VOL. LIV No. 36_ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1952
World Peace
(Hinges Upon
Korean Armistice
TOKYO, </P)—Gen. Matthew B.
Rid gw ay says the stakes in the
Korean armistice talks are world
peace.
The Allied supreme commander
said in an interview he prays con
stantly that Americans will be
extremely patient while United
Nations Command negotiators
withstand Communist deceit and
stalling.
Ridgway conceded that the pro
longed truce talks—now in their
ninth month—tried one’s patience,
but added:
“Patience is a necessity. The
stakes in this case are not only
the lives of Allied prisoners in
Communist hands, but world
peace itself.
“Far reaching and almost in
calculable consequences could
flow from facts which some of
our people advocate in the cur
rent situation.”
The 57-year-old commander de
scribed as “most disturbing” Rus
sia’s charges that the Allies are
waging germ warfare in North
Korea—charges deneid repeated
ly by high U.S. officials.
“It is completely in accord with
the deliberate and repeated em
ployment of falsehoods of Soviet
leaders,” he said. “It is all a part
of the big lie. The result is more
hatred and more animosity and
less chance of getting the world
si tunf ion straightened out.”
He added that the Communist
charges show “they will stop at
nothing to stir up things which
could lead to -b:tterness and war.”
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Master Mind Of
Redfield Burglary
Is Arrested
RENO, (A*)—Mrs. Marie Jeanne
D’Arc Michaud was in the county
jail here Monday awaiting trial
as the admitted master mind of
the $1,500,000 Redfield burglary.
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She was brought to Reno Sat
urday from Flagstaff, Ariz., where
she was arrested with nearly
$1,000,000 in cash, jewelry and
securities. All of it was identified
as loot from LaVere Redfield’s
safe, taken in a daylight burglary
v Feb. 29.
Mrs. Michaud was a frequent
guest of the eccentric Reno mil
lionaire.
“That old miser had a couple
of million dollars lying around
the house,” she said in an inter
view at Flagstaff Saturday. “I
decided this money should be
placed in circulation.”
The 36 - year - old short story
wri.er said she planned and en
gineered the burglary.
Parts of the loot were found
on seven others arrested. The fed
eral grand jury will take up the
Cc3e next Monday.
PAWLING, N.Y.. (/P)—Monday
is Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s 50th
birthday but he says he is not
celebrating.
“I’m trying to forget it," Dewey
jo t.d Sunday.
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Fire Wipes Out
Half Wrangell’s
Business District
WRANGELL, (tf>) — A wind
fed fire wiped out more than half
of Wrangell’s business section
early Saturday, destroying 20
frame buildings and a residence
perched on pilings along the
town’s main street.
The loss was estimated by Fire
Chief William D. Grant at close
to one million dollars.
Eighty-five persons were made
homeless before the flames were
brought under control at 3 a.m.,
4Vfe hours after the fire mush
roomed from a hardware store.
Firemen said a boiler explo
sion was the apparent cause.
Dynamiting of buildings in the
path of the raging blaze failed to
stem its advance. Not until col
lapse of the only hotel in this
j community of 1,200 persons 720
I miles north of Seattle was the fire
controlled.
The entire water side of the
town’s single business street was
a scene of destruction. For four
blocks the narrow beach was lit
tered with the smoldering re
mains of the buildings, all of
which were built on pilings be
cause the steep hillside on which
Wrangell is situated slopes sharp
ly toward the water.
Gone were the community’s
only bakery, barber shop, frozen
food locker plant, theater and
hotel. Also destroyed were a new
Elks club and bowling alley, Red
men’s Lodge, one of three large
grocery stores, two liquor stores
and two gift shops.
It was the first major fire in
Wrangell since 1906, when all
buildings on the land side of the
business street were burned out.
Seaman Gets $30 a Day
For 67 Days While
Chained To Ship’s Rail
SEATTLE, <JP) — William Oly
nyx will get approximately $30
a day for the time he spent chain
ed to the rail of the steamship
Clyde L. Seavey on a trip from
Java to Houston, Tex.
A Superior Court jury which
deliberated less than four hours
Friday evening awarded the for
mer boatswain $2,000 instead of
the $100,000 he asked.
The New Westminster, B. C.,
seaman was chained to the rail
of the Isthmian Steamship Co.
vessel after he returned from a
trip ashore at Batavia, July 17,
1948. He was kept there until the
ship reached Houston 67 days
later.
At Houston he was acquitted of
assaulting the captain but con
victed of assaulting the second
mate.
Closing testimony Friday fea
tured a deposition from the man
who had been master of the ves
sel when the chaining took place.
He * was Sidney Erick Williams,
who said he had been afraid Oly
nyk might “stir up” mutiny.
“The sole purpose was for the
safety of the ship and crew,”
Capt. Williams said in the depo
sition read to the jury. The steam
ship company was defendant in
the suit. *
Foreign Policy Is
World Peace But
Not At Any Price
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman says the basic purpose of
the American foreign policy is to
build peace in the world—'but not
at any price. And he says it is*
succeeding.
“We are turning back the threat
of Communism,” the President
says in a foreword to an 80-page
outline of U.S. foreign policy,
drafted by the State Department
at his request and printed for
public use.
“The purpose of the American
foreign policy is to defend the
independence and the integrity of
the republic. To do this we must
build peace in the world; not
peace at any price, but peace in
which the peoples of all coun
tries— big and little alike — can
live free from the fear of aggres
sion Everything we do in our
relations with other countries has
that paramount aim.”
It was made clear that U.S.
postwar relations with other na
tions have been molded by a
continuing threat of Soviet ag
gression.
Wisconsin And
Nebraska Elections
To Be Next Week
(By the Associated Press)
While Wisconsin voters settled
back Monday to a week of being
wooed by presidential hopefuls,
the Nebraska electorate heard
talk of a “write-in” drive.
Both states hold primaries
April 1 and, as the final campaign
week began, this was the picture:
In Wisconsin, Republicans had
a choice among three candidates
for presidential nomination—Sen.
Taft, Gov. Earl Warren and
Harold Stassen. All three were
stumping for their slates of 30
convention delegates.
Gen. Eisenhower’s name is not
on the Wisconsin ballot as the
state does not count write-ins.
Democrats in Wisconsin choose
between two 28-vote delegate
tickets, both claiming to represent
President Truman. But Sen. Ke
fauver was waging a battle he
hopes will sweep the board.
In Nebraska, Rep. Buffett’s re
turn home from Washington was
expected to open a write-in cam
paign for Taft. Eisenhower sup
porters already have asked news
papers to show how .write-ins are
cast. Stassen backers criticized
Buffett’s move and invited the
Eisenhower people to align them
selves with Stassen.
The Democratic race is 'between
Kefauver and Sen. Robert Kerr of
Oklahoma.
In Washington, D. C., the Wash
ington Post, an independent news
paper which has not endorsed a
presidential candidate during the
20 years of its present manage
ment, said editorially Monday.
“We stand for Eisenhower.” It
called for a “complete change,”
said “a Taft - Truman contest
would settle nothing” and labeled
Eisenhower “the dynamic force to
rejuvenate our politics.”
Tornadoes Leave
174 Dead Friday
Along Mississippi
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., (JP) — j
Spring tornadoes rumbled with
black fury across four southern
states on the Mississippi River
Friday and left 174 dead and
more than 1,000 injured.
Even as rescue workers toiled
through the muck and debris of
the shattered areas, the Washing
ton weather bureau warned that
fresh tornadoes might hit in Ten
nessess, Kentucky and Alabama
Saturday afternoon.
The bureau warned that by
nightfall the storm conditions
would reach into the western
parts of Virginia and West Vir
ginia.
Up and down the Mississippi
River in Arkansas, Tennessee,
Missouri and North Mississippi
large sections looked as if some
vast artillery barrage had been
laid down.
Damage to homes, factories,
public utilities and farms was ex
pected to run into the millions of
dollars.
Worst hit was Arkansas where
the vicious black funnel, laced
with rain and shot through with
lightning, killed 115 persons.
Forty died in Tennessee, eight in
Mississippi and 11 in the Caruth
ersville area of Missouri.
This was by far the worst storm
ever to hit Arkansas. The dead
liest previous storm was June 5,
1916 when 86 persons were killed.
The highest single day’s toll from
tornadoes was on March 18, 1925
when 689 people in Missouri,
Illinois and Indiana, died.
Air Force To Drop Food
To Starving Cattle
ELKO, Nev., (jP) — Big Air
Force planes from four states
were to “bomb” the snowy ranges
of Nevada Monday with hay for
sfarving cattle. A new storm tem
porarily grounded the operation
Sunday.
C-54s at Great Falls, Mont.,
C-124s at McChord Field, Wash.,
and a C-82 at Denver were alerted
to augment haylift cargo planes
from Hamilton Field, north of
San Francisco.
Eight ranchers in Elko county
have called for air-drops to some
7,000 cattle. Some 82 other cattle
owners were relying on 25 army
bulldozers from Ogden, Utah, to
clear lanes through the snow to
1'90,000 menaced stock.
Arctic Weather Stations
To Get Summer Supplies
WASHINGTON, (£>)—.U.S. and
Canadian weather stations in the
Arctic will receive early in April
their first visitors from the out
side world since last summer.
The Defense Department an
nounced Monday two Royal Can
adian Air Force transport planes
and four U.S. Air Force C-5Vs
will take in supplies.
The Arctic stations make year
a round reports, important in the
study of the world’s weather
movements.
One station, 350 miles south of
the North Pole, is the farthest
north of any human settlement.
Eisenhower Says
America Does Not
Need Socialism
WASHINGTON, (iT*)—It is Gen.
Eisenhower’s opinion that “in
some things . . . we have drifted
too far to the so-called left.”
This and other views held by
the five - star general were set
forth today in an “off the record’*
interview published by U.S. News
k World Report.
Eisenhower said the drift to the
left has been shown “particularly
n our emphasis cm legislation as
i panacea.” And, he added:
“America is not the kind of
country that needs socialism. We
can achieve whatever reforms we
need without such a radical
change in our own economic set
up.
“There are people in this coun
try, of course, who want to gc*4
clear over to the left. I just don’t
agree that America’s future lies
in that direction.”
He was then asked: “Do you
think there is a ‘middle way* that
is not too far over in the right
and is certainly in the direction
of the left?”
Eisenhower said that depends
on the definition of “middle way”
and added that “in a general way”
he would agree that the proper
way is to select good ideas, no
matter from which side they
come.
At another point, Eisenhower
said that he believes the key to
being a successful President lies
in the ability to select and handle
men.
More Crackdowns
On Iron Curtain
Embassies in U.S.
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The State
Department threatened more
crackdowns on Iron Curtain em
bassies and legations in this coun
try which distribute abusive pro
paganda against the United States.
Department informants said the
shutdown Friday of a magazine
published by the Polish embassy
was intended partly as a warning
to other Red governments.
Behind the American attitude
appears the basic policy belief
that the maintenance of U.S. dip
lomatic missions behind the Iron
Curtain is desirable—but not at
any price.
Secretary of State Acheson or
dered the Polish embassy to cease
publishing its magazine, “Poland
Today,” which comes out every
two months, and to issue no more
press releases the State Depart
ment considers improper.
In his rebuke to Ambassador
Jozef Winiewicz, Acheson indic
ated further decisive steps would
be taken if the order is not fol
lowed.
The American protest was
against violent denunciation of
this country’s hearing on the
Katyn Massacre, which the Polish
magazine called “a farce.”