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VOL. LV No. 40 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1953 Per Copy—15fi
Would Abolish
Indian Affairs
Including ANS
WASHINGTON, OP)—Secretary
of the Interior McKay has under
study a plan to abolish all area
offices of the Indian Bureau if it
is feasible, an aide said late Wed
nesday. One of the area offices is
at Juneau.
Orme Lewis, assistant secretary
who^has jurisdiction over the Bu
reau, also told a reporter that
some changes will be made be
cause it is felt that in some in
stances the work by the area of
fices has been unsatisfactory.
Lewis said he was approach
ing the matter from the stand
point of determining whether the
area offices would be abandoned
or their work should be limited.
Both Lewis and McKay’s aide
emphasized that no decision will
be reached until a new Indian
Commissioner takes over in suc
cession to Dillon S. Myer, whose
resignation was accepted recent
ly.
There are now 11 area offices
which in five instances supervise
the work of Indian agencies and
in six offices also do that but are
the equivalent of consolidated
agencies. The Juneau office is
among the six described as also
being the equivalent of consoli
dated agencies.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
office in Alaska is known as the
Alaska Native Service.
The Juneau office was not men
tioned specifically by Lewis, ex
cept that it is included among
area offices under study. There
was no announcement as to how
Alaska Native affairs would be
handled if the area office was
abandoned or its operations
changed.
Western GOP Governors
Considered For Post Of
National Chairman
WASHINGTON, OP) — President
Eisenhower Friday was reported
canvassing the list of western Re
publican governors along with
other possibilities for the GOP
national chairmanship.
Eisenhower told a White House
news conference Thursday he
thinks the committee, meeting
here April 10, will choose a man
who commands the highest re
spect of the country as a successor
to C. Wesley Roberts.
The President said it wasn’t his
prerogative to pick a chairman
but conceded his views will be
influential. He indicated he had
not made up his mind on a can
didate.
Eisenhower emphasized the
stature of the man he wants as
Roberts’ successor by indicating
he may be. difficult to find.
Senate Committee To Hold
Statehood Hearings In
Alaska In August
OMAHA, UP) — Senator Butjer,
Nebraska Republican, said today
his Senate Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee plans to hold
statehood hearings in Alaska next
August.
“We are going where we can
get the reaction of the little peo
ple—not just a few of the aspir
ing politicians who want to be
senators and representatives,” he
said. “They can come to Wash
ington to testify.”
Butler said sessions will be held
in several principal Alaskan cities.
He said statehood for Alaska will
come eventually, adding, “The
southeast part is well prepared
for it right now, but that is only
a small area.’
Fourth Jet Plane From
Elmendorf Disappears
In Four Days
ANCHORAGE, IP) — An Air
Force jet fighter vanished on a
flight north of here Thursday,
bringing to four the number of
military planes involved in mis
haps in Alaska in four days.
The Air Force, announcing the
disappearance of its third jet —
an F-94B all-weather craft from
Elmendorf Air Force base—also
reported still another jet sustained
major damage in a landing acci
dent at Elmendorf.
In addition to the military mis
haps, a Northern Consolidated
Airlines craft is unreported since
Wednesday on a flight here from
McGrath. The airline said, how
ever, the pilot, Sherman Krause,
may have landed on a lake and
been unable to report in. There
were no passengers.
A pilot and radar observer
were aboard the jet reported miss
ing Thursday.
The Air Force said the pilot
made his last radio report from
the same general area north of
here where a search is under way
for three other Air Force men—
a jet pilot who failed to return
to Elmendorf from a training
flight Monday, and two fliers
who bailed out of a jet plane
before it crashed Tuesday.
Archer Captures Burglar
With Bow and Arrow
LOS ANGELES, (A*)—An arch
ery enthusiast caught a burglary
suspect Friday with his trusty
bow and arrow.
Robert Dale, awakened early
this morning by the barking of
his dog, saw a man fleeing up
the hillside. He set out in pur
suit with the only weapons at
hand, a bow and arrow.
Flushing the man from some
bushes, Dale held him with drawn
bow until police arrived.
Albert B. Collins, 41, was book
ed on suspicion of burglary.
110.000 Workers
Idled By Strikes
Across Nation
(By the Associated Press)
Two strikes which have made
idle some 85,000 workers in rub
ber and steel plants continued
Friday as negotiators planned
new attempts to end the crippling
walkouts.
The strike against the U.S. Rub
ber Co., spread to the firm’s 19th
plant Thursday night as 3,000
union rubber workers joined some
32.000 other members who struck
earlier. The plants are in cities
from New England to California.
In Pittsburgh, top federal me
diators were seeking to end a
strike of 1,500 Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen which has re
sulted in the layoff by U.S. Steel
of nearly 50,000 workers.
A strike of metal workers at
Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wn.,
idled 10,000. The work stoppage
affected another 5,000 in other
unions who observed picked lines.
One of the largest strikes is
curtailing production of jet en
gines which are used in war
planes. This work stoppage is by
4,500 CIO United Auto Workers
and 1,100 AFL machinists at the
General Electric Co., plant at
Evendale, O.
The nation’s idle because of
labor disputes has been placed at
above 110,000.
New Superintendent
Arrives For Lost River
Spring operations are about to
start at Lost River, stated gen
eral manager Ken Kadow when
he passed through Nome yester
day enroute there with new U.S.
Tin officials.
Kadow was accompanied by
the new superintendent, Donal
Kochersperger, who comes from
South America. Mr. Kochersperg
er has been at the tin mines in
Bolivia and observed that wea
ther conditions are far worse
there than in this part of the
country.
R. J. McCrary, also with the
party, will be metallurgist and
mill superintendent and he also
has had several years experience
in Bolivian tin mines.
Kadow stated that the company
reluctantly accepted Paul Soren
son’s resignation and out of ap
preciation for the fine accomplish
ments he made at Lost River in
getting the project under way, has
voted Sorenson a substantial
stock bonus.
It was also revealed that , pow
erful pumps are being installed
to handle the water problem as
well as other equipment to make
water available during the winter
months. The next few months
should see the project get under
full scale operation again.
Good Friday Brings Signs
Of Conciliation Between
The West and Moscow
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McCarthy Infringed On
Presidential Prerogatives
Cutting Trade with Reds
WASHINGTON, UP) — Mutual
Security director Harold E. Stas
sen said Friday he thoroughly
agrees with President Eisenhow
er’s position on the controversial
efforts by Sen. McCarthy to curb
free world trade with Communist
nations.
Talking to White House news
men after a cabinet meeting, Stas
sen said in reply to a question that
specifically he agrees with Eisen
hower that it would have been
better for him to have used the
word “infringe” instead of say
ing the Wisconsin senator had
“undermined” government policy.
Stassen told McCarthy’s gov
ernment operation subcommittee
on Monday that McCarthy had
undermined government efforts to
shut off trade with Iron Curtain
ports. The subcommittee has been
getting pledges from Greek ship
owners not to trade with Red
China and North Korea.
Eisenhower said at his news
conference Thursday he person
ally did not believe McCarthy had
undermined policy, but he em
phasized that the right to negoti
ate agreements in that field rests
completely and absolutely with
the President.
Stassen said he is “happy” about
what he termed the outcome of
the controversy.
Price Support Program
Is Pricing Butter
Right Out of Market
WASHINGTON, (51 — President
Eisenhower says butter is pricing
itself out of the market, and un
less there is some change in the
government price support pro
gram, he doesn’t know what the
solution is.
The government is currently
buying, at 67% cents a. pound,
about two million pounds a day,
the President told his news con
ference, and some of its huge
(Stock is getting close to' the spoil
age point.
It’s a crime against civilization
to allow to spoil anything that
could be used by someone, even
if it had to be virtually given
away, Eisenhower said. He added
he couldn’t imagine anything
worse than to destroy it when
people are hungry.
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son, who has announced he will
continue to support prices of dairy
products at present levels for an
other year, is currently meeting
with dairy industry representa
tives in an effort to solve an
overproduction problem.
> (By the Associated Press)
The Western world saw fur
ther signs of conciliation from
Moscow this Good Friday and
hoped at long last the Communists
were matching words with deeds
that would insure peace. There
was cautious optimism almost
everywhere.
Moscow’s surprise package of
the day was the announcement of
the release of 14 French civilians
interned by the Communists in
Korea. The Frenchmen were cap
tured in Seoul at the outbreak of
the war and included some mem
bers of the Seoul consulate staff.
The move was viewed in Paris
as still another conciliation ges
ture in the Communist world’s
current peace campaign. Soviet
leaders have offered to help ob
tain the release of British civilians
held in North Korea.
In Korea, the United Nations
Command rushed plans for the
possible quick return of sick and
wounded Allied prisoners of war.
Negotiators meet Monday to ar
range the transfer, and if all goes
well further steps toward an ar
mistice may be discussed.
President Eisenhower said the
U.S. should take at face value
every offer made by the Com
munists until it is proved un
worthy.
The President had final words
with the new American ambassa
dor to Moscow, Charles E. Boh
len, who leaves today for his new
post.
Washington experts said the
whole public exchange of peace
moves and responses from the
Communists and Western sides
appears to enhance the chances
of an eventual meeting between
Eisenhower and Malenkov.
In Moscow, a group of Ameri
can newspaper and radio execu
tives continued their round of
sight - seeing. At a dinner last
night the Americans and Soviet
officials drank toasts to Eisen
hower and Malenkov and to im
proved relations between the two
nations.
In Korea the war went on.
Chinese troops ripped into Allied
lines in central Korea with a 175
man attack against a strategic
outpost hill. The Reds were rout
ed in a bloody two-hour battle.
CAB Denies Authority To
Kodiak Charter Service
WASHINGTON, The Civil
Aeronautics Board denied a re
quest by Vincent H. Daly, oper
ating as the Vince Daly Charter
Service, for authority to fly pas
sengers and property over routes
on Kodiak Island, within 100
miles of Larsen Bay.