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VOL. LIV NO. 81 _NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1952 _Per Copy—15c
S.S. United States
Sets New Trans
Atlantic Record
By WILL GRIMSLEY
ABOARD THE S. S. UNITED
STATES AT SEA, (/P)—The sleek
new super - linei^ United States
completed her maiden Atlantic
crossing Monday in a record three
days 10 hours and 40 minutes,
capping the trans-Atlantic speed
ribbon for America for the first
time in 83 years.
The startling first run of the
American merchant fleet’s pride
was 10 hours and two minutes
faster than the old record^ set 14
years ago by the British Cunard
liner Queen Mary.
The United States raced past
the finish line as a dawn gale of
60-knot winds whipped her. The
ship’s band struck up the “Star
Spangled Banner,” and her 1,700
passengers capped their cham
pagne-at-sunrise celebration with
a roaring cheer. The wind and
rain kept most of them off the
open decks, however.
The 53,000-ton United States
averaged 35.59 knots — about 41
land miles per hour on the 2,938
mile crossing. The Queen Mary
had averaged 31.69 knots on her
record trip.
Slo-Mo-Shun IV Sets
New World Speedboat
Record of 178.497 mph
SEATTLE, (/P)—Stanley Sayres
whipped the screaming Slo-Mo
Shun IV to a world hydroplane
speed record of 178.497 miles an
hour on Lake Washington Mon
day.
It cracked the mark set two
years ago by more than 18 m.p.h.
It was the fastest man ever has
traveled on water
In 1950 Sayres and the Slo-Mo
startled the speedboat world by
boosting the world mark some 20
miles an hour to 160.3235 m.p.h.
Lake Washington’s narrow east
channel was choppy from a sharp
breeze as Sayres came out with
the wind at his back He ran the
first mile of the test in 185.567
miles an hour. On the return
against the wind he was clocked
at 171.428.
The average for the two runs
was taken as the official time.
TOM SHARKEY, 79, FORMER
TOP HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER,
SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — Tom
Sharkey, 79, one of the top heavy
weight boxers of his time, suf
fered a heart attack early Mon
day in his hotel room here.
Old “Sailor Tom” was taken by
ambulance to emergency hospital
for treatment. Sharkey was in a
hospital several days in Febru
ary after a heart attack.
LATE BULLETIN
(By the Associated Press)
Eisenhower forces won a ma
jor victory on the first roll call
test between Taft and Eisen
hower forces. Delegates rejec
ted a Taft-backed amendment
to a proposal changing conven
tion rules from 658 to 548.
More Than 600 Americans
Die In Accidents Over
Fourth of July Week End
(By the Associated Press)
More than 600 Americans died
violent deaths over the four day
Independence Day week end.
The toll was far from a record
for a holiday week end.
Traffic accidents took 347 lives
—far short of the 430 the National
Safety Council had predicted and
17 less than the number who died
on the highways during a similar
78-hour Memorial Day period.
But 185 drownings between 6
p.m. Thursday and midnight Sun
day helped boost the total well
beyond the Memorial Day figure
of 510. There were 85 such deaths
during the holiday week end five
weeks ago.
Deaths from miscellaneous ac
cidents amounted to 69 in the
week end just past.
21 Red Jets Hit
In Fourth of July
Allied Raid
SEOUL, Korea, (/P) — United
Nations pilots destroyed or dam
aged 21 Communist jets and lev
eled a big Red military school
without losing a single plane in
a Fourth of July raid near the
Manchurian border, the U.S. Fifth
Air Force reported Saturday.
About 70 U.S. Thunderjet fight
er-bombers hurled explosives and
flaming gasoline in a large head
quarters building and barracks
structures at the school, 20 miles
south of the Yalu River. Intelli
gence reports estimated 1,500
Communist officer candidates
were to have been graduated
there this month.
Eighty - five American Sabre
jets ripped into formations of 115
Russian-built Mig - 15s bent o*n
thwarting the strike.
The fast Sabres bagged their
second highest toll of Migs for
any single day of the war, the
Air Force said — 12 destroyed,
two probably destroyed and sev
en damaged.
The Air Force said camera film
had confirmed 10 kills, one prob
able and four damaged.
The only reported Communist
losses of the week were the 21
Migs destroyed or damaged in
Friday’s encounter.
Sabre pilots last December 12
shot down 13 Migs.
The Fourth of July battle ended
a week in which no Allied planes
were lost over North Korea, the
Air Force said. It was the first
such week since last August.
ARMISTICE NEGOTIATORS
HOLD FOURTH CONSECUTIVE
SECRET MEETING IN MUNSAN
MUNSAN, {IP)—United Nations
and Communist armistice negotia
tors held their fourth consecu
tive secret meeting Monday. A
0
U.N. spokesman said proceedings
were on a “business-like basis.”
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols,
U. N. Command spokesman, in
dicated the Reds refrained from
using propaganda blasts Monday.
Both sides read prepared state
ments dealing with exchange of
POWs Nuchols said.
He refused to say whether pro
gress has been made.
Opposing Factions
At Odds Over
Seating Delegates
By JACK BELL
CONVENTION HALL, Chi
cago, (JP) — Republicans whooped
into this big arena to open their
presidential nominating conven
tion Monday with Taft and Eisen
hower forces drawing lines for a
bitter floor battle over voting by
contested delegates.
It appeared there might be a
quick show of strength which
could tip off whether Sen. Taft
or Gen. Eisenhower will in the
end win the party’s presidential
nomination.
Party harmonizers — disturbed
over possible effects of this angry
dispute on GOP election chances
— strove desperately through the
night for a compromise. But they
couldn’t come up with anything
that everyone would accept.
Taft told a morning news con
ference he was ready to' fight and
wouldn’t try to put off the de
cision. Some of Taft’s backers had
figured his chances would be bet
ter if the issue could be delayed
until after Gen. MacArthur, who
is friendly to Taft, had delivered
the keynote speech Monday night.
The scrap is over this: Eisen
hower backers want to put in a
rule restricting voting by con
tested delegates on the seating of
other delegates.
In the present situation, the
practical effect would be whether
disputed Taft delegates from
Georgia, for instance,, would be
allowed to vote on the question
of seating rival Taft and Eisen
hower delegations from Texas.
Eisenhower’s supporters and
some delegates who have not
openly taken any position on the
rival presidential candidates —
contended that if the rule was put
over it would be an assurance
that “Ike” would cop the nomina
tion when the convention gets to
that stage, probably Thursday or
Friday.
Taft said again, as he has for
days, that he has the deleg*ates to
win the nomination.
Second Division
To Get Delegate to
GOP Convention
CHICAGO, (/P) — The Republi
can national committee voted
Sunday to increase the Alaska
delegation from 3 to 4 — in 1956.
The action, subject to approval
by the national convention, re
warded a persistent fight by Al
bert White of Juneau to get rep
resentation for Alaska’s heavily
Eskimo Second Judicial Division.
White told the committee that
with only three delegates, it
meant that one of the four judi
cial divisions couldn’t send a
delegate to the national conven
tion.
He said the Republicans and
Democrats are running neck and
neck in America’s most northerly
precincts, and that the Republican
party would suffer there if it
didn’t increase the delegation.
White referred to the Second
Division as controlled by a heavy
Eskimo vote.
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Eisenhower Should Know
By Tonight If He Is
Nominee or Retired Gen.
CHICAGO, (JP) — Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower said Monday he
would hit hard at Democratic
“errors” if he is the Republican
presidential nominee, but would
not “scrape up dirt” just for the
sake of doing it.
Eisenhower made the statement
to the Florida delegation to the
Republican national convention
as he launched an all-or-nothing
offensive to win top place on the
GOP ticket.
By nightfall, he may have a
pretty good idea whether ne is
going to be the nominee or just
a retired general.
Eisenhower went from the Flor^
ida delegation to a conference at
his headquarters with Gov. Earl
Warren of California. That session
with the Californian, also a can
didate for the nomination, was re
garded as significant.
Warren told newsmen after
that he and Eisenhower were in
agreement that the convention
rules should be changed to pre
vent contested delegations from
voting on the seating of delegates
in any state where there is a
contest.
Inquiry Asked
Into Spending Of
Campaign Funds
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Sen. Hu
bert H. Humphrey called Satur
day for an .immediate Senate in
quiry into campaign spending by
presidential aspirants o*f both
major parties.
The Minnesota Democrat an
nounced he is introducing a bill
to provide for such an investiga
tion. He also wrote a Senate elec
tions subcommittee—which would
conduct the inquiry—that:
“Many Americans are seriously
disturbed by the charges of poli
tical deals, ‘stealing* of delegates,
‘smear literature,* use of patron
age and the like, being made
today by many of the presiden
! tial candidates and their suppor
ters.
“If these accusations are true,
we are witnessing the degradation
of the nominating process. This
can result in an increasing public
cynicism aborut politics, and if
the trend is not stopped will, in
fact* mean that we have allowed
a price tag to be placed on the
presidency.**
Humphrey named no names.
His move for an inquiry came
against the background of intense
drives for both the Democratic
ahd Republican presidential nom
inations.
AERIAL POSSE RECAPTURES
FOUR KODIAK PRISONERS
KODIAK, (/P) — Four young
prisoners who beat up a guard
and escaped from the federal jail
here early Thursday were recap
tured without a struggle on a
beach 10 miles from Kodiak Fri
day afternoon.
Visibly tired and without food
since their break at 1:30 aun.,
Thursday, the quartet surren
dered to a five-man aerial posse
which then flew them back to
Kodiak.
All-Ti
Peak In Prices
Next 6-12 Months
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Prices
may climb to an all-time peak
during the next six to 12 months.
At the same time, however, in
comes, production and employ
ment may rise moderately.
These were the highlights of
a staff report Monday to the Sen
ate-House Economic Committee,
whose job is to keep an eye on
economic trends for Congress.
The report said the price in
crease may be from one to three
per cent, due to an*expected climb
in rents and services, a recovery
in clothing prices, and a slight
upturn in consumer durable
goods.
Food prices are expected to re
main about the same unless there
is a substantial change in present
crop prospects.
The report bases its appraisal
on a number of assumptions—that
the steel strike would be ended
soon, that the international situa
tion gets no worse, that the mili
ary build-up goes ahead as plan
ned.
Compromise On Money
Bills May Permit Congress
To Adjourn Today
By JOHN CHADWICK
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Demo
cratic leaders said today as Con
gress went into action to break a
deadlock on two money bills that
they are hopeful the House and
Senate can wind up their affairs
and adjourn Monday.
Sen. Olin D. Johnson (D-SC)
said he was willing to compro- •
mise on one of the bills that pro
vided a surprise roadblock to
congressional plans to quit work
last Saturday.
That was on a provision in the
measure appropriating funds for
flood control and rivers and har
bors. He said he would accept
$50,000 to start construction on
the Hartwell Dam on the Savan
nah River rather than the four
millions he demanded last week.
Long distance telephone calls
were put through to Republicans
attending the GOP national con
vention in Chicago in hopes of
ending the impasse.
House leaders are understood to
have taken the position that un
less compromises are effected to
day, adjournment will be impos
sible before next week, which
marks the period between the Re
publican and Democratic conven
tions.
SUNDAY
BASEBALL SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 8—Boston 2
New York 2-1—Philadelphia 0-4
St. Louis 6-6—Pittsburgh 5-4
Chicago 5-2—Cincinnati 1-0
American League
New York 5-6 — Philadelphia
2-7
Chicago 3—Cleveland 2
Washington 5—Boston 2
Detroit 8—St. Louis 6
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 6-3—Hollywood 3-2
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Portland 5-4—San Diego 2-5
Los Angeles 4-2—San Francisco
1-1
Seattle 3-5—Sacramento 1-4