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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA-MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV NO. 83 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY ll, 1952 Per Copy—15*
Eisenhower Nominated On First Ballot
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To Try Transfer
Alaska Line Ship
To Coastwise Co.
ANCHORAGE, (^—Efforts are
under way here to break a bottle
neck on delivery of vitally needed
Alaska construction materials by
getting the strike-bound freighter
Prentice transferred to the Coast
wise Line.
The Prentice is a government
owned ship under charter to' the
Alaska Steamship Co. and is tied
up in Seattle with about 4,000
tons of cargo aboard.
Jerry Clemants, assistant busi
nes agent of the AFL Roofers’
Local 238 here, said Harry Lunde
berg assured him the union would
cooperate in every way to help
the Alaska defense program ex
cept to give clearance to any ship
sailing under the Alaska Steam
ship Co. flag. “When I asked him
if the Prentice could sail if Alas
ka Steam transferred it to Coast
wise for the voyage, he approved
without hesitation.”
Larry Moore, Alaska manager
for the Associated General Con
tractors, said 1,500 tons of con
struction materials, in the Pren
tice holds, has tied up 28 con
struction projects in Alaska. He
added that about 40 other projects
hinge on the 28.
Republican Platform
Endorses Statehood
For Territories
CHICAGO, (JP) — Republican
drafters used just 25 words to
endorse statehood for Hawaii,
Alaska and Puerto Rico.
But the three territorial posses
sions were treated in widely dif
fering manner in the statehood
policy voted by the platform pre
sented to the convention.
It appeared to be a matter of
timing in the eyes of the GOP
policy makers, who stated:
“We favor immediate statehood
for Hawaii.
“We favor statehood for Alaska
under an equitable enabling act.
“We favor eventual statehood
for Puerto Rico.”
Shipping Strike Causes
Coffin Shortage In S.E.
KETCHIKAN, yp) — A casket
crisis has developed in southeast
ern Alaska during the current
shipping strike.
A hospital at Craig, on the west
side of Prince of Wales Island,
sent an SOS for a casket. The
only available one between Ket
chikan and Juneau was located in
Wrangell.
Norman Whitaker volunteered
lor the rough 100-mile boat trip
• to take it to the isolated island
community.
On arrival he found the man
for whom the casket was ordered
sitting up in bed and observing
his 102nd anniversary.
♦ “Put it there in the corner,” he
advised the casket carriers; I just
want to make sure.”
Alaska Steam To Seek
Own Agreement with
Striking Sailors' Union
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Alaska
Steamship Company has split
with the Pacific Maritime Associ
ation and is seeking its own ag
reement with the striking Sailors’
Union.
General Manager D. E. Skinner
said his company was forced into
this position because Coastwise
Line was “taking away cargo.”
Skinner said nothing definite
was settled in talks with the Sail
ors’ Union but further meetings
are planned.
Jilted Air Force Officer
Shoots Sweetheart, Two
Guards and Himself
HOUSTON, Tex./ (£>)—A jilted
Air Force officer killed his sweet
heart, two hospital guards and
himself at a nurses home here
Thursday night as . screaming
nurses watched.
The orgy of blood and gunfire
occurred on the second floor of
Memorial Hospital’s nursing
home — where men are not
allowed.
The officer—Capt. Renard Hay
wood—had forced his way at pis
tol point into the nurses’ sanc
tuary.
Besides the 34-year-old Hay
wood, the dead are:
Elizabeth Cooper, 24, pretty
junior nursing student.
Robert Peterson, 64, guard; J.
C. Fair, 69, guard.
A nurse eyewitness said Hay
wood shot down the guards as
they ran to the aid of Miss
Cooper. Haywood then barricad
ed himself and Miss Cooper in
her room, waving a German
Luger.
As hastily sumoned police en
tered the room the nurses said,
two more shots were fired. Hay
wood shot the girl in the head
and t hen turned the powerful
pistol to his o*wn temple.
The student nurses who saw
the shootings told newsmen that
Miss Cooper refused several
months ago to see Captain Hay
wood any more.
President Signs Measure
Providing Build-up Of
Air Force to 153 Wings
WASHINGTON, (£>)_President
Truman signed into law Thurs
day a bill providing 46^t billion
dollars for . the nation’s military
build-up in the year that ends
next June 30. The measure sup
plies the money to raise this
country’s air force to a formid
able 153 wings by mid-1955.
The bill also provides for:
1— Payment of $45 a month in
extra combat pay far servicemen
on duty under fire since the Ko
rean war began. A minimum of
six days in the combat area is
required for each month’s eligi
bility.
2— Authorization for the navy
to build a second 65,000-ton super
aircraft carrier. The bill did not,
however, supply any new funds
for building the giant carrier.
North Korean
Capital Blasted
In Mightv Raid
SEOUL, (/P) — Hundreds of
Allied warplanes Friday smash
ed North Korea’s capital and two
other prime military targets in
one of the mightiest air blows of
the Korean war.
Pyongyang, the North Korean
capital, was left in roaring flames
and rubble before bad weather
blotted out the target and spared
it from a further ordeal of fire
and bombs.
It was a thunderous follow-up
to the Yalu River power plant
raid on June 23 designed to exert
greater military pressure on the
balky Communist armistice nego
tiators.
But bad weather kept the raid
from reaching the proportions of
that one. The Air Force said
there were 1,048 sorties compared
with 1,373 on June 23.
Estimates of the number of
planes involved ranged from 500
to 650. Pilots of five Allied na
tions took part in the big blow.
The Red capital was left in
flames and rubble, said AP cor
respondent Stan Carter after a
flight over the target area.
North and Mid
More Control GOP
West States Get
CHICAGO, (JP) — Party leaders
from midwestern and other north
ern states that normally vote Re
publican had a firmer hold on
party machinery and convention
delegates Friday.
By a 683 to 513 ballot in this
feuding convention they altered
longtime party rules in a way that
should lessen importance of Re
publicans in southern states, un
less they sharply increase GOP
votes in Dixie.
The two rule changes would:
1— Give states that roll up Re
publican election victories an ex
tra or third member on the key
Republican National* Committee.
2— Cut down the number of dis
trict delegates from southern and
other states that poll less than
2,000 votes in any congressional
district.
Both rule changes should mean
less power in the national com
mittee and convention for south
ern states that seldom if ever
elect a Republican to office or
show a majority for a Republican
presidential nominee.
Truce Negotiators Hold
Eighth Secret Session
MUNSAN, (/P) — Negotiators
held their eighth secret session
Friday in a futile effort to agree
on a Korean truce.
United Nations and Communist
delegates agreed on a news black
out eight days ago in an effort
to resolve the remaining issue
blocking an armistice — prisoner
exchange.
One Alaska Delegate,
Gerrit Snider of Wasilla,
Votes For Eisenhower
CHICAGO, m—Alaska’s solid
pre-balloting front for Sen. Robt.
A. Taft was broken Friday as one
of the three Alaskan delegates
went to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower in a last-minute swing.
At a caucus just before ballot
ing, Gerrit Snider of Wasilla an
nounced himself for Eisenhower.
West To Test Sincerity
Of Russian Appeals For
A Unified Germany
WASHINGTON, (A*) — The
western powers have submitted
to Russia, a big four meeting pro
posal which American officials
believe will test the sincerity of
Moscow’s demands for a unified
Germany.
The proposal calls for a meeting
limited to the specific purpose of
creating an impartial commission
to determine whether free elec
tions can be held throughout di
vided Germany.
This was the one new feature
in identical notes from the United
States, Britain and France which
represented the sixth round in a
wordy diplomatic exchange going
on since last March.
In the new proposals the West
laid down once more the condi
tion Russia must agree in ad
vance that any general peace
settlement be based first upon
genuine free elections in the So
viet zone, and then to the cre
ation of a free all-German gov
ernment which would have a
voice in framing the peace treaty.
Moscow thus far has sidestep
ped any such agreement and
many diplomatic authorities
doubt the Kremlin will accept the
latest terms.
Mount Shishaldin, In
Aleutians, Erupting
KODIAK, {IP) — Mount Shish
aldin on Unimak Island has been
glowing red for the past week,
the Coast Guard reports, and an
airline pilot saw it was aflame
early Thursday.
Two other volcanoes on the is
land were reported smoking.
Unimak is the first island of
the Aleutian chain just west of
the Alaska Peninsula’s tip. It is
about 750 miles southwest of An
chorage.
A Navy patrol plane crew
planned to get a close-up look
Friday.
THURSDAY SCORES
(By the Associated Press)
American League
New York 10—St. Louis 2
Chicago 2-4—Washington 0-2
Philadelphia 11—Cleveland 1
Detroit at Boston—rain.
National League
Chicago 7—Brooklyn 6 *
Pittsburgh 6—New York 4
Cincinnati 5—Boston 3
St. Louis 10—Phiadelphia 3.
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 8—San Francisco 2
Seattle 3—Los Angeles 1
Portland 4—Oakland 3
Sacramento 3—Hollywood 2
Minnesota Switch
Leads to Landslide
CHICAGO, (/P) — General
Eisenhower was nominated as
the Republican candidate for
President today on the first bal
lot. He won when Minnesota
gave all its votes to Eisenhower
the moment the roll call was
finished. This gave Eisenhower
enough votes to put him over
the 604 necessary to win the
nomination.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
On the roll call, Eisenhower
first received 595 votes to 502 for
Senator Taft. But before the vote
could be announced the Minne
sota switch put Ike across with
614 votes. Texas and other states
which had split their votes then
began jumping to Eisenhower. It
was a landslide in the end.
Official results at the first bal
lot were: Total 1,206 votes; Eisen
hower 845; MacArthur 4; Taft
280; Warren 77.
Rep. B. Carroll Reece, southern
campaign manager for Taft, said:
“Of course I'm going to support
the nominee but I feel Eisenhow
er's managers should apologize to
Senator Taft for their conspiracy
to stigmatize him.”
Eisenhower himself was not in
the hall. As custom dictates, he
waited at his hotel for balloting
to be completed. Later he met
Taft at the senator's headquar
ters.
Other candidates failed to de
velop strength. At the end of the
regular rollcall, before switches
started, Governor Warren had 80,
Harold Stassen 20 and General
MacArthur 10.
Alaska voted two for Taft, one
for Eisenhower on rollcall.
Sen. Nixon of California
Is Eisenhower Backers’
Choice For Vice President
CHICAGO, (JP) — Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge announced today
that Sen. Richard Nixon of Cali
fornia is the choice of the Eisen
hower strategy group for the vice
president nomination.
Nixon, 39, was elected to the
Senate only two years ago after
two terms in the House of Repre
sentatives.