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VOL. LIV No. 154 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1952 Per Copy—15^
Stalin Challenged
Produce Concrete
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The in
coming Eisenhower administra
tion challenged Russia’s Premier
Stalin Friday to put forth “con- j
crete proposals” on promoting
peace and promised they would
be “seriously and sympathetically
received.”
A statement taking that posi
tion was issued by John Foster
Dulles, who will be the new ad
ministration’s Secretary of State,
after Dulles had talked with
President-elect Eisenhower by
telephone this morning. Eisen
is in New York.
The statement was the first re
action of the new administration
to replies given by Stalin to four
questions presented to him by the
New York Times and published
yesterday morning.
Stalin expressed willingness to
meet with Eisenhower in response
to one question and he also said
Russia was interested in ending
the Korean war.
Stalin declared that “aggressive
actions” taken in the West’s cold
war policy against Russia are the
main causes of world tension and
said:
(1) He regards “favorably” the
idea of a meeting with Eisenhow
er; (2) War between the U.S. and
the Soviets is not inevitable; (3)
Russia is “interested in ending
the war in Korea” and (4) The
sources of world contention lie
“Everywhere and in everything
wherever the aggressive actions”
of the cold war find expression.
Stalin has on several occasions
in the past responded to written
questions posed by U.S. newsmen
and almost invariably he has ex
pressed a belief that U.S.-Russian
is not inevitable and a willingness
to meet with the UJ3. chief execu
tive.
Capitol Hill comment was cau
tious.
“We should beware of Trojan
horses in Russian peace talks,”
said Sen. Douglas (D-Ill). Sen.
Mundt (R-SD) said Stalin should
agree to come to this country, if
he is sincere. “It sounded like
the same old line,” said Senator
Wiley (R-Wis), a member of the
U.S. delegation to the United Na
tions.
NY Times Says Stalin’s
Statement Should Be
Viewed with Skepticism
NEW YORK, (/P) — The New
York Times said Friday in an ed
itorial that Stalin’s statement on
world tensions should be viewed
with skepticism.
Commenting on the Soviet pre
mier’s reply to questions submit
ted by the Time’s diplomatic cor
respondent, James Reston, the
Times said:
“Unfortunately, at first sight
and viewing Mr. Stalin’s words
in the light of the Soviet record,
there is little reason to hope that
they represent anything more than
just another psychological war
fare maneuver.”
Report Brink Loot
Scattered In Safety
Deposit Boxes
BOSTON, (/P) — Unconfirmed
reports said Friday the $1,219,000
loot from the Brink’s robbery of
Jan. 17, 1950 may have been
placed in safe deposit boxes in
various banks by a respectable
Boston man acting as a “front”
for the robbers.
The FBI refuses to comment on
the report of how the loot was
hidden after the daring early ev
ening robbery but three Boston
papers reported a lawyer was
chosen by the gang to secret the
cash.
The reports said the gang’s plan
called for the lawyer to hire some
40 safe deposit boxes in banks
throughout the country where the
money could be placed by him
without suspicion.
The newspapers said also that
the lawyer’s identity has been
known to investigators for some
time and added that he has been
under surveillance for many
months.
The reports continued that the
FBI has traced $236,500 of the
Brink’s cash to some of the vaults
and that about $30,000 of the
loot was used to buy government
bonds.
Another unconfirmed report
said three men died before they
could be questioned by the FBI
in connection with the Brink’s
case. Two of the men were slain
and the third died of a heart
attack while in hiding.
Truman Pardons Andrew
May and Parnell Thomas
WASHINGTON, President
Truman has granted a full pardon
to Andrew J. May, former Ken
tucky member of Congress who
served nine months in prison on
his conviction of accepting bribes
for influence in awarding of
munitions contracts.
The action, returning full citi
zenship rights to May, was dis
closed Thursday by the Justice
Department. May headed the
House Military Affairs Commit
tee for many years. He is a
Democrat.
Truman also signed a Christ
mas pardon for J. Parnell Thom
as, former Republican House
member from New Jersey who
once chairmanned the un-Ameri
can Activities Committee. Thomas
served a prison term for padding
his government office payroll.
Two More Convicts
From Walla Walla
Prison Recaptured
WALLA WALLA, Wash., (JP)—
Two more of the seven convicts
who tunneled out of the state
penitentiary here Monday were
captured at Arlington, Ore., Tues
day night, penitentiary officials
reported Wednesday.
Sgt. of the guard Bert Collard
said they were Harold Coe, 22,
serving a life term for murder,
and Merrill Case, convicted of
burglary.
Coe and Case were two of seven
convicts who tunneled under the
prison walls and made their es
cape last Monday. Their capture
leaves four still at large.
Ike Administration
Reported To Have
New Plan End War
NEW YORK, (JP) — The New
York Times reported Wednesday
that the Eisenhower administra
tion has a new strategic plan for
the Korean war and believes it
“will exert so much pressure on
the Communist forces that the
Soviet Union will agree to an
armistice.’
The Times4 said in a story by
Thomas J. Hamilton, under a
United Nations dateline, that the
new plan was worked out by the
high command in the new admin
istration of President-elect Eisen
hower.
Hamilton wrote that for ob
vious reasons no details can be
mad,e public, but the basic pre
mises on which the plan has been
formulated are the following:
“The Kremlin will have to be
convinced by deeds and words'
that under the new administra
tion the Unnted States will not
pull out of Korea and that nei
ther will it give way on the is
sue of the repatriation of pri
soners of war.
“The new plans will permit
greatly increased pressure to be
applied without involving a pro
hibitive cost to the force defend
ing South Korea.
“There will be a considerable
increase in the participation of
South Korean forces, but no
great increase in the number of
United Nations forces is visual
ized”.
Hamilton wrote that the sourc
es who made the information
available “were silent on the
question of the contribution to
the new plans” by Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
Christmas Messages By
World Leaders Reflect
Hope For the Future
(By the Associated Press)
Christendom’s faith in a bright
er future and in the triumph of
goodwill was reaffirmed Thurs
day in Christmas messages by
world leaders and in prayers of
people everywhere.
Even on the cold, snowed-in
battlefields of Korea, the burden
of war was lightened a bit by
recollection of the promise the
day holds for mankind.
President Truman, in his last
Christmas Eve message from the
White House, set the theme for
America, stressing that the long,
bitter Korean struggle “has a
hopeful meaning because it is the
common struggle of many free
nation^ which have joined to
gether to seek a just and lasting
peace.”
Across the Atlantic, Britain’s
young Queen Elizabeth II, broad
casting her first Christmas mes
sage, added her prayers for bro
therhood.
Holland’s Queen Juliana broad
cast similar greetings to her sub
jects and expressed confidence
peace would prevail if everyone
realized the futility of war.
West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer warned his people
they could lose their peace and
freedom by delay in joining a
Western alliance against Com
munist aggression.
Everett Schiller Reports Interesting
Aspects of Parasitic Survey at Nome
Baranof Is First
Alaska Ship to Pass
Customs Inspection
SEATTLE, (IP)—The first ship
arriving from Alaska to be
screened under the new McCar
ran-Walters Immigration Act ar
rived here Thursday night was
the SS Barancrf. Some airplane
passengers had been screened
previously.
While some complained of the
delay and grumbled at the in
spection most agreed it was not
as rough as they had expected.
The 96 passengers and 103
crewmen had their papers clear
ed and were free to go ashore 45
minutes after the Baranof tied
up at Pier 42.
John B. Kiely, a government
engineer from Juneau, summed
up their attitude:
“When it’s this easy, it’s all
right. Thinking about it up there,
though, we didn’t like it. We’re
American citizens just like every
body else.”
The travelers previously had
filled out cards giving their
names, nationalities, residences
and ages.
In addition, those bom in the
United States showed birth certi
ficates, draft cards, drivers’ certi
enses and similar identification;
aliens showed their permanent
alien registration cards.
Alaska Dog Team
Will Participate In
Eisenhower Inauguration
WASHINGTON, (£>)— An Alas
kan dog team will mush down
Pennsylvania Ave. Jan. 20 in
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er’s inaugural parade.
Edward R. Carr, parade com
mittee chairman, announced yes
terday that the team of six dogs
had been approved for the parade,
along with 30 other marching
units and bands. Many more are
expected. Seventeen states al
ready are represented.
New Hampshire will send its
Snowshoe Club and band to
marcn the long parade route.
Both the dog team and the snow
shoers will be in their element,
if real winter weather sets in on
inauguration day.
According to Dr. Charles Gree
ley Abbot of the Smithsonian In
stitute there’s a fair chance of
that.
Dr. Abbot, who accurately pre
dicted inauguration weather in
1945 and 1949, says there will be
either snow or rain when Gen.
Eisenhower takes his oath of of
fice.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — Col.
Clarence M. Young, vice presi
dent of the Pacific-Alaska divi
sion of Pan American World Air
ways, has been named an execu
tive vice president effective Jan
uary 1.
Young, of Atherton, Calif., is
in charge of all PAA activities for
Alaska, Hawaii, Australia, and
the Orient.
Everett L. Schiller, parasit
ologist from the Arctic Health
Research Center at Anchorage,
has completed his field work on
rats in this area and reports
some interesting aspects of the
rat parasite and disease survey.
By E. L. SCHILLER
Trichinosis, commonly known
as raw pork disease, was found to
be quite prevalent in the rat pop
ulation. This does not constitute
a serious menace to human health
in Nome at the present time,
since man can acquire the infec
tion only by eating the improper
ly cooked flesh of the animal har
boring this worm.
Of course, rats are not eaten by
man and therefore any possibility
of transmission in this manner is
unlikely. However, if the time
should come when hogs were to
be raised in Nome, then the pres
ence of trichinosis in rats would
become a relatively important
problem. Hogs eat rats readily
and thereby acquire trichinosis.
In turn, such infected pork, if not
cooked thoroughly, would be dan
gerous for human consumption.
For this reason the presence of
trichinosis in the rats of Nome
must be considered significant as
a potential problem.
Lung Infections Most Important
Lung infections were found in
epizootic proportions in one of the
rat population concentration areas
within the business district. I
would consider this to be the most
important aspect of the disease
study, since I know of no compar
able condition in the history of
animal-borne disease investiga
tions.
Identification of the causitive
agent involved in this infection
must depend upon detailed lab
oratory analysis at the Arctic
Health Research Center during
the next few weeks. These are
already in progress.
The study has indicated that
this severe lung involvement is
transmitted from one rat to an
other and suggests that the dis
ease is contagious. Whether the
lung inf ection, can be transmitted
from the rat to man through con
tamination is, as yet, unknown
and the answer to this will de
pend upon the knowledge ob
tained from the follow-up labor
atory tests.
In my opinion, the possibility
of human infection does exist and
must be considered a dangerous
condition until proved otherwise.
Kidney infections were ob
served in some of the rats await
analysis.
Dwarf tapeworm was a com
mon parasite of a large percen
tage of the fats examined. Man
acquires this infection directly
through the ingestion of food con
taminated by the droppings of
rats containing the eggs of this
worm.
Rat fleas were abundant in cer
tain areas examined during the
course of the study. Although rat
fleas do not ordinarily parasitize
man, they occasionally attach
themselves to people to obtain a
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