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VOL,~L~ No. 30 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10, 1948 PFTi COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
PASADENA, Calif. (P) — Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Dwyer, 22, told su
perior court she wanted no ali
mony—just a divorce frpm Robert
Dwyer, 22-year-old factory fore
man she accused of blackening
her eyes repeatedly during their
three years of marriage.
Judge Paul Nourse awarded
her alimony of 50 cents a month
however.
BERGER, Tex., (P)—Alva Nell
Wood’s “Sally Gooden” and “Get
Along Home Cindy” won top hon
ors in the oldtimers’ fiddling con
test in Borger’s 22nd birthday
party Monday.
BATAVIA. Java, (P)—A Neth
erlands East Indies interim gov
ernment was installed yesterday
at the governor general’s palace.
The Dutch-sponsored govern
ment will function until the estab
lishment of a United States of In
donesia. The Dutch have set Jan.
1, 1949, as the tentative date for
setting up a federation.
PORTLAND, Me., (JP) — Philip
Reuben, vice president of the
Maine association of master
plumbers, was 45 minutes late
yesterday for the organization’s
55th annual convention.
The reason: A leaking pipe in
his home.
It happens in the best of famil
ies, said Renban.
VVELEETKA, Okla., (/P)—When
76-year-old Rettie Evely:' Smith
died here last Friday. he=- 77-year
old husband Isom said he would
not live more th^n three days.
An hour before her funeral Sun
day he sickened. At 6 p.m. he
died. Double services were held
for the couple Monday.
MADISON, Wis., (/P) — A con
tradiction will go to the polls,
come primary election in Arpil.
Among state referenda, is the
problem facing voters in Wau
shara county community: whether
the town of Oasis shall remain
dry.
STERLING, 111. (JP) — R. C.
Bailey reported today to the Ster
ling police that a spare tire and
some clothing were stolen from
his automobile. He said the car
was parked in an alley.
Police fined him $1 for illegal
parking in an alley.
NEW YORK, f/p) — Mrs. Irens
Robitaille, 28, gave birth last night
to twins, a boy and a girl—just a
year and two days after her twin
daughters, Verone and Catherine,
were born.
The father, Roderick Robitaille,
32, immediately telephoned his
sister, Mrs. Randall Callahan, in
Greenville, Me., to tell her the
news.
"That’s funny,” said Mrs. Calla-i
han, "I had a boy and a girl born
March 5.” . j
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WEST PLAINS^Mo. (/P)—Betty
Jane Kroeger, 17-year-old brun-j
ette charged with murder, Mon
day repudiated a signed statement
that she shot her father and
mother.
In a new oral statement the girl
Mac Arthur Willing
To Become
GOP Candidate
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — General
MacArthur bid openly for top
place on the Republican ticket to
day, even as President Truman
foreclosed his mortgage on the
Democratic nomination.
The two announcements — only
hours apart in Tokyo and Wash
ington—far overshadowed yester
day’s New Hampshire primary, the
first actual voting for delegates to
the national party conventions in
Philadelphia.
MacArthur’s message saying he
is available but will not actively
seek the Presidency, caught pro
fessional GOP politicians by sur
prise.
It put the 68-year-old five star
general in the positive candidate
class, along with Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, senator Rob
ert A. Taft of Ohio, former Gov.
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
and Gov. Earl Warren of Califor
nia.
The supreme Allied commander
in Japan named no party in his
announcement that he would ac
cept “any public duty to which I
might be called by the American
people.”
But his statement took note of
the fact that his name has been
entered in the Wisconsin Republi
can primary next month. Also,
only 10 days ago the general sent
a message to GOP headquarters in
which he said: “The Republican
party has never deviated from the
proposition that all political power
resides in the people.”
In h’s announcement Monday
night, MncArthur said:
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Finnish Delegates
Meet Russians
HELSINKI (#>)—Finland picked
a leftist-tinged delegation yester
day for the Moscow talks on a
Russian-Finnish treaty of friend
ship and mutual assistance, a gov
ernment member said.
Government quarters said they
expected the negotiations to begin
on or about March 20. The seven
man Finnish delegation will be
headed by Premier Mauno Pekka
la. There was no indication whe
ther special technical advisers on
military matters will be attached
to the group.
The majority of Finland’s politi
cal parties have expressed opposi
tion to a military alliance with
Russia. Of the seven delegates,
three represent parliament ary
group which have gone on record
against an arms pact.
said her father, Fred Kroeger, 50,1
fatally shot his wife in their Emin
ence, Mo., home after being ac-'
cused of going out with other wo
men, Sheriff Lester Davis report
ed. Betty Jane was quoted as say
ing her father then threatened her'
and the following day she shot:
him to death because “I was afraid
he would kill me.”
The parents’ bodies were found,
Saturday night.
Voters Do Not
Have To Deelare
Party Affiliation
JUNEAU, (/P) — Alaska voters
will not have to declare their
party preference at the ballot box.
Attorney general Ralph Rivers
said today he will advise clerk of
the Territory’s four judicial divi
sions that refusal of a voter to
state his political affiliation does
not bar him from voting under the
Territory’s new blanket primary
laws.
The compromise decision
brought a dismissal by federal
judge George Folta of a mandam
us action by Albert White, Terri
torial Republican counsel, over
the issue of declaring party affili
ation in the primary election.
Rivers said he will advise the
clerks and election judges that
voters are to be asked to state
their affiliation. Persons declining
to do so, however, still will be en
titled to vote. In place of party
designation, the voter will be car
ried in the registration book as
“no party declared,” Rivers said.
Air Forces Make
V
Mercy Flights
To Gambell
—
On Friday, March fifth, the Air
Forces flew their first in a series
of “mercy” flights to Gambell on
St. Lawrence Island, carrying
much-needed food to the slowly
starving natives of the settlement.
Air Force C-47 cargo planes and
their crews from Anchorage and
Nome Air Base flew thousands of
pounds of food from the supplies
j of Nome Air Base. Flour, vege
tables, meats, fruit were trans
ported along with two desperately
needed generators and fuel. As
many as four flights in one day
were made by aircraft from the
air base.
According to Albert Reed, Alas
ko Native Service principal at
Gambell, the only food available
prior to the Air Forces flights
were approximately 800 pounds of
rice, a small amount of flour
flown in from Nome, a small
amount of dried apples and an
ample supply of canned milk.
Mr. Dundas of the United States
Weather Bureau at Gambell stated
that the winter of 1947 and 1948
has been the worst winter of the
three he has spent in that vicinity.
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CITY COUNCIL MET
MONDAY EVENING
Nome City Council met last
Monday evening to conduct rou
tine business. Garnet Martin, wjio
had just returned from the States
called to the attention of the coun-1
cil the fact that an army depot in
Seattle was making very low
prices on surplus property and
equipment of all kinds to hospitals!
and public institutions, and it
might be worth while for the city
to investigate what is available.
He also discussed the T.B. prob-;
lem, stressing the importance of
getting the people off the streets
who are past the curable stage and
cannot be taken into sanatoriums. i
Dept. ()f Interior
Has Done All It
Can For Alaska
(By Charles D. Watkins)
<(P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON. (Pt— Secretary
Krug of the interior said he has
done all he can to develop Alaska.
He said he is greatly concerned
over an inference in a letter he re
ceived from Senator Butler <R.
Neb.* that the interior department
is not doing all it can to develop
the Territory.
The Senator wrote Krug that
employees and former employees
of the department are blocking de
velopment of a paper an 1 pulp in
dustry in Alaska.
Krug testified before a Senate
sub-committee, he and Oscar
C h a pman, undersecretary, op
posed a bill to abolish Indian res
ervations, prevent others from be
ing set up, and to turn over to the
Territory Indian bureau activities
in Alaska.
Butler said in his letter to Krug
that department employees have
joined with James E. Curry, coun
sel for Southeast Alaska Indians,
to prevent Jhe forest service from
getting paper companies to bid for
large tracts of timber.
A message from the secretary of
Annette Island’s reserve saying
they had adopted a resolution set
ting forth their position was filed
with Chairman Watkins (R.-Utah)
of the Senate interior sub-com
mittee.
The sub-committee is consider
ing legislation to cancel recently
created reservations in Alaska
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Discovery Brings
A. Energy Nearer
(By Rennie Taylor)
((/P) Science Reporter)
BERKELEY, Calif. (/P)—Atomic
science got off to an exciting new
start yesterday with man made
mesons, mighty particles which
heretofore have been produced
only by nature.
The achievement ends a notable
race among scientists in America,
Europe and perhaps elsewhere.
They agreed that artificial pro
duction of a meson would be the
greatest thing in atomic research
since the discovery of uranium
fission in 1939, which led to the
atom bomb.
Production of mesons in the
laboratory for the first time was
announced Monday by Dr. Ernest
O. Lawrence, famed atom smash
er, and James B. Fisk, research
director of the atomic energy com
mission.
The potent particles, which
eventually may point the way to
atomic energy far greater than
than produced by the atom bomb,
were produced in the University
of California’s 4,000 ton cyclotron.
Dr. Lawrence said laboratory
mesons will give scientists their
best tool for finding out just what
particles there are in the nuclei of
atoms. However, there will be no
immediate practical application,
he added. Despite the atom bomb,
little is known about the insides
of atoms.
WYA. Chamber of
Commeive Hears
Ma ny Reports
The Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce held the
first of a series of dinners last eve
ning which was well attended and
had the indication that the new
board of directors were off to a
good start with the co-operation of
the community.
Following a well prepared din
ner by the popular caterers, Sgt.
and Mrs. Grady, the meeting was
called to order by President Bud
Harper.
Garnet Martin was called upon
to review the activities of the Fish
and Wildlife meeting in Ketchi
kan, which he stated was probably
one of the best meetings over held
because so much was accom
plished. A full report was pub
lished in the last issue of the Nug
get.
Mr. Martin then talked most
eloquently on a subject of great
concern to the entire community,
the tuberculosis situation and the
importance of the community as a
whole getting together and actual
ly completing the project of iso
lating the advanced cases of T.B.,
which are not considered by the
sanitoriums. and which roam our
streets and have access to our eat
ing and recreation centers. He
urged that the new board get be
hind the problem and really start
a campaign.
Chester Milligan assured the
Chamber of his intentions of full
co-operation if elected in the com
ing election.
Ben Gillette called to the atten
tion of the members the scarcity
of prospectors and the abundance
of ground in this division that
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—
Britain Must Have
Another Billion
Or Perish
(By Barton D. Pattie)
LONDON, (/P) — Sir Stafford
Cripps told parliament yesterday
British economy will collapse un
less substantial U. S. aid comes
this year.
The chancellor of the exchequer
said in a white paper that only the
Marshal plan can prevent whole
sale unemployment, distress and
dislocation of production. The
summary predicted Britons would
get less food and clothing. It said
that, without the Marshall plan,
there is “no prospect of a decent
standard of living for years.”
The severe cold of the winter of
1946-47, and the summer drought
were blamed for impending reduc
tions. The white paper estimated
net national income for the year
at nine billion pounds <$36,000,
000,000) and said Britain is likely
to borrow another 250,000,000
pounds <$1,000,000,000) from
abroad.
Imports from the western hemi
sphere will be cut still further in
the first half of 1948 to save gold
and dollars. The white paper said
the imports will be "no more than
sufficient to maintain the nation in
health and working efficiency.”