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VOL. LI. No. 156 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAV, DECEMBER 30, 1P4D~~ Per Copy— 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON UP)—The stately Lon
don Times told the story of Rita
Hayworth’s new baby in a para
graph yesterday.
The headline: “G”and-daughter
for the Aga Khan.”
WASH INTON, (/PI — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska recommended
to the postoffice department yes
terday appointment of Mrs. Eve
lyn Cheeks us postmaster atOphir,
Alaska.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—-Frank Wil
liams. Wien Airlines mechanic
missing since leaving for Kotze
bue Monday, was found alive
Wednesday in a pass between Ki
ana and Selawik. ^387 miles west
of hei'e).
A dog team was sent from Ki
ana, 19 miles from the crash scene
to pick up Williams, who was be
lieved to have a broken leg.
The plane was badly damaged.
Williams was returning to work
after spending Christmas with his
family in Tanana, 132 miles west
of here.
FAIRBANKS. f/P)—A coroner’s
jury returned a verdict of suicide
Wednesday in the death of Wal
ter E. Schwartz, 50. Schwartz, a
plumber, was found shot dead on
Christmas night in his room in a
Lacey Street hotel. A .22 caliber
revolver was clasped between his
knees. Despondency was blamed.
A brother Herbert Schwartz, of
Fresno, Calif., survives.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Clarence Rhode,
Alaska regional director of the
Fish and Wildlife Service, left
yesterday in a Beachcraft airplane
enroute to Klamath Falls, Ore.
There he will turn over theFWS
plane to another official who will
fly it to Mexico for use during a
January inventory of migratory
waterfowl.
Rhode will go to Washington, D.
C., from Klamath Falls for a 30
day meeting of regional directors.
JUNEAU, (/P)—The coast guard
searched yesterday for a Ketchi
kan trapper who has been unre
ported since Dec. 8 in the Duke Is
land area south of Annette.
Coast guard aircraft from An-,
nett Island sought H. J. Hansen
and his troller.
TAIPEH, Formosa. (/P) — The
Nationalist Chinese government
last night severed diplomatic rela
tions with India.
Severance of relations with the
other big Asian nation came but a
few hours after India had recog
nized the communist regime as the |
government of China.
Plane Flies 3 Times
Speed Of Sound
LOS ANGELES, UP) — An air
force plane reportedly has flown
1989 miles per hour—three times
the speed of sound.
That’s the new record of the
air force’s X-l rocket plane, says
the Los Angeles Times’ aviation
editor, Marvin Miles'.
Quoting what he calls “reliable
informants,” Miles yesterday said
the X-l had reached a speed of
1989 miles an hour in the strato
sphere over Edward Air Force
Base at Muroc Dry Lake.
The speed was given to him as
MAH 3. he said, or three times as
fast as sound. Sonic velocity is 663
miles an hour between the alti
tudes of 35,000 and 100,000 feet.
Miles’ Story did not say who was
I at the controls, but presumed it
I was Capt. Charles Yeager or per
haps Maj. Pete Evereso. A year
and a half ago the air force an
nounced that Yeager would try to
fly the X-l up to 1700 miles an
hour, the maximum speed for
which it was originally designed.
Everest, Miles said, has been test
ing the rocket-powered craft.
The needle-nosed, 31-foot-long
X-l is dropped from the belly of a
superfortress for its flights.
Pacific Explorer Is
White Elephant On
U. S. Hands
WASHINGTON. (/P)—1The gov
ernment has asked the fishing and
canning industries what to do
about its big—and highly contro
versial—factory ship, the Pacific
Explorer.
The Maritime Commission re
cently asked would-be buyers to
submit bids for the vessel.
The highest offer, $120,000.
came from a Tangiers, North Afri
ca, operator.
Highest domestic offer was $45,
091 from a Seattle concern.
Then, too, the government spent
$4,000,000 in 1945 to convert the
8,800-ton, 401-foot World War I
steel vessel for fishery work.
The Reconstruction Fi n a n c e
Corporation rented the ship for
$50,000 a year—or 55 per cent of
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SCHOOL REOPENS MONDAY
JANUARY 2. 1950
Superintendent W.’Angell states
that due to the fact that Christmas
and New Years fell so convenient
ly on Sunday this year, school will
reopen on Monday morning. Al
though the vacation is somewhat
shorter than usual it will mean
that the students will be out ear
lier in the spring when the wea
ther is warmer.
Earthquake Rock^,
Damages Luzon
MANILA, (JP)—A heavy earth-1
quake shook Luzon, main island
of the Philippines, for two and
one-half minutes yesterday.
Isabela province, on the north
1 east coast was reported hardest
1 hit, with sea waves and landslides.
The Manila Bulletin correspond
ent said the shock was rated at
intensity seven there. That is the
third heaviest on the earthquake
| scale.
An unidentified woman was
drowned by the seismis sea waves
1 at the town of Mercedes. A boat
1 with eight passengers capsized
near the Manalan ferry, but all
were reported saved.
In the town of Naguilian, about
250 miles northeast of Manila, a
jeep was reported to have been
swallowed up by a fissue in the
earth. Several nearby towns were
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ii:dict Two Women
In Bridges’ Trial j
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — The
government has indicted two wo
men for trying to get a prospec
tive prosecution witness in the
Harry Bridges perjury trial to al
ter his testimony.
The same federal grand jury
which indicted Bridges, West
Coast CIO longshore leader, and
two aides returned the secret in
dictment yesterday against:
Mrs. Jean Murray, 33, who de
scribed herself variously as an
“internationalist;” a divorcee, and
an “itinerant philosopher.”
Mrs. Betty Teixeira, 29, blond
ex-wife of a former San Francis
co supervisor and state assembly
man, who was named by the State \
Senate committee on un-American
activities as active in left wing
movements.
The indictment carries two
counts. It accuses the women with
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Coming Soon!
VIRGINIA HAS YOUR NUMBER . . . Lovely Virginia Mayo,
co-slarring with Milton Berle in Warner Bros. "Always Leave
Them Laughing," reminds that it's automobile license time again
as she presents the new 1950 Alaska plate.
M. P. Mullaney, Territorial Tax Commissioner, has released the
above picture showing Alaska's license plates for the year 1950
which will be placed on sale January 3.
The new license plates are of strong construction and are 5Vk
inches wide and 12 inches long. The color scheme is orage and
dark blue. Alaska's flag and the numerals, etc., are dark blue and
the background is orange.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Thursday. December 29, 1949
Hungary’s communist govern
ment today seized a large number
of foreign-owned comp a n i e s ,
charging they were being used “to
build up espionage and sabotage
rings.”
Among those ordered national
ized was the Standard Electric
Works, a subsidiary of the Amer
ican-owned International Tele
phone and Telegraph company.
Two foreign officials—an Ameri
can and a Rriton—and a Hungar
ian manager of the company are
in a Hungarian jail charged with
espionage and sabotage.
The government also broadened
its nationalization program by tak
ing over all Hungarian-owned en
terprises employing more than 10
persons and all printing plants
employing more than five.
The Russians, trying 12 Japan
ese on war crimes charges, today
accused the United States of pre
paring to use disease as a war
weapon.
The communist party newspa
per Pravdn said the U. S. is main
taining a bacteriological warfare
experimental station near Wash
ington, D. C.
The Russians also declared a
Japanese germ warfare unit in
fected 3.000 Chinese war prison
ers with typhoid fever in 1942 and
then released them to start an epi
demic among civilians
East Germany’s l iberal Demo
cratic party — apparently anting
under communist pressure — has
suspended five of its deputies in
the Rrandenburg Parliament from
party membership.
The communists earlier charged
the five ith being reactionaries
and “attacking Soviet culture.”
France’s middle-of-the-road co
alition government has decided to
stand or fall on the issue of a bal
anced budget.
The decision was made by Pre
mier Georges Bidault’s govern
ment at a special meeting yester
day. following 15T/£ hours of de
bate in the National essemblv on
the proposed record breaking bud
get.
The government already faces
two critical votes of confidence
tomorrow on Bidault’s proposals
to boost taxes to cover the coun
try’s expenditures.
NOTICE
The Nugget will observe the
New Year holiday There will be
no publication on Monday.
The Post Office will be closed
all day Monday, with other Feder
al Offices:
All business houses have an
nounced that they will be dosed
on Monday.