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Lundeberg And
Owners Further
Apart Than Ever
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
number of ships tied up by the
five-week-old West Coast sailor’s
strike approached the 100 mark
today with AFL sailors and ship
owners farther apart, if anything,
in their positions.
Harry Lundeberg, secretary
treasurer of the striking Sailors
Union of the Pacific said his
union is increasing its demands
on the Shipowners’ Pacific Mari
time Association.
He did not elaborate, but said
his sailors would demand “more
money, shorter hours and more
jobs.”
Meanwhile, the appeal from
Congressional Delegate Bartlett of
Alaska, to President Truman for
federal intervention and use of
military ships for civilian cargoes
was followed by a second Seattle
Chamber of Commerce appeal to
John R. Steelman, the presiden
tial assistant.
Steelman had answered a pre
vious chamber wire:
“My latest information was that
an arrangement had been worked
out with the armed services. I
know it was far from satisfactory
but hoped it would be of some
assistance until a better arrange
ment could be made.”
Sweden Will Seek Justice
In International Tribunal
For Russian Air Attacks
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, (JP) —
Sweden told Russia Wednesday
she would seek justice in an in
ternational tribunal unless Mos
cow admits that Soviet fighters
shot down two Swedish planes
over the open Baltic Sea.
A new Swedish protest note, re
jecting Russian -claims that the
planes had violated Soviet terri
torial waters, insisted “Swedish
military aircraft are of couse en
tirely free to fly over the free sea
and will in the future, as hither
to, make use of this right.
“Soviet military forces cannot,
any more than the military forces
of any other country, claim the
right to exercise sovereignty in
such waters over aircraft of an
other nationality,” the note de
clared.
Army Will Step Up Draft
To 54,000 Men The Last
Three Months of Year
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Army Wednesday called for
30,000 draftees in September. It
said it would need 5^,000 more
men a month for the final three
months of the year.
The announced quota for Sep
tember brings to 1,013,430 the to
tal number of men drafted since
Selective Service resumed opera
tion in September in 1950.
The Defense Department said
the projected increase in induc
tions during the last three months
at this year, is necessary to re
latter
* part of 1950 and early 1951.
Men who entered the service at
that time will be eligible for sep
aration by the end of the current
year.
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Senator Lyng Reports
Candle Miners Hard Hit
By Lack of Annual Boat
Senator Howard Lyng returned
last night from Candle, where he
has lately taken over the Billy
French mining ground on Jump
'Creek.
Jump Creek empties into Can
dle Creek a mile from town and
half a mile from the 3500-foot
airfield built and maintained by
the Havenstrite Mining Co., suc
cessor to the Arctic Circle Mining
and Exploration Co.
Mr. Lyng states drilling opera
tions will be conducted this fall
on the French ground.
The Havenstrite Co. has 20 men
employed and is hydraulicing
nine miles up Candle Creek. Its
two large dredges have been shut
down for several years past.
Henry Xavier, long-time Can
dleite, is carrying on a one-man
operation on his California Creek
holdings.
This sums up the actual mining
now going on in this once lively,
thriving mining camp up on the
Arctic Circle.
Candle residents, as well as
those of our other far northern
Second Division towns and vil
lages, are becoming increasingly
alarmed over the prolonged ship
ping strike, for they are depen
dent for their essential supplies
on one commercial vessel a year
from Seattle to Kotzebue Sound,
an arm of the Arctic Ocean.
Due to ice and weather condi
tions, the open season of naviga
tion for large commercial ships
is limited principally to the
month of August in this area.
Budget Deficit For
1952 Appears to be
About $3 Billion
WASHINGTON, (yP)—The bud
get deficit for fiscal 1952 appears
to be about three billion dollars
—or 38 per cent—less than Presi
dent Truman predicted.
This was indicated as Treasury
bookkeepers worked to get to
gether Tuesday the final figures
for the period, which ended Mon
day. The President estimated last
January the deficit would be $8,
200,000,000. But his spending fig
ure of $70,900,000,000 has proved
a big overestimate, and his rev
enue figure of $62,700,000,000 a
bit over-optimistic.
While a three-billion-dollar de
ficit for fiscal 1952 would con
stitute a big improvement over
the President’s estimates, it would
nevertheless reflect an 8Vfe billion
decline from fiscal 1951, which
ended in a budget surplus of
billion.
In the year just closed, budget
outlays jumped about 50 per cent
higher than the preceding year.
Where the President went wrong
was in expecting spending to
zoom 57 per cent as a result of
the expanding defense program.
NOTICE
There will be no publication of
the Nugget on the 4th of July.
Instead, a special edition will be
published on Thursday, July 3.
Communications
Entered in Record
In Coal Dispute
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A series
of letters and telegrams in which
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management and employes of the
Usibelli Coal Mine at Suntrana,
Alaska, accused rival mine work
ers of conducting a reign of ter
ror to force affiliation with the
United Mine Workers Union, was
inserted Tuesday in the Congres
sional* Record. 1
The communications represent
ed appeals in early June by the
owners and workers to federal
and territorial officials for law
enforcement officers to keep
peace in the region.
One of the telegrams charged
that workers from rival mines
had prevented the company from
shipping coal “by violence includ
ing mass picketing by armed
mobs in violation of a U.S. court
injunction, beating of our men,
dumping of loaded cars, sabotage
of • equipment and destruction of
power plant by fire.”
“The only issue is whether we
shall be forced to join the United
Mine Workers which we have re
peatedly voted not to do,” the
employes’ telegram stated.
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Korean Electric Plants
Contributed Directly To
War Effort Against U.N.
TOKYO, (/P) — The U.S. Air
Force said Wednesday night
hydro - electric plants in Com
munist North Korea were bombed
because “they were supplying
electricity” to Red war plants
producing weapons being used
-against U.N. troops.
Photographs showed widespread
damage to 13 plants. The Air
Force said the pictures established
that the plants were knocked out.
Other large Communist users
of the power were listed as main
tenance and repair shops, both
rail and vehicular; widely dis
persed small factories and repair
shops supporting the Red war ef
fort, and the Communist radar
warning systems.
“Thus, the electrical output of
these plants contributed directly
to the enemy’s capability of in
tercepting U.N. aircraft operating
over North Korea,” the Air Force
added.
Commons Will Not Blame
Churchill For U.S. Raids
On Yalu Power Plants
LONDON, (/P)—The House of
Commons decided Tuesday night
it couldn’t blame Prime Minister
Winston Churchill’s government
because it hadn’t been told the
Americans were going to bomb
the Yalu River power plants*in
North Korea.
The House, by a 300-270 vote,
defeated a Laborite motion to cen
sure the government because it
hadn’t been consulted before the
raids. Churchill warned the House
that the motion, while technically
aimed at his cabinet, “really falls
o*n the United States.”
Adoption of the motion could
have resulted in the resignation
of the government.
Seafair Will Unload All
Seward Pen. Freight At
Nome and St. Michael
Alaska Steamship Co. has been
advised that the SS. Seafair is
loading over the week-end for
Nome and St.%Michael, with stops
enroute at Seward and Naknek.
There is neither cold storage nor
cool room on this ship.
Golovin freight will be ac
cepted, they are advised, but only
to Nome, and Unalakleet freight
will be unloaded at St. Michael.
Efforts are being made to alert
Kotzebue to get their freight on
the Seafair as far as Nome as the
strike remains deadlocked in its
fifth week.
Alaska Steam Cancels
Sailing of Aleutian, 22nd
Vessel, 2,200 Passengers
SEATTLE, (/P)—Alaska Steam
ship Company announced Mon
day that it has cancelled the
scheduled Friday afternoon sail
ing of the steamship Aleutian be
cause of the shipping strike.
A company spokesman said the
300 passengers who had been
booked for the trip will bring to
2,200 the number who have been
discommoded by the strike of
Sailors Union of the Pacific.
The cancellation of the Alaska
trip is the 22nd since the begin
ning of the walkout, Alaska
Steamship officials said.
Congress Extends
National Firearms
Act To Alaska
The National Firearms Act re
cently re-enacted by Congress re
quires that certain types of fire
arms be registered with the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue,
Washington, D.C., before Septem
ber 1, 1952. The act covers gang
ster-type weapons such as shot
guns and rifles with barrels less
than 18 inches in* length, except
22 caliber or smaller bore, pro
vided barrels are 16 inches or
more in length; machine guns;
sub-machine guns; silencers for
any type firearms or -any type of
gun from which a number of
shots or bullets may be discharg
ed with one continuous pull of the
trigger. f
Persons possessing any such
type firearm should register same
immediately. Registration should
be made on Form 1 (firearms)
which may be obtained by com
municating with the Collector of
Internal Revenue, Tacoma, Wash
ington, or by contacting any of
the local revenue offices at:
14 Federal Building, Anchorage
3 Federal Building, Fairbanks
Federal Building, Juneau
210 Federal Building, Ketchi
kan.
There is ho charge for registra
tion, however, the act provides
a penalty of a fine not to exceed
$2,000, or imprisonment not to ex
ceed five years, or both, for any
one violating any provisions of
the act which includes failure to
register a firearm of the types
above - described, and also pro
hibits the transfer of such fire
arms to any other person with
out payment of the required tax.
Truman Opens
Campaign With
Whistle Stop No. 1
BULL SHOALS DAM, Ark., (/P)
— President Truman opened up
the Democratic presidential cam
paign Wednesday with a slugging
attack on “special interests” and
a blunt suggestion to the South
that it owed its prosperity to the
New and Fair deals.
He accused the private power
interests, the American Medical
Association and the “real estate
lobby” of using the “lying slo
gan” of “Socialism” in fighting
administration efforts to help the
people.
Reporters who read Truman’s
speech in advance, told him it
sounded like a “preview of the
Democratic campaign.”
“That’s what’s intended,” he
said with a grin.
His appeal for Southern votes
was a reminder to the South of
its improvements.
The New and Fair Deal have
done a lot for the whole country,
but “I believe that they have done
more for the south than any other
part of it.”
He described his appearance as
“The number one whistle stop
of 1952. There are going to be
a lot more of them.”
He added, however, this year,
“I’ll be working for somebody
else.”
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Committee Recommends
Perjury Charges Against
Lattimore and Davies
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A Sen
ate committee charged Wednes
day that Owen Lattimore has
been “a conscious articulate in
strument of the Soviet conspir
acy” and recommended perjury
proceedings against him and John
P. Davies, Jr., a State Department
official.
A formal report of the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee
said both Lattimore and Davies
had testified falsely during its re
cently concluded inquiry into the
Institute of Pacific Relations.
Lattimore is a John Hopkins
University professor and a Far
Eastern affairs specialist who has
served as an occasional consult
ant to the State Dept. Davies,
formerly on the State Depart
ment’s policy planning staff, now
is a deputy political adviser to
U. S. occupation authorities in
West Germany.
799 Casualties Listed In
Latest Weekly Report
Of Korean Fighting
V/ASHINGTON, (ff) — The De
fense Department Wednesday re
ported the biggest weekly in
crease in U.S. casualties in the
Korean war since last Nov. 14.
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The department listed 965 casual
ties in the week ended last Fri
day.
Most of the American casual
ties last week were in the Army,
which listed 799 persons killed,
wounded or missing in Korean
fighting. There were 151 Marine
victims, 11 from the Navy and
four from the Air Force, bringing
total U.S. casualties in the fight
ing to 111,576.