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VOL. LVII No. 8 • NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1955 Per- Copy—15^
Eisenhower Would Like To See
U.N. Arrange Cease Fire In China
WASHINGTON, ijPU- President
Eisenhower said today he would
like to see the United Nations try
to arrange a cease fire between
the Chinese Nationalists and Red
China’s attacking forces.
The President told a news con
ference he does not know whe
ther the U.N. would be able to
do anything about halting the
shooting, but he said he would
like to see it use its good offices
to seek a cease fire.
The President’s remarks came
atop a statement yesterday by
Secretary of State Dulles that the
United States would offer no ob
jections to the United Nations’
seeking a cease fire. Dulles’ state
ment created a sensation in For
4 mosa, stronghold of the Chinese
Nationalists.
A.P. correspondent Spencer
Moosa at Taipeh reported quali
fied sources indicated the Chinese
Nationalists would reject such an
idea.
A cease fire in effect would end
Chinese Nationalist hopes of ever
returning to the mainland.
Eisenhower also told his news
conference Dag Hamarskjold’s
mission to Peiping, in an effort
to win release of 11 imprisoned
American airmen canot be regard
ed as a failure so long as nego
tiations are continuing.
Senate Republican leader
Knowland (Calif) has termed the
Hammarskjold mission a failure.
While Eisenhower did not go
along with Knowland on that, he
said emphatically that efforts
seeking the release of the airmen
imprisoned as “spies” never can
be termed a success until the
fliers have been returned to their
homeland.
For the first time in history,
television and newsreel sound
cameras were permitted to record
the news conference for possible
later public showing. White
House aides will check first, how
ever, to determine what is to be
released.
Knowland Sees No
Conflict With President,
Only ‘Different Viewpoint’
WASHINGTON, (AV-Senate
Republican leader Knowland said
Tuesday he sees no conflict be
tween his assertion the Dag Ham
marskjold mission to Red China
was a failure and President Eis
enhower’s counsel against “impet
uous words” regarding the situa
tion.
The California senator was
asked whether he saw a conflict
after he and other Republican
congressional leaders met with
the President at the White House
for their regular Tuesday morn
ing discussion of the legislative
program.
Knowland replied:
“I do not. We (he and the Presi
dent) may look at the situation
from a slightly different view
point.”
Alaska Freight Lines
Van Unloaded At Valdez
For First Time Since 1953
VALDEZ, UR—Eleven vans of
the Alaska Freight Lines were
unloaded from the company’s tug
Kelly when it docked here Mon
day night, the first time since
June. 1$$$, that Alaska Freight
Lines has moved cargo through
Valdez. !
The freight line has used Sew
ard and Anchorage exclusively
for movement of northbound
freight for the past 18 months.
200-Piane Raid On
Tachens Seen As
Invasion Prelude
TAIPEH, Formosa, 1/P)—Chinese
Reds hurled a 200-plane raid —
heaviest of the civil war—against
the vital Tachen Islands today in
a possible prelude to invasion.
Nationalist warplanes struck
back with “punitive attacks” on
Communist armed vessels along
the southeast China coast and in
the Amoy and Sawtow areas. The
defense ministry said heavy loss
es were inflicted. The National
ists called the attacks a retalia
tory measure against the “indis
criminate bombing” of the Ta
chens.
Eight miles north of the Ta
chens, the ministry said, guer
rillas “fighting in pools of blood”
were still resisting the Commun
ist invasion of tiny Yikiangshan
island.
It was believed here, however,
only isolated pockets of guerrillas
were still in action and Red con
quest of the 3Vi> square mile is
land was nearly complete.
Daughter of Ringleader
Pleads With Convicts To
Give Up Prison Break
BOSTON, UR — Brunette 17
year-old Toby Green appealed
through the steel bars of a state
prison window today to her father
to 'give up the revolt he is lead
ing in an attempted prison break.
The fathbr, bank robber Theo
dore “Teddy” Green, 39, is the
acknowledged ringleader of three
other tough, armed convicts who
are holding five guards as host
ages. They have stood off heav
ily armed police and guards since
shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday. Six
other convicts also are in the cell
block but whether of their own
volition or not was not known.
Not a shot has been fired thus
far in the siege. Green’s threat—
“for every shot fired at us, a
guard dies”—has kept authorities
from attempting to close in.
Green’s daughter, a slight,
pallid girl wearing horn-rimmed
glasses and her face serious, as
though on the verge of tears,
stood in the prison courtyard
about 15 minutes talking and lis
tening through the low window
of the besieged solitary confine
ment block.
Afterwards she was led into
the office of Warden John H.
O’Brien. There was no immediate
indication whether she had suc
ceeded or failed.
Six Army Privates
Get 7 Years Hard Labor
For Refusing to Fall Out
FT.BRAGG, N.C., UR—Six Army
privates were sentenced to seven
years at hard labor Monday for
mutiny—refusing to obey the or
der of an officer to fall out for
work at the Ft. Bragg stockade
last Dec. 29.
A court martial convicted them
after deliberating one hour. The
sentence is subject to review by
higher authority.
In addition the soldiers—rang
ing from 18 to 21 years—were
orederd to forfeit all pay and al
lowances and to be dishonorably
discharged.
Troops Flown To
Galena In First
Phase ‘Snowbird’
FAIRBANKS, W—The last of
1,000 Alaska-based troops were
being airlifted to the remote Ga
lena area on the Yukon River
Tuesday as the Army’s giant cold
weather maneuver ..Operation
Snowbird,” rumbled into its first
phase.
In the role of “aggressors,” the
1,000 men under Lt. Col. Howard
W. Greer will establish a defense
perimeter around Galena airfield
to ward off an attack by the
“friendly forces:” paratroopers of
the 503rd Airborne Infantry.
The “Aggressors,” being flown
to Galena in the largest air
movement of troops in the terri
tory since World War II, are
dressed in the latest Army cloth
ing designed to combat the in
tense cold of mid-winter Alaska.
The huge war games, which in
volve some 4,000 troops, swing
into the second phase Jan. 30
north of Anchorage, in the Tal
keetna area.
The paratroopers, flown to the
territory from Ft. Campbell, Ky.,
will drop near Talkeetna, prepare
a compact snow runway and pro
tect it against an “assault” by
troops from the 71st Infantry
Division.
The troops of the 71st will at
tack the paratx-oop-defended air
strip after a 65-mile forced march
over frozen terrain.
The first troops to move out for
the maneuvers around Galena, to
test men and equipment in ex
treme cold, are of the 4th In
fantry Regiment. They are being
flown from Ladd and Eielson Air
Force Bases in C-124 transports.
Each soldier in the force will
caxry 100 pounds of equipment,
including skis and a three-day
field ration.
Korean Officer
Threatens U.S.
Gen. M. Taylor
SEOUL, UPi — A Korean army
major has been officially identi
fied as the would - be assailant
who yesterday threatened the life
of American Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, U.S. Far East Army chief.
Quick thinking by Lt. Gen.
Kang Moon Bong, commander of
the South Korean 2nd Army, and
two other Korean officers pre
vented the berserk officer from
firing a .45 caliber automatic at
Taylor. It was reported erron
eously that Gen. Chung II Kwon,
ROK Army chief of staff with
whom Taylor was conferring,
helped to disarm the major.
They jumped the assailant as
he waved the loaded gun back
and forth across the brefing room
at ROK army headquarters in
Taegu.
■He was carried from the room
and the briefing continued. The
major, identified as Kim Kiok, 54
year-old combat veteran, later in
sisted he intended no harm to
Taylor.
Government spokesman Hong
Kee Karl said? “It is believed the
shock which came with his (the
major’s) disappointment with the
armistice and the failure to
achieve unification of Korea af
fected his mind.”
Maj. Kim reportedly climbed
through the window of Gen.
Chung’s briefing room, unnoticed
until he pulled his weapon.
Kim is undergoing sanity tests
and U.S. and ROK army investi
gators are probing the entire case.
Bartlett Says Budget Requests For
Alaska Are Less Than For Road
Construction Appropriation In ’51
Employees Sure
PNA Airline Will
Retain Franchise
SEATTLE, UP) — Editorials and
news stories have appeared in
more than 25 newspapers in the
past month, supporting Pacific
Northern Airlines’ right to re
tain its States-Alaska franchise,
an employes’ committee announ
ced yesterday.
These clippings, and copies of
hundreds of telegrams sent by
PNA supporters to the Civil Aero
nautics Board and to President
Eisenhower, were displayed in
the committee headquarters room
at Seattle - Tacoma International
airport.
Chairman Ray McLane of the
committee also called attention to
a meeting last week of the entire
congressional delegations from
Washington and Oregon. He said
the senators and representatives
agreed to take all possible action
to retain all the present air ser
vice between the States and Al
aska.
“With the people behind us, we
feel confident that our certificate
will be renewed,” said McLane.
“Our campaign is continuing and
we urge our friends to send more
telegrams to the CAB and to the
President.”
Wage Talks Between
Carpenters & Contractors
Resume at Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Uft—Wage nego
tiations affecting between 3,0(J<0
and 5,000 carpenters—only a rela
tively few of whom are working
now — were to be resumed here
today by the AFL Alaska Council
of Carpenters and the Alaska
Chapter Associated General Con
tractors.
Einer Huseby, secretary of the
council, said “undoubtedly” some
wage increase would be sought
from the 1954 wage rate of $3.69
an hour. He also indicated ad
ditional fringe benefits would be
asked.
At present only about 200 car
penters of the 1,100 or 1,200 in
the Anchorage local are erhpioy
ed, Huseby said. He said if no
agreement is reached within the
next few days the talks probably
would be adjourned again “be
cause the AGC has other commit
ments with other crafts.”
A previous session was started
in mid-December but adjourned
without results. Negotiations
with eight other crafts, originally
held in Seattle, were also started
during December. It was reported
that when the carpenters decided
to hold separate meetings the
other crafts decided to await the
results.
Valdez Chambermen In
Fairbanks To Discuss
Use Of Their Port
VALDEZ, UP)—A delegation of
Valdez Chamber of Commerce
members, some accompanied by
their wives, were scheduled to
leave here early today by auto
for Fairbanks.
In the interior city they will
meet Thursday with Fairbanks
businessmen to discuss the advan
tages to be derived from use of
the Valdez port, fartherest north
year around ice-free port.
* w/\bMiiNUiui\, — Delegate .
Bartlett said today President
Eisenhower’s budget requests for
Alaska “show a continuation of
i the diminished requests noted in
' budgets of this administration.”
Referring to the state of the
union message in which the Presi
dent said statehood for Alaska
should await solution of its “com
plex problems,” Bartlett told a
newsman budget requests to carry
out the Department of the Inter
ior’s development program in the
territory make it “unhappily ob
vious that no progress will be
made at all if the budget figures
are adopted.”
Illustrating what he said was
the continued decline of requests
i for Alaskan appropriations, the
Delegate said the total requests
for all Alaska activities within
the jurisdiction of the Office of
Territories was “more than
million dollars less than the road
construction appropriation alone
in fiscal 1951.”
He said he considered it “a
matter of real regret the budget
doesn’t- contain a single dollar for
construction of any river and har
bor projects in the territory and
that only one new road is started
—Fairbanks to Nenana.”
Because requested appropria
tions for the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs' health activities were made
in a lump sum, Bartlett said he
could not determine whether the
eventual allocation to Alaska
would be sufficient to make use
of all hospital beds in territorial
institutions.
He said he would stress, in ap
pearances before the House Ap
propriations Committee, the need
of using available beds in the
territory before sending Alaskans
elsewhere for treatment.
I
Dr. Sheppard Denied
Bail Pending Appeal
CLEVELAND, Ufi—An appellate
court today denied bail to con
victed wife-slayer Sam Sheppard,
whose father died last night 11
days after his mother committed
suicide.
The three judge court held no
person convicted of a crime pun
ishable by life imprisonment is
bailable under state law. Shep
pard, convicted of second degree
murder, has been sentenced to a
life term.
Sheppard’s attorneys had asked
that he be released on bail while
his appeal is pending.
The attorneys argued that the
only life imprisonment crimes
were those of first degree murder
or treason. They contended that
in all other cases, there was no
such thing as life imprisonment,
but rather indeterminate impri
sonment.
The elder Sheppard, 64, was the
victim of a respiratory ailment
he suffered during his son’s mur
der trial.
Wiens To Make Flight
To Diomefl^ Friday
The first flight of the year will
be made to Diomede Island by
Wien Airlines on Friday about
noon, by veteran bush flKot
Tommy Richards. /
All persons having freight must
have it at the Wien office on
Thursday and passengers must
have their reservations at that
time.