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VOL. XLiX. No. 123 NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1947_PER COPY — 15c ~
NEWS IN BRIEF j
INDIANAPOLIS —Boyd Brow
der thinks 13 is his lucky number.
Charged with disorderly conduct
and taken before the judge, he
learned that his wife had been,
taken to a hospital to await the
birth of their 13th child. The judge
postponed the case and said he
would dismiss the charge if Brow
der would bring all his children
to see him within two months.
NEW YORK, f/P)—Major secur
ities and commodity markets in
the United States and Canada are
closed today in observance of Co- j
lumbus Day in this country and
Thanksgiving Day in Canada.
ELKHART, Ind. — Daniel E.
Aceball, 20, Miami, Fla., realizes
now it doesn’t pay to call his pros
pective clients names when they
turn down his magazines. Aceball
was taken to the city jail after po
lice said he left “notes in obscene
language” at several doorsteps af
ter failing to sell his magazines.
He was fined $20 for disorderly
conduct.
JUNEAU. (/P) — With Thanks
giving and Christmas coming on
"eggless and poultryless" Thurs
days, Governor Greuning pro
posed that Mondays be observed
without serving eggs or poultry
dishes those weeks.
His formal proclamation also
called President Truman's food
conservation to the attention of all
Alaskans and asked their observ
ance.
LONDON, </P)—Behavior of the
average citizen while drinking his
pint or sipping a dry martini is i
under investigation by Thomas P. I
Bennett who has the strange job.
of wandering from pub to pub and 1
* getting paid for it.
Do Britons prefer to drink
standing or sitting down Mr. Ben-!
net, architect responsible for the ■
design of a large number of Bri- j
tain’s modern public houses,
wants to know.
The general tendency, he finds,
is to stand up in pubs which are
"in business areas and sit down in;
those in residential areas.
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VANCOUVER, B. C. (£>»—Geo. |
H. Baillie, vice-president in charge!
of the Pacific region, Canadian
Pacific Railway, said last night
that Canadian Pacific steamships J
would include Haines, Alaska as |
a port of call beginning next j
spring.
Wholesalers and shippers here
said they expected the new route1
would cut freight rates from Van- j
couver to Whitehorse, and also to i
the rest of the Yukon and the;
Alaska interior, by nearly 50 per1
cent in some cases. Haines is the
southern terminus of the “Haines
Cut-Off,” connecting link with the
Alaska Highway.
LONDON, (A3) — Rep. Margaret;
Smith (R.-Me.), member of the;
House armed services ‘committee,
said today she had asked scores of
GI’s in Europe what they wanted
to know about things back home
and their top priority qyestion
had been:
Mysterious Object
From Air Explodes
In Mexico
EL PASO, -Tex. i/P>—A flaming
object which soared over the
Texas-Mexico border and crashed
near the Zamalayuca mountains
of Mexico with a loud explosion
and billowing smoke remained a
mystery today.
The point of impact was said to
be less than 10 miles from where
an off-track V-2 rocket crashed
south of Juarez May 29.
Military officials at air fields
and other installations in the
southwest said that no guided
missiles had been fired yesterda;.
and that no rocket planes we",
mising from fields in the area.
Two persons claimed to have
seen the fiery object and o*he*:
in the Fabens, Texas, area 2.
miles away, heard the explosion
The explosion occurred at ap
proximately 9:30 a.m. Mexicar
time, yesterday
Billows of unaccounted foi
smoke were reported seen by twt
persons on the El Paso-Faben:
highway about the time the evpio
sion was heard.
Babas Aranda, a reserve captau
in the Mexican army, reported the
incident first. He said he saw thf
object traveling from east to west
which would indicate that it camr
from the direction of the Unitec
States.
Aranda said he was near hi:
home at Caseta, Mexico, when h(
saw the object.
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Russia Will Stop
Before Final Break
With United States
WASHINGTON. </P) — Despite
Russia’s all out battle against the
Marshall plan, top American in
formants now predict that the
Soviet Unoin will stop shot v of a
final breakdown of relations with
this .country any time soon.
This estimate, it was learned
from official sources, is entering
in*:o basic plan ung now being un
dertaken for me Big Fou° foreign
ministers meeting Nov. 25 ac Lon
con and German and Austrian
peace settlements. It also figures
the development Of American pol
icies in the current United Nations
meeting at New York.
The view is that Russia will
campaign to the limit against the
United States on great world is
sues but will not at this time be
willing to wreck any important
piece of machinery for interna
tional negotiation.
This opinion is understood to
have been presented to state, de
fense and other policy-making of
ficials by two American leaders
abroad who returned to Washing
ton a few days ago. They are Am
bassador Walter Bedell Smitn,
American envoy to Moscow, and
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American
commander in Germany.
Asked for the GI’s reaction, she
added:
Five Killed As
Motorship Hits
Rocks In Canada
POWELL, RIVER, B. C„ (/P)—
j Three small children and two wo
men, one-third of the passengers
aboard the 145-foot coastal motor
ship Gulf Stream, per;shed in the
night Saturday when the convert
ed Canadian yacht smashed ont)
a rock island and partially sank
while threading a narrow passage
of the Georgia Strait.
A nearby fishing vessel, the
Betty L, rescued the 10 other pas
sengers and 22 crewmen, bringing
them to Powell River where 11
were hospitalized. Their condition
was reported not serious.
Officials of Gulf Lines, Ltd., op
erators of the Gulf Stream, listed
the five missing persons, who
’ were believed drowned in the ves
sel’s submerged after cabins, as:
Mrs. K. Elliot, Vancouver, B. C..
her son, Lyle, 2, and a 3-year-old
nephew, Douglas Lispett.
Mrs. S. Fleck, Refuge Cove, B
| C.
A small child of Mr. and Mrs.
H. Pavid, also of Refuge Cove.
Search for the bodies in the
sunken stern has not been started.
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I Report Syrians
Encamped Near
Palestine Border
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j JERUSALEM, iJP) — Jewish
sources reported well-equipped
Syrian troops encamped today
near the Palestine border opposite
an area of Jewish agricultural
settlements, but there was no con
firmation from Briitsh officials or
other quarters.
One British spokesman said,
however, that is the report was
true, the Syrian troop movement
! probably was “the first step on
the part of the Arab states to
show they will fill the vacuum
and take over the Holy Land
when the British move out.”
The United States consulate in
Jerusalem was slightly damaged
j t v a bomb which was tossed over
: the compound wall and exploded
| i i the garden. Two women em
| ployees in the consulate mail
, room were slightly injured.
Observers were inclined to at
I tribute the bombing to an attemp
I ted reprisal for the U. S. decision
to support partition of Palestine
into separate Jewish and Arab
countries which was announced
Saturday in the United Nations
special Palestine committee.
• London newspapers reported
today that the exiled mufti #of
Jerusalem, Haj Amin El Husseini,
i had visited a point in Lebanon
J near Palestine’s northwestern bor
| der after attending the meeting in
Beirut where the Arab league
council announced adoption of
concrete plans for “military mea
sures for the Arab defense of Pal
estine.”
(A British foreign office spokes
man said the mufti would be ar
rested immediately if he attemp
ted to enter the Holy Land while
Britain retains her mandate
H.\
“Draft Eisenhower
For President
League** Formed
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NEW YORK. (/P)—Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower’s name — with or
without his approval—will be en
tered in Republican Presidential
primaries in a number of states,
including Wisconsin and possibly
New York, an official of the
“Draft Eisenhower for President
League,’ said Friday.
Asserting that “hundreds and
thousands of Americans write us
that they want to help.” Maurice 1
Mumford, league executive vice
president, said that although the
army chief of staff has no. sanc
tioned formation of the league,
“They hope that he will announce
I his candidacy about Jan. 1.”
Eisenhower becomes president of
I Columbia university then.
“We are hoping to get enough
sentiment for Eisenhower in each
state so that he will be the second
choice of Republican convention
delegates after they have voted lor
favorite son candidates,” Mum
ford, head of an export and im
i port firm 1 Washington. :,a.:d.
He made loe stateme ;• at a
nev/s co.j erence which followed
I presentation of a league chart > to
I Eisenhower supporters here.
“We are hoping to pull another
, Willkie stunt,” Mumford declar
ed, referring to the nomination of
. the late Wendell Willkie at the
. 1940 Philadelphia convention af
: ter Gov. Thomas E. TXwvey had
led on early ballots.
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Gen. Tito Severs
Chilean Diplomatic
| Relations
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BELGRADE </P>, Premier Mar
, shal Tito’s government severed
! diplomatic relations with Chile
Saturday over the expulsion of
two Yugoslav diplomats.
Yugoslavia described as fantas-1
tic and slanderous the reasons
given by Chile for the banishment j
—that the diplomats had engaged
in a Communist-directed cam
paign. against Chile, the United
States and the defense of the west
ern hemisphere by fomenting
strikes and sabotage in the South l
American nation.
The Yugoslav foreign ministry
said Chile’s action was to furtrer
“the interest of expansionist ten
dencies of certain powers who
more and more direct the home
and foreign policy of Chile.”
The government’s announce- j
ment did not name these powers .
'Moscow however, left no doubt ar
to who was meant. The Soviet
press and radio said the expulsion
was intended to “gratify reaction
ary circles of the (Jni’dt State.- ‘ i
Fravda called it a “lakkey-like |
service „o American Imperialism I
in Chile.” The Com mu rest party
of Chile urged a LTn.;cd Nations
investigation).
Yugoslavia said ‘ there is no
longer need to continue diplomatic
relations with a government
which does not regu’ate its rela
tions with other states independ
ently.”
fPnnlmtio/l nn Pioo Fivp)
Florida Flooded
IJv Kains And
•/
Freak Hnrrieane
MIAMI, Fla. i/Pi — Southeast
Florida, inundated in sections by
the highest flood waters in more
than a quarter of a century,
placed its crop damage at between
$15,000,000 and $20,000,000 in the
wake of a freakish hurricane that
whirled northeastward into the
Atlantic.
With winds up to 60 miles an
hour, the storm lashed across
southern Florida Saturday and
Sunday and then moved toward
the northeast, accompanied by
heavy squalls.
Commissioner of agriculture
Nathan Mayo called the hurricane
the greatest farm disaster in more
than a generation. Tons of water
poured down upon the Everglades
where many fields and grazing
lands already were covered.
He estimated the multi-million
dollar farm damage after receiv
ing reports from throughout the
area.
Thousands of residents sought
refuge in schools and other pub
lic buildings as hundreds of
homes were flooded and mass
evacuations were carried out.
Highways were under water and
transportation facilities were crip
pled.
At Fort Lauderdale the Red
Cross added 1.800 flood victims to
its list, and about 1,000 persons
were moved to the Pompano
State Farmers market from the
Pompano Beach migratory work
ers’ camp and nearby Hammond
ville.
Torrential rains turned thou
sands of lowland acres, already
sodden by two previous storms
and almost daily rains for nearly
a month, into virtual lakes.
The air force planes headed
for the Atlantic Ocean today to
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•Voice of America*
Stops Communism
In Western Europe
WASHINGTON (7P1—Commun
ism’s move into western Europe
“has been stopped cold for the
past 60 to 90 days,” Rep. Mundt
iR.-S.D.' declared today, “and
could be turned into an ebb tide
very easily.” .
“We very definitely hare to
make a strenuous effort to in
crease our information program
in there,” he said in an interview.
“Russian propaganda is vicious,
well financed, and skillfully pro
moted by an active and extensive
staff.”
Mundt also urged emergency
relief for France this winter, and
said Italy may need additional
food allotments.
Mundt is chairman of a House
foreign affairs sub-commi 11 e e
which returned yesterday after a
month’s trip through Europe sur
veying political conditions and
the effect of the U. S. state de
partment’s information program,
including the ‘‘Voice of America”
broadcasts. He visited 23 coun
tries crninc* as far east ns Tnrlrov