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VOL. LIV No. 120 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1952 Per Copy—15c
Gen, Eisenhower
Pledges \ isit To
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Korea If Elected
i By thf. Assort ater Press)
' Dwight Eisenhower said today
he will not be talked out of going
to Korea to seek a way to' end
the war if he is elected President.
At about the time Eisenhower
was speaking in Philadelphia, his
foe for the presidency, Adlai Ste
venson, was telling a Quincy,
Mass., crowd: “We are only a
week from the election. I still
don’t know where the Republi
cans stand."
Eisenhower, the GOP nominee,
pledged in a speech Friday night
that if he is elected, he will visit
Korea in a search for the road
to peace for America.
Democrats promptly hit back,
saying the pledge was a “grand
stand play” and that such a visit
would not help end the fighting.
To a cheering crowd at Phila
delphia’s 30th street train ter
minal, Eisenhower replied today:
“Entirely aside from any parti
san thought in my head, if the
American people want to make
me the executive head of the gov
ernment for the next four years,
I shall go there and consult with
the people on their own ground.
“From that purpose, I shall not
be deterred by any criticism any
partisan wants to bring against
me.”
Starting a speech - crammed
(Continued an Page Two)
World War II Commander
Backs Ike’s Proposal That
Koreans Man Own Lines
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Lt. Gen.
Robert L. Eichelberger, a veteran
of Far East fighting, said Monday
he belives South Koreans could
assume full control of the front
lines within IVz to 2 years.
Eichelberger, now 66 and re
tired, organized and led the
Eighth Army in its World War II
sweep from the Philippines to
Japan.
In an interview in U.S. News
and World Report, he was asked
whether South Koreans could take
over the front lines in Korea—a
question raised during the presi
dential campaigns of Republican
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and
Democratic Gov. Adlai Stevenson.
“Much more quickly than we
have been led to expect,” Eichel
berger replied.
He said Gen. Eisenhower’s re
commendation in an Oct. 2 speech
that South Koreans be trained to
man their own front lines is
militarily sound.
“The idea is not a new cfne,” he
said, “but I think the progress
probably hasn’t been as fast as
it might have been. If General
Eisenhower were elected, he could
speed up the transition very rap
idly.”
The decision to defend Korea,
Eichelberger said, “came as a sur
prise because the thinking at the
time was that the Communists
would not launch an offensive. If
Korea had not been defended, he
added, “We would have been in
a helluva fix and so would
Japan.”
Fear of Drowning-Causes
Skipper of Beached Boat
Shoot Himself with Rifle
JUNEAU, (/P)—Fear of drown
[ ing apparently caused the skipper
of a drifting, storm-crippled can
nery tender to take his own life,
: a coroner’s jury reported Sunday,
j The report-was made at an in
i quest into the death of John J.
\ Sheridan, whose body was found
I in a bunk of the tender Regis
I after it was discovered Thursday
i wrecked on the beach of Sulliva-n
I Island, 70 miles north of here,
i Two crewmen of a Coast Guard
! plane which sighted the Regis
said Sheridan was in a sleeping
j bag with a rifle across his body
! and a bullet hole in his forehead.
[ There was no note or entry of
the Regis’ ill-fated voyage in the
ship’s log.
| William Smith, part owner of
j the one-man boat, testified Sheri
dan had said he would kill him
self, rather than drown, if he
ever considered his position hope
less.
A storm at sea came up soon
after Sheridan left Juneau Oct.
18 for Hoonah, in Icy Strait about
50 miles west of here. Witnesses
said they believed the waves had
killed the Regis’ motors and the
boat drifted to the island, causing
Sheridan to think he had ground
ed on a reef and would be pound
ed to bits.
Reunion of Hitler’s
SS Troops Vilifies
Gen. Eisenhower
VERDEN, Germany, (/P) — Am
ericans including Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower were villified at the
first big postwar reunion of Hit
ler’s SS troopers Sunday night.
They cheered wildly as a former
German general urged the war
veterans to refuse to take up arms
again as long as Allied prisons
still held “so-called German war
criminals.”
Hermann Ramcke, the former
general, addressed 4,000 one-time
members of Hitler’s “elite guard”
at a rally whose announced pur
pose was to clarify the fate of
SS men still listed as missing.
Ramcke, a popular wartime
leader, said “if our soldiers are
convicted as war criminals, then
it was also a war crime when the
Allies bombed unprotected Ger
man cities and when the Allies
now invent atom bombs.”
Shouts of approval almost
drowned him out. Some of his
listeners yelled that Eisenhower is
a pig-dog. The German word they
use is Schweinhund.
The former paratroop general
— himself released last year from
a French war crimes prison—
said 11,500 German soldiers had
been involved in war crimes and
deNazification trials. He asserted
the prison sentences had totaled
4,166 years.
Another rally leader, former SS
General Felix Steiner, called a
hurried news conference later and
stressed that Ramcke was a guest
speaker and did not speak for him
and the other SS veterans.
Possible Uranium
Lode Indicated On
Upper Peace River
Acting Secretary bf the Interior
Vernon D. Northrop announced
today the release to open file of
a report indicating the possible
occurrence of a uranium lode on
the upper Peace River in the east
ern part of Seward Peninsula,
Alaska. This area wats discovered
in the course of investigations
made by geologists of the Alaskan
Geology Branch of the Geological
Survey on behalf of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The occurrence of uranothori
anite and gummite in association
with various metallic minerals in
the placers of a headwater tribu
| tary of the Peace River suggests
a nearby lode source, possibly a
vein, for the uranium minerals.
The report, entitled “Recon
I naissance for a Uranothorianite
j Bearing Lode in the Vicinity of
the Headwaters of the Peace Riv
er, Candle Quadrangle, Seward
Peninsula,” by Walter S. West,
summarizes the available infor
mation on this uranium occur
rence and outlines a prospecting
program which might lead to the
discovery of the lode.
Copies of this report are not
available for distribution but may
be inspected in the Geological
Survey’s Alaskan offices at Ju
neau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, and
College; and at the Territorial De
partment of Mines’ offices at Ju
neau, College, Ketchikan and
Nome.
Dr. Terris Moore
Leaves Presidency
Of Univ. of Alaska
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Dr. Terris
Moore, 44-year-old president at
the University of Alaska, has re
signed to give full time *to a pro
posed Mount Wrangell - Univer
sity research project.
His resignation was disclosed
Friday with announcement of its
acceptance by Andrew Nerland,
president of the board of regents.
Moore, a graduate of Williams
College, Willi’amstown, Mass.,
came to the university in 1949
from the presidency of the Bos
ton Museum of Science.
Moore, asking that his resigna
tion be effective July 1, did not
disclose the nature of his planned
research work. He said, however,
he believes he can “most usefully
make my next contribution to the
university by devoting full atten
tion to it in the early summer orf
1953.”
Nerland, Fairbanks business
man, paid Moore high tributes and
said his action was “accepted re
luctantly.”
“During your tenure of office,”
the regents wrote Moore, “high
quality standards have been main
tained, the physical plant has been
doubled, the overall student en
rollment has been tripled by the
addition otf military branches and
a summer school and a substan
tial increase has taken place in
the research activities.”
1
Presidential Campaigners
Will Log 200,000 M;!es Of
Air Travel By Nov. 4
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Air
Transport Association iATA). pre
sented statistics today to show
that air travel has been used far
more extensively in the 1952 pre
sidential campaign than in any
other.
By election day, the ATA esti
mates the candidates for Presi
dent and vice president and the
leading senatorial speakers sup
porting them will have flown
more than 200,000 miles.
About half of this total is being
clocked on regularly scheduled
airline flights, and the other half
in airplanes chartered from asso
ciation members.
Asserting that campaign air
milage this year is well ahead of
that by rail, the ATA said that in
mid-October, for example, Eisen
hower clocked more than 22,000
miles by air and some 15,000 by
rail.
ATA’s summary showed that in
1791 the first President of the
United States, George Washington
traveled 1,900 miles in 78 days by
horseback — an average of 24
miles a day—to “acquire know
ledge of the face of the country.”
AHA Authorizes
$9,417,000 In Loans
For Low Cost Units
FAIRBANKS, {&)—The Alaska
Housing Authority has authorized
810 low cost homes and two slum
clearance projects for the Terri
tory.
The authority’s board of com
missioners announced at a meet
ing which wound up Friday that
$9,417,000 in loans had been au
thorized to private sponsors under
the program.
The authorized projects were:
L. E. Baldwin, Seattle, to build
300 homes at Ketchikan; Anchor
Homes, Inc., Portland, 200 homes
at Anchorage and 200 at Fair
banks; and Knik Homes, Inc., An
chorage, 100 homes at Anchorage
and 10 at Kenai.
The Commissioners set these
ceiling sales prices: two bedroom
homes at Fairbanks, $12,500; three
bedrooms, $13,750. At Anchorage,
two bedrooms, $11,740; three bed
rooms, $12,950. /
The slum clearing projects will
be carried out at Ketchikan and
Fairbanks, executive director
Glen Wilder said.
Hattie McDaniel, ‘Beulah’
And Mammy in G.W.T.W.,
Dies of Cancer at Age 57
HOLLYWOOD, (JP) — Actress
Hattie McDaniel, the “Beulah” of
radio and television and an acad
emy award-winning movie act
ress, died yesterday of cancer.
She was 57.
Illness forced her retirement
from the “Beulah” show more
than a year ago. The show con
tinued on radio through use of
transcriptions of her voice.
Miss McDaniel was the first
member of the Negro race to win
an Academy award, won in 1039
for portraying Scarlett O’Hara’s
mammy in “Gone With the Wind.”
IMF Pilots To
Shoot Back When
Attacked by Reds
WASHINGTON, {/P)—The Air
Force is leaving to its pilots and
overseas commanders the decision
of what to do if Soviet fighters
again attack American planes fly
ing peaceable missions over non
Russian territory.
The USAF spokesman made it
plain today, in answer to ques
tions, that the crews of a plane,
like the B-29 shot down by Rus
sian fighters over Japanese wa
ters earlier this month, has the
right to fire back in self defense.
However, the American plane
downed by Soviet gunfire Oct. 7
could not have fired back because
it wasn’t prepared for shooting.
Its guns were “tied down” during
the routine training flight to the
northern tip of Hokkaido
Another answer by the spokes
man indicated the Air Force now
is ready to cope with any such at
tacks by Soviet fighters by assign
ing a fighter - plane escort when
needed. The spokesman told a re
porter “day-to-day tactical consid
erations dictate whether escort is
provided.”
This double-barreled self-de
fense program—apparent blanket
authority for plane crews to pro
tect themselves and for command
ers to assign fighter escort when
needed—seems directly related to
the formal note sent to Russia by
the State Department Oct. 17.
That note, protesting the Oct. 7
incident and demanding compen
sation for the loss of the B-29 and
the eight men aboard, urged the
“Soviet government seriously to
consider the grave consequences
when can flow from its reckless
practice, if persisted in, of at
tacking without provocation the
aircraft of other states.”
Apparently, one grave conse
quence could be the failure o\
Russian fighters to return to base
after an attack on American air
craft.
AP Mid-October Survey
Shows Eisenhower With
Big Gain in Midwest
(By the Associated Press)
The consensus of editors and
political correspondents taking
part in the second, mid-October
survey of the Midwest for the
Associated Press: Eisenhower and
the GOP have made sweeping
strides since an earlier check
around Labor Day and since 1948.
Truman pulled a surprise four
years ago by picking off half the
12 midwestem states.
The'newsmen keeping tab on
the trends believe that, in the
whole crucial farm belt, only
Missouri looked likely to go Dem
ocratic if the election were held
in mid-October. Missouri has 13
electoral votes.
Clocked as inclined or fairly
certain to go Republican were all
the other 11 states, with 140 elec
toral votes—Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Michigan, Minnesota, Neb
raska, North and South Dakota,
Ohio, Wisconsin and Stevenson's
home state of Illinois.