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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIV No. 89 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1952_Per Copy—15^
Blood Typing Program
Provides MMM Hospital
With Walking Blood Bank
Frank Pauls of the Alaska De
partment of Health Laboratory
Department of Anchorage, assis
ted by Marshall Gordon of the
MS Health, who volunteered to
assist him, and local volunteer
help, blood-typed 399 Thursday at
the ANS Clinic in the Federal
Building.
Mr. Pauls states that this is
a community program with Civ
ilian Defense and the Alaska De
partment of Health and once the
community has been typed, each
person will have his own card or
tag, the hospital will have a com
plete record as well as the Civ
ilian Defense headquarters in
Nome and a master copy will al
ways be available at Anchorage
in case of disaster. He stated that
the local doctor will now be able
to call upon his “walking blood
bank” and have blood in emer
gencies within a few minutes.
The clinic was open this morn
ing and this afternoon was held
at the King Island Village.
All those who have not had
time to be typed may do so this
evening from 7 to 9 o’clock.
Many Original Klondike
Pioneers Will Attend
Seattle Reunion Aug. 7
SEATTLE, </P) — Many of the
original pioneers of the Klondike
gold rush of ’98 will attend the
International Sourdough Reunion
here next month although 54
years have passed since the magic
words, “tons of gold” hit the na
tion’s newspaper headlines, Sec
retary Lulu M. Fairbanks said to
day.
The three day sessions open on
August 7.
The president of the Grand Ig
loo of Alaska Pioneers, E. B. Col
lins of Fairbanks, will fly south
and Dan Sutherland, former Al
aska Delegate to Congress, will
come from New Hampshire, Miss
Fairbanks said.
Others expected include S. S.
“Skiff” Mitchell, “Ray” Stewart,
Crystal McQuesten Morgan, Shel
Wettach, Judge E. Coke Hill, Jack
Robarts, T. W. Bucholz, D. E.
Griffith, Mrs. Harriet Osborn,
George Black, Dr. W. E. Thomp
sen, Nathan Kresge, Alex Low,
and others.
Death of Civil War Vet,
Israel Broadsword, 105,
Leaves Only 3 In G.A.R.
SPOKANE, (/P) — Israel Broad
sword, who took up arms at the
age of 14 to fight in the Civil
War, died Friday at the age of
105.
His death leaves only three liv
ing veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic. A resident of
Samuels, Idaho, since 1929, he
was hospitalized at the Spokane
Veterans Hospital 10 days ago for
diseases of old age.
Broadsword responded to his
country's call three times, enlist
ing in the 51st Missouri Volunteer
Infantry at the age of 14, and
later in the regular army when
only 16. After the Civil War he
rode with the l’th Kansas Caval
ry as a sergeant during the Sioux
uprising.
Truman Demands,
Gets Settlement
In Steel Strike
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The long
est, costliest steel strike in Ameri
can history in effect is over. Pro
duction is expected to resume
next week.
The striking CIO Steelworkers
Union was considered virtually
certain Friday to ratify a strike
end agreement reached at the
White House after President Tru
man personally demanded — and
got — a settlement.
It was not a clear-cut victory
for anyone concerned—the union,
industry, or the government.
There was give and take on all
sides.
The end of the crippling, 53
day strike was announced late
Thursday by the President him
self, w^th CIO President Philip
Murray\and U.S. Steel chairman
Benjamin Fairless standing be
side him.
At best it will be four or five
days before any substantial pro
duction of steel is reached.% It
takes that long to heat up the
banked blast furnaces which
stand-by workers have kept alive
ever since the strike started on
June 2.
The new steel which comes out
of some 380 struck plants will
sell for at least $5.20 a ton more
than before the strike started.
Some officials have predicted
that such a boost would increase
the cost of living, already at an
all-time high.
The $5 price increase, ironically
enough, was the price increase
Charles E. Wilson as Defense
Mobilizer, had said the industry
should get to compensate for
higher wage costs.
No wage or other terms were
announced at the White House
session, but it was reliably learn
ed the agreement includes: a
wage boost of 16 cents an hour
for 650,000 basic steel workers;
a highly modified form of union
shop; six paid holidays; a two
year contract dating from last
June 30, with a wage reopener
next June 30.
The strike, longest in the na
tion’s steel history, will have cost
more than 21 million tons of the
defense-vital metal by the time
full production is resumed.
End of Steel Strike
Prevents Disaster In
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Canned Foods Industry
PITTSBURGH, (fl>) — Charles
W. York, executive secretary of
the Pennsylvania Canners Asso
ciation, said Friday the steel strike
ended just in time to prevent a
disaster in the country’s canned
food industry.
York said railroad cars will be
waiting at mill gates to load
stored tin plate the minute plants
open.
“It is still too early to predict
how much damage has been done
to the canning business. It de
pends on too many ifs, such as
condition/ of the stored tin plate.
How fast it can be delivered to
can manufacturers and how quick
can deliveries can be made to the
canners.”
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Bucket Line Saves
Kotzebue Mercantile Co.
Building From Burning
Special to the Nome Nugget
Destruction of a good portion
of Kotzebue by fire when the old
Magids Store building caught
fire was averted early today by
the prompt formation of a bucket
line. Men and women of the vil
lage and visitors to Kotzebue
formed a bucket line from Kotze
bue Sound to the roof of building.
The building housed the Kotze
bue Mercantile Company, owned
by Beulah Levy. There was con
siderable damage to the upper
storey.
No wind and immediate alarms
brought control which prevented
the flames from spreading to ad
j a c e n t frame structures and
sweeping Front Street.
Truman Commutes Death
Sentence of Puerto Rican
Who Tried to Kill Him
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman is sparing the life of the
Puerto Rican who tried to assassi
nate him at Blair House in 1950.
Presidential secretary Joseph
Short announced — without com
ment— late Thursday that the
death sentence of Oscar Collazo
had been commuted to life impri
sonment.
The 38-year-old Puerto Rican
had been scheduled to die in the
electric chair here on Aug. 1 for
his part in the death plot.
Collazo’s fight for life had been
rebuffed by the highest federal
courts. Truman, the man he tried
to kill, was his last source of
clemency.
In New York City, Callazo’s
wife, Rose, expressed her grati
tude to President Truman. She
said she and her friends would
seek to have Collazo freed from
prison.
“We thank God for what has
happened, she said. “I think Presi
dent Truman made a grand ges
ture and Puerto Ricans in gen
eral will be grateful for it.”
Alaska OPS Personnel
To Be Trimmed from, 34 to 21
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Fred G.
Hanford, territorial director of
the Office of Price Stabilization,
said Thursday, the Juneau staff
would be trimmed from 34 to 21
as a result of the curtailed ap
propriation for controls agencies
voted by Congress last month.
Hanford said present plans
were to retain branch OPS offices
at Anchorage and Fairbanks and
to eliminate certain functions of
the Juneau office.
Last Yukon River Boats
To Leave Nenana Aug. 10
ANCHORAGE, (£>)—'The Alas
ka Railroad said Thursday that
the final runs of its river boats
to the villages of Fort Yukon and
Marshall are scheduled to leave
Nenana Aug. 10.
. Railroad officials urged Alas
kan shippers with freight for the
two river points to get their goods
to the railroad in time to reach
Nenana before the last sailings.
Ice begins to appear on the Yu-'
kon and Tanana rivers early in
September and the Villages are
then cut off from service until
May.
Convention News
By JACK BELL
CONVENTION HALL, Chicago
<>P) — Weary, squabbling Demo
crats deployed for their payoff
battle over *a presidential nomi
nee Friday with hastily assem
bled stop-Stevenson troops dug in
on defense.
Supporters of Gov. Adlai Stev
enson—now somewhat less reluc
tant to become the party standard
bearer than he has been before—
carried the attack to 10 opponents
seeking the top nomination.
The Stevenson men were cred
ited with bringing back into the
convention fold bolt - threatening
delegations from Virginia, South
Carolina and Louisiana.
Working together in what they
have styled a “liberal” combine
which has attracted supporters of
some other candidates, Kefauver
and Harriman took a 648Vfe to 512
licking in efforts to prevent the
28-vote Virginia delegation from
balloting on presidential and vice
presidential nominees.
The Virginians had refused to
subscribe fully to a new loyalty
pledge put across by the K-H
combine which would require
delegates to go to work to place
the convention’s nominees on
their state’s November ballot, un
der the Democratic label. The net
result was to leave the three dele
gations in a position to cast a
total of 64 convention votes for
the South’s champion, Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell.
Then, if they didn’t like the
eventual nominee, they could go
home and name their own candi
date for president in state con
ventions. All they appeared to be
pledged to do, was to give the
national party a place on their
state ballots.
Earlier in the day word had
come to party leaders from the
White House that President Tru
man prefers Stevenson.
CIO Delegates Are Asked
To Vote For Stevenson
CHICAGO, i/P) — Jack Kroll,
CIO political action director, Fri
day asked all CIO member-dele
gates at the Democratic conven
tion to vote for Gov. Adlai Stev
enson of Illinois.
Kroll issued a statement through
a press aide saying that he wanted
all CIO members who are con
vention delegates to vote for Ste
venson as the presidential nomi
nee “as soon as they can fulfill
their commitments.”
By this he said he meant they
should vote for Stevenson on the
first ballot, or on the soonest
subsequent ballot possible.
The CIO had been wavering be
tween three candidates, Steven
son, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee and Mutual Security Di
rector Averell Harriman.
CHICAGO, </P) — Alaska’s gov.
Ernest Gruening seconded the
nomination of Sen. Estes Kefau
ver Thursday for the Democratic
presidential nomination as a dem
onstrated “winner” and the peo
ple’s choice.
Gruening said “if the American
people were selecting a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
the presidency it would be Estes
Kefauver.”
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Coast-of-Living Index
Reaches All-Time High,
Almost Treble Base Period
WASHINGTON, </P) — The cost
of living, as measured by the gov-,
ernment, soared to an all - time
high in mid-June.
Figures made public by the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics Thursday,
showed that on June 15 the price,
of food, clothing, rent, entertain-,
ment and other daily living costs
was 189.6 per cent of the 1935
1939 period.
That was 11.4 per cent higher
than two years ago, just before
the Korean fighting started.
The cost-of-living index jump
ed five-tenths of a point over the
previous record high for last Jan
uary, under the pressure of higher
costs for food, rent, and miscel
laneous goods and services.
About 400,000 wage- earners
may get a pay hike as a result of
the new index. These workers
have contracts which tie their
wages to the rise and fall of the
index.
Seattle Businessmen Urge
CAB End Equal Air
Rates To Alaska
PORTLAND, (JP) — A Civil
Aeronautics Board hearing on
freight rates between Pacific
Northwest points and Alaska re
sumed here Friday.
A group of Seattle businessmen
urged Thursday an end to the
CAB ruling that gives Portland
and Seattle the same air freight
rates to Alaska.
Seattle is 135 miles closer and
pioneered air shipments to the
territory, Seattle speakers said.
Therefore, Seattle merchants
should be permitted to ship at
lower freight rates, they added.
Earlier in the hearing Portland
and Alaska businessmen urged
continuation of present schedules.
News Blackout Lifted
After 18 Off-the-Record -
Armistice Truce Meetings
MUNSAN, (JP) — The three
week news blackout was lifted
from the Korean armistice talks
Friday, showing the deadlock over
prisoner exchange — final issue
blocking a truce—still unbroken.
Despite a United Nations offer
to return an additional 13,000
captives to the Communists, 18
off-the-record meetings since July
4 proved “completely fruitless,”
said Maj. Gen. William K. Harri
son, Jr.
The chief Allied delegate saidv
“As long as we continue negotia
tions there is always hope. When
the enemy proposed this morning
that we go back into open ses
sions, I agreed heartily.”
THURSDAY BASEBALL
(Br thx Associated Press)
American League
Cleveland 4—New York 2
Chicago 3—Boston 0
Detroit 4—Washington 2
St. Louis 4—Philadelphia 3
National League
Cincinnati 3-1—Brooklyn 2-2
New York 9—St Louis 5
Boston 3—Chicago 1
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 6-1—Los Angeles 0-2
Hollywood 5—Sacramento 3
San Diego 6—Portland 3
Oakland 4—San Francisco 3