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VOL. L. No. 92 NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1948 PER COPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
PORTLAND, Ore., </P)—Listen
to the plight of Fred English, 43.
He got hit by two women driv
ers at once. Sort of a billiard
play—caromed from one car to
the other and into the side pocket
crumpled but conscious.
But don’t go blaming the wo
men drivers.
Police gallantly let them go
and arrested English, broken
nose, broken wrist and all—for
► jaywalking.
Brisbane, Australia, —t/P)— A
meteor streaked northward over
Brisbane tonight, lighting up the
city. Shortly after it disappeared
heavy explosions were heard which
shook houses here.
SHANGHAI. f/P> — Beginning
yesterday the sale of Nylons in
Shanghai were outlawed.
The ban was thought up long
ago when China's austerity pro
gram was started but it was not
enforced.
The government ordered it into
effect yesterday. Women wearing
nylons will not be molested but
they will not be able to buy any
more of them here.
OTTAWA, <JP) — Union of
New Foundland with Canada,
first discussed more than 80 years
ago, likely will become a reality
within a year.
j Prime Minister W. L. MacKen
zie King announced Friday night
that his government is ready to
work out union details with rep
resentatives of the 450-year-old
British colony. In a Jul^ 22 refer
endum Newfoundland voted in
favor of union with Canada.
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Richie Ashburn (Anchorage) of
the Philadelphia Phils — hit his
second homerun of the year, scor
ed one run, batted in one run as
the Phillies beat Cincinnati, 8-5
Friday.
SEWARD f/P)—Mrs. Lois Allen,
69, magazine writer and former
publisher of a weekly newspaper
at Skagway, died in a hospital
here Friday, following a pro
longed illness.
Mrs. Allen published the mime
ographed Moose Pass, Alaska,
Miner after leaving Skagway and
then taught at Ninilchik until she
retired because of failing hearth.
SHANGHAI, f/P)—Chow Nan
Fu, a refugee from northern Ki
angsu, was broke so he sold his
wife to Ma Feng-Wen for 55,000,
000 Chinese dollars ($6.50 U. S.).
Mrs. Chow didn’t like it and
complained to the police.
Ma was arrested but Chow is
still at large.
NEW YORK, m—The Com
munist party will hold its first
i national convention since 1945 to
night at Madison Square Garden.
The meeting is expected to
bring together a dozen members
of the party’s national board, who
*were released on bail recently
after being indicted on charges of
planning overthrow of the gov
ernment by force.
No Casualties In j
Series Of Crashes ;
Near Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Eight occu
pants of four airplanes were all
accounted for Saturday after a
one-day epidemic of forced land
ings or crackups.
The accidents were at Yukon
River points and near Fairbanks.
A radio report from Circle City,
about 150 miles north of here,
during the night cleared up the
fate of the last of the airmen.
Red Williams radioed that Wil
liam Mendenhall and William
Haston escaped without serious
injuries in an unexplained emer
gency landing on a Yukon sand
bar after taking off from Fort
Yukon. They were the objects of
a day-long search. Both are em
ployees of a mining company.
Earlier, four Ladd Field air
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Sorter Accuses
Congress Of
Wasting Time ^
WASHINGTON UP)— Paul Por
ter, the administration’s anti-in
flation chief, said today Congress
has been wasting “much precious
time” in its consideration of Pres
ident Truman’s economic pro
gram.
“Perhaps it is utopian to as
sume that there is any prospect of
eliminating partisanship from
the economic issues now before
Congress,” Porter told members
of the Senate banking committee.
In a prepared statement the
former office of price Administra
tion chief said:
“For the past week efforts have
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International News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press)
Alfried Krupp van Bohlen und
Halbach and 10 other high offi
cials of the Krupp munitions firm
were convicted by an American
tribunal Saturday on charges of
exploiting slave labor and plun
dering occupied countries.
The judgment said the Ruhr in
dustrialists carried out excesses
even beyond Hitler’s orders. Only
one defendant, 70-year-old Karl
Heinrich Pfrisch, Mead of the
Krupp board of directors, was
acquitted on all counts. ,
Originally the defendants also
were charged with planning to
wage aggressive war, but those
charges were dismissed by the
tribunal last April for lack of evi
dence.
Communists are expected to
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U. S. Athletes
Win Several
Olympic Firsts
LONDON, (/P) — America’s
crack trackmen and swimmers
broke into the winning circle Sat
urday, scoring four final victor
ies in the second full day of the
14th Olympic games.
Harrison Dillard, great Negro
hurdler and sprinter, atoned for
his failure to make the hurdling
squad, by winning the Olympic
gold medal in the 100-meter
sprint in the Olympic record
equalling time of 10.3 seconds.
Roz Cochran of the Los Ange
les athletic club, gave the Amer
ican spectators in the huge 04,000
throng at Wembley stadium, their
first big occasion to cheer when
he won the 400 meter hurdles just
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Many Government Officials Gave
Russians Wartime Information
WASHINGTON, (A>)—Lauchlin
Currie, one time aide to the late
President Roosevelt, and Harry
Dexter White, former assistant
secretary of the treasury, were
named by ex-Soviet agent Eliza
beth T. Bentley Saturday as two
from whom the Russians got se
cret wartime information.
In a sensation-studded Con
gressional hearing, Miss Bentley
ticked off one name after another
ill. S. Communist
Party Is Fifth
Column for Russia
WASHINGTON, t/P) — Louis
Budenz, repented communist, told
Senators today that the commun
ist party gets “a very big finan
cial take” from Hollywood.
The former managing editor of
the Communist Daily Worker,
who quit the communist party
and now is a P’ordham university
professor, testified in a Senate ex
penditures subcommittee inquiry
into communist infiltrations into
the government.
He described the communist
party of the United States as ‘‘a
fifth column of Soviet Russia.”
He named the late Jacob Golos
as head of a highly secret com
munist party control commission
in this country — an agency he
| said was used to discipline party
members and keep them in line.
Golos was the chief contact
with the party for Miss Elizabeth
Bentley, admitted one-time Sov
iet spy, who has testified that she
got military secrets from govern
ment officials and workers which
were channelled to Moscow.
Budenz said that the control
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CLAIM ‘CHANNEL WING’ PLANE FLIES
•X* ^ .. ... . • . ..
Frank D. Kelley, Hagerstown, Md., commercial photographer and pres
ident of the National Aircraft corporation, sits at the controls of an un
usual aircraft with "Custer Channel wings," which resemble halves of
barrels. Kelley has flown the craft on several brief flights, according to
the inventor of the strange craft, Willard R. Custer. (AP wirephoto)
of government officials she said
were sources of “political and mil
tary” information gathered by
the Soviet spy ring she was in.
Her testimony was under oath
to the House un-American activi
ties committee which picked up
where a Senate group left off Fri
day in hearing the blonde Vassar
graduate’s story. Startled com
mittee members said they would
I ask for a special grand jury to
look into the question of whether
there should be prosecutions.
I Miss Bentley swore:
| Currie was not a communist,
j but he “gave us some informa
tion, he had inside information
on government policies.” It was
through Currie, she said, that in
formation reached the Russians
that the United States was about
to “break” the Soviet code.
(“Break” means learn to decipher.
This would have permitted the
United States to read secret Rus
sian dispatches to the Soviet em
bassy here. Code “breaking” was
(one of the greatest wartime se
crets).
I White was a member of what
|
ishe called the “silvermaster
group” and “gave information to
Mr. Silvermaster which was re
layed to me” and eventually to the
Russians.
She said she referred to N.
Gregory Silversmith and called
him a communist and Russian se
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Ketchikan Will
Get Larjre Paper
And Pulp Mill
(By Charles D. Watkins)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The for
est service today accepted the bid
o fthe Ketchikan Pulp and Tim
ber Co., to establish a paper in
dustry in Alaska.
The company agreed to buy a
billion and a half cubit feet of
pulp timber near Ketchikan.
The action announced by C. M.
Granger, acting chief forester,
will result in establishment of a
pulp mill costing twenty to thirty
million dollars at Ward’s Cove,
six miles north of Ketchikan.
Efforts have been made for 30
years to establishe paper mills in
Alaska.
The company, an affiliate of
the Puget Sound Pulp and Timber
Co., of Bellingham, Wash., sub
mitted the only bid for the tim
ber.
Tt agreed to pay K5 cents per
hundred cubic feet for timber cut
for pulp prior to July 1, 1902; $3
p -r thousand board feet for
spruce cut for other purposes be
sides pulp, $1.50 per thousand
board feet for cedar and $2 per
thousand board feet for saw logs
of hemlock and other species.
The company’s contract runs
until June 30, 2002, ind the
agreed prices for the timber will
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