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Hoover: ‘Rip Away
Democrat’s
Flush Curtain’
CHICAGO, (£>)—Aging Herbert
Hoover bade farewell to Repub
lican convention delegates Tues
day night with a plea to rip away
the Democrats' “plush curtain” at
home and salvage “lost statesman
ship” abroad.
Hoover, the only living ex
President and the last Republican
to hold that office, attacked the
Democratic administration with a
vigor that belied his 77 years.
His calm statements at the out
set and at the end of his speech—
that he did not expect to address
another GOP convention because
of “the inexorable course of na
ture” — were met with roared
“No’s.”
He mentioned neither of the
top contenders for Republican
presidential nomination, but his
viewpoints hewed close to' those
of Senator Robert Taft of Ohio.
He accused the Democrats, in
office since Hoover’s futile try
for re-election in 1932, of cor
roding “the grandeur of the peo
ple . . . (by) the drip, drip, drip
from dishonor in high places.”
“Behind this pulsh curtain pf
tax and spend,” Hoover said,
“three sinister spooks or ghosts
are mixing poison for the Ameri
can people.
“They are the shades of Musso
lini, with his bureaucratic Fas
cism; of Karl Marx, and his So
cialism; and of Lord Keynes, with
his perpetual government spend
ing, deficits and inflation.”
Russia Vetoes Resolution
In U.N. Branding Germ
Warfare Charges False
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., {JP)
—Russia's Jacob A. Malik vetoed
a United States resolution Wed
nesday declaring the Russian
germ warfare charges false and
condemning their circulation
throughout the world. It was Rus
• sia’s 50th veto since the U. N.
began.
The American proposal was put
before the council by Ambassa
dor Ernest A. Gross last week
after Malik had vetoed an earlier
U.S. resolution calling for an im
partial investigation of Commun
ist charges that the U.S. and the
U.N. are waging germ warfare
in Korea and China.
After the vote Wednesday
Gross said the council had ex
posed the campaign of “lies and
hate” for what it is.
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TRUMAN SIGNS $541,729,845
INTERIOR DEPT. MONEY BILL
WASHINGTON, MP)—President
Truman signed Wednesday the
$541,729,845 Interior Department
money bill to operate department
until next June 30.
The measure carries $13,208,000
for public works in Alaska; 13
million dollars for the Eklutna
project and 17Vfe million dollars
for Indian Bureau construction
work.
Pacific Coast League Scores
(By the Associated Press)
Hollywood 7—Sacramento 1
San Francisco 3—San Diego 2
Los Angeles 6—Seattle 3
AFRS To Broadcast
Republican Convention
Direct From Chicago
Starting this afternoon at 2:45,
AFRS station here has been
broadcasting the Republican con
vention, direct from Chicago via
Los Angeles headquarters of the
AFRS. Station manager Sgt. Bob
Brown stated that the station
would broadcast the convention
news until the vote was taken,
reception permitting.
It is interesting to note that
the broadcast is direct and Nome
and Northwestern Alaska will be
hearing the convention as it pro
gresses at the same time as the
people in the States.
“Boost Your Town”
AVA Buttons On Sale
“Boost Your Town” is the motto
of the Welcome to Nome buttons
now on sale throughout the com
munity by the Nome Visitors
Association.
These blue and yellow buttons,
which were intended for every
body in Nome to wear as a si^n
of welcome to the visitors going
through the community this sum
mer, have become so popular that
the tourists themselves are buy:
ing them as souvenirs.
Chairman of the committee is
Bob Renshaw and the buttons •are
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obtainable in most of the stores
in town. If you haven’t one, get
one soon and wear it throughout
the tourist season.
Ike Will Clean
Out Appointive
Positions in Wash.
CHICAGO, (/?) — Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower said Wednesday
that if he is nominated for Presi
dent by the Republican party he
will clean Washington of those in
“appointive positions.”
The general met the Oklahoma
delegation to the Republican na
tional convention for only a
couple of minutes before rushing
off to confer with the California
group.
Standing amid the delegation
which had come for breakfast,
Eisenhower said he had been
asked frequerltly whether he was
a “real Republican.” He traced his
Republican background in Kansas
and added, “If I had been inter
ested only as a politician there
would have been far more inter
esting places to start with” and
and easier job. But he said “I be
lieve the Democrats have got to
be thrown out.”
He reiterated that he owed no
political debts and was not “ham
strung.”
He said, too, he was not making
any promises of curbing every
thing from “poverty to flat feet.”
Korean War Battle
Casualties Reach 112,128
WASHINGTON, (^—Announ
ced U.S. battle casualties in Ko
rea reached 112,128 Wednesday,
an increase of 552 since last week.
The Defense Department’s
weekly summary based on noti
fications to families through last
Friday reported:
Killed in action—17,651.
W ounded—81,906.
Missing—12,571.
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Vote On Georgia
Delegates Seen As
Decisive Factor
By JACK BELL
CONVENTION HALL, Chicago,
(A3)—Backers of Sen. Taft, in a
surprise strategy move Wednes
day yielded 13 contested Louis
iana votes in the Republican na
tional convention to Gen. Eisen
hower.
In a maneuver interpreted as
an effort to gain support for the
Taft side in a showdown floor
battle on disputed delegates, Taft
backers on the credentials com
mittee initiated and supported the
Louisiana move.
Backers of Eisenhower made it
clear quickly and emphatically
that they had m^fle no deal with
,the Taft people.
Thomas E. Coleman, floor man
ager for Taft, also said there was
no deal with the Eisenhower
forces on the contested delegates.
The move by Taft forces in the
Louisiana case today was regard
ed as indicating that the Ohio
senator’s leaders have come to the
conclusion their drive for the
nomination would be damaged
more by a convention defeat on
the contest issue than by the loss
of a few southern delegates.
There have been reports that
the credentials group might try
to work out a new compromise of
the Texas fight with an even split
of 19 votes each for Eisenhower
and Taft.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Eisen
hower’s campaign manager’s at
titude seemed to indicate that he
would not accept any such move.
Some Taft leader felt that if the
Eisenhower group took this atti
tude, it might find many dele
gates unsympathetic to a contin
uation of the fight.
In its major action Tuesday,
the group voted 30 to 21 to seat
a 17-member pro-Taft group from
Georgia. And it is on a minority
report, urging the seating of a
pro-Eeisenhower Georgia delega
tion, that the floor fight will
come.
The vote on Georgia seemed
likely to be the showdown, not
only on settling the contests but
also influencing delegates toward
the nomination of either Eisen
hower or Taft.
The delegate tabulation now
stands at:
Taft—527, Eisenhower — 452,
uncommitted—119, others—108.
First Year Ended Of
Korean Armistice Talks
MUNSAN, (/P)—The first year
of Korean armistice negotiations
ended Wednesday with the
United Nations and Communist
delegates meeting in secret for 26
minutes.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols,
U.N. Command spokesman, said
the session was businesslike but
“there was no change in the atti
tude of either side.”
In Oslo, Norway, U.N. secre
tary-general Trygve Lie ex
pressed hope for an armistice “by
the end of July or the beginning
of August” because truce negoti
ators had shown “a certain posi
tive willingness” to reach agree
ment.
50,000 Railroaders Are
Furloughed Because Of
Nationwide Steel Strike
PITTSBURGH, UP) —Addition
al layoffs in the railroad industry
loomed Wednesday as the result
of the nationwide strike of 600,000
CIO United Steelworkers.
Nearly 50,000 railroaders have
been furloughed since the strike
began June 2. They’re part of the
422,405 workers in allied indus
tries off the job because of the
steel strike.
A spokesman declared, “the
strike is having serious progres
sive effect on traffic . . . now it
is cutting off shipments from
many concerns which depend on
steel for their own production.”
Meanwhile, representatives of
the iron ore industry say they
plan to ask the steelworkers if
a plan can be worked out to
move iron ore now stockpiled in
the upper lakes’ region. All ore
shipments, along with iron ore
mining, have been suspended and
industry officials are fearful an
iron ore shortage next winter will
cause steel plants to shut down.
3 Alaska Delegates!
At Convention
Vote With Taft
CHICAGO, (/P)—Alaska’s three
delegates to the Republican na
tional convention voted with the
Taft forces Monday in the first
major test of factional strength.
They voted “yes” on the Taft
sponsored motion to amend dele
gate contest rules. It lost on a 658
to 548 vote. If it had carried, it
would have had the effect of seat
ing seven disputed Louisiana
delegates.
After rejecting the Taft-spon
sored rule, the convention adopt
ed by acclamation the one pre
sented by Gov. Langlie of Wash
ington for the Eisenhower forces.
Its effect is to prevent 68 dis
puted delegates from Louisiana,
Texas anfl Georgia from voting
on any of the delegate disputes
until their cases are decided.
The fight thrust the Washing
ton governor into the forefront of
the convention’s strategy battle
and gave him a prominence which
a Pacific Northwestern delegate
seldom has had in a national con
vention.
But not even the General’s
best friends believe that all of
those 658 votes will go to him on
the first ballot bid for nomina
tion. In fact, 76 of them are def
inite holdouts for Gov. Warren of
California and 25 are assigned to
Harold E. Stassen.
June Employment In U.S.
Just 60,000 Below
All-Time Record
WASHINGTON, (ff) — More
Americans had jobs in June than
in any previous June on record—
63,572,000.
The Census Bureau, reporting
this Tuesday said the figure was
only 60,000 below the all - time
record set in August, 1951.
The bureau said the employ
ment picture was much brighter,
with 769,000 more job openings
last month than for June a year
ago. Most of the new job oppor
tunities were on farms.
Seafair Sailing For
Npme Set Back A
Week Te July 12 '
SEATTLE, (JP) — The schedule
erf the Nome relief ship Seafair
has been set back a week, the
Coastwise Line announced Mon
day.
Originally expected to . reach
Nome on late July, the Seafair
now will not arrive until August
7 "with 2,000 tons of construction
material and assorted cargo.
Unexpected delay in some car
go coupled with longshoremen’s
holiday July 4 and 5 to delay the
Seafair until July 12. Enroute to
Nome it will unload at Seward,
Naknek and St. Michael.
Another Monday development
saw Thomas Pelly invite striking
Sailors Union leader Harry
Lundeberg to a meeting in Seattle
to seek a solution to the six-week
walkout.
Lundeberg did not reply inw
mediately, but Maxie Weisbarth,
Seattle agent of the Sailors Union
said he was sure the invitation
would be turned down.
Meanwhile, no developments
were forthcoming for a relief ship
to southeast Alaska. Alaska
Freight Lines, which dispatched
two relief barges to southeast
Alaska last month, has no more
facilities available for the run
now. Another ship is needed for
the area, Weisbarth has agreed,
but none yet has been found.
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U.S. Thunderjets Bomb
Reconstruction Work On
Korean Power Plants
SEOUL, {fP) - United Nations
troops Wednesday drove on North
Korean Communists entrenched
on a ridge at the eastern end of
the Korean battle line but lost a
key hill to counter-attacking Chi
nese in the center.
Steep slopes slowed the U.N.
advance but troops moving in
from two directions were reported
only 50 yards apart.
U.S. Thunderjets again bombed
the big No. 2 power plant at
Changjin Jteservoir Tuesday after
reconnaissance showed the Reds
were trying to get the generators
back in operation. The plant was
one o*f 13 North Korean hydro
electric stations knocked out in
heavy raids two weeks ago.
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Cannery Tender Aground
And Breaking Up In
Southeastern Alaska
KODIAK, (/P) — The cannery
SR-9 of Seattle, a converted land
tender SR-9 of Seattle, a con
verted landing oraft, Wednesday
was reportd aground at the mouth
of the Kaliakh River in southeast
ern Alaska.
The Coast Guard said high
winds and heavy surf are pound
ing the vessel and there is dan
ger of it breaking up. However,
the six men and one woman
aboard when H grounded Sunday
are safely ashore awaiting rescue.
The Coast Guard said the seven
are marooned on a beach about
10 miles west of Yakataga. Coast
Guard planes are keeping them
supplied with food, and the Cutter
Kimball is standing by to attempt
an evacuation when the winds
and surf subside.