VOL. L. No. 8L__.. Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, July 7, 1948 .._PER COPY 15<*
SHOW GOES ON
IN SPITE OF BAD
WEATHER
The Fourth of July Committee,
although handicapped by unex
pected inclement weather, re
vamped the festivities planned for
the two-day celebration, to a half
day indoor activity by omitting
the parts of the program such as
the air show, and the trap shoot.
Also the bicycle races and other
such events which could not be
held in the Nome School auditor
ium.
The program on July 5th be
gan in the auditorium at 1:00 o’
clock in the afternoon, with music
and song by the High School girls,
an invocation by Chaplain Albert
Darling, and a word of welcome
by Mayor Luther Dunbar.
Ted Duffield, chairman of the
4th of July Committee acted as
Master of Ceremonies and an
nounced the first number of the
program, a sweet-voiced rendition
of “The Sfar Spangled Banner”
by Jennie Sayers.
The children’s parade, led by
the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
circled the over-crowded auditor
ium two times. The kiddies were
dressed in very cute costumes.
The children’s foot races fol
lowed with the serving of ice
cream cones and candy bars close
behind.
At seven o’clock a magnificent
display of fireworks was set off
in front of the Federal Building.
This was followed by the Nat
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COAL MINERS
STRIKE AT
CAPTIVE MINES
PITTSBURGH, —OP) —A walk
out embracing 50,000 of the na
tion’s 400,000 bituminous coal min
ers was launched yesterday in
the two leading coal states—West
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Most of the idle were miners
protesting lack of a contract in
steel company captive mines. The
rest wer» commercial coal diggers
in Western Pennsylvania who
stayed home in sympathy.
Steel production was hit at once.
The Camiege-Illinois Steel Corp.,
a U.S. Steel subsidiary, announced
at Pittsburgh the banking of at
least eight blast funnaces and 28
open hearths. Its Bessemer out
put at Youngstown, O., was cut
in half.
Captive mines idle in West Vir
ginia included those of the Ameri
can Rolling Mill Company.
Production in Western Penn
sylvania, which employes 56,000
miners, was only 20 per cent of
normal.
The big U.S. Steel Corporation
reported all 14 of its Pennsyl
vania mines, employing 11,000 men
were idle, causing a daily loss
of 55,000 tons of coal.
Captive mines are those whose
output goes to a parent firm, like
a steel romnanv.
ITumnn Noniinnt'ii
Is Assured, Say
Democratic Heads
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By Jack Bell
PHILADELPHIA, — (/P) —The
dropping balloon of the Eisen
hower boom hung low today over
the forthcoming Democratic Na
tional convention.
President Truman’s representa
tives—highly encouraged by the
General’s couldn’t take it state
ment—scurried back to Washing
ton to put out the word on Mr.
Truman’s choice for second place
on the ticket—a selection he has
delayed while he awaited the lat
est word from the wartime Euro
pean commander .
Although Democrats in such
widely separated areas as Cali
fornia and New Jersey declined to
take Eisenhower’s “no” as final,
the feeling in this convention city
was that it is all over but the
shouting.
The shouting may center on
various ineffectual efforts to draft
Eisenhower and to put Justice
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REVOLT IN CUBA
Says GOV’MENT
NEW YORK, — </P) —The Dom
inican information service said to
day it had received a cable from
the secretary to president Tru
jillo declaring that revolutionary
forces were assembling in Cuba
. to attempt to overthrow the Dom
inican government,
i The cable said information was
; that the government stated forces
were assembling at Casilda, Tuna
Dezaza and Santi Cruz Del Sur.
NWA Fair Board
Sets 1948 Fair
For Aug- 26, 27,28.
A meeting of the Northwestern
Alaska Fair Association board to
plan for the 10th annual fair. The
meeting was held in the offices1
of secretary, A. Polet, w’here plans
for the 1948 fair were made with
tentative date set at August 26, |
27, and 28.
After a general discussion of
the fair, the board elected C. D.
Anderson as manager for the fair
and James Walsh was elected to
his vacated chair on the board.
Director Elmo Miller, at his re
quest, was relieved of chairman
ship of the board as he expects
! to be doing field work most of the
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Explosion Ripped
Seattle Fisli Plant
2 Killed, 1 Injured
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! SEATTLE, — (/P) —A $350,000
vitamin plant in northwest Seattle
looked like a stepped on apple
box today—ripped by an explo
sion and scorched by fire that
killed two men, injured one and
left another unaccounted for.
At 5:35 p.m. (PDT) yesterday—
half an hour after 40 to 50 work
ers had completed their shift—the
Lyle Cranch Flower Company’s
fish procesing plant blew up.
Store windows were smashed
in the nearby Ballard community
and homes four miles away were
shaken in the blast.
The charred, unrecognizable
bodies of Rolland Stebbins, 27 and
John Zenger, plant workmen, were
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Mine Operators
Of Council
Organize
At a general meting of the min
ers of the Council, Alaska dis-1
trict, Fred K. Dent was elected
to be chairman of the Miners’
Meeting, and Nels Swanberg Jr.,
was elected as secretary.
The meeting was held June
29th in the school house at Coun
cil, for the purpose of setting up
district rules and regulations for
the mining of navigable streams
and for such other business as
might be brought up for action.
The chairman, F. K. Dent, then
appointed Mr. Richard E. Lee and
Mr. Nels Swanberg Jr., to act with
the chairman to propose rules
and regulations for submission to
1 the Miners’ Meeting for consider
ation.
The following rules were sub
mitted:
Rule 1.
Owner, or owners, of valid pla
cer locations embracing within
its boundaries any portion of the
bed of a navigable stream shall
have the exclusive right to pros
pect and mine said portion of the
bed of a navigable stream so long
as such valid mining locations are
maintained in effect under the
laws of the United States, or the
Territory of Alaska.
Rule 2.
The owner, or owners, of valid
placer mining locations abutting
ordinary high water on the banks
of navigable rivers shall have the
exclusive right to prospect and
mine the beds of navigable streams
abutting such placer mining loca
tions from mean high water to
the center or thread of the stream
at summer low water so long as j
such mining locations remain in
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| THEY LEAD THE REPUBLICAN TICKET
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (right) of New York, Republican candidate for
president, and Gov. Earl Warren of California, the party's choice for the
vice presidency, pose together after the close of the nominating conven
Jion in Philadelphia. (AP Wirephoto)
U.S. PLANKS ARE
CARRYING COAL
TO BERLIN
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL
—By Ihe Associated Press—
U.S. planes loaded coal today
for flights into besieged Berlin
while the Kremlin masters read
three notes from Western Pow
ers demanding an end to the
blockade.
The Russians were troubled with
stirrings behind the Iron Curtain.
Soviet Union Communists refused
an invitation to attend the Yugo
slav Communist Congress July 21,
saying Premier Marshal Tito and
his followers now are “Outside
the family of Communist Parties.”
MOSCOW
Moscow said Albania has taken
strong measures to guard her
frontier with Yugoslavia and de
fied a Yugoslav demand to re
sume trade relations.
TRIESTE
Czechoslovaks again cheered for
mer president Benes, who resigned
without signing the countiy’s
Communist constitution.
WASHINGTON
The U.S. Department of State
had under careful study rumors
of Soviet troop movements in Ro
mania and Bulgaria toward Yugo
slavia. The old speculation was
revived that Russia might try to
annex Romania and Bulgaria as
Soviet republics and put the Red
army back in Czechoslovakia.
Most officials were skeptical in
the belief Russia would try to
tighten her grip over her eastern
satellites without using troops. The
Finnish elections in which Com
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USS NEW YORK
TO l SUNK BY
NAVY BAT BOMB
By Lief Erickson
PEARL HARBOR. — f/P) —The
tough old veteran of the United
States fleet, the battleship Ne.v
York, turns her armor-plated hide
today to the Navy’s new “bat
bomb”—the first weapon to be
used in her sinking.
The 30,000-ton warship, which
emerged unscathed from two wars
and survived two atomic blasts
at Bikini, has been towed to a
point 50 miles south of here to
test the strength of Task Force 33.
Rear Admiral Marshall R. Greer,
Task Force commander, said the
radar-guided “bats” were used
against the Japanese late in the
war, but—by that time—Nippon
had no major ships left for tar
gets. He said this evening’s as
sault will be the first use of the
“bats” against a ship of the New
York’s size.
“Bat” attacks also will be made
tomorrow morning. They will be
followed by air, surface and un
derwater craft tests until the 34
^ear old vessel is sunk. The New
ifork is still radio active from the
Bikini tests.