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Negotiators Are
Deadlocked On
Buffer Zone
U. S. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (JP) — Allied and
Red negotiators bargained more
than three hours in sultry Kae
song today, but made no progress
toward ending the shooting in
KoTea.
Instead, they agreed that the
war would continue while they
talk. As they reached this under
standing Allied warplanes smash
ed at the Red Korean capital of
Pyongyang in one of the most de
termined air assaults of the war.
The negotiators remained dead
locked on the problem of a buffer
zone to separate the opposing
armies if and when a cease-fire
agreement is reached.
me iteas warn a zone izv2
miles wide along the 38th parallel,
pre-war political boundary be
tween North and South Korea.
The Allies want a 20-mile-wide
zone along the present battle lines.
Most of these lines are inside Red
Korea, on the average about 20
miles north of the 38th parallel, j
Before today’s session started,
Brig. Gen. Nuchols, U. N. briefing
officer, made it clear to newsmen
that the U. N. considers the 38th
parallel “a political boundary”
and not suitable for a military di
viding line.
“A military armistice confer
ence is interested in providing a
defensible line for each side. It
would be the rarest coincidence if
there were a natural defense line
along an imaginary dividing line
r* along a parallel of latitude.”
B-29s Blast Pyongyang
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, {&) — U. S.
warplanes blasted the North Ko
rean capital of Pyongyang through
rain today in one of the most de
termined air assaults of the Ko
rean war.
* It was not the war’s largest
raid, a Fifth Air Force announce
ment said, but it was pushed
home with vigor.
B-29 Superforts blasted three
Red supply centers in North Ko
rea—Chinnampo and Kyomipo in
the west and Hamhung on the
east coast.
North Koreans fled Monday
from major hills northeast of
Yanggu.
Allied troops battled to the
crest of the hill mass at the cli
max of five and a half days of
flutter fighting.
A. F. Ghiglione Named
Alaska Road Commissioner
WASHINGTON, (JF) — A. F.
Ghiglione of Juneau, Alaska, was
named Commissioner of Hoads in
Alaska by Secretary of Interior
Chapman, Friday, Delegate Bart
lett said.
The new appointee has been
F serving as acting commissioner
since Col. John R. Noyes was re
called by the Army earlier this
year. He was formerly chief en
gineer.
As commissioner Ghiglione also
will be chairman of the Alaska
Road Commission.
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King of Cambodia Sends
President Truman
Live Elephant
SINGAPORE, (yP)—'The king of
Cambodia’s royal good will gift
to President Truman—a live ele
phant—arrived here today to be
loaded aboard a freighter bound
for the United States.
The elephant, sent by King Nor
odom Sianhouk Varmen, will be
expected to arrive in New York
about Sept. 8.
The king announced last March
that he would send the elephant
as a good will gesture following
accreditation of the first Cam
bodian minister to Washington.
At Washington, President Tru
man awaited with apparent calm
the arrival of another weighty
problem.
The only information available
is ththe president plans to turn
the gift over to the big Washing
ton zoo, there being no room foT
j it around Blair House.
U.S. Planning More
Atom Bomb Tests
WASHINGTON, (IP) — The
United States is planning more
tests of the atomic bomb, chair
man Gordon Dean of the Atomic
Energy Commission said today.
Dean declined to tell a news
conference, however, whether the
tests would be at already an
nounced proving grounds or at
some other place. There has been
speculation that a new proving
ground may be established in the
Aleutian Island off Alaska.
Asked why the same proving
grounds cannot be used over and
over again, Dean said that one
of the reasons was the “heavy
logistics” involved in faraway
tests such as those at Eniwetok.
He added: “It depends on what
you want to test.”
Zenda Mining Co. Granted
$70,000 Govt. Loan To
Drill for Tin at Cape Creek
Word has been received from
Norman Stines, through his agent
here, Walter Kirkland, that the
Zenda Mining Co., has been
granted a government loan of
$70,000 to start drilling at Cape
Creek near Tin City.
Drilling operations will start
within a month and if satisfac
tory results are found, a four-foot
dredge will be moved to the lo
cation for next year’s operation.
Norman Stines, well known
mining engineer of Alaska is
scheduled to arrive here on his
way to Tin City about August 10,
according to advices.
Air Force Privates Run
Automobile Theft Ring
FAIRFIELD, Calif., (IP) — Ten
Air Force privates were in jail
today charged with stealing more
than 100 automobiles.
Authorities recovered parts of
some 30 cars stolen from used car
lots in Northern California cities.
Highway Patrol Sergeant Walter
Simmons said the ring was di
rected by Private George R.
Brines, 23, Seattle. He said Brines
was convicted in Seattle in 1944
of car theft and, when arrested,
had a set of master keys.
Team of 3 Wotaien
Make Study Edible
Plants for Air Force
A team of three women includ
ing Christine Heller, Beatrice
Stiepard and Claudia Kelsey is
here this week studying edible
plants.
Miss Heller, formerly employed
as nutrition consultant with the
Alaska Health department, has
made her home in Alaska since
1945 and taught last summer at
the University of Alaska. She is
working on her Ph. D. in nutri
tion at Cornell and is doing this
summer’s work on an Air Force
grant.
Miss Kelsey, Juneau -artist, is
also working under the Air Force
grant and is quaking drawings of
the plants in the field to facilitate
botanical identification for the
compiled booklet which will be
published after the completion of
the study.
Miss Shepard, senior chemist
for the Alaska Health depart
ment, will complete the project
by determining the mineral anal
ysis and vitamin assays orf edible
plants as well as develop methods
of collection and preparation of
I plants.
The Air Force is interested in
the project in connection with
their survival program. Explorers,
prospectors, etc., in the past have
suffered severely from scurvy and
other ailments without knowing
that nearby native plants could
supply the elements their bodies
needed.
Search for Missing DC*4
Shifts 250 Miles to South
JUNEAU, {/P)—A fleet of search
planes continued today to scan
the rugged, island-dotted south
eastern Alaska coast for a miss
ing Korean airlift plane.
The Canadian Pacific Airlines
DC-4 has been missing since July
21 with 38 aboard on a Vancouver-!
Tokyo flight. j
The center of the vast aerial
search by 20 planes swung yester
day to an area south of the last
position reported by the north
bound airliner.
Searchers intensified their look
out around Craig, about 250 miles
south of where the plane was
last reported, after townspeople;
there told of hearing a large
plane the night the DC-4 vanished.
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Western Airlines Planes -
Grounded By Strike
LOS ANGELES, (ff) — Opera
tions of Western Airlines were at
a standstill and all of its planes
were grounded Saturday by a
strike of the Air Carrier Mech
anics Association.
Spokesmen for Western said no
planes will be able to take off
until the mechanics return to
work.
The strike is centered at West
ern’s main bases in Denver, Salt
Lake City, and Los Angeles. All
flight schedules originate in these
cities. Western’s 180 pilots and
100 stewardesses refused to cross
the mechanics' picket lines.
The main issue is the union
shop clause.
Move Under Way Deny
Acheson Distribution
Of Foreign Aid Funds
WASHINGTON, </P)—Senatqrp
contending the proposed $8,506,
000,000 foreign aid program is pri
marily a military, rather than a
foreign relations matter, won a
point today.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee bowed to demands
from the Armed Services Com
mittee and agreed to let the lat
ter group act jointly with it on
the measure.
More than a tiff over senatorial
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prerogatives is involved. There is
a move under way to deny Sec
retary of State Acheson the policy
direction of how the money is dis
tributed.
Some senators contend that
military officials, rather than
Acheson, should have the top au
thority over distribution of arms
aid.
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Airborne Crabs
May Be Start New
Alaska Industry
SEATTLE, *(/P)—Pacific North
west housewives will now be able
to get fresh crabs the year around
and southeastern Alaska will have
a new industry.
That was the prediction today
of a Seattle firm which will begin
shipping crabs by airlines Aug. 19
from Juneau. «
The firm, the Olympic Seafood
Company, said explorations of the
last two years have shown that
an area within 125 milesrof Ju
neau can support 15 crabbers and
give them a take of up to 1,000
dozen crabs per trip.
E. P. Didon, secretary of the
firm, said that compares with a
catch of 300 dozen in Washing
ton waters where the take has
been low in recent years.
He pointed out that the season
is late in Alaska and will bring
crabs to market between July and
January—a time when Washing
ton waters are closed and only
frozen crab is on the market.
27 Returning Combat
Soldiers Seek To Elude
Smallpox Quarantine
SEATTLE, i(/P) — Twenty-seven
combat soldiers went into hiding
aboard a docking troopship yes
terday in a vain effort to elude
a smallpox quarantine, and held
up unloading for IV2. hours until
they surrendered voluntarily.
They were among 2,692 army
rotation troops returning home
from Korea aboard the transport
Marine Adder.
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The 27 and 249 others on the
troopship were exposed to small
pox July 12 enroute from Korea
to Japan. Their exposure was
not discovered until the Marine
Adder was on the high seas.
All passengers and * crewmen
were vaccinated immediately arid
no symptoms of the disease have
shown up.
The hiding 27 straggled out of
their places of concealment after
loudspeAers blared the word that
gangplanks would not be put into
place until they were all ac
counted for.
Secretary Marshall
Digging Into Why’s
Of Controversial
War Statement
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Secretary
of Defense Marshall is digging
into the who’s and why’s of a
controversial Korean war state
ment, issued at the Pentagon ap
parently without top level clear
ance. *
The statement, read to reporters
at a news briefing last Friday,
suggested the Communists could
be using cease-fire talks for gain
ing time to build up their forces
and to set a military trap.
A department spokesman said
Marshall and Deputy Defense Sec
retary Robert Lovett “intend to
get^to the bottom of it.”
A Pentagon general, who asked
not to be identified, said he under
stood the statement was written
by the Army’s Psychological War
fare division. That’s the Army
branch which uses words and
other devices as weapons of psy
chology against the enemy.
There was no immediate com
ment from Psychological Warfare
division officers.
But why the statement was is
sued, no one could—or would—r
say just yet.
Ty Cobb Upholds Big
League’s Tight Control
Of Its Players
WASHINGTON, <JPh-‘Ty Cobb,
the old time famed Detroit out
fielder, spoke out today in favor
of organized baseballs tight con
trol of players.
The 64-year-old balding ex
player gave his views to a House
Judiciary subcommittee bent on
learning whether organized sports
should be exempted from anti
trust laws. Three bills to that end
have been introduced ‘in the
House.
“There has to be something to
protect the big league clubs from
one another,” he said, adding that
the reserve clause in players’ con
tracts gets this job done.
Th6 reserve clause is the con-*
tract provision enabling club own
ers to buy, trade or sell players
without their consent And if the
player object, the clause bars him
froiti playing anywhere in or
ganized baseball.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
New York 8-<2—Chicago 3-0
Cleveland 5—Boston 4
Washington 7-6—-St. Louis 2-8
Detroit 8-0—Philadelphia 4-3
National League
Brooklyn 9—St. Louis 3
i New York 3-6—Cincinnati 1-4
Pittsburgh 6-4—Boston 2-5
Chicago 5-8—Philadelphia 4-6
Pacific Coast League
Los Angeles 8-6—Oakland 4-1
Hollywood 8-4 — San Francisco
2-3
San Diego 3-0—Portland 1-4
Seattle 3-5—Sacramento 1-6