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VOL. LIII No. 107 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 1951 = Per Copy—15c
48 Nations Sign
Japanese Treaty
Despite Gromyko
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Andrei
Gromyko is going home from the
San Francisco conference with
Russia’s worst postwar diplomatic
defeat on his record—and with
ammunition in his pocket for a
new wrecking campaign against
the Japanese peace treaty.
Gromyko, who left by train for
New York Sunday, prepared the
ammunition for that assault in his
speeches and actions at the peace
conference — notably by his
charges of American “dictation”
and his repeated forecasts of a
“new war” in the Orient. He also
made much of Red China's ex
clusion.
Forty-eight nations signed the
peace treaty with Japan in a 63
minute ceremony Saturday. For
three tense days of debate Gro
myko had cried his warnings of
war and had tried to get accept
ance of amendments which would
have rendered Japan defenseless
when the treaty becomes effective.
But when the document was put
on the table for signing the United
States scored a clean sweep. Not
one nation was held back by
Gromyko’s arguments.
Reds Again Charge
Allied Strafing Of
Korean Truce City
MUNSAN, Korea, UP) — United
Nations officers swapped words
in Kaesong today after investigat
ing a communist charge that an
Allied warplane strafed the cease
fire conference city this morning.
The U.N. officers refused to give
the Reds an on-the-spot report of
their investigation. They also re
fused to concede that an attack
had occurred or that a U.N. plane
was involved.
They acknowledged only that
during a four-hour checkup of
the alleged neutrality zone viola
tion they found one bullet mark
and a dozen .50 caliber slugs in
and around a group of stone
houses. The houses were about
three-quarters of a mile from the
site of the suspended armistice
talks.
The investigators said the bul
lets appeared to have been fired
from several directions and at
different angles. '
This would conflict, they said,
with the Red assertion that the
plane made one pass over the
house.
SUNDAY BASEBALL
American League
New York 7-2—Washington 5-0
Philadelphia 10-3—Boston 4-2
Cleveland 4—St. Louis 3
Chicago 4—Detroit 3
National League
New York 2—Brooklyn 1
St. Louis 2-7—Pittsburgh 1-4
Chicago 7-0—Cincinnati 3-7
Boston 5-4—Philadelphia 4-1
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 13-1—Hollywood 8-0
Los Angeles 7-7—Seattle 8-4
Sacramento 10-4 — San Fran
cis co4-3
Oakland 5-7—Portland 3-3
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Helicopter Missing Frbm
Talkeetna Since Sat. a.m.
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A heli
copter and its pilot were missing
in the south central Alaska wil
derness today.
The CAA said Pilot Jack Shields
had been unreported since 10:30
' a.m. Saturday when he left Tal
I keetna for -a point 10 miles east
i of Clarence Lake on the Susitna
river.
The Tenth Rescue Squadron,
notified of the overdue ’copter,
sent a plane to the area, the CAA j
I said.
The search for Shields and the
missing helicopter was started as
i the Air Force added two more
names to the list of persons killed
; or missing in *a long series of Al
i aska aerial mishaps.
The deaths of two men in an
Air Force helicopter crash Satur
day raised to 94 the number lost1'
in 13 aircraft which have crashed
or disappeared since July 21.
Russian Rockets
Used Against UN
Forees In Korea
U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (/P)—Rockets
of the type used by the Russians
in World War II have landed be
hind Allied lines on the east cen
tral front, it was officially re
ported today.
There was speculation they may
! have been brought to Korea by
communist Caucasian troops re
cently reported near the battle
| front.
Since rockets, to be effective,
must blanket an area, it is possible
| they were fired accidentally. They
apparently were not aimed at any
specific target. Reports indicated
only a small number were fired.
In the air war, 30 American
FI86 Sabre jets tangled with 80
Russian-type MIG-15s over north
west Korea in one of history’s big
gest jet battles.
Army sources said unofficially
i tonight they have reliable but not
conclusive evidence that Russian
pilots have been flying some of
the MIGs in battles against the
United Nations.
The Allied warplanes were led
into battle by Col. Francis Gabre
ski, America’s leading living air
ace, with 28 German planes shot
down in the last war and two
MIGs in this war.
First Blonde In 13 Years
Wins Miss America Title
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., {IP)—
The 143-pound, five feet 10 Miss
America of 1952 is a Sunday
school teacher who doesn’t smoke
or drink.
Blue-eyed, blonde, Colleen Kay
Hutchins of Salt Lake City, Utah,
didn’t believe it when she was
chosen queen over 50 other con
testants to climax this resort city’s
five-day annual beauty contest
Saturday night. •
“I thought I was too darned
tall,” the statuesque beauty said
in a poised cultured voice that
reflects her dramatics training.
At 25, she is the oldest to wearj
the crown and matches the record j
height of Miss America of 1945,
Bess Myerson of New York City, i
Colleen is the first blonde to win
the title in 13 years.
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Don Heinrich,
U.W. All-American,
Hurt In Practice
SEATTLE, (iP) — The sturdiest
limb may be gone but the tree’s
not down . . .
A week ago the University of
Washington football team was
loaded like a mo’untaineer’s rifle.
Then Don Heinrich, All-American
quarterback and national colle
giate passing champion, came off
the bottom of a pile-up Saturday
with an injured right shoulder.
He’ll be out at least six weeks
—possibly all season.
Experts were trampled in the
rush to write Washington off as
a threat far national honors, a
Pacific Coast Conference pennant
and a trip to the Rose Bowl. But
head coach Howie Odell put it
this way:
“We’ll still be tough.”
Washington has a few charges
left in its powder bag. Hurryin’
Hugh McElhenny scampered to
new conference rushing records
in 1950, gaining 1,107 yards for
the season and 296 in a single
game. When he moves the breeze
sidesteps him.
Lean Dick Sprague, counted one
of the country’s finest defensive
backs last year, has been switched
to an offensive halfback role and
can match speed with McElhenny.
Bill Early is the cruncher of the
works. Big, solid, eager.
The opening game here Sept. 22
against Montana probably will
find either Junior Sam Mitchell or
Sophomore Dean Rockey making
like Heinrich. Rockey is the bet
ter passer and ball handler, but
Mitchell can run like a rabid rab
bit to complement his passing.
Salmon Waste May
Replace Horse As
Mink and Fish Feed
JUNEAU, UP) — “Old Dobbin”
entrees will soon be passe on mink
ranch menus and salmon offal
promises to top the little fur bear
er’s diets, if experiments carried
on by the Fishery Products Lab
oratory in Ketchikan are success
ful.
This was announced today by
Clarence J. Carlson, acting chief
of the laboratory.
The past several years the lab
oratory has cooperated with the
Department of Agriculture’s ex- j
perimental fur farm in Petersburg |
on use of fish and fish by-products
in the diets of mink.
In addition, it has assisted a
technological laboratory in Seattle
in developing a satisfactory diet
for hatchery fish.
Up to now, Carlson said, the
main ingredient in feeding mink
and hatchery fish has been horse
meat. But this commodity is be
coming more scarce yearly, with
a consequent rise in price.
In Petersburg it was found that
up to 80 percent salmon waste
could be fed mink successfully.
Hatchery fish thrived almost 100
percent on waste products with
good results.
Carlson estimated that 10 mil
lion pounds or more of wasted
offal from Alaska could be used ,
for such feeding in the continental
United States.
Russians Express Regret
Over Shooting U.S. Soldier
BERLIN, (/P) — An American
soldier shot and killed by East
German police on the Soviet Zone
border last week was identified
as Robert deBrake of Antioch,
Calif.
deBrake had driven his car into
a Soviet border barrier, appar
ently by accident, Thursday night.
Eyewitnesses said a communist
policeman shot the soldier as he
sat behind the steering wheel.
Russian authorities expressed re
gret. •
Forest Service
Hopeful For Pulp
Industry for Alaska
I
i \P Special Washington Servirei
WASHINGTON, UP) — Like a
hopeful fisherman, the Forest
Service reported it still is dangl
ing three well-baited lines which
it hopes will land a sizable pulp
industry for Alaska.
The bait is the near virgin tim
ber of the Tongass National For
est—16,000,000 acres of spruce and
hemlock.
Originally, four lines were out
but the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper
Company of Bellingham, Wash.—
after numerous nibbles — finally
snapped up the bait. It is sched
uled to start construction this
spring at Ward Cove, near Ketchi
kan, of a high-grade rayon plant
capable of daily production of be
tween 300 and 525 tons.
So far, according to B.H. Payne,
assistant in the Forest Service’s
timber manageemnt division, the
other three sites — Juneau, Sitka
Thomas Bay near Petersburg —
have received no solid strikes.
Forest Service officials are glow
ing in their praise of the Tongass
potential.
During hearings before the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee last
spring, B. F. Heintzleman, region
al forester for Alaska, estimated
the Tongass forests capable orf
“annual production of 1,000,000
tons of pulp in addition to an in
creased quantity of lumber.” This
harvest would be on a sustained
yield basis and could gcr on “for
ever,” he declared.
OPS Authorizes
5-6 Percent Boost
In Passengers Cars
DETROIT, (fP) — Higher price
tags for most lines of the nation’s
new passenger cars were being
figured out today.
Some erf the boosts, expected to
run from about $65 on the lowest
priced cars to as much as $250 on
higher priced models, probably
will be effective by the end of
next week.
Authorization to make the in
crease under a complicated for
mula that would raise prices an
estimated five to six percent was
given the industry by the OPS.
By the time retail dealers are
allowed to apply their profit mar
gins, ranging from 15 to 30 per
cent, it is estimated that the total
boost might go as high as eight
percent over current list prices.
Further price increases also are
possible, the OPS order indicated.
Air Force Fighter
Sprays Bullets Into
Residential Area
• LONG BEACH, Calif., (IP)—Set
off by a short circuit, 1,576 rounds
of .50 caliber machine gun bullets
were sprayed into an exclusive
North Long beach residential area
yesterday by an anchored Air
Force fighter plane.
Twenty five homes were struck
by the bullets. There were no cas
ualties.
Sam McGill, owner of one of
the damaged homes, said he
counted 18 slugs in his house. “I
thought the Russians were here,”
he exclaimed.
The armor-piercing incendiary
bullets were fired from a F-51
Mustang fight plane of the 188th
Fighter Squardon, a unit on con
stant emergency alert. The plane
was at its base at the Long Beach
municipal airport. It was under
going a routine check.
The trajectory of the bullets
carried them over thousands of
homes between the airport and the
Virginia Country Club. In this
area, which is on ground consider
ably higher than the airport, the
bullets came hurtling into homes,
garages and automobiles. They
sheared off branches of some trees
and frightened scores of persons
from their beds at 5:45 a.m.
800 Doctors and
Teachers Sent To.
Siberia’s East Coast
SEATTLE, (JP)—A University of
Washington specialist on Russian
affairs says the Soviet press re
cently reported 800 young special
ists had passed through Khaba
rovsk enroute to Siberia’s Pacific
coast. Most were described as doc
tors and teachers.
Dr. Ivar Spector, the Univer
sity’s Far Eastern Department ex
pert on what the Russian press is
saying, noted the item in the news
paper Pravda of Aug. 19.
“This announcement is as sig
nificant as if our government were
to make public information that
800 doctors and teachers recently
had passed through Fairbanks en
route to Nome, Sitka and Dutch
Harbor,” Dr. Spector wrote in the
Seattle rimes.
It said the 800 passed through
Khabarovsk in a seven-month
period enroute to Kamchatka and
the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Kamchatka is the peninsula reach
ing down from Siberia nearest the
tip of the Aleutians. The Sea of
Okhotsk is inside the peninsula.
The closest part of the sea would
be 800 miles or more from the tip
of North Korea.
He continued: “Since there are
hints that many hospitals have
been built in that comer of north
east Siberia, one conclusion to be
drawn is that the doctors ore
needed to meet a possible influx
of war casualties, either erf Soviet
troops or, since Chinese hospitals
are reported to be overtaxed, of
North Korean and Red Chinese
wounded.
“The teachers might be required
to instill the doctrines of Marx
ism-Leninism among troops con
valescing there.”