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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV .No. 110 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1953Per Copy—15^
McCarthy Believes Reds
Have Complete Tie-in with
Government Departments
NEW YORK, (£1—Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy (R-Wis) conferred
three hours today with Secretary
of the Army Robert Stevens and
said afterwards he is convinced
there is a “complete tie-in Com
munist infiltration in government
departments.”
McCarthy is chairman of the
Senate permanent Investigations
subcommittee holding closed hear
ings in New York on possible
Communist influences in the
armed services and on Commun
ism among Americans employed
by the United Nations.
Attention Nome Public
The City of Nome will conduct
a rat extermination program,
starting today. Poison baits will
be placed at the City Dump, the
Sea-wall, as well as in business
and residential areas.
The bait in the business and res
idential areas will be contained
in white paper bags and labeled
"POISON" and will be set out at
6:00 P.M. of this date until 9:00
A.M. tomorrow, when they shall
be picked up.
Parents and dog owners are es
pecially warned of this situation.
City of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk.
Bulldog Attacks Helicopter
TULSA, Okla., UP)—Tuffy, pet
bulldog of a local airport, is suf
fering a broken leg and nearly
severed ear today.
Yesterday he attacked the whirl
ing tail rotor of a helicopter. Total
damage to the craft was $1,500.
That included a broken propellor.
H. F. Harper Dies
Of Heart Attack
SEATTLE, UP) — Harold Fred
Harper, 52, Nome, Alaska, busi
nessman, died enroute to King
County Hospital Tuesday morning
Virginia Street. He and his wife
had been scheduled to leave for
Alaska today.
Harper has been in business
in Nome for over 20 years and has
been a very active civic leader
in the community.
He has served on the Nome City
Council, is past president of the
Nome Chamber of Commerce and
a board member for many years.
He was a Boy Scout commmit
teeman, a member of the Nome
Volunteer Fire Department, and
at the time of his death was head
of the Civilian Defense program
for the area.
Harper was a member of Anvil
Lodge F and A M and a Rotarian.
His funeral is scheduled for
Thursday afternoon at three
o’clock from the Bonney Watson
Chapel in Seattle.
Thousands of U.S. Dollars
Believed Reaching Chinese
Reds Via Hong Kong
MANILA, UP) — An American
Federation of Labor official said
Wednesday “tens of thousands of
American dollars are possibly
reaching the Chinese Reds
through American sailors in Hong
Kong.”
Richard L. G. Deverall, AFL
representative in Asia, said Chin
ese merchants “virtually invade”
U.S. naval vessels entering Hong
Kong harbor.
Interior Secretary McKay Announces
S1P/2 Million Allotted For Building
Of 16 Alaska Public Works Projects
WASHINGTON, UP)— Secretary^
of the Interior McKay announced
today the allotment of more than
$llVfc million fc/r the construction
of 16 public works projects in
Alaska and the planning of seven
additional projects.
The projects are part of a five
year public works program under
which the federal government
would put up $70 million dollars.
Local public bodies which spon
sor the projects are required to
repay half the total construction
costs.
The new construction alloca
tions are:
Fairbanks—$169,000 for a sew
age trunk line and lift station;
$2,000,000 for a new water dis
tribution system, and $600,000 for
a new eight-classroom school
building.
Ketchikan — $236,900 for im
provements to the water supply
and distribution system and $1,
322,000 for street improvements.
Cordova—$793,500 for the con
struction and equipment of a two
story reinforced concrete or mas
onry and steel frame school build
ing.
Anchorage— $1,102,000 for the
construction and equipping of a
22 - classroom concrete school
building.
Silka — $662,000 for the con
struction and equipping of two
reinforced concrete additions to
the school now under construc
tion.
Seward—$951,000 for the con
struction and equipping of a re
inforced concrete and masonry
high school facility.
Wasilla—$500,000 for remodel
ing an existing frame school build
ing and construction and equip
ping of a two-story reinforced
concrete addition.
Kodiak—$600,000 for the con
struction and equipping of a one
story reinforced concrete, fire re
sistant frame high school addi
tion to the grade school now under
construction. •
Other public works in College,
Valdez, Turnagain Heights, Lloyd
Homes (adjacent to Ketchikan),
and Homer.
The advance planning alloca
tions are in Anvik, Fort Yukon,
Juneau, College, Skagway, and
Anchorage.
The allocations are for such
projects as schools, streets, and
utilities.
Man In Seattle Hires Men
For Fairbanks Firm That
Hadn’t Requested Them
SEATTLE, L®—Thomas Martin,
Jr., 25, was held in jail here on
grand larceny charges, on com
plaint of a man who said he was
hired by Martin for work at Fair
banks.
In Fairbanks, a contractor said
Monday 14 carpenters arrived by
plane from Seattle, expecting to
work for a firm that hadn’t re
quested them.
Martin was arrested on grand
larceny warrent. The complaint
signed by Bruno E. Sears of Seat
tle said Martin got $80 from
Sears after hiring him for a job
with the Reed and Martin Con
struction Co. of Fairbanks. Mar
tin was held in lieu of $3,000 bail.
The man under arrest is no re
lation to Lloyd Martin of the con
struction company.
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FAIRBANKS, OP— Eight car
penters and two bricklayers who
were stranded here after a flight
from Seattle on a promise of jobs
that do not exist faced housing
and transportation emergencies
today.
The men said the union hiring
hall through which they were
cleared in Seattle would not as
sume responsibility for their
plight and the commercial airline
on which they traveled insisted on
payment of fares for their return.
Stevenson Calls
For Peace Parley
Efforts With Reds
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO, UP—Eisenhower ad
ministration officials were silent
today on a proposal by Adlai E.
Stevenson that the United States
seize the cold war initiative by
offering Russia a double - dyed
non-aggression pact and a chance
to agree on disarmament. *
Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic
nominee, told a cheering throng
of Democrats who overflowed
Chicago’s 3,650-seat Civic Opera
House last night that “the door
to the conference room is the door
to peace.”
The former Illinois governor
laid down — with the backing of
former President Truman, Sen.
Sparkman (D-Ala> and other party
leaders — a challenge to Presi
dent Eisenhower to “think afresh”
about offering the Soviets “dura
ble assurances of non-aggression.”
If Russia puts impossible condi
tions on the acceptance of any
non-aggression guarantee or de
clines to participate in an effective
disarmament plan, Stevenson said
this would saddle onto Moscow
the blame for continuance of the
cold war.
There was no immediate reac
tion from Eisenhower’s summer
headquarters in Denver, the Uni
ted Nations delegation in New
York or official circles in Wash
ington to the Democratic leader’s
suggestion.
In an interview, Sparkman in
terpreted Stevenson’s statements
as “a challenge to Russia to sit
down with us at the conference
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‘Col. Williams Day,’ Sept. 23, To Honor
Cooperation Of Nome Military In Civil
Affairs, Announced At C. of C. Meeting
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Max Conrad Breaks Own
Transcontinental Record
In 22 Hours, 24 Minutes
NEW YORK, UP) — Max Conrad
broke his own non-stop transcon
tinental light plane record yes
terday when he flew over La
Guardia Field 22 hours and 24
minutes after leaving San Fran
cisco. He was 40 minutes faster
than his Own previous record.
Conrad'is from Winona, Minn.,
and has just completed an air
tour of the 48 state capitals.
N. Korean POWs
Protest Communist
Observers Angrily
PANMUNJOM, UP) — Anti-Com
munist North Korean and Chinese
prisoners demonstrated violently
today against Communist observ
ers at their compounds in the de
militarized zone.
Prisoners in all five stockades
hurled stones and screamed, “Kill
them, kill the Communists,” as
Red observer teams drove off for
their headquarters at Kaesong, a
spokesman for the Indian com
mand said. Indian troops guard
the prisoners.
It was the first outbreak since
the Indians took added precautions
to guard against violence two days
ago. At that time they stretched
canvas across the barbed wire
fences in front of the compounds
and moved the observers farther
back from the stockades.
The Indian spokesman also said
four more North Koreans have
changed their minds about repa
triation and asked to be returned
to their homes. This makes 13
North Koreans and 1 Chinese who
have made the switch.
The U.N. Command Wednesday
delivered to Indian custody about
2,000 North Koreans who refused
repatriation and said 2,000 Chin
ese would be handed over Thurs
day.
Today’s delivery raised to 9,600
the number of anti-Communist
POWs turned over to the Indians.
About 14,000 are awaiting deliv
ery.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Command
said it will press for an accounting
of 3,404 U.N. soldiers believed
still in Red captivity.
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Eisenhower To Meet
With French Premier
DENVER, UP)— President Eisen
hower and French Premier Jo
seph Laniel will meet in Wash
ington this fall for “a general ex
change of views on matters of
common interest.”
Announcing this today, the sum
mer White House said Laniel will
be accompanied by French For
eign Minister Georges Bidault.
Almost certain to be discussed
is the French resistance to Com
munist aggression in Indo China.
S> The Nome Chamber of Com
merce had several interesting
guests at its noon luncheon yes
terday. They included General
Noyes of the Alaska National
Guard, Mr. Don Goodman and Mr.
William Bates of the Alaska De
velopment Board, Capt. Schiller,
rat control expert, Mrs. Salisbury
and Miss Mildred Keaton of the
Territorial Welfare Department.
The Nome Chamber has been
asked to submit photographs for
the “Scrambled Two,” which is a
paper to be published by personel
at Elmendorf Air Force Base. The
Alaska Visitors Association was
also asked for photographs of
points of interest in this area and
Mr. George Goshaw, director of
the AVA, consented to furnish
these.
Mr. Goshaw announced that on
Sept. 23 a “Colonel Williams Day”
will be held. This is being done to
show the Nomeites’ appreciation
to the military stationed here for
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Wreckage Found
Of Missing Plane
Of 1 Hall
KETCHIKAN, OP)—A rain-soaked
maze of matted brushland and '
twisting channels of water today
held secret the fate of a missing
New Mexico oilman and four
passengers in the two-engined
plane he was flying.
The green DeHavilland in which.
Ellis Hall of Albuquerque and his
passengers left Annette Island
Aug. 17 on a flight to Bellingham,
Wash., was found yesterday,
strewn over a half-mile area 35
miles east of here, at Boca de
Quadra, an arm of Rfevillagigedo
Channel.
The ground party found no bod
ies, only a battered suitcase.
With Hall on the flight were
his wife, two children and Pat
rick Hibbon, 17, the son of a
University of New Mexico profes
sor.
Some members of the ground
party said the plane apparently
crashed and exploded after a wing
grazed the ground as the craft
circled.
This theory was disputed, how
ever, by Herman Ludwigsen of
Ketchikan, the pilot who spotted
the wreckage from the air Tues
day.
Ludwigsen, who joined the
ground party at the scene after
reporting the discovery, said he
believed the plane, buffeted by
strong crosswinds, disintegrated in
flight, possibly at an altitude of
4,000 or 5,000 feet.
“There are no broken trees at
the scene and no signs of an ex
plosion,” Ludwigsen said. “Every
thing seemed to have fallen out of
the sky.”
Ludwigsen will get the lion’s
share of a $30,000 reward offered
by an oil company for the finding
of Hall’s craft.