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THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS__.
VOL. LIV No. 129 _NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1952; Per Copy—15j
Unofficial 2181 Ballots
Cast In Oct. 14 Election
Largest Since 1934
The largest vote o'n record
since 1934 was cast in Second
Division, it has been reported,
with an unofficial 2181 votes re
corded.
Although it is possible for a few
more absentee ballots to arrive,
it is definitely assured that the
following have been elected:
Senators—Howard Lyng leads
the ticket, and Charles D. Jones.
Representatives — Three new
legislators will go to Juneau from
the Second Division—Edith Bul
lock, Ted Duffield and Charles
Fagerstrom.
A complete tally appears in this
issue. Extra copies of the tally
will be available at the Nugget
for those desiring them.
New Japanese Cabinet
Includes Men Banned
For Wartime Records
TOKYO, ’(/P)—Premier Shigeru
Yoshika today formed the first
Japanese cabinet since the end of
the occupation and named to it
eight men who had been banned
from public life by the Allied
powers for ultra-nationalist war
time records.
The pro - American premier
brought nine new faces into the
16-member cabinet, his fourth
since the war ended.
Tadarahu Mukai, 68, veteran
industrialist and former leader of
Japan’s prewar Zaibatsu indus
trial cartel, was named finance
minister.
All but two members belong to
Koshida’s dominent Liberal party.
Anti-administration party and
labor leaders attacked Yoshida’s
new cabinet as reactionary, “no
thing refreshing” and the same
old group.
Jotaro Kawami, chairman of
the rightist Socialist party, said
the reorganized cabinet apparent
ly would carry on “secret diplo
macy for the interests of the
United States alone.” He pledged
a vigorous offensive and predicted
the cabinet would be short-lived.
New Income Tax District
Is Set Up For Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) —Creation
of a new income tax disti'ict for
Washington, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon and Alaska was announ
ced Tuesday by Secretary of the
Treasury Snyder.
Headquarters will be in Seattle
and state offices will be located
at Helena, Boise, Portland and
Seattle, Snyder said.
The district will be headed by
a commissioner. He will be assist
ed by four directors who will re
place the present Collectors of In
ternal Revenue in the four states.
The district commissioner and
the new directors were not named
in the announcement. They jvill
be installed in ceremonies at the
University of Washington Oct. 31.
The Washington-Alaska office
of the Collector of Internal Reve
nue has been located at Tacoma.
Snyder said federal service to tax
payers will be continued through
a divisional office at Tacoma.
McCarthy Charges
Gov.Stevenson Has;
Aided Communism
CHICAGO, CP)—Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy’s charge of Monday
night that Gov. Adlai Stevenson
has given “aid to Communist
causes” and his speech brought
immediate and explosive reaction.
McCarthy delivered his widely
publicized attack on the Demo
cratic presidential nominee on a
nation-wide television and radio
hook-up financed by a privately
sponsored $50-a-plate dinner.
In his talk, he said the issue of
the current campaign is “Will
Communism win or will America
win?”
The New York Times said it re
ceived about 200 telephone calls
and numerous telegrams within
30 minutes Monday night protest- j
ing McCarthy’s speech and object
ing to the Time’s support of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Re
publican candidate.
A Times editorial said that
“The junior senator from Wis
consin, who has made his way to
national fame and political for
tune via the route of wild charges,
gross distortions and assorted
forms of demagoguery, said noth
ing last night to change this esti
mate of him, although he did
cough his nation-wide broadcast
in milder terms than had been ex
pected . . .
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio
told newsmen at Helena, Mont.,
Monday that McCarthy “did a
job that had to be done” in his
attacks against American Com
munists.
Taft, who is campaigning for
Eisenhower, said “McCarthy has
dramaticized the issue, resulting
in elimination of certain persons
| from government.”
Taft’s remarks were made be
fore McCarthy’s speech Monday
I night. The Wisconsin Republican
senator was lustily cheered by
his audience of 1,150 diners at
a Loop hotel ballroom at various
points in his speech. Once booing
halted him briefly when a heck
ler shouted. The heckler was
quickly spirited out by policemen.
Prop Wash Blasts Baggage
Cart Into Three Debarking
Pan American Passengers
SEATTLE, (/P) — Two passen
gers and the stewardess of a Pan
American World Airways plane
from Alaska were injured in a
freak accident at Boeing Field
Tuesday night.
A baggage cart, caught in the
backwash of another plane,
bowled into them as they de
barked from the Pan American
plane after its arrival from Fair
banks. None was seriously hurt.
Injured were Mrs. Louise Lem
ke, 74, Berkeley, Calif.; Mrs. A.
M. Borland, Whitehorse, Y. T.
and Miss Pat Pinkerton, 27, the
stewardess, of Seattle.
Mrs. Lemke, bruised and stun
ned, and Miss Pinkerton were ad
mitted to the Doctor’s 'Hospital.
The stewardess was bruised on
the legs.
Mrs. Borland was released after
treatment for an injured finger.
Public Forum On Second
Div. Problems To Be Held
In Fairbanks Nov. 11-12
The Chamber of Commerce
board members have centered
their activities on the presenta
tion of their program scheduled
to be held in Fairbanks Nov. 11
and 12 at a -public forum being
conducted by the Alaska Develop
ment Board in the interest of the
Second and Fourth Divisions.
President Galvin and Secretary
Mrs. G. R. Jackson both plan to
attend representing the local
chamber.
Some of the problems to be
presented will be those of more
roads; better schools, promotion
of increased tourist activity; es
tablishment of a Coast Guard sta
tion; re-opening of' the Land Of
fice and re-activation of an Air
Base at Nome; Other problems
•are also under consideration for
presentation at this important
meeting.
Tin mining will be a special
feature of the forum and will be
discussed by a member of the
University of Alaska, it has been
announced, in the absence of
Board Member Antonio Polet,
who is in the States.
The Public Forum will be held
in the U.S. Court Room at the
Fairbanks District Court.
Sniper Ridge Changes
Hands For Seventh
Time In 16 Days
SEOUL, (/P)—South Korean in
fantrymen in savage close-quarter
fighting today forced a battalion
of Chinese Reds off the crest of
bloody Sniper Ridge for the sev
enth time in 16 days.
The ROKs, driven off its high
est peak—Pinpoint Hill—late last
night, began their counterattack
at dawn.
Slowly they clawed back up
the slopes. They gouged out small
gains with hand grenade barrages
then grappled hand-to-hand with
the Reds in bunkers and trenches.
Gen. Mark Clark, touring Korea
congratulated Lt. Gen. Chunk II
Kwon, South Korean commander,
for the “magnificent fighting” of
his -men.
Fighting flared briskly else
where along the 155-mile front as
temperatures dropped to a chill
ing 35 degrees.
Increase In Korea Battle
Casualties Reflects Intense
Battles For Hill Positions
WASHINGTON, {&)—The De
partment of Defense announced
the largest weekly increase in
Korean battle casualties in nearly
a year—1,278 killed, missing and
wounded.
The new total reached 123,395
since the beginning of hostilities.
The rise of 1,278 last week com
pared with a weekly high of 3,536
announced Oct. 5, 1950 and a low
of 123 reported last March 26.
The weekly casualty toll has
been comparatively high since
early September, reflecting the
bitter fighting which has taken
place during the localized but in
tensive battles for hill positions
all along the line in Korea.
Largest Electric
Plant to be Built
For Atom Center j
NEW YORK, (JP)—'The world’s (
largest-, steam-electric generating
stations will be built at Madison,
Ind., and Gallipolis, O., to supply
electricity to the new atomic
center near Portsmouth, O.
Fifteen private electric com
panies joined forces to construct
the greatest single block of power
in the industry’s history.
The generating stations will
supply the full electric power re
quirements of the Atomic Energy
Commission’s billion - dollar ura
nium diffusion plant, still to be
built- near Portsmouth, O.
They will be called upon to
provide 15 billion kilowatt hours
annually.
The enormity of this power re
quirement is shown by the fol
lowing comparisons.
Fifteen billion kilowatt hours is
roughly 25 per cent more than the
current annual consumption of
New York City with its eight
million people.
And it is roughly two'-thirds of
the annual electric power con
sumption of the entire highly in
dustrialized state of Ohio.
It was estimated that 7V2 mil
lion tons of coal will be needed
at the generating plants. Coal
storage yards will be among the
largest in the country and will be
developed to hold up to three
million tons.
Hundreds of Forest And
Brush Fires Burning In
Eastern Half of Country
(Bv the Associated Press)
No1 heavy rainfall appeared in
sight today to douse the hun
dreds of damaging fires burning
over forests and brush areas in
more than a score of states in
the eastern half of the country.
Some snow showers and light
rain hit parts of the Midwest, the
East and South, bringing a mea
sure of relief in some areas. Cold
er weather also spread over the
eastern half of the nation. Snow
showers were reported as far
south as Asheville, N.C.
Thousands continued fighting
the fires. Army troops and Na
tional Guardsmen were called out
in some sections to halt the
flames from spreading from the
wooded areas to towns and farm
homes. In Ohio', prison inmates
helped fight the fires.
In West Virginia alone, there
nave been 450 fires which have
blackened 150,000 acres. Officials
said the outbreak was the worst
in seven years. In Kentucky, near
ly 200 fires have swept over some
77,500 acres.
RFC Approves $355,000
Loan To Wien Airlines
SEATTLE, (,/P) — The regional
office of the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corp., Wednesday reported
approval of a $355,000 loan to the
Wien Alaska Airlines, Inc., to ex
pand its facilities.
The company will invest an ad
ditional $110,000, the RFC said.
Its program includes additional
aircraft and hangars at Fairbanks,
1 Kotzebue and Point Barrow.
Maryland Football Players
Report Bribes Offered To
Fix Score In LSU Game
COLLEGE PARK, Md., ,(/P) —
Three University 'of Maryland
football players, including its All
American quarterback candidate,
Jack Scarbath, have sworn that
another student offered them
bribes to hold down the score in
Maryland’s game last Saturday
with Louisiana State University.
The players who rejected the
offers, and reported them to au
thorities, are:
Tom Cosgrove, center, 21, from
Philadelphia, who said he was of
fered $1,000.
Frank Navarro, a guard, 22,
from White Plains, N. Y., who
said he was offered $400.
Scarbath, 21, from Baltimore
and considered by many to be the
best college quarterback in the
nation, who said he was offered
$100.
Cosgrove and Navarro said they
were approached Thursday. Scar
bath said he was approached Fri
day which possibly explains the
smaller offer to him since it
would be too late to get many
bets made.
All three players said they
were asked to hold down the
score so that Maryland would
beat Louisiana State by less than
21 points. Maryland beat LJ5.U.
34-6, with Scarbath, Cosgrove and
Navarro playing prominent roles.
CAB Drafts Tentative
New Safety Regulations
For Nation’s Airlines
WASHINGTON, (tP)—The Civil
Aeronautics Board has drafted
tentative new safety regulations
for the nation’s airlines.
One important measure would
require the use of a pilot warn
ing device for each propellor on
an airliner, to give an alarm when
the propellor goes into reverse
pitch.
The inadvertent reversal of pro
pellor was blamed for one of the
fatal airplane accidents at Eliza
beth, N.J., earlier this year. Re
versible propellers themselves
have been defended by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration which
has declared that the braking ef
fect of reverse-pitch propellers is
so effective that four acciden.s
costing 93 lives in the last five
years might have been prevented
had the planes’ propellers been
reversible.
Navy Reports “Most
Powerful” Carrier Plane
Passes First Tests
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., (£>)—The
most powerful plane ever de
signed for operating from a car
rier, the Douglas A3D, a swepf
wing jet aircraft, has passed its
first test with flying colors.
The Navy said yesterday the
twin-jet met “all expectations’’
during a 10-minute flight test at
Edwards Air Force Base on the
Mojave desert.
The A3D, supposed to fly faster
and carry a heavier load over
longer distances. than any com
parable aircraft, is in the 600 to
700 mile an hour class, the Navy
said, and can fly above 40,000
feet.