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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LV NO. 89 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Ground Action Ceased But Artillery
Barrages Continued Until Last Minute
Of Fighting After Signing of Armistice
Anchorage GOP Club
Scores “party Inactivity”
In Job Appointments
ANCHORAGE, UP)—’The Anch
orage Republican Club sent reso
lutions to President Eisenhower,
Governor Heintzleman and other
high administration leaders Sat
urday protesting “party inactiv
ity” in job appointments.
Residents of the territory are
“being cast aside to make room
for favored state-side appointees,”
the Resolution said. It was signed
by the club’s president, Fred Wil
liamson.
The resolution also noted that
names had been submitted for
both federal and territorial offices
and that none had been formally
rejected.
Such apathy,” the resolution
added, may have an adverse af
fect on the 1954 elections.
Governor Answers Critic
By Quoting From Speech
JUNEAU, i.F—Governor Heint
zleman’s only response Friday to
barbed criticism by a prominent
Anchorage Republican was to
quote from the speech for which
he was criticized.
J. C. Morris, Anchorage real es
tate and insurance man and un
successful seeker of the governor
ship, contended the governor had
contributed to “a psychological re
cession” in the Anchorage area by
the talk he gave here last spring.
He said the governor had con
veyed pessimism over defense con
struction prospects and the Third
Division’s economy.
The governor’s only comment
was to quote from his Anchorage
speech:
“It is very important that we all
work together to develop natural
resources in the Railroad Belt to
take up the slack that could result
when the heavy defense construc
tion eases off, which is likely to
happen in the next few years.”
RUBY HELICOPTER CRASH
BLAMED ON LOSS OF BLADE
ANCHORAGE, UP—The crash of
a helicopter near Ruby June 18
killing two Army map makers was
blamfed by military investigators
Friday on the loss of the blade of
a rotary propeller.
Air turbulence was probably en
countered and the blade snapped
loose, they reported.
SUNDAY SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 3-2, Milwaukee 2-1
New York 10-5, Cincinnati 6-1
Pittsburgh 3-3, Chicago 2-7
St. Louis 8, Philadelphia 6
American League
Philadelphia 4-0, Chicago 3-4
Washington 4-6, Cleveland 3-7
Boston 7-5, St. Louis 5-8
Detroit 5-4', New York 3-14
Coast League
Los Angeels 8-7, Oakland 1-12
Hollywood 5-1, San Francisco
4-2
Seattle 0-3, San Diego 2-2
(2nd game 16 innings)
Portland 5-0, Sacramento 1-12
» By FORREST EDWARDS
SEOUL, (J"i — Shooting stopped
along the Korean battlefront at
10 p.m. tonight (5 a.m. Monday
PST—2 a.m. Nome timet, bringing
to an abrupt halt 37 months of
death and destruction.
While ground fighting was all
but nil the final hours, mounting
Communist artillery fire took its
toll of Allied soldiers up to the
last minute.
At 10 p.m., a hush fell over the
front.
The last man to die may never
be named. Nor, perhaps will the
last hero.
The last reported barrage—the
final one of the Korean war on
the central front—lifted at 9:43
p.m. A few second after 10 p.m.
wild yells broke out from Ameri
can GIs.
AP correspondent John Ran
dolph reported that between 6
a.m. and 9 p.m., a U.S. division
east of Kumwha had been hit by
3,000 rounds of Chinese artillery.
Only five minutes before the
guns fell silent, American and
South Korean artillery tried to
muffle the Red guns once and
for all with a time-on-target bar
rage.
Using massive supercharges of
powder, nearly 12 battalions of
Allied artillery opened simultan
eously. The Communist shelling
stopped—at about the same mo
ment the Allied barrage lifted.
If the Reds had not insisted on
shooting it out, there would have
been little or no firing on the
closing day.
On the western front, AP cor
respondents George McArthur
and Fred Waters reported the
Allied were firing “one for one.”
When a Red shell splashed in
Allied territory, American big
guns sent one screaming back.
The last Communist plane shot
down was bagged at 12:25 p.m.,
more than two hours after the
truce was signed. Capt. Ralph
Parr of Apple Valley,' Calif., de
stroyed a Russian - made IL-12
transport just south of the Man
churian border. r
At the front, nervously ex
hausted Allied artillerymen got
out of their bunkers, shook hands,
and brought out bottles hoarded
for the big day.
_
Two-Year-Old Girl Cause
Of Extensive Search
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Little 2
year - old Cheryl Pylant took a
two-mile toddle along a woods
trail between homesteads at Eagle
River on the Glenn Highway Fri
day.
A hundred Civil Defense volun
teers organized a search party. An
additional 50 military searchers
were called" to standby duty.
She was finally found nearly
4 hours later in a garden, chew
ing on some carrots. She was
taken home to her overjoyed mo
ther, Mrs. Carl Pylant.
Then, 15 minutes later, she wan
dered off again.
Found this time, she got a good
spanking from mama.
Alaskan Civilians
Working For
Military to Lose
Cost-of-Living Pay
C j
ANCHORAGE, UP — Civilian
residents of Alaska employed on
military projects will find a big
dent in their paychecks next
Wednesday.
The 25 per cent cost-of-living
differential, which would be end
ed under the terms of a rider to
a bill now before Congress, will
be withheld on their earnings the
past two weeks, Bob Disney,
realty office of the Alaska Air
Command, disclosed Saturday.
The paychecks will be smaller
by from $15 to $25 an employe,
he said.
Explaining the step as a “pre
cautionary measure.” Disney said
Alaska Command officers have
advised the action in case Con
gress decides against continuing
to pay the differential. It will be
easier*.to give the money back to
the employes, than to get it back
from them, he said.
The question of deciding which
employes are residents and which
are not remains to be decided.
The bill rider deleting the dif
ferential has been attacked by
Alaskan as discriminatory, as resi
dents would receive less pay for
the same work done by fellow
employes brought north from the
states.
The differential pay is also ex
pected to be missing from this
month’s pay checks of resident
Alaskans stationed with the armed
forces in Alaska.
Welfare Board Faced With
Problems Caused By
Reduced Appropriations
JUNEAU, UP— The Alaska Pub
lic Welfare Board concluded a
series of meetings Sunday, mem
bers announced, without solving
knotty problems occasioned by re
duced legislative appropriations,
and aggravated by the territory’s
increased population.
The Board directed department
chief Henry Harmon to confer
with Gov. Heintzleman about pre
senting welfare shortages for con
sideration of a special session of
the legislature.
Rev. G. Edgar Gallant, Skag
way • missionary priest, board
chairman, said department bud
gets must be reduced in child wel
fare and general relief. Juvenile
code funds are “desperately short”
he said.
Earlier, the board had referred
to Harmon a decision on how to
spread support payments to de
pendent mothers and children. -
Harmon suggested an arbitrary,
overall percentage slash might dis
criminate against smaller, father
less homes. He indicated he will
try to scale allotments on the
basis of “family hardship.”
Seattle Times Strike Continues
SEATTLE, UP—A strike of 250
CIO American Newspaper Guilds -
men against the Seattle Times, the
city’s only afternoon paper, en
tered its 10th day with no sign of
an early settlement.
Juneau and Douglas
Officially Declared
Polio Epidemic Area
JUNEAU, LfP) — Health authori
ties officially declared Juneau
and nearby Douglas a polio epi
demic area Saturday as two more
cases of the crippling disease
brought the five-weeks total to
11. The latest victims were a taxi
driver, 45, and an airlines em
ploye, 27. On Friday, two house
wives, each mothers of two chil
dren were stricken.
Physicians said almost all the
cases were mild. Dr. C. C. Carter,
city health officer, ordered the
swimming pool closed.
Alaska’s reported total to date
this year, including a Fairbanks
baby reported Friday, is now 26
cases.
Juneau Children To Be
Immunized Against Polio
WASHINGTON, UR—’The Public
Health Service today announced
allocation of 17,000 cubic centi
meters of Gamma Globulin for
mass immunization of children in
one Juneau area of Alaska against
infantile paralysis.
The service said Dr. E. C. Al
brecht, Alaska Commissioner of
Health, requested the allocation.
It added it had no information on
how many poliomyelitis cases had
been reported in the Juneau area.
TRUCE — At A Glance
An official cease-fire halted the
Korean war at 10 p.m. (5 a.m.
PST), 12 hours after the armistice
was signed at Panmunjom.
Quiet blankets the battlefront
after 3 years, 1 month, 2 days of
bloody combat and history’s long
est truce negotiations.
Exchange of more than 100,000
prisoners of war probably starts
within the week. Reds say they’ll
free 12,736 POWs, including 3,313
Americans. U. N. Command will
return about 69,000 North Koreans
and 5,000 Chinese.
Joint military armistice commis
sion charged with over-all super
vision of truce holds first meeting
at 11 a.m. tomorrow Korean time
(6a.m. today PST) in Panmunjom.
Within 72 hours of cease-fire,
by 10 p.m. Thursday (4 a.m. PST)
both armies pull back miles
to create a 2Vz mile wide buffer
zone across Korea.
Chinse Peiping radio boasts that
Communists won “glorious vic
tory” and cautions Reds troops to
remain on the alert.
South Korea’s President Syng
man Rhee says his nation will not
disrupt the truce for a “limited
time” but he is sure the armstice
“will prove to be the prelude to
more war.”
President Eisenhower said in a
special radio-TV address: “We
have won an armistice on a single
battleground — not peace in the
world . . . The U.N. has met
the challenge of aggression—not
with pathetic words of protest,
but with deeds of decisive pur
pose.”
Secretary of State Dulles, on the
same broadcast, said “All free
nations large and small, are safer
today because the ideal of collec
tive security has been implement
ed and because awful punishment
has been visited upon the trans
gressors.”
Armistice Is Not
Peace But A
Nervous Truce
PANMUNJOM, UP)—Generals of
the U.N. Command and the Red
armies signed today at long last
a compromise armistice in the
bitter, three-year Korean war. It
means not peace but a nervous
truce.
The two general signed in 10
minutes a document that was 2.
years and 17 days in the writing.
The brief signing ceremony at
Panmunjom ran smoothly in sharp
contrast to the months of sharp
words, demands, counterdemands
and walkouts that marked the
long-drawn negotiations.
Without a word to each other,
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, Jr.,
signed for the Allies and Gen.
Nam II for the Communists in a
bare, one - room Oriental - type
building hastily constructed by
the Communists for the occasion.
Each looked at the other for a
long moment after they were
through. Nam II arose from the
table and walked out the north
door. Harrison went out the south
door.
Commanding officers of troops
from 16 United Nations members
in the war witnessed the cere
mony. No representative was pre
sent from South Korea.
Gen. Clark signed nine copies
of the truce document at Allied
advance headquarters in Munsan
three hours later. The nine other
copies were sent to North Korea
for signing by the Communist
commanders.
'After the signing is over each
side will have three copies of the
document in English, three in
Chinese and three in Korean.
Filipino Cannery Workers
From Alaska Detained
Under Immigration Act
SEATTLE, UP—District Immig
ration Director John P. Boyd re
ported Saturday four Filipino can
nery workers, returning to the
United States after working in
Alaska, had been detained for in
vestigation under terms of the
McCarran Act.
The four are members of the'
cannery division of the Interna
tional Longshoremen and Ware
housemen’s Union, which sought
unsuccessfully last spring to ob
tain an injunction against en
forcement of the act under such
circumstances, Boyd said. It is the
first such detention off any per
sons, he added.
The four were detained as they
debarked from an airplane be
cause an examining inspector was
not satisfied they are admissable
under the McCarran Act.
ILWU counsel, arguing the case
before a special three-judge fed
eral court here last spring, con
tended that many Alaska cannery
workers, even though aliens and
legally in the United States, might
be barred from admission on their
return because of new regulations
under the McCarran Act.
SATURDAY SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 7, Milwaukee 0
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh
Cincinnati 7, New York 5