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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIV No. 114___NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1952 Per Copy—15<
Immigration Men
To Start Screening
Alaskans Dec. 24
SEATTLE, (7P) — Immigration
Director John P. Boyd says im
migration officers will start
Christmas Eve on the job of meet
ing every ship from Alaska.
Anyone who can’t prove he is
an American citizen—and a “de
sirable” one, at that—will be re
fused permission to walk ashore.
Boyd says he has spent several
weeks planning the procedure
under the new McCarran Act
provision that calls for immigra
tion screening of persons coming
out of Alaska—just as they al
ready are on entry from Hawaii
or Puerto Rico.
Boyd says he expects air trav
elers to be checked before de
parture from the territory and
ship passengers after arrival here.
He said the difference arises
from the fact the Immigration
Service has agents at all Alaska
airports but not at all coastal
points served by ships.
“The procedure will be similar
to that now followed at the Cana
dian border,” Boyd explained.
“An American does not have to
have a passport, and there are no
specified documents which he
must carry, but he must be able
to satisfy the examiners that he
is legally entitled to enter the
country.”
Citizenship is not enough. Per
sons considered undesirable, such
as criminals or alleged subver
sives will be kept out, even
though citizenship is not disputed.
The new rules mean that a per
son who goes to Alaska to work
gt for a visit should be sure be
fore he leaves that he will be
able to return.
Justice Dept. Starts Probe
Of Outside Financial Help
To Persons in Public Office
WASHINGTON, (VP)—A special
Justice Department examination
of federal laws in relation to “out
side financial help” received by
public officials is under way
amid considerable confusion as to
how it got started.
A White House secretary said
at first that it was President Tru
man who originated the idea in
connection with the $18,000 ex
pense account provided Sen. Rich
ard Nixon by California support
ers. But two hours later the sec
retary said he had been wrong.
At the Justice Department,
where a crisp “no comment”
greeted all inquiries about the
undertaking, the indications were
that the project was an extension
of Atty. Gen. McGranery’s ap
parent policy of “doing some
thing” about everything that
comes up within his jurisdiction.
One report had it that McGran
ery ordered the inquiry after the
President “mentioned” the Nixon
fund to him after last Friday’s
weekly cabinet meeting.
What was under way was not
an investigation of Nixon himself,
or his special funds, but a broad
study into the whole question of
non-government financial support
for persons in public office.
American Firm May Run
British Blockade And
Buy Iranian Oil
WASHINGTON, </P) — A top
Iranian political leader said Wed
nesday he is talking with an Am
erican business man who says he
can form a 140 million dollar
company to transport and sell
Iranian oil to Europe and Asia.
Hussein Makki, visiting Iranian
deputy, told a reporter his dis
cussions thus far are in the pre
linary stage and that it is im
possible to predict whether they
will succeed. He did not name the
American.
Makki, who is secretary general
of Premier Mossadegh’s National
Front party, indicated the Ameri
can company might be prepared
to run the British blockade and
buy Iranian oil even before Iran
settles its nationalization fight
with Britain.
“Mistakes" In Govt. Farm
Support Program Cost
More Than $10 Million
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Two1
senators said today that mistakes
in ,the government’s vast farm
price support programs — esti
mated to have cost the taxpayers
millions of dollars—can be cor
rected without legislation.
Sen. Clinton Anderson «D-NM>,
former Secretary of Agriculture,
told a reporter that “there is
plenty of authority now to cor
rect errors and deficiencies.”
“All that is needed is more and
tighter supervision at the top,” he
said.
Sen. Milton Young <R-ND> ag
reed with Anderson in a separate
interview.
A highly critical, 43-page re
port o*n the situation was ap
proved by the Senate Agriculture
Committee yesterday.
The report estimated that more
than 10 million dollars worth of
government - owned grain, ac
quired under price support oper
ations, had been embezzled or
taken by “criminal conversion.”
The report agreed with Secre
tary Brannan that no Agriculture
Department officials or employees
had personally profited from these
actions or been involved crimin
ally in the grain shortage.
Consulting Engineer For
DMPA Visits Lost River
To See Potential There
V. A. Brussolo, consulting engi
neer for the Defense Mining Pro
duction Administration of Wash
ington, D.C., arrived on Pan Am
erican yesterday, enroute to Lost
River to get a first-hand picture
of the potentials of that vast en
terprise. On the same flight were:
Henry Stokes and A. Brune of
Rankin and Stokes, auditors, who
are making the annual audit for
U. S. Tin;
Ken Kadow, president of the
company;
Jay Gilmore, manager of the
Seattle office of the company.
National League
Brooklyn 5-0—Philadelphia 4-1
St. Louis 4—Cincinnati 3
American League
Chicago 10—Cleveland 1
Philadelphia 4—Washington 3
St. Louis 3—Detroit 1
Sen. Nixon Gives
Nation Financial
Report on Himself
(By the Associated Press*
The chairman of the Republi
can national committee, Arthur
Summerfield, said today £e is cer
tain Sen. Richard Nixon will stay
on as the party’s candidate for
vice president of 'the United
States.
Dwight Eisenhower, the GOP
presidential nominee, presumably
has the final say and all advance
signs were that he would keep
Nixon.
Nixon spoke to a nation-wide
radio and television audience
last night in defense of his ac
cepting $18,000 for a political ex
pense account. It amounted to a
plea for his political future. He
urged the people to tell the Re
publican National Committee whe
ther they thought he should stay
or quit the race.
As for himself, Nixon said,
“I’m no quitter.” He said the final
decision was up to the national
committee.
Individual members of the com
mittee gave their views to re
porters. Not one called on Nixon
to quit. To a man those willing to
comment lauded his speech last
night and urged him to stick in
the race.
Eisenhower called the speech
“magnificent.”
The speech also brought rapid
and voluminous public reply.
Western Union waded through
one of its greatest logjams.
Thousands of messages flooded
across the country. Most of them,
based on GOP and Western Union
estimates, urged that Nixon stay
on the ticket.
Nixon said he used the money
for purely political purposes and
that he saw nothing wrong in
his actions.
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He took the occasion in his
speech last night to light into Ad
lai Stevenson and Sen. John
Sparkman, the Democratic candi
dates for president and vice presi
dent.
He was giving the public a fin
ancial report on himself, he said
and he thought Stevenson and
Sparkman should do the same.
Jersey Joe Insists On
Return Match with Rocky
PHILADELPHIA, (/P) — Rocky
Marciano, first white man in 15
years to win the world’s heavy
weight boxing championship,
was challenged today by Jersey
Joe Walcott, the dethroned title
holder, who changed his mind
overnight and said he would fight
again.
Walcott said he would go
through with a contract to box
the new champion within 90 days.
Last night the weary 38-year-old
Negro, knocked out in the 13th
round of a slugfest, said that at
last he was through with the ring.
Felix Bocchicchio, Walcott’s
manager, said he announced Jer
sey Joe’s retirement because of
“an honest desire not to see him
get hurt.” After Walcott slept on
it, the fighter declared, in a pre
pared statement,
“I know in mjr heart I can re
gain the championship.”
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Japanese Mission Explores
Possibility Of Tapping
Alaska’s Virgin Forests
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Members
of a three-man mission, here to
learn how Japan may tap Alas
ka’s virgin forests, said today
that Japan may use up its entire
domestic supply of timber in the
next 12 years.
Aki, an engineering professor at
Tokyo University, was the prin
cipal spokesman for a group
which represents a government
endorsed Council for Integrated
Counter-Measures for Forest Re
sources.
With him are Junichiro Koba
yashi, the council’s director gen
eral and executive Vice president
of the Oji Paper Manufacturing
Co., and Shinichi Tamaka, the
council’s executive director. Also
sitting in on the interview was
Masao Sawaki, the Japanese em
bassy’s commercial secretary.
Aki emphasized the mission has
no definite proposal to lay be
fore U.S. officials. He repeated
earlier statements that its pur
pose is merely exploratory to see
whether any such program can
be worked out.
Sawaki, in response to a ques
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tion, said present plans do not
provide for the use of Japanese
labor.
None of the group would com
ment on the course of the confer
ences which began Monday and
may continue for two weeks.
U.S. Flying Boat on Skis
Rescues Three From RAF
Plane on Greenland Icecap
LONDON, (lP) — A specially
equipped U. S. Air Force flying
boat has snatched three airmen—
including one American — from
Greenland’s bleak ice cap where
they had been marooned with
nine crewmates after the crash
of an RAF transport plane.
The British air ministry an
nounced early today that the res
cue plane, a A Grumman SA-16
equipped with skis and take-off
assisting rockets, carried the three
men to the big new American air
base at Thule, in northern Green
land.
A radio message from Green
land said the American — Capt.
Charles Stover of Portland, Me.,
was suffering from severe pains
in the chest, possibly due to a
broken rib. The two Britons res
cued with him had minor in
juries.
An air ministry spokesman said
it was not known whether the
rescue plane would be able to re
turn immediately to pick up the
other nine Britons. Thule is 500
miles from the spot where the
transport crash-landed Sept. 16.
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RFC APPROVES $25,000 LOAN
TO SAGINAW TIMBER CO.
SEATTLE, (/P) — The regional
Reconstruction Finance Corp. of
fice in Seattle announced today
approval of a $25,000 loan to the
Saginaw Timber Co., Inc., of Ju
neau, Alaska, for logging opera
tions. '
Alaska mills need more logs to
meet lumber demands in defense
and housing -construction, it was
explained.
Public Hearing At
8 p. m. Thursday
Before CG Officers
4n open meeting is scheduled
for Thursday evening at 8:00 in
the Federal Building Court Room
for a public hearing before a
group of U.S. Coast Guard offi
cials headed by Capt. W. W.
Kenner, commander of the 17th
U.S. Coast Guard District, which
has its headquarters in Juneau.
The hearing is sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce, as it was
they who sponsored a resolution
to the Coast Guard for the re
establishment of a Coast Guard
station in this area. Several speak
ers will present various phases
of the importance and urgent
need of such a station for Bering
Sea.
Mayor Charles Jones will dis
cuss the cooperation in the past
I of the City government and the
U.S. Coast Guard stationed here
and will tell the safety precau
tions necessary in the area.
Police Chief Clyde Glass will
relate his own personal exper
iences during the past two years
in rescue work and the difficul
ties and hazards in connection
with them.
Ted Duffield will present the
need of a proper authority ashore
to patrol and give warnings when
necessary. Jack Dillon will dis
cuss the need of reliable weather
reports for ships in the area.
Ralph Lomen will survey the
local ship-to-shore problems, and
cover a lifetime of experience.
Preceeding the meeting a din
ner is scheduled at the Bering
Sea Club for Capt. Kenner and
party. Reservations are being
made through Mrs. G. R. Jackson.
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Marciano Kayoes
Walcott In 13th
! PHILADELPHIA, </P) — Rocky
Marciano the guy Jersey Joe
Walcott and many others said
“can’t fight,” today held the
world’s heavyweight champion
ship.
“They’ll probably say he still
can’t fight,” said Trainer Charley
Goldman shortly after the dy
namic, 23-year-old flattened Wal
cott in 43 seconds of the 13th
round with one perfect right and
sent him into retirement.
Rocky, battered and bleeding,
was knocked down for the first
time in his career in the first
round, but came back to end one
of the most exciting battles of
modern times with one perfectly
executed right hand blow to Wal
cott’s jaw.
Walcott didn’t show his age as
he fought a brilliant battle—until
the payoff punch. The old gent
was well ahead on the scorecards
of all three officials.
Thus, as he won the title, Jer
sey Joe lost it—with one blow.
“He’s through,” said Walcott’s
manager Felix Bocchocchio.
On his 40 per cent, Walcott
earned approximately $188,000.
Rocky, cut in for 20 per cent,
earned about $94,035. Marciano,
a 9 to 5 favorite, weighed 184
to Walcott’s 196.
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