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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 112NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1953Per Copy—15^
North Korean Flies
MIG-17 Intact Over
To Allies at Seoul
SEOUL, iff) — A daring North
Korean officer today flew a MIG
jet over to' the allies and a Seoul
newspaper said the plane was one
of the latest models, a twin-jet
MIG-17.
A Fifth Air Force spokesman,
asked to comment on the publish
ed report, said the Air Force “can
not confirm anything that the
Seoul press reports.”
Far East Air Force headquar
ters had announced it was a
MIG-15, their swift, mass-pro
duced type which carried the
brunt of the fighting for the Red
air force during the war.
The newspaper, Tong-A-Ilbo,
said the MIG was a 17 with two
37mm cannon and two 20mm can
non. It quoted an officer who had
seen the plane speed in, but did
not identify the officer.
The MIG-J7 is radar equipped
and is believed to be faster than
the MIG-15. It has been reported
stationed in Europe but there
never have been any indications
it was in the Far East.
The United States offered
$100,000 last February for a MIG
delivered intact at Seoul and it
was believed the North Korean
officer knew of the offer.
An Air Force spokesman said a
member of the neutral nations in
spection team inquired whether a
MIG-15 had landed today and was
told that a MIG had flown in
during the morning.
Two Air Force Men
Survive 22 Hours
In Water, Sharks
NEW YORK, UP) — Two Air
Force men told Monday of fight
ing off sharks with their fists
during 22 hours in the chappy At
lantic.
They were among six surviv
ors of a B-29 hurricane hunter
which caught fire and crashed in
the Atlantic last Friday. They ar
rived here aboard the cruise ship,
Nassau. Three other survivors
previously reached Charleston,
S.C.
Also aboard the Nassau were
nine crewmen of an Air Force
amphibian rescue plane, damaged
and abandoned in the rough wa
ter while attempting to pick up
the two survivors.
Sgt. Charles Graybill of Lands
downe, Pa., said he and another
crewman, James B. Henderson of
Flushing, Mich., floated for 22
hours in their inflated Mae Wests.
They had lashed themselves to
gether with nylon cord.
Graybill said they developed a
neat one - two punch to keep
sharks away. But the 21-year-old
sergeant said even so, a shark
nipped on of his hands.
Usually, he said, he and Hen
derson would “kick and splash”
when sharks swarmed around
them. Graybill wore bandages on
both hands.
Of the shark attacks, Hender
son said:
“They’d come up. I remembered
something I had read—if you hit
them on the snout they take off.
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Sen. Clements Says
He Will Support
Alaska Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Clements (D-Ky) said today he
has returned from an Alaskan
trip ready to support statehood for
the Territory in the 1954 session
of Congress.
Clements, one of six members
of the Senate Interior Committee
who recently conducted statehood
hearings in four Alaskan cities,
said in an interview:
“I don’t pose as an expert on
Alaska after two weeks there.
But I was greatly impressed by
the resources and the possibilities
of the territory.
‘And, even more, I was im
pressed by the will of the people
who appeared before our com
mittee, their willingness to as
sume the responsibilities and bur
dens of statehood.”
The Kentuckian said his vote
for statehood might be considered
an unexpected one, because he
was among those who voted in
1952 to shelve the issue for more
study. Statehood supporters lost
that Senate test by only one vote,
45-44.
Clements said he feels Alaska
is entitled to consideration in the
next session right along with
Hawaii.
Sen. Symington Declares
U.S. Placing “Money
Ahead of Security”
ALBANY, N.Y., UP) — Senator
Symington (D-Mo) holds that if
Americans knew “the truth”
about their military strength,
“there would be far less interest
in tax reduction and far more” in
national defense.
Symington, secretary of the Air
Force in the Truman administra
tion, declared Sunday the United
States was putting “money ahead
of security” to the delight of the
Communist conspirators.”
He told an estimated 10,000 per
sons on “I am an American Day”
ceremonies here that “today or
tomorrow America is faced with
. . . superior military strength on
the part of an enemy who has re
peatedly declared his determina
tion to destroy us.”
RCMP Set Up Road Blocks
On Alaska Highway To
Catch Texas Murderer
DAWSON CREEK, B.C., (A —
The RCMP set up road blocks on
the Alaska Highway north of here
Saturday in an effort to cut off
the flight of George Wm. Kend
rick, sought by the FBI to face
a murder charge in Texas.
An RCMP official said Kend
rick was seen here Friday driving
a 1946 model Jeep and it was be
lieved he was heading for Alaska.
The road blocks were set up
on the highway between Dawson
Creek and Whitehorse in the Yu
kon.
The police official said the re
quest from the FBI to arrest
Kendrick did not say what murder
he was wanted for. He said there
was “little chance” that the fugi
tive would escape police patrols
on the highway.
Gen. Acheson To
Be Present For
‘Col. Williams Day’
Mayor Steve Andersen re
ceived a message today from
Maj. Gen. Acheson. U. S. A. F.,
stating that he planned to be
here for Col. Williams Day and
will be accompanied by Brig.
Gen. Parker.
It has been announced that
plans for the Colonel Williams
Day program, Wednesday, Sept.
23, are going along nicely with
the full cooperation of local
groups.
At 1:30 o’clock Mayor Ander
sen, Dewey Goodrich and A. Polet
will call upon and greet Colonel
Williams, present the mayor’s pro
clamation and the Chamber of
Commerce letter, announcing of
ficially “Colonel Williams Day.”
Copies will also be presented to
| Col. William Boyd, U.S.A.F., chief
of staff, personal representative of
Gen. Donald B. Smith, U.S.A.F.,
commander Ladd Air Force Base.
The party will then proceed to
the city in buses with personnel
of the Army and Air Force, to
tour the city and the mining dis
trict. Nome school children, under
the supervision of Superintendent
Angell and staff, will form on
each side of B Street, to first
greet the city’s guests.
Mayor Andersen and guests will
continue down Front Street. The
Nome, King Island and Little Dio
mede Island units of the Alaska
National Guard, commanded by
Lt. William Shepherd, and color
guard of the Nome American Le
gion Post, Commander Robert F.
Scott, will “salute” the guests of
honor, Col. Harold I. Williams,
and enlisted personnel. The group
will continue down to Nome’s
King Island Village where the
islanders will assemble to greet
them as they pass. The enlisted
personnel will continue on tour,
later to return to Nome Field.
The evening banquet at the
Bering Sea Club is to start at
7:30 sharp. All diners are re
quested to be seated at that time.
An entertaining and appropriate
program for Col. Williams Day
has been completed. Reservation
for the dinner may be made with
Capt. Stanley Morgan of ACS, or
with George R. Goshaw, Nome
Visitors Association.
Business firms and others are
requested to display national and
territorial flags.
AUDITOR ATTACKS PLAN
TO CLOSE OFFICE BLDG.
ON SATURDAY MORNINGS
JUNEAU, — Closing of the
Alaska Office Building on Satur
day mornings—as reported plan
ned by some department heads if
they can talk the Legislature into
it—has been attacked by Terri
torial Auditor Neil Moore.
Moore says such a closure
would require out-of-towners to
wait over the weekend to trans
act territorial government busi
ness.
“No doubt this would be more
convenient for office holders, but
the offices are not maintained for
their convenience,” Moore de
clared.
Government Skeptical of Reports
That L. P. Beria Seeks U.S. Asylum
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Mining Congress
Told of Renewed
Interest In Alaska
SEATTLE, UP—Industry appar
ently is renewing its interest in
the mineral resources of Alaska,
geologists’attending the American
Mining Congress were told today.
George O. Gates, chief of the
Alaskan geology branch of the
Geological Survey, reported that
this past summer five major oil
companies of the United States
have been making geological ex
aminations in different parts of
the territory.
Several newly formed Alaska
companies have leased ground in
several different areas and one
local company is drilling about
120 miles northeast of Anchorage.
Not all interest is in oil, how
ever, Gates said. Several mining
companies, both US. and Cana
dian, have had geologists in the
field this past summer. Particular
interest has been shown in the
possibilities for iron, copper, zinc
and nickel ores and solid sulfide
deposits.
In addition, under the auspices
of the Defense Minerals Explor
ation Administration, exploration
is in progress on deposits of anti
mony, nickel, mercury, tin, tung
sten and platinum.
“All of this is encouraging and
gives hope that the mineral re
sources industry in Alaska may
again play an important role in
the economy of the territory and
contribute to the supplies of the
nation,” Gates concluded
Heinizleman Will Urge Speedy
Filling of Judicial Vacancies
JUNEAU, UP)—Before departing
Saturday for the American Min
ing Congress meeting in Seattle,
Alaska’s Gov. B. Frank Heintzle
man said he would urge speedy
filling of Alaska’s judicial va
cancies.
“The situation has long since
become critical—especially in the
Third Division,” he said in an in
terview.
Chinese Lagging In First
Year of Five-Year Plan
HONG KONG, UP) —Red China
ousted its finance minister and
the secretary-general of the Cen
tral Government’s administration
council in a weekend shakeup
which observers here feel was
ordered because the nation is lag
ging in the first year of its five
year plan.
SUNDAY SCORES
American League
New York 10, Boston 8
Philadelphia 13-4, Washington
9-3
Detroit 8-6, Cleveland 6-3
Chicago 4-5, St. Louis 0-2
N a Rectal League
Brooklyn 5-1, Philadelphia 4-2
Pittsburgh 8, New York 4
St. Louis 11, Chicago 6
Cincinnati 5-0, Milwaukee 3-3
> WASHINGTON, UP — Govern
ment officials took a highly skep
tical attitude today toward a re
port—under investigation by Sen
ate agents—that Lavrenty Beria,
deposed Soviet secret police boss,
has escaped from Russia and
hopes for political asylum in the
United States.
These were developments in
what would be, if true, one of the
most sensational cloak-and-dag
ger incidents of generations:
1. Sen. McCarthy publicy ack
nowledged for the first time that
his Senate Investigations subcom
committee has received a report
that a mysterious figure, in hiding
in a non - Communist country,
claims to be Beria. He said “I am
not convinced” and declined to
say what his subcommittee is
doing in the matter.
2. A Senate source said a sub
committee agent who would know
whether the man is in fact Beria
has gone to contact him and
should make a report in a couple
of days.
It was the senator’s first public
statement on the weekend reports
from a high Senate source that his
subcommittee had sent agents
overseas to check on the story.
Officials in the executive
branch of the government said
they knew nothing which would
lead them to believe that Beria
has managed to get out of Russia.
At the same time, it was made
clear this government would be
glad to receive any man who
knows as many of the Kremlin’s
secrets as Beria does.
Beria has not been mentioned
in the Russian press or radio in
recent weeks, and there has been
no recent mention of any trial.
This has led to some speculation
here that he may already have
I been executed.
Russia Calls On U.N. For
Unconditional Ban Of
Atom, Hydrogen Weapons
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UPl —
Russia called upon the U.N. today
to impose an unconditional ban on
the production of atomic and
hydrogen weapons without delay.
The Soviet proposal was laid
before the 60-nation General As
sembly during a major policy de
claration by Deputy Foreign Min
ister Andrei Vishinsky.
The Soviet delegate also served
notice that Russia was ready to
make h vigorous fight to get the
assembly to revise its earlier de
cision barring neutral countries as
representatives at the Korean
peace conference. The Communist
demands on this, he said, are jus
tified and must be met.
The Soviet proposals on atomic
control included hydrogen wea
pons by names, but otherwise fol
lowed closely Soviet disarmament
resolutions of previous sessions.
Vishinsky assailed the United
States as the real cause of world
tension, charged Western policy
in Germany threatened to touch
off a new war and declared the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion was aimed at weakening the
U.N.