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_OLDEST* NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIV No. 93 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1952 ' Per Copy—15^
At Least 28 Die
In Flaming Wreck
Greyhound Buses
WACO, Tex., (/P)—Two Grey
hound buses collided head - on
Monday, erupted in flames, and
became funeral pyres for at least
28 persons. The toll may go to 33.
The big vehicles smashed to
gether seven miles south of here
just before dawn.
A death count was difficult be
cause many bodies were so badly
burned they fell to pieces. Fu
neral homes which had reported
34 bodies revised the total down
to 28.
Many servicemen returning to
their bases from week-end leaves
were among the dead and injured.
The buses themselves burned
almost to rubbish. Burned shoes,
parts of purses and their scorched
contents, luggage tags and other
clues to -identity of the victims
were sifted from the blackened
wreckage.
“It was horrible, people were
i
screaming and knocking each
other down trying to get out,”
Mrs. Dora Daniels of Waco said,
from a hospital bed. “They could
n't find the exit door.”
She said a Negro soldier who
was thrown to safety “was brave
enough to come back and pull
us out.”
“There was a little baby,” Mrs.
Daniel recalled. “It was lying in
the middle of the pavement, burn
ing. Nobody could help.”
Authorities were at a loss to
explain the accident, which may
have been the worst traffic crash
in Texas history. It occurred on
a straight stretch of Highway 81,
between Dallas and Austin.
Guerrilla Interference
Expected In Korea’s
First Popular Election
PUSAN, Korea, {/P) — South
Korean police and troops have
been alerted for passible Com
munist guerrilla interference
Tuesday in the republic’s first
. popular election of a president
and vice president.
A government spokesman said
reports had been received that the
Communists had ordered guer
rillas to disrupt the election.
Syngman Rhee, 77, the nation’s
first president, is considered cer
tain to be returned to office.
Originally the president was
elected by the national assembly
but Rhee, using public pressure
and police, recently forced the
assembly to change the constitu
tion to provide for the popular
election. •
Rhee has made no campaign
speech. Since his is the only name
and face known to the bulk of the
voters, his three opponents are
given little chance of winning.
There are nine aspirants for
vice president. Six are classed as
Rhee supporters but Rhee has en
dorsed no one.
Price of Truck Tires Cut
AKRON, O.’, (IP) — Soiberling
Rubber Co. Saturday announced a
six and a hall per cent cut in
the price of truck tires 10 ply and
over. A similar cut was announ
ced Wednesday by Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Co.
Air Strike Flattens
Key Red, Headquarters
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
SEOUL,- (/P) — The U.S. Fifth
Air Force said U.N. fighter-bomb
ers struck in two massive waves
Monday at a key North Korean
headquarters near the Red capital
of Pyongyang and left it in a
flaming wreckage.
The Air Force said the first
wave of fighter-bombers dropped
3,500 gallons of flaming gasoline
and 185 tons of high explosives
on the headquarters area.
Pilots said they sprayed the
area with 15,000 rounds of 50
caliber and 20 millimeter ammu
nition.
U.S. Sabre jet pilots destroyed
one Red MIG fighter and this
raised to 1,002 the number of
MIGs destroyed, probably de
stroyed or damaged since the
start of the war, the Air Force
reported.
On the ground, U. S. Second
troops smashed a Chinese charge
against heavily fortified positions
atop Old Baldy hill. Half the at
tacking Reds were killed.
11 Olympic Swimming
Records Set In 11 Events
HELSINKI, (fP) — Little Ford
Konno of Hilo, Hawaii, and Ohio
State University, won the Olym
pic 1,500 meters freestyle swim
ming championship Saturday.
Konno broke the third Olympic
record of the day, swimming the
1,500 meters in an amazing 18:30
flat.
Konno ended the swimming
part of the Olympic program with
a perfect record — eleven new
Olympic records in eleven events.
To the People of Nome—
As Task Unit Commander of
the Bering Sea Re-supply mission,
I would like to take this oppor
tunity to express my sincere ap
preciation to the citizens of Nome
who contributed so much to the
rescue of survivors from the Navy
liberty boat which capsized early
last Thursday morning.
There were many contributing
factors leading up to and includ
ing the disaster which are appar
ently unknown to the general
public at this time.
There are ever-present hazards
connected with granting of gen
eral liberty to the personnel of
the vessels anchored in the road
stead off Nome due to certain
conditions over which we have no
control. To deny Naval personnel
liberty in your city because of
these conditions, would in all pro
bability be considered an impo
sition on those many men who
consider Nome their favorite lib
erty port in Alaska.
It is with deep regret that it is
not possible at this time for all
those citizens who, at great risk
to their personal- safety, per
formed many acts of heroism in
effecting rescue of survivors, to
be informed of all the facts rel
ative to the disaster as described
above.
Very respectfully,
Harold M. James,
Lieut. Cmdr., U.S. Navy,
Military Sea Transporta
tion Service,
Commander Task Unit 113.4.4
Negro Politico
Suggests Boycott
Of Both Parties
(Bt the Associated Press)
While Republican and Demo
cratic party leaders shaped cam
paign strategy Monday, a Negro
congressman suggested a “plague
on-both-their houses” boycott on
election.
The Republican presidential
nominee, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, said party professionals
and self-styled amateurs have ag
reed on how to conduct his cam
paign.
The Democratic nominee, Illin
ois* Gov. Adlai Stevenson, drew
bipartisan plaudits for setting up
his national campaign headquar
ters at Springfield in his home
state.
But the Congressman, Demo
cratic Rep. Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr., of New York, told a Harlem
mass meeting the Negro was “sold
down the river” at both parties’
national conventions.
He said the Negro has enough
votes to control the outcome of
the Nov. 4 election and “just will
not go to the polls at all” unless
pledged an “acceptable” plat
form.
Powell has a date, within the
next 10 days, to discuss civil
rights with Stevenson and his
vice - presidential running mate,
Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama.
Civil rights was also the topic
of a statement issued in Washing
ton Sunday by 16 Republican
leaders, among them several key
backers of Eisenhower.
Privately, chieftains of both
major parties credited Stevenson
with making a smart move in es
tablishing his headquarters at
Springfield. They said this will
aid his apparent effort to separ
ate his campaign from President
Truman’s administration.
In California, Democrats and
Republicans predicted victory in
November. Nixon told the GOP
state convention: “We will be
united and we will win.” Atty.
Gen. Edmund G. Brown, a Demo
crat, said the Stevenson-Spark
man slate assures a Democratic
victory.
700 Convicts Riot In
Canadian Prison
MONTREAL,, (/P)_Police used
tear gas and gunfire early Satur
day to quell a riot of hundreds of
prisoners in Montreal’s Bordeaux
jail.
An estimated 700 convicts
broke out of their cell blocks early
Friday night, set 17 fires, looted
the prison canteen, broke plumb
ing to flood the floors and then
clashed with 200 police in a
bloody battle in the main prison
court yard.
The police managed to drive the
rioters back into their cell blocks
with tear gas and by firing pistols
over the convicts’ heads—'but only
temporarily. The convicts smash
ed the main locks of the cell
blocks and spilled back into the
yard to yell and taunt the police.
Aware the broken locks made
it impossible to keep the convicts
behind bars for the night, the
police stood by and allowed them
to blow off steam.
Bob Bartlett Opens His
Campaign for Re-Election
As Delegate to Congress
Opening his campaign for re
election as Delegate to Congress,
Bob Bartlett arrived in Nojne
today. He was at Unalakleet over
the week - end and reported the
Army topographic engineers there
are making good progress in their
mapping work.
Bartlett, who has served Al
aska in Congress since 1944, was
in Chicago when the Democratic
presidential and vice presidential
nominees were chosen, and ex
pressed the belief that his party -
had chosen an “unbeatable team.”
He termed Governor Stevenson’s
acceptance speech “one of the
great papers of this day.”
The 82nd Congress, which ad
journed last month, was attentive
to Alaska’s needs, according to
the delegate. “Over a quarter of
a billion dollars was appropriated
for this fiscal year and legisla
tively, also, the Congress moved
to assist the Territory,” he said.
Bartlett promised Second Divi
sion residents a full report on
what has happened in Washing
ton. He intends to be in the Divi
sion for ten days or longer and
will travel to as many communi
ties as possible.
“It would have been my per
sonal preference to come some
what later, when more political
interest had been generated by
the approaching election, but even
in this air age Alaska is a big
country to cover, and a candidate
for territorial office must start out
fairly early in the season.”
Delegate Bartlett said that in
his travels through the Second
Division he intends to campaign
for every member of the Demo
cratic party seeking election to the
Legislature from the Second Div
ision. “We have a good team,” he
declared, “and their election will
mean progress for this part of
Alaska.”
Particular gratification was ex
pressed by Bartlett in the fact
that the Lost River tin mine is
operating with such substantial
employment of local residents. He
pointed out that opening of the
mine was made possible by loans
granted by the administration
through the Defense Minerals Ad
ministration.
Tentative plans are being made
by Ted C. Duffield, chairman of
the Second Division Democratic
Committee, for a public meeting
in Nome following Bartlett’s re
turn from the outlying communi
ties.
U. S. Score In Olympics
535 to 528% for Russia
HELSINKI, (/P) — The United
States passed Russian in the bat
tle for the unofficial Olympic
team point championship Satur
day. The United States had scored
535 points to 52&Vfe for Russia.
Still to come in this two-week
carnival which ends Sunday were
the finals in women’s diving,
where the Americans were favor
ed, 10 boxing finals, in which the
Americans were involved in five
and the Russian in two, and two
equestrian events.
Russians Imply
They Have Claim
To Alaska Riches
LONDON, (/P) — The Russians
claimed Saturday the British and
French have stolen credit for a
deed the West readily concedes
the Russians performed—the dis
covery of Alaska more than 200
years ago.
Moscow radio in a broadcast
for Soviet youth scoffed at what
it said were British claims that
Capt. James Cook, British ex
plorer of the 18th Century, had
discovered the shores of Alaska.
The broadcast said a French geo
grapher and a British diplomat
in Czarist St. Petersburg <now
Leningrad) had stolen Russian
maps and charts on Alaska in a
“most unashamed manner.”
The implication was that these
stolen maps made Cook’s voyage
up the Alaskan coast in 1778 pos
sible.
However, standard western re
ference books concede that Alas
ka was discovered by a Russian
expedition headed by the famous
Danish-born explorer Vitus Ber
ing in 1741.
In recent years there have been
unofficial assertions in Russia
implying that the Soviets have
some economic interest of their
own in Alaska. The tenor of these
claims is that Czarist Russia’s sale
Of Alaska to the U.S. in 1867 for
$7,200,000 was illegal. The im
plication is that Russia still has
a claim to Alaska’s riches.
Earle Knight, Publisher
Of Alaska Weekly, Dies
Of Heart Attack
SEATTLE, (£>) — Earle W.
Knight, 64, publisher of the Al
aska Weekly for the past 29 years,
died Sunday at his home here.
Death was attributed to a heart
attack.
Knight had been in ill health
for several weeks. He had re
turned only recently from a six
month stay in Mexico and was
writing a book about his travels.
Knight traveled extensively in
Alaska and was vitally interested
in affairs of the territory. He
wrote a column, “As I See It,” in
the Alaska Weekly.
He was a member of the Cham
ber of Commerce Alaska Commit
tee and of several of Seattle’s
most prominent clubs.
He is survived by his wife,
two daughters, a son, two bro
thers and a sister.
SUNDAY BASEBALL
(By the Associated Press)
American League
New York 6-6—St. Louis 1-4
Cleveland 4-2—Philadelphia 1-9
Detroit 6—Boston 0
Washington 0—Chicago 0
National League
Brookly 3-9—Chicago 2-1
Pittsburgh 7-10—New York 0-8
Boston 7-0—Cincinnati 4-4
Philadelphia 6—St. Louis 0
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 10-4—Portland 6-8
Hollywood 14-3—San Francisco
5-4
Oakland 4-1—Los Angeles 3-6
San Diego 2-6—Sacramento 1-4