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_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LI. No. 1_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAV, JANUARY 3, 1949~ Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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WASHINGTON, </P) — George
M. Barnard of New Castle, Md., a
member of the interstate com
merce commission for more than
lour years, died suddenly of a
heart attack last night. H was 67.
HONOLULU, (#»)--Bill Odom
t i ’ today the present weather
outlook would delay his takeoff
on a projected Hawaii to New
York City non-stop flight until
Tuesday morning.
Odom will -attempt the 5,010
hop in a Beechcraft Bonanza class
plane—the smallest ever to at
tempt a flight of that distance.
TOKYO, (fP)—Fiftoen Japanese
including ‘.he war time military
police chief and several former
generals, drew heavy prison sen
tences today for killing 45 cap
tured fliers.
Twelve others were acquitted
by a U. S. eighth army commis
sion. The trial lasted five months.
Among those who drew the
heaviest sentences—life in prison
—was Lt. Gen. Sanji Okida, com
mander of the military police
headquarters.
LOS ANGELES, </P> — World
banamweight champoin Manuel
Ortiz, whom many thought would
never be able to make the weight,
will defend his 118-pound crown
against Dado Marino of Hawaii in
Honolulu Feb. 22.
Manager Tommy Farmer said
today he had signed a contract
with co-poromoters Leo Leavitt
and Augie Curtis which guarantees
the 32-year-old El Centro, Calif.,
champion $20,000 for the title
bout.
f MIAMI, Fla., (iP) — Hope was
abandoned today for survivors of
a charter airliner which disap
peared last Tuesday with 32 per
sons aboard enroute from San
Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — House
Republicans decided today to fight
Democratic-backed ohanges in
House rules. They hoped to form
a coalition with some southern
Democrats and test Prseident Tru
man’s influence in the new Con
gress.
The big rules change proposed
by the Democrats would slip the
powers of the rules committee to j
“bottleneck” legislation.
BALTIMORE, (/P)—Three days
after the old year, an era quietly !
ended for one of America’s great I
institutions of higher learning.
Johns Hopkins university.
Its president, Dr. Isaiah Bow
man—who helped set the boun
draies of Europe after the first
world war—retierd today after a
13-year tenure.
Immediately, Dr. Detlev Bronk,
University of Pennsylvania bio
physicist and director of the na
tional research council, took over
as the sixth Hopkins president.
BERKELEY, Calif. (/P)—Philip
Read Bradley, 73, west coast min
ing executive, died Friday. He was
president of the Alaska Juneau
company, with head offices here.
After his 1896 graduation from
the University of California, he
wag active as a mining engineer in
Internation’l News
• By The Associated Press'
Shanghai’s city council went
over the Chinese national govern
ment’s head today and asked the
Chinese communists for a cease
fire and peace talks.
In northern China some nation
alist generals appeared to be d.c
kering for a separate peace with
the communists. A Peiping offi
cial hinted at a political settle
ment within three weeks. The fact
that this was permitted through
tight Chinese censorship lent
weight to the hint.
Hong Kong reports said Marshal
Li Shi-Shen, a non-communist,
has left for a rendezvous with the
communis s in the north. He has
said he would be available to head
a coalition government. Once
President Chiang Kai-Shek’s chief
of staff, the marshal now is strong
ly opposed by Chiang.
Formosa might become the seat
of Chiang’s government if it flees
Nanking.
The Dutch commander has is
sued an order of the day to his
troops on the island of Java which
is interpreted as a semi-official
cease fire. The Dutch soldiers
were told their only job now is to
mop up against pockets of Indo
! nesian Republicans. The Dutch
, hold all important points in Java
and almost all in Sumatra. An or
der is expected soon on the neigh
boring island. The Dutch still re
fuse to allow 43 United Nations
military observers to visit areas
taken from the Republic.
Th<f government of India in
vited the Philippines to join a con
ference of Asiatic countries on In
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HEADLINES
OF 1948
Jan. 6 — United Automobile
Workers and United Electrical,
Radio, and Machine Workers say
they seek new round of wage in
creases.
Jan. 7—President Truman asks
Congress for $40 cost-of-living
credit per person to be deducted
from income tax payments.
Jan. 11—Russian Army paper
in Berlin hints Reds may try to
push American and British out of
city.
Jan. 12—Truman asks Congress
for $39,669,000,000 appropriation
for 1949 fiscal year.
Jan. 21—State Department re
veals seized Nazi papers showing
agreement between Reds and Na
zis in 1939 to divide Europe be
tween them.
Jan. 22—British Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin urges western
Europe to consolidate against Rus
sia’s eastern bloc.
Jan. 24—France devalues franc.
Jan. 30—Mohandas K. Gandhi,
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many parts of the western United
States, Canada and New Caledo
nia. During World War I, he was
federal food administrator and se
lective service chairman for the
Territory of Alaska.
iVIargo Freeman, Harpist. In Concert
Here Friday, January 14th
MARGO FREEMAN, Harpist *
The harp concert which was
scheduled to be heard on the eve
ning of December 28, and which
was postponed until January 14,
should be a highlight in the year’s
entertainment, and Nome is very
fortunate that an outstanding
artist such as Margo Freeman will
make the trip for the people of
Nome.
Mrs. Freemon is also a real
Alaskan, we have learned, having
been born at Sitka where her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Haley still reside.
She had her training as a harp
ist in the States, where she played
with the Los Angeles Symphony
as well as with other musical
groups. She also played for motion
pictures including the Andy
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Hardy series and the Hume Com
edy.
Mrs. Freeman’s husband is
Captain Lloyd Freeman, who is
stationed at Fort Richardson.
Tickets for the concert are be
ing sold by several young people
and are available at Dorohty’s,
Polet’s and Marks Field Library.
THREE 2ND DIVISION MEN
DRAFTED TODAY
Being drafted today under the
new peace time draft law are:
Woodrow Wilson, Kotzebue; Hard
ing Black, Kotzebue; Edward Kee
lick, Igloo.
These men have fulfilled all re
quirements and passed all exam
inations and will be inducted into
the armed services today.
Transport Wreck
Kills Fourteen
Yale Students
SEATTLE, (vT) — A transport
plane loaded with Yale university
students crashed and exploded
seconds after its takeoff last night,
killing at least 14 of the 30 per
sons aboard.
Fifteen survived the crash. One
person was not accounted for
early today.
Thirteen of the bodies were
idenified early today.
Twenty-seven Yale students
from Washington and Oregon had
chartered the DC-3 from Seattle
Air Charter, a non-scheduled op
erator, to take them back to New
Haven, Conn., after the holidays.
The o’her three aboard were crew
members.
The plane roared down an icy
runway just at 10 p.m. Ten feet
off the ground it faltered, struck
the ground and crashed into the
rnd of a Boeing Airplane company
experimental hangar .
Lynn Brown, a Boeing field em
ployee, estimated the plane was
going 80 to 100 miles an hour
when it struck the hangar revet
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Bartlett Will
Introduce New
Statehood Bill
(By Charles D. Watkins)
M/P) Special Washington Service) •
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska, a Democrat,
announced plans to introduce to
day a new bill to ^xant statehood
to the Territory.
He said the measure will be
identical with that approved oy
the House public lands committee
last session. That bill died in the
rules committee.
Bartlett said he hopes for quick
House approval of the measure
and that he believes the Senate
will endorse statehood for the Ter
ritory this year.
The delegate also expected to
present today or tomorrow 28
other bills affecting Alaska.
These include one turning over
to the Territory control of its fish
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Ice Bowl Game
Ends Up In Cold
Scoreless Tie
FAIRBANKS, <^P) — Ladd Field
came within a footprint of whip
ping the University of Alaska in
the Ice Bowl game.
The farthest north—and wierd
est—football game of a bowl
crowded day wound up in a score
less tie when sharp-eyed officials
found where Ray Keelin of Wheel
er, Tex., had stepped out of
bounds on the coal-dusted 10-yard
line.
Keelin mushed 40 yards through t
the foot-deep snow and 25-below
zero weather after catching a pass
mittened by George Raidel of
Youngstown, Ohio.
Chills were bigger than thrills
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