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Puzzle: What Became Of
The Wire Recommending
Bob Reeve For Governor
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, (jD — The mystery of
the missing wire to Secretary of
Interior Douglas McKay on the
Alaska Republican Central Com
mittee majority endorsement of
Robert Reeve for governor of Al
aska appeared Thursday as the
territory’s most interesting poli
tical puzzle.
A special assistant to McKay
said in Washington Thursday
that they hadn’t found any wire
on the recommendation.
Alaska’s Republican committee
chairman Elton Engstrom and sec
retary Ray Beach both insisted
the wire was sent last Friday
night.
Beach handled its actual filing.
He showed a carbon copy Thurs
day of the wire sent to both Mc
Kay and the chairman of the Re
publican National Committee. He
checked with the Alaska Com
munications System and said he
had ascertained the wire had been
dispatched from Juneau.
Beach also displayed a letter
confirming the wire to both men
and said it had been sent regis
tered airmail Saturday.
He said ACS is sending a tracer
on the wire.
Nationalists Consider
Stepped-Up Operations
Against China Mainland
TAIPEH, Formosa, UP)—Nation
alist Chinese leaders, encouraged
by President Eisenhower’s deci
sion to de-neutralize the Formosa
Strait, are considering stepped-up
operations against the Red main
land.
Most observers here feel that
for several months, at least, such
operations will be limited to in
creased amphibious raids from
Nationalist island bases off Red
China.
Eventually, these observers be
lieve, some kind of understand
ing will be reached between the
U.S. and Nationalist governments
on enlarging the scope of hit-and
run warfare.
COURT VOIDS FCC BAN
ON GIVEAWAY SHOWS
NEW YORK, Iff)—Federal court
here has voided a Federal Com
munications ban on television and
radio giveaway programs.
A three-member federal statu
tory court ruled Thursday that
such shows are not lotteries —
provided that the participants
contribute nothing to the prize
fund.
The decision was based on an
appeal by the American Broad
casting Company against a 1949
FCC ruling that giveaway shows
— such as “Stop The Music” —
were lotteries and could not be
broadcast.
WASHINGTON, Iff)—1The per
jury trial of Owen Lattimore Fri
day was set for May 11.
Lattimore, lecturer at Johns
Hopkins University and an occa
sional State Dept, consultant, was
indicted December 16. Ope of the
charges was that he lied under
oath when he told a Senate com
mittee he never promoted Com
munism. He has insisted he told
the truth.
Eisenhower Ends .
All Wage and Some
Price Controls
WASHINGTON, W — President
Eisenhower Friday ended all
wage and salary controls. He also
ordered price controls lifted from
a wide range of consumer goods,
including all meat products.
A White House statement said
the President took the action in
a move “toward eliminating in an
orderly fashion the price and
wage controls under which the
American economy has been re
quired to operate for the past two
years.”
The controls were part of the
government’s efforts to battle the
inflationary rise in prices and
wages which set in sharply after
the Korean war broke out in 1950.
The announcement as to price
controls said the Office of Price
Stabilization was issuing orders
removing price curbs immediately
from “a wide and varied list of
consumer goods, including all
meat products, all furniture, all
apparel, all meals sold in restau
rants and public eating places.”
The statement said, as Eisen
hower did in his state of the
union message Monday, that price
controls “have not been effective
in protecting the family budget
against high prices.”
About 2,000 employees of the
wage and salary stabiliaztion
boards already have been given
30-day dismissal notices as a step
toward winding up those agencies.
The lifting of the controls
means probably as many as a
million workers will get quick
pay boosts. This is money most
of them probably would have re
ceived anyway, but the negotiated
increases have been suspended
pending wage board consideration.
Oregon Congressmen
Oppose Entry Japanese
Interests to Alaska Forests
WASHINGTON, UP) — Another
Oregon congressman Friday join
ed in the protest against possible
entry of Japanese interests into
Alaskan forests.
In separate letters to Secretary
of State Dulles and Secretary of
Agriculture, Rep. Coon (R-Ore)
said he felt American industries
should be given first chance to
develop Alaskan timber resources.
Coon joined with Rep. Norblad
(R-Ore) who earlier had protested
that many smaller mills in Ore
gon already are runnnig on an
irregular basis because of a lack
of market.
Japanese technicians spent all
o'f January inspecting various
sites in southeast Alaska, primar
ily in the Tongass National Forest
area, as potential locations for a
sawmill.
Embassy spokesmen said last
month it was hoped a sawmill
could be set up by late summer.
Eventual plans, he said, are to set
up a pulp mill if such a project
appears feasible.
SEOUL, (A*) — The Korean war
ground to a virtual standstill Fri
day as snow and low - hanging
clouds covered the war-torn pen
insula.
The U.S. Eighth Army reported
only light patrol activitiy.
Believe Eisenhower
Considering Naval
Blockade of China
WASHINGTON, UP)—Rep. Short
(R-Mo) called Friday for a full
naval blockade of Communist
China and said he 'believed Presi
dent Eisenhower is considering
such a step.
Short, chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee, said
Adm. Arthur W. Radford, com
mander of Pacific naval forces,
assured the committee in a secret
briefing Thursday that a block
ade would mean “little chance of
war” with Russia.
Radford, long an advocate, of
China blockade, is in Washington
for top-level conferences. Short
said he believes the President is
“listening tq him (Radford).”
Short expressed belief in an in
terview that Congress would sup
port a blockade order and any
other steps by Eisenhower to
“take the offensive throughout
the world.”
He quoted Radford as saying
Eisenhower’s order to' deneutral
ize Formosa would have little di
rect effect on the Korean cam
paign but could be significant as
the prelude to other steps.
The admiral advocated a block
ade tight enough to halt Russian
as well as other deep-sea ship
ping and smuggling, Short added.
Legislature Sees Record
Number Bills Introduced
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, UP—As the first Re
publican - controlled legislature in
20 years nears the end of its sec
ond week, members are setting a
bill-introducing pace nearly twice
last session’s early clip.
Through Thursday, the ses
sion’s 11th day, senators had in
troduced 25 bills compared with
seven at the same stage last ses
sion.
In the House, where four Demo
crats have been the most prolific
bill sponsors, the bill total reach
ed 36 compared with 17 in 1951.
Very few bills have passed
either house, however, and none,
except a resolution for session ex
penses, has passed both.
One memorial asking Congress
to clear the way for land acqui
sition for the Taiya aluminum
project also cleared both houses.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Chosen Outstanding
TV Personality of 1952
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—A Catholic
churchman, Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen, and red-haired comedi
enne Lucille Ball hold the top
honors of the television academy.
Bishop Sheen, whose religious
talks have competed for listeners
with Melton Berle and Red Skel
ton, Thursday night won the
academy award as the most out
standing personality on TV in
1952. He was chosen over such
professional entertainers as Ar
thur Godfrey and Donald O’Con
nor and one non-pro, Adlai Stev
enson.
The academy’s 400 members
voted Miss Ball the top comedi
enne of 1952. Her show, “I Love
Lucy,” was also named the best
situation comedy program.
Secretary Dulles Calls On Europe
Put Away “Dangerous Rivalries”
Dulles Gives Germany
Till April 1 To Get In
Line to Receive U.S. Aid
BONN, Germany, —Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles has
warned European statesmen that
unless “there are clear and vis
ible signs by April 1” that the
European army treaty will be
ratified, the U.S. Congress will
balk at voting continued big-scale
military and economic aid.
This was disclosed officially
here Friday by West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenaur, who
had just concluded a series of
conferences with Dulles and Mu
tual Security Director Harold E.
Stassen.
The new deadline given Ade
nauer stepped up by some three
weeks a limit which Dulles re
portedly previously gave in his
talks with the Italian, French and
British.
Adenauer confirmed that Dulles
had delivered him an invitation
to visit Washington to confer
with President Eisenhower and
other U.S. officials. He said he
planned to go in late March or
early April.
U. S. Jet Night Fighters
In Action Over Korea
SEOUL, OP)—American airmen
are flying right to the doorstep o*f
Communist Manchuria two types
of deadly jet planes which track
and shoot down Red aircraft in
the blackest night.
They already have scored at
least six kills in night combat.
The planes are equipped with
fantastic radar and electronics de
vices. These “lock” on target air
craft and guide the jet in unerring
pursuit. Guns are aimed and fired
automatically.
Almost always the first glimpse
the jet crew has of Red aircraft
is the trail of flame as it plunges
earthward.
The Marine Air Wing and the
Fifth Air Force Thursday took the
security wraps off their deadly
night fighters. Both services have
been using them in combat in
North Korea since November.
The Marine jet is the Douglas
F-3 Skynight, a twin-jet that can
fly faster than the speed of sound.
The Air Force model is the
Lockheed F-95-B Starfire, pow
ered by a single Allison jet en
gine with an after-burner which
gives it tremendous added thrust
in an emergency.
Each type caries a pilot and
radar crewman.
ALASKA SHIPPING FIRMS
TO USE AMES TERMINAL
SEATTLE, UPl—Ames Terminal
soon will be used for shipping
freight to Alaska by several ship
ping companies.
'Alaska Consolidating and For
warding Co., announced they will
shift to Ames Terminal about
February 20th.
The Alaska Steamship Co. ex
pects to move about a ship a week
out of the terminal and the Alas
ka Freight Lines plans two barge
sailings a week to Seward and
Valdez from the new pier loca
tion.
BONN, Germany, UP)—U.S. Sec
retary of State John Foster Dulles
Thursday called upon continen
tal Europe to put away its “old
dangerous rivalries” and join
quickly in armed union to “pro
vide the indispensible cornerstone
of a strong Atlantic community.”
The secretary and Mutual Sec
urity Director Harold E. Stassen
’ flew here from London, where
they reportedly left behind a
warning to British leaders that
concrete progress must be made
within 75 days toward creating a
European defense army including
German troops or America may
reduce its aid program.
After a brief preliminary meet
ing with Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer, they swung into a series
of conferences with German and
Allied leaders which will virtual
ly fill their 21-hour stay here.
Dulles said he and Stassen were
making this fact-finding tour of
the six nations which have signed
the treaty to create a European
defense army because “we believe
these countries stand on the
threshhold of a great evolutionary
change which will supplant na
tional rivalries with unity.”
“In that way, and only in that
way,” Dulles added, “can the na
tions of Europe put aside their
rivalries which have been so dan
gerous in the past.”
The 75-day period of which
Dulles reportedly warned British
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill and Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden — as well as Italian and
French government chiefs—wc/uld
put the deadline on April 20. That
is three days before the North
Atlantic Council of foreign min
isters is to meet in Paris.
Pravda Reports Three
Russians Arrested As
Spies For The U.S.
MOSCOW, (5t—Pravda reported
Friday that state security police
have arrested three men. and a
woman, all Soviet citizens, on
charges of spying and alleged
that the U..S. Intelligence Service
had especially trained one of the
men for espionage.
Pravda said all four had passed
secrets to foreign governments.
Their activities, the paper said,
makes it evident “that foreign in
telligence services use as agents
all kinds of criminals and rotten
elements.”
The paper called again for in
tense vigilance against Soviet en
emies.
Disappointed Alaska House
Wires Eisenhower on Failure to
Mention Statehood for Alaska
JUNEAU,[ff)—The Alaska House
of Representatives agreed Thurs
day to message President Eisen
hower expressing disappointment
because he did not mention state
hood for the territory in his state
of the union message.
The wire read: “Deeply regret
failure to mention Alaska state
hood in message. Hope you will
express your continued support
for Alaska statehood.”
The proposal was made by Rep.
Howard Pollock, Anchorage Re
publican. The House gave unani
I mous consent to sending the wire.