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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOL. LIV No. 63 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1952 Per Copy—15<*
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Shipping Strike
Tving Up All West
Coast Shipping
SEATTLE, (/P)—At least four
ships in Seattle and Tacoma were
tied up Saturday and all west
coast shipping drifted toward a
full stop with the AFL-Sailors
Union of the Pacific holding a
series of stop-work meeting.
The steamship Aleutian sailed
with 255 passengers for Alaska
Friday night, however, lour hours
after the work stoppage was be
gun. The unionists are protesting
against shipowners turning down
their demands for wage increases
and Saturday overtime pay.
The Sailors Union business
agent at Seattle, Maxie Weis
barth, released the Aleutian to
sail after a telephone call to Harry
Lundeberg, S.U.P. secretary at
San Francisco. The Aleutian was
starting the Alaska Steamship
Company’s summer tourist sail
ings.
Weisbarth told company offi
cials the union felt sorry to dis
appoint “those nice passengers
waiting on the dock.”
The permission given the lux
ury liner Lurline to sail from Los
Angeles for Hawaii at 3 p.m. Fri
day, just before the work stop
pages began, may have influenced
the decision.
Other ships tied up here or at
Tacoma were the Oregon, the
Washington Mail, the Coastal
Monarch, and the Victoria. The
Victoria had been due to sail at
8 a.m. Saturday; the others dur
ing the next few days.
Sailors up and down the coast
walked off their ships and voted
to r y off the job until 5 p.m.
today to aw’ait the outcome of
4eaei d efforts to settle the prob
lem in Monday day dm e meetings.
Tin sailors — about 3,000 of
them along the coast—vdted for
the 5 p.m. Monday deadline at a
. - c slop-work m tings.
Leaded Tanker and Barge
ide, Both Explode
Two Dead, Six Missing
WILMINGTON, Del., Iff) A
tanker loaded with crude oil and
a gasoline-driven barge collided
n a driving rain on the Delaware
mil( uth of h Sun
day night, both exploding into
flames that sent crewmen diving
into the water.
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si:: : k. sing and one injured crew
mai ' at a Wilmington hospi al
suffer:: from shock.
k1 u wQre 39 survivors from
- the eckksion between the 10,441
tor • Michael . id the 1,152
ton barge, Dodge.
Hours after the collision,
orange flames and thick, black
smoke covered the surface of the
water and filled the sky over a
half mile area.
The Michael drifted to the New
Jersey shore and ran up on a
beach. The ship has a big hole
at the water line of its starboard
bow\ The smaller Dodge was al
most completely submerged. A
few minor explosions were heard
from the Dodge, from time to
time.
Eisenhower Backers Snare
20 of 24 Washington State
Nominating Delegates
SPOKANE, </P) — Embittered
backers of Sen. Taft contemplated
their man’s meager allotment o*f
four of the state’s 24 GOP nation
al convention votes Monday and
predicted a party rift which
might affect the entire 1952 cam
paign in Washington.
Supporters of Gen. Eisenhower,
with an 80 vote majority among
the 900 delegates to* the Satur
day's state convention here, gath
ered in the remaining 20 votes
for their presidential hopeful.
Threats of a Taft walkout from
the session faded late in the night
— seemingly from weariness on
the part of the backers of the
Ohio senator.
Taft’s campaign chairman,
David Ingalls, also took a hand
in forestalling a convention bolt.
He pointed out that four votes
were better than none.
The. hope that both sides would
close ranks and forget their dif
ferences was expressed by state
GOP chairman Mort Frayn.
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Before World War II, U.S.
Approved Sale Battleship
Plans to Soviet Russia
WASHINGTON, UP)—,State De
partment papers taken off the
I secret list over the weekend dis
; closed that the year before World
j WAR II started President Roose
velt approved selling Russia plans
for a 62,000-ton battleship.
Roosevelt hacl been told mili
! tary secrets were not involved.
The plan • fell through when
Russia turned the deal down.
The papers also showed that:
1. Soviet Russia tipped its hand
early in its official relations with
this country by breaking two of
! its first agreements,
j 2. William C. Bullitt, first U.S.
j* ambassador to Soviet Russia re
po r ed when he left Moscow that
it would be useless to hope for
genuine friendship from Soviet
Russia or any Communist indiv
idual.
2. The Russians apparently at
tempted to listen in through tup
ped wires and a microphone on
U.S. embassy conversations in
Moscow.
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buy the battleship plans from
Gibbs & Cox, * New York naval
architects. The ship, as projet
Would have been armed with 18
inch guns, making it more power
ful than any American man-o-war
then afloat.
TRUCE MEETINGS TO RESUME
MtTNSAN, (TP)—United Nations
truce delegates return to Panmun
.ic;m Tuesday to learn if a three
day cooling off recess has cracked
the Communist stand on war
prisoner exchange.
The explosive issue alone blocks
an armistice in Korea.
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison,
new senior Allied delegate, said
the Reds still may be determined
“to delay or reject an armistice.”
“If the Communists are going
to concede, we won’t know it
until the day it happens. Up to
the last minute, they will keep
trying to make us give in.”
Foreign Aid Bill:
“Policy of Timidity
Is A Prelude
To Disaster”
WASHINGTON, (AV-Sen. Con
nally (D-Tex), told the Senate
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Monday in advocating -approval of
a $6,900,000,000 foreign aid bill
that “a policy of timidity is a
prelude to disaster.”
As chairman of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, Con
nally said the Mutual Security
measure is probably the last ma
jor legislation he will pilot through
the Senate before he retires next
January. He did not elect to run
again.
The Texas senator argued in a
prepared Senate address against
any further cuts in the authoriza
tion measure, trimmed by his
committee one billion dollars be
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low President Truman’s requests.
A group of Republican senators
has proposed additional slashes
ranging from 500 millions to one
billion dollars.
Asserting that this country must
be prepared to meet its allies half
way, Connally said that any fail
ure of Congress to act decisively
now “might mean that peace
woqld slip from our grasp and
the lights of civilization would go
out again for a long, long time.”
Truman Accuses Private
Utilities of Spending Vast
Amounts for Propaganda
WASHINGTON, (TP)—President
Truman lash&d o*ut at the private
Utilities Monday, asserting that
they are spending millions in a
'drive to “frighten, threaten and
confuse the people” about public
power.
In a fiery speech to a confer
ence of electric consumers, the
President accused the* utilities of
spending vast sums on propa
ganda and advertising.
Truman got a standing 9‘vation
from the adherents of public
power, Rural Electrification and
electric cooperatives when he told
the group:
“I am the only person who rep
: resents the whole 155 million con
’ sumers.
“Some time * soon, when the
whistle-stop campaign starts, I'm
going out and give you all the
facts about this power situation.”
The President said he may ask
the new Attorney General to de
termine whether the utilities have
violated a Corrupt Practices Act.
Some of the* companies, he
said, have one set o*f figures on
which they pay taxes and another
set four- or five times greater on
which they fix rates.
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Shirley Temple Recovering
After Giving Birth to Son
WASHINGTON. <7P) — Shirley
Temple, the one-time child movie
star, is recovering from complica
tions following the birth of a son
here, her husband says, but will
probably be in the hospital anoth
er two weeks.
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Her husband, Navy Commander
Charles G. Black, told newsmen
Friday night pleurisy and other
difficulties followed a Caesarian
delivery April 28.
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West Germany Peace
Contract Signed But Pact
Requires Final Approval
BONN, Germany, (/P) — The
United States, Britain and France
signed a peace contract Monday
with Western Germany and then
welcomed their former enemy as
a “new partner in the fight for
peace and freedom.”
Anthony Eden of Britain, Rob
ert Schuman of France, Dean
.Acheson of the U.S., and West
German chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer, put their ’ signatures 20
times to the documents in the
peace contract, aimed a bringing
48 million Germans west of the
iron curtain into the western com
munity of nations on a basis of
equality.
But the ministers were careful
to stress that the documents need
final approval of their parlia
ments before the contract can, be
more than a scrap of paper.
The shadow of a scowling So
viet Union and the realization
that their homeland remains di
vided gave Germans little to cheer
about. There were predictions in*
the West German press that the
cont act might be rejeced by the
French and the West German par
liament, where Socialist opposi
tion to signing has been most bit
ter.
What the Peace
Contract Means:
(By the Associated Press)
The peace contract signed at
Bonn Monday by the U.S., Brit
ain, France and the Western Ger
man Republic, provides these
'things were ratified:
Abolishes the occupation stat
ute.
Occupation troops will be
known as defense forces.
Allied high commissioners, who
have had over - all authority in
Western Germany, will be re
placed by ambassadors.
The Western powers still have
the right to take over in a su
preme emergency.
They reserve to themselves the
right to handle affairs with Russia
involving Berlin, reunification of
Germany and general elections.
in the event of the unification
of the country, Germany is prem
ised another deal.
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Falling 22-Foot Cactus
Crushes 5-Year-Old Girl
TUCSON, Arte., (#>)— A five
year - old girl was apparently
killed outright Friday night when
a giant saguaro cactus, 22 feet in
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length and estimated to weigh
more than IV2 tons, crashed down
o'n her.
Killed was Cindy Lauther,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gernat
Lauther of Sweetwater Drive, in
the Tucson Mountains.
Sheriffs deputies said one of
the three children playing with
Cindy near the 200-year-old cac
tus had chopped it with a hand
ax. The ax blows, made about
four feet from the ground, caused
the partly rotted cactus to fall,
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the deputies said.
When help arrived, it took six
men with timbers to lift the plant
from the crushed body of the
little girl.
Korea Air Strikes
Accompanied By
Increasing Losses
SEOUL, UP)—'The Allies struck
the greatest air'blow of the Kor
ean war at the Reds Thursday and
Friday, against a sobering picture
of increasing plane losses.
The Fifth Air Force tally show
ed the week ended Friday was
one of the worst—if not the worst
ahr week for the Allies since the
war started 23 months ago.
The weekly plane loss count
gave the Communists 12 kills and
U.S. airmen four.
For the first time in the war,
Communist MIGs grabbed a five
ta-four edge in aerial dogfights.
The Fifth Air Force announced
the loss of three F-86 Sabre jets
and two F-84 Thunder jets in the
air against only four confirmed
MIG kills. It was a sharp rever
sal from the usual top heavy
Allied score. *
The other seven U.N. losses
were mostly to Red anti-aircraft
fire.
The figures didn’t take into ac
count naval plane losses. Rescue
flights indicated there were at
least two—bringing te loss total
to at least 14. Airmen said it
all appeared to point to growing
Communist skill and power in the
air and ground.
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Congress Is Told U. S.
Still Far Behind Russia
In Jet Plane Production
WASHINGTON, f/P) — John D.
Small, chairman of the Munitions
Board, told Congress Monday “we
are still far behind” Russia in
current warplane production, par
ticularly of jet aircraft.
He said that even so, planned
deliveries in 1953 and early 1954
will have to be cut back if Con
I gress sticks to a House-approved
ceiling of a 46 billion dollars on
armed forces spending in the fis
cal year starting next July 1.
. And those years, Small added,
uppear to be “a Very perilous
period as we look ahead.”
Small testified before the Sen
ate Preparedness Committee. It
was one of two Senate groups
which were inquiring simultan
eously into the air power situa
tion.
Fulton Oursler, Author of
‘Greatest Story Ever Told.’,
Dies of Heart Attack at 59
NEW YORK, UP)—Fulton Ours
ler, 59, author of “The Greatest
Story Ever Told,” a book based
on the Bible, and former news
paperman and magazine editor,
died Saturday. ;
He .died in his hotel -apartment
of a heart attack.
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Oursler turned out a prodigious
number- of books and magazine
articles, many of which in recent
years reflected a strong interest
in religion.
He was a former vice president
, and editorial director of McFad
den publications and edited Lib
erty Magazine from 1931 to 1942.
Later he was a senior editor of
Reader’s Digest.