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VOL. LII. No. 61 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
MANCHESTER, N. H., </P) —
* Authorities sought yesterday the
identity of a golfer whose bullet
line drive was responsible for the
death of a 10-year-old boy.
William McGuire died yesterday
of a brain laceration and skull
fracture. Emergency surgery fail
i ed to save him and he never re
gained conciousness.
The boy was hit by a golf ball
at the Derryfield Country Club
Sunday.
LONDON, (iP)—Winston Chur
chill has bought another race
horse, an unraced two-year-old
named Canyon Kid.
He now has three in training
with Walter Nightingall of Epsom.
„ The prize of this string is
French-bred fouLyear-old Colon
ist Two, which has twice earned
winning brackets this season.
TOPEKA, Kans. UP)—City Clerk
Ed Jones has a fine radish crop.
In fact, his lawn is dotted by
thousands of radishes.
Those seed he sowed this spring
definitely weren’t clover and blue
^ grass.
CORDOVA, UP—Copper River
district gillnet salmon fishermen
went to work Monday after reach
ing a compromise agreement with
canners on the price of red sal
mon. Negotiations were continu
ing on the silver salmon scale.
The red salmon price was set at
80 cents a fish.
On silvers, for which the season
does not open until July 20, fish
ermen were asking 30 cents and
the canneries were offering 25
t cents.
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PALMER, (TP)—It was a plain j
error to invite folks to drop in and
see “Jackie” Smith, last week’s 1
announced queen candiate of the
Matanuska Valley sportsmen. Ben
jamin Cago accepted the invita
tion, liked what he saw and slip
ped a diamond on Miss Smith’s
finger.
Contestants must be single, so j
A this week the Sportsmen pondered '
the matter again and decided to
stand by their Smith decision.
They selected Jean Smith, Jackie’s
17-year-old sister, as their choice
for queen honors at the Sept. 1, 2,
3, 4 Fair.
Jean is a junior at Palmer high
school. She’s been a Valley resi
dent since the age of two.
NOTICE OF MEMORIAL
DAY CLOSINGS
Nome Hardware Store and U.S.
Mercantile have announced they
' will be closed on Monday and
Tuesday in observance of Mem
orial Day, giving their employees
a two-day vacation.
The N. C. Store and Cat Shop
will be open on Monday, closed
on Tuesday.
Nome Motors will observe Tues
day closing.
Some of the business houses
are observing Monday as a holi
day to give their employees a two
day holiday and plan to be open
on Tuesday, others have sign!
| tied their intention of remaining
4 closed both days.
TIE-BREAKING
ALASKAGRAMS MAILED
Today, Wedenesday, marks
the mailing date from Seattle of
Alaskagram tie-breaking puzzles
which each tying contestant is re
quired to solve and mail back by
June tenth. No tie breaker was
mailed before today. All tie
breakers were air mailed and
should reach postal boxes not la
ter than coming weekend.
Tewkesbury
Rig Three Accuse
Reds Of Creating
Military Force
(By John Scali)
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The U. S.,
Britain and France accused Rus
sia yesterday of creating a 50,000
man German military force and
called on the Soviets to disband it.
The three western powers sent
separate protests to Moscow say
ing Russia had broken its postwar
pledges by establishing a police
force in Eastern Germany with—
as the American note phrased it
—“the character of an army.”
The United States note called
on Russia to prove its “pacific in
tentions” by dissolving the “mil
itarized units” immediately.
In making it public, the state
department said French and Brit
ish notes took the same general
line.
Expressing “grave concern” at
Russia’s action, the American note
said the Soviets have “ destroyed
world confidence in the sincerity”
of their repeated protestations of
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LATE BULLETIN
The correct figure for the pop
ulation of the City of Nome as is
sued by George W. Jarris of the
Census ..Bureau., in .Fairbanks
is 1,8 5 5.
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Baseball Sc •ores
(By The Associated Press)
—
Monday Games
National League
Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 1
Only game scheduled.
American League
New York 7, Cleveland 2.
Detroit 5, Washington 1.
Chicago 10, Boston 9. (10 innings
night)
Only games scheduled
Western International League
Vancouver 8, Spokane 5.
Only game scheduled.
Tuesday Games
National League
Chicago 5, Brooklyn 4.
Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 0
(night*
Cincinnati 6, Boston 2 (night)
St. Louis at New York, postponed
on account of rain.
American League
Washington 8, Detroit 2.
St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 1 (night) i
Only games scheduled.
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 6. San Diego 2.
Sacramento 8, Oakland 7.
San Francisco 10, Seattle 3.
Portland 12, Los Angeles 7.
Congress Seeks ,
Adjournment
August First
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Adminis
tration leaders yesterday put off ,
until next week a decision on
when to seek an adjournment of i
Congress.
Senate majority leader Lucas
(111.) told reporters after a White
House conference that President
Truman will discuss administra
tion legislative goals with his Con- !
t
gressional leaders next week.
The question of how soon Con
gress might quit to give its mem
bers an early start on re-election
campaigns had been slated for
discussion yesterday when Lucas,
Vice President Barkley and House j
majority leader McC o r m a c k
(Mass.) called at the White House.
They had planned to talk over
with Mr. Truman how much of
his “fair deal” program he is will
ing to delay until the 82nd Con- :
gress.
“We didn’t get to talk much
about adjournment,” Lucas said.
He said there were too many
other matters to take up. McCor
mack, who is acting speaker, had
! to leave the conference for the op
ening of the House, which met an
hour earlier than usual.
Strong pressure was building up
among Senators and Representa
tives who have re-election cam
paigns to cut short the working
schedule and get Congress out of
town by August 1.
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the I
Democratic leader, has a hit cam
paign on his hands.
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Present Defenses
In Northwest “Are
Adequate Today”
SEATTLE, (TP)—Pacific North- I
west defenses are adequate today,
but the picture could change over
night “on anything the potential
enemy does.”
That was the observation last
week of Maj. Gen. William R.
Schmidt, director of the Contin- j
ental United States Defense Plan- |
ning Group. ■
Schmidt, here to speak before
the chamber of commerce said fn
an interview:
“In this business of defending
the northwest or any other part
of the country, you’ve just got to
take the whole continent of North
America and see where It sets on
the globe. Of course, Alaska and
Canada are pertinent to this de
fense.”
He said there are two logical air
approaches to the North American
continent — one from the north- I
west and the other from the north
east. So, he declared, the “north
west definitely is in present de
fense plans.”
He said he favored both Alaska
Statehood and retention of Boeing
Airplane production in Seattle.
“I presume if Alaska was made
a state it would develop a na
tional guard,” Schmidt said. “As
far as ground forces are concern
ed, this would help materially.”
He said the present radar screen
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Fairbanks Power
Shortage Reaches
Emergency Status
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — This city’s
power shortage, already describ
ed as critical, reached emergency
status Monday with the break
down of a 300-kilowatt generator
at the Alaska Railroad plant.
The generator had been loaned
to the city for auxiliary power
purposes when member of Local
1550, International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers close the Fair
banks Exploration departme n t
powerhouse of the U. S. S. R. &M.
company in support of demands
for a union shop contract clause.
The union has been on strike
for more than a week but closed
the powerhouse Sunday.
Lou Joy, superintendent of the
Northern Commercial Company,
said the loss of the generator made
it mandatory that lights, heating
units, water pumps and appli
ances be used only when absolute
ly necessary.
Service to some portions of the
city may have to be cut off en
tirely, Joy said.
It is the first time in 10 years
the powerhouse, supplying two
thirds of the city’s electrical pow
er, has been shut down. The pre
vious shutdown was brought about
by the strike of Local 444, CIO
mine workers, to force company
recognition of the union. That
strike lasted 30 days but did not
affect the city’s power facilities as
the Northern Commercial Com
pany was then supplying all the
power needed.
Meanwhile, the strike of ap
proximately 70 members of Local
1553, IBEW went into its second
week. The men walked out last
Monday demandiVig a 12V£ cent
hourly wage boost in their new
agreement with the National Elec
trical Contractors Associati o n .
Two association members have
agreed to the union demand.
Those two companies were the
only ones proceeding with work
at either the L.1dd or Eielson Air
Force Base projects.
SEARCH for KING ISLANDERS
LOST ON BERING SEA
Two King Islanders, Frank
Pushka and Tommy Alasuk, who
were out sealing on Bering Sea in
a small plywood craft last even
ing, were caught out when the
strong north wind started to blow.
They are reported to have been
seen with binoculars by Mrs. John
Kost, waving their arms to at
tract attention on shore as the ice
moved rapidly out of the road
stead.
The army sent out a helocopter
which searched during the night
for them but were unable to find
a trace of the missing men.
It was reported that a search
and rescue plane was enroute
from Anchorage to continue the
search.
Just before going to press
information was received that the
Air Force plane piloted by Major
J. Haselby and Lt. Fred Emory
spotted the men drifting drifting
about 15 miles from shore. A life
News of the \\ oriel
At A Glance* - - -
Tuesday. May 23. 1950
• By The Associated Press)
The director of the Economic
Cooperation Administration in
Formosa said today there are in
' dications Washington is going
ahead with further aid to Chiang
Kai-Chek’s island fortress,
in the first invasion try but pre
Taipei, capital of the Nationalist
held island, that the ECA program
was scheduled to end June 30 but
Washington has requested his
views on extending it.
“This appears to indicate that
ECA in Washington is not closing
down the program in Formosa,”
he said.
No American officials on For
mosa seemed worried over the
communist invasion threat. The
state department has requested all
Americans not on official business
to leave while normal transporta
tion is available.
Nationalist Chinese cla i m e d
their forces have repulsed a Red
attempt to capture the island of
Wanshan ^Ladrone). They claim
ed 1,000 communists were killed
in tht first invasion try but pre
dicted the communists would try
again.
A former government official of
the West China Province of Sin
kiang told newsmen in Srinigar,
Kashmir that the Nationalist Chi
nese guerrillas are giving the com
munists a tough time,
i U. N. secretary general Trygve
Lie arrived in London for talks
with British Prime Minister Att
lee and foreign secretary Ernest
j Bevin. Lie, on a “save-the-U. N.”
mission expects to return to the
United States tomorrow.
The first contingent of militant
communist youth arrived in Ber
lin today in preparation for next
Sunday’s march heralded demon
stration. As reviewing stands were
; being built and flags hung out, in
the Soviet sector, West Berlin’s
1 Mayor Ernst Reuter warned Rus
sia his sector would “defend its
freedom” against any “putsch at
tempt ... to conquer and sudden
ly overrun Free Berlin.”
The thousand year old city of
' Cuzco, Peru, received offers of
help from all over the Americas
today as it continued to dig itself
out from earthquake-strewn rub
| bio which was expected eventual
ly to yield 60 or more bodies. An
I airlift from Lima. Peru’s capital,
is flying in relief supplies. The
quake Sunday left centuries-old
buildings in ruins.
Austrian officials in Vienna
said Russia’s latest delaying tac
tics made it look as if Austria is
i in for an indepinite occupation.
The defense ministry of the
South Korean republic reported 27
guerrillas from communist North
' Korea were killed Sunday, 70
i miles north of Seoul, the Republi
| can capital. Since early spring re
publican forces have wiped out
j 700 guerrillas, the communique
j said.
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' rate was dropped to them and it
' was reported that a boat is lear
• ing immediately to pick them up.