OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No, 55__
The Air War In Korea—
SEOUL, Korea, {&)—Alied war
planes ripped up two Red rail
lines in 340 places Tuesday and
were back blasting again today.
Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers
opened 104 more gaps Wednesday
morning in the stretch of main
line north of Red Korea’s capital,
Pyongyang, broken in 170 places
4 Tuesday.
Another 170 cuts were reported
by pilots from the carriers Valley
Forge and Princeton. They worked
over an 80-mile segment of the
east coast railway, centered on
Hamhung.
Planes and warships supported
front line troops.
A raiding Allied patrol fought
for two hours early today west
of Chorwon on the western front.
Other tank-supported raiders de
stroyed four Red bunkers near
Kumhwa on the central front.
Communists Reject
Allies’ Clear, Final
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Package Proposal
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, (/P) — Korean truce
talks sank to an all-time low Wed
nesday after the Communists re
jected the Allies’ “clear, final and
irrevocable” package proposal.
The official Allied spokesman
said “there is nothing left to dis
cuss.”
To negotiators of each side told
the other: “The next move is up
to you.”
In Tokyo Gen. Matthefw B.
Ridway announced the virtual
U.N. ultimatum. It is a three
point package:
1. The U.N. Command would
return 70,000 of 132,000 captured
Chinese and North Koreans in ex
change for 12,000 Allied troops
held by the Reds. This is the crux
of the deadlock.
2. The Communists would be
permitted to build and repair
North Korean airfields.
3. The Reds would drop their
nomination of Russia as a “neutral
nation” to help police a truce.
Ridgway said this was a pack
age to be accepted as a whole.
He said:
“Our position is one from which
we cannot and shall not retreat.”
Maj. Gen. Bryan L. Milburn, in
charge of prisoners said:
“We tried to return every one
of the 170,000 prisoners we hold
unless they had an honest fear of
returning to Communist control.”
North Pole Base
May he Maintained
To Check Weather
WASHINGTON, OP) — An Air
Force officer said Tuesday the
observation station setup on an
ice island near the North Pole
may be maintained permanently
to keep track of the “weather
factory” which makes most of the
weather for the United States,
Canada and Alaska.
Gapt. Marion F. Brinegar, one
of the three Air Force men who
made the first landing on the
floating ice island near the top
of the world on March 19 told a
news conference the ice station
will be operated this summer
and may be continued on through
the winter. It is now staffed by
six men.
The weather generated in the
area north of Siberia and Alaska
flows down from the top of the
world to influence the climates
of most of the northern portion
of the Western Hemisphere.
Brinegar gave a sample of how
cold it gets in the “weather fac
tory.” Soon after they landed in
a ski-equipped C-47 plane, they
discovered that a bottle of scotch
had frozen solid and kerosene
which was spilled while being
poured could be picked as chunks
of ice. He estimated the tempera
ture at that time was about 75
degrees below zero.
The ice Island now is located at
about 165 to 170 miles from the
North Pole. It is about 9 miles
long and 4Vfc miles wide, with
the thickness averaging 175 feet.
Charles E. Wilson
Recommends That WSB
Be Shorn of Authority
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Charles
E. Wilson said yesterday he feels
the Wage Stabilization Board
(WSB) should be shorn of author
ity.
The former mobilization chief
testified at a congressional hear
ing that the WSB recommenda
tions in the steel case went “well
beyond the limits of proper wage
and price stabilization policy.”
Wilson, who quit as11 mobiliza
tion chief in protest against ad
ministration handling of the steel
case, was the first witness at a
broad investigation by the House
Labor Committee of Operations
of the Wage Stabilization Board.
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University Research
Project Will Study
Walrus This Summer
The walrus in Alaskan waters
will toe the subject of a research
project sponsored by the Univer
sity of Alaska during the sum
mers of 1952 and 1953, according
to a recent announcement by Dr.
Terris Moore, University presi
dent.
The study will be made by
James W. Brooks, wildlife man
agement student at the University,
with funds granted for the project
by the American Museum of Nat^
ural History and the Wildlife
Management Institute. He is ex
pected to present the results of
his study in a thesis as a partial
fulfillment of requirements for
graduation from the University.
Brooks will begin his project
about the middle of May, starting
from Wales and flying short hops
northward up the coast perhaps
as far as Point Barrow, accord
ing to Dr. John L. Buckley, lead
er of the Cooperative Wildlife Re
search Unit at the University, un
der whose supervision Brooks
will be working. He is expected
to devote the entire summer to
the study and to repeat the proj-1
ect next summer.
Food Price Boost
May Result from
Court Ruling
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A court
ruling that wholesale and retail
grocers may seek higher price
ceilings under the Capehart
amendment may have cleared the
way for a big increase in the
price of many food items.
The Office of Price Stabilization
said Tuesday the Justice Depart
ment will be asked to appeal the
decision, of the Emergency Court
of Appeals, to the Supreme Court.
The emergency court held Mon
day that the Capehart amend
ment to the economic controls law
applies to wholesalers and retail
ers as well as manufacturers and
processors.
The court thus upheld the con
tention of Safeway Stores, Inc.,
big food chain, that grocers are
entitled to higher ceilings for such
things as cereals, syrups, oils,
canned and processed foods, nood
les, flour, soups, condensed milk
and jellies.
The amendment grants price
adjustments in the ceilings of
“any material” other than an agri
cultural commodity on the basis
of rising costs to the seller. This
permits addition to pre-Korean
prices of any such costs to last
July 26.
More Alaskan Cities to Get
Improvements Under APW
JUNEAU — The first segment
of a $5,000,000 street improve
ment planned by Ketchikan is
now open for competitive bidding
under Alaska Public Works, it
was announced in Juneau.
While only a comparatively
small unit of the total over-all
project, this present improvement
will take care of the most urgent
needs, city officials of Ketchikan
and Alaska Public Works engi
neers point out.
Transplanting of. Bone, Pioneering
Medical Step, Successful at Kotzebue
A pioneering medical step,
planned -and directed by Dr. P. H.
Moore, orthopedic surgeon for Al
aska, has had a successful' con
clusion at the Kotzebue, Alaska,
Native Service Hospital. This has
been transportation of bone from
separate donors in dry ice to 9
distant center for orthopedic
work.
Dr. Moore stated that for the
past three years Mt. Edgecumbe,
the Alaska Native Service Medi
cal Center at Sitka, and New York
hospitals had successfully used
bone taken taken from thoroco
plasty patients on separate ortho
pedic cases. At the time the bone
is removed it is given every bac
teriological and laboratory test
known to determine its healthi
ness and cleanliness. It is then
placed in refrigerators for later
use. It has been/ held for as long
as a year.
This has greatly widened the
field for orthopedic work, as the
double operation formerly re
quired on the orthopedic patient
involving both the removal of the
healthy bone and its substitution
for the diseased portion elimina
ted many who were too ill or too
young to withstand the double
ordeal.
At Mt. Edgecumbe a specially
constructed insulated box was
built. Solid carbon-dioxide (dry
ice) which maintains a tempera
ture of 60 below, was flown from
Seattle and the bone in sterile
containers, was packed in the dry
ice for transportation to Kotzebue,
a distance of some nine to ten
hours flying time.
At the Kotzebue ANS hospital
seven operations were performed
using the bone from the distant
donors on patients ranging from
sixteen months to nineteen years.
The program was a complete
success with no complications de
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Contractors to File
$5 Million Suit
Against Carpenters
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—'The Asso
ciated General Contractors is pre
paring a five million dollar dam
age action as a result of the strike
of AFL carpenters in the Anchor
age area, AGC president D. L.
Cheney said Wednesday.
Besides the five million dollars
general damages, Cheney said, the
AGC will ask $123,500 for each
day the men are out.
Cheney said the suit, aimed at
some 3,500 carpenters who walk
ed out Monday • demanding an
hourly wage increase from $3.14
to $3.70, would be filed in Third
District Court here.
It will be based in the AGC’c
contention an agreement, signed
with the carpenters April 26 was
a valid and binding contract
which was broken by strike ac
tion, Cheney declared.
“The loss incurred through this
strike by the construction indus
try is tremendous in view of the
magnitude of the defense con
struction program,” the AGC ex
ecutive said.
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Kepner Orders
Cuts In Use Of
Gas and Oil
ANCHORAGE, </P) — Drastic
curtailment of consumption of
petroleum products has been or
dered for the Alaskan military es
tablishment by Lt. Gen. W. E.
Kepner, Alaskan commander-in
chief.
The order was issued Tuesday
to commanders o fthe U.S. Armyr
Alaskan Sea Frontier and Alaskan
Air Command. It directed the ec
onomical use of marine, motor
transport, aviation fuels and lub
ricants.
The conservation measures in
cluded sharp reduction of motor
transportation through the regu
lation of both cargo and passen
ger vehicles and substitution,
where practicable of training re
quiring a minimum of transporta
tion.
Additional restrictions will be
placed on lighting, power and
heat, already under the economy
program.
Air cargo and passenger ship
ments will be reduced where rail
and highway shipments can be
substituted in keeping with a
minimum of air operations pol
icy, Gen. Kepner directed.
$50 Tax Stamp Law
Declared Unconstitutional
By District Judge Welsh
. PHILADELPHIA, <#>>—A six
month-old federal law requiring
gamblers to buy a $50 tax stamp
was declared unconstitutional yes
terday by U.S. District Judge Geo.
A. Welsh.
Welsh ruled the law was a
police measure enacted by Con
gress under the guise of a tax bill.
The decision was handed down
on an appeal by Joseph Kahriger,
36, one of seven men facing trial
on charges of failing to buy the
stamp.
In dismissing the action against
Kahriger, Welsh said he was not
ruling on another section of the
act which requires gamblers to
pay a 10 percent tax on their
earnings.
A previous attack on the law
was made by Hayes L. Combs, a
Washington news vendor. He ar
gued that the tax was unconstitu
tional because he said it amounted
to a penalty in the guise of taxes.
A special three-judge U.S. dis-.
trict court in Washington dis
missed the case on the ground it
was being asked to issue an in
junction to. protect a criminal en
terprise.
J AP AN-U.S.-CANADA
FISHING AGREEMENT
WILL BE SIGNED THURSDAY
TOKYO, (jP)—The formal Japan
U. S.-Canada fishery agreement
will be signed Thursday at the
Japanese foreign office, Kyodo
News Agency said today. The
agreement, covering fishing areas
in the Pacific, has been the sub
ject of negotiation for some time.
A temporary agreement was
signed last December.