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• VOL. LIV No. 52. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1952 Per Copy—15*
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Govt. Ordered
Return Steel
Mills to Owners
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON, </P) — Federal
Judge David A. Pine formally or
dered the government Wednesday
to give the nation’s steel mills
back to their owners as a wildfire
strike closed the billion dollar in
dustry down tight.
Government lawyers immedi
ately moved to appeal Pine’s ac
tion and seek a higher court re
versal of the judge’s ruling that
President Truman’s April 8 seiz
i ure of the steel industry—to head
off a walkout—was illegal.
Across the nation, virtually all
the 650,000 members of the CIO
United Steelw’orkers of America
were leaving their jobs in his
tory’s quickest shutdown of the
vital industry.
Pine’s formal order restraining
the government from “continuing
* the seizure and possession” of the
steel plants came less than 24
hours after he (D ruled the Presi
dent's seizure action unconstitu
tional and (2) denied what he
called Truman's claim of “un
limited and unrestrained power.”
Assistant Attorney Gen. Holmes
Baldbridge, representing the gov
ernment as Wednesday’s order
was issued, told the judge his
action would cause “incalculable
damage.”
Immediately Baldridge filed
notice the order would be ap
pealed. Presumably this will be
done in the U.S. Court of Ap
peals and then taken to the Su
preme Court as quickly as pos
sible if the Appeals Court allows
the ruling to stand.
The steel companies undoubted
ly will appeal themselves if the
higher court ruling goes against
them.
At the White House, presiden
tial secretay Joseph Short said
Truman was keeping in “very
close touch with the situation”
but declined to say what possible
moves were under consideration.
With the vast steel industry
shutting down, the government
slapped an embargo on shipments
ot steel from warehouses to pro
ducers of civilian goods and to
Y foreign countries.
Juneau Election Results
JUNEAU, C/P) — Standings of
candidates for nomination for two
seats in. the Senate, on returns
from 14 precincts in the Juneau
area:
j Barnes <R) 913; Hermann <R)
434; Cramer (R) 284; Jensen (D)
625; Peratravich (D) 463; Reed
<D) 389; Gilmore (D> 220; Ziegler
(D> 196.
The tally for five seats in the
House was:
Republicans — Boardman 311,
Coyne 262, Eastaugh 657, Hein
miller 475, Hendrickson 866, Hod
gins 373, Johnson 492, Locken 711,
MacSpadden 524, Milligan 183,
Paul 359.
Democrats: Brown 280, Coug
lin 432, Doyle 517, Edwards 252,
Hope 723, Howser 179, Vern Met
calfe 715, Nelson 293, Roady 238,
John Smitt 158, W. O. Smith 220,
Wood 629.
Chena River Ice Goes
Out at 2:43 p.m. Tuesday
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—'The ice on
the Chena River went out at 2:43
p.m. Tuesday.
The ice, which appeared to be
aground due to unusually low
water in the Chena, went out
suddenly when the river began
to rise. The pylon tripped the
clock arrangement and then was
swept far on downstream.
Oldtimers here immediately
predicted that the Tanana River
ice at Nenana would go out within
a week. Generally, the ice moves
at Nenana within seven days
after the Chena breakup, the
Chena being a tributary of the
Tanana.
Nine thousand, six hundred and
seventy-four persons had entered
a contest to guess the time that
the ice would move. Julian Shel
lum of Fairbanks, and a Star Cab
group were the closest guessers.
Next Few Days Expected
To Make or Break
Korean Truce Talks
MUNSAN, (TP)—The Commun
ists are expected to call for an
armistice meeting in the next few
days which may make or break
Korean truce talks.
The outcome will depend on
Communist reaction to a secret
United Nations package offer.
Dispatches from Washington
quoted Allied diplomats as say
ing the proposal handed Com
munist negotiators Sunday is
“about the last offer we can
make.”
The Washington view was that
there is a 50-50 chance the offer
would lead to an actual armistice
or an ultimate breakdown of the
prolonged talks. It all depends on
the decision reached in Red capi
tals where the plan is being
studied.
Officials in Washington private
ly agreed the secret package offer
was a three-point program keyed
to the U.N. demand for “non-forc
ible repatriation” of prisoners of
war, which the Reds repeatedly
have called a “preposterous de
mand.”
Washington dispatches indicated
the Allied package deal would
(1) allow the Reds to rebuild
North Korean military airfields
during a truce if (2) the Commun
ists accept the U.N. principle for
prisoner exchange and (3) drop
their nomination of Russia as a
“neutral nation” to help police an
armistice.
Japanese Fishermen To Invade
North Pacific Waters May 12
TOKYO, (/P)—Japanese fisher
men Wednesday prepared a mass
invasion of Northern Pacific
waters—forbidden territory since
the war.
Kyodo News Service said about
60 boats are getting ready to
leave the port of Hakodate in
time to start casting their nets
May 12. On that date the three
way fishing agreement between
Japan, Canada and the U.S. be
comes effective.
Japanese fishermen were re
stricted to home waters under the
occupation.
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Russ Jets Attack
Air France Plane
Over Germany
BERLIN, (iP) — Two Russian
jet fighters attacked an Air
France commercial airliner with
cannon and machinegun fire in
the Allied Air Corridor over the
Soviet Zone Tuesday. Two* Ger
man passengers were wounded
and two crew members nicked by
bullets.
The airliner, enroute to Berlin
with 11 passengers and six crew
men aboard, ducked behind cloud
cover after the fighters made
four passes. It reached Berlin’s
Templehof Airdrome safely half
an hour after the attack.
The Allied High Commission at
Bonn sent a stern protest to the
Soviet Control Commission im
mediately.
Commercial flights between
Berlin and West Germany were
cancelled temporarily by Allied
officials, but the embargo was
lifted gradually a few hours
later.
Air France’s four-engine Doug
las plane had five cannon holes
the size of a fist in the fuselage
and wings. Inspecting crews said*
they counted 20 to 25 holes in
the plane altogether.
There was no immediate ac
counting for the attack.
Massachusetts Vote Closes
Gap Between Taft and
Ike in Race for Delegates
By RELMAN MORIN
BOSTON, (IP) — Gen. Eisen
hower’s popular vote total passed
the 229,000 mark in the Massa
chusetts primary Wednesday, and
a near-sweep of the delegate elec
tions virtually closed the gap be
tween him and Sen. Taft in their
nation-wide race for the Republi
can presidential nomination.
It was almost a shut-out by
Eisenhower, his most convincing
primary victory of any todate.
Along with his overwhelming
count in the Republican election,
Eisenhower also got a big Demo
cratic vote, big enough to put him
in second place behind Sen. Ke
fauver, the expected winner.
When reporters gave him the
figures, at an airport in Frank
furt, Germany, the general grin
ned and said, “Is that good?”
later in Paris he said the results
were “an overpowering sort of
thing. It has begun to look kind
of serious.”
Massachusetts has 38 GOP con
vention votes, and Eisenhower
Wednesday has 29 of them as a
result of the 27 victories and two
previously allotted by agreement.
Eisenhower’s nation-wide dele
gate total moved up to 265 as a
result of the added delegates.
Three more for Taft put his tally
at 268 although his managers are
claiming 305.
Ken Seymore Dies
Word was received by Alfred
Huff from his mother, Mrs. Eva
Seymore, of the death erf her hus
band, Ken Seymore, at Ninilchik
on April 19. He apparently suf
fered a heart attack and passed
■ away in his sleep.
Nome Election Returns
' Little
Nome Cr.
Delegate to Congress
E. L. Bartlett.172 14
Robert Reeve .200 9
Attorney General
Gerald Williams .211 14
Auditor
Anita Garnick . 50 5
Albert Goetz . 87 6
Neil Moore .104 4
Robt. Sheldon . 65 7
Highway Engineer
Frank Metcalfe .168 12
Irving Reed .161 10
Senators
Edw. Anderson .103 6
Frank Degnan . 53 2
Chas. Jones .179 15
W. W. Laws .196 12
Howard Lyng .1*76 12
Representatives
Edith Bullock .191 . 9
Ted Duffield ....199 13
C. Fagerstrom .159 9
Richard Lee .139 14
Sam Mogg ..N..104 1
Bert McCarthy .135 11
James Wells .105 6
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Anchorage Results
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Returns
from 10 precincts for the two four
year Senate nominations:
Steve McCutcheon (D) .249
Vic Rivers (D).199
Egan (D) .157
Gorsuch (R) .248
Hoppin (R) .166
Hodge (R) .119
Johnson (R) . 47
Anchorage Voters Pass
One Per cent Sales Tax
ANCHORAGE, W) — A one per
cent sales tax proposal for the city
of Anchorage apparently passed
by a 13-vote margin in Tuesday’s
election while a similar measure
for the Anchorage school district
lost.
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Receipts from the city sales tax
are designated as follows: Two
million for street improvements;
$800,000 for municipal buildings,
$300,000 for a civic center. The
tax automatically stops when
$3,100,000 is raised by it.
The school district tax had been
%
proposed for school building fin
ancing throughout the crowded
district.
Interior Department Will
Recommend Territorial
Control of Fisheries
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The In
terior Department will recommend
that Alaska be given jurisdiction
over its fisheries.
Delegate Bartlett told a reporter
he had been advised by Secretary
of Interior Chapman that a de
partment recommendation against
such action will be withdrawn
and a favorable report made.
Bartlett has had a bill pending
in Congress for more than a year
to give the territory control of its
fisheries.
Under the proposal—considered
an important step toward state
hood the territory would not only
assume control of all Alaska fish
eries except the Pribilof Island
seal fishery, but would receive
half the net proceeds from the
fur catch.
Bartlett said this would give
the territory roughly three-quar
ters to a million dollars a year.
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Reeve Leading
Bartlett In
Early Returns
(By the Associated Press)
Robert C. Reeve, Anchorage Re
publican, ran up a vote total
slightly higher than that o' E. L.
Bartlett, the Democratic incum
bent, on early returns from Tues
day’s Alaska primary elections for
the Delegate to Congress seat
nominations.
The unofficial tally of 27 pre
cincts out of more than 235 in
the territory was:
Reeve 1593; Bartlett 1552.
Most of the returns were from
the normally Republican Juneau
area.
Bartlett was ahead in the nor
mally Democratic Anchorage area
350-323 in early counting.
At Sitka, normally Democratic,
Reeve was two votes up on Bart
lett on early counting. Two years
ago, Bartlett carried the town by
a more than two to one margin.
Neil Moore, the incumbent by
appointment, was runnting ahead
o*f the field for nomination for
auditor.
Sen. Anita Garnick of Juneau
was leading Albert Goetz of
Douglas for the Republican nom
ination for Auditor by a five to
three margin.
A record-smashing 4,196 votes
were cast in nine Anchorage area
precincts.
At Juneau the vote was 20 per
cent higher than in the 1950
primary.
Returns from 27 erf Alaska's 235
precincts showed early today:
Delegate to Congress
| Reeve CR) .1593
Bartlett (D) .j1552
Auditor
Moore <D) ...1130
Sheldon CD) . 532
Gamick CR) . 541
Goetz CR) . 309
Attorney General
Williams CD).1703
Highway Engineer
Metcalf (D).1366
Reed CR) . 942
Fishenes Council Opposes
Welfare State Theories
VANCOUVER, B.C., </P) — The
importance of “free” trade in com
batting “welfare state theories”
was stressed by opening - day
speakers at the seventh annual
Fisheries Council of Canada con
vention here Tuesday.
Virgil D. Reed, vice - president
and associate director of research
for the J. Walter Thompson Co. of
New York, told the 350 delegates
freeing of trade and tariff re
strictions was the only solution
for the world’s ills and “the great
est single contribution a nation
could make to prosperity and
^eace.”
“In today’s world no nation
could long remain an island of
prosperity in a sea of chaos, pov
erty and hunger where isms
sprout in profusion and despera
tion breeds violence,” he said.
Frances Millerd of Vancouver,
council president and host for the
six - day parley, also spoke out
against “planned economy” saying
the fishing industry is “perfectly
capable of looking after itself.”