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VOL. LIV No. "7$_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1952_Per Copy—15^
To Guard Against
Possible Sabotage
U.S. Meat Supply
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Agriculture Department reported
Friday it is on guard against
possible enemy sabotage of the
nation’s livestock and meat in
dustry.
Meat is such,an important part
of the American diet, one of the
first things an enemy might do,
the department said, would be to
try to get animal diseases and
plagues started on farms.
“In view of the possibility that
disease could be introduced in
tentionally at any time, the plan
ners of our civilian defense have
asked that the bureau also be pre
pared to meet that emergency if
it should arise.”
However, even as the depart
ment announced its new cam
paign there were reports from
widely scattered parts of the
country that meat inspectors were
fired by the scores.
There was no immediate ex
planation by the department.
Sen. Bridges
Renews Attack
On Philip Jessup
WASHINGTON, (ZP) — Senator
Bridges (R-NH), the Republican
floor leader, said Friday he was
confident the Senate would vote
against Ambassador Philip Jes
sup as a United Nations delegate
if the issue could be brought, to
the floor.
Bridges launched a new attack
on Jessup in a Senate speech late
Thursday after Andrbi Vishinsky,
the Soviet foreign minister, had
expressed “sympathy” with Jes
sup because of GOP denuncia
tions of him.
The New Hampshire senator
said: “Obviously if Jessup is sat
isfactory to Vishinsky and Russia,
he can’t be satisfactory to the
United States.”
Majority leader McFarland (D
Ariz) retored that the “Russians
are very shrewd in the remarks
they make.”
“If they want to condemn a
man,” he said, “they brag about
him because they know such ac
tion wi!J be taken up and that
the American people will say, ‘if
the Russians agree to it, we
ought to get rid of him’.”
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Alaska Steamship Co. Asks
Higher Freight Rates
WASHINGTON, (/P)— Officials
of the; Alaska Steamship Company
and /of Coastwise Lines, both of
whiyh serve Alaska, talked with
government officials Wednesday
abolit what they say are needed
freight rate increases there.
.{James P. Davis, director of the
officer of the territories of the
T&iterior Department, told a re
iporter the discussions are to de
ftermine whether the office can
t reach “common ground” with the
steamship companies.
He said the companies say they
* need “substantial increases” to
1 mept rapid: rises, in. wages, and
other costs.
Navy Guns Shell
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Shore Targets
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P> — Jet
planes fought over Northwest
Korea Friday for the fourth suc
cessive day.
U.S. Sabre jets screening Thun
der jet strikes against Red rail
lines and supplies fought briefly
with elements of a formation of
120 communist jets.
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The Air Force reported three
MIGs downed and seven damaged
in the previous three day’s fights.
Allied losses are reported only
weekly.
The only fighting Friday mor
ning reported by the U.S. Eighth
Army was along the eastern front.
An Allied patrol fought with en
trenched communists west of
Heartbreak Ridge for an hour
and a half before withdrawing.
The U.S. Cruiser St. Paul re
turned to action off Kosong
Thursday. The St. Paul’s guns hit
Red entrenchments with 125
rounds and the supporting de
stroyers Hammer and Marshall
added another 100 rounds.
More than 180 miles north of
the 38th parallel the U.S. destroy
ers Doyle and Porterfield and the
Canadian destroyer Athabaskan
touched off big fires near Songjin.
The Athabaskan moved so close
inshore sailors on her decks raked
a building with rifles and ma
chineguns.
Nome Radio Unconcerned
Over Whiskey Ad Ban
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A bill
that would ban broadcasting of
whiskey advertising over radio
and television—but not beer or
wine—is before Congress.
Introduced Wednesday by Sen
ators Johnson (D-Colo) and Case
(R-SD>, it carries penalties not
only for radio and TV operators,
but also certain makers and sell
ers of whiskey.
Actually, radio and TV stations
in the U.S. do not now accept
whiskey advertisements. But
there is no law against it. Radio
stations in Alaska and Hawaii do,
and the bill would apply to these
territories.
The bill gives the Federal Com
munications Commission the right
to revoke the license of any sta
tion violating the ban.
(Ed. Note: Nome’s AFRS is re
portedly unconcerned over the
terms as set forth in the bill.)
OPS Okays Wholesale
Price Raise On GM Cars
WASHINGTON, (j«P)—'The gov
eminent Friday upped wholesale
priced on General Motors Corp.,
automobiles ranging from about
$60 on Chevrolets to $130 on
Cadillacs.
The increase is on wholesale
prices at the factory.
The Office of Price Stabiliza
tion authorized the increases un
der the Capehart amendment to
the Economic Controls Law.
OPS said it has no information
as to whether GM plans to put
the new prices into effect.
For Pontiacs the increase would
be about $76, for Oldsmobiles, $94
and for Buicks $67.
West Germany To
Ask U.S. Loan
To Arm Troops
BONN, Germany, (/P) — The
West German government plans
to ask the United States for a
big loan—probably several hun
dred million dollars—to help put
German troops into the field with
the proposed European army, Al
lied officials said Friday.
A formal request for the loan
will be submitted to Washington
when a “peace contract,” now
under negotiation, is signed with
the three western occupation pow
ers next spring, the officials said.
This “peace contract” will start
Germans rearming inside the pro
posed unified European Defense
Force and will return to them al
most full control of their own
affairs.
The Allied officials gave this
picture of the loan request shap
ing up:
The Germans will contend they
alone cannot finance formation of
a new armed force from scratch
after seven years of Allied de
militarization programs.
In addition, the Germans ex
pect the United States to provide
the bulk of military equipment—
including tanks, artillery and
planes needed by 12 divisions plus
the tactical air force they plan to
organize.
Gen. Collins Avers
Korea Proves
Need For UMT
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Gen. J.
Lawton Collins, army chief of
staff, said Friday the Korean cam
paign has proved “that we need
a sound program of manpower
mobilization.”
This would be supplied by Uni
versal Military Training, the gen
eral told the House Armed Ser
vices Committee.
He supported a Pentagon plan
for beginning limited UMT with
60,000 volunteers between 17 and
19 years old.
Collins said if UMT had been
in effect before Korea, “we would
not have had to disrupt the lives
of thousands of men who served
in World War II and who had
since taken on greater responsi- i
bilities both at home and in their
civilian pursuits.”
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Search Continues For
Air Force C-47 Lost
North Of Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, {fP) — Search
planes continued a widespread
search of the area north of Fair
banks Wednesday for an Air Force
C-47 which disappeared Saturday
with five men aboard while on a
training flight.
No clue has been found as to
the fate of the plane since a radio
message was received that it was
hopelessly lost. A direction finder
put on the final radio call indica
ted the plane was in the vicinity
of Circle Hot Springs, 150 miles
north of here in extremely rugged
territory.
The pilot had radioed he thought
he was 250 miles south of here
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Truce Negotiations
Nil at Panmunjom
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Truce
negotiators kept tempers in check
as they wrangled fruitlessly Fri
day over terms of a Korean arm
istice.
The only outburst came from a
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Chinese delegate who referred
scornfully to America’s allies as
"running dogs.”
Maj. Gen. Claude Ferenbaugh
made his daily plea that the Reds
promise not to build airfields in
North Korea during a truce.
The communists replied, as
usual, that their pledge not to
send combat planes across the
Yaul during a truce was sufficient
guarantee.
In an adjoining tent, Rear Adm.
R. E. Libby tried vainly to get
Red negotiators to accept volun
tary repatriation of war prison
ers.
U.N. investigators made another
trip to the protected Kaesong area
to* examine a crater. The Reds say
it was made by an Allied aerial
bomb Thursday.
Lt. Col. Howard S. Levie told
the communists:
"We find a hole in the hillside
caused by some kind of explo
sion or blast, but you have pro
duced no witness who can iden
tify one of our planes or even
testify that a plane caused this.”
Elizabeth’s Planned Visit
Buddhist Temple Draws
Fire From Protestants
LONDON, (JP) — If Princess
Elizabeth leaves a golden gift in
the Buddhist Temple of the
Tooth, as she plans, she will be
doing a great wrong to Christian
ity, the National Union of Pro
testants protested Thursday night.
The National Union and other
Protestant groups have criticized
the Princess before for such
things ns dancing on a Sunday in
Paris and having an audience
with Pope Pius.
Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin
burgh intend to break their travel
to Australia and New Zealand
next month with a visit to the
temple in Kandy, nncient capital
of Ceylon.
The temple displays a tooth
which Buddhists believe to be a
relic of Buddha, founder of their
religion 500 years before Christ
was born.
“The present, a gift of gold
sovereigns, as a token at regard
and support for a religion that
rejects the diety of Jesus Christ
offers the strongest opposition to
our Christian faith and practice,”
the National Union said.
New French Premier
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Draws Heavy Vote
PARIS, <yP)—Edgar Faure, at 43
France’s youngest premier since
1875 worked Friday to put togeth
er another Center-coalition cabi
net that would end his nation’s
political crisis, now In.its 11th
day.
Behind him was a big 401-101
confirmation vote Thursday night
from the national assembly. The
result drew heavy applause from
the benches of. the Center parties,
but Faure still must form a sev
eraUparty team.
Believes “Ike”
Would Attract
Democrat Votes
SAN FRANCISCO, (IP) — Sen
ator Lodge (R-Mass) offered Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Re
publicans Friday as the one presi
dential candidate “who could
bring the world durable peace.”
Lodge took sharp—if indirect—
issue with Taft supporters who
said the party would be risking
its political future if it nominates
a “glamour candidate” in Chicago
next July.
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David S. Ingalls, campaign
manager for Senator Taft, said
the party should not “select a
good-looking mortician, to pre
side over its death as a political
organization.
This obvious barb at Eisen
hower drew from Lodge the dec
laration in a prepare daddress:
“The American people believe
in Dwight Eisenhower because
they see in him a leader—and a
leader who can do the most to
bring about a durable peace.”
Lodge told national committee
members the Republicans can’t
win in November unless they at
tract some Democratic votes. He
said Eisenhower would do that.
U.S. Demands
“U nreasonable”,
Vishinsky Asserts
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By Stanley Johnson
PARIS, (/P) — Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Vishinsky Thurs
day ruled out any possibility of
settling the Korean War in the
field because of what he termed
“unreasonable demands presented
by the American command.”
He said these demands “can
give no hope for a successful
conclusion” of the negotiations at
Panmunjom.
In a slashing speech before the
United Nations Political Commit
tee, Vishinsky called U.S. Gen.
James A. Van Fleet? a “cannibal”
unfitted to conduct the talks.
He also accused U.S. Secretary of
State Dean Acheson of not want
ing any form of atomic contrcrt
and doing his best to undermine
Russian attempts to get it.
Nevertheless, the committee
sent Vishinsky’s atom program to
the newly created Disarmament
Commission for intensive study.
The vote on a British-French-Am
erican resolution suggesting this
course was 53-5, with two absten
tions.
Poor Brushing Technique
Cause of Receding Gums
LAKE HARMONY, Pa., (fP) —
A Boston doctor says it’s wrong
to brush your teeth up and down,
asserting it could cause receding
gums.
Dr. Alvin Strock of the Peter
Bent Bingham Hospital said
Thursday night many people ac
cept receding gums as inevitable
like gray hair otr balding—but
that improper tooth brushing
methods often are to blame.
He said the answer to the prob
lem may lie inr a brush shaped
like a wheel which > reduces fric
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