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VOL, LV. No. 66 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1953Per Copy—15^
. Queen Elizabeth
Starts Tour Amid
Nation's Acclaim
LONDON, UP)—Queen Elizabeth
II, truly crowned “in the sight of
all the people,” turned today from
the paths of pageantry to dingy
Cockney streets and a round of
personal calls on her adoring sub
jects.
Yesterday’s exaltation, now con
secrated in Britain’s memory,
marked the beginning of six
weeks of coronation jcmrneys
among Britons choking with pride
over the radiant sovereign they
look to lead them into a new Eliz
abethan Age of golden splendor.
With her handsome husband,
the Duke of Edinburgh, at her
side, Elizabeth today started mo
toring through neighborhood by
ways for face-to-face chats with
plain people.
Elizabeth’s travels through her
capital, and in future weeks
through other key cities of her
home islands, typify the tasks
destiny has cut out for her—to
be her subjects’ living symbol of
everything Britain cherishes, to
be the tie holding together the
varied races of the Common
wealth to whom she is the queen
and first citizen.
In London, throughout Great
Britain and in every continent
where Britain's contribution to
history has left indelible marks,
peoples celebrated the queen’s
coronation yesterday in ancient
Westminster Abbey.
Crowds growing to 100,000
cheered the queen and her family
on six different appearances they
made on the flood-lit ‘balcony at
Buckingham Palace. Thousands
danced in the streets. Great bon
fires blazed through the land.
Fireworks turned London’s night
into a spectacular theatrical pag
eant.
Former FBI Agent Chosen
For Consultant on Alaska
Investigating Committee
JUNEAU, UP—The Alaska leg
islature’s Examination and Inves
tigating Committee has announced
the selection of a former FBI
agent as a consultant in its in
quiries into territorial offices and
affairs.
Chairman Herald Stringer said
the committee has retained J[ack
B. Wilcox, former special agent of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion at Seattle. He now is associ
ated with a Seattle firm of certi
fied accountants.
The committee was created by
the Republican - controlled 1953
legislature. Stringer said that the
committee is especially interested
in bringing to light any waste, ex
travagant practices or duplica
tions of effort by any territorial
offices or departments. He said
public assistance will be welcome.
Other committee members are
Sen. Howard Lyng (D-Nome), Sen.
Mike' Stepovich and Rep. Alden
Wilbur (R-Fairbanks), Rep. Wil
liam Boardman (R-Ketchikan) and
Sen. James Nolan (D-Wrangell).
KOREA TRUCE TALKS
RESUME TOMORROW
MUNSAN, UP> — The Commu
nists handed the Allies a letter
relating to the Korean armistice
talks at a two-minute meeting of
liaison officers today. The U.N.
Command said its contents would
remain secret.
An official spokesman said, how
ever, a full-scale negotiating ses
sion will be held on schedule at
11 a.m. tomorrow after a nine-day
recess.
The Reds were expected to an
swer the latest Allied proposal
for breaking the prisoner ex
change deadlock, last major bar
rier to a Korean truce.
The disposition of 48,000 Allied
captives who refuse to return to
Communism is the last big road
block to a cease-fire in the nearly
three-year-old war.
Student Pilot Killed On
First Cross Country Trip
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Edward
Kangas, 32, a student pilot on his
first cross-country hop, was killed
Saturday in the crash of his plane
on Kenai Peninsula, searchers
learned Tuesday.
Kangas, a carpenter, came to
Alaska from Great Falls, Mont.,
in 1947. He leaves his widow and
a daughter.
He spent Saturday fishing at
Anchor Point near Homer, 170
miles from Anchorage, end took
off on the homeward trip that
evening. Heavy rains Sunday de
layed a search, but the burned
wreckage of his plane was found
by pilot Dave Kellogg.
Eisenhower In
TV Talk Tonight
WASHINGTON, UP— President
Eisenhower makes his first tele
vision report to the people tonight,
apparently to bear down on the
idea that in such perilous times
spending must come down, but
not too much, and that taxes must
remain up.
Four cabinet members will be
on the program, too, taking their
cues from the President and from
big printed cards outside camera
range.
Reports were there might be
some word on a new “Goldfish
Bowl Policy” of publicity for tax
enforcement cases, perhaps to em
phasize that the administration is
trying to clean up what Eisen
hower has called “the mess in
Washington.” '
All four TV networks will carry
the program. Along with the Pres
ident, it will star Attorney Gen
eral Brownell, Secretary of Agri
culture Benson, Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey and Secre
tary of Health, Education and
Welfare Hobby.
HEINTZLEMAN SET TO LEAVE
ON TRIP TO INTERIOR
JUNEAU, UP)— Governor Heint
zleman is to leave here tomorrow
on a flight to the interior.
He will attend a session of the
Alaska Chamber of Commerce,
which is being held at Cordova
Friday and Saturday. He will con
tinue on to Anchorage and then
go to Fairbanks, where he will ad
dress the chamber of commerce
next Tuesday.
Air Chiefs Differ
On Possibility of
133 Wings By 1954
WASHINGTON, UP>— Secretary
of the Air Force Talbott and an
Air Force major general differed
today on whether the Air Force
could achieve 133 wings by July,
1954, as planned in the Truman
Air Force budget.
Talbott told a Senate appropri
ations subcommittee:
“I don’t think we could have
gotten the 133 wings” even if the
Truman budget had not been
scaled down by more than $5 bil
lion by President Eisenhower.
But Maj. Gen. O. S. Picher, of
Air Force Procurement and Pro
gramming, testified:
“I don’t think we would have
any great difficulty.” He said
maybe his “crystal ball” was more
optimistic than Talbott’s.
Their differing appraisals, ex
pressed gently, came in discus
sion of the new administration’s
Air Force budget of $11,700,000,
000, more than five billions less
than the amount requested by
former President Truman.
The new target for July, 1954,
is between 110 and 114 wings —
with 30 to 75 planes in a wing.
The Truman budget envisioned
143 wings by July, 1955.
STATESIDE SEWARD FIVE
DOWNS SEWARD, ALASKA
SEWARD, — The Seward,
Neb., Blue-Jays staged a 15-point
scoring spree in the final quarter
to down the Seward, Alaska, Sea
Hawks, 49-39, in a basketball
game here last night.
Some five hundred townspeople
packed the small Seward gym to
watch the locals play the stateside
team in the first of a three-game
series between the territory and
stateside teams.
ADMINISTRATION FAVORS
WHEAT GRANT TO PAKISTON
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Eisen
hower administration was report
ed today to favor an outright
grant of about 700,000 tons of
wheat to Pakistan.
New Deal in Sight
For Broadway Playgoers
NEW YORK, (#i— The Broadway
theater, along with playgoers,
may be on the threshold of a new
era of cheaper tickets, permission
to smoke and a chance to buy a
drink.
The city council yesterday
passed 22 laws designed to en
courage the legitimate stage, chief
ly by attempting to attract capital
for new theaters. The laws cover
amendments to the city building
code.
One provision would allow con
struction of theaters within office
buildings or apartment houses,
thus opening up a chance for ad
ded revenue for building owners
and lower rentals for theater
managers. Most showhouses now
occupy entire individual build
ings.
Relaxing smoking regulations
and permission to sell liquor are
among the other laws. Some thea
ter fnen believe these measures
will attract larger audiences and
an additional source of income.
Taft-Hartley Act Has
No Chance of Revision
This Year, Says Senator
WASHINGTON, (#)—A Repub
lican member of the Senate Labor
Committee today ruled out any
chance of Taft-Hartley Act revi
sion this year.
The Senator, asking not to be
quoted by name, said he could
find “nobody who is worried
about amending the law” and that
both labor and management ap
parently were reconciled to “liv
ing with it for at least another
year.”
It was the first indication from
the committee that changes in the
law may have to wait for next
year—or even later.
A scheduled meeting of the
committee to start considering re
vision of the 1947 law was post
poned again today until the end
of the, week.
South Koreans
Repulse Commies
At Luke Castle
SEOUL, W) — Bayonet-wielding
South Korean infantrymen today
drove back the remnants of some
4,000 Korean Communists who
wrested several outpost hills in
eastern Korea from American and
ROK troops Tuesday.
South Koreans counterattacked
Reds dug in on Luke the Gooks
Castle at dusk Tuesday, with Al
lied tanks pouring shells into
Communist positions ahead of the
assault waves.
By dawn, after a full night of
bitter close-quarter fighting, the
last Red h^d been knocked off the
hill, the Eighth Army said.
It was the fourth time South
Koreans had counterattacked in
the Lukes Castle region. Ameri
cans and Roks stopped other Red
forces which charged 11 main line
positions and five outposts.
The Communists lost an esti
ated 1,100 men killed and wound
ed Tuesday in the heaviest east
ern front fighting in more than a
year.
Nineteen U.S. B-20 Superforts
bombed Communist front line
positions and a supply base near
Sinanju in northwest Korea, the
Air Force said.
Allied fighter - bombers flew
more than 400 sorties in direct
support of ground troops. The
fighter-bombers and night-flying
B-26 bombers dropped more than
500 tons of explosives on battle
front targets, the Air Force said.
Senate Approves All
Top Military Chiefs
WASHINGTON, If)— President
Eisenhower’s choices for the na
tion’s top military assignments
have all been confirmed by the
Senate, without opposition.
The Senate yesterday approved
Adm. Arthur W. Radford to be
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; Gen. Matthew G. Ridgway,
Chief of Staff of the Army; Adm.
Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval
Operations; and Gen. Nathan F.
Twining, Chief of Staff of the Air
Force.
Alaska Statehood
Approved 19 to 4
By House Interior
WASHINGTON, UR— The Alas
ka statehood bill, lacking endorse
ment of the Eisenhower adminis
tration, won the approval of the
House Interior Committee by a
vote of 19 to 4 yesterday.
At the same time, Senate Re
publicans began talking about
making the Hawaii statehood bill,
passed by the House and backed
by the President, the first order
of business next January.
Ten Republicans and nine Dem
ocrats on the House Interior Com
mittee voted for the Alaska state
hood measure. Three Republicans
and one Democrat voted against
it.
Rep. Saylor (R-Pa), chairman of
the territories subcommittee who
handled the Alaska measure in
committee, said he will go to the
Rules Committee of the House
within the next few days to seek
clearance for House debate.
At the opposite end of the cnpi
tol, Sen. Young (R-Ind) told re
porters after a conference of Sen
ate Republicans the Hawaii state
hood bill “will be the first order
of business in January if it is not
acted upon sooner.”
Republican senators, he said,
are looking with increasing favor
on the idea of winding up the cur
rent session of Congress by July
31.
At present, the Hawaii state
hood bill is tied up in the Senate
Interior Committee.
The committee voted 87 to 7 a
month ago to combine the Hawaii
and Alaska statehood bills and to
hold hearings on the consolidated
measure. No hearing date has
been set.
The House has passed the
Hawaii bill three times and the
Alaska bill once in recent years.
The Hawaii bill has never reached
a vote in the Senate. Last year the
Senate by one vote returned the
Alaska bill to committee for “fur
ther study.”
England Spreads Net for
U.S. Airman, Sex Killer of
Two English Teen-Agers
LONDON, (^—Police and U.S.
military authorities spread a na
tion-wide net today for a knife
wielding sex slayer who killed
one teen-aged girl and possibly a
second. They feared he might
strike again.
Detectives grilled more than
1,000 U.S. airmen at nearby Bush
ey Park Camp after the battered
body of 16-year-old Barbara Song
hurst was pulled from the Thames
River. The girl had been missing
since Sunday, when she went on
a date with an 18-year-old friend,
Christine Reed.
Police were convinced that
Christine was killed, too. Her
shoes were found on the river
bank near signs of a bloody strug
gle and her bicycle was dragged
from the river.
Every policeman in Britain has
been warned to look for a missing
U.S. airman driving a stolen black
sedan.