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’ VOL. LV No. 44 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Three Judges
Uphold Legality
Immigration Act
SEATTLE, (if> — A three-judge
federal court has upheld the con
stitutionality of a section of the
McCarran-Walter immigration act
providing that aliens returning
from Alaska be examined by im
migration authorities.
Judges Homer T. Bone of the
Nint Circuit Court of Appeals, San
Francisco, and John C. Bowen and
William J. Lindberg of the federal
district court in Seattle ruled Sat
urday Congress was within its
rights in enacting the law.
The section had been challeng
ed by the Independent Cannery
Workers Union. The union con
tended some of its members might
be excluded from the United
States and lose their property
rights through rigid enforcement.
Many of its members, the union
said, the Filipinos who live in Se
attle but work in Alaska can
neries.
The judges held, however, that
Congress in putting the law on
books acted under the same pow
ers it has to require examination
of persons seeking re-entry to the
United States from a foreign land.
The section of the law dealing
with Alaska was the only part
affected by the judges’ ruling.
Statehood Prospects Of
Alaska, Hawaii, Subject
Of Gridiron Club Skit
WASHINGTON, (jP>—Statehood
prospects for Hawaii and Alaska
was the subject of one of the skits
Saturday night at the spring din
ner of the Washington Gridiron
Club.
President Eisenhower and many
other high government officials
were on hand for the semi-annual
lampooning session.
In the statehood skit Miss Ha
waii and an Alaska Eskimo ap
peared on the scene. As a Repub
lican chorus danced a hula the Es
kimo told about statehood pros
pects for the two territories in a
song to the tune of “Sweet
Leilani.”
The song:
“Sweet Hawaii, GOP flower,
Leaders smile on statehood for
you,
They say you’ll give them extra
power,
While I have so few.
Poor Alaska, we are foresaken,
We have no Wai-ki-ki like you,
No hula girls to charm the Senate
You are their dream come true.”
Eisenhowers Take Short Vacation
WASHINGTON, C¥) — President
Eisenhower and his family—wife,
mother-in - law, daughter-in-law,
grandchildren, plus their dog —
took off in the rain today for a
golfing vacation in Austria.
Opening Game In American
League Is Rained Out
WASHINGTON, 0?) — Rain
forced postponement today of a
Washington - New York game
which was to have opened the
American League baseball season.
Ammunition Supply In
This Country Asserted
“Dangerously Depleted”
WASHINGTON, (fl)—A Senate
inquiry into ammunition short
ages was sidetracked temporarily
today by the insistence of Sen.
Morse (Ind-Ore) that no commit
tees meet during the Senate de
bate on the submerged oil lands
issue.
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R
Me>, chairman of the investigat
ing Senate Armed Services sub
committee, called off today’s hear
ing. She said she hoped Morse
would change his position so the
inquiry could be gotten under way
again Wednesday.
Three Pentagon generals, res
ponsible for production, distribu
tion and stockpiling of Army am
munition, had been called to tes
tify today, and Sen. Smith had
said that “broad and searching
questions” were to be asked.
Sen. Byrd (D-Va) said in an
interview, meantime, that the am
munition supply in this country is
“dangerously depleted.” Although
current supplies in the Far East,
including Korea, may be adequate
he said, “There still is not enough
ammunition.”
83-Year-Old Father
Shoots Man Who Carried
Off 58-Year-Old Daughter
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., UP) —
Dr. Laban Lacy Rice, 83-year-old
lecturer and former university
president, shot and seriously
wounded a man who attempted
to carry off his daughter in a
weekend invasion of their home
in suburban Gulfport.
Joe Ciani, 46, a carpenter is in
serious condition in a hospital
from bullet wounds in the chest
and shoulder but he is expected
to recover.
Rice, who used a 50-year-old
pistol to halt Ciana, also accident
ly shot his daughter, Mrs. Kather
ine Shaw, 58, in one hand. She
was treated for the wound and
shock.
Sheriff Sid Saunders said Ciani
had been interested romantically
in Mrs. Shaw since she hired him
for some carpenter work three
years ago. Several months ago,
police were called when Ciani
went to the Gulfport home to
press his attentions on Mrs. Shaw.
Saturday night he returned to
the home, Saunders said, and
when Rice ordered him to leave,
Ciani picked up Mrs. Shaw, who
weighs about 120 pounds, and ran
out of the house with her. The
shooting followed.
After being held overnight in
jail, Rice was relased Sunday. No
charges have been filed.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Secretary Dies
NEW YORK, Iff)—Miss Malvina
Thompson, 61, secretary to Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, died yes
terday of a heart ailment at New
York Hospital.
Miss Thompson had been Mrs.
Roosevelt’s secretary for the past
quarter century.
Her death came while Mrs.
Roosevelt was participating in
ceremonies at Hyde Park, N. Y.,
commemorating the eighth anni
versary of the death of the Presi
dent.
Allies Stage Dress
Rehearsal Of
Prisoner Exchange
MUNSAN, UP) — Allied soldiers
and Marines today staged a dress
rehearsal covering every detail of
the exchange of sick and wound
ed Korean war prisoners, which
begins next Monday.
United Nations and Communist
staff officers earlier today settled
final details of the dramatic ex
change. The agreement was signed
Saturday in a ceremony at Pan
munjom.
At the signing the Reds sub
mitted their latest request for re
newal of full-scale armistice talks,
broken off by the U.N. last Oct.
8. The U.N. has not replied.
Peiping radio announced the
first convoy of sick and wounded
Allied prisoners would change
site today. The 23 vehicles will
arrive at Kaesong Thursday and
remain there four days before
the actual swap begins. The U.N.
pressed for an earlier start but
the Reds refused.
Ryan, N.Y. Longshore Boss
Arrested For Misuse
Of Union Money
NEW YORK, UP) — Joseph P.
Ryan, burly boss of east coast
longshoremen, was arrested today
on a 30-count grand larceny in
dictment accusing him of mis
using union funds. He was charg
ed specifically with theft of
$11,390 from funds of the ILA.”
Ryan, a $20,000-a-year lifetime
head of the union, had been under
grand jury investigation since last
January, when a state crime hear
ing brought out he had used union
money for personal expenses.
He conceded using union money
for a Caribbean cruise, Cadillac
cars, golf club dues and other per
sonal items, but said he later
made good the money from his
own funds.
As he stood waiting for his at
torney on a street corner this
morning outside the Criminal
Courts building, Ryan was asked
what matters concerning him the
grand jury had been probing.
“They’re talking about a sep
arate fund we had to fight the
Commies,” he said. “Every time
the Commies were active, we
had to spend money, and you
know how much money they
have.”
North Sea Spring Tides
Overrun Dutch Island
AMSTERDAM, Iff) — The North
Sea, racing through the English
Channel, under the impact of a
storm center, regained complete
control today over the island of
Duiveland, one of the worst hit
areas in the disasterous Feb. 1
floods.
On the eve of a new spring tide
which reaches its peak next Tues
day, the racing North Sea waters
overwhelmed at several posts an
inner dike guarding the 2110 acres
of reclaimed land at the island’s
eastern extremity. It had been re
claimed only four weeks ago from
the earlier flood waters.
The North Sea, in the Feb. 1
floods, submerged Schouwen and
Duiveland islands, killing 519 of
the 1,783 inhabitants.
Some of The Returning
Americans May Sound
Converted to Communism
WASHINGTON, UR — It some
American soldiers return from
prisoner of war camps talking like
converts to Communism, says the
Defense Department, they pro
bably are the victims of a “pro
paganda web.”
Some 120 Americans are among
the sick and wounded war prison
ers in Korea scheduled to be ex
changed a week from today.
Apparently looking toward that,
the Pentagon got out a “fact
sheet” last night. It described Red
treatment of prisoners — some
times harsh, sometimes soft — as
one of the Communists’ propa
ganda techniques.
Some prisoners may have been
trapped by distorted information
and others may have pretended
cooperation as an alternative to
death or torture, the statement
said.
Arthur W. Greeley Named
Alaska Regional Forester
PORTLAND, Ore., UP) — Arthur
W. Greeley will become regional
forester for Alaska succeeding B.
Frank Heintzleman whQ has been
named governor of the territory.
Greeley has been assistant to
the director of the Pacific North
west Forest and Range experi
ment station here and has been
with the U.S. Forest Service since
1932. His father, William B. Gree
ley, was chief of the Forest Ser
vice from 1920 to 1928, and later
head of the West Coast Lumber
men’s Association.
He has served on forests in
Idaho, Montana, and California
as ranger, timber management
staff officer, assistant supervisor
and supervisor.
He received his bachelor’s de
gree in forestry from the Univer
sity of Washington in 1934 and his
masters degree from Yale the
next year.
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The War In Korea —
SEOUL, UPt — A Texas jet ace
shot down another Red jet fighter
today as clear weather brought
more battles between Sabres and
Communist MIGs.
On Sunday, Allied Sabres de
stroyed seven MIGs and probably
destroyed another.
The ground war continued un
abated on the 155 - mile front,
Allied soldiers and Reds mixed in
29 small fights last night and
early today. One was only a mile
from Panmunjom, where Allied
and Communist staff officers to
day completed arrangements for
Monday’s exchange of sick and
wounded prisoners.
The battleship New Jersey re
turned to Korea action and un
limbered her 16 - inch guns on
Communist targets in Chongjin,
in deep northeast Korea. The big
guns scored seven direct hits in as
many minutes, destroying Chong
jin’s main communications build
ing, the Navy said.
Maj. James P. Hagerstrom of
Tyler, Tex., ran his MIG destruc
tion total to 6% in a dog fight
between four Sabres and eight
MIGs.
New Red Attitude
Is Repudiation Of
Stalin’s Policy
WASHINGTON, UP) — Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia said today
Russia’s new soft-spoken attitude
is repudiation of Stalin’s “whole
policy up to this time” but means
no easing of the cold war.
Tito, the only Communist chief
of state tc? have broken with the
Kremlin, said he believes Bulgaria
and Czechoslovakia are among the
weakest points in the Soviet satel
lite system in eastern Europe.
Russia’s satellites, he said, are
its “instruments of the cold war”
and to cling to them the Soviet
might shift its cold war strategy.
This shift, he said, would involve
accepting “partial successes . . .
within the whole continental
framework of Europe and Asia.”
“I believe, nevertheless,” Tito
in a copyrighted interview in the
magazine U.S. News and World
Report, “that they will concen
trate on Asia. If they come to the
conclusion that it would be diffi
cult to be successful both in Asia
and in Europe they might be in
clined to cede a little ground in
Europe but not in Asia.
A real easing of the cold war,
he said, would be signalled by
Russian willingness to unite Ger
many and agree to an Austrian
peace treaty.
Former U.S. Intelligence
Officer Pleads Guilty To
Spying For Russia
WASHINGTON, UP)—Otto Ver
ber, an Austrian-born former U.S.
Army intelligence officer, pleaded
guilty today to conspiring to spy
on American defense secrets for
Russia.
Verber, 31, entered his surprise
plea before U. S. District Judge
Alexander Holtzoff.
The judge said he would im
pose sentence later. Verber faces
a maximum of ten years in pri
son.
James C. Toomey, court - ap
pointed counsel for Kurt Ponger,
39, Verber’s co - defendant and
brother-in-law, told reporters that
his client intends to stand trial.
Verber pleaded guilty to one
of the two charges in the indict
ment against him and Ponger.
This count alleges that he and
Ponger conspired together with
others to collect information con
cerning the U.S. Army and Air
Force in Austria and in this coun
try for transmission to Russia.
Parts Plant Strike Forces
Closing 13 Ford Plants
DETROIT, UP) — Assembly lines
at 13 of the Ford Motor Co.’s 18
Ford, Mercury and Lincoln plants
across the country were closed
Monday because of a strike of
2,200 workers in a Monroe, Mich.,
parts plant.
The closing idled 47,000 of
Ford’s 130,000 production work
ers, and a Ford spokesman said
that “the total idle could easily
reach 73,000 as more of our plants
run out of parts.”
CIO United Auto Workers walk
ed out at Monroe April 1, charg
ing a speedup. Company officials
denied the accusation.