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VOL. L1I. No. 34 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, (JP) — A comely 40
year-old Juneau woman died
Monday shortly after jumping
into icy Gastineau Channel in her
bathing suit. The woman, Nanette
Gilbert, a waitress, was pulled
from the water, but died soon af
ter being admitted to a hospital.
Authorities said there was no
known explanation.
WASHINGTON, (tf>) — National
Service Life Insurance checks
will begin going to Alaskan vet
erans this week.
Delegates Bartlett of Alaska an
nounced today the Veterans Ad
ministration has assured him the
checks would be mailed this
week. The last of them, covering
applications to date, will be in the
mail by April 30, he said.
Bartlett had forwarded to the
VA complaints from Alaskan vet
erans that no checks have been
received.
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — Two de
tectives, acting on a tip, early yes
terday arrested a “scared” Boston
youth and recovered $314,000 in
bonds, stocks and jewelry stolen
from the home of philosopher
Will Durant.
George B. Roden, 22-year-old
recent navy dischargee, was ar
rested in his room. Detectives T.
T. Belcher and Raymond Keeley
said the loot was found in the
back of an overstuffed chair. They
did not disclose the source of their
tip.
“It scared me to death when I
saw all that I had,” Roden told
the detectives. “I was afraid
someone would bump me off for
it.”
The officers asked him how he
happened to choose the Durant
mansion for a safe cracking job: J
“I just happened to be going by i
and saw the people leave.”
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JUNEAU, (/P> — A $2,339,810
contract for paving and grading!
slightly more than 40 miles of the J
Richardson Highway was a warded,
by the Alaska Road Commission
to the Lytle Green Co., Des Moines,
la., Monday.
The company’s bid was the low-1
est of six submitted and more i
than $400,000 below the commis-!
sion’s estimate.
FAIRBANKS, (A>) — Dr. Terris
Moore, University of Alaska pres
ident, left yesterday for Washing- j
ton, D. C.f to attend a meeting at
which plans will be laid for an
Alaska Science Conference, tenta
tively scheduled for November.
The conference is planned primar
ily for government officials doing
scientific research in the Terri
tory.
SITKA, (i-P) — Six well known
youths were bound over for action
bya grand jury on four complaints
of burglary yesterday.
U. S. Commissioner Frank H. B.
Richards waived their juvenile
rights on the charges. One com
plaint charges theft of govern
ment property from Mt. Edge
cumbe. Bound over are:
Steward Brown, about 17; Lynn
King, 16; Richard Brookman, 16;
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Half Of Budget
Calls Fur National
Defense Projects
(By William F. Arbogast)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A $29,
045,030,164 deficit-boosting gov
ernment spending bill—represent
ing a $200 outlay for every man,
woman and child in the nation—
was approved today by the House
appropriations committee.
Grim reminder of the cost of
war, more than half of its total is
composed of items for national de
fense, including charges growing
out of World War II. The bill car
ries $13,911,127,300 for the de
fense department, $5,801,782,795
for the Veterans’ Administration
and -947,970 for the atomic energy
commission.
There were no deep cuts in any
major programs, the average re
duction under President Truman’s
requests being five per cent. But
there is a move in the House to
send the bill back to the commit
tee for a further $1,000,000,000
cut or more.
The committee vote was not of
ficially announced. But Rep. Ta
ber (R.-N. Y.) said all Republicans
present voted against approving
the bill on the ground it was “too
big.” He said all Democrats voted
for it. There are 27 Democrats
and 18 Republicans on the com
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McCarthy Names
“Top Russian
Espionage Agent'*
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Senator
McCarthy said yesterday he has
handed Senate investigators “the
name of the man—connected with
the state department — whom I
consider the top Russian espionage
agent in this country.”
The Wisconsin Republican made
the statement to newsmen. Re
ports circulated meanwhile that
the state department is urging
President Truman to open FBI
and all other government loyalty
files to the Senate committee
looking into McCarthy’s charges
there are communists in the de
partment.
The “top Russian agent” was
described by McCarthy as Alger
Hiss’ one-time boss “in the espion
age ring in the department.”
Hiss, former state department
official, has been convicted on a
charge that he lied in denying he
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M.A.F.B. Personnel
To Be Trippled
This Summer
It was announced Monday that
activities during the summer sea
son at Marks Air Force Base will
be operated at an increased tem
po. Approximately three to four
times that of the present number
of personnel at Marks Air Force
Base will be stationed in and
around this station in connection
with seasonal military activities.
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Committee (aits
Alaska Public
Works Program
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WASHINGTON (/P), The House
appropriations comm i 11 e e cut
funds for carrying on the public
works program in Alaska to $9.
000,000 cash.
The budget requested an ap
propriation of $12,000,000 and
contract authorization of $13,000,
000.
The committee said:
“It is the intention of the com
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Sen. McCarthy H as
No Real Evidence
WASHINGTON, (#*) — Senator
McCarthy <R.-Wisc.> was reported
today to have told the Senate com
munist hunters he believes the,
FBI trailed four Soviet spy sus
pects to contacts with an Ameri
can he accuses of heading an es
pionage ring.
McCarthy’s reported testimony
came in a closed session of a Sen
ate feroign relations sub-commit
tee. Democrats said he had thus
far produced no primary evidence.
The Wisconsin Senator was said
to have agreed that his accusa
tions that the state department is
harboring communists largely
will stand or fall on this case.
The individual involved was
identified by McCarthy as an af
filate of the state department. He
furnished the name of a man to
the sub-committee at yesterday’s
closed session.
Chairman Tydings iD.-Md.), of
the sub-committee looking into
McCarthy’s charges told reporters
the group already had received
the name once before from Mc
Carthy.
Tydings said the Wisconsin Sen
ator offered “no primary evi
dence” to back up his charges
“but did suggest that we investi
gate in certain places where he
said ho believed evidence might
be obtained.”
“Reservations In
Alaska Devoid of
Merit”—Jackson
((/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A plea
that Indians in Alaska be treated
as Americans, not as “second class
citizens,” led a House appropria
tions sub-committee to write its
prohibition against use of any in
terior department funds for native
elections on the question of es
tablishing reservations for them.
Rep. Jackson <D.-Wash.) former
chairman of the old House com
mittee on Indian Affairs, made
the plea, it was learned this week.
The restriction, written into the
Indian section of the bill, reads:
“A policy of placing Alaska In
dians, Eskimos and Aleuts on
reservations appears to be devoid
of merit, retrogressive, unneces
sary and indefensible from the
standpoint of settling native land
claims. Therefore, none of the
funds appropriated for the Bur
eau of Indian Affairs should be
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U. of A. Mining
Extension Course
Starts March 27
A course in mineralogy, geol
ogy, prospecting, and mining will
be given in Nome starting on or
near the 27th of March. 1950. This
course is given by the University
of Alaska for men and women
who are interested in the above
subjects in an effort to create
more widespread interest and
knowledge in prospecting and the
industry. It will be of four weeks
duration and will be taught in the
evenings, Monday to Friday, in
clusive, starting at 7:00 o’clock at
the High School Assembly Room.
The instructor will be James A.
Williams of Fairbanks.
The course in mineralogy con
sits of lectures and laboratory
work designed to familiarize the
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HOW WILL HE DO IN THE PENNANT RACE ?
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McCarthy
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News < >f the World
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday, March 21. 1950
(By The Associated F>ress)
The political crisis in Belgium
heightened today as Socialists
planned further wides p read
strikes in protest against attempts
to return exiled King Leopold III
to his throne.
Acting Premier Gaston Eyskens
tried in vaid to form a new cabi
net to replace the one which fell
Saturday in a dispute over the
royal question.
Eyskens heads the Social Chris
tian Party, the biggest in Parlia
ment but without an overall ma
jority. The Liberals in his coali
tion cabinet have balked over the
return of L.eopold, precipitating
the crisis.
The Socialists have threatened
to continue to call a series of 24
hour protest strikes until the mon
arch gives up the throne in favor
of his 19-year old son. Prince
Baudouin.
i Hong Kong dispatches said at
[ tempts to evacuate 2,000 nationals
of the United States and other
countries from Shanghai have
been given up temporarily. It has
been planned to send two shallow
landing craft up the mine-sown
approaches to transport the evac
uees to the liner General W. H.
Gordon. But Chinese communist
officials refused entry to the smal
ler vessels. So the Gordon has
cancelled her sailing to Shanghai,
On Formosa, Nationalists talked
of launching further commando
raids against the communist-held
mainland. The capture of Sung
men, 200 miles south of Shanghai,
seized last Wednesday in a daring
raid* gave rise to speculation the
| Nationalists would continue to
nibble at the Red coastline.
Nationalist airmen reported
spotting strange planes over com
munist China which are consider
ed the forerunners of a new' com
munist air force.
In Stockholm, O. John Rogge, a
top policy planner in Henry Wal
lace’s American Progressive party,
said he is leaving today for Yugo
slavia whore he hopes to help
patch up the feud between Pre
mier Marshal Tito and the Soviet
Union. Rogge, former U. S. assist
ant attorney general, recently
spoke in Moscow as a delegate to
the communist-sponsored World
Committee of Peace Partisans.
Observers in Moscow said there
is unlikely to be an official reply
to U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Aeheson’s proposals to Russia
last week. Soviet press commenta
tors over the week-end attacked
Aeheson’s Berkeley, Calif., speech
and said it contained no concrete
basis for fostering peace.
Wednesday. March 22, 1950
The secretary-general of the
United Nations has proposed a 20
year peace program aimed at end
ing the cold war between Pussi.i
and the west.
“What we need, what the world
needs,” he said, is a 20-year pro
gram to win peace through the
United Nations.”
Trygve Lie, speaking in Wash
ington last night, pointed out the
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