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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. L. No. 129_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948_PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON (/P)—Attendance1
at Sitka, Alaska, National Monu- I
ment was 9,384 during the 1948
season, the national park service
said yesterday. The Sitka figure of
9,384 compared with 1,673 the pre- ;
vious year.
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KETCHIKAN, The absence
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of white geese on the Stikine river
flats surprised Bill Boardman and
his hunting party. The area is usu
ally a paradise for the geese as a
resting place on their flight south
every year, he said. Either they are
late this season or have by-passed
the flats. He flew to Wrangell and
was joined there by Verne Smith, !
Walter Blanton and Robert Cros
sett for the trip.
METLAKATLA, (<P)—There’s a
shortage of men here this month.
Nearly 100 are away, some fishing
out of Washington State ports and
some seining in Alaska waters.
Mayor Davis and two councilmen
have been back to Washington, D
C., on business.
KETCHIKAN, i/P)—Several of
ficials of the American Viscose
corporation of Philadelphia and
Lawson Turcotte, Bellingham,
Wash., president of the Ketchikan
Pulp & Paper company, visited the
site of the new pulp mill at Wacker
and the surrounding watershed
over the weekend. It was the first
visit here for several of the party.
ANNETTE, OP) — Paul Gray,
CAA maintenance technician, was
transfrered recently to Unalakleet,
Alaska. He and his wife and their
four children left by air for their
new home. Mr. and Mrs. John
Jones have also been transferred
to their new station at Northway.
KETCHIKAN, <JP)—The public
library now has a total of 11,994
books and has been increasing the
number by about 1,200 each year.
Circulation last year was 35,078,
an increase of about nine per cent
over the previous year .
PEIPING (/P)—Refugee students
today moved into the famed tern- I
pie of Heaven, showplace and1
abode of emperors.
No wonder they grinned when
they took over. Kings, only, slept
there before.
KHARTOUM, Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan, (/P)—Sudan officials are in
vestigating a report that quintup
lets—all boys—were born to a no
* madic tribeswoman 47 days ago.
Assistant district commissioner
H. G. Balfour-Paul said the report
may be authentic, but that officials
have not been able to locate the
children or the mother.
MOSCOW (/P)—The Soviet news
agency Tass reported in a dispatch
from Pyongyang that Soviet army
detachments are on their way out
* of northern Korea.
Reporting that this was the sec
y ond group of Red army forces to
quit the communist dominated sec
tion of Korea, the agency said the
troops were hailed by the public
before departure Oct. 24.
Alaska Steamship 1
Co. May Liquidate
Due To Strike
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JUNEAU, (A1)—Gilbert Skinner,
president of the Alaska Steamship
Co., said here Monday his line will
be “forced to liquidate” unless a
satisfactory settlement is secured
with striking west coast CIO mari
time unions.
Skinner, here from his Seattle
headquarters, said his statement
was not a threat “but a simple
declaration of fact.”
“The settlement must be on a
permanent basis,” he said. “It has
reached the stage where shippers
either will operate their own busi
ness or be controlled by the un
ions.”
The Alaska Steamship Co., only
major line still serving the Terri
tory ,is affiliated with the water
front employers association. The
WEA has refused to negotiate with
striking unions whose leaders have
not signed non-communist affida
vits under the Taft-Hartley law.
Since the west coast maritime
strike began last Sept. 2, the Alas
ka Transportation Co., has sus
pended operations “indefinitely”
and the Northland Transportation
Co., has announced plans to merge
with Skinner’s concern.
They were the only three large
shipping lines operating to Alaska.
Interriation’l News
At A Glance —
(By the Associated Press)
The United States, Britain and
France sought today a way to
solve the Berlin blockade through
the United Nations security coun-1
cil. Russia’s veto of a compromise
plan deadlocked the issue, but in
formed quarters said efforts to set
tle the warlike dispute will con
tinue.
The security council rang with
angry charges that Israel is flout
ing cease fire orders by continuing
fighting in the Negev desert and
violating the middle east arms em
bargo.
Warren R. Austin, American
president of the council, adjourn
ed the debate on Palestine with
this assertion:
“This is a matter requiring;
study before any action can be
taken. The council cannot be
lashed into action by charges of
bias.”
Other delegations have accused
the U. S. of sidestepping the Pal
estine problem until after the Nov.
2 election. A British source said
many delegates are leaning toward
stern U .N. action to bring peace
to Palestine—investigation, econo
mic sanctions or even military ac
tion.
The British objected at an inter
national radio conference in Mex
ict City to seating an Israeli dele
gate, who had not been invited.
The British contended Israel “does
not exist and cannot be represent
ed.” Russia took exception.
Bloody violence marked the
third week of the crippling
French coal strike. The interior
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AFL Union Seeks
To Move In On
Struck CIO Union
NLRB Must Decide Is
sue; CIO Promises To
“Fight To The Finish”
SEATTLE, (A5)—The ALF sail
ors’ union of the Pacific moved
here yesterday to invade the ter
ritory of the CIO marine cooks
and stewards union.
A petition filed by the SUP with •
the national labor relations board
asked an NLRB election on the1
right to represent stewards aboard
Alaska Steamship company ves-1
sels.
The company, only major ship
ping left in the Seattle-Alaska J
trade, manned its ships with CIO
1 stewards before the west coast
maritime strike Sept. 2. All oper
ations have been halted since that
time.
I Ed Coester, local business agent
j for the SUP, said that 75 per cent
i of the 600 steward department
members sailing on Alaska vessels
prior to the strike had signed
pledge cards signifying they de
sire AFL representation,
j In reply, Joseph Harris, Seattle
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i Tanker Off
! Cape Spencer;
Badly Disabled
SEATTLE, (/P)—Crippled by a
damaged boiler and condenser, the
tanker Mission Santa Cruz is re
ported by the coast guard to be- |
battling heavy seas 130 miles west
of Cape Spencer, Alaska, today.
The coast guard cutter Unalga
is expected to reach the vessel
about noon and the tugboat San
trina from Juneau should reach
it about 9 p.m.
The Ketchikan coast guard base
reported the Santa Cruz radioed
for aid last night saying its con
densers were giving trouble, that
its port boiler had gone and that
the starboard boiler might f<^llow
at any time.
If the boilers ceased to operate,
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Find Prospector
Missing 15 Days
FAIRBANKS, <£>) — Missing 15 ;
days and found badly frozen on
the slopes of Jumbo Dome, Albert 1
Barlow 63-year-old prospector,
was recovering today and able to
laugh about his experiences. i
He and a Massachusetts youth,
Eric Tasker, 17, set out for his
mining property two weeks ago
and became separated. Tasker
reached safety soon.
“My—the things you see when
you haven’t got a gun,” Barlow
said.
The 150 moose, several caribou
and thousands of grouse he saw
might as well be mirages to a hun
gry man whose only weapon was a
pocket knife.
Searchers found him and he was
flown here by the 10th resctxe <
squadron from the Ladd field base.
Ralph Browne 1
Reports On Second
Division Survev
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Ralph Browne, who is making !
the economic survey of the Second 1
Division for the Alaska Develop
ment Board returned last evening
from his trip northward where he
stopped in Wainwright, Point Lay, |
Kotzebue, Barrow, Fairbanks and
Betties by way of the Wien Air
lines.
He brought back information of
infiltration of Siberian Eskimos
along Alaska’s Bering Sea coast
from Point Lay. Bob Tuckfield, Pt.
Lay native and former membe^ of
the Alaska Guard saw an Eskimo,
definitely not Alaskan—dressed in
“strange” clothes surveying the
Point Lay area with a powerful
telescope about three weeks ago.
Tuckfield told Mr. Browne that he
saw the stranger while hunting
back from the village.
When the stranger saw the Es
kimo, he reported, he fled. Tuck
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City Council
Held Interesting
Meeting Monday
A large crowd was in attend
ance at the regular city council
meeting Monday evening in re
sponse to a letter, stated Mayor
Dunbar received by the city from
Col. Burkhalter of Marks Field.
Before proceeding with the spe
cial business of the evening regu
lar city business was attended to
including the ordering payment of
the street graveling bills amount
ing to $1666.75.
Colonel Burkhalter’s letter was
referred to by the mayor calling
attention of the council to the dis
graceful conditions existing in
Nome; law violations and native
girl traffic which after dark is
carried on openly. Mayor Dunbar
stated that the charges were grave
and for that reason all contribut
ing factors were called to the
meeting to try and find a way to
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Britain Gets Large :
Loan From ECA
WASHINGTON, UP)—The eco
lomic Cooperation administration
yesterday loaned $310,000,000 to
3ritain. The money is to be used
'or purchase of industrial machin
ery, equipment and materials as
part of the European recovery
effort.
The agreement was signed by
American and British officials at
the Export-Import bank of Wash
ington, which administers ECA
loans.
It calls for interest at 2Vfe per
eent a year payable semi-annu
ally starting irt 1952.
The installments will run until
1983, or for 35 years.
The sum represents the amount
af Marshall plan aid which is
available to Britain on a loan ba
sis in the first nine months of ECA
aperations—in other words until
the end of this year.
Ask CAB For More
And Belter Air
Service To Alaska
Say Certificated Lines
Make Flag Stops Of
Important Cities
ANCHORAGE, (TP) — Alaska
needs a seven-day airlines week
and an extension of Alaska serv
ice to other west coast points than
Seattle, two witnesses told a civil
aeronautics board hearing Mon
day.
Juneau mayor Waino Hendrick
son and Charles W. Carter, a rep
resentative of the Juneau cham
ber of commerce, were among sev
; eral witnesses who followed Alas
j ka governor Ernest Gruening to
! thp stand.
The governor earlier asked the
CAB to end a certificated airlines
monopoly which he claims may
make Juneau a flagstop and
Ketchikan—Alaska's first city—its
last.
Hendrickson praised the present
service of certificated carriers. He
added, however, seven-day service
would make it possible for mer
chants to fly to Seattle Sunday
and be back ready for business
Monday morning.
Carter supported Grueni n g ’ s
contention that service should be
extended beyond Seattle to such
points as Portland and San Fran
cisco.
* Gruening cited the plight of
Ketchikan residents wishing to
travel to Fairbanks. The trip,
which should take six hours, re
quires 26, he said, because of stop
overs, taxi service and branch
line flights. He declared intra
Alaska service by bush pilots has
saved the day for Alaskans by
bringing down rates where “mo
nopoly previously was uncheck
ed.”
Thirty-one airlines, cities and
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Pilot Missing
On Short Flight
CORDOVA </P)—A Seward pilot
who radioed that his compass had
broken and he was hopelessly lost
was listed yesterday as missing on
a flight of little more than 100
miles from Yakataga to Cordova.
Civil aeronautics administration
authorities reported that the pilot,
Victor (Whitey) Barnett messaged
his plight at 6:45 p.m. Sunday.
For an hour and 10 minutes ef
forts were made to orientate Bar
nett by radio. Then contact was
lost.
A coast guard PBY, an army
B-17 and two planes from the Cor
dova air service searched unsuc
cessfully Monday for the missing
flier and his light aircraft.
Barnett and a companion pilot,
Gil Anthony, took off from Yaka
taga in separate planes at 4 p.m.
Sunday. They became separated
on the fight, which Anthony com
pleted on scedule.
The two men had been engaged
in salvage operations on the gale
wrecked power barge, Skarstone,
driven aground near Yakataga
last week. Four of the barge’s five
crewmen perished in tho «tnrm