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VOL. LIV No. 51. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1952 Per Copy—15«
Ridgway Succeeds
Eisenhower In
NATO Command
WASHINGTON, (/P) — General
Matthew B. Ridgway was ap
pointed Monday to succeed Gen.
Eisenhower as supreme Allied
commander in Europe.
President Truman announced at
the same time the appointment of
Gen. Mark W. Clark to succeed
Ridgway as the U.N. commander
in Korea and commander in chief
of the U.S. armed forces in the
Far East.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther will
i continue as chief of staff to the
supreme Allied commander in Eu
rope. This is the post he has held
under Eisenhower.
The President said he was con
tinuing Gruenther as chief of staff
“in accordance with Gen. Ridg
way’s desires.”
Ridgway’s appointment and
Eisenhower’s release as supreme
* Allied commander will become
effective approximately June 1.
Gen. Clark is now commander
of Army Field Forces at Fort
Monroe, Va.
Truman said * Clark will con
tinue in the Far East “the policies
which have been so ably carried
out by Gen. Ridgway with regard
to the United Nations action in
Korea, including, if possible, the
achievement of an honorable
armistice.”
Japanese Peace Treaty
Became Effective Today,
Is Denounced By Russia
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
United States put the Japanese
peace treaty into effect Monday,
and Soviet Russia immediately de
nounced it and the accompanying
American-Japanese security pact
as “treaties for the preparation of
a new war in the Far East.”
The peace treaty, returning in
dependence to Japan after nearly
seven years of Allied occupation,
was brought into force when the
U.S. deposited its ratification at
the State Department.
This was a ceremony which in
cluded reading of a statement
from President Truman hailing
■the reborn nation as a valiant ally
in the struggle against “Commun
f ist imperialism and aggression in
the Pacific.”
Japan’s prime minister Shigeru
Yoshida declared the Japanese
people “can meet the challenge of
our times.”
Ambassador Panyushkin called
the peace pact an “illegal separate
peace treaty with Japan” con
cluded in violation of the Big
Four Moscow conference of 1945.
He added: “The conclusion of
this treaty shows how far the
United States government has
gone in its policy of converting
Japan into the United States mili
tary bridgehead in the Far East.”
SIXTH HEALTH SERVICE
NURSE IS ASSIGNED 1
TO THE TERRITORY
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Pub
x lie Health Service announced
Monday Mrs. Vera Adams of
Washington will leave this week
for Juneau to become the service’s
sixth nurse officer now assigned
to Alaska.
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Second Division Judge
To Be Named As Soon As
Atty. Gen. Is Appointed
(Special to The Nugget)
Delegate E. L. Bartlett advises
that he is confident that new
judge will be appointed just as
soon as the attorney general's post
is filled in Washington. He has
been advised that appointments of
this kind will not be made until
after the new attorney general
takes office. Bartlett states that
this should be soon and that he
will do all he possibly can to
have the judge named at the
earliest possible date.
General Testifies
Atomic Defenses
Dangerously Weak
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Long (D-La) said Saturday Lt.
Gen. Ennis Whitehead “did not go
too far” in testifying Friday that
U.S. defenses against atomic bomb
attack .are dangerously weak.
Whitehead told the Senate Pre
paredness subcommittee, “I think
that a well planned, well executed
surprise attack' on the United
States would succeed beyond the
fondest hopes of its commanders.”
The general said he believes
air-defense planners “are gambl
ing” with U.S. security, rather
than taking “calculated risks,” as
they desribe it, in delaying a
swift build-up of a full 143-wing
Air Force.
Current strength of the Air
Force is estimated by Pentagon
sources at 95 wings, not all of
which are equipped with the most
modern aircraft.
Whitehead’s testimony caused
eyebrow-raising among some sub
committee members, and Chair
man Johnson reminded him that
he was free to reserve any of his
testimony until some later closed
to-the-public meeting.
“I don’t believe the general
went too far,” Long told a report
er. “I think he performed a public
service.”
Two Palmer Boys Find
Body of Unidentified Man
PALMER, (JP)—Two boys found
the partly decomposed body of an
unknown middle-aged man in a
row of stumps near the Palmer
airport late Saturday.
A bullet wound in the forehead
and a .38 caliber revolver clutched
in one hand suggested suicide. A
coroner’s jury decided the man
had died in the fall of 1951.
All clothing was new, offering
no means of identification. There
was a surgical scar on the back
which could have come from a
lung or rib operation.
168 New Garbage Collectors
For Fort Richardson
SEATTLE, (JP) — Anchorage,
Alaska, is about to get 168 lively
new garbage collectors.
They are “weiner pigs”—under
30 pounds each—which left here
Friday aboard the Steamship
Chena. John A. Vanover shipped
the squealers to help him clean
up the Army’s garbage, for which
he holds the contract at Fort Rich
ardson.
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Here Is Slate
Of Candidates In
Tuesday Election
Tomorrow is primary election
day with some old and some new
names on the official ballot.
For Delegate there is no contest
as only two are running: Demo
crat Bob Bartlett, incumbent; and
Robert Reeve of Anchorage is the
Republican candidate.
Gerald Williams, Democrat, has
no' opposition for Attorney Gen
eral.
Four are running for the office
of Auditor. Democrats are Neil
Moore and Robert Sheldon, both
of whom have held territorial of
fices and are well known. Two
Republicans seeking the office are
Anita Garnick and Albert Goetz.
For Highway Engineer Frank
Metcalf, Democrat, and Irving
Reed, Republican.
For Second Division Senators
there are three Democrats: How
ard Lyng, for re-election; Ed An
derson, and Frank Degnan, both
of whom have served in the
House. Republicans are Charles
Jones, who has served before, and
W. W. Laws, who has served in
the House.
Candidates for the House of
Representatives include four Re
publicans: Edith Bullock, Richard
Lee, Sam Mogg, and Bert Mc
Carthy; and three Democrats: Ted
Duffield, Charles Fagerstrom, and
James Wells. Only one is seek
ing re-election, James Wells.
Any national significance in
Tuesday's balloting lies in com
parative total party voting in nor
mally Democratic Alaska. Both
sides have urged a big vote for
Reeve, Bartlett and unopposed
candidates for other offices for
what encouragement it may give
for the fall election.
There will be a lot of new
faces in thp next House session
regardless of what happens in the
primary. Only 12 of the 24 who
served in the 1951 session are
candidates for renomination.
An interesting factor is Reshuf
fling of division representation,
due to the 1950 census. The Third
Division (Anchorage-Seward-Cor
dova-Kodiak) gains at expense of
the First and Second.
In order to vote in the Alaska
primary the voter must be a citi
zen, 21 or over and a bona fide
resident of Alaska. He must have
lived in the Territory continuous
ly for one year preceding the elec
tion and must have lived in the
precinct in which he votes, con
tinuously for 30 days preceding
the election. He must be able to
read and write the English lang
uage and not be barred from
voting by any other provision of
law.
FRIDAY BASEBALL RESULTS
National League
St. Louis 6—Pittsburgh 4
Chicago 7—Cincinnati 3
American League
Cleveland 5—Chicago 4
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4—Oakland 1
Los Angeles 6—Portland 5
San Francisco 4—Sacramento 3
Water Running Over
Ice At Nenana
By BURMA ANDERSON
NENANA, April 25 — Excite
ment is beginning to mount here
since Don Clark has made recent
checks on river conditions. The
Tanana River, just above St.
Mark’s Mission, is rotten. Two
miles up the Nenana River, water
is running over the ice, and. the
ice 'eould move out at any time.
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The mouth of the Nenana River
is about a quarter of a mile from
the ice classic tripod.
Three shifts of two watchmen
per shift started their vigil at
noon April 25 to guard the clock
which will determine the official
break-up time of the Tanana
River.
Carpenter Wage
Dispute Submitted
To the WSB
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—The threat
of a territory - wide carpenter’s
strike was averted late Saturday
when it was agreed to submit the
entire 1952 wage dispute to the
Wage Stabilization Board for de
cision.
The agreement was signed be
tween the Alaska Council of Car
penters (AFT.) and the Associated
General Contractors, Alaska chap
ter, Federal Mediator Albin L.
Peterson of Seattle announced.
“It requests the WSB to make
a decision which will be binding
upon both parties relative to
wages and the effective date,”
Peterson said.
“It further provides that no
work stoppages will be caused by
either party while the case is be
fore the board.”
In submitting the dispute to the
WSB, Peterson said the question
of wages was “open at both ends.
It will be up to the Board to
decide what the 1952 wage for
carpenters in Alaska will be.”
Previously the WSB had ap
proved a 20 cent hourly across
the-board increase for six other
construction crafts.
Russians Relased 47 More
Interned Japanese Fishermen
TOKYO, {JP)—The Russians re
leased Monday 47 Japanese fish
ermen interned in the Kurile Is
lands since November.
The newspaper Yomiuri said
the fishermen, picked up for al
leged violation of international
fishing regulations, were trans
ferred from a Russian ship to a
Japanese patrol boat at sea and
then brought to Japan.
MINING COMPANY MAY
OPERATE FOUR DREDGES
HERE THIS SUMMER
Roy Earling and Jim Craw-1
ford, Alaskan heads of the U.S.
Smelting Co., are here conferring
with local manager Carl Glavino
vich, an the summer’s program
which is now getting under way.
It was stated that three, pos
sibly four dredges, would oper
ate this season. Department heads
and workmen who have been in
the states have been arriving to
do the preliminary work before
the dredging season actually gets
under way.
176 Sailors Missing
In Collision Of
Destroyer, Carrier
WASHINGTON, </P)—'The mid
Atlantic collision of a destroyer
and an aircraft carrier that weigh
ed 25 times as much as the smaller
ship left 176 American seamen
missing Monday. The Navy called
off its search for survivors but
refused to list the victims as dead.
It was in the murky darkness
of the sea, 700 miles from shore,
with waves surging to a height of
25 feet that the Hobson, a destroy
er-minesweeper, and the Wasp, an
aircraft carrier, collided Saturday
night.
All of the missing were aboard
the Hobson. The Wasp, which ap
parently suffered no casualties,
picked up 61 survivors from the
Hobson, and began limping home
to port at 8 knots an hour.
The collision was one of the
worst peacetime naval disasters
in this nation’s history.
The 1,600-ton Hobson and the
27,100-ton Wasp, both of which
had distinguished records in
World War II, were part of a
task force enroute to the Mediter
ranean.
Lawrence E. Dame, staff writer
for the Boston Herald, who was
on another ship in the task force,
wrote that two huge bites were
torn in the bow of the Wasp. The
gashes were so severe, he said,
that the Wasp had to be turned
around to travel backwards.
Dame said the Wasp “knifed
into the destroyer Hobson.” Ear
lier reports had indicated that the
Hobson crashed into the Wasp. A
Navy board of inquiry will ana
lyze all the accounts before mak
ing an official report. The scene
of the collision was about 700
miles west of the Azores and
about 1,200 miles east of Boston.
The time was shortly before mid
night, Saturday.
Reds Lose 8 MIGs Last
Week to Sabres and Allies
Lose Eight hy Ground Fire
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
SEOUL, (JP) — Communist
ground fire knocked down eight
Allied warplanes during the week
ended Friday, the Far East Air *
Forces said. That number matched
the toll of Bed MIG-15 jets shot
down in air combat by U.S. F-86
Sabre jets during the same period.
One Sabre jet was lost in the air
fighting.
In its weekly summary the Air
Force said three other Allied
planes failed to return for un
known causes. One downed plane
was Australian, the others Am
erican.
The Red toll was put at eight
MIG-15s destroyed, two probably
destroyed and eight damaged. The
damaged planes included one of
the seldom-seen “type 15” air
craft.
The U.S. Eighth Army, in its
weekly summary, said its troops
inflicted 1,832 casualties on Red
ground forces April 15-21, the
lowest figure in recent weeks.
In Washington the Army said
Red casualties for the Korean war
reached 1,666,069 April 16, an in
crease of 17,613 in two weeks.
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