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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 122 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1952 Per Copy—15^
Will Test Political
Barometer At
Polls Tomorrow
fBv the Associated Press'.
Alaskans will vote Tuesday in
a general election that will test
their new political adage, “As
Alaska goes, so goes the nation.”
The Territory’s political lead
ers have been contending in recent
years that Alaska has usurped the
role of main in the old political
* axiom. They cite some convincing
evidence to support the claim.
The Territory voted Democratic
throughout the New Deal era; it
added Republicans to the Legis
lature in 1946 and the country
elected the Republican 80th Con
gress two weeks later; it swung
strongly Democratic in 1948, when
a Republican national victory was
generally predicted for the nation;
and two weeks later President
Truman and the Democratic tick
et won nationally; the Republi
cans picked up strength in the
Legislature in the 1950 ‘ election,
but not enough to get a majority,
and the congressional elections
followed the pattern in the states.
Actually, it is puzzling to try to
understand why it should be a
barometer. The rough-and-ready
politics of the Territory are criss
crossed with personalities and
feuds.
Supreme Court Denies
Hearing to Atom Spies
Condemned to Death
WASHINGTON, </P) — The Su
preme Court today denied a hear
ing to atom spies Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, the husband and
wife sentenced to die for giving
American A - bomb secrets to
Russia.
The denial lets stand un
changed the conviction and death
sentence of the New York City
couple — and puts them another
step closer to execution in the
electric chair in New York’s
' Sing Sing prison.
Only a commutation of their
sentence by the President can
now save them.
The high court’s rejection of the
couple’s appeal was announced in
a brief order, which noted that
Justice Black favored a hearing.
The court’s vote thus was 8-1.
Mossadegh’s Government
Arrests Four Men For
“Plotting” with British
TEHRAN, Iran, (/P) — Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh’s govern
ment arrested four men, one of
them a retired army general,
early Monday and accused them
of plotting with certain members
of parliament “in the interest of
a certain foreign embassy.”
An official announcement did
not identify the embassy, but
such references by the aged pre
mier’s Nationalist government
generally mean the British.
, Unofficial reports said the plot
ters planned to oust Mossadegh
, and install as premier retired Gen.
Fazlollah Zahedi, an outstanding
army officer for many years and
now a member of the Iran senate.
The communique named him in
the plot but said he and others
enjoyed parliamentary immunity
from arrest.
Soviets Charge
B-29 Opened Fire
On Tlieir Fighters
MOSCOW, f/P) — Russia has
charged that a U.S. B-29 bomber
shot at Soviet fighter planes over
Russian Far Eastern territory
Tuesday and said the Red pilots
returned the fire. The incident
occurred the same day the U.S.
Air Force reported one of its
Superforts missing off Japan.
A Soviet note to the United
States, formally protesting the al
leged border violation, said the
American plane “disappeared in
the direction of the sea” after
the Russians shot back. The text
of the note was published by the
Communist party newspaper
Pravda and was broadcast by
Moscow radio.
(In Tokyo, a U. S. Air Force
spokesman said the missing Am
erican plane “carried no guns and
no gunners” among its crew of
eight. The Air Force previously
had announced the bomber, fly
ing a training trip, was last seen
on a radar screen when its path
crossed that of an unidentified
plane aproaching from the Rus
sian-occupied Kurile Islands, of
ficers said).
The Soviet note charged that
the U.S. bomber “violated the
Soviet state frontier” Oct. 7 in
the area of the island of Yuri.”
(Yuri is one of the Kurile Is
lands, 18 miles from the north
ernmost Japanese island of Hok
kaido.)
Russian Planes Based In
Kuriles Tracked by Radar
Over Japanese Waters
AN AIR BASE IN NORTHERN
JAPAN, .(/P)—The commander of
the Japan Air Defense Force said
today Russian planes are tracked
daily on radar at this base and
that the Soviet craft “from time
to time” fly over Japanese waters.
Brig. Gen. Delmer T. Spivey
said in an interview approaching
Russian aircraft sometimes cause
alerts at this base.
“Sometimes our planes take off
on alerts and sometimes we just
sit tight to see what will happen,”
he said.
Thunderjet watch planes are
kept on the line and ready 24
hours a day, he said, and can be
aloft three minutes after an alert.
“By purpose or accident, Rus
sian planes from time to time fly
over Japanese territorial waters,”
Gen. Spivey stated.
“The Russians are doing a lot
of gunnery practice and training,”
Spivey added.
Asked whether Russians have j
I airbases on the Kurile Islands,
just north of Hokkaido, Japan’s
northernmost island, the air de
fense force commander, said:
“They have them there—they
have them there and all over.”
FASHIONABLE EXILE FOR
EGYPT'S EX-KING FAROUK
ISLE OF CAPRI, (/P)—Ex-king
Farouk of Egypt shipped his 92
trunks and . ..suitcases off Capri
Monday, and he and his family
are expected to leave here Tues
day for « hotel at a fashionable
seaside resort near Rome.
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Cemetery Work
Will Continue ’til
The Snow Flies
A meeting of the “Clean Up the
Cemetery” Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, headed by
Ralph Lomen, was held last Fri
day evening in the City Hall and
resulted in immediate action.
In order to take advantage of
the good weather, dodgers were
circulated all over town Saturday
and it was announced from the
pulpits that volunteer labor would
be taken to the cemetery Sunday
afternoon to start clearing away
the debris and overgrowth.
A substantial turnout worked
all afternoon and are reported to
have uncovered about 15 graves,
some marked and some without
markers which were completely
covered by weeds.
One group of small girls ad
journed from a birthday party at
the home of SJeve Anderson and
spent their “party” time pulling
weeds.
Until snow falls the work will
continue, the chairman said, and
then plans will be laid for the
continuation of the work in the
spring.
47 Thunderjets Complete
Longest Over-Water Trip
From U. S. To Japan
AN AIR BASE IN NORTHERN
JAPAN, (/P)—Forty-seven U. S.
F 84G Thunderjets completed the
longest over - water flight ever
made by single-engine jet fighter
aircraft.
At the end of the lonesome
2,500 mile trip the flight leader,
Col. Donald J. M. Blnkeslee, de
clared:
“With enough refueling you
could fly a Thunderjet nonstop
around the world.”
The jets were timed at 6 hours
and 2 minutes, an average speed
of about 460 miles an hour.
Twenty-eight others are due in
Tuesday. That will end the sec
ond mass flight of jets from the
U.S. to Japan.
At least four of the pilots had
only minutes of fuel left. The
tanks of one jet ran dry as the
pilot taxied down the runway.
One plane turned back because
of engine trouble.
B-29 tanker planes refueled the
jets, over the Pacific.
Too Much Sunshine
Cause of Skin Cancer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., {JP) A
Tampa physician says Florida’s
famous sunshine is not an un
mixed blessing for residents of
the state who are exposed to it
all the time.
Dr. Morris Waisman goes into
the good and bad effect of sun
light on human being in an article
in the current issue of the Jour
nal of the Florida Medical Associ
ation.
He finds sunshine is so injur
ious to people with certain types
of skin that “pre-employment ex
aminations for screening out per
sons with skins unsuitable for
outdoor work will probably in
time be recommended. He said
cancer of the skin is much more
common in the South than in the
North.
Air Force and Army Build Secret
Radar Base On Inaccessible Alaska
Mountain In Heart of Wilderness
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South Koreans
Command Crest
White Horse Mt.
By GEORGE A. McARTHUR
SEOUL, (/P)—Frenzied Chinese
suicide troops with demolition
charges tried to blow a hole in the
Allied defense/ on White Horse
Mountain Monday night. South
Korean gunfire mowed them
down short of their target.
A front line Allied officer said
about half a dozen fanatical Reds
with satchel charges and Banga
lore torpedoes charged up the
north slope in complete disre
gard of their own lives.
They fell with their charges un
exploded.
Satchel charges are bundles of
explosives packed in a satchel
like bundle. Some are covered
with a sticky substance so they
can be quickly stuck to the tar
get. Bagalore torpedoes , are
lengths of pipe packed with ex
plosives.
At the same time two Chinese
platoons jumped off in a futile
attack. The South Koreans drove
them back, then they launched
an assault of their own. At last
report they were pushing up the
slope of one of three knobs the
Reds captured earlier in the day.
As the savage battle for White
Horse entered its eighth day the
South Koreans were in firm con
trol of the commanding crest.
Presidential Candidates
Express Optimism On
Outcome Election Nov. 4
(By the Associated Press)
President Truman announced
today that he’ll make more than
30 speeches on a campaign swing
through New England this week
in support of the Stevenson
Sparkman ticket.
The President’s announcement
came as backers of both Adlai
Stevenson and Dwight Eisen
hower represented themselves as
being enthused over their man’s
chances for the presidency.
Truman wound up an 8,500
mile coast-to-coast swing Satur
day night.
Gen. Eisenhower said at Cas
per, Wyo., today tne Republicans
are fighting to get “just some or
dinary business methods” into
government in Washington.
He hit at federal agencies
“sticking their hands” in the
management of western land re
sources.
Stevenson’s associates are say
ing today they believe the Demo
crats have Eisenhower on the run.
but one of Eisenhower’s advisers
says “things are going exactly as
planned.” -
These conflicting optimisms
arose from the rival camps today
as the Democratic and Republi
can standard bearers headed into
the home stretch drive for the
presidency.
SEATTLE, (JP)—A secret radar
base, plugging a gap in the far
north’s air raid warning network,
has been carved out by airlift in
the inaccessible wilds of Alaska,
the Post-Intelligencer said today.
Quoting the Alaska Air Com
mand, the newspaper said the
base on an interior Alaska moun
tain peak was built entirley by
Air Force and Army workers at
a cost of $275,000,. without elec
tronics equipment.
The exact site of the new base
remains undisclosed, but the Air
Force said it is in the heart of
the Alaska mountain wilderness
100 miles from the nearest trail
or navigable river.
The newspaper said the Alaska
Air Command told this story
about the new radar installation:
A hole in the Arctic radar
“fence” was discovered in mid
1951. Air reconnaissance showed
the remote peak to be -the best
location for a new installation.
The next question was “how to
build it?”
Maj. Gen. William D. Olds,
head of the Alaska Air Command,
said “Go ahead, regardless,” al
though there were no funds to
pay for the job and no time to
wait for estimates and bids by
civilian contractors.
Capt. Frederick D. R. Spaar
vohn, of the 10th Air Rescue
Squadron, was the first man to
there by helicopter in July 1951
after first frightening away four
after first frightening awa
defiant bears.
Meanwhile, Lt. Col. Fred A.
Deyo, commander of the 531s
Aircraft Control and Warning
Group, ransacked every base and
post in Alaska for used machin
ery, spare parts and other needed
material. The only money avail
able was the small surplus from
several other completed projects.
Work went ahead. Five men
were ferried by helicopter to the
site of the new, lofty base, given
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Police Hope Brutally
Beaten Child Will Name
Thief and Murderer
CHESTER, Calif., (>P)—Author
ities today hoped a bloodstained
lead pipe and a brutally beaten
little girl would help them find
the robber who .beat a grocer and
three children to death near here
Friday.
“I’m banking a lot on .he
child will tell us,” Sheriff M. H.
Schooler said. “She’s a bright lit
tle girl, way beyond her years.”
Young, a grocer, had taken the
children to Westwood on his
weekly trip to withdraw money
from the bank for Saturday’s big
check-cashing business.
Some $7,100 Young withdrew is
missing. Police said the slayer
must have known this routine and
felt it necessary to bludgeon the
children because they presumably
recognized him.
Sondra was placed under guard
at the hospital, officers said, on
the theory ithe killer might try
to remove her as a witness.