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VOL. LIII No. 145 _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951_Per Copy—15c
Demanding, To He
Heard Tax W itness
Fails to Appear
, WASHINGTON, {&) — Charles
Oliphant, after demanding an im
mediate public hearing by House
tax investigators, failed to appear
today at a committee session call
ed to hear him. He sent word he
wished to delay his appearance
“several days.”
Oliphant, 42, resigned two days
ago’ as chief legal officer of the
scandal-hit Bureau of Internal
Revenue. He said then he felt
unable to endure any longer the
“vilification” to which he had
been subject at hearings by a
House Ways and Mean subcom
mittee. The group is looking into
charges of irregularities in the tax
collecting service.
Oliphant blasted particularly at
the “scurrilous charges” lipking
his name to an alleged “clique”
of Washington officials which a
witness had sworn he was told
was on the lookout for “soft
touches.”
J Attorney-General McGrath yes
terday ordered that the whole
matter be placed before a federal
grand jury.
Only last night, Oliphant “de
manded” the right to reply from
the committee’s witness chair to
the bringing of his name into the
hearings.
MIGs Stay Home Today
SEOUL, (£>)—A few Allied jets
hunted unsuccessfully through
storm clouds today for communist
MIG-15s in hopes of extending
their record breaking 11 day series
of victories over the Red jets.
The Reds remained safely at
their bases in Manchuria.
But neither rain nor cold kept
communist infantrymen from
making small scale stabs at the
Allies along the central front.
The Reds launched five small
probing attacks and United Na
tions outposts beat back four.
Stepinac Grimly Asserts
His Right To The Title
Archbishop of Yugoslavia
KRASIC, Yugoslavia, (£>) —
Archbishop Stepinac grimly as
serted his right to the title of
archbishop today and asserted his
release from prison changed his
situation “only slightly.”
The Roman Catholic primate of
Yugoslavia revealed that condi
tions of his release by Premier
» Marshal Tito’s government in
cluded a ban on his performing
the duties of an archbishop and
confined him to this tiny Croatian
village where he was bom.
Stepinac firmly declared today:
“I am the legitimate arch
bishop and I am not a former
archbishop. If the Pope wants it,
I am ready to quit my arch
bishopric, but I will never give
it up to government pressure.”
Iranian Communists
Demonstration Ends
In Bloody Defeat
TEHRAN, Iran, (JP) — At least
three persons were killed and
more than 100 injured yesterday
in a five-hour battle between
5.000 yelling communists and
2.000 police and troops backed by
angry mobs of Nationalists.
Police and troops got control of
the situation early in the after
noon, after using tear gas, fire
hoses, rifle butts and clubs. At
least two rioters were wounded
by police gunfire, although most
of the police fired into the air.
An estimated 5,000 pro-com
munist students started the heav
iest rioting when they marched
on the Majlis shortly after dawn,
in defiance of a government ban
on demonstrations.
Nationalists who support Pre
mier Massadegh spilled into the
streets and engaged in bloody
conflict wherever they met the
Reds.
The police and Nationalists to
gether smashed and routed the
Reds who shouted “Death to
Mossadegh” and fought with
clubs, stones and fists.
What started as a communist
show of force against Mossa
degh’s government turned into a
bloody Red defeat.
Judge Assails
University Head In
Basketball Scandal
NEW YORK, IJP)—Judge Saul
S. Streit today gave suspended
sentences to three former Bradley
University basketball stars in the
bribery scandal and assailed
David Owen, Bradley president,
whom lie said gave “university
sanction to their moral debase
ment.
The former players were Gene
Melchiorre, George Chianakis and
William Mann.
They had pleaded guilty Oct.
24 to a charge of conspiracy to
fix a March 19, 1949 game with
Bowling Green in Madison
Square Garden. They faced a
maximum sentence of three years
in prison.
The three were among 31 for
mer players from seven schools
involved in point-fixing scandals.
Of the others, five have been
sentenced to jail and nine others
have received suspended senten
ces.
“The defendants at the bar
were corrupted and demoralized
by a system which set athletic
success above education,” Streit
said.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
Communications Commissi on
granted KIFW, Sitka, Alaska, a
change from unlimited time to
specified hours, 5 to 11 p.m.,
weekdays and 1 to 11 p.m. Sun
days, in a ruling yesterday.
These Three Saw
The Japs Coming
Ten Years Ago
WASHINGTON, (&)—The one
-time army private who first spot
ted Japanese planes moving in on
Pearl Harbor is a railroad man
now. Don’t sing ’’Remember Pearl
Harbor” to him. He doesn’t , care
for the song.
His buddy, who also stared at
the radar screen that tragic Sun
day morning and figured some
thing was up, now works in a
(telephone office. He thinks the
U.S. would be “more alert” to any
sneak attack today. He hopes so,
anyway.
And the lieutenant who re
ceived their report of approach
ing planes? He’s commanding the
81st Airbase group in England
these days. He still says he was
surprised that the planes turned
out to be enemy bombers on a
sleepy morning 10 years ago to
day.
That’s the 10-year-after story of
Pvt. Joseph L. Lockard, who later
became a first lieutenant; of Pvt.
George E. Elliott, later a ser
geant; and of Lt. Kermit A. Ty
ler, now a lieutennat colonel.
Lockard and Elliott got out of the
service long ago. Tyler stayed in.
“Ten years ago as a first lieu
tenant,” Tyler told a reporter at
Bentwaters, Suffolk, Eng., “I was
watch officer in the fighter opera
tions room at Wheeler Field (Ha
waii).
“As the clock neared seven, the
night staff moved off and I was
left with only a telephone oper
ator. The phone rang. The radar
tower reported planes on the
screen.
“We were expecting some B-17s
in but not from that direction,
so I was surprised and told radar
•to keep watching.”
The bombs began falling at 7:55
a.m.
Eskimo Girl To Visit
President Truman
FAIRBANKS, (IP)—A six-year
old Eskimo girl left Fairbanks by
plane yesterday on the first leg
of a 6,000-mile tour of the United
States.
The girl, Pearl Ittigiah of the
village of Minto near the Arctic
Circle, will be seeing the United
States for the first time, Air
Transport Associates, the flight
sponsor, reported.
ATA officials said Pearl will
visit President Truman and pre
sent him a scroll signed by 2,560
Alaskans protesting a recent Civil
Aeronautics Board order direct
ing ATA, a “non-sked” airline, to
end its service to Alaska.
Pearl will be accompanied by
her mother who also will be see
ing the “outside” for the first
time.
43rd Annual Pioneer
Roof Garden To Be
Held Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow evening at 7 p.m.
the doors to the Nome High
School Gymnasium will be
opened for the 43rd Annual Pio
neer Roof Garden.
The program will start prompt
ly at 8 p.m. and a full hour of
music, comedy and tragedy will
be presented for the entertain
ment of all.
At the conclusion of the pro
gram there will be dancing to the
rhythm of the Music Makers.
As always, the hospitality of
the Pioneers awaits those that
wish to partake of the free lunch
upstairs in the Lunch Room.
Throughout the evening, while
dancing is in progress, cakes, tur
keys, chickens, ducks and vari
ous items too numerous to men
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tion will be given away at Base
ball, the Fish Pond and the Wheels
of Fortune and other games. Be
sure to take home one of those
wonderful home-made cakes.
At midnight, a drawing will be
held and that huge gold Nugget
and the three other valuable pri
zes will be awarded to lucky in
dividuals. Also at this time door
prizes of ten dollars for adults
and five dollars for children will
be given away.
A cordial invitaion to the Roof
Garden is extended to all by the
Pioneers of Igloo No. 1. Come one!
Come all! Enjoy the evening.
Chief of Staff
Savs U.S. Has
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Atomic Artillery
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WASHINGTON, (£>) —Gen. J.
Lawton Collins said last night the
nited States has developed atomic
artillery and he indicated that
such weapons may be ready for
combat use in the “not too dis
tant” future.
The army’s chief of staff said
atomic weapons will not revolu
tionize ground warfare but they
will “greatly enhance the power
of defense” and be of greater
value in defense than in attack.
Collins added the army already
is making plans for the day when
atomic artillery and guided mis
sile battalions will replace some
of the conventional heavy artil
lery.
He also said Alaskan defenses
are strong enough to hold against
Soviet attack.
JUNEAU VOTES 6 TO 1
FOR $465,000 BOND ISSUE
JUNEAU, 0*P) — Juneau voted
6 to il yesterday for a special
$465,000 bond issue to finance
city hall and street improvements
and to rebuild the fire alarm
system.
Only 520 voters cast ballots.
The vote was the lightest ever
polled here.
Hints Only Half
Of U.S. Missing
Are Prisoners
MIUNSAN^ Korea, (/P)—A com
munist correspondent hinted to
day that no more than half of
the 10,000 Americans reported
missing in Korea are prisoners of
war.
The report came from a Chi
nese newsman at Panmunjom,
where Allied truce negotiators to
day opened a major effort to
reach agreement on a compromise
program for policing an armistice.
The Allies dropped their de
mand for joint U.N.-Communist
inspection teams. They also told
the Reds the question of with
drawing troops from Korea could
be “brought up and discussed
later.” But they said troop with
drawal early in the armistice de
finitely is out.
Chu Chi-Ping, a Communist
correspondent covering the arm
istice negotiations, told Allied
newsmen he knew of no war in
which more than half of the sol
diers listed os missing were pri
soners.
“I do not see why the Korean
war would be different from
other wars in this respect,” he
said.
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Estimate 2,000 Filipinos
Die In Volcano Eruption
MANILA, (/P) — The Philip
pine News Service tonight said
more than 500 bodies had been
recovered from the ash-strewn
slopes of Hibok Hibok volcano* on
Camiguin Island in the southern
Philippines.
The volcano erupted twice yes
terday. It still spouted smoke and
flames today.
Gov. Pacienco Ysalina of east
ern Misamis Province, who came
from nearby Mindanao Island to
take charge of rescue and evacu
ation, estimated that 2,000 may
have died in yesterday’s first
eruption, which witnesses have
called an atomic-like blast.
Alaska Pioneer Dies
SEATTLE, (iP)—Oliver B. Mil
let, SeaMo aid Alaska pioneer,
who ma*:r!8d here two years be
fore the fire” of 1899, died
Tuesday at Sedro-Wooley. He was
87.
Born in Nova Scotia, he lived
in Alaska from 1897 to 1940, min
ing in the Dawson, Nome and
Iliamna areas. He was one of the
founders of the Masonic lodge at
Valdez; past master of the Mason
ic lodge at Sedro-Woolley, and
member of the Alaska Pioneers
Association.
Surviving are his widow,
Thresa, a daughter Mrs. L. Hicks
Taylor of Seattle; and a son,
Hugh H. Millett of Dillingham,
Alaska.
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