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VOL. XLVIII. No. 120 NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1946 PER COPY—15c
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NEWS IN BRIEF
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4 iJF)—
*The American Legion national
convention adopted a resolution
recommending immediate i m -
provement of defenses in Alaska
and maintenance of Puerto Rico
as a fortified base. They recom
mended a single department of
national security with unified mil
itary command.
9 After heated hours of debate
the convention elected Paul Grif
fith, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
businessman and public relations
consultant veteran of both wars
as national commander.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, (/P) —
The OPA allows an increase of
fifteen percent on restaurant ceil
ing prices for meals containing
**neat, effective October 10.
SEATTLE, Oct. 6. (/P) — Mar
guerite Daniels of Ketchikan,
Alaska, reported to police yester
day that prowlers stole three pieces
of airplane luggage and an over
night bag containing nearly all
her clothing from her car while
^ parked on a downtown street. She
arrived here yesterday from Los
Angeles.
* NEW ORK, Oct. 7. (JP)—1Texas,
Notre Dame adn Army rank as
the big three of college football at
this stage of the campaign.
After hurdling Villanova, Okla
home and Cornell, Army now
runs smack into a powerful Mich
igan crew also shooting for a place
among the nation’s leaders.
Texas meets Oklahoma in their
* annual state fair classic at Dallas.
Notre Dame, which breezed past
Pittsburgh 33-0, will be at home to
take on Purdue.
SEATTLE, Oct. 7. </P)—Strik
ing Seattle waterfront employees
will attend a mass meeting tonight
to hear reports on negotiations at
Washington, D. C., and San Fran
cisco. The meeting was called by
ffthe committee for maritime unity.
SEATTLE, Oct. 7. (/P) — Fifty
persons were arested early Sun
day in one of the largest raids on
a night club ever conducted by
Seattle police. A quantity of liquor
and gambling equipment was con
fiscated.
TULSA, Okla., Oct. 7. (JP) —
> Henry Frank, Jr., 17, died Sunday
of a brain injury received in a
high school football game. At his
* t^edside when he died was his
father, Henry Frank, now coach
of football at Tulane but formerly
head footbal lcoach at Tulsa Uni
versity who flew from New Or
leans.
Boys Injured
By Explosions Of
Dynamite Caps
Several boys, between the ages
of ten and fifteen years, were in
jured the past week by exploding
dynamite caps which they found
I in an open army ammunition
dump.
Lawrence Okpealuk will lose
the sight in his left eye. Billy Lee,
adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man Lee. lost two fingers. Sam
my Mogg, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Mogg, lost his hand, and
probably a part of the forearm.
Joe Norbert and Jack Blatchford
recei ved superficial injuries.
I Other boys were present but un
j hurt.
The boys were blasting the caps
by hitting with rocks and one of
; the boys stated that quite a num
ber of them were exploded before
the boys were hurt.
Billy Lee was alone near the
Lomen oil tanks when he was in
jured by the blast of <the cap he
was hitting with a stone. Roy
Luke, who was getting wood at
the time, heard the explosion, ran
over and assisted Billy to the hos
pital where his hand was dressed.
The other boys who were in
jured, were playing in an old
| gravel pit between Dry Creek and
the Center Creek road in the area
known as Chicken Hill.
On questioning by B. B. Mozee,
U. S. Marshal, the boys revealed
they had found the nearly-full
case of dynamite caps in an old
unused ammunition dump on
which they had found the door
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U. S. To Make No
More Concessions
On Trieste
PARIS, Oct. 7. (#») — Senator
Tom Connally told peace confer
ence delegates today the United
States would make no further con
cessions on the Trieste issue and
urged the adoption of commission,
recommendations.
Connally (D.-Tex.> was the first
speaker in general discussion on
the Italian treaty as the confer
ence went into plenary session
under the chairmanship of British
foreign secretary Ernest Bevin for
its final sprint of treaty drafting.
There was indications that the
delegate would be compelled to
sit day and night for the next
eight days if they are to adhere to
schedule and adjourn on Oct. 15
to avoid conflict with the impend
ing United Nations general as
sembly session in New York.
Boston Wins First 1
Game In Series
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6. </P)—Rudy
York’s towering 375 foot home
hit into left field bleachers in the
tenth inning gave Boston a 3 to 2
victory in the opening world ser
ies game. It is the first extra inn
ing series opener since 1907. The
Redsox won by knotting the count
in the ninth inning after the Cards
took a 2 to 1 lead in the eighth.
Boston .0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
(Three runs, nine hits, two errors'!
St. Louis .0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
(Two runs, seven hits, zero errors)
The batteries were Hughson,
Johnson in ninth and Wagner,
partee in ninth: Pollet and Gar
agiola.
CordovaScheduled
To Sail Today
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SEATTLE. Oct. 7. (JF) — With
the ban imposed by striking un
ions of the ClO-Committee for
Maritime unity lifted, last-minute
I loading of the Nome-bound relief
: ship Cordova was rushed this'
morning for a planned departure]
today for the north.
The CMU northwest chairman, j
Burt Nelson, said the unions de-1
cided to clear the ship late Satur- '
day “on the chance that what lit- ]
tie food and clothing there is!
aboard will help the people of
Nome.”
Nome will soon be closed to |
shipping until next spring because
the Bering Sea freezes in that
larea and the Cordova is the last
ship to said north this fall.
A four-man committee headed'
by Rep. Hugh Delacy <D.-Wash.> j
inspected the cargo Saturday. The
group “substantiated” CMU con
tentions, Nelson said, that most of
the supplies were not in the relief
category but comprised “such
items as beer, lead pipe, hard
ware, furniture, etc.”
“After the way the Cordova has
been handled, the unions are like
ly to be a little tough about letting
another one go,” Nelson said.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 7. <;P)— A
new independent union offer in
the power strike which has laid
a heavy hand on this industrial
center for two weeks, was slated
for presentation to Duquesne
Light Co., officials today as de
partment stores decided to re-open
and a rebellious group within the
union pushed plans for recogni
tion.
George L. Mueller, president of
the independent union of about
3,500 workers, said his group’s
proposal would be secret until
“the company looks it over.”
Dreamboat Makes
10,925 Mile Flight
In 39 llrs., 36 Min.
CAIRO, Oct. 7. (/P)—The com
munications officer of the super
f o r t ress Pacusan Dreamboat,
which flew non-stop 10,925 miles
over the Arctic Circle from Hono
lulu to Cairo, said today that com
mercial air service over the top
of the world was practicable from
a communications standpoint.
Shannon pointed out in an in
terview that the shortest distance
between many population centers1
was across the northern wastes.
The Dreamboat landed at Payne
Field in the desert near here at
95:7 a.m. Sunday (8:57 p.m. Sat
urday, Nome time>—39 hours, 36
minutes after the takeoff on an
epochal flight to test equipment
in polar weather. The speed aver
age was 276 miles an hour.
The Dreamboat had been strip
ped even of de-icing equipment to
carry a heavier fuel load and had
exhausted all except 400 gallons
of its 13,000 gallon supply by the
end of the trip.
Shortly before the Dreamboat
was sighted over Cairo, the com
mander radioed grimly, “I de
clare emergency.” He expressed
fear the low fuel supply would un
balance the ship and landing
would be dangerous. But the
plane touched down safely and
the crewmen, tired from lack of
sleep, stepped out to a welcome
from the Royal Aero Club of
Egypt. They talked with newsmen
and then headed for Shepheard’s
hotel and a bath.
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Duleli Plane Crash
Kills Nine
APELDOORN, Holland, Oct. 7.
(/P)—A military plane flown over
the home of the pilot’s mother,
crashed into the roof of a nearby
school today, killing the pilot and
eight school boys and seriously in
juring at least 10 others.
The flier’s mother, a witness,
died of a heart attack.
The plane was a single-seater
Firefly. It struck a school hall in i
which about 25 boys were doing I
gymnastics.
Witnesses said the pilot, Max
Christern, was stunting over his
parental home when the plane’s
left wing struck the school roof.
The left gasoline tank fell into
the gymnasium and exploded.
Some boys ran from the school
in burning clothes. Two leaped
through a window into a pond and
escaped.
Statehood Vote
W ill Draw Voters
Is Prediction
JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 7. (/P)—
Alaska’s so-called ‘‘canoe vote**
was expected to swell the demand
for statehood in tomorrow’s gen
eral election, first time the issue
has ever come before the Terri
tory’s voters.
Although opposed by prominent
business men as too costly for the
smal lpopulation at this time.
Statehood has the backing af nu
merous groups who have carried
on a vigorous campaign. The Alas
ka Statehood Association has
spearheaded such efforts.
One of the opponents, Austin
E. <Cap> Lathrop, 81-year-old
Fairbanks financier and civic
leader with nearly half a century
of Alaska life behind him, said:
"Like all Alaskans, I certainly
hope that Alaska eventually will
become a state, but I sincerely do
not believe now is the time to take
this important step.”
The proposal has topped inter
est in an election which will also
name a delegate to Congress. Ter
ritorial office holders and legisla
tors and decide whether the blan
ket primary will be adopted. E. L.
• Bob) Bartlett, Juneau Democrat,
seeks reelection as Delegate and
is opposed by Aimer J. Peterson,
Anchorage Republican.
Statehood will be voted upon in
an advisory referendum. Even if
carried, however, an enabling law
must be enacted by Congress and
a constitution written and adopted
by the Territory’s voters, which
might take years. Hawaii voted
overwhelmingly for statehood six
years ago in a similar way, but
remains a Territory.
The so-called “canot vote” of
hte Alaska natives was generally
expected to follow the advice of
such leaders as Delegate Bartlett,
who favors statehood. The natives
usually vote as a bloc at elections
and although not a sizeable num
ber number have at time been a
deciding influence in close con
tests. The largest native vote is
cast in southeastern Alaska.
TRADING POST AT PITKA
POINT DESTROYED BY FIRE
Word has been received from
Pitka Point of a fire which is sup
posed to have totally destroyed
the trading post of Pete Paulson.
Pete Paulson, operator of the
trading post and owner and cap
tain of the M. S. Trader is report
ed to have been in the buidling at
the time of the fire. No details
have been received as to whether
he was rescued.