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Ancient Cache
Found on Sledge I.
Dave Walluk is reported to have
found a long-lost cache on Sledge
Island while on a hunting trip
there last week.
Hunters have heard stories for
a couple of generations of a
cache of supplies which had been
hidden on the island which had
never been found and for which,
Eskimo hunters visiting the is
land, had loked for hopefully.
Dave Walluk said the cache
was hidden in one of the many
small caves on the island and
contained whaling supplies, equip
ment and gear as well as some
items which belonged to medicine
men.
It is hoped that these will be
displayed so the public may see
them.
Marilyn Monroe to Star
In Film on Jean Harlow
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—Production
is slated to begin late next fall on
a movie depicting the life of the
late Jean Harlow—with Marilyn
Monroe in the feature role. Plans
for the film were revealed Sunday
by the 20th Century Fox Studio.
Israel Charges Arabs ’
Fired Across Border
JERUSALEM, (A*)—I s r a e 1 has
charged that Arabs in the Jordan
occupied portion of Jerusalem
fired across the border today for
the second day in succession. An
Israeli army spokesman said that
there were no casualties.
Crucial Primary in California Tuesday
For 68 Democratic Delegate Votes
MY THE ASSOCIATED MFKSS
Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Estes
Kefauver went into the final day
of the crucial California campaign
today—both predicting victory in
tomorrow’s winner-take-all con
test for the big prize of 68 Demo
cratic national convention votes.
The two presidential aspirants
traded punches and victory claims
yesterday. Kefauver continued his
attack on the civil rights angle.
Stevenson deplored what he called
the “political sideshow” aspects
of the rivalry.
The California primary is their
last direct clash, with the out
come assuming added importance
in view of Stevenson’s close pop
ular vote victory over Kefauver
in the Florida primary last week.
A 70-vote presidential nomina
tion slate for President Eisenhow
er is unopposed.
New York. Montana and South
Dakota also hold primaries to
morrow. Kefauver stands to pick
up by default 16 delegate votes in
Montana and 8 in South Dakota.
Other Primaries
In New York a Republican slate
of national convention delegates
for President Eisenhower is un
opposed. Gov. Averell Harriman
had some opposition but was ex
pected to get most of the 86 dis
trict Democratic delegate votes.
The importance of California’s
68-vote bloc of Democratic con
vention votes was underscored in
the latest Associated Press tabula
tion of pledged and publicly pre
ferred delegates.
Stevenson Leads
With 686 Vi needed for nomina
tion, latest totals were Stevenson
186Vfc, Kefauver HOVij, others 226,
uncommitted 347—totaling 900 or
nearly two-thirds of the conven
tion total of 1,372.
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In Washington, Democratic Na
tional Chairman Paul M. Butler
renewed opposition sniping at
President Eisenhower’s absences
from the White House, which But
ler said totaled “more than any
other President in the last 24
years.”
A meeting of AFL-CIO chiefs
beginning Tuesday in Washington
foretold increasing political activ
ities on the part of labor. The con
ferees planned to draft organized
labor’s recommendations for the
Democratic and Republican Party
platforms.
AFL-CIO Nol Democratic
The separate AFL and CIO en
dorsed Stevenson in 1952, but both
George Meany, head of the merged
AFL-CIO, and Walter Reuther,
former CIO president, have said
they may not endorse either party
this time.
In a copyrighted interview with
the Detroit Free Press, Reuther
said “I have no loyalty to the
Democratic Party. I’ve got loyalty
to basic issues and basic values,
and when a Republican supports
those values he has my support.”
Katharine MacDonald,
Silent Film Star, Dies
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., UP)—
Katharine MacDonald Holmes, the
“American Beauty” of the silent
screen,’ died today after a long
illness.
In the early days of the movies,
Miss MacDonald attained stardom
and was chosen the “American
| Beauty” at about the same time
l that Mary Pickford became noted
as “America’s sweetheart.”
Doctors said her right leg had
been amputated in a surgical at
! tempt to prolong her life.
YANKEE PATROL CAR
GETS CALL FROM DIXIE
LEOMINSTER, Mass., UPV—Po
lice Sgt. Francis Gillis called a
cruising car over the station ra
dio during a rain storm yesterday
but the answering voice didn’t
sound like a Leominster patrol
man.
“Who are you?” Gillis asked.
“This is Car 2 in Stokes County,
North Ca’lina,” came the reply.
“Where you-all from?”
Eisenhower, Khrushchev
In Bald-Headed Assn.
MILAN, Italy, UP)—President
Eisenhower and Nikita Khrush
chev have been named honorary
members of Italy’s Bald-headed
Association.
President Achille Scagni, head
of the 1,000-member organization,
said that honorary membership
cards will be sent to the two
leaders. Motto of the organization
is “Bald-headed men of the world
| unite.”
Stalin Down-Graded Further
-i
Margaret P. Bohrer
Appointed Postmaster
WASHINGTON, UP!—President
Eisenhower today nominated Mar
garet P. Bohrer to be postmaster
at Nome.
Sonje Henie to Marry
Shipping Magnate
NEW YORK 14V—The New York
Daily News said today ice queen
Sonje Henie and shipping mag
nate Niels Onstad revealed last
night in an interview they will
be married within 10 days.
The 46-year-old Onstad, a Nor
wegian, is living in Manhattan.
Miss Henie, 43, also has an apart
ment here.
Defense Secretary Wilson
To See Nuclear Tests
HONOLULU, i/P*—Defense Sec
retary Charles Wilson left Hono
lulu today for Bikini atoll where
he said he would see “one or two
explosions” at the atomic weap
ons proving ground. He said he
expected the tests would be “noth
ing sensational.”
Plane Dynamiter’s Wife
Believes Graham Guilty
DENVER, —'Mrs. Gloria Gra
ham, wife of plane dynamiter
John Gilbert Graham, has told a
newsman she believes her hus
band is guilty and should die as
scheduled in the Colorado gas
chamber.
In a copyrighted story appear
ing in the Denver Post yesterday,
Mrs. Graham, 22, the dark-haired
mother of two small children, told
reporter Zeke Scher:
“I feel sorry for him. I don’t
hate him. In fact, I have no feel
ing at all now. Love went out
some time agcf.”
As for her future, Mrs. Graham
said she intends to start a new
life.
Graham, 24, is in death row at
the Colorado Penitentiary await
ing execution the week of Aug. 26.
West Coast Gets
More Broadcasts
From Moscow
WASHINGTON IJV—Radio Mos
cow was reported to have in
creased its broadcasts to the U.S.
West Coast by 600 percent since
its summer schedule started on
April 17.
The U.S. Information Agency
(USIA), which operates the U.S.
Government’s Voice of Amerira
broadrasting network abroad,
said this means North America’s
West Coast now gets as murh at
tention from radio Moscow as
does the East Coast.
The total is 49 hours each—
seven hours a day, seven days a
week. This makes a total of 98
hours a week in English to North
America, contrasting with a previ
ous total of 56 hours.
The agency said about half the
programs consist of news and
commentaries, and half of music.
> WASHINGTON, UP)—Nikita S.
Khrushchev charged when he
launched the present Kremlin re
gime’s down-grading of Joseph
Stalin that Stalin was planning a
murderous new purge of top asso
ciates before he died.
Khrushchev said Stalin had
made “baseless charges” against
Vyacheslov M. Molotov, then So
viet foregn minister, and Anastas
I. Mikoyap, a member of the top
Politburo.
And characterizing Stalin as
“sickly suspicious,” he said the
late Soviet Premier once enter
tained a suspicion the present
President of Russia, Klementi Y.
Voroshilov, was “an English
agent.” He said Stalin had a lis
tening device put in Voroshilov’s
home.
These new details of Khrush
chev’s assault on the fallen dicta
tor were disclosed today when the
State Department released a 25,
000-word version of the speech
the current Communist boss made
on Feb. 24-25 to a Soviet Commu
nist Party Congress session.
“It is not excluded,” Khrush
chev said in the course of his
speech which ran on after mid
night, that had Stalin remained at
the helm for another several
months, comrades Molotov and
Mikoyan would probably have not
More Floods
Threaten
Pacific Northwest
(By the Associated Press)
Rain clouds threatened to send
more water into the flooding Col
umbia River in the Pacific North
west today.
Some 1,000 people have been
evacuated and thousands of acres
of land have been flooded as the
Columbia and its tributaries car
ried runoffs from record mountain
snow packs.
A crest of 27 feet has been fore
cast at Vancouver, Wash., where
the Columbia rose to nearly 12
feet above flood stage. Army En
gineers expected the major dikes
to hold at a 28-foot level.
However, one major diking dis
trict went under water yesterday
when workers gave up efforts at
closing a hole in a levee apparent
ly burrowed by beavers.
The upper Snake River in east
ern Idaho and Wyoming also was
well above flood stage. A flood
emergency has been called by
Army engineers for several com
munities bordering the Snake.
Meanwhile, residents of Mus
tang, Okla., counted damage from
two tornadoes that swirled over
the town at treetop level yester
day. The freakish twin funnels
damaged every home in the town
of 210 in central Oklahoma, but
left no one injured.
Property damage was estimated
at $200,000. Weather observers de
scribed the twisters as “very pow
erful for their size” and said if
the funnels had moved a few feet
nearer the ground the loss of life
and damage might have been “tre
mendous.”
delivered any speeches at this tine
February* congress.
“Stalin evidently had plans to
finish off the old members of the
Politburo . . . and in this way
• provide* a cover for all shame
ful acts of Stalin, acts which we
are now considering.”
Portions of Khrushchev’s speech
had come to light before but the
document released today went far
beyond anything previously re
ported as to the vehemence of the
assault on Stalin.
American officials said the im
pact of the Khrushchev speech
could be understood if compared
with the way an American audi
ence would react to a denuncia
tion of George Washington or
Abraham Lincoln by a succeeding
President.
In the course of the secret ses
sion, Khrushchev made these ma
jor points against Stalin:
1. Stalin used “terroristic meth
ods against honest Soviet people”
in order to establish his power.
2. Stalin liquidated a long list
of men who had worked with him.
3. In the months before Nazi
Germany’s attack on Russia, Sta
lin ignored warnings from Prime
Minister Churchill of Britain and
from Soviet observers in Berlin
that the attack was coming.
4. Stalin caused “annihilation
of many military commanders and
political workers during 1037-41”
because of suspicion. This con
tributed disastrously to general
lack of Soviet readiness for Hit
ler’s attack.
5. In the 1930s Stalin “showed
in a whole series of cases his in
tolerance, his brutality and his
abuse of power” because instead
of trying to show the “correct
ness” of his leadership he often
“chose the path of repression and
physical annihilation,” not only
against actual enemies but also
against innocent persons.
6. On Jan. 20, 1939, Stalin mes
saged key governmeht agencies
throughout Russia “that the appli
cation of methods of physical
pressure” by the secret police or
ganization NKVD was definitely
permissable. Thus he personally
sanctioned “the most brutal viola
tion of socialist legality, torture
and oppression . . .”
Sen. Charles Jones
Named Chairman of
Alaska COP Convention
JUNEAU, (j—Sen. Charles Jones
of Nome was named permanent
chairman of the Republican Terri
torial Convention here Friday af
ter it was opened by Central Com
mittee Chairman Elton Engstrom.
A Ketchikan labor leader told
the convention Friday that the
International Woodworkers of
America would reserve judgement
on political endorsements, adding
“We don’t tie ourselves to the
apron strings of the Democratic
Party or the Republican Party.”
He added “We will examine the
record . . . actions of men in office
will speak for themselves.”
Kenneth McGee said his union
j will play an important role in the
development of Ketchikan and
j southeast Alaska.