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VOL. LIII No. 82 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951 Per Copy—15^
Cease-Fire Talks
Are Confined To
Discussing
By JIM BECKER
MUNSAN, Korea, (^ — Cease
fire talks are progressing in “cold
military formality” with every
reason to be optimistic, a United
Nations briefing officer said to
night.
“The talks are now on the
tracks,” said the spokesman, Col.
George Ruhlen of Los Crices,
N.M. “An armistice is much
nearer tonight than it was 24
hours ago.”
The briefing officer said nego
tiators “may not get down to
brass tacks” in Thursday sessions.
They still are discussing what
items are to go on the agenda and
in what order they will be taken
up.
Improvement in the atmosphere
of negotiations was reflected in a
communique announcement that
20 Allied news representatives
would be authorized to go to Kae
song for Thursday’s negotiations.
Previously they had been ban- j
ned on Communist insistence.
Communist radios in Pyongyang
and Peiping said North Korean
and Communist negotiators have
laid down a three-point demand
for a cease-fire agreement:
1. Establish a 12V£ mile buffer
zone at the 38th parallel.
2. Re-establish the status quo
as of June 25, *1950, when the Ko
rean war started, with the 38th
parallel dividing North and South
Korea.
3. Withdraw all “foreign troops”
from Korea and start talks im
mediately for exchange of prison
ers.
Nats Swamp Senior
League 8 to 3 In
All-Star Game
DETROIT, (/P) — The National
League inner circle today saw an
end to the American League’s
“reign of terror” -and predicted a
new cycle, shifting the batting
power to the senior circuit.
Gil Hodges, strapping Brook
lyn first baseman and the Na
tional League’s home run leader,
said after yesterday’s 8-3 triumph
over the Americans.
“It is the National that has the
home run hitters now, not the
American. Yes, Sir, times have
changed.”
Ralph Kiner, the National’s
home run king for the last five
^ years, echoed this sentiment.
“We’re the big guys now and
they are the little boys,” he said.
Hodges and Kiner hit two of
the National’s four homers as
they bombarded five pitchers for
a dozen hits and ran up the big
gest run total ever made by a
National League All-Star team.
The short score:
National 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 0—8 12 1
American 010 110 00 0—3 10 2
Y Roberts, Maglie (3), Newcombe
(6), Blackwell (9> and Campanella
Garver, Lopat (4), Hutchinson
(5), Parnell (8), Lemon (9>, and
Berra.
Home runs: N.L. Musial, Elliott,
Hodges, Kiner. A.L. Wertz, Kell.
Bristol Bay Fishermen
May Be Granted
Additional Fishing Time
ANCHORAGE, (fl>) — A pos
sibility that the mid-week closure
on salmon fishing at Bristol Bay
might be relaxed for the rest of
the season appeared today.
Ward Baltzo, assistant regional
director of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, commented: “Bristol Bay
is reported to have developed a
very good run in the past week.
Depending on the number of es
capements, it may be that addi
tional hours of fishing are justi
fied.”
He said the packers had asked
additional fishing time in view of
the early season labor strike.
Navy at Kodiak
To Produce Show
“South Pacific”'
U. S. NAVAL STATION, Ko
diak, Alaska, July 10—The first
rights ever granted to a military
group to produce the famous
Broadway musical comedy, “South
Pacific,” have been received by
Navy Chief C. J. Pobojeski of
Headquarters, 17th Naval District,
Kodiak.
In addition to granting rights to
produce the show, its writers, Ro
gers and Hammerstein, have sent
their Chicago company stage man
ager, Ross iP. Bowman, to Kodiak
as technical advisor. He will work
with the military company until
they are ready to open the show
in August.
The musical comedy will be
produced by military personnel
and government employes on duty
in the Alaskan theater, and will
be presented at the U. S. Naval
Station, Kodiak; the U. S. Naval
Station, Ad-ak; Elmendorf Air
Force Base and Ladd Air Force
Base.
Navy . Atomic Biologist
Found Dead on Campus
BERKELEY, Calif., (^ — Uni
versity of California police today
searched for motives in the sus
pected suicide of Navy atomic
biologist Donald Thayer Bliss, 30.
* Bliss was employed at the high
ly secret radiological defense la
boratory at the San Francisco
naval shipyard. He was studying
the effects of radiation on the
human body.
He was found dead behind the
Greek theater on the campus. A
small box labeled “Barbitol” was
found at his side. Naval identifi
cation papers were found on the
body and also an expired pass to
the UC radiotron laboratory, home
of the atom-smashing cyclotron.
Bliss’ wife, Hilde, was visiting
friends in San Diego*
N. Y. Bakery Drivers
Strike Settled, Terms Set
Pattern Across Nation
NEW YORK, (/P) — Bakers re
kindled ovens at 16 major baking
firms in the New York area today
after settlement of a nine-day
strike by 4,000 AFL truck drivers.
A chief union gain in the set
tlement — a 40-hour, five-day
work week—was expected to set
a pattern for 50,000 AFL drivers
across the nation.
A F of L
Backs Trur an’s
Request For $10
Billion Tax Hike
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
American Federation of Labor got
behind the Truman administra
tion’s request for $10 billion of
new taxes today and proposed
$6,400,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 be
raised from increases in individ
ual income taxes to hit particu
larly at those with larger incomes.
The proposal was advanced by
Arthur Elder, AFL tax consult
ant, in testimony to the tax-writ
ing Senate Finance Comtnittee.
His plan would hike individual
income levies by more than
double the $2,850,000,000 increase
in a House-passed $7,200,000,000
revenue-raising bill.
The plan of the big labor organ
ization ran directly counter to sug
gestions of business groups. These
have urged that the House bill be
changed so that personal income
tax increases would hit harder at
lower income levels.
The Committee for Economic
Development, an organization of
! businessmen, took this view in
! testimony yesterday. It said more
taxes should be siphoned out of
the lower income groups as an
anti-inflationary measure.
Mid-Summer Heat Wave
In Pacific Northwest '
(By the Associated Press)
A mid-summer heat wave drove
temperatures up throughout the
Pacific Northwest today and for
estrymen warned of new fire dan
gers in the region’s timbered
areas.
Scattered small fires were re
ported -as woodsmen took steps
to prevent serious outbreaks.
Temperatures yesterday ranged
from a cool 67 degrees at North
Bend,' Ore., to 98 reported by
British Columbia fire fighters bat
tling a blaze at Terrace.
Asserts U. S.
Should Learn
Russia’s Secrets
Gen. Groves of Atomic
Bomb Project, Caustic
On U. S. Foreign Policy
DARIEN, Conn., (/P) — Lieut.
Gen. Leslie R. Groves, UJS.A. (ret.)
contends that America should
make a determined effort to learn
Russia’s secrets.
He says “cookie' pushers” in an
understaffed State Department
aren’t enough to do the job.
The wartime head of the Man
hattan Project, which developed
the atomic bomb, told an inter
viewer at his home here:
“We should ta^e immediate
steps to infiltrate Russia by es
tablishing courses of study in the
Russian tongue and customs. It
is impossible for any nation to
maintain complete secrecy on dip
lomatic or military strategy, and
we have not made any real at
tempt to pierce Russia’s secrets.”
Groves was caustic in his com
ments on American foreign policy
toward the close of World War II
and in the post-war period.
Maritime PDard Will Hold
Hearings on Rate Hikes
By Alaska Steamship
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON. </P) — The
Federal Maritime Board will hold
hearings in Alaska on passenger
and cargo rate increases recently
put into effect by the Alaska
Steamship Co.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told
a reporter today he has been ad
vised by A. J. Williams, Board
secretary, that the dates of the
hearings will be set after a con
ference with interested parties.
The increase was originally de
layed by the board bi^t a sub
sequent hearing resulted in lift
ing of the suspension order and
•a hearing on the increase was set
for Seattle Sept. 10 before Exam
iner E. J. Horan.
The board’s decision to hold
hearings in Alaska as well as
Seattle followed a protest by
Bartlett.
U. S* Casualties In Korea,
Through Last Friday,
Reported At 78,726
WASHINGTON, (£>>—U. S. bat
tie casualties in Korea reached
78,7(26 today, an increase of 616
since last week.
The Defense Department’s week
ly summary based on notifica
tions to families through last Fri
day reported:
Killed in action.11,728
Wounded ..v... 54,750
Missing . 12,248
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Predicts Soviets
Will Instigate
New Crisis
MOSCOW, <yp>—Diplomatic ob
servers stationed here are predict
ing new crises in Western-Soviet
relations—possibly a new Berlin
crisis—over the West’s moves on
the German and Japanese ques
tions.
Some observers here said that if
the Western powers follow up the
action ending their state of war
with Germany by moving toward
a separate German treaty, they
may make their position in Berlin
most dificult, if not untenable.
They add there is almost sure
to be some way in which the So
viets could retaliate for actions
they are certain to denounce as
violations of international under
standings.
As for the Western plans for a
peace treaty with Japan, Moscow
newspapers are saying that the
Chinese people—meaning the Chi
nes^ Communist government —
will “never permit the resurrec
tion * of »a Japanese militarism.”
They are charging that the move
toward a Japanese treaty is part
of a plan to remilitarize Japan.
(By the Associated Press)
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Tuesday Night's Results
Los Angeles 11—Sacramento 5
Seattle 4—San Francisco 3
Hollywood 5—Portland 0
Oakland 4—San Diego 2
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New Aggression
May Lurk Behind
Red Negotiations
i
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Wary
lawmakers cautioned today that
new Communist aggression may
be lurking behind seeming Red
willingness #to negotiate a cease
fire in Korea.
Senator Lodge (R-Mass) told a
reporter he fears the current man
euvering by the Reds at Kaesong
might be only an effort to throw
United Nations forces off guard
for an attack on Europe in Au
gust.
“We must watch this thing care
fully,” Lodge said. “If they were
planning an attack in Europe or
to move Chinese Communist
troops against Indo-China, the
cease-fire move would be just the
sort of thing they would attempt.”
He said he doesn’t believe the
U. N. should settle for a cease-fire
at the 38th parallel, as the Reds
have proposed. He joined Senator
Dougles (D-Ill) in proposing that
the narrow neck of the Korean
Peninsula, about 100 miles north
of the 38th, be made the dividing
line.
Chamber Meeting
Hears Otto Geist
The Chamber of Commerce meet
ing Tuesday night was high-lighted
by a most interesting talk pre
sented by Otto Geist, well-known
archeologist from the University
of Alaska.
In his very impressive balk Mr.
Geist stressed very highly the
necessity of Nome’s taking steps
to secure a permanent exhibits'
building to house the wealth of
regional anthropological and ar
chaeological specimens. These in
clude articles of stone, ivory,
wood, bone and the rich deposits
of fossil ivory culture—not only
what we have produced in the
past years, but also what we will
produce in the future.
Mr. Geist stated that in this
trip he will make an investigation
of the area the other side of the
Cape and especially of that por
tion we know as “the Nook”.
Mr. Geist asserted also that the
University is eager to make this
step and is willing to share such
finds as are duplicates from our
section and St. Lawrence Island;
but in regard to any future ex
cavations the policy of the Uni
versity is to go 50-50 on all that
is found in our section.
Mr. Geist feels that Nome should
not pass up this recommendation
lightly, as he considers this field
of endeavor very • essential and
valuable. Lack of a permanent
exhibits collection would be re
gretted by ourselves and by pos
terity.
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60 Persons Missing In
Mexican Bus Crash
MEXICO CITY, (flV-About 60
persons were missing after a bus
in which they were riding plunged
into a river some 75 miles south
west of Mexico City.
Ten persons * riding on top of
the vehicle were rescued. They
said 60 persons were inside.
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