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Iran Breaks Off
Relations With
Great Britain
By MARC PURDUE
TEHRAN, Iran, (flh—Iran broke
off diplomatic relations with
Britain Thursday.
It was a grave development in
the bitter, 18-months-long dispute
over nationalization of the 1 Vz
billion dollar holdings in Iran of
Anglo - Iranian Oil Company and
seemed to rule out any chance
now’ for a settlement.
Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh, the frail but stubborn ad
vocate of nationalization, made
the announcement in a nationwide
broadcast.
By breaking off relations he
made good a threat voiced several
weeks ago.
It was also his reply to a Brit
ish foreign office statement Wed
nesday which lashed out personal
ly at Mossadegh, saying he had
overstepped the limits of interna
tional courtesy in his attacks upon
Britain.
Mossadegh fired back Thurs
day with a charge that the British
“by a continuation of useless cor
respondence” intend to merely
waste time and “prevent us from
taking another economic path
which would bring salvation and
freedom to the Iranian people.”
tin Washington U. S. officials
said Mossadegh’s decision “knock
ed sky high” efforts to find a
solution to the oil dispute. They
described the decision as “most
unfortunate.”)
U. S. Demands
Compensation For
Lost B-29 Plane
WASHINGTON, {£*) — The
United States charged today in
a note to Moscow that Russian
planes made a “wanton and un
justifiable attack” on the Ameri
can B-29 plane missing off Japan
since Oct. 7. The note demanded
compensation.
Payment is in order, the U.S.
said, both for the loss of the
plane and fpr the lives of any of
the crew of eight who may have
perished.
The U.S. declared the B-29 was
on a routine flight of? the north
ern end of Japan, was entirely
unarmed and its officers were
under ^^fplicit orders to remain
within Japanese territory.
Whereas the Russians have con
tended the U.S. craft violated So
viet frontiers, the U.S. note said
the attack actually occurred some
six miles from the Japanese is
land of Hokkaido and 32 miles
from the Russian occupied Yuri
island.
The sharply worded U.S. note
advised Moscow “to consider the
grave consequences which can
flow from its reckless practice, if
persisted in, of attacking without
provocation the aircraft of other
states.”
Moscow was asked to furnish an
immediate report on the results
of a search operation believed to
have been carried out by a Soviet
patrol boat, and to provide full
> information about any crew mem
bers who might have survived.
Two Fourth Division GOP
Senators Elected Gives
Solid 4-Man Delegation
FAIRBANKS, UP)—Rep. Stepo
vich’s victory over Democrat
Frank Barr for the latter’s terri
torial Senate seat was assured to
day as all but about a thousand
4th Division votes were counted.
Returns from 34 of 70 precincts
showed Stepovich, a young attor
ney who served in the 1951 House
was elected with Sen. John But
rovich to the division’s two Sen
ate seats. With two holdover sen
ators, it give the Republicans a
solid four-man delegation in the
Senate.
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Leading for five House seats
(all Republicans except Greuel) —
Coghill 2159; Miscovich 2031;
Wilbur 1983; Hurley 1848; Greuel
1702.
Others — Franklin 1602; Dale
1548; Jones 1473; Taylor 1352;
Gardner 1314.
Delegate—aBrtlett 2204; Reeve
1392.
Auditor—Moore 2150; Gamick
1309.
Highway Engineer—Reed 1873;
Metcalf 1634.
I
Legless Veteran
Spared Gov’t Job
By Court Ruling
Membership in Group
Listed as Subversive Not
Sufficient for Dismissal
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The U.S.
Court of Appeals ruled Thursday
that mere membership in an or
ganization listed by the Attorney
General as subversive is insuffi
cient for firing a government
worker.
If the worker is to be fired, the
court held, there must be in addi
tion to such membership a finding
of reasonable grounds for disloy
alty.
The court ruled in a case in
volving a decorated, legless World
War II veteran, James Kutcher of
Newark, N.J. It held that Carl R.
Gray, administrator of vererans’
affairs, failed to make a finding
of reasonable grounds for disloy
alty in firing Kutcher.
The court set aside an order
removing Kutcher from the VA
payroll, but let stand an- order
suspending him pending determi
nation by Gray “of the ultimate
issue as to whether on all the evi
dence reasonable grounds exist
for belief that Kutcher is disloyal
to the Government of the United
States.”
Kutcher admitted membership
in the Socialist Workers Party,
generally described as the Trotsky
wing of the Communist Party.
This organization has been de
scribed by the Attorney General
as seeking “to alter the form of
the government of the United
States by unconstitutoinal means.”
Kutcher lost both his legs while
serving as an infantryman in Italy
in 1943.
The court’s decision, written by
Judge James Proctor, was unani
mous.
Returns from 155 Precincts
(By the Associated Press)
Returns from 155 of 249 Alaska
precincts:
Delegate to Congress
E. L. Bartlett <X» .12,227
Robert C. Reeve tR) .... 9,409
Territorial Auditor
Neil Moore (D> .13,056
Anita Gamick (R> . 7,898
Highway Engineer
Irving Reed (R) ....10,858
Frank Metcalf (D) ...10,206
Mechanical Heart
For Humans Is
Announced
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
AP Science Reporter
DETROIT, (/P) — A successful
mechanical heart for humans,
giving your heart a holiday, was
announced today.
For 50 minutes, the amazing
little machine pumped a man’s
blood through his body.
Rumbling like a quiet washing
machine, it by - passed the left
side of his heart. It detoured the
blood coming from his lungs, and
pulsed it back into this arteries.
Empty of blood, with no work
to do, the still-beating heart was
opened to repair a faulty valve.
The man, 41, and not identified,
is alive and well today, three
months after the historic opera
tion July 3.
Only this one human success
was announced—'but with a hint
it has worked on other persons
since.
In dogs, this same pump has
been rigged to by-pass both sides
of the heart, putting the whole
heart on temporary vacation.
In dogs also, it’s been combined
with an artificial lung to by-pass
the entire heart plus the lungs.
The heart-lung machine someday
may do the same for humans.
This human success marks a
milestone in medicine. With mech
anical hearts, the heart can be
laid open for new surgery, under
direct view.
Seven Yukon Villages
Quarantined Because of
Diphtheria Outbreak
JUNEAU, (/P)—Seven villages
in the Yukon delta area and along
the Kuskokwim river in western
Alaska are under quarantine as a
result of an outbreak of diph
theria, the Alaska National Guard
reported Friday.
Guard headquarters here said
Capt. Frank Clayton of the Sec
ond Scout Battalion at Bethel ad
vised there have been deaths but
did not indicate how many or
where they occurred.
(The Alaska Health Department
reported Tuesday there had been
six deaths in the area but said
it had not been determined whe
ther they were due to diphtheria
or epidemic food poisoning re
ported at the same time.)
A National Guard plane is being
used to transport the few avail
able doctors and nurses from the
Alaska Native Service hospital at
Bethel to stricken villages, Guard
headquarters said.
8th Army Estimates Red
Casualties 10,126 Killed,
Wounded, 60 Captured
SEOUL, UP)—Nearly 1,000 Chi
nese troops assaulted Sniper
Ridge on the central Korean front
tonight under Red artillery fire
so intense the South Korean de
fenders couldn’t measure it.
The Chinese and ROKs closed
in a grenade-throwing, hand-to
hand fight for Pinpoint hill, cen
ter peak on Sniper Ridge. Late
reports said the desperately-bat
tling ROKs still held control of
Pinpoint.
But to the west, South Korean
Ninth Division troops pulled back
off Iron Horse hill at dark after
fighting Chinese throughout the
afternoon.
Communist dead littered the
frost-whitened battlefields as
Red casualties mounted. to record
1952 totals. In the bloody week
ended Tuesday, the U.S. Eighth
Army estimated the Communists
lost 10,186 soldiers. The total—
highest since last November—in
cluded 5,868 killed, 4,258 wounded
and 60 captured.
The ROK Ninth Division today
reported it inflicted a staggering
12,653 casualties pn the Commun
ists—more than the strength of a
full Chinese division — in nine
days of see-saw fighting for White
Horse mountain ended Wednes
day.
Reds Fire Heavy Mortars
On Town in Indochina;
French Build Defenses
By Larry Allen
HANOI, Indochina, (/P)—Com
unist-led Vietminh troops, firing
heavy mortars, brought the town
of Nghia Lo, 100 miles northwest
of Hanoi under direct fire last
night as the French rushed more
reinforcements into the area.
French mobile artillery fought
duels with the Vietminh, who ad
vanced into the range of hills
surrounding Nghia Lo. Seventy
five fighter-bombers blasted away
at the enemy gun positions.
The advance of the Vietminh
toward Nghai Lo, ordinarily pop
ulated by about 3,000 pro-French
Thai tribal people, brought closer
the possibility of a major clash
with the defending French and
Thar forces.
The bulk of about 10,000 enemy
soldiers were reported concentra
ted in the hills around Nghia Lo
and in the mountainous positions
to the northeast and southeast,
within a 30-mile area.
The firing on Nghia Lo was
with 31 to 120 mm. mortars and
75 mm. recoillless guns. This is
the heaviest artillery employed
by the Vietminh so far in the six
year-long w’ar in Indochina.
U.N. to Debate on Korea
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (/P)—
A full-scale United Nations de
bate on Korea during the height
of the American election cam
paign seemed absurd Thursday.
A spot-check showed no strong
opposition to Russia’s demand
that the question be taken up at
once.
Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromy
ko demanded Wednesday that the
60-nation political committee take
up Korea as soon as it begins
work—probably early next week.
GOPs Win 21 of 24
House Seats and
6 of 9 In Senate
(By the Associated Press)
A Republican sweep of the
Alaska Legislature — a complete
reversal of the-presidential year
election in 1948—was assured to
day as GOP candidates took the
lead for all of the 10 House seats
in the Third (Anchorage) Division.
It appeared to be the strongest
Republican surge in territorial
politics since the start of the New
Deal era, although a Democratic
delegate to congress was elected
for the 11th straight time.
Democratic delegate E. L. Bart
lett ran up a lead of 12,227 to
9,409 over Robert C. Reeve, An
chorage Republican, on returns
from 155 of the Territory’s scat
tered 249 precincts.
It was a decisive victory for
Bartlett, despite the most vigor
ous Republican campaign in many
years against him, but his margin
was cut sharply from the 4 to 1
edge he had in 1948 and his 2
to 1 in 1950.
• The big surprise of the election
was the almost complete domin
ance of the legislative races by
the resurgent Republicans, who
campaigned on the party’s na
tional slogan: “It’s time for a
change.”
The vote standings for mem
bers of the lower house of the
legislature showed Republicans
elected to or leading for 21 out
of 24 seats. That is a direct re
versal of the 21-3 Democratic
edge in the last presidential elec
tion year.
Republicans also were elected
to or leading decisively for six
of nine Senate seats at stake.
Also, two of the three Democrats
who appear certain of Senate elec
tion are two' of the territory’s
most outspoken critics of Demo
cratic Gov. Ernest Gruening and
the faction of the party that sup
ports him strongly.
They are former Rep. Mark
Jensen of Douglas and Sen. How
ard Lyng of Nome.
The third is William Egan,
Democratic speaker of the House
in 1951 legislature. He is a Valdez
merchant and generally viewed as
a middle-of-the-roader.
Of the three Democrats lead
ing for House seats, two are in
the Nome division — Theodore
Duffield and Charles Fagerstrom
—and the third is Richard Greuel,
a young Fairbanks city council
man. 1
Republican Irving McK. Reed,
Fairbanks mining engineer, has a
slim edge over Democratic High
way Engineer Frank Metcalf.
The voters returned to office
Auditor Neil Moore over Senator
Anita Garnick of Juneau, Repub
lican nominee. The Auditor’s post
is a key one, aside from office
routine, because he is a member
of the Territorial Board of Ad
ministration.
NORTH BAY, Canad, (A*)—-The
steel shortage didn’t worry con
tractors on a new bank building
here. To support the floor they
used beams made <xf glued pieces
of British Columbia fir, 9 by 16
inches and 20 feet long with sim
ilar but longer beams for the roof.