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VOL. Lll. No. 51 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1950 Per Copy— l~5c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P)—House tax
writers started a search Saturday
for almost a billion dollars in new
taxes to balance cuts they have
voted in present excise levies.
They weren’t too optimistic.
Unless members of the House
Ways and Means Committee can
strike such a balance, they are
courting a Presidential veto of the
proposed $967,000,000 excise cut
they came up with yesterday after
days of chopping.
NEW YORK, (/P> — Peace de
scended on New York’s high
school student front Saturday af
ter four days of riotous demon
strations for higher teacher pay
and restoration of dances and
other after-school activities.
“All quiet” was the word from
the City Hall sector where yelling
mobs of teen-agers clashed re
peatedly with police cordons ear
lier last week.
It was Saturday—a no-school
day. There was no reason to play
hookey. It looked as if the unpre
cedented disorders had died down
—for the weekend at least.
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NEW YORK, </P) — Daylight
saving time began yesterday in
many parts of the nation. The 50,
000,000 Americans who live in a
daylight aime area, set their
clocks one hour ahead Saturday
night.
Actually the legal change came
at 2 a.m. Sunday morning—which
suddenly jumped to 3 a.m. in the
daylight areas.
DETROIT, </P) — Negotiations
striving to settle the Chrysler
strike failed again Saturday after
all-night talks. !
The strike is now in its 97th
day.
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SEATTLE, (/P) — Torn a d o e s
killed eleven persons in four wide
ly separated communities in Ok
lahoma and West Texas Friday
and Friday night.
Holdenville, in east central Ok
lahoma, was worst hit, with five
dead.
MANILA, (^P)—Mayor Jose Ca
bal fin of Leon said he dreamed
that communist-led Hukbalahap
guerrillas cornered him on the
edge of a cliff.
His family found him beneath
his bedroom window—with frac
tured ribs and a sprained ankle.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Dr. and
Mrs. Terris Moore returned Sat
urday from their self-financed
airplane tour of Southeastern
Alaska.
The University of Alaski pres
ident reported that althougn ham
pered by bad flying weather, he
and his wife completed their itin
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Alaska Statehood
Bill May Be
Re-Written
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(By Charles D. Watkins)
<(/P) Special Washigton Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A House
approved bill to make Alaska a
State may be rewritten by the
Senate Interior Committee to
meet objections that have arisen.
Acting chairman Anderson <D.
N. M.) indicated this Friday after
opponents of the measure said it
would not provide the kind of
statehood its proponents want,
that it would create a “pauper
state.”
“This committee” Ander son
said, “wants to write as good a
bill as we can.”
He referred particularly to tes
i timony of Edward W. Allen, Seat
tle lawyer, who called provision
of the bill to transfer control of
I the Alaska fisheries to the pro
posed State “utterly ambiguous”
and said they would create “a sit
uation of absolute confusion.”
The Interior Department al
' ready has asked the committee to
amend the section of the bill
which would shift control of the
fisheries to Alaska. They now are
controlled by the federal govern
ment.
j Anderson said the most import
I ant thing to the people of Alaska
is. what happens to the fisheries.”
He said the committee must de
termine what “we are granting by
this legislation” and “if we may
need to keep some measure of
federal control over the fisher
ies.”
Allen contended that the bill
would transfer to the new State
facilities for protection and oper
ation of the fisheries while power
to use them would remain with
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Ask Military Bud
gel Be Increased
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WASHINGTON, (/P), The House i
Appropriations committee last'
week recommended the 1951 mili
tary budget be increased by $350,
000,000 asked by Secretary of De
fense Johnson to tighten the na
tion’s bulwarks against Russia
Urging the additional funds,
Johnson told Congress the Rus
sian atomic explosion had come
“somewhat in advance of the date
we had anticipated.’’ He said that
caused a complete revaluation of
defense plans by both the United
State sand the North Atlantic
Pact Nations.
The secretary and members of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff appeared
before both Senate and House Ap
rpopriations committees to review
events leading to the plea for
more money.
Besides the Soviet atomic ex
plosion. Johnson spokeof the in
creased strain in international re
lations and said:
“None of this presents a happy
prospect; but the cold war is not
a happy circumstance.”
Johnson testified behind closed
doors but later handed out a state
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Police Prevent
May Day Trouble
In Berlin
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(By The Associated Press)
Threats of trouble marked
East-West May Day celebrations
in divided Berlin today. But cool
headed German police from both
sides prevented any outbreak of
rioting.
In the western sector of the
city an estimated 750,000 Ger
mans cheered speakers who at
tacked Russia and communism.
Their demonstration cent ered
around Potsdamer Piatz. A tew
blocks away, at the Lustgarten,
thousands of East Berliners took
part in an organized demonstra
tion where speakers assailed the
West and marchers carried pic
tures of Prime Minister Stalin
during a six hour parade.
Celebrations marking the inter
national Labor Day were held in
Moscow and all over the world,
but attention centered on Berlin
i —a powderkeg in the East-West
! cold war.
In the western sector some 11,
j 000 West German police, support
ed by 8,000 alerted Western Al
lied troops, were on hand to main
tain order. Soviet Sector People’s
I Police kept similar watch in the
East.
Trouble threatened when anti
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Subpoena Wit
nesses In Anti
Trust Hearings
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Four Alas
ka Steamship Company represen
tatives, officials of half a dozen
canneries and the publisher of the j
Ketchikan newspaper were sub- j
poenaed Saturday to appear May
8 before a federal grand jury
here.
The grand jury has been con
ducting a closed hearing since
March 29 to determine if charges
of anti-trust violations in the Ter
ritory are warranted. Volumes of
testimony have been taken but
no indictments have been issued.
Alaska Steamship men subpoe
naed were G. S. Duryea, Ketchi
kan; R. G. Gardner, Fairbanks; G. ;
A. Hyner, Ketchikan, and W. W.,
Sipprell, Seward.
Also called to testify May 8 i
were Rolf Ostram of Seattle, a
representative of the Southwest- |
ern Fisheries; Frank A. Schwartz
backer, Whiz Fishing Co., Cordo
va; Fred Gapner, Parks Canning
Co., Wyak; and unspecified offi
cials from these firms: Orcas
Packing Co., Sarmel; Alaska |
Packers Assn., Larson Bay; West j
Point Canning Co., Uganik; Cape
Douglass Canning Co., Kukak
Bay; Port Chatham Packing Co., •
Pogtlock.
Others include Will R. Lebo, Jr.t
Ketchikan; Jack Warner, Seward;
L. C. Berg, Sitka; R. D. Kelsey,
care of the Valdez Dock Co.; E. J. J
Fribock, Snug Harbor, and Wil- |
liam Baker, Ketchikan.
Baker is publisher of the Ketch- \
ikan Chronicle.
Predict Senate Will
Not Vote On !
Alaska Statehood
WASHINGTON UP)—The Scat- '
tie Times Washington, D. C., cor
respondent said today there is a
strong possibility that a vote on
Statehood for Alaska may not
come during this session of Con
gress. i
The statement was based upon
an informal poll of Senators who
completed hearings on the House
passed statehood bill Saturday.
Senators who attended the
hearings agreed that Alaska de
serves its long-sought place in the
Union without protracted wait
ing, the dispatch said. They also
said however, that steps should be
taken to iron out native claims to
the land in the Territory and de
cisions made o nthe amount of
land which should be given to the
proposed state and limitation of
bureaucratic contral.
1
“I think we can report out a
measure, either this bill with
amendments, of a new bill, be
fore Congress adjourns, Senator
Clinton Anderson, New Mexico,
acting chairman, said. “But if we
; do, I doubt there will be time to
I debate the bill as it deserves,
i Time is getting short.”
O fthe 13 committee members,
three did not attend any session
of the hearing. They were Sen- j
ators James A. Murray, Montana, |
who was called home by the seri
ous illness of his wife; Sheridan
Downey, California, in the hospi
tal the past month, and Arthur V. !
Watkins, Utah, who is engaged in
other legislative matters.
Senator Joseph C. O’Mahon
ey, Wyoming, chairman, was pres
ent onlv at the final. He has been
ill. j
Senatoi-s Eugene D. Millikin, j
Colorado and George W. Malone,
Nevada, were at two sessions for
short periods. In constant attend- ,
ance were Senators Anderson,
Hugh Butler. Nebraska; Glen Tay
lor, Idaho, and Zales Ecton. Mon
tana, while Senators Ernest W.
McFarland, Arizona: Herbert
Lehman, New York, and Guy
Gordon, Oregon, were present
much of the time. Press of other
work, not a lack of interest, caus
ed their absence, Senators said.
‘Communists' Seize
Mosinee, Wies., In
Mock Insurrection
MOSINEE, Wise.. (&)—'The pa
jama-clad mayor was dragged
into the snowy street and the
chief of police was “executed” to
day as a mock May Day insurrec
tion clamped an iron hand over
this paper mill community as sun
rise.
Police Chief Varyl Gewiss was
theoretically shot down in his
headquarters for failure to turn
over his officers to the Reds.
Leader of the flying squad which
took over the police station was
Benjamin Gitlow, who once was
the real secretary-general of the
communist party in the United
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News of the W orhl
At A Glance - - -
Saturday, April 29, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
The Belgian Parliament was
dissolved today in an effort to
solve the crisis over the status of
exiled King Leopold.
Legislative elections will be
held June 4 on the issue of whe
ther Leopold should be returned
to the throne from which he has
been exiled since the war. The
dissolution followed six weeks of
unsuccessful negotiations by Bel
gium’s three political parties.
The United States has rejected
Czechoslovakia’s charges that
American soldiers in Germany
mistreated Czech citizens who in
voluntarily arrived in Germany
March 24 in three planes used by
some other Czechs escaping from
their country.
Some of the passengers and
members of the plane crews who
were not involved in the escape
plot returned to Czechoslovakia
after being questioned by Ameri
can soldiers. Others elected to re
main in Germany.
An American note “emphatical
ly denying” the Czech govern
ment’s accusations was delivered
to the Czech foreign office by the
American embassy in Prague.
U. S. High Commissioner John
J. McCloy has promised the West
German government powers ne
cessary for participating in an ad
visory capacity in the Council of
Europe. McCloy said in Bonn the
representatives of West Germany
“could deal with the council on
every subject within the compe
tence of the Consultative Assem
bly,” the lower advistory body of
the council.
Pakistan’s Premier Lisquat Ali
Khan left Karachi for London
and the United States for discus
sions with Prime Minister Attlee
and President Truman on the
State of Kashmir, of which Paki
stan and Indio have had bitter
disputes.
Chinese Nationalist war planes
hammered at communist prepara
tions for an invasion of Cushan
Island, vital stepping-stone to
Formosa, the Nationalist’s last
stronghold.
In Washington, John Foster
Dulles, Republican adviser to the
state department, said the con
quest of Hainan Island by the
Chinese Communists called for
action by the United States to
keep strategic Formosa out of Red
hands. Dulles did not disclose just
what action he had in mind.
A new Republican call for clos
er two-party cooperation in for
eign affairs was made as the Sen
ate debate on a $3,372,450,000 for
eign aid bill approached the end
Senate GOP leader Wherry said
Republican leaders should be per
mitted to attend a closed-door
conference Monday between sec
retary of state Dean Acheson and
the Senate Foreign Relations com
mittee at which Acheson is ex
pected to discuss topics to be
taken up at the forthcoming Big
Three foreign ministers meeting
in London.