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VoL. LIV ^No. 26 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1952 Per Copy—15^
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Senator Russell
Crashes Democrat
Nomination Race
(By the Associated Press)
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Senator Russell of Georgia, in
entering the Democratic presiden
tial race, may have snatched the
Dixie banner from Tennessee’s
candidate Estes Kefauver.
Moreover, Russell is seen as a
threat to President Truman him
self if the President decides to
run again.
Russell, popular 54 - year - old
bachelor, already has received
favorable reports, from Southern
governors.
Kefauver publicly welcomed
Russell’s entry into the Demo
cratic race. He said it would bring
a new discussion of issues, which
is a healthy thing.
The Tennessean, in a New York
television show said Thursday
night there orught to be more em
phasis on “things other than arm
ament” in the American foreign
policy.
On the whole, however, he said
he backed the administration’s
policy, although he said the peo
ple should “have more confidence
in our ability to lead the worrld.”
Senator Taft protested his po
sition on the New Hampshire pri
mary ballot—last, because names
are listed alphabetically, putting
Gen. Eisenhower and Harold Stas
sen ahead of him. His objection
was turned down.
Sen. Duff (R-Pa) an Eisenhower
supporter said bitterly on a politi
cal program televised from Wash
ington that anti-Eisenhower pam
phlets being distributed over the
country are “the most scandalous
un-Americanism I ever heard of.”
They caricature the general be
ing decorated by Stalin and carry
a caption indicating Eisenhower
“served him well.”
Duff said an immense amount
of money is being spent to dis
credit Eisenhower.
Regarding the pamphlet, he
said that’s the kind of campaign
ing “that rich people did in Ger
many to bring Hitler to power.”
Policeman Protests
Literally Sitting On
Keg of Dynamite
TOLEDO, O., (/P)—Police Sgt.
Martin Haher asked his superiors
Friday to get him off the keg of
dynamite he has been sitting on
for nearly a year.
The sergeant formally reported
that a case of dynamite had been
stored in the basement property
room directly beneath his Safety
Building post and the police
pressroom. He said he understood
dynamite exploded with a slight
jar after drying and corroding for
a while.
“I believe this condition should
be checked before some desk ser
geants and reporters take a ride
into oblivion,” the sergeant wrote.
“I am not ready to go.”
CAB Orders Six Major
Airlines Provide Genuine
Air Coach Service
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The Civil
Aeronautics Board has ordered
six major domestic airlines to pro
vide genuine coach-service rates
•and schedules effective April 1 or
to quit certain of their low-rate
tourist operations.
The board has held that the
carriers —'authorized to provide
coach service a year ago to meet
competition from the low - rate
non-scheduled airlines — in their
schedules for the new period
starting April 1 have failed either
to reduce off-peak (night time)
fares to the specified four cents
a passenger mile, or to put in
enough seating capacity to qualify
the planes as true coaches.
The order applied to Capital,
Eastern, Northwest, United, and
Western Airlines.
Allied Tank
Spearheads
Hit Chinese
SEOUL, Korea, (JP)—A power
ful force of Allied tank raiders
smashed through the former Red
supply base of Kusong Friday and
blasted' Chinese entrenched north
of the city.
Another group of raiding U.N.
tanks fought it out with Chinese
artillery and mortars on the west
ern front.
The tank force rumbled right
through Kumsong and, in the
words of one Allied officer, “shot
the living hell out of” Chinese
hidden in the hills beyond the
city.
Some of the 46-ton General
Patton tanks were damaged but
others took them in tow and
pulled them back to their bases
when the raiders broke off the
fight.
It was a big strike in the gen
erally quiet Korean war, but cen
sorship prevented disclosure of
the number of tanks involved.
The U.S. Eighth Army reported
a few patrol actions, but general
ly Allied troops along the 145
mile front enjoyed a quiet spring
day.
Jack Dempsey To Promote
Fight Between Matthews
And Moore In Toledo, O.
TOLEDO, O., (JP) — Promoter
Sid Goldberg of the Mercury
Athletic Club offered $20,000 to
light heavyweight Harry Mat
thews Friday for a 10-round bout
next summer against Archie
Moore, a Toledo light heavy
weight.
The offer was wired Jack Hur
ley, Matthews’ manager.
Goldberg said he and Jack
Dempsey would co - promote a
Matthew-s-Moore bout outdoors at
► the Toledo ball park—if it could
be arranged.
Emil Fisher
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Recovering from
Plane Crash
Emil Fisher, sole survivor of the
airplane crash east of Nome Tues
day evening, is reported recover
ing satisfactorily from his injuries
which include a broken leg and a
broken arm as well as other bod
ily bruises.
Mr. Fisher, who marvels at his
miraculous escape, was seated be
side the pilot at the time of the
crash and stated that he was not
aware of anything wrong until
about 30 seconds before the crash,
when a had a feeling that every
thing was not right.
He said that very shortly after
the crash both he and the pilot
were conscious and that the pilot
told him that he had tried and
tried but he couldn’t seem to get
the plane up. He knew he was
losing altitude but the plane
would not respond and he as
sumed that icing conditions were
holding him down.
Reggie, who had the use of his
legs, after ascertaining his other
passengers—one of whom was his
bride of a month — were both
dead, assisted Fisher from the
wreckage and made him as com
fortable as he could by getting
out the sleeping bags. He seemed
at the time unaware of his own
injuries, caring for his passenger
before relaxing himself.
The two men sat in the shelter
of a wing throughout the night
and as dawn came they realized
their chances of rescue were slim
as the weather was closing in.
They both realized that they could
not last another night.
They never dreamed that help
was within a mile away during
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Truman Opens
Red Cross Drive
For $85 Million
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman has opened the annual
American Red Cross drive with
a plea for money and blood to
answer this “compelling call to
humanity.”
He said in a- nation-wide re
corded broadcast Thursday night
the nation could be proud that
the more than a million pints of
blood collected last year saved
“thousands” of lives on the bat
tlefield and at home.
Pointing to “the heroic work of
the Red Cross in time of disaster,
its day-to-day service in saving
lives, and its constant help to the
men and the women in the armed
forces,” the President said:
“These are the things that have
made the Red Cross a living ex
pression of our great tradition of
neighbor-helping-heighbor in time
of trouble.”
The Red Cross is seeking at
least 85 million dollars.
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! Conciliator Intensifies
i Efforts Avert Nation
Wide Oil Strike
WASHINGTON, (£>) — Federal
Conciliator Cyrus S. Ching Friday
promised “intensified” efforts to
produce a compromise and head
off a nation-wide oil strike now
set for March 9.
Ching won a week’s postpone
ment Thursday night from a co
alition representing the CIO Oil
Workers and -a score of AFL and
independent unions.
He said a strike would have an
“immediate” effect on millions of
auto drivers, would hamper or
stop production at every big re
finery in the country and would
strike a blow at the defense pro
gram, now running at full speed.
Martime Comm.
Approves 15%
Freight Raise
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—The Mari
time Commission has approved a
15 per cent increase in freight
rates for steamship cargo to Alas
ka, Ben Parkinson, manager of
the Coastwise Line, said Thurs
day.
(In Washington, however, a
Maritime Commission spokesman
said no definite decision had been
reached on the Alaska shipping
rate increase case; that the com
mission expected to act on it to
day.) t
(In Seattle a spokesman for the
Alaska Steamship Company said
he understood yesterday’s action
on the rate increase was verbal
and that the commission would
merely confirm it today).
Coastwise and the Alaska Line
had applied for a 20 per cent in
crease effective March 1. The
commission’s order makes the 15
per cent increase effective on
March 3.
Parkinson said the steamship
lines had scaled down their re
quest to the 15 per cent figure
in hope of speeding up the move
ment of cargo so the waiting times
of ships would be cut down. The
operators said congestion in Sew
ard harbor cost them $750,000 in
waiting time last year.
Calls For 10 Billion
Dollar Cut In Budget
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Chair
man O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) of the
Senate-House Economic Commit
tee called Friday for a 10 billion
dollar cut in the federal budget,
mainly in defense spending.
He also urged Congress to re
ject President Truman’s request
for a tax-rate increase.
The Wyoming lawmaker said
the $85,444,000,000 Truman bud
get for the fiscal year starting
July 1 can be reduced more than
10 per cent without jeopardizing
national security or impairing the
civilian economy.
Senate Undecided
Final Disposition
Statehood Bills
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen
ate took a breather today, still
undecided whether to battle next
over Hawaiian statehood, the title
of submerged oil lands, orr, pos
sibly, reconsideration of the side
tracked Alaska statehood issue.
When it recessed last night un
til Monday, it hadn’t agreed even
on when it would decide.
Senator Knowland (R-Calif)
urged a commitment on a time for
the vote. He said the people of
Hawaii have been promised that
their statehood bill would be con
sidered immediately -after the
Alaska statehood bill.
Tempers flared frequently dur
ing long arguments on the tangled
situation yesterday.
Majority leader McFarland (D
Ariz) said he was ready for a
vote any time on his motion to
consider the tidelands bills first.
But he added that with several
senators sick today he knew it
would be impossible to reach an
agreement on when to vote.
Knowland countered with a
statement that 500,000 people in
Hawaii and 128,000 in Alaska
probably also are “a little sick”
today in view of the Senate’s ac
tion in shelving the Alaska state
hood bill by sending it back to
committee.
A possibility still remained that
a motion to reconsider the Alaska
vote will be made in the Senate
Monday. Under the rules, only a
senator who voted for recommit
tal or one of the seven who did
not vote could make the reconsid
eration motion.
Truman Says Fight
For Statehood
Is Still On
WASHINGTON, (£>)_President
Truman said Thursday the fight
is still on for statehood for both
Alaska and Hawaii.
He told his news conference
that when he starts anything he
never gives up until the last dog
dies.
Mr. Truman has repeatedly
urged that the two territories be
admitted to the union.
The Senate voted 45 ter 44 to
send the Alaska statehood bill
back to committee, thereby shelv
ing it.
Ira Orion, well known Nome at
torney for many years, passed
away in Seattle on Feb. 27 at the
age of 81 years. Mr. Orton came
to Nome in 1900 and was one of
Nome’s leading attorneys until a
few years ago. He was a Mason
and a member of the Pioneers of
Alaska and is survived by two
children and several grandchil
dren.
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