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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIV NO. 66_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1952 Per Copy—15l
Supreme Court Rules 6 to 3 Against
Truman’s Seizure of the Steel Mills
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Alaska Visitors Association
Officials To Visit Nome
Thursday or Friday
Ed Coffey, president o*f the Al
» aska Visitors Assn., and James
Chadwick, executive director of
Alaska, are scheduled to arrive
Thursday or Friday for their first
official visit to Nome.
The AVA Committee has ar
ranged for a dinner at the Bering
Sea Club for Friday evening.
- In a letter to the officials here
they stated: “We will want to
put on a program for your Cham
\ ber and talk to the leading busi
nessmen of the area. We certain
ly hope that between all of us we
can get the Nome tourist program
off to a very good start to what
appears to be a very successful
season.”
(Continued on Page Two)
Blast and Flash Of Latest
Atomic Blast Bounced
400 Miles Over Mountains
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (/P) — A
strong atomic blast, old hat to
atom weary citizens qf. Las Vegas,
jolted and excited residents over
wide areas of northern and south
ern California early Sunday.
An atmospheric quirk bounced
the bomb’s brilliant flash and
sound 400 miles over mountains
and into California from the
Yucca Flat test site.
Two thuds loud enough to
awaken residents and rattle win
dows were heard in Modesto,
Calif., 350 miles from the blast.
In San Francisco, a radio news
writer, Ed Arnow of KNBC, was
driving to work when he saw a
brief flash of light covering the
sky.
Police switchboards throughout
the Los Angeles metropolitan area
lit up like Christmas trees when
excited citizens called to find out
what had happened.
A thousand troops watched from
foxholes about 7,000 yards from
the explosion. They jumped from
their positions 20 seconds after
the detonation and moved “very
close” to the firing area behind
tanks and army radiological safety
monitors.
Strikers To Permit Ships
Haul Bristol Bay Cargoes
SEATTLE, (JP) — The striking
Sailors Union of the Pacific ag
reed today to permit ships to haul
cannery cargoes to Bristol Bay.
W. S. Arnold of the Salmon Indus
try said this will assure virtually
a full season of fishing at Bristol
Bay.
Youngest Driver, 22, Wins
Indianapolis 500-Mile Race
INDIANAPOLIS, (/P) — Troy
Ruttman, 22, youngest driver in
the race, won the Indianapolis
500-mile classic with a record av
erage of 128.9 miles an hour.
Ruttman took the lead eight laps
from the end when leader Bill
Vukovich of Fresno, Calif., crash
ed but escaped serious injury.
Jim Rathmann, 23, Chicago,
finished second.
► WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday
that President Truman’s seizure
of the steel industry was uncon
stitutional. Within minutes GIO
President Philip Murray called a
nationwide strike of his 650,000
steelworkers.
In a historic decision striking
down President Truman’s claim
to vast inherent powers under the
Constituticm, the high court up
held the ruling of U.S. District
Judge David O. Pine that the
President acted illegally in seiz
ing the steel mills April 8 to head
off a strike.
This meant the government
must obey Pine’s order to turn
the mills back to their owners.
It also meant the Truman ad
ministration could not carry
through its promise o*f a wage
increase to the steel workers while
the mills were under government
I ownership.
The high court decision was
written by Justice Black. Chief
Justice Vinson and Justices Reed
and Minton dissented.
Black said for the court major
ity: “The President’s power to
issue the (seizure) order must
stem either from an act of Con
gress or from the Constitution it
self. There is no statute that ex
pressly authorizes the President
to take possession of property as
he did here.”
In his dissent, Chief Justice
Vinson contested the view that the
President’s only recourse in an
emergency is to await “the final,
passage of legislation ... to cope
with threatened disaster.”
Truman has repeatedly claimed
he has inherent powers under the
Constitution to seize a private in
dustry, or take a wide variety of
other actions, to safeguard the
welfare of the nation in time of
national emergency.
The court said firmly, however,
that this power belongs to Con
gress and not to the President—
either as the civilian head of the
government or as commander-in
chief of the armed forces.
Murray’s strike call came less
than 45 minutes after the black
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robed judges read their opinions.
He said: “In the absence of a
wage agreement our members *
have no alternative other than
to cease work.”
Noted Educator Dies
NEW YORK, (/P)—Philosopher
John Dewey, 92, often described
as the father of progressive educ
ation, died Sunday night.
He was stricken with pneumo
nia Saturday, just a few days
after he was reported recovering
from a broken hip. He died at his
Fifth Avenue home.
Dewey injured his hip last Nov
ember when he fell in his apart
ment while playing with his two
adopted children, Adrienne, 12,
and John, Jr., 9.
Few, if any, men had as much
influence on educational thinking
of his time. Dewey’s idea was that
emphasis should be placed on the
individual chiM rather than on
the subject.
Nome Supply Ship
Detained by Strike
(Bv the Associated Phess>
The Sailors’ Union strike
against west coast shipowners
proposed cancellation Thursday
of sailings of two passenger ves
sels to Alaska.
The ships, both operated by the
Alaska Steamship Company, were
the Baranoff, which was to have
sailed Saturday, and the Denali,
posted to sail Wednesday.
Taft Attacks
Administration
And Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, Sen. Taft
says a strong American foreign
policy must be built around air
power potent enough to protect
this continent from attack and
capable of bombing Russia’s heart
land.
On this score, the Ohio Senator
said, the administration and Gen.
Eisenhower, his principal oppon
ent for the Republican presiden
tial nomination, have failed.
Taft said, “There has been a
steady deterioration of our com
parative air power, which began
while Gen. Eisenhower was chief
of staff.” The administration, Taft
declared, has permitted this na
tion to lose the air supremacy it
had at the end of World War II
while spending billions of dollars
on overseas handouts.
In a speech broadcast national
ly by NBC Sunday, the Ohio Sen
ator made only passing mention
of Eisenhower by name but he
apparently was having his say be
fore the general makes his first
political speech in Abilene, Kas.,
Wednesday.
Taft said his GOP opponents at
tack him whenever he differs
with administration foreign policy
adding:
“They seem to be afraid that a
direct attack on the administra
tion is an attack on Gen. Eisen
hower.”
Mark Clark Says POW
Disturbances on Koje
Directed from Panmunjom
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, (/P) —
Gen. Mark Clark said Monday
that “without question” the bloody
riots and other disturbances by
Red prisoners of war on Koje
were directed by Communist
truce delegates at Panmunjom.
The5 United Nations Far East
commander asserted the Red truce
delegates “directed *the uprisings
*here and the disobedience of”
camp commander orders.
He conceded the U.N. has no
positive proof there is a direct
connection between Koje and Pan
munjom. He apparently meant
that no radio messages, letters or
agents between Koje and Pan
munjom had been discovered.
But Clark said: “There are so
many instances where the Com
munist world knew of events
taking place here, and reflected
them at Panmunjont and so many
instances where events at Pan
munjom have been reflected here,
that the implications are obvious.”
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Army Retires Eisenhower Tuesday,
Taft Faction Challenge Him to Fight
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Wednesday Evening 6:30
Time For Big Clean-Up
On Front Street
Wednesday evening is the date
for the big volunteer clean-up on
Front Street. At this time volun
teer citizens will undertake the
job of eliminating the unsightly
burned area next to the Fire Sta
tion which has been standing as
an eyesore for the past two years.
The project gets under way at
6:30 p.m., it is reported, with John
Cooley and Carl Glavinovich boss
ing the removal of debris and
under the sponsorship of the
Chamber of Commerce.
The ACS and Larry Galvin
have volunteered mobile equip
ment. Cranes are still to be loca
ted, it is reported. John McNees
has volunteered liquid refresh
ments for the workers.
The committee in charge states
that the project has met with
hearty support and many have
volunteered to put on their work
ing clothes. More men are needed,
however, as all who come can be
used. Explorer Scouts have volun
teered their services as well as
the Ministerial Association.
Plans for free sandwiches are
also being made with doners to
be announced Wednesday.
When you come to work wear
heavy clothes and gloves.
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Fifth Air Force Loses
45 Planes In May While
Destroying 39 of Red’s
SEOUL, m — United Nations
tanks smashed into Communist
positions on the Korean central
front Monday blasting 48 Red
bunkers.
Long-range U.N. artillery shell
ed Communist truck convoys at
least eight miles behind Red front
line positions for 6Vfe hours Sun
day night and early Monday.
Artillery played a major role in
throwing back several minor Red
patrol thrusts across the 155-mile
front. Poor weather held patrol
activity to a minimum.
The XJ.S. Fifth Air Force said
that during May it lost 45 planes
over North Korea while destroy
ing 39 Communist planes. Only
nine Allied planes were lost in
aerial combat. The Reds lost 32
MIG-15 jet fighters and two pro
pellor-driven fighters in air scraps.
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World’s Largest Parachute
Floats 6-Tons to Ground
EL CENTRO, Calif., (jP) — Six
tons of lead and cement floated
to the ground Sunday in the
world’s largest parachute, which
had been dropped from a Flying
Boxcar at 2,300 feet.
Parachute experts at the El
Centra naval air station are test
ing the big umbrella’s ability to
drop heavy military equipment.
Officials theorize, however, that
smaller chutes or clusters of them
will probably prove more prac
tical than the big one.
The chute is made of three
quarters of an acre of nylon and
is 200 feet in diameter. When
packed it is tall as a man.
► WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
Army cleared the way today for
Gen. Eisenhower’s immediate re
tirement, promising action before
he leaves the Pentagon Tuesday
for the political wars.
Maj. Gen. Floyd Parks, the
Army’s information chief, told a
reporter the former supreme com
mander in Europe “definitely will
be on a retired status” when he
leaves Tuesday for Abilene, Kas.,
and his first out - of - uniform
speech in the Republican presi
dential nomination race.
Orders transferring Eisenhower
to inactive status, after 37 years
in uniform, will be handed him at
a brief ceremony following his
final report to his military super
iors on his second supreme com
mand in Europe. This will free
the general, Parks said, to cam
paign actively for the GOP nom
ination, if he wishes, although
Eisenhower will retain his five
star rank as general of the army
and $18,761 a year in pay and
allowances.
Eisenhower has said he will
resign his commission, however,
if he gets the nomination. In that
case his pay and allowances, as
well as his use of three aides,
would cease. *
His homecoming from Europe
Sunday in the warmth of a sum
merlike sun was purely a mili
tary affair. The Army gave him
the full 17-gun welcome reserved
for military heroes.
Even as he arrived, Taft’s cam
paign headquarters got out a
statement welcoming him back to
this country but regretting that
“he didn’t return sooner.”
“Now that he is about to take
off his battle jacket we of the
Republican Party hope that he
will start fighting,” said a state
ment by Rep. B. Carroll Reece of
Tennessee, manager of the com
mitee backing Senator Taft for
the GOP nomination.
U.S. Admiral Says
Red Purges Kill
15 Million Chinese
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Retired
Adm. Charles Cooke, Jr., quotes
Nationalist Chinese Sources as
saying ruthless Red purges on the
China mainland have taken 15
million lives.
The Admiral, who recently re
turned from two years as tech
nical adviser to the Nationalists
on Formosa, said the Communists
have executed one million of
Chiang Kai-Shek’s guerrillas dur
ing the past 14 months.
In an interview in the “U. S.
News & World Report,” the ad
miral said the United States
should help Chiang recapture the
mainland.
“The Chinese people have now
found out that Communism is^a
hundred times worse” than living
under Chiang, Cooke said, “and if
there is a ’ display of Nationalist
strength on the mainland sup
ported by the United States with
the objective to end Communist
aggression, they will flock to his
banner.”
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