OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIV No. 90 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1952 Per Copy—157
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Stevenson Nominated On 3rd Ballot;
Chooses Sparkman For Running Mate
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AD LAI E. STEVENSON
AFL Sailors Expected
Vote Accept Agreement,
End West Coast Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, f/Pi — Some
6,000 AFL sailors were expected
to vote acceptance Monday of a
five per cent pay increase and end
the 63-day west coast shipping
strike.
Shipowners and sailors repre
sentatives late Saturday agreed
tentatively on a settlement of the
tieup, which cost the industry an
estimated 20 million dollars.
Harry Lundeberg, head of the
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific,
said the first of 100 idle ships
would sail tonight if the settle
ment is okayed. The union’s nego
tiating commitee endorsed the ag
reement unanimously. Lundeberg
said its acceptance by the mem
bership appeared certain.
Union representatives accepted
the five per cent boost they orig
inally asked, plus overtime bene
fits and a shorter work week at
sea. The shipowners agreed to
up their contribution to the
union’s welfare fund from 50 to
60 cents a day per man. *
Torrential Rains Virtually
Halt Fighting In Korea
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
SEOUL, UP) — Torrential rains
beat down on already soaked and
muddy Korean battle lines Mon
day and virtually halted ground
and air fighting for the third
straight day.
The steady downpour appeared
to be the long overdue start of
the Korean rainy season.
AP correspondent Milo Farnetti
reported cave-ins in some of the
rain - drenched bunkers occupied
by Allied infantrymen in the Old
Baldy area. He said roads were
washed out in several places.
Manager Cincinnati Reds Quits
CINCINNATI, (/P) — Luke Se
well resigned Monday as man
ager of the Cincinnati Reds.
He had -been manager of the
Cincinnati club since Oct. 1949.
Gabe Paul, general manager of
the club, said he had asked Luke
Sewell to continue as manager
“until we can get a suitable re
placement which we expect to
have within 24 hours.”
By JACK BELL
CONVENTION HALL, Chicago
{JP)—The Democratic presidential
nomination went to reluctant Ad
lai E. Stevenson in a breath-tak
ing three-ballot finish early Sat
urday and Sen. John J. Sparkman
of Alabama said he “has word”
that Stevenson wants him as a
running mate.
Sparkman said he will accept,
if nominated.
All the delegates had to do* was
to formalize Stevenson’s choice of
his running mate, since every one
of the possible aspirants for the
job made it clear he would bow
to the governor’s wishes.
Sparkman would give the deep
South a place on the ticket for
the first time in modern politics
— a circumstance which seemed
dictated in part by the appeal that
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
Republican nominee, is reported
to have in Dixieland.
The Illinois governor, whose
bandwagon rolled over Kefauver
and Russell in tense convention
balloting after W. Averell Harri
man of New York had withdrawn,
keynoted his own campaign in his
acceptance speech early Satur
day.
“More important than winning
the election is governing the na
tion,” he told Democrats solemn
ly. “When the tumult and shout
ing die, when the bands are gone
and the lights are dimmed, there
is the stark reality of responsibil
ity in an hour haunted by those
gaunt, grim specters of strife, dis
sention and materialism at home
and ruthless, inscrutable and hos
tile power aboard.”
Asserting that the “bloodiest,
most turbulent age of the Chris
tian era is far from over, Steven
son declared:
“Sacrifice, patience, under
standing and implacable purpose
may be our lot for years to come.
Let’s face it. Let’s talk sense to
the American people.”
Stevenson’s talk contrasted
sharply with the “Give ’em hell”
speech with which Truman as
sailed the Republican introducing
the new standard bearer formally
to the convention.
Stevenson, who said he had ac
cepted the nomination humbly in
the belief that a better man could
have been found for it, promised
that “I will fight to win . . . with
all my heart and soul.”
Sen. John Sparkman of Ala
bama was nominated for vice
president at the Democratic con
vention at Chicago* shortly before
adjournment Saturday night.
Stanley McCuicheon and Essie
Dale Named on Nat. Committee
CHICAGO^ (iP)—The member
ship of the ^108-member Demo
cratic national committee, as an
nounced by chairman Frank E.
McKinney after conferences with
presidential nominee Adlai E.
Stevenson, includes:
Alaska: Stanley J. McCutcheon,
committeeman, and Mrs. Essie R.
Dale, committeewomen.
Radar Again ‘Sees’
Flying Saucers (?)
At Washington
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Radar—
which normally doesn’t show
something that isn’t there — has
picked up “flying saucers”! near
the nation’s capital for the second
time within a week.
Jet fighter pilots searched the
skies without directly contacting
anything during the six hours
that four to 12 unidentified ob
jects intermittently appeared on
radar screens at Washington Na
tional Airport and nearby An
drews Air Force Base.
So far as could be determined,
this was the first time jets have
been sent on the trail of such sky
ghosts.
Officials carefully avoided
mentioning “flying saucers,” just
as they did when radar picked up
seven or eight unidentified ob
jects near Washington last Mon
day.
An Air Force spokesman said:
“We have no evidence they are
flying saucers; conversely we
have no evidence they are not
flying saucers. We don’t know
what they are.”
There was no agreement whe
ther the recent reports are the
first of such mystery objects ap
pearing -on radar. At least, offi
cials agreed they are unusual.
Radar normally does not regis
ter anything without substance—
such as light. But it can pick up
such things as a bird in flight or
a cloud formation. And one ex
pert said radar is not infallible.
Army Commander Forces
King Farouk of Egypt
Abdicate, Leave Country
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (/P) — The
Egyptian state radio Friday night
in a broadcast said King Farouk
of Egypt had abdicated and left
the country.
The king’s abdication and de
parture had been requested by
the new army commander in chief
Gen. Mohammed Naguib.
The broadcast said he had ab
dicated in favor of his son Crown
Prince Ahmed Fuad.
In Washington, the State De
partment said it had received
word that King Farouk had been
given an ultimatum by the mili
tary insurgents to abdicate at
once and leave the country in six
hours.
60 Foreign Fur Buyers
Attend Soviet Auctions
LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R., (/P) —
More than 60 fur buyers from
European countries and half a
dozen from the United States are
here for the annual Soviet fur
auction which starts Monday.
The Americans attending say
they have State Department per
mission for their visits to the
U.S.S.R. as required under the
latest U.S. regulations. They say
their purchases will be of So
viet furs of types which can still
legally be imported into the
United States.
The Russians are accepting
pounds sterling for sales and
there is expected to be consider
able trading with this currency.
Sen. McMahon,
Head of Atomic
Energy Com., Dies
WASHINGTON, {JP) — Senator
Brien McMahon, 48, a Connecti
cut Democrat with a passion for
peace and a key role in the na
tion’s atomic energy program,
died Monday of cancer.
Dr. Philip A. Caulfield, Mc
Mahon’s personal physician, said
the senator was stricken with
cancer of the lung which had
spread to his back and pelvis.
Illness prevented his campaign
ing as a candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomiantion:
Friends from Connecticut gave
him 16 votes anyhow at the Demo
cratic national convention last
week. From his hospital bed, Mc
Mahon ordered his name with
drawn.
McMahon was a brand new
senator in 1945 when the first
atomic bomb devastated Hiro
shima. Awesomely impressed, he
decided this new force must be
leashed to* save civilization, and
dedicated his life to that goal.
Despite his relative inexperi
ence, he became chairman of the
Senate - House Atomic Energy
Committee — the voice of Con
gress on all atomic affairs, the
highest lay authority on the sub
ject.
Thousands Crowd
To View Bier
Of Eva Peron
By STANFORD' BRADSHAW
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,
(/P)—Eight persons were reported
dead and scores injured in the
crush Monday , as thousands
crowded up to pay last homage
to Eva Peron.
Doctors manning improvised
first aid stations near the Minis
try of Labor, where the body of
Argentina’s first lady was lying
in state, said some deaths result
ed from trampling, others from
heart failure. They said thousands
were given first aid, but most of
these had only fainted. Many,
however, suffered fractured arms
or legs.
Troops hurried in during the
morning to help police control
the crowds as they lined up four
abreast in mile-long queues for a
20-second walk past the bier of
President Juan D. Peron’s wife
and political partner, who died
Saturday night after a long ill
ness. Many waited eight hours for
a glimpse of the body.
Mrs. Peron’s death in her early
30’s was generally attributed to
cancer although there had been
no official announcement of the
nature of her illness.
Staff Officers Agree On First
50 Paragraphs Truce Agreement
MUNSAN, (/P)—United Nations
and Communist staff officers dis
cussed minor wording differences
in the Korean armistice document
Monday but did nothing to solve
the deadlock on prisoner ex
change.
• The staff officers were in al
most complete agreement on the
first 50 paragraphs of the pro
posed armistice agreement.
Steel Strike Ended,
Aluminum
Strike Threatened
PITTSBURGH, {IP) — A strike
threat in the aluminum industry
put a new roadblock Monday in
the path of America’s economy as
the nation’s steel mills gained
speed in their drive to recover
from a 55 - day walkout.
Contract negotiations between
the CIO United Steelworkers and
the Aluminum Company of Am
erica broke off in Washington
with the union threatening to
strike Tuesday.
Alcoa said the union is making
wage demands greater than those
granted by the steel industry. The
union replied with a statement
that the USW is out to level off
pay differentials in the nine dif
ferent plants in which it repre
sents workers.
United States Steel Corp., pro
ducer of one-third the nation’s
steel, said one - third of its em
ployes have been recalled. Ship
ments of finished steel on hand
at the start of the strike June 2
are being made. Special empha
sis is placed on moving tin plate,
used in the manufacture of tin
cans.
Bristol Bay Resident
Fishermen Vote For
AFL Bering Sea Union
SEATTLE, (JP) — Resident fish
ermen in Bristol Bay voted by
an 8-to-l margin for representa
tion by the Bering Sea Fisher
men’s Union (AFL) in collective
bargaining with the Alaska Sal
mon Industry, Inc., Russell Miller
announced Saturday.
Miller, chief election examiner
of the National Labor Relations
Board, said the Bering Sea Union
received 878 votes and the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union (Ind) 101.
The election culminated more
than 18 months vOf rivalry over
the resident fishermen, who broke
with the Alaska Fishermen’s
Union and formed the Bering Sea
Union.
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The break came when the AFU
was about to merge with the In
ternational Longshoremen and
Warehousemen’s Union headed
by Harry Bridges. /
Olympic Records Fall
HELSINKI, (JP) — Olympic
champions crowned Saturday and
Sunday included:
1,500-meter run—Joseph Bar
thel, Luxembourg, 3:45.2, .new
Olympic record.
Women’s 200-meter dash—Mar
jorie Jackson, Australia, :23.7.
Decathalon—Bob Mathias, U.S.
(Tulare, Calif.) 7,887 points, new
world record; old record 7,825 set
by Mathias in 1952.
Women’s 400 - meter relay —
U.S., Mae Faggs, Barbara Jones,
Janet Moreau, Catherine Hardy,
45.9, new world record.
Men’s 400-meter relay — U.S.,
Dean Smith, Harrison Dillard,
Lindy Remigini, Andy Stanfield,
:40.4*.
Marathon — Emil Zatopek,
Czechoslovakia, 2:23.03.2, new
Olympic record.
Women’s shot put—Galina Zy
ibina, Russia, 50 feet, 2.58 inches,
new world record.