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VOL. LIV No. 136 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1952 Per Copy—15^
Airlines and Govt.
Discuss Polar Air
Routes to Europe
WASHINGTON, UP) — The air
lines and the federal government
started talks this week about
North Polar air routes to Europe
and who should fly them.
Representatives of the Air
Transport Association — the air
lines’ organization — and several
individual airlines including Pan
American and Western, met with
members of the CAB.
Much in the foreground of the
discussions are the plans of Scan
dinavian Airlines System <SAS>.
SAS plans to ferry one of its
new DC-6B airplanes next week
from the factory at Santa Monica,
Calif., by way of Canada and
Thule, Greenland, to Scandinavia, j
A second plane is to be similarly
ferried later this year.
The airline hopes with these
two trips to “prove” a new route
from the U.S. West Coast to north
ern Europe some 10 hours shorter
than the existing route by way of
New York City.
Denmark, Norway and Sweden
have filed separate notes within
the past six weeks asking the
State Department for consulta
tions on the amendment of exist
ing bi-lateral air transport agree
ments. The State Department
plans to reply .that it will be
| happy to take part in such con
sultations.
Before the meetings, however,
„ the State Department and the
CAB want to sound out the plans
lowing are the only requests for
polar routes on file, with the CAB:
1. Alaska Airlines: A proposal
filed in October 1951, for a route
from Fairbanks to Paris by way
of Oslo and London.
2. Wien Alaska Airlines: A pro
posal filed early this year for a
route from Fairbanks to Oslo,
Stockholm, Copenhagen, London,
Paris and Berlin.
and wishes o'f U.S. airlines re
garding polar travel.
Pan American already has au
thority to operate a route from
the United States to Moscow. For
obvious reasons, this route never
has been actually established.
*s There also are reports that
Western and Northwest Airlines
are interested in the possibility
of extending their routes to the
north. Todate, however the fol
Senator Lodge Starts
Representing Eisenhower
With "the Administration
WASHINGTON, iJP) — Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge set up shop
today as President - elect Eisen
hower’s liaison man with the Tru
man administration and empha
sized that his!job is to gather in
formation—not to' give it out.
The Massachusetts Republican,
working in shirt sleeves at his
desk in the Senate Office Build
ing, received reporters briefly.
“There is no prospect whatever
of any news out of me" until after
Eisenhower has come and gone,”
Lodge said. “Even after that it is
doubtful that I will have any
news to give out.”
Eisenhower is to come here
Tuesday for a conference with |
President Truman.
UN Legal Counsel
Leaps to Death
From 12th Floor
NEW YORK, (/P) — The death
plunge of United Nations counsel
Abraham H. Feller has touched
off a controversy between U.N.
Secretary-General Tgygve Lie
and the McCarran subcommittee
probing the loyalty of American
employes of the world organiza
tion.
The 47 - year - old Feller tore
himself from his wife’s arms yes
terday and leaped to death from
their 12th floor apartment.
Lie, who announced his resig
nation from his U.N. post Monday
said Feller killed himself because
of the strain of defending U. N.
employes “against indiscriminate
smears and exaggerated charges.”
A federal grand jury as well as
Sen. Pat McCarran’s Internal Se
curity subcommittee has been
looking into charges of subver
sive affiliations aimed at some
American members of the secre
tariat.
Robert Morris, counsel for the
Senate subcommittee, said Feller
himself was not a target of the
investigation. He termed Lie’s as
sertion “irresponsible.”
Feller was an $18,000-a-year
general counsel and principal di
rector of the U.N. legal depart'
ment since 1946. He was credited
with writing some of the most
important statements of Lie.
Associates said Feller had been
a close friend of Alger Hiss.
U.S. Labels Unfounded
ROK Charges Chinese
Are Using Gas Shells
SEOUL, (/P)—A U.S. chemical
warfare expert called unfounded
South Korean soldiers’ charges
that Chinese Reds used gas shells
against them on Sniper Ridge Fri
day.
Lt. Col. Harrison A. Markham
said after an investigation at the
front that one South Korean was
made ill by fumes of picric acid.
Such fumes are a by-product of
artillery shell explosions, particu
larly if the explosive powder is
old.
Meantime, counter - attacking
South Koreans and die-hard Chi
nese Communists were locked in
confused battle as darkness and
a blinding ground fog fell on
blood - soaked Pinpoint Hill Fri
day night.
It was the first time in the
month-long desperate battle for
the Kumhwa ridges that South
Korean shock troops had failed to
carry their objective in a day
light attack.
TAX REDUCTIONS UNLIKELY
BEFORE 1954, SAYS SENATOR
CLEVELAND, (/P) — Senator
Bridges (R-NH) ranking minority
member of the Senate Appropria
tions Committee, says tax reduc
tions are not likely before 1954.
In an interview Wednesday, he
said the new Republican Congress
should be able to balance the
budget next year, but tax cuts
will not come until the following
year.
Pickets Again
Halt Sailing of
Alaska S.S. Ship
SEATTLE, (IP)—Friday’s sched
uled sailing of the steamer Bara
no'f was cancelled by the Alaska
Steamship Co. as a waterfront tie
up involving AFL longshore fore
men spread to the company’s pier
here.
It is the second week in a row
that the line’s passenger ship sail
ing to Alaska has been cancelled.
The Denali was cancelled out a
week ago because AFL Sailors’
Union members refused to sign
on during their demonstration
against the Wage Stabilization
Board.
D. E. Skinner, Alaska Steam
general manager, wired Governor
Gruening’s office at Juneau for
help. The governor currently is
on a trip to the States.
Skinner said future sailings are
indefinite. “We urgently request
your immediate and active assist
ance in resolving this problem,”
the telegram said.
The Baranof was at Pier 42
with six other vesesls when pick
ets from the AFL - International
Longshoremen’s Association put
in an appearance Thursday.
The pickets were ordered as
part of the ILA’s attempt to force
employers to hire dock foremen
only through the ILA. The dis
pute is with the Independent
Ship & Dock Foremen’s Union of
Washington, recently organized by
a group of foremen who broke
with the ILA. The latter organiza
tion contends the move was de
signed to bring the foremen into
Harry Bridges’ Independent Long
shoremen and Warehousemen’s
Union.
Pet Cocker Spaniel Pup
Rides Seaplane Pontoon,
But Is Returned Safely
SEATTLE, (/P)—It was a nice
routine flight for pilot Roy Aitchi
son as he gunned his seaplane
along at 2,000 feet until he looked
out a window. Then he nearly
froze with fright.
What he saw was the Aitchi
son’s family pet cocker spaniel
pup, Curley, clinging desperately
to a pontoon. The dog’s tail was
toward the front and his fur was j
blowing like crazy.
Aitehison thought it was hope
less, he related here yesterday,
but he throttled the plane down
to 60 miles an hour, ^hen, mak
ing a slow, flat turn, he flew back
to nearby Lake Sammamish with
Curly still hanging on. Then, in
the wash of the landing, he feared
the dog would be lost, but the
plucky pup hung on. -
And then the tears of Bill, 4,
and Mrs. Aitehison, who had seen
the takeoff but couldn’t warn her
husband, turned to cheers, and
all joined in giving Curly a good
rubdown.
ALL THAT MEAT
AND NO POTATOES
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Beef of
the day: A dealer complained to
police a truck loaded with $10,000
worth of meat—more than 8,000
pounds of assorted cuts — had
been stolen from a warehouse.
Authorities Fear
For Ike’s Safety
On Korea Jaunt
SEOUL, (JP)—Many Americans
are worrying about the dangers
President - elect Dwight Eisen
hower will face if he goes to the
Korean battle front.
That’s not what’s bothering au
thorities here. They are worrying
about the dangers Eisenhower
will meet if he comes to Seoul—
and almost certainly he will.
This is a burned, battered city
with a struggling, poverty-strick
en population of about 800,000.
Filtering among these thousands
are spies, Communists and mal
contents, some known but most
unknown. There’s simply no way
to keep them out.
Military regulations require a
valid reason for a civilian to enter
Seoul but as a military policeman
said Friday:
“There’s no way to keep Kor
eans out if they really want to
come in. They sneak across the
Han river in boats at night —
sometimes we catch them — and
they sneak in by land. When they
get into town, how do you tell a
North Korean Communist from a
South Korean ally. You can’t tell
by looking. Anyway I can’t.”
Pfc. Carl R. Davis of the 558th
Military Police Company in Seoul,
a 26-year-old soldier from Tahle
quah, Okla., put it this way:
“There are Communist guerril
las still left in this part of the
country and it really would be
a feather in their caps to pick
off General Eisenhower.
“The Korean press is trumpet
ing that President Syngman Rhee
plans the biggest city-wide wel
come for Eisenhower that any vis
itor to the capital ever had. That
means it will be a big one—with
rushing thousands, parades, and
the like.
“But what about security?”
Heacock Charges CAB
Regulations Killing Off
Independent Air Operators
MIAMI BEACH. Fla., (>P) —
Easing of regulations on inde
pendent, non-scheduled airlines is
essential as a defense measure,
Amos E. Heacock, president of the
Air Coach Transport Association
said yesterday.
Heacock came here from his
home in Anchorage, Alaska, to
attend a meeting of the ACTA
board of directors. He heads Air
Transport Associates, Inc., an in
dependent firm operating be
tween Alaska and Seattle.
“The present strangle hold on
the independents,” Heacock said,v
“is killing off companies which
would be the first to furnish
transport planes to the armed,
forces in case of attack.
“This was pointed up both by
the Korean situation and by re
cent floods in the Midwest. Be
cause we are more mobile and not
tied down, our planes were the
first called into action in both in
stances.
“We cannot afford the luxury
of a cartel in air transportation
in times like these.”
Chances for Alaska
Statehood Slight
In 83rd Conress
WASHINGTON, (/P)—What are
the chances of statehood for Al
aska or Hawaii coming out of the
83rd Congress?
Not so good, judging by past
performance of the men who will
be cracking the whip come Jan
uary.
The stumbling block again is
Alaska. Republicans are ready to
vote Hawaii into the union, but
their margin of control in either
house doesn’t seem large enough
to force the issue on the Pacific
territory without some kind of a
deal on Alaska.
And there are Republicans —
particularly Sen. Butler of Neb
raska who will head the Senate
Interior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee—who aren’t ready to deal
the northern territory in. As
chairman, Butler will hold the
power of life and death over any
statehood proposal reaching his
group.
Traditionally, Alaska has been
Democratic and Hawaii Republi
can, although Alaska has now
elected a Republican legislature.
For that reason, legislative think
ing has considered both territories
one for statehood purposes.
There is one ray of light in the
apparent stalemate. That is the
possibility of a compromise on
a bill to permit residents of both
Alaska and Hawaii to elect their
own governors. Butler has intro
duced such a bill for Alaska in
past sessions and presumably
would give it his blessing again.
Supporters of such a measure say
it would be a step toward state
hood.
Ardent statehood proponents,
however, have opposed that sub
stitute. They have contended it is
a sidetracking maneuver in the
statehood contest.
Fired Terri. Tax Collector
Demands Audit of Books
Before He Leaves Office
ANCHORAGE, (yP)—William E.
Bittner, fired as Territorial Dep
uty Tax Collector demanded yes
terday that his accounts be audit
ed before he leaves office.
Bittner was discharged by Tax
Commissioner M. P. Mullaney, ef
fective Saturday. But, he said, he
wants his office audited before
he leaves “for my own protection
as well as for the public.”
He said he has been demand
ing the audit ever since receiving
his notice but all they have him
is a physical audit, which con
sisted of a check of fixtures and
equipment.
Without the cash audit, he said,
any irregularity in the tax de
partment could be “hung on nje”
after he is out of office.
RELATIVE OF ABE LINCOLN
DIES IN IOWA AT 102
DANVEPORT, la., (JP) — David
Warren Hanks, who traced a re
lationship to Abraham Lincoln
through Nancy- Hanks, Lincoln’s
mother, died Wednesday at a
nursing home here. He was 102.
Born in Albany, 111., Hanks was
a retired school teacher. He was
the oldest resident of Scott Coun
ty, of which Davenport is the
county seat.