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VOL. LIII No. 139 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1951_Per Copy—15c
Armistice In
Korea Possible
Bv Christmas
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MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Truce
negotiators reached agreement on
a buffer zone clause today, open
ing the way for a possible armis
tice in Korea by Christmas.
“We have reached agreement
insofar -as the wording is con
cerned,” Rear Adm. Arleigh A.
Burke, U.N. Command subcom
mitteeman told correspondents.
“The only thing left now is for
the liaison officers who are work
ing on the map to finish.”
If the agreement is approved by
the full truce delegations, as ex
pected, negotiators would have 30
days in which to solve three other
tough problems — supervision of
the armistice, exchange of war
prisoners and recommendations to j
the belligerent governments.
Fighting will continue in the
war, now 17 months old, until all
of these points are settled.
J Staff officers started mapping
the actual line of battle contact.
The line they draw is to become
the formal cease-fire line if an j
armistice is signed within 30 days. (
3-Year-Old Alameda Boy, j
Suffering From Incurable
Cancer, Dies In Sleep
ALAMEDA, Calif., {JP) — Little
Rodney Gale did not live to cele
brate the premature Christmas
arranged for him by his parents
and hundreds of well wishers.
The 3-year-old died of cancer,
in his sleep last night.
Rodney had been ill since Au- !
gust. Tuesday his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Leeroy Gale, made the
heart - breaking decision to let
their son die as soon as possible
rather than live in pain a few
weeks longer.
A doctor told them he might
keep Rodney alive two or three
months with a special compound.
“We decided against it,” Mrs.
Gale said. “It would only pro
long his misery.”
A party was planned tomorrow
to give Rodney “a little Christ
mas cheer before he died.”
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Dr. Allen Resigns From
U W, Head Psychological
Strategy Board For U. S.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Dr. Raymond
B. Allen has resigned the Univer
sity of Washington presidency to
take the not-yet-vacant job of di
rector of the government’s Psy
chological Strategy Board.
Dr. Allen confirmed the move
last night after published reports.
There has been no announcement
yet from the White House.
However, Gordon Gray, who
holds the Psychological Strategy j
Board post, said today in Wash-1
ington that he expects to return
to his duties as president of the
University of North Carolina on
Jan. 1. Gray is a former secre
tary of the army.
The board is the government’s
top planning agency in the cold
war with communism. The chair
man’s salary is $16,000.
Ilth-Hour Agreement
Prevents Strike At Blood
Processing Plant
PHILADELPHIA, (/P) — An
llth-hour agreement on a new
union contract Wednesday pre
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vented a strike which would have
curtailed sharply the flow of
badly - needed blood plasma to
American troops in Korea.
The basic issue in the dispute,
between Sharp & Dohme, Inc.
and CIO-United Chemical Work
ers, was the question of union
security. Company officials said
they agreed to the contract terms
“only because the union contin
ued to refuse to exclude blood
plasma processing for the armed
forces from the strike.
The West Point, Pa.,* plant of
the company supplies about one
fourth of the plasma sent to the
armed forces.
Russian-Type Jets
And Pilots Break
Allied Supremacy
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SEOUL, Korea, (/P) — Jets
clashed over Korea today for the
first time in five days. The fight
came just 12 hours after super
forts bombed a new Red jet base
two miles from Red China’s Man
churian frontier.
During the night 12 B-29 super
forts ignored an angry cordon of
Red jets and roared through in
tense flak in the first bombing
raid on the Communist’s Uiju jet
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base.
The strike was effective, Far
East Air Forces said. It reported
all B-29s returned from the raid
two miles south of the Yalu river
boundary.
This strike so close to the “sanc
tuary of Manchuria” pointed up
the mounting Allied effort to
block off the growing communist
air threat and keep the Reds from
setting up bases in North Korea
closer to the battle line.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chief
of the U.S. Air Force, warned in
Washington that Red China has
emerged suddenly as a major air
power. He said this new-born air
force with Russian type jets and
Russian speaking pilots has
broken Allied -air supremacy in
Korea although the United Na
tions still holds superiority.
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North Pole Is Located
In Seattle Hotel Room
SEATTLE, (/P) — Contrary to
popular belief, the North Pole is
located in a Seattle hotel room.
Stan Garson is keeping it there.
He wants Seattleites to sign it
“for posterity” before it returns
north of the Arctic Circle.
The “North Pole” of course, is
the red-white-and-blue striped
barber pole Garson plans to drop
as near as possible to the geo
graphical North Pole.
He brought the nin€>-foot pole
with him when he arrived here
from Fairbanks, Alaska, for a
week’s vacation. Garson said the
pole will be erected in a depart
ment store where anyone who
wants his name recorded “for
posterity” may sign it.
Alaska Airlines will fly the
North Pole to the North Pole
Dec. 10. '
Soviets (lhar ge U.S.
Plots Overthrow of
Stalin Government
PARIS, (/P)—The Soviet Union
tiled a formal complaint with the
United Nations today, charging
that the United States is financ
ing armed groups in her territory
aimed at the overthrow of Prime
Minister Stalin’s government.
The note to the U.N. followed
a similar Russian communication
to the U.S. government on Tues
day. The U.S. State Department
dismissed the protest as “ground
less propaganda.”
The latest Russian blast against
the west came as the assembly
marked time on its peace pro
grams, with some hope—a slim
but existing hope—that Vishinsky
in a scheduled appearance before
the U.N. political committee to
morrow would answer the west’s
disarmament proposals with a
speech spelling real peace.
British Minister of State Sel
wyn Lloyd told the committee
yesterday that the assembly al
ready has showed signs of a less
ening in the east-west tension.
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Dr. Allen, President of
U of W, To Be Guest of
Fairbanks and U of A
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Dr. Ray
mond B. Allen, president of the
University of Washington, is due
to be the guest of Fairbanks and
the University of Alaska Nov. 30
and Dec. 1 and 2.
Dr. Terris Moore, University of
Alaska president, announced the
visit Wednesday.
He will be the official guest of
the university during his stay.
Speeches and receptions have
been arranged.
A flight to Fort Yukon, above
the Arctic Circle, is planned. He
will be the guest there of the
Rev. Wilfred Files of the Hudson
Stuck Memorial hospital.
Dr. Moore said the University
of Alaska is interested especially
in the program of community bet
terment promoted by Dr. Allen at
the U. of W. He said Alaska’s
University wants to develop a
similar program of “taking it to
the people.”
Dr. Moore commented: “I deem
it a great honor to have the presi
dent of this great sister university
take time from his many duties
to pay us a visit.”
Tojo's Daughter Gets
Stage Fright At U.N.
Blood Bank In Tokyo
TOKYO, (/P) — Hideki Tojo’s
daughter tried today to give blood
for Allied soldiers, but stage
fright sent her blood pressure so
high that it was decided not to
take her blood.
The 19-year-old girl, Kimie,
fourth daughter of Japan’s “Pearl
Harbor” premier who was exe
cuted as a war criminal, was sur
rounded by Japanese photograph
ers and reporters when she ap
peared at the United Nations
blood bank.
“Please don’t,” she pleaded,
trembling and near hysteria at all
the attention she was getting.
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Senator Demands CAB
Permit Non-Skeds Offer
Low-Cost Transportation
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Sparkman (D:Ala) demanded yes
terday that the Civil Aeronautics
Board permit small, non-sched
uled airlines to “offer low-cost
air coach transportation.”
Sparkman is chairman of the
Senate Small Business Commit
tee. In a letter to CAB chairman
Donald W. Nyrop he accused the
board of inconsistent actions.
He said the board has publicly
announced its support of such
low-cost transportation but in a
decision on Nov. 9 it rejected the
applications of four airlines that
sought to offer transcontinental
air coach service at reduced fares.
“There is a strong public de
mand fo*r cheap air transportation
on a vastly expanded basis,” he
said.
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Ship Captain Faces
Charge Killing One
Of Crew At Sea
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — Capt.
Franklin B. Weaver, skipper of
the Flying Trader, faces Coast
Guard charges of “wrongfully
killing” one of his crew at sea.
The husky 30-year-old skipper
from Englewood, N.J., pleaded in
nocent. If convicted, his merchant
marine officer’s license could be
revoked or suspended. . The
charges are not criminal.
The charges were filed Tuesday
after a preliminary investigation.
The freighter, owned by Isbrandt
sen Lines, arrived Monday.
The crew member, William
Harvey, 24, a negro steward of
Dayton, O., was shot to death
while the Flying Trader was at
sea between Kobe and Manila.
The first assistant engineer,
George N. Wood, testified he saw
Weaver appear on deck Oct. 25
followed by Harvey, who was
handcuffed.
Wood said the captain took an
automatic pistol from his cabin,
cocked it and moved out of sight
with Harvey.
Then Harvey shouted: “You put
these handcuffs on me. Take ’em
off!”
“I heard the first shot fired,”
Wood said “Harvey passed my
line of vision, still handcuffed,
still demanding‘they be removed.
I heard a second shot. I heard
Harvey say:
“ ’Go ahead, shoot me again!’
“It was immediately followed
by a third shot.”
Death Toll Thanksgiving
Holiday Was 120 Lives
(By the Associated Press)
The nation’s accidental death
toll over the Thanksgiving holi
day was the lowest since 1948 and
far below last year’s record 201.
Traffic accidents, as usual, dur
ing a holiday period,* took the
heaviest toll.
A survey showed that since 6
p.m. Wednesday until midnight
Thursday, 90 persons lost their
lives in motor mishaps. Another
30 persons were killed in miscel
laneous accidents.
California led . the nation in ac
cidental deaths over the holiday
with 13 killed in traffic mishaps.
U.S. Navy Plane
w
Presumed Shot
Down by Russians
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A U.S.
Navy plane with a crew of 10 is '
missing. There appear to be
strong reasons for presuming it
was shot down by the Russians.
In succession today:
1. It was learned that Moscow,
in a formal protest on Nov. 7,
charged that an American plane
crossed the Siberian border and
was turned back by the gunfire
of Soviet fighters.
2. The Navy said a twin-engine
bomber “on United Nations wea
ther reconnaissance” patrol has
been missing since Nov. 6 and is
presumed lost.
However, the Navy itself did
not say the Russians had shot
down the plane.
The Navy, in its initial answer
to questions, did not identify the
exact type of plane except to say
it was a twin-engine bomber.
Nor did it say where the plane
was missing.
All the circumstances here,
however, implied that this was
the same matter the Russians re
ferred to in their Nov. 7 pro
test—one day after the U.S. plane
failed to return from its mission.
In the spring of 1950, Russian
airmen downed a navy patrol
plane in the Baltic. Its 10 crew
men perished.
At that time, with much fan
fare, the Mosccfw press announced
award of decorations to the Red
fliers.
Similarly, there were stories in
the Moscow papers today of the
decoration of two Red navy fliers
for outstanding services. What
they »had done was not detailed,
but the way the matter was han
dled paralleled last year’s awards.
Russia Protests Violation
Of Siberian Border
By American Plane
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Russia
has protested to the United States
that an American plane violated
the Siberian border. A note from
Moscow said the plane was fired
on by Soviet fighter craft.
This was learned today, and
may explain the Moscow press
announcement of the decoration
of two Soviet navy fliers for out
standing performance of their
service duties.
Elmendorf Funds To Be
Used Maintain Richardson
Highway This Winter
VALDEZ, (JP) — The Valdez
Chamber of Commerce reported
Wednesday it has been assured
that funds will be available for
winter maintenance of the Rich
ardson Highway north from Val
dez.
Chamber officials said the as
surance came from the command
er in chief of Alaskan defenses.
They said the money will be
from Elmendorf air force base
funds which now are available
for transfer from defense to the
Interior Department.
The maintenance of the high
way during winter months has
been a matter of concern to Val
dez truckers and shippers.