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VOL. XLIX. No. 156_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1947_PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
.JUNEAU, 0*P)—Harry Dland of
•Juneau, former supervising depu
ty of the Territorial department of
taxation, filed today as a sandi
date in next April’s primaries for
the Democratic nomination for!
Territorial auditor. The only other
aspirant who has filed for the of
fice is Albert Goetz of Douglas, a
Republican.
JUNEAU, {^P)—Attorney gener
al Ralph Rivers said Saturday he
had filed a protest with the civil
aeronautics board in Washington,
D. C., against a proposed amend
ment to aviation regulations seek
ing to place charter air cargo
planes between the United States
and Alaska on regular schedules.
Rivers said he favors allowing
cargo planes to carry passengers,
thus increasing the Territory’s
passenger service which now is
limited to regularly established
lines.
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Actress
Yvette Taylor, 23, has demanded
$75,000 damages from band leader
Desi Arnaz, claiming he struck
her over the head with a portable
microphone while she was seated
at a Hollywood nightclub table De
cember 28, 1946.
Miss Taylor filed suit in super
ior court Friday against Arnaz and
H. D. Hoven, proprietor of the
nightclub, asserting that she suf
fered a cerebral concussion and
that since then she has been sub
ject to headaches, fainting spells
and traumatic psychosis.
MEXICO CITY, </P)—Police re
ported Saturday that 10 persons
were dead and more than 100 hos
pitalized as a result of a three-day
cold wave that has gripped the
Mexico City area. Snow and hail
storms were reported in the Coa
huila and Durango regions.
The mercury fell to 30 degrees
fahrenheit, the coldest Dec. 26 on
record.
LOS ANGELES, </P) — Long
Beach was' believed to have been j
the hottest spot in the United j
States Saturday, with a maximum j
temperature of 87. Los Angeles j
had a top for the second successive
day. It was the warmest Dec. 26 in
the history of thex Los Angeles
weather bureau, exceeding the 82
degrees recorded on that date in
1890 and 1928.
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — Actress
Deborah Kerr and her first-born
daughter, Melanie Jane, both were
reported doing well today.
The English film player, 26,
gave birth to Melanie at Cedars of
Lebanon hospital Saturday. The
baby weighed seven pounds, 13
ounces. Miss Kerr is married to
Tony Bartley, former Royal Air
Force aviator.
JUNEAU, (iP)—A machinist for
the White Pass & Yukon railroad
was fatally injured, and the su
perintendent of the line and a con
ductor seriously hurt when a bal- j
last spreader overturned on the |
icy rails just north of 15-A bridge, i
near Skagway, Friday.
The victim, E. D. LbganofSkag-!
way, died aboard a train which!
More Millions
Will Be Asked
For Greek Aid
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WASHINGTON, OR) — Several
members of Congress predicted j
Saturday that Russia will increase
pressure on Greece by extending
official recognition of a new “in-:
dependent Communist” regime in
the northern part of the Mediter-1
ranean nation.
Some said the result may be a
call for more American millions to
shore up Greek resistance to Com-!
munism. Rep. Nixon (R.-Calif.)
guessed that the administration
might ask as much as $400,000,000.
This would be in addition to the
$300,000,000 Greek share of the
$400,000,000 Congress appropriat
ed last spring to stiffen resistance
against Soviet encroachment in
Greece and Turkey.
Rep. Teague (D.-Tex.) one of
those who thinks 'Russian recogni
tion of the new “state” will be the
next move dictated by Moscow,
told a reporter the situation would
never have developed if “the
Greek army had made a decent ef
fort to clear up that guerrilla sit
uation.”
Rep. Jonkman <R.-Mich.), a
member of the House foreign af
fairs committee, said the an
nouncement of a new Communist
state “has been cooking for some
time and Russian recognition is
the next logical step.”
Rep. Bloom (D.-N. Y.>, who was
foreign affairs chairman when the
Democrats ran Congress, said the
developments do not mean that
Amei-ican efforts to beat back
Communism in Greece have
failed.
“If it were not for our pro
gram,” he said, “the Communists
would have been all over Greece
today. If they once get in, it’s al
most impossible to get them out.
It‘s better to spend a dollar to
keep them out than $500 to get
them out.”
Philippines Mops |
Up Following !
Typhoon Disaster
MANILA, <>P)—The toll of dead
and missing—including 32 of the
61 persons who were aboard the
sunk motorship Kina—stood at 49
Saturday night as the Philippines
mopped up after its worst Decem
ber typhoon in three decades.
Twenty-nine of those aboard the
Kina, a Danish ship which sank in
Samar Sea after grounding during
the typhoon Christmas night, were
reported safe. There was no word
of the other 32, who attempted to
ride out the storm in lifeboats and
on pieces of wreckage.
Press^ reports listed 11 killed at
Laguna, where an entire family
was blown into Laguna Bay with 1
their house; five in Manila and
one in Cavite.
There was no word of casualties
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was speeding the three men to a
Skagway hospital.
Logan is survived by his widow,
three sons, a daughter and broth
er, all of Skagway.
Commission Finds
Lighterage Com
panies Violate Law ,
The examiner for the Maritime
Commission in the case to deter
mine the lawfulness of the fares,
charges and practices of the Lo
men Commercial Company and
the Kotzebue Sound Lighterage
Company has submitted his find
ings to* the commission based on
his opinion that the two companies
have been violating the law.
The Alaska Development Board
and the Territory of Alaska were
participants in the rate case and
attacked the level of the rates,
fares and charges of the Lomen
Commercial Company. The at4/ick
was based partially against the
| rates charged for movement of
1 cargo by the company between
; ship and shore. With certain ex
ceptions these rates at the time of
i the hearings • were specified per
; centages of the rates of the Alaska
Steamship company for the trans
portation from Seattle. In other
words, the rate for lighterage at
Nome, Golovin and Teller was 50
| 1
t per cent of the rate charged by
the Alaska Steamship company to
1 carry freight from Seattle to
Nome, Golovin and Teller, and 55
per cent at Solomon and Bluff.
The examiner, F. J. Horan, has
submitted that the Maritime Com
mission should find:
“(1) That, to the extent Lomen’s
rates, fares and charges wield net
income in excess of the amount
found herein to be a fair return,
they are, and for the future will
be, unjust and unreasonable, in
violation of section 18 of the Ship
ping Act, 1916; (2) That Lomen
does not file with the commission
schedules showing all of its rates,
in violation of section 2 of the In
tercoastal Shipping Act, 1933; (3)
that Lomen allows a longer period
of free time than that permitted by
its tariff on file with the Commis
sion, in violation of section 2 of
the Intercoastal Shipping Act; (4) j
that the rates charged by respond- i
ent Kotzebue Sound Lighterage
Company under the contracts dis
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Bridges Predicts
Longshore Strike
SAN FRANCISCO (/P)—Refusal
of CIO longshoremen to handle
cargo bound for countries where i
workers are struggling against,
“reactionary employer,s land
lords and governments” was de- j
dared “quite likely” Saturday by
Harry Bridges, head of the long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
union.
He said his union expected de
mands from overseas workers that
they refuse to load arms and other
materials for nations such as
France, Italy and Greece.
In 1938 and 1939 the longshore
men refused to load scrap iron for
Japan until ordered to do so by
Wayne Morse, present Republican
Senator from Oregon who was wa
terfront arbitrator for the west
coast.
Bridges said four union mem
bers were being sent to Europe for
“some first hand, real lowdown
King Emanuele III
Of Italy, 78, Dies J
In Exile
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, (/P> —
Vittorio Emanuele III, 78, the di
minutive king whose 20 years of
subservience to Benito Mussolini
led to the downfall of the House
of Savoy and nearly brought about
the ruin of Italy, died in exile yes
terday of pneumonia at his Alex- j
andria villa.
Elena, tall, 74-ye^r-old wife of j
the former ruler, was at his bed- j
side when death came.
The former king was stricken
with double pneumonia Wednes
day while preparing to celebrate
Christmas with his family. He was
taken to the Italian hospital in
Alexandria.
A dispatch from Lisbon said
that Umberto, who succeeded his
father as king for one month, un
til the Italians threw out the mon
archy, planned to leave today for
Alexandria.
Vittorio Emanuele, esteemed by
J his people after World War I,
! came under the domination of
Mussolini in 1922 when the latter
marched on Rome and the King
summoned him to form a cabinet.
The picture finally changed in
July, 1943, when Allied victories
in the Mediterranean theater
showed Italy’s true weakness and
' Vittorio Emanuele played a major
role in unseating the dictator to
! whom he had played yes-man for
i so many years.
! When finally he found asylum
i with the Allies, Vittorio Emanuele
denounced Mussolini and Hitler.
! The Italians remembered too
! keenly his previous loyalties, how
ever, and called for his abdication.
In 1944 when the Allies took
j Rome, the king surrendered his
J power to Umberto as lieutenant
' general of the realm, a move
, which made him king in name
; only.
1 No funeral arrangements have
j yet been made, but there was no
indication the former monarch
would be returned to Italy to lie
in the Pantheon niche once as
signed to him.
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L. S. Helicopter
Crashes In Naples
NAPLES. Italy (£>>—'Three U. S.
navy men were killed when a heli
copter from the aircraft carrier
Midway lost its rotor and fell into
a scrap iron pile in the port of Na
ples today.
Two were listed as naval offi
cers Robert Lamm and Jack Pe
ter. Their addresses and the name
of the third victim were not avail
able.
Witnesses said the helicopter
took off from the carrier, anchored
in Naples harbor, a few minutes
before the crash. The accident oc
curred a few hundred yards from
the “Friendship Train” food ship
Exiria.
dope on what’s cooking in many'
foreign countries.”
It is probable, too, he added in
his column in the union’s official
newspaper, that the longshoremen
will have to strike June 15 “to pre
serve the hiring hall.”
Missing Superfort
Crashed North Of
Nome; Rescue
Operations On
NOME (/P>—Heavy ground fogs,
gale force winds and sub-zero
temperatures confronted resc u e
parties today as the air force, fur
ther hindered by the crash land
ing of a C-47 tow plane and its
glider in Sunday’s operations,
sought to evacuate four known
survivors of a B-29 crash in the
bleak sub-Arctic 95 miles north of
Nome.
None of the seven men in the
C-47 and the glider were injured.
Five of the unsuccessful rescu
ers were returned last night to
Nome by the crew of a C-45. Two
others were left behind to ready
the stranded glider to be picked
up today.
Condition of the four survivors
and the fate of the four other crew
members of the sericken super
fortress, the “Clobbered Turkey,”
! still was uncertain. The plane
, crashed on a training flight last
Tuesday.
i Capt. Aiken Mays, Nome air
| base doctor, and two paratroopers
; dropped to their aid Saturday
night, shortly after the plane was
j first sighted, but failure of their
radio equipment has made it im
, possible to gather details. A sec
ond radio was dropped by the C-47
yesterday but there was no indi
cation from the medical team that
! the messages were getting through.
I Col. Harry N. Burkhalter, com
manding officer of the Nome air
base, said rescue operations would
be resumed today as quickly as
weather conditions permit. Winds
ranging from 25 to 40 miles an
hour, temperatures down to 40 de
grees below zero, and a heavy
ground fog were reported in the
region of the crashed plane.
While crew members clear a
landing strip on the lake for a
C-47, the dog team will head for
the wrecked B-29 and bring back
survivors. Burkhalter said it
would require two or three hours
to clear the strip for a wheeled
landing, but expressed hope that
evacuation of the men could be
completed to Nome before the
early midwinter Arctic darkness
closes in tonight.
Private pilots also failed in their
attempts to reach the Clobbered
Turkey’s survivors.
Frank Whaley and John Cross
of the Wien Alaska Airlines land
ed on the lake at which a base
camp is to be established today,
but reported they could not make
their way the four miles into the
plane because of the weather.
Whaley, after flying low over
the wreckage, said the B-29 had
crashed into a low hill and that
the front end appeared to have
burned. The fuselage was broken
in two, he said, with the tail sur
faces bent back over one of the
wings.
A canvas covering was pulled
over the unburned back end of the
cabin, but he said no signs of the
survivors or of the medical team
were seen.
FAIRBANKS, <;P) — Drawn and
tense after a sleepless 36-hour
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