Eisenhower Meets With
Committee He Named
To Streamline Govt.
NEW YORK, UR — President
elect Eisenhower arranged to con
fer Saturday with a committee he
named recently to study reorgan
ization of the executive branch of
the federal government.
Eisenhower headquarters said
the general would confer at his
Columbia University home with
Nelson Rockefeller, chairman of
the committee, Dr. Arthur S.
Fleming, president of Ohio Wes
leyan University, and possibly
with his brother, Milton Eisen
ihower, president of Pennsylvania
State College.
Eisenhower created the com
mittee to work in conjunction
with a Temple University project
on reorganization and stream
lining of the executive branch.
Eisenhower apparently is steer
ing away from policy commit
ments in most cases as he meets
a steady stream of callers in these
pre-inauguaration days.
Steamship Agent 36 Years
And Never Took Boat Trip
JUNEAU, UR—Until today, Ben
Barnett of Haines could say he
was a steamship company agent
for 36 years without going to sea,
an airline agent for five years
without having flown and an Al
aska resident for 54 years with
out going Stateside.
But Ben is changing all that.
After selling tickets for Alaska
Coastal Airlines for half a dec
ade, the 74-year-old sourdough
boarded a plane and flew to Ju
neau. On Sunday, he’ll sail on the
Baranof, owned by the Alaska
Steamship Company, for which he
has been passenger agent at
Haines since 1916.
And when he steps off the
gangplank in Seattle it will be
for the first time since he left
there way back in 1898.
With him will be Mrs. Barnett,
whom he married in Juneau in
1902. Saturday’s air flight was her
first also, and the trip outside
will be her first in 12 years.
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[ Editor Believes November
H-Bomb Test At Eniwetok
Was Second Explosion
CHICAGO, UD — The editor of
an authoritative publication con
cludes that the United States has
a hydrogen bomb more than twice
as powerful as the atomic bomb.
Dr. Eugene Rabinowitch, editor
of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, bases his opinion on
Defense Department announce
ments, Atomic Energy Commis
sion and eyewitness reports on
test explosions on Eniwetok Ato’ll
last November.
In an article he wrote for the
monthly publication, Dr. Rabino
witch said Sunday, the U.S. may
have exploded its first H-bomb
material at Eniwetok 20 months
ago. The November explosion,
vividly described in newspaper
accounts by eyewitnesses, he con
cluded, “must have been” a fol
low-up experiment in which the
amount of H-bomb material was
increased.
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Congress Makes Assignments
WASHINGTON, UP — Members
of the new Republican Congress
concerned themselves principally
today with committee assign
ments while waiting for tomor
row’s ceremony which will for
mally elect Dwight D. Eisenhower
president.
99 Run For Ciiy Tacoma Council
TACOMA, UP—Five candidates
for the new Tacoma city council
withdrew Friday — leaving 99 in
the race. A special primary elec
tion will be held Feb. 10, narrow
ing the field to the top 18 for
the March 10 general election.
MILLBROOK, N.Y., UP—Actor
Robert Montgomery suffered a
broken left arm yesterday when
he slipped on ice and fell while
visiting friends here.
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New Board to Test
Anew Loyalty of
Diplomat Vincent
WASHINGTON, W) —President
Truman has ordered a five-man
board created to test anew the
loyalty of career diplomat John
Carter Vincent, long a target
of Communists - in - government
charges by Sc-n. McCarthy and
others.
The President agreed with Sec
retary of State Acheson, in an
exchange of memoranda, that a
study by the government’s top
loyalty review board was too con
fusing and inconclusive for a final
decision “in good conscience.”
The review board ruling found
reasonable doubt of Vincent’s
loyalty and recommended that he
be fired.
Among other things, it cited
what it called Vincent’s “studied
praise” of the Chinese Commun
ists and criticism of Chiang Kai
Shek’s Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment in the early 1940’s.
Vincent, 53, a key figure in
shaping U.S. Far Eastern policy
in those years, was suspended by
the State Department after the
loyalty board findings were an
nounced Dec. 15.
Vincent, a veteran of 30 years
in the diplomatic service, said
there was no doubt in his mind
about “my absolute and constant
loyalty to the United States.”
The new board will be the third
group to consider Vincent’s loy
alty.
In explaining his unprecedented
action, Acheson said the board’s
recommendation was made by a
3 to 2 margin. The minority, he
said, found “no evidence had been
produced which lead them to have
a doubt as to Vincent’s loyalty.” j
As for Vincent’s criticism of the
Chinese Nationalists and praise
of the Chinese Reds Acheson said
this was not necessarily proof of
any disloyalty.
He said it was Vincent’s duty
as a Foreign Service officer to
report facts as he saw them re
gardless of whether his conclu
sions followed official policy. To
prevent a diplomat from doing
this Acheson declared, “would
lower the high tradition of our
own foreign service.”
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WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
SERIOUSLY ILL AT HOME
WESTMINSTER, Md., UP —
Whittaker Chambers, who touched
off one of the nation’s most sen
saional spy stories after World
War H, remained seriously ill at
his home near here today.
The 52-year-old former maga
zine editor was discharged from
a Baltimore hospital Dec. 24 after
several weeks of treatment fol
lowing a heart attack.
Yesterday his wife said Cham
bers was continuing treatments at
home but was expected to remain
in bed “for many, many months.”
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Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
Ask Ice Breaker Service
In Cook Inlet To Permit
Anchorage Winter Service
SEATTLE, W)—The manager of
Ocean Van Line said Saturday
his firm will undertake winter
shipping to Anchorage if ice
breaker service and insurance are
provided.
Manager T. A. Thronson said
the request for all winter ship
ping came from business interests
at Anchorage. That port normally
is closed in winter by ice in Cook
Inlet.
Thronson said he understood
Anchorage interests had asked the
Coast Guard whether an ice
breaker could be assigned to Cook
Iinlet during the winter. If so,
Thronson said, he will ask the
firm handling Ocean Van’s insur
ance whether it will approve the
winter operation.
He said Ocean Van, which op
erates four van-carrying ships to
Alaska, went into Anchorage un
til Dec. 20 this year because Cook
Inlet was relatively ice free. Nor
mally, he said, the Anchorage
port is considered closed around
October 1.
MATS Log 700
Flights Over Pole
WASHINGTON, uei—‘The Mili
tary Air Transport Service
(MATS) said today one of its
Alaska-based squadron has flown
more than 700 missions over the
North Pole.
Lieut. General Joseph Smith,
MATS commander, said the 58th
Strategic Reconnaissance Squad
ron has been flying regular B-29
weather missions in the polar zone
almost daily during the past
year. However, the 700 total is
the number of missions flown in
the three years the squadron has
been operating.
Smith also announced, in an
annual survey, that during 1952
MATS military and contract air
craft averaged:
1. A crossing of the Pacific
every 45 minutes.
2. A crossing the Atlantic or an
Arctic flight each hour and 15
minutes.
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Stolen Canadian Safe
With $100,000 Is Found
WHITEHORSE, Y. T., UP) — A
safe containing $100,000 in cash
and checks, stolen from a rail
way office here Nov. 29, has been
found cached in brush near the
Alaska Highway five miles north
of here.
The thieves got about $2,500 in
cash. They shoved $97,000 worth
of checks back into the strongbox
after hacking it open.
Officials of the White Pass and
Yukon Railway said earlier they
doubted that the thieves would
be able to cash the checks if they
did take them.
Police said the discovery of the
safe Friday provided them with
new clues in the case. The com
/
pany has posted a $500 reward
for capture of the thieves, who
forced the door of the auditor’s
office and carted the safe away
in a truck.
Three Crewmen Killed In
Crash of Air Force C-47
RALEIGH, N.C., UR —- An Air
Force transport plane, groping
through driving rain and fog,
crashed near the Durham-Raleigh
airport about midnight Friday.
Three officer crewmen were
killed but one sergeant miracul
ously escaped death when he ap
parently was thrown clear of the
crashing plane. Battered, bloody
and dazed, the crewman, T/Sgt.'
Edward Matus, staggered into the
airport about 1 a.m. to report his
C-47 transport plane had crashed.
The accident occurred as the
plane was attempting an emer
gency landing. It was more than
six hours after Matus gave the
alarm that a search party found
the tangled remains of the two
engine plane a half mile north
east of an airport runway.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OP NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
Alaska Chapter No. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets 3rd Monday each month.
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Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meeio
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President