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VOL. LIV ~No. 4 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1952 Per Copy-^157
Reels Still
Exclude Ban on
Korean Airfields
By DON HUTH
MUNSAN, Korea, (JP) — The
communists today submitted a
new counterproposal agreeing to
all Allied terms for supervising a
Korean armistice except a ban on
rebuilding Red airfields. The U.N.
command promptly rejected the
compromise.
The future of Red airfields is
the basic point of dispute.
“There is no major disagree
ment still existing except that of
airfields,” said Maj. Gen. Howard
M. Turner, U.N. negotiator. “That
has been the major disagreement
throughout.”
The communist counterproposal
formally accepted Allied demands
for troop rotation, replenishment
of supplies, and supervision of
the truce by neutrals.
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang
called these “great concessions.”
Turner retorted: “You have not
made one single effort to solve
the major differences confronting
us.”
No progress was made in a sub
committee meeting on exchange
of prisoners. Each side made
strongly worded attacks on the
other.
ONE OF RANSOMED FLIERS
GETS STATESIDE DUTY
NEW YORK, (/P)_Capt. John
J. Swift, one of four American
fliers forced down by Russian
planes in Hungary and later ran
somed for $120,000 has a new job.
Swift has been assigned as
transportation officer at the head
quarters of the Eastern Air Pro
curement District of the Air Ma
teriel Command in New York
City.
Korean War
Situation...
By MILO FARNETTI
SEOUL, Korea, (/P) — South
Korean troops killed an estimated
1,000 Chinese near the Panmun
jom truce talks site Tuesday in
the war’s heaviest fighting in six
weeks, the U.S. Eighth Army re
ported today.
But the South Koreans had to
give up two small hills west of
Korangpo when the Reds hurled
about 4,000 troops into the battle
of Sasi Bulge.
The vicious battle has raged
since Dec. 28. The Allied troops
were identified Wednesday as in
fantrymen of the Republic of
Korea First Division.
An Eighth Army briefing of
ficer said since the fight for the
outpost began, 3,076 communists
have been killed, 852 wounded
and ten captured. He said Allied
losses were “much lighter,” but
gave no figures.
Allied naval forces on the
northeast coast pounded Red
troop positions near Kosong. Car
rier-based planes from the Essex
and Valley Forge cut rail lines
in 106 places.
Fifth Air Force fighter bomb
er pilots said they hit 34 commun
ist field guns Wednesday.
U.S. Thunderjets made 13 cuts
in rail lines in the Sunchon
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Churchill and Baruch,
Old Friends, To Visit
NEW YORK, (/P)—It’s just a
case of two old friends getting to
gether when Winston Churchill
arrives at Bernard Baruch’s home
Wednesday for a two-day visit.
“I have nothing special plan
ned,” said Baruch yesterday, add
ing that he and the British prime
minister often have visited each
other. He said they had been
friends for 35 years.
A newsman asked if the finan
cier and adviser to presidents had
any special ftienu or entertain
ment planned. “None,” Baruch re
plied.
But the southerner jocularly
said he could “give him some rice
and pease with a little piece of
pork in them,” or “pork and hom
iny—if he’d take it.”
Hjalmar Nordale,
Alaskan Pioneer,
Dies At 58
FAIRBANKS, VP) — Hjalmar
Nordale, pioneer A^skan and
manager of the Nordale Hotel in
Fairbanks, died at his home here
Monday. He was 58.
A former mayor of Fairbanks,
Nordalef also had served as a rep
resentative to the Territorial Leg
islature and as a member of the
Fairbanks city council.
He was a member of the staff
and editor of the Fairbanks Daily
News-Miner between 1919 and
1930.
Nordale was born in Seattle in
1894. His family moved here at
the turn of the century and he
was a member of the first gradu
ating class at Fairbanks High
School.
In recent years, he had devoted
his energies to managing the Nor
dale Hotel of which he was one
of the principal owners.
He is survived by his widow,
Ladessa, and son, Anthony J. Nor
dale.
Chinese Paper Reports
70,000 Red Troops Moving
Toward Indochina Border
HONG KONG, (IP)—The Hong
Kong newspaper Wah Kiu Yat Po
said today 70,000 Chinese com
munist troops are rolling toward
the Indochina border.
The paper, which did not give
any source for its report, said
troops from Manchuria were
being stationed in Kwangsi Prov
ince which borders Indochina.
The paper reported Red air
power in South China is growing,
too.
Pilot - Congressman Mack
Lands On Iwo Jima On
Round-the-World Flight
TOKYO, (IP)— Rep. Peter F.
Mack, Jr., (D-Ill) landed his sin
gle - engined Beechcraft Bonanza
plane on Iwo Jima Tuesday at
5:45 p.m. after a flight from To
kyo. He hopped the more than
700 miles in six hours and two
minutes.
Mack planned to take off Wed
nesday or Thursday for Wake
Island, Midway, and Hickam
Field. He said he hoped to be in
the U.S. by Jan. 13.
The congressman is on a round
Ike For President
Campaign To Be
Run By Proxy
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Senator
Lodge iR-Mass) said today he be
lieved the door still is open for
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to re
turn to civilian life before the Re
publican presidential nominating
convention.
Lodge told a reporter he does
not interpret Eisenhower’s state
ment that he would not ask for
relief from his European defense
assignment as foreclosing all pos
sibility — aside from presidential
action—that the general take off
his uniform before -July.
“But I agree that he cannot
make any statement on the issues
of the pre-convention campaign
while he is still in uniform,”
Lodge said, a strong Eisenhower
supporter.
Lodge said in some respects he
supposed the Eisenhower cam
paign will parallel that which
won the GOP nomination for the
late Wendell L. Willkie in 1940.
“We are going to mobilize the
sentiment for the general which
is sweeping the country,” Lodge
declared.
Against this type of campaign
by proxy, Senator Taft, an active
candidate for the nomination, out
lined an intensive speaking and
hand-shaking drive which will
keep him busy until April 1.
Wilson Program
For Mobilization
Gets Senate Praise
WASHINGTON, (/P)— An. ad
ministration decision to keep up
the flow of most civilian goods
while gradually expanding de
fense production drew praise from
two key Senators yesterday.
Mobilization Director Charles E.
Wilson outlined the “guns-with
butter” approach in his quarterly
report on defense production.
Wilson has been under heavy
fire from both sides recently.
The Senate Preparedness Sub
committee protested that defense
production was far short of its
goals and called for tightening
the belt on civilian output.
On the other side, the automo
bile industry and other civilian
producers have made vigorous
protests against sharp cuts in
their supplies of materials being
diverted to the defense effort.
Wilson told a news conference
that the government had reexam
ined its entire mobilization policy
in light of all criticism and de
cided again on the gradual type
of buildup.
He said the National Security
Council, headed by President Tru
man, had backed the decision.
Leopold Stokowskis
Expecting Second Child
NEW YORK, (/P)—Gloria Van
derbilt Stokowski, heiress wife of
69 - year - old conductor Leopold
Stokowski, was in a hospital to
day expecting a second baby, a
friend said.
An earlier report had said the
conductor’s wife was seriously ill.
The Stokowskis have a son.
Major Jabara, First
Jet Ace Visits Lebanon,
His Father’s Native Land
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (^P) — Hun
dreds of relatives and family
frends flooded into Beirut airport
to give a tumultous welcome
Wednesday to Maj. James Jabara,
America’s first jet ace, on his ar
rival in his father’s native land.
It is the U.S. airman’s first visit
to the country his father left 40
years ago. The elder Jabara, now
a resident of Wichita, Kas., ac
companied his son.
The Major calmly puffed a
cigar between kisses on both
cheeks by an endless stream of
cousins, uncles and aunts who
converged on Beirut from all
parts of Lebanon and Syria.
The Korean war hero, whose
wife and children live in McKin
ney, Tex., said he was over
whelmed by the warmth of the
welcome.
Housewife Tells
Experts Women’s
Styles ‘Hysterical’
NEW YORK, (/P)—A housewife
told a gathering of top retail
merchandising experts Wednes
day that contemporary women’s
fashions are “hysterical
And she said the legwork in
volved in shopping is “terrific.”
In a speech at a session of the
National Retail Dry Goods Associ
ation annual meeting here, Mrs.
Dorothy E. Swenson of Great
Neck, N.Y., declared:
“There is no development of
style in the grand manner of the
storied past. We don’t have his
torical fashion any more; now its
hysterical.”
Deploring periodic changes in
lengths of skirts and dresses, Mrs.
Swenson said:
“I’m amazed that the wonder
ful women of today let you store
people get away with all this cost
ly nonsense of hem-line-up-this
year and down-some-other-year.
I ask you, did any new crop of
gorgeous girls in your memory
ever look as droopy and friend
less as those who wore what the
stores called the ‘new look?’ Can’t
you let fashion develop slowly
and organically?”
19-Year-Old Beauty
Queen Dies of Cancer
ATLANTA, (/P) — A four-year
fight against cancer has ended in
death for a 19-year-old high
school beauty queen whose shat
tered romance with a young sailor
touched a nation’s heart.
Dark-haired, dark-eyed Betty
Thompson died late Tuesday af
ternoon, valiant to the end.
To the very last she was stout
hearted. “I am ready to die,”
Betty told her family Tuesday.
“Don’t break down or grieve for
me when I’m gone.”
Last May her doctor told her
she was incurable ill. A little later
Betty broke her engagement to
Tom Amburn, her 19-year-old
sailor sweetheart of Sioux Falls,
S.D.
Soon after learning that she was
hopelessly ill, Betty said brightly:
“The doctor told me to live one
dav at a timo. and that ic what
Alaska Statehood
l )ebale Scheduled
Soon In Senate
WASHINGTON, (JP)—'The Sen
ate Democratic Policy Commit
tee agreed today to bring the
Alaska statehood bill up for Sen
ate debate, possibly within the
next ten days.
The Alaska bill will follow one
to grant home rule to the District
of Columbia.
The Hawaii statehood bill will
be “early on the agenda,” asserted
Senator McFarland, Senate ma
jority leader. Debate on the
Alaska bill, he said, “may take
some time.”
Senator Butler (R-Neb), a lead
ing foe of statehood for both
Alaska and Hawaii in the past,
told a reporter he will fight the
Alaska bill again this year be
i cause “Alaska does not have the
tax income to support statehood.”
He said however, that he under
stood Hawaii was making efforts
to rid itself of communistic in
fluences and that, if this were
done he thought Hawaii “is ready
for statehood.”
Reds Send Folk Dancing
Team to American GI
Sports Event In Vienna
VIENNA, Austria, {lP)—In an
unprecedented display of * inter
national friendship, the Russians
in Vienna agreed today to send
a soldier band and folk-dancing
team to an American-sponsored
sports event
In a last minute acceptance, the
Rusians sent a representative tor
American Army headquarters
here to say they would send a
band and 67-man folk dancing
group to tonight’s event.
It was believed to be the first
time in the six-year history of
four-power occupation in Vienna
that the Russians had agreed to
send their troops to a GI affair.
Freighter Cracks
In Pacific Storm
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Japan
bound freighter Pennsylvania re
ported a crack had broken down
its side early today during a
North Pacific storm. Forty-six
men men were reported aboard.
The ship’s report was received
by the U.S. Coast Guard here and
by Canada’s Vancouver Island
stations.
The Coast Guard said the ship’s
message was a “report of condi
tion,” not an SOS, although it
did ask for information on other
vessels in the area.
The Coast Guard placed the
ship’s position about 695 miles off
Cape Flattery, at the northwest
tip of the Washington State coast
line.
The Pennsylvania reported a
14-foot long crack down its side,
into the engine room. It said it
was taking water but believed
the pumps could handle the em
ergency unless the situation grew
worse.
The Alaska Steamship Com
pany’s Denali was reported in the
general area, turning to give any
needed assistance. Winds in the
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