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VOL. LIII No. 142 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1951 Per Copy—15g
Unofficial Lull Occurs In Korea
War Due To Misinterpretation Of
“Certain Military Instruetions”
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Gen.<
Matthew B. Ridgway, asked for
“clarification” of the stop-shooting
situation in Korea yesterday, ad
vised the Pentagon only that re
ports of a “cease-fire order are
without foundation.”
A Defense Department spokes
man said there was little else in
Ridgway’s message except the
statement that “the press has
been so' informed,” and a quota
tion of the announcement from
Ridgway’s headquarters Wednes
day that “no such order” had
been issued.
The spokesman was asked if
Ridgway had mentioned the
statement by Gen. James A. Van
Fleet, 8th Army commander, that
a directive he issued had been
“misinterpreted” by troops. The
spokesman said Ridgway’s brief
reply made no reference to that.
Allied Artillery Gets
' Orders “Shoot to Kill"
SEOUL, Korea, (;P)—Allied ar
tillery opened up on the western
front Thursday after officers re
ported receiving new order to
“shoot to kill.”
The front line report came
shortly after Gen. Van Fleet an
nounced his Eighth Army cam
mand has issue “certain military
instructions” which some troops
may have interpreted as a cease
fire order.
He said any such “misinter
Accuses M’Arthur
: Withholding
Information
BOSTON, (/P) —The Christian
Science Monitor says there is
“strong evidence” General Mac
Arthur withheld from the White
House information about possible
Chinese intervention in Korea.
The statement is contained in
a story by Gordon Walker, assist
0 ant foreign editor of the Monitor
and former war correspondent at
tached to General MacArthur’s
command in the Pacific and
Tokyo.
In New York, a spokesman for
Gen. MacArthur said no comment
would be made until the state
ments were studied.
Gen. Charles A. Willoughby,
former chief intelligence officer
4 for MacArthur, terms the state
ment “deliberately false, whether
in the Christian Science Monitor
* or the Police Gazette.”
Walker’s story also says “front
line commanders ordered their
troops into battle without prior
/* knowledge that they faced over
whelming odds—odds as high as
three or four to one.”
According to Walker, informa
tion about Chinese intervention
reached Tokyo in mid-September,
two months before the late No
vember start of the ill-fated Yalu
river offensive.
* “War correspondents in Tokyo
who sought to establish the fact
were officially discouraged by
headquarters from writing about
it,” Walker declares.
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pretation” would be corrected.
An official Eighth Army
spokesman said the original—and
still secret — directive remained
“completely unchanged.” Any
changes showing up on the front,
he said, were the result of clari
fications ordered by General Van
Fleet.
The spokesman’s comment ap
parently applied to the “shoot to
kill” orders reported received by
artillery officers of the Third Di
vision. Artillerymen said appar
ently their new instructions did
not apply to the infantry.
Front line troops were reported
confused by the big guns open
i ing up on the front where the
day before they had watched
Chinese Reds play volley ball.
A Third Division briefing of
ficer said reconnaissance patrols
went on scouting missions as
usual, but with the understand
ing they would not look for
trouble.
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Tax Investigators Ask
More Time Study Justice
Department Files
WASHINGTON, (TP) — House
tax investigators unexpectedly
recessed their hearings today un
j til Monday to allow more time to
examine Justice Department files
—including any that may throw
light on rumors of an attempted
! “fix” in a New York tax fraud
case.
The recess was ordered as a
House Ways and Means subcom
mittee was scheduled to4 resume
its fifth consecutive day of in
quiry into the activities of T.
Lamar Caudle, ousted Assistant
Attorney General and former
chief tax prosecutor.
Earlier, Chairman King (D
Calif) had scored failing memories
of Justice Department officials
testifying in the New York case.
King called Attorney General
McGrath’s attention to what he
said was “apparently irregular
activity on the part of the De
partment of Justice.”
William Cook, Kidnaper
Slayer of Six To Die In
California Gas Chamber
EL CENTRO, Calif., (/P)—The
criminal savagery of William
Edward Cook, a 23-year-old pint
sized desperado who kidnapped
nine persons and killed six of
them, has been halted by Cali
fornia justice.
Cook, product of wretched en
vironment in a bleak and deso
late abandoned mining section
near Joplin, Mo., was sentenced
Wednesday to death in San Quen
tin gas chamber for the murder
of a Seattle oil salesman, Robert
H. Dewey.
The five-foot, four-inch self
styled badman already was un
der five sentences of 60 years
each in connection with the kid
nap-murders of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Mosser and their three chil
dren of Atwoad, 111. The sen
tences were to be served con
secutively.
Millionth Traffic
Fatality Expected
On December 21
CHICAGO, (/P)—'The one mil
lionth traffic death in the U.S.
probably will ,be recorded on
Dec. 21.
The National Safety Council
said today that its estimates in
dicate “M Day” will fall on that
date.
The Council reported that its
tally for October, plus special
weekly reports for November
from state accident record bu
reaus, had raised the grand total
through yesterday to approxi
mately 997,300.
That leaves just 2,700 lives to
be lost before victim No. one
million is counted.
Walks Barefooted
Through 14 Miles
Of Snow For Help
CLE ELUM, Wash., (/P) — A
young minister who walked bare
footed 14 miles through snow and
water to summon help after a
Cascades plane crash, called an
other man -a hero today.
The Rev. Harold W. Borahuer,
:29, a Presbyterian minister from
Wilbur, Wash., said skillful pilot
ing by Paul Gcmberling, 34, Spo
kane contractor, probably saved
the three occupants of their
plane when it crashed in the
mountain wilds late Wednesday.
Half-frozen and with his feet
badly cut and bruised, the Rev.
Borahuer stumbled into a logging
camp near Easton late yesterday.
He had lost his shoes after he
left the plane and his stockings
woTe out as he dragged himself
across the rugged terrain in
search of help.
Rescue parties came out of the
Cascade wilderness late last night
with Gemberling and the other
passenger, Harold Lanphere, who
were both badly injured. Rev.
Borhauer had left them behind
on the trail because of their in
juries while he stumbled through
deep snow and icy streams to find
help.
Fairbanks Liquor
Stores Give Beer
Away In Price War
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — A mer
chants’ war drove the price of
beer to zero here yesterday and
one dealer even delivered it—all
for free.
It started when one dealer
slashed his prices from $6 to $3.75
a case last week. A competitor
cut to $3.35, scarcely what it
costs to ship the beverage from
the States to Alaska plus taxes.
Last night, the Southside Liq
uor Market started giving it
away. Hundreds of the thirsty
lined up outside the market. The
proprietor, noting that many
couldn’t get in, started delivering
it to downtown points.
The milling mob finally neces
sitated police action to break up
the traffic jam. But beer was still
free and one market owner said
he was going to make it even
cheaper—he didn’t explain how.
American Jet Pilots Shoot Down
Ten Red Planes, For One-Day
Record In Intensified Aerial War
SEOUL, Korea, (^P)—American*
Sabre jet pilots won the greatest
air battle of the war today, re
porting a total haul for the day
of ten Red planes shot down,
four damaged and one probably
destroyed.
The Fifth Air Force said no
Allied planes were lost.
Nine of the Red craft shot
down were propeller - driven
bombers and fighter-bombers, the
first caught in a mass flight be
yond the Manchurian border.
Near the close of a blazing day
of aerial warfare, 31 U.S. F-86
Sabre jets spotted 16 MIG-15 jets
flying top cover on 30 propeller
driven Russian-type planes.
The Sabres dove directly into
the flight of 12 TU-2 twin en
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Disarmament
Talks By Big
Four Started
PARIS, UP) — The United Na
tions Political Committee voted
unanimously today to' suspend
debate on rival East - West dis
armament plans pending efforts
by the Big Four to seek agree
ment in secret talks.
The discussions among Britain,
France, the Soviet Union and the
United States are expected to get
under way immediately behind
closed doors. The committee ask
ed them to report back on their
progress by Dec. 10.
Under the terms of a resolution
submitted by Iraq, Pakistan and
Syria, the Big Four, plus Assem
bly President Padilla Nervo of
Mexico, constitute a subcommit
tee. They were instructed to try
to reconcile rival disarmament
plans put forward by Russia on
one side and by the western pow
ers on the other.
U.S. delegate' Philip C. Jessup
said this was a hopeful develop
ment, but commented that the
belligerent tone of Vishinsky’s ac
ceptance speech indicated the task
ahead would be difficult. Similar
views were expressed by spokes
men for France and Britain.
Vishinsky prefaced his accept
ance with a blistering attack on
previous speeches by Jessup and
others and a castigation of the
Western disarmament plan.
Kefauver To Appear On
California Primary As
Candidate for President
LONG BEACH, Calif., (/P) —
Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn)
says he has “given permission”
for the placing of his name on
the primary election ballot as a
candidate for President.
He told newsmen Wednesday
night that “while I am not a
candidate and am not running for
any office except the United
States Senate in 1954, I am not
evading the opportunity of run
ning for President.”
Kefauver, head of a recent
congressional investigation of
crime in the United States, said
he had discussed the matter with
a group supporting his candidacy.
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gine bombers and 18 LA-9 single
engine fighter - bombers. Then
they swooped up and cut the
flight of MIGs in half and dove
down again to finish off the slow
er conventional craft. It was one
long, deadly sweep. The result
was ten Reds shot down — and
three damaged.
The total for four days of air
battle mounted to 18 Red jet
planes reported destroyed, one
probably and 13 damaged, against
one U.S. plane shot down and
three damaged.
Long convoys of Red trucks
were spotted last night racing to
ward the quiet forward lines with
i their lights blazing.
Flare-dropping Allied planes
counted at least 9,200 of them.
The figure is nearly double the
previous high of 5,150.
Infantry action maintained the
j same quiet tempo that has marked
| the front since truce negotiators
: agreed Tuesday on a tentative
cease-fire line. Artillery fire in
creased after Gen. James A. Van
Fleet, U. N. ground commander,
announced Thursday he was clar
ifying a directive which some
troops may have misinterpreted
as a cease-fire order.
I Allies Insist Will
Not Modify Cease
Fire Conditions
MUNSAN, Korea, <£>) —Allied
truce negotiators today flatly re
fused even to discuss the with
drawal of troops from Ko/ea un
til an armistice is signed.
They also made it clear the
U.N. command will not modify its
demand for *(1) joint inspection,
teams behind the battle lines and
(2) an ironclad ban on strength
ening front line troops.
“We are going to insist upon •
those principles,” Vice Adm. C.
Turner Joy, chief U.N. negotiator,
told the Reds. “We are not going
' to agree to immediate withdraw
al of U.N. command forces from
Korea. Is that clear? The sooner
it is clear, the sooner we will
begin to make profitable use of
the time of this conference.”
Wage Scale Negotiations
For Building Trades In
Alaska Be Held Dec. 10
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Negotia
tions between various union rep
resentatives and the Associated
General Contractors have broken
up here and are to be resumed
in Seattle Dec. 10.
The negotiations, designed to
set up a wage scale for the build
ing industry in Alaska for the
1952 season, broke up Wednes
day after three days.
A statement issued by Larry
Moore, Alaska manager of the
AGC, after the breakup said
“Both sides agree that an equit
able solution of their problems
necessitates further study of ex
isting governmental regulations
under which the industry must
determine wage polcies.”