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VOL. LIV NO. 69NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1952 Per Copy—15*
Republicans End
Alaska Convention
In Close Accord
By KAY J. KENNEDY
Fairbanks News-Miner
Staff Writer
CORDOVA, (/P)—Alaska’s Re
publicans smoked the pipe of
peace at their big weekend con
vention here.
They closed their largest terri
torial convention Sunday with a
display of apparent harmony and
with party leaders expressing a
feeling they had set an example
in cooperation for Republican
groups everywhere.
Warring factions kept the peace
by a series of compromises on
controversial issues.
The explosive Taft-Eisenhower
issue failed to break into the open.
The convention endorsed the
three previously designated dele
gates to the national convention.
They will go uninstructed al
though all are known to favor
Sen. Taft.
The pro-Eisenhower group, led
by J. C. Morris of Anchorage,
pointed out that they failed to get
any supporters of the general as
divisional chairman, but said they
yielded for the sake of party unity.
After long and stormy debate,
new rules were adopted on party
procedure. The basis was provi
sion for election of leaders from
the precinct to the top levels.
A strong and united Fourth
Division (Fairbanks) delegation of
18 was credited with steadying
the rocking party boat.
Lei's See —Thai Would Be $20
CORDOVA, {JP) — Walt Hickle
of Anchorage, nationally appoint
ed finance chairman of the Alas
ka Republican party, proposed a
new party financing plan at the
territorial convention Saturday:
Every Republican give a dollar
for each year the Democrats have
been in power.
Top Red Commanders
Address Letter To Gen.
Clark, Far East Chief
MUNSAN, {&•) — The top Com
munist commanders Monday sent
a letter to Gen. Mark Clark, U.N.
Far East commander, through liai
son officers to the tightly dead
locked Korean armistice talks.
Contents o‘f the multi-page let
ter—signed by North Korean Gen.
Kim II Sung and Chinese Gen.
Peng Teh Huai — were not dis
closed.
The Communist Peiping radio
said “open provocation is being
carried out at the conference
table” by the U.N. Command to
“kill the talks.”
Maj. Gen. Wm. K. Harrison
called a three-day recess Satur
day without consent of the Com
munist delegation. Since then the
Reds daily have sent a staff of
ficer to the truce site to demand
immediate resumption of the
talks. Harrison ignored the re
quests.
He said he will meet the Reds
before Wednesday only if they
offer in writing specific proposals
for settling the truce-blocking is
sue of prisoner exchange.
Taft and Eisenhower
Down to Cases In Race
For Delegates On July 7
(By the Associated Press)
The Republican convention ar
rangements committee opens a
two-day session Monday in Chi
cago, with strong support report
ed developing for selection of
Gen. Douglas MacArthur as con
vention keynoter.
With only four weeks left, Sen.
Taft and Gen. Eisenhower got
down to the button-holing stage
in their drives to win the nomina
tion at the convention in Chicago
July 7.
That meant ardent wooing of
341 delegates who hold the bal
ance of power. They are the 130
GOP delegates thus far chosen
who are committed to other can
didates on the first ballots, and
the 211 who are uncommitted or
are in dispute.
Eisenhower took the offensive
Sunday — he had a three-hour
lunch and chat with Gov. Fine of
Pennsylvania. Of the state’s 70
regular delegates, 20 have been
reported favorable to Eisenhower,
18 to Taft, and 32 are officially
uncommitted. •
After the conference, Fine told
reporters he would not influence
the views of delegates; that his
own mind was still open toward
the candidates. He said he found
himself generally in agreement
with Eisenhower’s views.
The governor said a meeting
with Taft will be arranged later,
at Taft’s request.
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — Actress
Jennifer Jones won’t be throwing
any more punches for a while.
She broke a bone in her hand
Sunday when she struck Actor
Charlton Heston during filming of
a scene at Morro Bay, Calif. The
blow was in the script but the
fracture wasn’t.
’Troopers Prepare
Operation Breakup
Koje POW Camps
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, (IP) —
U. S. paratroopers used flame
throwers, tanks and tear gas Mon
day in a second dress rehearsal
for the imminent breakup of
Koje’s 17 prisoner of war com
pounds into smaller units.
Dispersal of Koje’s 80,000 riot
ous POWs into more manageable
500-man compounds will be Brig.
Gen. Haydon L. Boatner’s main
blow toward gaining uncontested
control over the prisoner pens.
Present ^ockades have POW pop
ulations up to 6,000.
Date for the start of “Operation
Breakup” has not been announced,
but its imminence was under
scored by the second straight day
of rehearsal and the setting up of
loudspeakers in front of Com
pound 76, which with adjoining
compounds 77 and 78 probably
will be divided first.
Prisoners in each have dug
trenches around the buildings and
tents and there was feverish act
ivity in the blacksmith shop. Al
lied officers speculated that the
clinking and hammering of metal
meant prisoners were fashioning
crude weapons.
AYA Director
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Lauds Nome’s
Tourist Program
Business leaders met with
James Chadwick, executive di
rector of the AVA last Saturday
evening at a dinner given in his
honor at the Bering Sea Club,
where they learned about the aims
and expanding program of that
increasingly important business,
tourism.
Mr. Chadwick highlighted his
remarks by complimenting the
people of Nome for the excellent
program they had last year for
tourists and the response, he
stated, was felt throughout the
territory as the tourist as a whole
how it was an offshoot of the Al
•are people out to have a*good time
and their length of stay depends
largely on the reception they get
from the people of the commun
ity. He urged everyone to con
sider it his duty to be hospitable
to these visitors so that Alaska
may have its share of tourist dol
lars.
Senator Howard Lyng reviewed
the background of the Alaska
Visitors Association, explaining
enjoyed their Nome trip. Tourists
aska Development Board and was
strictly a non - political organiza
tion of businessmen organized in
February 1951 to start a campaign
to develop a permanent organiza
tion, which would be well under
way when the building boom for
defense was over, and a steady
source of income would be needed
for the economy of the territory.
The plan was patterned after the
Hawaiian AVA which now con
siders tourism their No. 1 in
dustry.
A. Polet, who sponsored tourism
in Nome, credited the success so
far to the excellent cooperation of
the business leaders in the com
munity and urged them to con
tinue with the same response for
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Nome, Seattle Chambers
Cooperate In Effort To
Release Tied-up Shipping
Larry Galvin, owner of the U.S.
Mercantile made a statement at
a public meeting last Saturday
night that in another week Nome
and the surrounding territory it
supplies, would be completely out
of many necessary staples due to
the maritime strike now on in
Seattle. His statement was con
firmed by Dewey Goodrich, man
ager of the N.C. Store.
Due to the gravity of the situa
tion and the handicap it places on
the economy of this entire section
of Alaska because of its short
mining season, the Northwestern
Alaska Chamber of Commerce
sent the following message to the
Sailors Union of the Pacific:
“Respectfully request ycrur
help in releasing boat to Nome.
Nome has been without a boat
for seven months. Supplies of
staple groceries and other es
sentials running out. Merchants
here supplying contractors with
necessities for construction
crews in vital defense installa
tions. Further delay will handi
cap feeding these men, prac
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Connally Declares Foreign
Aid Funds Vital To Saving
Civilization Of Free World
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Sen. Con
nally (D-Tex) declared today the
compromise $6,447,730,750 foreign
aid hill is “vital in saving the
civilization of the United States
and the other peoples of the free
world.”
Opening Senate debate on the
version of the bill which came out
of a Senate-House conference, he
declared the Mutual Security Act
would be dead if the conference
reports were rejected.
Connally told his colleagues he1
was supporting the foreign aid
bill because “it is of vital im
portance to the defense and se
curity of the United States.”
The program is intended to
build up a rampart against the in
vasion of Western Europe by to
talitarian hordes which, if victor
ious, would then proceed to at
tack the United States,” the
Texan said.
Allied Jets Come Through
Two Weeks Without
A Loss to Red MIGs
SEOUL, UP)—Allied jet fight
ers blasted nine Communist MIG
jets out of the sky and damaged
four others last week without
losing a plane in aerial combat,
the Air Force announced Satur
day.
Allied jets now have come
through two straight weeks of
battle with the red-nosed MIGs
without a loss.
But anti-aircraft fire last week
shot down an F-80 Shooting Star
and a T-6 spotter plane the Air
Force said, and a B-26 Invader
night bomber failed to return
from a mission.
Supreme Court To
Decided Legality of
School Segregation
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Supreme Court Monday agreed to
say whether segregation oi. white
and negro children in elementary
public schools should be outlawed.
The court granted hearings on
two appeals by negro parents who
claim segregation is a “stigmatiz
ing badge of inferiority” * which
has a bad effect upon their chil
dren. They contend segregation
therefore violates the constitution
al guarantee of equal protection
of the laws. .
The appeals contest the validity
of segregation only in schools in
Topeka,, Kos., and Clarendon
County, S. C. However, the out
come of the cases will affect
public school segregation gener
ally.
Gov. James F. Byrnes, of South
Carolina, has said that if his state
loses its fight in the courts to
maintain segregation, the public
school systems there will be
abandoned.
Other southern states — notably
Georgia, Virginia and Alabama—
have taken steps which could lead
to abolition of the public school
system, in favor of privately-op
erated classrooms.
2-Year Agreement
In Steel Industry
Appears Imminent
WASHINGTON, (/P)—An agree
ment running perhaps two years
to mid-1954 appeared near Mon
day in the steel strike.
Negotiators representing the in
dustry and striking CIO Steel
workers Union were reported on
the verge of a compromise that
would give the workers a boost in
wages and other benefits worth
about 22 cents an hour per man.
A source close to the peace talks
in the White House said union
president Philip Murray probably
will get some form of the union
shop, an arrangement under
which all the industry workers
would have to pay union dues.
This is the fifth straight day of
negotiations which John R. Steel
man, assistant to President Tru
man, described as “earnest bar
gaining.” It looked like the parties
were determined to reach an ag
reement.
An agreement on tne oasis oi a
22-cent package would probably
give the workers a 16-cent hourly
boost in earnings now averaging
close to $2 an hour. The additional
five o*r six cents would be in im
proved vacation, shift and holiday
arrangements.
Truman Asks Senate Keep
Hands Off Steel Situation
Pending Near Settlement
WASHINGTON, (JP)—President
Truman told the Senate today
that negotiators may be on the
verge of settling the steel strike.
He asked that the lawmakers take
no action which might upset the
delicate negotiations.
In response to his plea, the Sen
ate put off until tomorrow any
further consideration of various
proposals for legislative action re
lated to the steel dispute.
Truman said there was “at
least a reasonable hope” for set
tlement of the strike by direct
negotiation. But any Senate ac
tion, he said, “could so alter the
siuation or the attitudes of the
parties in this case so as to cause
a breakdown in their negotia
tions.”
Van Fleet Says Eighth
Army All Set For Reds
SEOUL, </P) — Gen. James A.
Van Fleet said Monday the U.S.
Eighth Army is ready, alert and
fit to meet any Red offensive in
Korea.
The commander of the United
Nations fighting machine said its
morale “is high—almost to’ a point
of wishing the enemy would at
tack.”
The general said the Eighth
Army’s supplies, particularly am
munition, are in good condition.
He has said several times the
Reds in Korea have built up their
artillery until they have more
guns available than the United
Nations.
U.S. military authorities have
estimated the Communist poten
tial striking force is approximate
ly a million men, about 500 tanks
and self-propelled guns, and 1,800
planes.