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VOL. LI. NoT 61_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1949_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF ,
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NEW YORK, <#*), Federal judge
Samuel H. Kaufman today delay
ed the perjury trial of Alger Hess I
until May 31. The trial, on an in-.
dictment handed up by a spy-|
probing federal grand jury last
Dec. 15, originally was scheduled j
to begin Feb. 24. Today’s delay i
was the sixth postponemnt.
LOS ANGELES, </P) — Peter
Lorre, film and stage portrayer of
sinister roles, has filed a volun
tary bankruptcy petition in feder
ai court. Federal judge Ben Har
rison gave the actor, who is in
New York, until May 31 to file a
schedule of his assets and liabili
ties. .
BUTLER, Ala., <^P)—A 10-year
old Negro girl gave birth to a 7%
pound boy at Barber hospital here
Friday night. Hospital attaches
described the baby as “normal”
and said the mbther was “in good
condition.”
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. (;P)—
Mrs. Mary Alves, • a housewife,
won’t have to sit on a jury any
longer—because a juror gets paid
less than a, baby-sitter.
State supreme court justice
Frank-H. Coyne released her from
further service Friday after she
explained that for a week it had
cost $5 a day to hire a sitter for
her three children, while she got
only $3 a day as a juror.
ANCHORAGE, (jP)—An airman
accidentally killed Wednesday at
Elmendorf Field by a .50 calibre
machine-gun bullet was identified
by the air force Saturday as Cpl.
James Floyd Mayoette, 21, West
field, Mass.
Mayoette, a ground crewman
assigned to the 64th fighter squad
ron, was standing 25 feet from an
F-80 jet fighter when armorers
cleaning the machine-gun acci
dentally fired one round.
JUNEAU — The Alaska Area
Rent Office is now ready to re
ceive landlords’ requests for rent
adjustments under the fair net op
erating income provision Rent Di
rector Attorney Walter E. Walsh
has stated.
“We are fully prepared to help
landlords apply for this entirely
new type of rent adjustment which
Congress wrote into the Housing
and Rent Act of 1949,” the area
rent director said. “Landlords may
now obtain the new petition form
and other information which will
be helpful in preparing their peti
tions at the local rent offices lo
cated in the Valentine building,
Juneau.”
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The car
rier Philippine Sea, home-bound
from the Mediterranean, turned
off its course Sunday to go to the
*aid of a man stricken ill aboard
another vessel.
The 61-year-old victim, James
Morgan of Brookline, Mass., was
transferred fom the Marine Slash
er to the carrier and given a blood
transfusion. The navy reported his
condition was good.
Morgan, a retired gardener, was
en route to his native Ireland. He
suffered from peptic ulcers and I
Red Cross Aids
Ft. Yukon Natives
j FAIRBANKS, (JP) — The Red
Cross disaster committee here as
: sembled food, clothing, cooking
| utensils and medicine to be para
! chuted on Fort Yukon,
j That Indian village on the Arc
tic Circle, was flooded Friday as
the result of ice jams in the swol
len Yukon river.
Meanwhile planes from Ladd
air force base were dropping
bombs on new ice targets which
were threatening the villages of
Beaver and Tanana.
Water fell rapidly five feet
and receding at Fort Yukon after
24 quarter-ton bombs cleared the
river ice.
Some 182 villagers waded back
to their homes Friday night after
spending an uncomfortable night
on a wooded knoll where they
were driven by the sudden rise of
the river.
Two mustangs and one B-17
from Ladd were bombing the
Beaver and Tanana ice jams in an
effort to prevent a repetition of
the Fort Yukon flood.
The same tactics were planned
for McGrath, on the Kuskokwim
river, and Ophir, on Folger Creek,
50 miles north of here.
The Red Cross asked the tenth
rescue squadron to parachute
emergency supplies to Fort Yu
kon, where no household escaped
damage. Radio reports said most
“lost everything.”
Despite the suddenness of the
flood, no casualties were reported.
Kuskokwim Rises;
Evacuate Aniak
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Villagers
were being evacuated from flood
ed Aniak last night by an amphib
ian Seabee plane, bringing out six
at a time.
The population of the village,
100 miles southwest of here, is
about 200. The flooding Kusko
kwim river," which flows into the
Bering Sea to the south of the Yu
kon River, was reported rising a
i foot an hour.
Poor flying weather halted ef
forts of army air force planes to
bomb a huge ice jam on the Kus
kokwim. The jam has created the
worst flood in the history of Alas
kan native villages.
Bombers from both Ladd and
Elmendorf fields were prepared
to take to the air again to blast the
ice as soon as the weather clear
ed. The CAA radio range station
at Kuskokwim went out of com
mission late yesterday, indicating
the seriousness of the situation.
The area around Aniak is mar
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his condition became worse when
the Marine Slasher was 500 miles
at sea.
JUNEAU, ifl*) — Henry E. Har
man has been named director of
welfare for the Territory. He takes
office June 1, succeeding Russell
Maynard, who resigned. Harman
has been an instructor of indus
trial arts and vocational education
in Juneau public schools for 14
I years.
Tornadoes Plague |
Mid-Western States
(By The Associated Press)
A tornado offensive ground
across Oklahoma into Kansas last
Friday night and set out flank at
tacks to strike Colorado and Ten
nessee.
For the fourth night in a row
Oklahoma bore the brunt of the
tornado assault, with four dead
and untold injuries and damage.
Already groggy from statewide
floods, Oklahoma counted 17 sep
arate twisters from early evening
to midnight. More reports were
expected from isolated plains
communities.
In Kansas, more twisters hit
southeast of Garden City, near
Scott City, Wilmore, Rozel< Chase.
Gorham and near Salina and Gyp
sum.
Colorado’s storm was at Wray,
in the northeast near the Kansas
Nebraska border. In Tennessee
the damage was at Goin and Barn
Creek.
Since Tuesday, near two-score
twisters have battered the Sooner
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Folta Denies
New Trial Motion
JUNEAU, (JP) — District judge
George W. Folta Friday denied a
motion filed by the international
longshoremen’s and warehouse
men’s union (CIO) and its Juneau
local asking a new trial.
The longshoremen last week
lost a $750,000 verdict when a
jury found for the Juneau Spruce
Corp., which sued the union for
damages growing out of a juris
dictional picketing of its mill.
Judge Folta also denied a mo
tion for more time to file addi
tional grounds for a new trial.
The longshoremen now have
three months in which to file an
appeal.
News of the World
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At A Glance —
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Saturday, May 21, 1949
(By The Associated Press)
Street fighting broke out in
Berlin today even as Big Four
foreign ministers assembled in
Paris for a new attempt to settle
the whole German problem.
Hundreds were beaten in the
Berlin clashes between striking
anti-communist railway workers
and Soviet-controlled railway po
lice. Young communist strike
breakers supported the police at
nearly a dozen stations of the mu
nicipal elevated railway.
The strikers, residents of West
Berlin, are demanding payment in
West marks, the only legal curren
cy in West Berlin. The railways
are Soviet zone controlled and the
men have been paid in Soviet
zone marks which have only a
fraction the value of West marks.
The strike blocked all incoming
allied supply trains from Western
Germany.
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Acheson and foreign secretary
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Nome Breakwater |
Bill Back To House
For Approval
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senate;
Democratic leader Lucas said Sat
urday there will have to be either
a tax increase or a cut in federal
spending—preferably the latter.
But he made it clear he still is t
against the Republican-led drive
—so far unsuccessful — to trim
each appropriation bill by at least
I five per cent.
That economy move was block
ed for the fourth straight time
late Friday when the Senate, by
voice vote, passed and shipped
back to the House a bill carrying
$751,000,000—Nearly all of it for
flood control and river and harbor
projects.
The Senate total is $158,000,000
more than the House voted and
$21,000,000 less than President
Truman wanted.
The Senate batted down a pro
posed five per cent cut in its fig
ure by a vote of 44 to 33. It killed
a 10 per cent reduction amend
ment, 48 to 29. And it swamped,
59 to 15, a proposal by Democratic
Senator Douglas (D.-Ill.) to slash
(the fund 40 per cent—by $300,
008,000.
Alaska projects included in the
bill were: Nome Harbor, $701,000;
Wrangell Narrows, $343,000.
Senate Seeks To
Tighten Up Mili
tary Unification
(By Edwin B. Haakinson)
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Senator
Lucas (D.-Ill.) today threw the
weight of the Senate leadership
behind a bill designed to tighten
up unification of the army, navy
and air forces. One goal is a cut in
the multi-billion dollar costs of
peacetime defense efforts.
“I’m for it and the Senate
should be able to pass it today or
tomorrow,” the Democratic leader
told a reporter. “It certainly
should have the support of all
these fellows who have been yell
ing for economy.”
Chairman Tydings (D.-Md.) of
the Senate armed services com
mittee will be floor manager for
: the measure. It would make the
first major changes in the 1947
unification act that squeezed
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Tornadoes Over
States Do Much
Damage; Kill Many
*By The Associated Press*
A rapid succession of tornadoes
and other weather fury killed 46
persons and caused millions of
dollars of property damage over
the week-end in widely scattered
areas.
The storm raked ten States, in
jured at least 229 persons and
smashed 900 houses. In Washing
ton, Basil O’Connor, president of
the American Red Cross said the
organization had set aside $500,
000 for relief of the many hun
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James V. Forrestal^
Former Navy Secy.
Dies; A Suicide
(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A navaf
board of inquiry was ordered to
day to inquire into the suicide of
57-year-old James Forrestal, but
his friends among the nation’s
great wrote their own verdictsrhe
died because he worked so hard
for his country.”
Forrestal, cabinet member un
der Presidents Roosevelt and Tru
man, ended his own life early
Sunday morning by leaping from
the 16th floor of the navy’s tower
ing hospital in Bethseda, Md. He
left as his only farewell an an
cient Greek poem of despair and
death.
He was the first secretary of de
fense—a wearing job that he gave
pu as a sick man in March. Before
that, he had been secretary of the
mightiest navy the world has ever
seen, and before that he had serv
ed as an assistant to Franklin D.
Roosevelt in the White House.
This spring, his health broken
by more than nine years of nerve
wracking service, he decided to
seek release from the strain. A
few days in Florida after his resig
nation, and then he entered the
hospital April 2.
His death and the manner of it
shocked the Capital.
President Truman said “This
able and devoted public servant
was as truly a casualty of the war
as if he had died on the firing
line.” He issued a proclamation
ordering that flags fly at half
staff from all public buildings,
forts and warships.
So far as was known, the for
mer secretary left no note.
But on a radiator, near his hos
pital bed, was found a book, “An
Anthology of World Poetry.” A
red ribbon lay between the pages
opened to Sophocles’ ‘Chorus from
Ajax.’ That poem tells of pro
found and hopeless tragedy.
In the back of the book was a
piece of hospital memorandum
paper on which Forrestal had cop
ied, in a firm hand, the first 26
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Order 15% Cut In
Marshall Plan
.WASHINGTON (/P), The House
appropriations committee today
ordered a 15 per cent cut in the
Marshall plan spending for the
year starting July 1.
Overriding a sub-committee
recommendation, the full commit
tee voted to cut $629,730,000 from
the $1,198,200,000 President Tru
man had asked for the European
recovery program’s second year of
operations.
The sub-committee had recom
mended a cut of only $182,300,000,
but Republicans claimed this was
not enough.
The full committee also voted to
cut $150,000,000 from the billion
dollars President Truman sought
for government and relief in oc
cupied areas. The sub-committee
had chopped this items only $50,
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