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VOL. L. No. 152 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE i/P>—A dozen Christ
mas t ecs were flown sonic 2,000
miles to Nome from Seattle by
Pan American Airways this week.
George Madsen, proprietor of a
Nome Curio shop, decided Nome
ites should have traditional Christ
man too, and so had his friend,
George Whaley of Seattle fly the
trees to him.
KETCHIKAN, (lP) — Joint ef
forts to obtain a better community
and improved living conditions
for natives are the announced
aims of a new organization set up
by the Thlinget and Haida Indi
ans. Fred Wallace was named
chairman. The meeting was held
under sponsorship of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood and Sister
hood.
FAIRBANKS, (/R;—IPs a “Sal
chaket Ningila Yugalik” for Fair
banks Boy Scouts this Christmas.
In Eskimo and Indian dialects
that means, Scout executive Russ
Appel explains, a winter camp at
Harding Lake. During the five
day outing the boys will perform
such Eskimo feats as building ig
loos, they will live in a quonset
hut.
MEDICINE HAT, Alta., (/P) —
Safe crackers robbed a lumber
company safe here Friday of $300.
They used a welding outfit
stolen from another company to
do the job. Then they returned
the welding tools, remembering
also to nail up the door they had
broken open to get them.
MANCHESTER, Eng. </P)—Het
ty, the ostrich, of Manchester’s zoo
is dead. And no wonder!
A veterinarian said the post
mortem showed she had swallow
ed: a bullet, a golf ball, a knife
handle, a bottle stopper, a spoon,
a can-opener, a skewer, 37 nails,
47 tacks and about 35 cents in
• coins.
SAN JOSE, Calif. </P) — Mrs.
Florence Lamb Darlington of
Palo Alto won her divorce here
after she told superior judge John
D. Foley her husband John J.
Darlington didn’t like to read
books, go out nights socially, have
friends in, or go to the movies.
All he was interested in was
lawn bowling, she related.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. </P)—1
Three men wearing Santa Claus
masks visited Eli Hackeney, oper- i
ator of the Hackney Board Yard,
last night, but they left no gifts
for him.
Instead, he told state police,
they drew guns, forced him to
hand over $2,200 from a small safe
and escaped in an automobile after
ripping out telephone wires.
* SANTA MONICA, Calif. </P)—
Gary Cooper was reported resting
comfortably Saturday in St.
John’s hospital, after suffering
from exposure while adrift on a
barge in a film role a week ago.
The actor entered the hospital
Thursday suffering from a bad
cold and sore throat. He is under
observation.
Internation'l News
At A Glance —
Saturday, December 18, 1948
• By The Associated Press*
The Dutch government issued
a decree today establishing a new
Indonesian government without
the Indonesian republic. It will be
effective about the first of the
year.
Officials at the Hague said the.
decree aims at setting up an in
terim government for Indonesia
• the Netherlands East Indies)
which in Dutch opinion is closest
“to the wishes of the great major
ity of the Indonesian people.”
Netherlands authorities last Sat
urday broke off negotiations with
the1 Indonesian republic. These
talks had been aimed at settling
the long Dutch-Republican dispute
at that time the Dutch announced
their intention of setting up the
interim regime to rule until for
mation of the projected United
States of Indonesia.
A United Nations good offices
committee had conducted the ne
gotiations. Termination of the
talks followed by reports that hos
tilities might be resumed in the
islands.
The Chinese nationalist com
l
mander in North China pledged a
fight to the death for Peiping. A
1 strong belief persists, however
that the historic city will be spared
the agony of battle. Fighting
around the city died down during
the night.
Government military sources
[said encircling Chinese commun
1 ists had withdrawn from points
close to Peiping. These informants
estimated communist casualties in
Friday’s fighting at more than
5,000. The figure probably was an
exaggeration.
Nanking’s military position
grew worse. Nationalist defense
headquarters was being pulled
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Kersten Asks Stiff
Loyalty Tests On j
Government Jobs
_
WASHINGTON, (£»)—Stiff loy-!
alty tests will be recommended to
Congress for union leaders in1
plants working on strategic gov- j
ernment contracts.
Rep. Kersten (R.-Wis.) said the
suggestion will come from his la- ;
bor sub-committee.
Emphasizing the importance to
national security of having trust
worthy men heading such unions,
Kersten noted that the armed
forces have dozens of contracts
with private companies, many in
volving highly secret equipment
or processes.
“People of doubtful loyalty just
should not have access to infor
mation about these things," Ker
sten said. “Just thnik of the dam
age they could do.”
He said the atomic energy com
mission already has set the pattern
for strict government surveillance
of labor unton leadership in a case
involving the General Electric Co.
and the CIO united electrical
workers.
Gruening Galls !
Extra Session
—
(Special to The Nugget)
JUNEAU, </P)—Acting Governor
Lew Williams, under instructions
from Governor Gruening, issued
a call for a special session of the
Alaska Legislature, to convene
Jan. 6 and last through Jan. 22,
for the purpose of considering the
financial situation of the Territory
and taking needed action as neces- i
sary. The regular session January
19, legislature meeting Jan. 24.
Will Invite States" I
Righters Back Into
Democratic Party
W
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WASHINGTON. </P) — Prodigal
followers of the States’ Rights
i movement may find the welcome
myt out for them when the Demo
cratc party stages its annual Jef
ferson-Jackson Day dinners early
next year.
,
Democratic officials are said to I
be planning to send invitations as i
a sort of indirect peace gesture to
many who strayed somewhat
afield in the election campaign.
In fact, one Democratic official!
i who didn’t want to be named told
a reporter:
i “You may be surprised at how
many of the so-called Dixiecrats
1 attend these dinners as good Dem
ocrats.’’
It was emphasized, however,
j that there will be no peace moves
' from the party toward those who
took leading roles in the civil
t rights revolt which cost President
Truman 39 southern electoral
votes.
For instance, no one expects the
national committee to invite either
Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South I
Carolina or Gov. Fielding L.
Wright of Mississippi to come
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Lower Food Prices
Prospect For 1949
—
CHICAGO, (/P> — Lower food j
prices in 1949 is the optimistic i
outlook today by the men who
keep on top of the nation’s food
business.
>
Retailers and their suppliers,
and other authorities in the food
industry expressed their opinions
on what the consumer can expect
in the way of prices and supplies
next year .
They anticipate that prices will
be slightly lower next year.
They also look for increased
food supplies and greates sales.
And the consumer can expect to
find high quality food and im
proved service in the country’s re
tail stores.
Views on the food outlook for
next year were expressed by offi
cials in all lines of food, including
meat, dairy, poultry, fruit and
groceries, as well as by the secre
taries of agriculture and com
merce. They were in articles ap
pearing in the annual food indus
try review issue of the National
Grocers bulletin, official publica
tion of the National Association of
Retail Grocers.
Hoof Garden
Great Success
The Pioneer Roof Garden, the
40th gala affair of its kind in Nome
was held Saturday evening at the
school auditorium.
Following the traditional march
of the Pioneers a splendid pro
gram of local talent followde.
Hobo Jo played an old time se
lection followed by a fire eating
act. Bill Smith gave the ever pop
ular reading “The Shooting of Dan
McGrew” to the delight of the
audience. George Beaeom, m his
usual entertaining manner, pre
sented an impersonation which
brought a big applause from the
audience.
Carrie McLain sang a group of
old time songs in which the audi
ence joined in the choruses of “In
the Good Old Summer Time” and
“Bicycle Built for Two.”
Jennie {Bayers added Christmas
to the program with a beautiful
rendition of “Holy Night."
Lt. Sano was the final act on
the program with a song and
dance number.
Winner of the big nugget was
Charles Russell and Hank Drier
won the silver tip fox.
Door prize went to Klaus Hole
and the children’s door prize to
Frank Martin, Jr.
Record Crowd At
Community Xmas
The Community Christmas Tree
celebration held last Friday eve
ning at the Nome High School was
presented to a capacity crowd, es
timated at between 1300 to 1500
people, and one of the largest
groups ever gathered for this an
nual Christmas festivity.
The school faculty presented a
very fine program of plays and
music, taking in all the young peo
ple from the first grade through
the high school, after which Santa
arrived with sacks for all chil-.
I
dren. Six hundred sacks of candy,
nuts and fruit were quickly dis
pensed by Santa with the aid of
the Boy Scouts.
A beautiful Christmas tree,
brought in for the occasion filled
the corner of the aduitorium and
its scent was throughout the room.
Tojo Turned Down
By Supreme Court
(Special to The Nugget)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The Su-,
preme Court today refused to in
terfere with the international mil
itary tribunal which condemned
former premier Tojo and six other
Japanese war lords to die. By a
vote of 6 to 1 the court decided it
had no authority over the 11-na
tion tribunal. The decision turned
down requests by the convicted
Japanese wartime officials that
it:
1. Consider their appeals;
2. Declare the international tri
bunal illegal;
3. Order their immedipte re
lease.
The decision presumably seals
the doom of Tojo and the other
six who were sentenced to die on
the gallows.
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Addressed Service
(dub Sunda\
•»
Sir Hubert Wilkin> was guest
speaker at the Service Club last
evening and his talk, broadcast
through WXLN, was oi great in
terest to the community. Some of
the outstanding facts stated by this
famous British Artcic and Antarc
:;c explorer included the sugges
tion of a 5-Nation Polar agreement
through the United Nations as
weather forecasts from the Polar
region are made from west to east
and the nations need to co-oper
ate.
He also told of the importance
of the Antarctic continent (bigger
than the United States and Alaska
together! being of great strategic
importance should the Panama
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j Clark Will Seek
l ightening Of
Espionage Laws
WASHINGTON, (.4*)—Attorney
general Clark said the administra
tion will ask for tightening of the
nation's espionage laws as soon as
the new Congress meets next
month.
Clark made the statement after
attending a meeting of President
j Truman’s cabinet at the White
House.
Mr. Truman told his newscon
! ference, in reply to a question,
I that he had asked Clark to look
I into the possibility of tightening
! up the espionage laws. He said ttM
justice department had been
studying the matter for some time*
but that it was a difficult matter
to handle and still stay within the
Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
Clark was asked what was be
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Attempts to Rescue
Stranded Fliers
Unsuccessful
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—After two
attempts to snatch a glider
nine marooned airmen off the
Greenland ice cap, the air force
thought up new methods Satur
day.
Headquarters was told that res
cuers planned to drop skis to be
fitted to the glider, or to advise
the nine men to remove its wheels
so the craft would slide on thft
snow. An earlier message said
dropping of plywood to form a
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SHOPPING DAYS
Till CHRISTMAS