OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOL. LIII No. 69 . NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1951 Per Copy—15^
Gen. Wedemeyer
Backs Up Gen.
MacArthur
WASHINGTON, (/P» — Lt. Gen.
Albert C. Wedemeyer, backing up
1 Gen. MacArthur, today denied
that a report they made in 1945
favored bringing the Communists
into a coalition government in
China.
Wedemeyer told the senators:
1. Acheson took “out of con
text” statements from a 1945 mes
sage from the military command
ers in the Far East which gave
some Senators the impression that
MacArthur and Wedemeyer fa
vored the Truman administration’s
plan at that time to bring the
Chinese Nationalists and Com
munists into coalition government.
2. Acheson gave “an erroneous
impression” that he, Wedemeyer,
had shared the State Department’s
“pessimistic views” in 1949 that
Formosa, island stronghold of the
Nationalists, would fall into the
* Communists’ hands.
Wedemeyer, a tall gray-haired
man, is the eighth witness in the
inquiry by the Senate into Mac
Arthur’s dismissal and the Korean
war policy differences figuring
in it.
Wedemeyer is now the com
manding general of the Sixth
Army, with headquarters at San
Francisco, but much of his army
service has been concerned with
the Far East.
He made a survey of the Far
East in 1947 at the request of
President Truman and wrote the
now-famous Wedemeyer Report on
China and Korea. That report pre
dicted a probably future Soviet
back effort to take over all of
Korea.
United Nations
Break Red’s
Iron Triangle
(By the Associated Press)
United Nations tanks rumbled
today into Chorwon and Kum
hwa, southern anchors of the
Communists’ Iron Triangle in
North Korea. The enemy pulled
back toward Pyongyang, apex of
the triangle 28 miles north of the
38th Parallel, abandoning huge
stacks of equipment.
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
U.N. ground commander, had an
nounced “final seizure” of the
Communist assembly area last
night, but Chorwon and Kumhwa
were not taken until today.
The victory, after a bitter eight
day battle, underlined statements
by Defense Secretary Marshall in
Tokyo that the Chinese Reds
<fhave got themselves into a dif
ficult situation.” But Marshall
added he did not expect any Chi
nese move soon. He told newsmen
he couldn’t conceive of an in
definite stalemate in Korea, but
he expressed no optimism about
an early end to the war.
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The Moonlight Water Company
now has water into town and is
working on repairs of pipes.
Although the turn-on date is
somewhat later than usual this
year, water reached Front Street
today.
No Evidence Two Missing
British Diplomats Took
Documents With Them
LONDON, (/P)—Foreign Secre
tary Herbert Morrison sidestepped
questions in the House of Com
mons today on the political views
of Britain’s pair of vanished dip
lomats.
A query whether there was
widespread sexual perversion in
the Foreign Office entered the
discussion when a member asked
Morrison to investigate such
charges.
Facing a barrage of critical
queries Morrison parried a de
mand whether Donald MacLean,
38, and Guy Burgess, 40, had any
connection with the Soviet Union
or whether Burgess had Com
munist associations.
The two men have been missing
on the continent of Europe more
than two weeks.. Both possessed
confidential information on Brit
ish-American relations.
“I have no evidence that these
men took documents with them,’’
Morrison told the House.
FINLAND SOCIAL WELFARE
WORKER HERE TO STUDY
AND COMPARE PROBLEMS
Reino Sarvalo, supervisor of So
cial Welfare from Finland, ar
rived Saturday to study conditions
in this area.
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Mr. Sarvalo, whose trip is spon
sored by the exchange program of
the United Nations, is interested in
comparing problems of his coun
try with similar terrain on the
Arctic slope, on the other side of
the world.
It is believed that an exchange
of ideas and a study of problems
in both countries may prove bene
ficial to both countries.
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Vice
President Barkley underwent a
minor eye operation on Wednes
day, Mrs. Barkley told a reporter
Saturday.
Crazed Man Goes
Berserk In
Fairbanks Plane
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — A crazed
giant went berserk in an Alaska
plane late Friday, attacked the
pilot and wrecked the cabin in
a 20-minute reign of terror.
The story of the man’s danger
ous rampage, while a mile high
in the air was told by the pilot,
Don Hulshizer, 32, after he landed
his ship here safely.
Fairbanks police and an ambu
lance crew, responding to Hulshi
zer’s • emergency radio call, over
powered the raging 6-foot, 200
pound passenger at the airport.
Identified as William Henry
Miles, 31, Fairbanks, he was put
in a padded cell at 'the federal
jail.
Hulshizer said he picked up
Miles and his wife at Arctic Cir
cle Hot Springs. They were the
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President of GMC
Is Highest Paid
American Man
WASHINGTON, </P) — Charles
E. Wilson, president of General
Motors Corp., received the high
est publicly reported pay of any
American business executive for
1950.
He drew $626,300, according to
o report on file with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
All such reports list compensa
tion before federal income taxes,
which in Wilson’s bracket could
amount to about $470,000.
Wilson (no relation to Defense
Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, for
merly of General Electric) topped
his closest competitor, GM execu
tive vice president Albert Bradley,
by $84,875. Bradley’s pay was
$541,425.
Mount McKinley Climbers
Organizing At Anchorage
SEATTLE, (/P)—A party of ex
pert mountain climbers is organ
izing at Anchorage, Alaska, for
an attempt to climb Mount Mc
Kinley and complete the geologi
cal mapping of the 20,270-foot
peak.
Dr. Henry A. Buchtel, expedi
tion leader, left Seattle Saturday
via Northwest Airlines.
Hs group will include eight per
sons who’ will attempt to climb
the mountain up the west side,
which looks as if it is a sheer
wall. The peak has been climbed
six times, each time by the north
side.
However, Bradford Washburn,
director of Boston Museum of
Science and a member of the
party, has picked a feasible route
by using aerial photographs Of the
west side.
“The purpose of our attempt is
essentially scientific,” Buchtel said.
“It will enable us to complete the
geological mapping of the moun
tain. It’s like the last chapter in
a book.”
Speculate King George
May “Retire” In Favor
Of Princess Elizabeth
LONDON, (/P) — The Sunday
pictorial speculated yesterday that
ailing King George VI may “re
tire” in favor of Princess Eliza
beth.
The 55-year-old monarch has
been suffering from a “small cat
arrahal inflamation” and from the
after effects of a circulation block
in his right leg.
Sources close to the court have
commented recently that the king
looked strained and tired.
The Pictorial’s story was the
first public mention of possible re
tirement, although the paper did
not use the word “abdication.”
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THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION tour party which left Seattle June 5 on the Alaska
Steamship Company steamer Aleutian. Snapped while boarding cruise ship were Editor of the Ellens
burg (Washington) Daily Record, J. Clifford Kaynor, retiring N.E.A. president, and Mrs. Kaynor
(lower left); and Don Eck, general manager of the N.E.A., Chicago (upper right).
Eight F-84 Jets
Crash Wthin 25
i
Miles Each Other
(By the Associated Press)
Evidence of the possibility of
sabotage in the nation’s greatest
mass of air crashes—-that of eight
F-84 jet fighters Friday — was
sought today by FBI and Air
Force investigators.
The jets were all members of
one flight. They fell in Richmond,
Ind., area within 25 miles of each
other. Three of the pilots were
killed.
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In all, nine Air Force and Navy
pilots died in the crashes through
out the U. S. Friday.
Six other airmen lost their lives
in three separate crashes Friday.
Some residents in the Richmond
area, seeing the broken planes
tumbling out of the sky, thought
there was an enemy bombing raid.
The one - man jet fgihters —
which were flying between 500
and 600 miles an hour when they
crashed—cost about $275,000 each.
Two of the five pilots whose
! planes crashed, suffered injuries.
Two others rode their planes to
crash landings, escaping unin
jured. The fifth pilot parachuted
safely from his falling Thunder
jet.
There was no official explana
\
tion of the mishaps. The eight ill
fated jets were among 34 in the
second flight of a 71-plane group
enroute to Selfridge Field, Mich.
They crashed about 10 minutes
after taking off from the Wright
Patterson Field at Dayton, Ohio.
Blood Bank Gets
360 Pints In Juneau
JUNEAU, (/P)—A roving blood
bank got 360 pints of blood do
nated by Juneau residents Satur
day.
They ran out of pint containers
and had to use leftovers from
Ketchikan.
Pan American World Airways
planes were to fly the blood to
Seattle over the weekend.
Word from Anchorage was that
1,500 donors had signed up there
and an Army plane was to pick
up the blood bank crew here and
fly it to Anchorage, where work
will start today instead of Tues
day as previously planned.
Ketchikan Has Only
Totem Pole Sitter In World
KETCHIKAN, (/P) — Alaskans
added something special Friday to
ceremonies welcoming touring
members of the National Editorial
Association to the Territory.
The stateside newspaper pub
lishers and editors were welcomed
•to Ketchikan, the first stop on
their tour., by a delegation which
gave them the keys to the city
and a huge king salmon. Then
they were shown Wilford Green:
“The only totem pole sitter in
the entire world.”
The high man on the totem pole
took his perch as the steamer
Aleuian arrived with the editors
and publishers. Green announced
he planned to remain atop the pole
until Ketchikan residents contrib
ute their full quota to a blood
bank which arrived on the same
steamship.
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