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VOL. LIII No. 122 ~ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1951_ Per Copy—la?
Egypt Rejects Plan
Of West Alliance
In Middle East
CAIRO, (JP)—Egypt rejected to
night a western invitation to be
come a keystone of the proposed
Allied Middle East Command.
Fouad Serrag Eddin Pasha,
minister of the interior and fin
ance, announced the government’s
decision to a wildly cheering ses
sion of parliament.
Thousands of excited Egyptians
milled around the outside of par
liament as the announcement was
made. It amounted to total re
jection of the Western proposal
that an international force sup
plant British troops now defend
ing the Suez Canal.
CAIRO, (/P>—Egypt moved rap
idly t(/day toward rejection of a
western proposal to replace Brit
ish troops defending the Suez
Canal with an international force.
Sources close to the government
said Premier Mustapha Ahas
Pasha would ask parliament to
night to approve Egypt’s “ntf" to
the West’s plan for joining the
Nile kingdom with the United
States, Britain, France and Tur
key in a Middle East defense al
liance against communism.
Parliametary approval, said
these sources “is virtually assumed
to be unanimous.”
The parliamentary session to
night also is scheduled to ratify
Egypt’s junking of her treaties
permitting British defense of the
canal and joint Anglo-Egyptian
control of the million-square-mile
Sudan territory. Britain has said
she will not leave either area.
Eskimo Baby, Survivor of
Arctic Plane Crash, In
Fairbanks for Treatment
FAIRBANKS, {IP) — A year-old
Eskimo child, rescued from a
pouch in his dead mother’s fur
parka after a plane crash that
killed two persons, was flown
here for treatment Saturday.
Dr. Paul B. Hagglund said the
child suffered only a broken arm
and bruises and would recover.
Killed in the crash of a Wien
Alaska Airlines plane Wednesday
near Barrow, Alaska, were pilot
George Harrington and the child’s
mother, Mrs. Ruth Simmons.
The child, Ronald, was found
in the fur-lined compartment on
the back of the mother’s parka
after she was thrown 90 feet in
the crash.
Typhoon Drives U. S.
Troopship Aground
TOKYO, (/P)—A typhoon drove
a troopship on a reef off the
southwest coast of Japan but
nearly 400 United Nations sol
diers aboard and some of her
crew were rescued by a U. S. at
tack transport.
The Kongo Maru, 450-foot U.S.
leased Japanese ship, was hurled
on the reef in the Korea Strait
Saturday by advance winds of a
typhoon that struck southern
Japan a damaging blow Saturday.
A Navy announcement said the
skipper and 42 crewmen, all Jap
anese, would stay aboard the ves
sel unless forced to abandon ship.
Defense Secty. Warns
U.S. Does Not Have
Atomic Weapons
For Easy Victory
By DON WHITEHEAD
MIAMI, Fla., </P)—Defense Sec
retary Robert A. Lovett gravely
warned the nation today that the
United States does not yet have
the fantastic atomic weapons
which can win a quick, easy or
magic victory in war.
In his first public address since
becoming defense chief, Lovett
told the American Legion con
vention:
“The plain fact is that, until
new weapons and new military
applications of atomic energy
have proved their reliability and
are available for field use, our
national safety in the face of at
tack will have to depend upon
improved orthodox weapons in
ample quantity and with suffic
ient trained and equipped ground
and air forces to use them ef
| fectively.”
Bluntly, Lovett declared “ex
aggerated hopes . « . are being
pinned on the availability of new '
super-weapons for fighting and j
winning wars.”
He said such over-optimism can
lead to wishful thinking “which
through disillusionment can bring j
j pessimism and despair.”
Allies Drive Deep
Into North Korea
By JOHN RANDOLPH
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (TP)—Red re
sistance faded on two blazing
fronts today as Allied infantry
men drove deeper into North
Korea.
On the eastern front three Al
lied divisions stabbed nearly two
miles closer to Kumsong, vital
Red supply and headquarters city
about 30 miles north of parallel
38.
West of Heartbreak Ridge, now
held by the Allies, American tanks
rumbled up the Mundung Valley
! and blasted Red positions in the
hills above.
The smash toward Kumsong
was supported by huge Marine
helicopters that ferried ammuni
tion to the front and evacuated
wounded.
The Reds retreated along fight
ing fronts, but they stood firm at
Panmunjom where liaison officers
tried again Monday to get cease
fire talks resumed.
The two sides argued for three
hours without progress. The main
stumbling block appeared to be
the Red insistence that the five
mile Kaesong neutral zone be
maintained, although the site of
the talks has moved six miles
southeastward to Panmunjom.
fAP Snec'al Wa^hinffton Service'
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee today
approved the re-nomination of
George W. Folta of Juneau to be
U.S. District Judge for Division
No. 1 of Alaska.
The committee also approved
the nomination of Francis Xavier
Chapados to be U.S. marshal for
the Fourth Division at Fairbanks.
1000-watt AF Radio
Station Now on Air
The new 1000-watt AFRS radio
station is now on the air and is
being enjoyed by servicemen and
civilians throughout the area.
Although it has not been on
the air more than 24 hours, it is
reported that outlying districts
have notified the station that it
is being heard clearly. The farth
est point to be heard from in
this short time is Cape Lisbourne,
where reception was reported ex
cellent. It is too early yet, how
ever, to know just how far the
station is being heard.
The new station is scheduled
for completion within the next
thirty days, it is understood.
Installation of the new station
with all new equipment has been
under the direction of Mr. W. A.
Brown, consultant from AFRS
headquarters in Los Angeles, who
directs the construction of radio
stations all over the world. He
has been assisted by special en
gineers in the setting up of the
new antenna and the studios.
Station manager is S/Sgt. Rob
ert Brown, who has been
stationed here since July. His ex
perience in the radio field prom
ises to promote many interesting
new features in the radio pro
grams for the winter.
Sgt. Brown is assisted by Cpl.
Charles Chisam, program director,
and Cpl. Dudley Hall, music li
brarian, who are also announcers.
Other announcers are Pfc. A. V.
Howard and Pfc. Roy Leonard.
The new schedule of programs
will be announced in the Wednes
day edition of the Nugget.
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French Elections Endorse
Pro-U.S. Foreign Policy
PARIS, (/P) — Local elections
ending yesterday gave parties sup
porting Premier Rene Pleven’s
pro - American foreign policy a
smashing endorsement.
Parties of Pleven’s middle-of
the-road coalition and those sup
porting his foreign policy in the
national assembly won 1,280—75
per cent—of the 1,660 seats at
stake.
The communists, who cam
paigned on an anti - American,
anti-Atlantic Pact platform, won
only 78 seats—98 fewer than they
held previously. The right-wing
De Gaullists, who also attacked
the U.S., won 150 seats for a gain
of 80. |
High School Youth
Spears, Rides Shark
OAK BLUFFS, Calif., (fP) —
Richard Carr went shark riding.
The high school student speared
a six - foot shark from a jetty
yesterday. Then he leaped to the
shark’s back and rode it several
minutes trying to land it. When
the shark headed for the open sea,
Carr headed back to the jetty.
Baseball Outfit For
Prince Charles
CHATHAM, Ont., (/P)—Princess
Elizabeth got a baseball outfit for
Prince Charles yesterday.
Children of Catham gave her—
for the prince, now nearly three—
two baseballs, a bat, a catcher’s
glove and a book entitled “Play
Ball, Son.”
President Truman Offers To Seek
Agreement With Russia To Free
World of Scourge of Atomic Warfare
By ERNEST B. VACCARO <
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., </P)—
President Truman offered today
to “sit down with Soviet Russia”
to seek agreement upon disarm
ament and “free the world from
the scourge of atomic warfare.”
In his first major foreign policy
speech since he announced Rus
sia’s explosion of a second atomic
bomb, the President renewed a
proposal for United Nations con
trol of atomic power which this
country suggested “long before
the Soviet Union got the atomic
bomb.” He asked Russia to lay
aside its “phony peace propa
ganda” and declared:
“We are ready now, as we have
always been, to sit down with
the Soviet Union, and all the na
tions concerned, in the United Na
i tions, and work together for lift
ing the burden of armaments and
securing the peace.
“We are determined to leave no
stone unturned in this search not
only for relief from the hori^r of
another world war, hut also for
the basis of a durable peace.”
Mr. Truman’s speech was pre
pared for ground-breaking cere
monies for the new Wake Forest
College campus here. The Bap
tist institution is being moved
here from Wake Forest, N.C., un
der a multi-million dollar grant
from the Reynolds tobacco fam
ily.
The President held out little
hope of reaching any real agree
ment with Russia until the free
world completes its armaments
program. But he warned against
“sowers of suspicion and the ped
dlers of fear” at home.
“So long as one country has the
power and the forces to over
whelm others, and so long as that
country has aggressive inten
tions,” Mr. Truman said, “real
peace is unattainable. The strong
er we become, the more possible
it will be to work out solid and
lasting arrangements that will
prevent war. Our strength will
make for peace.”
Pope Pius Sees
Vision of Virgin
Mary Three Times
j
VATICAN CITY, (JP) — A high
Vatican prelate says the Virgin
Mary appeared three times to
Pope Pius XII during the 1950
holy year.
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini,
Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica,
reported this in an address pub
lished yesterday in the Vatican
newspaper, L’Osservatore Ro
mano’. The Cardinal spoke Satur
day at the Shrine of Fatima in
Portugal, at ceremonies closing
the extended holy year outside
Rome.
. The pontiff, said Cardinal Tede
schini, saw the Virgin on Oct. 30,
Oct. 31, and on Nov. 1, 1950. It
was on Nov. 1 that the Pope for
mally proclaimed the dogma of
the Virgin Mary’s bodily assump
tion into heaven.
The Cardinal said the visions
appeared each day at the same
time—4 p.m. — when he “turned
his gaze from the Vatican gar
dens to the sun.”
William Boyle Resigns
As Chairman of Dem.
National Committee
WASHINGTON, </P) — William
M. Boyle, Jr., resigning chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, has entered Georgetown
University Hospital here for a
“check-up and observation.”
His decision to step out—at a
time when he and Republican
chairman Guy Gabrielson were
both under fire from some con- ,
gress members — led to specula
tion that Gabrielson might also
quit. But Gabrielson said at Se
attle he had no intention of re
signing.
Boyle gave his health as the
reason when he announced Sat
urday that he had decided to give
up his party post. •
Mossadegh Tells
U.N. Keep Out Of
Iranian Oil Dispute
NEW YORK, P)—Premier Mo
hammed Mossadegh of Iran
warned the U.N. Security Coun
cil today to keep hands off the
British-Iranian oil dispute and de
clared firmly Iran will not be
coerced.
In a long statement to the Se
curity Council, the aged premier
confirmed a spokesman’s declar
ation earlier today closing the
door on further talks with Britain
except on indemnities and the
sale of oil.
Appearing in a small Security
Council, packed with high U.N.
dignitaries and other officials,
Premier Mossadegh read the op
ening page of a 31-page statement
and then, because of his frail
health, asked an aide to finish for
him.
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Another Embezzler
In New Kensington
First National Bank
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., (IP)—
The two national banks in New
Kensington are short over a mil
lion dollars today as the FBI ar
rested a fifth employe on em
bezzling charges that have shock
ed this industrial community.
The FBI seized George Rogers
Shiarella, 53, Friday. The slight,
greying man worked his way up
from messenger boy to assistant
cashier of New Kensington’s First
National Bank. FBI agent Fred
Hallford said Shiarella admitted
misapplication of $12,594.
Shiarella is the fourth First Na
tional employe arrested since last
Jan. 11 and the fifth in the town
to be accused of embezzling fed
eral bank funds. Hallford said
Shiarella also admitted making an
$18,324 false entry on the bank’s
cash sheet.