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VOL. LIII No. 135 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1951 Per Copy—15*
Reds Challenge
Allies To Agree To
Cease-Fire Line
M'UNSAN, Korea, i JP) — Com
munist negotiators challenged the
Allies today to agree to a cease
fire line in Korea now, or break
off the truce talks.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols,
official U.N. spokesman, said the
challenge was ignored in a welter
of words that marked today’s five
hour and five minute session.
He said the challenge was made
by Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang,
member of the Red's two-man
subcommittee.
The Allies refuse to agree for
mally to a line now, because they
say that would establish an im
mediate cease-fire. This, in turn,
they say would take military
pressure off the Reds and enable
them to stall on other armistice
terms.
Hsieh called this “fantastic
talk.”
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“If that is the course you choose
to follow,” he said, “then why not
stay away.”
Nuchols said the language of
the negotiators at today’s meet
ing—the longest unbroken session
they’ve had yet — was sharper
than it has even been.
Dollar Shortage Discussed
By Alaska Development
Board Panel at Anchorage
Under the heading of “Alaska’s
Dollar Shortage” the panel dis
cussion on Sunday held by the
Alaska Development Board i n
Anchorage brought the following
conclusions on economic ills:
There is in Alaska:
1. Lack of investment capital;
2. Severe taxation burden;
3. Poor transportation condi
tions, especially lack of roads.
Elmer Rasmusson, of the Na
tional Bank of Alaska, said the
present economic status of Alaska
does not lend itself to drawing
outside capital. The basic prin
ciple of capital, he stated, is to
get the greatest return for the
least risk, and there are too many
other regions in the world that
offer more to the capitalist than
Alaska.
Harold Stramberg of Anchor
age, another speaker on Sunday’s
forum, listed poor transportation
conditions, lack of capital, lack of
reduction plants, burdensome tax
ation policies and the government
leasing system as obstacles to the
development of mining in Alaska.
Twenty-eight speakers in all
were scheduled to take part in the
forum on Sunday and Monday.
Monday’s forum will be reported
in our next issue.
2nd Division Democratic Committee
Endorses H. Butcher for Judge and
Von der Heydt for District Attorney
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The people of Nome, and Al-<
aska’s Second Judicial Division,
have become somewhat alarmed
at the continued lack of a U.S.
.judge and a district attorney. The
judgeship has been vacant since
the resignation of former Judge
Joseph W. Kehoe, two months
ago, to accept the position of Sec
retary of Alaska. The district at
torneyship has been vacant since
the President of the United States
summarily dismissed the former
incumbent, Frank Bingham, for
continued absence in the States,
from his post of duty. This ab
sence ran into 11 months Of his
last official year.
The Second Division Demo
cratic Committee has endorsed
Harold J. Butcher, Anchorage at
torney, for the judgeship, and
James Von der Heydt of Nome,
present U. S. Commissioner and
practicing attorney, for the dis
trict attorneyship. Both names
have in turn been presented by
Delegate Bartlett to the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington,
D.C.
The Department is now making
their customary investigation
through the FBI, and this routine
matter should be completed with
in the next 30 days or sooner,
when their names will be sent
to President Truman for appoint
ment. What is called a “recess
appointment” will undoubtedly
be made, with confirmation by
the Senate, following tho resump
tion of the Congress next Jan
uary.
Wendell P. Kay, a prominent
Anchorage Democrat, has the sup
port of a Democratic faction in
Anchorage for the judgeship. This
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faction has voiced strong opposi
tion to Butcher.
Last Saturday, the Anchorage
Bar Association took formal ac
tion to declare that both Kay and
Butcher were qualified candi
dates for the vacant Nome federal
judgeship.
In our next issue we will run
brief biographical sketches of Mr.
Butcher and Mr. Von der Heydt.
Audrey Cutting Convicted
On Bad Check Charge
SAN FRANCISCO, {JP) — A
superior court convicted a 41
year-old Alaska real estate wom
an yesterday of passing a worth
less check at a San Francisco
hotel.
The defendant, Mrs. Audrey
Cutting of Anchorage, was or
dered to appear December 12 for
a report on possible probation.
Maximum penalty is 14 years in
prison.
Mrs. Cutting testified in her de
fense that checks the state said
were worthless should have been
covered by proceeds of a mort
gage that was supposed to be de
posited in her Anchorage account.
During her extended trip to the
States, Mrs. Cutting testified, she
had cashed numerous checks in
Seattle, New York, Washington,
D.C., and Albuquerque, N.M., and
that so far as she knew all had
been honored.
Mrs. Cathina Ahlstrand of San
Francisco, with whom the defend
ant has been staying, testified
Mrs. Cutting was the owner of
extensive gold, copper and coal
properties in Alaska and did not
need to cash bad checks.
Governor Warren
Throws Hat in Ring
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (/P) —
Gov. Earl Warren of California
entered the 1952 presidential race
today. Warren, GOP candidate
for vice president in 1948, issued
a statement announcing his de
cision to seek the Republican
presidential nomination. He said
he would head the Favorite Son
ticket of national convention dele
gates in California primaries, next
June and would decide later whe
ther to enter primaries in other
states.
Reds Accused Of
Killing At Least
5,790 UN Prisoners
PUSAN, Korea, (£>)—'The head
of the U. S. Eighth Army’s legal
section today said Reds have
killed at least 5,790 United Na
tions soldier - prisoners — about
5,500 of them Americans — and
some 250,000 Korean civilians in
atrocities since the start of the
war.
Col. James M. Hanley of Seat
tle, chief of the Army’s Judge Ad
vocate section, said in a state
ment that 200 captured U. S. Ma
rines were killed in a single day—
last Dec. 10 near Sinhung in
northeast Korea.
He said 17 Turkish war prison
ers were slain by Chinese Reds
May 15, 1951, near Yanggu and
12 others on April 10 near You.
Hanley said the count of mili
tary prisoners slain did not in
clude South Koreans. He gave
no estimate of these, but indicated
the number was about twice that
of Other U.N. soldiers killed by
Red captors.
Civilian men, women and chil
dren were slaughtered, Hanley
said, without trial or even a for
mal death sentence.
Hanley said his statement had
“nothing to do’ with the cease
fire negotiations” at Panmunjom.
He accused the Reds of making
a sham of the Geneva convention
on treatment of prisoners of war.
The United Nations, he said,
cared for the Reds it captured “in
complete accordance with the
Geneva agreement.”
Tornadoes and Violent
Storms Hit Central U.S.
(By the Associated Press)
A series of tornadoes and vio
lent electrical and wind storms
struck damaging blows across
wide areas of the mid-continent
yesterday.
The twisters killed at least one
person and injured seven others.
Property damage was expected to
run into hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
The mid - November storms
lashed most of the midwest.
Heavy rain hit many areas. Winds
of 100 mile an hour whipped
across communities in the path
of the tornadoes which struck in
Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and
Kentucky.
Scores of homes were damaged.
Communications were disrupted.
Trees uprooted and traffic slowed
in many cities and towns in the
path of the destructive gales and
electrical storms.
U.N. Assembly Rebuffs
Russia On Problem Of
Reuniting of Germany
PARIS, (/P) — The United Na
tions assembly rebuffed the Soviet
bloc by agreeing yesterday to take
up both a western plan designed
as the first step toward reuniting
Germany, and a Yugoslav com
plaint of hostile actions by the
Russians.
The vote on the German ques
tion was 47-6 with two absten
tions. The assembly rejected the
contention of Andrei Vishinsky,
Soviet foreign minister, that the
German problem was none of the
assembly’s business.
The Big Three plan, as ex
plained by U. S. Secretary of
State Dean Acheson and British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,
calls for the establishment of an
impartial, international commis
sion to investigate whether condi
tions in both West Germany and
communist - ruled East Germany
are suitable for holding elections.
Both Acheson and Eden said it
was designed to lead to eventual
unity of Germany, and was intro
duced at the request of West Ger
main Chancellor Adenauer.
“I beg to differ,” Vishinsky said
in a slashing attack on the plan.
France, Britain and the United
States want “first and foremost to
perpetuate the dismemberment of
Germany,” he said.
Asserts Alaskans
Look Yoimger
Than Other People
<AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Leave it
to a woman to make this discov
ery—that Alaskans look younger
than other people.
Mrs. Norma Reudi Hazeltine,
information officer of the Inter
ior Department’s Bureau of Land
Management, jotted down the evi
dence during a tour of the terri
tory last summer and fall.
She told members of L’Enfant
Business and Professional Wom
en’s Club here about it in an ad
dress, and referred them for fur
ther proof *o their clubwomen
associates of Anchorage, Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak,
Petersburg and Fairbanks.
“The people of Alaska, espec
ially the women, have found that
something which many of us on
the outside have lost or are in
danger of losing: The joy of liv
ing through worthwhile achieve
ment. “Call it a philosophy of
life, a reason for life, or what you
will, it seems to act as a fountain
of youth.”
Mrs. Hazeltine said labor costs
are so high in Alaska that it is
fashionable for women both in
town and country ta do their own
work.
Gallup Views GOP As
Minority Party Still
(Christian Science Monitor)
MINNEAPOLIS — Dr. George
Gallup, head of the Gallup poll,
says the Republican party still is
a minority group.
He told the University of Min
nescrta School of Journalism that
to win in an national election a
GOP candidate would have to get
votes from the opposition party.
MacArthur Blasts
Truman In “Non
Political” Speech
SEATTLE, (/P)—General Doug
las MacArthur told Seattle and
the nation last night that the Tru
man administration is following a
policy which* if continued, can
lead to the ruination of the
country.
The general devoted only three
minutes of a 45-minute address
to the Seattle Centennial which
he was invited here to open and
to which labor groups had urged
him to confine his remarks. But
he referred frequently to the pio
neer spirit and attitude in his
blistering attack on the federal
government.
He never mentioned Mr. Tru
man or the Democratic party by
name—but he left no doubt that
he felt the “ruinous processes” of
which he spoke could be halted
only by a change of administra
tion.
And immediately one of the
men who had asked him to re
frain from discussing politics
while opening the city’s 100th an
niversary program charged him
with being a candidate for Presi
dent of the United States.
The charge was made by Rep.
Hugh Mitchell (D-Wash) in a
statement issued within minutes
after the general concluded his
talk on the University of Wash
ington campus — where political
speakers normally are banned.
MacArthur told the 9,000 per
sons who squeezed into the Uni
versity’s athletic pavilion that
what he termed the administra
tion’s blunders are leading to a
third world war, its domestic pol
icies are drifting into socialism
and spending -and taxing are im
perilling the whole structure of
the republic.
The speech climaxed a half day
of participation in centennial op
ening ceremonies which included
travel along a 20-mile route lined
by a crowd estimated by Police
Chief George Eastman at 300,000.
It was the largest crowd in the
history of the city.
Canadian Naval Officer
Serves As Medic At
U.S. Air Base
VICTORIA, B. C., (/P)—A Can
adian naval officer, fcrr two days,
took over medical duties at the
U.S. Army’s big air force base -at
Shemya, in the Aleutian Islands
and thereby perhaps made his
tory.
He was Surgeon - Lieutenant
Walter Little, R.C.N., flying sec
retly to Japan, with an Esqui
mau security staff officer, Lt.
Cmdr. L. G. Clayards, to bring
home the man whom the navy
knows as Surgeon - Lieutenant
Joseph Cyr. Cyr’s identity is un
der investigation.
Weather forced the airlift plane
down in the Aleutians and they
were the guests of the U. S. air
base.
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Surgeon-Lieut. Little sought out
the American surgeon on the base
and found him seriously ill. He
ordered him to bed.
For the next two days it was
an R.C.N. officer who took sick
parade.