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y, >L. L. No. 156 NOME ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
RENO, Nev., bP;—Seven earth
quakes hit Reno within tour and
a half hours Monday night—the
third one causing “a good deal of
jiggling” in Reno’s 42-year-old
city council session. There were no
rejjorts of damage.
FAIRBANKS, 4/P)—'The arrival
of *he 335th jet fighter squadron
W' tne fourth fighter group for
temporary duty in Alaska was
1 announced yesterday at Ladd
Field. The squadron, commanded
by Major Bruce Hinton of Stock
ton. Calif., replaces the 336th
.squadron which is returning to its
home field at Andrews Base,
Washington, D. C., after being sta
tioned here since October.
KODIAK, oP)—The circus isn’t
in town. The big circus-like tent
houses the new federal jail, as a
jarotector against weather. Win
dows are being installed and the
cork insulated roof will be laid
soon. The tent will remain up un
til the roof is finnshed.
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JUNEAU, (/l*)—The city council
will operate the city dock which
has been under lease to the Alaska
Transportation company, whose
operations have been suspended.
James F. Church, former Alaska
Transportation agent, will be em
ployed as wharfinger.
PEIPING, </P» — Many govern
ment soldiers are among the shop
pers at Peiping’s famed open air
, market these days.
They are buying civilian
clothes.
SEATTLE, <>P) — Little Mike
Scanlan, 28, University of Wash
ington football and track star,
broke through thin ice and drown
ed yesterday while skating at Pine
Lake, north of Seattle. His brother
in law, William Richstad, 18,
i drowned in a rescue attempt.
Scanlan, a substitute quarter
back on . the Washington team,
gained all-American honorable
mention in the Associa’ed Press
selections for 1948.
TOKYO, (/P)—One of the Doo
little fliers who gave the Japanese
their first air raid will preach
from a church pulpit here Sunday,
e The Rev. Jacob Deshazer, Mad
ras, Ore., and his wife and 13
months-old son arrived Monday
to begin missionary work in an
area over which he last flew in a
B-25 bomber on April 18, 1942. I
DETROIT, (/P)—A Michigan na- j
tional guard B-26 bomber plane,
t fighting rain and sleet, crashed
and burned six miles from its
base last night.
At least four men, including
three air force personnel and a
guard officer, were killed.
JUNEAU, (/P) — The heaviest
snowfall in years has raised havoc
with traffic here.
Two snowplows have been at
tempting to keep the downtown
^treets partly cleared between
storms. Taxi service to hill sec
tions has been suspended.
Tractors have been used to haul
oil trucks up hills to supply resi
dents with fuel oil for their fur
naces and household needs.
Internationl News
At A Glance —
Wednesday. December 29, 1948
• By the Associated Press*
A student assassinated Premier
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
of Egypt today as Israeli troops
hammered hard against* Egyptian
forces in southern Palestine.
The murderer belongs to the
outlawed Moslem Brotherhood as
sociation, which has accused No
krashy Pasha of weakness in pros
ecuting the war in Palestine.
The battle in the Negev desert
of Southern Palestine is in its
sixth day and has moved within
mortar range of the Egyptian fron
tier. Israeli sources said the truce
of Dec. 1, had been broken also in
Jerusalem. The Jews seemed to
have cut the Egyptian’s coastal
supply line.
Britain called in the United Na
tions security council for an im
mediate cease fire and withdrawal
of Jewish troops from the Negev.
Egypt declared Israel displayed a
“premeditated, most systematic
and carefully synchronized” defi
ance of the council.
Acting mediator Ralph Bunche
turned in a report in which U. N.
observers accused the Jews of at
atcking the Egyptians. Bunche did
not blame either side.
President Truman declined to
expand on his statement that
“there are certain leaders in the
government of that great country
• Russia* who are exceedingly anx
ious to have an understanding
with us.” Last June, he said he
liked Prime Minister Stalin and
said Stalin would keep his agree
ments if he could but that Stalin
is a “prisoner of the politbureau.”
Truman accused Russia yester
day of failure to keep Satlin’s
agreements made at Yalta and
Potsdam; using a “system of mor
als that are not morals;” opposing
agreements which might keep \
peace, and welshing on contracts.
The cost of the cold war for the
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Air Force Rescues
Stranded Fliers
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The ajr
force produly counted among its
achievements today the. daring
rescue of 12 . marooned airmen
from a Greenland ice cap.
The hero of the new northland
saga is 32-year-old Lt. Col. Emil
J. Beaudry of Manchester, N. H.
He landed his big specially-equip
ped C-47 transport on the wild
swept cap yesterday and in 38
minutes was airborne again with*
a dozen jubilant passengers.
Long hours later however only
the sketchiest details of the dra
matic operations were known
here.
But before communications out
of the frozen northland failed
word came through that the res
cued men were safe and apparently
sound at Bluie West Eight—an air
force base in southwest Green
land..
Seven of the men had been
stranded since December 9, when
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“Quianna,” Nome’s
Own; Returns
From Hollywood
Mrs. Minnie “Quianna” Munz,
returned home to Nome Monday
night v’ia Alaska Airlines, after an
exciting interlude of appearing in
a semi-stellar capacity in the Uni
versal-International product i o n
“Arctic Manhunt.”
“It was all so wonderful,” said
Mrs. Munz, “it seems like a hea
venly dream, and I want to pinch
myself to see if I am awake and it
all happened to ME.” Everyone
treated me like a queen. They
bought me clothes; took me to the
Paladium, Giro’s for dinner, the
Brown Derby, and Graumann’s
[Chinese Theater.
When questioned if she had
put her footprint with the other
stars in the cement at Graumann’s
Chinese Theater, Minnie smiled
and said “No, but some day may
be mine will be big enough to be
there.”
The stars, la femme, of Holly
wood drooled over her luxurious
furs, which she was required to
wear most of the time — even
though Hollywood climate (don’t
ask the Golden Staters) is a trifle
warmer than that of Nome.
Quianna is thoroughly convinc
ed there are truly magicians in
Hollywood. She knew her brother
whom she had never seen had
been in California the, last time
she heard of him.
After her arrival Quianna told
Director Ewing Scott about her
brother. Otenna was located in
San Pedro, where his name had
gone through an Americanization
process and emerged as Tom
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Plane, 28 Persons
Missing Over Gulf
MIAMI, Fla. i(/P)—A charter air- j
plane with 28 persons on board •
was missing yesterday on a flight
from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to
Miami. A great aerial search was
under way.
The plane, a twin-engined DC-3
charter craft, carried a crew of j
three and 25 passengers. It was!
more than five hours overdue at |
10:30 a.m. <EST> its fuel supply]
was exhausted about 5:45 a.m.
The coast guard air-sea rescue
service said the last contact with
the plane was made by overseas
radio at New Orleans at 4:13 a.m.
The plane at that time gave its ,
position as 50 miles south of Mi-1
ami. Overseas radio, a unit of the
civil aeronautics authority, read
the position report back to the
plane and asked for confirmation.
No answer was received. Contin
uous calling by radio brought no
further response.,
Twenty searching aircraft of the
air force, navy and coast guard
spread out over the Atlantic in an
effort to find the missing airliner.
The search planes covered 50
miles on each side of the Miami
San Juan airway and the entire
Bahama Island group.
Store* and Federal Office* will
be eloead Saturday/. Jan. 1, New
Year'* Day.
Contract Let For
First Atomic
Energy Engine
PITTSBURGH, (/Ft—The West
inghouse Electric corporation to
day undertook a government com
mission to build the world’s first
atomic power unit for transporta
tion purposes.
The assignment was handed the
company by the atomic energy
commission.
Primary goal of the project will
be the development of a power
plant for the propulsion of U. S.
navy ships by means of a nuclear
reactor—a uranium furnace with
a function quite similar to ships'
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CITY COUNCIL
The Nome City Council met in
regular session Tuesday and trans
acted much ousiness.
i Approval of liquor licenses
came up before the Council, and
they approved fourteen licenses
and disapproved one license, that
of the Nome Mercantile and Min
ing company on the grounds of
five violations during 1948: two in
the City Court, and three in the
U. S. Commissioner’s Court.
The City Clerk has written to
C.A.A. Regional Administrator,
W. P. Plett, in the matter of pur
chasing a D-7 Caterpillar, blade
and Carryall for snow removal
The City Clerk has written to
Carl Lomen to ask him to act as
Representative of Nome before
this session of Congress in respect
to an appropriation for the break
water.
The City Clerk has also written
to Carl Lomen to ascertain the
possibility of obtaniing federal aid
for the education of Native chil
dren.
The City Council passed a mo
tion to check up on old City Or
dinances and bring some of them
up to date.
An ordinance for the licensing
of Taxicabs in the city was dis
cussed and held over for a later
meeting.
Alaska RR. Seeks
New Terminus
ANCHORAGE </P)—The Alaska
Railroad and the United States i
district engineeds have ordered,
preliminary surveys looking tow
ards construction of another salt
water terminal, at Shotgun Cove, j
five miles east of Whittier.
An engineering firm will furn
ish cost estimates and* Mr. and
Mrs. John Shoup, Anchorage, will
spend the winter at the cove, ob
taining weather data.
Railroad officials have estimat
ed the cost of rehabilitation of the
Portage-Seward section - of the
line at $12,000,000, in addition to
an estimated $4,000 per mile per
year maintenance cost.
Engineers say the mountains
near the Coye are less rugged than
those around Whittier and • the
weather on Passage Canal, at
stormy seasons, may be better.
Dock facilities . large enough to
handle two. or three ships would
also be needed there.
Severe Treniblors
Rock Reno; Knock
Down Power Lines
RENO, New </P* — Power and
telephone lines were knocked
down and minor highway slides
touched off by renewed earth
tremblors which shook Reno
heavily early today.
The shocks, apparently center
ing here, extended through the
Sierras into southern California as
far west as San Francisco and as
far south of Fresno in the San
Joaquin valley.
Three quakes, the first reported
at about 4:55 a.m., were so severe
as to knock the seismograph of the
University of Nevada completely
awry.
They were the latest in a series
of shocks beginning Monday night,
•when Reno was shaken seven
times within a period of four and
a half hours.
The Bell Telephone company re
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Doctor Claims
Faye Roosevelt
Tried Suicide
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y. i/P)—
Faye Emerson Roosevelt, beauti
ful actress wife of Elliott Roose
velt, slashed her left wrist with a
razor blade Sunday in the cou
ple’s Hyde Park home, Sheriff C.
Fred Close said Monday night.
The sheriff quoted Dr. H. Sher
man First, who treated the 31
year-old Mrs. Roosevelt, as sayintj
he understood the wound was self
inflicted and that she had to be re
strained from injury to herself
further.
But Roosevelt, reached by tele
phone, said the injury resulted
from an accident.
“There is nothing to it.” he
added.
The cut was described as super
ficial. It required no stitches.
After treating the blonde actress
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SUP Negotiations
“ E ncouraging”
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Ship
owners and AFL, Sailors Union of
the Pacific officials resumed nego
tiations yesterday in an atmo
sphere described by both sides as
“very encouraging.”
Federal conciliator Omar Hos
kins Monday asked for a one-week
postponement of a strike ballot,
which was agreed to by the union.
At a Sailors’ meeting Monday
night, executive secretary Harry
Lundeberg of the union predicted
to members that he would bring
them an acceptable offer from the
employers “within a few days.”
Under the Taft-Hartley act,
there could be no strike until Feb.
13, since 60 days must tlsgss riuom
the union on Bee. 13 notified
shipowners of a desire to termin
ate its contract.
The sailors are asking for wage
increases from $20 to $60 to a
boatswain’s top of $350 monthly.
Shipowners have offered from $16
to $35.