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Bloody Battles
Rage For White
Horse Hill
SEOUL, l./P) — Chinese Reds
battered their way to the top of
White Horse Mountain Friday
night and massed 16,000 fresh
troops within easy striking dis
tance of the blood-soaked hill.
, Intelligence officers said the
Communists could commit two
fresh divisions *to battle at any
time.
Bone-weary U.N. troops scram
bled right back to the top and
battled the Reds hand to hand in
a drenching rain for half an hour
before surrendering the crest
again.
A front line officer said it was
so dark on the crest that the ROK
, troops had to grope their way for
ward to close with the Reds.
He said the South Koreans had
one simple rule for fighting in
the dark: If they felt a shaved
head in the hand-to-hand fight
ing they knew it must belong to
a Chinese. That was all the identi
fication they wanted.
The Chinese surged forward in
a human sea attck. The officer
said they “stormed the north
slope with bayonets, fists, gre
nades and dirty words.”
Because of the darkness, the
big guns of both sides were silent.
Ike Will Report
Financial Status
Before Election
By DON WHITEHEAD
PHOENIX, Ariz., </P) — Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower said Friday
he will make public before the
election a report on his financial
■status.
Asked this question: “May we
have an answer directly from you
to the question whether you in
tend to make public before elec
. tion time your income tax returns
or a financial statement giving
substantially the same informa
tion.”
Eisenhower replied: “Of course.
If anyone is interested they can
have a report as soon as it is
completed. It is virtually all a
matter of public record anyway.”
This statement came after re
ports Eisenhower had no inten
tion at this time of making his
financial affairs public.
Eisenhower’s statement did not
make clear whether he intended
to open his full income tax re
turns for public inspection. But
. some of his aides said the state
ment did not mean necessarily in
come tax returns would be
opened.
They left the impression that a
financial statement of some kind
will be thrown open for inspec
tion, however, which they say
would give virtually a complete
story of the general’s financial po
sition.
PHILIPPINE "COLD" WAVE
MANILA, {JP) — Filipinos are
shivering in anticipation of a
“cold wave” the weatherman says
is due shortly.
In this tropical clime that means
f the temperature may drop to the
low 70’s.
I
Alaska’s General Election
Draws ‘Outside’ Interest
As Political Barometer
(By the Associated Press)
The shooting is just about over
in one of Alaska’s most heated
election campaigns.
The voters will make their de
cisions Tuesday for three con
tested Territorial offices and for
members of the Legislature in all
of the four divisions.
Although Alaskans, of course,
do not get to vote in the presiden
tial race, the election will draw
outside interest because of the
political cry of recent years: “As
Alaska goes, so goes the nation.”
Two Territory-wide races are
holding the center of the stage.
They are for the Territory’s non
voting seat in Congress and for
auditor.
Robert C. Reeve, Anchorage air
line operator, is the Republican
challenger for Delegate E.L. Bart
lett’s Congressional seat.
The race has drawn more in
terest than any Alaska congres
sional contest in many years be
cause of Reeve’s aggressive cam
paigning throughout the territory.
He also is the first Republican
candidate in many years whose
name is widely known in the
Territory.
Anita Garnick, Republican Ter
ritorial Senator from Juneau, is
trying to unseat Neil Moore as
auditor.
The auditor race provides one
of the strangest political chapters
in many a year. The Republican
nominee, Miss Gnrnick, is gener
ally acknowledged to have much
of the labor and Democratic sup
port, while Moore, the Democratic
nominee, is drawing much of the
Republican backing.
Reds Demand Punishment
Of Crew of Hospital Plane
Fired On By Russian Jets
BERLIN, (IP) — Soviet officials
have demanded that “severe pun
ishment” be meted out to the
crew of an unarmed XJ. S. Air
Force plane menaced by machine
gun fire from Russian jet fight
ers while it was flying a hospital
mission. American authorities al
ready have protested the shoot
ing.
The Berlin-bound plane, carry
ing a crew of five and a woman
nurse to evacuate Army ailing,
was buzzed Wednesday by two
Soviet MIG-15s. It escaped into
a cloud after a warning burst of
bullets zipped past its nose. .
Maj. Gen. Lemuel Matthewson,
American commandant in Berlin,
sent a quick protest to Maj. Gen.
Trussov, Soviet deputy chief of
staff, describing the firing as
“hostile, unfriendly, unwarranted
and uncivilized.”
But Trussov also dispatched a
protest the same day to American
military headquarters in Ger
many, the Army disclosed today.
The Russian claimed the DC-3
transport flew for 55 minutes out
side the 20-mile-wide air corri
dor from the U. S. Occupation
Zone to Berlin.
On its flight, he added, the
U.S. plane exceeded the corridor
boundaries by distances up to 18.6
miles.
Eisenhower and
Stevenson Say:
(By the Associated Press)
Gov. Adlai Stevenson and Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower were in ap
parent agreement Friday that a
strong American security pro
gram could halt Russian aggres
sion, but they disagreed sharply
in whether the present policy
j is doing the job.
Stevenson said that Russia may
abandon its aggressive policies
because American sponsored col
lective security has “worked so
well.”
He said he didn’t see any likeli
hood of immediate changes in the
world situation, and did see a
chance of “long - run improve
ment” provided the present course
is followed.
He said that even the chance
he now sees for long-run gains
toward peace “might all be sad
ly altered if the Republicans win
in November and proceed to do
what they say they will do.”
Stevenson said Eisenhower will
follow the lead of Taft and the
Old Guard who, he said, “have
fought our bi - partisan foreign
policy right along.”
Eisenhower was cheered long
and loudly Thursday night in Los
Angeles as he spoke of a bigger
and better social welfare pro
gram, better medical care, and a
stronger national security pro
gram.
He promised—if elected—that
the Republicans would promote a
program of social welfare which
would bring increased security
beyond anything yet achieved
under the Democrats.
Eisenhower said he was against
a health plan “supervised under
a Washington stethoscope.”
On the point of national secur
ity, he said the nation must de
velop a program and position of
strength “which will persuade the
Kremlin that further military ag
gression anywhere is senseless.”
President Truman, in New York
State, said hurling false charges
of Communism in an effort to win
votes can split the' country and
lead to similar attacks on Cath
olics, Jews, people with foreign
names or any other minority.
Upholding the anti-discrimina
tion sections of the Constitution,
he said, “is one part of the job
of being President that you better
not turn over to a professional
military general.”
Vanished B>-29 May Have
Glided Into Russian
Waters Off Japan
TOKYO, (JP) — The U.S. Air
Force said tonight its B-29 which
disappeared off northern Japan
Tuesday “may have glided across
the international boundary” into
Russian territorial waters before
it crashed.
The eastern tip of Japan and
the Soviet-held Kurile Islands are
only six miles apart where eye
witnesses reported the plane went
down. ,
The Air Force said the eyewit
ness reports check “in general”
with ladar readings at the time
the plane disappeared, shortly
after an unidentified plane ap
‘ preached from Russian territory.
Interior Secty. Disclaims
Official Opposition To
Alcoa Plant at Taiya
SALT LAKE CITY, (^—Sec
retary of the Interior Chapman
said today, in response to a ques
tion about the proposed aluminum
plant near Skagway: “I would be
delighted if Alaska could get one
of those big projects.”
“I have not opposed the proj
ect,” he „ told the Associated
Press, “it hasn’t been approved
because it doesn’t require my ap
proval.”
He made the comment after the
magazine American Metal Mar
kets said in a Washington dis
patch that the Secretary had ex
pressed no approval of the Alum
inum Company of America’s Tai
ya project.
The magazine article continued:
‘'Department of Interior offi
cials have expressed approval of
the Alcoa project, although the
company has not approached the
Department officially about the
land problem.
“The Department can permit
sale of only 160 acres of public
land for the project, and it is
understood the Alcoa installation
would require about 20,000 acres.
“A spokesman for the secretary
said the Department would not
oppose legislation which would
allow Alcoa to purchase the re
quired acreage, in Alaska.”
There also is one other major
hurdle to' be cleared: Canadian
permission for diversion of water
through a mountain tunnel will
be needed.
California Library Named
In Honor of Alaska’s Ex
Education Commissioner
JUNEA'U — By a round-about
route, friends in Juneau have
learned of the dedication of the
Burlingame, Calif., school district
library as the Lester D. Hender
son Library in honor of the late
Dr. Henderson, formerly territor
ial commissioner of education.
From a Lenox, Iowa, newspa
per, sent to the R. E. Robertsons,
is the story of the honor accorded
Dr. Henderson, a native of Lenox.
After his departure from Alas
ka in 1930 !he was the territory’s
first commissioner of education
from 1917 to 1930) Henderson
was superintendent of schools in
Burlingame, until his death in
1945.
He was a graduate of the Lenox
high school and of Tarkio Col
lege. He received his master’s and
doctor’s degrees from Stanford
University.
Part of Crew Bail Out Of
Disabled B-29 But Remainder
Bring Plane In Safely
NEW ORLEANS, (#*)—A B-29
plane with a disabled engine
landed safely here Thursday after
10 of its crewmen bailed out over
Mississippi.
The No. 4 engine on the bomber
caught fire near McNeill, Miss.,
and the 10 crewmen bailed out
within one minute. Four crewmen
remained with the plane, put the
fire out and brought the bomber
in.
Slight cuts and bruises were
the most serious injuries.
Meeting Called To
Develop Plans To
Improve Cemetery
The Chamber of Commerce has
appointed a special committee
headed by Ralph Lomen to take
immediate steps to improve the
deplorable condition of the Nome
Cemetery which is again in a
shameful condition.
The committee has been active
and has communicated with the
head office of the Alaska Road
Commission explaining the need
for equipment and permission has
been received from A. Ghiglione,
A.R.C. head, for the use of its
local equipment under the super
vision of John Cooley, District
Engineer.
Nome- will have to supply the
fuel and labor however, and plans
will have to be made to estab
lish once and for all, a permanent
plan of maintenance by ordinance
under the City Council.
To get organized, a subscrip
tion list has been started fbr
funds, and plans will be fully de
veloped and committees appoint
ed tonight at a meeting at the
City Hall.
If you have friends or family
interred at the Belmont Point
Cemetery you are urged to at
tend this meetiiig and assist in
this program.
Adlai Suggests American
Voters Would Relish
Five Minutes of Silence
OKLAHOMA CITY, (JF>—Gov. 1
Adlai Stevenson said Friday he
thinks the American voters are
being deluged in a sea of words,
and might relish some silence.
The- Democratic nominee said
that so far as he is concerned the
Nov. 4 election is about 12,000
miles of travel and 150,000 words
—his own—away.
Observing he has heard abou!,
juke boxes where five minutes of
silence can be bought for a nickel,
the Illinois governor came up
with this idea:
“Perhaps a political party might
serve the country by purchasing a
half hour of silence on the radio
and TV networks during which
the voters would be asked to
think quietly about the choice they
are going to have to make on
Nov. 4.”
But he added: -
“Politics and politicians being
what they are, I doubt that this
happy idea will be seized upon
with favor.”
Martin Pinska, Pioneer
Fairbanks Merchant, Dies
FAIRBANKS, (IP) — Martin A.
Pinska, 85, pioneer Alaska mer
chant, died Wednesday night.
Pinska operated a clothing store
in a tent in Dawson during the
gold rush days. He later operated
a larger store there and two stores
in Fairbanks. He retired several
years ago.
NOTICE
All persons interested in the
care and maintenance of the
Nome Cemetery are urged to at
tend a meeting tonight, OcL 10.
8:00 pjn. at the (S.y Hall.