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Report British
Slii} 3S Carry Red
Troops for China
WASHINGTON, UP>—Investigat
ing senators called today for a
statement from President Eisen
hower himself on Allied natipns’
trade with Red China, after hear
ing testimony that two British
owned vessels transported Red
Chinese troops along the China
coast last year.
The testimony came from Robt.
Kennedy at a public hearing be
fore the Senate investigations sub
committee of which he is an as
sistant counsel. It drew angry
comment from some of the sen
ators present.
Kennedy said the British ships
he reported had hauled Red troops
were owned by companies in
Hong Kong. He said a ship owned
by one of these firms also had
been hired by the U.S. Mutual
Security Agency to haul foreign
aid goods.
Senator McClellan (D-Ark) said
he wTondered if the British ship
ping “doesn’t equal the contribu
tion the British are making as
allies” in the United Nations fight
against the Communists in Korea.
Sen. McCarthy, the subcommit
tee chair, exclaimed that it was
“unheard of, unbelievable” that a
nation . whose boys were being
killed in Korea would let its
ships be used to carry enemy
troops.
British Foreign Office
Denies Reports of
Churchill-Russian Talks
LONDON, UP)—The Foreign Of
fice denied Wednesday a report
that Prime Minister Churchill is
in informal touch with the Rus
sians with the aim of arranging
a big three conference. But re
sponsible British informants who
gave out the story Tuesday, said
their information was accurate
and added: “Events will prove the
report correct.”
A Spokesman told reporters at
the foreign office’s daily news
conference that Tuesday’s report
was untrue and “I am authorized
to deny it.”
The report said American lead
ers were being kept informed of
the British-Russian contacts.
U.S. Pilots and Sabre Jets
Proved Far Superior to
MIGs In Korean War
SEOUL, lS)—The U.S. Air Force
Wednesday reported 692 Russian
built MIG - 15 jet fighters have
been destroyed in the Korean war.
All but 17 were credited to Sabre
jets. And Sabres were credited
with more than 90 per cent of
the 126 MIGs probably destroyed
and 860 damaged.
The Air Force said 55 Sabres
had been lost in combat with
MIGs.
Why that 675-Q5 superiority?
Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus, soon
to retire as Fifth Air Force com
mander, says:
"1. The Sabre is a better plane
than the MIG.”
"2. Americans are better pilots
than the enemy.”
Most American pilots agree on
both points.
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Jet Flight Over Pole and
B-47 Distance Record
Revealed by Air Force
FORT WORTH, Tex., UP) —The
Air Force today disclosed:
1. The first jet airplane flight
over the North Pole.
2. The first non-stop flight of
six-jet B-47 bombers across the
Atlantic. Two B-47s flew to Fair
ford, England, from Limestone,
Me., in five hours and 38 minutes
April 7. They returned to the
United States two weeks later.
3. The breaking of all distance
and endurance records for jet air
planes—by a B-47 which, refuel
ed in mid-air, last year flew non
stop slightly more than 12,000
miles.
The Air Force said the first
crossing of the polar region by jet
was accomplished by a Boeing
B-47 Stratojet more than a year
ago.
The swept-wing bomber took
off from Eielson Air Force base,
headed out over the Arctic Ocean,
circled the top of the world and
returned.
The e^act length of the flight
was not disclosed but the B-47
is in the 600-miles-an-hour class
and has a range of more than
3,000 miles without refueling.
The unpi'ecedented flights were
made public at a convention of
aviation writers.
Geodetic Survey Will
Include Seward Penn.
In Projects This Summer
SEATTLE, UP)—Four Coast and
Geodetic Survey groups will leave
Seattle before May 28 to make
triangulation surveys in Alaska,
Cmdr. W. R. Porter, liaison officer
for Alaska operations said yester
day.
The untts will include nine of
ficers and 105 men who will make
control surveys in Yukon and Por
cupine River areas, Stony River
and Cook Inlet area, Seward Pen
insula and the Mt. McKinley Na
tional Park area.
The group will use helicopters
and small planes to transport men
and equipment. The surveys are
continuing projects required for
national defense planning and de
velopment of the territory.
Today In Korea . . .
SEOUL, UPi — U.N. infantrymen
fighting with knives, bayonets,
grenades and rifle butts today
chopped down more than 200 of
300 Red soldiers who battered
their way into an Allied outpost
in western Korea.
U.S. Sabre jets scoured north
west Korea without finding a
Communist MIG. It was the sec
ond straight day of aerial inac
tivity after six days of furious
combat in which 36 MIGs were
shot down and 18 damaged.
Fourteen Okinawa-based B-29
Superforts dumped 140 tons of
bombs on a sprawling supply
area 9 miles west of Sinanju.
Carrier - based planes flattened
202 buildings on the east and
west coasts of Korea Tuesday, the
Navy announced.
;s Hope For
iits, Calls Instead
ed High Revenues
By CHARLES F. BARRETT
WASHINGTON, UP)#— Congres
sional leaders today forecast a
quick and bitter battle over Presi
dent Eisenhower’s request for ex
tension of the excess profits tax
on corporations for another six
months.
The President outlined this and
four other tax steps in his nation
wide radio speech last night. He
snuffed out hope for immediate
tax cuts and called instead for
continued high revenues to keep
“oui nation secure and our dollar
sound ... in an age of danger.”
His plea brought a mixed and
wary reaction in Congress. Some
leaders said the outcome appears
in doubt, but that Eisenhower
might get what he asked for after
a tough fight.
This is the tax program which
President Eisenhower outlined:
1. No action by Congress to ad
vance the personal income tax of
10 percent due to take effect on
Jan. 1.
2. Retention of the excess pro
fits tax on business, expiring July
1, for another six months.
3. Indefinite postponement of a
drop of five percentage points in
the tax on corporation incomes,
now due to take effect next April.
4. Indefinite postponement of
reductions in excise (sales) taxes
also due to take effect next April.
These include taxes on cigarettes
(from 8 to 7 cents a pack), beer
(from $9 to $8 a barrel) and gaso
line (from 2 to 1 Vis cents a gallon).
5. Indefinite postponement of a
hike from lVfc to 2 per cent of
the Social Security payroll tax
paid by both employes and em
ployers on the first $3,600 of a
worker’s annual income.
The President also said that—
far from skimping on the Air
Force—his administration will put
60 cents of every defense dollar
into offensive and defensive air
power.
“These investments in air pow
er represent and will continue to
represent the heaviest single an
nual outlay of our government,”
the President said in describing
what he termed his “middle way”
military program.
His speech won speedy praise
and backing from Republicans in
Congress, although some of them
balked at the continued high
taxes Eisenhower called for.
But many Democrats remained
critical of the GOP administra
tions’ decision to cut back Air
Force goals from the 143 wings
set for mid-195 5 under the Demo
cratic Truman administration to
120. '
TUESDAY SCORES
American League
Boston 4—St. Louis 3
New York 4—Detroit 2
Philadelphia 2—Chicago 1
National League
Brooklyn 4—Milwaukee 1
Philadelphia 6—Cincinnati 3
St. Louis 2—Pittsburgh 1
Coast League
Oakland 12—San Diego 3
Los Angeles 3—Sacramento 0
Seattle 1—San Francisco 0
Latest A-Bomb Powerful
As Minor Earthquake
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (P — An
atomic blast as powerful as a
minor earthquake flared over the
Nevada desert before dawn yes
terday. It was the last convention
al shot before the long-heralded
firing of the nuclear projectile
from a cannon next Monday ends
the 1953 spring series.
The unusually bright explosion
rattled windows in Bishop, Calif.,
280 miles away. Microbarographic
(wave - recording) machines there
showed 12 distinct shocks follow
ing the detonation. Bishop police
said the flash and resultant ground
rumbles were the strongest ever
felt there.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion’s test organization announced
after the blast that the first atom
ic cannon shot will be fired next
Monday from a 280 mm artillery
piece. The test originally was
scheduled for May 23 but was set
back when wind and weather con
ditions four times caused post
ponement of Tuesday’s explosion,
ninth and next to last in the
series.
Ohio Officially Admilied io
Union After 150 Years
WASHINGTON, IP—After only
slight hesitation, the HoTise de
cided that Ohio should be official
ly admitted into the Union.
It unanimously passed a bill to
complete a job Congress started
150 years ago. The bill would es
tablish Ohio’s entry on March 1,
1803—the date the first legisla
ture met at Chillictfthe.
Congress a century and a half
ago' approved the state’s constitu
tion and boundaries. It somehow
neglected to adopt the resolution
formally welcoming Ohio as the
17th state of the union.
Another Polish Jet
Pilot Lands MIG
On Danish Island
ROENNE, BORNHOLM, Den
mark, UP) — Another Soviet-built
MIG-15—said to be the Commun
ist world’s fastest fighter plane—
was dumped into Allied laps
Wednesday by a young daredevil
Polish pilot who crash-landed his
prize on this rocky Baltic island.
Unconfirmed reports said he
told Danish police his MIG plane
was of a newer type than that
landed on Bornholm on March 15
in - another freedom dash by Pol
ish pilot Franciszek Jarecki.
The refugee pilot was reported
to have said he was a close friend
of Jarecki, whose MIG was the
first to fall undamaged into the
hands of Allied experts. Jarecki
now is in the United States where
he is seeking citizenship so he
can become an officer in the U.S.
Air Force. His plane was returned
to Poland after it \yas given a
careful once - over by western
aviaion experts.
Eyewitnesses caught a glimpse
of the MIG landed Wednesday
before it was hastily wrapped up
in a huge canvas by the Danish
military. They said they could dis
cern no difference between it and
the plane flown by Jarecki.
SEN. TAFT ENTERS HOSPITAL
FOR TREATMENT OF HIP
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen. Taft
of Ohio, the Senate Republican
leader, entered Walter Reed Med
ical Center today for an X-ray
and treatment of a hip that has
been causing him pain.
Office aides said the hip had
been bothering him recently, and
that he had visited the hospital
several times for treatment.
They said he expects to be in
the hospital several days.
Graduation Exercises
Nome High School
CLASS OF 1953
Thursday, May 21 — 8:00 P.M.
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Processional.Florence Kearns
Invocation.Rev. Paul B. Carlson
Salutatory.Vernon Olsen
“Sweet and Low”.Joseph Barnby
Mixed Chorus
Valedictory.George E. Bell
Commencement Song.H. W. Loomis
Mixed Chorus
Graduation Address . . . Honorable J. Earl Cooper
Judge, U. S. District Court
Presentation of Class.W. L. Angell,
Superintendent
Presentation of Diplomas
And Special Awards .... Raymond H. Tveter,
President, Nome School Board
Presentation of American
Legion Honor Award.Robert Scott
“Away For Rio”.Sea Chantey
Mixed Chorus
Benediction.Rev. Paul B. Carlson
Postlude.v.Florence Kearns
CLASS OF 1953
George E. Bell Joan Longley
Ruth Fagerstrom Vernon R. Olsen
Peter Larsen Alfred Sahlin
John Sahlin