SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LTV No. 137 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1952 , Per Copy—15^
o<S Dead Or Missing
In One of Flying’s
Worst Weekends
(By tke Asso iated Pnrss1
After one of its grimmest avia
tion weekends, the nation counted
88 persons dead or missing in the
disappearance or scattered crash
es of eight American military
planes and three civilian aircraft.
Some 31 passengers and erew
rjien aboard two U.S. Air Force
transports are missing: 43 are
know dead in the crashes of a
military transport, a fighter plane
and three Navy craft; and nine
are dead in the civilian crashes.
Nine Air Force planes searched
in vain for a huge C-119 “Flying
Boxcar” which disappeared in
Alaska Saturday with 20 men
aboard.
Meanwhile, helicopters and
Navy small boats scoured the sea
off Japan for 11 men missing
after a C-46 transport dived into
the water off the east coast of
Korea Saturday night. Seven
ethers were rescued.
As the search for the missing
*' continued, a helicopter was fly
ing out the mangled bodies of 44
passengers and crewmen killed
Friday in the mountainside crash
of another C-119 “Flying Box
car” 18 miles east of Seoul, Korea.
The C-119s were the second and
third planes of their types to
smash up since Nov. 7, when one
carried 19 airmen and soldiers to
death in a collision with an Alas
kan peak.
Five persons died last night in
the worst of the weekend civilian
craves.
An Air Force reserve pilot was
killed Sunday near Hanna City,
HI., and three Navy pilots died
in separate crashes in California
and Arizona.
Eisenhower Will Not Stop
In Japan Enroute to Korea
For Security Reasons
TOKYO, (TP) — President-elect
Dwight Eisenhower will not stop
in Japan enroute to Koi;ea, an
authoritative foreign office source
told Kyodo News Service Monday.
The informant said an informal
note to that effect was received
from Mikichi Araki, Japanese
ambassador to the U.S.
There has been speculation that
Eisenhower would bypass Japan
and fly directly to Korea from
■ome mid-Pacific air base. The
primary reason is security. The
Communists are much less apt to
know of Eisenhower’s movements
' if he does not touch down in
Japan.
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, WIDOW OF SEN. PITTMAN
DIES OF BRAIN HEMORRHAGE
WASHINGTON, (TP)—Mrs. Mi
mosa Gates Pittman, 80, widow
of Sen. Key Pittrnan (D-Nev) died
Friday in her home of a brain
hemorrhage.
She had been ailing with a
heart condition for the last year.
For the 28 years her husband
served in the Senate, she was his
constant companion.
Mrs. Pittman reportedly met
the future senator in Alaska when
he was a sourdough Klondike
miner and she the raughter of a
miner and she the daughter of a
AEC Refuses To
Admit H-bomb Has
Been Exploded
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, OP) — The
Atomic Energy Commission has
officially disclosed that hydrogen
bomb “research” was included in
a test of nuclear weapons at heav
ily - guarded Eniwetok Atoll but
stood pat today on its refusal to
admit such a bomb had been ex
ploded.
The commission, after issuing
its terse announcement last night,
also spoke of possible prosecution
for those who have written let
ters home about seeing what they
described as the world’s first H
bcmb blast.
Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize
winning scientist who was a key
figure in the development of the
atom bomb, said in Chicago he
believed the AEC announcement
meant the United States has suc
cussfully exploded its first H
bomb.
But what, reporters asked,
about the swelling volume of let
ters coming back from ship crew
members and others attached to
the joint AEC-military task force
which conducted the 1952 pro
gram?
The letters, widely published in
the United States, described an
explosion on Nov. 1 which, to
them, seemed to transcend any
previous man-made detonation.
In a written answer to questions
which had been accumulating on
his desk, AEC chairman Gordon
Dean said:
1. Information would be limited
to that contained in the formal
announcement “because any am
plification might give aid to po
tential enemies.”
2. The commission is “concern
ed” over the letters, and
3. “Investigations are under
way leading to possible disciplin
ary action or prosecution for vio
lation of task force regulations or
the law.”
Proposed Air Services To
Alaska Get CAB Airing
WASHINGTON, f/P)—Proposals
for new scheduled air service be
tween the United States and Alas
ka get an airing today at a Civil
Aeronautics Board pre - hearing
conference.
Purpose of the hearing is to
set a date for the formal proceed
ings and to outline its scope.
Eleven applications, involving
nine carriers, are involved in the
consolidated proceedings. Some of
the proposals are largely techni
calities, such as Northwest Air
lines’ request to designate its
present Seattle terminal as Seat
tle-Tacoma.
At least four carriers, however,
proposed new scheduled service to
the Territory. One of these, Air
Transport Associates, Inc., has
been beating on the Civil Aero
nautics Board since 1949, and re
cently sought a court order to
force the Board to give it a hear
ing.
Annual Pioneer
Roof Garden To
Be Held Dec. 13
In conformity with traditional
custom extending over a period
of more than 40 years, Igloo No. 1
Pioneers of Alaska ushers in the
winter social season with its an
nual Roof Garden.
To those who have been resi
dents of Nome since its infancy
and participated in its recovery
from floods and fire, trials and
tribulations, threats of invasion,
etc., as well as having enjoyed
the comforts, satisfaction and
gratification that result from ear
nest, successful endeavor, to over
come the obstacles that confront
those who choose to live a fron
tier life, the Pioneer Roof Garden
has been considered the one event
of the year that always brought
the cosmopolitan population of
Nome together as one big family
for an evening of delightful en
tertainment and a display of gen
uine Alaskan hospitality. And to
the more recent arrivals it has
shown an example of how the
people of a community, isolated,
so to speak from the outside
world, can find real enjoyment in
meeting new friends who wel
come them with genuine friend
ship so characteristic of the peo
ple of Alaska.
Pearse Walsh Heads Committee
The Roof Garden committee in
charge this year, headed by
Pearse Walsh, is making an all
out effort to make this celebra
tion one of the biggest and best
demonstrations of its kind ever
witnessed in Alaska.
The Roof Garden program is
again being prepared and business
houses are as usual taking liberal
advertising space in this unique
folder which finds its way
through many of the States, being
mailed by members of the Pio
neers to friends who are inter
ested in Alaska in general, and
Nome in particular.
Evidence of the benefits accru
ing to Nome from the circulation
of this booklet was brought home
last summer when certain tourists
produced copies which they show
ed to Mayor Jones while he was
conducting inspection tours of
Nome and vicinity.
Nome's Historic Background
No other town in Alaska has
the historic background; geo
graphical location; wealth of
early days of adventure that at
tracted the attention of writers
like Rex Beach; explorers like
Roald Amundsen, Nansen, Stefan
son and others who from time to
time made Nome headquarters for
their work. s
It has been the policy of the
Pioneer organization to foster and
keep alive such early day tradi
tions through the medium of its
Annual Roof Garden celebrations
which have been enjoyed and
appreciated each succeeding year.
This year of 1952 bids fair to
eclipse any of the celebrations of
the past. The program committee
under experienced and capable
leadership is already at work, de
tails of which will be published in
subsequent issues of the Nugget,
Reds and Girls
Exploit 8,000 U.S.
Airmen at Oxford
By PHILIP CLARK
OXFORD, Eng., (JP) — British
Reds and red-light ladies are cash
ing in on one of the biggest booms !
to hit Oxford in centuries—8,000
American airmen.
Scores of prostitutes have troop
ed into this ancient cultural city
to grab easy money from free
spending Yanks on leave from the
three big U.S. air bases nearby.
And a few unpleasant incidents
involving Americans and Britons
have provided big headlines for
the sensational press and fresh
propaganda for the Communists’
“Yank Go Home” campaign.
Both the Air Force and Oxford
City authorities insist that the
8,000 American airmen in this
area have behaved as well as can
be expected. They agree the real
porblem is prostitution.
A week-end visitor to Oxford
finds American airmen by the
hundreds crowding the city’s main
streets, cinemas, restaurants, bars
and dance halls.
So do the girls—many hardened
prostitutes from out .,of town,
others local girls out for a good
time.
Gangs of young toughs, or
“Spivs,” many dressed in Ameri
can-style “zoot” suits, sometime
roam the streets looking for
trouble.
To Oxford’s small but active
Communist cell, its open season
for stirring up anti-American feel
ing among local British inhabi
tants. Their “Yank Go Home”
campaign is going full blast there.
The Americans are not blamed
directly for the fact that Oxford’s
rate of illegitimate births last year
was seven out of every 100 babies
nearly double the national aver
age. The rate has grown since
1950.
City Alderman E. W. B. Gill,
bursar of Oxford’s Merton Col
lege, told a reporter: “It’s no use
saying—as some people do—that
American servicemen are to
blame. Half the trouble is these
confounded girls.”
A woman welfare officer said:
“I think the girls are mostly to
blame, and in some cases their
mothers encourage them. The
mothers can’t forget that during
the war many English girls got
good American husbands.”
But she thinks part of the
trouble is that “so many of these
young American visitors are mo
thers’ darlings. Americans spoil
their boys, and when they are left
on their own in a strange country,
they take naturally to ‘womaniz
ing’.”
REUNION
DEPUVILLE, N.Y., (/P)—A pair
of childhood sweethearts have
married—after each had celebra
ted a golden wedding anniversary
with another mate.
Albert Shaw, 72, and the for
mer Mrs. Minnie Seymour, 71,
grew up together in Plessis, Jef
ferson County. Each married and
moved away. Shaw’s first wife
died last February and Mrs. Sey
mour’s first husband died in 1951.
Foremen Dispute
Halts All Seattle
Water Commerce
SEATTLE, (JP) — Creeping
paralysis of Seattle’s waterfront
has spread to an eighth dock as
a dispute over hiring of longshore
foremen remained deadlocked.
AFL pickets appeared Sunday
at the Luckenbach Steamship
Company’s Pier 46 for the first
time, halting loading work on the
freighter Marine Leopard.
Maxie Weisbarth, port agent for
the Sailors Union of the Pacific
and spokesman for the AFL Mari
time Trades. Department, said
Saturday night:
“At the rate we’re going, we
may have all Puget Sound ship
ping tied up.”
The dispute, now in its fifth
day, is the outgrowth of a break
with the AFL by nearly 100 long
shore foremen who formed an in
dependent union in Seattle.
Weisbarth said the AFL would
insist that all employers abide by
contracts which call for hiring
formen through AFL headquar
ters. Employers have said there
are not enough foremen left in
the AFL union to meet the needs.
The picketing has halted all
major water commerce with Al
aska, but has not affected military
vessels.
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C-119 with 20 Men Aboard ,
Missing On Flight From
Elmendorf to Kodiak
ANCHORAGE, (JF) — Rescue
planes criss-crossed Alaska skies
today in another search for a
C-119 Flying Boxcar, missing with
20 men aboard.
The huge transport, carrying a
crew of five, 14 Army men and
an Air Force enlisted medic, van
ished Saturday on a flight to
Kodiak, 250 miles southwest of
here. The Air Force announced
Sunday it was presumed to have
crashed.
It was the third C-119 lost in
Air Force operations in 10 days.
A sister ship from the 435th
Troop Carrier Wing, Miami, Fla.,
sent to Alaska for cold-weather
training maneuvers, crashed on
Mt. Silverthrone, 135 miles north
of here, Nov. 7 with a loss of 19
lives. Forty-four were aboard 3
Flying Boxcar which crashed in
• Korea a week later.
Nine Air Force planes searched
lofty mountains and open sea be
tween here and Kodiak Sunday
for the missing transport, and
dozens of other planes were on a
standby basis.
NEW GREEK GOVERNMENT *
ATHENS, Greece, (/P) — The
caretaker Greek government re
signed Monday and King Paul
immediately appointed Marshal
Alexander Papagos, overwhelm
ing victor in Sunday’s parliamen
tary elections, Prime Minister.
Official figures from the Inter
ior Ministry gave war hero Mar
shal Papagos’ right wing Greek
Rally party 241 seats in the new
300-member parliament to only
59 for the Lefist-Center coalition
headed by Gen. Nicholas Platiras.
The Communists, although they
got 12 per cent of the popular
vote, did not win a single parlia
mentary seat.