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VOL. LI. No.'116 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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F A I RBANKS, (JP) — The Ice
Pool Tavern and power lines at
Nenana burned to the ground Sun
day night. The town was thrown
into dankness.
Owner Carl Haggstrom was in
Fairbanks at the time of the fire.
An estimate of the total loss was
not available, but Haggstrom said
he knows $300 in silver was lost,
along with an undetermined
amount of currency.
JUNEAU (iT*)—Four rabid base
ball fans from this capital city of
Alaska are heading for the World
Series. They are isle Herbert, Stan
Grummett, Earl Forsythe and
Everett Nowell. They plan to drive
from Seattle.
EDMONTON, Alta., (/P) — Matt
Berry, famous northland flier was
missing yesterday on a 150-mile
flight from Norman Wells, N.W.T.,
to Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., offi
cials of Northwest Air Command
of the R.C.A.F. announced yester
day.
Flying a single-engined Fox
Moth aircraft Berry left Norman
Wells, 900 airmiles north of here
and has not been heard from.
BOSTON, (/P> — The baseball
game between the second place
Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston
Braves was called off today be
cause of rain. A doubleheader will I
be played tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Cyrus
Ching, federal mediation director,
announced that he will have •
statement on the steel labor dis
pute about 1 p.m. <PST> today.
There was no advance indication
as to its nature.
SEATTLE. (/P)—A call at Golo
vin has been included in the itin
erary of the Alaska Steamship
company freighter Coastal Mon
arch, scheduled to sail Friday on
the last voyage of the year to
Nome and Bering Sea ports be
fore the winter freeze sets in.
The ship, with Capt. Charles
Goodwin as master, plans stops at
Seward, Kodiak, Unalaska, St. Mi
chael, Unalakleet, Nome and Golo
vin. It will be the last commer
cial ship sailing to the isolated
Bering Sea points until next
spring.
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SEATTLE, (/P> — El wood Me- j
Lain, retired Alaska banker, died
at his home here Saturday from j
a heart attack.
A native of Coldwater, Kas.,
McClain was a banker in Juneau
for 35 years. He came to Seattle
after his retirement three years i
ago.
He was a member of the Doug
las Chapter, O.E.S., and the Elks
Lodge at Ketchikan.
A son, Robert E. McLain, of
Seattle survives.
BREME RTON, Wash., (/P) —
Mrs. Myrtle D. Morrissey, 7, wi
dow of Edward G. Morrissey, who
had been owner and publisher of
the Ketchikan, Alaska, Chronicle
until the time of his death in 1931,
died Monday night.
She suffered a long illness.
Soviet Plane
Buzzes NWA Plane
Over Kuriles
ANCHORAGE, (A3)—A passen
ger flying here from Tokyo was
quoted by the Anchorage Times
Monday as saying a Russian fight
er plane zoomed close alongside a
Northwest Airlines transport last
Saturday over the northern Ku
riles.
The Times said its information
came from Bruce Aichison, Tokyo
attorney and a director of the Jap
anese chamber of commerce
American club. Aichison’s story,
told in an interview with a Times
reporter, was:
Making his 22nd night in the
Great Circle route over the North
Pacific, Aichison glanced from a
window of the NWA airliner and
noticed a huge airport on an is
land in the northern Kuriles.
Moments later a fighter plane
with Russian insignia, apparently
an American type given the Sov
iets during World War II, shot up,
flew for some time beside the big
| U. S. commercial plane and looked
it over carefully.
The fighter pilot did not try to
I change the course of the airliner,
and made no threatening “passes”
with his plane. After following
alongside for several minutes, he
turned back and disappeared.
• In Tokyo, the NWA Haneda
Groe, said Northwest pilots have
airport station manager, I. A.
reported similar experiences “per
haps five or six times in the last
18 months.” Groe did not identify
the convoying planes but said they
presumably were Russian craft on
dawn patrol along the Kuriles*.
Aichison said it was the first
time in his many flights to An
chorage that he had seen the Ku
riles, which were awarded to Rus
sia in the Yalta agreement of i
1945. Normally, weather over that!
area is so bad that American com
mercial transports fly in or above
the clouds.
“The airstrip that I and other
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Rain Quiets Forest
Fire Threat
PORTLAND. (tP) — Rain rind a
shifting wind today ended the im
mediate threat from more than 50
forest fires that raged Monday
and yesterday through western
Oregon.
Guy Johnson, forest service re
gional fire dispatcher, said “There
is plenty of fire left but it’s with
in lines. The outlook is definitely
favorable.”
Light rains started last night
and continued in many areas to
day. 1
The fire headquarters for north
west Oregon, at Forest Grove, re
ported condiitons “very favorable
for control.” Its area includes the
fires west of McMinnville which
burned together and covered some
8000 to 9000 acres.
Mrs Morrissey had lived in
Bremerton since her husband’s
death.
Funeral services will be held to
night.
Churchill Attacks
Labor Government:
—
LONDON, </P) — Winston Chur- '
chill called on Parliament today
to kick out Prime Minister Att
1
lee’s Labor Government and make !
way for another which he said
could set the British pound free to
find its own level in world mar- I
kets.
The conservative leader, in a I
slashing attack, denounced the La
bor government as having brought
Britain “to the verge of national
and international bankruptcy.”
His address opened the conserv
i ative attack in the three-day de
bate in Parliament on Britain’s de
valuation policy.
Churchill said even if the Labor
government was forced to devalue
the pound from $4.03 to $2.80, “it
cannot be a good thing and we
have suffered a serious disaster.”
Under the present strict controls,
: the conservative leader dclared, it
I will prove a “new drain upon our
latent strength and remaining mo
tiev power.”
The wartime Prime Minister
said the sterling area nations
which use the pound still have
great strength, and that Britain
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Senate Acts To
Protect U. S. Fur
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Sen
ate acted last night to protect the
American fur industry from in-1
jury by imports.
A bill was approved directing
the President to follow tariff com
mission recommendations on duty ;
cuts to prevent injury to the do- 1
mestic fur industry.
An effort was made recently to !
tie this agreement onto the exten- j
sion of the reciprocal trade
agreements act. But it lost on a '
tie vote.
This time the Seante approved
the amendment without debate by
tacking it onto a bill to permit |
manufacturing and exhibition of
merchandise within a foreign
trade zone.
The measure now goes back to I
the House, which has taken no j
vote on the fur amendment. i
Non-Union Mines
In Pennsylvania
Resume Digging
PITTSBURGH, </P) — Western
Pennsylvania’s non-union bitum
inous mines reopened yesterday,
despite the nationwide strike of
John L. Lewis’ united mine work
ers and state police quickly arrest
ed 17 pickets to block violence.
Heavy state police forces invad
ed the four-county Clearfield area
where some 35 operators resumed
work after a week of idleness due
to picketing by unionized bands.
Lieut. Frank L. Garnon report
ed 17 arrested for mass picketing
around the Winger mine near
Sligo in Clarion county. A court
injunction issued recently prohib
its mass picketing.
Eleven hundred non-union bi
tuminous miners defied the strik
ing United Mine Workers and
went back to the pits.
The state troopers brought rein
forcements into the four-county
Clearfield area.
Mienrs went to work carrying
rifles and shotguns. Armed guards
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Father Dies On
Way To Daughter's
Wedding
CHICAGO, (jP)—Antonio Mim
so, 62, couldn’t keep the date yes
terday to meet his daughter at the
altar for her wedding.
As Mimso drove up to the
church with the bride-to-be. Jose
phine. 29, her mother, and bro
ther, Steve, he became ill and
slumped against th eside of the car.
It was almost time for the wed
ding, so Steve sent his mother and
sister on into the church with the
promise that he and his father
would follow soon.
Steve joined the gay wedding j
party at the reception. There he
told a newsman that only his three
brothers knew that the happy
bride’s father had died in the car
as Josephine walked down the 1
aisle to be married to Sam Toma
sello, 39. a contractor.
“I’ll tell the others about it to
morrow,’’ he said.
NEW SUPER FLYING BOAT. Nary’s ultra-faat XP5Y-1 patrol
plane, shown nearing completion at San Diego, la designed for
long-range day or night search of sea areas, rescue operations, and
antisubmarine patrol. Grossing more than SO tons, the XP5Y-1 will
hare four propeller-turbine engines which at takeoff will giro It
more power per pound of airplane than some modern lighter planes.
C. of C. Dinner
Meeting Discusses
City Sales Tax Han
The first general dinner meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce was
held last evening at the Pioneer
Hall with many distinguished
guests present.
President H. F. Harper intro
duced B. P. Gerard, who will be
in charge of the work of the break
water. which is already under
way, and Rev. R. Treat of the
Methodist Church as new mem
bers of the Chamber.
Each member of the Special
Commission to Investigate Alaska
Native Conditions was called up
on after being introduced by Rev.
Mark A. Dawber.
John R. Nichols, newly appoint
i ed Commissioner of Indian Affairs
! who is on his first official visit to
I the Territory stated that he “was
impressed with vast differences”
in the Territory and “amazed at
the potential resources and unde
veloped potentials in tourist trade
of which Nome should be a cen
ter.”
Albert H. Day, director of Fish
| and Wildlife from Washington, D.
C., called attention to the import
! ance of his department in the Ter
ritory showing how 85 of oui*
exports are now from fisheries
and fur. He said “Alaska is the
last frontier and going through
what the State did 50 years ago
and only by careful management
can wild life be saved.”
Don Foster, Alaskan head of the
ANS spoke briefly on the reason
for the trip.
Clarence Olsen, Fish and Wild
life representative from St. Paul
Island told a little of that remote
part of the Territory which is com
posed of two villages, 400 Aleuts
and a few white. He stated that he
was proud of the management of
the islands which is shown in fig
ures which he presented. These
showed how the seal herds which
had diminished to 130.000 seals in
1911 now number three millions
and harvet 70.000 seals every sea
son with a neat profit for the U. S.
Treasury. He hoped the report of
the commission would be able to
eliminate the criticism which has
been broadcast recently on condi
tions there.
Everett Erickson, of the Terri
torial Department of Education
stated that he was glad of the de
lay of the North Star as it gave
him an opportunity of seeing more
of the Nome school. He praised
highly the superintendent and
and staff of the Nome school.
Superintendent W. Angell re
ported that the enrollment was
about 300 and unless it increased
it would not be necessary to have
an addition to the school this year.
Clarence Rhodes, director of
Fish and Wildlife in the Territory
and Lawrence Stevens assistant to
the Indian Commissioner spoke
briefly on their work.
Lorin Oldroyd of the University
of Alaska extended greetings from
the President of the University,
Terris Moore and hoped that 4-H
Clubs would soon be organized
here.
President Harper announced
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