U.N. Peacemakers
Quiz Communists
On Exchange Plan
PANMUNJOM, UR—Allied truce
negotiators Saturday asked ques
tion after question aimed at forc
ing the Communists to spell out
in detail their compromise prison
er exchange plan and said “we
must know the answers” before
the proposal could be considered
further.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison
Jr. told newsmen after the 32
minute session that his barrage of
questions did not mean the U.N.
Command had accepted the Red
plan as a basis for negotiation.
Harrisom’s detailed questioning
was centered on the Reds’ propos
al to have a five-nation neutral
repatriation commission take cus
tody of the 48,500 Red prisoners
who refuse to return to Commu
nism.
“How would the decisions be
reached? Majority vote? Is there
a veto?” Harrison asked the Com
munist negotiators.
The Reds, in their sweeping
eight-point proposal to settle the
prisoner deadlock proposed that
the commission consist of Poland,
Czechoslavakia, Sweden, India
and Switzerland.
Harrison indicated the U.N.
Command will not accept the
Reds’ proposal that eventual dis
position of prisoners who refuse
to go home after “explanations”
by their own side in neutral
camps be left to a postwar politi
cal conference.
Severe Economic Crisis
Reported in Red China
STRASBOURG, France, UPl —•
Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, re
cently back from a visit to Hong
Kong, says Communist China may
be trying to get out of the Korean
War because of a “severe econ
omic crisis” at home and a drain
^on her resources from helping the
Vietminh rebels in Indochina.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs.
James Marihugh, Frank Coplin,
Lt. Farmer, Francis Aumauk,
Rosie Gray.
From Anchorage: Fred Ernak,
Stanley Ahkvaluk, H. Rach, A. V.
Cordovado, Lt. Chas. Sampson, E.
Pearson.
To Unalakleet: Sgt. Geo. Bob
bitt, May Joule and infant, Jack
Norman.
From Unalakleet: Mrs. M. An
sell.
IN DISTRICT COURT
The 1952 report of the receivers
of the Cordovado property at
Deering was approved this morn
ing in the U.S. Distrcit Court.
Red Puppet Army Planned
BERLIN, (Jf*i — West German
sources reported today that Red
ruled East Germany and Czecho
slavakia have signed an agree
ment to organize a joint million
man army by this time next year.
Baboons have "become a pest in
parts of Africa where large meat
eating animals which used to kill
them off have been eliminated or
reduced in numbers.
18 Dead in Crash of
Air India Transport Plane
I$EW DELHI, India, (fft—An Air
India C - 47 transport plane
crashed in flames Saturday, car
rying 18*persohs to their deaths.
The victims included two Am
ericans—one, a school teacher
whose two companions died a
week ago in another tragic air
crash.
The two American victims were
identified as Miss Pauline Leh
man, 26, of Mountain Lake, Minn.,
and Ramchand Watumull, 40, of
Honolulu, an Indian-born mem
ber of a wealthy Hawaiian family.
Their two-engined plane went
down shortly after it took off here
into a summer monsoon storm
on a routine five-hour flight to
Bombay.
The crash came within a week
after 43 persons, including three
Americans, died last Saturday in
the crash of a British jet Comet
airliner near Calcutta.
Federal Sales Tax
Explored Cautiously by
Business Advisory Council
HOT SPRINGS, Va., Iff)—A fed
eral sales tax was being explored
cautiously Saturday by the na
tion’s top industry executives as
a possible bolster for federal rev
enues if a recession should come.
Members of the Commerce De
partment’s Business Advisory
Council, meeting in "closed session
here with Secretary of Commerce
Weeks, conceded that so drastic
a change in national tax policy
could not be posed for immediate
action.
They also voiced, in private
conversation, the view that the
business outlook is highly favor
able for possibly a year ahead,
and that any recession caused by
dwindling defense outlays will be
mild and brief.
Stevenson 111 in India
TRIVANDRUM, India, UP) —
Adlai Stevenson, 1952 Democratic
candidate for the U.S. presidency,
was reported indisposed Saturday.
He has canceled his remaining
engagements in this south Indian
city.
The former Illinois governor
arrived here Friday from Madras
on his extensive tour of the Far
East. His strenuous schedule of
the past few days was given as a
reason for his indisposition.
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200 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
GET SICK AFTER BANQUET
ANNISTON, Ala., UP)—An esti
mated 200 high school boys and
girls became violently ill after at
tending a banquet Friday night.
Some collapsed at a gay dance
after the annual junior - senior
dinner.
Only two remained in a hospi
tal and they were expected to be
released soon.
Physicians said the illness ap
parently stemmed from food pois
oning.
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PHONE RED 181
Great Lakes Iron Ore
Freighter Sinks In Gale
On Lake Superior
GRAND MARAIS, Minn., UB—
A Great Lakes freighter, heavily
laden with iron ore and carrying
31 crewmen, plunged to the bot
tom of wind-whipped Lake Su
perior off Isle Royale early today.
Several crewmen in life craft and
life jacket were rescued.
The ill-fated ore carrier, the
Henry Steinbrenner, foundered
and sank 14 miles off Isle Royale
shortly after dawn in water
churned by 55 to 60 miles an
hour winds. The wind ripped
hatches from the craft, allowing
it to take on water.
Two steamers, the Clemson and
the Sykes, in the vicinity at the
time, reported by radio to Grand
Marais Coast Guard station that a
number of men had been saved.
The Sykes said several men had
been taken from a life boat. The
Clemson took aboard several men
from a raft and said some men
wearing life jackets also had been
picked up.
Appropriations Cut In
Pacific Salmon Research
SEATTLE, W—Nineteen of the
25 research projects being con
ducted by the Fish and Wildlife
Service in its Pacific salmon in
vestigations are expected to be
dropped as a result of House ac
tion in cutting $44,400 out of the
budget for the work, C. E. Atkin
son, chief of the salmon investiga
tions, said Saturday.
But new information received
from Washington, he added, indi
cates that research projects in
other parts of the nation will suf
fer even more as a result of the
House action on appropriations.
The total cut in appropriations
for federal fisheries research
amounted to 28 percent, while the
544,000 cut off the salmon investi
gation budget was less than 20
percent of the present appropria
tion, Atkinson said.
GROUND BROKEN FOR
3rd DIVISION ASSAY OFFICE
Ground has been broken at An
chorage for the building which
will house the Third Division’s
new assay office. It will cost
$51,800.
Green light to proceed wos
given Anchorage contractors by
Phil R. Holdsworth, Territorial
commissioner of mines when he
was there on an all-Alaska in
spection tour a couple of weeks
ago.
The new assay office will be
located on Second Ave. between
C and D streets and will be built
by the Anchorage Builders. It was
designed by the Anchorage archi
tectural firm, Manley and Mayer.
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