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VOL. LIV NO. 78 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1952_Per Copy—15#
Drenching Rain
Swamps Korean
Battlefront
SEOUL, (>P) — Three days of
drenching rain have turned the
Korean battlefront into a soggy
swamp where croaking frogs have
taken over from the booming ar
tillery.
Allied planes were grounded
again Monday. Even all-weather
B-26 light bombers remained at
their bases.
Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus,
Fifth Air Force commander, re
ported Allied planes which bomb
ed the giant Suiho power plant
last week drew heavy fire from
Communist antiaircraft guns ac
ross the Yalu River in Manchuria.
Barcus said Air Force and Navy
pilots made no attempt to silence
the Red guns, although they
blasted Communist anti - aircraft
batteries on the Korean side of
the river. U. N. policy bans air
strikes into Red China.
Barcus said last week’s series
of raids wiped out 13 power
plants, all there were in North
Korea
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, U.S.
Eighth Army commander, has
said Korea’s summer rainy sea
son will make a new Communist
offensive improbable.
Arrest Warrants Issued
To Mine Union Members
For Contempt of Court
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Warrants
for the arrest of 17‘officers and
members of the United Mine
Workers of America for contempt
of court were issued in Federal
Court here Friday.
The union men are members of
the Jonesville and Suntrana locals
of the UMW. They were charged
with violation of an injunction
issued by Federal Judge Harry E.
Pratt.
The complaint, filed by com-'
pany employees, charged that pro
visions of the restraining order
were violated last Monday in a
flare-up of violence.
The company filed a damage
suit Monday for $21,879,500
against the union in federal dis
trict court, asking treble assess
ment of punitive damages. The
firm charged that illegal action
by union members had caused
damage and threatened the com
pany’s future.
Truman Signs Domestic
Money Appropriations
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman signed Monday the first
of the regular domestic appropria
tion bills of 1952, a measure giv
ing the Treasury and Postoffice
Departments $3,437,895,000.
The money finances the two
agencies for the fiscal year start
ing Tuesday.
Its total includes $644,095,000
for the Treasury Dept, and $2,
793,800,000 for the Postoffice
Dept.
In addition to the new cash,
the bill provides for $12,245,000,
000 in permanent appropriations
for such things as interest on the
national debt and social security.
Acheson Assured Austria
U.S. Troops Will Remain
Till Independence Secured
VIENNA, Austria, (/P) — U.S.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
said Monday American troops
will remain in occupied Austria
until its independence is assured.
He blamed Russia for the fail
ure of the Big Four to write a
treaty of independence. To a news
conference of Austrian and Allied
newsmen, he said: “Make no mis
take about it. Of the four powers
in Austria, three want to go
home.”
Acheson is making a two-day
visit to this crossroads country of
east and west. He came here from
Berlin.
His visits to the two Commun
ist-ringed cities are aimed at bol
stering the courage of their peo
ple by reaffirming Western sup
port for their objectives. In the
case of Austria it is the comple
tion of a treaty of independence,
long blocked by Soviet delaying
tactics.
Finland Beauty
Is Crowned
(
Miss Universe
LONG BEACH, Calif., (JP) — A
perfect Scandinavian beauty —
Finland’s blonde Armi Kuusela—
ruled as Miss Universe Monday.
One of her country’s official
greeters at next month’s Olym
pic Games, 18-year-old Miss Kuu
sela reveled in her royal recep
tion after besting beauties from
29 other lands.
The fair, blue-eyed Finn was
crowned with a diamond-studded
coronet that once graced the heads
of three czarinas of Russia. At
her coronation ball Sunday night,
she received a motion picture con
tract, a $3,000 sports car and a
$2,500 wrist watch.
Selected as “the most beautiful
girl in the world,” Miss Finland
is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs
110 pounds. It is symmetrically
distributed on a figure measuring
34, 23 and 34 inches around bust,
waist and hips.
Miss Hawaii, Elsa Edsman, was
a close second; Miss Greece, Daisy
Mavraki was third; with Miss
Hong Kong, Judy Dan, fourth;
and Miss Germany, Renate Hoy,
was fifth.
All finalists, plus Miss United
States, Jackie Loughery, 21, of
Brooklyn, also received three
month minimum film contracts
for $1,000 each.
Recessed Armistice Talks
To Resume On Tuesday
MUNSAN, (JP) — The tightly
deadlocked Korean armistice
talks resume Tuesday after a
three-day recess called by the
Allies and protested by the Com
munists.
The Communists Monday ad
mitted responsibility for an anti
aircraft shell which landed 20
feet from the Panmunjom con
ference tent a few hours before
negotiators met Friday. It caused
no damage. The Reds expressed
regret for the “inadvertent in
cident.”
Rival GOP Slates
Discuss Seating
Of Delegates
(By the Associated Press)
Republicans squared off in con
vention preliminaries at Chicago
Monday, exactly one week before
the 'bell for the main go—nomin
ating candidates for president and
vice president.
Representatives of Sen. Taft
and Gen. Eisenhower met Sunday
night with GOP National Chair
man Guy Gabrielson to discuss
procedure for settling disputes
over seating rival slates of dele
gates.
The contests involve three con
vention votes from Puerto Rico,
38 from Texas, 18 from Florida,
six from Louisiana, four each
from Georgia and Mississippi, two
from Virginia, and one each from
Missouri and Kansas. A sizeable
chunk of these votes could tip the
scales in a close fight for nom
ination.
The Texas delegate dispute is
the hottest. The pro-Taft faction,
in an 84-page brief for the hear
ing, said the issue is whether
Democrats should be allowed to
take over the Republican party in
Texas.
In general, the brief fills out
the group’s outlined argument in
the running battle: that Eisen
hower backers, many of whom
were denied seats at the state
convention which chose the pro
Taft delegation, are really Demo
crats in disguise.
The Eisenhower people claim
their state convention delegates
were duly chosen and should have
been recognized. When they were
not, they set up a separate con
vention which named a rival slate
favoring Eisenhower.
Allies Protest
Red Treatment of
Berliners
BERLIN, </P) — The Western
allies protested to the Russians
Saturday that “inhumane” shack
les have been put on the people
of Berlin by East Zone Com
munists.
In identical notes, the three
Western commandants demanded
the Russians either tell their pup
pet East Zone authorities to stop
restricting the free movement of
Berliners or arrange compensa
tion for the thousands of inno
cent people suffering “untold dis
tress.”
The notes were delivered as
East German Communists stepped
up their assault on the nerves of
West Berliners to mark the visit
of U.S. Secretary off State Dean
Acheson to the Soviet-surrounded
city.
Acheson’s morale-building visit
is ostensibly to lay the corner
stone of the American Memorial
Library in Berlin. But his pres
ence in the city at this tense
period is physical reaffirmation off
Western determination to stand
by the beleaguered former cap
ital, which now lies deep in So
viet-occupied territory.
Looters Beat Salvage Crew
To Wrecked Plane, Steal
Whiskey And Eqdipment
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Thieves
beat a salvage crew to a twin
engined plane trapped in the mud
at Turnagain Arm south of here
Thursday, stripping it of equip
ment and 1"2 cases of whiskey.
The Cordova Air Service craft
was forced down during a check
flight Wednesday. Pilots William
Lockwood and Eric Schutte were
picked up by the Tenth Air Res
cue Squadron just before the in
coming tide piled in to . cover the
plane.
Mechanics flown in at low tide
reported someone had beaten
them. “We got the props,” said
Glen Dillard, air line official,
“but someone else got the rest.”
This included most of the instru
ments, radio equipment, the oil
cooler off one engine — and the
whiskey.”
Economy of
Kenai Peninsula
Heavily Hit
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — The Sail-,
ors’ Union of the Pacific strike
has made deep inroads on the ec
onomy of the Anchorage and
Kenai Peninsula areas, a Times
survey showed.
The survey, conducted as the
strike against the Alaska Steam
ship Co., entered its sixth week,
showed a slowdown in construc
tion jobs, mounting layoffs and a
shortage of foodstuffs, especially
potatoes, flour and canned milk.
Merchants complained of bare
shelves and the rising costs of de
liveries as airlines were forced to
turn down freight in order to get
caught up on backlog.
“The situation is geting worse
by the minute,” an official at the
laborer’s hiring hall told the
Times.
“We are getting 15 to 20 union
members back a day from jobs
that have been slowed down. We
think many of them have gone
back to the States, but others are
still arriving,” he said.
Merrill Weir, head of the U.S.
Employment Office here, con
firmed that jobseekers from the
U.S. were still coming to Alaska
in a steady stream.
On the Kenai Peninsula, Homer
and Seldovia are especially hard
hit by the cut-off from Alaska
Steamship Co., traffic. Bread from
Anchorage is being trucked into
Seldovia because the bakery there
has been forced to close for lack
of supplies. A Seldovia restaurant
owner said a $10 order of fresh
vegetables flown into Homer last
week cost $20 in air freight
charges. The Homer Electric Asso
ciation reported that a power
shortage was likely this winter.
Salmon cannery operations on
the Peninsula are also threatened
by a lack of ships to carry out
this year’s pack. Under normal
conditions the pack is shipped to
stateside warehouses where it is
used as security for loans to can
neries to meet payrolls and pur
chase more fish.
Gruening Appeals
To HST to Provide
Relief For Alaska
SEATTLE, (jP) — Gov. Ernest
Gruening appealed to President
Truman Friday to provide relief
for Alaska, which he called an
“economic hostage” of the West
Coast strike of AFL sailors.
In a telegram to John R. Steel
man, presidential assistant, the
Alaska governor urged that mili
tary ships toe allowed to cany
c’vilian cargoes to the Territory.
He asked that “full govern
mental machinery” be invoked to
ease the pinch on Alaska.
Later he said in an interview
that Alaska’s economy is being
wrecked by the strike of the SUP,
to which “the country’s defenses
have become secondary.”
“No one in Alaska is actually
starving,” Gruening said. “There
are always fish to be caught, for
instance. But the economy of
Alaska is being wrecked. Alaska
must build a strong economy, and
it cannot do that if the shipping
that is so vital is going to be tied
up every year . . . There isn’t a
person in Alaska who hasn’t felt
the hardship resulting from this
tieup.”
He had no comment on the con
tention of Harry Lundeberg, SUP
leader, that plenty of shipping has
been rr^de available to Alaska.
Canadian RAF Avaitor
Wins “Thurlow Award”
For Polar Navigation
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — A
Canadian aviator who has spe
cialized in Arctic flight prob
lems received the annual Sher
man W. Fairchild “Thurlow
Award,” Saturday night as the
man judged to have made the
year’s greatest contribution to the
science of navigation.
Squadron Leader Keith R.
Greenaway, 36, 'of the Royal Can
adian Air Force, was honor guest
at the closing session of the eighth
session of the Institute of Navi
gation, which made the award.
Author of two textbooks on
Arctic navigation problems,
Greenaway has collaborated with
U.S. Air Force research teams in
adapting egular navigating tech
niques to the far northern regions.
Airborne Canned Milk
Selling At Unalakleet,
At Cost, 30 Cents a Can
Unalakleet has added its plea
for a ship to those of other Sew
ard Peninsula towns.
Roth the orphanage, maintained
by the Covenant Mission, and
Traeger’s Store, well-known trad
ing post, are very short of staples.
L. C. Ferguson, manager of the
trading post, has flown in milk
for the children and has sold it
without profit at a landed cost,
which is 30 cents a can.
The orphanage has wired Gov
ernor Gruening and the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce to the ef
fect that they must have food
supplies soon for the children,
numbering about 50 in the home.
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