THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV NO. 80 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1952 Per Copy—154
Shipowners Ask
NLRB Prosecute
Striking Sailors
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Pacific
Coast ship owners today asked
the NLRB to prosecute the strik
ing AFL Sailors’ Union of the
Pacific and the non-striking In
ternational Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union on char
ges of conducting an illegal juris
dictional strike.
The appeals said PMA is “pow
erless to end this strike with any
assurance that it will not be re
peated or that work stoppages
will not result over the same is
sues.
“We feel that the union’s mini
mum demands are excessive and
that to grant them would add un
necessary millions ... to1 the al
ready excessive payrolls of ship
operators on the West Coast.”
The loading of ship’s stores was
the dispute the PMA asked the
NLRB to settle. The shipowners
accused both unions of taking
strike action on various occasions
in an effort to compel the PMA
to assign work to their unions.
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Alexander Tells Commons
Of Need for More Reserves
By The Allies In Korea
SEOUL, (/P) — Allied raiding
columns knifed into Communist
lines at two points near the truce
talks village of Panmunjom
Thursday, while a third group of
raiders drove Communist troops
off a hill in central Korea.
Allied warplanes, virtually
grounded for five days, poked
their noses through holes in the
overcast to pound Communist
supply lines behind the front.
In London, there was an up
roar in the House of Commons
after reports that Lord Alexander
defense secretary, had told a pri
vate meeting details of his visit
*to Korea he thought too secret to
tell parliament.
“I should be very much happier
if General Van Fleet <U.S. Eighth
Army commander) had a little
more reserves in his own hands,”
Alexander said.
Prime Minister Churchill told
angry Laborites that Alexander’s
statement had done no harm to
the security of United Nations
troops in the field.
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FOURTH OF JULY -1952
NOME, ALASKA
10:00 a m. — CHILDREN S SPORTS
Maurice Kelliher, Chairman
Prizes
60-yard Dash (Boys 13 to 16).$3.00 $2.00 $1.00
30-yard Dash (Boys 8 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Boys 5 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Girls 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Girls 8 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
20-yard Dash (Girls 5 to 7)....*. 3.00 2.00 1.00
20-yard Dash (Boys and Girls under 5). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 12 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 12 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 12 and under).... 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 12 and under).... 3.00 2.00 1.00
200-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 13 to 16). 300 2.00 1.00
100-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 8 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 7 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 13 to 16). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 8 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
40-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 7 and under). 3.00 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (All 5 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
15-yard Tricycle Race (All under 5). 3.00 2.00 1.00
11:30 a m. — PATRIOTIC EXERCISES
AT CITY HALL
Invocation.Rev. Paul Carlson
Address of Welcome.Mayor Chas. D. Jones
Address of the Day.Special Speaker
"America".Sung by Audience
12 Noon — FREE ICE CREAM FOR THE CHILDREN
W. W. Laws, Chairman
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2:30 p.m. — Children’s Sports Concluded
ESKIMO EVENTS
Sam, Mogg, Chairman
High Kicking.~. 6.00 4.00
Blanket To&s (Men). 5.00 2.00
Blanket Toss (Women).. 5.00 2.00
Skin Boat Race for Men.50.00
Skin Boat Race for Women.25.00
TRAP SHOOT ON BREAKWATER EAST OF BANK
First Prize $20 — Second Prize $5
8:00 p.m. — ESKIMO DANCING -— Nome School
Admission: Adults $1:00 — Children 50c
AMERICAN LEGION DANCE
Immediately Following This Program
‘Go It Alone’ Policy
Would Invite
World War III
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman told Congress Thursday
the United Nations made it pos
sible to stop Russia. He said Am
erican “go it alone” advocates
would invite World War III.
The Kremlin policy of conquest
might have been irresistible, he
said, “if it had not been clearly
and decisively brought to* the bar
of world opinion in the U.N.”
“We can win the peace, but we
cannot win it alone,” the Presi
dent said. “And above all, we
cannot win it by force alone. We
can win the peace only by con
tinuing to work for international
justice and morality through the
United Nations.”
Submitting an annual report
which detailed United States re
lations with the international or
ganization, Truman said in an ac
companying letter that although
these relations have been carried
on mostly o'n a non-partisan basis,
there have been partisan attacks:
He did not identify any of the
“go it alone” advocates.
’52 Budget Deficit
Held to $4 Billion
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A $2,400,
000,000 lag in fbreign aid outlays
helped hold the U.S. budget de
ficit for fiscal 1952 to $4,016,640,
378.10—less than half of Presi
dent Truman’s January forecast.
Analysis of year-end figures an
nounced by the Treasury Tues
day showed spending on military
and economic aid for other coun
tries in the Mutual Security Pro
gram came to only 4V£ billion of
a budgeted $6,900,000,000.
Outlays for the U. S. military
services ran almost 900 million
short of the budgeted 39 billion,
making the second biggest contri
bution toward holding total
spending $4,700,000,000 below the
President’s estimate of last Jan
uary.
There were scattered other fac
tors in the government’s improv
ed financial picture: veteran’s
benefits cost 300 million less than
the budget $5,200,000,000; interest
payments on the federal debt ran
100 million less than the six bil
lion budgeted.
Government costs in all came to
$66,100,000,000 for the 12 months
ended June 30. Although federal
spending did not reach the heights
predicted by Truman, it jumped
50 per cent above fiscal 1951 and
topped all previous years in
which there was no full - scale
war.
No Trace Found Of
Missing Arkansas Plane
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Tenth
Rescue Squadron officers said to
day the 12-day search for a miss
ing Arkansas plane with three
men aboard is-being curtailed, in
the absence of clues.
The Air Force said maximum
efforts have been made to locate
the missing Arkansas plane since
its June 20 disappearance on a
300-mile flight from Northway to
Anchorage—a route with some qf
Alaska’s most rugged terrain.
Plane With 44 Passengers
Due From Anchorage
' The Nome Visitors Association
has received word that a C-46
with 44 passengers is arriving
from Anchorage tomorrow to
celebrate the 4th.
They plan to arrive about 10
o’clock in the morning and re
main until the middle of the
afternoon, to see the native sports.
It is reported that other flights
of military personnel are also ex
pected tomorrow.
Congress Aims At
Saturday Adjournment
WASHINGTON, (JP)— Congress
Thursday resumed its pell - mell
rush toward adjournment with
hundreds o*f bills yet to be acted
on but with leaders confident the
windup can come by Saturday.
The Senate meets at its earliest
hour of the 1952 session, 8:30
a.m., to start grinding through a
calendar of more than 300 mea
sures. Most of them are minor
private relief bills. Less than a
dozen major measures remain to
be cleaned up.
There was talk among House
members that the 1952 session
could be closed out in a last burst
of speed with an all-night meet
ing extending over into the holi
day hours tomorrow.
But the Senate jam appeared to
preclude this.
Eisenhower Calls For
Clean Party at Convention
DENVER, (A>)—Gen. Dwight'D.
Eisenhower said Thursday he is
going to the GOP national con
vention in Chicago to make a
fight “to keep orur party clean and
fit to lead our nation.”
In a farewell talk off the rear
platform of his special train, the
general said:
“I’m going to Chicago—as a sol
dier in the ranks—to have a hand
in that fight . . . I’m going to
say that our party cannot go be
fore the public and ask for its
votes until it comes into court
with clean hands.”
Eisenhower declared he will
have an “open door” to delegates
at his Blackstone Hotel head
quarters and no appointments
will be necessary for delegates to
see him.
He added: “I’m going to ask
every delegate to help in this
fight for fair proceedings at the
convention.”
Hollywood First in Pacific
Coast League Penant Race
(By the Associated Press)
The half-way mark has been
reached in the 1952 Pacific Coast
League pennant chase. The pre
season favorite, Hollywood, is
right where the experts picked
it — in first place, two games
ahead of the surprise team of the
year — San Diego. Oakland is
making a real battle of it, and is
only four games out of the top.
Los Angeles, so far a disap
point, is nine games behind Holly
wood, and Seattle, another bitter
disappointment, is in the fifth
spot, 10 games out.
For all practical purposes, these
are the teams that have a chance
to win the flag, any any one of
them could do it with a sustained
late-season spurt.. .. .
Defense Materials
May Be Unloaded
From Alaska Boat
ANCHORAGE, UP) — An ex
change of telegrams over the pos
sibility of having the cargo aboard
the strike-bound S.S. Prentiss at
Seattle transferred to another
shipping line was disclosed today.
The Prentiss is tied up at Seat
tle with defense construction ma
terials which are reported to be
needed vitally in the Anchorage
area.
The exchange of telegrams was
between a local union official and
Harry Lundeberg, leader of the
striking Sailors’ Union.
Robert McFarland, executive
secretary of the building trades
section of the Alaska Territorial
Federation of Labor, requested
the action, on behalf of the con
struction unions.
Lundeberg replied that his
union had no objection.
A company spokesman said the
ship has about 3,200 tons of cargo
aboard, with the construction ma
terials at the bottom of it.
He said a rough estimate of the
cost of removing the cargo from
the holds and shifting it to an
other ship was around $30,000.
He said that if any transfer of
the cargo were to be approved
there would have to be* a pro
vision for someone to foot the bill.
Reserves Split Into
2 Groups: “Ready”
And “Standby”
WASHINGTON, (/F>—Congress
has passed and sent to President
Truman a compromise bill limit
ing his power to call reservists to
active military duty.
It splits reservists into two
general groups, “ready” and
“standby.”
The “ready” reserves, composed
of service veterans and number
ing 1,500,000, could be called to
active duty during an emergency
declared by the President, but
Congress itself would decide how
many should be called.
The “standby reserves, com
posed of veterans with long ser
vice and more active reserve time,
could be put cm active duty only
in wartime or during an emer
gency declared by Congress.
These men would be called only
when there are no more available
“ready” reservists.
Drafted men r leased after
serving two years • f active duty
now go into the r ady reserves
for six years.
COLD SPELL IN AUSTRALIA
HOT SPELL IN EUROPE & U.S.
SYDNEY, Australia, (/P) —
Southeastern Australia is suffer
ing its coldest spell m three years
while much of Europe and North
America swelters under unsea
son-al heat.
Frost in the Sydney area Tues
day night was the heaviest for
several years. Wednesday mor
ning the Sydney weather bureau
registered 40.6 degrees.
There are snowdrifts in the
Australian Alps, near Melbourne.