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VOL. LV No. 136 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1953 Per Copy—lo^1
Diplomats Offer
New Hope For
Korea Settlement
PANMUNJOM, 1?)—Allied and
Communist diplomats Saturday
pumped new life into dwindling
hopes for a Korean peace settle
ment with agreement on an agen
da for preliminary talks to ar
range a political conference.
Top-level negotiators reconvened
after a week-long recess and ap
proved an agenda drafted by staff
advisers in six secret sessions.
The agreement provides for
simultaneous discussion of a time
and place for the peace conference
and of nations which will attend.
Communist insistence on deciding
the composition first had dead
locked the preliminary talks for
three weeks.
Non-Communist members of the
Korean Repatriation Commission
were increasingly pessimistic over
the future of Red interviews with
Chinese and Worean War prison
ers who have refused to go home.
Armin Daeniker, Swiss member
of the commission, said Saturday
the future of the explanation pro
gram doesn’t “look very good.”
West Tells Russia Price
For German Unity Talks
“Totally Unacceptable”
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The West
ern powers told Russia today that
the Soviet price for entering into
negotiations on German unifica
tion and Austrian independence is
“totally unacceptable.”
Notes were delivered by Ameri
can, British and French envoys
in Moscow to the Soviet foreign
office.
They replied to Russian de
mands put forward in a note of
Nov. 3.
In their reply, the Western
powers said the Russian demands
in effect placed non - European
problems ahead of even a study
of urgent European issues and
made “a defenseless Western
Europe” part of the price for
Soviet participation in a confer
ence.
The Western powers said “The
Soviet government must be well
aware” that such demands are
totally unacceptable.
Two Fliers Safe After
Crash Landing Between
Fairbanks and Ft. Yukon
FAIRBANKS, UP)—Two missing
fliers were safe in Fort Yukon
today after their rescue in the
rugged Beaver Creek area last
night by a 10th Air Rescue Squad
ron helicopter.
The fliers, Cliff Fairchild, bush
pilot, and Grafton Bergman, man
ager of the Northern Commercial
Co. store in Fort Yukon, were
reported missing Thursday night
on a flight from Fairbanks to Fort
Yukon.
Fairchild said he crash-landed
the plane at Beaver Creek, 20
miles south of Fort Yukon. They
were sighted hiking through the
wilderness toward tjie Arctic vil
lage.
Commerce Official Denies
Humors that CAB Is
Under Investigation
WASHINGTON, (M—The Com
merce Department has taken of
ficial note of rumors that the
Civil Aeronautics Board is under
investigation — and has denied
them.
Robert B. Murray, Jr., under
secretary of Commerce for Trans
portation, said he knew of no in
vestigations having to' do with the
CAB or any of its five members,
nor of any studies that might lead
“to any recall or resignation” of
a CAB member.
He referred to reports in avia
tion trade magazines and in cer
tain syndicated columns that as
many as five groups — including
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion and at least two congression
al committees—were looking into
CAB operations.
These reports implied—without
giving sources of their informa
tion—that the probers were look
ing into possible favoritism by
board members toward certain
airlines, or other forms of im
proper administration of the Civil
Aeronautics Act.
Murray suggested that the re
ports of CAB investigations “could
be the result of the harvest moon,
or of the warm Indian summer.”
Contestant Wins TV Set
With Foolproof Way To
Guess Safe Combination
OAKLAND, Calif., UP)— Robert
Reynolds came up with a fool
proof way to win a give-away
contest—to the dismay of a radio
shop which had to be persuaded
by police to- give Reynolds the
prize.
The problem: to guess the four
digit combination of a safe.
Reynolds’ solution: he submit
ted 10,000 entries, with every pos
sible combination from 0-0-0-0
to 9-9-9-9.
Police Inspectors Lester King
and Eric Gustavson persuaded the
protesting store that Reynold’s
was entitled to' the prize, a four
year-old television set with a
12V£-inch screen originally worth
$690.
Fairbanks Air Terminal
Destroyed By Fire; New
Construction Being Rushed
A fire Saturday morning com
pletely destroyed the passenger
terminal at Fairbanks used jointly
by P.A.A., Wien Airlines and Al
aska Airlines.
According to reports, the fire
is presumed to have originated in
the dispatch room of Wien’s.
Also destroyed in the fire was
the C.A.A. tower, which tied up
communications for a couple of
days but is now functioning again.
The terminal was a temporary
structure as the permanent build
ing now under construction was
scheduled to be completed about
the first of the year.
The construction is being rushed
due to the fire and possibly will
be used, it is reported, within two
or three weeks.
Passengers are now being han
dled by the different airlines at
their freight sheds.
India Considers US
Aid to Pakistan
Unfriendly Act
NEW DELHI, India, UP) —Ex
pressing “intense concern” over
reports the United States apd
Pakistan are negotiating a mili
tary agreement, Prime Minister
Nehru said yesterday that such a
pact would have “very far-reach
ing consequences.”
Asked at a news conference
about rumors the United States is
considering furnishing arms to
Pakistan in return for bases,
Nehru said “things seem to have
gone pretty far.” He added he was
surprised “this major develop
ment should take place in the
way it apparently is taking
place.”
Nehru earlier had said India
would consider American military
aid to Pakistan an unfriendly act.
Pakistan, he said, “can have
bases, foreign armies and any
thing it likes. It is open to it to
give up its independence if it
likes or limit it, but we are con
cerned with the consequences of
these actions and watching devel
opments with the greatest care.”
Naughty Words Removed
From Movie ‘Cease Fire’
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—The words
“damn” and “hell” will be with
drawn from the movie “Cease
Fire,” made by real soldiers in
Korea. Producer Hal Wallis said
Friday that more delicate words
would be substituted in the script
as a result of the refusal of the
Motion Picture Association of Am
erica to give the picture its seal
of approval.
“Since we used real soldiers we
felt the use of those words in three
places would not be objection
able,” Wallis said.
Paramount Pictures will dis
tribute the movie, which will soon
have its New York premier with
Gen. Mark Clark as the official
host.
Eisenhower’s Canada Visit
Seen As Step In Roistering
Of Continental Defenses
WASHINGTON, UP) — Aides to
President Eisenhower today sized
up his Ottawa visit as a step to
ward alerting both the United
States and Canada to a need for
bolstering continental defenses
against possible Soviet attack.
These aides, who asked not to
be named, were quick to note that
actual strengthening of the de
fenses remains to be achieved.
But they voiced optimism it will
be done.
The President returned to the
White House late yesterday after
an overnight train trip from Ot
tawa where he and Mrs. Eisen
hower were guests of the Cana
dian government for two days.
OLDEST CIVIL WAR VET
111 YEARS OLD
FRANKLIN, Texas, UP) — The
oldest of five living Civil War
veterans—Walter W. Williams—
was 111 years old Saturday.
Angry, Howling Koreans
Turn Down, 221 to 6,
Red Pleas To Come Home
PANMUNJOM, OP) — Angry,
howling Koreans today turned
down, 221 to 6, Communist pleas
to come home in another stinging
boomerang for the Reds, who ask
ed to interview them after 10 days
of stalling.
The Communists dragged thru
the noisy interviews, meeting only
227 of the 471 Korean prisoners
called to the explanation area.
One of the six POWs who chose
Communism sat through five
hours of Red wheedling and talk.
U.N. observers protested he was
worn out and confused and unable
to make a rational decision.
The Communist batting average
was close to their overall 3 per
cent for some 2,400 prisoners in
terviewed. The almost negligible
figure has been a jolt to Red
propaganda that all the 22,600
balky POWs wanted to come
home.
Some of the interviews with
the Koreans lasted 2 Vz hours.
They were relatively quiet until
late in the afternoon, when the
POWs began attacking the per
suaders as if on signal.
The prisoners fought with the
guards until Indian chairmen in
each tent ordered a cooling off
period.
The explainers pleaded, shout
ed, smiled and threatened.
The prisoners listened con
temptuously, confidently, some
times shouted back — and then
chose South Korea.
Secretary Talbott Not
Talking About Storing Of
A-Weapons In Spain
WASHINGTON, UP> — Secretary
of the Air Force Talbott, back
from an overseas inspection tour",
is not talking about any storing
of atomic weapons at projected
U.S. bases in Spain.
Talbott, who arrived in Wash
ington Sunday with Air Force
Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan Twin
ing, told newsmen: “I can’t dis
cuss it.”
He was referring to’ a state
ment, attributed to him recently
at Madrid and later disclaimed by
him as a misquote, that atomic
weapons would be available even
tually in the Spanish bases. Sec
retary of State Dulles and Secre
tary of Defense Wilson have said
there are no such plans.
Millionaire Attorney
Convicted of Tax Evasion
SAN FRANCISCO, (IB—Million
aire attorney Vincent Hallihan,
found guilty in federal court Sat
urday on five counts of tax eva
sion, plans to seek a retrial Tues
day.
Hallinan, Independent Progres
sive party candidate for the U.S.
presidency in 1952, was'freed on
two other counts. His wife, Viv
ian, was acquitted on all seven
counts.
Hallinan, 58, is at liberty on
$2,000 bail. His conviction in
volves evasion of »36,739.32 in
taxes from 1947 to 1950. It carries
a maximum penalty of five years
imprisonment and a $10,000 fine
on each count.
Truman To Go
“All Out” In
Nation-Wide Talk
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., UP) —
Harry S. Truman, ready to tell a
nationwide audience his side of
the Harry Dexter White contro
versy, says the FBI director sat
in on a conference at which
White’s fate was discussed.
The former President replies
tonight over radio and television
hookups to Atty Gen. Brownell’s
•charges that in 1946 he kept White ,
in government service despite FBI
reports that White was a spy.
The name of FBI director J.
Edgar Hoover came up when
Truman was questioned last night
about reports his speech would
explain White was retained in
government work *under a plan to
•trap an alleged Communist spy
ring.
Associates of the former presi
dent have been quoted as saying
the case of White, who died in
1948, was discussed at a confer
ence of Hoover, the late Fred
Vinson, chief justice, and Tom C.
Clark, then attorney general and
now a Supreme Court justice.
It Was at this conference a plan
to keep White in government
work was reportedly agreed upon.
The Kansas Citj^ Star reported
that Hoover denied he ever had
approved a plan to retain White
and that he opposed his appoint
ment to the International Mone
tary Fund directorship.
Brownell has charged that
“White was known to be a Com
munist spy by the very people
who appointed him” to the mone
tary post.
Truman said he would go “all
out” on his speech tonight, which
will be carried by NBC, CBS and
ABC radio and television net
works.
Truman associates were quoted
as saying White was transferred
from his “security sensitive” post
as an assistant secretary of the
treasury to the “less sensitive”
monetary fund directorship be
cause he was under suspicion.
Greenlease Kidnapers
Face Death Penalty
Under. Lindbergh Law
KANSAS CITY, (5) — The
money - mad confessed kidnap
killers of little Bobby Greenlease
were brought heavily handcuffed
today to federal court where a
jury will decide whether they
shall die in the gas chamber for
their crime.
Both Carl Austin Hall, playboy
wastrel, and Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Heady, the housewife who turned
alcoholic, were neatly dressed as
they were whisked into the fed
eral building.
The couple already has pleaded
guilty to violating the Lindbergh
Kidnaping Law, so all the jury
will have to decide is whether
they should die for the slaying,
planned even before they kid
naped the six-year-old son of a
Kansas City millionaire.
Under the Lindbergh Law the
death penalty can be assessed only
on recommendation of a jury.
Therefore that is the sole ques
tion for the jury to determine.