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VOL. LIV No. 123 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1952Per Copy—15<
National Campaign
Enters Slioot-tlie
Works Stage
(By the Associated Press!
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to
day held out a promise of peace
based on sound leadership as Gov.
Adlai Stevenson, pledging to work
for peace, said the nation faces “a
long, tough, bitter struggle to pre
serve” world freedom.
Stevenson, the Democratic
nominee, said that as for Korea
his Republican opponent knows
full well, “There is no txick that
can end the Korean, war.” Push
ing his campaign to the Pacific
Northwest, he hit hard at Eisen
hower's stand on Korea, foreign
and domestic policies.
Eisenhower for the second
straight day rampaged through
his home state of Texas blasting
the Truman administration for
what he said was its failure to
provide a leadership able to win
respect at home and abroad. And
the respect of friends and foes,
he said, is necessary if peace is
to be won.
Clear indication the campaign
was entering the shoot-the-works
stage with election less than three
weeks away was today’s stepped
ed political schedule. The cam
paign trails of candidates and
their major supporters criss
crossed the nation like a spider
web.
But the spotlight centered on
the presidential candidates them
selves.
Stevenson said at Spokane,
Washington: “Our men are fight
ing in Korea so they will not
have to fight in Alaska or Spo
kane or Omaha. They will come
home from Korea just as soon as
our national safety permits.
On economy, he said in his
speech prepared for Pendleton,
Ore., that he would gladly match
his own experience .along those
» lines with Eisenhower, adding:
“Until this campaign, I had not
heard that generals were exactly
celebrated for their devotion to
economy.”
Texas - born Eisenhower swept
through his home state receiving
virtual “local-boy-makes-good” re
ceptions everywhere he spoke.
He said he was proud that a
Soviet leader launching an attack
on America at the opening of the
Russian congress had directed his
fire not at Truman as head of
the nation but at himself.
Japanese Soothsayer
Predicts Ike Will Win
TOKYO, bP) — A Japanese
soothsayer who predicted Presi
dent Truman’s election in 1948
Wednesday picked Dwight D. Ei
senhower to win this year’s U.S.
presidential race by a small mar
gin.
Prof. Donsho Kodama a jour
neyman soothsayer for 38 years,
said he based his prediction on an
ancient book of oracles. He said
he saw Eisenhower and Adlai
Stevenson as “two horses gallop
ing neck to neck. As the thorough
bred approach the goal, the Eisen
hower horse will run over smooth
sand but his rival will encounter
gravel (rough going).
Eisenhower’s Financial
Statement Discloses His
10-Year Gross at $888,303
NEW YORK, (/P)—Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower had a gross income
of $888,303 — including $635,000
from his book, “Crusade in Eu
rope”—during the past 10 years,
his headquarters says.
A financial statement made
public here late yesterday showed
the Republican candidate paid
$217,082 in taxes.
Subtraction of these taxes and
allowable deductions from the
gross income the statement said,
left Eisenhower with a net of
$643,148 for th'e 10 years. His net
without the book was $166,898.
Eisenhower’s executive assist
and, Arthur Vandenburg, Jr., dis
tributed copies of correspondence
Eisenhower had with U.S. Trea
sury officials in 1947 and 1948.
This correspondence resulted in
an agreement whereby Eisen
hower qualified as a non-profes
sional writer and was allowed to
list income from the book as a
capital gain.
If Eisenhower had paid at the
personal income tax rate rather
than the capital gains rate, his
tax on the proceeds from the
book might possibly have been
more than double the $158,750 he
paid. His net on the book was
$475,250.
Soviets Pledge
Party Support
To Foreign Cells
MOSCOW, UP) — Leading Com
munists of 40 nations headed
home from the 19th all - Soviet
Communist party congress today,
assured by Joseph Stalin himself
they have the Soviet party’s sup
port in their “fight for libera
tion and preparation of peace.”
Chief interest now shifted to
the party’s new central committee
elected as the congress’ final act.
It must name a presidium replac
ing the present politburo and a
secretariat to direct the party’s
day-to-day work.
The new committee of 125 mem
bers with 110 alternates is the
biggest in history. The last com
mittee totaled only 71 members
and 69 alternates. The roster of
members reads like a Who’s Who
of the Soviet Union. It includes
Stalin and a glittering array of
all politburo members, top diplo
mats and military leaders.
(The Moscow announcement
made no mention of whether
Stalin is continuing as Secretary
General of the central committee,
the most important post in the
Communist world, or whether he
is stepping aside for the man he
may have designated as his heir
to power. Western observers thus
awaited this still - to - come an
nouncement as the most import
ant probably to come out of the
Congress).
Stalin’s speech last night was
his first address before a large
major gathering since Feb. 9, 1946
when he spoke on Russia’s war
achievements and post - war pol
icy. The Moscow radio, which
broadcast the speech said the
1,200 delegates repeatedly cheered
the Soviet premier.
Diphtheria or Food
Poisoning Takes 6
Lives Bethel Area
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Diphtheria
or food poisoning has claimed six
lives in the Bethel area 400 miles
west of here, the Alaska Health
Department reported Tuesday.
The Department said 14 of 44
cases in the area have been con
firmed as diphtheria. But whether
the deaths are due to diphtheria
or an epidemic of food poisoning
reported at the same time has not
been determined.
The Health Department said it
is sending all available diphtheria
antitoxin from Anchorage to
Bethel and additional supplies are
being obtained in Seattle and New
York.
The Alaska Native Service hos
pital at Bethel reported the first
five cases arrived last Wednesday.
Cultures flown to Anchorage con
firmed they were diphtheria^
Six of the deaths occurred in
one village where 16 persons were
stricken, the department said.
Bethel’s hospital was destroyed
by fire last year and patients are
being cared for in temporary
quarters set up in a quonset hut.
U. S. and Korean Infantry
Force Communists From
Strategic Heights
SEOUL, (/P) — American infan
trymen smashed over the top of
Triangle Hill on Korea’s central
front Wednesday and fought a
savage inch-by-inch battle down
the northern slope.
Two miles to the east, more
than 1,000 Reds counter-attacked
troops of the South Korean Sec
ond Division on Sniper Ridge.
AP correspondent Milo Farneti
said U.S. Seventh Division infan
trymen on Triangle were pushing
single - file down a Communist
trench leading to towering Papa
San mountain, immediately to the
north.
A front-line officer said they
were “fighting for every inch”
against fiercely resisting Chinese
Reds.
A hastily - erected cable hoist
sped food and ammunition to the
top of Triangle where other Sev
enth Division soldiers dug in
against an expected Chinese
counterattack.
The Reds lashed out at South
Korean soldiers on Sniper Ridge
just after dusk. The South Ko
reans met their charge with with
ering machine gun fire from the
caves and Bunkers of Pinpoint
hill, the center peak in the hill
mass.
The South Korean seized Pin
point earlier Wednesday with
flame throwers and hand gre
nades.
U. S. officers with the South
Koreans said many of the dead
Chinese found on Pinpoint had
committed suicide.
Seventeen miles to the west,
South Korean Ninth Division
troops blasted the Reds with high
explosives from their last hold on
blood-soaked White Horse moun
tain.
Allied warplanes pounded the
Reds with bombs, rockets and
flaming gasoline.
Nome Election Results
Ballots Cast ... 535
Delegate to Congress
Bartlett . 261
Reeve . 245
Attorney General
Williams ... 279
Auditor
Moore . 258
Garnick . 218
Highway Engineer
Reed .. 248
Metcalf . 227
Senators
Jones . 280
Laws . 270
Lyng . 265
Anderson . 145
Representatives
Bullock . 263
Duffield . 263
Lee . 256
Fagerstrom . 210
Mogg . 167
McNees . 123
Wells . 108
Bonding Territory
For .,.. 361
Against . 88
Control of Fisheries
For . 372
Against . 82
Republicans Lead
For 3rd Division
Hpuse Seats
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—Early leg
islative returns from 19 Third
Division precincts today showed
the Republicans running strongly
in the division that sent a solid
seven-Democrat delegation to the
Territorial Ho*use in the 1950 elec
tion.
Returns were too scanty to be
conclusive.
It lined up this way after the
overnight reports:
Senate (2 to be named): Speak
er of the House Bill Egan Demo
crat, barely ahead, with 668; John
F. Gorsuch, Republican, 662; Sen.
Steve McCutcheon CD), 609; Mar
shall Hdppin (R), 591.
For Senate short term: Jack
Conright (D) 694; Paul Robison
(R) 591.
For the 10 House seats for the
Division in the next Legislature,
seven Republicans were leading,
two Democrats were among the
top 10, and the 10th spot was
even-Stephen between a candidate
of each party.
The House leaders: Prior (R)
508; Rutherford (R) 491; Dimock
(R) 488; Pollack (R) 477; Olsen
(R) 447; Rep. Kay (D) 441; String
er (R) 436; Ryan (D) 428; Rent
schler (R) 42.7; Rep. Pollard (D)
and McKinley (R), both 412.
That made Rep. Wendell Kay
the only Democrat in the leading
seven.
Malaya Americans Like Ike
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya, <£>)
—The majority of Americans in
Malaya favor Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower to win the presiden
tial election, a survey conducted
by the newspaper, The Straits
Times, reveals.
Some 200 Americans in Malaya
are to vote under regulations gov
erning absentee voting which is
permitted in 42 of the 48 states,
‘the newspaper said.
Bartlett Ahead Of
Reeve 4366-3523 In
75 of 237 Precincts
(By the Associated Press)
Alaska’s Democratic Delegate
to Congress pulled ahead of his
Republican challenger early today
! in mounting returns from the vast
I territory’s “weathervane” general
election but the contest was much
closer than in many years.
On the basis of 75 precinct
reports, some complete and some
partial, out of Alaska 237, Dele
gate Bartlett had 4366 votes to
3523 for Robert C. Reeve, the
Republican nominee.
In the Auditor race, incumbent
Moore (D) is leading Anita Gar
nick <R) 4829 to 2694.
For Highway Engineer, Irving
Reed (R) 4007; Frank Metcalf (D)
; 3532.
Some Alaska political observers
claim that Alaska, which swung
from Republican to Democrat
ahead of the nation in 1932, has
been a barometer since 1912.
Although only a fraction of the
widely scattered precincts had
been heard from, Stanley J. Mc
Cutcheon, Democratic national
committeeman, claimed at An
chorage that Bartlett was “al
ready victorious.”
Reeve conceded Bartlett held a
“modest lead,” but said “my peo
j pie in the interior haven’t been
I heard from yet.”
However, the first reports from
the interior city of Fairbanks, a
Republican stronghold but once
the home town of Bartlett, ran
nearly two to one in favor of
the Democrat.
Democrats Trail
In 4th Division
For Senate Seats
FAIRBANKS, OP) — Rep. Mike
Stepovitch was ahead of Sen.
Frank Barr, Democratic incum
bent, in the race for one of the
Fourth Division’s Senate seats, on
the basis of early returns today.
For the five Division seats in
the House, four Republicans were
running ahead, with a Democrat
in fifth spot. Rep. Glen Franklin
was trailing in sixth, narrowly.
Sen. John Butrovich, Republi
can leader, had the top total for
the Senate—1166. Stepovich, Re
publican, had 1050 and Barr 805.
J. A. Boulet, the other Democrat,
trailed with 677.
Early standings in the House
contest were: Coghill (R) 1128;
Rep. Miscovich (R) 1064; Rep.
Wilbur (R) 1041; Hurle (R) 992;
Greuel (D) 942.
Franklin had 907.
Two former Democratic repre
sentatives, seeking comebacks,
were trailing. Essie Dale was in
eighth with 807 and Warren Tay
lor in ninth with 710.
MINISTER APPLIES FOR
BETHEL RADIO STATION
WASHINGTON, {JP) — An ap
plication for a new standard radio
station was filed Tuesday with the
Communications Commission by
the Rev. Earl B. Shay, Sr., Bethel,
Alaska, 1490 kilocycles, 105 watts
unlimited time.