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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 139 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1952 Per Copy—15^
First 3 Cabinet
Selections Meet
General Approval
WASHINGTON, (JP)—President
elect Eisenhower’s first three cab
inet selections, greeted with ap
proval by Republicans and Demo
crats alike, seemed assured today
of quick Senate confirmation.
Secretary of State—Joh£ Foster
Dulles, former Republican sen
ator and one-time adviser to the
State Department during Demo
cratic administrations.
Secretary of Defense—Charles
E., Wilson, president of General
Motors.
Secretary of Interior — Gov.
Douglas McKay of Oregon.
While reaction was generally
favorable on both sides of the!
aisles in Congress, there was no
comment forthcoming from the
White House. President Truman
has been critical of both Dulles
and Wilson.
During the recent election cam
paign, Truman said in a speech
obviously beamed at Dulles that
t Eisenhower was being advised by
“masterminds” who spread “loose
talk” about freeing enslaved
peoples in order to win votes.
Nearly five years ago Truman,
commenting on Wilson’s proposal
for a 45-hour work week, said
he believed the Detroit industrial
ist was living in the 1890’s.
First reaction from foreign
sources on Dulles’ selection was
favorable.
Chinese ambassador Wellington
Koo told newsmen in Washington
it will be “very favorably re
ceived” in Formosa, the seat of
the Chinese Nationalist regime.
In Tokyo, major newspapers
splashed the announcement across
their front pages, recalling that
Dulles was the chief architect of
the peace treaty which restored
Japan’s sovereignty after World
J War II.
In Paris, French diplomatic
sources said they believed Dulles
would carry on the essentials of
present U.S. foreign policy. The
French reaction, however, could
not be dsecribed as warm.
■Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, i
who bolted the Republican party
i ta support Democratic presiden
tial nominee Adlai Stevenson,
wasn’t particularly pleased by
the appointments of Dulles and
McKay.
“I think they are very good
appointments for the reaction
aries,” Morse said.
Execution of Atom Spies
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• Set For Week of Jan. 12
NEW YORK, (jP) — Federal
Judge Irving R. Kaufman today
set the week of Jan. 12 for the
execution of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg, convicted atomic spies.
Last week the United States
Supreme Court refused for a sec
ond time to rehear the case of
the husband and wife prisoners.
They were convicted March 29,
1951 of passing atomic secrets to
Russia, and for many months
have been confined in the death
* house at Sing Sing Prison.
P.M. Gen. Sees
Tlmle Crossroads
Of The Air Age
COPENHAGEN. Denmark, (JP)
_John M. Redding, U.S. Assistant
Postmaster General, predicted to
day the U.S. Air Force base at
Thule in Greenland will become
“one of the most important cross
roads of the air age.” He envis
aged a modern city of a half mil
lion population at Thule within
10 to 15 years.
Redding was a passenger on the
airliner Arild Viking on its trail
blazing flight across the polar
icecap from California to Europe.
The American-built Scandinavian
Airlines . System plane . arrived
here last night after a trip that
took 28 hours and 7 minutes from
Los Angeles. The flying time for
the 5,852-mile hop was 23 hours
and 38 minutes.
One of the two stops was at
Thule. Without use of that far
northern base the flight to blaze
a trail for commercial flying ac
ross the bleak polar regions would
have been impossible. The new
route cuts off about four hours
flying time from the U.S. West
Coast to Scandinavia.
For Col. Bernt Balchen, the
veteran Arctic flier who was also
a passenger, the flight was realiz
ation of a long dream. “It really
was a great day in my life to see
all this come true,” he said.
Today the giant DC-6B airliner,
made by Douglas Aircraft, left on
a regular passenger flight to
Stockholm. The next hop over the
top of the world by Scandinavian
Airlines System plane is planned
for Dec. 5, when another plane
of the same type will be delivered
to SAS by Douglas Aircraft. A
scheduled service using Thule as
a refueling point will be intro
duced next spring.
Selection of Gov. McKay
As Secretary of Interior
Comes As Surprise
NEW YORK, (yP) — President
elect Eisenhower announced yes
terday he has chosen John Foster
Dulles as Secretary of State;
Charles E. Wilson, president of
General Motors, as Secretary of
Defense; and Gov. Douglas Mc
Kay of Oregon as Secretary of
Interior.
The selection of McKay came as
the biggest surprise. Although he
has been a backer of reclamation
work in the West he said he
would not have a statement on
his policies.
He has been an automobile
dealer in Salem, Oregon, for many
years, he served as mayor of
Salem and as state senator.
BAD WEATHER HAMPERS
SEARCH FOR LOST C-119
ANCHORAGE, <yP) — Pilots
brought back more negative re
ports yesterday from the continu
ing aerial search for a missing
Air Force Flying Bojccar and its
20 passengers.
Twelve search planes took off
despite a heavy fog which the
pilots said “socked in” everything
but the lowlands.
The C-119 disappeared Satur
day on a flight from Elmendorf
Air Force base here to Kodiak.
Alaska Steamship
May Shift Route
Portland "Alaska
SEATTLE, (A*)—D. E. Skinner,
general manager of the Alaska
Steamship Co., said Thursday the
firm might have to make a shift
in operations if Alaskans ever
transfer their buying from Seattle
because of shipping troubles.
A group of Anchorage business
men suggested earlier this week
an Alaska - Portland ' commercial
link on a large scale.
Skinner commented:
“The principal job of the Al
aska Steamship Co. is to- serve the
best interests of the Alaskan peo
ple. The majority of 'Alaskans
have remained loyal to Seattle
throughout the years, principally
because Seattle has been able to
give them the quickest service at
cheapest prices.
“Whenever conditions are such
that Seattle can no longer do this
job, Alaskans may be forced to
change their buying habits.
Should this happen in volume,
this company may have to change
its sailing habits.
The Anchorage group labeled
the Seattle shipping situation,
with' the frequent tie-up of ser
vice during labor disputes, as “in
tolerable.”
Jack Conway, a Sitka business
representative who participated in
the conference Tuesday that led
to release of ships to Alaska, took
a different view.
“We want to continue to trade
here.” he said. We’re pleased with
Seattle efforts to help us in our
shipping troubles, and we know
Seattle has the warehouses and
facilities to handle the Alaska
trade.”
Seattle shipping people noted
that, while the current tie-up has
been local to Seattle, most ship
ping tie-ups hit all of the major
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Juneau C of C To Instigate
Legal Action Against Tie
Up of Shipping to Alaska
JUNEAU, (JP) — The Juneau
Chamber of Commerce prepared
Friday to ask Alaska’s governor
to start legal actio'n seeking to
enjoin Seattle unions and “other
responsible parties” from further
delaying shipping to the Terri
tory.
The action was suggested by R.
E. Robertson, Juneau attorney, as
a result of the picketing in a Seat
tle dock foremen’s dispute that
has delayed Alaska shipping.
A written recommendation for
legal action was to be sent to
Acting Gov. Burke Riley, Alaska
Secretary.
Robertson said he based his
recommendation on Alaska’s ec
onomic dependence on water
transportation. He said Alaskans
are “innocent bystanders suffer
ing damages from a jurisdictional
dispute.”
Riley said reports from over the
Territory indicate the pinch from
the shipping slowdown is growing
worse each day. He said mer
chants stand to lose thousands of
dollars if Christmas orders are
not shipped promptly.
F-86 Sabre Jet Sets
Speed Record at
699.9 Miles an Hour
THERMAL, Calif., (^P)—A roar
ing. flame-spewing F-86D Saber
jet plane piloted by Capt. J. Slade
Nash of Edwards Air Force Base
has established a new unofficial
world speed record — 699:9 miles
an hour.
Capt. Nash, 31, whose home is
in Moville, Iowa, made four low
level passes Wednesday over a
measured three-kilometer course
at the edge of the Salton Sea, 235
feet below sea level. His perfor
mance was made under rules of
the Federation Aeronautique In
ternationale and the National Aer
onautics Association, which must
verify it before it becomes official.
In shattering the record for op
erational aircraft in the North
American all-weather interceptor,
Capt. Nash topped the 670.981
m.p.h. mark set last Sept. 15 by
Maj. Richard L. Johnson of Ed
wards AFB, who used an earlier
Sabre model, the F-86A.
At his top speed Capt. Nash’s
plane nosed toward the dangerous
compressibility of the sonic wall.
The speed of sound in the 75
degree temperature of the lake
shore was about 775 miles par
hour at the time of the test runs
in the Imperial Valley.
The rules under which the flight
was made specified that the plane
must not fly higher than 1,64'0
feet. Actually, Capt. Nash made
the four passes at not more than
100 feet off the sun-swept earth
of the eastern shore of the inland
sea. He was monitored by four
T-28 training planes and with
high speed movie cameras and a
special chronograph system. Nash
had to hold the Sabre below 500
meters on the three sweeping
turns necessary for the four deck
level passes.
Gov. McKay Will Not
Say He Will Support
Statehood for Territories
SALEM, Ore., {/P)—Gov. Doug
las McKay, who will be the new
Secretary of the Interior, won’t
say whether he will support
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.
But he has supported it four
times at the National Conference
of State Governors.
The governor said, in answer to
a question as to how he feels
about statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii:
“Im not going to issue any state
ments of policy until I take over
my new office Jan. 20. I will
have to confer with Gen. Eisen
hower first. After all, I’m just
going to be his hired hand.”
BRITISH AUTHOR REJECTS
VISA TO VISIT THE U.S.
LONDON, <iP) — Graham
Greene, noted Roman Catholic
author, disclosed today that he
had rejected a visa granted by
U.S. Attorney General James P.
McGranery for an eight - week
stay in the United States.
The British writer also said he
previously had deliberately let it
be known that he once had been
a member of the Communist party
in order to obtain publicity
against Senators Joseph R. Mc
Carthy (R-Wis) and Patrick A.
McCarran (D-Nev).
Grand Jury Indicts
Rep. McCutcheon,
Closes Union Bank
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Two of
ficers of the Union Bank of An
chorage—President Andrew Hass
man and Territorial Rep. Stanley
McCutcheon — were arrested on
grand jury indictments yesterday
after the bank was closed by
order of the Territorial Banking
Board.
The two men were charged on
seven counts of failure to abide
by banking laws or Banking
Board orders. All the counts are
misdemeanors. Both men posted
$3,000 bond immediately.
McCutcheon is National Demo
cratic Committeeman for Alaska,
was the party’s House floor lead
er in the 1951 Legislature and
was speaker of the House in
1949. He is secretary of the bank,
a director and an attorney.
McCutcheon and Hassman both
denied any wrongdoing and said
the charges were politically in
spired.
McCutcheon said the alleged
loan violations were of a tech
nical nature, and added:
“These charges carry no evi
dence of dishonesty. If we vio
lated any banking laws, we did
so inadvertently.
“The Union Bank is solvent and
in the unique position of being
able to pay its deposits to the
last dollar and have a substan
tial sum left over.”
The federal jury indictments ac
cuse Hassman and McCutcheon of
making loans in excess of legal
limits, failure to hold meetings of
stockholders and failure to obey
Bank Board orders.
The bank ordinarily opens at
noon. A crowd milled at the doors
for 45 minutes yesterday before
the closure notice was posted. It
was signed by all members of
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Three Eskimo Scouts,
Victims of Plane Crash,
Read on Roll of Honor
FT. RICHARDSON, Alaska —
Three members of Company D,
First Scout Battalion, all from
Wainwright, Alaska, were com
memorated with full military hon
ors in ceremonies here at 2 p.m,
today.
Read on the roll of honor to
assembled Eskimo- scouts were
names of Privates Edward Toorak,
Issaac Walook, and Harry Taz
ruk. All three died in the crash of
Wein Alaska Airlines light plane
November 7 when it plunged into
the Arctic Ocean near Point Bar
row, also killing Pilot Walter Baer.
The ceremony began with pray
er by Chaplain Percy Ipalook of
Kotzebue; reading of honor roll
by Col. Lars Johnson, adjutant
general, Alaska National Guard;
and three volleys by a firing
squad of scouts.
Lt. Col. George McLaughlin,
camp commander, placed a mem
orial wreath, followed by the
sounding of taps, music by the
Army band, presentation of salute
by a Color Guard representing
units in camp, and closing prayers
by Chaplain Capt. Walter Sobo
leff of Juneau.