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VOL. LIV No. 1 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1952 Per Copy— Ibe
Captain Remains
, Aboard Disabled
Ship In Atlantic
LONDON, (/P)—Still clinging to
uis storm-wracked and wallowing
ship in the Atlantic, Capt. Kurt
Carlsen radioed Wednesday that
he would stay aboard until he is
towed to pork or sinks. A new
storm threatened.
Carlsen stood his watch alone
through the fifth night since he
ordered all others to abandon the
American freighter Flying Enter
prise, and again reported by radio
that he was in good spirits.
All the 10 passengers and 41 of
the crew were believed to have
been rescued after jumping into
he sea last Friday. One crew
man died.
Help was on the way today
and old seadogs said the Enter
prise had a sporting chance of
being towed into port.
As long as the 36-year-old cap
tain stays aboard, the ship cannot
be classed as a derelict and be
come prey to whatever ship may
throw’ a line aboard and tow her
to safety.
The British tug Turmoil, de
scribed as the world’s fastest and
one of the largest seagoing tugs,
was ready to put out from Fal
mouth and take the Flying Enter
prise in tow.
Allied Warplanes Blast
Communist Rail Yards
SEOUL, Korea, (JP) — Allied
warplanes blasted communist rail
traffic in North Korea today as
a frigid haze enveloped ground
fighting, now almost at a stand
still.
U.N. fighter-bombers flew 210
sorties by noon and cut rail tracks
at 49 points. Pilots said a number
of railroad cars were damaged.
During the night an estimated
1,800 heavy tupply vehicles were
brought under attack. Pilots said
heavy traffic was observed in the
eastern sector.
Okinawa-based B-29 Superforts
used radar sighting in dropping
50 tons of 500-pound bombs on
he Samdong rail yards.
All along the battle line tem
)eratures were below freezing.
Army Puts Suspender
Buttons On Trousers But
Bans Use of Suspenders
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Rep.
Norblad fR-Ore) asked the army
today why it puts suspender but
tons on uniforms and prohibits
the wearing of suspenders.
The button complex, Norblad
said, was called to’ his attention
by an unidentified constituent
who claimed it doesn’t make
sense. The constituent said his
son, an army man, told him about
the buttons for and the ban
against galluses.
With an army of around two
million men, Norblad said, there
are approximately 12 million sus
pender buttons—six per pair of
pants—going to waste.
Norblad told newsmen he had
called this to the attention of
Army Secretary Pace in the hope
that some small economy might
be achieved.
Says Eisenhower Could
Win GOP Nomination
Without Saying a Word
WASHINGTON, {JP) — Senator
Ives <R-NY> said Wednesday that
General Eisenhower could win
the Republican presidential nom
inrtion without saying a word.
“I think he could be nominated
under those circumstances, but I
don’t believe it will happen that
way,” Ives told a reporter. “I am
inclined to think he will speak
out before the party convention
(in July) and make it clear he
is a candidate.”
Ives expressed his views in the
wake of a claim by Senator Taft’s
campaign manager that it “now
seems a certainty” the Ohioan
will be the GOP presidential
nominee. .
Political observers are looking
to a news conference here Sun
day for some definite evidence
that Eisenhower is available. The
conference has been called by
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
campaign manager of the Eisen
hower Republican group, who has
promised good news for the gen
eral’s supporters.
Maxim Litvinoff,
Former Soviet
Commissar, Dies
MOSCOW, (iP) — An official
foreign office announcement dis
closed today the death of Maxim
Maximovich Litvinoff, who key
noted his collective security pol
icy as Soviet Foreign Commissar
with the often-quoted declaration,
“peace is indivisible.” He was 75.
Litvinoff died Dec. 31 and fu
neral arrangements were complete
when his death was announced
Wednesday. The funeral was
scheduled this afternoon.
Pravda, organ of the Central
Committee of the Communist
party, on which Litvinoff had
been a member, called him an
“old Bolshevik and outstanding
Soviet diplomat.”
Litvinoff won western recogni
tion for Bolshevist Russia and
fought without success for collec
tive force to prevent World War
II. He was a wartime ambassador
to Washington. He was fired in
the reduced rank of deputy for
eign minister in 194'6. His fall
from office foreshadowed the cold
war, for of all Soviet officials he
was regarded as the one who
truly wanted to get along with
the west.
He negotiated U.S. recognition
of Russia with President Franklin
D. Roosevelt in 1933, and said he
believed it might guarantee
peace.
98-Year-Old Swims To
Shore From Overturned
Fishing Rowboat
HONOLULU, (£>)—Rough surf
Wednesday tossed Kakuzo Takata
out of his lobster fishing row
boat 500 yards offshore.
By the time the Wailupe Fire
Department emergency rescue;
squad arrived, Takata was sun
ning himself on the beach. He
had paddled to safety with an oar
from his capsized boat.
Takata is 98 years old.
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Four-Day New
Year Week-End
Cost 602 Lives
<By the Associated Press)
The four-day New Year’s week
end took 602 lives in violent ac
cidents, bringing the death toll
from Christmas and New Year
accidents to nearly 1,400.
Traffic mishaps, as usual ac
counted for the greatest toll over
the New Year holiday—367 dead.
Another 69 perished in fires, and
166 were victims of miscellaneous
accidents, including plane crashes.
The toll from a variety of mis
cellaneous accidents was boosted
by the crash of an Air Force C-47
plane on a central Arizona moun
tain, with a loss of 28 lives; and
the wreck of a non-scheduled
C-46 airliner in the Allegheny
foothills of New York State, in
which 26 persons died.
The four-day death toll still
was lower than the record 789
total for the previous week’s four
day Christmas holiday. That toll
included 535 traffic victims.
L. A. Baby-Sitter
Strangles Child
After TV Mystery
LOS ANGELES, </P) — A 16
year-old baby sitter related to
police how she watched a murder
mystery on television, then stran
gled a sleeping 6-year-old girl
with a stocking.
“I did it, but I didn’t have any
reasons,” sheriff’s investigators
quoted the high school sopho
more, Delora Mae Campbell, as
saying soon after neighbors dis
covered the tragedy early Sunday.
Delora Mae, in jail on a murder
booking, told deputies that as she
lay on the couch after watching
the television program, she “had
a vision.”
“I saw a girl lying in bed with
her arms folded across her chest
and a green necktie around her
neck,” Delora Mae said.
The girl was Donna Joyce Is
bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Isbell. She died with her
father’s black navy sock wound
tightly around her throat and
with the end of a sheet wadded
into her mouth.
It happened. Saturday night
while Donna’s mother was work
ing the late shift at Douglas Air
craft. The father a petty officer,
was on Navy duty. A brother,
7 - year - old Roy Allen, slept
through it all on a nearby twin
bed.
Ground Action In Korea
Now Too Costly For Both
Sides In Men and Material
NEW YORK, (JP)—John Foster
Dulles says hitter ground fighting
in Korea seems to have ended
“because neither side can now ad
vance without a cost of lives and
material more than the advance
is worth.”
Dulles, who recently returned
from a visit to the Far East, said
last night in a radio broadcast
that it “seems unlikely that there
will be a dependable peace in
Korea which will settle all the
political controversies.”
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Steelworker Delegates
Meet To Decide Fate
Of Threatened Strike
ATLANTIC CITY, (/P) —Dele
gates representing the million
member CIO Steelworkers Union
gathered Wednesday to decide
whether to cancel a threatened
industry-wide steel strike.
Phillip Murray, head of both
the steel union and the CIO itself,
called the Steelworker’s executive
board together to map plans for
an extraordinary union conven
tion -beginning tomorrow.
Murray and the board are ex
pected to recommend that the
convention call off the strike
threat until the government’s
wage stabilization board can
come up with a compromise solu
tion in the steel labor disputes.
Allies Propose
Exchange Of All
POWs In Korea
By DON HUTH
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Allied
truce negotiators today proposed
releasing all prisoners of war and
displaced persons in Korea—with
the guarantee no one would be
sent home against his will.
The Reds found the Allied pro
posal politically unpalatable and
voiced immediate objections.
The plan starts out on a man
for-man basis and winds up as
an all-for-all exchange, said Lt.
Col. Howard S. Levie, spokesman
for the United Nations Command.
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby, Allied
negotiator, expressed hope North
Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho,
Red negotiator, would change his
mind after he studies the complex
plan and understands it.
The International Red Cross
would act as a supervising agent.
The exchange of prisoners
would start on a man for man
basis to make sure the U.N. would
get back its full quota off prison
ers of war. “When we have fin
ished exchanging all prisoners of
war left on either side,” Levie
said, “then we will get to the
point where we don’t count
heads.”
Reward Wrong Directions
With Bop On The Nose
NEW YORK, (/?)—Edward Wil
kins, 18, of Hoboken, N.J., was
arraigned, charged with breaking
a Pennsylvania Station baggage
man’s nose in two places.
A detective who arrested him
at the scene asked Wilkins why
he had beaten Murray Dworsken,
35, the baggageman.
“I asked him how to get to the
Hudson Tubes and he directed me
wrong,” Wilkins replied.
“How do you know he directed
you wrong?” the detective asked,
and Wilkins replied:
“I knew how to get there. I
just wanted to see what he’d say.”
YOUNGSTER'S FUN COSTLY
CRETE, Neb., (/P)—The simple
little BB gun is costing the city
of Crete $20 a week. That’s what
it costs to replace light bulbs
shot out by youngsters sporting
BB guns, light commissioner C.
R. Weaver reported to the city
council.
C-46 Disappears 15
Mi. Out Fairbanks
With Four Aboard
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, (/P)—Air
Force planes awaited clearing
weather Tuesday to resume a
search for the Transocean Air
line C-46 transport and its four
occupants missing on a flight here
from Point Barrow.
Snow and low-hanging clouds
blocked a planned New Year’s
Day search of tundra country
north of here.
Airline officials disclosed that
in addition to the pilot and co
pilot, identified as Bob Warren
of Fairbanks, and Richard Erwin
of Oakland, Calif., two passengers
were aboard the plane when it
left Point Barrow Friday.
The airline officials said the
extra passengers were a pilot and
mechanic for Wien Alaska Air
lines but withheld their names
pending notification of relatives.
The two men were riding to Fair
banks to ferry a plane back to
Point Barrow, the airline said.
The Transocean plane was op
erating between the Barrow oil
reserve and Fairbanks, under
contract to the Navy.
It was one of the rare in
stances in Alaska flying in which
a missing airplane had been re
ported by both radio and radar
just prior to its disappearance.
The plane had radioed that it
was coming down for a Fairbanks
landing at the end of 540-mile
flight from Barrow. The Air
Force radar tracked the C-46 to
within about 15 miles east of Fair
banks; then it vanished from the
’scope.
Truman To Make Known
His Intentions By Feb. 6
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A Demo
cratic congressman quoted Presi
dent Truman Wednesday as say
ing he hopes to make known be
fore Feb. 6 whether he will run
again.
Rep. Hays of Ohio told report
ers after a White House call that
he had pointed out to Mr. Tru
man that Feb. 6 is the last day
for filing of candidates for dele
gates from Ohio to the Demo
cratic National Convention.
He said Mr. Truman told him
he “hoped he would be able to
work out things so he would
know what he is going to do be
fore Feb. 6.”
Hays told reporters his own
personal support for the nomina
tion, in event Mr. Truman decides
against running, will go to Sen
ator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
Hays said he thinks there is
some prospect that Mr. Truman
and Senator Kefauver may talk
over the 1952 political situation
soon.
SEALS TO TRAIN AT HOME
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
San Francisco Seals in the Pacific
Coast League will do their spring
training at their home park this
year. It will be the first time
since World War II ended that
the Seals will train at home. The
gates will be closed to the public
and then practices will be held
each morning, intra-squad games
in the afternoons.