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VOL. LIII No. 119 NOME, ALASKA* MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1951 _Per Copy—15(f
Reds Propose New
Cease-Fire Talks
At Panmunjom
TOKYO, (/P)—Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway tonight accepted in prin
ciple the communist proposal that
Korean cease - fire talks begin
anew near Panmunjom.
The Supreme Allied Command
er said a site in the “immediate
vicinity” of th-at Red outpost, six
miles southeast of Kaesong, would
meet the “fundamental condition
of equality of movement and con
trol.”
Ridgway answered a Red note
received Sunday. In it the Reds
proposed:
1. The truce talks be shifted to
Panmunjom.
2. The Kaesong five-mile neu
tral zone be extended to include
Munsan, site - of the U.N. Com
mand advance headquarters, about
15 miles away.
3. Both sides to assume respon
sibility for controlling the con
ference site—in effect to establish
joint armed control.
U.S. Infantrymen
Drive Reds From
Heartbreak Ridge
EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, (IP)—A thin line of dog
tired American infantrymen today
edged toward the top of the last
Red-held peak on craggy Heart
break Ridge in Eastern Korea.
Last reports put them within
200 yards of the summit. Com
munist grenades and machinegun
fire poured down from Red bunk
ers above as the troops of the
U.S. Second Division’s 23rd Regi
ment fought forward foot by foot
and bunker by bunker.
Across the war tom peninsula,
on the western front, British and
American infantrymen ground
slowly forward on both sides of
the upper Imji river against bit
ter resisting Reds.
The Allied advance Sunday was
made behind one of the heaviest
artillery barrages of the war. A
pooled dispatch said the U. N.’s
guns fired 220,683 rounds in 12
hours.
Fifth Air Force pilots said they
spotted 1,800 Red vehicles and
destroyed 125. Two trains were
attacked but results were not ob
served.
Sourdoughs In San Diego
Greeted by Hottest
Day Of 1951 — 91
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (/P)—Yes
terday was the day Alaska sour
doughs living here got together
for their annual yarn swapping.
Know what happened? The sun
beat and beat down and the ther
mometer went up and up, until it
reached 91. That made it the hot
test day of the year.
Luther Oppenheimer, 85, re
called that it was warm, com
paratively, in Skagway in Jan
uary of 1898. “Wasn’t any snow,”
he said. “But there was plenty
the next April.”
The previous 1951 high here
was 87, registered in July and
again in September.
Princess Elizabeth and
Duke of Edinburgh In
Canada on First Visit
MONTREAL, (JP) — Princess
Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin
burgh, came to Canada in a trans
Atlantic plane today for their first j
visit to1 the North American con
tinent.
The royal couple stepped from
the plane at Dorval airport, 16
miles outside Montreal, shortly:
before noon. They were 19 min
i
utes ahead of schedule.
As the 60-ton American-builtj
Strato-cruiser “Camopus” rum
bled into view overhead, thou
sands of Canadians massed at the
airport cheered lustily.
The governor general, Viscount
Alexander, was on hand to wel
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come them.
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Stassen Quotes -
Vandenberg Diary
China Controversy
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Harold E.
Stassen contended today the rec
ord makes it plain the State De
partment played a part in under
mining the Chinese Nationalists,
and contradicts denials by Secre
tary Acheson and Ambassador
Philip C. Jessup.
Testifying before a Senate For
eign Relations subcommittee, Stas
sen said:
“The denials by the State De
partment of things which I know
are true, the claims by the State
Department of things which I
know are not true, leave me very
uneasy and disturbed with regard
to our country’s future policy.”
The Senate group is consider
ing Jessup’s nomination to be a
delegate to the coming United
Sations general assembly meeting
in Paris. He is now an ambassa
dor-at-large, a post in which he
represents this country on many
special occasions.
Stassen said last week that the
late Senator Vandenberg OR-Mich)
told him that Acheson and Jessup
plugged at a secret White House
meeting in 1949 for a cut-off of
aid to Nationalist China.
As a follow-up to this testimony
excerpts from Vandenberg’s dairy
were made public in New York
last night.
At one point in the dairy, Van
denberg wrote that President Tru
man reported at a 1949 White
House meeting that he had a re
commendation from the National
Security Council that US. aid to
Nationalist China be stopped.
Denies President Truman
Will Witness Next Atomic
Tests At Las Vegas, Nev.
WASHINGTON, (^—Presiden
tial Secretary Joseph Short said
today he knew of no plans for
President Truman to witness the
next atomic tests at Las Vegas,
Nevada.
That was his response to ques
tions about a published report that
Mr. Truman might visit Las Vegas
for a first-hand study of troop
maneuvers in connection with the
tests.
Short said he “never heard any
thing of that,” but promised to
make further inquiries.
New Air Force
Radio Station Goes
On Air Next Week
Due to the interest and demand
for AFRS radio programs, new
facilities are nearing completion
at Marks Air Force Base.
New studios, a powerful trans
mitter and appropriate antenna
are being put into use to carry
“the voice of information and ed
ucation” to thousands of people
who have been unable to hear the
station in the past.
The long-awaited new AFRS
station will operate on 1402 kilo
cycles and is expected to take the
air some time at the end of the
week. The station will go off the
air probably at the end of the
Tuesday evening boadcast.
The hours of the new station
are planned to start at 6:00 a.m.
and continue untitl 1:00 a.m., with
newscasts scheduled for every two'
hours.
For the convenience of the pub
lic, the Nugget will continue to
publish the daily program sched
ule.
War-Hero Spurrier
AWOL Sinee April
CHARLESTON, W. Va., (/P) —
The world looked a little brighter
to war-hero Junior J. Spurrier
today. Horse stealing and traffic
charges against him were dropped
—but there was still the army
to face.
The civilian charges followed u
party in the 29-year-old Congres
sional Medal of Honor winner’s
home town of Bluefield, W.Va.
Police arrested Spurrier and
two of his companions early
Thursday after a wild automobile
chsae. He was left on -a country
road while officers took his
friends to jail.
When they returned for Spur
rier, he was gone. Police said they
found him next day asleep on the
porch of a house near Bluefield.
He rode there bareback on a
horse that happened by.
Its owner filed the horse theft
charges, which were later with
drawn.
The Army at Fort Lawton,
Wash., says Spurrier has been
missing from there since April.
U.S. Navy, Already The
World’s Largest, Adding
180 Ships To The Fleet
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
United States Navy, already the
world’s biggest, is building about
180 more ships for the fleet, rang
ing from a huge carrier to radic
ally new design destroyers and
submarines.
A survey of available records
showed, among other things that
13 submarines are being built, not
counting the experimental atomic
powered undersea boat recently
authorized by Congress.
There are about 4’50 combat
ships in the operating fleet now.
Much of the buildup of the op
erating fleet has come from pull
ing laid-up ships from the moth
ball fleet, although some of the
expansion includes new carriers,
destroyers and other major com
bat craft.
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YANKEES EVEN SERIES
AT TWO GAMES BY
BEATING GIANTS 6-2
(By the Associated Press*
The New York Yankees evened
up the World Series today at two
games apiece, defeating the Giants
by the score of 6 to 2.
Tomorrow’s game, the fifth in
the series will be played in the
Giant’s Polo Grounds. Then the
sixth, and if necessary the sev
enth game will be played in the
Yankee Stadium.
FOOTBALL SCORES
(By the Associated Press)
Southern Cal 20—Washington 13
California 55—Minnesota 14
Oregon State 34—Idaho 6
College of Pacific 34—Oregon 6
Denver 55—Montana 0
Utah 7—Brigham Young 6
T T T
Brown 14—Yale 13
Columbia 35—Harvard 0
Holy Cross 54—Fordham 20
Princeton 24—Navy 20
Cornell 41—Colgate 18
Penn 39—Dartmouth 14
Villanova 20—Pen State 7
Carnegie Tech 47—Bethany 20
* * *
Stanford 23—Michigan 13
Michigan State 24—Ohio State 20
Northwestern 20—Army 14
Purdue 34—Iowa 30
Indiana 13—Pitt 6
Kansas State 6—Nebraska 6
Illinois 14—Wisconsin 10
Colorado 35—Kansas 27
* * *
Vanderbilt 22—Alabama 20
Wake Forrest 56—Richmond 6
Mississippi State 6—Georgia 0
V.M.I. 20—William & Mary 7
Tennessee 26—Duke 0
Georgia Tech 13—Kentucky 7
* * *
Texas 45—North Carolina 20
Baylor 27—Tulane 14
Red Ship Fires On
Navy Patrol Plane
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A war
ship flying a Red flag fired on
a Navy patrol plane making a
routine daily flight over the Yel
low Sea off the China coast last
Thursday, the Navy reported to
day. The incident occurred about
50 miles southeast of the big Chi
nese port of Tsingtao.
A Navy spokesman told a Penta
gon news briefing the craft was
a destroyer escort, which could
have been one of the American
vessels given to the Chinese Na
tionalists and later taken over by
the Chinese communists.
The plane, circling the ship
twice, did not attack. When it was
at a distance of about 6,000 yards
and at a 300-foot altitude, the
vessel fired, apparently using
three-inch guns. None of the shells
hit the plane.
In 5th Day of 2nd Life
LONG BEACH, Calif., (JP) —
Melvin Hewitt, 28, is going into
the fifth day of his “second life”
today, but he doesn’t know it.
Hewitt has not regained con
sciousness since doctors cut into
his chest and massaged his heart
back to life early Thursday. He
was rushed to pn El Monte hos
pital after falling and hitting his
head outside a tavern. At the time
of the operation, the doctors said
he had been dead 15 minutes.
Yanks In New Role
In World Series —
Struggle Keep Up
NEW YORK, Oct. 8, (/P) — Joe
DiMaggio, batting cleanup, hasn’t
had a hit in 11 times at bat in
the first three games of this WoTld
Series. Hank Bauer is 0-for-10.
Yogi Berra the dumpy siege gun,
is hitting an anemic .200—a pair
of singles. Buzby Brown is batting
.143 while Gene Woodling is going
at a .125 clip.
It’s an unfamiliar role for the
vaunted Yankees, who have won
13 of the 17 world championships
series in which they’ve played.
They’ve left 21 on base.
“The Giants have made a lot
of mistakes and we’ve had plenty
of chances to score,” Stengel said,
“but we’re just not getting the
hits.”
Stengel, who has shuffled his
order slightly but made no drastic
changes, said he would have to
stick with Berra and DiMaggio
in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots.
“Those guys won three pennants
and two World Series for me,” he
said. “You don’t pull out fellows
, like that.”
World Series Notes
By RIP WATSON
NEW YORK, Oct. 8, (A5)—There
was no public announcement of
yesterday’s World Series post
ponement, but word spread quick
ly among the fans who had been
waiting in the rain to get bleacher
and standing room tickets for the
game.
After trying to get some pro
tection from the elements for sev
eral hours, the disappointed fans
made a rush for the sheltered sub
ways as soon as they learned of
the postponement.
Game number four is to be
played today.
The Yankees find themselves
in a very unfamiliar position to
! day. Although they’ve been in
four World Series since 1942, this
is the first time since then they’ve
been behind in the games won and
lost column.
Reminded by a teammate that
the five runs scored by the Giants
in the fifth inning Saturday all
were scored as unearned, victim
Vic Raschi came back gloomily,
“They all count, don’t they ”
Would Allow RFC Build
Newsprint Plants in South
WASHINGTON, (JP) — More
newsprint mills, particularly in
the south, may be an answer to
shortages, says Rep. Roberts (D
Ala).
Roberts was a member of the
House Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee which recently
concluded a study of newsprint
problems in this country and Can
ada.
“We now get four-fifths of our
newsprint from Canada,” he told
a reporter today, “and it is a bad
thing when we must absolutely
depend on Canada for that much
of our supply.”
Roberts introduced legislation to
allow the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to lend up to 50 per
cent of the cost in building new
newsprint plants.