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VOL. XLV111. No. 15 _NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 19 4 0 PErTcOPY— 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, Feb. 4—(/P)—E. Phil
lips Oppenheim, 79, prolific popu
lar author of spy thrillers and ad
venture novels, died at his home
^■on Channel, Island of Guernsey.
He wrote more than one hundred
fifty novels.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4— (/P) —
The Treasury reported Con
gress that refunds made to Alaska
citizens and business firms for the
last fiscal year for overpayment of
income and miscellaneous excise
distilled spirits, old age benefit,
federal unemployment taxes re
fund over two thousand, included
Alaska Fruit Produce Co., Ketch
ikan, $2,585; Balcom Payne Fish
eries, Ketchikan, $6,089; Ollie
Gray. Anchorage, $6,234; Malcolm
Moe, Skagway, $5896; I. G. and
Laura Pruel, Ketchikan, $3,209;
.Gus Uotila, Ophir, $5,290. All in
come taxes.
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 4 — (/P) —
Twenty-seven candidates have
filed for the House and six for the
Senate Territorial Legislature. The
filings closed Saturday. House fil
ings included Mrs. Robert Atwood,
Republican, Mrs. Glenn Collins,
and Mrs. Audrey Cutting, Demo
crats. Brothers Steve and Stan
McCutcheon switched candidacies
at the last minute. Stan finally
filing for the Senate and Steve
* for the House. Both are Demo
crats.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4— (&) —
Gov. Ingram Stainback of Hawaii,
and Gov. Gruening of Alaska,
were honor guests Saturday at a
Capitol luncheon attended by 30
Congressmen. It was described as
a social affair, to give the govern
ors the opportunity to meet mem
bers of the House Territories com
mittee. Gov. Gruening has been
here two months and plans to re
main for hearings shortly by the
0 appropraitions subcommittee on
th‘e Interior Department’s supply
bill. Col. J. P. Johnson, of Anchor
age, new manager of the Alaska
Railroad, also arrived to partici
pate in the hearings. Funds for
the railroad, which is owned by
the government, will be provided
by Congress.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—(/P)—
The gold mines of the west are
hitting back toward their peace
time swing, although the total pro
^ duction in United States in 1945
was under that of the preceding
year, according to the Bureau of
Mines. The ouput in states which
take most of their gold from grav
els and straight gold ores is defin
itely on the rise at the closing of
the year. The greatest gains were
in California, South Dakota and
Alaska. Yields in Alaska increased
thirty-nine per cent in 1945,
though the lifting of the gold or
der came too late in the season to
permit most operations to resume
I production. Alaska output was
6,588 fine ounces.
PHOTO-RECONNAISSANCE CIAN T—The new XF-12 photo reconnaissance plane, powered by four 3,000-h.p.
engines, dwarfs two other Republic ships, a P-47 Thunderbolt (left) and new four-place amphibian Seabee, (right) at Farmingdale, N. Y.
S.S. Yukon Is
Aground At
Puget Cape j
SEWARD, Feb. 4— </P) — The I
j steamer Yukon southbound to
I Seattle with nearly four hundred
I
fifty aboard was ground at mid-'
night last night at Puget Cape. A
Coast Guard boat has reached the
stricken ship and is standing by
this forenoon.
The vessel is in no immediate
danger. John Jeffrey, assistant
manager of the Alaska Steamship
Co., said he had been notified the
ship was waiting favorable tide
before attempts are to be made to j
pull it free or to be towed off.
The Yukon carried 324 passen
gers, many of them military, and
1 a crew of 124. No list of the pas
sengers was immediately avail- J
able.
The weather bureau said an in
tense storm centered in the area
south of the wreck scene, but
winds of thirty miles per hour are
the strongest reported by Alaska
weather reporting stations.
Distress calls were received in!
Honolulu, Ketchikan and several
direction finder stations along the
Washington state coast. The mes
sage gave no report on the weather
or the cause of the grounding. The
Yukon displaces 5,746 gross tons
and the master is Captain Chris
Trondsen.
The Ketchikan District Coast
Guard office reported at 1:45 p.m.
(PST) that the Yukon was “break
ing up from fore to aft,” on rocks
south of Seward.
The report said the passengers
were still aboard and that engine
room and number three hold were
full of water.
The Coast Guard boat Onondaga
was due at the scene about the
same time the report was sent.
Oranges were first brought into
Europe from China by the Portu
guese in 1547.
451 British Brides
Of GIs Reach
United States
•
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 — (/P> —;
Storm-tossed and tried, but radi-1
ant with anticipation, the first
group of “British brides,” English
women who married American
soldiers during the war, reached
New York on the Army transport
Argentina, after a nine day night- ]
mare voyage across the North At
lantic.
A total of 451 women and 175
children were aboard the ship.,
The wives ranged in age from 16
to 44. Thirty women are expectant;
mothers.
It is the first brides ship in more
than two hundred years to bring
British girls to American hus- J
bands. Not since the days when
sailing ships brought wives to
American colonists has there been
such a voyage.
Chile’s Labor
Front Split
Wide Open
—
SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 4—(fP)
Chile’s once united labor front is
split wide open now that Socialist
labor leaders have announced they j
are withdrawing their support in I
the general strike scheduled to be- j
gin today.
Communist leaders, however,
said the strike would be held as
planned. Meanwhile the newly re-;
organized government intervened
to assure continued operation of
public services.
Vice Adm. Merino, interior min
ister, promised full protection, by
armed forces if necessary, for all
workers wishing to stay on the
job. Militarized carabinero police
stood by to maintain order in the
labor crisis brought about by the
action of the government last
month in dissolving nitrate unions.
Plane Sets
Fairbanks To
Montana Mark
Bursting over the horizon at
Great Falls, Montana on the morn
ing of January 24, at 6:01, just
6 hours and 36 minutes after its
departure from Ladd Field, the
giant Constellation <C-69> “Dawn”
of the AAF Cold Weather Detach
ment established a new air record
between Fairbanks and the Mon
tana airport-of-entry.
With the crew and 31 passengers
aboard, the sleek silver liner aver
aged 300 miles per hour, ground
speed, for the 1,950 mile non-stop
flight, according to Col. Louis M.
Merrick, commanding officer of
Ladd Field.
' 1 '
Pauley Says He Was
V %
Misunderstood
By Iekes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4— (/P) —
Edwin Pauley testified that Iekes
“misunderstood” him if the cab
inet member thought he was at
tempting to head off the tidelands
oil suit by the promise of cam
paign contributions. Pauley was
nominated Undersecretary of the!
Navy and presented the Senate'
naval committee with a statement1
which reiterated his denial that as
Democratic National Committee
treasurer he ever solicited contin
gent contributions.
He denied also, in response to a
question by Senator Tydings, he
ever suggested to the cabinet
members the policy of “giving
something for something” be fol
lowed in obtaining political dona
tions. .
Iekes testified before the com
mittee last week that in confer
ences with him Pauley, California
oil man, indicated “hundreds of
thousands of dollars” could be
raised among the oil men if the
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
New strikes up the total of idle
to about a million, four hundred
thousand. Major developments:
Shipping—New York harbor
shipping is tied up by a strike of
twenty-five hundred AFL tugboat
workers, backed by thirty-five
thousand longshoremen. Eighty
percent of the city’s fuel supply
and half of its food is cut off.
Mayor O’Dwyer estimates federal
seizure is considered possible.
Steel—A showdown is expected
this week in the steel strike. A
new pricing formula is expected
from the White House. It may win
the industry’s acceptance of eight
een and one half cents hours wage
increase. The magazine Steel re
ports an output nine and one-half
percent of normal.
Brass—fourteen thousand four
hundred brass workers walkout in
Connecticut and Buffalo, N. Y.
plants.
Schools — A custodians strike
may force the closing of St. Louis
public school and give a holiday
to ninety thousands pupils.
Congress—The House vote on
the strike control bill is expected
tomorrow or Wednesday, but the
Senate is expected to act slowly.
LEONARD KROHLOW
WINS PARKA
Leonard Krohlow, now em
ployed by the N. C. Company at
Anchorage, was the winner of a
child’s fur parka last week at a
party given by the Moose Lodge.
His wife, the former Betty Cal
kins, and their son, bom in Nome,
also reside in Anchorage.
government didn’t push its suit to
claim potential producing areas:
on the ovean floor offshore.
Pauley said it was perfectly true
that he asked Ickes’ assistance in
helping to raise campaign funds,
but that he also asked other cab
inet officers.