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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIII No. 102 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1951 Per Copy—15^
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Dew ey Bi •aves Driving Rain To
Dedicate Wien Field At Kotzebue
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York dedicated the Ralph
Wien Memorial Air Field at Kot
zebue Sunday noon. He spoke be
fore an assembled crowd of peo
ple from all over Alaska who had
arrived for the memorable occas
sion and remained out in the open
regardless of driving rain and cold
wet winds.
A delegation from Nome ar
rived there through the courtesy
of Wien Airlines. Two special
flights from Fairbanks, Alaska
Airlines from Anchorage, CAA,
( National Guard, and other smaller
flying craft as well as several
military planes were on the field.
Well known and distinguished
Alaskans included Noel Wien,
Jack Jefford, Stan McCutcheon,
president of Alaska Airlines, Tony
Schwamm of Alaska Aviation,
Walter Plett, regional administra
tor for CAA, H. F. Harper, John
McNees, and A. Polet, of Nome,
and many others.
Preceding the dedication a
^ bountiful supper of Alaskan food
(including muktuk) was served
Governor Dewey and his party at
Wien headquarters. The women
of Kotzebue, under the direction
of Mrs. Frank Whaley, assisted in
the preparation and serving the
meal.
Just before the dedication, blan
ket tossing and Eskimo dances
were demonstrated for the many
guests in Kotzebue.
Father Carrol of Kotzebue was
master o*f ceremonies, chosen he
stated, due to the fact that his
predecessor, Father Walsh, had
been killed in the same plane
crash many years ago that took
Ralph Wien’s life.
Percy Ipalook, Kotzebue legis
lator, was i ntroduced and he
called attention to the delegations
of natives from Pt. Barrow, Pt.
Hope, Pt. Lay and other villages,
who were present for the occasion.
He attributed the unity between
these villages to the influence of
airfields and communications.
Mrs. Joe Crosson, widow of the
well-known Alaskan pilot, gave a
short talk on the progress of avia
tion. She was followed by John
McNees, secretary of the Nome
Chamber of Commerce. He ex
pressed appreciation to Governor
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Head of Coca-Cola
Company Visits
Alaska Bottlers
Mr. Holland B. Judkins, presi
dent of the Pacific Coast Coca
Cola Bottling Company with of
fices in Los Angeles, is spend
ing several days in Alaska visit
ing the five Coca-Cola bottlers in
_,v Alaska. He is accompanied by Mr.
J. D. Britton of the same com
pany. Mr. Judkins has been with
the Coca-Cola company for 24
years.
They arrived by Alaska Airlines
Thursday, Aug. 13 and during the
visit in this area were flown by
pilot Fred Chambers on a tour
of Seward Peninsula, crossed the
International Dateline and viewed
the Siberian coast as well as the
tin operations in the Wales area.
They also saw the gold dredging
A. operation as well as spending con
siderable time at the M and M
bank where the entire processing
procedure was explained.
Mr. Judkins reaffirmed the fact
that this is only his first visit to
Nome and Northwest Alaska and
that he anticipates many future
visits to this area as time permits.
They departed for Fairbanks on
PAA Friday night, where they
will spend several days before re
i< turning to Anchorage and the
States.
The first Pacific Coast confer
ence for Coca-Cola dealers is
scheduled for next October in San
Francisco, he stated, and will be
the first conference which Alaska
bottlers will attend. Local agent
i John McNees plans to attend the
conference.
TOKYO, {/P) — The Japanese
government today announced the
0 third mass pardon of former mili
tary war criminals. It was ap
proved by the occupation author
ity.
The group, slated for freedom,
totaled 21,130. It included 361
colonels and 388 navy captains.
Four Airmen Jump
From C-47 in Spin
ANCHORAGE, (£>) — Four air
men bailed out of a C-47 airplane
when it went into a spin early
yesterday. All were found safe
near Friday Creek, close to the
base of Knik Glacier.
The men were in mountainous
country too rugged for rescue
planes to land, officials at Elmen
dorf Air Force base reported.
Food and sleeping bags were drop
ped for them.
A land rescue team was to be
landed on a sand bar in Friday
Creek some four miles away. A
note was dropped telling the fliers
to make their way to the sand
bar if the four could walk well
enough. If not, they were told to
stay where they are and a trail
crew will go to them.
The quartet jumped from the
C-47 when it was about 12,000
feet in the air at the start of its
spin, the pilot said after he and
his co-pilot landed the plane
safely at Elmendorf 28 minutes
later.
The two pilots, Capt. Ermine C.
Hales and Bert E. Dowdy, and
three passenger chose to remain
with the plane and ride it out.
At 6,000 feet, Hales brought the
aircraft out of its spin.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
Boston 5-1—Cleveland 0-2
Chicago 3-6—New York 2-8
Washington 9-9—St. Louis 1-3
Detroit 0—Philadelphia 0
National League
New York 5-4—Chicago 4-12
Pittsburgh 12-3—Brooklyn 11-4
St. Louis >12-1—Boston 10-9
Cincinnati 4-0—'Philadelphia 2-2
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4-1—Hollywood 1-6
San Diego 1-7—Los Angeles 4-5
Portland 8-3—Oakland 6-1
San Francisco 1-2—Sacramento
0-2
Frank Pace, Sec.
of Army, on Short
Visit To Nome
Frank C. Pace, Secretary of the
Army, and General Lawton Col
lins, chief of Staff of the U. S.
Army, paid Nome a quick visit
yesterday while on a routine visit
of the defenses in Alaska.
Included in their itinerary were
the strongholds of Alaskan de
; fenses at Anchorage and Fair
banks as well as the smaller out
lying posts.
In addition to inspecting de
fenses in Nome, such as they are,
Secretary Pace and his party were
escorted through the No'. 5 dredge
of the U.S. Smelting Co., where
they observed the method of gold
production.
A committee of the NWA Cham
ber of Commerce had made tenta
tive plans for brief reception of
| these distinguished guests as has
; been customary in the past in
Nome, and several of the business
men of the community had volun
tarily passed up the trip to Kotze
bue for the dedication of the field
there in order to be here to meet
Secretary Pace. Unfortunately the
schedule of this military party
was already so full that the hospi
; tality of Nome was necessarily
omitted.
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Air Sec. Bids For
Bigger Share of
Military Funds
WASHINGTON, (#)—Secretary
of the Air Force Finletter appears
to be joining powerful congres
sional allies in a drive to give
air power a -bigger share of
military funds.
In a speech over the weekend,
the Air Force chief called for
junking the old concept of “bal
anced forces” — insofar as that
means dividing defense dollars
equally among the army, navy
and air force.
Finletter urged instead the al
location of men, materials and
money to those “top priority
tasks” which can deliver military
blows “with the most devastating
effect.”
His address, to the Air Force
Association in San Francisco, left
little doubt he thought the Air
Force now has such a top priority.
He emphasized prospects for tre
mendous new striking power by
using warplanes to bring new
atomic weapons directly against
enemy ground troops.
Baptist Preacher Kills
Black Snake At Service
ISTACHATTA, Fla., (iP) — A
four-foot black snake slowly
wriggled down the aisle of the
Baptist church during the sermon
at a recent service.
As it reached the foot of the
pulpit, the Rev. Fletcher Weston
threw a hymn book but didn't
stop the snake.
Several women raised their feet
off the floor. One left. But she
came back with a good sized rock
and handed it to the minister. He
killed the snake and resumed the
sermon.
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Backers of “Ike”
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Regard Dewey
I With Suspicion
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, f/P) — General
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Repub
lican supporters evidently are
content to let his prospective
presidential candidacy rock along
a while without nudging.
Senator Duff <R-Pa>, regarded
as one of the leaders of the Eisen
hower boom, has told Senate
friends he is content not to beat
up the political drums until after
Congress quits, probably in Oc
tober.
The return of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York from an in
spection trip to the Far East is ex
pected to bring renewed efforts
from the Dewey camp in behalf
of Eisenhower’s potential candi
dacy.
The New York governor has
been invited to the White House,
may write some magazine articles
and probably has some speeches
up his sleeve.
The Dewey campaign is re
garded with some suspicion by
others in the Eisenhower camp
who apparently feel that the New
York governor would be willing
to bid for a third party presiden
tial nomination if the General
makes it plain he isn’t available.
Dewey and Duff, for instance,
seem to be dealing somewhat at
arm’s length in backing Eisen
hower. Duff has made it pretty
clear he doesn’t want the Repub
licans to wind up with Dewey as
their candidate if they don’t get
Eisenhower.
Valdez Riled Over
No Funds For
Richardson Hiway
VALDEZ, Alaska, (fP) — This
community at the south terminus
of the Richardson Highway was
riled this weekend by a report
that the Department of Interior
has no funds for winter mainten
ance of the key highway to the
interior.
Word was received that the
military had been informed that
funds were not available to keep
the highway open.
Rep. William Egan, speaker of
the Alaska House of Representa
tives and a Valdez merchant, as
serted:
‘It is inconceivable mat in tnis
time of national peril, Congress
did not make funds available to
keep this shortest route to the
interior bases open this winter. It
is not merely a local issue. The
bogey that this route would be
hard to maintain in the winter
was knocked into a cocked hat
two years ago when the Alaska
Freight Lines, a trucking firm,
aided by contributions of several
thousand dollars by Valdez mer
_ _ i
chants, easily kept Thomas Pass
open almost continuously without
a terrific expenditure of funds.
“Last year the Department of
Interior kept the highway open
much more easily, benefiting by
the previous year’s experience.
Ten thousands tons of supplies
were shipped to the interior over
this route in the past two winters
without a mishap.”
Reds “Pass Buck”
To G^n. Ridgway
In Kaesong Talks
TOKYO, Tuesday, {/P) — The
communist high command today
bitterly rejected the Allied reply
on an alleged Kaesong neutrality
! violation but, at the same time,
left the door open to a possible
resumption of the KoTean armis
tice talks.
The Reds broke off the stale
mate talks Aug. 23, alleging that
an Allied plane had attempted to
“murder” the communist delega
tion at the Kaesong conference
site.
Gen. Matthew B. Rridgway,
Supreme United Nations com
.mander, told them Saturday their
charges were “malicious lies” but
that he was willing to resume the
armistice effort.
In a reply broadcast by the Pei
ping radio, North Korean Premier
Kim II Sung and Chinese Red
Gen. Peng Teh-Huai said Ridg
way’s statement was “entirely un
satisfactory.”
Following a wordy complaint
they reiterated all the old Red
charges and they then said:
“At the same time we demand
that your liaison officers proceed
to Kaesong to carry out a re
investigation jointly with our liai
son officers of the incident that
occurred on Aug. 22, when your
military aircraft bombed and
strafed the vicinity of the resi
dence of our delegation, in order
once again to prove the full val
idity of our protest.”
The Reds, after a long weekend
of vitriolic propaganda against the
United States and the United Na
tions, thus passed the buck back
to General Ridgway.
Senate Must Raise
7 Billion In Taxes
WASHINGTON, (VP)—The Sen
ate, with on morose eye cocked
across the capitol to an empty
House chamber, buckled down to
work on taxes and other “must”
legislation today.
The House is on a three week
vacation. It has already finished
up with major legislative items.
The work it has left can’t be done
until the Senate completes action
on its version of a bill to provide
billions in military and economic
aid to free nations; a huge appro
priation bill to finance the De
fense Department; and the mea
sure to boost income, corporation,
excise and other taxes by about
$7,000,000,000 or less.
The tax-writing Senate Finance
Committee is giving a calculating
look to tax-exempt earnings of a
variety of cooperatives and mu
tual companies. There has been
some talk of tapping undistributed
earnings of cooperatives and mu
tuals by as much as $100,000,000.
American Soldiers Killed
In French Train Wreck
METZ, France, (/P)—The Basel
Cal-ais Express rammed into the
rear of a Frankfurt-Paris train
near here Friday. Ten persons,
including two Americans, were
killed, and possibly 40 others,
about half of them U.S. soldiers,
were injured.