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VOL. LIV No. 100 •NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1952Per Copy—15^
, Report Margaret
Truman’s Guards
Rough Up Swedes
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
White House said Wednesday pre
liminary reports to it indicate
“there is not one word of truth”
in Swedish newspaper stories that
m Margaret Truman’s bodyguards
roughed up Swedish citizens.
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Short told a news conference that
both the State and Treasury De
partments are looking into the
matter. The Treasury made a
check because the guards with
the President’s daughter on her
European trip are Secret Service
men. The Secret Service comes
> under the Treasury Department.
Short said: “Our preliminary
reports indicate that nobody was
touched, threatened, or anything
else.”
Miss Truman arrived in Swe
den last Sunday and left today for
Finland.
During her stay, Swedish news
papers reported that the three
Secret Service men with her were
armed and were pushing Swedish
citizens around in bullying fa
shion.
There was a specific complaint
among other things, that they had
roughly handled a photographer.
Alaska To Get $75,000
From Tax On Firearms
WASHINGTON, UP) — A $10,
679,000 fund will be sliced among
the 48 states and the territories
for use on wildlife resources un
der the Pittman-Robertson Act.
The allotments to territories are:
Alaska $75,000; Hawaii $23,000;
Puerto Riccf $10,000; the Virgin
Islands $10,000.
They compare with such state
allotments as Washington $275,
993 and Oregon $245,938.
The allocation will cover the
year which began July 1. The
receipts come from the 11 per
« cent federal excise tax on sport
ing arms and ammunition.
The collections were aborve nor
mal. FWS Director Albert M. Day
attributed the larger total to
“scare buying of rifles, shotguns
and ammunition brought on by
the Korean War.”
I
B. C. Merchants Discount
0 U. S. Silver At 7 Percent
VICTORIA, B.C., (VP)—Ameri
can silver coins are being dis
counted here at about seven per
cent on the dollar, bank officials
said Tuesday.
The bank officers said the larg
er coins are being marked down
to cover the cost of packing and
shipping them to Seattle.
U.S. paper money is being dis
* counted at about four per cent,
however.
One bank manager said the
larger discount for silver was de
cided upon after customers com
plained they were getting too
much American silver in rolls of
t change from their banks. As a re
sult of the complaints, the banks
are returning the silver south of
the border.
Previously, he said, “We had
been merely taking in the U.S.
coins and passing them out again.”
Scheduled Walkout of
Alaska Carpenters
Is Called Off
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A walkout
of Alaska carpenter^ scheduled
for Wednesday was called off
Tuesday by Frank Marshall, gen
eral representative of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Carpen
ters.
Marshall said the International
office advised him to instruct lo
cals to “remain on the job until
further notice.”
The strike had been called early
this month in an effort to induce
the Associated General Contract
ors to withdraw a $5,000,000 dam
age suit pending against the union
since last May. The suit was filed
after strike action was taken
during contract negotiations that
month.
J. L. McCarrey, attorney for the
AGC, said he did not know what
the contractors had decided to do
about the suit.
The carpenters have been work
ing without a formal contract. All
phases had been settled except
regarding withdrawal of the suit.
Truman Lifts Lid
On U.S. Foreign
Aid Oil Scandal
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman has ordered the lid off
a long-secret report on interna
tional oil deals amid new charges
that a rich and powerful oil car
tel is siphoning U.S. foreign aid
funds.
The report, which may have
diplomatic repercussions abroad,
promptly became fuel for a fed
eral grand jury which will open
next month an investigation of
alleged price fixing and monopo
ly practices in the oil industry.
Decision to lift the official se
cret label from the report, a year
after it was written by Federal
Trade Commision (FTC) experts,
was announced Monday by Sen.
John Sparkman of Alabama, the
Democratic nominee for vice pres
ident.
Sparkman spoke as head of the
Senate small business subcommit
tee, and as the man whose public
demand for the information pre
sumably resulted in the presiden
tial order. The Alabaman said his
subcommittee would make an in
vestigation of its own before pass
ing judgment on the FTC find
ings.
In swift follow - up develop
ments:
1. The Justice Department
moved to subpoena the report for
its recently-ordered federal grand
jury investigation of monopoly
charges against seven U.S. and
foreign oil companies.
2. Sen. Hennings (D-Mo) fired
new accusations of intrigue at the
oil firms, charging they form a
cartel and a "giant conspiracy”
profiteering against European na
tions which receive U.S. dollar
aid.
Hennings renewed accusations
that the oil companies charge'
those countries a higher price for
oil than they charge buyers in
this country and Canada, contend
ing that this had added huge
sums to the costs of U.S. foreign
aid.
Eisenhower Speech
Calls For “Middle
Ground Course”
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
DENVER, (/P) — Dwight D.
Eisenhower loaded his campaign
guns for a speech Wednesday at
tacking the Democrats and calling
on America to follow a middle
ground course, “rejecting both the
extreme left and right.”
The Republican presidential
nominee flies from his Denver
headquarters to Boise, Idaho, to
make a major address from the
state capitol steps late Wednes
day. Aides were describing it as
the general’s first frankly politi
cal speech since he became the
party’s standard bearer.
Eisenhower arranged to confer
first in Boise with the Republican
governors of ten western states.
They planned a campaign dis
cussion of matters of special in
terest to the West—such as re
clamation, soil conservation and
water power.
Eisenhower’s executive secre
tary, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr.,
put out a statement setting forth
points the general expected to
cover. Vandenberg said:
“General Eisenhower in his
speech today at Boise will de
nounce the attempts of Leftist po
1 i t i c a 1 groups to monopolize
agreed social goals and to claim
that thers is the only way to
achieve them.
“The present administration,
the general will charge, is running
this year with new faces but will
continue to offer schemes like the
Brannan (farm) plan, socialized
medicine and bigger and more
centralized government as its only
solution to some of the pressing
problems that confront America
today.”
Air Force and Navy Planes
Hit Red Ammo Stores
SEOUL, <>P) — The U.S. Fifth
Air Force said about 200 Air
Force and Navy warplanes hit a
Communist ammunition supply
and troop billeting area Wednes
day on the Korean west coatt.
There were eight seperate tar
gets in the area, the Air Force
said. Four were smashed by Navy
pilots and four by Air Force fliers.
Returning pilots reported early
claims of 58 buildings demolished
and five damaged. Big explosions
rocked the area as bombs smack
ed into ammunition stores. Flames
raged through the target, a center
of more than 300 buildings.
The Fifth Air Force said its
total destruction claims from the
assault will not be known until
reconnaissance planes complete
bomb damage assessment.
TUESDAY BASEBALL
American League
Boston 6—Cleveland 5
Philadelphia 4-6—Detroit 3-5
Chicago 3—New York 1
Washington 2—St. Louis 1
National League
New York 5-3—Cincinnati 0-5
Philadelphia 10—Pittsburgh 5
St. Louis 7—Boston 5
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 4—Seattle 3
Portland 3—Los Angeles 0
Sacramento 4—San Francisco S
Hollywood 4—San Diego 0
Taxes On Corporations
Will Yield Less Than
President’s Estimates
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Congres
sional money experts expressed
surprise today at President Tru
man’s estimate that direct taxes
on corporations this fiscal year
will yield three billion dollars less
than he had figured in his budget
seven months ago.
However, among the few law
makers available for comment on
the revised budget estimates re
leased last night, none challenged
the possibility that the drop-back
point has been reached.
In his new look at the budget,
Truman figured that not only re
ceipts but spending and the year
end deficit are coming down. For
the fiscal year which ends next
June 30. He lowered his estimate
of receipts from 71 billion dol
lars to $68,700,000; of expendi
tures, from $85,400,000,000 to 71
billion dollars; and of the deficit,
from $14,000,000,000 to $10,300
000,000.
On exception to the downtrend
was individual income taxes,
which bring in about 33 Vz billion
dollars, or half a billion more
than the January estimate.
Anchorage to Valdez Plane
Found 90 deg. Off Course
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Mr. and
Mrs. Charles W. Aubert of Fair
banks, missing since Sunday on
a flight between Anchorage and
Valdez were located early Tues
day on East Chugach Island and
flown into Rocky Bay, the 10th
Rescue Squadron reported.
The couple were at least 90 de
grees off course when they landed
rescue officials said. The Chugach
Islands are about 150 miles due
south of Anchorage and 200 miles
southwest of Valdez.
The plane was forced down by
weather and a fuel shortage, CAA
officials said. They plan to pick
up fuel and return to the plane
to continue the trip.
Aubert left Anchorage Sunday
afternoon on the flight to Valdez,
120 miles east of Anchorage. The
plane was not equipped with
radio.
Mario Giannini, President
Of Bank of America, Dies
SAN FRANCISCO, (dPl-J^aw
rence Mario Giannini, 58, presi
dent of the Bank of America, the
world’s largest bank, died in his
sleep at a hospital here Tuesday
night.
His physician said death was
caused by a number of illnesses.
He had been in the hospital since
March 4. •
In 1936 Giannini became presi
dent of the Bank of America,
founded by his father, the late
A. P. Giannini in 1901. The elder
Giannini, an Italian immigrant,
died in June, 1929.
Giannini, acknowledged as one
of America’s foremost business
leaders, also served as a director
of the TransAmerica Corporation,
which controlled the bank until
1937.
Branches of the bank — mord"
than 600—cover California and
are also in London, Manila, Tok
yo, Yokohama, Kobe and Shang
hai.
Air Corps Chief
Reports Alaska Is
Safe Fr^m Attack
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Alaska is
safe from enemy attack as a re
sult of perfection off the “heart
land concept” in the last two
years, the acting chief of the Air
Force told the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce Monday night.
Fresh from briefing on the lat
est problems and achievements in
the defense program, Lt. Gen.
Nathan S. Twining said “Alaska
now is safe.”
Twining was introduced as the
originator of the defense concept
which has been set up make the
territory invulnerable to a sur
prise attack. The heartland con
cept was adopted to give the mili
tary a strong core near Anchorage
and Fairbanks from which opera
tions could be extended quickly
to the far corners of the territory.
“You can relax now for the
first time because you are safe.
Nobody is going to bother the
place. And we are going to keep
it that way. We are always plug
ging to get the job do^ie.”
Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
the Chamber he was encouraged
by the progress made in Alaska’s
defense program.
He termed the defenses being
built in Alaska as a deterrent to
war and predicted in a few years
defenses would even lead to over
coming the fear of war.
Contract Negotiations Start
With Hard Coal Miners
NEW YORK, (/P)—Negotiations
on a new contract for 75,000 hard
coal miners began here yesterday
with the industry announcing at
the outset that a pay increase was
“impossible” at this time.
Edward G. Fox, president of
the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company told re
porters the industry was facing
strong competition from the oil
and gas industries, particularly
natural gas.
UMW demands have not been (
made public, but sources close to
the union indicated the miners
would ask for a pay boost and an
increase in the 30-cents-a-ton pay
ment by the operators into the
union welfare fund.
They now earn an average of
$2.25 an hour, portal-to-portal,
with a 7Vfe hour work day.
Transportation Experts
To Make Alaska Survey
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Defense
Transportation Administrator J.
K. Knudson assigned two experts
Wednesday to survey surface
transportation, warehousing, stor
age and port facilities in Alaska
from the standpoint of national
defense and essential civilian
needs.
The two, Wayne G. Brown and
Samuel E. Emmons, are due to
arrive in the territory Aug. 26.
Brown is an administrative of
ficer at DTA and special assist
ant for territories and possessions.
Emmons is a DTA transporta
tion consultant and a former gen
eral manager of Capital Transit
Co., of Washington.