OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_'
VOL. LIII No. 68 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1951 Per Copy-45^
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Secretary Marshall i
In Surprise Visit
Korea War Front
(By the Associated Pressi
U. S. Secretary of Defense i
George C. Marshall flew into
Tokyo today after a surprise visit
to the Korean war front with
supreme commander Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway.
Marshall’s unexpected visit —
his first since the Korean fight
ing began—led to speculation that
he might be carrying new orders
to Ridgway, but Marshall denied
this. He said the purpose of his
visit was “purely military.”
Both Marshall and Ridgway
toured the front with Lt. Gen.
James A. Van Fleet, commander
of U. S. ground forces. Marshall
said the Allied troops were “in
wonderful shape.” Ridgway said
the war “is going fine.”
They made their battlefront
visit as big Allied guns fought a
long range artillery duel with
Chinese batteries in front of Chor
won, key to the Communists’
stoutly defended iron triangle.
The Chinese made a desperate
effort to stem the Allied advance
on their triangular storehouse. ]
They opened 14 floodgates of j
Chorwon dam and a two-foot wall
of water swept down the Han tan
river. It failed to knock out Al
lied bridges and was virtually in
effective.
Baruch Says Removal Of
Price Controls Would Be
Mortal Blow To Defense
WASHINGTON, UP) — Bernard
Baruch said yesterday that “re
moval of price, wage, rent and
other mobilization controls would
be a tragic, perhaps mortal blow”
to the nation’s effort to rebuild
its defenses.
In a letter to Senator Moody
<D-Mich>, the New York financier
and elder statesman said the issue
before the nation is simple—“It
is a question of which is to be
put first, the national interest or'
the selfish interest.”
“It is not how little in the way
of economic controls we stagger
along with, but of how much we j
are willing to give up in the de
fense of our liberties,” he added.
Moody is a member of the Sen
ate Banking Commitee which is
considering extension and expan
sion of controls in the Defense
Production Act. The present law
expires June 30.
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Enemy Casualties Korea
Revised to 1,115,111
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
Army estimated total enemy cas
ualties in Korea through June 2
at 1,115,111. j
A spokesman said this was an
adjusted figure removing some
errors and miscalculations since!
last week, when the estimate was
placed at 1,133,410.
U. S. Tin Planning Operate
Year Around at Lost River
Paul Sorenson, new superin
tendent of the U. S. Tin Mines,
who will be in charge of opera
tions this summer at Lost River,
arrived with Pan American en
route to Teller. He was accom
panied by W. E. Tibbets, who
will be mill superintendent.
Mr. Sorenson, who has operated
the Hirst-Chichagof Mine at Ju
neau, states that until the price of
gold makes it possible to mine
gold again, his mine will remain
closed.
He stated that U. S. Tin is
planning to operate the year
around at Lost River and when
they get into operation will be
handling about a hundred tons of
ore a day. This will be increased
next year, however.
The mill left Seattle today on
the first boat for Nome, he ad
vised.
80 Burn To Death
Rio Train Accident
RIO DE JANEIRO, (/P)—A jam
med commuter train hit a stalled
gasoline truck near here yester
day and a spokesman for the rail
road said at least 80 persons—
and perhaps as many as 100—
burned to death in flaming gaso
line. Fifty other persons were
hurt.
The spokesman for the lino —
the government’s Railway Central
of Brazil—said the blazing gas
sprayed the first passenger car
as the engine hit the truck. Then
the engineer, trying frantically to
halt his train, stopped so th^t the
last car was in the middle of the
burning wreckage of the truck.
All the deaths occurred in the
first and last cars.
House Committee
Approves Increase
In Income Taxes
WASHINGTON, (TP) — A 12 Vi
per cent increase in individual
income taxes and a boost of five
percentage points in corporate tax
rates won final approval yester
day from the House Ways and
Means Committee.
Moving ahead at a faster clip
on the proposed $7,100,000,000 tax
increase bill the committee also
approved an overall ceiling of 90
per cent on the amount of an in
dividual's income the government
could take in taxes, and a 70
per cent top on a corporation’s
earnings.
A proposal to broaden the base
for the excess profits tax re
mained to be voted upon later.
Also subject to final ratifica
tion are a billion dollars in pro
posed additional excise taxes on
such articles as liquor, cigarettes,
automobiles, gasoline and certain
electrical appliances.
Statehood Critic
Supports Cost-Of- '
Living Allowances
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
Butler CR-Neb) said yesterday that
elimination of cost-of-living pay
ments to government employes
hired in Alaska would be “short
sighted and undesirable.’’
He urged the Senate to remove
from the Agriculture Department
appropriation bill a ban on such
payments to Alaskans who be
come government employes. The
bill would continue cost-of-living
payments to employes hired in
continental United States for serv
ice in the territories.
The House-passed provision ap
plies to* all territories, but Butler
directed his remarks specifically
to the Alaska problem.
Butler, an opponent of state
hood for Alaska, added, however,
that if statehood should be granted
Alaska, “It would probably not
be practical to continue to pay
this extra differential.’’
Two Prominent
British Diplomats
Missing Since May
LONDON, (/P) — Two British
foreign service officials—one the
head of the American department
—have disappeared amid specula
: tion they might have gone behind
the Iron Curtain.
The Foreign Office announced
the two men have been missing
from their home since May 25.
The two are D. D. MacLean, 38,
head of the American Department
| of the Foreign Office, and G. F.
Burgess, 40, who returned here
on leave last month from his post
! as second secretary of the British
embassy in Washington.
As head of the American De
partment, MacLean would have a
complete and thorough knowledge
of top Anglo-American diplomatic
secrets. Burgess, having served in
Britain’s Washington embassy,
would be in a similar position.
The London Daily Express said
the two men told a friend they
planned to go ito Moscow to
“serve their idealistic purposes.”
The London Daily Herald said
M.I.5—Britain’s ultra-secret mili
tary counter-espionage arm — was
hunting the two.
Assessment Work Will Probably
Have To Be Done This Year
According to word received from
Delegate Bartlett, there is very
little likelihood that Congress will
pass the moritorium on assessment
work on mining claims in Alaska
this year. Thus, according to the
law, assessment work on all un
pa tented mining claims must be
completed by July 1st, and proof
of such assessment work recorded
at the Commissioner’s office.
ACS Officers On Tour
Alaska installations
Major E. G. Kline, executive
officer from the Seattle office of
the ACS, accompanied by Capt.
Svend Hansen, staff officer from
Seattle, and Capt. Robert L. Gab
ardy arrived yesterday on a tour
of Alaskan installations.
Major Charles Dunnell, sector
commander of ACS from Fair
banks, was also with the party
which made a tour, of all branches
of the work being done in this
area, with the new officer in
charge here, Capt. Pershing Tous
ley.
They plan to cover as many of
the outlying communication points
serviced by ACS as possible on
this trip, including the Aleutian
chain.
Alaska Nat. Guard
Train at Ft. Lewis
FORT LEWIS, Wash., (/P) — A
contingent of the Alaska National
Guard will train with the 41st In
fantry Division during its summer
encampment at Fort .Lewis, Col.
Robert W. Forbes, assistant ad
jutant general of the Washington
State National Guard announced
yesterday.
A party of 20 officers and non
commissioned officers of the nor
thern territory is scheduled to ar
rive by plane Saturday in Seattle
for the 15-day training session.
The group will be attached to
the 161st Infantry Regiment, Col.
Forbes said. The annual summer
encampment of the National Guard
and organized reserve corps will
begin Saturday and end June 23.
According to advices in Nome
none of the Nome group are being
included in the training session.
Report Increased
Soviet Activity On
Iranian Border
TEHRAN, Iran, (/P) — U. S.
ambassador Henry F. Grady said
yesterday intelligence reports in
dicated increased Soviet military
activity along Iran’s northern
frontier. But he added he saw
“nothing particularly significant”
in the reports.
Authoritative government of
ficials confirmed published re
ports that unusually large Russian
military concentrations had been
seen on the northern frontier and
that Soviet battle exercises are
continuing in that area.
Grady made his statement at
a news conference when queried
about the reports. He said U. S.
intelligence knows that there has
been some increase in Russian de
fensive fortifications, but nothing
further. Other sources said the
Soviets have installed a giant field
gun opposite an Iranian guard
post along the Azerbaijan frontier.
To Establish
Weather Station
On Arctic Ice Floe
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Weather
men stationed on a floating island
of ice somewhere in 'the Arctic
will provide the Air Force with
some of the tactical information it
needs.
The project was announced yes
terday by Maj. Gen. William D.
Old, commanding general of the
Alaska Air Command.
Old said a small, semi-perman
ent weather station will be set
up in the near future to gather
information affecting weather,
communications and scientific re
search.
A blizzard forced the Air Force
to abandon an experimental sta
tion on the ice pack last March.
The blizzard broke up pack ice
and endangered a landing party.
The ice island where the new
station will be established was
described as a gigantic platform of
slowly moving ice differing in size
and texture from the usual ice
floes.
U. S. Demands Punishment
|Two Red Soldiers Who
Killed G. I. In Vienna
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
United States has demanded that
Russia punish two Red Army sol
diers who shot and killed Ameri
can Corporal Paul J. Gresens in
Vienna on May 4.
A note delivered in Moscow by
Ambassador Alan G. Kirk and
made public Wednesday by the
State Department also called on
1 the Soviets to pay indemnity to
Gresens’ family.
The U.S. note charged that Gre
sens was shot down “without pro
vocation” while he was serving as
a military policeman in the Vien
na International Zone and blamed
the Soviet high commissioner and
other occupation officials for re
fusing to join in an investigation.
Gresens and another American
MP, were on patrol early May 4?
when they sought to “establish
identity and status of two armed
Soviet soldiers behaving suspic
iously,” Moscow was told. The
Russians then “opened fire with
out provocation” and killed Gres
ens, the note said.
Stops Communist Bullet
With His Tongue
TOKYO, (JP) — Pfc. Eugene T.
Lucas, Edwardsville, Pa., stopped
a bullet with his tongue.
Lucas was driving an anti-air
craft truck with the U. S. 7th In
fantry Division in Korea. An en
emy bullet went through the wind
shield, richocheted from a metal
bracket, creased Lucas* lip, chip
ped two front teeth* and pushed
up against his tongue.
Lucas shook his head and spat
out the bullet.
■ Annual Sale of Flowers and Vegetables
. by Home Arts Club
For Benefit of Children’s Playfield
■ N. C. Store Saturday, June 9