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VOL. LIV NO. 71 ■ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1952 Per Copy—15<?
Nome Citizens
Appeal To SUP
To Send Boat
A publice meeting was held last
evening in the City Hall to deter
mine what further steps should
-be taken to get a ship on the way
to Nome.
Each day of delay makes the
situation more critical and cuts
deeply into the short working
season which is already advanced.
The first suggestion came from
a newcomer, Buckley Douglas,
hardware clerk at the Nome Hard
ware. He stated that up until
1947 he was a labor organizer for
-the Sailors Union. He suggested
that a wire be sent to Lundeberg,
Sailors Union head, direct from
the people—family people. Doug
las said Lundeberg was an “an
excellent man in his field and
reasonable to such requests” and
that such a request might receive
recognition.
A committee to take action on
the matter mas formed of Mayor
Charles D. Jones, Mrs. Charles
Fagerstrom, Wallace Mclvor, Dr.
Fred Langsam, and Buckley Doug
las.
Suggestions in accord with Mr.
Douglas were made by Grant
Jackson, A. Polet, Dr. Fred Lang
sam, Volney Richmond, Clyde
Kammerer, Larry Galvin, Dewey
Goodrich and H. F. Harper, many
of whom have had experience
with this striking condition which
has threatened Nome’s economy
during the past twenty years.
The critical shortage of staples
such as flour, sugar and milk,
which are too bulky for air ship
ment, the need of medical sup
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Eisenhower Meets with 70
Pennsylvania Delegates
(By the Associated Press)
Pennsylvania’s 70 Republican
convention votes,- a keystone in
the party’s selection of a presi
dential nominee, had a picnic date
today with one top contender and
a tentative appointment with the
other.
Gen. Eisenhower plays host to
the Pennsylvania delegates at his
189-acre farm near Gettysburg,
Pa. The general’s cl*ief rival, Sen.
Taft, will confer with them later,
time and place as yet unan
nounced.
Eisenhower’s shirt-sleeve out
ing is his first face-to-face meet
ing with most of the Pennsyl
vania delegates. It follows at pat
tern he set in New York parleys
this week—offering himself for
questions on campaign issues in
hopes replies would cement pro
Eisenhower alignments and win
over the others.
With the convention about three
weeks off—neither Taft nor Ei
senhower has the required 604
vote majority sewed up. The AP
tabulation shows: Taft 4(f4,"Eisen
hower 392.
Shipping Strike Results in
Shortages Along Alaska
R.R. and Yukon R. Routes
<AP Special Washington Service)
A new front reported shortages
in the 18-day-old west coast ship
ping strike.
A report from Fairbanks told
of dwindling food supplies along
the Alaska Railroad and Yukon
River routes. The shortages were
attributed to the strike.
Jack Coghill, who operates the
general store at Nenana, reported
the community was entirely out
of many food items, including
canned milk and other staples.
Coghill said the Nenana wharf
where steamers pick up supplies
for Tanana and Yukon River
points is loaded with the last of
the cargo for these points.
Nenana and other Rail Belt
communities are dependent on the
Alaska Railroad for supplies. The
freight is hauled from Seward,
where it arrives by ship. Nenana
is the principal point for river
shipments.
Steelworkers Boo
Both Ike and Taft
PITTSBURGH, (P> — President
Philip Murray of the striking CIO
United Steelworkers told his pol
icy-making aides Friday that the
union shop issue is only one of
four obstacles holding up settle
ment of the 12 - day - old steel
strike.
Murray, w’ho also heads the
union’s parent CIO, declared the
steel wage-price dispute has be
come a political football.
In addition to the union shop,
Murray listed these other issues
as blocking a final settlement:
1. The steel industry’s insist
ence on a management clause in
any new contract. Murray said
such a clause, defining manage
ment’s rights, could launch speed
ups. .
2. The question of seniority.
Murray said the U.S. Steel Corp.
wanted all seniority questions re
solved to its satisfaction.
3. Incentive pay. The labor
chief declared U.S. steel also in
sisted on its version of incentive.
4. The union shop. Murray said
the industry falsely gave out the
impression that the union shop is
the only issue. He called that “a
plain unadulterated lie.”
When he mentioned Sen. Taft
and Gen. Eisenhower, both can
didates for the Republican presi
dential nomination, his audience
booed lustily.
Murray said Taft should have
more sense than to press for a
court injunction under the^ Taft
Hartley act.
Murray called Eisenhower a
“Me too-er,” because Eisenhower
supported Taft’s declaration that
the Taft-Hartley Act should be
invoked by President Truman to
get the steel mills back in pro
duction.
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Pan Am Rate Hikes
Not to be Effective
Until After July 15
Pan American World Airways
will apply this week to the Civil
Aeronautics Board for an upward
revision of air cargo rates on Al
aska routes, John W. White, re
gional director of the company an
nounced in Seattle Thursday. He
stressed that because of the pres
ent shipping strike Pan Ameri
can .is asking that the higher air
cargo rates not become effective
until after July 15.
White said increased rates have
been forced by steadily rising
costs of operation in Alaska. He
pointed out that proposed in
creases in the Territory have lag
ged far behind increased rates
already put into effect by dom
estic airlines and Surface carriers.
“During the entire postwar
period Pan American has sought
to hold the line on rates in the
face of constantly and steadily
increasing costs,” White said.
“Wages have gone up several
times in that period. So has the
price of virtually everything we
buy in Alaska. These costs now
have reached a point where we
have no choice except to ask for
some small increases in our cargo
tariffs.
“Rates would rise two cents
from 17 to 19 cents a pound be
tween Portland, Seattle, Fair
banks and Nome. Specific com
modity rates would be increased
a cent a pound between Portland,
Seattle and Fairbanks on eggs and
milk and three cents a pound on
fresh meat. Specific commodity
rates to Nome would be increased
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three cents.
“Although fare increases al
ready have been put into effect
by domestic airlines Pan Ameri
can is not asking any upward re
vision of its passenger tariffs on
Alaska routes.”'
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Chief Red Asserts U.N.
In No Position To Dictate
In Battle or Conference
MUNSAN, </P)—The chief Com
munist negotiator in the stalled
Korean truce talks Friday said
the United Nations “is in no po
sition to dictate anything either
on the battlefield or in this con
ference.” A
The blast by North Korean Gen.
Nam II came at a 16-minute no
progress session at Panmunjom,
one of the shortest in weeks.
Otherwise Nam used softer words
for the second straight day but
remained unyielding on the final
issue blocking an armistice-pri
soner exchange.
A Red charge that three civ
ilians inside the neutral zone were
wounded by Allied artillery last
week backfired on the Commun
ists at meetings of liaison officers
before and after the main truce
sessions.
Gen. Boatner Reports .
Resistance of 80,000 POWs
On Koje Island Cracked
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, (A>) —
Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner
said Friday he has cracked the
resistance of Koje Island’s 80,000
once-defiant Red war prisoners.
Communist-led POWs knuckled
under four times Friday to United
Nations authority. Boatner/ the
tough prison camp commander,
then suspended for two or three
days operations to break up the
large groups of prisoners. This
was to permit construction of new
enclosures.
tfoatner would not go so iar as
to* say that all resistance is ended.
But it is “definitely on the ebb
and I believe the worst is over,”
he told newsmen.
Three prisoner compounds bow
ed meekly to Allied authority.
Then prisoners in another, No. 85,
responded to an ultimatum by
Boatner and surrendered 21 anti
communist prisoners. All 21 told
of being starved, beaten and tied.
Nine were in such bad shape they
were taken to the camp hospital.
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Appeals to Supreme Court
To Decide CAB Authority
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The U.S.
Court of Appeals today asked the
Supreme Court for advice on
powers of a government agency
to issue regulations which dam
age or destroy business of a firm
operating under a license from the
agency.
In a memorandum to the high
est tribunal, the appeals court
said the issue was before it in
litigation involving a Civil Aero
nautics Board regulation limiting
the number of. flights of large
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non-scheduled air carriers.
The appeals court , said it was
unable to agree on a disposition
of the case.
In the case, American Air
Transpot, Inc., ?md Miami Air
lines, Ipc., brought suit to re
strain the Civil Aeronautics Board
j from putting into effect a regu
lation adopted by the CAB on
March 2, 1951.
The regulation limited the two
irregular carriers to a total of
three flights in the same direc
tion between New York and Mi
ami or Chicago and Miami in any
four-week period. It also limited
them to eight flights during any
four-week period between any
other two points.
Report 20 Cent Raise
For Alaska Carpenters *
ANCHORAGE, <£>>—Unofficial
ward has been received here that
a 20 cent an hour across-the
board pay increase has been re
commended by the Wage Stabil
ization Board for Alaska AF!L
carpenters. This would increase
the carpenters* scale to $3.34 an
hour. Other construction crafts
already have been granted the 20
cents increase by WSB.
PMA Head Charges
Coastwise Operates
Without Contract
SEATTLE, {fP) — The Pacific
Maritime Association president is
sued a statement today in which
he said it appears the Coastwise
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Lines “is being permitted by the
Sailors Union of the Pacific to
operate without a contract,” while
striking against the Alaska Steam
ship Co.
PMA negotiates for both firms,
although Coastwise has a separate
contract with the AFL union.
The statement was made in cit
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ing an Alaska Steamship Co., of*
fer to provide one of its vessels
for emergency service to Alaska
by anyone who will be able to
operate such a ship. .
“Although this contract was ne
gotiated by PMA and has termin
ation provisions similar to those
in the agreement covering all
other companies,” said the state
ment by J. Paul St. Sure, “never
theless, for reasons best known to
the Sailors Union, the Coastwise
contract was not terminated nor
were any demands made on Coast
wise lines.
“Since the Alaska agreement
referred to has been canceled by
Sailors Union of the Pacific as a
result of the current strike, it
would seem to follow' that Coast
wise Line is being permitted by
SUP to operate without a contract.
“The same privilege has not
been granted to Alaska Steamship
Co. . . .”
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Reds Step Up Action
SEOUL, </P)—U.S. 45th Division
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troops today smashed back a
counterattacking Chinese Red
battalion on a T-shaped hill mass
on the Korean western front.
The doughboys—with the help
of planes, tanks and artillery—
won the southern knob of hill
in a bloody >14-hour dawn to dusk
fight Thursday.
The fighting that flared around
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Chorwon last Saturday and grew
hotter daily during the week is
the heaviest since the war drop
ped to twilight action last No
vember.
There .was nothing to indicate
it was the start of a Red offen
sive, such as threatened by Com
munist delegates at the Panmun
jom truce talks.
No one at Eighth Army head
quarters would speculate on the
meaning of the stepped-up action.
TRUMAN CREATES WHIT TlHA
DEFENSIVE SEA AREA
WASHINGTON, (£>)—President
Truman Thursday signed ati ex
ecutive order creating the Whit
tier Defensive Sea Area in Alaska.
This gives the Defense Depart
ment authority to control traffic
in Passage Canal, which leads to
the military supply port, Whittier*
Monthly Meeting YOUTH FOR CHRIST
SATURDAY. JURE 14th ASSEMBLY OF COD CHURCH MO PAL
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