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VOL. LIV No. 110 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1952 Per Copy—15<
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Bar Assn. Blasts
Slowness In j
Filling Judgeships
SAN FRANCISCO, I/Pi — The
1 ation’s lawyers v.,jre mV tod.'-.y
that slowness in filling vacant
federal judgeships has resulted in
“intolerable delays of justice dur
ing the past three years.”
The federal judiciary commit
tee of the American Bar Associ
ation mentioned directly neither
President Truman—who has the
power to nominate judges — nor
the U.S. Senate—which confirms
the nominations—in its blast at
“the appointing power.”
However, in a report to the
opening session of the 75th annual
ABA convention, the committee
traced time lapses between the
dates of vacancies in wide sec
tions of the country and the date's ,
of presidential nominations to fill
them.
It concluded its report by quot
ing without comment from a June
1952 resolution adopted by federal
judges of the Ninth Circuit (west
coast, Hawaii and Alaska> that
“the impression has been created
at the bar and with the public
that federal judgeships are but a
part of the patronage of politi
cians . .
Walcott Will Defend
Title Against Marciano
Next Tuesday, Sept. 23
PHILADELPHIA, f/P)— A crown
resting uneasy on his brow, age
less Jersey Joe Walcott will put
his world heavyweight champion
ship on the line here Sept. 23
against undefeated Rocky Marci
ano, a swarming, club - fisted
puncher from Brockton, Mass.
This marks only the second
time in more than a year that the
38-year-old Cinderella Man of
boxing from Camden, N.J. ven
tures to place at stake the title
he wrestled from Ezzard Charles
with a seventh-round knockout
in Pittsburgh last year.
Marciano, undefeated in 41
bouts, appears confident he’ll suc
ceed where Charles failed last
June to* knock the teetering royal
headpiece of boxing from Wal
cott's time-weathered brow. And
indications are the New England
clubber would go into the ring
at vast Municipal Stadium an ap
proximate 2 to 1 favorite.
Walcott will place the title in
jeopardy for 40 percent of the
gate in a battle which will be
televised only to theaters and
blacked out even for cinema
viewers in Philadelphia and New
England. Marciano has cut him
self in for 20 percent of the take.
MARGARET TRUMAN IS
SYMPATHETIC WITH
STEVENSON'S ELIGIBILITY
CHICAGO, (JP) — Margaret
Truman expressed good - natured
“sympathy” for Democratic presi
dential nominee Adlai E. Steven
son Friday.
Referring to the many times
she has been linked romantically
with various men. She said:
“Poor Gov. Stevenson, He’s go
ing to catch what I’ve had the
last eight years. They’ll always
be linking him with someone.”
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CAP Banquet Wednesday
Will Honor Officials
From Washington, D.C.
The Civil Air Patrol has an
nounced a banquet for Wednes
day evening at the Firelite Room
of the Board of Trade honoring
a group of high CAP officials
from Washington, D.C., who are
arriving Wednesday with Alaska
Wing Commander, Jesse Carr of
Anchorage.
Phil Lancaster, operations of
ficer, will be master of cere
monies, assisted by Mayor Jones,
Larry Galvin, president of the
Chamber of Commerce; Boyd
Harwood, president of Rotary;
and H. F. Harper, chairman of
Civil Defense.
Reservations for the dinner
may be made through Bob Em
mons, Phil Lancaster, Nome
Motors or Nome Hardware. As
seating is limited, all planning to
attend are urged to make their
reservations early.
Eisenhower Jabs at Levity j
In Stevenson's Campaign
iBy the Associated Pkess»
Republican presidential nomi
nee Dwight Eisenhower, armed
with an experimental technique,
rolled into the Midwest today
while this Democratic opponent
took a breather between cam
paign tours.
Eisenhower’s plan, according, to
one of his top advisers, is to re
cite the campaign issues for his
listeners, then ask them: Are
these lailghing matters?
As Gov. Sherman Adams of
New Hampshire put it: “The cam
paign to elect the next President
of the United States is no laugh
ing matter, to be handled lightly
with quip^ and puns.”
This then, would be Eisenhow
er’s first answer to the jabs
thrust his way by Illinois’ Gov.
Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic
presidential nominee, during Ste
venson's campaign tour of the
West.
At his first scheduled stop en
route to Stevenson’s home state
%
of Illinois, Eisenhower told * a
mildly responsive crowd at Fort
Wayne, Ind.:
“I see nothing funny” about the
issues of the presidential cam
paign.
In his opening salvo of his 12
state 12-day drive, the Republican
nominee said:
“I am in this business (running
for office) because I believe Am
erica is in peril, there is nothing
funny in that.”
Eisenhower was applauded by
an estimated crowd of 5,000 as he
jabbed at the levity of his Demo
cratic opponent in discussing
some of the GOP reaction to pol
itical problems.
As he traveled westward, Ei
senhower learned that editors and
political writers in five politically
strong Middle Atlantic states look
for a narrow-margin GOP victory
there in November. The five: New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Maryland and Delaware.
An Associated Press survey
brought opinion that these states,
with 105 electoral votes toward
the 266 needed for victory, would
give Eisenhower a bigger margin
than they give Dewey in 1948.
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AFL Convention
Expected Endorse
Gov. Stevenson
NEW YORK, W5) — The AFL’s
annual convention got off to a
political start today, leading Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey to wonder if
it’s going to be “a Democratic
clambake.”
The convention is expected to j
endorse Gov. Adlai Stevenson for
President on the Democratic tick
et and one of the first speakers,
Martin T. Lacey, lost no time in
fixing its course.
Lacy preceded AFL President
William Green in his opening ad
dress to the convention.
Lacey, president of the AFL
Central Trades and Labor Council
lambasted the Taft - Hartley law
and said he didn’t see how any
trade unionist can support the
party behind it. The Taft-Hartley
law is primarily a Republican law.
Lacey told the delegates that
the AFL submitted platform
planks to bo.h parties calling for
Taft-Hartley repeal.
“The Republican party rejected
our proposal and declared flatly
for retention of Taft-Hartley,” he
said. “The Democratic party re
acted sympathetically to our pro
posals and even more flatly de
clared for repeal of Taft-Hartley,
using almost identical language of
the AFL representatives.”
Decision on a presidential
choice is expected to be made a
week from tomorrow after the
convention has heard addresses
by Stevenson and Eisenhower.
The general will talk Wednesday
and Stevenson next Monday.
The 752 convention delegates
represent eight million AFL mem
bers.
U. S. Asks Tito
For Air Bases
In Yugoslavia
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (/P)—
The United States has asked Pre
mier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia
for greater cooperation in the
joint defense of southeastern Eu
rope, including the use by Am
erican planes of air bases in this
country.
From a responsible source, it
was learned that Vice Adm. J. H.
Cassady, commander-in-chief of
the Mediterranean - based Sixth
Fleet, laid the proposition before
Tito last week aboard the giant
aircraft carrier Coral Sea during
his visit to Split.
Cassady was quoted as paying a
glowing tribute to Yugoslavia’s
resistance against Russian pres
sure since its break with the So
viet-led Cominform in 1948. He
expressed American gratification
at this country’s recent measures
to increase defensive cooperation
with Greece and Turkey.
But he said the United States
would like even greater direct
cooperation with Yugoslavia—co
operation already marked by in
creasing shipment of American
arms to equip Tito's tough, well
trained troops.
Poker-faced, Tito remained non
committal. This came as no sur
prise.
Gov. Stevenson Asserts
Taft Has Taken Over
Eisenhower’s Campaign
SPRINGFIELD, 111., (/P)—Gov.
Adlai Stevenson said today “Sen
ator Taft has taken over” the
presidential campaign of General
Eisenhower.
Stevenson told a news confer
ence, which covered a wide range
of subjects:
“This puts an entirely new as
pect on the campaign and the el
ection. Hitherto, I have had to
address myself to the rival poli
cies of both Republican parties
because it was not certain whe
ther Taft or the general would
end up in the command post. It
now appears brutally clear that
Senator Taft has taken over.”
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International Convention
Meets to Map Blueprint
For United West Europe
STRASBOURG, Germany, </P),
—Europe’s first international con
stitutional convention today asked
European states outside its own
six-nation membership to join in
work on a blueprint for a united
western Europe.
Delegates from France, West
Germany, Italy, Belgium, The
Netherlands and Luxembourg —
the Schumn Plan countries—got
of a quick start on the constitu
tion-drafting task.
The vote to hear observers from
members of the 14-nation council
of Europe represented a gesture
to Britain, who1 so far has con
fined her participation in moves
toward European unity to mem
bership in the council.
West Germany led the drive to
silence the non - Schuman coun
tries, but French Socialist Guy
Mollet forced the issue with a de
mand to decide at once “whether
our confederation is supposed
to be open to all who want to
beome members or associates, or
whether it is to be a closed
corporation limited to the six
Schuman Plan nations.
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With Possible Coal Strike
A Week Away, Lewis
Meets with Policy Com.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — With a
possible coal strike only a week
off, John L. Lewis huddles with
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his 200-man policy committee to
day to map negotiating strategy.
The contract between the United
Mine Workers Union and the
northern mine owners expires on
Saturday. Since that is not a
working day, the first opporttun
ity for the miners to stay away
from work would be next Mon
day.
Lewis’ union members tradi
j tionally won’t work without a
contract. However, agreements
with southern soft coal operators
and with the Pennsylvania an
thracite, or hard coal, owners ex
tend until Sept. 30.
The UMW policy committee,
due to meet with Lewis in mid
afternoon is the group Lewis us
ually consults when major union
decisions are to be made. It al
ways ratifies contracts before
their terms are made generally
known. It also helps draft strike
plans.
Dynamite Cap
Explosion Injures
Billy Muller, Age 9
Once again dynamite caps are
being sought by the authorities as
one child is already in the hos
pital with serious hand injuries.
Billy Muller, 9-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Muller will
probably lose some fingers be
cause he did not know the dan
ger of playing with these “caps”
which are thin metal cylinders
about an inch and a half long.
So ' far investigation has re
vealed that several small children
found the dynamite caps in an
empty open building belonging to
the Eric Nelson estate. The box
containing the caps originally
contained 100 caps. About 60 have
been accounted for, leaving a pos
sible 40 which may still be with
children or scattered here and
there.
Everyone is cautioned by the
authorities * to report the finding
of such caps and urged not to
touch them but report their
whereabouts to the Police Station
at once. Even rubbing the caps
together can cause them to ex
plode.
As soon as the accident was re
ported last evening the local
AFRS broadcast a warning, and
Dr. Langsam alerted the clergy at
the evening services so that all
parents would be made aware of
the danger as soon as possible.
This morning all children m
school were shown the caps and
it was explained to them the ter
rible danger of the small cylin
ders.
U.N. Planes Continue
Trip-Hammer Blows On
Communists Installations
SEOUL, (iP) — U.S. Sabre jet
pilots destroyed at least nine
Communist MIG-15s Monday
while flying protective cover for
Allied fighter-bombers attacking
Red targets deep in North Korea,
the Air Force announced.
The fighter - bombers plastered
a Communist industrial complex
at Sinuiju, only a few miles from
the Manchurian border. Targe‘s
included an oxygen plant, an alco
hol distillery and a rope factory.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
the day’s bag of MlGs brought to
at least 41 the number destroyed
this month.
The latest attack is one of a
series of trip-hammer aerial blows
against targets right up to the
doorstep of Manchuria.
In the only ground fighting of
any size across the 155-mile battle
front Sunday, South Korean in
fantrymen failed in a savage at
tempt to throw Chinese Reds off
Finger Ridge in the central front.
Princess Kathleen Passengers
Arrive In Vancouver, B.C.
VANCOUVER, B.C., </P)—Pas
sengers stranded at Juneau last
Sunday by the sinking of the lux
ury cruise ship Princess Kathleen
arrived her£ Saturday aboard the
Princess Elizabeth.
The Elizabeth was ordered tc?
Alaska from Vancouver after the
Kathleen struck a reef and sank
a week ago Sunday.