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VOL. LIV No. 155NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1952 _Per Copy—15^
Rocketeers May
Soon Fire Missile
Past Earth's Pull
By ELTON C. FAY
Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON, (JF) — Ameri
can rocket experts and military
scientists are moving closer to
the time when they can fire a
missile so high it will never re
turn to earth.
The latest hint of this step
toward the eventual development
of an experimental satellite to
move around the earth as does
the moon came in a recent ad
dress by Secretary of the Air
Force Finletter.
The Secretary said he foresees
the development of rocket en
gines producing 500,000 pounds
of thrust. With such a propelling
force, he estimated, a speed of
20.000 miles an hour will be
reached. The altitudes reached by
such rockets “will, of course, take
them out into space,’’ he added.
In less than 10 years, Ameri
can missile experts have added
2.000 miles an hour to the speed
of such big rackets as the V-2s
created by Germans in World
War II.
Finletter’s estimate of the speed
of a rocket with a 500,000-pound
thrust was somewhat under the
25.000 miles an hour which many
scientists estimate will be re
quired to accelerate a rocket to
the point where momentum will
carry it across the boundary of
earth’s gravity.
American experts already have
calculated the exact height and
astronomical position to which
they would direct the rocket to
start it moving around the earth.
Some speculate on an altitude of
about 1,000 miles.
4th Division Republican
Committee Endorses
Rasmus on for Governor
FAIRBANKS, (TP) — Aimer E.
Rasmuson, Alaska - bom Anchor
age banker, was unanimously
endorsed for Alaska governor
Friday by the Fourth Division Re
publican Committee. All 11 mem
bers of the committee were on
hand for the special meeting.
Rasmuson also spent the day in
Fairbanks.
Moose Loses Argument
With Automobile On
Alaska Highway
FAIRBANKS, (IP) — A ram
bunctious moose decided to do
its footwork in the wrong place
Saturday night. The animal is
now dead and the Roland Rey
nolds car is badly in need of re
pairs.
Reynolds was driving on the
Richardson Highway south of
Fairbanks when the moose ap
, peared on the road ahead of him,
galloping full speed at the car.
As Reynolds related it, there was
a “terrific impact” when the ani
mal leaped on the engine hood.
The moose broke the wind
shield and crushed the roof of the
automobile. The Alaska Highway
Patrol estimated the damage at
$1,000.
The moose, with both hind legs
broken, was declared a total loss
and shot.
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MacArthur Calls Truman
“Inaccurate, Misleading”
In Far East Statement
NEW YORK, (/P)—Gen. Doug
las MacArthur’s description of a
statement by President Truman
as “inaccurate and misleading”
today stimulated anew the con
troversy around the general’s
ouster as Far East commander.
MacArthur, in a statement is
sued here last night, took issue
with a reported comment by Tru
man that he relieved MacArthur
because the general “wanted to
involve us in all-out war in the
Far East.”
In Washington last night, White
House Press Secretary Tubby
said Truman would have no com
ment on the MacArthur state
ment. Tubby said the President
“made his statement and is stick
ing by it.”
MacArthur’s statement said in
full:
“President Truman’s staement
Saturday, as reported in the press
that I ‘wanted to involve us in
all-out war in the Far East’ is
inaccurate and misleading.
“My purpose and desire was
not to extend the war but only
to end it. At that time, this could
have been accomplished with
only a fraction of the approxi
mately 70,000 American battle
casualties which have since re
sulted. Actually the longer it
lasts the greater the chance of its
spreading. How anyone could use
such a bloody drama as a means
of self-glorification is quite be
yond my comprehension.”
Separated Siamese Twins
Still Have Tenacious
Grip on Life
CHICAGO, (/P) — The official
word on the Brodie Siamese
twins today was still “no substan
tial change,’’ but surgeons were
heartened by their tenacious grip
on life.
A spokesman for the Illinois
Neuro psychiatric Hospital em
phasized that the conditions of
both Rodney and Roger, separated
from their head-to-head connec
tion 12 days ago, are critical.
Roger, the twin who lost his
connection with their common
brain drainage blood vessel—the
sagitaal sinus—in the 12-hour, 40
minute operation Dec. 17, is still
in a coma. Rodney, who has the
benefit of the large vein and some
brain covering membrane sacri
ficed by Roger, is alert and ap
parently near normal.
Both twins are receiving ade
quate nourishment.
FORMER NOME RESIDENT,
MME. LOUISE THIRY. DIES
SEATTLE, (/P) —Mme. Louise
G. Thiry, 74, a native of Paris,
France, died Saturday at the Doc
tors Hospital.
Mme. Thiry moved from Paris
to Nome in 1903 and lived there
until 1906 when the family moved
to San Francisco. After their
home was destroyed by the earth
quake the family returned to
Nome and lived there until 1912
when they came to Seattle.
Mme. Thiry was the widow
of George H. Thiry, an engineer,
who died shortly after World
War I.
British Atom Spy,
Dr. May, Released
From Prison
WAKEFIELD, Eng., (JF) — The
British let Dr. Alan Nunn May,
the West’s first convicted atom
spy, out of prison Monday. He
slipped quietly into the outside
world as a free man.
He is an admitted Communist
scientist who has never publicly
repented giving the Russians
samples of uranium material
used in making the first U.S. A
bomb.
May, 41, served Six years and
eight months of a 10-year sen
tence.
Where he went was not known.
All that British officials would
say is that May is now a free
man—as free as any other who
has paid his lawful debt to so
ciety — that is, has served his
time.
Other atomic traitors to the
West have not been so fortunate.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the
American atomic spies, are sched
uled to die in the electric chair
at Sing Sing Prison the week of
Jan. 12. Klaus Fuchs, another
British scientist, is serving a 14
year sentence passed in 1950.
May is not married. He has few
relatives. British newspapers have
expressed fear he will find a way
of getting out of Britain in secret
and crossing over to an Iron
Curtain country. He has as much
freedom to move as any tcmrist.
The brilliant young physicist,
who was a trusted member of the
wartime U. S. - Canadian-British
atomic program, has never ex
pressed any sorrow for his trai
torous actions. He said he slipped
the Russians atomic secrets for
“the safety of mankind.” In
actual payment he got at least
$700 and two bottles of whisky.
Secty. Sawyer
Predicts Good
Business In 1953
WASHINGTON, <A>) — Secre
tary of Commerce Sawyer and a
team of government and private
economists predict good business
in the new year, a possible down
turn in 1954 and a sharp econ
omic test in 1955.
The economy has strong built
in safeguards against a depression
in the coming years, Sawyer said,
expressing the view that the chief
peril, as defense spending slacks
off, is fear and uncertainty, not
economic weakness.
“The situation is sound,” Saw
year said in a personal preface
to the 80,000 - word report on
“markets after the defense ex
pansion.”
It predicted defense spending
will reach a peak of 55 to 60
billion dollars late in 1953, will
non at peak levels through 1954
and will fall off in 1955 to 50
to 55 billions. Defense expendi
tures would then go down toward
a more or less permanent level
somewhere between 40 and 50
billion dollars a year, it said.
Meanwhile, it said, spendable
income may go up 7 per cent.
Seattle Mayor Names
Committee to Prevent
Future Waterfront Tieups
SEATTLE, (£>) — A 34 - man
committee of labor union officials
and Seattle and Alaska business
men was appointed by Mayor
Allan Pomeroy Saturday to seek
means to prevent future water
front labor disputes.
“This committee,” Mayor Pom
eroy said, “will be a valuable
sounding board for labor and re
lated problems on our vital
waterfront. It will meet frequent
ly, and when deemed necessary,
will make investigations and con
duct hearings . . .
“I have asKfed it to endeavor to
work out a long-range program
for improving the stability of our
waterfront.”
The Alaska members will be
Jack Anderson, Anchorage; Jack
Conway, Sitka; William Bates,
Ketchikan; Earl Ohmer, Peters
burg; W. L. Lhamon, Fairbanks;
Hdward Lyng, Nome; Mike Mon
agle, Juneau; Vern Smith, Wran
gell; Jim Warts, Kodiak; and
Fred Zieke, Palmer.
Red Loudspeakers Invite
U.N. Surrender and Enjoy
Big New Year Celebration
SEOUL, (#*) — Chinese Reds,
stung by one of the heaviest Al
lied air strikes against a single
North Korean target since last
August, struck back with a
ground assault on the central
front Sunday night.
Dug-in U.N. troops drove them
back in pre-dawn darkness Mon
day morning.
The war slacked off Monday to
a verbal offensive in which the
Reds urged Allied soldiers to sur
render and enjoy a “big New
Year’s celebration” in North Ko
rea.
The Air Force hurled a 200
plane raid on a sprawling Red
supply center near Pyongyang,
the North Korean capital, Sun
day, sending clouds of black
smoke billowing high.
The Reds hauled their loud
speakers up the central front
Monday night and asked U. N.
troops to “come north and join
relatives and friends.”
Previously the Communists
have accompanied their propa
ganda appeals with threats, such
as the one that they would be in
Seoul by Christmas. No such
warnings were reported Monday
night.
Injunction Provisions Of
Taft-Hartley Declared
Constitutional In 1st Test
BUFFALO, N.Y., </P)—Federal
Judge John Knight today de
clared constitutional the injunc
tion provision of the Taft-Hart
ley Labor Act.
His decision came as he granted
the government an 80-day injunc
tion under the act, restraining
workers from continuing a strike
at the Dunkirk plant of the Am
erican Locomotive Co.
The action, contested by the
CIO United Steelworkers Union,
was the first direct court test off
the constitutionality of the Taft
Hartley Act’s injunction provi
sions.
McCarthy to Probe
Nation’s Colleges
For Red Influence
WASHINGTON, (JP)~Sen. Mc
Carthy (R-Wis) said Monday that
one of the first things he will
do in the new Congress will be
to investigate the nation’s col
leges in a search for subversive
influences.
“It will be an awfully unpleas
ant task,” he said, observing he
expects “all hell” to break loose
and there will be “screaming of
interference with academic free
dom.”
But MacCarthy indicated he be
lieves it is of pressing interest to
root out what he called* “Com
munist thinkers” from the na
tion’s colleges. He said he’d
rather use that expression than
the bald word “Communists.”
Rep. Velde (R-Ill), who will
head the House committee on un
American activities, also express
ed a desire to weed out any Com
munists from the nation’s colleges
and “all fields of education.”
McCarthy said he did not ex
pect the work of his investigators
tor duplicate that of Velde’s com
mittee. He pooh-poohed any sug
gestion an inquiry into the na
tion’s colleges would lead to
thought control.
714 Americans Killed
During Xmas Weekend
(By the Associated Press)
Accidents killed 714 Americans
during the four-day Christmas
weekend. Included in that num
ber were 533 who died in traffic
mishaps. Neither figure repre
sented a record, nor did the traf
fic fatalities for the 102-hour per
iod between 6 p.m. Wednesday
and midnight Sunday come up to
the National Safety’ Council’s pre
holiday estimate of 590.
Bloody as the slaughter on the
streets and highway was, it did
not equal the 555 killed during a
similar Christmas weekend in
1936. The all-time record for all
accidental deaths during a four
day Christmas holiday period,
789, was set last year.
Safety Council statistics for the
first 11 months of 1952 showed
the traffic accident death rate
was 102 every 24' hours. This,
however, included victims who
died later of injuries.
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Eisenhower, Taft and
GOP Senate Leaders
To Meet Tomorrow
NEW YORK, {JF) — President
elect Eisenhower meets Tuesday
with Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio
and other GOP Senate leaders to
discuss the new administration’s
legislative program, including the
question of whether to continue
wage-price controls.
In Clarkesburg, W. Va., Sen.
Taft said the discussion with Ei
senhower probably will include
price - wage controls and last
week’s announcement by Premier
Stalin he is favorably disposed to
confer with Eisenhower.
Taft said he did not know all
the probable topics of discussion,
adding, “The general will bring
up the subjects we will discuss.”
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