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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 94 NOME, ALSKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1955_Per Copy—15^
Months of Torture Used by Chinese
Reds to Get Statements From Airmen
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Alaska Steam’s Pier 42
Tied Up By Two Picketing
Chief Stewards Saturday
SEATTLE, {^—Alaska Steam
ship Company’s Pier 42 in Seattle
was tied up Saturday by two pick
eting chief stewards.
Longshoremen quit work on
two ships at the pier after Charles
Daniels and Tony Ramierez start
ed marching Friday to protest
Daniels’ discharge as chief stew
ard of the SS Galena.
Daniels, a former member of the
Independent Marine Cooks and
Stewards Union, handed out leaf
lets saying he had been fired from
the Galena because he was not a
member of the newly certified
American Federation of Labor
Marine Cooks and Stewards Un
ion. He has applied for member
ship in the AFL union, Daniels
said, but has not been accepted.
Daniels said he could not ap
peal to the National Labor Rela
tions Board because the NLRB
considers chief stewards outside
its qurisdiction as supervisory
personnel.
Word was received today by
Alaska Steam’s Nome agent Walt
Sipprell that the picketing ended
Saturday afternoon and work was
resumed.
SUMMER SNOWFALL
GARMISCH - PARTENKIRCH
EN, Germany, Iff)—Four inches of
snow fell today on the Zugspitze,
9719 feet, Germany’s highest
mountain peak.
U.S. and Red China
Bogged Down in
Geneva Talks
GENEVA, Iff)—The United States
and Red China were reported to
day to be bogged down over pro
cedure on the proposed repatria
tion of civilian nationals of the
two countries.
After a meeting of almost 2Vz
hours, Ambassadors U. Alexis
Johnson and Wang Ping-nan
called another 48-hour recess
without announcing any progress.
The discussions up to now have
been confined to the problem of
releasing 40 American civilians
held by the Peiping regime and
repatriating, an indefinite num
ber of Chinese students the Chi
nese Communists declare are be
ing detained in the United States.
A Chinese Communist source
indicated the talks were tied up
on two main points:
1. Chinese Communist demand
for a list of Chinese nationals liv
ing in the United States.
2. A Chinese Communist de
mand that India be permitted to
act as a third party in represent
ing the interists of the Peiping
regime on the question of civilian
repatriation.
The U.S. was understood to be
insisting that no Chinese were
being detained against their will
and to be demanding that the
Chinese Reds furnish a lists of
any they contend are being held.
* TOKYO, —The Chinese Reds
used months of excruciating phys
ical and mental torture to wring
statements from 10 of the 11 air
men downed in Korea and then
used them to convict them as
spies, Col. John Knox. Arnold Jr.
told a press conference here yes
terday.
The 11 men, released last Thurs
day at the Hong Kong border, are
scheduled to leave Tokyo Wed
nesday morning for home in two
U. S. Air Force transports.
Arnold led the others yesterday
in telling of their treatment dur
ing 2Vz years in China.
“They used ‘persuasion’ that
civilized people simply do not
know about,” he said.
He told of being slugged in the
face with his hands tied behind
him, of tourniquet-like manacles,
of being “forced to stand . . . until
you started screaming.” Then he
broke down briefly.
“They told me sooner or later
they would get from me what
they wanted—but they didn’t get
it” declared the thin, tired-look
ing colonel. He said he never had
confessed to intruding over China
or to being on a spy mission.
“But I told those people things
that would have been better if
they did not know. I am very
much ashamed. I am not proud of
it,” he said.
The only statement he signed,
he said, was one that his air unit
had come to the Pacific to aid
countries in danger of being over
run by nations opposed to democ
cracy. At the trial in Peiping,
later, other statements were add
ed to this which made it sound as
if he had confessed to a spying
mission.
“I repudiated that statement at
the trial,” he said.
His navigator, Capt. Elmer F.
Llewellyn also denied the Red
charges.
“We were never in their god
damned China,” Llewellyn shout
ed, his fists clenched, as he turned
from a large map of Korea.
* He had just pinpointed a spot
on North Korea’s west coast, 40
miles south of the Yalu River
boundary, as the one where their
B-29 was downed in flames by
combined Mig and anti-aircraft
fire.
Public Welfare Board
To Meet in Juneau
Henry A. Harmon, director of
the Department of Public Wel
fare, has announced that the Ter
ritorial Board of Public Welfare
will hold a meeting in Juneau on
Aug. 10, 11, and 12.
The present board consists of
the Rt. Rev. G. Edgar Gallant,
V. G., representing the First Divi
sion; Mrs. Omie McCarthy, rep
resenting the Second Division;
Mr. Paul W. Nelson, representing
the Third Division; and Dr. Ivar
Skarland, for the Fourth Division.
Mr. Nelson was recently named
by Gov. Heintzleman as a mem
ber of the board and will meet
with the other board members for
the first time.
Statehood Convention
Officials Conduct Studies
Preparatory To Meeting
Tom Stewart, executive admin
istrator for the statehood conven
tion, accompanied by Wendell G.
Schaeffer of the Public Adminis
tration Service of Chicago, ar
rived yesterday from Fairbanks
and are conducting studies pre
paratory for the statehood con
vention, collecting first-hand in
formation from local residents
and civic leaders on what plan
the convention should follow.
Schaeffer is under contract to
the group making the preparatory
studies; discussing with the can
didates for the convention the
work that will be involved dur
ing the convention, and also re
leasing educational and informa
tive bulletins to prepare the dele
gates for their work.
They met with residents of
Kotzebue yesterday and attended
a luncheon here today with a
group of candidates, legislators
and interested citizens.
Schaeffer stated that informa
tive material will be released
from now until the convention
in November so that the public
may be kept informed and will
better understand the problems
which will come before the state
hood convention.
Pope’s Sister Dies
ROME, Josephine Pacelli, 83
year-old sister of Pope Pius XII,
died of pneumonia at her home
here last night. She had been
paralyzed for more than 20 years.
The 79-year-old pontiff, now at
his summer home at Castel Gan
dolfo, was reported “very de
pressed” at his sister’s death.
U.S. Soldiers Hurt
Iu Riots Protesting
Red Truce Teams
SEOUL, W—Fifteen U.S. sol
diers and four Koreans were re
ported injured in renewed riots
against Communist truce inspec
tion teams last night and today.
But the U.S. Army denied Ko
rean police reports U.S. soldiers
bayoneted five Korean demon
strators.
None of the U.S. soldiers was
hurt seriously in two rock throw
ing demonstrations at the south
east port of Pusan, where the
soldiers were guarding quarters
of the Neutral Nations Supervis
ory Commission Teams.
Police estimated some 30,000
Korean laborers milled through
Pusan streets throughout last
night.
Other demonstrations were re
ported at west coast ports Inchon
and Kunsan.
South Korea’s government wait
ed answer, meanwhile, to its de
mand that all NNSC teams get
out of the country by Saturday.
The commission is composed of
members from Switzerland and
Sweden and pro-Communist Po
land and Czechoslavakia. The
ROK government charges that the
Pole and Czech members are spies |
for North Korea.
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Indian Scientist Predicts Energy of
Hydrogen Bomb Will Be Harnessed
For Peaceful Use in 20 Years
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House Territories Group
Schedules Nome Hearing
Sept. 19 With Bartlett
WASHINGTON—Twelve cate
gories have tentatively been
scheduled for hearings in Alaska
by the House subcommittee on
Territorial and Insular Affairs.
Hearings will be held in Nome
on Monday, Sept. 19, by the mem
bers, including Delegate Bartlett.
They will hold hearings also
in Fairbanks, Sept. 15 and 16;
hearings and visiting in Anchor
age, Palmer, Seward, Homer and
Cordova, Sept. 20-24; hearings at I
Kodiak Sept. 26; Juneau, Sept, j
27-29; and Ketchikan, Oct. 3
Visits will be made to Barrow,
Kotzebue, Dillingham, Sitka, Pe
tersburg, Wrangell, Craig, Hyda
burg, Klawock and Metlakatla,
with the trip to conclude Oct. 7.
Ancient Aircraft Flown
1,200 Miles to Appear
In Movie About Lindberg
RONKONKOMA, N.Y., (*V—An
aged, flimsy airplane struggled
down to a Long Island landing
field last night in the midst of a
rain storm.
It was the end of a touch-and
go journey of more than 1,200
miles for the creaky 1926 model
Curtis Fledgling, which left St.
Louis a week ago.
The plane was brought here for
use in a movie about Charles A.
Lindberg. It is said to resemble
the craft in which Lindberg once
flew the mail.
The craft, owned, by St. Louis
aviation enthusiast Paul Mantz,
was flown in short hops to Pitts
burgh by Pilot Joe Ager, who
turned it over there to Pilot H.
DuBois for the rest of the trip.
President Sends Greeting
To Atomic Scientists
Meeting in Geneva
GENEVA, Ufi—President Eisen
hower said today atomic science
is the “newest and the most prom
ising tool’ of all to help clean up
the “dark breeding places” of dis
orders and wars.
He sent a message of greeting
to the opening session of the Uni
ted Nations conference on peace
ful uses of atomic energy, to be
read by Chairman Lewis Strauss
of the U.S. Atomic Energy Com
mission.
In it, the President reaffirmed
his pledge of Dec. 8, 1953, to the
U.N. to find ways to apply this
science to the wellbeing of man
instead of his death.
“We appeal not alone to gov
ernments to join us in the cooper
ative endeavor,” he said. “We are
hopeful also that business and
professional groups throughout
the world will become interested
and will provide incentives in
finding new ways that this sci
! ence can be used.”
> GENEVA, Of)—Indian scientist
Homi J, Bhabha opened the first
International Atomic Energy Con
ference today with the prediction
that the way may be found to
harness the titanic energy of the
hydrogen bomb for peaceful use.
Bhabha, president of the 72
nation scientific parley, said such
a solution might be found within
tiie next 20 years.
“When that happens,” he said,
“the energy problems of the
world will truly have been solved
forever, for fuel will be as plenti
ful as heavy hydrogen in the
oceans.”
His forecast came with a note
of caution:
“The rise of an atomic power
industry in many parts of the
world, development of which is
necessitated by the growing de
mands for energy, will put into
the hands of many nations quan
tities of fissionable material, from
which the making of atomic
bombs will be a relatively easy
step. A widespread atomic power
industry in the world will neces
sitate an international society in
which the major states have
agreed to maintain peace.”
Bhabha spoke as the hundreds
of delegates gathered at the open
ing plenary session of the confer
ence, just 10 years and one day
after the first atom bomb leveled
Hiroshima.
The conference in the Palace of
Nations, designed to parade atom
ic energy in its role as an ally of
industry and a potential boon to
agriculture and medicine, will
continue until Aug. 20.
The scientists also heard a mes
sage from U.N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold, who said that
“we have a long road ahead of us
to traverse before nations can
hope to eliminate the threat of
atomic destruction.”
Hammarskjold said that while
the scientists’ deliberations are
nonpolitical, “it would not be cor
rect to say that they have no poli
tical significance.”
“I am sure, he continued, “that
their (the scientists’) cooperation
will ease tensions. I am sure that
their exchange of scientific data
will inspire confidence, and I am
sure that the trend of their dis
cussions will turn men’s thoughts
from war to peace.”
HOT SPELL BROKEN
By the Associated Press
Cool air and thundershowers
which broke the summer’s long
est and most intense heat wave
over the weekend reached the
Deep South today, and in parts of
the north there was a touch of
autumn.
SPRY OLDSTER UNHURT
LOS ANGELES, 13—Mrs. Essie
Madsen suffered only minor cuts
and bruises, police said, when hit
by an automobile Saturday while
running to catch a street car.
Mrs. Madsen is 87 years old.