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Anchorage - Nome
Highway Gets
Support of ARC
ANCHORAGE, May 20 — Con
struction of a highway from An
chorage to Nome has the support
of the Alaska Road Commission,
the Chamber of Commerce was
told yesterday.
A. O. Holly, chairman of the
road committee, said that corre
spondence with A. F. Ghiglione,
ARC chief, indicated that the
project is included in the thinking
of the commission.
“Estimates indicate the road to
Nome will cost $40,000,000,” Hol
► ly said. “But the first part of it
will cost only $14,000,000. It
would go from Anchorage to the
Kuskokwim.”
The road project is one of the
main items on the calendar of
the Chamber. Briefs are being
prepared showing the economic
justification for it, topography
and other information.
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The highway would open the
Susitna and Yenta River Valleys
for agricultural development, af
fording the city a vast new ex
pansion area across Knik Arm.
It would go through Rainy Pass
in one of the most scenic areas
of rugged mountains and pictur
esque valleys. West of the range
it would connect with the Kusko
kwim road system and one of the
mining areas of the interior.
The course of the road would
f be from Anchorage to Willow,
Susitna, Takotna, MacGrath, and
hence, north to Nome.
Senate Approves By Voice
Vote, New Restrictive
Immigration Legislation
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen
ate, with few members present,
shouted approval of new immi
* gration legislation Thursday night.
Sen. McCarran (D-Nev), spon
sor of the bill, told the Senate its
302 pages revising, unifying and
adding to present immigration law
were necessary to protect the Am
erican way of life.
Opponents of the measure, dur
ing a week of often bitter debate,
called it harsh, unduly restrictive
and similar to Nazi racial ideol
ogy.
i# The bill now goes to conference
with the House, which passed a
similar measure last month, 206
to 68. The Senate passed it on a
voice vote.
One of Original Atomic
Bomb Scientists Indicted
* On Charges of Perjury
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Joseph
W. Weinberg, a scientist who help
ed develop the atomic bomb, was
indicted today on charges he lied
when he denied under oath to a
congressional committee that he
had been member of the Com
munist party.
Weinberg is the man who was
long described only as “scientist
X” by the House un - American
Activities Committee during an
^ investigation of atomic spying.
The perjury indictment contains
three counts. Conviction would
' make him liable to 10 years im
prisonment on each count.
Union Members Refuse
To Sign Aboard Three
Alaska SS Co. Vessels
'SEATTLE, (/P) — Members at
two AFL unions refused Thursday
and Friday to sign aboard three
ships of the Alaska Steamship Co.
The ships are the Aleutian and
Coastal Monarch, scheduled to
sail Friday for Alaska, and the
Victoria, due to leave Saturday.
Officials contended the com
pany is not follo'wing out a re
cent NLRB order and is hiring a
proportionately greater number
than it should of the rival Inde
pendent Marine Cooks and Stew
ards Union.
Charles Nichols, Seattle port
agent of the Independent Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union, said
the company had hired 46 mem
bers of his union and 26 AFL
members.
VICTORIA. OLDEST ACTIVE
SHIP IN MERCHANT MARINE.
READIES FOR ANOTHER YEAR
SEATTLE, (/P>—The steamship
Victoria, oldest active ship in the
American Mercant Marine, is at
pier 42, getting ready for another
summer of service between Seat
tle and Alaska. She was scheduled
to said for Seward on Saturday.
Truman Sure Of
Emergency Power
To Seize Industries
WASHINGTON, (yP)—President
Truman said Thursday (A) He is
sure of his po*wer to seize indus
tries in an emergency, (B> He
likes all the men who have come
out for the Democratic nomina
tion for president, and (C) He
believes the government clean-up
will take care of itself under his
new attorney general.
Truman, in a far-ranging news
conference, also said he doesn’t
know whether Gov. Stevenson of
Illinois might be persuaded to
seek or accept the Democratic
nomination.
Politics took second place in
the discussion. The conference
was highlighted by the President’s
statement that he has power to
seize industries in time of nation
al emergency. Nobody—and he
included both Congress and the
courts — can take that power
away, he said.
But when pressed by questions
on what he would do if the Su
preme Court specifically denies
his authority to seize and operate
the steel industry, the President
said he would turn the mills back
i
to their managements.
Japanese Ambassador
Prepares for Washington
TOKYO, (/P)— Eikichi Araki,
first Japanese ambassador to the
United States since the sneak at
tack on Pearl Harbor, began say
ing his farewells Thursday pre
paratory to leaving for Washing
ton, D.C.
Kyodo News Agency said Araki
would leave by plane June 4.
The 61-year-old ambassador has
spent nearly six years in the Uni
ted States as a student at Prince
ton and as an employe in the
New York office of the Bank of
Japan.
Ridgway Brands
Germ & Gas War
Charges False
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway told Con
gress Thursday Communist germ
and gas warfare charges against
the United Nations in Korea are
“a monumental warning ... as
menacing and urgent as a forest
fire bearing down on a wooden
village.”
The former commander of Uni
ted Nations Far Eastern forces
was not more explicit in his warn
ing. But he appeared to be think
ing along the lines of a recent
statement by Secretary of Defense
Lovett that Communists charge
others with crimes they mean to
i
commit.
Ridgway gave Congress a dram
| atic account of how the Eighth
Army in Korea, only three days
under his command, repulsed an
attempt by the Chinese and North
Koreans to knock it out after a
long retreat, and rose again on
the offensive in less than a month.
Ridgway reserved the gravest
language of his speech for his
warning about Communist germ
and gas warfare. He said:
“I wish to reiterate what I
have repeatedly stated publicly,
that these allegations are false
in their entirety; that no element
of the United Nations Command
has employed either germ or gas
warfare in any form at any time.
“In the whole black record of
false propaganda, these charges
should stand out as a monumental
warning to the American people
and the free world.
“The extent to which Commu
nist leaders have gone in fabrica
ting, disseminating and persis
tently pursuing these false charg
es should impress upon the brains
of those who y^et fail or refuse to
see the purpose of Communism,
the deadly danger with which it
confronts us and the free world.”
Biggest Saturation Attack
Of Korean War Smashes
Industrial Installations
SEOUL, (/P) — United Nations
warplanes smashed a huge indus
trial complex southwest of Pyong
yang Friday in the culmination of
what the Air Force called the
greatest saturation bombing at
tack of the Korean war.
The attack began Thursday
morning and ended at 4 p.m. Fri
day. Nearly 800 fighter-bomber
sorties were flown against the fat
target.
. Burned and blasted in the as
sault were a Communist hand
grenade arsenal, the surface
works of a coal mine, storehouses
and nearly a half mile of machine
shops and warehouses.
The burden of the attack was
carried by F-84 Thunderjets. They
splashed the area with bombs,
rockets, napalm (jellied gasoline)
and machinegun fire.
Supporting the Thunderjets
were F-80 Shooting Stars, F-51
Mustangs; Corsairs and Sky Raid
ers of the 12th Marine Air Group
and Australian Meteor jets.
The attacking planes were
screened by F-86 Sabre jets.
Predict Ike Supporters
Outnumber Taft Aherents
At Alaska Convention
ANCHORAGE, (/P) —The
spokesman for the Eisenhower
for-President group in the An
chorage area predicted Thursday
that supporters of the general will
outnumber adherents of Sen. Taft
t
and Albert White at the Alaska
Republican convention in Cor
dova June 6.
J. C. Morris, who has taken the
lead in a move here against
White’s leadership of the party in
Alaska, also predicted that the
convention will favor “taking
party control away from White in
hope of establishing representa
tive principles.” White is a Taft
supporter.
After Morris’ original anti
White blast last week, White re
torted at Juneau:
“The strange part of this is that
Morris gave his proxy to me to
be voted for just the things he is
now criticizing. He was considered
for national committeeman but
didn’t get the job, and this is
no doubt the reason for his com
plaints.”
Morris contended that any talk
of the delegation going to the na
tional convention uninstructed
“means nothing” because “they
all are known to be Taft men.”
Nehru Lashes
Communism
Bui Decries War
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NEW DELHI, India, {&)—Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru lashed
out bitterly Thursday at Commu
nism—particularly in India—but
said it would not be defeated by
war.
“India, he asserted, “will never
pay the price the Soviet Union
and China have paid to achieve j
progress.”
Referring briefly to the inter
national situation, the premier
said, “Cold war leads to a shoot
ing war and almost as bad — it
coarsens and degrades humanity.”
He added, “It passes my com
prehension how some people who
dislike Communism and make it
an enemy can put an end to Com
munism by war. War only leads
to overall, large-scale, wholesale
destruction and anarchy and it
is not right for us, both as indi
viduals and as a nation, to follow
a path which leads to internation
al vulgarity.”
He bitterly attacked the 27
member Communist bloc in par
liament, labeling Red arguments
in the three-day debate as “slo
gans and doctrines which are
completely out of date.”
“They are rigid like the old
bigots of religion,” Nehru said.
“I have refused to bow down to
the bigots of any religion, and I
refuse to bow down to the bigots
of this new religion.”
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RIGHT OF ANCHORAGE
PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICTS
TO COLLECT TAXES UPHELD
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — The right
of Anchorage area public utility
districts to levy and collect taxes
for public improvements was up
held Wednesday in an opinion
handed down by Federal Judge
George Folta. ,
Russia Charges
U.S. Aid to Iran
Violates 1921 Pact
MOSCOW, </P) — The Soviet
Union charged formally Friday
that Iranian acceptance of Ameri
can military aid violates a 1921
Soviet-Iranian friendship treaty.
That treaty would permit Russia
to send troops into Iran if Iranian
soil is used by foreign military
forces hostile to the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin made its protest
in a note delivered by Foreign
Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky to
the .Iranian ambassador here. It
accused Iran, a Russian neighbor
on the south, of “cooperating with
the U.S. government in the im
plementation of the latter’s ag
gressive plans against the Soviet
Union.”
The American aid to Iran was
cut off last January when Iran
refused to sign an agreement
pledging to help increase “the de
fensive strength of the free
world.”
American military aid to Iran
was ordered resumed a month ago
after an exchange of ncrtes be
tween the U.S. and Iranian gov
ernments.
The Soviet note said that by
accepting U.S. help, “the Iranian
army loses its character as a na
tional army of an independent
sovereign state” and is being put
“under control of the United
States government.”
In Washington a U.S. official
said the Russian protest evidently
was designed to intimidate the
Iranian government. He said the
Tehran government had been un
der heavy Soviet pressure before
and is not expected to give in
this <time.
Three-Day Recess In
Armistice Talks
MUNSAN, {/?) — Red delegates
agreed Friday to a three day re
cess in the tightly deadlocked
Korea armistice talks after the
Allies’ new chief delegate told
them “our stand is unshakable—
we will make no further conces
sions.”
North Korean Gen. Nam II, who
has been demanding daily meet
ings at Panmunjom agreed to the
recess. But he demanded that
Maj. Gen. Wm. K. Harrison, Jr.,
new senior U.N. delegate, set the
time of resuming the talks.
Harrison told newsmen he made
the recess short “because we want
to get an armistice.”
An hour after the meeting ad
journed, Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy,
former chief Allied delegate, left
the United Nations Command ad
vance camp here. He expressed
confidence “an equitable and
honorable armistice” will be
achieved.
FAIRBANKS "TOO HOT"
FOR VICE OPERATORS,
CITY MANAGER ASSERTS
FAIRBANKS, </P>—City Mana
ger Evan Peterson has advised the
city council that Fairbanks is “too
hot” for vice operators to do busi
ness at the present time.
He reported that cooperation
of all agencies had led to a virtual
closure of operations on the notor
ious “line.”