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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 8 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1953 , Per Copy—15^
No Immediate
General Tax
Reduction Seen
WASHINGTON, (^—George M.
Humphrey, who is to be Secretary
of the Treasury in the Eisenhower
administration, said today he is
afraid a general tax reduction
cannot be made “in the immediate
future.”
The Cleveland, Ohio industrial
ist told the Senate Finance Com
mittee he wants to see taxes,cut
as soon as possible, however, and
one of his first jobs as secretary
will be to order to complete study
of the tax laws.
"I think the present tax burden
is heavier than any country can
stand over a considerable period,”'
he declared.
•‘Our first job should be to
achieve a balanced budget,”
Humphrey testified.
Humphrey also said the present
excess profits tax “is a bad law”
. and “not in the best interests of
the co'untry.”
He said he hoped his depart
ment could come up “with some
better means than the excess pro
fits tax” to get needed revenues.
ALLIED PLANES STRIKE
AFTER SAVAGE FIGHTS BY
U.N. INFANTRY IN KOREA
• SEOUL, Cff)—U.S. Patton tanks
crunched over frozen rice paddies
on the central front today and
blasted Red bunkers and trenches
in the Iron Triangle sector for
the fourth straight day.
Swift Allied fighter - bombers
swooped down in bombing and
strafing attacks on Communist po
sitions north of the Punchbowl on
tre rugged eastern front.
U. S. Sabre jets roared deep
into North Korea and tangled
twice with Red MIG-15s.
Marine planes attacked Red po
sitions on the western front, and
Shooting Stars and Australian
Meteors attacked rail lines behind
the Communist lines near the
west coast.
The air strikes came after a
series of sharp, savage infantry
fights that flared in the frigid
pre-dawn darkness on the eastern
end of the battle line.
Weeks OK'd for Commerce Secy.
WASHINGTON, UH — The Sen
ate Commerce Committee gave
swift and unanimous approval to
day to the nomination of Sinclair
Weeks as Secretary of Commerce
in the Eisenhower administration.
Weeks, a Boston industrialist,
testified at a 10-minute committee
hearing. “I promise to do an hon
est job,” he told the committee.
And, he said, “I don’t know of
anything incompatible” between
his stock and industrial interests
and his new job.
The 59-year-cld Weeks is a for
mer member of the Senate.
McKay, Critical of Public
Power Program, Favors
Statehood for Territories
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The man
who will be Secretary of the In
terior in the Eisenhower cabinet
has told a Senate committee he
believes privately owned electric
utilities should have a bigger
share of the power business.
Douglas McKay, who' resigned
as governor of Oregon to accept
the cabinet post, proposed chang
es in the government’s public
power \ program last week in
closed-door testimony before the
Senate Interior Committee. The
committee later unanimously rec
ommended Senate confirmation of
the appointment.
A transcript, released Saturday
by Sen. Butler, chairman of the
15-member group, showed McKay
sharply criticized power policies
set up under “New Deal” admin
istration and continued under the
“Fair Deal.”
The incoming Secretary of the
Interior also testified he believes
Hawaii should be admitted as a
state immediately. Alaska also is
entitled to statehood, he added,
but “it is a matter for the Con
gress to decide as to' the proper
bill.”
Rioting Convicts
Defy Officials In
Pennsylvania Pen
PITTSBURGH, UP) — Rioting
convicts 1,000 strong who set fire
and wreaked havoc to big Western
State Penitentiary today defied
worried officials backed by the
armed might of Pennsylvania.
The cold and hungry convicts
held four guards hostage — five
were captured originally — and
angrily shouted for prison re
forms.
1 They smashed windows and
taunted police who stood with
rifles and submachine guns ready
to mow down any prisoner break
ing from cell blocks.
Col. C. M. Wilhelm, state police
commissioner, arrived from Har
risburg to direct 72 crack state
troopers who moved into the pri
son yard. More than 400 other
policemen ringed the prison and
a police cruiser in the nearby
Ohio River trained its machine
guns on the penitentiary.
Fire Chief Stephen Adley or
dered several big pumpers to the
prison so water pressure could be
increased if officials decide to
combat the convicts with fire
hoses.
Despite the ferocity of the riot
which broke out early last night,
not a shot was fired and not a
prisoner escaped in the nation’s
first prison uprising of 1953.
The convicts roamed through
big cell blocks at will. After over
powering guards they unlocked
individual cells in the blocks.
Inauguration News
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON, UP) — Joyous
Republicans started a final round
of pre-inaugural celebration to
day in anticipation if the solemn
moment when Dwight D. Eisen
hower will be sworn in as the
34th President of the United
States.
From every section of the na
tion they came—top dignitaries of
the incoming administration,
great names of business and in
dustry, celebrities of Hollywood
and Broadway, cheerful throngs
of just plain Americans who flood
ed into the flag-decked capital for
tomorrow’s historic event.
President -elect Eisenhower
himself came in by special train
from New York last night, with
a jubilant wave and a quick flash
of his famous smile as he stepped
from the floodlit rear platform of
his private car.
Several hundred persons who
had gathered in front of Union
Station applauded as a sleek gray
closed car bearing the President
elect, his wife and close relatives
sped past, at the head of a' 15
car motorcade, on its way to the
Statler Hotel.
There in the pastel - decorated
Presidential Suite (three bed
rooms, four baths, living room,
parlor, entrance foyer) Eisenhow
er planned to remain until time of
departure for the private service
in National Presbyterian Church
which will open tomorroow’s in
auguration program.
Noon tomorrow will bring the
climax of the day Republicans
have dreamed of through 20 years
in the political wilderness.
Inauguration Schedule
WASHINGTON, OP) — Here is
the schedule of inaugural events:
(Times are Eastern Standard^
Today—
8 p.m. Festival of entertain
ment, featuring stage and screen
stars and name bands, at Uline
Arena.
10 p.m. Repeat performance of
festival at Capital Theater.
Tuesday—
9:30 a.m. Private services at
National Presbyterian Church for
President - elect Eisenhower, in
coming cabinet and families.
11:45 a.m. Formal inaguration
ceremonies begin at Capitol, in
cluding oath - taking by Eisen
hower and Vice president - elect
Nixon and Eisenhower’s inaugu
ral address.
1:30 p.m. Parade leaves Cap
itol for White House.
10 p.m.- Balls'at National Guard
Armory and Georgetown Univer
sity auditorium.
Committee Approves Brownell
WASHINGTON, OR —The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee unani
mously approved today President
elect Eisenhower’s selection of
Herbert Brownell Jr., as Attorney
General.
Flood Waters Rage
Through Oregon and
California Coastal Plains
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Relent
less flood waters raged through
the California - Oregon co'astal
plains today, cutting a wide swath
of destruction as battered com
munities , faced their third con
secutive day of storms.
i More than 1,000 people were
j driven from their homes over the
! weekend. Two days of torrential
rain caused at least 10 deaths,
blocked highways and railroad
tracks and disrupted communica
tions.
Evacuation of Klamath, Calif.
— midway between Eureka and
Crescent City — was ordered. Its
500 residents fled to high ground
as the swollen Klamath River
rushed five feet deep through
the streets. :
A locomotive of a Northwestern
Pacific Railroad work train was
swept into the Eel River near
Scotia Bluffs, Calif., by a huge
slide Saturday night. Three of the
four crew members were missing
and presumed dead.
Grant’s Pass, Ore., is isolated.
The nearby Rogue River has risen
to 24 feet. The flood stage is 17
feet. Both highways 199 and 99
running into the town have been
blocked. Seven feet of water have
inundated Highway 99.
j Propose 25 pet.
Exemption For
Alaska Incomes
JUNEAU, UP)—Directors of the
All - Alaska Chamber of Com
merce have proposed a blanket 25
per cent exemption for Alaska in
dividuals and businesses on all
income earned in the territory.
Another resolution opposed the
McCarran Act insofar as it re
quires screening of Alaskans trav
eling to the States. Others urged
Congress to investigate maritime
disputes and to enact legislation
assuring uninterrupted shipping
to and from Alaska, and endorsed
the proposed aluminum plant
project at Skagway.
Directors voted to levy $1.50 a
year on each member of each
Chamber of Commerce and to
charge $25 a year for associate
memberships for Alaskans and
$100 for outsiders. Associate
members may attend meeting but
cannot vote. The by-laws and con
stitution of the All-Alaska group
will be sent to each member
chamber for approval.
TRANSIT STRIKE ENDS
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — Street
car, bus and subway - elevated
train service was back to normal
Monday in the nation’s third larg
est city after the end of a four
day strike of 9,500 CIO transit
workers.
Magnuson Urges
Construction Coast
Highway to Alaska
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP) —Construc
tion of a new highway to Alaska
west of the. Rocky Mountains has
been urged by Sen. Magnuson of
Washington.
Such a route, coupled with ac
ces roads or cut-offs to Southeast
Alaska ports, would servb as a
stimulus for a permanent news
print industry and benefit pro
jected territorial aluminum pro
duction, he said.
The senator said in a statement
that he is preparing legislation to
create an Alaska International
Rail and Highway Commission • to
select the most direct and econ
omical route for a highway and
railroad or either.
He said lack of such facilities
west of the Rocky Mountains is .
“discriminatory” against Pacific
Coast states, “deprives them of
natural and historic markets, and
is a retardant to economic devel
opment and the national defense.”
Magnuson recalled he headed a
similar commission — the Alaska
International Highway Commis
sion — which recommended a
highway to Alaska along the
western or trench route. When the
time came to build the highway,
however, an inland route east of
the Rockies was selected.
Subsequent engineering studies
have demonstrated, he said, that
the trench route west of the
mountains is a logical route from
the standpoint of costs, distance
and terrain. Army engineers fa
vored such a route in 1942, Mag
nuson declared, while surveying
for a possible railroad to Alaska.
Lucille Ball Bears Baby Boy
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—1The Lucille
Ball baby, awaited by her tele
vision fans throughout the nation,
arrived Monday. It’s a boy.
The boy weighed 8 pounds, 9
ounces and was named Desiderio
Alberto Arnaz IV.
A spokesman for the couple of
the “I Love Lucy” TV show said
mother and baby are in “excel
lent condition.”
Ike’s Inner Man
To Be Fortified
WASHINGTON — Dwight D.
Eisenhower should be well forti
fied by his first meal as Presi
dent.
The congressional inaugural
committee has announced the
menu for the lunch following
Eisenhower’s inauguration will
consist of shrimp cocktail, olives
and radishes, baked ham, cream
ed chicken, potato puffs, cran
berry jelly, watermelon pickles,
green salad, hot rolls and biscuits,
strawberry and chocolate sundaes
and coffee.
Inaugural Ball at Pioneer Hall
Dancing & Cards 9 to 12 TAMnDDHTST I Admission
Peppy Dance Orchestra ^ vluv/KIvU W ■ $1.00