OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIV No. 85_ NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1952 Per Copy—15*
HST Hospitalized,
First Time Since
Became President
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTON, (TP)—President
Truman entered the hospital for
a check-up today. It was the first
time Truman has been hospital
ized since he became the nation’s
chief executive more than seven
years ago.
Truman, who is 68, was af
flicted with a mild virus infection
on Sunday and had cancelled all
his appointments this week.
Presidential press secretary Jo
seph Short said Truman was or
dered to the hospital by his per
sonal physician and that he will
stay there for two or three days.
Truman was put in bed in the
presidential suite of the Army’s
Walter Reed hospital The suite
was completed five years ago, but
Truman had not used it before.
There was no indication that
Truman was suffering anything
other than a mild indisposition.
The President has enjoyed ex
cellent health ever since he be
came President on April 12, 1945,
but he has said repeatedly that he
will not try for re-election this
year.
Truman has said, among other
things, that he does not want the
presidency at his age. He has often
called it a “man-killing job.”
Frank McKinney, Democratic
national chairman, said Truman
told him:
“You wouldn t want to see me
carried out of here (the White
House) in a pine - board box,
would you?”
U.S. Carrier Planes Again
Fire Power Plants At
Changjin Reservoir
SEOUL, (/P)—American carrier
planes fired power plants at
Changjin Reservoir in northeast
Korea Tuesday. The battleship
Iowa blasted Red rail yards and
coastal guns with one-ton pro
jectiles.
On the ground, U.N. infantry
men fought off a tank-supported
night attack against a key hill
position on the central front.
Capt. Arthur H. McCarthy of
Dearborn, Mich., who was credit
ed with a MIG kill, said the Red
fighiers were “the best MIG
pilots I have seen up there yet.”
The Navy said its carrier-based
planes flew through heavy anti
aircraft fire Tuesday and again
hit power facilities at the Chang
jin Reservoir. Pilots reported the
area was left in flames. The plant
was one of five hit by U.N. bomb
ers June 23rd.
ETHIOPIANS LIKE TO KISS
CAIRO, (JP) — Ethiopians are
the world’s greatest kissers. This
is the conclusion of an observer
who recently visited Ethiopia.
Men and women, meeting on
the streets, kiss one another three
times on the right and left cheeks.
There is much mouth kissing, too.
Kissing of walls -around church
es, and even the pavement and
ground in front of churches, is
widely practiced. Foreign doctors
frown on these common kissing
habits, warning that they can fur
ther spread syphilis, which al
ready is widespread in Ethiopia.
58 U.S. Jets Hop
Across The Pacific
From U.S. to Japan
TOKYO, </P) — Fifty-eight U.S.
Thunderjets darted down onto Yo
kota Air Force Base near Tokyo
today, completing the biggest
mass jet overwater flight in his
tory — 10,895 miles across the
United States and the Pacific
Ocean from Turner Air Force
Base, Albany, Ga.
Fifty-nine were due but one ex
ploded yesterday over I wo Jima,
south of Japan, killing the pilot,
Lt. Col. Elmer Da Rosa, Sacra
mento, Calif.
Col. David Schilling, Kansas
City, a pioneer jet ocean flier,
led the flight of new model F-84G
jets, first operational type equip
ped for aerial refueling.
The planes from the 31st Fight
er Escort Wing took off from
Turner Air Base July 4 and made
seven landings enroute. They
were refueled in flight several
times from B-29 Superfort tanker
planes.
Gen. Otto Wevland, command
er of the U.S. Far East Air Forces,
said “It is a significant achieve
ment. The flight proves tactical
airplanes can be moved to any
part of the world at the drop of
a hat.”
Weyland told newsmen more
Sabrejets — the only American
fighter able to stand up to the
Communist MIG-15 — are on the
way also, “but we don’t want to'
be too specific.”
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U.S.
Army chief of staff touring the
Far East, said in Tokyo yester
day the Reds are in for an even
tougher pounding from the air if
the war continues.
Red China Recognizes
Geneva Law Banning
Use of Germ Warfare
TOKYO, (/P)—Red China Wed
nesday conditionally recognized
the Geneva Conventions banning
germ warfare and setting rules
for treatment of war prisoners.
United Nations officials here
and in Korea would make no of
ficial comment on the Red an
nouncements, made in separate
broadcasts by Peiping Radio.
Observers speculated the state
ments possibly meant:
1—The Reds have found a way
to break the stalemate in Korean
armistice talks over prisoner ex
change.
2—Or it was a continuation of
Communist charges that the
United States had employed germ
warfare in the Korean fighting.
The U. S', repeatedly has denied
the charges.
One broadcast said Foreign
Minister Chou Eh-Lai had been
authorized to recognize the Gen
eva protocol prohibiting the use
in war of poisonous gas and germ
warfare. The radio said, however,
that “all other contracting and ac
ceding powers” must observe
them reciprocally.
The U.S. has not ratified the
germ warfare provision and has
withstood efforts of Russia’s Ja
cob Malik in the United Nations
to force the U.S. to sign.
Geological Survey
Reopens Alaska
Uranium* Testing
WASHINGTON, OP)—Secretary
of Interior Chapman announced
today that the Geological Survey
has reopened its uranium testing
laboratory at the University of
Alaska.
Chapman said several geologi
cal Survey field parties also will
be in the territory this summer on
joint surveys with the Atomic
Energy Commission in search of
uranium leads. Survey offices at
Fairbanks and Juneau also are
prepared to make preliminary
tests of sample material submit
ted.
Requests for field investigation
of promising deposits should be
sent, with samples, to: Alaskan
Trace Elements Unit, Geological
Survey, P.O. Box 1088, Fairbanks,
Alaska.
Disclosing the preliminary re
sults of the reconnaissance for
uranium during 1951, Chapman
said encouraging leads had been
investigated at Brooks Mountain,
in the headwaters of the Peace
River on Seward Peninsula and
around Salmon Bay in southeast
Alaska.
Results of the 1951 studies are
contained in a report available
from the Geological Survey of
fices here.
Steelworkers and Industry
Find No Common Ground
In 45-Day Stalemate
PITTSBURGH, (A5)—The 170
member wage-policy committee of
the CIO United Steeworkers
meets in Pittsburgh Motiday to
decide on the union’s future
course in the 45-day-old stale
mated strike that has idled a
million and a half American wage
earners. •
USW president Philip Murray
called the policy committee meet
ing after a brief negotiating ses
sion with the industry ended in
a deadlock Tuesday.
Murray and Joseph M. Larkin,
vice-president of Bethlehem Steel
Corp., issued a joint statement
saying both sides agree they can
find no common meeting ground
on the controversial union shop
issue. There was no indication
when another meeting \frould be
held.
Some observers said the next
move in the crippling strike is
likely to come from the White
House. Presidential assistant John
R. Steelman spent a long time on
the telephone talking to both
union and industry to set up yes
terday’s session. j
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
(By the Associated Press)
National League
Boston 10—Chicago 3
New York 6—St. Louis 3
Philadelphia 10—Pittsburgh 3
American League
Washington 8-9—Detroit 2-8
Philadelphia 7-11—St. Louis 6-3
Cleveland 7—New York 3
Boston 7—Chicago 5
Pacific Coast League
Portland 4-0—Los Angeles 1-8
Hollywood 3—San Diego 2
San Francisco 2—Sacramento 1
Seattle 12—Oakland 7
0
Sailing of Old Vic
Marks Resumption
Of Alaska Service
SEATTLE, (yP)—Alaska Steam
ship Co. v service to Alaska was
resumed last night.
The Victoria left Seattle for
Seward with about 1,600 tons of
general cargo.
The passenger-cargo ship Den
ali was due to sail this afternoon
for Ketchikan, Sitka, Kodiak, Se
ward and Cordova.
Following settlement of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific
strike, the possibility of difficuties
with the Masters, Mates and Pilots
was ironed out satisfactorily.
A union spokeman said the
MMP union voted to continue
work under an agreement that
runs out July 27.
Capt. Charles F. May of San
Francisco, president of the union,
said:
“Alaska Steam has assured us
in writing that they still are rep
resented by the Pacific Maritime
Association. (The Alaska Line
broke away from the PMA, how
ever, to reach an individual agree
ment in the Sailors’ dispute).
“Our union has a wage agree
ment with PMA. So, of course, we
are living up to that agreement.
When it expires July 27, I don’t
know what will happen. We may
extend it, we may open wage
negotiations or take some other
action.
At any rate, there is na threat
of any strike by Local 90 at the
present time.”
Chicagoan Is Elected
President of International
Olympic Committee
HELSINKI, (/P)—Avery Brund
age of Chicago was elected presi
dent of the International Olympic
Committee today.
Brundage, who has been vice
president, and Lord David Burgh
ley of Great Britain had been the
two men mentioned as presiden
tial candidates.
The election was the major or
der of business. The question of
whether the I.O.C. will recognize
Communist China or Nationalist
China was put over until Thurs
day.
Ironically enough, most of the
support for Lord Burghley came
from the Iron Curtain countries
who seemed apposed to the idea
of an American heading the Ol
ympic organization.
Navy Tug Goes Aground
On Kodiak Island While
Salvaging Fishing Boat
KODIAK, >(JP) — The sea-going
navy tug Mohopac fell victim to
the heavy seas today when it was
driven aground while attempting
to salvage the fishing boat Wiz
ard.
The 143-foot naval vessel, the
hero of many Alaska water res
cues, went aground 35 miles from
the Kodiak Navy station. Two
men were injured in the accident.
They and 28 other men reached
the beach in life boats.
A 17 - man skeleton crew re
mains aboard the Mohopac and
rescue vessels are standing by to
give assistance and free the vessel
if possible. /
Death Toll Stands
At 4, 8 Hospitalized
Pioneer Hotel Fire
FAIRBANKS, UP)—The known
death toll stood at four today as
firemen and military volunteers
continued to probe through the
ashes of the old Pioneer hotel,
which was leveled by fire early
Monday.
Three bodies were recovered
from the ruins Tuesday and one
man died of bums in the hospital
Monday. He was Bob Vanderpool,
an Alaska freight Lines employe.
Two of the bodies found yester- *
day were tentatively identified as
those of Mr. -and Mrs. Ralph J.
Steiner of Point Barrow, Alaska.
Fire Chief E. B. Wilcox said he
believed the third body was that
of Edna Richardson, Fairbanks.
Police Chief Floyd Clower still
listed five persons as missing and
eight were in hospitals.
Chief Clower said that one of
the five persons listed as missing,
Mrs. Carolyn Kimble, 42-year-old
school teacher from Bakersfield,
Calif., has been given up as dead.
Alaska Highway Engineer
Frank Metcalf Braves
Flames to Rescue Dentures
FAIRBANKS, (&) — Territorial
Highway Engineer Frank Metcalf
was among the guests who fled
from the flaming Pioneer Hotel
early Monday and he did it after
returning to his room for his false
teeth and glasses.
Metcalf said he could heAr the
crackle of the flames as he started
down the hall from his room.
Suddenly he realized he didn’t
have either of the essential per
sonal it^ms. So, flames or no
flames, he returned to his room
to get them.
When he finally got to the
street he found he had only one
shoe on. He lost all his clothing
and luggage.
Highway patrolmen here passed
the hat and presented him with
emergency clothing.
Break In Deadlock Over
Prisoner Exchange
May Be In Offing
MUNSAN, (/P) — The Commun
ists Wednesday obtained a two
day extension of a recess in secret
armistice talks shortly after the
Peiping Red radio broadcast an
announcement that could lead to
a break in the deadlock over pri
soners.
The broadcast said Foreign
Minister Chou En-Lai announced
Communist China adhered—with
certain reservations—to the Gen
eva Convention of Aug. 12, 1949,
dealing with war prisoners.
The broadcast seemecj to sug
gest that the Communists might
agree to transfer of Red war pri
soners who refuse to go home, to
a mutually agreeable third pro
tective power or a substitute or
ganization such as the all-Swiss
International Committee of the
Red Cross.
The belief persisted here that
the Reds were studying a possible
new United Nations statement or
! proposal that may have cropped
up during the current secret ses
sions which began July 4. Red
delegates have called other re
cesses for such a purpose.