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VOL. LIV No. 20 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1952 ' Per Copy—15f
Two Candidates
Under Fire On
Racial Question
(Bv the Associated Press)
Two' of the presidential sweep
stakes runners were under fire
Friday on the touchy question of
racial segregation, a possible criti
cal issue in the pre-convention
campaigns of both major parties.
They were the Republicans’
Gen. Eisenhower and the Demo
crat’s Senator Kefauver. Both
were criticized by a Negro official
for what he said was their atti
tude toward Negroes in the armed
services.
Clarence Mitchell, Washington
bureau director of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, said Kefauver
once voted for race segregation in
the armed forces, and that Eisen
hower had told NAACP that
Negro soldiers mixed with white
“would be at a disadvantage.”
Kefauver’s office said he once
backed a proposal to let men in
uniform decide whether they
wanted to serve in segregated or
non-segregated units. No1 one of
fered any comment for the Gen
eral, who has said he would not
take part in the pre-convention
presidential campaign.
In Washington, a sampling of
Senate opinion indicated Demo
crats are sharply divided on whe
ther President Truman should run
again. Nine key Democratic sen
ators were interview by Jack Bell,
AP political writer. His count:
two said Truman ought to run,
one called him the “most logical
candidate,” two said he should
not run, two predicted he will
not, one said he favored Senator
Russell <D-Ga) and erne would not
comment.
Former Nome Boy,
Carl Maxwell, Wins
Highest Scouting Award
SALEM, Ore., (TP)—A boy from
an Eskimo village north of Nome,
Alaska, became an Eagle Scout
here this week, winning scout
ing’s highest award although he’s
only 15 years old.
The lad is Carl Maxwell, whose
mother is an Eskimo fur worker
and his father a while construc
tion worker.
His dad, Charles Maxwell, now
is a plumber at Barrow, Alaska.
He came to Salem to pin Carl’s
Eagle badge on the boy’s chest.
The parents now are separated,
and the mother lives in Portland.
Scout executives said Carl, who
lives with a Salem family, won
the Scout award “all on his own.”
Ed. note: The Maxwell family
formerly lived in Nome.
BARNES, Eng., (TP) — William
Caudle and his wife, both 70,
collapsed and died within a few
moments of each other Friday
while watching the funeral pro
cession of King George VI on tele
vision.
CHAPMAN FOR STATEHOOD
WASHINGTON, (TP)— Interior
Secretary Chapman said Wednes
day he is “most anxious and hope
ful” that the Senate may pass
bills to admit both Alaska and
Hawaii to statehood.
Russ Scientist Discovers
World Is Not Round
LONDON, (/P) — Russia is re
shaping the world geographically
as well as politically, according to
Radio Moscow.
A broadcast Friday said Soviet
scientist Alexander Izotov has
proved that the earth as 2550 feet
thicker through the middle than
Western scientists have measured
it.
The radio also said he had
proved that the earth flattens out
around the equator, giving it the
shape of an ellipse rather than a
circle.
Radio Moscow said that these
issued Feb. 5, put losses of U.N.
better hydro-electric stations,
reservoirs and canals. It did not
say how.
NLRB Finds Alaska SS Co.
Violates Taft-Hartly Act
SEATTLE, (/P)—The National
Labor Relations Board Friday af
firmed a trial examiner’s report
of unfair labor practice charges
filed against the Alaska Steam
ship Co. and the CIO American
Radio Association.
The examiner, A. Bruce Hunt,
found that the company, abiding
by a contract with the union, vio
lated the Taft - Hartley law by
denying Horace W. Underwood, a
radio operator, employment May
5, 1950, on the steamship Alaska.
The company, a member of the
Pacific Maritime Association, was
governed by a contract which
gave preference on employment
to union members.
The NLRB directed the com
pany and the union to make up
any losses in wages incurred by
Underwood.
Coast Guard Investigates
Spurious Distress Signal
MIAMI, Fla., (JP)—Answering a
radio ' distress call, the Coast
Guard searched Cuban waters
Thursday for a blazing freighter
and her crew, then wrote the
whole thing off as a hoax.
The SOS said the freighter was
afire off the west coast of Cuba
and had been abandoned by the
crew. The call identified the ship
as the S.S. George Duketon and
her call letters indicated Swedish
registry.
An amphibious plane and cutter
searched the area thoroughly
without finding any trace of a
ship or crew.
Army Reserves Now On
Duty To Be Released
After 24 Months Service
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Army announced today that en
listed members of the organized
reserve now on active duty in
voluntarily will be released after
20 to 24 months of duty.
The release program will begin
next month and will cover all
enlisted reservists except those
serving in National Guard anti
aircraft units.
The Army said plans are to re
lease all Guard anti-aircraft bat
talions from federal service as
units, beginning in April. Regular
battalions will be formed to take
the place of each National Guard
unit as it is released.
King George VI
Is Laid To Rest
WINDSOR, Eng., </P)—Britain
said farewell to George VI tc/day
m a great outpouring of sorrow
ful grandeur, and buried him here
at Windsor with a hymn of tri
umphant faith.
Elizabeth II, queen at 25, led
the nations final homage to her
father.
The queen, tight-lipped but
composed, sprinkled earth on her
father’s coffin as it sank from
sight beneath storied St. George’s
chapel in Windsor Castle.
The king’s mother, Mary,
stayed in London with the weight
of her 84 years, and waved fare
well from a window of Marl
borough House.
But the widowed Queen mother
Elizabeth was here with the
Princess Margaret to hear the
choir sing the hymn she and the
new queen had chosen—a hymn
of victory, often sung at Easter:
“The strike is o’er, the battle
done; Now is ‘ the victor’s tri
umph won . .
A slab of stone had been laid
aside in the floor, and the oak
coffin was lowered slowly to the
side of the body of the king’s
brother, the first Duke of Kent,
killed in a wartime air crash.
Representatives of nations
around the globe joined royalty,
nobles and lords in the funeral at
St. George’s chapel.
There was the Duke of Windsor,
who was a king himself when he
laid George V to rest here 16
years ago.
There was Winston Churchill,
the servant of four sovereigns;
there were seven sovereigns from
other countries, Secretary of State
Acheson representing President
Truman; the ambassador off the
Soviet Union. There also, was
Gen. Eisenhower, who led Britons
as well as Americans against the
Nazis while George VI stood un
flinching beside his people in this
island Hitler coveted.
And by the turn of time, the
dignitaries invited to the funeral
included the chancellor of a new
Germany.
Coast Guard Board
To Decide Seaworthiness
Of Freighter Pennsylvania
PORTLAND, (£>) — A Coast
Guard hearing board got varying
opinions Wednesday on whether
the freighter Pennsylvania was
seaworthy before it made its ill
fated trip into the North Pacific
last month.
The Pennsylvania went down
Jan. 9 with the loss of all 46 men
aboard.
Three regular crew members
who stayed behind gave their tes
timony to the board here.
One, Alexander McGee, a wiper,
said he felt that the freighter “just
wasn’t safe,” and that the com
pany made “only feeble efforts”
to repair the ship after a plate
cracked at sea on a previous voy
age. This led him to stay behind
when the ship made its last voy
age, McGee said.
The other two insisted the ship
as all right.
After taking the testimony, the
board said it would reconvene in
Seattle at a date to be set.
Growing Seriousness Of
Dope Problem Described
In Anchorage Court Trial
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — VS. At
torney Earl Cooper described the
narcotic problem in this military
boom city. as of growing serious
ness at a sentencing this week.
He said the problem was get
ting into the teen-age bracket, too.
He made the comments in re
commending a stiff sentence for
Bobbi Lee Washington, who plead
guilty to possession of narcotics.
A Treasury agent, in arresting
the woman Nov. 23, seized 56
marijuana cigarets, six capsules
of cocaine, five of heroin and a
small tobacco can of marijuana.
With The Negotiators
At Panmunjom . . .
MUNSAN, Korea, (JP) — Truce
negotiators will hold an import
ant full-dress session Friday to
hear a new communist proposal
for a Korean peace conference.
There has been no hint as to
what the communists will suggest
in their new plan for a post-arm
istice peace conference.
Previously the U.N. agreed to
talk about the withdrawal of for
eign troops from Korea and a
final peace settlement, but re
jected a Red proposal to discuss
other Asian problems related to
Korea.
Vice Adm. R. E. Joy conferred
in Tokyo with Gen. John E. Hull
army vice chief of staff, and U.
Alexis Johnson, deputy assistant
secretary of state for Far East, as
well as with General Ridgway.
Hull denied bringing instruc
tions from Washington, but there
was speculation that the two of
ficials might be taking a hand in
the stalled truce talks.
A spokesman said staff officers
discussed the communist plan for
exchanging prisoners. The Reds
are holding out for the forced re
patriation of all prisoners while
the U.N. insists on giving each
man a choice.
The Korean Situation . . .
SEOUL, Korea, i(/P)—Allied big
guns poured a withering barrage
of shells into communist positions
in eastern Korea Friday.
High explosive and fragmenta
tion shells rained down on some
Red strongpoints for more than
an hour. A murderous 15-minute
barrage battered Red positions
above the Mundung valley,
springboard £or one of the heav
iest communist attacks in weeks
Thursday night.
Allied aircraft were out Fri
day afternoon after being ground
ed by storms in the morning.
One Red MIG was damaged.
Fifth Air Force planes flew 289
sorties during the day in the
campaign to cut Red supply lines.
South Fairbanks Residents
Petition For Annexation
FAIRBANKS, (IP)—A group of
resident of the South Fairbanks
area have notified the city coun
cil that petitions are being circu
lated for annexation to the city.
There also is a rival movement
afoot to incorporate the area as
North Pole, Alaska. Sponsors of
of that move figure such a town
could cash in on Christmas mail
and Christmas trade.
Economy-Mi nded
Congress Studies
Proposed Slashes
* WASHINGTON, (JP) — Law
makers studying President Tru
man’s $85,444,000,000 budget Fri
day applauded a demand by Sen
ator Byrd (D-Va) that it be cut
by nearly nine billion dollars.
Some members of the Senate
Appropriations Committee ex
pressed doubt Byrd’s goal ccruld
be achieved, but the idea of a
substantial reduction won an el
ection-year endorsement.
Byrd, a leading economy advo
cate, made public Thursday night
a detailed analysis and a proposed
downward revision of the Truman
budget for the fiscal year start
ing July 1.
His proposals included:
Wiping out entirely a proposed
2Vz billion dollars in economic aid
abroad, saying any continuing
need in that field would be met
by “overlapping” military as
sistance to friendly foreign na
tions.
Cutting $2,700,000,060 from a
total of 52 Vz billion dollars he
listed in the President’s budget
for this country’s military pro
gram. He said $1,260,000,000
could be saved in salaries and
overhead in the armed services.
Slice three billion dollars from
the $10,600,000,000 the adminis
tration wants to spend on various
domestic civilian programs.
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Jane Russell Collects
Black Eye In Las Vegas
HOLLYWOOD, 4JP) — Jane
Russell and her husband, Bob
Waterfield, are back from a hec
tic visit to Las Vegas with ex
planations for several incidents
that got them in the headlines,
to wit:
The actress’ black eye and
bruised jaw were caused by a
collision with a car door.
Waterfield came home ahead of
her to fulfill a radio commitment.
Reports of a rift, prompted by
his return without her, are “ridi
culous.’
She returned by plane Wednes
day and Waterfield, star quarter
back for the professional Los An
geles Rams football team, was on
hand to greet her.
They bounced into the news
when Waterfield took exception
to remarks made by night club
comic Ben Blue about his wife’s
famous curves.
Aide To Mossadegh
Wounded By Terrorist
TEHRAN, Iran, (JP) — Hossein
Fatemi, 38, right-hand man of
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh,
was shot and wounded today by
a youthful Moslem terrorist who
shouted, “There is no God but
Allah.”
Fatemi, former deputy premier,
was felled by a single pistol shot
fired at point blank range as he
was addressing a crowd in a
cemetery near Tehran.
The Moslem terrorist organiza
tion has publicly boasted that it
assassinated the late premier, All
Razmara, has threatened Mossa
degh and his followers with
death.