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• VOL. LII. No. 16 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
VANCOUVER, B. C. (A*) —
Opening and closing dates for
the sockeye salmon fishing season
and a proposal to ban all sockeye
fishing outside the three-mile
* limit were to be. considered yes
terday by the International Pa
cific Fisheries Commission.
The three-mile ban was sug
gested Monday by Alvin Ander
son, commission secretary and di
rector of the Washington State
department of fisheries.
Proposed dates for the sockeye
season are July 1 to Sept. 15.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska introduced a
bill to provide that money receiv
ed from the disposal of materials
located on school section lands in
Alaska be credited to the Terri
tory.
He also introduced a bill to au
thorize an annual appropriation
not to exceed $100,000 to aid the
Arctic Institute of North America
in scientific studies. The Canadian
government would join in support
of the Institute.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (/P)—Brig. Gen.
Dale V. Gaffney, deputy com
y mander of the Air proving
Ground at Eglin Field, Fla., is se
riously ill in Oliver General hos
pital here.
The general, who formerly
commanded Ladd Air Force Base
at Fairbanks, was flown to Au
gusta from Eglin Monday.
A hospital attache said Gaffney
was a “very ill man.” They de
clined to disclose the nature of
the illness.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Cold stor
age companies had almost 100,
000,000 pounds of frozen fish and
shellfish in storage Dec. 1, a “few
hundred thousand pounds more
than ever before reported,” the
fish and wildlife service said to
• day.
The agency added, in its quar
terly outlook for the marketing
of fishery products, that stocks
probably have been reduced con
siderably since Dec. 1, because
production at this time of the year
is at a low ebb.
Holdings of salt-water fish were
estimated at more than 120,000,000
pounds or slightly less than a year
earlier, but well above the five
» year average for that date.
PORTLAND, (/P)—Army engin
eers announced the award today
of a $1,034,305 contract for dredg
ing Wrangell Narrows in Alaska.
The contract went to Puget Sound
Bridge and Dreding Co., Seattle.
It calls for dredging from mile 12
to Mile 24 in the vicinity of Pe
tersburg. Dredging of the first 12
miles of the Narrows is now near
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Butler Wants To
'Curtail Power Of
Interior Dept.
j ((A*) Special Washington Service*
1 WASHINGTON, iff)— Senator!
Butler <R.-Neb.> proposed Monday
the‘enactment of a law to probih- j
it the interior department from :
i setting up Indian reservations in
Alaska.
J
Eskimos at Barrow voted down
Saturday an offer of the depart
ment to set up a 750 square mile
reservation for them. The Natives
I rejected it, 231 to 29.
I Butler said in a statement that
the result of the election “is high
ly encouraging to those of us who
have been fighting the expansion
of the reservation system for In
dians and other American native
peoples.”
“It is evident that the natives
in this region definitely do not
want the reservation system es
tablished,” Butler said. “In fact,
the reservation system for Indi
, ans has failed or is failing all over
the country. Instead of advancing
the Indians, it has segreagted
them from the main stream of
American life and effectively hin
dered their progress toward a
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CIO Postpones
Telephone Strike
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WASHINGTON, (;P)_The CIO
I communications workers yester
' day postponed until Feb. 24 a na
| tionwide telephone strike it had
I called for today at 6 a.m.
Mediation director Cyrus S.
Ching had asked for the post
ponement to permit more time for
conciliators to try to settle the
dispute.
Union president Joseph A.!
Beirne of the Union said the nine-j
man executive board had voted to
postpone the strike in the hope a
settlement could be brought
about about in the meantime. ,
Along with asking a postpone
ment of the strike call, Ching
called for “intensified bargain
ing.”
Beirne said a postponement or
der was sent to the unions whose
100,000 workers were to walk out
today in the first wave of strikes
aimed at shutting down the entire
Bell Telephone System.
The new strike deadline is 6
a.m., local time, on Friday, Feb.:
24.
Ching based his plea for a post
ponement on the public interest: j
Beirne said: “We, too, have
grave concern for the interests of
the public. We think we have
demonstrated that in these months
of fruitless bargaining. “We want i
to avoid a strike.” i
Form Committee
To Press For
Alaska Statehood
_
Nearly a hundred prominent |
Americans from all walks of life
and all sections of the nation have j
banded together in a committee
to obtain statehood for Alaska,
it was announced today by Robert
Atwood of Anchorage, chairman
of the official Alaska Statehood
Committee of the Territorial gov
ernment.
An enabling act to make a state
of Alaska is before Congress,
where action in the House of Rep
resentatives is expected within a
matter of days. Alaska statehood
has been recommended by every
committee of Congress which has
even investigated the question.
rhe national committee which
has dedicated itself to adding a
49th star to the flag brings to
gether such outstanding Ameri
cans as General Douglas MacAr
thur, Eleanor Roosevelt, Admiral
Richard E. Byrd, Eric Johnston,
John Gunther and Eddie Ricken
backer.
Southerners, including John
Nance Garner of Texas, Ellis Arn
all of Georgia, Wilson W. Wyatt
of Kentucky, Hodding Carter of
Mississippi, Hamilton Holt of Flo
rida, Howard W. Odum of North
Carolina, Douglas Southall Free
man of Virginia, and James G.
Stahlman of Tennessee, have
joined with other citizens from
the North, the East and the West
to promote the statehood cause of
the Northern Territory.
Prominent Republicans such as
Arthur Capper, former Senator
from Kansas, and Wallace H.
White, Jr., former Senator from
Maine, have joined with Demo
crats such as James Roosevelt and
James A. Farley on this issue.
Both the Republican and Demo
cratic platforms have endorsed
statehood for Alaska. The inde
pendent strain in American poli
tics is represented by Robert M.
LaFollette, Jr., former Senator
from Wisconsin.
Governors of nine States have
placed their names on the com
mittee. These are Earl Warren of
California, Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois, Val Peterson of Nebras
ka, Sidney S. McMath of Arkan
sas, Alfred E. Driscoll of New
Jersey, John W. Bonner of Mon
tana, Thomas J. Mabry of New
Mexico, G. Mennen Williams of
Michigan and Roy J. Turner of
Oklahoma.
Membersof Congress, who will
have to pass on the statehood leg
islation, were deliberately left off
the list of invitations when the
committee was formed, but events
have landed one Senator on it. He '
is Herbert H. Lehman of New
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Miners Will Refuse
To Obey Taft
Hartley Law
PITTSBURGH, (/P)—Coal pro
duction plummeted yesterday in
the wake of the soft coal miners’
nationwide strike. All signs point
to rising unemployment in coal
using industries.
About 372,800 bitter diggers are
bn strike in 14 states. They insist
they won’t be “blackjacked” into
heeding the Taft-Hartley Act. The
strikers can produce about 2,220,
000 tons of coal a day.
Nearly 20,000 workers in steel
mills and on railroads were layed
off in past months because of the
three-day work week ordered
July. 1 by president John L. Lewis
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C-47 Vanishes
Hunting For Long
Missing (1-54
ID
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I WHITE HORSE. I/P> — Two
j planes droned through the dark
ness early today over the Arctic
j wastes northwest of here today
| looking for possible fires or flares
from a missing U. S. A. F. C-47.
, The plane, carrying 12 Canadi
i an and U. S. airmen, vanished
yesterday while searching for a
C-54 transport which disappeared
Jan 26 with 44 persons aboard.
Search officials said s.o.s. sig
nals from the C-47 were picked
up last night on the 8280 distress
frequency. Efforts to obtain a
“fix” on them were fruitless.
Ground radio posts in the area
were ordered into a 24-hour alert.
The signals reportedly were
different from those heard earlier
in the day by planes and coast
guard stations along the Pacific
coast. The earlier signals, report
ed from the United States to Alas
ka, were similar to those picked
up from time to time since the
search for the missing C-54 began, i
Hope was held here that the
C-47 might have landed on one of
the two landing fields or two
lakes in the Aishihik area, about
100 miles northwest of here, j
where it was asigned to check a
900-square-mile area. Poor visi
bility eliminated a possible check
on these spots last night.
Temperatures in the region
dropped to 22 below but search
officials said the plane was equip
ped with emergency Arctic sur
vival equipment.
It was the second search plane
to become missing since the far
flung search began nearly two
weeks ago. Another C-47 crashed
on a mountain peak 21 miles south
of heer last week. All six persons
aboard were rescued.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday, February 7, 1950
(By The Associated Press >
The Russians slowed down
West Berlin traffic today — and
then accused the Western Allies
of trying to revive the cold war
by complaining of a new block
ade.
After permitting truck traffic
to flow through the Helmstedt
checkpoint at about a normal
rate over the week-end, the Rus
sians again renewed the squeeze
play. Only eight trucks were
cleared in an hour. By midmorn
ing there was a lineup of 40
trucks awaiting clearance.
At the same time the official
Soviet newspaper Taegliche
Rundschau accused the West of
“attempts to warm up the cold
war in Berlin again.”
The newspaper called the new
partial blockade a ‘‘fair tale” in
vented. by Western authorities to
cause trouble.
It became known yesterday that
the West German government
had decided to curtail steel ship
ments from the Ruhr to the Sov
iet Zone. The reason expected to
be given the East German govern
ment is that the Russian zone is
behind in its grain shipments to
West Germany.
Premier Georges Bidault of
France now seeks approval of the
national assembly for his make
shift government.
I Most Paris observers said the
new Bidault cabinet, without the
Sociialists who walked out last
week in disagreement over pay
ment of bonuses to low-paid
workers, has but small hape of
long survival.
The Socialists, members of one
of France’s major parties, were
replaced by five new members
from Bidault’s own party, the
Catholic Popular Repub 1 i c a n
movement and the Radical Social
ists, a moderate group.
In Washington lawmakers ex
pressed fear the delay of Britain
in reporting fully to the FBI on
the Klaus Fuchs case may enable
some suspects to escape the United
States. They said that until the
British justice department re
leases its records on the British
atomic scientist arrested last
week as a spy, the FBI may have
to wait for important leads.
Fuchs is believed to have had
accomplices in the United States
in handing on atomic and hydro
gen bomb secrets to the Russians.
Wednesday, February 8, 1950
Chinese Nationalists on Formo
sa today stepped up their bomb
ing attacks on the big cities of
China.
The communist capital Peiping
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