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VOL. LIV No. 91 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1952_Per Copy—15*
Italian Scientist
Explodes Small
Hydrogen Bomb
ROME, (^P) — The Italian de
fense ministry announced Monday
night that an explosion designed
to transform hydrogen into he
lium—the reaction which could
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power a hydrogen bomb — had
been touched off in this country.
The announcement made it
clear, however, that the experi
ment involved only a “very small
amount of hydrogen.”
Defense Minister Randolfo Pac
ciardi said results of the experi
ment could not be determined
until a scientific examination
had been made.
First reports of the explosion,
appearing in the influential news
paper II Giomale D’ltalia, said an
Italian scientist actually had ex
ploded an H-bomb.
The newspaper said the explo
sion was the culmination of stud
ies made by a young atomic
scientist, Ubaldo Loschi.
New York scientists said Loschi
may have been bombarding hy
drogen with its radioactive iso
tope, Tritium.
The aim of these experiments
is to fuse hydrogen, which has an
atomic weight of one, with an iso
tope and get as an end product
helium, which has an atomic
weight of four. The fusion process
would release a vast amount of
energy which would have great
destructive powers.
Reds Suggest Change In
Wording of Controversial
Prisoner Clause of Truce
MUNSAN, (,/P)—The Commun
ists suggested Wednesday a pos
sibly significant change in the
wording of the proposed Korean
armistice document now under
study by staff officers of both
sides.
The Reds proposed changing
the term “captured personnel” to
“prisoners of war” in Paragraph
52, which would then read:
“Each side agrees to insure that
it shall not employ in acts of war
in the KoTean conflict any pri
soners of war released from cus
tody incident to the armistice.”
Col. Duncan S. Somerville, U.
N. Command staff officer, said
he had asked the Reds for clari
fication.
Communist Still Hold
Rain-Drenched Old Baldy
SEOUL, (/P)—One minor action
was reported Wednesday as rain
drenched the Korean battle front
for the sixth straight day.
But on the western front, near
the shell-ripped hill Old Baldy,
U. N. troops counterattacked a
second time against an advance
position seized by 200 Reds early
Tuesday.
A thunderous artillery barrage
and Allied infantry charge early
this morning failed to dislodge
the Reds.
Except for night B-26 and B-29
bomb runs on front line targets
U. N. warplanes were mostly
grounded.
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Goshaw Outlines To
Chamber His Plans For
Fairbanks-Wales Road
George Goshaw of Shishmaref,
one of the biggest boosters of the
area, was a guest of the Chamber
of Commerce yesterday noon at
which time he was made an Hon
orary Member in recognition of
his untiring work and vision for
the future of Alaska.
He outlined his plans for the
next few months during which
time he plans to* do a lot of work
on the Fairbanks - Nome-Teller
Wales Road to maek it a reality.
His plan, he stated, would include
work from a new approach which
is to work through automobile
clubs and organizations through
out the States.
He also recommended that the
Chamber take immediate steps to
request the Navy to consider a
pipeline for fuel from the Barrow
oil fields for the coastal area to
Nome. He told the Chamber that
the idea was not original, as Fair
banks was already on the job,
plugging for the pipeline to go
into that area and help solve one
of Northern Alaskans’ greatest
problems—fuel supply.
Miss Louise Fink, new welfare
worker, was also welcomed by the
Chamber into the community.
Mayor Jones announced that
the city was working on a plan
to release the old ANS School for
a service club for the men of
Nome Field.
Aluminum Strike
Settlement Speeds
Return to Normal
PITTSBURGH, (IP)—Settlement
of a threatened aluminum strike
and speed-up of steel production
put the nation’s economy on firm
footing Tuesday for the first time
in two months.
A walkout of 15,000 CIO steel
workers at nine plants of the
giant Aluminum Company of
America was averted Monday
night by an eleventh hour settle
ment.
The settlement was announced
by the Wage Stabilization Board
on the eve of its final appearance.
The Wage Board, stripped of most
of its dispute - settling powers by
Congress last month, will be re
placed by a new board lacking
any power to propose settlement
terms in deadlocked labor dis
putes.
Approval of a new wage con
tract between Kaiser Aluminum
and Chemical Corp. and the CIO
United Steelworkers Union affect
ing 5,000 employes in Kaiser
plants also was announced.
TUESDAY BASEBALL
National League
Philadelphia 6-4—Cincinnati 1-3
Pittsburgh 7—'Brooklyn 1
Chicago 4—New York 2
St. Louis 6—Boston 5
American League
Cleveland 4—Boston 1
St. Louis 7—Washington 3
Philadelphia 5-&—Detroit 0-10
New York 10—Chicago 7
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 5—Hollywood 1
Seattle 3—Portland 1
San Diego 8—Sacramento 5
Los Angeles 7—Oakland 5
Notes of Discord
Heard Among
South Democrats
'Bv the Associated Press'
New voices were added to the
Republican harmony chorus Wed
nesday as notes of discord sound
ed among Democrats in the
South.
Two senators who backed the
unsuccessful fight of Sen. Robert
A. Taft of Ohio to win the GOP
presidential nomination were
welcomed into the camp of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the party
nominee. They are Sen. Everett
Dirkson of Illinois and Sen. Hugh
Butler o*f Nebraska.
In the Democratic camp, rum
blings of discontent were heard
in Virginia, South Carolina, Loui
siana and Mississippi. Ti^ey ap
peared to be directed more at the
Democratic platform’s civil rights
plank than at the party’s nomi
nees, Gov. Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois and Sen. John J. Spark
man of Alabama.
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In South Carolina, Gov. James
F. Byrnes said he would have
voted against the platform if he
had the chance. He said he will
make his views on the candidates
known when the state Democratic
convention reconvenes Aug. 6 to
decide upon a course of action.
In Virginia, the Richmond News
Leader became the first Rich
mond newspaper to support a
non-Democratic presidential can
didate since 1896. It came out for
the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket. But
a political source close to* the
Virginia State Democratic Cen
tral Committee predicted that the
state convention would not be re
convened to bolt the Democratic
ticket. A decision is left up to
state party leaders.
In Mississippi, former Lt. Gov.
Sam Lumpkin said Eisenhower’s
name will be suggested for pos
sible endorsement at the Aug. 28
reopening of the state Democratic
convention. But Gov. Hugh White
has said he will support the na
tional Democratic ticket.
In Louisiana, Gov. Robert Ken
non said the state Democratic
central committee will decide
whether to support the Steven
son-Sparkman ticket.
The candidates themselves
were busy men.
U.S. Olympic Basketball
Team Sloppy but Unbeaten
HELSINKI, {JP) — The United
States Olympic basketball team
came from behind in the second
half to defeat Brazil, 57 to 53
Wednesday and remain undefeat
ed in Olympic competition. Brazil
led 26-24 at half time. It was the
sixth straight Olympic victory
for the United States, which now
enters the final round-robin com
petition.
The American players seemed
dead on their feet and, despite
their height advantage were not
getting the ball off the back
boards. They also were off on
their shooting and missed fre
quently on very easy chances.
Coach Warren Womble again
mixed up his AAU and Univer
sity of Kansas players in the line
up. The team did not look as
sharp, however, as it did in beat
ing Chile 103-55.
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Additional Quakes
Wreak More Damage
In Bakersfield, Calif.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., (JP) —
An atom bomb wouldn’t scare
the residents of this busy farm
ing town much more than they
were Wednesday. Bakersfield has
been through another earthquake.
Several, in fact.
Official county business is
being conducted on vacant lots.
The courthouse has been jolted
so severely that engineers fear it
may collapse.
Homes have burned, and hun
dreds of jittery residents camped
out after the last series of quakes
Tuesday. They feared their own
homes almost as much as if the
buildings were radiation-contam
inated. g
And an exodus, such as might
stem from an atom-blasted area,
has begun.
At least 2,000 workers are
needed at once to repair irriga
tion lines damaged by the quakes.
Other thousands are needed to
harvest a 50 million dollar cotton
crop, imperiled by lack of irriga
tion water.
Van Fleet Asserts
Armistice Further
Than
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SEOUL, (/P)—Gen. James A.
Van Fleet said today there is less
chance for an armistice in Korea
than ever before.
The U.S. Eighth Army com
mander told a n e w s conference
the prospect for an armistice is
in direct proportion to the amount
of military pressure put on the
Communists and that the Com
munists brieve the United Na
tions forces will not attack to
force a truce.
He said the Reds “still have the
capability of striking at any point
with considerable surprise.”
But he added they .have been
“thinning out their front line
strength quite a bit over a period
of many weeks” to the point
where it is “thinner than ever
before.”
He said their reasons for doing
so were:
1— Floods.
2— U.N. close air support of in
fantry attacks.
3— Pressure on the ground by
the Eighth Army.
4— Lack of supplies in the Com
munist forward areas.
5— Threat of a U.N. amphibious
offensive.
6— A Communist decision that
the U.N. forces will not attack
and that there will not be an
armistice.
LADY FLAGPOLE SITTER
SLEEPS THROUGH ROBBERY
OF SAFE 35 FEET AWAY
SAN JOSE, Calif., (A3)—While
a female flagpole sitter slept
peacefully cm her perch 35 feet
above, thieves sledged away at a
safe in the office of a drive-in
theater.
LaVern Lamb, sitting as a pro
motiOn stunt, later shouted down
to police that she hadn’t heard
the yeggs who hammered the safe
open and escaped with $2,572.
“I didn’t hear a thing,” she
said. “I need my sleep you know.”
33 Million Dollars
Authorized: -
Aircraft
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
Atomic Energy Commission Tues
day authorized a 33 million dollar
testing station for the develop
ment of atomic powered aircraft.
Construction will begin this
summer at the Commission’s na
tional reactor testing station in
Idaho.
The Commission announcement
said 1,000 workers will be em
ployed during the peak of con
struction and 200 operating em
ployes will be required.
The design, development and
fabrication of the original engine
are being handled by the Aircraft
Gas Turbine department of Gen
eral Electric at Lockland, O.
The nuclear phase of the proj
ect are associated with non
nuclear propulsion devices being
developed by General Electric
under an Air Force contract.
Defense Expenditures In
Alaska In 1952 Will
Exceed $150,000,000
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Defense
construction expenditures in Al
aska in 1952 will exceed by at
least $10,000,000 last year’s all
time high mark of $140,000,000,
Col. Louis H. Foote, Alaska Dis
trict Engineer of the Corps of
Engineers, said today.
“There is a widespread impres
sion that the defense construction
program is slowing down in Al
aska and there is to be less work
and fewer projects undertaken,”
he commented. “This simply is
not true.”
This year’s total of 76 projects
will also be exceeded in next
year’s program because of recent
congressional authorizations, he
said. Although strikes have de
layed the deliveries of badly .
needed materials, no major work
stoppages have resulted, he re
ported.
He listed the value of author
izations for Alaska defense con
struction the past six years as
exceeding $586,000,000.
American General Whose
Diary Was Stolen By
Reds is Court Martialed
FT. MEADE, Md., (JP) — The
American general who was re
ported by the Russians to have
kept a diary advocating a hit-’em
first war with the Soviet Union
has been convicted of letting his
diary fall into Communist hands.
Technically. Maj. Gen. Robert
W. Grow was found guilty by a
court martial Tuesday of two of
fenses: jotting down military sec
rets in his personal diary, and
failing to safeguard classified
data.
He was sentenced to a repri
mand, which will count against
future promotion, and suspension
from command for six months.
The hush-hush week-long trial
before 8 generals was so secret
that even now the actual evi
dence against Grow, 57-year-old
hero of two world wars, has not
been made public. Newsmen were
even forbiden to contact those in
volved.