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VOL. L. No. 88. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948 PER COPY 15<*
Internationa News
At A Glance —
UNDATED ,INTERNATIONAL
By the Associated Press
General Llcius D. Clay declared
today U.S. forces in Germany can
and will carry out the American
intention to stay in blockaded
Berlin.
The American military gover
nor made the statement to House
Foreign Affairs Committee men
and then went to the White House
for another secret session with
President Truman. He returns to
Berlin tonight.
Hope increased in Washington
that the crisis, provoked by Rus-^
sia 27 days ago in closing rail,
road and barge travel to Berlin,
could be solved without war.
MOSCOW
The Russian government news
paper Izvestia accused the Amer
icans and British of “making use
of suffering of human beings for
low political purposes.’
A Polish source in Moscow in
dicated the Russians are about to
buy large quantities of Polish coal,
possibly for sale to the Western
sectors of Berlin.
BERLIN
American and Bitish planes ap
peared to be flying in enough food
to stave off hunger.
WASHINGTON
President Truman’s assertion
that he considers excellent the
chances of achieving eventual
world peace appeared to be based
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BOMB DROPPED
NEAR U.N. HQ.
PILOT SOUGHT
By George W. Cornell
LAKE SUCCESS, — (/P)— An
ex-army flier, worried about a
new war, was sought today as
the pilot who dived at United Na
tions headquarters and dropped
a missile which exploded harm
lessly nearby.
The % U.N. trusteeship council
was in session when the missile
believed by police to be a home- j
made bomb, went off yesterday
near the ground about 400 feet
from the entrance of the Centr^J
U.N. building.
The blast was heard a mile
away.
A plane answering the descrip- j
tion of the one from which the
missile was dropped landed a short
time later at LaGuardia Field.
Its pilot, who identified him
self as Stephen J. Supina, 36, a
former B-17 turret gunner of Will
ington, Conn., left the field.
Police sent out a 13-State alarm
for Supina on a felony charge
of malicious mischief.
At Ushford, Conn., Supina’s
brother, former Connecticut State
Representative Thomas Supina Jr,,
said “Steve has been pretty up
set, seeing the world on the edge
of another war.”
He said his brother may have
used a “signal flare” in an attempt
to “wake up” the United Nations.”
NOME SCOUTS
GETTING READY
FOR CAMP TRIP
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Boy Scout troop 666, sponsored
by the Nome Rotary Club, com
pleted final camp plans last night
as newly selected Scoutmaster,
Sgt. Perry Pew, Arctic Indoctrin
ation Detachment, briefed the
Scouts on needed equipment and
program.
Pew had been appointed to the
job early yesterday by the troop
committee, and spent most of yes
terday going over plans and visit
ing the Scout Camp at Dexter
with Field Scout Executive, Russ
Apple, who arrived in the morning
from Fairbanks to assist the local
' troop with camp. Pew and Apple
were guests at the Rotary meeting
yesterday.
At an additional troop committee
meeting last night Pew submitted
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MV Terminal Knot
Here August 1st.
The M/V Terminal Knot, under
i command of M. R. Parks, sailed
from Seattle at 1:00 p.m., Wed
nesday, June 21, 1948, according
to word received here today by
W. R. :Wood, local Alaska Steam
ship Company agent.
The Terminal Knot will call
at Unalaska, Dutch Harbor, Nome,
Teller, Wales, Shishmaref, Deer
ing, Keewalik, and Kotzebue. This
will be the only vessel calling in
the Kotzebue Sound area this sea
son.
Weather permitting, the Ter
minal Knot should arrive in the
Nome roadstead by August 1st.
Eisenhower-Dewey
Talk Over Europe
Situation
By Henry Leader
PAWLING, N.Y., — (JP) —Gov. !
Thomas E. Dewey and Gen. Dwight j
D. Eisenhower discussed “the criti
cal” European situation at a sur
prise conference here today.
Eisenhower, president of Colum
bia University, came to Pawling
at Dewey’s request. They discussed
“European affairs and our mili
tary establishment,” an aide of
Governor Dewey said.
The visit of the World War II
Allied Supreme Commander in
Europe preceded by one day the
scheduled conference here by Gov.
Dewey with Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg and John Foster Dul
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Mrs. Rob’t Stewart
Speaks to Rotarians
About Hospital
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The Rotary Club on Thursday
were praised by Mrs. Robert Stew
art, chairman of the Women’s
Division of the Methodist Mis
sion Board, of New York City, at
their noon luncheon yesterday.
Mrs. Stewart is here in the in
terest of the new hospital being
constructed in Nome by the Car
son Construction Co., of Montana,
for her group.
The Rotary Club, she stated,
had been instrumental in keeping
the thought alive, although the
project seemed doomed for lack
of funds. Each time it looked as
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Wallace Arrives At
Third Party’s
Convention
By Jack Bell
PHILADELPHIA, — i/P) —Hen
ry A. Wallace arrived here today
and told cheering backers of his
Third Party presidential candid
acy, that they are making world
history.
“This convention will mark a
great turning point in the history
of this party, the United States
and the world,” he said to several
hundred party leaders delegates
and party workers who greeted
him at the Pennsylvania Railroad's j
Broad Street station with shouts
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II. of W. Teacher
Ejected From
Hearing
SEATTLE, — OP) —A former
University of Washington teach
ing fellow was removed from the
witness stand at the legislature’s
un-American Activities Commit
tee hearings this morning after a
shouted exchange with the chair
man.
Philip H. Davis who was ejected
for shouting repeatedly for his
attorney, who previously was bar
red from the hearing chambers.
“Take him out,” committee
chairman Albert F. Canwell of
Spokane ordered, unable to si
lence Davis with his pounding
gavel.
The 39-year-old ex-teacher was
the first witness called at the
start of the fifth-day session, which i
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PRES. TRUMAN, BARKLEY BEFORE DEMO. MEET
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The Missouri standard waves over the speaker's rostrom at the Demo
cratic National Convention in Philadelphia as President Truman and
Senator Alben W. Barkley appear before the delegates after their nom
inations as presidential and vice presidential nominations. Between
them is Barkley's daughter, Mrs. Marian MacArthur. Rep. Sam Rayburn
is at right, with lames A. Farley standing behind him. Mrs. Truman and
Margaret Truman are behind the President. (AP wirephoto.)
THREE B-29s TO
MAKING ROUND
WORLD FLIGHT
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By Elton C. Fay
WASHINGTON, — </P) —Three
American Superfortresses are off
on a round the world scouting
flight to see whether big bombers
could use fields and facilities in
distant parts of the world should
trouble come some day.
The second stop of the trio of
B-29s was scheduled for today at
Lagens Airport in the Azores,
which the United States uses under
an agreement with Portugal.
The bombers taking off from
their base at Davis-Monthan
Field, Tucson, Ariz., stopped at
MacDill, Florida, yesterday after
noon for fuel, then headed east
ward out across the Atlantic.
The flight is the third projected
globe-girdling trip for Superfort
resses—but drastically scaled down
from the original plan.
In October, 1946, Air Secretary
Symington announced to a news
conference that “if the State De
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COST OF LIVING
INDEX HITS AN
ALL-TIME HIGH
—
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —The
i cost of living index struck an all
: time high on June 15, with food
prices reaching record-shattering
! levels, the Bureau of Labor Stat
istics reported today.
The index representing retail
prices of goods and services bought
by moderate income families in.
large cities, hit 171.7 per cent of
the 1935-1939 average.
As the record-smashing living
cost figures were disclosed. Presi
dent Truman drove ahead with
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GOLD AT $51 Oz.
Lit Natural State
Offered In Reno
July 2, 1948.
(In the June 18 edition of the
I Alaska Weekly, in this column, ap
peared an article from Spokane.
Wash., regarding the purchase of
Alaska gold at the equivalent of
$45 an ounce. In this week's issue
of the Mining Record, appeared a
story of gold being sold in the
United Stales at $51 'an ounce,
portions of which follow.
RENO Nevada.—An ex-pros
pector who offered natural gold
for sale to the highest bidder was
deluged with more than $10 mil
lion worth of orders on his first
day of business, says the Associ-» #
ated Press.
E. L. Cleveland of Reno, mine
company head, has set up a new
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