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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOT,. LIV No. 105 v NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1952 , Per Copy—15<
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Engineer Doubts
That Russia Has
The Atom Bomb
CHICAGO, (^P) — “I don’t be
lieve Russia has one single atom
bomb,” Carlton S. Proctor, prom
inent New York engineer who has
worked in Russia, declared Wed
nesday.
“I think every one of the atomic
explosions in Russia was just a
premature explosion, in an effort
to produce a bomb.”
Proctor is president of the Am
erican Society of Civil Engineers,
one of 64 engineering societies
celebrating a Centennial of Engi
neering opening here.
(The White House has announ
ced three atomic explosions in
Russia, referring to the second
one as “another atomic bomb,”
without amplifying further. Other
sources have estimated Russia has
a stockpile of 100 or many more
A-bombs by now).
Proctor declared it takes team
work and cooperation to make an
A-bomb work, and that Russians
don’t trust each other.
Such cooperation he said, “is es
sentially impossible in Russia or
any other totalitarian state. There
is no possibility of one man trust
ing another and integrating his
efforts with any other man.”
Tropical Storm Grounds
U.N. Planes In Korea
SEOUL, (/P)—A tropical storm
today grounded U.N. warplanes
3nd lashed infantrymen on the
Korean battlefront with up to ZVz
inches of rain.
VS. Fifth Air Force headquar
ters reported only weather recon
naissance planes took off.
Allied fighter-bombers yester
day bombed an airfield near Sin
anju which the Fifth Air Force
said the Communists were re
building. Sinanju Field lies about
155 miles north of the western
front and would give Red pilots
a base within range of the front.
Pilots reported 70 direct hits
on the runway. They did not see
any Red planes, the Air Force
added,
Margaret Truman Denies
Any Influence Over Dad
In Decision Not To Run
NEW YORK, (/P) — Margaret
Truman said yesterday that neith
er she nor her mother had any
thing to do with President Tru
man’s decision not to run for
reelection.
Asked as she returned aboard
the liner United States from a
two-month tour of 11 European
countries about reports that she
, and her mother influenced the
President’s decision, Miss Truman
replied: “That’s absolutely untrue.
It was his decision and his alone.
We had nothing to do with it.”
Concerning Swedish newspaper
criticism of U.S. Secret Service
interference in policing her visit
to Sweden, Miss Truman said:
“I thought it was much ado
about nothing. It really didn’t
happen. There was no incident.”
She said she planned to spend
the fall in New York because of
her television work, adding that
she had contracts through 1954.
House Committee Finds
T. Lamar Caudle An
Interesting Witness
WASHINGTON, (/P)—T. Lamar
Caudle proved to be such an in
teresting witness at a closed-door
hearing yesterday that a House
investigating committee chairman
remarked after it was over that
his group “has a lot more work
than we thought we had.”
“We’ve got a terrific Septem
ber ahead of us,” added Rep.
Chelf (D-Ky) after listening to
Caudle for more than five hours.
Then he expressed doubt his judi
ciary subcommittee, which has
been investigating the Justice De
partment, will be able to finish
its work by Oct. 1 as planned.
Caudle, who was the govern
ment’s chief tax prosecutor until
President Truman fired him from
his job as assistant attorney gen
eral last November, provided
some information that was brand
new to them, Chelf said.
Rep. Keating (R-NY>, ranking
minority member of the commit
tee, told reporters that some of
Caudle’s information “related to
previous attorneys general,” but
he didn’t elaborate.
Federal Grand Jury '
Starts Investigation Of
World-wide Oil Monopoly
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A federal
grand jury seeking evidence of an
alleged international oil monopoly
assembled today to start sifting
through the records of major pet
roleum operators.
The grand jury inquiry was or
ganized at the request of Atty.
Gen. James P. McGranery, who
said a Justice Department investi
gation o*f more than a year in
dicated that seven large com
panies dominated the world oil
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market.
The government has sub
poenaed the records of 21 large
oil companies for grand jury ex
amination.
HEALY R. COAL CO.
STRUCK BY FIRE
FAIRBANKS, </P)—Fire struck
the Healy River Coal Co. mine at
Suntrana last Thursday night and
reports received here Friday in
dicated all major buildings were
destroyed.
The mine is the main supplier
of coal for Fairbanks and military
installations in the area.
Buildings reported destroyed in
cluded the loading facilities, the
power plant, mess hall, dormi
tory, mine office and commissary.
%
ACCIDENTAL DEATHS
OVER WEEKEND 110
LESS THAN YEAR AGO
(By the Associated Press*
The Labor Day weekend took
its customary high toll of lives
this year, but it still was consid
erably less costly than the same
three-day holiday a year ago.
Deaths from all accidental caus
es totaled 548, compared with 658
violent deaths last year. Traffic
accidents, as usual, took the heav
iest toll, killing ,423. Drownings
claimed another 55 lives, and 70
persons perished in a variety of
miscellaneous mishaps.
ADB Meeting Will
Feature NW Alaska
Development
Development opportunities of
Interior and Northwestern Alaska
will be featured at the next meet
ing of the Alaska Development
Board which is to be held in Fair
banks in November, Don H. Good
man, chairman, announced Fri
day.
The Interior Alaska session will
follow the highly successful meet
ing at McKinley Park, at which
time there came the dramatic an
nouncement of plans of the Alu
minum Co. of America to build
its $400 million aluminum smelt
ing plant near Skagway. This is
a project on which the staff of
the Alaska Development Board
has been working with company
officials ever since 1947.
At the Fairbanks meeting, busi
ness leaders from the Fourth and
Second Judicial Divisions will be
invited to discuss with Develop
ment Board members’ problems
of their respective areas and to
review with the Board industrial
and business possibilities on
which work is being done.
Another highlight of the Mc
Kinley Park meeting of the Board
was a review of work which has
been done toward obtaining fed
eral tax incentive legislation to
spur industrial development in
the territory. The Board presen
ted a new report which it has
published on this subject and al
so announced that it was alloca
ting $500 for the use of an Alaska
wide committee on tax incentives.
Progress was reported at the
session on numerous other Devel
opment Board undertakings de
signed to bring into the territory
pulp, plywood and birch veneer
plants, petroleum industries, a
high - alloy steel mill for the
Haines area, and other develop
ments throughout Western, Inter
ior and Northwestern Alaska.
25,000 hp Turbojet
Engine Is Being
Produced for Navy
PHILADELPHIA, (/P)—A 25,000
horsepower turbojet aircraft en
gine two and one-half times as
powerful as the combined four
engines of a B-29 Superfortress
has been placed into production,
the Navy announced.
The engine, claimed by West
inghouse Electric Corp., to be the
most powerful turbojet in the
world to qualify for production,
was developed by the firm as an
improved version of the original
Westinghouse J40 engine.
In a joint statement issued with
the Navy Tuesday, Westinghouse
said that substantial amounts of
two of the most critical metals—
Columbian and Cobalt — have
been eliminated in the newest J40.
The new engine develops its
tremendous power, the firm said,
partly through use of an “after
burner” which reheats the ex
haust gases after they leave the
turbine and before they emerge
as a jet stream.
Unknown Cracks Hold
Of Senator Pat McCarran
Over Nevada Politics
RENO, Nev., (/P)—Alan Bible,
one of Nevada’s most prominent
citizens, conceded defeat today
to unknown Tom Mechling in the
race for the Democratic senatorial
nomination.
Mechling’s victory is a political
earthquake in Nevada since it ap
parently means the 31-year-old
ex-newspaperman almost single
handedly broke the grip of pow
erful Sen. Pat McCarran over
Nevada politics.
Bible, 42, widely respected and
liked, was McCarran’s hand
picked candidate.
The Democratic nominee will
try in November to oust Republi
can Sen. George Malone, who eas
ily won renomination.
Mechling is a soft-spoken, boy
ish looking former newsman, who
until seven months ago worked in
Washington, D.C., with the Kip
linger Newsletter and the San
Francisco Chronicle’s capital bu
reau.
Bible has long been looked
upon as a lawyer with a brilliant
political future in Nevada. 9
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Air Force Veteran Asks
Federal Court to Require
Recall Troops from Korea
CLEVELAND, (JP)—William W.
Cavanaugh, 32, an attorney and
Air Force veteran, asked federal
district court Wednesday to re
quire President Truman to take
all U.S. troops out of Korea.
He also asked the court to repri
mand the President for sending
armed forces into Korea and said
Truman did so by executive order
without congressional authority.
Asked for comment, District
Attorney John J. Kane, Jr., said
“In the first place, you can’t sue
the President, and if you could,
it would have to be done in Wash
ington. The district court- would
not have jurisdiction.
Foreign Ministers of
NATO Will Meet Dec. 15
To Discuss Finances
PARIS, (jP)—The ministers of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization will meet in Paris about
Dec. 15, NATO announced today.
It will be the first conference
since the Lisbon meeting of last
February.
The European members of the
huge defense organization have
been pressing for an immediate
meeting of the high-ranking of
ficials of NATO governments.
The United States, however, has
urged a postponement until after
the November elections.
The conference has a number
of urgent problems to consider,
chiefly financial ones.
RING SPLICE, LAST 1952 SHIP
FOR NOME. DUE TO SAIL
FROM SEATTLE SEPT. 15
SEATTLE, <;F)—The M.S. Ring
Splice will sail on its last 1952
voyage to St. Michael, Unalakleet,
Nome, Teller and Lost River in
northern Alaska, Sept. 15, the Al
aska Steamship Co. announced
Tuesday.
The cargo will include mater
■ ials for the Lost River tin mine.
Eisenhower Draws
Huge Crowds In ,
Southern States
(By the Associated Press)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
drawing huge crowds at every
stop, Wednesday continued a spec
tacular sweep through Dixie that
had Democrats wondering how
solid the South would be in No
vember.
The Republican presidential
nominee was greeted by a turnout
of 150,000 persons in Atlanta, Ga.,
Jacksonville and Miami, Fla.f
Tuesday. They responded to his
tongue-lashing of the Democratic
administration with cheers and
Rebel yells.
Eisenhower bore down hard on
“the mess in Washington,” de
manded a complete change in
party leadership—not “just a face
or two”—and blamed what he
called the “stumble, fumble and
fall” administration for inflation.
Governor Herman Talmadge of
Georgia and Atlanta’s Mayor W.
B. Hartsfield, both Democrats,
met him at Atlanta’s airport and
rode with him into the city, where
•a police - estimated crowd of
100,000 cheered the GOP visitor.
The general, obviously touched
by his Southern reception, wound
up his first day’s activities by ad
dressing 12,000 in Miami, the larg
est crowd ever to hear a candi
date speak in that city.
Gov. Stevenson made no com
ment on charges by Republican
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois
that the Democratic candidate’s
own state government was cor
rupt and needed cleaning up.
Stevenson’s aides said his policy
would be to concentrate on “get
ting the country acquainted with
his views” on major issues, to
ignore Republican attacks, and let
President Truman defend the
Democratic administration.
Truman, back in Washington
after a successful nine - speech,
two-day whistle - stop stumping
tour, seemed only too eager to
accept this role.
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Catholic Sister Relates
Hardships and Indignities
Heaped on Bishop by Reds
HONG KONG, {&)—A Catholic
sister today said Chinese Com
munists heaped indignities on
Maryknoll Bishop Francis X.
Ford and before his death on
Feb. * 28—forced him to undress
before her in a Canton prison.
Sister Joan Marie Ryan, in ser
;ous condition herself after two
years in prison, brought the first
word of the 60-year-old Bishop’s
death.
Ford, a native of Brooklyn and
a veteran of 34 years service in
China, and Sister Ryan, his secre
tary, also of Brooklyn, were placed
under house arrest on Dec. 23,
1950, at Mei-Hsien, Kwangtun
province.
On Agril 14, 1951, they were
charged with spying and were
started on a tortuous 210-mile trip
to a Canton prison.
Sister Ryan said that on Aug.
16 she was shown a death certi
ficate ascribing Ford’s death to
old age and natural causes.