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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 152 NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1952 Per Copy—15#
Eisenhower Feels That Businessmen
Heading Armed Services Will Assure
Savings Without Endangering Defense
21 Arrested In
Cleanup of Crime
On NY Waterfront
NEW YORK, {&)—Twenty-one
persons were arrested today as
the racket-probing Kings County
grand jury came to grips with
crime on the New York water
front.
All were arrested on sealed in
dictments which the grand jury
handed up to County Judge Sam
uel S- Leibowitz last Friday.
Thirty members of the District
Attorney’s rackets squad hur
ried through the rain - swept
streets of Brooklyn before dawn
with warrants, routing the ac
cused out of bed.
The grand jury, one of the most
famous in the court annals of
Brooklyn, is the same which in
dicted kingpin bookmaker Harry
Gross and led to one of the big
gest shakeups in the history of
the New York Police Department.
Today’s arrests were the latest
in a developing manifold prose
cution of criminals on the New
York waterfront. The way was
charted by testimony before the
New York State Crime Commis
sion in its probe of rackets which
cost the port’s seven billion dollar
a year shipping industry an esti
mated 350 millions annually.
Manhattan District Attorney
Frank S. Hogan sailed into the
waterfronts racket tempest yes
terday with his announcement of ,
the arrest on extortion charges of ]
Michael Clemente, a 44-year-old '
ex - convict official of the AFL
International Longshoremen’s As- j
sociation and often described as
the “lord” of downtown Manhat
tan docks.
—
American Businessman
Convicted of Piracy
In Tangier, Morocco
TANGIER, International Zone,
Morocco, (JP) — Sidney H. Paley,
. 32, a Jersey City, NJ., man who
manufactures nylon panties here,
was convicted erf piracy, Satur
day. A consular court found him
guilty of planning and helping to
hi-jack $100,000 worth of cigarets
from a Dutch ship on the high
3eas.
The presiding judge, Mflton
Helmick, sentenced Paley to three
years imprisonment. Paley was
the first American tried abroad
on such charges and it was the
Barbary Coast’s first reported
postwar case of piracy.
NEW YORK. (JP) — President
elect Eisenhower is counting on
the civilian team of industrialists
and businessmen who will head
the armed services in his admin
istration to save the taxpayers
money without jeopardizing na
tional defense.
Eisenhower reportedly placed
much emphasis on a need for
what one aide called “sound Am
erican business sense” in his now
completed search for a defense
high command to direct the
spending of billions of dollars.
In his first step to place men
with business experience in the
Defense Department Eisenhower
last month chose Charles E. Wil
son, veteran president of General
Motors, as Secretary of Defense
to- head the civilian team.
Eisenhower wanted not only a
man who knew production but
one schooled in the ways of get
ting full value out of every dol
lar. He and Wilson locked for
experienced businessmen to head
the Army, Navy and Air Force
departments. Friday Eisenhower
announced the selection of:
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 53,
of South Plainfield, N.J., as Sec
retary of the Army. He is a textile
executive and also is chairman of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York. He -also served as a colonel
in the Quartermaster General’s
office during World War II.
Robert Bernerd Anderson, 42,
of Vernon, Texas, as Secretary of
the Navy. A Democrat, he is man
ager of a half-million acre ranch,
one of the largest in Texas. He
also is chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Harold E. Talbott, 64, of New
York, as Secretary of the Air
Force. He is a member of the
Chrysler Corp. finance commit
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Sabres Blast Three MIGs
SEOUL, VP) — U.S. Sabre jet
pilots blasted three Communist
MIG-15s from North Korean
skies in a series of furious air bat
tles near the Yalu River Mon
day, the U.S. Fifth Air Force re
ported.
One MIG was shot down in a
twisting dogfight between two
Sabres and two MIGs that raged
from 41,000 feet down to 23,000.
Two other Red jets were down
ed in a battle between six Sabres
and eight MIGs.
The frozen ground front re
mained quiet except for a few
light jabs by Chinese Reds on
the central front.
Temperatures dropped to a
bone-chilling 5 degrees.
Asks New Congress
Investigate Red
Atrocities in Korea
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A con
gressional committee recom
mended today that Soviet Russia
be arraigned before the Interna
tional Court on charges of mur
dering 15,000 Poles during World
War II in the Katyn Forest mas
sacre.
In a report to the House, a
special committee which investi
gated the killings in eastern Rus
sia said also that the' incoming
Congress should undertake an im
mediate investigation of Com
munist atrocities against United
Nations troops in Korea.
Both Russia and Nazi Germany
have accused each other of the
mass murders sometime after
1940. Graves containing the bodies
of the Polish victims were dis
covered in the Katyn Forest near
Smolensky by German troops in
1943.
The committee said evidence
taken in hearings in Washington
and abroad pointed conclusively
to Russian guilt.
“Communist tactics being used
in Korea are identical to those'
followed at Katyn," the report
said.
“Thus this committee believes
that Congress should undertake
an immediate investigation of the
Korean war atrocities in order
that the evidence can be collected
and the truth revealed to the Am
erican people and the free peo
ples of the world.”
Jury Discounts Defense,
Convicts Ex'Army Capt.
For Shooting Cab Driver
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — A
war - decorated Army captain
fired point blank at a taxicab
driver here last Jan. 10—but the
bullet lodged in a Japanese cig
aret lighter, saving the cabbie’s
life.
The captain, David Gorgol, was
tried for armed robbery and as
sault. He based his defense on a
plea that he blacked crut during
epileptic seizures, brought on by
head injuries during World War
II.
Friday night a Superior Court
jury, whose members later ex
plained they discounted the de
fense, convicted the captain.
Thirty minutes later, he slumped
rigid and unconscious to the floor.
The trial judge ordered him
rushed to Letterman Army hos
pital.
Convids Ecape from Walla Walla
WALLA WALLA, f/P) — Eight
inmates of the Washington State
Penitentiary made a successful
break for freedom today by dig
ging a tunnel under the power
house and the east wall.
Demands Made
To Ground C-124s,
Biggest U.S. Plane
MOSES LAKE, Wash., </P) —
Military experts continued today
to comb wreckage and minds in
an attempt to sol\^e the riddle of
why 86 men were killed here
Saturday in history’s worst air
plane crash.
And civilian officials, in and
out of government circles, began
a concerted demand for investiga
tions and action which will re
duce the number of military
plane accidents.
Saturday’s crash, which killed
all but 30 of the men aboard the
U.S. military’s biggest airplane,
was the tenth in a recent series
which has snuffed out more than
300 lives.
Calls began immediately for
grounding of military aircraft
while safety precautions and
plane checks are taken. Criticism
arose from Congress, with de
mands voiced that the appalling
toll be stopped.
At Larson Air Force Base,
starting point of the il-fated flight
the grim and tedious job of identi
fying the dead continued. The
process was slowed by the diffi
culty of identifying the victims,
many of whom were mangled and
burned beyond recognition.
The 116 men in the giant twin
decked plane was not unusual,
Air Force officials said. They told
of tests in which 160 men with
100 packs have flown in C-124s
without overloading.
But Rep. Edith N. Rogers {R
Mass) asked the Air Force to
ground the transports until the
accident causes can be deter
mined. Servicemen, she told Sec
retary Finletter, “Should not be
crowded into one large airplane
like cattle.” .
Crew of Crashed Jet Plane
Returned to Elmendorf
ANCHORAGE, (JP). — A jet
plane pilot and his radar ob
server who crash landed on Tutna
Lake 200 miles southwest of here
Friday, returned unhurt to El
mendorf Air Force base Saturday
night.
The pair, 2nd Lieut. Virgil D.
Laken, 24, of Byron, Minn., and
2nd Lieut. Richard W. Barber of
Canton, 111., were brought in by
ski-equipped planes.
They were forced to land when
their plane experienced trouble
while flying at 30,000 feet near
Tutna Lake. Search planes found
them Friday afternoon and they
were picked up Saturday.
Rescue workers said Loken had
landed his plane with a minimum
of damage. It was not knorwn
whether an attempt would be
made to recover the craft.
Eisenhower Said
To Favor Alaskan
To Be Governor
SEATTLE, ,(/P) — The Post-In
telligencer says Interior Secre
tary-designate Douglas McKay is
looking for an Alaskan to be the
next governor of Alaska because
that’s what General Eisenhower
wants.
“The general said he favors the
appointment of an Alaskan be
cause those people up there ought
to' have one of their own men.
The general is not pledge to nom
inate an Alaskan but he hopes
to,” McKay was quoted.
The P-I’s story said McKay’s
disclosure ended speculation that
the Alaskan governorship might
be handed out as a political plum
to some lame duck congressman.
“I am to make a recommenda
tion to the general but I have not
yet made up my mind,” McKay
said, then he discussed statehood.
“The governors always have
endorsed the idea of Alaska state
hood without considering the par
ticular bill in question. I under
stand that the Alaska statehood
bill as it exists now is considered
by some people to be inadequate
in that it does not grant enough
land to the new state.
“A new state has to be guaran
teed adequate natural resources
and development possibilities and
the details are up to Congress.”
Air Force C-47 With One
Dead Engine Lands
Safely at Bellingham
BELLINGHAM, (/P) — An Air
Force transport returning from
Alaska with 18 passengers and a
four - man crew made a forced
landing at Bellingham airport
Saturday after one of its two
engines quit.
Crewmen said the landing was
“normal” although the C-47 from
Eileson Air Force base at Fair
banks had to circle the field sev
eral times to build up hydraulic
pressure to lower - the landing
gear.
The plane was enroute to Mc
Chord Air Force base near Ta
coma. All aboard except two
crewmen left as guards completed
the trip by bus.
Mattress Commercial Puts
Radio Announcer To Sleep
SAN MATEO, Calif., (ff)—Disc
jockey Jerry Leeds, whose loud
snoring on his KVSM Sunday
Rise and Shine show prompted
listeners to call the sheriff to
awaken him, explained it all
i Monday:
“I’d been reading this mattress
commercial. I’d read it three or
four times and . .
He will be at the Nome Hardware Store Toyland at 2 p.m. Tomorrow (Tuesday) Afternoon