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VOL. L No. 39NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, — (/P) — John A.
Campbell, 76, a pioneer of the
gold rush days, died Saturday.
His widow, Gertrude, and two
sons, Chris and William, survive.
A waterfront man, he had been
retired for the past 10 years.
Born in Seaforth, Ontario, Camp
bell came to Seattle in 1900 to
participate in the Alaska gold
rush. When he returned he set
tled down here.
He was a member of the Alaska
Yukon Pioneers.
JUNEAU, — (/P) — Alaskans
will stop paying sales tax July 1.
Territorial Tax Commissioner
M. P. Mullaney said today the
one per-cent tax levied to raise
$3,250,000. for veterans will reach
that sum by June 30. The tax
will be dropped, he said, as of
midnight that date.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, (/P)
—'Patrick William Russel, 92, who
participated in the Klondike gold
rush in 1896, died yesterday at
his birthplace in Downpatrick. He
was one of the first settlers of
the gold mining center which later
became Dawson City.
JUNEAU, — <#*) — Can you
teach? Are you married? Want
an adventure?
If you can answer all three of
the questions with a “yes” then
look up Dr. George A. Dale, dir
ector of education for Alaska Nat
ive Service.
He issued his annual call for
teachers today with 35 openings
for married teachers. The posts
are Indian, Eskimo and Aleut
schools from Point Barrow to
Southeastern Alaska anti west +o
the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.
Both man and wife will be given
jobs even if only one can teach.
The teacher will be given $2,710
and the spouse $1,350 as assistant.
Both receive 26 days annual leave
and transportation to and from
Seattle.
SPOKANE, — (/P) —Trial of
seven persons on charges that they
used the mails to bilk northwest
investors of more than $200,000
in an “atomic gold recovery min
ing scheme” will begin June 1.
Federal Judge Sam S. Driver
set the new hearing date yester
day after denying a motion by at
torney Thor Ulvestad to dismiss
charges against five of the seven
defendants.
Previously the trial date had
been set for May 17. The addition
al time is to permit preparation of
the case by attorneys.
BEND, Ore., — (JP) — Klondike
Kate, once the Belle of the Yukon,
will take a second husband at
Vancouver, Washington, Thurs
day.
Now 68, and known as Mrs.
Kate Rockwell Matson, the one
time beauty of the northlands
will be married to W. L. Van
Duren, Bend accountant whom she
has known for 18 years.
The couple will leave for Port
land tomorrow. After the wed
ding Thursday, they plan a short
honeymoon trip, probably to Cali
fornia.
House Comm. Ap
proves Three Bills
I For Alaska
WASHINGTON, (A3)—The
House appropriations committee
approved today $11,370,000 to
build the Turnagain Arm Road
connecting Seward with Anchor
age, Alaska.
It recommended in the first de
ficiency appropriation bill that
the House appropriate $7,370,000
in cash and $4,000,000 in contract
authorization.
I The road, which will connect
the Kenai Peninsula with the Al
aska highway system, will permit
the Alaska Railroad to abandon
' the section running from Anchor
age to Seward.
The War Department told the
committee the road is of major
military importance.
The committee also recom
mended $716,000 for the construc
tion of the Mount Edgecumbe
sanatorium at Sitka, Alaska. It
is a hospital for tubercular pa
tients. Previous appropriations
for the institution amounted to
$1,696,400 and the amount pro
vided in the bill would permit
completion of the project.
The committee approved $50,
000 in supplemtary funds to pro
vide food and maintenance for
Aleuts living on the Pribiloff Is
lands. The Aleuts handle, kill and
skin +he seal herds that live on
the islands during the summer
months and the government cares
for them.
An additional $112,200 for cas
ing for the insane in Alaska and
$689,300 for star mail route serv
ice there also received committee
approval.
Internat’1 Events
By the Asso. Press
By Associated Press, —The U. S.
House of Representatives applied
pressure today for final passage
of the $6,205,000,000 foreign aid
program designed to check the
march of communism across Eu
rope and China.
House leaders hoped to wind
up action on the bill by tomorrow
deadline. They predicted one-year
commitment of $5,300,000 000 for
European recovery would stand
as the Senate passed it.
The bill has been given a new
phase by the inclusion of a pro
posal to invite Spain to take part
on terms set by the 16 European
Marshall plan nations. It’s spon
sor Rep. Alvin E. O’Konski (R
Wis.) said he thinks the Senate
will go along with this.
The official Soviet news agency,
Tass, attacked O’Konski for spon
soring the amendment, describing
him as “well known for his sup
port of Polish facists and facists
of other nations.”
Madrid sources said General
issimo Franco may reshuffle his
cabinet and install a premier if
Spain is included in the recovery
program. One source said such a
shakeup may come Friday.
In Paris, acting premier Fer
nando Valera of the Spanish Re
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‘Guns and Tanks
For Russia’ Rumor
Congress Checking
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Con
gressional investigators hurried to
New York today to run down an
anonymous tip that U. S. tanks
and anti-aircraft guns have been
shipped to Russia.
George Quinn counsel for a
House investigating committee, i
told newsmen the committee had
received an unsigned letter from
New York telling of the purported
shipment.
The letter said the anti-aircraft
weapons were boxed and labeled
as machinery.
“I don’t put too much stock in
it,” Quinn said, “but we are not
overlooking any angles on the
leakage of potential war materials
from this country to Russia and
her satellites.”
Rep. Ross Rizley (R-Okla.),i
committee chairman, sent two
more investigators to the New
York area to check the report.
They will reinforce another com
mittee investigator who has been
on the scene since last week look
ing into reports that boxes and
crates are lying “all over the New
York waterfront” awaiting ship
ment to Russia.
JERSEY CITY, —(/P)—Catholic
war veterans began picketing a
second Russian freighter, the
Volga, today—their lines set up
a half-mile from the pier where
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U. S. Has Plenty
A-Bombs, Report
By William F. Arbogasi
....WASHINGTON. —(/P)_T’ne U.
S. has “an adequate supply” of
atom bombs and is steadily mak
ing more congress members said
today.
They reported that this inform
ation came from David E. Lilien
thal, Atomic Energy Commission
chairman, during secret testimony
before the House appropriations
committee on February 28.
On the strength of Lilienthal’s
statements, the committee yester
day recommended an additional
$150,000,000 for the commission’s
work, the full amount asked.
While committee members were
reluctant to discuss Lilienthal’s
testimony, they agreed privately
with the statement of Rep. Keefe
(R-Wis.) that we have an ade
quate supply of bombs already
manufactured.
They said they were not given
any exact numbers and declined j
to say where the bombs are stored
and how big they are.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the
Senate-House atomic energy com
mittee said today he believes that
if war comes again this country
should use the bomb with the aim!
of shortening the conflict and sav
ing lives.
Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa
put it this way to a reporter; “I
do not think the bomb should be
used indiscriminately. But I have
no qualms about our using it
strategically, where it will be an
efficient means of ending war.”
No “Big Three”
Meeting Scheduled
Says Wliitehouse
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
Whitehouse said today that no
“Big Three” meeting is in pros
pect and President Truman has
no plans to leave the United States.
Presidential press secretary
Charles G. Ross made this asser
tion to a news conference. He
had been asked about a report
out of London that Mr. Truman
Soviet Generalissimo Stalin and
British Prime Minister Attlee
might meet>in Berlin.
Ross said that beyond denying
that a “Big Three” meeting is
planned, he could not add to what
Mr. Truman himself has said on
numerous occasions.
Mr. Truman has said repeatedly
that he would be glad to see Stal
in and Attlee in the United States,
but that he has no intention of
leaving the country for any such
conference.
From time to time, various peo
ple have suggested that discords
in Russian-American relations
might be eased by a personal
meeting of Mr. Truman and Prem
ier Stalin.
One of the latest to voice it is
Senator Pepper (D-Fla.t who pro
posed yesterday that Mr. Truman
confront Stalin personally with
a plan for peace “in a last dram
atic effort to prevent the horror
of another unspeakable war.”
Gale Ai Fairbanks
Damages Planes
SEATTLE, — (JP) —The 60-75
mile an hour gale that swooped
down on Fairbanks, Alaska, Sun
day delayed air service at the
municipal airport there for more
than 30 hours, a Pan American
Airways pilot said today.
Keith Petrich, a first officer
on PAA’s Seattle-Fairbanks run,
said the wreckage of more than
20 parked planes littered the run
ways.
More than a dozen light civil
ian craft were tossed before the
blast of the gale, and several
multi-engined private planes were
battered.
Most of the craft, Petrich said,
are repairable, but the damage
cripples the civilian pilot training
program.
Baby Walks At Age
Of Nine-Days
LEWISTON, Me., —(£>)—Baby
Robert Normand Kolreg, who
walked at the age of nine days—
with support—is showing off to
day.
An advertisement in the Lewis
ton Daily Sun announced today,
visiting hours for “people want
ing to see walking 10-day-old
baby.”
(Robert is 13 days old today.)
The ad was placed after many
persons had come to see the in
fant, members of the family said,
admiting that everyone left a little
something for the baby.
Five For Mayor
Six For Council
In Coming Election
The following is the complete
listing of candidates who have
filed for office in the April 6,
City Election.
Filings close at 5:00 p.m. this
afternoon.
For Mayor; Hank Miller, Luther
Kammerer.
Dunbar (incumbent*, James Ad
ams, Fred Havercamp, and Clyde
For Councilmen; Thomas Mac
Allister, Alma Fitch, Jerome Trigg,
Fred Cavota and Gordon Osborne.
For City Attorney; C. C. Tan
ner.
For City Treasurer; Marjorie
Saario.
For City Clerk; Carrie McLain
and C. D. Anderson.
For School Board; Mildred
Webb.
At a late hour today it was re
ported Hermann Hoop will pos
sibly file for the Council.
Frank Whaley Re
turns From Trip
To The States
Frank Whaley, well known pi
lot and mining man in the Nome
area, returned from a trip to the
east where he visited with his
mother, former Nomeite, affec
tionately known here as ‘‘Ma
Whaley”. Frank stated she has
been in poor health. While there
he took her to Pleasantville, N. J.,
where she is now staying with
her daughter. She is in good spir
its and would enjoy hearing from
her Nome friends. The address;
Mrs. B. V. Whaley, Rt. 1, Box
222, Pleasantville, N. J.
Whaley spent some time with
G. R. Jackson and Carl Lomen in
Washington, D. C., and states the
two are working day and night
in the interest of the urgently
needed breakwater for Nome. He
says that words cannot express
the amount of work they have put
in to get action for the coming
season. Although the proper com
mittees have passed on the pro
ject it must now get into the de
ficiency appropriations bill in ord
er to get started this summer.
All of the congressmen who
visited Nome last year, Whaley
states, have testified favorably,
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HOSPITAL NEWS
MEETING THURSDAY NIGHT
HEAR HOSPITAL REPORT
There will be a meeting of all
persons interested in. or working
on committees or organizations
for the Temporary and permanent
arrangements for a Hospital for
the City of Nome. Thet meeting
will discuss work to date on the
Emergency Hospital, in particular,
at 8:00 p.m. Thursday night.
The finance committee reported
today that $3,700 has been collect
ed to date and that no further
drive for funds is contemplated
in view of donations pledged but
not yet received, which should be
sufficient.