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'OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV NO. 88NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1953 _Per Copy—15^
Korean Armistice Expected Sunday
Savage Red Attacks Hit
Three Allied Outposts
SEOUL, — Savage Chinese
Red attacks by perhaps 5.000 men
lashed Friday night at three hill
top outposts on the Korean west
ern front northeast of the truce
talk town of Panmunjom.
An officer at the front reported
Chinese were in the trenches on
two of the hills and Allied sol
diers were fighting with bayonets
and gun butts.
“We still hold 50 per cent” of
the two hills, the officer said.
The Chinese unleached fiery
barrage of Russian-made Katu
sha rockets on outpost Esther.
Second Lt. William H. Bates, of
Portland, Me., radioed back from
outpost Esther in the heat of the
fighting:
“Holding. Doing fine. Will con
tinue to hold as long as the am
munition holds.”
Shortly after midnight officers
at the front reported the battle
appeared to be slackening after
more than two hours of savage
combat.
British Ship Narrowly
Misses Destruction In
U.S. Navy Maneuvers
TOKYO, IfP—A 3,000-ton Brit
ish freighter steamed through a
U.S. Navy maneuver area in the
Japan Sea during fleet maneu
vers and narrowly escaped de
struction or serious damage, the
Navy said.
A “single shell, bomb or mine”
exploded near the freighter San
Eduardo, the Navy said, as it
sailed toward the Communist Chi
nese port of Chinwangtao from
Japan.
Early reports from the Japanese
Coast Guard said the freighter
was fired on by U.S. warships
and might have been sunk.
The coast guard report was
based on a radio message from
the San Eduardo saying it was
“under shell fire.”
Scene of the incident was about
25 miles southwest of Tsushima
Island, midway between Japan
and Korea.
Larry Moore Withdraws
Applications For General
Manager of Alaska R.R.
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Larry
Moore, general manager of the
Associated General Contractors,
declared Thursday he is unavail
able for any political appointment
because of the pressure of his
job and his private affairs.
He has been endorsed by the
Alask'a Republcian Central Com
mittee for general manager of the
Alaska Railroad.
Commenting on Moore’s state
ment, Herald Stringer, Third Div
ision Committeeman, denounced
what he called “stagnant bureau
cratic officialdom” for allowing
qualified men to “dangle on the
hook.”
Stringer also said Moore may be
only the first of such endorsed
men who get “tired of waiting”
and are forced to make a choice
between private and government
jobs.
SEOUL, (Saturday) UP> — A
usually reliable source said last
night that the Korean armistice
probably will be signed Sunday.
Official confirmation was lacking.
The informant said only a last
minute hitch, stemming from
President Syngman Rhee’s oppo
sition could block the signing.
He said the announcement of
the signing date could be expected
today. He said he did not know
the contemplated hour of the cere
mony which would formalize a
cease-fire in the war, now more
than three years old.
The signing date probably was
set, tentatively at least, by senior
liaison officers at a meeting in
Panmunjom Friday afternoon.
Rhee angrily denounced the
armistice agreement Friday, say
ing some of the Allied promises
to the Reds “cannot be allowed
to happen.”
The stubborn old South Korean
president acknowledged that a
truce was imminent and said he
is anxious “not to follow a uni
lateral policy, if it can be avoid
ed.”
Rhee has threatened several
times in the past to pull out of
the U.N. Comand and fight on
alone.
“I must reiterate once again,”
Rhee said, “that we are strug
gling for survival as an indepen
dent, democratic nation. Anything
which undermines this purpose is
not for us a compromise but a
tragic and final defeat.”
Allied and Red liaison officers
met in a quickly called confer
ence. These officers have the job,
among other things, of setting the
meeting time for the full truce
teams.
This group is understood to be
mapping plans for exchanging
nearly 100,000 war prisoners. The
truce document says this must be
done within 60 days of the armis
tice signing, so the operation must
get underway quickly after the
ceremonies.
Eisenhower Will Seek
$200 Million For Korean
Aid After An Armistice
WASHINGTON, GP) — President
Eisenhower and Republican con
gressional leaders decided today to
seek an initial fund of 200 million
dollars for rehabilitation of Korea
after an armistice.
House Speaker Martin said the
administration hopes a truce will
be signed soon. He added that
plans already are under way for
rehabilitation of the war - torn
country.
Sen. Knowland, acting majority
leader of the Senate, predicted at
a news conference that a request
for the initial 200 million dollar
fund will be approved by Con
gress before it adjourns.
Knowland estimated the cost of
continuing the fighting in Korea
for another year would be about
$1,200,000,000. He said the $200
million for rehabilitation actually
would come out of the defense
appropriation for continuing the
war and that in effect there
would be a saving of one billion
dollars.
Alaskan To Be Appointed
Today To Head New
Territorial Police Force
JUNEAU, LF—Appointment of a
superintendent for Alaska’s new
Territorial Police Force was ex
pected F'riday.
Commission chairman E. B.
Collins of Fairbanks said there
were eight applicants for the job.
“He’ll be an Alaskan,” Collins
said concerning the superintend
ent. “We won’t have to send out
for qualified men.”
Governor Heintzleman, who
met with the commission, com
mented:
“We hope Alaska’s new police
force, so- badly needed in the
territory with its vast distances,
will be a model constabulary.”
The Territorial Police Force,
authorized by the last legislature,
would replace the Alaska High
way Patrol under greatly ex
panded powers.
Senate Interior Committee
To Hold Hearing On
Indian Commissioner
WASHINGTON, IF — The Sen
ate sent the nomination of Glen
L. Emmons as Commissioner of
Indian Affairs back to its Interior
Committee today for a hearing
next Tuesday.
Emmons, a Gallup, N.M., bank
er, was nominated by President
Eisenhower on July 15 and the
Interior Committee recommended
to the Senate the same day that
the nomination be approved.
However, Sen. Langer (R-ND)
has blocked action. He has said
that he received information that
Emmons was “cashier of a bank
that was short $60,000” and urged
the Interior Committee hold a
public hearing to look into the
charge.
Other senators, including An
derson (D-NM), have strongly de
fended Emmons. Anderson told
the Senate yesterday “It is unfair
to have these wild accusations
made against him.”
Anderson said Emmons’ bank
failed in the depression of the
early 1930s but that it shortly
reopened and every depositor was
paid in full. An FBI probe “com
pletely exonerated” Emmons An
derson said.
Emmons himself has called the
charges raised by Langer “the
most astounding lies I have ever
heard.”
Marshal Kim. II Sung Boss
of Red Korea, Boosting
China Over Soviet Russia
TOKYO, UP — Korean sources
indicated today Marshal Kim II
Sung, the fat boss of Red Korea,
is swinging away from Russia
and toward closer ties with Red
China—even as contradictory re
ports sair Kim himself had been
purged.
There was no way of checking
the rumors, but it appeared that
political unrest gripped North
Korea.
Kim reportedly has been turn
ing out Korean Reds who lean to
ward Russia and boosting party
members who put Communist
China first.
Anchorage G.O.P.
Aims Sharp Talk
At Heintzleman
ANCHORAGE, UP>—J. C. Mor
ris, an Anchorage real estate and
insurance man and an unsuccess
ful Republican candidate for the
governorship appointment, aimed
sc«me sharp barbs at Governor
Heintzleman in a talk to the
Businessmen’s Association here
yesterday.
Without mentioning the gover
nor by name or title, Morris said
he had created a “psychological
recession” in the Anchorage area
by the talk he gave here last
spring.
He referred to the governor’s
statement that the big defense
construction program was due to
ease up and the Third Division
lacked a basic sustaining economy.
Morris asserted the pessimism
was carried to the States by tour
ists and salesmen, bankers tight
ened up on loans and Anchorage
people tended to hang on to their
paychecks. He said a temporary
local recession resulted.
Morris contended Anchorage
has more ahead of it than at any
time in its history. He cited new
projects that need maintenance
and staffing, such as the new In
ternational Airport and the Alas
ka Native Service’s big hospital,
for which he estimated 600 em
ployes.
His reference to the governor
was as “a newly appointed high
government official from south
eastern Alaska.” He described him
as “a man who came oiit of the
woods and got caught in a fish
trap.”
Fishing Boat Skipper Dies
Of Heart Attack, Wife
Brings Vessel Thru Storm
JUNEAU, (if) — A Tacoma,
Wash., woman who never had
navigated a boat, took over the
wheel after her husband died of
a heart attack and towed a dis
abled vessel to safety through
stormy seas in Southeast Alaska’s
Icy Strait.
Coastguardsmen told Friday of
the action by Mrs. Marian A.
Olmstead of Tacoma.
Her husband, William E. Olm
stead, 58, master of the fishing
vessel Edna G., answered a dis
tress signal Wednesday night
from the vessel Joan. The Joan
was drifting fast w'th the tide in
rough waters toward the piling of
a fish trap of Eagle Point, Chicha
gof Island.
A line thrown from the Joan
became entangled in the propellor
of the Edna G. Olmstead managed
to free the tangled line before
both vessels drifted to probable
destruction against the piling;
then he suffered a fatal heart at
tack.
With her husband dead on the
deck, Mrs. Olmstead, alone on the
Edna G., took the wheel and tow
ed the disabled Joan until they
reached shelter of a protected
cove. The Coast Guard Cutter
Kimball, intercepted distress calls,
took Mrs. Olmstead aboard after
the Joan had been repaired.
Senate Shouts Approval
Of Administration’s
Cut-Down Defense Funds
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower and Secretary of De
fense Wilson have won their long
battle to cut funds and target
goals of the Air Force.
Without a record vote, the Sen
ate late yesterday shouted ap
proval of a bill carrying $34,434,
140,500 to operate the defense es
tablishment for the fiscal year
which began July 1.
The real tests had come earlier
after lengthy and at times angry
debate.
Not a change was made in the
bill as it had been reported by
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee. A conference committee
will be namgd to adjust Senate
House differences.
Seven Men Missing In
Explosion of Oil Tanker
WILMINGTON, Del., UP) — A
seagoing tanker exploded and
burned alongside a dock last night
and checkups today showed seven
men missing, six of them crew
men from tugboats that were
caught by the blast.
The 9,179 - ton tanker Pan
Georgia was completing discharge
of its 110,000 barrel cargo of fuel
oil and high octane gasoline when
flames spouted from one of the
holds.
A complete check of the Pan
Georgia’s crew list showed all but
the second assistant engineer had
been accounted for. Ship officials
said he apparently drowned after
leaping overboard to escape the
flames.
Coast Guardsmen and Delaware
River Harbor Patrol crewmen
were dragging the river near this
city’s marine terminal in a search
for him and the six men missing
from two tugs which were stand
ing by at the time the fire started.
Lake George Goes Out
Earlier This Summer
And More Violently
ANCHORAGE, UP — Alaska’s
self - dumping Lake George has
been on its annual rampage, with
an earlier ice break-up and more
building-size chunks of ice, up
rooted trees and other debris
hurled down the mountainside
than in recent years.
The lake, 50 air miles from
Anchorage in the Chugach Moun
tains, started spilling the winter’s
accumulation of melted snow and
ice last Saturday. It overflows
each summer, cascading water
over its banks and down through
a 28-mile mountainous area to the
Knik River.
The Knik River rose and Alaska
Railroad crews jacked up a new
steel bridge at Milepost 147 to
avoid possible damage. Three feet
of water flooded the Glenn High
way at Mile 30, near Eklutna, and
a hydro - electric power project
generator on low ground near
there was endangered.
The crest of the overflow was
expected Thursday night. Warmer
weather this year caused an
earlier ice breakup than usual.