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Greenlanders Complain To
Denmark, U.S. Base at
Thule Ruins Their Home
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, UP)—
Two Greenlanders have come all
the way to Copenhagen to discuss
with Danish authorities how to
have one of the world’s northern
most settlements moved still far
ther north to get it away from
the neighborhood of a big Ameri
can airfield.
The two Greenlanders are the
inspector of the whaling and seal
ing and the vicar of Thule settle
ment, 2,000 miles up the icy west
coast of Greenland, Denmark’s big
Arctic colony. They have come to
have the homes of 100 people
moved to a place where they can
live peacefully without the roar
of airplane engines in their ears.
The big American “Bluie Jay”
airbase is a close neighbor to the
Thule settlement, and though the
Greenlanders are fond of com
pany they resent it in this case,
as they claim it has meant a clear
decline in the prosperity of the
Thule settlement.
They said there were no fish,
no seals, no walrus—all of them
scared away by the noise from
airplanes and ships going to and
from the Bluie Jay base.
Six Die in Two-Car Collision
EAST ALTON, 111., UP) — Six
persons, two of them babies, died
last night in a blazing automobile
after a two-car collision.
Illinois State Police said all
were riding in one car which was
struck from behind, apparently
caused the gas tank to explode.
Former Ambassador To
India Says Asia Teetering
On Brink of Communism
WASHINGTON, (JB — Chester
Bowles, former ambassador to
India, said at the White House
today the fight against Commun
ism in Asia is going better from
a military standpoint than it was
a year ago.
Bowles talked to newsmen after
a 4'5 - minute conference with
President Eisenhower. He has just
returned to the United States after
serving as envoy in New Delhi
during the Truman administra
tion.
He described Asia as a contin
ent “teetering” between Com
munism and free world demo
cracy, and said it probably will
continue t o teeter for several
years.
India in particular, Bowles said,
must have economic and financial
help from the United States or
the danger of Communism will
grow.
• Bowles said *Tndia needs 200
million dollars annually in U.S.
economic help. He said the nation
at present is receiving only about
50 millions annually.
Accuses Admin.
Of Surrendering
To The Spenders
WASHINGTON, UP—Rep. Reed
(R - NY) shouted angrily in the
House today that the Eisenhower
administration “seems to have
surrendered to the spenders.”
Reed, oldest Republican in con
tinuous service in the House, said
he was amazed to see the admin
istration run up “the white flag
of surrender” on its goal of bal
ancing the budget.
“The spenders seem to have
taken over,” he added, “but I
don’t think that will scare the
Appropriations Committee of the
House.” He praised “courageous”
efforts of the committee to trim
federal outlays.
“This budget can be balanced,”
Reed insisted, “if Congress has
the courage to do it. Nobody else
will have, so far as I can see.”
At another point, Reed shouted
that he wondered whether the
administration “is still wet behind
the ears.”
Reed is chairman of the Ways
and Means committee which han
dles tax legislation. He has been
plugging for tax cuts which have
run into firm opposition from the
administration.
Reed was aroused by a week
end report indicating that balanc
ing spending with revenue may
be painfully difficult even for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1954
—14 months away.
Spring Rains Halt
The War In Korea
SEOUL, CD—Driving rain and
fog halted most air and ground
action today after 39 high-flying
American Superforts smashed
with 500-pound bombs a huge
1,000-building Communist supply
center deep in Northwest Korea.
Allied infantrymen huddled in
bunkers as spring rains pelted the
muddy 155-mile battlefront.
The B-29s from Okinawa and
Japan hurled 390 tons of bombs
at the 375-acre Red supply area
at Yangsi Sunday.
A thick cloud layer hid results
of the radar-controlled drops. Red
night fighters were in the skies,
but did not bother the Superforts.
Earlier Sunday, Capt. Manuel
Fernandez, Jr., of Miami, Fla., be
come the world’s leading jet ace
as he destroyed his 13th Red MIG.
Other American pilots downed
two more of the Russia-made jets
in breaking up a 50 to 70 plane
Aed attack on U.N. fighters near
the Yalu River.
LeTourneau Co. Changes Hands
PITTSBURGH, CD — Westing
house Air Brake Co., has announ
ced purchase of the earth-moving
equipment business of R. G. Le
Tourneau Co., Inc., for about
$19,500,000.
W. W. Sipprell of Seward
Replaces Dillon As Alaska
Steam Agent At Nome
SEATTLE—Four Alaska Steam
ship Company personnel promo
tions .to become effective May 15
were announced today by H. N.
Peterson, company general traffic
manager.
J. J. Dillon, former Nome agent
has been appointed special assist
ant to J.D. Nelson, assistant gen
eral traffic manager, Seattle; W.
W. Sipprell, general agent, Sew
ard, has been named Nome agent;
J. W. Jeffry, superintendent at
Seward, to general agent, there;
and Tom Ousdale, assistant chief
clerk in the Seattle freight office
to assistant agent, Seward.
A native of Skagway, Sipprell
joined Alaska Line as assistant
agent, Seward in July, 1942. He
is a graduate of Skagway High
School and had nine years prior
transportation experience at Skag
way with the White Pass & Yukon
Route and the Canadian Pacific
Railway in the operating depart
ment and as assistant agent res
pectively. For four years begin
ning in 1943, Sipprell was Alaska
Line agent at Kodiak and has
been general agent, Seward since
1947.
Territorial Senator
A. F. Coble of Fairbanks
Dies Suddenly In Seattle
SEATTLE, UP—Territorial Sen.
A. F. Coble of Fairbanks died of
a heart attack at the family home
here at 2 a.m. Sunday.
The 52-year-old retired busi
nessman had been in apparent
good health. He joined his fam
ily here after the recent session
of the legislature at Juneau.
Coble was widely known at
Fairbanks as a taxi business own
er. He started the business in
1936 and developed it into a large
enterprise during the wartime and
post-war boom years in the Fair
banks area. He had sold his taxi
business but he retained property
interests in the city.
Coble was a Marine in World
War I. He was a Royal Arch
Mason; a member of Alaska
Commandery No. 1, Knights Tem
plar, and a life member of the
Alaska Consistory.
He is survived by his widow,
Helen, and three sons, in Seattle—
Ronald, who is married, Gary and
Lloyd.
BANK SAVINGS UP 50
PER CENT SINCE 1951
WASHINGTON, UP — President
Eisenhower told savings bank ex
ecutives today the nation’s sharp
ly increased savings are “a most
heartening and helpful factor in
our battle against inflation.”
Eisenhower’s message, in the
form of a letter, said he was in
formed that deposits at savings
banks had increased about 50 per
cent since 1951.
27 Fairbanksans
Guests of Nome
C of C Saturday
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce were hosts to a delegation
of 27 members of the Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce who ar
rived here late Saturday after
noon and were honored with a
banquet at the Bering Sea Club.
In the party were Phil Ander
son, president of the Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce; Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Wells, president of the
Alaska Chamber of Commerce;
Ed Lewis, manager of the Fair
banks Chamber of Commerce; Mr.
and Mrs. Stan Tatom, also of the
Alaska Chamber of Commerce;
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Johnson, Bank
of Fairbanks; Mr. and Mrs. Sig
Wold of Wold Storage Co.; Mr.
and Mrs. Rae Flynn.
Mr. and Mrs. James Messer,
Mrs. Claire Wood, wife of Gen.
Wood of Ladd Field; Mrs. James
E. Evans, Lillian Webb, Caroline
Carson, Joel Buffington of radio
station KFRB; Andy Urbane, Ed
Aldrich, Bill Colimbany, Bob
Clintworth.
Representing the Fairbanks
Daily Newsminer were Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Ryan; and the Jessen’s
Weekly, Jim Canfield.
Main speakers for the Fairbanks
delegation were Phil Anderson,
Cecil Weils, Ed Lewis and Stan
Tatom, who stated their trip was
a good will mission with one of
the main goals a better under
standing between the 2nd and 4th
Divisions so that the main goals
in the economy of both divisions
could be worked out with a bet
ter understanding.
According to Stan Tatom the
most important issue is the high
way to Nome so that “all people
under the American flag can be|
united by a highway and visit
each other as neighbors.”
Cecil Wells stressed the import
ance of a well-chosen delegate to
the All-Alaska Chamber meeting,
one who knows the needs of this
area and can vote the wishes of
the Division with confidence. The
meeting will be held in June and
he hoped that the delegate would
have the full confidence of the
chamber and be able to assist
materially in this important
group. It is only by pulling to
gether that the different divisions
can accomplish big things in the
future.
Wells noted the absence of “Mr.
Alaska,” a charter member of the
Nome Chamber of Commerce and%
an active officer since it was first
started, namely, A. Polet, who
was detained in Fairbanks on
business.
Representing Nome on the
program were Dewey Goodrich,
toastmaster, Mayor Steve Ander
sen, now serving his third term,
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Communist Plan Poses
Threat of Indefinite
Captivity For Prisoners
PANMUNJOM, (#)—Allied truce
delegates today asked the Com
munists to advance a plan for
final determination of the fate of
war prisoners refusing to return
to Red rule.
At today’s 53-minute meeting,
the U.N. Command, said an eight
point Communist proposal for
prisoner exchange still left the
threat of indefinite captivity
hanging over 48,500 North Korean
and Chinese Reds.
The Communists have proposed
that a five - nation commission
supervise such prisoners for four
months. After that period — and
after Communist representatives
had “explained” things to the sol
diers—the fate of those still un
willing to return would be settled
by a political conference.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison
Jr., senior U. N. delegate, said
there was no guarantee that a
political conference could settle
the prisoner question as the Com
munists urged.
Communist Invaders Of
Laos Are Withdrawing
HANOI, Indochina, 151—One of
the last chapters in the Commun
ist-led Vietminh invasion of the
kingdom of Laos was being writ
ten today as nearly two full divi
sions of the Red invaders crossed
the northern frontier into north
western Indochina.
Another Vietminh division was
expected to be out of Laos within
24 hours.
This would leave only crack
division No. 304, which invaded
from the east, still on Laotian
soil. It was based around 90 miles
southeast of Luang Prabang.
It apparently had been ordered
by the Vietminh high command to
hang on to cover the withdrawal
northward and to attack the
strongly defended French-Loatian
base of nearby Plaine de Jarres if
the French struck out after the
retreating columns.
The French so far had made no
effort to pursue the invaders with
ground forces.
REDS' NEWEST PEACE PLAN
CALLED 'COMMUNIST TRAP'
SEOUL, OP) — South Korea’s
truce delegate today called the
Reds’ most recent plan to end the
Korean war “a Communist trap”
designed “to defeat the United
Nations proposal for free repatria
tion of prisoners of war.”
ROK Army Maj. Gen. Choi Duk
Shin said the Red proposal for a
four-month “explanation” period
for POWs refusing to return to
Red controls shows “Communist
intention to coerce the prisoners ^
to return to Communism by in
timidation, threat, and even tor
ture.”
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