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VOL. LIII No. 104 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1951 Per Copy—15c
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President Truman;
Removes Bingham j
As 2nd Division DA
WASHINGTON, (&)—President
Truman today removed from of
fice a U. S. district attorney in |
Alaska, who, the White House j
said, just “disappeared” after at
tending a conference of district
attorneys in Washington last Nlay,,
and was later found in private
practice in Montana.
Mr. Truman's order removed
Frank C. Bingham as district at
torney for Division number two in
Alaska effective 4s of last June 3.
The background account, given
by Irving Perimeter, assistant
White House press secretary, was
that Bingham came here from
Nome for the May conference and
“was never heard from again.”
“The Justice Department did
some checking and found he had
gone to Missoula, Mont., and set
up a private law practice,” Peri
meter said.
Bingham was appointed as a
federal district attorney in 1944.
Mr. Truman’s order of removal
was addressed to Bingham at
Nome, but left delivery up to the
Justice Department.
During their conference here,:
the district attorneys were re
ceived by President Truman in
the White House rose garden on
May 24. Mr. Truman made them
a little speech and said:
“I know you are going to have
a constructive—and have had a
constructive — meeting, and that
when you go back you will be
feeling more like doing your job
than you did when you came
here.”
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MISSOULA, Mont., (/P)— Frank!
C. Bingham, in an interview at
his Montana home, called his re
moval an administrative error. He
said he is taking his annual leave
of absence, approved in Washing
ton. He added he still has several
weeks of his leave left.
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Wage Dispute Continues
Shackle Copper Industry
WASHINGTON, (TP)—Efforts to'
settle the wage dispute which has
shut down most of the nation’s j
copper industry continued today
despite an initial step by Presi
dent Truman to obtain a back-to-;
work order from the courts.
The President issued an execu
tive order late last night to put j
the emergency machinery of the
Taft-Hartley Act in motion on a
strike for the first time in 20
months.
The strike, which Mr. Truman
earlier termed a serious threat to
the national defense program, be
cause copper is a scarce and crit
ical metal, started Monday.
The President named a three
man board of inquiry which went
to work at once, in an effort to
report back on the facts by next
Tuesday.
NOTICE
Business houses, federal offices,
including the U.S. Post Office
will be closed Labor Day, Mon
day, Sept. 3.
There will not be a publication
of the Nome Nugget on Monday.
No Indication There Will
Be Permanent Breakdown
Korean. War Truce Talks
TOKYO, (/P)—An Allied spokes
man said today “there is no in
dication that there will be a per
manent breakdown” in truce talks
to end the Korean war.
The spokesman made the state
ment amid a welter of new com
munist charges that United Na
tions forces violated the Kaesong
neutral zone in Korea.
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The U.N. command began an
immediate investigation of the
new complaints. There were three
of them. All previous charges
have been denied.
The Allied spokesman ampli
fied his statement only by refer
ring to the announced U.N. will
ingness to resume talks whenever
the Reds are ready.
Other sources observed that
neither side wants to assume res
ponsibility for renewing full scale
warfare.
While the Reds have not an
swered Gen. Ridgway’s offer to
resume negotiations, they main
tain official contact between truce
delegations by the mere act of
filing new protests.
Terms Cuts In Foreign
Aid Misplaced Economy
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman said the congressional ef
fort to cut a billion dollars from
his $8,500,000,000 foreign aid re
quest is misplaced economy when
success of the program is in sight.
The President told a news con
ference that prospects of restoring
the proposed cut looked rather
hopeless and it is a very serious
situation. He also told reporters:
1. United Nations forces in Ko
rea are stronger now than when
the Kaesong truce talks began.
2. The case of William N. Oatis,
AP correspondent imprisoned in
Czechoslovakia on spy charges,
will never be closed until the re
porter gets out of jail.
Governor Dewey: !
“Alaska Defenses
Would Give Enemy
A Tough Time”
NEW YORK, (/P)—Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey, back from a tour of
the Far East, says the United
States should “draw a line and
let the communists know what we
will do if they cross it.”
He says southeast Asia is “the
natural target for the commun
ists’ next drive.”
In Seattle Wednesday, Gover
nor Dewey described as “fright
ful” the quality of housing and
rental costs he found in Alaska.
“There are military personnel
living in houses in Alaska that
would be condemned anywhere in
the states,” the New York chief
executive said. “In Kodiak I saw
dozens of barracks built during
World War II that are just falling
apart. They could easily be used
for good housing.”
“Alaska’s present .defenses
would give any attacking enemy
a tough time,” the governor said.
“That doesn’t mean that enemy
forces could be repelled. There are
10,000 miles of coastline in Alaska.
But it would be an extremely
costly act on the part of the Rus
sians to try to capture Alaska
from Siberia.”
UN Planes Pound North
Korean Reinforcements
U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (/P) — Thou
sands of North Korean troops
were reported today moving to
ward the front in hilly eastern
Korea. Savage fighting has been
in progress there more than two
weeks.
Yesterday and last night, Allied
planes ripped into these reinforce
ments, into their highway supply
convoys and the railroads feeding
down to communist front lines all
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across Korea.
New Draft Regulations
Would Remove Deferment
For Over 300,000 Men
WASHINGTON, (JP) — New
draft regulations now awaiting
President Truman’s approval
would deprive well over 300,000
men of present draft deferments.
Selective Service said that be
tween 150,000 and 200,000 child
less married men will lose their
deferments under the new rules.
An estimated 150,000 4-F’s are ex
pected to be drafted when the
armed forces’ mental standards
are lowered.
The new regulations will carry
out provisions of the Universal
Military Training and Service Act.
The act also calls for reclassi
fication of thousands of displaced
persons. Permanent residents o*f
this country but not yet natural
ized citizens and some 9,000 con
scientious objectors, heretofore
deferred outright, will be required
to do essential defense work.
NAVY ROCKET SHIP
CLIMBS TO 77,674 FEET
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., (JP) — A
Navy rocket-powered airplane has
shattered all altitude records,
climbing to what aviation experts
unofficially believe was 77,674
feet (more than 14V£ miles). It
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levelled off at 1,300 miles an hour.
The supersonic flight in the
needle-nose Douglas Skyrocket
ship was made Aug. 15 from Ed
wards Air Force Base. The exact
altitude reached by the Douglas
test pilot, Bill Bridgeman, was
not disclosed. >
The officially-recognized world
altitude record is 72,395 feet, set
in 1935 by two balloonists, Army
Capts. Albert W. Stevens and Or
ville A. Anderson. The officially
accepted speed record is 670.981
mph, set in 1948 by a North Am
erican F-86. The accepted piloted
aircraft altitude record is 59,445
feet, set March 23, 1948, by British
test pilot John Cunningham in a
Vampire jet.
House Committee
On Way To Alaska,
In Nome On Sept. 5
WASHINGTON, <#)—A special
House Armed Services subcom
mittee took off today for Alaska
to make an on-the-spot survey of
the territory’s military construc
tion program.
It will arrive in Anchorage to
morrow.
Heading the group is Rep.
Hardy <D-Va>. Rep. Price (D-Ill)
was unable to make the trip be
cause of business in his home dis
trict.
The committee will*split at An
chorage into two groups for visits
to Fairbanks, Kodiak, Big Delta,
Naknek, Point Barrow, Nome,
Seward, Whittier, Juneau, Haines
and Skagway.
Plans are being made through
the Chamber of Commerce for the
reception of the committee here
on Wednesday, Sept. 5.
A dinner is being planned for
that evening at the Bering Sea
Club. Reservations are being made
through Charles Jones.
The program committee is head
ed by John McNees. Following a
meeting at the M and M Bank
this morning, other members of
the committee named were: A.
Polet, Grant Jackson, Dewey
Goodrich, Larry Galvin, H. F.
Harper, J. Kehoe, Can Jones, and
Ralph Lomen.
Extends To November 30
Policy Permitting Draftees
Choose Branch of Service
WASHINGTON, {/P}—The De
fense Department announced to
day it is extending until Nov. 30
its trial policy of permitting
draftees to join the service of their
choice even after they have taken
pre-induction physicals.
The department said the experi
ment has worked out well thus
far. Whether it will be continued
beyond November, a spokesman
added, depends on what happens
during the next three months.
The second extension of the pol
icy was to have expired today.
Seward Waterfront
Strike Is Settled
An agreement for ending the
waterfront strike that has closed
the port of Seward was reported
today. Details of the settlement
were not available immediately.
Albin L. Peterscm, federal labor
conciliator, who went to Seward
early this week, advised Harry H.
Lewis, regional director of the
U.S. Mediation and Conciliation
Service here, of a settlement dur
ing the night.
. The ILWU demanded an in
crease in the 15 percent cost o£
living differential allowed for
Alaska in waterfront contracts.
THURSDAY RESULTS
American League
Philadelphia 6—Cleveland 2
Boston 10—Detroit 4
National League
Pittsburgh 10—New York 9
.Brooklyn 3—Cincinnati 1
St. Louis 6—Philadelphia 3
Boston 16—Chicago 2
Pacific Coast League
.Seattle 7—Portland 5
Hollywood 1—Los Angeles 0