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VOL. LI. No. 70 NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 13. 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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PARIS, ifP) — They’ve ordered
flowers here for foreign secretary
Ernest Bevin.
The idea is to raise his spirits.
Bevin’s aides instructed the
manager of his hotel today to fill
his room with flowers “because he
is feeling depressed with the way
the foreign ministers’ conference
is going.
One source said “flowers al
ways cheer him.’’
Red roses and carnations par
ticularly appeal to Bevin.
SEATTLE, (#•)—Mrs. Bess An
derson Winn o£ Juneau, Alaska,
died in a hospital here Saturday
after an illness of about two
months. She was Gl.
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DUTCH HARBOR, (/P) — The
motor vessel Kotzebue was en
route for Nome today, with three
barges safely in tow.
The barges broke loose Satur
day but were recovered by the
coast guard cutter Bittersweet,
north of here. All were seaworthy.
They became separated from the
f tow vessel in a storm.
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P>—
Daniel F. McCarthy, Brooklyn
born former GI who said he want
ed to renounce his American citi
zenship and become a German,
was sentenced today to eight
months in jail—to be served in
the United States.
The 22-year-old son of a late
Wall Street broker had pleaded
guilty in a U. S. military court to
a charge of entering the U. S. zone
of Germany illegally. His mother
resides at New Hyde Park, L. I.,
N. Y.
JUNEAU, (/P) — Baldwin P.
Svendsen of the labor depart
ment’s bureau of apprenticeship,
arrived Saturday to establish ap
prenticeship training classes here.
Councils already have been set,
up at Anchorage and Fairbanks
and training classes have been
held in Juneau, Ketchikan and;
Fairbanks. Svendsen, from St.
Paul, Minn., will make his head
quarters here.
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FIRTHCLIFFE, N. Y. {&) — Six
children died of burns and suffo
cation yesterday when a flash fire
swept their home while their par
ents were visiting nearby friends.
The father, Alex Zagorski, raced
home when informed of the fire
and had to be restrained from en-,
tering the flaming house.
Two firemen were injured. Or
igin of the fire was not deter
, mined.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Coats from the
Waterfall Cannery, between
Ketchikan and Wrangell, searched
without success yesterday for two
employees of the cannery lost at I
sea Saturday night.
The coast guard reported the
men, Selby Kitchen and W. Lay
bourne, were lost overboard from
the Raold, a boat of the Waterfall
Cannery, between Waterfall and
Craig. A coast guard plane started
out from Annette Island yester
day morning, but was turned back
by unfavorable weather.
Coal Miners Start j
I-Week “Holiday”
PHILADELPHIA, </P)— John L.
Lewis and U. S. Steel Corp. offi
cials went into a contract talking
session today as the nation’s 480,
000 coal miners quit work in a
week-long walkout.
Lewis ordered his united mine
workers out of the pits to ‘’stabil
ize” the industry. He said the coal
supply now far exceeds the de
mand.
The meetings, as usual, were
closed. There was no advance an
nouncement of what Lewis will
seek for his miners.
But it is considered likely he
will ask a ‘‘share-the-work” pro
gram under which miners would
receive the same pay and work
whether coal demand is heavy or
light.
Today’s meeting was without
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Five Die When
Fish Boat Upsets
At False Pass
SEATTLE i/P)—Three men died
and two are missing, while four
survived when the fishing vessel
capsized last night in the frigid
waters of the North Pacific, coast
guard headquarters reported Sat
urday.
First word of the tragedy was
radioed to coast guard and navy
headquarters at Kodiak, by an
other fishing vessel, the Johnnie
B. of Seattle, which was in the
area and picked up the survivors.
The Sunset met disaster in False
Pass, which separates the Alaska
Peninsula from Unimak Island,
first of the Aleutian Chain.
The four men still alive and ,
bodies of the three known to have
perished were pulled from the icy
pass by the Johnnie B., which
raced at full speed to the Ikatan
Cannery on the island.
The cannery immediately mes
saged for medical assistance, re
porting that one of the survivors i
was in critical condition and the
other needed treatment.
A coast guard PBY flying boat j
was scheduled to take off from
Kodiak at dawn Saturday with a '
doctor and medical supplies, de
spite poor weather conditions at
the pass.
Meanwhile, the commander of
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CANTON, (/P) — Marshal Yen
Iisi-Shan, an aging warlord from
Shanshi province, took over today
at nationalist China’s premier.
succeeded Gen. Ho Ying
Chin, who resigned. Ho declined
to take any post in the cabinet
upon surrendering his seal of of
fice. He had been defense minister
in addition to premier.
JUNEAU, {&) — Juneau dedi
cated its $150,000 municipal air
port terminal yesterday. It’s the
first city-owned terminal in Alas
ka. Representatives from Pan
American, Alaska Coastal and Pa
cific Northern Air Lines, the
weather bureau and CAA officials
witnessed the dedication.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Monday, June 13. 1949
(By The Associated, Press)
An informant in Warsaw said
today the cominform (communist;
international information bureau' j
is meeting in Poland to plan fu
ture action against premier Mar-1
shal Tito of Yugoslavia.
The meeting, reportedly being
held at Karpacz, near Wroclaw, is
due to end tomorrow but it may
be a week before there is an offi
cial announcement of what has
been decided.
Tito’s communist regime in Yu
goslavia was expelled from the
Cominform a year ago after it had
been accused of pursuing a policy
“hateful” to Russia and of other
philosophy. Soviet communists
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Nudists And
Suicide Feature
Coplon Trial
'By The Associated Press'
A man mentioned in secret FBI
papers read in the Judith Coplon
espionage trial Friday committed
suicide by slashing his throat.
Police said Saturday that the!
incident took place in the Potomac
River a week ago.
The suicide was Russian-born
Morton E. Kent. 48, former state i
department aide. The FBI papers I
read in court Friday linked him
with agents of the Soviet secret
police.
Another fantastic story made
public in the Coplon case told of
a Red spy ring which indulged in
nudist sprees thrown for co-oper
ating army and navy officers.
As a result of such parties, and
FBI report indicated that Russian
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Advisory Commit
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tee Drafts “Positive
Alaskan Policy”
(By Vern Haugland)
'(/Pi Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/Pi — A “posi
tive Alaskan policy” has been
drafted by the interior depart
ment’s advisory committee on In
dian affairs.
It proposes that the secretary
of the interior bargain with Alas
kan native communities and indi
viduals to establish, by means of
trust patents, their land owner
ship and other rights.
Cases in dispute would be set
tled by a special board, but ag
grieved natives could bring suit
in federal court.
Committee chairman Oliver La
Farge, Santa Fe, N. M., said in a
statement that there is ‘‘good hope
the policy will be made the basis
of departmental action.”
He said this might be done
either through a request for new
legislation, op by direct action un
der existing authorities of the sec- i
retary of the interior.
Interior officials said only that
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Warne Pleads For
Restoration Of
Funds For Alaska
<<^P) Spacial Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, — William
E. Warne, assistant secretary of
interior, asked the Senate interior
appropriations sub-committee Fri
day to restore the House cuts in
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funds for Alaska development.
F3udget estimates for the depart
ment's various Alaska programs
total $67,427,597, in cash and con
tract authorization of $29,750,000.
The House cut $1 1,170,936 from
the cash and $10,112,500 from the
contract authority.
“The reduction would have the
effect of eliminating or of slow
ing down some of the most basic
activities which are essential to
clearing the way for new settle
ment and developments,” warne
told the sub-committee.
He said it is important to main
tain a proper balance in connec
tion with the Alaska program.
“The activities are closely inter
laced," he said. “The slowing of
any key activity has ramifications
which would lead to magnified ef
fects in other areas and activities
of Alaska."
VVarne made these comments
about various “major items" in
the bill:
Public land surveys—With re
storation of the $68,500 cut and
the addition of *$200,000, addition
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Statute Of
Limitations May
Save Bridges
SAN FRANCISCO, (&) — CIO
longshore chief Harry Bridges
may never come to trial on charg
es of conspiracy and perjury
growing out of his naturalization
proceedings in 1945
Bridges has been indicted by a
federal grand jury on charges he
swore falsely he was not a com
munist at the time of his natural
ization.
Also indicted were longshore
officials J. R. Robertson and
Henry Schmidt. They were charg
ed with consuiracy.
But the statute of limitations
may intervene to throw out all
criminal action against the de
fendants.
Such a possibility was broached
Friday by counsel for both sides
and federal judge Michael J.
Roche.
F. Joseph Donohue, special as
sistant attorney general, said.
“We expect our entire case to
be attacked on the ground that
the statute of limitations has run
out. We hold that the statute is
five years in immigration matters,
not three. The Supreme Court has
never ruled, on the point and such
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FLAG DAY — JUNE 14ih
SYMBOL OF PEACE
Old Glory symbolizes every
thing that is free and peaceful to
Americans . . . who have secured
for future generations a heri
tage . . .
Truman Carries
ERP Fund Ki«^lit to
II. S. In Broadcast
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (.^—Pres
ident Truman carried to the peo
ple Saturday his fight to keep
Congress from slashing European
aid funds, declaring such action
“would be a great gain for com
munism.”
“If we were to falter now and
cut down our aid,” he said :n a
nationally-broadcast address, “the
momentum of recovery would be
destroyed. The people of these
countries would be thrown into
confusion and their advance tow
ard economic self-reliance woulrt
be blocked.
“A slash in the funds available
for European recovery at this tima
would be the worst kind of false
economy. It would cancel the
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Plane Lands Safely
After Explosion
FAIRBANKS, (^Pi-An explod
ing phosphorus bomb blew the
windows out of their helicopter,
but one airforce crewman jetti
soned the sputtering bomb and
the injured pilot wriggled the
rotor-ship to a perilous landing on
a mountain peak in the Yukon
river area yesterday.
Both men, their names tempor
arily withheld by the air force,
! are reported recovering at the
Ladd Field hospital, and the
stranded pilot they were attempt
ing to rescue is also safe.
The helicopter crew had spotted
Billy English and his small Cessna
on the peak and were preparing to
dump the bomb as a wind guide
when it exploded. English had
thread-needled his small craft for
a landing on the mountain after
an engine failure.
Unhurt hismelf, he helped the
two air force men out their craft
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3 Dead. 14 Planes
Damaged In
Freak Accident
TOKYO, (>P) — Two American
airmen were killed and three oth
ers were injured today in training
flight crashes over Misawa Air
Base in northern Honshu.
Fourteen planes were destroyed
or damaged in the mishap.
The crashes started when two
F-51's returning from a mission
plunged into a formation of four
other F-51’s over Misawa.
One fighter plunged directly
downward onto the field, killing
the pilot and setting fire to 11
other planes parked on the field.
Another fighter dived into the
ground a short distance from the
field, killing the pilot. A third
fighter made a forced landing but
the pilot was unhurt.
The injured all were mechan
ics. All names* were withheld
pending notification of the next of
kin.