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VOL. LI. No. 149 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON. (JP) — Thirty
States, acting under their police
power against violators of air
safety regulations, have prose
cuted 349 cases and levied fines
totalling nearly $36,000. the civil
aeronautics administration said
today.
The survey, described by a CAA
spokesman as incomplete and un
official, covers reports received
during a two-year period ending
this fall.
Alaska reported one violator
and one jail sentence.
OAKLAND. Cal. UP)—Upwards
of 1,000 persons were forced to
flee their homes before dawn to
day as waves of ammonia gas
spread through 20 square blocks
of West Oakland.
Scores were overcome and
many made ill. Five were known
to have been hospitalized.
A tank car, filled with liquid
ammonia, was being pumped out
at a fertilizer plant when a pipe
split and the cargo spilled into the
streets. Gas formed quickly.
Eight police cars, with sirens
screeching, moved slowly through
the residential area warning per
sons to flee.
BLOOMINGTON. Inch (JP) — A
five-gallon can of this city’s sur
plus water was on its way today
to Mayor William O’Dwyer of wa
ter-short New York City.
Staff member sof radio station
WTTS and television station WTTV
noted water was flowing over the
waterworks uam here and de
cided to start what they called an
irrigation-by-mail plan.
With New York’s bathless
shaveless Friday decree in mind,
they said in a letter to Mayor
O’Dwyer, “Hope this will be good
for a few shaves, anyway.”
CHICAGO, (/P)—Mrs. Ruth Bol
now had 40 tiny boys and girls
l rom the Riverside Nursery School
—and a problem—on her hands.
She wanted to take the kids on a
tour of the huge Union Railroad
station but she didn’t want to lose
any of them. So she got a long
rope. The tots grasped it and,
strung out like snake dancers,
they stayed in place as Mrs. Boll
now led them through the term
inal.
NEW YORK, (^>)—1This country
has 50.000 drug stores, and Amer
icans visit them five billion times
each year. The figures are cited
by Robert P. Fischelis, ceretary
o fthe American Pharmaceutical
Co. The frequency of visits makes
pharmacies a good place to use in
health education programs, he
told the Public Health Cancer As
sociation.
SARASOTA, Fla. f/P) — Goats
stupid? No such thing, say Don
p and Grace Ragsdale.
They started out with one ani
Consul General
Denies Consulate
Was Spy Ring
—
Aboard Lakeland Victory en
! route to Pusan, Korea, (/P»—Con
1 sul general Angus Ward today de
! med the Mukden consulate was a
! United States spy ring headquar
1 ters, a charge the communists said
1 they used as a basis for deporting
the last Americans from Man
churia.
The decree came in a verdict
from a Mukden criminal court
which convicted eight Japanese
ad Chinese on charges of being
American spies. They were sen
• tenced to prison terms ranging
! from two to four years each.
The court also found them guilty
of plotting rebellions and upris
ings and “undermining the revolu
tionary eterprise of the Chinese
l people.”
The court, which during the
, trial said it had “evidence” the ac
! cused Japanese and Chinese work
ed with American intelligence
agencies operating out of the
Mukden consulate, then decreed
the consulate “endangered the na
tional welfare of the Peoples Re
public of China” and said “the
i entire group of foreign personnel
! of the former American consulate
| should be deported from China.”
Ward denied intelligence agents
worked out of the consulate while
he was in Mukden. He said an
American detachment, which the
i Mukden court termed “an Ameri
• can espionage organ” had an of
fice in Mukden while he was
there but he denied there was any
connection between it and the
consulate.
The consul general said he
knew several American officers
whom the Mukden court listed as
intelligence agents but denied
they they were attached or work
ed out of the consulate.
POSTMAN'S WORRY PAYS OFF
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A post
man noticed a car parked along
his route. Thinking it might con
taia a postal inspector, he kept a
close eye on it.
Later he heard of a robbery in
the area. Remembering the car,
and its license number, he told po
lice about it. The clue resulted in
; the arrest of the robber.
I i
mal to help Mrs. Ragsdale’s arth
! ritis and wound up with not only
a goat dairy but a rather complete
dossier on goat habits and philos
ophy.
Mr. and Mrs. Ragsdale say goats
have a strong Sense of what is
right and wrong in the way they
shoud be handled, and if one
thinks he has been slighted, he
sulks or pouts or butts. They also
have very long memories. Some
practically demand to be address
ed by name. And they don’t eat
rags or tin cans.
16 Missing In
Ihilch Ship
Explosion, Fire
MIAMI, Fla. (/P)—A coast guard
search plane found the burning
hulk of the Dutch motorship Doros
300 miles due east of Miami today
and radioed tersely “No survivors
sighted.”
Sixteen men were missing fol
lowing an explosion and fire
aboard the craft. Eight others
were rescued.
A coast guard PBM from St.
1 Petersburg said there wasn’t any
debris near the smouldering mo
torship and no sign of other life
boats in the area.
Coast guard air sea rescue head
quarters said a plane planned to
meet the American tanker Spar
rows Point at the Hole-in-the-Wall
about noon to pick up all eight of
the survivors, including one man
reported badly burned.
The Hole-in-the-Wall is at the
southern end of Abaco Island in
the Bahamas.
Meanwhile air and surface
craft continued to search the area
in the hope of locating other sur
vivors.
The chief engineer was among
the eight picked up from a life
boat. None of the men aboard
were identified.
The explosion and fire occurred
about 10:45 a.m. Monday. The
chief engineer said he believed
the captain, chief mate, second
and third mates, apprentice elec
trician, second and third assistant
engineers and the steward were
lost.
Twety-four men were aboard
the Doros when it left New York
Dec. 8 for Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The Doros was built in Holland
in 1939 and its home port was Am
sterdam. It was a vessel of 921
gross tons.
Find Fisherman
W ith Frozen Feet
JUNEAU, (/P)—Both feot frozen.
D. B. Mercado, 49, said today he
had lived for seven days without
food after a trolling boat turned
over in St. James Bay, drowning
his partner.
Reported lost was Andy Haff
ner. 59.
Mercado, knQwn to fishermen
as “Filipino Mack,” was brought
to Juneau today by the Coast
Guard after a searching party
found him in a small cabin at
Boat Harbor.
He said he and his partner were
anchored in St. James Bay when
a storm came up and overturned
their boat. As it sank, he said,
Haffner forced open a door and
swam to the surface.
Mercado smashed the pilot
house door \o escape. He heard
cries for a moment, then silence.
Reaching shore barefooted,
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|{<k( lzrl)ub Breaks
Into Bridges*
Perjury Trial
SAN FRANCISCO. pp»—A pseu
| do-sei ious discussion of the rela
tionship of Beelzebub »the evil j
one of the Bible) to the commun
ist party rocked the Harry Bridges .
j perjury trial with gales of laugh- j
: ter here yesterday.
The break in the .-.olemn and
often stormy federal court trial of
the West Coast longshore leader
developed shortly after a govern
ment witness Manning R. John
son of New York had testified
1 Bridges twice had been a member
of the powerful political bureau
of the communist party in Amer
ica.
Johnson, a Negro and now in
ternational representative of the
AFL clerks union, testified he had
become a communist in 1931 while
working as a longshoreman in
; Buffalo, N. Y., and had quit in
j 1939. shortly after the anhounce
I ment of the Soviet-Nazi Germany
! pact.
It was Johnson’s explanation of
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National Security
I To Cost Twent\
Billions Yearly
(By Sterling F. Green)
WASHINGTON. (JP)—'The com
mittee for economic development
(CED) estimated today that na
tional security will cost at least
$20,000,000,000 a year for years to
come.
In the face of this costly cold
war defense, it urged definite ac
tion to: (1) Safeguard civilian su
premacy in the Republic, (2>
Strengthen long-range security
and <3> protect individual freedam.
The CED, an organization of
business executives, said the $20,
000.000,000 estimate on the annu
al cost of security for the next
several years embraces several
items. Military defense is the big
one, followed by rearming of non
communist nations, European re
covery spending, atomic energy
development. U. S. broadcasts
overseas, and much of the gov
ernment's diplomacy and intelli
gence work.
One of its principal recommen
dations was for a transfusion of
civilian leadership into the whole
security program. The CED criti
cized today’s preparedness plan
ning as being “neither efficient
nor in balance.”
The report said that a powerful
military machine can dominate
the economy and, unless held in
balance, “can destroy a free econ
omy. ’
And, while urging continued
strong action against subversive
activities, it called for caution in
the handling of “loyalty” inquir
ies.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Wednesday, December 14, 1949
<Bv The Associated Press^
Israel moved today to make
Jerusalem her permanent capital
in defiance of a United Nations
decision to internationalize the
Holy City.
Some responsible diplomats at
Lake Success speculated that a
special spring session of the U. N.
assembly would be needed to deal
w'th the problem.
Israeli Prime Minister David
Ben Gurion said in a parliamen
tary speech last night that the
transfer of government offices
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would
be speeded up. He said Israel had
always planned ot make the Holy
City its seat of operations. He
called it “Israel’s eternal capital."
Ben Gurion and his personal staff
left for Jerusalem today.
At Lake Success the trusteeship
council has voted to proceed with
| plans for trying to set up the
framework lor an international
; regime for Jerusalem. Many dip
lomats said Israel was presenting
i the U. N. with a fait accompli (the
deed done) and the U. N. program
I looked impossible.
The majority of the U. N. se
! curity council noted with some
pride today that the U. N.-spon
! sored plan for peace in Indonesia
has borne fruit.
At Jogjakarta, Java, the Dutch
Indonesian independence agree
ment, signed six weeks ago at the
1 Hague, was ratified by the Indo
nesian Republic. The republic is
the biggest Indonesian unit to ac
cept the proposal.
it means tn-at tne tormai turn
over of sovereignty from the
Netherlands to the United States
of Indonesia will go through as
scheduled, probably Dec. 27.
At Lake Success, the Soviet Un
ion cast two vetoes on resolutions
commending the Dutch and Indo
nesians for peaceably ending their
civil war. The Soviet delegate said
the new agreement only imposed
a ‘‘more subtle slavery” on the In
donesians. A communist uprising
in Indonesia last year succeeded
in capturing the Republic’s third
largest city before it was crushed.
Pro-communist newspapers in
Hong Kong today said that Chi
nese Nationalist general Pai
Chung-Hsi has been negotiating
with French officials in tndo
China for the incoporation of his
30,000 troops into the French co
lonial army. The Chinese troops
were driven to the Indochina bor
der by the victorious Chinese com
munists?
In Sofia, Traicho Kostov, for
mer deputy premier of Bulgaria
and 10 other defendants in the Ti
toist treason trials waited in jail
for a federal court to sentence
them. The verdict is expected
sometime today or tomorrow.
n | | || I liursday, 7:.{ll P. M.
Benefit Basketball Game