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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOL. LIV No. 19 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1952 Per Copy—15<r
Chamber’s Lincoln Day Banquet
Hears Reports On Year’s Activities
A Lincoln Day banquet was
held last evening by the Chamber
of Commerce in the Firelite Room
of the Board of Trade and a de
licious dinner was served to about
70 guests.
Following the dinner, four new
officers of the Board of Directors
of the Chamber were elected.
They included Dr. Fred Langsam,
Mrs. Grant Jackson, Carl Glavi
novich and A. Polet.
Secretary Polet, instead of read
ing the usual annual report, called
attention to important things that
are coming before the Chamber,
such as the election of permanent
officers for the Visitors Associa
tion at Fairbanks next week. He
stressed the importance of the
tourist industry in Nome, stating
that one month alone last year
brought 1300 visitors by plane
into the community. He also
called attention to the new popu
lation figures just released in
Washington. (These are published
on Page 2 of this issue.)
Carrie McLain, City Clerk, gave
a resume of city income and ex
penses, showing a total income of
$118,000 for *1951, with expenses
at approximately $104,000. This
shows Nome to be over $14,000 in
the black this year.
Superintendent Boe, who has
just returned from an administra
tor’s meeting in Juneau, read an
$
interesting report which was pub
lished in Monday’s Nugget. He
added that the City of Nome pays
20 percent of the total school ex
j penses and that there were now
309 students in the school.
Capt. S. J. Lemmon, of MAFB,
stated, “I have spent most of my
life in the Army, and the last
eight months which have been
spent in Nome is the most pleas
ant period I have ever had —
I’m speaking for all the men and
officers at MAFB • when I say
this, as after serving in Nome
most of the men ask for extended
■ service here. When I can retire,
I’m coming back to Nome!”
Lt. Col. W. Brown from Ladd
was introduced and expressed ap
preciation to the Chamber for
! their hospitality.
Mrs. Grant Jackson stated that
j the women of Nome contribute
their share toward the improve
ment of the city by maintaining
1 the library, playfield, hot lunch
program, etc., and that she hoped
to do her part as a board member.
Frank Long, of the Indian Arts
and Crafts Department of the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs, explained
his work, which has to do with
the raising of the standard of
living for Indians and Eskimo and
' the developing of markets for
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With The Negotiators
Of Korean Armistice . . .
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Allied
negotiators today accepted a 60
day limit on exchanging prison
ers and offered to compromise
their demands for supervising a
Korean truce.
The communists had proposed
the 60-day limit. The exchange
period is to start when an armis
tice is signed. The agreement
does not touch the key question
of voluntary repatriation.
The United Nations Command,
holding 132,000 prisoners, had
wanted 30 days more than was
allowed the Reds to complete the
exchange. The Reds list only
11,559 men in Red POW camps.
There was no word from the
communists when they would
have ready their new proposed
solution for the fifth and final
item of the armistice agenda. This
deals with recommendations to
the governments concerned for a
settlement of the Korean problem.
On The Korean Front . . .
SEOUL, Korea, (fl>) — A light
touch of spring hit Korea’s east
ern front today—along with prob
ing communist infantrymen.
The mild weather was continu
ing and a thaw was starting.
A Red company pounded an
Allied advance position on the
eastern front for 10 hours and the
Allies withdrew on Wednesday
morning but reoccupied the posi
tion four hours later against no
opposition and found 12 com
munist dead.
U.S. Fifth Air Force warplanes
cut communist rail lines in 35
places Wednesday morning.
U.N. warships pounded road
and rail networks off the east
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Duke of Windsor Joins
Thousands Mourning
Death of King George
LONDON, (/P) — The Duke of
Windsor returned to England to
day to join in the national mourn
ing for his brother, King George
VI, whose subjects gathered in
increasing numbers to pay tribute
at ancient Westminster Hall.
“It is indeed a sad arrival,”
said the Duke who arrived alone
at Southampton from New York.
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son arrived by plane from the
United States to represent Presi
dent Truman at the state funeral
Friday. He will join six kings
and the representatives of many
heads of states in the rites at
Windsor.
Despite snow flurries and 17
degree co'ld a line of mourners six
abreast and two miles long formed |
at noon outside the doors of nine
centuries old Westminster Hall
where the dead king lay in state
a second day.
At 8 a.m., when the hall doors
opened, 15,000 were in line. They
filed past silently at a rate of
5,000 an hour—but the line had
grown to 40,000 by noon.
Fire Sweeps Pusan
Black Market Section
PUSAN, Korea, (/P)—A wind
swept fire gutted Pusan’s busiest
black market section Wednesday.
A government representative said
the loss was about $130,000.
The fire started in a house
crowded with refugees and black
market goods. In three hours it
destroyed 100 small shops—dwell
ings and 85 other homes.
Authorities said a large amount
of U.S. Army clothing and Ameri
can cigarettes and can$y was de
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Bill Would Allow
More Civil Defense
Aid To Alaska
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
House Rules Committee gave
clearance today for House consid
eration of a bill which would
allow increased federal contribu
tions for civil defense in Alaska.
The Senate already has ap
proved the legislation.
The measure would exempt
thinly-settled Alaska from a re
quirement of the Civil Defense
Law that federal aid for air raid
shelters and other protective fa
cilities be matched on a 50-50
basis.
Delegate Bartlett said the terri
torial legislature already' has
made a greater per capita appro
priation for civil defense than any
state except New York.
He expressed the belief that
Alaska can be successfully de
fended. But he also noted that a
Siberia-based jet plane could be
over Nome in seven minutes from
takeo*ff or over Fairbanks or An
chorage in an hour.
Bartlett said Alaska probab
ly would provide the shelters it
self if given enough time, “but
the danger might come not ten
years from now, but next year,”
he said.
GOP Lincoln Day
Orators Blast The
Administration
(Bv the Associated Press)
Republicans from coast to
coast took a deep breath Wed
nesday after Lincoln Day speeches
aimed mostly as blasts against the
Democratic administration.
Harold Stassen, former gover
nor of Minnesota, at Salt Lake
City, called for “ending seven
years of mismanaged Missouri
misrule of our nation’s govern
ment. He accused the Truman ad
ministration of waste, loose spend
ing and “unnecssary loss of lives
of American sons.”
Stassen and Taft were in accord
on one point—Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur’s future. Stassen said he
would restore MacArthur as head
of U.S. Far Eastern forces. Taft
said he would revamp U.S. mili
tary leadership and “certainly
make use of Gen. MacArthur’s
ability.”
But a Democrat in Washington
said the oration indicate Republi
cans have “gone a long way” from
Abraham Lincoln’s principles.
Said Senator Moody of Michigan:
“A few of them are worthy
spokesmen. But others, I regret to
say, are using the anniversary of
this great man’s birth merely as
a stage-setting for unbridled at
tacks on the very things he stood
for—on government action to im
plement the human rights and
human justice to which he dedi
cated his career and his life.”
$25,000 WORTH GOLD STOLEN
TIMMINS, (JPh-Two or . three
hooded men made off with $25*
000 worth of unrefined gold at the
Aunor Gold Mines Tuesday after
tying up three workmen. The rob
bers carried the gold precipitate
on a toboggan a quarter mile to
Asserts. Chinese
Nationalists Could
Halt Reds In Asia
SEATTLE, (£>) — A communist
assault on southeast Asia is on
the horizon, Senator Taft told a
Lincoln Day audience here Tues
day night, and “the only chance
to stop it is by a Chinese national
invasion of communist-held terri
tory.”
American arms and training,
the Ohioan told 5,000 persons in
Seattle Civic Auditorium, should
be speeded to Chiang Kai-Shek
on Formosa and the “600,000 men
in his army, navy and air force”
to* deflect this invasion.
“Will they,” he asked in refer
ence to President Truman and
Secretary of State Acheson, “pre
fer to go on sending American
soldiers to the continent of Asia
when Chinese soldiers are beg
ging to be sent to do the job.”
He asked if there could be hope
for such “common sense in our
national administration until
Acheson is thrown out of the
Department of State and Truman
is thrown out of the White
House?”
He was interrupted 21 times by
scattered applause by the audi
ence but lengthy and vigorous
applause broke out when he men
tioned “our greatest soldier: Gen
eral MacArthur.”
Three thousand of his audience
paid $5 each for tickets to the
dinner.
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Population Jumps 85% In
10 Yrs. in Yukon Territory
OTTAWA, (/P)—Canada’s popu
lation has grown 21.8 percent in
10 years and now totals 14,009,
429.
Official census figures pub
lished Monday night showed the
call of the Yukon still is strong.
The Yukon Territory’s population
jumped 85.1 percent, from 4,914
to 9,096, between 1941 and last
June 1, the date of the census.
Besides the natural growth of
population, many persons from
England and from displaced per
sons camps in Europe have come
to Canada since the war.
Fascist Students Release
Hornets at Rome Lecture
ROME, (/P) — Pro - Fascist stu
dents released 100 hornets today
during a lecture at Rome Univer
sity by Prof. Umberto Calosso.
The classroom emptied quickly.
Calosso, who spoke for Italy from
BBC studios in London during
World War II, has been under
attack by pro-Fascist students
for some time. Late last month he
was smeared with red paint while
leaving the university.
GRANDMA MOSES GETS SS
NUMBER AT AGE OF 91
TROY, N.Y., (/P) — Grandma
Moses, whose primitive paintings
won her world fame, has a Social
Security number for the first
time—at the age of 91.
Grandma — Mrs. Anna Mary
Robertson Moses of nearby Eagle
Bridge—recently was assigned an
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account number through the So
cial Security Office here. She had
applied for it as a self-employed
Wildlife Service
Requests Funds
From Pribilofs
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A gov
ernment agency would like to use
profits from the Pribilof Islands*
seal operations to help finance
Fish and Wildlife administration
in Alaska.
Albert M. Day, TJ.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service director, made
the suggestion before the House
appropriations subcommittee han
dling the agency’s budget request
for the 12 months beginning
July 1.
He referred to’ the department’s
situation in Alaska as “desper
ate.”
Sidetracking all or part of the
profit from the Pribilof operation
into the administrative program,
he said, “would be most helpful”
in correcting manpower short
ages in Alaska. He said the Pribi
lo*f operation returns about a mil
lion and a half dollars profit to
the treasury each year.
Day said the entire territory of
Alaska now has only 20 game
wardens—less, he said, than the
state of Rhode Island.
Current appropriations, he
added, permit hiring only 50 tem
porary stream guards during the
summer months as compared with
the 200 guards on the payroll 20
years ago.
Newark Airport Closed
Pending Investigation
Of Airline Crashes
NEW YORK, </P)—Government
and airline officials have pro
mised to keep disaster - haunted
Newark, N.J., airport closed pend
ing congressional “and other re
sponsible official investigations.”
Another direct result of the
New York metropolitan area’s
fourth airliner crash in two
months is an agreement by 25
airlines to create a special safety
committee and to hold flights over
congested areas to a minimum.
Government and airline of
ficials met here for almost six
hours yesterday in the wake of
Monday’s smash-up of a Nation
al Airlines plane in Elizabeth,
New Jersey.
Flight operations at LaGuardia
and Idlewild airfields in the
Queens Borough of New York
City and at Teterboro, NJ., air
port also werew discussed at the
meeting.
Elizabeth’s disaster Monday,
killing 32 persons, was the third
time a plane using Newark air
port crashed in the New Jersey
city. A total of 188 passengers
and residents have died in two
months. '
Capt. Eddie Ri^kenbacker, Am
erican World War I ace and now
president of Eastern Airlines, was
appointed head of the 15-member
airlines’ safety committee. It will
hold its first meeting here Friday.
JET FIGHTER PLANES
COLLIDE, KILLING PILOTS
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (&)—Two
jet fighter planes collided Mon
day, killing the pilots, Capt. War
ren W. Wieser of Taylorville, 111.,
and 1st Lt. Carl D. Tigertt of