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VOL. LIV No, 53.
Soviet Marshal
Accuses U.S. Of
Bacteria Warfare
MOSCOW, (JP) — Generalissimo
Stalin, looking much as usual, re
viewed the annual parade of So
viet labor and armed might Thurs
day from Lenin’s marble tomb and
heard one of his marshals public
ly accuse the United States of
germ warfare in Korea and China.
The 72-year-old Soviet leader
halted once on his way up the long
flight of steps, waving to Russian
spectators and foreign diplomats
looking up at him from the sunlit
stands.
Marshal Leonid A. Gorov, war
time commander of the Leningrad
army, made an anti - Western
speech to troops massed in Red
Square. He said the Soviet armed
forces will deal a “devastating
blow to any attempt of imperialist
aggressors to interrupt the peace
ful and creative labors of the So
viet people.”
Standing by Stalin, he asserted:
“In a mockery of international
agreements, the American barbar
ians are carrying out the greatest
crime against humanity—making
use of bacteriological weapons in
Korea and China.”
Until now no marshal of the So
viet Union had accused the United
States of germ warfare, although
Moscow papers have made the
charge repeatedly.
The parade featured the usual
impressive lineup off tanks, artil
lery’ and rocket launchers. Files
of smart foot soldiers tramped
past with bands playing.
Stalin’s 9on, air force Lt. Gen.
Vassjly Stalin, piloted a four
engined bomber at the head of the
air show over Red square.
Returns Todate On
Territorial Offices
(By the Associated Press)
More return tabulated Friday
from Alaska’s primary added to
the apparently safe margins of
Sen. Aanita Garnick and Neil
Moore for the auditor nominations.
With 141 of the 225 precinct re
ported, Miss Garnick had a lead
of more than 1,500 votes for the
Republican nomination. Moore,
the present auditor, was about
1,200 votes ahead in the Demo
cratic contest.
Delegate E. L. Bartlett, Demo
crat, held an edge of more than
750 voes over Robert Reeve, An
chorage Republican.
J. Gerald Williams, Democratic
Attorney General, ran up the larg
est vote although he had no op
position and the Republicans did
n’t enter a candidate. His latest
figure was 11,391.
Here are unofficial results for
141 precincts.
For Delegate
E. L. Bartlett CD) .9,045
Robt. Reeve (R) .8,277
For Auditor
Anita Garnick (R).3,977
Albert Goetz (R) .;2,405
Neil Moore CD) .5,878
Robt. Sheldon CD) .4,679
.. '-id
Highway Engineer
Frank Metcalf CD) .8,990
Irving Reed CR) .7,362
Major George F. Tanner
New C.O. Nome Field
. Rotary Club was the first or
ganization in town to officially
welcome the new commanding of
ficer of Air Force troops at the
Nome Field, Major George F.
Tanner who arrived this week.
Maj. Tanner comes from Chan
dler, Ariz., where his wife and
three children reside. He has been
in Alaska for the past month.
Prior to his -assignment here, he
was stationed at Randolph Field,
Texas, as operations officer. He
has been in service for 11 years
and during the late World War
served a tour with the 20th Air
Force on Guam as a B-29 pilot.
He has had 123 combat hours.
He was recalled to service last
Junea, going to Randolph Field.
His present assignment here is
scheduled to be for a year, it is
reported.
May Day Riots In
Japan Inspire Anti
Subversive Laws
TOKYO, (/P)—American spokes
men said Japan’s bloody anti-Am
erican May Day riots bore the
“well known trademarks of ruth
less Communism.”
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway said
the riots, in which at least 1,800
were injured and possibly seven
killed, were “clearly of alien in
spiration.”
U. S. Ambassador Robert D.
Murphy called the riots “more of
the same” Russian policy of spark
ing violence which he had seen
in European cities.
The newly arrived ambassador
narrowly missed injury from fly
ing rocks. He told his first press
conference he was surprised by
the ugy anti-foreign outbreak. But
he said, “I felt a little bit at home
as I watched. I detected a cer
tain classic pattern and the same
type of formations” as he saw in
Communist-led European demon
strations.
Foreign Minister Katsua Oka
zai told the Ambassador Japan
was sorry “American nationals
and property were involved in the
riots.” f
And the cabinet moved quickly
to strength the nation’s anti-sub
versive laws with a controversial
new bill.
The measure has inspired two
general strikes by non-Communist
labor unions. But after the May
Day riots, opponents said they saw
little chance of blocking the bill.
Fourth Division Returns
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Returns
from 40 of the division’s 63 pre
cincts gave:
For the Senate: Republicans —
Butrovich 1,641 and Stepovich
1,525.
Democrats — Barr 858, Boulet
634, An german 493.
House standings:
Democrats—Gruel 1,026, Frank
lin 919, Jones 900, Tayolr 860,
Dale 848.
Republicans — Coghill 1,329,
Miscovich 1,225, Wilbur 1,147
Hurley 1,067, Gardner 494, Little
field 489, Manske 477, King 431,
Gold 268.
Seizure of Steel
Mills Shifted To
Supreme Court
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WASHINGTON, (/P)_The CIO
Steelworkers, responding to a re
quest from President Truman,
called off their strike Friday
while the big legal battle over
government seizure of the mills
shifted to the Supreme Court.
The steel industry went to the
Supreme Court with a plea that
it (1) uphold the ruling by U.S.
District Judge David A. Pine that
Truman lacked any legal author
ity to seizq the steel mills, and
(2) forbid the government to raise
wages while the court is consid
ering the momentous issue.
By this move, the industry got
the jump on government attor
neys who had planned themselves
to take the case to the highest
tribunal.
Nevertheless, the government
went ahead and filed its own pet
ition. This argued that the Presi
dent, as comander in chief, had
power to take over the steel in
dustry but said the government
did not “urge that the President
possess unlimited powers.”
The petition contended too that
the power claimed for the Presi
dent “in no sense can ... be
seen as dictatorial or without
boundaries.”
The court could grant a review
to either the industry or the gov
ernment. Normally, court aides
said, the court would either grant
both requests for hearings or deny
both. If the requests were denied,
the case would go back to the
Court of Appeals here.
Recount Discloses
Anchorage Sales Tax
Defeated by Seven Votes
ANCHORAGE, {JP) — One per
cent sales tax proposals failed for
both the City of Anchorage and
the Independent School District
in Tuesday’s election, a recheck
of unofficial returns showed to
day. What looked like a 13-vote
victory for the city tax proposal
was upset by discovery of an error
in one precinct. It actually failed
by seven votes to get the required
55 per cent majority. It was 1,258
for, and 1042 against.
The city council talked of hav
ing a recount on the city sales tax
vote—and possibly a new election.
Heirs of King George VI
Collect On Penny-a-Week
Insurance Started In 1928
LONDON, (/P) — A penny-a
week insurance policy which the
late King George VI took out, as a
jest 24 years ago has netted his
heirs nine pounds four shillings
and three pence—the equivalent
of $25.87. The king had paid in
a total of five pounds, or $14.
The Prudential Assurance Com
pany, which had issued the pol
icy to the then Duke of York
when he toured its London offices
in 1928, paid the amount Thurs
day to the executors of his es
tate. George had kept up the pay
ments.
But when he took it out, he
had to turn to his secretary and
borrow the first penny.
102,000 Guesses Is Net
On Outcome Of Alaska’s
Ice Classic At Nenana
By BURMA ANDERSON
NENANA, May 1 — Manager
Don Clark announced today that
102,000 guesses is the net that
will be divided when the Tan-ana
breaks up at Nenana. Ten per cent
of the gross guesses are being
held at Nenana until the Federal
Internal Revenue Dept, makes a
decision under Section* 102 of the
new gambling law, whether the
Nenana classic rates exemption.
The same ten percent of the
guesses will be divided if the
exemption is okayed.
Dick Gruel of KFAR here will
broadcast ice conditions twice
daily. Jack Coghill is set up for
a 1:25 p.m. daily broadcast over
KFBR. Hiram Grainer, ACS Sig
nal Corps maintenance lineman,
has set up relay lines.
The channel above the Mission
is open completely and the chan
nel across the river from the
tripod is running open.
U. S. Bans Travel In Five
Iron Curtain Countries
By EDWARD E. BOMAR
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The State
Department Thursday banned
American travel in five Iron Cur
tain countries without specific
permission. In three other coun
tries, no travel at all will be
permitted.
A department announcement
called attention to “the dangers
of traveling in countries where
acceptable standards of protection
do not prevail.”
Travel was banned altogether
in China, Hungary and Czechoslo
vakia in a continuation of pre
vious department rulings.
The five countries added to the
restricted travel list are Russia,
Poland, Romania, Albania and
Bulgaria. The department said it
will alow trips to those countries
only for “legitimate reasons.”
All new passports will be
stamped as “not valid for travel”
in the eight countries “unless spe
cifically indorsed under authority
of the Department of State.”
Artillery, Planes, Naval
Guns Hit Communists In
Korea on May Day
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
SEOUL, (>P) — United Nations
forces hit the Communists in Ko
rea with artillery, planes and
naval guns on this May Day.
Big guns blazed along the west
ern front in an explosive duel,
and rattled the Allied truce base
at Munsan.
The battleship Iowa blasted Red
artillery position 16 miles inland
with her 16-inch guns. Her round
the-clock bombardment was sup
ported by the destroyer Bole. The
Navy said the Iowa hit the Reds
with 1,000 tons of explosives in
April.
The Fifth Air Force sent its
planes out in force in the May
Day sunshine and added up its
totals for April.
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It reported Allied pilots shot
down 41 Russian-type MIG-15
jets during the month, probably
destroyed nine and damaged 44.
Thirty-eight Allied planes were
lost from all causes.
Eisenhower Takes
Lead Over Taft
In Delegate Race
(By the Associated Press)
Democrats and Republicans had
fresh sparks flying from each of
their hottest rivalries Friday and
President Truman tossed in a
little tinder of his own.
The Taft - Eisenhower duel for
GOP presidential nominating dele
gates switched leads, with a boost
from Truman’s home state of
Missouri.
In deep-south Florida, the Ke
fauver-Russell race was taking on
a ruddier glow.
Here were the developments,
tempered by Connecticut Sen. Mc
Mahon’s bid for the Democratic
nomination and Truman’s talk
about politics at his Thursday
news conference.
1. Gen. Eisenhower picked up
eight new delegates in Republican
district conventions in Missouri.
This put the general, for the first
time, ahead of Taft in the AP
tabulations of pre - convention
delegate strength.
2. In Salem, Ore., Gov. McKay,
an Eisenhower man, said Taft
backers are trying to pull a “pol
itical trick” in an attempt to “dis
regard the choice of the people.”
Contacted at Mansfield, O., Taft
declined comment on McKay’s
statement.
3. Taft told a reporter in Akron
he “would not turn down an in
vitation” to debate with Eisen
hower.
At his news conference, Presi
dent Truman said he definitely is
not interested in renomination.
Of McMahon's candidacy, he
said the senator is qualified for
the presidency.
Truman also had a word for
Eisenhower, leveling untrue any
reports that the general is sick
arid saying he is as fine a man
as ever walked.
Trapper’s Prfly Found
In Cabin at Pt. Possession,
20 Miles From Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (IP) — A dying
man’s note and a small, starved
frightened dog provided grim evi
dence Friday of a trapper’s lonely
struggle against sickness, winter,
and, finally, death in a wilderness
cabin within 20 miles of Anchor
age.
The body of the victim was
found Monday. Authorities in sub
sequent investigations identified
him as Billy Nicolai, 45, a trapper
and fisherman who generally
spends the winter on Point Pos
session.
A note found in the cabin on
the point indicated that Nicolai
took sick last Nov. 10. In an awk
ward hand, the man wrote he had
been taken ill about seven miles
from the cabin and had been
barely able to return.
He had made a cross out of red
r'ags which he wrapped around
sticks and placed before his door
way. A red flag also was hanging
from the mast of Nicolai’s small
fishing boat.
The note stated that between
10 and 20 planes a day passed
over the cabin but failed to see
the signs.