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VOL LTV No. 116 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1952 _Per Copy—15«
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Sen. Rutler Raps
Federal Block To
Alaska's Growth
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senator
Hugh Butler <R-Neb> said Sunday
that the Interior Department’s at
titude on a proposed new alum
inum plant in Alaska is proof that
“federal paternalism” is the road
block to rapid Alaskan develop
ment.
Butler told Secretary of the In
terior Oscar Chapman that the
proposal of the Aluminum Com-,
pany of America to build a big re
duction plant in Alaska provides
an opportunity to help foster the
greatest industrial project in Al
askan history but—
“Instead of welcoming such an
opportunity, you speak in terms
of studies, delays and red tape.”
Butler, in a letter to Chapman,
referred to reports of Alcoa’s
plans for a plant near Skagway
and added that “according to
press reports you have said that
the department wants time to
study the plans of the company
very carefully for fear that a
monopoly may be created.”
•’These news reports reflect a
tone of doubt and indecision
which surprises me very much,”
Butler wrote. “I trust that these
alleged fears about monopoly will
not be used as an excuse to delay
the whole project for an inter
minable period.”
If Alcoa or any other corpor
ation had decided to build a large
plant in any other part of the
United States, Butler said it
would “simply have gone ahead
with the purchase of land from
private owners without any parti
cular delay or red tape.
“It would not have to go on
bended knee to the federal gov
ernment to beg for permission to
add to the nation’s wealth.”
Butler told Chapman he has no
objections to studies the depart
ment plans but that any studies
should be completed by the time
Congress reconvenes in January so
that necessary legislation can be
handled immediately and con
struction started without delay.
SEATTLE MOUNTAINEER
FALLS 100 FEET TO DEATH
SEATTLE, (/P) —A 29-year-old
Seattle climber plunged-100 feet
down the sheer rock face of a
Cascade mountain peak late Sun
day and died of his injuries short
ly before a rescue party of 14
reached him.
The victim was William Daniel
son, an architect.
The young mountaineer fell
about 4 p.m„ near the top of
6,000-foot Lundin Peak, 6Q miles
east of Seattle and four miles
northeast of Snoqualmie Pass
Summit.
Six other club members were
with him.
It was believed Danielson’s
rope broke as he lowered himself
down the precipitous rock face.
TOKYO, <Jf) — Ojiro Yama
moto, 396 - pound wrestler, an
nounced he plans to marry.
His bride-to-be, 22-year-old
Miss Tomikcr Ishida, weighs 82
pounds.
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Jim Rivera, Chicago White
Sox Outfielder Arrested
On Rape Complaint
CHICAGO, (/P) — Rookie out
fielder Jim Rivera was arrested
Sunday in the Chicago White Sox
clubhouse on the complaint of a
22-year old wife of a soldier that
he raped her in her apartment
Saturday night.
Booked for rape but not for
mally charged, Rivera was held
overnight for questioning by the
police sex bureau Monday. The
police said he denied Mrs. Janet
Gater’s .accusation and told them
the attractive brunet statistician
submitted willingly afer inviting
him to her South Side apartment.
Booked as Joseph M. Rivera,
the former Seattle player said he
is separated from his wife, Max
ine, but they recently made plans
to reconcile.
Rivera, a New York - born
Puerto Rican, entered the major
leagues amid a storm of contro
versy. He had served a five-year
term in Atlanta Penitentiary after
being court martialed at Barks
dale Field, La., on a charge of
attempted rape while serving in
the army.
Rivera, found guilty, was sen
tenced to life imprisonment but
this was reduced and he was
paroled after five years.
At the time, Rivera said “I am
innocent but the court found me
guilty.”
British Speed Ace, John
Cobb, Killed When Jet
Speedboat Disintegrates
LOCH NESS, Scotland, (JP) —
The jet-propelled speedboat Cru
sader blew to pieces in a cloud
of smoke and spray on Loch Ness
Monday, carrying British speed
ace John Rhodes Cobb to death at
a three-miles-a-minute clip.
Cobb, out to break the world
hydroplane speed record, was
traveling at about 200 miles an
hour, witnesses said, when the
speedboat disappeared in a flurry
of spray and was scattered in
pieces about storied Loch Ness.
Cobb’s wife saw her 52-year
old speed demon husband race to
his death. Cobb was picked out
of the water still alive, but died
a few moments later.
The Crusader was roaring down
the course toward the end of its
first measured mile.
U.S. May Have Supersonic
Bombers In Five Years
SEATTLE, (/P) — The United
States may have a supersonic
bomber within five years.
Roswell Gilpatric, undersecre
tary of the Air Force, revealed
here Friday that at least four U.S.
aircraft companies have contracts
for preliminary design studies of
a bomber ta exceed the speed of
sound.
Other plane builders also have
such a bomber under considera
tion, he said at a news confer
ence. He estimated it would take
about five' years to put a super
sonic bomber in the air.
The four firms having study
contracts are Boeing Airplane Co.,
Consolidated-Vultee, Douglas Air
craft and the Glenn L. Martin Co.
Stevenson Bares
Income, Challenges
Ike To Do Same
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
SPRINGFIELD, 111., (/P)—Gov.
Adlai Stevenson disclosed last
night that his income over the last
10 years was a half million dol
lars. And he paid Uncle Sam
more than $200,000 of' it in taxes.
In making public his federal
income tax returns, the Demo
cratic presidential nominee in ef
fect challeneged his GOP rival,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, to
come through with his own.
It was a spectacular follow
through to the baring 24 hours
earlier of the financial operations
through which Stevenson m made
gifts to supplement the pay of
eight top Illinois state officials.
Over the 10 years—1942 through
1951—Stevenson’s fees and sal
aries from a variety of jobs
amounted to less than one fifth
of his total income. Most of the
income came from dividends on
stock in corporatiohs. Income
from all sources was $500,052.84
with only $81,532.57 in salary, the
returns showed. Taxes took $211,
980.42, leaving Stevenson $288,
072.42.
Income Taxes Becomes
Major Campaign Issue
NEW YORK, </P) — Who paid
how much income taxes became
a major issue in the presidential
campaign today.
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
put Gen. Eisenhower on a politi
cal spot by disclosing that he
shelled out $211,980 to the federal
government in income ' taxes in
the last 10 years.
Stevenson, in effect, challenged
his opponent to make 3 similar
tax listing.
There seems no doubt at Eisen
hower’s regional headquarters
here that the general had earned
much more than Stevenson’s re
ported $500,052 income in the
same period, but had paid much
less in taxes.
The Democrats’ end - around
political play appeared to have
caught the Eisenhower advisers
wondering how they could ex
plain satisfactorily a ruling by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue. The
bureau had made a ruling permit
ting Eisenhower to keep three
fourths of the income he received
from his book, “Crusade In Eu
rope.”
This ruling—similar to' others
in some like cases—permitted the
general to pay only 25 per cent
tax instead of the higher income
rate, because he was held to be
operating outside his usual field
of activities when he furnished
the information for the published
volume.
SUNDAY BASEBALL
American League
Washington 5—Boston 4
Philadelphia 9—New York 4
Cleveland 8—Detroit 2
St. Louis 12—Chicago 1
National League
Brooklyn 5—Boston 5
Philadelphia 7—New York 4
Chicago 3—St. Louis 0
Cincinnati 3—Pittsburgh 2
Truman Starts Whistle
Stop Campaign With
Attack On GOP Lobbyists
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN </P)
— President Truman opened his
big whistle stop campaign today
with a slashing attack on the “un
holy crew” of Republican lobby
ists for whom he said General
Eisenhower is a “front man” He
said he was glad the oil, China,
real estate and other lobbies “are
in the Republican party” and “I’m
am going to team ’em apart be
fore I get through.”
Truman told cheering thou
sands at Fargo, N.D., the GOP
presidential nominee “seems to be
listening to some strange advice
on foreign policy” and they’d
better hestitate before voting Re
publican if they “want to* avoid
a third world war.”
The President tackled the issue
of corruption in government in
his first formal “whistle stop”
speech of an 8,500-mile tour by
spying he has been “getting rid
of wrong-doers” over the “oppo
sition of Republicans in Con
gress.”
Earlier Truman spoke to 600
persons at Breckenridge, Minn.,
in clear view of a big “I Like Ike”
sign erected last night. He de
scribed Democratic nominee Adlai
Stevenson as “the most promising
young leader we have had in a
generation” with a background
comparable to Franklin D. Roose
velt’s x
Democrat Sparkman
Doubts Fund Controversy
Will Affect Nov. 4 Election
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Sen.
John Sparkman says he doubts
the “Nixon Fund” controversy
will have any great impact on the
Nov. 4 presidential election.
The Alabama Democrat was in
terviewed twice yesterday, over
CBS-Radio last night and NBC
Television ealier, about the
$18,000 fund raised privately for
California’s Senator Richard M.
Nixon, Sparkman’s Republican
opponent for Vice President.
Asked whether he would accept
such a fund, Sparkman replied:
“I personally would not.”
He said he had never had a
fund of any kind, not even a cam
paign fund. He said he has man
aged to save money each year
since 1936, when he first was
elected to the House. He moved
to the Senate in 1946.
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ALLIES ACCIDENTALLY
BOMB. GREEK SOLDIERS
ON KOREA WESTERN FRONT
SEOUL, (JP) — Allied artittery
and warplanes pounded Chinese
Reds astride Big Nori on Korea’s
western front today. Counterat
tacking Communists won the
peak yesterday from Greek sol
diers after the Greek soldiers ac
cidentally were bombed by four
U.S. fighter-bombers.
U. S. F-86 Sabre jets pounced
on a flight of Communist MIG
15s in northwest Korea today and
the Air Force said two Red war
planes were destroyed and two
damaged. Three MIGS were shot
down yesterday.
Yankees, Dodgers
Start 49th World
Series Wednesday
By JOE REICHLER
NEW YORK, (JP) — The New
York Yankees today ruled a solid
8-5 favorite to overcome the
Brooklyn Dodgers in the 49th pro
duction of the modern world
series which gets under way Wed
nesday.
Although it marks the eighth
time the Yankees have partici
pated in the series in the past
dozen years, and the fourth time
for the Dodgers, the 1952 classic
will hold special interest. The
Yankees, for the second time in
history, will be gunning for their
fourth successive world cham
pionship. The Dodgers will be
seeking their first triumph after
five reversals in as many at
tempts.
Neither manager — Casey Sten
gel of the Yankees or Chuck Dres
sen of the Dodgers—officially has
named his opening day pitcher,
but indications are that Allie Rey
nolds and Brooklyn’s Joe Black
will open festivities in Ebbets
Field.
Both clubs have good power, a
tight defense and a strong bench.
The Yankees, however, borast the
stronger and better balanced
pitching staff. Pitching scarcely
can be regarded as the Dodgers’
forte this year, a fact that ex
plains the betting odds against
them.
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Three American Soldiers
Seized Near Truce Site
But Are Freed In 7 Hours
MUNSAN, (IP) — Chinese Reds
seized three American soldiers
near the Panmunjom armistice
site Monday but released them
unharmed seven hours later.
The men had wandered outside
the neutral zone during an in
vestigation of an alleged Allied
violation of the zone.
The Reds turned them loose
after a meeting of liaison officers.
The three had accompanied Col.
Charles W. McCarthy, Allied liai
son officer, to the edge of the neu
tral zone to investigate two shell
craters which the Reds said were
caused by Allied shelling.
McCarthy said the men had not
been mistreated.
Santayana, One of 20th
Century’s Great Thinkers,
Dies In Rome at Age of 88
ROME, (/P)—Georgy Santayana,
philosopher and poet who ranked
as one of the 20th Century’s great
est thinkers, died here Friday
night in a Catholic convent. He
was 88.
The brilliant Spanish writer,
who spent many years in Amer
ica, died in the sheltered solitudes
m which he had lived during the
final quarter century of his life.
Santayana was best known to
Americans for his only novel,
“The Last Puritan.” He once de
scribed his book about life in New
England as “The memoirs of my
time.” His autobiography, “Per
sons and Places,” was published
during Work' War II.