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VOL. LIII No. 121 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1951 Per Copy—15^
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Reds Again Accuse
Allies of Neutrality
Zone Violation
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — The
Reds summoned Allied liaison of
ficers to Kaesong tonight to in
vestigate new neutrality viola
tion charges.
The call came as the Reds and
Allies appeared near agreement
on reopening truce talks at a new
site, Panmunjom, six air miles
southeast of Kaesong.
The Reds charged that a United
Nations plane attacked the Kae
song neutral zone at 5:35 p.m.—
only an hour and a half after the
truce meeting ended at Panmun
jom.
They bnade the charge over the
radio-telephone circuit linking the
U.N. advance peace camp at Mun
san with Kaesong, original site of
truce talks which the Reds broke
off Aug. 23 because of an asserted
Allied plane attack.
The U. S. Air Force began
checking to see if any Allied plane
could have been in the area
The size of the protected area
to be maintained around Kaesong
in the future apeared today to be
a major stumbling block in the
path of resuming armistice nego
tiations.
Air Forces Radar Ring
Of Canada and U. S.
Is Now Completed
SYRACUSE, N.Y., (/P)—A net
work of the largest radar systems
ever produced has been installed
by the Air Force to guard the
United States and Canada against
air attack, the General Electric
| Company disclosed today.
The company said that it had
filled the Air Force order for
the radar systems and that they
were the most complete yet to be
turned out.
The installations are the major
“posts” in a radar fence for the
U.S. and Canada, the announce
ment said.
GE did not reveal the cost of
the systems and said the locations
and total number of “posts” were
secret.
The company said in a state
ment that an estimated 400 men
were required to operate each in
stallation on a 24-hour basis and
that each system could intercept
several raids simultaneously.
Earthquake Hits Philippines
MANILA, P. I., (/P)—Buildings
swayed noticeably as earthquakes
were felt in the Philippines today.
The heaviest tremblor here was a
40-second tremor of intensity
; three on a scale of ten.
C OLUMBUS DAY
COLUMBUS DAY is celebrated each year by many pilgrims
visiting the temporary shrine i^ the Dominican Republic where
the great Columbus Memorial Lighthouse is being built. Here
is a group of school girls assembled at the base of the monument
built on the center of the foundation that forms a huge cross
at the edge of the Caribbean near Cuidad Trujillo.
6-Month-Old Baby
Lone Survivor Of
Arctic Plane Crash
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — A baby’s
faint cry broke the silence of
death beside a crashed plane in
the Arctic Wdensday.
Astonished airmen from an
other plane found the 6-month
old boy strapped inside a fur
pouch under the parka of his
dead Eskimo mother.
The tot, although injured, sur
vived the crash that hurled Mrs.
Martha Ruth Simmons 90 feet
from the crashed plane, to. her
death on the ice.
Another victim of the crash was
the pilot, George Harrington, from
Marblehead Lake, Mass.
L. B. Williams of the govern
ment’s Alaska Native Service and
•at first believed to have been a
passenger on the plane, was lo
cated last night in Meade River
village. He had not been a pas
| senger when the craft took off
on its flight near Point Barrow.
“We found the plane broken
into pieces and scattered all over
the ice,” said pilot William Eng
lish. “We found the pilot’s body
about 100 feet from the fuselage.
Then we went over to where the
mother was lying. She was dead,
too. Then suddenly we heard a
baby crying somewhere inside her
clothing. We opened the hood of
the fur compartment on her back
and discovered the infant.”
English and Fess Stengl flew
the baby to the hospital at Point
Barrow. It was reported to have
internal injuries.
The other airmen believed the
plane crashed onto the ice dur
ing a snow flurry.
U. S. and Canada To
Test Machinery Next
Winter in Yukon Terr.
CHICAGO, (/P)— Engineers of
the U.S. and Canadian armies will
test themselves and machinery in
some of the world’s coldest wea
ther next year.
The combined exercise, to be
held some 130 miles north of
Whitehorse in Yukon Territory,
will begin January 15 and con
tinue six months. With a com
bined force of 435 men, it will
be the largest peace-time all
engineer exercise in history.
The operation, dubbed “Eager
Beaver,” will see some 300 U.S.
and 135 Canadian troops setting
up emergency airstrips on frozen
lakes in the Kluane Lake-Silver'
Creek area.
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Italian Premier Sends
Columbus Day Greetings
HOME, (/P) — Italian Premier
Alcide De Gasperi issued a spe
cial statement today in honoT of
Columbus Day. He said. Chris
topher Columbus has become a
“symbol that ties two worlds toll1
gether.”
“For several years now we have
commemorated Columbus Day by
sending greetings ta friends in
America,” the message said. “This
time I do it with even greater en
thusiasm, since the cordial re
ception given me recently in the
United St-srtes and Canada is still
vivid before me.”
$53/i Billion Tax Bill Raises Individual
Income Taxes To as High as 12 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, </P) — A $5,-«
750,000,000 tax increase which,
among other things, would boost
the levy on most individual in
comes by about 11% per cent
was approved yesterday by a Sen
ate-House conference committee.
The measure—the nation’s sec
ond largest revenue bill — is
scheduled for House action next
Tuesday. It then will go to the
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Senate. Approval by both is an
ticipated.
In addition to the income tax
rise — effective Nov. 1 — (the bill
calls for sharp increases in the
excise taxes on whisky, beer,
wine, cigarettes, gasoline, auto
mobiles and a number of other
articles. •
The bill provides only a little
more than half the $10,000,000,
000 additional income which
President Truman said represents
the government’s minimum needs.
With enactment of this bill, the
tax load will have been increased
some $15,575,000,000 since the
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start of the Korean war. A record
breaking $6,100,000,000 increase
went on the statute books in Sep
tember, 1950; a $3,900,000,00 ex
cess profits tax act in January,
1951.
The increase for most indivi
dual tax payers varies from 11 Vi
to about 12 per cent.
The excise <sales tax) increases
go into effect Nov. 1, if President
Truman signs the bill by Oct. 21.
They include the following in
creases: Whisky and other spir
ituous liquor, from $9 to $10.50 a
100-proof gallon, or about 26 cents
a fifth for ordinary liquor. Beer
from $8 a barrel to $9. Wine taxes
up an average of 12Vfe per cent.
Gasoline tax up from \Vz to
2 cents.
The excise tax increases are to
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i remain in effect until April 1,
1954, when the rates are sup
posed to go back to the present
level—provided Congress doesn’t
change its mind.
Russia to Oppose Revision
Of Italian Peace Treaty
MOSCOW, (/P) — Russia an
nounced last night that Italy must
quit the Atlantic Alliance and bar
foreign military forces from her
soil before the Soviets will agree
; to revision of the Italian peace
i treaty.
A Russian note to the big three
western powers also set a second
condition for Russian agreement
to the treaty revision and Italy’s
admission to the United Nations.
The United States, Britain, and
France —said the Soviets — must
similarly agree to peace treaty re
visions and U.N. membership for
Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and
Finland.
Western diplomats here pre
dicted that in view of the Soviet
stand, the westerners now will
press ahead with their plans to
edit arms restrictions from the
Italian treaty without Russian
agreement.
They forecast that such west
ern action would create resent
ment here and that the Russians
probably wcruld seek some sort
of retaliation.
Japan Premier Asks For
Speedy Approval of
Japanese Peace Treaty
TOKYO, (^P)—Premier Shigeru
Yoshida today urged “speedy de
liberation and ’approval” by the
diet of the Japanese peace treaty
and Japan’s security pact with the
United States.
Yoshida made his statement in
a report to the historic 12th extra
ordinary session of the diet, which
convened to consider atcioyi. on
the two measures. .
“F ram the Japanese stand
point,” he said, “the contents of
the peace treaty may leave many
things to be desired. But the fact
remains that it is a fair and
equitable peace treaty without
parallel in history.”
Yoshida said all the 51 nations
at the San Francisco conference
last month “maintained an atti
tude of understanding and sym
pathy toward Japan” except Rus
sia, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Heartbreak Ridge
Cleared of Reds,
Month-Long Battle
U.S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (/P)—Bloody bayo
nets of American and French in
fantrymen today cleared the Reds
off the last peak of Heartbreak
Ridge, climaxing the longest and
most costly hill battle of the Ko
rean war.
Fierce fighting continued on the
northern slope below the crest. U.
S. 8th Army officers referred to
it as “mopping up.”
Along the western front Chi
nese Reds hurled three attacks at
the United Nations line. Two were
beaten back.
All battle action was overshad
owed by the capture of the north
ernmost peak of Heartbreak
Ridge.
A little band of haggard French
men and Americans seized it in
a night-long attack. At 8 a.m. they
stood looking across the crest at
the climax of 31 days of incred
ible fighting for Heartbreak Ridge.
At their feet were the burned
! and twisted bodies of North Ko
rean communists whose fanatical
defense was equalled only by the
courage that won the bitter ad
miration of the men who killed
them in hand-to-hand struggle.
The Red’s dogged defense made
the month-long battle for the
four-mile* ridge probably the cost
liest - Allied regimental attack of
the whole Korean war.'
Some companies almost disap
peared. Some battalions were cut.
down to little • more than com
panies. • : *
KODIAK NAVAL STATION,
(AMNS) — Navy notes from Ko
diak: Relatives of naval person
nel stationed at the naval station,
Kodiak, were quite perturbed re
cently when the station news
paper, the Kodiak Bear, stated
that the 1700 men daily drank
1900 gallons of coffee and 620 gal
lons of fresh milk. The mistake
was corrected the following issue
to read weekly instead of daily.