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VOL,. LIV No. 127 ~ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1952 Per Copy—15c
CAA To Study II
Applications For
Alaska-US Service!
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, (/P) — N e vv
scheduled air service between the
United States and Alaska is pro
posed in at Idast four of the 11
applications which the Civil Aero
nautics has set for a pre-hearing
conference here Nov. 17.
The board order setting the pre
hearing conference said it is con
templated that all 11 applications
will be consolidated into a single
hearing.
One of the applications datc3
back more than five years; an
other was filed in 1949.
The oldest is that of the Alaska
Transportation Co., which pres
ently operates a ship service be
tween Seattle and the Territory.
First filed May 7, 1947, the appli
cation was later amended to pro
pose service on four routes.
The company, which says ap
proval would permit it to coordin
ate both air and sea service to
the benefit of the territory, pi'o
poses to fly scheduled service on
four routes originating in Port
land and Seattle-Tacoma and fly
ing to Annette - Ketchikan in
Alaska.
Air Transport Associates, Inc.,
currently operating as a non-sch
eduled carrier between Seattle
and Alaska points, proposes sched
uled service from Seattle to Fair
banks via Annette Island, Yaku
tat, Cordova, Anchorage, Homer,
Kodiak and Naknek.
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Epidemic Will Bar
2d Scout Battalion
From Encampmerft
JUNEAU, (/P>—'The -diphtheria
epidemic in villages of the Kus
kokwim and lower Yukon River
areas resulted Thursday in can
cellation of participation by the
Second Scout Battalion in the Al
aska National Guard’s annual en
campment.
Col. Larry Johnson, the adju
tant general of Alaska, issued the
order which will keep the battal
ion from the encampment at Fort
Richardson November 9-23.
Many cases of illness and some
deaths have been reported in over
20 villages in the affected area.
Members of the battalion are
mostly Eskimos who live by fish
ing and trapping and other out
door work. Some had cut short
their summer jabs to prepare for
the encampment, Colonel John
son said.
For some of the scouts, the trip
to Fort Richardson would be their
first visit to a large military post.
The colhnel said it was hoped a
second encampment might be held
later at Bethel, where the battal
ion headquarters are located.
Attending the encampment will
be men of the First Scout Battal
ion from the Arctic, Nome to
Point Barrow area; the 207th In
fantry Battalion of the railbelt,
and the 208th Infantry Battalion
of Southeastern Alaska.
U.N. Aide Admits To
Communist Activity In
1936 Against Hitler
NEW YORK, (/P)—David Zab-.
lodowsky, United Nations editor
ial aide, admitted Friday he had
taken part in Communist under
ground activities in 1938.
But he told a U.S. Senate In
ternal Security subcommittee
hearing that he is not and never
has been a member of the Com
munist party.
Whittaker Chambers, admitted
courier for a pre-war Soviet spy
ring, linked Zablodowskv to the
pre-war Communist underground
in testimony before the subcom
mittee Thursday.
Zablodowskv testified he knew
Chambers as a Communist and
said he was “passed on” from T,
Peters to Chambers.
Peters was head of the under
ground in the American Com
munist party in the late 1930s,
Chambers has said.
Asked by Sen. James O. East
land iD-Miss) whether he knew
Peters in the underground, Zab
lodowsky replied:
“Yes, in the underground work
ing against Germany, against Hit
ler. It was precisely in that con
nection I was asked if I would
help in some secret work against
Hitler.”
Argument Over Script
Keeps Sen. McCarthy
Off Seattle TV Station
SEATTLE, (/P) — An argument
over the right of a television sta
tion to censor his script kept Sen.
ator McCarthy (R-Wisl off the air
here last night in a tempestuous
windup of a rou^i visit to this
state.
The senator, scheduled to make
a 15-minute telecast over KING
TV, was asked to delete two para
graphs from his text which re
ferred to two staff members of
columnist Drew Pearson.
He refused on the grounds the
station had no right to censor a
paid political speech. He was told
he would have to agree or he
could not go on the air. Station
officials said they told McCarthy
he could substitute two other
paragraphs or could give the bal
ance of his remarks.
Neither would yield and when
broadcast time came, they were
still arguing. The station then an
nounced the telecast was cancel
ed for reasons beyond its control.
KING officials and McCarthy
then got into an argument over
whether he or the station had
canceled the speech. It never was
resolved and the senator left 45
minutes later to catch a plane
back to Chicago.
ALASKANS LISTED AS
WOUNDED IN KOREA
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Three
men whose next of kin are Alaska
residents were listed today by the
Defense Department among the
Korean war wounded.
They were: Marine Pfc. Jess C.
Casey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
M. Casey, Wrangell.
Marine Cpl. Leonard B. Davis
son, brother of Elmer Davisson,
Craig.
Donald Allen, Navy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Chester F. Allen, Alaska
Native Service.
Stirring Ceremony
At Naturalization
Aetion Dist. Court
In a very impressive ceremony
Wednesday afternoon in the U.S.
District Court, Emil Backlund and
Louis Rotman took the oath of
of allegience and were presented
their naturalization papers, their
names having been presented to
the court by Raymond Brink, of
ficer of the Naturalization and
Immigration Department.
Judge Earl Cooper opened the
ceremony with an invocation by
Rev. Reeves Havens, who stated
that “this country was founded
with faith in God.”
Colors were presented by four
members of the American Legion,
Dan Jones, Maurice Kelliher,
Paul Dryden and Clyde Godsbe.
Then the Pledge of Allegiance was
given in unison.
The fifth and sixth grades of
Nome School under the direction
of the music instructor, Mrs.
Kearns, sang “America the Beau
tiful” from the jury box.
The American Creed was read
by the district attorney, after
which Judge Cooper spoke to the
new Americans.
He reminded them that they
were now adopted sons of the
United States of America and
with their privileges as free men
they had many responsibilities.
He said: “Most men are not
afraid to fight for their adopted
country but too often they neg
lect the privilege of going to the
polls and voting.” He stressed the
fact that voting was not only a
privilege but a duty and that
every citizen should study the
candidates tot office and vote in
telligently.
Judge Cooper summed up his
remarks to the new citizens by
saying that if they would abide by
the Golden Rule they could not
stray far from the path of democ
racy.
Cost-of-living Index
Drops .2 of 1 pet.,
1st Decline 6 Mos.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The gov
ernment Friday reported a drop
in the cost of living for the first
time in six months.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
announced that its index — the
measuring rod for the government
—declined two tenths of one per
cent between August 15 and
September 15.
There had been a steady climb
for the previous six months.
The BLS attributed the efrop to
lower prices for food, down one
per cent in the month.
The decline in food prices was
offset in part by increases for all
other major groups of living cost
items.
BLS pegged the new index at
190.8 per cent of the 1935-1939
base period, down from the Aug.
record high of 191.1.
Friday’s index measures the re
tail price of food, shelter, cloth
ing, medical care and scores of
other goods and services bought
by moderate income urban fam
ilies on Sept. 15.
McCarthy Denies Abusing
Franking Privilege. Invites
Investigation of Oihers Too
PORTLAND, Ore., 1/P) — Sen
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) said
here Wednesday night that he
welcomed investigation of a com
plaint that he abused his frank
ing privilege.
He denied that he has ever mis
used the franking privilege, which ;
allows Congressmen to send offi
cial business letters through the
mail without stamps.
I A Post Office Department
spokesman said in Washington,
D.C., that the complaint against
McCarthy came from “someone
who apparently received through
the mails something which they
believed should not have been
franked.”
McCarthy, who is stumping the
West in behalf of the Republican
ticket, said that the investigation
I should cover others, too.
“I know of several people who
do misuse this privilege. This is
particularly true of people who
use it for campaigning,” he said,
but without mentioning names.
In The Korean War . . .
SEOUL, (/P) — American troops
late Friday stormed the last Red
held knob on barren Triahgle hill.
They were stopped 85 yards
from the top of Pike’s Peak when
the Chinese Reds unleashed a hail
of mortar and small- arms fire.
The U.S. troops clawed 50 yards
further before pulling back to
their original positions at 7 p.m.
On nearby Sniper ridge, bone
weary South Koreans gave up
their “rat-hunt” for Chinese in a
maze of underground pasageways
on the hill’s northern tip.
Lt. Gen. Chun II Kwon, com
mander of the ROK Second Divi
sion, said “Those Chinamen never
stop digging .We have to dig them
out ourselves like hunting rats.”
American and Ethiopian troops
of the U.S. Seventh Division chop
ped to bits a force of 500 Reds
who attacked Triangle hill last
night and this morning.
Twenty miles to the west, South
Koreans and Chinese hugged op
posite slopes of Iron Horse moun
tain while thunderous artillery
barrages from both sides churned
the crest into a deadly no-man’s
land.
Albuquerque Gardens
Blooming For Second
Time This Season
ALBUQUERQUE, (/Fy—Puzzled
Albuquerque gardeners find it’s
springtime again—apparently the
product of a warming sun which
counteracts near freezing tem
peratures each night.
First, Mrs. Carl E. Larson re
ported her lilac bushes are bloom
ing again for the second time this
year. Then Mrs. E.J. Allen proud
ly announced her poppies, after
blossoming all spring and sum
mer, are putting on new buds and
doing it some more.
Now Mrs. J. A. Major advises
that not only the lilacs but an
apple tree in her yard as well
are covered with unseasonable
blooms. And Mrs. M. R. Tartag
lia says, shucks, her lilacs are
perfuming the neighborhood for
the second straight fall.
Stevenson And
Ike Exchange
Scathing Attacks
(By the Associated Press)
Gov. Adlai Stevenson has tossed
the Alger Hiss case in Republican
laps with by all odds his most
scathing attack of the campaign
against Gen. Eisenhower.
The Democratic presidential
nominee in a Cleveland speech
Thursday night replied to GOP
charges he had shown bad judg
ment by making a character testi
mony in the Hiss case by saying
Eisenhower and his top foreign
affairs adviser “demonstrated a
continued personal faith in Alger
Hiss.”
Eisenhower, the GOP candidate
for the White House, in turn
loosed his most slashing attack to
date against Stevenson, saying in
a Buffalo address his opponent had
been taken over “body, boots and
britches” by the Truman admin
istration.
President Truman, ending one
whistle-stop campaign and ready
ing for another, said in McKees
port, Pa. that Eisenhower does
n’t know any more about politics
than a pig knows about Sunday,”
and criticized Nixon for “person
al slander.”
Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio turned
his guns again on Truman, say
ing the president is trying to create
a “sort of divine right of kings”
in American politics, with Steven
son as his “true disciple.”
All candidates had a jam-pack
ed schedule Friday except Sen.
John J. Sparkman, Democratic
vice-presidential candidate who
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GOP Alaska Win :
Seen As Greatest
In Over 20 Years
SEATTLE, (JP) — Washington
State’s Republican chairman has
wired the party’s national chair
man that Alaska’s election results
represented “the Republican Par
ty’s greatest victory in Alaska
in more than 20 years.
R. Mort Frayn told National
Chairman Arthur E. Summerfield
that “if, as Democrats had long
claimed, ‘As Alaska goes, so goes
the nation,’ a Republican victory
is assured Nov. 4”
Frayn said the 20 or 21 Repub
licans elected to the 24-member
Territorial House of Representa
tives will be sufficient to override
a governor’s veto and to suspend
the rules on legislation.
“This is the first time the Re
publicans will be in control of
both houses of the legislature
since 1931,” Frayn told Summer
field. “It marks the first decis
ively Republican showing since
the mid-1920s.”
Governor Gruening, a Demo
crat, expressed a conflicting the
ory last weekend on the “weather
vane” significance of the election.
He contended the reelection of
the Democratic congressional del
egate, E. L. Bartlett, was the sig
nificant result as far as the “As
Alaska goes” axiom is concerned.