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VOL, LIV No. 142 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1952 Per Copy—15^
Commons Told
A-Bombs Stored
At U.S. Air Base
LONDON, (JP) — A Leftwing
British Laborite told the House
» of Commons Friday he has learn
ed “there are tactical atomic
bomb stores” near an American
air field in southeast England.
Tom Driberg said he had been
told this by a U.S. Air Force
officer at the field. The officer,
he added, gave this as the reason
for the sudden closing of a coun
try road between Finchingfield
and Wethersfield near the Ameri
can air field at Wethersfield.
A spokesman at U.S. Third Air
Force headquarters in South Rui
slip, near London, denied any
American officer had discussed
atomic bomb stores with Driberg.
He said Driberg and another mem
ber of Parliament were guests at
1 a recent social assembly at the
jet fighter base at Wethersfield,
but the talk was “purely social.”
There was no immediate com
ment from the British government
concerning Driberg’s remarks.
The Communist Daily Worker
customarily refers to American
installation as “atom bases.” Tac
tical atomic bombs would be small
atomic weapons, perhaps intended
for use by fighter-bombers in
support of ground troops.
Winnie Ruth Judd
Makes 6th Escape
From ‘Hospital’
PHOENIX, Ariz., (JP)—'The out
again-in-again trunk murderess,
Winnie Ruth Judd, led searchers
' a baffling chase Friday after her
sixth escape from the state hos
pital for the insane.
Red - haired Winnie squirmed
out through a sawed window
screen Thursday night.
With her customary craftiness,
she left nothing to show just how
she circumvented the many pre
. cautions to keep her in.
It was her second escape this
year from the hospital where she
has been confined since 1933. In
1931 she killed two girl friends
and shipped their dismembered
bodies to Los Angeles as baggage.
She was sentenced to be hanged
but was found insane just 72
horns before she was scheduled
to go to the gallows.
Her flight Thursday night set
' off a frantic search not only for
48-year-old Winnie but for sup
posed accomplices.
“She had help some way or
other to make the escape,” said
Dr. M.W. Conway, hospital super
intendent.
36 Passengers Die
In Crash of Alaska
C-54 At Tacoma
TACOMA, (/P)—A four-engine
military transport from Alaska
crashed in the fog a mile short
of its destination here early this
morning and 36 of the 39 aboard
died in the explosion and flames.
The passenger list of service
men and dependents included
seven women and nine children.
The only survivors, all in Tacoma
hospitals, were two airmen and
an eight-year-old boy. Two of the
women killed were in the military
service. Several of the children
were babies.
An air force information officer
from McChord Air Force Base,
where the big C-54 was preparing
to land shortly after midnight,
said the hospitals expressed the
belief the three survivors have a
good chance to pull through.
At least two witnesses to the
tragedy said the plane was afire
as it “whooshed” down to a tree
flanked field about a mile from
its destination at McChord Air
Force Base.
Capt. Jack Easley, public infor
mation officer at McChord, said
the early reports to the base indi
cated the plane struck a tree
while coming in through the
heavy fog for a ground-control
approach landing.
All but a section of the tail
was destroyed in the resulting
fire and explosion. Bodies were
scattered over 200 feet from the
wreckage.
Art Getchman, 18, who was
driving nearby, and Philip Bolden,
a McChord taxi driver who said
the plane flew low over his home,
were the witnesses who said the
plane appeared to be afire.
Getchman thought there was
fire in an engine on the left side;
Bolden said it “looked like the
entire right wing was afire.”
Both said the plane was ex
tremely low.
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Wreckage of Missing C-124
Found On Mount Gannett
GO Miles East of Anchorage
SEATTLE, (JP) — The Alaska
Command reported that a C-124
Globemaster was found on Mt.
Gannett, 60 miles east of Anchor
age. Dr. Terris Moore, University
of Alaska president, landed a
small plane near the wreckage
on Surprise Glacier and reported
there was no sign of life of the
52 passengers aboard the plane
which crashed last Saturday on
a flight from McChord Air Base
to Anchorage.
Believes Hawaii
Should be Granted
Statehood First
WASHINGTON, (/P>—Rep. Poul
son (R-Calif) said Friday he be
lieves the quickest way to obtain
statehood for both Hawaii and
Alaska is to let Hawaii into the
union first.
Poulson, a member of the House
Committee on Interior and Insu
lar Affairs, is in line to be as
signed as chairman of the terri
tories subcommittee which would
handle the statehood legislation.
“I don’t think people like pack
age deals,” Poulson said in an
interview.
He referred to the strategy
adopted in the Senate last spring
of tying the two bills together
with the fate of one virtually de
pending on the other. Both the
Hawaii and Alaska bills failed to
clear the Senate then.
Poulson made it clear he is for
both bills.
But, he said, he would like to
see the Hawaii bill reported from
the House committee ‘right away’
and sent to the Senate.
Republican leaders in the Sen
ate have indicated that the Hawaii
bill stands a good chance of Sen
ate passage, with the outcome not
so bright for Alaska.
Poulson said he has not dis
cussed strategy with the delegates
to Congress from Alaska and
Hawaii. In the last Congress, the
delegates decided to press for
Senate passage first.
To Carry on Research,
Scientist Offers Bounty
On Rats in Nome
E. Schiller, parasitologist from
the Arctic Health Research Cen
ter, arrived today to study rats
in this area. Mr. Schiller is known
here for his work on St. Lawrence
Island two years ago when his
research .there showed that the
rodents on the island carried an
Asiatic disease to dogs, foxes, and
even to humans on the island.
So far, this particular disease
has not been found on the main
land. In order to carry out his
research Schiller needs rats, lots
of them, to use in his laboratory.
He is offering 25 cents per rat
for all that are brought to him. He
prefers, he said, to have them
trapped rather than shot. Three
diseases which have been identi
fied with rats are trichinosis,
dwarf tapeworm and leptospirosis.
In Monday’s issue Mr. Schiller
will announce where the rats are
to be brought.
Salmon Industry
Asks Unions To
Reduce Pay Scales
SEATTLE, </P) — The Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc., has beat
the unions to the punch this year,
mailing out notices of contract
termination and asking for a cut
in wage scales “to save the in
dustry.”
It is about this time of year
that the unions usually terminate
the existing contracts — as pro
vided for in their wage agreement
—and request increases in pay.
The deadline for the notices is
Dec. 1.
The letters of termination and
the appeal for lower wage scales
were sent out to the unions in
Seattle and Alaska by W. C. Ar
nold, managing director of the
Salmon Packers Association, Wed
nesday.
Thirty contracts involving 16,000
workers and some 300 different
wage scales are involved. Arnold
said preliminary negotiation prob
ably will begin before the Christ
mas holidays and then resume in
earnest later to permit movement
of men and equipment by the
late February deadline.
Arnold said the industry is not
claiming it is operating in the red
but believes spiraling operating
costs are pricing its product out
of the market.
“We are running into consumer
resistance,” he said, “and our
prices are getting too high to
continue in a competitive market.”
The letter to the unions said the
$100 million industry is fighting
for survival and if it “is to con
tinue in business its production
costs must be revised downward.”
There was no immediate reac
tion from union officials.
Death Toll Over
Thanksgiving, 107,
Lowest Since 1946
The nation’s accidental death
toll over the Thanksgiving holi
day, it appeared today, wps the
lowest since 1946.
A survey showed 85 persons
were killed in traffic accidents
and 22 lost their lives from mis
cellaneous causes during the 30
hour period. The 107 total com
pared with 135 last year and the
1950 record Thanksgiving holiday
tol lof' 201.
Cold weather and snow-packed
and icy highways kept thousands
of motorists off the highways and
the cut in travel was partially
credited with reducing the traffic
toll.
Koreans Think Ike
Will Run Reds
Back to Manchuria
SEOUL, (A*)—Millions of South
Koreans seem to think U.S. Presi
dent-elect Eisenhower is going to
drive the Chinese Communists
back into Manchuria.
Clarence Ryee, official govern
ment spokesman, put it this way:
“Gen. Eisenhower represents the
last great hope of crur 22,000,000
people. Ask any man on the street
and he will tell you he believes
Eisenhower will drive the Chinese
Reds completely out of Korea. So
the sentiment of welcome here is
a strong and stirring thing.”
For a fourth straight day,
Seoul bubblied with anticipation.
More banners than ever splashed
across buildings and the gutted
skeletons of buildings. Closely
spaced national and metropolitan
police guarded main thorough
fares.
“Won’t the Korean people get
a little tired of parading and prac
ticing every day for Ike’s wel
come?”
“Not a bit,” Ryee said. “Tl\ey
like it.”
Report of Birth of
Chilean Septuplets
“Vulgar Hoax”
SANTIAGO, Chile, (JP) — The
federal police announced today
the reported birth of septuplets
to a Chilean woman Thursday
night was a “vulgar hoax.”
The announcement of the fraud
was made by Luis Salamanca,
head of the Fifth Federal Police
Section—the same police official
who late Thursday night had told
a reporter for the daily newspaper
El Mercurio that seven girls had
been bom to a woman Salamanca
identified as Mrs. Carmen Molina,,
attended by a midwife.
The report of the births caused
great excitement in the Chilean
capital. All but one newspaper
brought out banner headlines in
extra editions to tell their readers
the story. High government offi
cials hurried to the clinic where
the mother and her babies sup
posedly had been taken.
Angry newsmen who had spent
the night in front of the clinic
said they planned to protest to
Chile’s new president, Gen. Carlos
Ibanez, because Salamanca both
released the information as true
and then later denounced it.
-Salamanca said the authors of
the hoax had sought to gain
publicity for a spring festival.
They picked the figure seven to
represent seven candidiates for
queen of the festival, he said.
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