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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIII No. 33 ' NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951 Per Copy—15^
Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
JUNEAU, </P)—Both Houses of
the territorial legislature e x
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changed sneers Friday night, as
irritability appeared to be rising
with the approach of the session’s
end.
The Senate started the argu
m e n t with a message to the
House at the instigation of Nome
Democrat Howard Lyng. The mes
age declared the Senate woruld
neither receive no consider any
more House bills until the House
started acting on Senate bills.
The House countered with a
message concluding, “We respect
the work of the Senate and leave
fully suggest the Senate attend to
the work of the House to the
House.”
The general territorial salary
increase bill, which led Anchor
age Republican Gerrit Snider’s
walkout after it passed the Senate
Thursday, died at the House door
today.
The civilian defense bill came
from tho Senate Finance Commit
tee yesterday without recommen
dation by two Senators, with one
“don’t pass” recommendation and
a recommendation by Lyng that
only $250,000 be appropriated.
The bill is aimed at undercut
ting the influence of Republican
leader Albert White, charged by
political opponents with virtually
controlling the selection of na
tional convention candidates. It is
slated for a final vote Monday.
Engebreth asked for the floor
on personal privilege and charged:
“Without personal animosity, I
want to say that this is a case
where the will of the majority un
allowed prevailed.”
He referred to Albert White,
general counsel for the Republi
can party of Alaska as “Boss
White” and alleged Engstrom was
prejudiced because he is chair
man of the Alaska Republican
central committee “which would
have its teeth pulled out by the
bill.”
He charged “one man, Boss
White, controls the delegation to
the national convention. He has
votes in his pocket. He deals with
Taft (Rep. Sen. from Ohio) and
others and says I have three votes
from Alaska.”
He said that if the nation goes
Republican “Boss White will make
all federal appointments m Alas
ka. I am glad to see that most
Democrats went along for the bill
because this is above party poli
tics.”
The Senate adjourned Friday
without passing any bill during
the afternoon or evening,most of
the time devoted to hearing terri
torial employers on the proposed
repeal of the retirement system
in favor of federal social security.
The House, meantime, had nu
merous clashes before the 11 o’
clock adjournment but none quite
approaching the Senate event.
Bills passed by the House in
cluded these measures already ap
• proved by the Senate: repealing
the law requiring medical exami
nations for barbers and fodd and
drink handlers. The board recom
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Explorer Gives Natives “Wonder Drug”
Captain Hassoldt Davis, famed explorer and author, proved on a
recent expedition to the Ivory Coast of French West Africa that
natives thmk highly of the white man’s “magic” which he works with
aureomycin and other drugs. Davis is shown above administering vita
rniiMjXto an exhausted witch doctor. The native "doctor” recovered
so rapidly that he wanted the white man to stay and be his partner. At
' another village, Davis found a native woman near death from nnxed in
fection following childbirth, complicated by pneumoma. After pemci l n
injections failed, he gave her aureomycin capsules. The woman fully
recovered. When his pet chimpanzee showed symptoms of having pneu.
monia, Davis gave it the same “wonder drug, which the chimp ate like
candy. Within a week the animal was as lively as ever. The explorer is
now writing a book and editing a film on the expedition. Mrs. Da is, a
j daring woman, indeed, was official photographer for the safari. She
will accompany her husband on a trek this summer into the wilds of.
' Morocco.
TERRY FISHER PRESIDENT
NW ALASKA FAIR ASS'N
The Northwestern Alaska Fair
Association got under way Satur
day with the election of a new
board of directors headed by Ter
i ry Fisher as president, Sam Mogg
; as vice president, A. Polet for
secretary, and Phil Lancaster,
treasurer.
The date of the Fair was set for
June 6-7-8-9 and will officially
open the tourist season.
It is planned to set aside a spec
ial fund from the proceeds of the
Fair to be known as the Fair and
Civic Building Fund.
The Board is very enthusiastic
with its plans for this 11th Fair
and it is prophesied that many
new features will be added to
make it an interesting part of the
tourist program and an outstand
ing event of the year.
SCHOOL ANNEX OPENS
The annex of the Nome School
was opened last week with three
new classrooms.
The additional classroom space
which was so badly needed now
houses half of the first grade, half
of the second gra<|£; and half of
the third grade. :v/
One new teacher has been ad
ded to the teaching staff to take
care of the new division in the
third grade. Mrs. Pete Olson will
teach this group of children.
The annex, which is north of
the school, is heated from the
main building.
CAP and BILLIKINS
WIN AT BASKETBALL
Last Friday’s basketball games
at the school resulted in a win
for the CAP with a score of 34-40
over the CAP Cadets.
The Billikins beat the Radar
team with a score of 45-39.
Senator Hunt to
Study Navy Oil
North Alaska Exploration
May Be Suspended
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WASHINGTON, (JP)— Senator
Hunt (D - Wyo.) Saturday was
named chairman of a Senate
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armed services subcommittee to
look into the naval petroleum re
serves.
Chairman Russell (D- Ga.) of
the committee also appointed Sen
ators Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.)
and Knowland (R-Calif.) to the
subcommittee.
The four naval petroleum re
serves are at Elk Hills, Calif.;
Buena Vista Hills, Calif.; Teapot
Dome, Casper, Wyo.; and northern
Alaska.
The reserves may be put into
production only after Congress
says so.
Senator Hunt, in a statement,
gave this picture of the northern
Alaska reserves:
Being explored but “in view of
the increased demand for steel
and other critical materials, un
less there are more favorable re
sults before July 1 of this year,
the exploration will be suspended
Dec. 31, 1951.”
MRS. JOE HUNT
FILES FOR MAYOR
The first candidate to file for
the city elections was Mrs. Joe
Hunt, who has filed for mayor
today.
Mrs. Hunt is employed in the
Territorial Welfare Office and is
the wife of Joe Hunt, local bar
ber. The last woman to run for
that office was Mrs. Fred Roberts
in 1939. Mrs. Jennie Martin ran
for this office in 1937.
NEWS IN BRIEF
ST. LOUIS, (jP)—Phil, a 400
pound gorilla, gets. shot with a
B-iB gun every time he scratches
an itching left heel.
It’s for Phil’s own good, ex
plains zoo director George Vier
heller. Attendants can’t get close
enough to the gorilla to treat a
self inflicted wound properly. So,
armed with the air gun, they’re
maintaining a watch 24 hours a
day.
When Phil gets an urge to
scratch his heel the attendant
stings him with a shot from the
gun.
VANCOUVER, B.C.(/P) — The
Vancouver Sun said yesterday
that spadework cm a gamble has
cost the aluminum company of
Canada $500,000 a week during
the last month.
With no assurance of a United
States market, the report states,
Alcan has spent in the neighbor
hood of $1,000,000 in acquiring
equipment and supplies for its
proposed development in British
Columbia.
VATICAN CITY, {&) The Cath
olic Church today excommunica
ted all persons who had a part in
the banishment of Archbishop Jo
seph Beran of Prague and who
participated in other acts against
the Church in Czechoslavakii.
The excommunication, a n
nounced today in a declaration of
the Consistorial Congregation, al
so included priests and prelates
who were appointed to church
positions by the Czechoslavak
| government. Presumably this in
cludes the Rev. Antonin Stehlik,
the parish priest appointed as
Archbishop Beran’s interim suc
cessor last Saturday.
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PARIS, (JP)- ^llions of Pari
sions walked, ’ cycled and hitch
hiked their way today through
the fourth day of transport strike.
Some of the city’s taxi and sub
urban trains shuck today for 24
houhs, adding to the woes.
Bus and subway workers struck,
on Friday for a $17 a month wage
increase.
LONDON, (IP)— British press
reports said today Moscow-led,
Albania’s Communist government
has declared martial law to stamp
out a spreading revolt against
Premier Enver Hovha’s regime.
The newspapers said more than
1,000 persons had been arrested j
and 40 men executed.
ALASKA PLACER CO.
TO MINE NIUKLUK RIV.
The U.S. Engineers Office at
Anchorage is requesting informa-•
tion as to whether there is any
objection from the standpoint of
navigation to the proposed work
of the Alaska Placer Company,
which is to dredge for gold in the
Niukluk River near Council.
They have received an applica
tion from that company for a re
newal and extension of their pres
ent permit which expired the first
of this year.
All objections must be in by
April 12, the communication sta
ted.
Korean Situation
Monday# March 19# 1951
By the Associated Press
South Korean troops swam the
chilly Hongchon river in central
Korea today in pursuit of commu
nist forces pulling bafck toward
the 38th Parallel.
The Republic of Korea (Rok>
soldiers were spearheading the
central front drive of the U.S. 8th
Army which has set up strong
forces in a holding line only 17
miles south of the politically sens
itive parallel.
“There was no stopping those
Rok troops,” said a military
spokesman. “They swam the cold
river rather than wait for boats
to ferry them across in the north
ward drive.
“They were just a lot of eager
beavers.”
The same Rok troops trapped
and annihilated a Chinese Com
munist battalion Sunday.
The Army broke a three-day
silence to announce that holding
elements were 17 miles from the
parallel at five undisclosed points
and patrols were probing “miles
north” of these points and in all
other sectors.
Are the United Nations trying
to cross the 38th Parallel in force
once more? The question is a
knotty one for the U. N. Britain
is urging cautious consideration
with the hope of achieving a
peace.. U. N. Under-Secretary
General Trygve Lie thinks that it
may be possible to get a cease-fire
now without linking it to Red
China’s demands for admission to
the U.N. or surrender of Formosa.
The U.N. victories in the* field
may strengthen its hand in any
negotiations.
News of. the World
At A Glance - - -
(^P)—In Paris the western depu
ty foreign ministers sought a
showdown with Russia’s Andrei
Gromyko on proposals for an ag
enda for a Big Four foreign mini
sters’ conference. This was the
third week of talks with no agree
ment in sight.
Paris was also the scene for an
important development in west
ern Europe’s economic planning.
France, . Italy, ... Belgium, Luxem
bourg, the Netherlands and west
ern Germany initialled the Schu
man Plan for pooling most of
their coal and steel production.
An estimate on just how strong
a military machine the Reds have
came from the British war office,
which said the Russian and Com
munist armed forces together
number 4,000,000 men each. War
Minister John Strachey said the
Soviet ground army was 2,800,000,
which he described as very large
for peacetime but “not the in
credibly vast force which some
people seem to fear.”
There was more shooting in
Iran. Dr. Abdul Hamid Zanganeh,
former education minister, was
wounded by a student caught
cheating in an examination. Zag
aneh’s close friend, Premier Ali
Razmara, was assassinated on
March 7.