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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOTLIII No. 124 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1951 Per Copy—lo/
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New Anchorage
Seward Highway
Is Opened Today
ANCHORAGE, (IP) — Official
opening of the new Anchorage
/ Seward Highway in a ceremony
at Girdwood was scheduled for
2 p.m. today.
The new highway opens the
Kenai Peninsula and the Port of
Seward to the Alaska Highway
system—and the Alaska Highway
to the States—for the first time.
It is a 127-mile link through
scenic country and over rugged
construction obstacles. It includes
71 miles of completely new high
way and 56 miles of rebuilt road
way.
The whole route is scheduled
for asphalt surfacing next year.
Notables expected to take part
in the ceremony today include
Assistant Interior Secretary Dale
E. Doty, Gov. Ernest Gruening,
Congressional Delegate E.L. Bart
lett, Lt. Gen. William E. Kepner
and civic leaders of Anchorage
\ and Seward.
Argentine Plane
Trains In Alaska
For Polar Flying
OAKLAND, Calif., (JP) — An
Argentine Air Force plane modi
fied and tested at Oakland air
port for operations over the South
Pole was enroute to Alaska today
for crew training.
The work was completed yes
\ terday by Trans-Ocean Airlines
and was climaxed by a spectac
, ular test of jet take-off equip
ment. Pilot William L. Word of
San Leandro, Calif., was at the
controls. The jet assisted takeoff
took the 28,000-pound C-47 off
the field -after a run of only 500
feet and it climbed to a 40-degree
angle. Word, a veteran Trans
Ocean pilot, formerly was in
charge of Arctic operations for
the Navy
Modifications on the plane in
cluded the JATO installation, ad
ditional fuel tanks to permit the
plane to stay in the air 18 hours
and make round trips over the
South Pole from existing Argen
tine bases, and installation of
skis.
The four man crew will train
with the U.S. Air Force in ski
landings and jet takeoffs from
I snow covered strips in the Anch
orage area.
$5 Million For Eklutna
4 Power Project This Year
AMARILLO, Texas., (IP) — The
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, an
nounced details last night of a
1 $242,998,677 construction program
for the current fiscal year.
Alaska will benefit in the giant
program, as $5,762,280 is to be
spent on the Eklutna project.
Construction will be initiated
at Eklutna dam, the Eklutna pow
er plant and other facilities, An
chorage substation and the Ek
lutna to Anchorage transmission
line. Construction of the Palmer
substation and the Eklutna to
Palmer transmission line will be
completed.
Resolution To End State
Of War With Germany
Is Sent to White House
WASHINGTON, {ff) — A con
gressional resolution to end the
state of war with Germany was
sent to the White House today.
President Truman’s approval of
the measure was considered cer
tain.
It was passed by the Senate on
voice vote yesterday after the
lawmakers knocked out a contro
versial provision which would
"have reopened for court review
negotiated settlements for proper
ty seized under the War-time
Trading with the Enemy Act.
The joint resolution does not
affect this country’s military and
other rights in Germany which
evolved from the Nazi war ma
chine’s unconditional surrender
in May, 1945.
Reds Stubbornly Resist
Attacking U.N. Infantry
U.S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (/F) — Allied big
guns pounded Kumsong today as
tank-supported U.N. infantrymen
fought to within two miles of
the former Red bastion on the
central front.
Reds stubbornly resisted attack
ing United Nations troops in al
most every fighting sector. Al
lies failed to take two hills on
the western front in day - long
battles.
Planes, tanks and infantrymen
battled fresh Chinese replace
ments deeply entrenched in the
last major ridge line south of
Kumsong. The Reds used heavy
mortar and artillery fire in an
attempt to slow U.N. infantry
men pushing northward in the
seventh day of their central of
fensive.
Fiercest resistance was south
east of Kumsong. Air strikes,
tank fire and infantry assaults
failed to budge Reds clinging to
a sharp, high peak overlooking
a valley.
Britain Tightens Hold On
Suez Canal W^h Sea,
Land and Air Forces
CAIRO, Egypt, (JP)—Backed by
growing sea, land and air forces,
Britain tightened her hold on the
strife-ridden Suez Canal area to
day and moved against Egyptian
officials in the vast Sudan area
south of Egypt.
As British naval guns trained
on the Suez, authoritative sources
here said the Sudan’s British gov
ernor general, Sir Robert G.
Howe, had ordered two top Egyp
tian officials not to return to
their posts there for the time
being “on grounds of public or
der.”
Britain and Egypt control the
Sudan jointly under an 1899
agreement which the Egyptian
parliament tore up Monday night
at the same time it cancelled the
treaty permitting limited British
garrisons along the Suez. The
British said they would recognize
neither one-sided action.
Pro-Egyptian leaders in Khar
toum were reported trying to
form a coalition of all parties to
support the Egyptian parliament’s
proclamation of King Farouk as
ruler of Egypt and the Sudan.
N uclear Detonation
Test Tomorrow
In Nevada Desert
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (IP) — “A
nuclear detonation scheduled for
this morning was postponed be
cause of mechanical fault in a
key electrical test circuit between
the control point and the tower ”
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion issued this statement in con
nection with the delay of the
blast which was originally sched
uled for any time after 5 a.m.
“Weather permitting, we have
every confidence that the mech
anical fault can be fixed in time
to hold the test tomorrow,” the
spokesman said.
Details of the start of Exercise
Desert Rock, the first atomic test
to utilize army troops, had been
cloaked in secrecy.
The AEC did not indicate whe
ther troops were to be used in
the first test.
The little town of Indian
Springs, about 35 miles from
Yucca Flat, without receiving of
ficial notification, was prepared
to ride out the blast. Windows
were opened and pictures and
brie a brae taken down in an
attempt to keep damage to a
minimum.
Captain Blamed In Long
Island Sound Capsizing
In Which 45 Drowned
WASHINTON, (IP) — A Coast
Guard marine board of investi
gation today blamed the captain
and owner of a Long Island
Sound fishing boat for the Sept.
1 capsizing in which 45 persons
lost their lives.
The boat, the “Pelican,” was
commanded by Capt. Edward
| Carroll, one of the victims of the
tragedy.
The board, making public the
results of its investigations, said
there appeared to be no “possible
evidence”, to refute charges that
Carroll had been “imprudent and
unskillful” in the operation of his
vessel.
The board also said he permit
ted the boat, which should have
carried not more than 28 persons,
to be grossly overloaded. It car
ried 64 at the time.
Truman and MacArthur
Still Battling with Words
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman said today Gerr. Douglas
! MacArthur’s charge that his op
position “wrecked the secret
plan” to let Formosa fall to the
Chinese Reds, was not based on
fact and the general knew it.
Mr. Truman’s comment was in
; rrplv to questions at his news
! conference.
MacArthur made his assertion
m a speech to the American Le
i gion convention in Miami Wednes
H; \. The gener il said, too, that
IV*° plan also would 1 ave given
T'f\i China a s:eat in the United
Nations.
^*~hen reporters brought up the
master, Mr. Truman said
! hrm^uely that MacAr+hur’s as
[ seratioTi was not based on fact
i '*nd the general Vrv'w it.
Liaison Officers Agree On
Neutral Zones Preparatory
To Reopening Truce Talks
MUNSAN, Korea, </P)—Liaison
officers agreed today on the size
of neutral zones around Kaesong
and Munsan, thus clearing the
biggest hurdle in the path to re
opening Korean truce talks.
Only two other points remained
in dispute.
The feeling at this U.N. ad
vance headquarters was that arm
istice negotiations might be re
sumed in a few days, ending a
two months breakdown.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols,
U.N. Command spokesman, cau
tioned:
“Any point, however small, re
mains a point of contention that
will block resumption of armis
tice talks.”
However, he was “cautiously
optimistic.”
Four-Year-old Falls Two
Decks On SS. Baranof
SEATTLE, (lP) — A four-year
old Palmer, Alaska, boy was
taken unconscious to the Chil
dren’s Orthopedic Hospital yes
terday after a two-deck tumble
here from the rail of the SS
Baranof.
The hospital listed Daniel
Hanks as in serious condition with
head injuries. However, his doc
tor said, he seems to be respond
ing favorably to treatment.
The boy was sliding on the rail
or leaning against it when he lost
his footing and plummeted 30
feet to the floor of the second
deck below him, his father, Wil
liam D. Hanks, said. The accident
occurred only a few hours before
the Baranof docked here Wed
nesday.
Two Succumb To
Cult Whippings
ST. PAUL, Minn., (/P) — The
second victim of a frenzied re
ligious cultist died early Thurs
day as members of the weird sect
sought to explain their whipping
rites by quoting Bible passages.
Her back a mass of bloody
welts from repeated lashings
with a three-foot-long whip, Mrs.
Ardith Lennander, 35, succumbed.
Mrs. Anna Halvorson, 46, who
had also been whipped, was found
dead Wednesday.
Sheriff Thomas Gibbons was
holding without charge Mrs. Len
nander’s husband, Curtis, 33,
who, the sheriff said, freely ad
mitted in a tape-recorded state
ment that he whipped the two
women during a sect meeting
Monday night.
Sect members pointed to the
words of Proverbs (20:30) in an
effort to explain the whippings.
The passage says, “The blueness
of a wound cleanseth away evil:
and stripes in the more inward
parts of the belly.”
« a r> Wnohin<?+on Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The UJS.
~ourt of Appeals upheld yester
day the federal tax court’s find
m^s that M.E.S. Brunelle of An
^horaCTe, Alaska, had an income
tax deficiency of $305.37 for 1945
•md *» similar deficiency of $316.92
'or 19*6.
^mnelle had appealed.
Anne Rosenberg
On Way to Alaska,
Far East War Zone
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Assist
ant Secretary of Defense Anna
Rosenberg was on the way to
Alaska and the Far East war
zone today for a study of mili
tary manpower problems in the
field, and a conference with Gen.
Matthew Ridgway, supreme com
mander of United Nations forces
in Korea.
She told reporters at the air
port where she left in a military
plane that she expected to make
inspection visits in Korea, Japan,
and Alaska—“wherever there are
troops.”
Mrs. Rosenberg is the Defense
Department’s chief official on
personnel and manpower. She is
accompanied on the trip by Brig.
Gen. James Collins, her executive
officer.
Mrs. Rosenberg is concerned
with the troop rotation program
for Korea, especially with seeing
that the military has adequate
manpower to send replacements
to the Far East to replace vet
erans of the long fighting there.
Union Head Meets
Rebel Leaders In
NY Dock Strike
NEW YORK, (/P)—AFL long
shore boss Joseph P. Ryan agreed
today to meet with rebel leaders
of a five-day wildcat strike to
try to end the tieup.
Ryan previously had refused to
see the strike leaders, whiclv
spearheaded a port-wide revolt
against a newly-negotiated con
tract.
His capitulation came after 30
officials of striking locals met,
and called on him for a confer
ence.
At the same time, in a surprise
switch, waterfront tough-guy An
thony Anastasia sent out “flying
squads” of 800 men in a fleet of
250 cars to keep striking dock
hands from returning to work.
Previously Anastasia, member
of the notorious racketeering fam
ily, had tried to get the men back
to work by importing crews of
strikebreakers.
Police rushed major reinforce
ments—emergency trucks, service
cars and radio cars—to Brooklyn
as Anastasia’s caravan showed up
in the area.
Murderer of 10-Year-Old
Girl To Be Sentenced
To Gas Chamber Oct. 26
SANTA ANA, Calif., (/P) —
Henry Ford McCracken will be
sentenced Oct. 26 to death in the
San Quentin gas chamber for the
murder of 10-year-old Patricia
Jean Hull.
A jury found his legally sane
after deliberating less than an
hour.
McCracken, 34-year-old guitar
player described by his attorney
as a moron, was convicted of
first degree murder Sept. 20. He
has been on trial the past two
weeks on his plea of innocent by
reason of insanity.