OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOL LIV NO. 77 -NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1952. Per, Copy—154
Congress Hears of
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Union Dispute In
Alaska Coal Mine
WASHINGTON, (fP) — Union
efforts to organize an Alaska strip
mine are threatening the winter
fuel supply of two air bases there,
Rep. Poulson <R-Calif>, declared
Friday.
In a statement to the House,
Poulson said gasoline and oil
have been -burned, a mine power
house destroyed and a truck de
molished at operation of the Usi
belli Coal Company.
That firm, he said, has a con
tract to supply 208,000 tons of coal
to the Ladd and Eiclson Air Force
bases. Already, he said, the firm
has lost more than $100,000 from
blocked coal deliveries.
The company, as a strip opera
tion, employs men who are mem
bers of AFL construction unions,
Poulson said. They have voted 25'
to 1 against joining the United
Mine Workers Union.
Poulson charged that UMW
members from two other mines,
the Healy River Coal Co. and the
Evan Jones Coal 'mine, have de
fied a court injunction and ig
nored a U.S. marshal’s efforts to
halt violence in their organizing
efforts.
Poulson said no other source of
coal is‘available to the Air Force
in Alaska, and shipments from the
United States would cost prohib
itively. The bases cannot be con
verted in time for use of any other
kind of fuel.
In this case, Poulson declared,
“Union mobsters have defied the
United States, destroyed property,
ignored court orders, and menaced
the operations of vital air defense
bases.”
Allied Truce Negotiators
Walk Out on Protesting
Reds 3rd Time in Month
MUNSAN, (JP) — Allied truce
negotiators Friday walked out on
the protesting Communists for the
third time in a month.
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison,
Jr., declared a three-day recess
and marched out of the armistice
tent at Panmunjom while an
angry Communist delegation
lorudly demanded another meeting
Saturday.
Harrison said North Korean
Gen. Nam II, head of the Com
munist truce team, “had great dif
ficulty controlling himself” at the
walkout.
A U.N. spokesman said Nam’s
voice “was approaching a strident
scream.”
“I got the impression that some
of the North Korean attaches
were laughing at Nam,” Harrison
told newsmen.
ALASKA AIRLINES AWARDED
S3 MILLION NAVY CONTRACT
HAULING TO PT. BARROW
SEATTLE, (7P —A three million
dollar contract for hauling mater
ials and supplies between Fair
banks and Point Barrow, Alaska,
has been awarded to Alaska Air
lines by the Navy, Ralph Starkey,
airline vice president announced
Wednesday.
First of All-Cargo Pan Am
Planes, Direct from States,
Arrives With 14,000 Lbs.
The first airlift cargo plane of
Pan American Airways arrived
this morning from Seattle with a
capacity load of needed supplies.
The operations superintendent,
Emerson Bassett of PAA has ad
vised that the company is hard
pressed for planes to take care
of the emergency, but have made
available a cargo flight every
Tuesday and Friday excusively
for Nome. Heretofore these flights
have been for Fairbanks and
Nome with Fairbanks getting the
bulk of the space.
These all-cargo Clippers have
a capacity of 14,000 pounds.
Ike To Take Personal
Charge of His Bid For
Convention Nomination
(By the Associated Press)
While one of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's aides said “the jig
is up” for Senator Taft, another
reported Thursday Eisenhower
will go to the Republican conven
tion to direct his campaign for
presidential nomination.
The “jig is up’’ quote came from
Eisenhower’s campaign manager,
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of
Massachusetts, who flew to Den
ver for a conference with the re
tired five-star general.
It was quickly attacked by
Taft’s campaign manager, David
Ingalls, who said bluntly: “It
just isn’t so.’’
The report that Eisenhower has
decided to take on-the-spot charge
of his bid at the July 7 GOP con
vention came from a source in his
headquarters.
The AP tabulation of pre-con
vention delegate strength, with all
1,206 GOP delegates named, now
shows Taft has the support of 483
to Eisenhower’s 405. Others have
a total of 129 and there are 189
in dispute or uncommitted.
Taft says he already has the
majority required for nomination
— 604 votes — and Lodge says
Eisenhower will get more than
500 on the first ballot at Chicago.
As the GOP convention neared
—it opens a week from Monday—
and Taft and Eisenhower stepped
up their fight, some minds were
being changed among the state
delegations.
Allied Planes Destroy
More Red Electric Plants
SEOUL, (/P) — Allied fighter
bombers heaped new destruction
on Red hydro-electric plants
in North Korea Thursday night.
Targets included two big generat
ing plants which previously had
been spared.
The Air Force said an Ameri
can Sabe jet shot down one Com
munist MIG - 15 jet high over
North Korea.
U. N. infantrymen drove * two
Chinese battalions off two hills on
the western front Thursday, at
times using bayonets and flame
throwers to rcrut the Reds from
their bunkers.
A Fifth Air Force spokesman
called the 150-plane raid on the
Communists’ North Korean power
network a mopping-up operation,
but the number of planes involved
and damage reported by returning
pilots was impressive.
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Congress Irked At
Acheson Apology
For Korean Raids
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of State Acheson is going to have
to do some explaining to Congress
about his reported apology to
Britain for not telling that coun
try in advance of the American
bombing of North Korean power
stations.
Sen. Knowland (R-Calif), who
brought the matter to the Sen
ate’s attention by reading a Lon
don news report about it, de
manded that a full text of Ache
son’s remarks be made available,
to Congress.
The London account said Ache
son reportedly made the apology
to about 200 members represent
ing both houses of parliament
during a 20 - minute meeting
Thursday.
Acheson was reported to have
told them American officials had
intended to notify the British de
fense minister, Field Marshal
Lord Alexander, and Selwayn
Lloyd, British minister of state for
foreign affairs, who arrived in
Washington last Saturday.
But, he is reported to have ex
plained, due to a mixup over
whether a State or Defense de
partment official was to make the
notification,, neither was informed.
First Cars Reach
Fairbanks Over
Hart Highway
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — The first
travelers to reach Alaska via the
Hart Highway arrived here Thurs
day and pronounced the road
“shorter but muddy and rough.”
The travelers reported the
wooden bridge acros the Parsnip
River in British Columbia, which
had been the missing link in the
route, was completed on Sunday,
June 22 and a 35 - car convoy
crossed at 5:30 p.m.
Some of the drivers had been
camping on te highway as long as
three days waiting for the bridge
to be completed. Contractors re
fused to let them use the ferry^at
the site.
The drivers cautioned motorists
not to try the highway since con
tractors closed it after the 35-car
convoy passed through. No cars
will be allowed on the highway
until the official opening date on
July 1. Contractors do not want
traffic interfering with the con
struction crews, drivers said.
The 265-mile long Hart High
way links Prince George and
Dawson Creek in British Colum
bia and provides the first direct
route from the Pacific Coast to
Alaska.
When the highway is open for
general travel, motorists will be
able to journey from Vancouver
to Dawson Creek where they will
swing into the Alaska Highway.
At present, they must go east to
Edmonton, Alberta. The Hart cuts
almost 1,000 miles off the trip
from the Pacific Coast to Alaska.
Nome Visitors Association
To Set Up Display Early
Day Relics In City Hall
The entertainment committee
of the Nome Visitors Assn., has
annorunced that they are making
plans to set up a display of relics,
pictures, mineral exhibit, and
other interesting things of the gold
rush days, in the city hall. Shelv
ing and closed cases have been
authorized by the committee so
that the displays will be well
protected.
Jane Scott, chairman of the
committee, stated that all contri
butions will be insured against
loss or fire and asked that any
one having items of historical in
terest, to bring«them to her as
soon as possible.
Other members of the commit
tee are Ernie Gustafson, Don Per
kins, Fred Bockman and James
Walsh.
Coastwise Line Informs
Lundeberg They Cannot
Afford Relief to Nome
Ralph Lomen of Lomen Com
mercial Co*., arrived from Seattle
today and stated that he had had
a telephone conversation with
Harry Lundeberg and that he had
explained Nome’s plight. He said
he also talked with Capt. Trout
of the Coastwise Line, who stated
his company could not afford re
lief to Nome and had so* informed
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Lundeberg.
“Things now rest with Lunde
berg,” stated Lomen, who met j
with Governor Gruening Wed
nesday. “Governor Gruening is
doing everything possible to re
lieve the situation,” he stated,
“and he feels he has been let
down by the Sailors’ Union be
cause they had stated they would
meet his requests.”
It was not certain that the Sea
fair would keep its July 5 sched
ule, Lomen also reported.
End of Price Controls
In Balance as Lawmakers
Meet Behind Closed Doors
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Adminis
tration forces threw all their
strength Friday behind a last-gasp
effort to keep prices and wages
under government control.
A committee of senators and
House members was called into
session behind closed doors to
draft a final controls bill after
the House voted, 211 to 185, to:
1— Wipe out just about all price
controls at midnight next Monday.
2— End rent controls in a great
many communities starting Sept.
•30.
Time was short. Unless the con
ferees agree on controls legisla
tion acceptable to both the Senate
and House, and unless both houses
pass the final bill, all controls ex
pire Monday midnight. They may
expire then anyway. President
Truman may not sign the bill
Congress sends him.
The House bill, while ending
price and rent controls, would
keep most wage ceilings in force.
It differs greatly from the Sen
ate’s bill, which would keep price
and wage controls — as well as
^rent controls—in existence.
Lundeberg Rejects
Releasing of Any
Alaska SS Vessels
SEATTLE, (A>)—While rejecting
two pleas from Alaska’s governor
for release of Alaska Steamship
Co. ships for emergency trips, the
Sailors Union of Pacific told him
Thursday he was misinformed
about shipping available for the
territory.
Harry Lundeberg, the union’s
leader, wired Gov. Gruening:
“It appears you have not re
ceived the correct information. The
SS Seafair is not chartered by the
Army. She is taking army cargo
to Seward and Naknek. There is
still approximately 3,000 tons of
space available on the ship.”
“We are not going to release
any Alaska Steamship Co. ships,”
Lundeberg’s telegram repeated.
“We feel we are not getting a
square deal on this, considering
the amount we have released and
are releasing to Alaska.”
In another development, the
Post - Intelligencer reported there
is a growing prospect of a con
ference next week of some mari
time union leaders with Seattle
civic and business leaders .There
has been no announcement of it
from the office of the mayor or
the Alaska Lifeline Committee.
Four maritime unions which are
hostile to the striking AFL Sail
ors’ Union have called on the
mayor to summon such a confer
ence.
Meanwhile, Seattle officials of
Coastwise Lines said they would
give top priority to Nome cargo
on the Seafair. The more Nome
cargo is received, they said, the
less freight they will take for
Seward and the less time the Sea
fair will spend unloading enroute
to Nome.
The Seafair will dock in Seattle
July 4* and is expected to reach
Nome in late July.
U.N. Prepared to Stake
“Flesh and Treasure”
Against Aggression: Clark
TOKYO, (#*)—Gen. Mark Clark
said Friday it is impossible to
predict what will happen in Ko
rea, but he is “confident the se
curity of the free world will be
upheld.”
“We have asserted unmistakab
ly to the Communists that we are
prepared to stake flesh and trea
sure on stopping aggression,” the
United Nations commander said.
Clark departed from his pre
pared address to the. J^paifrAni
erican Society to say the bomb
ing of North Korean hydro-electric
plants was “a military decision
only” and represented “no change
of policy.”
The Allies, he said, have pushed
the Communists “out of territory
which they coveted to have con
venient bases for pressure against
Japan.”
The Reds have been offered
reasonable peace terms Clark said
•but they have replied with “in
vective, falsehoods and bombast”
which they “seem to think con
ceals their reluctance to join in
the peace they so shrilly claim
to be cherished by themselves
alone.”