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VOL. LV No. 96 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1953 Per Copy—15^
U.N. Will Insure
Return of All Red
Held Prisoners
WASHINGTON, UP) —Secretary
of State Dulles warned the Com
munists today the United Nations
will withhold “to the last” Red
war prisoners charged with or
convicted of crimes—to make sure
the Reds return U.N. prisoners in
the same category.
In a prepared statement Dulles
also declared any Communist
plan to withhold American pri
soners guilty of so-called crimes,
would violate the Korean armis
tice agreement.
Dulles said the Communists
“have a bad record in this mat
ter” of holding back war prison
ers, adding there is ample evi
dence they kept hundreds of
thousands of Germans and Japa
nese prisoners after World War II.
Reports by returning American
prisoners which tell of prison sen
tences given some American
POWs, he said, have not yet been
officially evaluated.
But he said these charges pro
vide reason for “suspicion and
alertness.”
Dulles went on to say:
- “The United Nations Command
holds a substantial number of
Communist prisoners of war who
have committed crimes and I un
derstand that it is the intention
of the United Nations Command
to 'withhold the return of these
prisoners of war to the last so
that we shall first know whether
or not the Communists intend to
withhold the return of any con
demned by them to sentences.”
Dulles said the Communists
might claim they have a right to
withhold some POWs under the
provisions of the Geneva Conven
tion. The American position, he
said, is that the truce agreement
takes precedence over the Gen
eva regulations.
66,378 Fur Seal Skins
Obtained From Pribilof
Herds This Year
WASHINGTON, OP) —Secretary
of Interior McKay announced yes
terday 66,378 fur-seal skins were
obtained in the government’s seal
ing operations on Alaska’s Prib
ilof Islands this year.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
conducts the annual operations,
which have resulted in an average
annual yield of 64,264 skins over
the past ten years.
The Service said that about 80
per cent of the world’s fur seals
go to the Pribilofs each summer
to breed. During the winter they
range as far southward as South
ern California.
The fur seah industry on the is
lands is the responsibility of the
United States government but
under a 1942 agreement 20 per
cent of the take is delivered to
the Canadian government.
The remaining skins will be
processed and sold at auction for
the government by a St. Louis
concern under a special contract.
Net receipts from the sale of the
48,582 skins in the year ending
June 30 were $3,265,858.
Senators Will Leave For
Alaska Saturday To Hold
Hearings On Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP)—Six mem
bers of the Senate Interior and
Insular Affairs Committee will
assemble in Seattle Saturday and
leave by air Sunday for a 10-day
tour of Alaska.
Chairman Butler <R-Neb), head
ing the group, has arranged for
hearings in four Alaska cities on
statehood for Alaska and Butler’s
own proposal that the Territory
be given the right to elect its own
governor and retain territorial
status.
Committee members expected
to accompany Butler are Sens.
Barrett (R-Wyo), Murray (D
Mont), Anderson (D-NM), Clem
ents (D-Ky), and Jackson (D-Wn).
The committee will be accom
panied by Wm. Strand, director of
the Interior Department’s Office
of Territories, and Kirkley S.
Coulter, chief clerk of the Senate
committee.
The group is due to arrive in
Ketchikan about noon Sunday for
the first of its series of hearings
set for Monday. Other hearings
will be held in Juneau Aug. 18,
Fairbanks Aug. 20 and Anchorage
Aug. 24.
From Fairbanks, the group will
visit Point Barrow and Nome on
Aug. 21 before going to Anchor
age on Aug. 23.
Group From Senate Public
Works Committee To
Arrive Alaska Aug. 21
JUNEAU, m—Two U.S. Senate
committee groups will be in Al
aska at the same time next week.
While a Senate Interior Com
mittee group is holding statehood
hearings, five members of the
Senate Public Works Committee
will arrive in Juneau Aug. 21,
under their present schedule.
The Public Works group will
confer with the Governor, Army
Engineers, and Highway and Pub
lic Work officials.
It has not scheduled any formal
hearings.
The senators in the group are
Chairman Martin of Pennsyl
vania; Holland, Florida; Stennis,
Mississippi; Case, Kansas, and
Chavez, New Mexico.
Eisenhower Signs 19 Bills
Then Goes Trout Fishing
DENVER, LD—-President Eisen
hower today signed 20 bills into
law, including one aimed at wip
ing out racketeering and subver
sion in the New York waterfront.
The bill dealing with the New
York waterfront situation gives
federal blessing to a New York
and New Jersey waterfront com
mission compact.
The other 19 bills the President
signed were mostly measures ap
proving claims of private indiv
iduals.
After signing the bills and
studying other official papers
which arrived from Washington,
the President left Denver for
some trout fishing at the Swan
Hereford ranch owned by Val
Swan, Denver investment banker
and a long-time friend of Eisen
hower.
Secretary Dulles
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Doubts Red Claim
Of Having H-Bomb
WASHINGTON, (#> — Secretary
of State Dulles said today he ac
cepts with some skepticism Rus
sian Premier Malenkov’s implied
claim that Russia has mastered
production of the hydrogen bomb.
Malenkov said last weekend the
United States no longer has a
monopoly on H-bomb production
—apparently meaning the Soviet
Union knows the secret too.
Dulles told a news conference
the United States has no inde
pendent evidence that Russia has
the super-powerful bomb.
Specifically, he said, American
authorities have not detected evi
dence of a hydrogen bomb explo
sion within the Soviet Union,
either before or after Malenkov’s
surprise assertion Saturday.
Dulles also said that Malen
kov’s hydrogen bomb speech by
implication confirmed the truth
of Western charges that the So
viets have failed to give adequate
return in consumer goods to’ the
Russian people for their labor.
He said too, Malenkov’s ad
dress showed Russian despotism
has been so complete that the So
viet people had no knowledge or
participation in the plans of their
rulers.
In discussing Malenkov’s speech
Dulles said the United States in
tends to watch developments
within Russia carefully to see if
Soviet authorities follow through
on promises to give the Russian
people more consumer goods.
Heintzleman Reports
Governors Favor Private
Over Federal Development
JUNEAU, UFi—Seattle’s hospi
tality was an impressive feature
of the recent national governor’s
conference, Gov. Frank Heintzle
man said Tuesday.
Heintzleman, one of 44 state
and territorial governors .who at
tended the conference last week,
said it was obvious the state and
city went to great expense and
much trouble in making arrange
ments.
The governor said he was
pleased that the conference fol
lowed a “state” theme. It sup
ports the administration’s policy
of development by private enter
prise instead of federal paternal
ism, he said.
FOUR NAVY MEN DIE IN
CRASH OF 4-ENGINE PLANE
* WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE,
Maiss., IS’)—Four Navy men were
killed today when their plane
crashed and burned while taking
off on a routine training flight.
The public information office
said the four engine R6D veered
when about 200 feet in the air. A
wing struck the ground and the
craft cartwheeled and burst into
flames.
Officials said there was a pos
sibility a fifth man may have been
aboard. The men were members
of the Naval Air Transport
Squadron.
Repatriates at Paimmnjom Tell Of
American Prisoners Who Informed
Chinese Captors Of Their Plans
First 17 American POWs
Arrive From Korea
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., (TP)—There were smiles and
tears today as 17 seriously ill Am
ericans released by the Commun
ists in Korea came home aboard
a big military transport plane.
The 16 Army men and one Marine
came off the C-54 on litters after
their arrival from an overnight
stay in Honolulu.
No planeside interviews were
permitted.
Photographers were allowed to
take pictures of the first 14 men
as they were carried from the
plane, but all pictures were ban
ned of the last three patients,
identified only as psychiatric
cases. .
The Army in Honolulu said 14
of the men were suffering from
tuberculosis contracted in Red
captivity.
Fugitive From Florida
Chain Gang Plans Break
From Fairbanks Jail
FAIRBANKS. UP)—John A Tru
man, fugitive from a Florida
chain gang, apparently doesn’t
like Alaskan jails either.
Captured near Anchorage and
kept in the federal jail there, Tru
man escaped but was recaptured
and sent to Fairbanks for safe
keeping. The Fairbanks lockup is
considered a more substantial
building and a safer place for
keeping someone.
Harold Prosser, Federal jail
superintendent at Fairbanks said
he heard via the grapevine that
Truman had plans to escape from
Prosser’s establishment, too.
Prosser summoned guards and
they searched Truman’s cell. They
found an imitation pistol made of
soap. It was stained black and
looked genuine, Prosser said. In
the cell was a length of pipe,
part of a knife blade and part
of a tablespoon which could have
been used in springing a lock.
New charges of attempting to
escape from custody have been
added to those already faced by
Truman.
U.S. Will Build Pipeline
Through Canada From
Haines to Fairbanks
OTTAWA, L9P) — The United
States will build a 40 million dol
lar oil pipeline—passing through
northern British Columbia and
the Yukon to serve Alaskan and
northwest Canadian defense
forces. Canada’s External Affairs
Dept, announced today negotia
tions for building the line which
will supply forces along the Al
aska Highway have been conclud
ed. It was said civilian needs will
be filled when the line is not
needed for defense purposes.
The eight - inch pipeline will
link Haines, Alaska, on the Pa
cific Coast 450 miles northeast of
the Queen Charlotte Islands, with
Fairbanks. United States Army
Engineers will build it.
> PANMUNJOM, UR — One hun
dred hale and happy Americans
streamed through the bamboo
curtain at Panmunjom today to
start the second dramatic week of
Korean war prisoner exchange.
But their South Korean com
rades again came home in wretch
ed shape. Pitiful living skeletons
were passed tenderly from Com
munist a^nbulances to litters car
ried by Allied soldiers.
Four hundred in all got their
freedom during the day. There
were 100 Americans, 25 British,
25 Turks and 250 South Koreans.
A surly batch of 2,758 Chinese
and North Koreans, including
1,200 North Korean civilians, was
turned over to the Reds Wednes
day.
They ripped off their clothing,
yelled and shouted, and sang Com
munist songs, but seemed more
subdued than Reds freed pre
viously.
Four returning prisoners said
escape attempts had been foiled
by Chinese because they were
turned in by informers in their
camp.
Each released POW said the
Chinese knew too much about the
plans and where they had hidden
supplies for the discoveries to be
accidental. Each said he was
either thrown in jail on reduced
rations, beaten or made to stand
motionless in the freezing North
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36-Year-Old Mother of
Three Dives 9 Stories
Into 4-Foot Deep Pool
NEW YORK, UR—1The 36-year
old wife of an air lines executive
put on a bathing suit early today
and dived nine stories from the
ro'of of her apartment house into
a swimming pool, police said.
The woman, Mrs. Laura Mae
Creighton, blonde mother of three
was taken to Coney Island hos
pital. Her condtiion was reported
critical.
Patrolmen pulled Mrs. Creigh
ton from the pool, which is at
tached to the fashionable Brook
lyn apartmeut building where she
and her family live.
Her husband, Thomas Creigh
ton, treasurer of Eastern Air Lines
and their three children were in
their ground - floor partment at
time. ,
There was four feet of water in
the portion of the pool where Mrs.
Creighton hit.
No one had an official explan
ation for the woman’s conduct.
TUESDAY SCORES
American League
Boston 7-6, Philadelphia 6-5
St. Louis 5-3, Detroit 2-9
Washington 2, New York 1
. Chicago 6, Cleveland 2 v
National League
Pittsburgh 7-0, Philadelphia 4-3
Brooklyn 4, New York 0
St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 3
Chicago 1, Cincinnati 0
Coast League
Los Angeles 4, Seattle 1
Hollywood 3, Sacramento 1
Portland 10, Oakland 6
S. Francisco 4-0, San Diego 2-6