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VOL. LIV No. 87 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1952 Per Copy—15*
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Democratic
Convention
Started Today
CONVENTION HALL, Chi
cago, (^P) — Democrats streamed
into this huge hall in Chicago’s
stockyards, intent on picking, be
fore the week is out, a man they
think can bring them their sixth
straight presidential victory.
This is an unusual Democratic
national convention. For not since
Franklin D. Roosevelt was nom
inated in 1932 have the Democrats
had any real contest for top place
on their ticket. For three con
ventions it was Roosevelt, then
four years ago it was Harry S.
Truman.
Now there’s an abundance of
candidates, possibly even an over
abundance: Vice President Alben
Barkley, Averell Harriman and
Senators Estes Kefauver, Robert
S. Kerr, and Richard B. Russell.
Oddly, with all the men around
who want the job, Monday’s
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program included a speech by the
one Democrat in Chicago who
says he doesn’t want to be Presi
dent: Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois.
The Democrats, hoping to pro
fit by errors they think the Re
publicans made during their con
tention, have tried to make cer
tain that everyone is on his good
behavior.
Every seat had a little slip of
paper which said:
“You will be on television.
“14,000,000 eyes will watch
you.”
Although the Democrats had
made a great to-do about start
ing their programs on time, they
came up with an elaborate pro
gram that showed they had no
idea of doing any such thing.
Draft-Stevenson
Sentiment Growing
CHICAGO, (/P)—Adlai Steven
son, with talk of drafting him as
a presidential nominee buzzing
about the Democratic convention,
today told delegates the party will
never apologize for its 20th Cen
tury leadership.
“Who leads us is less important
than what leads us,” the Illinois
governor said in a prepared wel
coming speech.
(He went to the rostrum at the
opening convention session amid
signs of a growing draft-Steven
son sentiment. Said former Sen.
Scott Lucas of Illinois: “We’re
definitely going to draft him.”^
“I hope our preoccupation
here,” Stevenson’s speech went
on, “is not just with personalities
but with objectives. . . . What
America needs and the world
wants is not bombast, abuse and
double talk, but a sober message
of firm faith and confidence.”
(Joseph L. Gill, chairman of the
Illonis delegation, said last night:
“He didn’t say he would not ac
cept a draft.” This followed
Stevenson’s statement to the 60
vote group that, “I just don’t
want to be nominated for the
presidency.”)
Stevenson counseled in his
speech that Democrats must not
deny their errors or make excuses
“where we have wronged the
public trust.”
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Murray Charges Steel
Industry Repudiated
Strike Settlement
PITTSBURGH, UP)—Prefeident
Philip Murray of the CIO United
Steelworkers charged Monday
that the steel industry repudiated
a strike settlement which he
worked out with officials of Beth
lehem Steel Corporation last
June 17.
Murray told the USW’s 170-man
wage-policy committee that Presi
dent Charles White of Republic
Steel previously had urged the
steel companies to accept sugges
tions made by White which Mur
ray thought could have led to a
settlement.
The potent wage-policy commit
tee was called together to hear
Murray’s report on the 50 - day
walkout which has idled more
than 1,500,000 and to give the
union chief some guidance on fu
ture strategy.
Murray said that on June 9,
President White of Republic made
several union shop suggestions
which might have been a basis for
settlement but the industry re
fused to consider them and White
disappeared from following nego
tiation meetings.
Battle Rages For
‘Old Baldy’ In Korea
SEOUL, (/P) — United Nations
infantrymen Monday drove Chi
nese Communists off the crest of
Old Baldy on the Korean western
front in the wake of a tremendous
barrage by artillery, tanks and
warplanes.
Allied infantrymen, stopped
cold in eight earlier charges up
the muddy hill, reached the crest
at dawn. They reported that the
Allied barrage had forced the
Reds to withdraw. The U. N.
troops then pulled back off the
crest.
American carrier planes- Sun
day hit Communist power instal
lations at ChangjTn in northeast
ern Korea and two power plants
in northwestern Korea.
Truman Back at His Desk
WASHINGTON, (#>)—President
Truman was at his desk at the
White House for the first time in
more than week. And his press
secretary took the occasion to
swipe at the unending string of
rumors dealing with Truman’s
position on Democratic politics.
Meanwhile, Rumors were fly
ing between Chicago and Wash
ington as to just what Truman
would do in regard to the Demo
cratic national convention, open
ing in Chicago Monday.
Here’s what press secretary
Joseph Short said of the rumors:
“I’m not going to comment on
any of them.”
Short said the President still
plans to attend the convention
and speak after a presidential
nominee is chosen. •
Seafair Now Due
Nome July 26
The Northern Commercial Co.
has been advised by their Seattle
office that the Seafair is now in
Seward and plans to come to
Nome before going to St. Michael
as previously announced. Ac
cording to the message the “first
boat” should arrive here July 26.
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Blood Typing
Team Delayed
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The Territorial Public Health
boat “Health” is now at Gamble
where blood typing is in progress.
The boat will also go to as many
Seward Peninsula villages as pos
sible.
The program is very important
to the people of this area in con
nection with the civil defense pro
gram, as well as emergencies and
accidents which occur every day.
Public Health officials state
that children be blood typed and
have a blood type tag, so that in
case of war or accident they may
receive blood transfusions with
out delay.
There are four major types of
blood—A, B, AB, and O. If trans
fusions are needed, it is necessary
to know the type of both the
donor and the patient, and time is
an important element.
Transfusions are safe if you re
ceive blood of the same group as
your own or O blood. About 47%
of Americans have O blood, 40%
A, 10% B, and 3% AB.
According to an official Public
Health pamphlet, bloods differ in
the amount of two substances in
the red cells. One substance is
called A and the other B. The
liquor or serum part of blood
contains two clot-producing sub
stances — anti-A in serum and
Group B, and anti-B in serum of
Group A. It is important that the
right kind be used or serious re
actions cause pain and sometimes
death.
It is interesting to note that
there is not a bit of difference in
the blood of healthy persons of
any racial group or color. Blood
given by a man or woman of one
color or race won’t give the re
cipient of different color or race
any of the donor’s characteristics,
nor will blood from a cheerful
person make a grouchy person
any gayer.
The Public Health Service urg
es you to take advantage of its
blood - typing service during its
two-day stay here.
The dates set for Tuesday and
Wednesday have been cancelled
as the “Health” has been delayed.
Announcement will be made in
the Nugget and by AFRS when
the new schedule is set up.
Violent Rioting Causes
Premier Qavam Resign
TEHRAN, Iran, (A>) — Premier
Ahmed Qavam resigned Monday
night after violent hours - long
rioting in Tehran and other cities
subsided. He gave up, after two
days, his attempt to form a gov
ernment pledged to solving Iran’s
oil deadlock.
Before Qavam gave up, near
revolutionary violence flared,
with Communists strengthening
Nationalist mobs. Government
forces, with gun shots, tear gas
and bayonets fought to keep con
trol.
“Death to Qavam,” the mobs
shouted wildly, venting their fury
at the new premier’s declaration
that a settlement of Iran’s long
and crippling oil dispute with
Britain would be a chief aim of
his regime and that Nationalist
violence would not stop him.
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U. of Washington Rowers
Are First Finalist In
Olympic Championships
HELSINKI, (/P) — The Univer
sity of Washington’s four, with
coxswain was the first crew to
reach a final in the Olympic row
ing championship. In the semi
final of their event the American
Huskies defeated crews from
France, Norway and Argentina.
The Americans led all the way,
but over the greater part of the
2,000 meter course, they had a
great battle with Norway’s rowers
who were never more than a
quarter of a length behind.
Striking a 33 beat to Norway’s
32, the Washington boys widened
the gap over the last 500 meters
and held off a strong challenge
by France which spurted to nose
out the fading Norsemen.
The Washington four was
stroked by Matt Le'anderson with
Richie Wahlstrom No. 3, A1 Ul
brickson, Jr., son of the U. of
Washington crew coach, No. 2.
and Carl Lovestead at bow. A1
Rossi is the co*xswain.
Territories May
Achieve Equality
At Convention
By B. L. LIVINGSTONE
CHICAGO, </P) — Alaska and
Hawaii appeared Monday nearer
to winning their letters with the
rest of the states on the Demo
cratic convention varsity.
Traditionally tail-enders on the
convention roll call of states —
bringing up the rear behind Wyo
ming—the two territories aspire
to take their place in the alpha
betical order of states when the
roll call is sounded.
The western states conference—
comprising the 11 states—shouted
its approval, Sunday night of a
recommendation that the Demo
cratic party end theN ignominy
which custom has conferred on
Alaska and Hawaii in the states
roll call.
There is no formal convention
rules, only custom, assigning Ha
waii, Alaska, the Virgin Islands,
Canal Zone, Peurto Rico and the
District of Columbia to the end of
the roll call. The committee could
change the custom by a nod, al
though the roll calls already have
been printed in the old form.
The conference also approved,
with much applause, a platform
plank in favor of immediate state
hood. It seemed certain to be in
corporated in the final platform
draft to be submitted to the con
vention Wednesday.
NO APPARENT BREAK IN
DEADLOCKED TRUCE TALKS
MUNSAN, </P)—United Nations
and Communist armistice dele
gates met in secret for only 20
minutes Monday and adjourned
without any apparent break in
the protracted deadlock over ex
change of war prisoners.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols
will be succeeded Tuesday as U.
N. Command spokesman by Lt.
Col. Joseph J. Borchert, Salt Lake
City, chief censor of Gen. Mark
Clark's Far East headquarters.
Nuckols is reassigned as Air
Force public information officer
in Tokyo.
Violent ’Quake
In California Kills
At Least Ten
LOS ANGELES, (if)—A violent
earthquake, striking before dawn
in the sparsely-settled mountains
north of here, killed at least 10
persons Monday and left a mount
ing toll of damage and injuries.
As the first reports of eyewit
nesses filtered out of the little
town of Tehachapi, they painted
a picture of a shattered business
district, brick-littered streets and
a wrecked hotel.
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Doctors and nurses were-flown
in when ambulances met slide
blocked roads.
Amateur radio operators heard
by radio station KTRB in Modesto
reported the earth rocked convul
sively, debris tumbling into Main
Street in thunderous crashes.
Children and their parents
rushed into the streets, crouched,
stunned by the giant shaking. A
large water tank crashed, flood
ing the area.
Tehachapi, with a population of
about 3,000, is on U.S. 466 be
tween Bakersfield and Mojave, a
little mountain town 4,000 high,
many of whose residents work at
the big Monolith Portland Cement
plant nearby.
It also is the site of the state
women’s prison, which was re
ported so hard hit that most of
its cluster of two-story buildings
are unusable. A call went out for
tents in which to house the 327
inmates, including all of Cali
fornia’s women convicted of fel
onies. The prisoners were re
ported panic-stricken but unhurt.
Cave-ins were reported in at
least two tunnels in the area, used
jointly by the Santa Fe and
Southern Pacific railroads, and
all travel was blocked. The S.P.’s
main line to San Francisco, which
runs along the coast, was not
damaged. But the main-traveled
route between here and Bakers
field, the Ridge Route 0U.S. 99)
was blocked by a slide near Gor
man. A highway patrolman said
“It seems like the top of a moun
tain slid off,” burying the busy,
four-lane freeway route under 25
feet of dirt at one point.
As dawn caipe, clouds of dust
could be seen rising back in the
mountains, indicating landslides
deep in the canyons.
Bakersfield itself, a city of
35,000 was hard hit. A refinery
was afire, the downtown business
district was littered with rubble,
plate glass windows were splin
tered and an explosion blew out
the walls of an automobile agency.
SUNDAY BASEBALL
American League
Washington 7-6—St Louis 6-3
Philadelphia 8-3—Detroit 7-3
Chicago 5—New York 4
Boston 8—Cleveland 7
National League
Brooklyn 8—Pittsburgh 5
New York 9—Chicago 7
St. Louis 8—Boston 4
Cincinnati 6-3 — Philadelphia
5-4.
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 10-0—San Diego 9-1
Oakland 2-4—Seattle 1-3
Portland 9-2—Los Angeles 2-l‘
San Francisco 5-1—Sacramento
2-6