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McGranery Moves
To Clean Up Any
Govt. Corruption
WASHINGTON, (#■) —Flanked
by an array of new top assistants
Attorney General James P. Mc
Granery moved forward on a
number of fronts today in his
battle to clean up any corruption
in the federal government.
McGranery assembled a news
conference to disclose a number
of shifts in his chief assistants
and to announce that:
1— His department is investi
gating alleged job sales in the
Chicago Postoffice—second larg
est in the country—reputedly at
$500 a throw. McGranery said “It
is only a question of who and
how many we are going ter indict.”
2— He has ordered a grand jury
investigation into the 1946 public
auction of the government’s 19Vfc
million dollar St. John’s River
shipyard at Jacksonville, Fla.,
sold as surplus to the Tampa
Shipbuilding Co. foT $1,928,500.
A House committee investigat
ing the Justice Department said
allegations of bribery and collu
sion in the shipyard case were
referred to the department six
years ago—when Supreme Court
Justice Tom C. Clark was attor
ney general—but that no action
resulted.
The attorney general also said
he had just signed a $39,000 con
tract with the private New York
auditing firm of Arthur Young
and Co., to check the books of
the Alien Property Custodian,
long under fire by Republican
senators.
Korea Hill Changes Hands
Five Times in Two Days
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
SEOUL, </P) — Chinese Com
munists dug in Monday on Si
beria Hill on the Korean western
front under a terrific day-long as
sault by U. N. fighter - bombers
and pressure from U.S. Marines.
The low, shell - scarred knob
east of the Panmunjom truce site
has exchanged hands five times in
two days. The Reds first seized it
from First Marine Division troops
before dawn Saturday.
A U.S. Eighth Army night com
munique said fighting continued
today for the lonely outpost on
Siberia Hill. The temperature rose
to 104 degrees at times during the
furious fighting.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
Sabre jet pilots Monday probably
destroyed one Russian-made MIG
15 and damaged another in the
eighth stragiht day of jet battles
over North Korea.
This ran the U.N. MIG bag for
the eight days to 19 destroyed,
one probably destroyed, and 20
damaged.
Elmendorf Secretary Makes Best
Guess on Lake George Breakup
The official break-up time of
the Lake George Ice this year
was 10:03:16 a.m. on August 7.
The nearest time anyone guessed
was that of 9:54:04 aon. which
was by Mrs. Winfred Hall, a sec
retary at Elmendorf Airfield.
Gen. Ridgeway Asserts
Threat of War Big As Ever
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED POWERS IN EUROPE,
(/P)—Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway
said today the threat of war is
still as big as ever, and there are
serious weaknesses in the West’s
buildup to meet this threat.
The supreme commander of Al
lied forces in Europe told a news
conference there was doubt as to
whether the Western allies could
reach their 1952 goal of 50 divi
sions—25 active and 25 in reserve
—and 4,000 planes.
Ridgway also said he favored
two year’s military service —
something European nations are
to discuss in Paris tomorrow
amid indications they will not
adopt it. Belgium has already been
hit by strikes protesting her two
year draft term.
“The most serious deficiency to
date,’’ Ridgway said, is the SHAPE
build-up in the logistics field.
He said the new superweapons
being developed are exceedingly
difficult to evaluate and it was
very difficult to estimate whether
the number of ground troops
could be cut down.
“The matter is continuously
under study, not only from our
point of view but from the point
of view of any enemy capabil
ities,” he said.
West Nervously
Watch Middle
East Time Bomb
(By the Associated Press)
The fuse of a Middle East time
bomb sputtered again Monday.
Western diplomats watched ner
vously a series of developments
that could set off an explosion
in the turbulent area which is
labelled of crucial strategic im
portance in the cold war between
Russia and the West.
In Jordon, a little desert coun
try long allied to Britain, parlia
ment decided to end the reign of
ailing King Talal I and turn over
the throne to his 17-year-old son,
Crown Prince Hussein.
In Iran, with the ominous rum
ble of Nationalist threats in the
background, the senate executed
a complete about face and handed
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh
the unlimited powers he demand
ed to run the country the next
six months.
In Egypt, political parties were
ordered to purge themselves of
corruption or face extinction, and
the order was backed up by the
tanks and guns of the military
group which ousted King Farouk.
By far the most critical of the
situation was in Iran, where the
Communist party was seizing
every advantage of topsy - turvy
political conditions.
Americans and (British were
conferring on the Iranian situ
ation. But they faced a dilemma.
If economic aid could save Iran,
it probably would be rushed, but
there was the ominous possibility
such aid might toe channeled into
a nation which was in danger of
seizure by the Communists.
“One-Day Drive”
For Scouts Funds
Starts Tomorrow
Russ Arnett, chairman of the
1952 Nome Scout campaign has
•announced the names of the four
team captains who will spear
head the “One - Day Drive” to
raise funds for the Boy Scout
movement. Included are Les
Bronson who heads up Team 1;*
Larry Galvin, captain of Team 2;
George Bayer, Team 3, and Ray
Tveter, Team 4.
The Wednesday Nugget will
carry team totals of money raised
and the captains from the Mar
shall’s office are both pledged to
outdo the other.
The campaign will kick-off with
the annual Early Bird breakfast
at the Bering Sea Club Tuesday
at 8:15, Arnett added.
The Team Captains and their
four or five team members will
gather for breakfast and to dis
tribute the contacts for every
donor in town.
No goal is set for the Boy Scout
Campaign but Arnett has stated
an interest in making the 1952
campaign the best yet. All money
raised is deposited in the Nome
bank and used for the furthering
of Scouting in the Nome area.
Evidence of the increased inter
est in Scouting for the boys of
Seward Peninsula was the recent
ly concluded Scout camp at Pil
grim Springs. Boys from three
different troops (Nome, Teller and
Kotzebue) participated in the
week-long camp with leadership
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Candidates Prepare To
Launch Campaigns On
Labor Day—Sept. 1
(By the Associated Press)
Like two great armies on the
eve of battle, the clank and rattle
of maneuvering for position began
to arise in earnest Monday from
the Democratic and Republican
camps.
D-Day—Labor Day Sept. 1 —
was precisely three weeks away
and there was much preparation
for the two months of campaign
ing that will follow. The presi
dential election is Nov. 4.
At Denver, Gen. Eisenhower ar
ranged for serious pow-wows af
ter a relaxing visit with 35 Am
erican Indian tribes Sunday. The
outcome of his conference with
leaders of eight southern states
may decide what kind of Repub
lican thrust will be made into the
Democrats’ Dixie stronghold.
At Springfield, 111., Democrats
used words like “general” and
“commander-in-chief” in a some
what discordant, albeit good hu
mored, discussion of just how firm
Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson will
grasp the Democratic standard.
GOP presidential nominee
Eisenhower, after the southern
state conference, scheduled a
meeting with some Republican
members of congresssional agri
cultural committees and other
party farm leaders.
That underscores GOP deter
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mination to prevent what hap
pened in 1948: Democratic success
in the farm belt, generally given
much credit for President Tru
man’s victory.
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Delegate Bartlett To
Speak At Public. Meeting
Wednesday Evening
Delegate Bob Bartlett will
speak to Nome citizens at a public
meeting in the High School audi
torium Wednesday evening, it was
announced today by Ted Duf field,
chairman of the Second Division
Democratic Committee and him
self a candidate for the Territor
ial House of Representatives.
Bartlett will touch on the major
issues of the 1952 political cam
paign and will review his record
during the eight years he has rep
resented Alaska in Congress. It is
expected that Howard Lyng and
Ed Anderson, candidates for the
Territorial Senate, will be at the
meeting. However, it is not likely
the other House aspirants, Charley
Fagerstrom rand James Wells, will
be in the city.
Returning to Nome Saturday
from the north, Bartlett reported
having traveled widely out of
Kotzebue. He held a series of
meetings in villages to the east
and north of Kotzebue. He will
leave the Second Division Thurs
day to start campaigning in the
Fourth Division.
600 Uranium Claims
Are Staked and Recorded
In Newest Stampede
URANIUM CITY, Sask., UP)—
Saskatchewan’s most intensive
cl-aim-staking rush was drawing
to an end Friday with about 600
uranium claims staked and re
corded in a week.
Don Sheridan, chief mining re
corder for the Provincial Re
sources Department, said about
1,000 claims would be filed and
recorded by Sunday night.
About half of the stakers were
genuine prospectors; the rest
practically anyone else in the
area who had five dollars to
spend for a miner’s license, the
only requirement.
Although the big rush is over,
stakers have 15 days in which to
record their claims. Recording
books in the Resources office in
Uranium City will not be closed
until Aug. 15.
Two Persons Drown In
Yakima Cloudburst
YAKIMA, (/P) — Bodies of a
woman and her small son were
sought Monday along the mud
and debris-covered channel of a
creek that went wild Sunday after
a foothills cloudburst.
The victims were in one of four
houses that were swept away
without warning as a surge of
water rolled down Wenas Creek
in the Wenas valley 15 miles
north of here.
The missing persons were Mrs.
Norman Winchell, 27, and her son,
Floyd, 5.
Survivors in the narrow chan
nel of destruction said they didn’t
see the sudden flood coming. The
first warning for some of them
was when their houses began to
move.
The storm, which struck with
out warning in late afternoon, also
brought heavy rains and strong
winds to the Yakima area in gen
eral and to a large sector of
central Washington. Heavy crop
losses were feared.
Foreign Policy
Prime Issue Of
Nov. Election
(By the Associated Press)
Democratic nominee Adlai Ste
venson held closer rein Saturday
in his race for the presidency
while Republican leaders, includ
ing GOP nominee Dwight Eisen
hower, tagged foreign policy as
the prime issue.
Stevenson picked a close friend,
Stephen A. Mitchell of Chicago,
as chairman of the Democratic
national committee.
Thus, Stevenson put another
lieutenant in a key position. The
first was Wilson Wyatt of Louis
ville. Ky., named by the governor
to head Stevenson campaign
headquarters.
At Denver, John Foster Dulles
announced Friday that he, Eisen
hower and the GOP vice-presi
dential nominee, Sen. Richard M.
Nixon of California, agree for
eign policy is the major issue of
the campaign.
“The trend of our present for
eign policies,” Dulles said, “is to
put our nation in the greatest
peril it has ever been in (during)
the entire course»of our national
history.”
Dulles, one-time adviser to Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson,
expressed strong doubt that Ste
venson was experienced enough
“in making grave decisions.”
“Gen. Eisenhower, through his
experience, has developed and
demonstrated that capacity/*
Dulles said. He declared that only
Eisenhower’s election could block
Soviet domination and avert a
third world war.
City of Anchorage And
Association Dispute Over
Electricity Distribution
ANCHORAGE, (ff) — Judge
George W. Folta has in effect
tossed the entire power dispute
between the Chugach Electric
Association and the City of An
chorage back into hands of the
parties involved, and called for a
compromise.
A five-hour court session to de
termine whether the city could
bring power into areas outside its
limits lasted until nearly 8 p.m.
Friday. At the end, Judge Folta
said:
“It seems no matter which way
l rule, someone’s going to be hurt.
Isn’t there some way parties can
get together, and work out some
sort of compromise?”
“If we wanted to compromise,”
City Attorney Ralph Moody re
plied, “We would have done so
before coming to court. The city
wants a decision because its cur
rent obligations are involved in
the dispute.”
CEA attorneys, however, in
dicated they were willing to talk
over the dispute.
Margaret Truman Makes
2-Day Visit to Berlin
BERLIN, {/P) — Margaret Tru
man, daughter of the UJS. Presi
dent, rode through the Russian
zone to Berlin Monday for a two- •
day visit as part of her European
tour.