_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. Lin No. 84 ■ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1951 _Per Copy—15#
U. N. Negotiators
Progress” In Talks
MUNSAN, Korea, (JP) — United
Nations negotiators reported they
made “some progress” today in
Korean war cease-fire talks held
in a friendly atmosphere with
communist delegates.
It was the first formal an
nouncement of progress.
Negotiators are still working on
the agenda. It may be “24 hours
or 24 days” before the agenda is
completed and actual negotiations
on armistice terms get underway,
a spokesman said.
There wasn’t an armed com
munist visible within half a mile
of the house where talks were
held.
“It is much better now that we
are not surrounded by guards,”
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U. N. delegate, said.
Armed Red military police were
‘ in the war-battered city. They
were there by agreement reached
Sunday. Some smiled at the sec
ond group of 20 U.N. newsmen to
go into the city. Others scowled.
The negotiations themselves
were conducted in a formal at
mosphere across a green-topped
table in a secluded conference
room.
The two Chinese generals on the
five-man Red delegation especia
ly seemed to be in good spirits.
Newsmen on the spot said both
sides appeared to be in harmony
at the end of Monday’s session.
“Maybe,” a spokesman suggest
ed, “the communists have learned
we are not the man eaters they
were led to believe from their
propagandists.”
(By the Associated Press)
Sunday Results
National League
Cincinnati 5-6—Brooklyn 2-5
Pittsburgh 7-3—New York 6-8
St. Louis 7-4—Philadelphia 4-6
Boston 7-4—Chicago 0-10
Saturday Results
St. Louis 4—New York 3
Chicago 5-11—Brooklyn 4-7
Cincinnati 5—Boston 0
Philadelphia 2—Pittsburgh 0
American League
Sunday Results
Philadelphia. 3-5—Chicago 1-0
St. Louis 5-7—Boston 1-9
i Detroit 5-7—New York 3-8
Washington 7-2—Cleveland 4
Saturday Results
Boston 3—Chicago 2
Philadelphia 10—St. Louis 6
Washington 8—Detroit 0
Cleveland 8—New York 0
Pacific Coast League
Sunday Results
Los Angeles 8-2—Sacramento
7-0
San Diego 3-1—Oakland 1-4
# Hollywood 4-9—Portland 3-2
San Francisco 6-2—Seattle 3-1
Saturday Results
Los Angeles 8—Sacramento 2
San Diego 8—Oakland 3
Hollywood 4—Portland 2
San Francisco 9—Seattle 8
Bob Herman Is New
Chairman of Fair Fish
Derby Held In August
Bob Herman of the N. C. Co.
has taken over the chairmanship
of the Fish Derby which is being
held in connection with the N.W.A.
Fair in August.
He has announced that head
quarters for those entering the
derby will be at both the U.S.
Mercantile and the N. C. Co.
Very interesting and worth while
prizes are being planned and will
be announced next week, the
chairman stated.
Included in the derby according
to present plans are trout, grey
ling, salmon and several other
varieties of fish.
Kansas City
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Flood Passes
Destructive Peak
KANSAS CITY, Mo., <>P)—The
nation’s costliest flood passed its
destructive peak in a Kansas City
area today and surged on east
ward in Missouri.
But this metropolitan area of
900,000 persons and eastern and
central Kansas still reeled from
the impact of high waters.
The twin furies of fire and flood
lashed at Kansas City, Mo., and
Kansas City, Kas., for the fifth
consecutive day.
Four industrial districts were
under water. Transportation was
crippled. The water supply was
curtailed. A seven-'block fire
burned fiercely and destructively
—just as it has since last Friday.
More than 75,000 persons in
both states were driven from their
homes.
All vehicular bridges between
Kansas City and St. Charles are
closed because of high water.
Seven deaths have been caused
by the gigantic flood.
In this metropolitan area, mud
dy waters still swirled over thou
sands of acres of industrial dis
tricts. Waters, ranging from a few
feet to 20 feet deep, stretched
over railroad yards, livestock in
dustries, grain elevators, oil re
fineries, and manufacturing
plants.
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Truman Will Fly
Over Flood Area
WASHINGTON, (£>)—President
Truman will fly over the Miss
ouri-Kansas flood area tomorrow.
The White House announced to
day that Mr. Truman will leave
in his plane, the Independence,
about 11 a.m. tomorrow and will
return tomorrow night.
Mrs. Truman and their daugh
ter Margaret will accompany him
and will remain for a while in
their home town of Independence,
Mo.
At a breakfast in the Mayflower
Hotel this morning, Mr. Truman
conferred with Missouri Governor
Forest Smith and members of
Missouri’s congressional delega
tion on the flood situation.
The breakfast was planned some
time ago as a social gathering but
it turned into an emergency con
ference on the flood.
Mr. Truman asked Congress
Saturday for a $15 million emer
gency flood relief appropriation.
Terri. Director Of
Aviation Here To
Study Airports
Tony Schwamm, Territorial Di
rector of Aviation, arrived Satur
day to study airport conditions in
Second Division and to make plans
for work to be completed this
season.
Mr. Schwamm stated the Kot
zebue Field is ncrw about 70 per
cent complete and progressing sat
isfactorily by the Lytle and Green
Co., contractors.
Mr. Schwamm is also consulting
with several local people who are
interested in * bidding on the
Quartz Creek Field in the Kou
garok. These -bids are to be opened
on July 23, Mr. Schwamm stated.
While here, he will make plans
for improvements at Kiana, Nor
vik, Noatak, Selawik, and also
some changes at Teller.
He hopes also to see about im
provements for Shaktoolik, Unga
lik, and Golovin and possibly a
field for Elim.
Mr. Schwamm called attention
to the fact that in the past two
years his department had worked
on 90 fields in the Territory and
that an even distribution of funds
had been given to each of the four
divisions.
One field in the Second Division
which has proven outstanding in
serving a section that had prac
tically no service of any kind is
at Alaknuk, across from St. Mich
aels.
Mr. Schwamm is conferring with
a group of local people while here
in the interest of some badly
needed improvements on the local
fields, as little has been done here
in the way of upkeep since the
CAA took over last year.
Martial Law In
Tehran Following
Communist Riots
TEHRAN, Iran, (/P) — Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh pro
claimed martial law in Tehran to
day and ordered a big roundup
of communists following rioting
in which between four and 16 per
sons were killed and more than
150 injured.
Police arrested more than 200
Leftists following last night’s riot
ing, which started with a Com
munist demonstration protesting
the arrival of President Truman’s
representative, W. Averell Harri
man, for talks with Mossadegh on
the oil nationalization crisis.
Reports varied on the number
of casualties in last night’s fight
ing between the Reds and Mossa
•egh’s National Fronters. An of
ficial police communique said one
policeman and three civilians
were killed, and a high police
source said 14 civilians were dead.
Harriman today laid a wreath
on the tomb of the present Shah’s
father, the late Shah Reza Pah
levi, then went to the Premier’s
home for the first meeting with
Mossadegh. ’•
The U. S. envoy missed last
night’s violence. He and his wife
were staying at a palace 12 miles
up in the mountains.
19 Army Colonels To
Make Arctic Orientation
Tour of Alaska Bases
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE
BASE, July 16 — Nineteen Army
colonels, representing various
army headquarters throughout
the United States arrived here
yesterday for an Army summer
Arctic orientation tour of Alaska.
This morning they were welcomed
by Lt. Gen. W. E. Kepner, com
mander-in-chief of the Alaskan
command.
The group will visit posts and
bases of the Army, Navy and Air
Force in the Territory, completing
their visit on July 27.
A winter and summer tour of
this kind is made each year, to
familiarize senior army officers
with problems of planning and
supply in Arctic operations.
Boy Scouts To
Have Camp At
Pilgrim Springs
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The Boy Scouts of Troop 666,
sponsored by the Rotary Club, are
planning a camp at Pilgrim Hot
Springs. The boys will be leaving
Nome on Friday, July 20, and will
return on Monday, July 30.
Mr. 'Robert Baker of the Fish
and Wildlife Service will fly the
boys up to camp and they will re
ceive some instruction on wild
life conservation while there.
Mr. Duane Force, Boy Scout
executive from Fairbanks, will be
on hand to attend camp with the
boys. A swimming and life-saving
class will highlight the camp pro
gram. Mr. Force is a certified Red
Cross swimming and life-saving
instructor. He taught classes in
Minnesota for several years and
was swimming coach and teacher
at Hamline University, St. Paul,
Minnesota.
Scoutmaster John Almquist sta
ted it is quite vital for as many
•boys as possible to learn how to
swim and how to conduct them
selves in the event of an emer
gency in the water.
Strike Averted
In Anchorage
Restaurants
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ANCHORAGE, (JF)—The threat
of a strike was averted Saturday
when Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers Union members voted unani
mously to accept an offer from
the Anchorage Restaurant Owners
Association.
The union supplied cabs so all
its members could hurry back to
their jobs, reopening the restau
rants which had been closed for
about two hours.
The agreement calls for an im
mediate wage boost of 10 per cent
for all hands, plus another 10 per
cent if the wage stabilization
board will approve. The union
had demanded 30 per cent.
The new pay scale raised cooks
to $19.15 per day, waitresses and
fountain girls to $11.15, pantry
men to $14.92, dishwashers to
$13.40, cashiers to $13.15, busboys
to $12.15.
More than 500 union members
benefit from the boost.
G. M. Engebreth,
Alaska Senator,
Dies In Seattle
SEATTLE, (Jf) — Gunnard M.
Engebreth, 42, president at the
Alaska Territorial Senate, died
here Saturday while undergoing
an operation. He left Anchorage
June 25 for a medical checkup
after steadily losing weight.
Engebreth was serving his sec
ond term as Senate 'President and
was the only man ever to hold
the office twice. He regarded him
self as a liberal Republican.
He went to Alaska in 1936 as a
Public Works Administration of
ficial, taught in the Alaska Native
Service at Kaltag and later en
tered business at Anchorage.
His widow, Violet and their six
children were in Oceola, Wis., at
the time of -.is death. They went
there last Monday to visit Mrs.
Engebreth’s father:
King Leopold HI
AT: rlicates In Favor
Of Son, Baudouin I
BRUSSELS, Belgium, (JP) —
King Leopold III of Belgium sur
rendered today the throne he held
fcfr 17 unhappy years, and urged
his people to rally around his
elder son, who now becomes King
Baudouin I.
Baudouin, 20, takes the royal
oath tomorrow before -Parliament.
Leopold signed the abdication
document in the ballroom of the
Brussels royal palace, in a cere
mony kept simple to the point of
austerity by the king’s own wish.
Leopold, now 49, was a minor
player in a world drama which
was beginning just as he assumed
the throne. The Nazis had come
to power in Germany, and the
way was being paved for a war
which was to bloody Belguim’s
soil for the second time in a gen
eration.
Leopold surrendered to the in
vading Germans despite the op
position of his government, and
he was widely assailed as pro
German. During his long exile
there was many a move to de
throne him.
Willima McDonald Soils Interest
In North Fork Dredging Company
The North Fork Dredging Co.,
has announced that William Mc
Donald has sold his interest in the
company, which is not operating
this year, to his partner, Pete
Reader, who has been in charge
of operations. Owners of the com
pany now are Pete Reader and Sig
Wien.
William McDonald Sells Interest
Dahl Creek Mining Property
To Partner Pat Bliss
Louis Nashenwing, one of the
pioneer mining men of the Kou
garok district, who has mined in
the Dahl Creek area for many
years, is reported to have sold his
interest to Pat Bliss, who has been,
his partner for the past year.
Pat Bliss, pilot for several years
for Alaska Airlines, and his fam
ily have spent the past two years
in the Kougarok working with
Mr. Nashenwing.