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VOL. LIII No. 151 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1951 Per Copy—15r.
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Court Orders ATA
And CAB to Work
Out Agreement
(AP Special Washington Service)
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, (#>) — Air
Transport Associates, Inc., finds
out today just how much it must
curtail its Seattle - Alaska opera
tions to stave off a Civil Aero
nautics Board order revoking its
common carrier operating author
ity.
Attorneys for the irregular car
rier and the Board were ordered
iby three Appeals Court judges
yesterday to work out an agree
ment satisfactory to both parties.
They were to return to court
today. If no agreement has been
reached the court itself will un
dertake to settle the issue.
Company attorney Warren E.
Miller told the judges it was the
company’s inability to understand
Board regulations that led to
charges that it operated too fre
quently and too regularly. It was
on those grounds that the Board
revoked the • company’s permit.
Miller said the company was un
able to determine what an ir
regular may do and still comply
with Board orders.
The revocation order was to
have gone into effect last mid
night. It was stayed indefinitely,
however, by the Appeals Court on
condition the company live up to
the regulations.
The court announced its deci
sion orally after a two-hour hear
ing, asserting it was prompted by
the “large number of questions”
which company attorneys raised.
Appeals To Board To Set
Aside Disloyalty Finding
In John S. Service Case
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John S.
Service, ousted State Department
official, appealed to the loyalty
review board today to set aside
its finding that there was “rea
sonable doubt” of his loyalty.
He challenged the authority of
the board to make the ruling and
asked for full reconsideration of
his case “as an act of simple jus
tice.”
Service filed the appeal through
attorneys a day after loyalty
board chairman Hiram Bingham
protested the State Department’s
release of the board report that
led to the firing of Service.
Bingham told Secretary of
State Acheson in a letter the re
lease violated President Tru
man’s order for secrecy on reports
dealing with loyalty of govern
ment workers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12, (/P)
— Mrs. Audrey Cutting, 41, An
chorage real estate woman, was
placed on three year probation
for issuing a bogus check for
$100. She was convicted of the
offense by a jury Nov. 13.
Solon Declares Russian
Seizure Of Alaska
Is Now Impossible
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Russian
seizure of Alaska by way of the
Aleutians is now impossible, says
Rep. Clyde Doyle (D-Calif) of
the House Armed Forces Commit-*
tee.
Doyle told a Democratic lunch
eon club yesterday that Russia
might have been able to seize
Alaska eight months ago but
couldn’t now because of “our new
installations and measures taken
by the Canadians.”
Doyle returned recently from
visits to Alaska, Europe and
North Africa. He said the morale
of American soldiers everywhere
is excellent.
“They want to get home but
they say if there is fighting to
be done they’d rather do it where
they are than at their homes,”
Doyle said.
Eleven Persons Die In
Fire Aboard Danish Ship
ASTORIA, Ore., (/P)—The fate
of 11 persons, missing in a fire
which swept a ship anchored in
the mouth of the Columbia river,
was determined *today.
One hundred three others, in
cluding 23 passengers and 80
crew members were rescued by
the Coast Guard shortly after
flames whipped through the mid
section of the Danish vessel,
ama, eariy yesieraay.
Survivors said crew members
ran from cabin to cabin pound
ing on doors and ordering pas
sengers to lifeboat stations.
Four of the eight lifeboats were
lowered, the first with women and
children and the others with men.
Three boats burned and one was
not launched.
The Coast Guard station, only
a mile away, rushed tugs to the
scene to pick up the lifeboats.
The 462-foot boat was bound
for Liverpool via New York from
Portland.
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Soviets Execute Two Men
As American Saboteurs
MOSCOW, (/P)—The Soviet su
preme court said that two men
with Russian - sounding names
have been put to death as Am
erican saboteur-spies parachuted
into Russia.
The announcement from the
military collegium of the court
said they were dropped into Rus
sia from an American plane man
by U.S. military officers.
Their names were given as A.I.
Osmanov and F. K. Sarantsev.
The two were arrested in Aug
ust shortly after dropping into the
Moldavian Republic, a small
state of farms and light indus
tries near the Romanian border,
the Russians said.
Forged papers, gups, poison and
large sums of money were found
on them when they were picked
up, the Soviet account reported.
Christmas Day . . .
(By the Associated Press)
Carolers will sing and tinsel
will glisten on Christmas next
Tuesday as in years past, but in
thousands of American homes the
season’s traditional joy will be
lacking.
Cheery candles in the windows
of many a dwelling will obscure
the fact that the family inside
is thinking of a son or husband
risking death in distant Korea.
President Truman intends to
follow his custom of flying to his
family home in Independence,
Mo., on Monday to have Christ
mas dinner there with his wife
and daughter, Margaret.
At Independence, the President
will press a button Christmas Eve
to light a tree on the lawn of
the White House in Washington.
He will broadcast a Christmas
message at the same time.
Across the nation, travelers
headed for home wherever it was.
A substantial segment of the
travelers were in uniform, on
leave from training camps in the
United States. They didn’t know
when they would spend another
Christmas with their families.
The scene was the same, in
varying degrees, from coast to
coast — trains, buses, airplanes
filled to capacity.
Midnight mass at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral in New York will be
beamed on two television net
works, but Francis Cardinal
Spellman will not be present. He
has left for Korea to spend Christ
mas with the fighting men.
Turkey was on the menu in
Korea, the same as it was in
President Truman’s home.
Steel-Labor Case
Deadlocked, Sent
To White House
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Steel
labor negotiations collapsed today
and the dispute was referred to
President Truman as being in a
complete deadlock.
Cyrus Ching, Federal Mediation
Service director, told reporters he
was sending the case to the White
House as hopeless—leaving it up
to the President to decide on the
next step to try to avert a threat
ened New Year’s Day strike in
the vital steel industry.
Mr. Truman apparently has two
courses to take.
One is to invoke the Taft-Hart
ley Act, with its provisions for
an 80-day court injunction pro
hibiting a walkout.
This, however, would probably
shelve the unsettled steel dispute
until March, with the possibility
that John L. Lewis may be threat
ening a nation-wide coal strike
then.
His second course would be to
refer the steel crisis to the Wage
Stabilization Board for a recom
mended settlement.
Traffic Death Toll Since
Advent of. Automobile
Nears 1,000,000 Mark
(By the Associated Press)
The toll of traffic deaths in the
U.S. since the advent of the auto
mobile climbed today toward the
1,000,000 mark.
The count reached 999,850 at
7:45 a.m.
Deaths in motor vehicle acci
dents were occurring at a rate
that was somewhat slower than
usual at this time of year.
Heavy snow and icy highways
apparently limited driving in
many northern states.
But thousands of persons are
expected to start Christmas trips
today—and that may be a balanc
ing factor.
This also was the day for many
traditional office parties. Some
firms have advised their work
ers not to drive if they drink.
U.S. Waives Three
Restrictive Clauses
In Italian Treaty
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
United States today waived re
strictive clauses of the Italian
peace treaty, including limitations
on Italy’s armed forces.
State Department officials said
that similar action was being
taken by Britain and France. Italy
is allied with the Western powers
in the North Atlantic Treaty.
Secretary Aacheson called the
Italian ambassador to the State
Department and handed him a
three-paragraph note announcing
that insofar as the United States
is concerning three important sec
tions of the peace treaty no longer
exist. These sections are:
One in the preamble which
treated Italy at a defeated enemy;
One in the political section
which specified Italy’s commit
ments to the maintenance of dem
ocracy — now considered to be
“superfluous”;
And one which fixed Italy’s
armed forces at a maximum of
250,000 men with limitations
against building battleships, hav
ing jet airplanes or using heavy
military ground equipment.
PARIS, (JP) — United Nations
delegates read with interest today
but refused to comment on the
Italian peace treaty revision.
Most of the big power repre
sentatives, except Russia, said
that it was a matter of concern
to their governments and not to'
the U.N.
Russia’s delegate said, “Our po
sition is completely clear and was
fully stated in the note of the
Soviet Union last October.”
That position is that the Italian
peace treaty, which the Italian
Foreign Office says now is re
vised with the assent of eight na
tions, cannot legally be changed
without the consent of all World
War II allies.
{ \ Demand Reds
Account For 1,000
More Prisoners
MUNSAN, Korea, (ff) — The
Allies today demanded the Reds
account for more than *1,000 Am
erican and other missing U.N. sol
diers and “an unbelievable num
ber” of South Koreans not listed
as prisoners of war.
The demand was made in a
stiffly worded note. It was handed
to a Red liaison officer in Pan
munjom shortly after Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway appealed to
communist chieftains to open the
gates of North Korean prison
camps to the international Red
Cross.
A U.N. spokesman said the
Reds hinted they would agree to
unrestricted rotation of troops
during an armistice. He said They
also indicated “quite a change of
heart” toward the U.N. demand
for a ban on airfield construction
and reconstruction during a truce.
An Allied offer to withdraw
from all coastal islands was made
by staff officers to another arm
istice subcommittee Friday.
“We are returning without re
compense, all islands formerly
held by the communists,” said
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols.
“We are giving tangible evidence
of our willingness to compromise.
Less Than 200 Of
Red Prisoners
To Be Identified
WASHINGTON, m — The
Defense Department has less than
200 glad tidings messages still to
send out to families of American
prisoners of war in Korea, but a
glimmer of hope remains for
those who will not get one.
The Pentagon announced last
night it had sent telegrams to
next of kin of 3,006 of the 3,198
men whose names were furnished
by the Communists in Korea
Tuesday.
At the same time, however, the
radio in the Red Chinese capital
at Peiping continued to broad
cast purported greetings from Al
lied prisoners to their home folks.
Some names in the broadcasts
were not on the lists handed over
at truce negotiations.
It was recalled, too, that Rus
sia’s United Nations delegate
Jacob Malik, several months ago
produced a peace appeal he said
was from Americans captured in
the Korean fighting. There were
37 legible signatures and 27 of
these names did not turn up on
Tuesday’s list.
In Korea early today, the
United Nations Command tackled
this issue. A “stiffly worded” note
to the Reds asked about some
1,000 Allied soldiers, Americans
among them, whose names were
not listed.
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