_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIH~No. 92 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951 Per Copy—15^
Alaska Airlines Head
Office Manager Here To
Correlate New Schedules
Margaret Heller, office manag
er of the Alaska Airlines from
headquarters, is here conferring
with the local manager, Paul Spur
lock, on the new schedule of flights
in this area which start from the
States in a few days.
Miss Heller called attention to
the fact that the Alaska Airlines
is interested primarily in the ser
vice this new stateside connection
will give to the small communities
in northern Alaska. This new ser
I vice, she stated, serves over ninety
communities out of Nome. With
Bethel and McGrath as the main
lines, the schedules are to be so
correlated and stepped up that
travelers from any of the villages
will soon be able to go straight
through to the States on regular
non-stop schedules.
This will also speed up the
service on air freight so vital to
the Second Division.
In addition to helping the resi
dents of the area it will facilitate
the tourists in their winter and
summer itineraries.
Miss Heller came to Alaska to
see the country five years ago. She
is now an enthusiastic Alaskan
with a love of the place she has
adopted and a with a vision of its
wonderful possibilities.
SEATTLE, (JP) — The Seattle
Fur Exchange announces it will
have 85,750 muskrat furs at its
Aug. 9 sale, mostly Alaskan. There
are also 2,000 Alaska and North
west beaver pelts.
' FAIR NOTES
By The Fair Reporter
We have been trying to get a
peek at some of the surprises in
store at the style show scheduled
for next Thursday evening at the
Fair, but a surprise is a surprise
we are told.
However, we did learn that
among the old styles of the early
days in Nome, a beautiful wed
I ding gown of Mrs. L. E. Ost is
* going to be styled—but we didn’t
find out who was to be the model
—they had slender waists in those
days!
Did you know that Kitty Bjorn
stad was doing a “Frankie, and
Johnnie” number that will be un
usual to say the least. And for
k the flapper era Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Killens are showing how
the Charleston was really done.
w Mr. and Mrs. Eric Hay have
' something special too, in the way
of dancing we found out, but they
aren’t telling, either!
Some of the models of modern
day dress will be Ellen Wald
heim, Mary Roell, Lois Swanberg,
Ruth McLain, Bernice Hunt, with
brand new numbers from the N.C.,
Dorothy’s and Polet’s.
President Jackson tipped us off
that there will be something very
different too—at the style show—
/ not exactly unmentionable, but on
the informal side.
As for music — Cpl. B. White
has a trio with special numbers
for all the years from 1900 to
1951 and it is rumored that an
old-fashioned quartet is in the
show, too!.
Member of Terri.
House Charged
Illegal Fishing
JUNEAU, (/P)—Andrew Hope,
member of the Territorial House,
and William R. Walton, chairman
of the Alaska Board of Fisheries,
were among 31 fishermen arrested
Wednesday and charged with il
legal fishing by the Fish and
Wildlife Service. Hope was chair
man of the House Fisheries Com
mittee in the 1951 legislature.
Dan Ralston, law enforcement
supervisor of the service, made
the arrests near Sitka.
He said the seines were pursed
and full of salmon at 5:45 a.m., in
i dicating they had been set about
an hour before. The season was
not to have opened until 6 a.m.
The men were not taken in but
allowed to keep fishing. Monday
they were represented by a Sitka
attorney and a representative of
the Alaska Native Service.
Their case was to «be heard in
Commissioner’s Court tcJday.
With The Cease-Fire
Envoys at Kaesong
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (/P) — The Allies
today pointedly reminded the
i reds that United Nations war
planes and ships range at will far
north of the Korean battlefront
and must be taken into account
in setting up any cease-fire buffer
| zone across the peninsula.
An authoritative source said the
U.N. envoys emphasized this vir
tually unchallenged air and naval
might during the deadlocked
armistice negotiations at Kaesong.
The communists have been in
• sisting on a cease-fire buffer zone
straddling parallel 38. The U.N.
demands a dividing line generally
following the present front, which
extends diagonally, from south of
38 in the west, into North Korea
for as much as 35 miles.
So, in effect, the Allies told the
reds today not to forget that the
ground line is not the only battle
front—that the war can, and is,
daily being carried to the Reds as
far north as the Yalu River boun
dary between North Korea and
Red Manchuria.
Textile Painting Class
To Start On Monday
Mrs. Pearse Walsh, secretary of
the Home Arts Club, announced
today that textile painting classes
under the direction erf a represen
tative of the Extension Service of
the University of Alaska will start
Monday evening at the commer
cial room of the Territorial School
at 7:30 p.m.
All those who have registered
and anyone else whcr wishes to
join the class are asked to bring
their material at that time.
Glove making class will start
on Tuesday afternoon at 1:15 at
the same place.
The representative of the exten
sion service has stated that any
of the women having problems in
canning fish or berries as well as
the making of clothing are invited
to consult with her.
Further announcements about
these projects will be made in
Monday’s paper.
Commissioner of Indian
Affairs Dillon S. Meyer
Expected Here Tomorrow
■Dillon S. Meyer, commissioner
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
from Washington, D.C., is sched
uled to arrive tomorrow, accom
panied by Hugh Wade, who heads
the Alaska Native Service in the
Territory.
Sam Penrod, educational dir
ector of the ANS, George Wilson,
in charge of the Kotzebue area,
and Mr. E. Fisher, Nome repres
entative, will confer with Mr.
Meyer on the various native prob
lems in this area.
Approve Pay Raise
For RR Workers
<AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
Wage Stablization Board ap
proved pay increases for about
■ 2,000 employees of the govern
! ment-owned Alaska Railroad yes
Jterday.
It directed that the increases be
retroactive to dates ranging from
Jan. 8 to March 1.
The wage board also approved
an escalator clause by which
wages will increase in line with
living costs.
Wage Board
Approves Cost-of
Living Increases
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Wage Stabilization Board today
unanimously recommended that
cost of living wage increases be
allowed for all workers.
Board policy up to now has
been to allow them for workers
who are under union contracts
having “escalator” clauses. Such
clauses are those providing for
automatic increases when the gov
ernment’s cost-of-living index
rises.
A new board regulation will be
drawn up immediately if econ
omic stabilizer Eric Johnston ap
proves the proposal to permit cost
of living increase for all workers.
Alaska Would Be
First To Suffer
Enemy Attack
J
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Alaska
may well escape atomic bombing,
but it could be the first place at
tacked with high explosives, Fed
eral Civil Defense officials said
Wednesday.
“Quite possibly the Territory
would be the first to suffer under
an enemy attack,” James J. Wads
worth, deputy Civil Defense ad
ministrator, told a House Armed
Services subcommittee.
Later under questioning, »one of
his assistants, former Col. Joseph
Chambers, said the Joint Chiefs
of Staff doubted Alaska would be
atom-bombed, Chairman Hebert
(D-La) said.
The committee approved legis
lation to authorize the Civil De
fense Administration to waive a
requirement that Alaska match
equally federal funds for air raid
shelters.
Pilot Maurice King
Reported Missing
Since July 27
JUNEAU, '(/P)—The fate of a
Korean airlift plane which van
ished uly 21 with 38 aboard still
remained -a mystery today.
Air and sea searchers continued
to scan the area around Cape
Spencer, Alaska, where the four
engine DC-4 made its last posi
tion report.
Another plane also has been re
ported missing in the area. Maur
ice King, studying Malaspina and
Seward Glaciers for the Arctic In
stitute, has been unreported since
he took off from Yakutat, Alaska,
July 27 for the foot of Mt. Van
couver camp on Seward Glacier.
Predict 5-8 Percent
Drop In Price Of
Canned Salmon
PORTLAND, <(/P)—A 5 to 8 per
cent drop in the price of retail
canned salmon was predicted to
day by the Office erf Price Sta
bilization.
Officials said that newly an
nounced ceiling prices for the 1951
salmon pack would force the de
cline.
The ceilings (FOB cars at ship
ping points nearest to canneries):
$21 a case (48 half-pound tins)
for Columbia Chinook; $18 a case
for Alaska reds packed in Alaska;
$29 a case for tall tins (one
pound) of Alaska red.
Prices on Alaska salmon pre
vail for cars at Astoria, Seattle,
Everett and Bellingham.
SEATTLE, <(/P) — New, lower
government ceilings on the price
of canned salmon drew protests
from salmon brokers and packers
today. They said they objected to
prices being set before unit costs
have been determined.
One broker told the Post-Intelli
gencer that “the real squawk is
on .the price of reds, but we don’t
think there should be any change
in ceilings until we can check
our costs and know what the runs
will be. In some cases the ceilings
may even be too high.”
'
Army Discharges 90 U. S.
Military Academy Cadets
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
Army today announced the dis
charge of 90 U. S. military acad
emy cadets for violating the “code
orf conduct.”
The Army did not immediately
disclose the nature of the viola
tions.
Secretary of the Army Pace said
he had approved the action upon
recommendation made by a spe
cial board. The board was set up
by Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army
chief of staff.
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LENOX, Mass., (JP)—jFrom now
on bare legs will not be permit
ted at the summer concerts given
here by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra.
Thomas B. Perry, Jr., executive
secretary of the Berkshire Music
Festival, said last night ushers
will hand out wrap-around skirts
to women who show up in shorts.
Hodgkins, Who Landed
On Mt. Rainier, Lands
In Fresno, Cal. Jail
FRESNO, (>P) — It’s consider
able flying distance from the top
of Washington’s Mt. Rainier to
the Fresno jail, but John W. Hodg
kin has now landed in or on
both.
Hodgkin, a 42-year-old A i r
Force reserve lieutenant, became
famous last April when he landed
his Piper Cub plane atop the
14,408-foot peak and got stuck
there.
He landed in jail last night after
sideslipping his plane into Fres
no’s Mayfair residential district.
Hodgkin got out of jail after
posting $100 bail, but his plane is
still stuck.
Asked why he did it, Hodgkin
told he wanted to visit his girl
friend who lives across the street
from where he landed.
President Names
New Navy Chief
WASHINGTON, <JP) — Adm.
William M. Fechteler, who steered
clear of the “admirals’ revolt”
against administration policy, is
President Truman’s choice for the
top Navy command.
The President sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of Fechteler,
now commander of the Atlantic
fleet, to be chief of naval opera
tion, succeeding the late Adm.
Forrest P. Sherman who died
July 22 while on a military-diplo
matic mission to Europe.
Fechteler, 55 years old and with
35 years of Navy service, has had
wide experience in virtually every
type of warship — except sub
marines and aircraft carriers.
In choosing Fechteler, the Presi
dent passed by Adm. Arthur W.
Radford, chief of the Pacific fleet,
senior of four-star admirals on
active duty. Radford is a Navy
airman who played a part in the
old Navy-Air Force controversy.
Elizabeth and Philip
To Visit At Blair House
LONDON, (JP)—Princess Eliza
beth and Prince Philip have ac
cepted an invitation to visit Presi
dent Truman in Washington in
October.
An official announcement from
Buckingham Palace said the 25
year-old heir presumptive to the
British throne and her husband
will stay at Blair House, President
Truman’s residence while the
White House is under reconstruc
tion.
The trip to Washington will fol
low a visit to Canada.
Baseball Scores
(By the Associated Press)
THURSDAY RESULTS
American League
Boston 12-11—St. Louis 1-6
Detroit 6—New York 0
Cleveland 5—^Washington 2
Chicago 4—Philadelphia 3
National League
Brooklyn 10—Pittsburgh 5
Chicago 6—New York 3
Philadelphia 7—Cincinnati 5
Boston—St. Louis game called
in last of 9th with Boston leading
7-3. Will be completed later.
No Pacific Coast League games.