22 NOME NUGGET
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VOL. LI. NoT 36__NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1949_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
ROME (/P)—One of war’s blood
iest crimes—the Ardeatine Caves
massacre of 335 men and hostages
—was remembered here yesterday
with prayers and tears.
By the thousands they came to
the caves, the humble and the
proud, on this fifth anniversary of
the Nazi slaughter in reprisal for
the ambush slaying of 32 Nazi se
curity police the day before in
downtown Rome.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi and
all his ministers were present.
JESUP, Ga. f/P) — A passenger
train and a freight train collided
head-on yesterday, killing one
crewman. Several others were
hurt, one so badly that he may
die.
Three coaches of the Atlantic
Coast Line passenger train were
derailed, but passengers received
only minor injuries.
The trains crashed in a heavy
fog. The engineer killed was
James Paul Parrish, 51, of Savan
nah. He was buried under coal by
the collision’s impact.
PITTSBURGH, </P) — John L.
Lewis yesterday ordered his 463,
000 idle coal miners to return to
work Monday.
An executive order to district
officers said:
The present memorial period
will terminate Monday, March 28.
Production may then be resumed
in all mines and all members
should make themselves available
for work on that date.”
TOKYO, (&)—'When Tokyo’s 73
police stations failed to pay their
telephone bill the government cut
off service to them.
Telephone service was restored
yesterday on a police promise to
pay up.
Slow payment of taxes was
blamed by police for the telephone
bill being in arrears.
SEATTLE, (£*) — Enactment by
the 81st Congress of H.R. 2859 is
urged in a resolution adopted by
the Seattle chamber of commerce.
The bill would authorize sale of
lands in Alaska for industrializa
tion, agriculture and other pur
poses.
John H. Perry, chairman of the
chambers’ Alaska division, said
the federal government has set
aside in reserves ‘‘well over 99
per cent of the area of the Terri
tory of Alaska.”
PORTLAND, Ore. (/P)—In 2Vi
years Mrs. L. D. Tigner, Portland,
has borne six children.
There were quadruplets 30
months ago, then twins yesterday.
The latest arrivals are boys, and
as the quadruplets and three other
Tigner children, born singly.
One of the twins weighed 8
pounds, 5 ounces; the other 9
pounds, 12 ounces. The quadrup
lets had a combined weight at
birth of 21 pounds, 7 ounces.
NEW YORK, (IP) — Teen-Agers
now can get music through their
^hats. A Brooklyn specialty manu
facturer has come up with a radio
hat—a two-tube affair built into a
headpiece resembling a pith hel
>jnet. • •
| The tubes are set on the outside
Council Voles To '
Keep April For
City Election
y
At a special meeting of the
Nome Common Council on Wed
nesday night to discuss the new
law passed by the Territorial Leg
islature pertaining to city elec
tions.
The new law specifically sets
the date of election to be the first
Tuesday in October, unless the
City Council ordains otherwise.
After considerable discussion of
the new law and referring to the
old regulations, the Council moved
to pass an Ordinance designating
the election to be the same as in
the past; on the first Tuesday in
April. (Ordinance 326 is printed
in full on another page of the j
Nome Nugget).
Mrs. Carrie McLain, City* Clerk,
today called attention to the rules
for registration and- voting in that
voters must be one year in the
Territory and one month in the
precinct.
Candidates for office must enter
names on or before March 31.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
Thursday, March 24, 1949
(By James Hutcheson)
JUNEAU, (/P) — Alaska’s 19th !
legislature headed into its final i
24 hours today with the omnibus >
appropriations bill as the final j
hurdle. Both Houses must act be
fore adjournment tonight or in the 1
! early hours Friday on a bill ap
propriating between $12,500,000
and $13,000,000.
The Senate finance committee ,
failed to get the bill into final!
form before adjourning last night.
The finance committee bill report
ed a total of $12,978,000, which is
up about $600,000 from a figure
reported previously.
The bill totaled $12,445,000 as
passed by the House at the begin
ning of the week. Legislative
sources said the Senate commit
; tee added $1,000,000 for schools;
and $100,000 for university salar^
j ies and slashed $70,000 from the
development board to a total of
$80,000—which is less than one
fourth what the budget board re
quested.
Yesterday, Governor Gruening
signed into law a canned salmon
tax at the highest rate ever im
posed in the Territory.
Senate finance committee chair
man John G. Butrovich, Jr., estim
ated the measure would raise
nearly $4,000,000 during the bien
nium. Based on the value of the
pack, the tax take will rise or fall
with the market.
The tax is 4 per cent, based on
50 per cent of the Seattle whole
sale value during the fall months.
Other bills signed by the gov
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of the hat, resembling two horns,
and a ring aerial is attached to the
back of the brim. An attached ear
phone covers one ear when the
hat is placed on the head. Batter
ies are in a pocket pack.
Mom! Get me one, will yuh?
TELEGRAM
Common Council City Of Nome
Nome. Alaska.
House committee voted out the
army civil functions bill yester
day. Sea Wall and Nome Harbor
items approved as in budget for
one million, twenty thousand dol
lars. The bill is now before the
House. Advise 'Chamber of Com
merce. Greetings.
CARL J. LOMEN
Reds Planned
Soviet Socialist
Republic Here
NEW YORK, (/P)—A final ob
jective of the American commun
ist party is to establish “a Soviet
Socialist Republic in the United
States,” said a part manual intro
duced by the government yester
day in the communist conspiracy
trial.
The manual, read to the jury by
U. S. attorney F. X. McGohey, said
such a republic was to be estab
lished through revolution in which
party members “must be ready to
sacrifice their lives.”
The “Manual of Organization of
the Communist Party” was admit
ted into evidence after vociferous
defense objections.
Louis F. Budenz, prosecution
witness, identified the manual as
a duplicate of one given him by
Jacob Stachel, a defendant.
Defense counser said the publi
cation was issued in 1935 and
should be excluded because the
indictment covers a conspiracy al
leged to have taken place between
1945 and 1948.
Federal judge Harold Medina
overruled the objections. He then
added a warning on such points,
he would restrict them to a few
words in making objections.
Mississippi River
Breaks Levee
BATON ROUGE, La.,(/P)—Bull
dozers, laborers and natio n a 1
guardsmen are battling to block a
levee break where the swift, mud
dy Mississippi is churning through.
Only the fact the mighty stream
is at low level prevented disaster,
said residents in the flood zone.
Nicholas Balovich, superintend
ent of U. S. district engineers, said
the swift flowing gap should be
closed sometime today.
Slowly spreading waters seeped
over the thinly populated sugar 1
cane country after the break yes
terday morning.
About 1,500 residents of the lit
tle town of Port Allen, directly in
the flood path, appeared unwor
ried.
No damage estimates were
made but canefields suffered the
most. Residents guessed damage
might run into hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
Engineers discounted immediate
danger of further cave-ins.
J. B. McNabb. Jr., representing
Warren Taylor, attorney at law of
Fairbanks, arrived yest e r d a y
from Fairbanks enroute to Kotze
bue.
I
Legislature Adjourns 2:00 A.M., Friday
Taxes and Appropriations Set Record
A._
<By James Hutcheson >
JUNEAU, (JP) — Alaska’s 19th
legislature, with a record for taxes
enacted and appropriations voted,
adjourned shortly before 2 a.m.,
today.
The end to 77 days of lawmak
ing came within a few minutes af
ter Governor Gruening rescinded
a special extension session call af
ter what he described as comple
tion of legislative responsibilities.
Adjournment sine die was voted
after the House concurred in the
Senate’s general appropriations
bill increase to a record $13,021,
000.
Did the legislature assure a bal
anced budget at an all-time high?
The answer of leaders in both
houses was “yes,” although there
was a difference in their figures.
The House ways and means com
mittee leaders estimated the rev
enue at $18,600,000 for the general
fund, and total appropriations at
just about the same figure.
The Senate finance committee
more optimistically estimated rev
enue at $19,655,000 and listed to
;tal appropriations at $18,300,000.
Prospective expenditures were
increased last night when both
i houses agreed on a $660,000 out
lay for a new Territorial office
building.
Third Division legislators lost
' an attempt to have it designated
l for Palmer when both Houses
agreed to leave the selection site
to the Territorial board of admin
istration headed by the governor
i Critics label it as a tax-happy
| legislature, while administration
I supporters contend it enacted a
long-needed basic tax program.
The actual tax revenue estim
ates go beyond general fund fig
ures.
The tobacco tax is estmiated to
raise a million dollars for the bi
ennium, which is not included in
the general fund. It is earmarked
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
Thursday, March 24, 1949
(By The Associated Press)
Britain’s foreign secretary Er-!
nest Bevin feels a total economic
blockade of Soviet-contro lied
Eastern Germany would lead to
war.
Bevin told the House of Com
mons last night he did not want to
see east-west trade broken off
completely. Such a shut-off, he
warned, “means sanctions and
sanctions mean war.”
The foreign minister contended,
however, that materials which
could be used for war against the
western powers should not be
shipped to eastern areas.
Politicians on both sides of the
Atlantic have suggested a complete
counter-blockade of Eastern Ger
many in retaliation against the
Russian blockade of West Berlin.
The Russian zone of Germany
still does business with a number
of western nations, including
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for school building construction in
addition of $2,250,000 appropri
ated for school buildings.
More than a million also is ex
pected in motor fuel taxes, which
are earmarked for highways and
airports. That means more than
$20,000,000 is expected to be rais
ed in taxes for the biennium.
The Senate finance committee
estimated if Congress repeals the
federal act, the Territory will get
an additional million from the
new business license tax which
does not become effective until
Congress acts.
Other major tax measures en
acted were the income, property,
fish traps, raw and canned sal
mon taxes and,an increase in fish
ermen’s license fees.
Rep. Glen Franklin, Fairbanks
Democrat, who earned the House
nickname of “treasury watchdog,”
warned the House that if the fish
ermen did not have a good fishing
season, the Territory’s finances
may be upset seriously.
He said the legislature has
I “taken care of accumulated and
' present problems,” incl u d i n g
$375,000 in outstanding vouchers
1 which were included in the over
all total of expenditures.
The session ended without any
liquor enforcement legislation af
ter a succession of bills on the
subject failed. A final unsuccess
ful attempt was made in both
Senate and House to include it in
the general appropriations bill,
but it was voted down.
In the final hours, the Senate
killed a $400 tax on sail-driven
fishing boats by a tie vote and
killed, 7-9, a bill for fishermen’s
disability payments.
All the governor’s appointments
to boards and statehood commit
tees were confirmed by joint ses
sion, but one precipitated the
sharpest outburst of the final
hours.
Senator Butrovich, Fourth Divi
sion Republican, lighted the fuse
with the declaration that he ob
jected to all Republican appoint
ments to the statehood committee
except Senator Nerland, also of
the Fourth Division. He charged
the governor didn’t try to select
‘‘strong Republicans,” and didn’t
consult Republican legislators on
appointments.
Senator Collins, another Fourth
Division Republican, supported
him, and Senator Barr, Fourth
Division Democrat, declared:
“This list is about the worst I’ve
seen for any committee or board.
Most of them are not worthy of
the honor.”
The explosion occurred when
the name of Mrs. Mildred Her
man, radio commentator and at
torney, was presented.
Rep. Essie Dale, Fourth Division
Democrat, responded:
“I think we all felt a bit disap
pointed in not getting on the com
mittee. I know I did. But I don’t
think we should tear them limb
from limb.”
Mrs. Hermann was confirmed
by a 23-15 vote.
The retirement of Russell May
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