranian-British
oil dispute was reportedly pre
sented to Premier Mossadegh of
Iran as he lunched yesterday with
President Truman.
Secretary of State Acheson and
Secretary of Defense Lovett were
among top American officials who
joined in the one hour and 45
minutes of luncheon table diplo
macy at Blair House.
Mossadegh arrived here yester
day from Philadelphia. He came
to this country to present his case
against British ownership of
Iran’s oil resources at the United
Nations Security Council.
Officials were keeping quiet
about details of the proposal re
portedly served up to Mossadegh
with lunch, but one informed
source said the broad outlines of
one suggestion were:
1. Iran would own and operate
her oil facilities, with the help of
western technicians supervised
by a manager from outside Iran
but not of the same nationality
as the technicians.
2. Iran would sell her oil at a
“discount to Britain, and allow
Britain to market it.
Internal Revenue Bureau
Suspends Two In N.Y.
‘ WASHINGTON, (/P) — The In
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ternal Revenue Bureau said to
day it has suspended two em
ployes in the New York area.
Official confirmation came after
an original announcement was
withdrawn on the grounds it was
“premature.” No further explan
ation was given for the Bureau’s
unusual request.
Those suspended are Theodore
Isaacs, an agent in the upper New
York City division and Elias
Schulman, a deputy collector in
+he first New York district in
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New Vest-Pocket
A-Blast Proves To
Be Lethal Weapon
LAS VEGAS, Nev., {A3) — Am
ericans, always in awe of size,
had something different to pon
der today: the successful detona
tion of an atomic weapon so
small it flared less than a TNT
blast, yet so powerful it demol
ished a 100-foot steel tower.
Monday’s amazing test may
have ushered in the age of the
baby A-bomb.
Tight lipped Atomic Energy
Commission officials conceded
there wouldn’t be a smaller ex
plosion than “operation pinpoint”
which started a series of blasts
at the AEC’s Nevada proving
ground mai proDaoiy will run
through this week and next.
Many observers, including
some military men just back
from Korea, found it difficult to
believe that a nuclear explosion
could emit light for a mere frac
tion of a second, and make less
noise than a heavy artillery shot.
Yet the downward thrust of the
detonation flattened the tower
from which the small atomic
mass was set off. “There’s noth
ing left of the tower,” test man
ager Carroll L. Tyler remarked,
indicting perhaps that the small
potion was as lethal in some re
spects as the original Alamor
gardo A-bomb which melted its
tower.
There was comparatively little
radiation from the vest - packet
blast, the AEC said. The air over
the test range was reopened to
planes less than four hours after
the 6 a.m. explosion.
AEC Stages Dry Run
With Troop Participation
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (/P)—With
troops participating for the first
time, the AEC staged a dry run
today of the next phase in its
new series of atomic tests on the
desert near here.
Airplanes dropping high explo
sives only, not nuclear bombs,
made runs during the night on
the sprawling range near Yucca
Flat. When it was over the AEC
said only that it had tested “com
munications and other phases of
operations.”
The operation led some observ
ers to believe that the next phase
of this nation’s atomic testing
will involve dropping from planes
baby A-bombs of a type exploded
here Monday.
Congress To Decide
On Ambassador To
Vatican City
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Congress
will get a chance to decide whe
ther the United States should
have a full diplomatic representa
tive at the city-state of Roman
Catholicism in Italy.
The White House announced
yesterday that President Truman
is not going to offer Gen. Mark
Clark a recess appointment.
Mr. Truman sent to the Senate
the nomination of Clark to be the
first American ambassador to the
Vatican last Saturday, just be
fore Congress adioumed until
Jan. R. The Senate must approve
*~'n appointments.