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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 3 rtOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1953 Per Copy—”
Salmon Industry Asserts It Unable
Screen Workers Enroute to Alaska
Under McCarran Immigration Act
Rigid Inspection
Pilots, Equipment
Is Recommended
WASHINGTON, Iff)—'The House
Armed Services Committee will
tell the Air Force to tighten its
■program for training and select
ing transport pilots as a means
of reducing air disasters, chair
man Short (R-Mo) said today.
He told a reporter the first
phase of an inquiry into recent
military crashes also had shown
a need for more rigid inspection
of equipment.
The committee is specifically
probing the cause of seven mili
tary disasters which cost 233
lives during November and De
cember. These include aviation’s
worst accident which killed 87
servicemen at Moses Lake, Wash.,
Dec. 20.
The inquiry will be continued
in a public hearing Tuesday,
after which the committee will
make specific recommendations,
Short said.
Short commented, “The human
factor was a big element in all
of these accidents. We will re
commend a better training pro
gram, and particularly the use of
more care in changing pilots from
one type of plane to another.”
He said the Air Force should
require pilots assigned to Alaska
and other more difficult runs to
fly for longer periods over the
terrain as co-pilots, before taking
over the controls.
New Maritime Advisory
Committee to Work To
Save Seattle Port Trade
SEATTLE, (ff) — Alaska busi
nessmen and shippers want to
keep Alaska trade flowing thru
the Port of Seattle, it was de
clared Tuesday at the first meet
ing of Mayor Allan Pomeroy’s
Maritime Advisory Committee.
Jack Conway, operator of ter
minal facilities in Sitka, said Al
aska welcomes the opportunity
the committee offers Alaskans to
work with Seattle on maritime
problems.
“We are aware of the efforts
of other ports to secure Alaska
business,” Conway added; “but
Seattle is geared to handle the
Alaska trade and we would like
to keep our business here.”
Mayor Pomeroy expressed gra
tification that nearly every mem
». her of the 34-man advisory com
mittee appeared at the first meet
ing.
Col. Warren D. Lamport, man
aging director of the Port of Seat
tle, told the group:
" “The committee will provide a
needed chance to sell the water
front activities to the city of Seat
tle itself. The committee is a
healthy group that can do much
to build our maritime future.”
The next meeting of the advis
ory committee is scheduled for
Jan. 20.
I* SEATTLE,- (tf) — Alaska salmon
j packers cannot operate normally
i this year under terms of the Mc
Carran-Walter Immigration Act,
the managing director of Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc., declared
Tuesday.
“If the salmon industry is to
carry on its operations,” W. C.
Arnold told the Post-Intelligen
cer, “either the McCarran Act or
the regulations of its administra
tion must be changed.”
Sections of the act which re
quire immigration screening of all
travelers from Alaska to the con
tinental U.S., Arnold said, raise
almost insuperable barriers to the
industry’s system of shipping non
resident cannery workers north.
“It will be simple for the alien
who is registered to produce proof
as to his identity,” the Salmon
Industry executive declared. “But
it will be another matter for
American citizens who have no
birth papers. Many of these peo
ple just haven’t got proof of their
citizenship or even identity, and
I it would take weeks, or even
months to investigate them.”
Arnold challenged the U.S. Im
migration Service to propose a
practical way to screen the in
dustry’s 8,000 migrant cannery
workers under present regula
tions.
“We send thousands of these
workers to Alaska by airplane,”
he recalled, “and average 500 a
day at the beginning and end of
every season. It would nort be
practical to screen these men be
fore they depart for Alaska. They
are assembled from all parts of
the West Coast, and this is done
from 48 to 72 hours before de
parture time. The same situation
applies on the homeward trip be
cause the canneries are located
at remote and widely separated
spots.”
Before the Salmon Industry
statement Tuesday, the Philip
pine consul at Seattle already had
expressed concern over the situ
ation which affects so many sal
mon cannery workers of Filipino
nationality or descent.
McKay Asserts Previous
Alaska Statehood Bills
Have Not Been Adequate
WASHINGTON, UP) — Douglas
McKay, who will be Secretary of
the Interior in the Eisenhower
cabinet, said today he is in sym
pathy with statehood proposals
for Hawaii.
But the former Oregon gover
nor told reporters upon his ar
rival here by train that he has
not yet seen “a bill favorable”
to statehood for Alaska.
McKay made it plain he is not
against making the northern terri
tory a state “when Alaska is
ready for statehood.” He added:
“But she is not ready under the
bills I’ve seen in the past, which
provided for 95 per cent of her
land to be property of the fed
eral government.”
He said the federal government
owns 25% of the land area of his
own state and “that’s enough.”
Truman Confirms
New Bomb Dwarfs
Old A-Weapons
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Truman confirmed Wednesday
that the United States has un
leashed vast new explosive pow
er in tests aimed at producing a
hydrogen bomb—and he said even
the “hell bomb” may be dwarfed
by more awesome atomic wea
pons.
Truman told the world this
country’s latest tests in the ther
mo-nuclear field — the scientists’
way of describing hydrogen bomb
research—already have put man
kind into a new era of destruc
tive power. And he added in his
state-of-the-union message:
“We have no reason to think
that the stage we have now
reached in the release of atomic
energy will, be the last . . . We
are being hurried forward, in our
mastery of the atom from one dis
covery to another, toward yet un
foreseeable peaks of destructive
power.”
Actually, Truman avoided the
words “hydrogen bomb” in his
brief discussion of the tests last
fall^at the Eniwetok proving
grounds in the Pacific.
He went only a little beyond
the guarded language used by the
Atomic Energy Commission in an
nouncing the tests, but his phrase
ology appeared to be significant.
Truman said:
“Recently, in the thermonuclear
tests at Eniwetok, we have en
tered another stage in the world
shaking development of atomic
energy. From now on, man moves
into a new era of destructive
power, capab-.e of creating explo
sions of a new order of magni
tude, dwarfing the mushroom
clouds of Hiroshima and Naga
saki.”
C-47 With 37 Veterans
Home From Korea War
Missing Over Idaho
SEATTLE, UR—A plane carry
ing 37 soldiers who arrived only
yesterday from service in Korea
and Japan was reported missing
today over south Idaho.
Fort Lawton authorities, said it
was one of several chartered
planes that left here during the
night to speed rotated soldiers to
ward their homes.
The plane’s destination was
Fort Jackson, Miss.
Fort Lawton reported 38 mili
tary passengers aboard. The two
engined C-46 carried a crew of
four.
If the plane crashed after its
last radio report over Malad City,
Idaho, it would be the first dis
aster for a plane carrying rota
tion troops homeward after their
arrival here by ship from the
Far East.
It would be the 11th crash of
a military or military-chartered
plane in the Northwest states,
Alaska or Korea since a tragic
chain started last Nov. 7 with
an Alaska crash of a C-119.
The list of victims of the series
of disaster would be raised to
about 340.
Truman Warns Stalin That War
Between East and West Will Bring
Only Ruin To Soviet Homeland
Defense Moves For
Dismissal In Smith
Murder Trial
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
TOKYO, UP) — The prosecution
c?f the Dorothy Krueger Smith
murder trial rested today after
the general’s daughter was quoted
as saying, “I waited for my hus
band to go to sleep and stabbed
him.”
The defense promptly moved
for dismissal on grounds of in
sufficient evidence. The motion
was overruled by the U.S. Army
court martial board and the trial
recessed until tomorrow.
Mrs. Smith, 40, daughter of
Gen. Walter Krueger of World
War II fame, pleaded innocent of
fatally stabbing Col. Aubrey
Smith in the bedroom of their
Tokyo residence the night of
Oct. 3.
One c?f today’s prosecution wit
nesses, Capt. Sohpia Slovak of
Gardner, Mass., quoted Mrs.
Smith as saying:
“I waited for my husband to go
to sleep and stabbed him. It galls
me to think I didn’t do it on the
other side.”
Captain Slovak, night super
visor of an Army hospital where
Mrs. Smith has been treated since
the slaying, testified she talked
with the defendant two hours
after the colonel was stabbed in
the right side.
She said Mrs. Smith told her:
There was an argument. Smith
told his wife to prepare to leave
for the United States. Mrs. Smith
added:
“My husband is sending me
home because I have been a det
riment to his profession. I have
prevented him from getting a pro
motion.”
Another nurse, Capt. Helen Hu
manensky of Pittsburgh, quoted
Mrs. Smith as saying the Smiths
“argued a couple of times. She
said if she had to go to the United
States alone she would kill him
first and then herself.”
Mighty Mo Returns
To Korean War
SEOUL, Iff) —- American Sabre
jets, flying a shield for fighter
bomber striking at the twisted
North Korean rail system, shot
down one Communist MIG-15 and
damaged two others Wednesday,
the Fifth Air Force reported.
The Navy announced in Tokyo
that the U.S. battleship Missouri
returned to the Yellow Sea Tues
day and joined British warships
in blasting Communist targets
along the Korean west coast.
It was the mighty Mo’s third
appearance in those waters since
Sept. 21, 1950, when she support
ed the assault against Seoul after
the Inchon landings.
The heaviest Chinese thrust on
the ’ground was against Allied po
sitions, on Sniper Ridge on the
central front.
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTON, (tf) — President
Truman coupled a “godspeed” to
Dwight D. Eisenhower today with
a word of hope that growing
Western strength may force So
viet rulers to “become more real
istic and less implacable, and re
ceed from the cold war they
began.”
If the effort fails, he said, the
resulting atomic war would be
one in which man “could extin
guish millions of lives at one
blow.”
In his final “state of the union”
message to Congress, Truman
warned Soviet Premier Stalin that
if such a war comes between East
and West it can bring only “ruin
for your regime and its home
land.”
Truman drew a picture of swell
ing might in the West and said
that as it continues, “then inevi
tably there will come a time of
change within the Communist
world.” Saying he did not know
how such a change will come
about, Truman continued:
“But if the Communist rulers
understand they cannot win by
war, and if we frustrate their at
tempts to win by subversion, it is
not too much to expect their
world to change its character,
moderate its aims, become more
realistic and less applicable, and
recede from the cold war they
began.”
Truman pledged his backing for
his Republican successor, against
whom he stumped the country in
last fall’s bitter election cam
paign. He concluded his 10,000
word message with this reference
to Eisenhower:
“To him, to you, to all my
fellow citizens, I say godspeed.
“May God bless our country
and our cause.’’
The President’s farewell to
Congress, before whom he pre
viously has delivered such mes
sages in person, was left for the
reading of others. Truman plans a
similar message to the union in
a broadcast Jan. 15. The one to
Congress today was of almost un
precedented gravity.
The President submitted no leg
islative recommendations, saying
he would not infringe upon Eisen
hower’s right to chart the coun
try’s course after his inaugura
tion Jan. 20. He reviewed the
progress of his “Fair Deal” and
said it has served the nation well.
The message carried no trace of
the undercurrent of bitterness
Truman had earlier shown toward
Eisenhower.
Agree On "Wide-Open" Hearings
On Proposals Amend T-H Act
WASHINGTON, UB-^Sen. Taft
said Tuesday he and Rep. Mc
Connel (R - Pa) have agreed on
“wide open” hearings on pro
posals to amend the Taft-Hartley
Act.
Taft told reporters he expects
these hearings to begin simultan
eously in the Senate and House
about Feb. 1, with all interested
parties invited to air their views.