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VOL. LI. No. 152 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21 ~1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW YORK, (#•> — A son and
heir as born early yesterday to the
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts—the
first male addition to the Van
derbilt clan in a number of years.
The wife of the millionaire
sportsman gave birth shortly after
midnight at Le Roy Sanitarium.
The mother is the former
Jeanne Murray, cousin the Mrs.
Henry Ford, 2nd, and daughter of
the late John F. Murray, stock ex
change firm head.
The couple was married Oct. 13,
1945.
OAKLAND, Calif. f/P)—You can
take the word of boxer A1 Hoss
man that retired heavyweight
Champion Joe Louis “hits just as
hard as ever.”
Hoosman, sparing partner to the
Brown Bomber when he was the
titleholder, made the remark Mon
day night after he was flattened
by Louis in 2:15 of the fifth round
of their 10-round exhibition
match.
A crowd that taxed the capacity
of the Oakland auditorium and
attracted .gross gate receipts of
$19,856 saw Louis drape his six
foot, five inch opponent on the
canvas with a terrific right to the
face.
FAIRBANKS. (JP) — A mystery
fire razed the padlocked Green
Lantern roadhouse Sunday night.
The resort had been closed since
federal authorities put a lock on it
in October after abatement pro
ceedings. The loss was estimated
around $25,000.
PARIS. f/P) — Marcel Longuet,
72, grandson of the prophet of so
cilaism and communism, Karl
Marx, died Monday. A parliamen
tary reporter for the French Na
tional Radio, he was a left-wing
socialist but not sympathetic with
the French communist party.
BERLIN, f/P) — The American
licensed newspaper, Der Abend,
said yesterday 18 workers were
killed and three were seriously in
jured in an explosion at a Soviet
zone copper mine last Sunday.
MANILA. f/P)—American arm
ed forces personnel in the Philip
pines were paid in military script
yesterday in an effort to combat
inflation in the islands.
The ban against possession of
United States currency and nego
tiable foreign exchange instru
ments was extended to the mili
tary personnel of the American |
government. The ban already was {
in effect for Filipinos.
The military script will be used
for transactions in service stores.
American military personnel may
obtain as much peso currency as
they desie in exchange for their
$1. Pesos, however, moy not be'
converted into script.
FAIRBANKS, (iP)—The Land of j
the Midnight Sun — pretty much i
blacked out during the winter—is j
going to brighten up for 53 rural
residents Thursday.
The Golden Valley Electric as
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Fry To Dynamite j
CIO Auto Workers
Headquarters
DETROIT. UP) — Dynamiters
made an attempt to blow up the
CIO United Auto Workers’ head
quarters last night.
They failed, but only by a hair’s
breadth.
A stack of 39 sticks of dynamite,
wrapped in tape and colored \
Christmas gift paper, was found
at a side stairway of the union
building.
Two fuses had burned to within
an inch or less of the explosives I
before they sputtered out, harm
i
lessly.
Except for two night workers,
the union building was empty.
However, lives were imperiled in
a neighboring General Motors
building.
As a result, authorities were
confronted today with a new task
in solving mysterious acts of vio
lence against the big auto union
and its leadership.
Within less than two years
would-be assassins have tried to
kill two of the UAW’s prominent
Reuther brothers.
Walter Reuter, president of the
UAW, was shot by an unknown
assailant in April of 1948. He al
1 most lost the use of an arm.
Victor Reuther, the union’s ed
ucational directro. lost an eye in a
similar shotgun attack last May.
Both of the shootings still are
unsolved.
Police immediately linked last
night’s incident with the attempts
on the Reuthers* lives.
There is “no doubt” of it, ac
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U. S. Bans Travel
To Hungary
■ ■ ■
WASHINGTON, U?)—'The state |
department has banned travel by
A m e ricans to communist-run
Hungary and is reported consider
ing further actions. These include
the possibility of closing Hungar
ian consulates in New York and
Cleveland.
The travel embargo was an
nounced late yesterday in a sting
ing note of protest against the
treatment of Americans in Hun- j
gary. The state department made
no estimate of how. much effect
this order might have on Hun
gary.
It reinforced a demand for the ;
prompt release of Robert A. Voge- J
ler, an American Communications
official who has been held incom
municado by the Hungarians for
more than a month. Officials said
the note applied equally to the re- I
ported arrest last week in Buda
pest of Israel Jacobson, head of the
Hungarian office of the American
Joint Distribution committee.
The note charge Hungary with
violating a 1926 commercial treaty
by refusing U. S. consuls the right
even to talk with Vogeler and
added that this government is
“giving urgent consideration to
such further measures as may be
appropriate” unless the issue is
settled promptly and satisfactor
ily.
Lion Kills
Woman Trainer
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (A3)—
With a roar, a savage lion sprang
at a widely known woman animal
trainer and quickly killed her
while her horrified children tried
to save here yesterday.
Mrs. May Kovar Schafer, 42, ]
was in the cage with the lion. Sul
tan, attempting to break him into
training. The powerful animal
lunger at her, bore her down and
bit her in the neck, severing the
spine.
Her children, Michael Kovar.
18, and May Kovar, 14, were
watching their mother, who was
working with a chair and whip
when the sudden attack occurred.
The children, armed with short
poles, rushed through the cage
door. But the beast, with Mrs.
Schafer’s neck in his jaws, ig
nored their pokings.
Michael and May and three
vear-old Sandra Schafer, who was
nearby, screamed for help.
Rudy Muller, 59, an elephant
trainer, ran to their aid.
“I grabbed up a pitchfork and
an eight-foot length of pipe,” the
frail man said. “The lion was very
quiet. I stabbed at him with the
pitchfork with one hand and then
brought the pipe down on his
head with the other.
“That made the lion drop her
and back up.
“But I didn’t have much time,”
Muller said. “Just enough to pick
up Mrs. Schafer, Then the lion
started for me and the children.
“I backed out inch by inch,
never taking my eyes off the lion.
The children got out. Little May
held the door open for me and I
got out. It was a near thing for
those youngsters. He probably
would have got them too.”
Mrs. Schafer was known pro
fessionally as Mada Kovar.
Santa’s Voice
Convinces Bov
MEDFOED. Mass.. </P\ — The
voice of Santa Claus boomed from
a rooftop. “What you mean T’m
not real?”
A little tvko in the crowd gaz
ing up at the spotlighted Santa
winced. He had been telling his
little friends “He ain’t real —all
be does is stand there.”
The voice called out again:
“Johnny Williams, why do you
tell your little friends such things.
Of course Santa is real and he’ll
come to visit good boys.”
That was the clincher. Johnny
Williams now is a firm believer.
The voice was that of Alderman
George F. Callahan thrown from
his living room through a loud
speaker rigged to Santa.
NOTICE
There will be no paper on Fri
day. but a special twenty page
Christmas Edition will be distrib
$
uted on Saturday morning.
The staff of the Nugget will ob
serve the Christmas holiday on
Monday. There will be no paper
on that day.
“What’s Unusual
About Weather
In Seattle?**
SEATTLE, —While Seattle
residents shivered in the coldest
weather of the season, a former
Alaska newsman set them straight
yesterday on some of the cold
facts of life.
Even his 4-year-old daughter
added a pointed thrust at what the
local citizenry regards seriously
as a hard early touch of winter.
George N. Meyers, formerly of
the Fairbanks News-Miner, who
drew the assignment to write the
day’s weather story for the Seat
tle Times, couldn’t take it serious
ly
“What is there to say about the j
weather, except that the temper
ature was a tepid 17 degrees at
the coldest spot (the Seattle-Taco
ma airport) and that there was a i
patch of snow here and there?”
asked the ex-Alaskan, “and that
what the Almanac refers to aca
demically as inter starts today
with the shortest day of the year?”
“Why, it was this cold back in
Fairbanks 65 days ago. And the
: frost started nipping the pumpkin
at two degrees below the freezing
point 94 days ago.” “For that mat
ter. the mercury plummeted (as
the professional weather-story
| writers like to say) to 6 degrees
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COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS
PROGRAM FRIDAY NIGHT
The annual Community Christ
mas Program will be held Friday
evening at 8:00 p.m. at the Nome
school auditorium with Mrs. Lu
ther Dunbar in charge of the pro
gram.
The program opens with a
group of three part songs “No
Room for the Saviour,” “Redeemer
Divine,” “Christmas Voices,” and
“O Holy Night,” sung by a cho
rus of the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades.
The second group of songs will
be sung by a group of Eskimo wo
men in their native tongue. The
carols to be used will be Joy to
the World and Silent Night.
The lower grades will present
an Operetta “Santa Claus’ Christ
mas Party” by C. E. LaMussena.
Leading parts are being taken
by Roy Gifford as Santa; Doro
thea Hudert as the snowman;
Tommy Drake as Bobby Smith
and a group of children from the
first to the fifth grade. Another
group will form the chorus.
The operetta will be followed by
community singing after which
Santa is scheduled to arrive with ;
gifts for the children. Santa will
not only have Christmas stock
ings, but through the generosity
of the merchants and townspeople
as well as groups at Marks Air
Force base will have packages for
the children ns well.
The tree which was transported
free of charge from White Moun
tain by Bill Munz. will be fifteen
feet tall and is reported to be very
lovely.
Saturday morning good cheer
baskets will be distributed to
many families in the community.1
News of l lie \\ or Id
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday. December 20. 1949
(By The Associated Press)
New efforts to break the east
west deadlock on atomic control
begin at Lake Success today.
Carlo? P. Romulo, president of
the United Nations assembly in
terrupted a physical check-up in
Washington to bring a series of
proposals to New York.
Romulo expressed hope his pro
posals would end the deadlock of
the six conferees: The United
States, The Soviet Union, Britain,
France, China and Canada.
Hoever the world had dim pros
pects a solution would be handed
down as an unexpected Christmas
present.
A man in Moscow who does
not profess belief in Christianity
got the most presents this pre
Christmas week.
Prime minister Joseph Stalin,
overlord of world communism, re
ceived tons and tons of presents
in honor of his 70th birthday to
morrow.
State department officials in
Washington said today they do
not believe that permission grant
ed an American priest to conduct
i services in Moscow indicates soft
ening of the Soviet position.
A passport visa came through
yesterday from the Soviet embas
sy for Father Louis Robert Bras
sard—10 months after the priest
had requested it. It would permit
him to serve the 116 members of
the American colony in Moscow.
Unconfirmed reports in Rome
said that Myron C. Taylor will re
sign soon from his post as Presi
dent Truman’s special representa
tive at the Vatican. Taylor refused
to confirm or deny the reports.
The Central News agency of
Chinese nationalists today report
ed heavy fighting between com
munists and natioalists forces
south of Chengtu, the abandoned
nationalist capital.
The dispatch said nationalist
troops repulsed attacking com
munists.
Wednesday, December 21, 1949
The communist world, celebrat
ing the 70th birthday of prime
minister Joseph Stalin, was told
today war with the west is not in
evitable.
Communist leadership took the
occasion to insist again that com
munism and capitalism can co
exist in one world.
Georgi Malenkov, deputy prime
minister and considered a possible
successor to Stalin, thumped out
the peace keynote in Pravda, the
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