as NOME NUGGET
_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. L. No. 95._NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1948 PER COPY 15(1
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P> — The Alaska
Transportation company is taking
over operation of the city dock at
Juneau, it was jymounced Friday.
* S. J. Swanson, vice president
and general manager, and William
Reid, auditor, for the ship line,
left Seattle for Juneau Saturday
to set up the new operation.
SHANGHAI. </P) — The city
government said Saturday large
* secret hoards of newsprint had
been unearthed in a recent city
wide check. The hoards will be
seized and sold to Shanghai news
papers, who are restricted as to
pages because of the severe news
print shortage.
PORTLAND, UP) — A federal
suit here Saturday accused CIO
^ longshoremen at Coos Bay of
slow-down tactics in July and
asked $45,000 damages. The suit
was'filed by the Transatlantic
Steamship Co., Burns Steamship
Co., Trans-Pacific Co., Shafter
Bros. Steamship Lines and Grace
Line, Inc. Six other firms filed a
similar suit last month.
BANGKOK (/P) — Two house
hold servants and the former sec
retary of the late King Ananda
Manidol Saturday were formally
charges as accomplices in the plot
to kill the Siamese king. Th5 king
was found dead under mysterious
circumstances in the imperial pal
* ace on June 9, 1946.
The three are Chaliew Pratum
ros, secretary; Chit Singhaseni
and Butr Patamasirin, servants.
They have been in jail since last
year.
w# BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (/P)—
A Skoplje court Saturday sen
tenced railroad engineer Peter
Koshinovski to death for a colli
sion last month which killed 20
persons. It found that he ’ fell
asleep on the job. A switchmaster
was convicted of allowing the
sleeping engineer "to proceed
through the station and to collide
with another train." He was sen
tenced to 15 years in prison.
LANCASTER, Pa., UP)—Curys
Dietrich, a 14-year-old angler,
#came up with a prize batch.
Using dough as bait, Young
Dietrich was fishing yesterday
•with a friend Willard Smith, and
having pretty tough luck. Two
bites brought in a sucker and a
white fish, but both were too
small to keep.
After getting no more bites, the
young angler hauled in his line,
believing his bait was gone. On
# the end of the hook was a wet $5
bill.
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The O’
Harra bus lines, largest company
of its kind operating throughout
Alaska, has filed a petition for
Ay voluntary bankruptcy in the U. S.
district court at Anchorage.
Among its properties is the
Santa Claus lodge on the Richard
son highway. Ken O’Harra, the
* owner, continues to operate the
firm as receiver. The case has
been transferred to the Fourth
Division district court.
“Truman Erects
Iron Curtain”
i WASHINGTON (/P), The White
House remained silent today on
President Truman’s strategy for
his next attack on the GOP Con
gress.
I While most Presidential ad
visors say Mr. Truman will sign
the Republican housing and anti
inflation bills, he is expected to
criticize them sharply as inade
quate.
White House press secretary
Charles G. Ross told reporters
only that anyone can draw his
own inference from the Presi
dent’s “known attitude.”
The housing bill, less than the
President asked of the special
session of Congress, has readied
the President. Ross said it will go
through the usual routine of sub
mission to departments concerned
for their comments. The anti-in
flation bill, also short of the Pres
(Continued on Page Eight!
FCC Clamps Down
On Radio Lotteries
| -
(By Jack Adams)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Like a
stern but not too hopeful parent,,
the federal communications com
mission shook a warning finger
Friday at the get-rick-quick ra
dio programs popping out all over
the dial.
The station-licensing agency
said disapprovingly that “an al
most infinite number” of these
border on “illegal lotteries or
gift enterprises.”
So the commission announced
(Continued oh Pag* Seven!
Many Communist
Groups Active
During War
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON ^—Elizabeth
T. Bentley testified today it is
“extremeyl likely” there were
many more than two groups of
government officials which she
said leaked wartime secrets to a
Soviet spy ring.
She repeated testimony that
two groups were headed by Victor
Perlo and Nathan Gregory Silver
master.
Perlo and Miss Bentley took
turns on the witness stand of the
House un-American activities
committee. The committee is in
vestigating stories of Soviet in
trigue and espionage in this coun
' try.
Perlo refused to say whether
he ever was a communist or whe
ther he knows or ever before has
'Continued on Page Five'
I
; Internation’l News
[At A Glance —
(By the Associated Press)
American, British and French
diplomats went to the Kremlin
today in a renewed attempt to
solve the Berlin blockade and
other issues on the cold war. It
was their third visit there in a
week.
A m bassadors Walter Bedell
Smith of the U. S. and Yves Cha
taigneau of France and special
envoy Frank Roberts of Britain
made the call, seeking to see for
eign minister Molotov. Washing
ton, Moscow, London and Paris
(Continued on Page Six)
Report Russians
Are Fortifying
German Border
BERLIN, </P) — The British-li
censed newspaper Telegraf said
today the Russians are digging
trenches and mounting weapons,
including rocket guns, on the bor
der between the Soviet occupa
tion zone and western Germany.!
U. S. ^border officials and Ger
mans along the American-Russian
zone are erecting weapon points
along the frontier. They said the
Russians for a long time have
been strengthening their border
with guards and trenches, design
ed to halt illegal traffic on coun
try roads.
The newspaper reported fever
ish activity in woods along the
| zonal frontiers where, it said,
Russian engineers and construc
tion troops are “building a secur
ity border.”
Telegraf said it obtained this
information from Germans who
i were pressed into service to help
| dig trenches “and when released
1 (Continued on Page Three)
DEVELOPMENT BOARD
MEETS IN ANCHORAGE
_
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Housing
—a word as familiar to Alaskans
as canned salmon—headed the
agenda of the Alaska Develop
ment Board as the agency mem
bers gathered here to make re
commendations to the Alaska
field committee. The latter group
is to meet here tomorrow. The
board includes a representative
from each judicial division: An
tonio Polet, Nome; Herb Hilscher,
Fairbanks; Jack Talbot, Ketchi
kan; Fred Axford, Anchorage.
Ford and UAW-CIO Come to Agreement
John S. Bugas (left). Ford vice-president and director of industrial relations, and Walter P.
Reuther, CIO United Auto Workers president, shake hands over the bargaining table after Ford
Motor Co. and the UAW reached an agreement on a new contract for 116.000 production workers.
Reuther still carries a brace on his right arm, the result of shotgun wounds inflicted during the at
tempt on his life last Apail. (Others unidentified). ((A*) Wirephoto)
Administration
Not Giving Out
Communist Facts
/ -
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON 4/P)—Rep Ran
<D.-Miss.) said Saturday he will
insist that the House un-Ameri
can activities committee subpoe
na Henry A. Wallace for testi
mony regarding “the shipment of
atomic materials to Russia.”
*
Rankin said in a statement he
also wants the committee to in
vite Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, re
tired, to testify.
Wallace, the Progressive party
presidential candidate, is a for
mer wartime head of the board
of economic warfare.
Groves was in charge of the
atomic bomb project.
“The American people,” Rankin
said, "have a right to know what
has been going on, and what is
going on now relative to the se
crets of the atomic bomb and the
material with which it is made.
“There is something extremely
sinister about this spy ring oper
ating in this country for the pur
pose of securing the secret of the
atomic bomb as well as the mate
rials with which it is made and
transmitting them to a potential
enemy.”
Meanwhile, Rep. McDowell <R.
Pa.) declared Saturday a “highly
important man” in the govern
ment “pushed” wartime ship
ments of atomic bomb material to
Russia.
A second official, he said,
okayed the shipment.
McDowell withheld both names,
but he said the two men will be
asked for explanations soon in
special public hearings to follow
the House un-American activities
investigations of alleged Russian
spy operations in the United
States.
McDowell said that in 1943
Russia got 2.700 pounds of uran
(Continued on Page Three)
Communist Party
W ill Support
Wallace Candidacy
NEW YORK. f/P)—'There’ll be
no communist candidate for Pres
ident this fall.
Instead the communist party
will support the third party can
didacy of Henry A. Wallace and
his Progressive party. Support of
. the new political group will be
given without the communists
seeking any “special interests” in
it, leaders said.
These plans were disclosed Fri
day when the communist party
adopted a 3,000-word platform at
the final session of its 14th annu
al convention.
Besides passing the platform,
the communists re-elected Wil
liam Z. Foster, as national chair
man. They also returned to high
party posts 11 other party offi
cials who were indicted recently
by a federal grand jury with Fos
ter on charges of advocating the
violent overthrow of the U. S.
government.