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VOL. LI. No. 117 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 Per Copy—l5c
NEWS IN BRIEF
PETERSBURG, Alaska, </P)—A
fall from the Petersbrug dock on
his bicycle cost 12-year-old Carl
Hanson his life Wednesday night.
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The boy lost his balance while
riding on the pier. His uncle, John
Hanson, recovered the body two
and a half hours later.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dick Hanson of Petersburg. Mrs.
Hanson is in Honolulu.
A younger brother saw the ac
cident and called for help. He said
Carl swam to a piling but lost his
hold and sank.
FAIRBANKS, UPt — Ordinances
calling for two utilities bond is
sues totaling $4,500,000 are sched
uled for third reading in the City
Council Monday.
SEATTLE, (£>) — Alaska Lions
would like to borrow a few snakes,
please.
They haven’t any handy be
cause it’s too cold up there for
the cold-blooded reptiles.
Fred R. Geeslin, president of
the Mt. Edgecumbe Lion Club and
assistant superintendent of the
Alaska Native Service, wrote the
Seattle Park board asking for the
loan of some snakes. He figured
Alaskan curiosity-seekers might
pay money to see them, and the
money could be given to commun
ity projects.
Zoo officials, however, said
that their pet snakes, recent re
cruits from India, are not yet ac
climated to Seattle—and a trip to
the northland would throw them
completely off.
SEATTLE (/P)—Pacific Northern
Airlines today reported business
for the first eight months of 1949
up sharply from the same period
last year. The report said air cargo
ton-miles was 67 per cent higher,
airmail ton-miles was up 45 per
cent and passenger ton-miles 9 per J
cent higher.
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SEATTLE. (TP)—The sturdy vet-,
eran of polar regions, the coast
guard cutter Northwind, has ar
rived back in home port after a
five months demical mission in
northern Alaska.
The vessel visited numerous iso
lated villages in the Aleutian is
lands and Brisol Bay and Bering
Sea settlements. A physician and
dentist aboard gave medical aid
to che natives.
The Northwind was under the
command of Capt. E. K. Rhodes.
PETERSBURG, Alaska, UP) —
Skipper Frank Barnreier and one
of his crew pleaded guilty yester
day and were fined by U. S. com
missioner Dale H. Hirt for illegal
fishing in Anan Creek Aug. 19.
Barnheiter was fined $400 and
Ingvold Bratland, the crewman,
$200.
Fish and wild life service en
forcement agent Monte Clemmons
of Wrangell brought the charges.
Warrants were issued for the ar
rest of two other crew members,
who failed to appear at yester
day’s arraigment.
JUNEAU, UP)—Barring a stick
er candidate, Waino Hendrickson
Steel Makes Last |
Attempt To
Settle Differences
PITTSBURGH, (/P) — Big Steel ,
and CIO got together with federal I
i mediators today in a last ditch try
\ to stave off a nationwide steel I
! strike at midnight.
But even as they met, the news
was not good.
I From coast to coast, and from
the Gulf to the border, the gigan
tic steel industry banked its fires
in readiness for the strike. And
thousands of Philip Murray’s
I United Steelworkers jumped the
i gun in wildcat walkouts.
William N. Margolis, assistant
director of the federal mediation
and conciliation service, and Peter
Seitz, its general counsel, met with
the disputants.
Surprisingly there was an air of
good humor.
Nobody mentioned in public the
[ point at issue: Should the union I
help pay for its insurance and
pensions
But Murray joked with report
ers and he grinned as he asked
I Margolis:
“Is the enemy here yet?”
A mediator has no power—
other than the power of sugges
j tion. Sometimes he can hit on an
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Air Force Men
Attack Town
.OTHELLO. Wash. i/P)—A four
car “invasion” by 18 Moses Lake
Air Force Base enlisted men was
repelled with pitchforks, pick
handles and fists last night by sev
eral dozen townsfolk.
Early today, 13 of the men were •.
in the Moses Lake Base guard
house while MP’s ad State patrol- |
men were looking for the remain-1
ing carload of five.
Mayor Clyde Matthews said he
believed the “invasion” was or
ganized as a reprisal . for action
last Thursday night when two air
force men were “run out of town”
after creating a disturbance.
“I tried to talk them out of it
but it didn’t work,” Matthews said.
“So I spread the word around j
town and some of the fellows got
together.”
“We caught one car at the edge
of town and worked over three of
them. Then we let thm go.”
The soldiers were in private au
tomobiles, the pitchfork and pick
handle armed townsfolk in trucks.
appeared today to be headed for
his fourth successive term as i
mayor. He is now completing his
third one year term, and is the
only candiate nominated for the
two-year term to be voted upon1
at the Oct. 4 primary election.
Councilmanic candidates run
ning with Hendrickson are Bert
McDowell, Wand Arthur Wather,
both grocerymen, and Alfred Zen
ger, business manager of the Jun
eau Daily Empire. Independent
candidates are Cash Cole, business
man; A. S. Glover, grocer and
meat market operator; and Verne
Metcalf, sheet metal shop opera
tor.
Lewis Orders
Hard Coal Miners
Baek To Work
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
W. Va., (/P)—John L. Lewis today
o r d ered Pennsylvania’s 80,000
hard coal miners and 22,000 soft
coal diggers west of the Missis
sippi to go back to work Monday.
As far as these men are con
cerned it ends a walkout started
September 19.
The move was announced in a
telegram from Lewis to presidents
of the affected United Mine Work
ers’ district.
I he telegram said:
‘The suspension of mining in
the western and anthracite areas
is not now vital to the pending
wage negotiations.”
It said the action was taken “to
minimize loss to all parties.”
SEATTLE, I/P)—John L. Lewis’
return-to-work order will affect
about 1,350 Washington State coal
miners who have been idle at 30
mines since September 19.
Richard Francis, secretary of the
State Usited Mine Workers’ dis
trict, said local unions would be
notified as soon as the telegram
ordering resumption of work is re
ceived from Lewis’ headquarters.
Violence Flares
In Foal Strike
(By The Associated Press)
A dynamite blast rocked a coal
company tipple yesterday in a
fresh outbreak of violence in the
nation’s coal fields.
John L. Lewis’ united mine
workers weer to resume negotia
tions yesterday with two big
branches of the coal industry amid
a stormy background of blasting,
gunfire and stone hurling.
The mine workers wrath
against non-unionmen working the
pits in defiance of the union
brought this fast-breaking chain
of events:
1. A blast at a tipple of the
Junedale Coal Company at Grass
Flat, Pa., ripped off the roof, tore
off part of one side and damaged
generators and motors in the
building.
2. A gunfire flareup at Jasper,
Ala., reportedly resulted in the
death of one miner and the serious
wounding of another. The sheriff
there said he could not confirm
the death, however.
3. Governor William M. Tuck
declared a state of emergency in
Virginia.
4. The Kanawha county, West
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BULLETIN
SEATTLE. (JP) — The freighter
Coastal Monarch sails tomorrow
with construction equipment for
Nome Seawall. Manson-Osberg
Construction Company, which has
the contract for the wall, is ship
ping ten trucks, a power shovel,
and other earth-moving equip
ment. Efforts will be made to com
plete as much of the rock fill as is
possible before this winter's
freeze.
B-36 Bombers
Move Toward
Alaskan Bases
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FORT WORTH. Tex. (Ay)—The
Star-Telegram said yesterday long
range B-36 bombers began mov
ing to Alaskan bases last week at
the same time President Truman
announced an atomic explosion in
Russia.
The newspaper said the huge
bombers were manned by crews
trained to deliver the atomic
bomb.
The 8th air force, whose 7th
bombardment wing is the only
wing in the air force operating
B-36’s, is located at the Carswell
air force base here. Eighth air
force headquarters described th2
B-36 flights as “routine training
missions.’’
However, the Star-Telegram
said it learned one of the planes
which flew to Alaska carried Brig.
Gen. John William P. Fisher, Cars
well base commander and com
; mander of the 7th bombardment
I wing.
Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey. the
8th’s commander an*d one of the
top experts in the air force on
atomic warfare, was scheduled *o
return to his headquarters here
yesterday after more than a week
of conferences in Washington.
Col. Cecil Combs, Ramey’s dep
uty commander, left Carswell
Tuesday on one of the B-36 flights
to join Montgomery and Fisher at
Eielson Air Base near Fairbanks.
Combs was accompanied by
Maj. Gen. Earl Barnes, member of
secretary of defense Johnson’s
special weapons evaluation board.
Previous test flights from Cars
! well to Alaskan bases were made
during the summer, to test opera
tional characteristics of the big
planes in weather condiitons of
the Far North and to survey fa
cilities available there for crew
men and for servicing the planes.
One of these lights carried Ra
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Russia Ends Her
Friendship Treaty
With Yugoslavia
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LONDON, i/Pt — Soviet Russia
scrapped her friendship treaty
with Yugoslavia yesterday, declar
ing that Premier Marshal Tito’s
regime has lined up with “foreign
imperalistic circles.”
The decision ending the alliance
signed in 1945 was disclosed in
a Soviet note to Yugoslavia. It was
broadcast by Moscow radio.
The note declared the Budapest
trial of former Hungarian foreign
minister Laszlo Rajk. sentenced to
death Saturday, disclosed Yugo
slavia had been carrying on hos
, tile activity against the U. ,S. S. R.
Rajk was accused specifically of
i plotting with Yugoslav and Amer
ican agents to overthrow the Mos
cow-backed communist govern
ment in Hungary. Marshal Tito
denounced the trial as a Russian
propaganda move aimed at weak
; ening his Yugoslav regime.
1 The Russian action was the
sharpest diplomatic slap at Yugo
' s 1 a v i a since the Moscow-led
j cominform expelled the Yugoslavs
! in June, 1948.
Since that time Russia and her
eastern European satellites have
I clamped an economic boycott on
1 Yugoslavia.
Marshall Tito on Tuesday ac
cused Russia of rattling the saber
and digging trenches in the satel
lite countries along the Yugoslav
bolder in an attempt to intimidate
his country.
CONDITIONING CAPE NOME
ROAD FOR HEAVY DUTY
All available local equipment
for hauling gravel has been put to
work on the Cape Nome road by
the construction company of Man
son & Osberg. The road is being
put in condition for the hauling
by heavy equipment which is due
to arrive on the Coastal Monarch
next week. A road is also being
made to the beach at Cape Nome
where the loading equipment will
be located.
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