The War in Korea
Saturday
SEOUL, C5*) — Allied Sabre jets
Saturday short down five Commu
nist Migs and damaged seven
others in the skies over North
Korea.
Two American pilots downed
their tenth Migs and ’ became
double aces during the furious air
battles.
On the ground, there were only
sporadic clashes between mud
caked soldiers as steady rain
soaked the 155-mile battlefromt
until near dawn.
Twenty American Superforts
blasted Red troop and supply cen
ters in North Korea during dark
ness. Six of them, flying north
of Pyongyang, dropped bombs
around 230 buildings and supply
stacks at Sinni on the main rail
, -and road network from Man
churia south to the front.
McCarthy Charges Pulles
Of Giving “False Report”
Regarding Charles Bohlen
WASHINGTON, UR — Sen. Mc
Carthy (R-Wisi accused Secretary
of State Dulles Saturday of giving
an “untrue” report of the position
of the department’s security offi
cer on the nomination of Charles
E. Bohlen to be ambassador to
Moscow.
McCarthy said it had been “def
initely established” that R. W.
Scott McLeod, the State Depart
ment’s security chief, refused to
clear Bohlen for the post after
seeing his FBI report.
“So what Dulles said yesterday
was untrue,” McCarthy told re
porters after a meeting oi his
Senate investigations subcommit
tee at which McLeod did not ap
pear.
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Chinese Reds Sieze
U.S. Sailing Boat
HONG KONG, UP) —A 40-foot
sailing boat flying the American
flag and carrying two U.S. news
and radio correspondents and five
others was captured Saturday by
a Chinese Communist armed ves
sel between Hong Kong and
Macau, the Royal Naval Observa
tory said Friday night.
The craft was towed toward
Communist controlled Lapsamai
Island, 16 miles west of Hong
Kong, the navy reported.
The craft was believed to be
the yacht Kert, owned by U.S.
newspaper and radio correspon
dent Richard Applegate of Med
ford, Oregon.
Applegate, accompanied by In
ternational News Service Corres
pondent Don Dixon left Hong
Kong Saturday morning on a pro
jected one-day sail to Macau.
They planned to pick up Inter
national News Photo Service Pho
tographer David Cicero at Macau
for the return trip.
Applegate came to Hong Kong
recently after covering the war
in Korea for sveral months for
the United Press. He resigned
from the news agency in Tokyo
and has been representing the
National Broadcasting Co. here.
CARRYING LUNCH TOO FAR
ST. LOUIS, UP)—A man carrying
his lunch in a paper bag walked
into a restaurant, sat down at a
table and ordered coffe. After the
coffee was served he complained
it didn’t have enough cream in it.
While eating his lunch he spill
ed coffee and cottage cheese on
the tablecloth. Then he put the
unconsumed part of his lunch
back in the bag and told the
proprietor to put it in the icebox
and he would return tomorrow
to finish it.
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AH 35 Passengers Killed
In Flaming Crash of Plane
In California Farmland
OAKLAND, Calif., Oft—An in
vestigation Saturday was launched
into the flaming crash of a four
engined plane Friday night which
claimed the lives of 35 passengers
and crewmen.
The Transocean Air Lines cargo
plane, operated on lease from the
Air Force, plummeted into a Soggy
cabbage field at Decoto, 20 miles
south of here, minutes after clear
ing for a landing at Oakland Air
port.
Alameda County sheriff, Capt.
Richard E. Condon, on the crash
scene, confirmed that there were
no survivors.
All passengers were Air Force
personnel bound for the Far East.
RFC To Die June 1954
WASHINGTON, OT — President
Eisenhower and GOP congression
al leaders Monday agreed to let
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration die June 30, 1954.
That is the date the govern
ment’s big lending agency is due
to go out of business under pre
sent law. Some congressmen want
the RFC to be abolished at the
end of this year.
Congressional leaders said
liquidation of the agency already
is under way.
The decision was announced by
House speaker Martin (R-Mass)
after the congressional leaders’
regular Monday morning confer
ence with the President.
Longfellow, Forgive Us
(From the “Office Economist”)
Half way twixt 8:30 and noontime,
With ideas beginning to flower*
Comes a pause in the day’s occu
pation,
That is known as the coffee hour.
The telephones ring, unanswered,
While business markes time on
the shelf.
But don’t expect help from a Big
Shot,
He’ll be out drinking coffee
himself.
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Mother Drowns Two
Young Children to Save
Them From Privation
JUNEAU, Iff) — A’mother who
said she drowned two of her chil
dren to save them from privation
was arraigned on a first degree
murder charge Friday.
Police Chief Bemie Hulk said
the woman, Mrs. Betty Ritter, 31,
signed a confession she wheeled
the children to the waterfront in
a baby carriage and tossed them
off a dock.
The victims were Beverly Ann,
18 imonths, and Earl, one month
old. Two older children were not
harmed.
The police chief said she told
of planning to kill the children be
cause “there never was enough
money, never enough food.”
U.S. Commissioner Gordon Gray
said he had urged the woman to
permit adoption of her children
prior to her marriage a year ago
to Russell Ritter, a taxicab driver,
but that she never would agree
to give up more than one. Before
the marriage to Ritter she was on
welfare rolls.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Mrs. A. E.
Braun. From Unalakleet: Mrs. M.
Joule, P. Joule.
To Anchorage: Dan Wright, Ed
Loomis, Jim Guion, Ludwig Poff.
To Unalakleet Ernie Ball.
BERLIN, (J*)—A report reached
Berlin from the Soviet zone Sat
urday that the jet fighters which
shot down a British bomber on
Mar. 12 were piloted by Germans.
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Worthy Matron
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Secretary
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
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