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VOL. LIII No. 109 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 1951_Per Copy—15l
Judge Kehoe Takes
Oath Of Office As
Secretary of Alaska
According to information re
ceived here today Judge J. Kehoe
took his oath of office as Secre
tary of Alaska this morning in
Juneau.
JUNEAU, f/P)—Llewellyn (Lew)
Williams has had a telegram that
he’s fired as Secretary of the
» Territory of Alaska. He’s also
heard of yesterday’s press confer
ence at Washington in which
President Truman said he fired
Williams because he held him to
be incompetent.
But, Williams said- today, he’s
still waiting for a letter from the
President telling him he’s fired
and why.
In the press conference yester
day President Truman said there
was no politics involved, and
noted that Williams was a Demo
crat. He gave incompetence as the
reason for the dismissal.
Williams was appointed origin
ally by President Roosevelt in
1944 and reappointed by Presi
dent Truman in 1949.
\\ itness Implicates
\^m. Boyle, Jr., In
RFC. Loan Scandal
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A diary
keeping witness told senators to
day that William M. Boyle, Jr.,
helped arrange an RFC loan for
a St. Louis printing firm early
in 1949 after three previous loan
applications by the company had
been turned down.
John E. Toole, an official of the
American Lithofold Corporation,
offered this sworn testimony to
day before a Senate subcommittee,
investigating Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation loans.
Boyle has denied that he ar
ranged loans for the St. Louis
printing firm although he said he
did some “legal work’" for it be
fore he became Democratic Na
tional Chairman.
Toole gave his testimony after
the subcommittee released denials
by Harley Hise and Walter L.
Dunham, former RFC directors,
that they ever had been influ
enced by Boyle to make any loans.
In 1949, when the loan was
made, Boyle was working at Dem
ocratic National Headquarters but
was not National Chairman.
" Korean Situation
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (/P) — United
Nations doughboys today wrested
a towering peak from bitterly re
sisting Reds north of Yanhgu as
the bloody “battle of the hills”
ground on in eastern Korea.
In the air war, Allied planes
roared through Korean skies on
close support missions for the in
fantry and slashing attacks at
Red supply lines.
For the first time in six days
there were no reports of jet bat
tles.
Ground action was, concentrated
along the spiny ridges of Korea’s
eastern front.
Congress Passes
' Biggest Military
Spending Bill
In History
WASHINGTON, (/P>—A gigan
tic military spending bill carry
| ing $59,508,009,630 — nearly two
1 billions more than President Tru
man asked—won unopposed Sen
ate approval late yesterday.
After four days of warm debate,
the Senate passed the biggest
single military money bill in his
tory, 79 to 0, and sent it back to
the House.
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo),
who steered the measure through
the Senate, said a Senate-House
; conference committee probably
would begin attempts at ironing
out scores of differences early
next week. Biggest of these is an
extra $5 billion to beef up U.S.
j air power and carry on work on
new secret weapons.
Pennsylvania City
Has Bumper Crop
Bank Embezzlers
! NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., (fl
For the second time in a month
a prominent banker has been
! charged with embezzling more
than $500,000.
Amazement was expressed by
I most people after the arrest of
William Paul Smeltzer, 60-year
I old assistant cashier of the First
National Bank. He is charged by
the FBI with having embezzled
$550,000 in the past 22 years.
Just a month ago Ludwig
Schlekat, president of the Par
nassus National Bank here, was
charged with embezzling $650,000.
At the time of Schlekat’s ar
rest government officials said
the shortage attributed to him was
one of the largest found in a
small town bank in the country.
New Kensington is a community
of about 25,000, 18 miles northeast
of Pittsburgh.
The FBI said that Smeltzer, the
father of three grown children,
took about $25,000 a year for more
than 20 years—adding that he
had full charge of the bank’s
ledgers.
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Seattle and Hollywood To
Play Best of Five Series
(By the Associated Press)
It’ll be Seattle and Hollywood
—the Pacific Coast League’s top
two clubs in regular season play
— in the best-of-five baseball
playoff final which opens in Seat
tle tomorrow night.
The teams are idle today. To
morrow night Ben Wade <16-6)
will hurl for the movietown
stars. Seattle’s pilot, Rogers
Hornsby, is keeping mum about
his selection.
It might even be Harold Brown.
The busy Brown compiled a 16-6
record after joining the Rainiers
late. Then in the playoff semi
final which closed last night,
Brown was credited with both
Seattle victories.
He hurled a 7-0 shutout in the
series opener. Last night he came
on in relief and check the Angels
while the Rainiers thumped their
way to victory.
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Wickersham Says
Alaska Minerals
Developed
CAP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (TP) — Defense
installations in Alaska are in
much better condition than they
were two years ago Rep. Wick
ersham (D-Okla) said today.
The congressman, who visited
Alaska last week as a member of
the House Armed Services Com
mittee, added however, there is
a need to “fully protect” Alaska
as part of the national defense
because it is so close to West
Coast defense plants and manu
facturing areas.
Additional highways, railroads
and shipping facilities are needed,
he declared, and Alaskan strate
gic minerals and materials should
be developed, he told a reporter.
Wick^sham said the defense of
ficials in Alaska are doing a “good
He described housing condi
tions as “rather unfavorable,” but
did not elaborate.
260 Salmon Due At
Alma Mater, U of
W Fisheries Lab.
SEATTLE, (JP) — Whether a
j college-bred salmon will return to
his alma mater on homecoming
day is something that has Univer
sity of Washington Fisheries ex
perts on the edge of their rearing
! pools.
Some 260 college-trained fish
are due to return to the campus
at the opening of the fall quar
ter.
Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, direc
tor of the Applied Fisheries Labor
atory, said the first batch of sal
mon was released from the cam
pus spawning grounds the spring
of 1950. They were 18 months old
then. Each fingerling was marked
by a clipped fin for identification.
Some have been returned by
sport and commercial fishermerf.
Some were caught at the rich
feeding grounds off Vancouver Is
land and weighed as much as 12
pounds.
Studies here this summer by
University of Wisconsin research
ers indicate that memory and a
sense of smell help a salmon
identify its birthplace.
Dr. Donaldson says he hopes the
returning salmon will make a
sharp left turn into the university
fish ladder.
Some 26,000 fingerlings were
released in 1950. Dr. Donaldson
says heTl be satisfied if there’s a
one per cent return.
Annroves $5 Billion For
Military Construction
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (ff> — Senate
and House conferees reached ag
reement today on a $5,864,301,178
military construction program —
the largest ever to be approved
by Congress in a single package.
The bill includes . an Alaska
military program of more than
$335,000,000.
The bill, however, is only an
authorization. Actual money
would have to be provided later.
Reds Hint Talks
Would Resume If
Allies Admit All
Truce Violations
TOKYO, Sept. 13, (/P) — The
Peiping radio threw out a hint
the price for resuming Korean
truce talks would be Allied ad
mission that all Red truce viola
tion charges are true.
The 'United Nations command
has rejected all of a long string
of charges except one. It has ad
mitted the accidental strafing of
the Kaesong neutral zone Monday.
The Peiping radio quoted a Com
munist correspondent at Kaesong
as declaring:
“The cease-fire talks could start
again immediately and agreement
could be reached in a short time
if the Americans accepted the mil
itary realities” and took the re
sponsibility for all the alleged neu
trality violations.
The Allied officers had just
handed the Reds a note apolo
gizing fcrr the accidental strafing
of the Kaesong neutral zone by an
Allied B-26 bomber on Monday.
U.N. command has not made the
Red note public, and has refused ,
to comment on it.
56 Senators Oppose
Recognition China
By U. S. or Japan
WASHINGTON, (/P>— Fifty-six
senators have gone on record as
opposing recognition of commun
ist China by either the U.S. or
Japan, or the idea of a Japanese
treaty with the Reds.
They set forth these views in n
letter to President Truman, re
leased yesterday by Sen. Know
land <R-Calif>. Knowland told a
news conference he began circu
lating it among senators at noon
Wednesday and that all of the 55
— both Republicans and Demo
crats—he asked to sign it with
him did so.
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American Engineer In
Philippines Is Missing
MANILA, (/P)—The wife of an
American engineer missing since
yesterday noon said today she
feared he has been kidnaped.
Mrs. Lester Carp offered $5,000
reward for information concern
ing her 60-year-old husband.
Speculation' that he has been
killed or kidnapped increased
when his jeep was found in a
river near the Pulungmaba sugar
plantation near Del Carmen. Four
bullet holes were found in the
jeep.
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Ousted Collector Indicted
BOSTON, (IP) — Denis W. De
laney, fired by President Truman
as Massachusetts Collector of In
ternal Revenue, was indicted to
day by a federal grand jury on
charges of accepting a check to
influence an official decision.
THURSDAY BASEBALL
American League
Detroit 9—New York 2
Boston 5—St. Louis 4
Washington 1—Cleveland 0
National League
St. Louis 6—New York 4 (day)
Boston 2—St. Louis 0 (night)
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Big Three Agree on
Terms German
Contributions
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The Big
Three foreign ministers — Secre
tary of State Acheson, Britain’s
Herbert Morrison, and Frances
Robert Schuman—last night ag
reed on main terms for a partner
ship deal which would allow the
West Germans to contribute forces
to the Western alliance.
Today, it was reported reliably,
the ministers confirmed Big Three
unity on measures to protect their
nationals behind the iron curtain.
Informed officials said the minis
ters agree that such unity already
exists as evidenced by yesterday’s
joint ban cm Czechoslovak airline
flights over Germany and France.
The move presumably was a
measure of retaliation for Czecho
slovakia’s refusal release AP
correspondent William Oatis from
a Prague jail where he is serving
a ten-year sentence on charges of
espionage.
PARIS, '(JF)—The French for
eign ministry said today recruit
ing of Germans for Western de
fense will begin only when the
framework of a European army
has been established. It said that
under no circumstances can there
be even the nucleus of a German
national army.
The foreign ministry issued the
statement in denying a report in
the newspaper Figaro that Foreign
Minister Schumn had consented ter
“the immediate raising of Ger
man contingents under the author
ity of the Atlantic organization.”
Air Force Discloses
First Pilotless
%
Bomber Squadron
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The Air
Force disclosed Thursday it is
forming its first guided missile
squadron, equipped with a new
“pilotless bomber” type of wea
pon apparently intended for tac
tical use in warfare.
It will be the first operational
unit of its kind in the Air Force.
The squadron, the announce
ment said, will be equipped ini
tially with the Matador, B-451
pilotless bomber, now in produc
tion by the Glenn L. Martin Co.,
of Baltimore, Md.
The disclosure followed closely
recejit statements by President
Truman and several senators re
garding creation of “fantastic”
new weapons.
An Air Force spokesman de
scribed the missile as being sim
ilar in appearance to the swept
wing XB-51 Martin jet fighter,
but smaller.
The spokesman emphasized that
it is a “guided missile,” not mere
ly a drone airplane of the type
used experimentally during recent
years.
There is no provision for a pilot
in the plane.
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SAN FRANCISCO, {IP) — The
transport General William Weigel
was due here Thursday from
Japan with 4,371 army personnel.
Most are rotation combat sol
diers, coming home for rest and
reassignment.