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VOL. L1I. No. 42 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON (#>)—Senate in
vestigators split on a stormy issue
Saturday — whether FBI records
completely clear Owen Lattimore,
accused by Senator McCarthy of
being a communist spy.
Any conclusions that the rec
ords do entirely absolve Lattimore
is “unwarranted," said Republi
can Senator Hickenlooped of
Iowa.
On the other hand, Democratic
Senator Tydings of Maryland de
clared he is standing by his state
ment that the FBI data put Latti
more “completely in the clear."
PALMER, (/P) — Four Oriental
farmers from sunny Honolulu are
the Valley’s newest agricultural
recruits. One of the four, Tamatsu
Fujimoto, recently bought a home
site from the Alaska Rural Reha
bilitation Corporation, and will
erect a cabin where all of the
friends plan to live.
The man came to the valley
last year to investigate its agri
cultural possibilities. From here
they went to Adak where they
spent the winter in employment
before returning to Honolulu.
LONDON, (/P) — Vaslav Nijin
sky, GO, one of the world’s great
est dancers, died in a London
clinic Saturday. He had been in
sane for 31 years.
Nijinsky, a native of Russia,
had come to England in his long
search for mental health. His
mind snapped in 1919, when he
was at the height of his career.
Many critcs unhesitatingly called
him the greatest dancer who ever
lived.
His devoted wife, Romola, had
* nursed him throughout his long
years of mental darkness.
PALMER, (TP)—Again the brain
trust of a Palmer High School
graduating class will be made up
of petticoat-wearers. Helen Mae
Stenvallo will be valedictorian
for the class of 1950 and Ramona
Davis will be salutatorian, Wil
liam T. Zahradnicek, school su
t perintendent announced.
The pair lead a graduating class
of 32 seniors.
HOLLYWOOD, (IP)—Bette Da
vis should see a psychiatrist, her
husband claims.
“My wife is a troubled, mixed
up girl,” said artist William Sher
ry, who is being sued for divorce.
“She has never been really hap
py. She is not alone in this. All
artistic people have great prob
lems . . .
“If she woufd join me in" con
sulting my psychiatrist, I am posi-1
tive our marital problems could
be worked out.”
Miss Davis didn’t reply. She
had laryngitis.
—
VALDEZ, UP)—H. G. Date, gen- \
eral contractor, of Cordova, has
been awarded the contract for
construction of the small boat
harbor at Valdez. The award was
made at a special meeting of the
city council on March 27.
Mr. Date’s bid for the work was
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V
McCarthy Sheds
Immunity; Invites
Suits Lor Li he I
PASSAIC, N. J., (/P)—Senator
McCarthy <R.-Wis.) shucked off
his Congressional immunity Sat
urday and made new attacks on
Owen Lattimore, Philip C. Jessup
and diplomat John S. Service. He
challenged them to sue him for
libel.
McCarthy’s latest accusations
against the trio were considerably
milder than those he originally
leveled in the Senate, where he
has Constitutional protec tion
from court action. Lattimore has
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Contest Winners
Of Alaskagranis
Being Judged
Winners of the Alaskagram
contest which ran 12 weeks in
Alaska’s principal newspapers
will be announced as soon as
judging the thousands of entries
is completed. Copies of the book,
“Alaska Almanac” which will be
! received by all who finished the
contest are still being mailed.
Two thousand contestants in
, every part of Alaska submitted
answers every week of the three
month race. Advertised as the of
ficial reference of the contest, the
“Alaska Almanac” was sold out
in nearly every bookstore of the
Territory weeks ago.
To meet the unforeseen de
mand for books by contestants
! who purchased them directly
from bookstores and by those who
made advance remittance in the
contest, it was necessary to sub
mit orders for reprints to the
Seattle printer of the publication.
Five hundred books are still to be
mailed to contestants. Rather
than to be sent to Alaska for re
mailing, the books are being for
warded to individual contestants
directly from Seattle. All books
should be mailed within two
weeks.
It will be three to five weeks
before the 24,000 individual
weekly entries are processed and
winners are announced.
Sponsors of the Alaskagram
contest are Tewkesbury publish
ers, the firm which compiled the
Alaska Almanac. No newspaper,
or any other firm or individual,
is sponsoring it.
LATE BULLETIN
SAN FRANCISCO, (^)_Harry j
Bridges was sentenced to five
years imprisonment on convic* |
tion of perjury and conspiracy. ;
He was accused of lying to con*
ceal he was a communist. Federal
Judge George Harris ordered
Bridges into immediate custody.
Bridges was sentenced to two
years on perjury charge and five
years for conspiracy. Two sen* ;
fences are to run concurrently, j
Sentencing followed Judge Har* j
ris' denial of defense motions for ,
reversal trial arrest of judgment. 1
<^ueen Contest Is
Truly Popularity
Contest This Year
The Queen Contest sponsored
annually by the Arctic Club is be
ing handled entirely differently
this year according to publicity
chairman, Ted Duffield.
The contestants this year are
all the single girls in Nome be
tween 16 to 21 years who have
had six months residence in
Nome.
Votes are limited to admission
tickets to the Carnival on April
129th where you may vote for
your favorite on a blank ballot
, which will be given you there.
. Ballots are limited to one ballot
, per person and only one count
| will be taken at the end of the
evening.
The prizes for queen and two
runners-up have not been an
nounced but promise to be worth
the effort.
This method of choosing Miss
Nome for 19a0 has been planned
to make it exclusively a popular
ity contest.
The prizes for the Carnival this
year are reported the best ever
for the many games and contests,
several of which are clever and
new.
The biggest award of the Car
nival of course is the new Chev
l rolet sedan which will be award
ed that evening to some lucky
person, whether or they are at
the Carnival.
MARY SCHENCK FUNERAL
LAST SATURDAY
The burial service of Mary
Schenck, who was killed last
week by a gun shot, was held
from the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission Church last Saturday af
ternoon with Rev. R. Treat in
charge of the service.
Mrs. Schenck is survived by
her husband, a married daughter
and her son, Leonard who was
here for the funeral service.
I Air Freight To
Alaska Skyrockets
In \ oliime
SEATTLE, </P)—Need for addi
tional air service to Alaska,
recommended recently by a civil
aeronautics board examinerfi has
been underscored the past few
days by the tremendous volume
of air freight being flown to the
Territory by both scheduled and
non-scheduled lines.
Cargo volume between Seattle
and Alaska has skyrocketed for
two reasons, military construction
in the Far North and signs of an
' early spring in the Territory.
Pan American World Airways,
for example, has scheduled sev
eral extra all-cargo flights. North
west Airlines has added addition
al flights, too, to fly such items
as perishables, machinery parts
and lumber to Anchorage.
! Non-scheduled lines, such as
1 Air Transport Associates, are
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Easter Services
In Nome
! -
| Easter means new life, and it
meant that for the churches of
Nome yesterday, as shown by the
increased interest people in Nome
took in their churches. The Com
munity Union Sunrise Service,
sponsored again this year by the
Ministerial Association of the ctiy
was well attended with well over
3400 out for this 7:30 service.
There were numerous break
fasts, among which was the break
fast for the preparatory member
ship class of the Methodist Church
Federated, with Mr. and Mrs.
Clark, Rev. and Mrs. Treat as
hosts and hostesses. The men of
Marks Air Force Base had a
breakfast at the Service Club be
fore their Easter service at the
Chapel.
There were special Sunday
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THE TUG Or WAR
3 pREfttREON£SS
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—
\ews of the \\ orld
At A Glance —
i
Saturday, April 8, 1950
'By The Associated Press)
Px'emier-designate Paul v a r*
Zeeland of Belgium said today he
has encountered last minute diffi
culties in forming a government
to bring exiled King Leopold III
back to the throne.
Yesterday he announced he ex
i pected to complete a cabinet by
! noon today. Now, Regent Prince
i Charles has given him until Tues
! day to complete the job.
. Meanwhile, the anti-Leopold
Socialist party threatened a fight
to the finish against the return of
the monarch. In a radio speed*
last night Socialist leader Paul
Henri-Spaak said his pro-king op
ponents wanted to make Leopold
“king forever” and “we shall
never accept this.”
Spaak defended workers’ x'ights
to strike against the king’s return.
He said they had a right “to stop
work and improve their fate and
to expi'ess their political will.”
If Van Zeeland, a Social Chris
tian is successful in forming a
government that has the confi
dence of Parliament he will end
the Regency and x'ecall the King.
In Milan, foreign minister
Count Sforza said in a speech tha*
Italy will not renounce her claim
to Trieste, which the Western
Powers pi'omised two years ago
i would be returned to her.
Sforza expressed fear the West
ern Allies might change their
minds about the future control of
the Adriatic port city. One sector
of the territory is now occupied
by British and American forces.
Yugoslavia controls the rest.
Italians fear the West might
give the whole territory to Yugo
! slavia as a gesture, now that the
i Yugoslavs have biokon from the
Soviet orbit.
Chinese Nationalists said they
! are successfully rounding up com
j munist. guerrillas who landed
! some time ago on Hainan Island,
10 miles off the South China
coast. The Nationalists said 2,8f>f)
. guerillas had been captured. A
Hong Kong newspaper said be
tween 10,000 and 20,000 Reds on
Hainan have surrendered after
running out of ammunition and
! food.
India and Pakistan announced
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MIKE RILEY "OBSERVER" AT
SHUNGNAK ELECTION
Michael F. Riley, better known
as “Riley of the White House,’*
j was a secret service man who
guarded President Franklin D.
Roosevelt the whole time he was
President, arrived with Pan
American enroute to Shungnak as
1 a representative of Secretary of
Interior Oscar Chapman. He will
act as “observer” at the reserva
tion election at Shungnak and
will talk with the natives them
selves and do a bit of fact-find
ing in that area.
He is accompanied by George
McGrath, who it is reported is
also from the Interior Department
enroute to Shungnak.