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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS,
VOL. LV No. 43 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1953 . Per Copy—15^
Reds Agree Trade
600 Ailing U.N. For
5,800 Communists
‘ By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, I/P) — The Commun
ists agreed Friday to trade sick
and wounded prisoners beginning
about April 21, then proposed re
sumption of the long-stalled arm
istice negotiations.
Both sides were expected to
sign today the agreement calling
for the exchange of 5,800 ailing
Reds f£>r 600 Allied prisoners, of
which 120 are Americans.
But in calling for a return to
the armistice table the Commun
ist officers gave no sign of yield
ing on the principle of forced re
patriation of some 50,000 prison
ers who balk at returning to Red
rule.
Communist liaison officers at
Panmunjom, in proposing the re
sumption, declared “the principal
of repatriation of all prisoners of
war” after an armistice “is un
, shakeable.”
And the Communists reiterated
that “the Korean - Chinese side
does not acknowledge that there
are prisoners of war who are al
legedly unwilling to be repatri
ated.”
The Communists’ proposal,
which, they called “very import
ant,” was in reply to a letter
, April 5 from Gen. Mark Clark
from Gen. Nam II, senior Com
munist negotiator and restated
Red China Premier Chou’s three
main points:
1. Let all prisoners go' home
who chose to return.
2. Turn over to a neutral coun
try—yet unnamed—all prisoners
who are listed as not wanting to
return to their homelands.
3. Let the Communists give ex
planation” to prisoners “afraid”
. to return home.
High Costs Force Libby
Curtail Salmon Canning
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SEATTLE, UP) — Libby, McNeill
& Libby today reported good re
turns last year from every phase
of its canning operations except
salmon. The firm’s president said
“We are clamping down on ex
penditures by this division (sal
mon) until the outlook improves.”
President Daniel W. Creeden re
ported to stockholders that earn
ings for the year ended Feb. 23
were $6,123,819, compared with
$1,863,209 last year.
Creedon commented that the
salmon4 business “is suffering
from continued increases in costs
of labor and supplies to the point
where the retail price was no
longer attractive to the con
sumer.”
He added that “in negotiations
with labor unions this year, the
salmon industry is trying to bring
about a more realistic view of the
situation and a solution for the
benefit of all concerned.”
Generals MacArthur and
Marshall Figure In Ammo
Shortage Investigation
WASHINGTON, W) —Secretary
of the Army Stevens told senators
today the ammunition situation in
Korea now is very sound. Supplies
are “well up all along the line,”
he said.
He testified that on a recent
trip to the fighting front he found
virtually all supplfes were at or
above a 90-day level, which the
Army considers safe for anything
that might happen in that part
of the world.
MacArthur’s name figured in a
Senate Armed Services subcom
mittee investigation with testi
mony that the one-time Far East
commander and other top military
and political leaders felt in 1950
the Korean war would be won
with only six months more of
fighting.
And Gen. Marshall, then Sec
retary of Defense, was said to
have figured in a decision to' slash
ammunition funds sharply about
the same time.
Witnesses said that because of
a feeling the war would soon end
there was no real effort to get
ammunition production rolling
until December, 1950—six months
after the war began—after the
Chinese Reds had entered the
conflict.
Alaska Steam Readying
Liners for Tourist Season
SEATTLE, UP) — The Alaska
Steamship Co.’s Alaska was towed
by tug Thursday from her winter
mooring on Lake Washington to
Elliott Bay, where she will be
made ready for the summer tour
ist sailing season in Alaska
waters.
The motorship, one of four tour
ist vessels the company will op
erate this summer, will be dry
docked for a week and then will
move to pier 42 to make ready
for her departure May 27 for
Alaska.
Another Alaska liner, the Aleu
tion will be brought from her
winter mooring next week. The
Aleution will leave for Alaska in
the first sailing of the tourist
season on May 22. The two ships
will join the Baranof and the
Denali, both operating in the
north now.
Alaska Steamship officials say
that although the four vessels will
operate generally in the same
waters, there will be four differ
ent and distinctive cruise routes
offered with two sailings a week
during the season.
MINISTER APPLIES FOR
BETHEL RADIO STATION
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Rev.
Earl Russell Shay, Sr., has ap
plied to the Communications Com
mission for a new standard radio
station at Bethel, Alaska, on 930
kilocycles, 105 watts, unlimited
time. •*
U.S. Warns Against
Abandoning Policy
Strength and Unity
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP—
The U.S. warned the free world
today against abandoning its pol
icy of strength and unity because
of conciliatory gestures from the
Kremlin.
U.S. Delegate Ernest A. Gross
told the U.N.’s 60-nation political
committee that it was the west’s
very policy of strength and unity
which had brought about such
gestures and that eventually it
would oblige the Soviet govern
ment to change its policies com
pletely.
% “Most of us feel the time will
come when the Soviet govern
ment will find it necessary to
modify its policy. If so it will be
because of our policy of strength
and unity. We must not abandon
that strength.” he declared.
Gross deplored reintroduction
of an omnibus Polish peace pack
.age and said that the U.N. has
•already rejected all major points
in it. He specifically regretted the
bringing up of the Korean prob
lem here at this time.
“No resolution on Korea is nec
essary or desirable at this time,”
he declared. “We must avoid any
action which might jeopardize the
talks at Panmunjom.”
Salmon Industry Offers
Cook Inlet Fishermen
1952 Prices For Salmon
SEATTLE, (ff)—The Alaska Sal
mon Industry, Inc., today offered
the Cook Inlet branch of the In
dependent Alaska Fishermen’s
'Union the 1952 prices for this sea
son and a union official predicted
the terms would be accepted.
Price paid independent operat
ors under the 1952 agreement
were: Red salmon $1.25; king sal
mon $4; pinks 30 cents; and sil
vers 93.6 cents.
Lottie Edelman, business agent
for the union, said the offer ap
parently presaged opening of the
Co'ok Inlet season oh schedule
May 25. Tenders are to move
north from Seattle after April 20.
Former Managing Editor
News-Miner Director of
Office of Territories
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Interior
Secretary McKay has announced
the appointment of William C.
Strand, executive city editor of
the Washington Times Herald, as
director of Office of Territories.
Strand, who was managing edi
tor of the Fairbanks News-Miner
from 1948 to 1950, will get $13,200
annually as director. The office is
responsible for Interior Depart
ment matters pertaining to terri
tories, including Alaska.
Gov. Heintzleman Takes Office,
Promises New Cycle for Alaska
To Develop Into Fruitful Land
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“Subversive Plan”
May be Behind
Shipping Tie-ups
SEATTLE, (jft — An • Alaskan
says thefts amounting to a mil
lion dollars annually occur while
goods are being shipped to the
territory.
Byron Gillam, representing the
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce,
gave that estimate of loss from
pilferage at Thursday’s congres
sional hearing into Seattle water
front conditions.
Gillam also hinted a master
“subversive plan” might be be
hind waterfront tieups that have
occurred since the second world
war. He said many “peculiar in
cidents” and strikes, developing
one after another, caused him to
conclude they were not all co
incidental.
The Fairbanks man urged legis
lation to provide uninterrupted
service and retard thievery.
William J. Boardman of Ketchi
kan, Alaska House member, criti
cized Seattle Mayor Allen Pome
roy’s previous testimony that re
curring waterfront strikes could
be solved on the local level.
Boardman urged federal legis
lation, and said he felt Pomeroy’s
statement was “neither respon
sible nor accurate.”
James Beard, Juneau news
paperman, told the committee it is
“outrageous and immoral” when
“six persons can strangle 160,000
persons.”
He referred to testimony of a
Seattle labor leader Wednesday
that it took only six pickets to
shut down the Seattle waterfront
last fall, cutting off shipments to
Alaska.
E. D. Lewis, manager of the
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce,
said Alaskans are looking toward
Prince Rupert, B.C., for help in
getting foodstuffs and other sup
plies.
This was confirmed by A1 Shy
man, chairman of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce Alaska
Lifeline Committee. He said
Prince Rupert’s shipping to Alas
ka means a “grave threat” to Seat
tle’s trade with territorial cities.
THREE GOLOVIN MEN
MISSING ON THE ICE
Three Golovin men are reported
missing on the ice today and the
Nome Civil Air Patrol sent out
a plane to search for them. Les
Bronson and Rev. Paul Carlson
are the searchers and the missing
men are reported to be Billy
Komokuk, John Fagerstrom and
Edwin Punguk.
> JUNEAU, UP)—B. Frank Heint
zleman assumed the governor’s
chair today with a pledge of ag
gressive ^c'tion for Alaska’s in
dustriaU development and a re
commendation for drafting of a
preliminary constitution as part of
a general statehood study.
In his inaugural address, on be
coming the first Republican gov
ernor in two decades, the erst
while regional U.S. forester de
clared the governor’s office will
work with other agencies in mak
ing “a continuing objective study
of statehood.”
He said Alaskans want to be
sure the provisions of any en
abling act of Congress are satis
factory.
The colorful inauguration pro
gram for Gov. Errffest Gruening’s
successor was arranged as a day
long affair, to end with a formal
ball tonight.
Heintzleman, who was sworn
into office by U.S. District Judge
George Folta, expressed confi
dence the territory has “able men
and women, imbued with the
spirit of public service, willing to
help solve its problems.”
“At times,” he continued, “I
have been overawed by the num
ber and complexity of problems
ahead.”
He noted that “Alaska had 13
Russian governors and now has
had 13 American governors. The
new cycle now starting may mark
the era in which Alaska will de
velop into the fruitful land we
know it is capable of becoming.”
The ceremonies were held at
the 20th Century Theater.
Judge Folta also gave the oath
of office as Territorial Secretary
to Waino Hendrickson, mayor of
Juneau and a territorial legislator.
Heintzleman made these points
in his address:
On Territorial Government: Ef
forts should be made to obtain a
higher degree of efficiency. The
activities of the many present
commissions and boards might be
combined into a few departments,
with their heads responsible to
the governor and serving as the
governor’s staff.
On Development: Especially in
terested to have the territory
make a more aggressive effort
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GEN. KEPNER, RETIRED
ALASKA COMMAND CHIEF.
IS WITH BELL AIRCRAFT CO.
WASHINGTON, UR — Lt. Gen.
William E. Kepner, retired head
of the Alaska Command, has be
come an executive vice president
of the Bell Aircraft Corp. at Buf
falo, N.Y. Kepner was retired by
the Air Force in February after
nearly 41 years of military service. ,
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