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VOL. LV NO. 86 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Negotiators Work
Oil Final Details
Of Korean Truce
PANMUNJOM, OP — Teams of
Allied and Communist officers —
including, for the first time, the
men who would oversee a cease
fire—worked in nine secret ses
sions today on the final details
of a Korean armistice.
The Reds, meanwhile, put the
finishing touches on a large hut
to be used for signing the his
toric document which would end
the three years of fighting.
There was no- official indica
tion just when the armistice
would be signed, but some ob
servers said it could be within a
week. Fighting would end 12
hours after the signing.
Three U. S. members of the
military armistice commission
flew here unexpectedly for the
first time and met for 1 hour, 50
minutes with Communist mem
bers of the commission.
The commission, composed of
top officers from the opposing
armies, would control the buffer
zone between the two forces.
Sen. Langer Blocks
Confirmation of Emmons
As Indian Commissioner
WASHINGTON, OP—Sen. Lan
ger (R-ND) told the Senate Sat
urday that when the nomination
of Glenn L. Emmons to be Com
missioner of Indian Affairs come
up again “I shall fight it tooth
and nail.”
Langer blocked Senate confir
mation of Emmons, a Gallup, N.
M., banker, Friday. The nomina
tion is expected to be called up
again this week for Senate action.
Langer brought up the subject
of the Emmons’ nomination dur
ing Senate debate on a bill to
release the Menominee tribe of
Indians from supervision of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Sen. Chavez (D-NM) supported
the bill.
Langer commented: “We have
had one man after another from
New Mexico in that position and
the senator from New Mexico
himself says they have done a
poor job.”
Truce At A Glance . . .
(3y the Associated Press)
Communists announce they are
ready to resume preparations for
signing a truce.
Allied and Red staff and liaison
teams and —for the first time—
military armistice commission
members meet at Panmunjom
ironing out final details. Presum
ably top-level delegates will set
date for truce signing when lower
level officers finish.
Reds send 200 troops to finish
building “truce signing” building
at conference site.
Red China radio announced
Czechoslovak and Polish delegates
for neutral armistice commission
arrive in Peiping.
South Korean foreign minister
charges that there are “many
traps” in U.N. assurance to Reds
that ROKs will observe armistice.
Heavy fighting continues on the
Korean war front.
Nome’s 1,000th Visitor
Presented Ivory Bracelet
By N.V.A. Director
Friday’s visitors arriving by
Wien, 21 in all, were a very
happy group. Among them were
Betty Walker, Chicago, and Har
riette R. Griffiths, who remained
overnight, departing Saturday via
Alaska for Anchorage, as did
Thurl Keith, Morgan Hill, Calif.
Miss Walker is a feature writer,
covering outstanding Alaskan
women for the Chicago Sun
Times.
Others were: Dr. Anna Bartsch,
Denver; Mrs. Nan Ford, Washing
ton, D.C.; Mrs. Dora E. Morse
and Mrs. Zelrna Tanner, Monterey
Park, Calif; Anna E. Elam, Glen
dale, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Forrest
H. Crum, son and daughter, of
Billings, Mont.; Mr. and Mrs. O.
Lyman, Hilo, Hawaii — Nome’s
second couple from T.H. this
month; Louise G. Herr, Mt. Ver
non, N.Y.; Vivian Klink, sister of
Nome’s 1000th and 1001st visitors,
Twin Falls, Ida.; Mr. and Mrs.
John B. Ross, North Hollywood,
Calif. Mr. Ross enjoys his all-over
Alaska trip as he knows that Al
aska is rich in metals for he is
in the business of precious metals,
being the district manager of In
dustrial sales for the nationally
known Los Angeles firm of
Handy and Harman.
Special mention is made of Mr.
and Mrs. George Klink, Burley,
Idaho. They became immediate
Nomeites, once they learned of
our Snake River, for they too live
on the banks of Snake River—in
Idaho.
The Nome Visitor Association’s
register, showed that Mr. Klink
was Nome’s 1,000th visitor for
1953. When his group was enroute
to Nome Field in Angello’s bus,
Mr. Klink was asked if he would
permit Mrs. Klink to- be the
I, 000th visitor, he graciously ex
pressed his willingness and Geo.
Goshaw, executive director for
the N.V.A., presented Mrs. Klink
with an attractive ivory bracelet
from his Shishmaref collection.
All the visitors applauded Mrs.
Klink as she delightedly accepted.
Mr. Klink was then agreeably
surprised, on hearing that since
he was the kind of husband that
wives always preferred, and he
was rewarded for stepping aside
in favor of his wife, with an ivory
watchband, a companion piece to
the bracelet. So ended another
happy day for visitors to Nome.
4 MONTHS REST FOR TAFT
BEFORE RESUMING DUTIES
NEW YORK, UP — New York
Hospital reported today that Sen.
Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) will be
uble to leave the hospital “within
another 10 days.”
The bulletin on the senator’s
condition said he will resume his
duties in Washington after three
or four months rest.
RUSSIA AND ISRAEL RESUME
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
JERUSALEM, UP! — The Soviet
Union and Israel agreed today to
resume diplmoatic relations, brok
en Feb. 12 after a bomb exploded
at the Russian embassy in Tel
Aviv, injuring three persons, in
cluding the wife of the Soviet
minister.
Nome Council
Votes for Appraisal
Of Power Plant
Considerable interest was shown
last Friday evening when the
Nome Council met to discuss the
possibility of the city purchasing
the Northern Light and Power
Company.
Bill Winn of Grande and Com
pany explained to the Council and
to local citizens attending the
meeting that Mr. Weaver has of
fered the plant for sale at the
price of $200,000 and that his
company was interested in mak
ing the loan to the city as they
have done in other Alaska cities.
He explained that before any
loan could be made, however, it
was necessary for the city to ob
tain the services of an engineering
firm specializing in appraising
the property and recommended
the firm of Metcalf and Harstead
of Seattle.
He stated that the cost of this
work would be around $3,500 and
would take two to three months
to complete.
Winn emphasized that the loan
would be a mortgage against the
light plant itself and not against
the city and would not involve
city finances in any way nor be a
debt against the property of the
town.
He advised that under munici
pal ownership the plant should
not be used for profit but instead
an attempt should be made to
give the best possible service to
the community at the lowest pos
sible rates.
At the present time,” Winn stat
ed, “the amount of electricity used
per capita in Nome is very low
and as the rate is substantially
decreased the amount of power
used will increase, giving a high
er standard of living in the com
munity.
This should not imply that the
Northern Light and Power was
making too much profit, however,
as their taxes were in excess of
$25,000.
Winn also stated that the city
could make considerably more
money on the plant than any pri
vate organization, inasmuch as
public utilities are exempt from
taxes. He stated that federal tax
es now paid by Northern Light
and Power are over $25,000 a
year and with this saving by the
city should make it possible to
lower the rates almost immedi
ately.
The loan would be for a 20-year
period at five percent and may be
completed in ten years.
He recommended that a utility
board be set up to operate the
plant, and he also recommended
that, should the city take over,
Luther Dunbar be retained as
manager, due to his experience.
Before the light plant can be
purchased, however, it will be
necessary for the city to hold a
special election for the citizens to
make the final decision after the
engineers have completed their
appraisal, some time this fall.
The Council was unanimous in
its approval of obtaining the ser
vices of the engineering firm.
Matthews To Get Chance
Prove Claim Communists
Infiltrated U.S. Clergy
WASHINGTON, (tft—1The House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee agreed today to give J. B.
Matthews a chance to prove his
claim that Communists and fellow
.travelers have infiltrated among
Protestant clergymen.
Matthews, under heavy fire
during his brief tenure as execu
tive director for the Senate In
vestigating subcommittee headed
by Sen. McCarthy, had asked the
House group to let him give “ex
haustive documentation” of his
allegations.
Chairman- Velde (R - 111) an
nounced the committee’s action
but said no time was set for
Matthew’s appearance.
Velde refused to give any de
tails on the committee action but
a committee member told report
ers the decision was on a 6 to 3
vote. There are five Republicans
and four Democrats on the com
mittee.
Administration May Have
To Raise Federal Debt
Ceiling At This Session
WASHINGTON, (fl — Republi
can congressional leaders reported
there was no talk of boosting the
federal debt limit when they dis
cussed with President Eisenhower
today a program of “must” legis
lation for the remainder of the
congressional session.
The administration plainly is
approaching a financial cross
roads, however, and Eisenhower
has said a rise in the debt ceiling
may be necessary.
It still could become a major
issue for this session, and already
there are signs of Democratic op
position. Sen. George of Georgia,
the ranking Democrat on the Sen
ate Finance Committee, said in an
interview that he might not go
along.
Sen. Lehman Blasts
McCarthy As Demagogue
WASHINGTON, (JV-Sen. Leh
man (D-Lib-NY) told the Senate
today that Sen. McCarthy engaged
in “pure demagoguery” in blam
ing anti-Semitism for attacks ofi
two staff aides, Roy Cohn and
David Schine.
Lehman said he was speaking
as a Jew in denouncing McCar
thy’s statement, made on a tele
vision program yesterday that
criticism of Cohn and Schine was
based on anti-Semitism.
Lehman said he was one of
those who had criticized “the an
tics of these two brash young
men,” and that he felt many
others of Jewish faith shared his
belief that the staff aides “have
been doing our country and the
cause of anti-Communism great
harm here and abroad.”
“I am very certain that most
members of my religious faith, not
as Jews, but as Americans, are
anything but proud of these two
young men,” Lehman asserted,
adding:
“To brand criticism of them as
‘anti-Semitism’ is pure and er
rant demagoguery, raising an
ugy symbol in defense of inde
fensible conduct.”
Chinese Engulf
Outposts Manned
By U.S. Marines
SEOUL, d*—Recklessly-attack
ing Chinese engulfed two vital
western front outposts defended
by U.S. Marines last night and
the first leatherneck survivors
staggered back to Allied lines to
day.
In their last act before their
radio went dead, the trapped Ma
rines — back in the battlelines
only three weeks—called in their
own artillery on top of them in a
desperate effort to halt the violent
onslaught.
Fourteen leathernecks of the
First Marine Division were the
first known survivors of the
bloody battles for outposts East
Berlin and Berlin, part of a key
hill area on the western front.
The survivors described the
hills as a battle-tom no man’s
land. They said no Chinese were
left atop the outposts,, which were
plastered by savage Red and Al
lied artillery fire during the 1,500
man Red assault.
Allied fighter-bombers and Ma
rine guns pounded the hills re
lentlessly, but there was no im
mediate move to retake them.
The Fifth Air Force said its
planes—taking advantage of hot,
clear weather — slammed 500,000
pounds of bombs at Communist
frontlines.
Meanwhile, the 8 th Army said
the Communists lost 6,290 Killed
and 1,260 wounded across the
front Sunday.
SUNDAY SCORES
American League
New York 6-3, Chicago 2-0
St. Louis 5-4, Washington 4-13
Detroit 13-8, Philadelphia 3-8
Boston 2-7, Cleveland 0-5
National League
New York 7-1, Milwaukee 5-2
Cincinnatti||4-5, Brooklyn 1-7
Chicago 5-5, Philadelphia 3-6
St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 2
Coast League
Oakland 5-4, San Diego 3-0
Sacramento 6-9, Los Angeles
4-5
Hollywood 9-3, Seattle 7-2
Portland 8-0, San Francisco 5-1
CAR HITS SEN. BRIDGES
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Styles Bridges (R-NH) was struck
by a car today and taken to emer
gency hospital for X-ray examin
ation. Hospital officials said the
senator did not appear to be
seriously injured.
Bridges, temporary president of
the Senate and chairman of the
Appropriations Committee, was
stepping from his car at the mid
town intersection of 14th and Q
Streets NW when he was hit by
a passing auto, hospital officials
said. t
CONGRESS STILL AIMS FOR
ADJOURNMENT BY AUG. 1
WASHINGTON, UP> — Republi
can congressional leaders told
President Eisenhower today they
are still aiming at adjournment by
Aug. 1 but will hold Congress
overtime if necessary to dispose
of “must” legislation.