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Globemaster Flew
Into Mountain
At Full Speed
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A heli
copter crew surveyed the slopes
of snow-covered Mt. Gannett to
day mapping a trail for a 12-man
ground party assigned to recover
the bodies of 52 persons killed in
- the crash of a C-124 Globemaster.
The Air Force said the helicop
ter also will be used to fly the
ground party to a base camp to
be set up at the 4,000-foot level.
From there the trail crew will
climb to the crash scene at about
the 8,000-foot level on Surprise
Glacier.
Dr. Terris Moore, University of
Alaska president, and an Air
Force officer, landed in a light
ski-equipped plane on the glacier
Friday.
Dr. Moore said on his return
here Saturday the Globemaster
was flying at full speed when it
struck a peak near the summit
of the mountain. All aboard met
* instant death. The transport slid
down the mountainside and broke
apart when it hit. Wreckage was
scattered over two or three acres,
the flying educator said.
Dr. Moore said the occupants
never knew what hit them.
With several 10,000-fo'ot peaks
in the vicinity, Dr. Moore said,
it was surprising that the plane
had missed the other high ridges
before striking Mt. Gannett at the
8,000-foot level.
Blood was found on a piece of
blanket, he said, and there was a
“sickly-sweet smell of death.”
Only the ail assembly and flip
pers of the plane were intact.
Sabre Jets Score 23 MIGs
Downed During November
Losing Four Themselves
SEOUL, (/P)—U. S. Sabre jets
ran up a score of at least 23-4
over Russian - type MIG-15s in
November air battles, the Fifth
Air Force announced Monday.
During the same period, other
Allied warplanes roamed over
North Korean roads and knocked
out 3,035 Communist trucks
, laden with supplies for the front,
the Air Force said.
Clouds and rain over most of
North Korea sharply curtailed
Allied air blows Monday.
Ground fighting too, was rela
tively light.
A driving snow whipped across
the battlefront. It was two inches
deep along the central front at
nightfall and was still failing
steadily four hours later.
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Fairbanksan Involved
In Stateside Accident
SEATTLE, (JF) — Samuel A.
Wamock, 16, was killed and Wal
ter Caravan, 15, was injured ser
iously Sunday when their motor
cycle collided with a car on the
northern outskirts of Seattle.
State Patrolman John Olseene
said the car, driven by Fred B.
Parker, Sr., 75, Fairbanks, Alaska,
made a left turn across the Both
ell Highway into the path of 4he
* motorcycle, driven by young War
nock.
U.N. Empowers
Secty. Gen, To Fire
f
American Reds
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (yP)
— The United Nations had high
legal opinion today to back up
firings by Secretary General
Trygve Lie to weed out the U.N.
American Communists and those
who won’t say whether they have
been Reds.
Lie’s panel of three internation
al jurists said in a 50-page opin
ion that under staff regulations
and U.S. laws the Secretary-Gen
eral can and should:
1. Fire any U.N. staff employee
who is an active member of the
American Communist party.
2. Fire any employee accused of
espionage, subversion or member
ship in an organization declared
subversive who refuses to answer
questions by a U.S. grand jury or
Senate subcommittee on the
grounds that his answers might
incriminate him.
Either situation, the jurists said,
is incompatible with being an in
ternational civil servant in the
employ of the U.N.
Warns Against
Seeking Alaska
Work in January
WASHINGTON, (/P) - T h e
Labor Department’s representa
tive in Alaska warned Americans
today that they “could be dis
appointed” if they go to booming
Alaska expecting to' make a for
tune.
Leonard Evans of Juneau, one
of three territorial representatives
conferring here this week with
Labor Department officials, told
reporters too many people start
the new year wrong by going to
Alaska in January looking for
construction jobs.
“We need construction workers
in July,” he said. “But there just
aren’t any jobs in January.”
Evans spoke optimistically of
the industrial expansion taking
place in Alaska and said he is
not trying to discourage workers
who know their way around in
the territory.
But he advised the uninitiated
to visit Alaska first on a vacation,
take a look around and decide
whether they want to settle.
Job seekers, he said, should
make their contacts through the
local labor unions or the Terri
torial Employment Office. And
they better make arrangements
for housing in advance too.
“Housing is difficult in south
eastern Alaska and impossible to
the westward — Anchorage and
Fairbanks,” he said.
Living costs, he said, range from
22 to 53 per cent higher than in
Seattle, so a job seeker ought to
take about $1,500 with him to
use until he gets located.
Ten Inches of Snow Too Much
For New York Santa Claus
HAMBURG, N.Y., (JP) — Ten
inches of snow was too much for
Santa.
His scheduled ride through
town Friday on a float, with gifts
for the kiddies, was postponed un
til Monday—weather permitting.
Hormones,Surgery i
Changes 26-Year !
Man Into Woman
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, (/P)
—Christine Jorgensen, 26, an at
tractive blond, awaited happily
Monday her final release from a
Danish hospital where she under
went hormone treatments and
surgery changing her from a man
into a woman.
She will return home soon to
the Bronx section of New York
City, where she grew up as
George Jorgensen, Jr., son of a
carpenter.
The change took about two
years. During that time, between
trips to the hospital, Christine
was able to study color photo
graphy. She hopes to pursue that
profession in the United States.
“I’m happy to have become a
woman and I think many people
who are unhappy as I was before,
should follow my example,” she
told a reporter at Rigs Hospitalet,
the Danish state hospital here.
Her doctors refused to discuss
the case.
Dr. Christian Hemburger, Dan
ish hormone expert who directed
the countless injections his pa
tient received along with surgical
operation by several leading Dan
ish surgeons, refused to describe
Miss Jorgensen’s treatment in de
tail.
The boy-to-girl transformation
was revealed in New York last
night in a copyrighted article by
the New York Daily News, which
said Christine in a letter to her
father said the process had taken
two years.
The news gave these details:
After serving two years in the
Army at Fort Dix, N.J., George
Jr., received an honorable dis
charge and enrolled in New York
Medical Institute to study the
workings of sex glands and hor
mones.
During a trip to California, the
youth met a doctor who told him
of sex conversion work being done
in Denmark and three years ago
he went there, ostensibly to study
color photography, and put him
self in the hands of Dr. Hem
burger.
The News said the elder Jor
gensen learned of the change in
his child in a letter from her in
which she wrote: “Nature made
the mistake which I have had
corrected and now I am your
daughter.” She enclosed pictures
of herself in girls’ clothes — a
pretty, very feminine - looking
blonde.
Air Force Wrecked 930
Red Trucks Last Week
SEOUL, (#*) — In its weekly
assessment of damage, the Air
Force reported U. S. Sabre jets
downed three Communist MIGs,
probably got another and dam
aged a fifth up until Friday night.
Three Allied warplanes were lost
one a Sabre, in air combat; a jet
fighter - bomber to ground fire;
and a propeller - driven fighter
bomber to operational causes.
The Air Force said 930 Com
munist trucks were wrecked dur
ing the week by night - flying
B-26s — the largest number thus
far this year.
Nome Nanooks
Win Both Games
From Palmer High
By HERB WILLIAMS
The local fans in Nome were
treated to two fine basketball
games last Friday and Saturday
nights in the school gym when
the Nanooks met the visiting
Palmer Moose and won both
games 36-35 and 36-26.
This series marked the first
time in Nome’s history that a
high school has come into Nome
for a game on the Nanooks’ home
floor. A capacity crowd witnessed
the two games and saw some very
fine playing by both teams.
Palmer was handicapped in the
second game because of an ankle
injury suffered by John Brown in
Friday’s action, the high scoring
center was suited up for Satur
days game, but was not used by
coach Bob Crites.
In the preliminary games, the
7th and 8th grade Mustangs edged
the Baby Nanooks 23-22 Friday
night and in Saturday’s tilt, the
Tundrabirds remained undefeated
as they downed the Lomen Com
mercial Five 30-22.
Palmer led Nome 6-4 in the
first game Friday at the quarter,
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AFL Will Not
Unload Seattle
In Tacoma
SEATTLE, (/P) — A spokesman
said Friday that American Fed
eration of Labor lcfngshoremen in
Tacoma will not unload cargo di
verted to that port from, Seattle
by the waterfront tie-up.
Maxie Weisbarth, spokesman
for the Maritime Trades Depart
ment here, said lines already op
erating from Tacoma before the
strike would not -be affected by
the ban.
These include Ocean Van Line,
Alaska Freight Lines and Ameri
can Mail Line.
Weisbarth said about a dozen
ships have been refused clearance
to unload at Tacoma since AFL
pickets tied up Seattle’s port on
Nov. 11. He said ships which
carry considerable Seattle cargo
and which do not normally op
erate from Tacoma are affected
by the ban. Such vessels will not
be allowed to discharge cargoes
in the United States nearer than
Columbia River ports, he said.
The dispute over whether an
AFL or an independent union has
jurisdiction over dock foremen
continued unsettled with only
military cargo and relief ship
ments for Alaska being loaded in
the big port.
Sister Kenny, Famed Polio
Nurse, Dies in Australia
SYDNEY, Australia, (,/P)—Sister
Elizabeth Kenny was buried Mon
day near her mother’s grave in
the tiny cemetery of the small
farming settlement of Nobby, 12
miles from her Toowoomba home.
The famed poliomyelities spe
cialist died Sunday after a 10
day siege of cerebral thrombosis
and pneumonia which kept her
partially paralyzed and in a coma
during her last days. She was 66.
Atty. Gen. Willing
Start Injunction
Against Union
JUNEAU, (A3)—A Chamber of
Commerce strike committee said
Saturday it was assured by At
torney General J. Gerald Wil
liams that he is willing to start
an injunction suit against the
AFL Longshoremen’s Association
picketing at Seattle, on three
conditions.
The conditions were listed as:
if other cities besides Juneau
assure support; if he can get
special legal assistance; if he gets
a direct request from the gover
nor’s office.
Injunction action was proposed
by a Juneau attorney as a step
to break the union jurisdictional
stalemate at Seattle that has cut
off the regular shipping schedules
to Alaska.
The Juneau committee started
wiring other Alaska communities
to seek joint action. The commit
tee also has wired Sen. Robert
Taft of Ohio. Republican leader
in the Senate, asking advice on
a means of ending the tie-up and
suggesting a need for a perman
ent solution through legislation.
Burke Riley, Territorial Secre
tary and acting governor, said if
the Attorney General’s other con
ditions are met, he will go along
with the proposal, but that the
decision as to advisability of a
suit is up to Williams’ office.
Meanwhile, Bellingham civic
leaders suggested tcf the Juneau
Strike Committee and the gover
nor’s office that the Bellingham
port would be the best alternative
for the Alaska Steamship Co., if
the strike situation should lead it
to shift its base of operations.
They stated that the porrt can
handle cargo up to 10,000 tons or
more; that it has customs and
warehouse facilities and three
railroads, and is closer to Alaska
than Seattle.
Eisenhower Will Appoint
Senator Lodge to Head
U. S. Mission to the U.N.
NEW YORK, (A1) — President,
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower an
nounced Saturday he will appoint
U.S. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge to
head the U. S. mission to the
United Nations.
Appointment of Lodge is sub
ject to Senate confirmation. He
will succeed Warren Austin in the
U.N. post.
Secretary of State ^designate
appointment for Eisenhower.
John Foster Dulles announced the
Emmet Hughes, an editor of
Life magazine, was named admin
istrative assistant to the president.
The announcement of the
Hughes appointment was made by
Gov. Herman Adams of New
Hampshire, who will be “assist
ant President” in the new admin
istration.
EISENHOWER APPOINTS
WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
CRT. BRITAIN AMBASSADOR
NEW YORK, (P) — President
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower Sat
urday named Republican banker
Winthrop W. Aldrich, to be U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britain.
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