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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 77 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Governor Heintzleman
To Be In Nome For
4th of July Celebration
An outstanding event of the 4th
of July celebration will be a
visit from the Governor of Alas
ka, B. Frank Heintzleman, who
has wired that he can be here on
the third of July and remain until
July 5.
This will be the governor’s
first visit to Nome since assum
ing his office and plans are being
made for his participation in the
program and celebration so that
the entire community may have
the opportunity of seeing, hearing
and meeting the governor.
Plans are being made for a din
ner on Friday evening at 7:00 p.m.
at the Bering Sea Club. Many in
the community will wish to attend
so it is urged that reservations
be made with Mrs. Pete Reader
as early as possible, as seating
space is limited.
Seaman Killed In Attempt
z vert Disaster In Collision
Ch Freighter with Tanker
BARNEGAT CITY, N.J., LT)—A
Brazilian freighter and an oil
tanker collided in a thick fog off
the New Jersey coast last night,
killing one Brazilian seaman who
made a futile attempt to avert a
disaster. Two other crewmen of
the freighter Loide Panama were
slightly hurt.
The 5,408-ton freighter, with a
crew of 53 and a cargo' of coffee,
enroute from New York to Phila
delphia encountered thick fog 12
miles off the Jersey coast. Aris
tides Bitos Dos Santos, 33, of Rio
De Janeiro', an ordinary seaman,
saw the fully loaded 10,195-ton oil
tanker Gulftrade, bearing down
on his ship’s starboard side.
Instantly he ran to the point
for which the tanker was headed
and attempted to put a heavy
hemp bumper over the side to
lessen the oncoming blow.
At that moment the tanker
struck. Dos Sanitos was killed
instantly, his shipmates said.
Eisenhowers Visit
Crippled Children’s Camp
WASHINGTON, — President
Eisenhower was back in the staid
comfort of the White House today
after a weekend of cooking his
own hotcakes and treating kids
to dessert in the mountains.
He and Mrs. Eisenhower, to
gether with their usual entourage
of Secret Service men and aides,
returned by auto last night from
Camp David in the Catoctin
Mountains.
The two - hour drive was un
eventful. But there were events
enough during the Friday-to-Sat
urday stay at the presidential re
treat.
The biggest, at least for 94 crip
pled children, was the surprise
visit they received yesterday mor
ning from the President and his
wife.
The Eisenhowers, in response to
an invitation sent by some of the
children, dropped in on Camp
Greentop, operated by the Balti
more League for Crippled Chil
dren. for 94 youngsters from 7 to
15 years old.
Churchill Ordered
To Rest; Big Three
Meeting Postponed
LONDON, Uf) — Prime Minister
Churchill was ordered by his doc
tors Saturday to take “a complete
rest” for at least a month, causing
the third postponement of a pro
jected Bermuda Big Three meet
ing.
President Eisenhower and the
new French premier, Joseph Lan
iel, concurred in the decision to
postpone, a statement from Chur
chill’s residence at No. 10 Down
ing Street said. The meeting had
been scheduled to start July 8.
Aides gave insistent assurance
Churchill was well but his doc
tors have told him in emphatic
terms he must rest.
With his No. 2 foreign secretary,
Anthony Eden, convalescing from
a gall bladder operation in Boston,
Churchill turned over the job of
running the cabinet to R. A. But
ler, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
President Eisenhower said he
was “deeply distressed” to hear
of the Prime Minister’s need for
rest but said he regarded this
postponement of the Bermuda
meeting “only as a temporary de
ferment.”
A medical report signed by two
doctors said “the Prime Minister
has had no respite for a long time
from his very arduous duties and
is in need of a complete rest.”
“We have therefore advised
him to abandon his journey to
Bermuda and to lighten his duties
for at least a month,” the report
stated.
Churchill, who is 78, will re
main at his Chartwell country
home near London.
British Move for Stop-Gap
Big Three Meeting Soon
LONDON, 14*) — Britain’s acting
cabinet boss, Richard A. Butler,
said today Britain is negotiating
with the United States and France
for a quick stop-gap meeting on
common problems in advance of
the postponed Bermuda confer
ence.
Answering a barrage of House
of Commons questions touched off
by Prime Minister Churchill’s
temporary retirement, Butler said
Britain’s representative at this
“interm meeting” would be Lord
Salisbury.
Salisbury as*lord president of
the council, has taken over some
foreign policy responsibilities
since the absence of Churchill and
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
SUNDAY SCORES
American League
Cleveland 4, New York 1
Chicago 13, Boston 4
Detroit 2-5, Washington 5-1
St. Louis 4-1, Philadelphia 1-2
National League
New York 12, Chicago 2
Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 3
Brooklyn 11, Milwaukee 1
Pittsburgh 1-2, Cincinnati 4-9
Coast League
Oakland 11-5, Seattle 8-6
Portland 13-4, Los Angeles 3-1
San Francisco 10-7, Sacramento
2-0.
Hollywood 8-3, San Diego 6-7
Chinese Continue Assaults
On South Korean Positions
SEOUL, —About 12,000 Chi
nese Reds backed by a booming
artillery barrage crashed into
South Korean positions along the
gateway to Seoul today.
The furious Red attack — un-,
usual because it came in broad
daylight — hit a two-mile-wide
stretch on the western front. The
targets were bloodied outposts
Bak and Queen, rising 500 to 800
feet.
At last reports the Reds held
both, but fighting raged at the
foot of the outposts as the sturdy
ROKs regrouped and counterat
tacked.
Covered by artillery that one
Allied officer said hammered the
hills “like an anvil,” the Com
munists slammed back ROK First
Division infantrymen who had
clawed up the slopes of outpost
Bak.
American and South Korean
big guns — including huge 240
millimeter guns — struck back at
the advancing Chinese and their
support areas.
The Red thrust was another in
a series the Chinese have hurled
at South Korean units in recent
weeks—apparently aimed at pun
ishing them for resisting an arm
istice.
House Leaders Promise
To Consider Extending
The Excess Profits Tax
WASHINGTON, UB—’The Eisen
hower administration apparently
won its battle today to get House
consideration of extending the
excess profits tax — and did it
without a knock-down .drag-out
floor fight.
In hack-stage maneuvers, House
Republican leaders got assurances
satisfactory to them, that the
Ways and Means committee
would send an extension bill to
the floor despite the adamant
opposition of its chairman, 78
year-old Daniel Reed.
GOP leaders have said that
both the House and Senate would
vote to continue the tax if an
extension bill could be brought
before them.
The tax — intended to syphon
into the treasury extraordinary
profits made by corporations—ex
pires tomorrow midnight.
Flood on Japanese Island
Leaves 2,500 Casualties
TOKYO, UP—A great flood that
left more than 2,500 persons dead,
missing or hurt and a million
homeless receded today on the
southern Japan island of Kyoshu
but dark rain clouds posed an
ominous new threat.
Seven days of torrential rains
turned much of the northern part
of Kyushu — an area about the
size of New Jersey—into a vast
lake. The hapless Japanese resi
dents fled to any high ground
they could find.
By late afternoon today, the
known death toll stood at 409. It
was expected to rise when those
missing—now numbered at 1,178
—are accounted for.
Police said several villages
were washed away and 350,000
homes were destroyed or dam
aged.
Indications Point
To Rhee Areeing
To Sign Armistice
SEOUL, UP) —The Allies today
asked the Reds to agree immedi
ately to a date for signing a Kor
ean truce, indicating they have
either persuaded rebellious Presi
dent Syngman Rhee to' agree to
an armistice or have decided to
go ahead without his okay.
Gen. Mark Clark, U. N. com
mander, told the Reds in a letter
delivered at Panmunjom that the
U.N. Command wLl enforce truce
terms “to the limit of possibility.”
His letter was delivered shortly
after he conferred in Seoul with
Rhee, President Eisenhower’s per
i sonal envoy Walter S. Robertson,
and other top U.S. officials.
Although the meeting was sec
ret, the UNC’s readiness to go
ahead with its truce plans indi
cated it had found some sort of
solution to the problem of the
stubborn South Korean leader’s
refusal to accept the present truce
terms and his threat to fight on
alone if an armistice is signed on
those terms.
The ROK president’s arbitrary
release of 27,000 anti-Red Korean
war prisoners had frozen the
truce talks, just as the negotiators
appeared on the verge of final
agreement.
If the Reds accept Clark’s terms
it could put the armistice where
it was before the prisoner release
began two weeks ago—practically
complete and ready to sign.
Development Board Fails
To Chose Manager To
Succeed Geo. Sundborg
JUNEAU, UPC-The Alaska De
velopment Board completed a
two-day weekend session here
without selecting a new manager
to succeed George Sundborg.
Sundborg announced his resig
nation last week. Sundborg long
has been a target of some Repub
lican legislators, and the 1953
legislature cut the salary for the
post from $12,000 to $10,800 a
year.
W. A. Bates, Ketchikan banker
and new board member and vice
chairman, said Sundborg’s succes
sor will be named shortly. Board
members said they received no
applications for the post.
The manager’s big job is to
assemble and disseminate infor
mation on Alaska’s potentialities
and to try to “sell” industry on
locating in the Territory.
The board did not announce any
decision on when or where it
plans to establish the branch of
fice which the last legislature au
thorized in the “railbelt area.”
Anchorage and Fairbanks are
contending for the office.
Board members conferred with
Gov. Heintzleman on the subject
of a tax incentive system, similar
to that which many Alaskans
credit with having helped greatly
in Canada’s current industrial ex
pansion.
BERLIN, m — Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh is in Berlin on a re
search tour for Pan American Air
ways, officials announced Mon
day.
Chairman of AEC Says
U.S. Stockpile A-Bombs
Greater Than Russia’s
WASHINGTON, UP) — Gordon
Dean, retiring this week as chair
man of the Atomic Energy Com
mission, said yesterday there is no
question U.S. atomic strength is
greater than that, of the Russians.
But he said there is danger the
Russians may not realize that.
“I for one believe that our
stockpile has really been a deter
rent to a third world war,” Dean
said on an NBC television pro
gram. “However, the greatest tra
gedy that could possibly come to
this country in my mind would be
for Russia to tee off a third world
war, having minimized our own
atomic strength and acting on this
misinformation.”
Renewing his plea for release of
more information on the relative
atomic stockpiles of the two coun
tries, Dean said that the nation
as a whole will have to decide
how far to go.
East German Reds
Continue De-Sovietize
To Placate Population
BERLIN, Gf)—Germany’s Com
munist eastern zone returned
closer to its occupation normalcy
Monday as many Soviet troop
units moved back to their bar
racks, curfews were relaxed and
announcement was expected soon
of the lifting of martial law. ,
Throughout the Soviet zone Red
leaders staged “loyalty” rallies to
bolster East German puppet Pre
mier Otto Grotewohl’s shaky reg
ime.
Continuing their policy of de
communization to placate the pop
ulation and restore German effi
ciency, the East government gave
back more plants and shops to
former private owners and re
turned farm lands to dispossessed
owners.
Heat Wave Melting Glacial
Ice Causes Rivers to Flood
ANCHORAGE, UP! — Anchor
age’s current heat wave slipped
to a more moderate 75 degrees
Sunday after daily maximums in.
the 80’s during most of last week.
Streams were swollen to flood
stage north and east of here as
the heat sent a heavy flow sea
ward from the melting glacial ice.
There were even hotter spots
than Anchorage, however. A Sat
urday report from Talkeetna told
of an all-time high of 91 there
the previous day.
Water is over the tracks at
Moose Pass but the Alaska Rail
road is continuing to move freight
trains with caution. The Chugach
Electric Association power line
between Anchorage and Palmer
was swept out by a branch of the
Matanuska River which surged
through a new channel.
Drinks 125 Beers To Cool Off
AARHUS, Denmark, UR—Police
at Skanderborg arrested a man
for drunken driving Sunday. He
admitted that he drank 125 bottles
of beer during the Sunday heat
wave.
“It was so hot I thought I had
to do something about it,” he ex
plained.