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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 103 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1952 Per Copy—15^
Stevenson Blasts
Attackers Of
Gen. Marshall
NEW YORK, (/P)—Gov. Adlai
Stevenson today coldly accused
the attackers of Gen. GeoTge C.
Marshall of hiding under a cloak
of patriotism which he called “the
last refuge of scoundrels.’’
The Democratic presidential
nominee did not use any names
but he left no doubt that one of
the main targets of his bitter
blast was Republican Sen. Joseph
McCarthy of Wisconsin—one-time
recipient of an American Legion
award for Americanism.
McCarthy has accused Marshall,
former Secretary of State and for
mer Secretary of Defense, of
being party to a plot against the
security of his own country.
Stevenson launched his surprise
outburst in a speech written for
the American Legion Convention
meeting in Madison Square Gar
den where GOP nominee General
Eisenhower spoke only two days
ago.
Also, Stevenson figuratively
wagged a finger under the Le
gion’s nose and told them he
would not submit to any pressures
from the Legion if he thought
their demands were “excessive or
in conflict with the public in
terest.”
It was a fighting speech with
patriotism as the theme and
through it ran a plea to defend
freedom of thought in the fight
against Communism.
Stevenson assailed Communism
as “the death of the soul” but he
added freedom of thought is being
menaced by over-zealous patriots.
He told Legionnaires patriotism
“is not shot, frenzied outbursts of
emotion, but the tranquil and
steady fledication of a lifetime.”
Then in his first major drive
for votes in the East, Stevenson
said there are men among us
“who use ‘patriotism’ as a club
for attacking other Americans.”
Stevenson made only one refer
ence in his speech to Eisenhower.
He said: “The fact that a great
general and I are competing can
didates for the presidency will
not diminish my warm respect for
his military achievements. Nor
will that respect keep me from
using every honest effort to de
feat him in November.”
Husband Suicides In
Seattle After Wife Takes
Own Life In Fairbanks
SEATTLE, (JP)—A man whose
wife killed herself in Fairbanks,
Saturday took his own life here
Wednesday, Coroner John Brill
reported.
Brill said the man, Bruce An
derson, 32, was found dead in his
automobile, in which he drove
from Alaska after his wife’s
death. The coroner said a piece
of garden hose had been con
nected to the exhaust pipe to
carry fumes into the closed car.
The wife, Donna Mae Ander
son, 20, died in a Fairbanks hos
pital after she shot herself with
a pistol. Highway patrolmen at
Fairbanks said she left a note ad
dressed to her husband.
Legion Adopts Resolution
Demanding Dismissal of
Secty. of State Acheson
NEW YORK, (/P)—The Ameri
can Legion convention Wednes
day adopted a resolution demand
ing the dismissal of Secretary of
State Dean Acheson and “those
in his department found wanting
in the proper activation of their
duty to their country.”
Adopted overwhelmingly by a
voice vote, the resolution declared
that the State Department re
quires “new and stalwart lead
ers” and asserted “our patience is
exhausted. We demand immediate
attention to this all - important
subject. We accept nothing less.”
Last year in Miami the Legion
adopted a resolution regarding
the State Department. It called
for the “immediate removal of
the present corps of leaders whose
every action has reflected in
competence, indecision and • de
featism.”
Aluminium Co.
Must Get OK From
Canadian Govt.
OTTAWA, (/P)—Federal resour
ces experts said Monday there
will be many complications in de
velopment of a huge Alaska alu
minum plant by the Aluminum
Company of America.
First, Alcoa will have to obtain
agreement from the Canadian and
British Columbia governments be
fore it can divert the waters of
the Yukon River for the creation
o*f cheap hydro power.
Second, the Canadian govern
ment will want assurance that
Yukon’s power and navigational
interests are well protected be
fore it will agree to the diversion.
Alcoa has not as yet placed any
application before the Canadian
government, requesting permis
sion to make the Yukon River
diversion.
A further aspect of the Alcoa
announcement is that the Alumi
num Co. of Canada is constructing
a $550,000,000 aluminum plant
at Kitimat, B.C., and is attempt
ing to expand its market in the
United States.
However, officials here believe
this should provide no hindrance
to the development of the new
Alaska company since the world
demand for aluminum would re
main strong for many years to
come.
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Agriculture Dept. Predicts
No Price Rise In This
m
Season’s Canned Fruit
WASHINGTON, (/P)_The Ag
riculture Department predicted
today that retail prices of canned
fruits will be no higher during
the late summer and fall than a
year ago despite prospects of a
smaller production.
It is possible, the agency said,
that prices may be a little lower
than a year ago. The Depart
ment’s statement said the exist
ence of a larger than normal re
serve of canned fruits from last
year will offset the effect of
smaller production this year on
prices.
McKinney Visits
East Side of Iron
Curtain While Here
Assistant Secretary of the In
terior, Robert McKinney w h o
came to Alaska to represent Sec
retary Oscar Chapman at the All
Alaska Resources meeting at Mt.
McKinley, included Nome and
Kotzebue in his itinerary. He ar
rived in Nome Monday evening
with his wife after a flight over
Diomede Island, ot the east side
of the Iron Curtain.
He stated that a year ago he
was in Berlin at the west side
of the Iron Curtain where he at
tended the unveiling of a monu
ment of the first president of
Germany. »
As a special guest of the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday,
he stated that he believed that
Seward Peninsula has an excep
tionally bright future and looked
forward to further important de
velopments in the area.
He said the Interior Depart
ment was doing everything pos
sible to assist in the development
of the highly needed minerals lo
cated in this area but that the
owners should carry on as he be
lieved in private enterprise.
Other guests of the Chamber
included Ken Kadow, president of
U.S. Tin: Fred Loomis, treasurer,
and Henry Schafer, director of
the company; L. J. Weeda, Elk
leader of Anchorage and repre
sentative of the National Grocery
Co.
Judge Earl Cooper was extend
ed an official welcome by the
Chamber and Jack Underwood
was welcomed back after an ab
sence of many years.
In the absence of both presi
dent and vice-president. Secre
tary Terry Jackson presided at
the luncheon.
No Alaska Timber To
Be Exported To Japan
JUNEAU, UP) — A. W. Black
erby of the regional U. S. Fores
try Office said Tuesday no ap
plication for export of logs to
Japan has been received.
Blackerby is in charge of the
office in the absence of Regional
Forester B. Frank Heinzleman.
His statement followed Seattle
reports of lumber industry oppo
sition to a Japanese proposal for
taking out Alaskan timber.
Blackerby said there has been
no change in the long-standing
policy of the Forestry Service
which requires primary manufac
turing before shipment from the
territory. The purpose is to foster
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Alaska industry.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
New York 6—St. Louis 3
Cleveland 6—Philadelphia 3
Washington 1—Chicago 0
Boston 11—Detroit 3
National League
Brooklyn 4—St. Louis 3
New Yoric 14—Pittsburgh 7
Boston 2—Cincinnati 0
Chicago 3—Philadelphia 2
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4-9—San Diego 3-6
Sacramento 3—Portland 1
San Francisco 5—Oakland 2
Los Angeles 6—Hollywood 5
Man Arrested For
Swindling State of $6,000
Of Children Aid Funds
SEATTLE, (/P) — A Filipino
cannery foreman charged a week
ago with aiding his wife in swind
ling the state out of $6,000 of aid
to-dependent children funds was
arrested Monday as he stepped
oft an airplane from Kodiak.
He was Vincent Dela Cerna, 51.
He was released on $5,000 bond
on a grand larceny charge.
Earlier, Ben J. Thieme, admin
istrative assistant to the county
welfare department, who brought
the charges against the couple,
estimated Mrs. Dela Cerna had
obtained altogether about $30,000
in “A.D.C.” funds during the past
20 years. The 50-year-old woman
had represented that her husband
was not living at home and that
she needed the money for her
children, he said.
Actually, Thieme said, the hus
band was home when he was not
at work on his job. They had
different addresses here, yhieme
added.
Texas Parties
Merge To Back
Ike In November
SAN ANTONIO, (flV-Republi
cans seeking to cinch the Texas
vote for Eisenhower hurdled an
cient party lines and snuffed out
the hottest internal feud in state
GOP history.
Their convention here Tuesday
named a full ticket of already
nominated Democrats as 'Repub
lican candidates for state offices,
an action unprecedented in Texas
politics. It healed a threatened
split by a series of conciliatory
moves and considerable back
slapping—all in an effort to pre
sent a solid front for Eisenhower.
Nominated as Democrat-Repub
licans were Gov. Allen Shivers
for Governor; Atty. Gen. Price
Daniels for U.S. Senator; former
Rep. Martin Dies for congress
man-at-large. Along with them
went the full slate named by the
Democrats in July for other state
offices.
Their names, under a new Tex
as law, will go on the November
election -ballot both as Republi
cans and Democrats unless the in
dividual candidates withdraw.
To meet that contingency, the
convention pased a resolution em
powering its state executive com
mittee to fill any vacancy that
may occur. It already had that
power and has taken such action
many times in the past.
That would make certain there
are no blanks in the Republican
column on the general election
ballot.
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TIGHE E. WOODS TO SUCCEED
ARNALL AS HEAD OF OPA
WASHINGTON, </P>—President
Truman Tuesday named Tighe E.
Woods, now the nation’s rent con
troller, to be head of the Office
of Price Stabilization.
Woods will succeed Ellis G.
Amall in the price post on Sept. 1.
Amall’s resignation, effective
on that date, has been in* Tru
man’s hands for some time.
Reeve Claims Top
GOP Support For
New Statehood Bill
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Bob Reeve,
Republican nominee for Delegate
to Congress, claimed Tuesday top
Republican support for Alaska
statehood as a result of his visit
with Gen. Eisenhower and Sep.
Hugh Butler of Nebraska.
Reeve attended the seven-state
conference with Eisenhower, the
Republican presidential nominee,
in Kansas City last week. He said
he obtained full support of Butler,
who has been an arch-opponent
of statehood in past sessions of
Congress, for a revised statehood
bill.
Reeve said General Eisenhower
also pledged support wholeheart
edly. '
Reeve said he went over four
points to be included in a Repub
lican-drawn statehood bill and
won Butler’s support for:
1—Full control of Alaska re
sources by the new state, includ
ing the Pribilof Islands, with re
cognition of any international in
terest of Canada or Japan in fur
seals.
2— All lands to the state except
military reservations, Mt. McKin
ley National Park, and reserva
tion proved to be in the public
interest, including national for
ests, except that the new state
would be deeded a strip of land 1
not less than 10 miles in depth on
the coast lines contiguous to na
tional forests for townsite and
community development pur
poses.
3— The Enabling Act would re
cognize a state constitution pro
vision for control and ownership
of all lands covered by tidal
waters up to the line of mean
high tide.
4— No part of the statehood bill
is to conflict with federal con
trol of water power or free navi
gation rights.
Reeve said he told Eisenhower
it is necessary for the new state
to have adequate control of its re
sources to assure its future.
Reeve commented: “The oppor
tunities that will accrue to free
enterprise and the addition of na
tional wealth is almost beyond
calculation.” *
Rep. Rankin Defeated
In Own Bailiwick
JACKSON, Miss., (IP) — Rep..
John Rankin, the last of Missis
sippi’s old-school white suprema
cists and denouncer of Yankees,
last his seat to a former colleague,
Rep. Thomas Abernathy.
Rankin and Abernathy were
opponents because the state leg
islature combined their districts
last April to eliminate a congres
sional seat lost in the 1950 census.
The 49-year-old Abernathy was
reserved about dethroning the 70
year-old dean of the Mississippi
congressional delegation who was
seeking his 17th term in the House
of Representatives.
Abernathy’s victory statement
said he had been Rankin’s friend
during his own 10-year tenure in
Congress and “I regret we found
ourselves in the same district,
thus making our opposition un
available.”