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VOL. LIV No. 145NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1952Per Cdpy—15^
Walter Reuther
New President
Of The CIO
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., (£>)—
The CIO’s new president, Walter
P. Reuther, charted a fighting
program Friday to keep the labor
organization an active factor in
America’s industrial life.
Reuther, in a speech accepting
the post as successor to the late
Philip Murray, said he would
strive for the biggest possible
gains for workers already organ
ized, and campaign vigorously to
organize workers who are now
non-union.
Election of the dynamic, 45
year-old Reuther, head of the big
CIO Auto Workers Union, came
late Thursday as a climax to the
£IO’s annual convention.
It capped a bitterly-contested
fight pitting Reuther against a
union old-timer and former coal
miner, Allan S. Haywood. Hay
wood, 64, was promptly re-elected
as the CIO’s executive vice-presi
dent after losing the showdown
. to Reuther.
The split in CIO ranks over the
election apparently was quickly
healed, at least on the surface.
Both the Reuther and Haywood
forces pledged continued alleg
iance to the CIO.
BOMBERS HIT CHINESE REDS
FOR THIRD STRAIGHT DAY
SEOUL, (yP) — Allied fighter
bombers plastered Chinese Reds
on the central front for the third
straight day Friday.
Action was virtually nil along
the frozen battle front. The Reds
threw no' more than 40 men into
their scattered jabs at the Allied
lines.
Okinawa Superforts blasted a
big supply center in extreme
northwestern Korea, some 25
miles from Manchuria. Night-fly
< ing B-26 bombers also struck at
Communist supply facilities else
where in North Korea.
EMPTY GAS TANK CAN MEAN
DEAD MOTORIST ON
ALASKA'S HART HIGHWAY
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., (£>)—
An empty gas tank can mean a
f dead motorist on the John Hart
Highway, public works officials
were warned this week.
Because stranded motorists run
the risk of freezing to death be
fore help arrives, they said, signs
ordering “daylight driving only”
may be posted for the winter.
The new, 274 - mile highway
claws through the wilderness
from Prince George to Dawson
Creek.
RECOVERY PARTY SETS UP
CAMP AT 5.500-FOOT. LEVEL
ANCHORAGE, (yP) — Twelve
men attempting to recover the
bodies of 52 persons, killed in
the Nov. 22 crash of a military
plane into the side of Mt. Gan
nett, have set up a camp at the
mountain’s 5,500 foot level.
~The party still is eight miles in
direct line from the wreckage on
the 8,000-foot level of Surprise
Glacier. Alaska Command of
ficials said they will have to
travel much more than 8 miles
to reach the bodies, however.
Juneau Chamber To Raise
$5,0Q0 To Help Pay Cost
Of Injunction Suit
JUNEAU, (/P) — The Juneau
Chamber of Commerce accepted
a proposal of its Strike Commit
tee director Thursday to push for
an “Alaska injunction suit” ag
ainst the picketing of ships in
Seattle that carry cargo to Al
aska.
The Chamber voted to raise
$5,000 among Juneau business
men to help pay the cost of in
stituting such a suit.. (Such a suit
was filed in Seattle Thursday by
waterfront employers seeking to
halt picketing in the longshore
foremen’s dispute which has tied
up the port for 26 days.)
The Strike Committee announ
ced that it had reecived messages
fi'om nine other Alaska cities ap
pi'oving such action. They were
Sewai'd, Seldovia, Fairbanks,
Haines, Sitka, Cordova, Ketchi
kan, Skagway and Petei'sburg.
Part of the fund, a spokesman
said, would be used to pay the
expenses of sending a member of
Atty. Gen. J. Gerald Williams’
staff to Seattle to work with a
Seattle law fii'm. Advices from an
attorney there say there is a good
possibility of winning such a
court case, the spokesman added.
Truman and Stevenson
Aim Democratic Sights on
Control of 1954 Congress
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Presi
dent Truman and Adlai Steven
son trained the defeated Demo
cratic party’s sights Friday on
victory in 1954 without endan
gering the nation’s welfare.
In separate news conferences
during the day, they said Repub
lican President-elect Eisenhower’s
administration will get a fair
chance to show what it can do.
The Democratic party, they
said, will try to wipe out its cam
paign deficit and then go after
recapturing Congress in the 1954
elections.
Above all, as Stevenson put it,
“Party interests must be subor
dinated to the interests of the
country and the public welfare.”
The Illinois governor, who like
Truman will be out of public of
fice next year, came to the White
House Wednesday night to dis
cuss the Democratic party’s fu
ture.
INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE
TO REMAIN IN TACOMA
WASHINGTON, (yP)—The of
fice of the Director of Internal
Revenue for Washington and Al
aska will remain in Tacoma.
It had been tentatively decided
to transfer the bureau’s Tacoma
operations to Seattle where the
District Commissioner for Wash
ington, Alaska, Oregon and Ida
ho will be headquartered under
the recent reorganization. Secre
tary of the Treasury Snyder dis
closed the decision Thursday.
Coach "Dutch" Meyer Quits
FORT WORTH, Texas, (vP)
L. R. (Dutch) Meyer quit as head
football coach at Texas Christian
University after 19 years in the
job. He will be succeeded by his
chief ’ assistant, Abe Martin.
The little man who gained na
tional fame with his razzle dazzle
football teams will remain as ath
letic director.
9 U. S. Employees
Fired From U.N.
For Red Activities
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (JP)
— U.N. sources said Secretary
General Trygve Lie fired nine
American employes Friday, for
refusing to answer McCarran
Committee questions about Com
munist affiliations and subver
sive connections. This brings to
18 the number dismissed in 1952
for this cause.
Lie, in a formal statement,
warned his staff of 3,000 they
face the same fate if they act
similarly.
Lie, in his statement to the Sec
retariat, said he was following the
advice of a distinguished three
man panel of international jurists
who recommended this course.
He announced that within a
few days he would set up an ad
visory panel to help him in deal
ing with specific cases.
Fairbanks C of C Asks
For Legislation To Assure
Steady Shipping to Alaska
SEATTLE, ,(/P)—The Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce has ap
pealed to Northwest cities for
help in pressing for legislation
that will assure steady shipping
to Alaska, a Seattle Chamber of
Commerce official said Friday.
A1 Shyman, chairman of the
Chamber’s Alaska division, said
the Fairbanks Chamber wants
Congress to enact legislation that
would put Alaska shipping on a
basis similar to that of railroads.
Work continues during a “cool
ing off” period in the case of rail
road disputes.
Shyman said the Fairbanks
group in its appeal described
strikes on Seattle’s waterfront as
“a tremendous hazard to the ec
onomic welfare of the Territory.”
“Our first efforts since the
latest tieup was to get some ships
to Alaska,” Shyman said. “We
have been successful to a limited
degree. This looks like the next
step.”
Air Force Accepts First
600 M.P.H. Thunderstreak
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (£>) —
The Air Force has accepted the
first in a new series of jet fighter
planes in the “over-600-miles-an
hour class.”
The first “Thunderstreak” off
the Republic Aviation Corp. pro
duction line Wednesday was ac
cepted by Air Undersecretary
Roswell L. Gilpatrick. A flight
demonstration followed.
Republic said the swept-wing
F-84F fighter is an advancement
over the “Thunderjets” now being
used in Korea, and the new craft
can carry greater external arma
ment and fuel load.
ALEUTIAN QUAKE RECORDED
CLEVELAND, .(AP)— John Car
rol University reported Thursday
it recorded a slight earthquake at
5:02 a.m. (Bering Time) Wednes
day 4,200 miles northwest of Clev
eland in the vicinity of the Al
eutians.
In New York, Fordham Uni
versity reported two shocks, “not
very serious” were recorded 5100
miles away but did not know the
direction.
Gen. Eisenhower C
Day Tour of K<
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GOP Senators Minimize
Import Taft’s Remarks On
Ike’s Secretary of Labor
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Two Re
publican senator poured oil on
troubled waters Friday in the
wake of Sen. Robert A. Taft’s
sharp protest against President
elect Eisenhower’s selection for
Secretary of Labor.
“I don’t think one remark
should be considered a split any
more than one swallow makes a
summer,” Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich)
told reporters. “We’ve got many
big problems and we’ve got to
work them out as a team.”
A similar note was struck by
Sen. Watkins (R-Utah) in a sep
arate interview. He said he
thought Republican senators
would be “a peaceful group”
when they assemble for the start
of the next Congress on Jan. 3.
Watkins, who supported Taft
for the GOP presidential nomin
ation, said that-, despite talk to
the contrary, he did not think
there was “any feud or fight”
over the post of Republican floor
leader in the new Senate.
This is a position providing
the most ready access to the man
in the White House.
Russia Priest From Bering
Sea Island Complains
Seals Eat All the Fish
SEATTLE, (JP) — A visiting
Russian orthodox priest from the
tiny St. Paul island in the Bering
Sea says there’s one disadvantage
to living there—it’s no fish.
If he wants herring for his
table, for example, they must be
shipped from Seattle, the Rev.
Makarx A. Baranoff explained
Thursday.
“The seals catch all the fish for
a hundred miles, around our is
land.” he said. “The seals are
much better fishermen than the
Aleut natives.
“So the Aleuts spend their sum
mers sealing, and their winters
in trapping foxes.”
The Rev. Baranoff, only two
months from his 70th birthday,
and his wife are visiting friends
here. He performed a wedding
Thanksgiving Eve for a coupe for
whom he and Mrs. Baranoff are,
respectively, godfather and god
mother. He has served on the is
land 16 years.
Next Administration Will
Decide Foreign Policy,
Truman Officials Say
WASHINGTON, •(£>)—'The Tru
man administration apparently
plans to make no further policy
moves to solve the Korean situa
tion. The next step, officials said
Thursday, will be up to Presi
dent-elect Eisenhower.
Officials said Thusrday it will
be up to the incoming regime to
make any fundamental changes
such as prosecuting the’ war be
yond its present limits or putting
additional economic or military
pressures on Communist China.
The Truman administration is
said to feel no new policy moves
are advisable before Eisenhower’s
inauguration seven weeks away.
□mpletes Three
>rean Comhat Zone
By DON WHITEHEAD
SEOUL, (IP) — U.S. President
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower took
a hard look at the Korean war
situation for three days, inspected
combat units near the front and
departed for the United States.
He indicated he does not be
lieve in attacking Red China or
otherwise spreading the 2Vfe-year
old conflict.
Shortly before his departure,
Eisenhower visited President
Syngmun Rhee of South Korea
for a hastily arranged conference.
It was Eisenhower’s last act in
his three-day tour and lifted a
veil of disappointment that had
prevailed in South Korean gov
ernment circles since it hud been
indicated he might not pay his
respects to Rhee.
Eisenhower had left New York
by plane in the pre-dawn hours
Saturday. He arrived here Tues
day night. His flight was a tight
ly-guarded secret.
The general—chief of the cru
sade to victory in Europe in
World War II—was fulfilling a
promise he made to American
voters in making the trip.
The general told a news con
ference before leaving: “We came
over here to learn. We have no
panaceas, no trick ways of set
tling any problem.”
But he strongly indicated the
solution to the Korean conflict
does not lie in spreading the war
to attack Red China.
He found Korea raw and cold,
heaped with the dead and rubble
of war, a waif among nations
shivering in its third war winter’s
snows.
If he found a way to stop the
slaughter, he did not say so.
Neither did he divulge any
plans he may have formed to
take American boys at once from
the miserable foxholes and re
place them with freshly trained
ROK troops.
He talked with troops of the
U. S., Korea, Britain, France,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Thai, the Philippines — the na
tions whose young men keep the
northern watch in Asia against
encroaching Communism.
The President - elect risked
death from Russian - made jet
fighters and from snipers and
assassins on the ground.
Eisenhower’s son, Maj. John
Eisenhower, was assigned as his
father’s aide during his tour of
Korea.
The long flight from the States
apparently did not - faze Eisen
hower. He was in high spirits. He
kept up a running fire of conver
sation with the field command
ers. Occasionaly he paused for a
joke or anecdote with his old
West Point companions, Generals
Clark and Van Fleet.
To maintain secrecy enrotite to
Korea, he did not leave his plane
until it reached lonely Iwo Jima
in the Pacific. On the long jaunt
from New York, Eisenhower’s
plane carried a double crew to
insure that a rested and alert
hand was on the controls at all
times.
A news blackout on all move
ments prevailed from the time he
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