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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOL. LIV No. 56 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1952 ' Per Copy—l^T
Van Fleet Will Use
Force to Free Gen.
Dodd From POWs
SEOUL, (JP) — Gen. James A.
Van Fleet said Friday night he
will use force if necessary “nt an
early date” to free Brig. Gen.
Francis T. Dodd from Red war
prisoners who seized him on Koje
Island two days ago.
Van Fleet declared he never
would give in to the Reds* “un
reasonable** demands for special
privileges in return for the re
lease of Dodd.
One thing that imy be staying
the hand of prison authorities now
is that they do not know in what
tent or building Dodd is being
held.
The 52-year-old Dodd has been
a prisoner since Wednesday, when
North Korean POWs seized him at
the gates of a compound while
he was standing talking to lead
ers of the 6,000 Communist pri
soners.
The Army said Dodd has been
treated well by the Reds, he com
municated with guard posts out
• side the barbed wire stockade by
army field telephone and cour
iered messages. He received Am
erican food while the North Ko
rean POWs ate their usual bowls
of rice—both passed through from
outside.
Price Boss Amall Asks
Repeal Capehart Law
To Prevent Price Rises
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Price
Stabilizer Ellis Amall Friday
asked Congress to change the
Capehart amendment quickly and
prevent “unwarranted increases”
in prices of food and other cost
of-living items.
Arnall said that unless the law
makers act he will be compelled
to boost ceilings because of a
court decision that the amend
ment applies to all distributors.
The amendment, sponsored by
Sen. Capehart (R-Ind) and added
to the controls law last year, per
mits ceilings to be boosted by
adding all increased costs up to
last July 26 to pre-Korean prices.
Price Control officials said the
increases probably will apply to
such things as concentrated cof
fee, dry cereals, crackers, canned
fruits, vegetables and soups, tuna
* and salmon and some canned
meats.
BARGE ASKS COAST GUARD
AID 100 ML N.E. OF KODIAK L
KODIAK, (/P)—'The Sea Lion, a
self-propelled barge from Seattle
with 16 men aboard, requested
assistance Wednesday from the
Kodiak-based Coast Guard.
The Sea Lion was approximate
ly 100 miles northeast of Kodiak
Island and the U.S. Coast Guard
Cutter Sedge was proceeding to
to its aid.
The barge is owned by the
Alaska Packers Association.
Vernon Olson, Nome Cadet
To Represent CAP At
Dinner With President
An outstanding honor has been
conferred on one of Nome’s CAP
Cadets, Vernon Olson, who left
last evening for Washington, D.C.,
to attend a Congressional dinner
with President Truman.
Olson, who is captain in the
cadets will be joined in Anchor
age by Col. J. R. Carr and in
Washington by Gen. Lucas V.
Beau, both of whom are CAP of
ficers and he will be their guest
while in Washington.
Only one CAP cadet is chosen
to attend the dinner, representing
the entire United States and its
territories, and it is a rare priv
ilege and honor to have one of
Nome’s students chosen for this
occasion.
He is scheduled to be in Wash
ington for about four days and
will then be taken to Sacramento
before returning home. He is a
member of the Junior class in the
Nome High School.
Veterans’ Benefit Boost
Before The President
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Sen
ate passed and sent to President
Truman Friday two bills increas
ing veterans’ benefit payments by
about 202 million dollars a year.
They are designed to meet cost
of-living increases since compen
sation rates were last fixed.
One of the bills would make a
15 per cent boost in service-con
nected compensation for veterans
of all wars who are more than 50
per cent disabled and a five per
cent hike for those less than 50
per cent.
It also would increase pensions
for non-service-connected disabil
ity to veterans of World Wars I
and II and the Korean war by $3
a month.
1951 Was Alaska’s Biggest
Travel Year With 213,265
Persons Coming and Going
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska
had its biggest travel year in
history in 1951, Secretary of In
terior Oscar Chapman reports.
A total of 213,265 persons
moved in and out of the territory
by air, sea and land during the
12 months — an increase of 31.9
per cent over 1950’s total of
161,593, the report shows.
The “ import - export ” balance
was in the territory’s favor—
more persons—111,570—went into
Alaska than came out—101,695.
Most of the travelers moved by
air. Scheduled airlines, the report
said, carried 117,950 persons in
and out of the Territory—more
than all other means of transport
ation combined. More than half—
65,001 — arrived and left at An
chorage.
Indicating the growing import
ance of the Alaska Highway, the
survey showed that 49,564 persons
used it either going or coming
from the Territory.
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Eisenhower and
Taft Clash Over
Cost Foreign Aid
(By the Associated Press)
Republicans had foreign aid
spending as an issue in their
presidential campaign Friday
while Democrats wondered anew
if civil rights would split their
party a-agin.
The top contenders for Republi
can nomination — Sen. Taft of
Ohio and Gen. Eisenhcfwer—were
at sharp odds over the amount
needed to finance assistance
abroad.
Eisenhower, in a cable from
Paris to Sen. Connally, said a
one-billion-dollar cut already pro
posed in Congress would hurt.
Any deeper slice off the $7,900,
000,000 asked by President Tru
mah would endanger the nation’s
security, he said.
Taft promptly replied that even
a slash of two billions would not
imperil the program or U.S. se
curity. After telling this to re
porters, Taft said in a Hartford,
Conn., speech: “I don’t think the
American people ought to run the
world (or would) be good at it if
they tried.”
President Truman told his news
conference Thursday he has not
budged in support of the Civil
Rights plank adopted four years
ago by the Democratic Party. The
resultant southern revolt then cost
Truman 39 electoral votes in the
1948 presidential race. Key south
ern lawmakers, in view of Tru
man’s pat stand, disagreed . as to
whether civil rights differences
can be patched up.
In New York, Gov. Dewey told
his state’s 96 - vote Republican
delegation not to vote for him at
any time during the nominating
convention. Dewey, the GOP can
didate in 1944 and 1948, said he
is all-out for Eisenhower this
time.
Wide-Scale Graft at
French Morocco Airbases
Alleged and Denied
By G. Milton Kelly
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Clashing
testimony alleging and denying
wide-scale graft and malpractice
at huge airbases in French Mor
occo was marked yesterday for
Justice Department investigation.
The five bajes, estimated to cost
between 300 and 412 million dol
lar, were started as a rush project
during a war scare in early days
of the Korea fighting. They will
ultimately be handed over to the
French government.
They were built by Atlas con
structors, a combine of five con
tracting firms.
- Two contractor-bosses of the
big project accused four recent
witnesses of having given false
testimony that corruption was
big-scale and the job grossly mis
managed.
Baccalaureate Services
For Nome High, Class
Of ’52, Sunday Evening
Baccalaureate Services for the
graduating class of Nome High
School will be held Sunday even
ing at the Nome School Auditor
iuni at eight o’clock.
Father Neil Murphy, who will
give the address, fhas chosen for
his message, “Success Through
Personality.”
The following program will be
presented:
Prelude: Handel’s “Largo,” Lolita
Havercamp.
Invocation
Song, “Now The Day Is Over”
High School Octette.
Solo, “Ave Maria” by Shubert,
9|mg by Mrs. Wilson Russell,
* accompanied by Mrs. Emily
Boucher.
Baccalaureate address by Father
Murphy.
Benediction.
Postlude, “Sarabande” by Handel,
Lolita Havercamp.
Judiciary Committee
Approves McGranery
As Attorney General
WASHINGTON, (JP)—'The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee Friday
approved the nomination of Fed
eral Judge James P. McGranery
of Philadelphia to be attorney
general. The vote was 8 to 4.
Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich), said
opponents of the nomination had
obtained permission to file a min
ority report. He said he would
carry the fight to the Senate floor.
McGranery was nominated by
President Truman last month to
succeed J. Howard McGrath in
the cabinet post.
Ed. Note: Delegate Bartlett has
sent word that a judge for the
Second Division would be named
just as soon as possible after an
attorney general was confirmed
by the Senate.
Biggest Air Raid of Korean
War Wrecks Red Base
SEOUL, Korea, (^P)—Day-long
waves of American planes, in the
biggest air raid of the Korean
War, turned a major Communist
supply base “into billowing flames
and smoke” Thursday, the U.S.
Fifth Air Force reported.
The Air Force said the dawn to
dusk rain of high explosives, rock
ets, jellied gasoline fire bombs
and machinegun bullets destroyed
165 supply buildings and dam
aged 81. '
American and Australian jet
planes screening the raiders shot
down two Mig-15 jets and dam
aged another, the Air Force added.
Target of the mass raid was
Suan, 35 miles southeast of Pyong
yang, North Korean capital. Suan
is a feeder point to Chinese troops
on the western front. Air Force
photos had shown the area liter
ally loaded with trucks and mili
tary supplies heavily guarded by
anti-aircraft guns.
Secretary Pace
Reveals Army’s
New Atomic Gun
NEW YORK, ‘ (JP)—An atomic
gun developed by the U.S. Army
was described Thursday night as
an accurate and devastating wea
pon, providing field commanders
with tremendous “finger-tip” fire
power—and heralding a new era
in the waging of war.
That description of this coun
try’s first atomic artillery weapon
—a gun that can “hit its target
under an^ weather conditions and
give ground troops the kind of
devastating close support never
before available in warfare” —
came from Army Secretary Frank
Pace.
Pace said the new weapon “is
essentially an artillery piece—but
with immeasurably greater power
than any artillery hitherto
known.”
Pace’s claims for the weapon
came in a speech before a meet
ing of the National Wool Manu
facturers Association.
The weapon has been tested by
the Army with non-atomic am
munition but specifications of the
gun remained a secret until
Thursday night.
Pace, in disclosing for the first
time some of the weapon’s speci
fications, gave this picture of the
gun:
It weighs about 75 tons but is
highly mobile and is carried on
a platform suspended between
two engine cabs at its front and
rear. It can travel at a speed of
about 35 miles per hour on high
ways — and it can travel cross
country.
Korean Truce Deadlock —
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, {JP) — Deadlocked
Korean truce negotiators met for
only ten minutes Friday. A U.N.
Command spokesman said the
Reds probably awaited new in
structions from higher up.
North Korean Gen. Nam 111
again demanded unconditional re
turn of Red prisoners in Allied
hands and rejected the U.N. pro
posal to return only those who
would go voluntarily.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U.N. delegate, replied:
“The firmness and finality of
the United Nations Command po
sition should be unmistakably
clear to you at this time. I have
nothing else to say.”
Bogus Check Writer
Says He Can't Write
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., <ff) —
James B. McCurrin says he can
write his own name, but nothing
else. Police say he wrote his name
in the wrong places, viz: at the
bottom of personal checks. They
arrested him Thursday on charges
of issuing bogus checks, three of
them for a total of $35.
Saturday, May 10 — Semi-Formal — High School Auditorium — Dancing 9 p.n. to 1 a.m.