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VOL. LV No. 7 NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Harry Truman Makes His Farewell
Address To Nation As President
WASHINGTON, UP) — Retiring*
President Truman predicts Soviet
Russia’s aggressive schemes will
collapse, sooner or later, under
the growing weight of the free
world’s defenses.
And that, he forecast in a fare
well to the nation from the White
House Thursday night, will lead
to a new golden age—to an era
of spreading world authority, and
of peace “as far ahead as man
can see.”
Truman took over the nation’s
radio and television networks for
a highly personal, sometimes
emotional, review 6f his eight
turbulent years in the White
House and for a guess at how
■they may look in the light of
history.
He pointed to dangers ahead—
of a possible new world war that
would dig the grave of western
civilization and of its Communist
epemy alike.
He disclaimed for this nation
any will to provoke such a con
flict by hurling ultimatums or by
using terrible new weapons:
“Starting an atomic war is totally
unthinkable for rational men.”
He called for complete public
support for his successor, Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
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Finally, putting eight years of
controversy behind, the outgoing
President ended his valedictory
with a gentle:
“Good night — and Gad bless
you all.”
As he did so, Mrs. Truman and
Margaret appeared on either side
of him for the TV cameras.
Truman’s last address from the
chastely decorated oval office he
will vacate Tuesday came only a
few hours after he handed a firm
piece of advice to his successor:
Free - for - -all news conferences
may be tough on you but don’t
give them up—the people are en
titled to them.
Truman rang a number of emo
tional changes in his speech,
with associates said was mostly
his own work.
He recalled the dread day in
1945 when a telephone call sum
moned him to the White House
•and, by the accident of death, to
the job he regards as the hardest
in the world.
He told his audience that as he
empties the drawers of his desk
he and Mrs. Truman have no re
grets—that he hopes and believes
he has contributed to the nation’s
welfare and the world’s peace.
All Alaska Chamber Hear Speakers
Call For Relief From Waterfront
Strikes and Highest Taxes In Nation
JUNEAU, UPl—Speakers called
for relief from crippling water
front strikes and what they called
“unfair” taxes during the second
day of the All-Alaska Chamber
of Commerce meeting here.
Depletion of Alaska’s fisheries
and changes in “antiquated” land
laws were other topics in the
spotlight.
Byrdn Gillam, Fairbanks busi
nessman, led the attack on taxes,
with an assertion that Alaskans
pay the highest per capita tax in
the nation. That, plus the high
cost of living and doing business,
he said, makes it necessary for
Alaskans to have double or triple
incomes for a living standard
comparable to that in the states.
Gillam said the Alaska busi
nessman must make so much
more before taxes, to keep ahead
of costs, that he gets into higher
income bracket and has to pay a
penalty for it.
He said it costs $15 to $20 per
square foot to build a commer
cial plant in Alaska compared to
$4.50 in Texas.
Mayor Ralph Rivers of Fair
banks, contending the government
skims off too much, suggested a
law to permit cities to give new
industries tax relief. Roy John
son of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce added:
“Alaska must have special con
sideration to compete with other
areas for risk capital.”
A five or 10-year exemption
from federal income tax for new
businesses in the territory; double
exemptions; exemption of profits
that are reinvested in the terri
tory; a 25 per cent gross income
tax exemption.
A1 Shyman, Seattle Chamber
of Commerce representative, pre
dicted a recurrence of the Seattle
waterfront strike that crippled
Alaska shipping late in 1952, with
an eventual fight to the finish be
tween the Harry Bridges - led
Longshoremen’s Union and the
Harry Lundberg - led AFL Mari
time Unions.
A1 Owen, business agent for the
Anchorage AFL Longshoremen,
said unions and the chamber there
found they want the same goal—
development of the area — and
they now are working together.
He cautioned against creating
“class hatred” and warned that
“to let the I.T.W.U. (Bridges) to
dominate the coast waterfronts
wbuld be ruinous.” He said the
solution was in legislation and
good public relations.
Inaugural Ball at Pioneer Hall
Dancing & Cards 9 to 12 TTTF^hDAY Admission
Peppy D^ance Orchestra ^ U I $1.00
Truman Reserves
Submerged Oil
Lands For Navy
WASHINGTON, UPl — President
Truman set aside submerged off
shore land as a Navy oil reserve
Friday in the teeth of bitter' con
gressional protests.
In a statement aimed at those
seeking passage of legislation to
vest ownership in the coastal
states of California, Texas and
Louisiana, the President declared:
“It has been, and still is, my
firm conviction that it would be
the height of folly for the United
States to give away the vast
quantities of oil contained in the
continental shelf and then buy
back this same oil at stiff prices
for use by the Army, the Navy,
and the Air Force in the defense
of the nation.”
“Outrageous,” “an illegal power
grab,” “personal spite” — these
were some of, the terms used on
Capitol Hill to describe the action.
Truman also found a few de
fenders, but they made it clear
they had little hope his order
would stand very long.
Forty senators already have in
troduced a bill to give to the
states control of the lands under
the marginal seas, containing bil
lions of dollars worth of oil.
President-elect Eisenhower has
said he favors doing so. His stand
may have helped him carry Texas
which is one of the states pri
marily affected.
The Senate passed an identical
measure last year 50 to 35 and
the House by an even bigger
margin.
Truman vetoed the bill with
the assertion that it would amount
to a 100-billion barrel steal for
oil companies — a contention he
repeated at his news conference
yesterday.
The Supreme Court has held
that the federal government has
paramount rights in and dominion
over the lands. But it also said
Congress could turn them over to
the states if it wished.
In The War In Korea . . .
SEOUL, ti^U-S. Sabre jets—
outnumbered four-to-one—sent a
Communist MIG-15 spinning to
earth and damaged another Fri
day while Allied fighter-bombers
continued blasting Red supply
arteries.
Royal Australian Meteor jets
and U.S. fighter-bombers teamed
in blasting a road bridge 15 miles
south of Pyongyang, and on the
main supply route to the frozen
western and central fronts.
The daylight raids followed a
B-29 Superfort predawn attack on
a 190-a'cre Communist barracks
area near Huichon in north cen
tral Korea.
On the battlefront, the mercury
skidded to nine below zero on
the central front last night—sec
ond coldest reading of the winter.
Charley Jones
Probably Will Be
Senate President
(By the Associated Press>
The Republican leader of Al
aska’s Territorial Senate said yes
terday that Chas. D. Jones of
Nome probably will be named the
1953 Senate president.
Sen. John Butrovich of Fair
banks made the prediction as the
first legislators were starting to
ward Juneau for the Jan. 26 leg
islative opening. It wili be the
first Republican - controlled leg
islature in years.
Butrovich, the Republican floor
leader for the past two sessions,
said flatly in Seattle he will not
be a candidate for the presidency
and would not accept it. He said
he had talked to several other
Republican senators and they also
had expressed favor for Jones.
Butrovich also turned down the
prospect of the Senate presidency
two years ago, stating that he
preferred the floor seat, where he
could take a more active part in
debate.
Sen. Gerrit (Heinie) Snider of
Wasilla, said at Anchorage that if
Butrovich turned down the presi
dency, he thought it might be
offered to him (Snider), but “I
don’t want it. I want to sit where
I always do, and talk a little bit.”
Organization of both houses is
expected to proceed rapidly this
session. _ ..
Most legislators will be flying
to Juneau next week for pre
legislative caucuses. 1
Several of them are now in the
States. At least one, Rep. Herald
Stringer of Anchorage, left last
week for the presidential inaug
uration of General Eisenhower.
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Thickest Fog in Years
Muffles N.Y. Harbor
NEW YORK, UP)—'The thickest
fog in years muffled New York
harbor Friday, slowing shipping
to rowboat pace.
In the second morning of heavy
fog two New Jersey Central Rail
road ferry boats, bumped at the
Liberty Street slip in lower Man
hattan. No one was hurt and there
was no damage.
Eleven persons were injured
and hundreds shaken up Thurs
day when a Staten Island ferry
collided with an 8,000-ton freight
er near the Statue of Liberty.
Idlewild Airport had its worst
weather tie-up since the big air
terminal was opened in 1948.
Scheduled flights stacked up as
the field alternately opened and
closed during the past 24 hours.
It was so foggy that four geese
got lost when they took off for a
little air spin from their Bronx
Zoo home late Thursday. They
eventually landed on an apart
ment house a mile away.
Frank Heintzleman
Reported Slated
For Governor
(By the Associated Press!
Reports from Washington, D.C.,
to the Pacific Northwest pointed
toward B. Frank Heintzleman,
Alaska’s Regional Forester, Fri
day as the man on the inside
track for governor of Alaska.
Douglas McKay, who will make
the recommendation for the gov
ernorship, as the new Secretary
of the Interior, said in Washing
ton, however:
“I haven’t recommended any
one officially although I have
talked the matter over informally
with Sherman Adams fan Eisen
hower assistant).”
The Seattle Times correspond
ent in Washington said Heintzle
man had become the top prospect
because he had numerous sup
porters and few strong critics,
while the ogre of factionalism
arose in connection with most of
the other prospects who have
been listed as strong contenders
at ope time or another.
Heintzleman is 60 years old and
has had a long non-political ca- *
reer in Alaska. He went there
first as a young forester in World
War I to direct the procuring of
spruce for airplanes.
He later was assigned there in
1921 and has been there ever
since. He has been Regional For
ester since 1937, devoting much
of his effort in recent years to
procuring new lumber and pulp
industries for southeast Alaska.
Sen. Taft Does Not
Contest Confirmation
Labor Secretary Durkin
WASHINGTON, W — The Sen
ate Labor-Committee recommend
ed Senate confirmation of Mar
tin P. Durkin as Secretary of
Labor Friday without a word of
protest from Sen. Taft who had
termed the selection “incredible.”
Taft raised no objection of any
kind at a half-hour public hearing
held informally by the committee
to clear the decks for Durkin’s
Inauguration Day installation in
public office. Taft himself smil
ingly gave reporters the first
word of the unanimous approval.
Durkin, who was head of the
AFL’s Plumbers Union, is a
Democrat; he supported Gov.
Adlai Stevenson against Eisen
hower.
Eisenhower wants all of his
cabinet choices approved by the
Senate in time for them to take
their oaths of office on inaugu
ration day.
At the public hearing, Taft said
he had little to ask, then remark
ed that he understood the sec
retary-designate has stated that
“You will regard yourself as a
representatives of the public and
not a representative of a particu
lar organization.”
“That’s right,” Durkin replied. %