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VOL. LV NO. 83 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1953 " ‘Per Copy—15^'
Airliner with 58
Aboard Disappears
In The Pacific
HONOLULU, UP) — The Navy
spurred a massive search today
for survivors of a four-engine air
liner which plunged into lomely
Pacific waters with 58 aboard.
A green flare was sighted by a
search ship just before midnight
Sunday in the general area “50
miles east of Wake Island where
the Transocean Air Lines DC-6B
was last reported.
More than 10 planes converged
• on the spot, but the searchers,
hampered by pitch darkness and
rain squalls, reported no further
sightings.
A huge armada of ships and
planes combed the storm-threat
ened Pacific 320 miles east of
Wake island, but hope dwindled
for survival of all the occupants
of the Transo'cean Air Lines DC-6
with discovery of a life raft and
seat cushions from the airliner.
The plane, bound from Guam to
Oakland, Calif., had eight chil
dren aboard wThen it disappeared
Saturday night on the Wake to
Honolulu hop.
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American Food Being Sent
To East Germany Despite..
Soviet Rejection of Aid
WASHINGTON, OP)—The White
House said today American food
is being delivered to the East
Germany frontier despite the So
viet Union’s rejection of President
Eisenhower’s offer to deliver 15
million dollars worth of food to
the Red-controlled German area.
Press Secretary James C. Hag
erty repeated that Eisenhower’s
offer “still stands,” and said ship
ments of food “are in the process
of being sent to the American
zone of Berlin and to Allied-occu
pied points of West Germany.
Asked what plans, if any, the
administration has for shipping
the food into East Germany, Hag
erty said any details would have
to come from the office of Harold
E. Stassen, director of the Mutual
Security Agency.
British Soldiers Cordon off
Suez Canal Town Ismaila
ISMAILA, Egypt, UPi—Machine
gun-armed British Tommies cor
doned off the strategic Suez Canal
Zone town of Ismaila today and
announced they would seacch all
persons entering or leaving the
town until a British soldier miss
ing since last Thursday turns up.
Armed Egyptian troops at once
took up posts around all govern
ment buildings in the town, near
Britain’s main Suez Canal Zone
base, but the headquarters of
Egypt’s army said they were
only “routine patrols” and would
“avoid any friction with the Brit
ish army.”
The British charged the missing
soldier had been abducted and
that they believed at least one
Egyptian official had been in
volved. The Egyptians denied the
charge.
An army spokesman said the
Egyptian troops in Ismaila were
“armed only for defense” and that
the town was “fully under control
of the British forces.”
20,000 Chinese Troops
Attack Allied Positions
SEOUL, Tuesday, Iff)—Two Chi
nese Communist divisions—about
20,000 men—smashed against Al
lied lines on the Korean east cen
tral front, last night, the Eighth
Army announced today.
Details were lacking.
It was not known immediately
whether the full front was in ac
tion. It is nearly 20 miles from
Kumhwa to the upper Pukhan,
scene of repeated heavy fighting
in recent weeks.
The front from Kumhwa runs
due east past Sniper Ridge and
then cuts sharply northeast to
Kumsong where it drops south
east—making a big bulge or sal
ient in the Chinese lines. Most of
this area was won in Gen. James
A. Van Fleet’s last big Korean of
fensive in the fall of 1951.
Navy Will Not Dismantle
Point Barrow Oilfield
Camps and Equipment
DENVER, UP)—A Navy spokes
man says although the Navy of
ficially will close its nine - year
search for Arctic oil Oct. 1, it is
leaving oilfield equipment and
supplies in the north and will not
dismantle its camps.
Hundreds of tons of other equip
ment imported into the vast pet
roleum reserve since 1944 will be
transferred to other government
agencies operating in the far
north.
Although only “small” amounts
of supplies and equipment will be
backhauled out of the reserve,
there will be little, if any, surplus
equipment available. The Navy
expects to store or transfer almost
all of its Arctic inventory.
The great headquarters base at
Barrow will be maintained by
civilian caretakers, although they
have not yet been selected. They
will be charged with minor main
tenance and repair work at the
base and with custody of facilities
and stored materials.
A “routine” Navy freighter fleet
will call at Barrow this summer,
but for the first time since the
1944 inception of the oil search, it
will bring no quantity of supplies
for the exploration program. In
stead, it will carry only cargo for
other government agencies func
tioning in the area.
Japanese War Dead Buried
At Richardson Cremated
ANCHORAGE, lft — Cremation
of Japanese war dead, who had
been buried at Fort Richardson
cemetery here, was completed
Saturday.
The exact number of dead was
not reported, but about 250 bodies
were thought to have been placed
in the grave when the Japanese
casualties were brought here sev
eral years ago.
The trio of Japanese supervis
ing the removal said they thought
about half of the victims could be
identified from names on clothing,
dental work and personal effects.
They said that if high Japanese
and United States officials ap
prove, most of the ashes will be
reburied here. A token amount
would be taken to Japan for rites
and enshrining.
Rhee Pledges That
Korea Will Not
Obstruct Armistice
SEOUL, UP — A well-informed
source said today President Syng
man Rhee has pledged in writing
that South Korea will not ob
struct an armistice and Rhee him
self indicated his country has re
laxed its demand for unification
by force.
Rhee said in a statement that
South Korea may change its meth
ods but not its objective of unify
ing the country.
A well-informed source told
Associated Press Tokyo Bureau
chief Robert Eunson that Presi
dent Eisenhower’s special invoy
won sweeping concessions from
Rhee — including the written
pledge that South Korea would
not obstruct an armistice.
Rhee reportedly agreed not to
free any more prisoners. His or
der freeing 27,000 POWs held by
the Allies last month stalemated
the nearly-completed negotiations.
Japan To Have Security
Force of About 50,000 Men
WASHINGTON, GP! — Secretary
of State Dulles said today the
United States has been “thinking”
of an “ultimate” Japanese security
force of about “50,000 men or the
equivalent of about ten divisions
with supporting troops.”
Dulles said in a statement that
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the decision on the security forces
“will, of course, be made by the
Japanese government and people,
through their governmental pro
cess.” He pledged that the U.S.
will help to equip the force.
Rebelling Oregon Convicts
Find Cache of Axes, Picks
SALEM, Ore., G0 — Rebellious
convicts uncovered axes and picks
overnight, but were under appar
ent control in the fourth day of a
revolt at the Oregon penitentiary
today.
Armed guards, commanding the
walls above the 900 convicts con
fined to a fenced-in baseball field
inside the prison, said the convicts
apparently found a cache of tools
under the bleachers on the field
last night.
The men got no chance to use
the tools to batter at fences or to
dig. The guards kept them dis
persed and away from the bar
riers.
The men apparently found the
tools when they began breaking
up the bleachers for firewood and
to build windbreaks last night.
That was after they once ap
peared about to surrender, and
Warden Clarence T. Gladden
issued them soup and bread—their
first meal since Friday night.
“Now we’ve got the warden on
the run” some prisoners shouted
after the soup had been distrib
uted and guards had started con
ducting men from the chill out
doors area to the cells. Taunts
and abusive language followed,
guards reported.
The warden said there would
be no meals for the 900 men in
the field, but there would be food
for the 400 in the cells.
Two Airmen Killed In Collision
Of Two Jets Over Olympics
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., UP
— Two Air Force jet planes col
lided over the Olympic moun
tains Sunday, killing one at the
two pilots and a radar observer.
The second pilot, Maj. Charles
Garino, operations officer for the
465th Fighter-Interceptor Squad
ron at McChord Air Force Base,
parachuted to safety.
Witnesses said the two planes,
both taking part in “Operation
Tailwind,” a test of U.S. and Can
adian defenses, fell in flames after
the crash 12 to 15 miles south of
here.
Coastal Monarch Sails For
Kotzebue Sound Ports
SEATTLE, UP)—All of the gro
ceries, coal, clothes and other sup
plies which residents of some of
Alaska’s isolated villages will get
by ship from the United States
this year are on their way north.
The supplies are aboard the
Alaska Steamship Co. freighter
Coastal Monarch, the only ship
which will link the United States
with some villages and mining
-camps in the Kotzebue Sound area
during 1953.
The Coastal Monarch, with
Capt. Adolph Daniel on as master,
left Seattle. Her ports of call will
include Kiwalik, which will not
see another ship this year, and
Kotzebue, above the Arctic Circle,
where the Alaska Native Service’s
North Star has taken supplies for
the government hospital, but
which otherwise is not visited by
any other ship. Also on the Mon
arch’s schedule are Nome, Teller
and St. Michael.
Cargo aboard the Monarch, in
cludes the essentials of life: clo
thing, 200 tons of groceries, a car
load of canned milk, a carload of
flour and 500 tons of coal.
OKLAHOMA CITY, UP) — A.P.
photographers, assigned last week
to shoot pictures illustrating the
state’s two - year drought, have
given up in frustration. It has
been raining intermittently ever
since.
Tyonek Villagers Laugh ..
At Stories of Peril From
Erupting Mount Spurr
ANCHORAGE, OR—Villagers at
Tyonek, only settlement close to
three volcanoes which erupted
Thursday 80 miles west of here,
laughed Saturday at reports they
had been in mortal danger.
Scare stories were circulated
the day of the eruptions that big
chunks of lava were falling on
the village just before radio com
munications were cut.
When residents there were vis
ited yesterday - by an Anchorage
Times reporter, they said Tyonek
had suffered little more damage
or experiences, hardly more ex
citement than Anchorage.
The villagers, most of them fish
ermen, said the area was blacked
out for three hours by the clouds
of volcanic ash, but there were no
casualties of any sort.
\ Residents said they were used
to frequent volcanic activity in
the area and felt no alarm until
the ash became heavier than
usual.
Group of Writers
And Actors To
Publicize Nome
At a special meeting of the
Nome Visitors Association last
Friday evening, it was revealed
that Nome is to be the headquar
ters for a distinguished group of
writers and actors some time in
August.
A letter was read from Michael
O’Shea, publicist and writer for
nationally-known magazines, who
came to Nome in June on tour and
who liked Nome so well that when
he returned to the States he ap
peared in TV shows and has talk
ed about Nome from coast to
coast. O’Shea said: “I have a per
sonal preference, in selecting
Nome as the Alaskan city which
I think has more to offer the
average outside visitor than any
other town in Alaska.”
O’Shea plans to bring to Nome,
for publicity purposes, Danton
Walker, columnist of the New
York Daily News, whose readers
total 25,000,000; Lynn Bowers, on
the staff of Luella Parsons; Mike
Connelly, Hollywood reporter and
writer for many magazines; a
photographer and two well known
movie stars whose names will be
revealed at a later date. O’Shea
writes for Silver Screen, Inside
TV, Screenland and Theatre Arts.
The Nome Visitors Assn, are to
arrange for transportation, hous
ing and meals during their stay
and have met a ready response
by those attending the meet
ing. To date the Wallace Hotel,
the Bering Sea Club and North
Star Grill have donated housing
and meals. It is reported that Nel
son David, president of Alaska
Airlines, has expressed his inter
est in this type of publicity. O.
W. Tosch has volunteered the
use of his plane and services, as
has Wien Airlines. The Alaska
Cab Co. and the Q Gab are co
operating in arranging tours by
road and a scenic railroad trip.
The King Island and Diomede
Eskimos, with the Nome group,
will be expected to put on dances;
the Alaska National Guard to drill
and fishing trips and gold panning
are planned.
The organization would appre
ciate any further suggestions on
their entertainment as the cooper
ation of the entire community is
needed to show the possibilities of
more tours to Nome.
Father Hubbard Forecast
Mount Spurr Eruption
Two Years Ago
Father Hubbard, the Glacier
Priest, who two years ago pre
dicted the volcanic eruption of
Mt. Spurr and who is now at Ju
neau, states that the people of
Anchorage can relax now as there
will not be another big eruption
for another 21 to 23 years and that
it always hits in a different part
of the Aleutian rift.
He stated that the ash will blow
around Anchorage for a year or
more and that for the rest of the
summer there will be unusually
brilliant sunsets.
He cautioned the Air Force to
give especially good maintenance
to planes as volcanic ash is very
treacherous.