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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 67 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1953 Per Copy—15j
End of Korean War Appears Near
As Communists Submit Terms
Very Close to Those of The U. N.
SEOUL, UP) — The end of the<
Korean fighting appeared close
today. A fateful truce meeting to
morrow could almost write an end
to three years of war and death.
The Communists were reported
to' have submitted terms so close
to those of the U. N. Command
that an armistice might be signed
by June 25, third anniversary of
this war that has already taken
awesome toll.
Minor details must be ironed
out, but “peace fever” was in the
air here as well as other Allied
capitals.
Even the Reds were feeling it—
Communist frontline loudspeakers
broadcast warnings to Allied
troops: “Don’t stick your heads
out. There will be a truce in a
few days.”
A high U.S. official in Tokyo
said an agreement to exchange
prisoners likely will be signed
Saturday. However, a truce could
not be signed before next week,
he added.
However, there was on^ jar
ring and bitter dissent to the op
timism. President Syngman
Rhee’s South Korean government
stubbornly opposed the truce
terms although Rhee has said he
would cooperate “at any cost”
with the U.S.
Gen. Mark Clark, U.N. Far East
commander, flew to Seoul from
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his Tokyo headquarters and con
ferred with Rhee, possibly in an
eleventh-hour attempt to over
come the opposition of the aging,
but fiery, president.
They talked for an hour but
there was no announcement after
the meeting.
Meanwhile, the South Korean
government said it will make pub
lic Saturday its counter-plan for
a Korean truce.
However, NBC correspondent
Jim Rorbinson said in a broadcast
from Korea Friday that Rhee told
him South Korea would sign the
present truce proposal “only be
cause the U.S. forces us to.”
The violent South Korean ap
position has worried Allied lead
ers. The South Koreans have
threatened to continue the fight
if an armistice is signed on the
present proposal and foreign min
ister Pyun predicted bloodshed if
some of its terms are enforced.
The prospects for an immedi
ate truce sprang from a still-of
ficially - secret Allied proposal
made May 25 to settle the fate
of 48,500 Chinese and North Ko
rean POWs unwilling to return
to their Red-ruled homelands.
A truce now would leave Korea
divided roughly along the 38th
parallel, the old political bound
ary created after World War II.
Pilot Toscli Plans Excursions To
Bering Sea Islands This Summer
Reds Try Take All Possible
Ground Before Armistice
SEOUL, UP) — American Sabre
jet pilot bagged eight Communist
MIG jets, probably destroyed one
and damaged five in air battles
high over North Korea today.
Maj. Vermont Garrison of Tulsa
became the war's 32nd jet ace by
downing his fifth MIG, the Air
Force said.
On the ground, South Korean
infantrymen fought with bayonets
and grenades to win back Allied
outposts which the Reds may
claim if an early armistice halts '
the bloody three-year-old war.
Truce negotiators agreed in
November, 1951, that the cease
fire demarcation line would be
along a line of contact across
Korea. Since then the main battle
line has changed little, but in re
cent weeks the Reds have grab
bed important outposts in the
west and a number of advance
Allied positions in the center and
on the eastern end of the line.
Observers said the Reds could
be expected to claim the line of
contact was south of Allied out
posts they have seized—outposts
which in many cases guard the
main U.N. line.
Nomeites are constantly alert to
provide interesting side trips for
tourists who visit Nome daily
throughout the long summer
months, but it took a bush pilot
to plan some side trips primarily
for the people living here, as well
as for the visitors.
Bush pilot O. W. Tosch inaug
urated some new ideas yesterday,
with his eight-place flying boat,
when he took a party out over
Bering Sea, filled with pan-cake
ice as far as the eye could see,
and headed up the coast toward
the first landmark, well known to
pioneers, Cape Rodney. This point
is directly opposite Sledge Island,
where literally millions of birds
of many species are nesting.
Tosch explained that parties of
eight can be taken to- the island
any time in the Grumman Goose
which he flies for excursion trips.
From Sledge Island, the plane
followed the wide clean beach
line to Cape Woolley, keeping a
constant lookout for a missing
oomiak with seven passengers,
and then headed for King Island,
with its sheer cliffs and tiny vil
lage clinging to its side. Heavy ice
floes all around the island pre
vented a landing being made, but
later this month and all through
the summer Pilot Tosch plans to'
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High B-36 Drops
Biggest A-Bomb
Exploded In U.S.
LAS VEGAS, Nev., W—The big
gest atom bomb ever exploded in
the United States flamed for more
than two minutes in the pre-dawn
sky Thursday over Nevada Prov
ing Ground. *
The fireball broiled for more
than 30 seconds, indicating an in
tensity twice that of any previous
bomb or device detonated in the
desert.
The 20-kiloton Hiroshima bomb
had a 10-second fireball.
Dropped from an extremely
high-flying B-36, the unprecedent
ed A-bomb flashed across the en
tire horizon and bathed the desert
in a ghostly white light for at
least five seconds. Then it formed
into a brilliant golden fireball.
The flash was seen and the
shock felt on the California coast.
Fires were observed burning on
Yucca Flat some 10 minutes later
when observers started returning
to Las Vegas. The fires probably
were in Yucca trees and perhaps
some tall cedars and pines left
over from previous tests this
spring.
The burst appeared to1 be at a
height of more than 2,500 feet.
The device was dropped from a
bomber coming from Kirtland
Air Force Base, Albuquerque, at
an altitude of probably 35,000 or
40,000 feet.
This is calculated bn the basis
of the AEC announcement that it
took 42 seconds for the bomb to
drop from the plane to its point
of detonation.
After the fireball spent itself,
the atomic cloud hung lazily at
about 40,000 feet as the sun came
over the mountains to the east.
Comparatively slight winds twist
ed it into a monstrous gray zig
zag, but it did not move as rapid
ly as many clouds had in past
tests.
FBI Investigating Story
Of Kidnaping By Three
Ladd Field Servicemen
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A Fair
banks night club photographer’s
story of being kidnaped and
forced to drive to the Canadian
border and back, was being in
vestigated today by FBI agents
who are questioning three Ladd
Air Force Base servicemen.
The woman, Sandra Jacobs,
told Anchorage officials she had
picked up three Air Force men
outside Fairbanks and was forced
at gunpoint to drive toward Can
ada.
She said they were turned back
at the border by customs officials
and they turned back toward
Palmer. She managed to slip a
note asking for help to a cus
tomer while eating at a road
house at Eureka.
Police were notified and the'
car was stopped outside Palmer.
Eisenhower On TV Pledges No Risk
Of War, No Appeasement Of Reds
Vice President Nixon Pats
Lion on Head at Circus
WASHINGTON, UP)—'Vice Pres
ident Nixon showed some reluc
tance at first, but finally he patted
the 18-year-old on the forehead.
The 18-year-old was a lion
named Sheba.
The Vice President’s initiation
yesterday as “fall guy” of the
Circus Saints and Sinners re
quired that he thus make Sheba’s
acquaintance, but it did not blos
som into a long companionship.
The lion opened its mouth, dis
playing teeth. It was, perhaps, a
yawn. Nixon stopped patting and
soon moved on to enjoy more of
the circus atmosphere the Saints
and Sinners had created in the
lobby of the Mayflower Hotel,
with posters, a calliope, a pink
lemonade fountain and a shimmy
dancer called Jai-Leta.
She said of the lion-visiting Vice
President, “He’s got more guts
than I have.”
There had been some doubt as
to whether Nixon would actually
step into Sheba’s barred parlor.
Russian Commander In East
Germany Is Sent Home
BERLIN, W)—The official East
German news agency announced
today that Gen. Vassily Chuikov,
top Russian in Germany since
1949, was being relieved of duty
here and would return to the So
viet Union for a new assignement.
Chuikov was the hero of Stalin
grad.
The terse announcement also
said that Co. Andrei A. Gretschko
has been appointed to command
the 300,000-man Red army in East
Germany. '
Jet Expert Involved In
Rosenberg Case Is
Sentenced to Five Years
NEW YORK, UP)—William Perl,
former Columbia Unversity phy
sics instructor convicted of per
jury in connection with the Ros
enberg atom bomb spy case, was
sentenced today to five years in
prison.
The 34-year-old jet propulsion
expert was accused of falsely
telling the federal grand jury that
he did not know Julius Rosenberg
and Morton Sobell.
Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel,
are scheduled to die June 18 in
the Sing Sing prison electric chair.
Sobell was sentenced to 30 years
for his part in the spy plot.
Court of Appeals Denies Stay
Of Execution For Rosenbergs
NEW YORK, UP) — The U.S.
Court of Appeals today denied a
stay of execution to condemned
atom spies Julius and Ethel Ros
enberg, scheduled to die in Sing
Sing prison's electric chair June
18.
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugura
ted a new era of presidential con
tact with the people Wednesday
night—pledging on a “family cir
cle” telecast there would be no
appeasement of Communism and
“no risk of a general war.”
Surrounded by four members
of his official family, and inviting
his millions of television watchers
to think of themselves as fellow
dwellers in “the National House,”
Eisenhower gave these assurances
in a precedent-setting WhiteHouse
report to the nation:
“We are going to keep our tem
per; we are going to build our
strength.”
“We are not going . to cripple
this nation and we are going
specifically to keep up its air •
power.”
“Our effort is to secure peace—
and prosperity in peace.”
So, in easy conversational style,
and passing the ball repeatedly to
his cabinet aides, Eisenhower met
head-on the accusations aired in
Congress only a few hours before
that his Air Force budget cuts are
imperilling the nation’s security.
Eisenhower went on to a dis
cussion of other problems:
The Deficit: “During 17 of the
past 20 years we have gone into
debt. Borrowing cheapens money.
That is like water in your coffee.”
Economy: “These expensive mil
itary establishments are going to
be maintained at the most econ
omic way possible. You are going
to get one dollar’s worth for ev
ery dollar we spend. I am going
to keep that promise.”
The Excess Profits Tax: “It is
unjust, it is clumsy, and it is awk
ward. But... it must not be taken
off until we can* reduce the indiv
idual income taxes.”
Goverment Employee Security:
“We go after the weeds of dis
loyalty but we don’t want to up
root a single good plant. . . . The
great mass of your federal em
ployes are a wonderful, dedicated
group of men and women whose
jobs are going to be protected.”
B-47’s Cross Atlantic To
England in 5 Hrs. 36 Min.
FAIRFORD AIR BASE, Eng
land, UO — Three American B-47
Stratojet bombers smashed the
U.S.-to-England speed record to
day by flashing across the At
lantic in slightly over five and a
half hours.
Two of the swept-wing, six-jet
B-47s streaked from Limestone
Air Base in Maine to Fairford in
central England — a distance of
3,120 miles—in 5 hours, 36 min
utes. Another made it in 5 hours,
37 minutes.
The previous record was 5
hours, 38 minutes, set last April
7 iby twcf other B-47s.
Today’s flight averaged 566
miles an hour.
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