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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No. 138 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1954 Per Copy—-15^
Bartlett Pledges Support
For Projected Methodist
College At Anchorage
CHICAGO, M—E. L. Bartlett,
Alaska’s Delegate to Congress,
yesterday pledged wholehearted
support of all Alaska for the
projected Alaska Methodist Col
lege at Anchorage.
He told a national meeting of
the Methodist superintendents
and bishops of the growing pains
affecting the territory and of a
need for increased liberal college
facilities.
Dr. P. Gordon Gould, superin
tendent of Methodist work in Al
aska, announced that the cost of
the campus, being donated to the
church is being met by Alaskans.
An intensive campaign for funds
is scheduled in March.
This campaign will supplement
a drive for funds in Methodist
churches in the 48 states. No con
structions will be started until at
least two million dollars is raised.
Walter Remington, In
Prison For Perjury,
Dies From Beating
LEWISBURG, Pa., (/PI—William
Walter Remington, former U. S.
Commerce Department economist
convicted of lying when he denied
handing over secret government
documents to a Communist. spy
ring, died today at the federal
penitentiary here after a myster
ious beating.
The 37-year-old prisoner, serv
ing a three-year term for perjury,
was attacked viciously about the
face and head Monday morning.
The weapon: a piece of brick
wrapped in a sock.
Remington underwent emergen
cy brain surgery yesterday in a
vain effort to save his life.
Acting Warden Fred T. Wilkin
son disclosed the death, reported
the identity of the assailant “is
fairly well established” and then
cut questioners short with the re
mark: “Anything further must
come from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.”
In the prison with Remington
was Alger Hiss, another top gov
ernment aide also serving a per
jury conviction sentence .for ly
ing, too, about his Communist
party connections.
Rumors persisted outside the
prison walls that the attack on
Remington represented a start of
a demonstration against the re
lease of Hiss, sentenced to a five
year term but getting out earlier
because of time off for good be
havior.
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IJ. S. To Protest
lied Imprisonment'
Of 13 Americans
WASHINGTON, I/P) — T h e
United States government an
nounced last night it will lodge
“the strongest possible protest”
against Chinese Communist pri
son sentences given to 13 Ameri
cans who dropped out of sight
during the Korean war.
“Utterly false,” the department
said of spying charges which Pei
ping gave as the basis for prison
terms ranging from four years to
life. “Trumped up charges,” said
the State Department, and it
added:
“The U.S. government will con
tinue to make every effort to ef
fect the release of these mn who
have been unjustly ‘sentenced’ to
further periods of imprisonment.”
The prison sentences, imposed
by a Red military court, were an
nounced by the Peiping radio yes
terday.
In a separate statement issued
simultaneously, the Defense De
partment said the action “illus
trates again the bad faith, insin
cerity and amorality which have
characterized” Red China’s con
duct of its international relations.
It added that “the Chinese
Communists . . . are holding the
American servicemen as political
prisoners in violation of interna
tional law, the rules of war and
the Korean armistice agreement.”
Eleven of the men involved
were crew members of a U.S.
Air Force B-29 bomber shot down
on Jan. 12, 1953.
Govt. Reports Living Costs
Decline In October For
Third Straight Month
WASHINGTON, (IP)—The gov
ernment reported today living
costs declined in October for the
third straight month.
The drop of two-tenths of one
per cent from September will
mean a penny-an-hour pay cut for
1,300,000 workers in the auto,
aircraft and farm machinery in
dustries whose union contracts
call for pay rate changes geared
to the living cost index.
Food prices, averaging one-half
of one per cent lower, were the
main factor in the over-all living
cost drop between September and
October.
The index kept by the Labor
Department’s Bureau of Labor
Statistics eased to 114.5 per cent
I of the 1947-49 average.
Sen. Young (R-ND)
Announces He Will Not
Vote To Censure M’Carthy
WASHINGTON, IIP) — Senator
Young (R-ND) announced today
he will not vote to censure Sen.
McCarthy on the charges brought
by the special committee which
recommended an official rebuke.
Young, hitherto uncommitted
publicly in the bitter censure
fight, made known' his views in
a.news letter he sends out period
ically to North Dakota news
papers.
He said he was influenced chief
ly by two considerations—listing
them as a need for preserving
the right of free speech and Mc
Carthy’s “effective work” in “ex
posing the Communist influence
in the federal government and
other institutions.”
McCarthy is entitled to “great
credit” for this work, Young de
clared.
The Wisconsin senator has said
he expects to get about 25 votes
against censure out of a full mem
bership of 96, but has not listed
those he counts on his side.
Churchill Reveals
Long-Time Distrust
Of The Soviet Union
WOODFORD, England, IIP) —
Prime Minister Churchill says
that ev.en as the Germans were
surrendering in World War II, he
made plans to rearm them if the
Russians advanced further into
Western Europe.
The veteran prime minister, 80
on Nov. 30, spoke anew of his
long-time distrust of the Soviets
at a birthday rally given last night
by his supporters in this sub
urban town. Churchill has repre
sented the district in Parliament
for 30 years.
Sir Winston told the crowd:
“Even before the war ended,
and while Germans were sur
rendering by hundreds of thou
sands, I telegraphed Lord Mont
gomery directing him to be care
ful in collecting German arms and
to stack them so that they could
easily be issued again to the Ger
man soldiers with whom we
should have to work if the Soviet
advance into Western Europe
continued.”
Stalin, he declared, was “car
ried away by the triumphs of vic
tory and acting as if he thought
he could secure for Russia and
Communism the domination of
the world.”
Joint Committee R
Tin Corp. of Misre
Obtaining Three M
U.S. Tin Official Says
Company Will Utimately
Justify Expenditure
SEATTLE, UP) — A spokesman
for the U.S. Tin Corp., said here
last night he believes its Lost
River tin mine will utimately
justify the company’s activities.
J. J. Gilmour, treasurer, com
mented in the absence of H. R.
Fischnaller, president. )
“We do not feel we have any
thing to gain by commenting on
the report and are awaiting a
copy in order to study it,” Gil
mour said.
“We believe in the final analy
sis the ultimate success of the
Lost River property will justify
the position the company has
taken.”
The Lost River mine is the
nation’s only underground tin
mine. Two large shipments of ore,
valued at approximately $400,000
by company officials, were ship
ped to Seattle by freighter this
fall to be sent by rail to a re
finery at Texas City, Tex.
Seals In The Pacific
Are Multiplying Rapidly
TOKYO, (UP) — Seals are multi
plying rapidly in the north Pacific
a three-nation conference report
ed today.
Government scientists from
Canada, the United States and
Japan, ending a two-week meet
ing, reported conservation has
boosted the seal population in the
U.S. owned Pribilof Islands off
Alaska from 100,000 to 1,500,000
the past several years.
Russian-held Kaihyo Island, off
Sakhalin, where seals were vir
tually extinct, now has1 40,000 to
50,000, and seals have multiplied
10-fold, to about 100,000, on So
viet-held Komandor Islands, east
of Kamchatka, they estimated.
Who Wouldn't Be Sad
BERLIN, (if)—A Muenster com
petitor in West Berlin’s city-run
lottery was a sad man today. His
entry—the first correct five-nuyn
ber combination submitted in two
years — arrived a day after the
weekly draw. His 12-cent ticket
would have won him $115,000.
eport Accuses U.S.
presentation In
illion Dollar Loans
> WASHINGTON, OP) — The Sen
ate-House committee on Defense
Production today blasted the TJ.S.
Tin Corp. for what it termed
“misrepresentation” in obtaining
government-backed loans of al
most three million dollars for its
Lost River, Alaska, tin operation.
The most recent advance was
made last July. The government
is still supporting the enterprise
for its possible defense value.
A report issued by the commit
tee also accused several govern
ment agencies of “gross inef
ficiency” and recommended that
Atty Gen. Brownell study all as
pects of the “most serious de
ficiencies” in the case for “such
action as he considers advisable.”
The report, prepared by com
mittee counsel Harold J. Warren
after extensive hearings last sum
mer, was liberally spotted with
angry allusions to “many irregu
larities . . . improper records . . .
unrealistic promises” which it said
marred the company’s perform
ance and which should have held
a warning for the federal agencies
which approved a series of five
separate loans totaling $2,894,575.
In a stinging rebuke, the joint
committee accused the corpora
tion of misleading the govern
ment in its loan application on
these items, among others:
1. The access road from the
mine to the shipping point, six
miles away. H. R. Fischnaller,
U.S. Tin president, described the
road as “an excellent road . . .
in first class condition . . . very
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Veterans To Collect
$226 Million On Govt.
Insurance Policies
WASHINGTON, UP) — World
War I and II veterans next year
will collect 226 million dollars in
dividends on their government
life insurance.
The Veterans Administration
announced yesterday it will start
in January to pay 200 million
dollars to holders of about five
million World War II national
service life insurance policies.
The VA said another 26 million
dollars would be distributed
among holders of some 380,000
World War I U.S. government life
insurance policies.