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__OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 147 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1952 Per Copy—15^
7 Men Shot Down
In Battle With
One Gunman
NEW YORK, (/P)—Seven men
were shot down Wednesday as a
swaggering Cleveland gunman
fought a furious running gun bat
tle with police through the Times
Square area.
The Negro gunman, Clarence
O. Sims, finally spun to the pave
ment, badly wounded by a coolly
firing patrolman, just as he was
about to make his getaway. Three
policemen were seriously wound
ed. Three passers-by frantically
hunting cover in the hail of bul
lets, were nicked.
Police said Sims has triggered
dozens of holdups in the New
York area during the past year.
Cleveland police want him on an
armed robbery charge. He told
police here he heads the “shot
gun gang” there.
One of his pals was arrested in
the melee that made Eighth Av
enue as dangerous for a while as
a rampaging frontier town on a j
Saturday night.
Navy Warplanes Carry
Out Attacks Right At
Manchuria’s Doorstep
By SAM SUMMERLIN
SEOUL, (/P) — U.S. Navy war
planes smashed four big Com
munist rail and supply targets on
the doorstep of Manchuria Tues
day in the biggest seaborne raid
of the Korean war.
One of the strikes carried Am
erican planes on their northern
most raid of the war, to the lim
its of a Korean strip that juts up
into Manchuria and is surrounded
on three sides by that Chinese
Red province.
It also carried the Navy planes
within 12 miles of Soviet Siberia
and almost as far north as the
Russian port, Vladivostok, which
lies to the east.
Panther jets, Sky Raiders and
Corsairs from the carriers Oris
kany, Bon Homme Richard and
Essex destroyed round houses,
turn tables, locomotives, box cars
and buildings and supplies.
Honyung, the northernmost
target, is within a few hundred
yards of the Manchurian border
and is the port of entry to Korea
for the major east coast rail lines.
Navy pilots said the vital rail
trunk there was wiped out and
Honyung was blacked out by
smoke from raging fires.
The Navy planes roared out in
352 individual flights. *
SEN. RUSSEL CALLS FOR
MORE AUSTRALIA, CANADA
TROOPS FOR WAR IN KOREA
SEA ISLAND, Ga., <(/P) — Sen.
Richard B. Russell of Georgia
Tuesday night called on Austra
lia, Canada and New Zealand for
more troops for the fighting in
Korea and said he favored a
naval blockade of Red China.
Trail Party Unable
Find Bodies At
Wreck of C-124
HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN
COMMAND, (INS) — Six beard
ed members of a military glacier
trail party returned here Tues
day afternoon from the scene of
the C-124 Globemaster crash high
on Mt. Gannett to tell of a fruit
less search for bodies and of their
own seven-day battle with heavy
blizzards and sub-zero weather.
Results of the hazardous trek
high on Surprise Glacier were
summed up by Capt. Alan Sklar,
veteran para-doctor of the 10th
Rescue group; who said, “When
you view the snow covered scene
of the wreck and visualize what
must have happened, it is not sur
prising that the sudden impact
and resulting explosion left no
trace of anything.”
The trail party was flown here
from their camp at the 5700 foot
level on the glacier by three 10th
Rescue group helicopters, two
passengers to each aircraft. They
were an extremely heavy load for
the ’copters, operating about 600
feet above their maximum oper
ating limits.
Capt. William D. Hackett, 196th
Infantry regiment, headed the
trail crew and he said of the
wreck scene: “The only part of
the C-124 identifiable was the
rudder and horizontal stabilizer,
resting deep in the snow on a 20
degree slope. They were charred
and the fabric burned off. It
looked like the aircraft struck a
sheer cliff about 1,000 feet high
er and the tail section dfdpped
down.” :
“Throughout, we were plagued
with incessant high winds blow
ing down the glacier. They rose
to as high as 65 or 70 miles per
hour and created' a constant prob
lem of driftihg snow. It seems
like we were always digging our
tent out. Another thing which
made our jobs difficult was that
there were so few hours of day
light. We almost developed bed
sores since we spent so much
time in the ‘sack’ to keep warm.”
Alaska Steam Gets
OK to Sail All Ships
A1 Shyman, chairman of the
Alaska Lifeline Committee, today
sent the following wire to Larry
Galvin, president of the North
western Alaska Chamber of Com
merce:
..“At noon today Maxie Weis
barth advised that Alaska
Steamship line could sail all
vessels now in Seattle port as
‘relief ships,’ leaving sailing
time up to Alaska Steamship
Co. Both freighter and passen
ger ships already scheduled to
leave Dec. 19 covering both
Southeastern and Southwestern
Alaska.”
Ship Lines Said To
Encourage Crime
By Gutlessness
NEW YORK, (/P) — The city’s
shipping industry today had a
police commissioner’s challenge
that it replace “complacence”
with “guts” in dealing with the
waterfront’s 350-miUion-dollar-a
year rackets.
Commissioner George P. Mona
ghan turned on members of the
seven billion dollar industry —
which gives New York the
world’s greatest harbor — in a
sharply worded statement last
night.
Monaghan said shipping firms
“encourage lawlessness” on the
piers, and he described as “sheer
mockery” the testimony by some
industry officials before the New
York State Crime Commission
that waterfront police protection
was inadequate.
The commissioner’s blast came
after the Crime Commission had
recessed until next Monday its
hearings into crime on the 700
miles of docks in New York and
New Jersey composing the Port
of New York.
Industry officials in the five
days of public hearings said they
were forced to hire ex-convicts
under threats of wildcat strikes,
that they found it necessary to
make cash “gifts” to pier bosses
for the preservation of waterfont
peace, and that they closed their
eyes to thefts and other rackets
lest longshoremen quit work in
protest. 4
The commissioner said shipping
officials’ testimony falsely “im
plied that the source of their
trouble was the: failure to get
protection fromthe city and
statfe.”: ... . • .
“It is complacence of the . steam
ship lines and their acquiesence
in improper practices that have
made it difficult fbr' authorities
to enforce law and order on the
waterfront,” said Monaghan.
Contractors Asked to Bid
On $240 Million Worth
Of Alaska Construction
SAN FRANCISCO, (ff) — West
Coast construction contractors
have been, asked to make rush
bids on Alaska military contracts
worth 240 million dollars.
Col. L. H. Foote, head o*f the
Corps of Engineers in Alaska
district, said all bids would have
to be completed by April. This
limit was set to conform with
Alaska’s weather, which permits
outside work only during the
months between April and Octo
ber.
The projects offered involve all
types of construction, including
air bases, roads, docks, power
plants, office buildings, housing,
and everything else that goes
with military bases.
Eisenhower Asks
M’Arthur’s Views
On Korean War
By don whitehead
ABOARD U.S.S. HELENA, En
route tp Hawaii, {JPf—President
elect Dwight Eisenhower is -will
ing to hear any plan his old com
mander, Clem Douglas MacAr
tfrur, may. have for ending the
Korean war.
An exchange of messages, an
nounced yesterday aboard this
heavy cruiser carrying the Presi
dent-elect and members of his
projected administration back to
the U.S., cleared the way for a
meeting between Eisenhower and
MacArthur.
It also appeared to dissipate
whatever coolness had developed
between the two former chiefs of
staff during the presidential cam
paign.
The exchange followed MacAr
thur’s speech Friday, when he
told the National Association of
Manufacturers in New York,
“There is a clear and definite sol
ution to the Korean conflict”
without unduly increasing casual
ties or furthering the risk of
world war.
Eisenhower quickly sent a
radiogram to MacArthur saying
he and his advisers were in the
process of “outlining a future
program” aimed at ultimate peace
in Korea. He said he wanted Mac
Arthur’s views.
This exchange appeared to be
more th’an the President - elect
asking for MacArthur’s Korean
peace plan. It seemed aboard this
ship that it was a diplomatic
move by Eisenhower to heal the
breach and give his administra
tion the benefit of -MacArthur’s
long experience in dealing with
Far East matters.
MacArthur said:
“This is the first time that, the
slightest official' interest in my
counsel has been evidenced since
my" return.1’
. This appeared to be a rap by
the five-star general at President
Truman, who fired him on April
10, 1951, as Allied commander in
the Far East because he was “un
able to give his wholehearted sup
port” to U.S. and U.N. policies.
It was noted, too, that Mac
Arthur’s message said, “My best
to you, Ike, as always.”
NEW YORK, (JP)—Fifteen col
leges ended the 1952 football sea
son -unbeaten and untied.
Maryland State remained in the
select group Saturday by defeat
ing North Carolina A & T, 10-7,
for its seventh straight. But Vir
ginia State dropped out by losing
to Florida A &' M 29-7 in a game
billed as the mythical Negro col
lege championship.
The unbeaten and untied teams
included only Idaho State from
the West.
OSI Nab Two Who
Would Sell Secret
Of F-86 Sabre Jet
By STAN CARTER
TOKYO, {/P) — An Air Force
lieutenant who played along
brought about the arrest of two
sergeants on charges of trying to
sell U.S. Sabre jet secrets.
Details of the investigation and
September arrests of the two,
Staff Sgt. Guiseppe Cascio, 34,
and Sgt. John P. Jones, 22, were
disclosed today for the first time
ip records made available to the
Associated Press by reliable
sources who cannot be named.
They disclosed:
Lt. William L. Murphy ^>f Up
per Darby, Pa., pretended to plot
with the sergeants while tape re
cordings were made. The ser
geants were arrested before they
made contact with a Communist
agent and the secret information
was saved.
Cascio is under mental obser
vation in Tokyo, pending a deci
sion whether he will be tried by
a court martial. The maximum
penalty is life imprisonment if
convicted.
Jones has been declared insane
and returned to the U.S.
Official records disclosed that
Air Force Office of Special In
vestigations (OSI) agents knew a
secret document giving data on
the F-86E type Sabre jet was
going to be stolen before it was
ever taken. The document was
genuine. The Air Force made ho
attempt to fake it.
Cascio, whom OSI agents be
lieved to be the originator of the
plot, found nobody to buy the
secret document.
Cascio is charged also with 16
counts of illegal dealing in $46,000
Military Payment Certificates
script used by military personnel
in . Japan and Korea. .
McCutcheon and Hassman
Plead Innocent of Violating
Territorial Banking Laws
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Pleas of
innocent to each of seven counts
of an indictment charging them
with violation of territorial bank
ing laws were entered in Third
District Court Tuesday for Stan
ley McCutcheon and A. U. Hass
man.
Since the counts pending
against them are all misdemean
ors, their attorney was permitted
to enter pleas for them.
Meanwhile, argument on a de
fense motion to dismiss the in
dictment, scheduled to be heard
last Monday, were postponed in
definitely.
Both men were indicted by the
federal grand jury last month on
charges of improper banking pro
cedure on loans and failure to
comply with orders from the
Territorial Banking oBard.
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