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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 6 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Inaugural Ball In Nome
Tuesday Night, Jan. 20
Inaugural balls honoring Presi
dent-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower
are being given throughout the
nation and in Nome, Alaska, next
Tuesday evening.
At the inaugural ball in Wash
ington, D.C., Mamie Eisenhower
is reported to be wearing a rose
colored floor-length gown studded
with jewels.
In Nome the party will be more
informal, with a peppy dance or
estra led by Frank Schneider, Al
aska Airlines pilot. There will be
dancing and plenty of refresh
ments, the committee has an
nounced, and a good time is being
planned for all who are planning
to attend.
Soviets Accuse
Jewish Doctors
Killing Leatlers
MOSCOW, UP — The Soviet
Union Tuesday accused nine doc
tors, most of them Jews, of killing
two top Russian leaders and plot
ting the deaths of others through
faulty, treatments.
An announcement said the doc
tors, now under arrest, “incorrect
ly diagnosed” the fatal illness of
Andrei A. Zhdanov, a leading
Politburo member, and “reduced
the life” of Alexander S. Scher
bakov, head of the chief political
administration of the Soviet army>
Zhdanov died in 1948 and
Scherbakov in 1945.
The story was being discussed
everywhere, and seems destined
. to cause new and stronger feel
ings against the groups the Soviet
press calls Anglo-American war
mongers, and against Zionist or
ganizations.
The announcement said the as
serted plot was carried out on in
structions of British and Ameri
can intelligence services and
Zionist organizations.
It said an investigation will be
completed in the near future, but
meantime it had been “establish
ed that all the arrested doctors
were paid agents of foreign intel
ligence.” It declared “the major
ity of the terrorist group were
connected with the international
Jewish bourgeois - nationalist or
ganization ‘Joint’.”
(This evidently referred to the
Joint Distribution Committee, a
Jewish organization which has
sent millions of dollars to aid
European Jews. New York spokes
men said the charges, if intended
for their organization, were too
ridiculous to merit comment.
Greek Freighter and Alaska SS
Sue Each Other For $300,000
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP) — Jus
tice Sidney Smith yesterday re
served decision on claims in Ad
miralty Court totalling $600,000
arising out of a ship collision off
Nanaimo, B.C., July 26.
(Owners of the Greek freighter
Triton, which lost two of her
crew in the crash, claim $300,000
damages from Alaska Steamship
Company, Seattle, owners of the
cruise ship Baranof. Alaska Steam
claims a similar amount from the
Triton’s owners.
Japan Warns Reds
Of Violations Of
Japanese Border
TOKYO, L¥) — Japan, irritated
by “at least 20 or 30” violations
of its borders, Tuesday warned
Russia against sending warplanes
over Japanese territory.
A foreign office spokesman said
U.S. defense planes would shoot
down intruders if necessary.
The U.S. had approved Japan’s
ultimatum in advance.
Japan thus in effect rattled a
U.S. saber against its old enemy
to the north. It did not name
Russia but left no doubt that’s
the country it meant.
Shortly after the blunt warning,
Gen. Mark Clark’s headquarters
announced the Far East com
mander had ordered his defense
chiefs in Japan to take “all mea
sures necessary to prevent fur
ther violations of Japan’s security
or acts which endanger U. S.
forces.”
A Japanese government spokes
man said planes flying without
permission over Japan would be
ordered to land.
“When they don’t follow our
oTders,” Mitsuo Tanaka of the
foreign office told a news con
ference, “if necessary (we will)
shoot them down.”
Air Force Tightens
Safety Measures
In N.W. and Alaska
WASHINGTON, W — Repre
sentative Short (R-Mo) said today
a House probe into recent military
air wrecks had prompted the Air
Force to tighten safety measures
in northwestern United States and
Alaska.
Short is to be chairman of the
House Armed Forces Committee
which yesterday wound up a two
day inquiry into the deaths of 234
persons in military disasters dur
ing November and December.
Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey, dir
ector of operations, testified that
the Air Force has proposed send
ing more men and equipment to
Alaska to help out troubled planes
over mountainous terrain.
Thirty-nine persons were killed
in Alaska during November, he
said, when two C-119 “Flying
Boxcars” were diverted from reg
ular flight channels by naviga
tional mistakes and poor weather.
A “surveillance team” of air
defense radar watchers spotted
one of these off course but was
unable to warn the pilot, Ramey
said. As a result the teams will
be increased and supplied with
more modern equipment to guide
pilots, he said.
Short told a reporter the com
mittee probe prompted this meas
ure in Alaska and efforts to get
more directional equipment in
northwestern United States.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Force chief of staff, told the com
mittee servicemen were not dis
couraged from hitching rides on
military transports because, he
said, “hitchhiking in automobiles
is more dangerous than in the
air.”
Superforts and Fighter
Bombers Continue Air
Blows On Red Targets
SEOUL, UP) — The U.S. Fifth
Air Force said U.S. Sabre jets
destroyed at least eight Commu
nist Mig-15 fighters today in a
series of savage air battles over
North Korea.
Night - flying Superforts plas
tered the Sinanju area with 110
tons of bombs early this morning.
Almost before the smoke and de
bris settled, 150 Air Force and j
Marine fighter-bombers made an
other pulverizing attack.
The fighter-bombers swooped
in at low level and virtually laid
their bombs on railroad bridges
across the Chohon and Taeryong
Rivers. Pilots reported gaping
holes were blasted in the bridges
and twisted spans dropped into
the waters below.
On the ground, patrol actions
flared all across the war-torn pen
insula. No major engagements
were reported.
Portland and
Seattle Chambers
PledgeCooperation
JUNEAU, (ff\—A call for an ex
panded “keep Alaska growing”
program highlighted the initial
meeting of the All-Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce Monday.
Some 100 persons representing
more than a score of the terri
tory’s cities, were told they must
present a united front against mu
tual problems.
Representatives of Seattle and
Portland Chambers of Commerce
also attended the opening session
of the five-day meeting.
Jack Anderson, all - Alaska
president and head of the Anchor
age Chamber declared in the key
note address Alaskans “must play
a much bigger role in handling
not only our own community af
fairs but territorial affairs as
well.”
Representatives of Seattle and
Portland Chambers of Commerce
promised cooperation with Alas
ka cities.
Don Smith, vice president of
the United States National Bank
of Portland, said the Portland
Chamber would continue to co
operate in developing trade. Port
land is particularly interested in
being the outlet for Alaska-manu
factured goods, he said.
A1 Shyman, chairman of the
Alaska Division of the Seattle
Chamber, said besides the ties of
friendship Seattle has some “very
selfish and practical reasons” for
wanting to cooperate with Alaska
cities.
Delegates from cities through
out the Territory made reports.
Army Medic's First Combat
Casually Is His Twin Brother
SEOUL, MB — A young U S.
Army medic treated his first com
bat casualty in Korea recently
without at first realizing the dy
ing soldier was his twin brother.
Pvt. Irwin Rietz, 21, Rock Is
land, 111., did not recognize his
twin brother until he and two
other soldiers lifted the brother
Edwin, into a litter jeep. Edwin
died later an at aid station.
In His Last Major Message to Congress
Pres. Truman Predicts “Unparalleled
Prosperity” For U.S. Throughout 1953
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S.E. Alaska Mayors
Meet In Convention
JUNEAU, W) — Officials of the
Southeast Alaska Mayors’ Con
ference rejected for “economic”
reasons Monday a league of Al
aska cities proposal that it join
the league.
The officials, from eight com
munities, ranging in size from
Juneau to Hoonah, also agreed on
a 14-point program for submission
to the Territorial Legislature and
to Congress. *
The legislative program is
headed by a request for “100 per
cent return to municipalities” of
the Territorial Business License
tax receipts, instead of the pres
ent 60 per cent. The mayors con
tend the revenues under the 1949
tax distribution fail to equal the
towns’ previous take.
The conference also went on
record against any territorial sales
tax.
Other proposals of the con
ference included a request that
Congress turn over to the Terri
tory public lands now under the
jurisdiction of the Land Manage
ment Bureau, which the officials
said would simplify city planning
for tidelands development;
Opposition to proposals for “fis
cal independence” for school dis
tricts; traffic safety legislation to
require examinations for drivers;
mandatory liability insurance for
motorists; authority for magis
trates to revoke licenses, boost
fines, mete sentences and sell im
pounded cars.
Weather Bad and Whales
Un-cooperative So Heart
Specialists Return Home
LA JOLLA, Calif., IP) — The
weather and the great gray
whales, that range up to 40 tons
and 50 feet in length, failed to
cooperate Tuesday with a leading
heart specialist and scientists in
their attempt to record the heart
beats of tlje mammals.
Dr. Paul D. White, director of
the University of Oceanography
here tried for the last two days to
harpoon one of the whales off
shore, but visibility was so poor
that very few of the mammals
were sighted. Those that were
seemed more concerned with
reaching their mating grounds in
southern waters than aiding the
advancement of science.
A study of the heart beat of
whales is expected to be of value
in studying the human heart, Dr.
White says. He has already coun7
ted the heart beats of smaller
whales in Alasl4i waters last sum
mer. They beat about 15 a min
ute.
Dr. White hopes to try to record
the heart beats of the gray whales
again next year. He left yester
day night for Boston.
12 Crewmen Killed In B-50 Crash
OROVILLE, California, (PI—An
Air Force B-50 bomber crashed
yesterday in a rice, field, killing
all 12 crewmen.
The Air Force tentatively laid
the blame for the crash on mech
anical trouble.
(By the Associated Press)
President Truman, in his econ
omic message tdoay —
1. Foresaw prosperity, high em
ployment through 1953.
2. Cautioned 1954-6 will bring
“serious” threat of slump.
3. Urged the nation to shoot for
$500 - billion - a - year production
goal.
4. Ignored split in his economic
council on anti-inflation policy.
By Sterling F. Green
WASHINGTON, UP) —President
Truman told the country today it
can achieve production of half
a trillion dollars annually within
a decade — if it beats a poten
tially serious threat of depression
after this year.
In his last major message to
Congress, the annual economic re
port, Truman pictured today’s
“unparalleled prosperity,” high
employment, and stable prices as
being good throughout 1953. But
he said that thereafter:
“We may face in the future,
particularly when defense spend
ing can safely be reduced, more
serious tests of our ability to avoid
depression than those which have
occurred since World War II.”
With “timely and intelligent”
action, he said, the difficulties can
be met and 10 years from now
America can be producing goods
and services at the rate of 475 to
500 billion dollars a year, 40 per
cent above the present level of
$345 billion.
The President ignored a 2 to 1
split within his council of econom
ic advisers which, it developed,
has disagreed on the outlook for
deflation in the next three years
when defense spending is due to
slack off.
The clash was disclosed in the
council’s economic review, sent
to Congress along with the White
House message. Chairman Leon
Keyserling and the newest mem
ber, Robert C. Turner, called for
a start on private and government
measures to prevent possible post
defense unemployment and slack
markets from spinning into “a
more serious deflationary spiral.”
Vice Chairman John D. Clark
dissented tartly and, tersely. He
foresees no business condition
changes, he said in a footnote,
which are “threatening enough to
require new counter-deflationary
action by the government.”
The President did not deliver
the 15,009-word message in per
son, but sent it to the capital to be
read by clerks.
Truman stuck to his policy pf
making no specific recommenda
tions to the new Congress. In tone,
however, his message followed
that of Keyserling and Turner.
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Marshal Tilo Elected First
President of Yugoslavia
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Ufl —
Premier Marshal Tito was elected
Communist Yugoslavia’s 1st presi
dent today by a parliament acting
under a new constitution. The
wartime partisan leader ‘promised
in an acceptance speech to step up
industrialization and improve liv
ing standards.