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Kefauver Confidently Predicts He
Will Win Democratic Nomination
Even If Truman Seeks Re-election
(By the Associated Press)
Senator Kefauver, (D - Tenn)
confidently predicted Sunday he
could win the Democratic presi
dential nomination even if Presi
dent Truman seeks re-election.
But he said he does not think
Mr. Truman “wants the job
again.”
Kefauver said on a radio pro
gram he is not running for sec
ond place, and if Mr. Truman runs
again and offers his backing to
Kefauver for vice presidential
nomination, he would not “be in
terested at all.”
The President, who has not re
vealed his 1952 plans figured in
two other developments:
Senator Aiken, (R-Vt) said he
thinks the President withdrew
from the Democratic presidential
primary in New Hampshire “be
cause Senator Kefauver would
have beaten the tar out of him.”
The President told his news
11 File For Senate
And 39 For House
In 3rd Division
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A record
number of candidates filed for
Third Division seats in the Alaska
legislature before the weekend
deadline, but a major item of in
terest was a name that wasn’t
there.
It was Rep. Stanley McCutch
eon, speaker of the House in 1949,
Democratic floor leader in 1951,
son of a former legislator and
member of - a prominent House
Senate brother team.
r McCutcheon, who was a contro
versial figure in the last session,
did not file for re-election. He re
recently was named Alaska Dem
ocratic chairman.
Three Senate seats will be filled
this year—the two regular vacan
cies and the seat left by the death
of Senate President Gunnar En
gebreth.
Increased population will give
the Third Division 10 seats in
stead of seven in the House, where
it was solidly Democratic in 1951.
Five Democrats and six Repub
licans are seeking the nominations
for the three Senate seats.
Twenty-four Democrats and. 15
Republicans are seeking party
nominations for ten House seats.
Ranks of British Upper
Income Bracket Reduced
LONDON, (£>)—The thin ranks
of Britain’s much-soaked earners
of big paychecks have been weed
ed again.
The inland revenue commis
sioners reported Friday only 60
persons had incomes of 6,000
pounds ($16,800) or more after
they paid income taxes for the
year that ended in March, 1950.
The year before there had been
86 members of this dwindling elite
corps. ,
And the little guys still paid
most of the taxes. Revenue offi
cials said most of the money col
lected came from 9,290,000 people
earning between five and ten
pounds .<$14. to $28) a week- -
conference Thursday such pri
maries are eyewash, and he could
have the nomination if he decides
he wants it, without entering
them.
California Democrats, at a “har
mony” meeting over the weekend,
agreed that Truman is, their man
for 1952.
Party confidence in eventual
victory in the still-distant election
was expressed by leaders of the
two parties:
Guy Gabrielson, chairman of
the Republican National Commit
tee, said on a television program
he believed any GOP candidate
could lick any Democrat.
Frank E. McKinney, Democratic
National Chairman, said in De
troit: “Our record and the sorry
record of thfc Republican party
are the surest guarantees of a
Democratic victory.”
Anchorage Nurses
Attempt Negotiations
On Wages and Conditions
ANCHORAGE, (iP) — Close to
200 graduate nurses Saturday at
tempted negotiations with the
management of Providence Hos
pital on minimum work and pay
schedules.
The hospital nurses now receive
basic pay of $210 a month. They
want $350, “commensurate with
their training, jobs available to
them in other fields and the “cost
of-living differential.”
A 12-member committee offered
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a 15-point program regarding spe
cific policies to be discussed with
hospital management, but they
were refused a hearing, a spokes
man for the nurses said.
“Nurses are at the lowest econ
omic level in the Territory,” the
spokesman said. “By the nature
of their profession, they are un
able to take steps open to other
workers with grievances. We want
to discuss basic policy with the
management of the hospital to
improve working conditions, and
therefore, our service to pa
tients.”
The hospital is operated by the
Sisters of Providence.
Gruening To Testify
At Hearing on Indian
Contracts with Attorneys
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Gov.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska has
been asked to testify Wednesday
before a Senate Interior subcom
mittee which is checking into con
tracts between Indians and their
attorneys.
James Curry, a Washington at
torney who said he has about
a dozen contracts with Alaskan
Indians, told the committee last
week he believes the Indians
should have greater leeway in
selection of their counsel.
Secretary of the Interior Chap
man recently rejected a new set
of regulations governing these
contracts which had been sug
gested by Commissioner Dillon
Myer. Thus, the old regulations
in effect since ,1938 still govern.
U.S. Came Close To
Full Mobilization
This Winter
WASHINGTON, -(/P) — The
United States came closer to all
out mobilization this winter than
the public realized.
Mobilization officials now say it
would have meant the closing
down entirely of the automobile
and all consumer hard goods in
dustries, layofs by the millions
in non-defense industries, count
less shortages of things people
buy, inflationary pressures.
The decision was in doubt un
til around Christmas. Then Presi
dent Truman decided to take a
calculated risk — that Russia
would not strike real soon—and
spread the expanded defense pro
gram over four instead of three
years.
Under the program Mr. Truman
approved, the same upward curve
of arms deliveries will continue
throughout 1952, arriving at a
peak of slightly more than four
billion dollars a month next Jan
uary. But then the peak levels
off into a “plateau,” finally tapers
off 18 months later. Then spend
ing will decline. How far is any
| body’s guess.
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Negotiators Move
Closer to Armistice
MUNSAN, Korea, (;P) — A
United Nations Command spokes
man said tonight the Allies and
communists “have moyed closer
to an armistice” in Korea.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols,
the , spokesman, said agreements
reached by staff officers working
on truce supervision and the sub
committee on prisoner exchange
mean “we have moved closer to
an armistice.”
He said communist acceptance
of a U.N. proposal to start im
mediate negotiations on the final
section of an armistice indicates
“they have hopes of an armistice.”
Truce negotiators scheduled a
full dress session Wednesday to
start work on the fifth and last
agenda item. And there were op
timistic predictions from an Allied
member of the prisoner exchange
subcommittee.
“I think we can get together and
write the rest of the agreement”
on prisoner exchange,” said Rear
Adm. R. E. Libby. “For the first
time, I think we are in a position
to settle the nuts and bolts of
the situation.”
Five Missing, One Dead
In Mine Explosion
GRENSBURG, Pa., (/P)—An ex
plosion ripped through a coal
mine near here Saturday, leaving
one miner dead and five missing.
Four miners were rescued by
their companions who fought their
way to safety through choking
gas.
State Police Lt. K. F. Maroney
said 65 men were in the Carpen
tertown No. 2 mine of the Car
pentertown Coal and Coke Co.
when the blast let go. It was at
least three hours before the in
jured were rescued.
The cause of the blast could
not be determined immediately..
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Alaska Statehood Advocates,
Conceding Certain Defeat, Propose
Hawaii Bill Be Considered First
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, (#•)—1The Sen
ate had a date with statehood
today — but it was uncertain
whether Alaska or Hawaii would
keep the rendezvous.
A bill to admit Alaska to the
union technically is before the
lawmakers. It was made the un
finished business when the Senate
took its weekend recess and was
scheduled for debate today.
But statehood advocates, con
ceding almost certain defeat for
the Alaska measure, disclosed
over the weekend they propose to
substitute the Hawaiian bill which
has less opposition.
The tactical switch had the ap
New Covenant Church
Opened Saturday
A capacity crowd filled the new
Covenant Church last Saturday
evening when it opened its doors
to the public in a special “Youth
for Christ” service.
This modern, new church,
which has been under construc
tion for the past year by Rev.
Paul Carlson, who not only plan
ned the building but planned the
interior, is an outstanding place
for worship, centrally located on
Nome’s main thoroughfare and a
most convenient place for the
many people passing through our
community, as it is between our
two hotels.
Rev. Carlson who has been in
Second Division for 15 years, has
achieved a special place in the
history of the far north as “sky
pilot” with many mercy flights
and missionary visits by plane to
all parts of the north.
This church is the third that he
has built. In 1937 he constructed
one at White Mt. and in 1942
he built a church for Candle. He
also assisted with building a
church at Solomon.
It is understood that another
new church is planned for Unala
kleet next year.
Assisting Rev. Carlson with the
construction was Spencer Strand
who came from Connecticut to
give his services and who has also
been active in the young people’s
group of the church.
Assisting in the dedication serv
ice were Rev. R. Amundsen and
Mrs. Emory Lindgren who came
from the Covenant Children’s
Home at Unalakleet for this event.
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Britain To Protest Ousting
By Argentines Of British
Explorers At South Pole
LONDON, {^P)—Britain is going
to protest to Argentina about
the reported firing cm a group of
British explorers in Antarctica by
a party of Argentines.
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Reports reaching here said the
Argentines opened fire when the
Britons landed at Hope Bay, a
region in the extreme south
claimed by both Britain and .Ar
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gentina. The explorers reportedly
were forced back to their ship at
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proval of both statehood groups.
President Truman, who repeat
edly has urged statehood for both
territories, also is said to have
approved the strategy.
The move was dictated by op
position plans to seek to send the
Alaska bill back to a committee
pigeonhole.
The Hawaiian bill, however, is
believed to be in a stranger posi
tion. Delegate Farrington (R-Ha\v)
told a reporter it “can stand
against any attack.”
If this confidence in the Ha
waiian sentiment is borne out,
proponents of Alaska statehood
j feel their chances would be en
! hanced.
“Old Curmutlgeon”
Harold L. Ickes,
Dies At Age 77
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Death
came quietly at dusk Sunday to
Harold L. Ickes, 77, the New Deal
er whose sharp wit and blunt
speech stormed for two decades
across the national scene.
Ickes, self-styled “old curmud
geon,” died at 6:25 p.m., in a
coma at a hospital here. He suc
cumbed after an 11 weeks illness
following complication of an old
arthritic conition, -
Virtually an unknown,.in 1932
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when Presient Franklin D. Roose
velt appointed him Secretary oi
the Interior, Ickes had become one
of the most turbulent figures Jtt
politics by 1946, when he resigned
in a huff to President Truman.
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During the turbulent depression
years of the 1930’s Ickes was head
man of the Public Works Admin
istration, overseeing — sometimes
down to the last penny — more
than, seven billion dollars worth
of public building.
His bitter feud with the late
Harry Hopkins, President Roose
velt’s close friend and head of the
Works Progress Administration,
made New Deal history.
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California National Guard
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Goes Into Action In Korea
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By STAN CARTER
SEOUL, Korea, iJP)—The new
ly-arrived 40th Division — Cali
fornia’s old National Guard outfit
—was identified Monday in action
on the central Korean front. '
The Eighth Army reported the
40th tangled with the Chinese
Reds Sunday in a bitter, hour
long patrol action.
It was the day’s biggest patrol
clash on the snow-covered front.
The mercury skidded to 15 de
gress below zero and Allied in
fantrymen elsewhere huddled in
their bunkers.
The Fifth Air Force reported
fighters and bombers attacked 700
communist vehicles Sunday night
and destroyed 54 of diem.
U.S, F-5f Mustangs fire-bombed
and strafed the big communis^
supply depot at Habfu Sunday and
destroyed or damaged 4Qr feulid
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mgs.