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VOL. LV No. 94 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1953 Per Copy—15j
O’Shea and Party j
.Here to Prepare
Nome Publicity
New York’s Michael (“Mike”)
O’Shea returned to Nome via Al
aska Airlines for his second visit
within six weeks.
Mike flew up from Gotham via
Hollywood with Danton Walker,
celebrated New York Daily News
columnist and writer for Screen
land, along with Mike’s personal
photographer, Peter Perri (whose
work has appeared in LIFE,
LOOK, and every other major
national publication).
In Hollywood the O’Shea unit
met Miss Dorothy Arnold, noted
stage, screen, TV and nightclub
star, and handsome Michael Ray
hill, seen in the forthcoming Jose
Ferrer-Zsa Zsa Gabor film, “Mou
lin Rouge,” along with talented
Miss Lynn Bowers, member of
the Louella Parsons staff, a
monthly contributor to SCREEN
LAND and the West Coast head of
Celebrity Service (the only U.S.
research-information bureau deal
ing with world-famous celebrities,
with branches in New York, Lon
don, Paris and Rome).
This group of six celebrities
will stay in Nome until Sunday
and will photograph Nome and
the nearby areas for publicity
promotion layouts in such diverse
national magazines as SCREEN
LAND, SILVER SCREEN, IN
SIDE TV, MOVIELAND, TV CAR
NIVAL, PEOPLE TODAY, TV
SHOW and others, in an attempt
to help exploit Nome as a popular
tourist resort area.
The NVA has made all the ar
rangements for the publicity
campaign devised by Mike O’Shea,
who, like General MacArthur,
“did return.”
Mr. Danton Walker will give
his more than 25,000,000 readers
his personal opinions and obser
vations about Nome and Alaska in
general. He will be the first New
York syndicated columnist to do
so.
Eisenhower Signs Measure
Permitting Admittance
214,000 Refugees to U.S.
WASHINGTON, OH — President
Eisenhower signed into law today
a bill to admit 214,000 extra re
fugees, orphans and other allies
into the United States in the next
three years.
He called the legislation “a sig
nificant humanitarian act and an
important contribution toward
greater understanding and coop
eration among the nations of the
free world.”
The bill finally sent to the
President is a compromise mea
sure containing many provisions
aimed at screening out any Com
munist agents among the immi
grants to be admitted over and
above the regular quotas.
Sen. McCarran (D-Nev) led a
fight against the measure but
finally accepted the rewritten ver
sion, which will allow the ad
mission of a somewhat smaller
number of aliens than Eisenhower
originally proposed and also will
lengthen the period of the pro
gram from two to three years.
Some American
POWs Choose To
Stay With Reds
FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea,
UPi — Liberated Americans Friday
disclosed for the first time that
some American prisoners of war
—and at least one Briton—have
swapped freedom for life under
Communist rule.
An Ohio soldier said three Am
ericans in his group went back
even as their truck rumbled to
ward the Panmunjom exchange
site.
Many South Koreans also' were
reported to have chosen to re
main in the north, some as the
result of intense Communist pro
paganda, others because they be
lieved Chinese warnings they
would be killed if they returned.
Two U.S. soldiers just released
from the same North Korean
stockade said they knew of about
seven Americans who had refused
repatriation—apparently the vic
tims of relentless Red propaganda
lectures.
Pfc. Thomas R. Murray of Bal
timore, Md., who said he knew
“about” seven Anq^ricans at Pyok
tong who turned down repatria
tion, described them as “the big
gest ‘progressives’ in camp;”
“Progressives” is a term the
Allied prisoners tagged on fellow
captives who swallowed Com
munist propaganda.
Under the armistice terms, pri
soners—both Allied and Red —
who refuse repatriation are to be
turned over to a five nation com
mission, during which time agents
from their homelands will have a
chance to convince them tcf re
turn.
If they continue to refuse re
patriation they will be freed
within six months after the arm
istice was signed.
311 of 3,313 American
Prisoners Returned By
Communists Friday Night
PANMUNJOM, UP) —The U. N.
Command said the Reds will re
turn 406 Allied prisoners Satur
day, of which 90 are Americans,
25 British, 35 Turks, and 256
South Koreans.
Ninety will be the greatest
number of Americans to be re
turned since the prisoner ex
change began Aug. 5.
Altogether the Communists
have returned 311 Americans by
Friday night—roughly one-tenth
of the 3,313 Americans the Com
munists say they hold.
The U. N. C. Will return 2,759
Reds Friday, making a total of
more than 11,000 Reds repatri
ated.
344,280 Cases of Canned Salmon
Arrive Puget Sound from Alaska
SEATTLE, UP)—The season’s big
gest load of Alaska salmon ar
rived in the Puget Sound area
this week in the holds of the Alas
ka Steamship Company’s freighter
Nadina . Aboard were 344,280
cases of salmon from Naknek,
Nushagak and Ikaten Bay in the
Bristol -Bay area. About half the
fish cargo was to be unloaded at
Bellingham and Blaine, and the
rest at Seattle.
A.R.C. Extends
Dexter Road
To Basin Creek
The Alaska Road Commission
has been busy improving the Dex
ter Road this season. The “dead
man’s turn” has been eliminated
and a new road built to parallel
the Nome River, replacing a low
er road and connecting with the
railroad.
It is now possible to drive 16
miles to Basin Creek on the pro
jected road to Taylor endorsed by
the Chamber of Commerce recent
ly.
This road has the unanimous
approval of the NWA Chamber of
Commerce, the ARC, Irving Reed,
territorial highway engineer, A. F.
Ghiglione, commissioner of Alas
kan roads; Ben Young, Second
Division representative on the
Board of Road Commissioners;
and Howard Lyng, senior senator
from the Second Division.
This road will join the 40 miles
of Kougarok road at Bunker Hill,
paralleling the old railroad, which
is to be abandoned. The chamber
states that it feels that this will
serve more immediate prospectors
and miners with more new coun
try than any other road possible,
and that it would be the first leg
in the proposed road connecting
Bering Sea with Fairbanks.
Governors Fail to Adopt
Resolution Favoring
Statehood for Territories
SEATTLE, UR — For the first
time in seven years,, the National
Governors’ Conference failed to
adopt a resolution backing state
hood for Alaska and Hawaii.
None was presented for the gov
ernor’s consideration on Alaska,
and the one submitted for Hawaii
failed to get out of the resolu
tions committee.
The national Republican admin
istration’s policy has been to favor
statehood for Hawaii but not for
Alaska.
Gov. Frank Heintzleman of
Alaska, an Eisenhower appointee,
apparently followed that policy in
not presenting the usual Alaska
resolution to the Governors’ con
ference this years.
And, since the national Demo
cratic policy favors statehood for
both Hawaii and Alaska, the
Democratic governors on the reso
lutions committee apparently kill
ed the resolution supporting Ha
waii because there was no sim
ilar resolution backing Alaska.
The conference closed yester
day.
Report 12 North Korean Officials
Prosecuted For Planning The
Overthrow of Communist Regime
TOKYO, UP) — The Communist
radio at Pyongyang said tonight
12 high North Korean officials
have been prosecuted for planning
to overthrow the Communist reg
ime and spying for U. S. secret
agents.
The North Korean radio said
among the 12 officials were Rhee
Syng Yop, former people’s censor
ship committee chairman and Pak
Hong Wong, former premier and
foreign minister.
Senate Interior Committee Will
Visit Nome While In Alaska To
Consider Proposals For Statehood
Dulles and Rhee Agree
On Initial Draft of
Korean-U.S. Security Pact
SEOUL, UP)—Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and President
Syngman Rhee will initial the
draft of a security treaty between
the United States and South
Korea tomorrow,
tomorrow.
The announcement was made
by members of Dulles’ party and
the office of President Rhee.
Rhee has demanded the treaty
as one condition for South Korea
going along with an armistice in
Korea. President Eisenhower pro
mised in June to negotiate a se
curity pact, which still must be
approved by the U.S. Senate.
The treaty was reported pat
terned closely after the security
pact between the United States
and the Philippines. It provides
that the U.S. will come to the aid
of South Korea in the event of
new Communist aggression. It
also provides for basing Ameri
can troops in South Korea.
Entertainment Tax Relief
In Prospect Despite Veto -
By President Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, 0?) — The en
tertainment industry seemed
likely today to get some tax re
lief next year despite President
Eisenhower’s veto to a bill re
pealing the tax on movie admis
sions.
Congressional sources said that
the most probable action next
year would be a reduction from
20 per cent to 10 per cent in the
tax on motion picture tickets and
other admissions. The vetoed bill
applied to motion pictures only.
President Eisenhower, using his
veto power for the first time
against a major act of Congress,
said he would recommend some
reduction in the admissions tax
as part of a broad revision of
federal excise taxes next year.
Crooner Dick Haymes
Arrested On Charge of
Violating Immigration Act
LOS ANGELES, (#) — Crooner
Dick Haymes today awaits a hear
ing in about two weeks that may
mean deportation to his native
Argentina.
Immigration officials arrested
the 34-year-old singer yesterday
on a charge of entering the United
States illegally last June 1 after
a Honolulu sojourn with his new
est heart interest, actress Rita
Hayworth.
Haymes posted a $500 surety
bond pending the hearing. He said
the arrest was just a technicality
and expressed belief it could be
straightened out.
The McCarran Immigration Act,
adopted last year, provides that
an alien who leaves continental
United States may not re-enter.
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, ffi-Two' state
hood proposals, an ’ elective gov
ernor 'bill and “anything else they
want to bring up” will be con
sidered by the Senate Interior
Committee during its 10-day visit
to Alaska, a committee aide said
yesterday.
The committee will leave Seat
tle Sunday, August 16.
Kirkley Coulter, a committee
clerk who has been arranging
itinerary and procedure, said the
statehood proposals to be consid
ered would be one introduced
earlier this year by Delegate Bart
lett and Rep. Saylor (R-Pa) and
approved by the House Interior
Committee, and another approved
by the Senate committee last year.
Major differences between the
two bills are the more generous
provisions of the House version.
It would give Alaska its choice of
100 million acres of land within
25 years of admission as a state.
The Senate bill would grant about
20 million acres.
The House bill also would give
the new state $15 million for
roads, harbors and land surveys
and would provide that the fed
eral government continue for five
years to care for those Alaskan
insane it now handles. The Senate
•bill contains neither of these pro
visions.
The elective governor bill was
introduced earlier this year .by
Sen. Butler (R-Neb), who will
conduct the Alaska hearings. A
similar bill was tabled by the
House committee.
Coulter said only one rule has
been adopted thus far concerning
conduct of the hearings. This bars
testimony by any person who has
previously testified. He said it
may also be necessary to set time
limits on witnesses.
In addition to Sen. Butler and
Coulter, the hearings will be at
tended by Sens. Barrett (R-Wyo),
Anderson (D-NMex), Clements
(D-Ky), Jackson (D-Wash), and
possibly, Murray (D-Mont). Wil
liam Strand, former Alaska news
paperman and now director of the
Office of Territories, will accom
pany the committee.
The committee will be in Point
Barrow and Nome Friday, Aug.
21, but it has not been determined
whether hearings will be held in
those communities.
Alaska Telephone Corp. of Juneau
Agrees to Pay Government
Toll Charges for Use of ACS
JUNEAU, UP—A suit for $18,219
filed by the government against
the Alaska Telephone Corpora
tion has been settled out of court,
it was disclosed Thursday in a
stipulation filed in Juneau by
Elton B. Jones, company presi
dent, and Patrick Gilmore, dis
trict attorney.
The corporation agreed to pay
$2,500 within 10 days and $300
monthly. The liability consists
primarily of toll charges for use
of Alaska Communication System
facilities.