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VOL. LII. No. 143 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1950 __Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS, (^P)—A 36-year
old Alaska Railroad trucker was
fatally shot in an argument with
his brother here Saturday night,
the marshal’s office reported.
The victim was identified •as
Duane Franklin. Deputy marshal
A1 Barber said Franklin’s brother
Herbert, a 33-year-old salesman
confessed the shooting.
Both men were the sons of Mrs.
Nettie Cooper of 909 Spruce St.,
Hoquiam, Wash.
Barber said Duane was shot
with a .38 caliber pistol which he
had brought back from Germany
as a war souvenir.
Herbert was held in the federal
jail.
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KANSAS CITY, (/P) — Santa
Claus was greeting children as he
sat in a big sleigh in a department
store.
Bright-eyed three-year-old Jef
fery Miller stepped up and de
clared:
“You’ve got grandpa’s sleigh.”
“I have,” asked the surprised
Santa Claus.
“Yes,” the boy said, “and I want
you to be careful with it.”
Santa eased through the tick
lish situation by promising to
treat the sleigh carefully.
Jeffery was right. His grand
father. Everett Miller, had rented
the sleigh to Santa.
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — “People
art getting more honest these
days,” said a note left by a burg
lar who rifled a cafe’s cash regis
ter and phonograph boxes. The
note, discovered yesterday, said
“not one nickel was phoney.”
SEATTLE, (/P) — Six weather
stations soon will be in operation
in the Pacific Ocean, the Coast
Guard said yesterday.
The new station, approximately
one-third of the way between San
Francisco and Honolulu, will go
into operation Dec. 10.
Its establishment fallows trans-!
fer of another station, 600 miles!
west of Washington’s Cape Flat
tery. to the Canadian department
of transport last night.
Four of the stations will be op
erated by the coast guard with ■
Canada and Japan each manning I
one of the others. j
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FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Amos F.
Breen and Lewis J. McCoy werei
fined $125 apiece Friday for kill- 1
ing a moose out of season. Witness
es told U. S. commissioner Clinton
B. Stewart they saw the men
dressing the slain moose on Au
gust 31, the day before the hunting
season opened. The defendants
contended they did not shoot the
animal until early hours of Sept.
1.
WASHINGTON, (/P)— Secretary
of State Acheson called Warren
Austin, U. S. delegate to the U.
N., here from Lake Success Satur
day for a conference on the Ko
rean situation.
At the same time the army an
nounced that Gen. J. Lawton Col
lins, army chief of staff, is on his
way to the Far East by air to con
fer with Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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Will Make Last Big 1
Push To Get Vote
On Statehood Bill
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(By G. Milion Kelly)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Stung by
Republican taunts, administration
forces in the Senate planned a last
big push today to get a vote on
Statehood for Alaska.
Mostly they conceded the fight
was hopeless, and to many observ
ers the Alaskan bill—along with
a similar erne for Hawaii—looked
like a lost cause.
But Senator O'Mahoney, who
led the fight, stuck to a declara
tion that he will not concede de
feat, and that he hasn't abandon
ed hope.
The House has passed both
measures, and Senate approval
would send them to the White
House for signature. President
Truman has urged that they be
passed.
Senator Cordon (R.-Ore.) told
the Senate Friday before its week I
end recess that with the exception
of O’Mahoney, its Democratic
leadership has fought only feebly
for the statehood bills.
Cordon and Senator Morse, also
an Oregon Republican, criticized
a Southern Democraitc bloc which
so far has kept the issue from
coming to a vote. They did not
mention some Republican support
the Dixie group has received.
They spoke after Senator Lucas
(D.-Ill.), the majority floor lead
er, had ordered the statehoerd bills
set aside today to make room for
a rent control bill, unless there is
some hope they can be passed.
Lucas was reported planning a
final appeal to the Southern group
to “let this bill come to a verte."
He has denounced their tactics as
a filibuster.
The issue has become ensnarled
in parliamentary procedures un
der which objection by even one
Senator can prevent it from com
ing up for a vote, and the South
ern group keeps an objector con
stantly available.
O’Mahoney told a reporter he
has had a map of Alaska prepar
ed, with maps of the Scandinavi
/
an peninsula, Finland and Den
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Indict Five For |
Congress Contempt
WASHINGTON (/P)—'Three sci
entists who worked on the atomic
bomb and two men identified as
veteran communist organizers
were indicted today for contempt
of Congress.
The indictments returned by a
federal grand jury named Steve
Nelson, 47, communist party or
ganizer for Western Pennsylvania
who allegedly set up a Red cell
in the University of California
radiation laboratory.
Marcel Scherer, 51, like Nelson
linked by the House un-American
activities committee with Red in
filtration of the radiation labora
tory.
David Josep Bohm, 33, Giovan
ni Rossi Lomanitz, 29, and Irving
David Fox, 30, scientists who
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Budget Board OK’s
Biennial Estimates
For $20,128,311.28
(Juneau Empire)
Estimates of all Territorial de
partments and boards totaling $20,
128,311.28 for the 1951-53 biennial
period have been approved by the
Territorial Budget Board it has
been revealed.
The board estimated tax and
miscellaneous revenues under cur
rent tari laws for the same period
at $19,560,750.00, leaving a deficit
of $567,561.28.
The three major expenditures
are (1) Education, $11,540,882.10;
(2‘ Public Welfare $3,709,909.34;
Public Health, $1,159,720.00.
These three departments* estim
ates constitute about 80 per cent
of the total budget estimates.
Estimates for the 49-51 biennial
period totaled about $17,403,341.24’
and anticipated revenues totaled
approximately $6,640,000.00.
The increase in anticipated rev
enues for the next two years is
effected in great part from tax
laws passed by the Iineteenth Leg
islatures and the Special Session
called in January 1949. Greatest
sources of revenue estimates are
Department of Taxation, $18,239,
250.0ft; Auditor’s office, $400,000;
School Tax, $460,000; Net Liquor
Tax, $230,000.00; Alaska Game
Commission, $105,000.00.
The Budget Board pointed out
that it has not felt that requests
from administrative officers for
staff promotions and salary in
creases to be within its province,
considering them instead matters
for Legislative determination. Ac
cordingly, the following estimates
d nt include provision for em
ployees’ salary increases err pro
motions, which matters are sug
gested for separate consideration
by the Legislature. This position is
taken by the Board of Budget both
in recognition of last practice by
the Legislature and in view of the
Nineteenth Legislature having di
rected the Territorial Board of
Administrations to prepare recom
mendations concerning a uniform
graduated salary schedule for Ter
ritorial employees.
The board suggests that the!
Twentieth Legislature might well
consider measures for improve
ment in the statutory provisions
governing the functions of the
Boar dof Budget toward giving
succeeding legislatures and the
Territory at large the benefits to
be derived from a modem budget
control esrvice. The provisions, it
tsates, have been outgrown by
the Territorial government. The
Board has not the facilities to
make the specilaized studies and
to give the close scrutiny to es
timates that are available to most
states and to the Federal govern
ment through full time budget
control agencies.
The itemsized budget for the 51
53 biennial period follows.
Alaska Communica
tions .$ 104,928.00
(49-51 period $42,610.00*
Alaska Dept. Agri- .. 98,534,84
(49-51 period 75,000.00
Alaska Dept. Fish .... 400,000.00
(49-51 period 250,000.00)
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Attlee Confers
With Truman On
World Crisis
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| WASHINGTON, iff) — British
| Prime Minister Attlee arrived
1 here today for talks with Presi
dent Truman aimed at finding a
common policy in the world crisis
and averting the threat of a glob
I al war.
Attlee’s big four-engined Brit
ish airliner “Cathay” rolled up on
the national airport apron where
President Truman, secretary of
States Aohreson, Defense Secre
tary Marshall and other officials
were waiting at about 9:45 a.m.
After the greetings, Attlee made
a statement for the newsmen
there.
He said his aim in the talks
with Mr. Truman—which are to
get underway tomorrow—“is to
align our policies in the new and
troubled situation in the world
and to find the means of uphold
ing what we both know to be
right.”
He accused the communist bloc
of trying to “drive a wedge be
tween our two peoples.”
A harsh, cold wind, driving low
wet clouds, swept over the port
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Revised ACS
Telegraph Tariffs
Start Jan. 1,1951
In the past few years the ACS
has entered into agreement with
the greatest possible number of
connecting line companies as pos
sible to make available to the gen
eral public the most complete
communications to everyone. By
means of these agreements with
connecting lines the ACS has af
forded the people of Alaska with
immediate access to the telegraph
network of the system, and
through the system, to all com
munication points of the world
and in most instances at no addi
tional cost to the customers.
The demands of the connecting
lines for increase revenue and in
some instances due to increase
operating and labor costs has
brought forth the fact that on
some routings and on all night
letter routings that the ACS is
not receiving a sufficient percen
tage of revenue.
During the past year a survey
has been conducted and the fal
lowing facts have been found:
The base rate for nightletter
should be increased to allow the
ACS to receive a proportionate
share of tolls on each message,
with a reduction in extra word
rates to partially compensate
therefore.
The day message and day letter
extra word rates should be re
duced.
A reduced base rate should be
made available for messages be
tween neighboring points (less
than 100 miles apart) and for mes
sages exchanged with other line
stations. /
There will be therefore a small
increase in rates from every ACS
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Monday, December 4, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
United Nations troops, battered
by an ever-growing Chinese com
munist army, faced a worsening
crisis today in their headlong re
treat southward in Korea.
The Allies were withdrawing
from Pyongyang, the North Ko
rean capital they captured Oct. 20.
Field dispatches said the U. S. 8th
Army might set up a defense
perimeter around Seoul, South
Korean capital.
There did not appear to be
enough U. N. troops in Korea to
set up a new defense line across
the Korean peninsula.
The whole U. S. 10th Corps was
endangered in the frozen north
east. Five U. N. divisions were
driving towards the escape port of
Hungnam. But they were heavily
outnumbered. Marines and dough
boys were caught in deep enemy
traps.
uenerai MacArtnur estimated
the Chinese communists have an
818,000-man army in North Korea
adn along the Manchurian bound
ary either in action or ready for
it against the United Nations. An
other 200,000 Chinese are moving
to the area from central China.
Thus China appears to have com
mitted one-fourth of her 4,000,000
man total military strength.
The U. S. Chief of Staff—Gen.
J. Lawton Collins — conferred
with MacArthur about the crisis
and then flew on to talk with
commanders in the field.
The appearance of more and
more Chinese communists in the
“new war” threatened the entire
U. N. position on the Korean pe
ninsula.
U. S. Marines made a bloody 12
mile retreat on the west side of
the Changjin reservoir. The Fifth
and Seventh regiments reached
Hagaru, joining elements of the
U. S. Seventh Infantry Division
which escaped a Red trap on the
east side of the reservoir. Casual
ties weer heavy.
To the southeast an estimated
45,000 Chinese were reported
massing for a drive on Hamhung
and its port city of Hungnam. Ad
vance Chinese units.weer reported
15 miles from Hamhung.
There were no reports from the
South Korean Capital and Third
Divisions which had been pushing
up the northeast coast toward the
Soviet border when last heard
from.
Five Chinese armies pushed on
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SHOPPING GAYS
TILL CHRISTMAS