VOL. LV, No. 52 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Three Planeloads Of Returning
Disabled Allies Leave Tokyo;
Third Shrouded In Secrecy
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Ike Sees Military
Buildup Next Year
And Less Spending
WASHINGTON, WV— President
Eisenhower contends America
will hasten its military buildup
next year despite a reduction in
spending and with a “radical”
change from fixed target dates to
a long-haul program.
If the armed forces were wor
ried about a reported $4,400,000,
000 cut in spending for the fiscal
year starting July 1—most of it
in military and foreign aid funds
— they could take some heart
from Eisenhower’s words.
In a news conference statement,
Eisenhower called former Presi
dent Truman’s military blueprint
a “crazy quilt.” He said his ad-.
• ministration is scrapping the idea
that the West should be ready for
possible Russian attack in 1954
or 1955 in favor of a gradual pro
gram.
The President was asked if the
armed forces would be reduced,
in view of Capitol Hill reports that
spending would be cut.
Eisenhower replied he couldn’t
tell regarding long-range objec
tives but that he could say: there
will be more build-up in ’54 than
was possible under the operations
and activities as they were pro
ceeding in January, when the new
administration took over.
This, the President said, was
possible because of a shortening
up of lead times—the period be
tween the designing of a weapon
and the start of volume produc
tion—and concentration on critic
al areas and items.
TORNADO DISASTER
IN SOUTHERN TOWN
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia, UP)
—A shattering tornado dealt trip
hammer blows at this mid-Geor
gia community at twilight Thurs
day, killed 15 persons and caused
property damage estimated in the
millions.
Between 250 and 300 persons
were injured by the devastating
blow that churned down from
warm spring skies and left a
trail of misery, wreckage and
death.
Eleven bodies were found amid
the litter of blasted homes in the
town of Warner Robins, 15 miles
southeast of Macon.
Two persons—a four-year-old
child and the wife of an Air Force
colonel — died when the storm
wrecked the motor cars in which
they were riding.
> TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
California, Iff)— Twelve American
fighting men who may never fight
again sped to their homes in the
far corners of the U.S. Thursday.
They are the vanguard of the
first 35 repatriated POWs to reach
their beloved homeland from
Korea.
A few aren’t going home. They
are going to hospitals where doc
tors will try to mend their shat
tered bodies and broken minds.
The 35 men who arrived yes
terday were happy — but they
cringed from the welcome that
awaited them.
Before they left the plane they
sent out the word — “We don’t
want to talk to any reporters. We
have talked enough already.”
Then the 26 walking wounded
filed off the big plane. They
walked straight to a waiting bus.
Some smiled, some waved, all
looked around curiously.
Little emotion showed on their
faces. But strain was there, and
pain, and the lines carved deep by
war and captivity.
White-jacketed medics then went
aboard and brought out the nine
litter patients.
Thursday
TOKYO, (ff)—Another planeload
of disabled Allied soldiers left
Tokyo Thursday for the United
States on the last leg of a trip that
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Twelve Guessers
Had Right Minute
Of NenanaBreakup
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, UP)—The
ice went out in the Tanana River
at 3:54 p.m. Wednesday, a time
picked by a number of persons
who were among the 100,000 who
attempted to guess the exact min
ute of the breakup.
Those guessing the correct time
were:
The Eleven Hopefuls, Kathleen
Barricklow, both of Juneau; Earl
Pilgrim, Bernice Hagberg, Dennis
VanHorn, Emil Arne Pool, City
Electric Pool, all of Fairbanks;
the Three-twenty-six Club, the
ACS Teletype Menders, Florence
Ranier and the Union Club Pool
of Anchorage; and Randy Will
iams of Ketchikan.
The ice jammed at the railroad
bridge near the pylon shortly be
fore the breakup and hundreds
watched as the ice jam moved
out, carrying the pylon along.
S. PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE
NEW YORK, UP)—Fordham Uni
versity’s seismograph recorded
two' heavy tremors early yester
day, believed to have occurred in
the South Pacific about 9,000
miles from here.
YOUTH FOR CHRIST RALLY
7:30 P.M. SATURDAY NIGHT — ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH — REV. CARLSON, SPEAKER — SPECIAL MUSIC
Balanced Budget and
Tax Cuts Unlikely
In Next Fiscal Year
WASHINGTON, UFi —President
Eisenhower’s statement that his
administration sees no way to bal
ance the budget for the next fiscal
year appeared likely today to de
lay indefinitely any fresh tax
cuts.
' Eisenhower told a White House
news conference it will be impos
sible to bring expenditures com
pletely in line with revenue. Sen.
Taft said Congress may have to
approve new appropriations with
out any final spending estimates
for the year beginning July 1.
To Sen. George, an old hand at
fiscal matters- this spelled delay
and possibly no tax reductions at
all beyond the already scheduled
death of the excess profits levy
on July 1 and a 10 percent decline
in individual income taxes set for
next January 1.
Suspects- Answers
May Show Pattern
Of Red Infiltration
WASHINGTON, (A —Two for
mer government economists re
fused to tell Senate investigators
today whether they now are en
gaged in espionage or ’whether
they belonged to a Soviet spy ring
here during World War II.
The two were Harry Magdoff of
Flushing, N.Y., and Edward J.
Fitzgerald of New York City. Both
had wartime jobs with the gov
ernment as economists but are no
longer employed by it.
Magdoff testified under ques
tioning that he had been an ad
viser for former Secretary of
Commerce Henry Wallace. Fitz
gerald said he frequently con
ferred with Wallace in connection
with his government duties.
The Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee questioned them in
an inquiry it describes as aimed
to lay bare the “pattern” of Com
munist infiltration of^|he govern-'
ment.
Chairman Jenner <Tt-Ind) said
he thought that from their testi
mony and that of earlier witness
es the subcommittee was “clearly
beginning to establish a pattern.”
He. noted that both Magdoff and
Fitzgerald, as well as other wit
nesses who have refused to an
swer questions about Communist
ties, started work for the govern
ment in the national research pro
ject of the old WPA and went on
to better jobs near the policy
making level in other agencies.
Red Leader Assassinated
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya, (A
—Police announced Friday one of
Malaya’s top Communist terror
ists has been assassinated by his
own bodyguard, who later surren
dered carrying the victim’s head.
The slain leader was Ah Kuk,
a member of the Malayan Com
munist party’s central committee.
May Day, 1953, Brings Peace Speech
From Soviet Defense Minister And
Rallies & Speeches Around World .
FRENCH SETBACKS
IN VIETMINH DRIVE
Thursday
HANOI, Indochina, (£)— Com
munist-led Vietminh troops
sweeping toward the royal Lao
tian seat of Luangprabang cap
tured another French-Laotian de
fense post yesterday — this one
only about 25 miles north of the
town. It was the third reverse
suffered by the defending farces
in as many days.
The loss of Muongsung, in the
valley of the Namhou River, was
announced shortly after a French
army spokesman expressed cau
tious optimism about the general
situation in Laos. He even went
so far as ta say “the situation is
looking better,’’ but he did not
say why.
Improved weather has permit
ted French planes to bomb the in
vading columns with napalm,
forcing enemy units to split into
smaller groups.
Friday
The battle deciding the fate of
the mountain kingdom of Laos
—besieged by the Vietminh le
gions of Moscow-trained Ho Chi
Minh—my be underway within
48 hours.
By then the bare-footed invad
ers from neighboring Viem Nam,
who have engulfed over a third of
the interior Indochinese state in
less than three weeks, are expec
ted to attack King Sisavang
Vong’s royal seat of Luangpra
bang.
If the Vietnam win there, it
may be only a short time until
they reach the borders of Burma
and Thailand, each of which has
a sizeable Communist element.
The Vietminh now are only 80
miles from Thailand and 160
miles from Burma.
2,538 CAPTIVE ALLIES
DIED OF STARVATION,
SAYS RETURNED POW
TOKYO, W)—A returend pris
oner who said he had access to
Communist medical records in
North Korea said today he had
learned of 2,538 captive Allies
who died of starvation and* dis
ease in less than a year.
Sgt. James F. Daniel, of Ala
meda, Calif., said 931 Allies died
of malnutrition and lack of medi
cal care in months at the now
infamous “Death Valley.”
That was the prisoner name for
a sort of way station between
Kunu and the far north Korean
prison camps at Pyoktong.
Daniel, a medic, said he had
access to Communist medical rec
ords because he was helping care
for sick and wounded at Death
Valley and later at Pyongtong.
MOSCOW, OB—The Soviet Un
[ ion’s defense minister, Marshal
Nikolai Bulganin, called on lead
ers of the western world Friday
to back up their recent peaceful
: statements with peaceful ‘actions.
But until the West acts on its
expressed desire for' peace, Bul
ganin declared in a short May
Day address in Moscow’s Red
Square, Russia will continue to
“show due cause for ensuring the
defense and security of our coun
try.”
The war minister demanded
substantial evidence—particularly
a reduction of armaments in lands
near the Soviet Union—as a sign
that other countries seek a peace
ful solution of the world’s prob
lems.
Outside the Iron Curtain, work
ers of. the free world also marked
the holiday with rallies, speeches,
parades. There was some fighting,
however.
In Japan, where rioters attacked
American vehicles and battled
bloodily with police last May Day,
jeering marchers again brawled
with the steel-helmeted cops.
Some 10,000 jeering leftist
youths tangled with 1,500 police
when the youths refused to dis
perse at the end of what had been
a peaceful parade by half a mil
lion laborers through downtown
streets.
One of the biggest May Day ob
servances was in Berlin, where
East and West staged rival shows
less than a mile apart.
In the Soviet sector workers
marched for hours past a review
ing stand of top Comumnist gov
ernment chiefs and Russian offi
cials. West Berliners massed in
front of the ruined Reichstag to
hear their anti-Red leaders defy
Communist encroachment.
In troubled Iran, the military
governor of Tehran banned all
demonstrations by workers and
students.
New York police also banned
the annual march there, asserting
it had become a Communistic af
fair. A meeting in downtown Un
ion Square — okayed by the po
lice in the interest of free speech
and assembly — was scheduled
instead.
1952 ALASKA FISHERY LOSS
BELLINGHAM, LB — Pacific
American Fisheries, Inc., one of
the large Alaska canned salmon,
operators, reports a net loss for
1952 equivalent to 56tf a share.
It also reported that at the end
of its fiscal year, Feb. 28, it still
had $5V6 million worth of canned
salmon on hand. It totaled more
than half of the firm’s listed cur
rent assets of $10,000,000.