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VOL. LIII No. 75 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1951 Per Copy—15^
President Asserts
U. S. Ready To Join
Korea Settlement
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (/P)
— President Truman responded
to Russia’s puzzling peace feeler
today with an assurance the
United States is ready to join in
a Korean settlement. But he said
any settlement? must end the ag
gression and bring security to the
Koreans.
The President’s comment topped
world-wide reaction to the sug
gestion of Soviet Union’s Jacob
Malik for discussions on a cease
fire and withdrawal of all troops
from the 38th parallel. The Peip
i:ng radio broadcast Malik’s pro
posal; Pravda and Izvestia printed
it in Moscow—although without
comment.
A spokesman for the govern
ment of President Syngman Rhee,
of the Republlic of Korea, said the
Russian move is a trick.
South Korean spokesmen have
been worried by indications that
* the United Nations might agree
to a cease fire stopping the fight
ing somewhere along the 38th
parallel and leaving to the future
any political settlement on unify
ing the country.
Missing PA A Plane
Found in Africa
MONROVIA, (vP) — Reports
reaching here said a missing Pan
American World Airways Constel
lation with 40 persons aboard has
been spotted at Totota, about
four hours travel time from Mon
rovia. The plane had been miss
ing more than 24 hours.
There was no word as to cas
ualties.
Doctors and ambulances from a
Lutheran mission 13 miles from
the crash scene were reported
heading for the plane.
In New York, a Pan Ameri
can spokesman said the plane
was reported located 50 miles
northwest of Roberts Field, the
Liberian airport, which was its
destination.
A tornado raged through part
of the Dakar area early yesterday.
There was no indication whether
the high winds may have struck
the Constellation as it sought to
land at Roberts Field, Liberia,
during a tropical rain.
President Urges Airlines
Pilots to End Strike
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman Saturday urged striking
United Airlines pilots to return to
work immediately so that the Na
tional Mediation Board may con
tinue efforts to reach an agree
ment
He sent a telegram to David L.
Behncke, president of the Air
Line Pilots Association, appealing
to him personally and to each of
the striking pilots to comply with
the request.
The President said he could not
emphasize too strongly the im
portance of continuing air trans
portation in this critical period
and does not believe the pilots
would desire" to “subject them
selves to national criticism under
such circumstances.”
Proposes Oct. Deadline
For Assessment Work
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A bill
to change the date for beginning
annual assessment work on mining
claims from July 1 to Oct. 1 was
introduced Friday by Rep. Baring.
Baring told a reporter that in
many mining sections, after severe
winters, claim owners find it hard,
if not impossible, to get to' their
claims before July 1 to complete
their assessment work. j
Gov. Dewey To
Visit War Front
ALBANY, N. Y., (/P) — Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey will make a
flying trip next month to the
Korean war front and other major
trouble spots in the Pacific in an
effort to help bolster the fight
■against Communist aggression.
The twice-beaten Republican
presidential candidate, in announ
cing the month-long 25,000-mile
trip, said he would confer in For
mosa with Shiang Kai-Shek, head
of the Chinese Nationalist govern
ment.
Dewey has been one of the
foremost advocates of stronger
American support for Chrang’s
government.
Dewey also will talk with top
political 'and military leaders in
Japan. Australia, New Zealand,
the Philippines, French Indor
China, Indonesia and M-alaya.
Dewey said he was not making
the trip as a representative of the
U.S. government “or anyone else.”
Furthermore, Dewey said, “I’m
traveling at my own expense.”
Asked whether there were any
thing political in the trip, domes
tically speaking, Dewey replied
vigorously: “Absolutely none.”
Wealthy Widow
Indicted For
Manslaughter
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., (ff) |
—Wealthy Mrs. Margaret G. Ryan
must answer a manslaughter in
dictment for the fatal shooting of
a 22-year-old trespasser.
Mrs. Ryan, widow of a New
York stock broker, burst into tears
when a 17-man county grand jury
delivered the indictment Friday.
She had testified the June 9
killing of Leonard D. Ray, a Navy
veteran and Sunday School teach
er, was in self defense. She said
Ray jabbed a .22 rifle against her
chest when she asked him to leave
her ranch. He was crossing it en
route to fish.
Last week, a coroner’s jury
called the shooting “unjustifiable
homicide.” The grand jury said
she fired “unlawfully and felon
iously.”
A $227,000 damage suit was
filed against Mrs. Ryan by the
slain youth’s father, Leonard D.
Ray, Sr., for the 16-year-old
widow, Mary, and eight-month
old daughter. Shirley.
The Cub Scouts are training
this week to march in the 4th of
July parade.
Assistant Cub Scout Master
Cpl. Clarence Thompson is drill
ing the boys in preparation for
the event.:
Gen. O’Donnell
Asserts Air Forces
Ready with ‘Bomb’
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Maj. Gen.
Emmett (Rosie) O’Donnell told
senators today the Air Force is
keeping atom bomb - carrying
planes ready to strike back swiftly
if this country is attacked.
“We have streamlined out pack
ages and equipment so that we
can get out there in an absolute
minimum of time and go into
action,” O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell, former head of the
Strategic Bombing Command in
the Far East was testifying as
the 12th and scheduled final wit
ness, at Senate hearings on the
dismissal of Gen. MacArthur. The
Senators aimed to finish with him
and complete the inquiry today.
Before O’Donnell began testify
ing:
1. Senator Knowland (R-Calif)
put into the hearing record a let
ter from Fleet Admiral Ernest J.
King, World War II chief of naval
operations, in which King said at
the time of the Yalta conference
he “was agreeable” to efforts to
bring Russia into the war.
2. The Senators spent consid
erable time debating whether to
call W. Averell Harriman, presi
dential advisor of foreign affairs,
as a witness. There was no final
decision but Senator McMahon
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(D-Conn) said he would in any
case put a sworn statement from
Harriman, former ambassador to
Russia, in the record.
VIOLENCE FLARES IN
WATERFRONT DISPUTE
SAN FRANCISCO, f/P)—A bit
ter waterfront labor squabble
erupted into violence late Friday
night and prevented the sailing of
the Matson liner Lurline—just as
shipping was settling down to
normal after a six-day strike by
seagoing radiomen.
Members of the CIO Maritime
Union—turned down by the Na
tional Labor Relations Board last
week in an attempt to claim juris
diction over members of the inde
pendent left-wing Cooks and Ste
wards Union—picketed the pier
where the Lurline was ready to
sail at midnight.
The arrival of police reinforce
#
ments prevented a large - scale
clash between the NMU and the
MC&S, but billy-wielding offic
ers knocked three MC&S men to
the ground and carted them off
to be booked for inciting riot and
resisting arrest.
Meanwhile, passengers board
ing the Lurline, and their guests
tossed colored paper ribbons back
and forth on the pier, scarcely
aware of the grim goings-on out
side.
TOKYO, (JP) — It is hot and
muggy in Japan but wounded
Canadian soldiers in the hospital
at Korea have a cool treat coming.
They have been advised that
the Vanepuver, B. C., Women’s
Auxiliary of the Princess • Pat
ricia’s Canadian Light Infantry is
sending by plane 400 pounds of
strawberries and ice cream, pack
ed in dry ice.
New Alaska Highway To
Be Named For Ike Taylor
JUNEAU, (/P)—Secretary of the
Interior Chapman announced from
Washington that a new Alaska
road will be named the Taylor
Highway honoring Ike P. Taylor,
former member of the Alaska
Road Commission.
The road to bear his name will
be the stretch under construction
between Tok Junction and Eagle.
Taylor, a member of the road
commission for 25 years, has re
tired and now lives in Seattle.
President Asks j
Strengthening Of
Economic Controls
WASHINGTON, (jP)—President
Truman appealed to Congress
Saturday for stronger economic
controls. He said committee ac
tions todate “take the asy way”
which he said is extremely dan
gerous.
The President sent similar let
ters to Vice President Barkley and
House Speaker Rayburn.
He endorsed an accompanying
report by his National Advisory
Board on mobilization policy,
pointing to inflation dangers and
had this to say about recently ap
proved amendments to the de
fense production extension bill:
“I have been considerably dis
tressed by some provisions in the
defense production bills reported
by the Senate and House Banking
and Currency committees.
“I recommend most strongly
that the defense production bills
be strengthened by the Congress,
so that we can build the .defense
of our country without undermin
ing the standard of living of our
people or weakening the Ameri
can dollar.
Segregation Upheld
By Federal Court
CHARLESTON, S. C., (JP) — A
three-judge^ federal court Satur
day upheld the segregation of
white and Negro students in South
Carolina’s public schools.
The decision, in effect, upholds
the traditional segregated public
school system of the entire south.
The 2 to 1 decision was accom-'
panied by an injunction ordering
South Carolina to equalize its
school facilities for Negro stud
ents.
Judge John J. Parker of the
Fourth U. S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals, and District Judge George
Bell Timmerman comprised ' the
majority. District Judge J. Waties
Waring, who opened South Caro
lina’s Democratic primaries to
negroes, dissented.
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Cause of Navy Plane
Crash Not Known
SEATTLE, (JP) — Three surviv
ors had no idea Saturday what
caused Thursday’s crash of a four
engine Navy Privateer plane in
mudflats near Whidby Island.
They said in interviews that one
minute they were flying at 3it)0
feet. The next minute they were
standing in two feet of water.
Five were killed in the crash,
which will be studied by a Naval
board of inquiry.
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Korean War In
Second Year Today
(By the Associated Press)
The world talked of peace, but
the Korean war roared into its
second year today.
Chinese and North Korean Reds
were more aggressive all along
the 100-mile battlefront.
Communist jets streaked out of
their Manchurian sanctuary on
another typical hit-and-run attack.
Allied warships continued to
pour a hail of steel into east coast
ports in North Korea.
The cease-fire and armistice
proposal by Russia’s Jacob Malik
put no damper on the fighting.
Allied officers, noting an omin
ous enemy buildup in the west,
had predicted a limited Commun
ist counterattack to celebrate the
war’s first birthday.
It was the eighth day in the
last nine that jet battles have
i swirled high over North Korea.
The Reds have lost 13 planes de
stroyed and 29 damaged.
The Allied have lost^ll planes
in that period.
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Savage See-saw
! Battles In Korea
(By the Associated Press)
TOKYO,' (JP)—The Allies won a
savage, seesaw fight with Reds in
central Korea, bumped into a
Communist build up in the west
and scored a new victory in the
mounting air battles Saturday.
Over northwest Korea, 42 to 48
jets tangled for the sixth day in
a seven-day period. One Red jet
was damaged before the enemy
fled back to Manchuria.
The triangle fight, in central
Korea more than 20 miles north
off Parallel 28, broke out at a
time when Allied officers were
on the alert for a Communist of
fensive, expected on the war's
first anniversary, June 25.
High ground exchanged hands
five times during the day. J
World Court To
i
Hold Hearings On
Iranian Oil Dispute
(By the Associated Press)
The International Court of Jus
tice at The Hague—judicial arm
of the United Nations — stepped
into the critical Anglo-Iranian oil
despute Saturday. It will begin
hearings next Saturday.
Britain requested the World
Court to intervene after its nego
tiations with Premier Mohammed
Mossadegh’s Nationalist govern
ment broke down this week.
The Iranians pushed ahead with
their “no compromise” move to
nationalize the rich Persian oil
resources, forcing out British con
trol of oil production in that
Middle East country.
Some 3,000 British workers—
most of them the trained techni
cians needed to keep the intricate
and sprawling refineries going—
are being urged by Iran to stay
on as employes of the newly na
tionalized Iranian National Oil
Company. These workers, includ
ing on-the-spot company officials,
have not yet indicated they are
willing.