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GOPs Protest
McGrath In Role
Of Cleanup Chief
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman’s assignment of Attorney
General McGrath to clean up the
government drew angry protests
from Senate and House Republi
cans Friday and silence from the
Democrats.
The White House orders for the
•big cleanup stem, in part, from
income tax scandals uncovered by
a House investigation. A subcom
mittee headed by Rep. King
(R-Cal) has aired charges of cor
rupt deals and collusion involving
high officials in McGrath’s Jus
tice Department and the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
Mr. Truman told a news con
ference Thursday he had aban
doned plans to create a special
cleanup commission and has
placed full responsibility on Mc
Grath, as chief law enforcement
officer.
“That means there is going to
be no cleanup,” snapped Senator
Capehart (R-Ind>.
“The public will have no con
fidence whatever in an investiga
tion of the Justic Department by
the Justice Department,” said
Senator Nixon (R-Cal).
STIFF FIGHT SEEN
FOR STATEHOOD BILL
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A stiff
fight was indicated Thursday for
the Alaska Statehood Bill in the
Senate.
Proponents of the legislation
felt that it has better than a 50
50 chance for passage.
Supported by President Truman
and Secretary of Interior Chap
man, it has the platform endorse
ment of both the Democratic and
Republican parties.
Opponents, however, have giv
en no indication of weakening in
their view that Alaska, with 108,
000 population, lacks the econ
omic foundation to support state
government.
Democrats Spent More
More Than GOPs In ’51
WASHINGTON, (JF) — Finan
cially speaking, Democrats fared
better in 1951 than did the Re
publicans.
The Democratic National Com
mittee has reported to Congress,
in compliance with the Corrupt
Practices Act, that it took in al
most twice as much in contribu
tions in 1951 as did the Republi
cans. But it spent more than twice
as much.
Contributions to the Democratic
National Committee in 1951 were
listed at $1,318,574 and disburse
ments at $1,311,652.
The Republican National Com
mittee reported $679,157 in re
ceipts and $584,473 "in expendi
tures during 1951.
Russell Arnett, Newly
Appointed Commissioner
Due On First Plane
Word has been received that
the new U. S. Commissioner for
Nome is scheduled to arrive on
the first plane from the states.
Russell Arnett was appointed by
Judge Pratt of the Fairbanks
area, in the absence of a judge
here at Nome.
The new commissioner is a
lawyer from Chicago, 111., who
has been interested in living in
Alaska and making it his home.
Ship Sinks After
2 - Week Sea Battle
(By the Associated Press)
LONDON, (JP)—The gallant Am
erican freighter Flying Enterprise
sank in the stormy Atlantic yes
terday after a mighty two-weeks
duel with the sea. Heroic Capt.
Kurt Carlsen and first mate Ken
neth Dancy of the tug Tur
in o i 1 were snatched from the
churning waters to safety.
Carlsen and Dancy leaped over
board when it became evident the
6,711-ton freighter was going
down under the crashing waves.
The stand-by rescue fleet closed
in. The tug Turmoil threw over a
rope ladder and the two men
clambered to safety. They were
in the water only about four min
utes.
Carlson refused to give up un
til the stricken freighter obviously
was heaving her last. He had bat
tled since the Christmas Day hur
ricane to save his ship. His soli
tary duel with the Atlantic began
Dec. 23 after he ordered all hands
to abandon the ship, which car
ried a crew of 40 and 10 passen
gers. Dancy joined him last Sat
urday.
The big freighter thrashed
about in its final agony for 40
minutes and then disappeared.
Aboard the British salvage tug
Turmoil, Carlsen and Dancy,
bearded and exhausted, climbed
into dry clothing as the tug turned
hurriedly in the direction of Fal
mouth, about 40 miles away.
For more than 24 hours the ves
sel had been virtually on its side.
Flying Enterprise
Cracked In 4 Places
NEW YORK, (/P) — Frank L.
Bartak, 32, chief mate of the ill
fated freighter Flying Enterprise,
testified that the ship suffered
four cracks before it began listing
in heavy seas.
Bartak, of Bedford, Ohio, testi
fied at a Coast Guard inquiry
seeking to determine the causes
leading to the loss of the Isbrandt
sen Company’s 6,711-ton vessel.
Bartak said he and the crew
cemented the cracks in the deck
and put canvas covers over the
patchwork to prevent water from
getting into the ship.
No Trace Found
Of Sinking Ship
Or 45 Crewmen
SEATTLE, (/P) — A widening
sea-air search for the freighter
Pennsylvania and the 45 men who
abandoned her wallowing hulk
Wednesday was under way Fri
day over a large North Pacific
area.
Three ships continued to comb
the area and seven airplanes were
participating in the second day of
searching the windy, surging
ocean spot where the men last
were heard from.
Canadian and UJ5. ships and
planes conducted a day-long criss
cross search of the region 465
miles northwest of Vancouver Is
land where the broken and water
logged freighter last reported
being in difficulty.
Service Pav Hike
Meets Opposition
WASHINGTON, (/P) — House
leaders’ plans to pass a bill giv
ing active and retired servicemen
a 10 per cent pay increase next
week ran into a snag Friday.
“Poor timing,” was blamed.
The estimated cost of the bill
is 800 million dollars annually.
As approved unanimously by the
House Armed Services committee,
it would give everyone in the
armed forces, whether retired or
in uniform, a 10 per cent cost of
living raise over present pay and
allowances.
Current opposition to the mea
sure reportedly is not based on
its merits, but on the decision to
make it the first order of busi
ness.
A high-ranking House member
told newsmen, “many of us don’t
want to do our first voting of
1952 on a bill that is going to cost
close to a billion dollars. This is
an election year and economy is
going to be the byword in any
congressional contests.”
Steelworkers Present
Wage Raise Before WSB
WASHINGTON, (JP)—The CIO
steelworkers fired facts and fig
ures at the Wage Stabilization
Board Friday in an attempt to
justify their 18Vz per cent wage
boost and other demands.
Arthur J. Goldberg, general
counsel for the one million-man
union, said Thursday the union
will not sign any new contract
which does not contain a union
shop agreement.
He listed 27 steel companies
which he said already have union
shop clauses in their contracts
with the steelworkers. And he
blasted the major companies
which don’t, for a statement they
made implying a union shop
would “impair efficiency.”
Ketchikan, Juneau, and
Fairbanks To Get Carrier
Delivery Of Mail Soon
WASHINGTON, (/P)—’The Post
Office Department expects to be
gin carrier delivery of mail in
three Alaska cities within the
next three weeks.
Delegate Bartlett told reporters
today he has been advised by
Assistant Postmaster General
Joseph J. Lawler the service will
be started in Juneau, Ketchikan
and Fairbanks.
Anchorage is the only Alaska
city which now has carrier de
livery.
Three delivery routes have
been established at both Juneau
and Ketchikan. Seven have been
set up at Fairbanks. The latter
city will be served by three par
cel post routes.
The service will give home de
livery to all homes within the
city limits, Bartlett said.
Truce Negotiators Demand
Communist Explanation
Of Airfield Construction
MUNSAN, Korea, (JP) — Allied
truce negotiators handed the Reds
a virtual ultimatum Friday. They
demanded an explanation of an
alleged contradiction in the com
munists’ announced stand on con
struction of airfield during an
armistice.
Maj. Gen. Howard M. Turner
said negotiations for supervising
a Korean truce could not con
tinue until the Reds explain the
apparent discrepancy.
Turner said the Reds last
month announced they planned to
build and repair airfields while a
truce was in force, but denied
Thursday that this is their in
tention.
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang
insisted that the communist posi
tion never has changed and de
clared:
“You will never get a satisfac
tory answer to your unreasonable
demands.”
In the prisoner subcommittee,
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby accused
the communists of insisting on
forced repatriation of war prison
ers after the Reds said thousands
of South Korean had joined the
Red armies of their own free will
following capture.
Retailers Ask Overhaul
Price Control Structure
NEW YORK, </P)—'The National
Retail Dry Goods Association
called on Congress to overhaul the
price control structure.
The -association said changing
conditions since price controls
were adopted last year necessitate
“a substantial rethinking of the
problem and may call for import
ant modifications.” Other infla
tionary checks, such as credit
controls and cutbacks in non-de
fense spending have not been
fully utilized, the statement said.
Military Chiefs
Consider Threat
Of “New Korea”
By C. YATES McDANIEL
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Military
chiefs of the major Pacific pow
ers began talks here Friday on
what can be done in event an
assault from Red China is launch
ed against French Indochina.
Such a “new Korea” would
threaten all of southeast Asia.
The staff chiefs of Britain,
France, and the United States,
with observers from Canada,
Australia and New Zealand, open
their top secret conference under
a dark shadow cast by reports
that the great leader of the fight
against communism in southern
Asia lies dying in a Paris clinic.
Urgency was given to the high
strategy session by warnings from
French Gen. de Lattre de Tassig
ny before he was stricken in Indo
china and flown home for treat
ment.
He expressed fears, backed up
by facts and sobering evaluations,
that Red China was preparing a
major intervention in the com
munist-inspired and led rebellion
in Indochina.
Korean War News
SEOUL, Korea, (/P)—Red jets
flashed south almost to parallel
38 Friday—and paid for their
audacity with loss of four MIGs.
They were shot down and a
fifth damaged, in five blazing
battles with American jets.
The new outbreak of air war,
after jets were snowbound Thurs
day, raised the Allied bag for the
week to 11 jets shot down and 13
damaged.
Ground fronts were so quiet the
heaviest reported action came
from American naval guns Thurs
day. The cruiser Rochester, sup
ported by the destroyers Collett
and De Haven, shelled commun
ist troop concentrations near Ko
song. Two other destroyers — the
Gregory and the MacKenzie —
fought an hour long duel with
Red shore guns.
Cigarette Lighter Saves
Life Of Cabbie In Stickup
SAN FRANCISCO, </P) — A
cabbie showed police his cigaret
lighter, fused with a .38 bullet,
and said it had cost him $25, but
saved his life.
Joseph Falkowich’s story, as
verified by police:
A holdup man, dressed as a
beribboned army captain robbed
him of $25 Friday then drawled:
“I’m sorry, but I’m going to
have to put you to sleep.”
At a range of only 18 inches he
fired. The bullet crashed into the
lighter in Falkowich’s shirt pock
et; stunned him.
The robber shoved the cabbie
into the street, fled in the taxi.
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