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VOL. LIII No. 120_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1951_Per Copy—154
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Gen. Bradley
Vetoes Atomic
Weapons in Korea
WASHINGTON, <VP) — The use
of atomic weapons in Korea was
reported today to have been given
serious consideration by U.S. mili
tary leaders but to have been laid
aside for the present.
The question of using such
weapons was one of the reasons
for the recent hurried trip to
Tokyo and the battlefront by Gen.
Omar Bradley, a well-informed
government source told a re
porter.
Bradley recommended against
use of A-bombs at this time be
cause he regarded the prospects
for a Korean truce as brighter,
said this source, who declined
to be quoted by name.
Bradley, in addition to being
chairman of the joint chiefs of
staff, is by law the principal mili
tary adviser of the President.
Thus it may be presumed his
recommendation was conveyed to
President Truman who, by terms
of the Atomic Energy Act, is the
final authority for use of the
bomb by the armed forces.
At a news conference last Nov.
30, the President said there has
always been active consideration
of the A-bomb’s use but that he
did not want to see it used be
cause it is a terrible weapon.
SITE IS PICKED FOR
RESUMING KOREAN
CEASE-FIRE TALKS
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P)—Liaison
officers today picked a site near
Panmunjom for resuming Korean
truce talks.
The spot is six air miles south
east of Kaesong where cease-fire
negotiations first began three
months ago today. The talks were
broken off by the Reds Aug. 23.
There was no immediate an
nouncement of when the armis
tice delegations would re-open
their talks—or even whether the
time had been set.
Preparations for a meeting of
the full delegations were pressed
rapidly. The United Nations truce
team assembled in Korea.
U.S. Casualties In Korea
Reach 89,382 This Week
WASHINGTON, (^—Announ
ced U. S. battle casualties in
Korea reached 89,382 today, an
increase of 1,732 since last week.
The Defense Department’s
weekly summary based on noti
fications to families through last
Friday reported:
Killed in action .13,443
Wounded .63,574
Missing .12,365
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ALASKA RR. TRAIN DERAILED
SOUTH OF MOOSE PASS
SEWARD, </P)—An Alaska Rail
road passenger train out of Sew
ard was derailed Monday but pas
sengers and crew escaped injury.
The derailment, at Mile 28, two
miles south of Moose Pass at 10
non., sent the engine and two cars
off the track and tore up 100
feet of track.
The passengers were returned to
Seward until repairs permit re
sumption of traffic.
Christopher Columbus
Arrives New York From
Spain On Oct. 10, 1951
NEW YORK, (iP)—Christopher
Columbus discovered America to
day, two days ahead of time.
The history books say he got
here on Oct. 12.
But the modern Columbus, a
26-year-old Spanish duke and
naval lieutenant, beat the tradi
tional landing date.
A direct descendant and name
sake off the man who first sailed
to this country in 1492, he’s on
his way to Washington to be
guest of the Spanish embassy at
its celebration Friday of the dis
covery of America.
It was his first trip here, and
, some Indians (from Arizona) were
out to offer him tobacco (tailor
mades), just like they did his an
! cestor.
The plane flight from Madrid
took 21 hours, which is probably
what helped put him ahead of the
schedule of the original Colum
bus, who made it in 70 days on
the ship Santa Maria.
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U.S. Armor Drives
Eight Miles Thru
Chinese Lines
j U.S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, </P)-.Fifty Ameri
can tanks led thousands of U.S.
infantrymen on a surprise attack
today that smashed eight miles
through Chinese lines in eastern
Korea.
Gen. James A. aVn Fleet, in a
surprise visit to the front, ex
pressed hope the raid “will be
the end of the Heartbreak Ridge
! fighting.”
Green Chinese troops turned
and ran in the face of the ar
mored thrust.
The surprise drive carried the
raiding Americans past the vil
lage of Mundung, 23 miles north
of the 38th parallel and two miles
west of Heartbreak Ridge.
The tank-infantry task force
caught green Chinese troops by
surprise as the Reds moved into
the front to relieve North Kor
eans.
“This is very good medicine to
welcome them to the front,” said
Gen. Van Fleet, U.N. ground com
mander.
Fairbanks Liquor Dealers
Plead “Nolo Contendere”
In Anti-trust Action
FAIRBANKS, (/P)_Nine Fair
banks liquor dealers pleaded
“nolo contendere” in district court
yesterday to charges of conspir
ing to fix prices in violation of
the Sherman Anti-trust Act.
This plea, while not admitting
guilt, throws the defendants open
to a finding of guilty but does
not preclude their denying guilt
in separate statements.
The defendants, indicted by a
grand jury here last July, were
fined $200 each by Judge Harry
E. Pratt.
The dealers told the court they
decided to make the plea to save
time and expense after the gov
ernment agreed to recommend
fines not exceeding $200 provid
ing they did not fight the charges.
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Yankees Take
Series Today
(By the Associated Press)
The New York Yankees won
the 1951 World Series today by
defeating the New York Giants
4 to 3. The victory gave the
Yankees the series 4 games to 2
for the third straight world’s
championship.
A ninth inning Giant rally fell
short.
Gus Hall, One Of
Top Four Reds,
Nabbed by FBI
LAREDO, Texas., (/P)—Mexi
can secret police whisked Gus
Hall, 41, national secretary of
the U.S. Communist party, across
the border here early today into
the waiting arms of the FBI.
The Mexican Communist party
had launched a fight against Hall’s
return to the United States. He
had been picked up in Mexico
yesterday.
Hall is one of four top U.S.
Communists who jumped bail in
early July after they were con
victed of conspiring to teach and
advocate violent overthrow of the
U.S. Government.
They were among 11 top com
munists convicted under the
Smith Act. Robert Thompson,
Gilbert Green and Henry Win
ston are still at large. The Civil
Rights Congress which put up the
four men’s bail lost its money
when they skipped.
An international search began
when the four failed to show up
to begin serving their prison
terms. A spokesman for the Mex
ican Communist party had said
it would ask the Mexican gov
ernment to let Hall stay in Mex
ico as a political refugee.
Mexican officials returned Hall
to the U.S. only 23 hours after he
was arrested in Mexico City. In
Washington, J. Edgar Hoover,
chief of the FBI, announced Hall’s
arrest here. The FBI said he was
being taken to jail immediately.
Disposal of $70,000 Estate
Hinges On Definition Of
“What Is A Christian?”
WATERLOO, la., (/P)—What is
a Christian?
Disposal of the $70,000 estate
o*f the late Dr. W.B. Small, Water
loo physician, hinges on whether
that question can be answered in
a legally acceptable way.
In a strange lawsuit in pro- j
gress here, 10 nephews and nieces I
of the late Dr. and Mrs. Small!
are seeking to break his will on j
the grounds that it is not possible ;
to define Christians for legal pur- !
poses.
“There is no common agree-:
ment as to what constitutes the
fundamental principles of Chris- j
tianity,” their petition contends.
Dr. Small, who died in 1939, |
left o will in which he directed j
that after his wife’s passing the
income from his estate should “be
given to persons who believe in
the fundamental principles of the |
Christian religion, and in tihe'
Bible, and who are endeavoring!
to promulgate the same.”
Two Seamen Off Navy
Ship In Harbor Drown
Late Monday Night
Two seamen from the Navy
ship TAKL 33 were drowned late
Monday night when their skiff,
overcrowded with four men,
swamped near the end of the jet
ties of the Nome harbor. The
drowned men were Alex Prosoff,
seaman, and John Byrne, second
mate.
The survivors, Richard Pump,
radioman and A. E. Twyman,
oiler, were able to reach the end
of the east jetty where they made
many attempts to reach Prosoff,
who was trying to swim to his
friends. Being heavily clothed, he
finally gave up a few feet away
from the jetty. The survivors re
ported that the fourth man in the
boat, Byrne, was carried out by
the current.
When the two survivors realized
they could not help Prosoff they
walked in their freezing clothes
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Anti-Foreign Mobs
Surge Thru Cairo
CAIRO, Egypt, (JP) — A wild
crowd armed with stones and
clubs, surged through the down
town streets of Cairo today, at
tacking western business houses
in a frenzy of anti-foreign rioting.
The outbreak sprang from
Prime Minister Mustapha El No
has Pasha’s denunciation of the
Anglo-Egyptian treaty and his
bid to chase all British troops off
Egyptian soil.
The Red of the Arab world
meanwhile joined Egypt in full
support behind his plans to drive
Britain out of its Suez Canal en
campments and the Anglo-Egyp
tian Sudan.
A British and a French firm
and the trucks of Coco Cola and
Pepsi-Cola distributors were first
targets for attacks by shouting
mobs.
“Down with Britain, up with
Egypt,” the rioters shouted.
Police reinforcments rushed to
the scene of the riots and had
some difficulty dispersing the
crowds. The mobs broke up into
small groups and went off shout
ing for cancellation of the Anglo
Egyptian Alliance.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Secre
tary of State Acheson said today
the United States believes new
Egyptian defense proposals ex
pected shortly “should serve as a
sound basis” for settling the cur
rent British-Egyptian argument
over the Suez Canal and Sudan.
Senate Votes New District
Court Judgeship for Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P)_The Sen
ate voted yesterday to create two
additional Circuit Court of Ap
peals judgeships for the western
states and a new District Court
judse for Alaska.
The two Circuit Court judge
ships are among three voted for
the nation.
The new judgeship for Alaska
is one of 16 such permanent posts
approved hv the Senate.
(It is expected to go to the
Third Division, Anchorage, where
the big increase in population has
resulted in crowded court calen
dars).
Bartlett Proposes
Allow Sale of Gold
On Free Market
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)— Delegate
Bartlett renewed his appeal yes
terday that American gold miners
be permitted to sell their gold on
the free market.
Canada announcel last week
that it is granting that privilege
to Canadian miners.
In a letter to Secretary of the
Treasury Snyder, Bartlett said
American miners deserve at least
the same consideration as Can
adian miners.
“The discriminations against
American miners have been par
ticularly severe,” Bartlett said,
and have increased as inflation
ary pressures mounted.
Chamber of Commerce
Hears Norman Stines
On Price of Gold
Norman Stines, well - known
consulting engineer and mining
authority, who at present is in
terested in tin mining at Tin City,
gave a very interesting talk on
i gold prices at the Chamber of
Commerce meeting yesterday
noon at the Polaris Grill. He
kindly summarized the report for
the press and it is presented as
follows:
“As far back as 1920 there were
efforts of the gold producers to
raise the price paid for fine gold
ounce. I was opposed to it then
as world conditions did not de
mand it. The situation soon
changed and it was seen that it
was needed.
“In 1934 matters were entirely
different. The world conditions
were such that in all except Uni
ted States markets gold was being
sold far above the statutory price
of $20.67 per fine ounce. Then I
was producing gold in California
and, as there were no restrictions
on the place of sale gold, I was
sending it to England and obtain
ing prices between thirty-three
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Half Million Dollar
Fire Destroys 3
Cordova Buildings
CORDOVA, (JP)—Three build
ings in the Cordova business dis
trict were destroyed early today
in a spectacular fire in which un
official loss estimates ran to half
a million dollars.
Flames swept through the
buildings in a matter of minutes.
Believed to have started in the
Imperial Building when the fur
nace exploded, engulfing the base
ment in flames, the fire quickly
'Tpread to the adjoining Evans
Building and the owners, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Evans, barely es
caped when their building seemed
to explode into flames, shattering
windows across the street.
Greatest loss was by Syd and
Edna Raynor, whose building was
also destroyed. It housed about
20 apartments, the Empress the
ater, jewelry store, several offices
and the ACS.
The losses were only partly in
sured.