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VOL. T.TTT. No. 11 _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 26, 1951 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE (JP)—Unfair labor prac
tice charges still delay count of
ballots in last year’s union author
ization election by Alaska salmon
cannery workers.
Washington D. C., must rule on
charges filed during last spring’s,
labor dispute before votes can be
counted, according to Thomas P.
Graham, Jr., regional director of
the National Labor Relations
Board. Non-resident cannery j
workers finished voting last Sep
tember on their union preference,
and ballots have been impounded
since that time.
CORDOVA, {JP)—The bodies of
four persons who froze to death
after a plane crash-landed in the i
Copper River wilds January 131
were flown to Cordova Wednes
day.
Three trappers, Glen Williams,
Sam Christensen and Buck Louis,
waited 11 days at a nearby cabin
k until weather permitted them to
recover the bodies. They made
two sled -trips nine miles to a
frozen waterway where a plane
could land to pick up the bodies. |
Victims of the accident were
Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Dyson of Al
bany, Ore., and Mrs. Fena Ekemo
and Ernie Cruz of Valdez, Alaska.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed early next week.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. j
(P)—Burglars didn’t leave a cent
* unturned when the stole about
$7,000 from a grocer and his wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Doty told
police Wednesday these items
were taken from their home:
A safe containing more than
$6,000, a piggy bank with at least
$40 in half-dollars, a cigar box
with $25 in coins, two milk bot
tles half-filled with pennies, a
money bag with $100, and $300
from a bedroom chest.
HOLLYWOOD (P)—Bing Cros
> by today disclosed that his success
is due to his mother’s prayers.
“If I’ve been lucky—and I cer- !
tainly have been inordinately
lufcky—I think you have to attrib- j
ute it to the efficacy of prayer,”
the millionaire crooner said in a
tape-recorded radio interview.
The interview, one of a series
on the occasion of his 20th anni
versary as a star, was made with
William Tusher, American Broad
casting Company Hollywood com
mentatcfr. It will be aired Sunday
night over ABC.
“Ever since I was a little boy
she prayed for all of us daily and
had masses said for us and rosar
ies,” Crosby said.
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WASHINGTON, <P>—Secretary
of the Interior Chapmen appoint
ed Maurice Rattray, Seattle, a
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Five Fires Rage In
Fairbanks At Same
Tine; Man Burns
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — One man
burned to death an da soldier and j
his wife were hurt as five fires
raged at one time Wednesday in
frozen, flame-plagued Fairbanks.
The temperature warmed yes,
warmed to 42 degrees below zero
as people in this city just below
the Arctic Circle tugged wearily
at freezing fire hoses and desper-!
ately snowballed the flames.
The weather bureau promised a
balmy 25 below as last night’s
minimum.
The outbreak of fires came just
-two days after a half-million dol
lar blaze destroyed three business
houses. Wednesday’s first fire j
broke out in the ruins of one of
them, the Cooperative Drug Store.
George Burmeister, about 50, a j
pensioner, died in a blaze that de- (
stroyed a two-story log boarding;
house.
That was the day’s fourth firei
and only one fireman was left in |
the fire station.
Cpl. Leroy de Grange of Boise, |
Ida., suffered shoulder bums and.
his wife severe hand bums in the |
fifth — and wishful Fairbanks;
hoped the last—fire, which started
in their house from an oil stove.
At one time there were no fire
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Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
(By Jim Hutcheson)
JUNEAU (/P), Governor Gruen
ing’s message to the 20th Alaska
Legislature yesterday was the
first in years to draw plaudits
from his political opponents.
Comment on the message vied
with other legislative develop
ments:
1. Republican Gunnard M. En
gebreth of Anchorage was elected
president of the Senate on the
11th ballot.
2. The House passed its first
measure—a memorial asking fed
eral action to avert sidetracking
the proposed Skagway aluminum
plant and the Taiya hydro-elec
tric project in conjunction with it.
Most Democrats landed the gov
ernor’s message as a good overall
review.
Republicans liked the recom
mendations for a revised auditing
system, balanced budget and no
new taxes;
Many legislators described the
speech as the most conciliatory in
years.
Rep. Mike Stepovich (R.-Fair
banks) commented:
“I think he took all the Repub
lican campaign material, and if he
practices what he preaches, we
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Gruening Message
Sees No Need For
Additional Taxes
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(By Jim Hutcheson)
JUNEAU, (A5) — Gov. Ernest,
Gruening told the 20th Alaska
legislature yesterday he believed
“no new tax measures need be
considered.”
While calling for a balanced
budget, Gruening declared “if
some additional revenues should
in your judgment be needed, they
can, I feel confident, be provided
from within the existing tax
framework.”
In other high points of the
hour-long message, the Governor
urged intensified civil defense ac
tivity because of Alaska’s loca
tion; proposed a civil defense
compact with neighboring Cana
dian territory and provinces; de
clared a “drastic overhauling of
our accounting and fiscal system
is necessary,” and recommended
modernizing the Territorial gov
ernment through an administra
tive organization.
Gruening suggested a change in
laws to remove the Governor
from all 21 boards on which he
serves except the board of admin
istration and board of appeals. He
recommended that the Legislature
reduce the board of administra
tion’s finance-controlling activi
ties by taking them over itself,
and he suggested the possibility of
the Territory offering a $10,000
incentive bonus for discovery of
uranium in mineable quantities.
In view of the gold mining dol
drums, the Governor proposed
that the Legislature “give serious
consideration to authorizing the
commissioner of mines to pur
chase such strategic metals and
minerals as may be found in
Alaska for stockpiling and resale.”
The program would resemble the
Federal Metals Reserve Com
pany’s wartime operations in such
metals as antimony, tungsten, tin
and copper.
Said Gruening: “This ore could
be stockpiled in the Territory and
resold to commercial markets or
to federal government purchasing
agencies when such agencies are
established. The commissioner of
mines deems $100,000 would be
sufficient to carry the program
for a two-year period.” *
In recommending revised fiscal
and accounting methods, the Gov
ernor said -‘What is needed is an
office which could be developed
out of the auditor’s office, or
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LATE BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Gov
ernment today froze both prices
and wages at the level of mid
night last night.
Civilian Defense
Activities
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The Civilian Defense Commit
tees met Wednesday evening with
several new developments an
nounced in the progress of the
program* which is very complex.
Outstanding accomplishmen t s
included the annoucamenit that
questionnaires for all families and
residents to fill out will be circu
lated, information from which
will help td meet all emergencies.
Registration of all residents is
about ready to start.
Con Yenney reported that he
had divided the city in four zones
and appointed policemen to watch
for looting.
Peter Reader reported that the
Volunteer Fire Department would
meet and work out the angle of
fire on the defense program.
Dewey Goodrich are committee
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Meat Ration In
England Slashed
LONDON, (/P)—The Labor gov
ernment today announced a 20
| per cent slash in each Briton's
tiny ration of fresh meat—from
11% cents (10 pence) worth a
week to 9% cents (eight pence)
worth.
Each person will continue to re
ceive 2% cents (two pence) worth
of corned beef each week in addi
tion to the fresh meat allowance.
The new ration, effective Feb. I
4, was announced in the House of
Commons by food minister Mau
rice Webb. In British butcher
shops, it will buy about six ounces
of lamb chops, eight ounces of
chopped beef, some four and a
half ounces of beefsteak or nine
ounces of roasting lamb.
The consumer is allowed in ad
dition four ounces of bacon a
week.
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March Of Dimes
Food Sale Monday
There will foe a Food Sale Mon
day at the N. C. Store for the pur
pose of raising additional funds
for the March of Dimes Fund.
The food sale is sponsored by
the wives of members of the
March of Dimes Committee, whoi
feel that the cause is one which
cannot foe oversubscribed.
They have volunteered their
services and and contacting the
housewives in town for donations,
for the food sale.
Anyone who is not contacted;
and who would like to contribute'
cakes, pies, pastry or bread may
call Mrs. Clyde Godsbe, Mrs. El
mer Straub or Mrs. Pete Header,
or bring their donations to the N.
C. Store Monday morning.
Korean situation
At A Glance- - -
Thursday# January 25* 1951
(By The Associated Press)
Failure of U. N. forces to meet
serious enemy ppposition in north
ward problems leads to the belief
that the Chinese communists may
have pulled back to await political
developments* in U. N., leaving
only North Korean Red patrols
south of the Han River around
Seoul.
The Western Big-Three plans
•talks soon to map specific issues
•they want to discuss should Rus
sia agree to their latest bid for a
jBig-Four conference on world
problems. Western diplomats, in
Moscow say new notes sent to the
Kremlin don’t narrow the differ
ences between Russia and the
West on what should be discussed,
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but the tone of the messages gives
hope a parley can be arranged.
At Lake Success the Asian-In
dian block presents its fourth bid
for a peace settlement in Korea to
the U. N. political committee with
out mentioning a cease-fire. The
Indian delegate argues it should
take precedence over the U. S. de
mand that Red China be judged
by U. N. as an aggressor.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ar
rived at Reyjavik, Iceland’s snow
covered airport today on his tour
of Atlantic Alliance capitals.
A planned communist demon
stration in Paris before Eisen
hower left for Iceland, sputtered
out after French police and troops
rounded up more than half of some
5,000 Reds who had attempted to
congregate around the general’s
temporary headquarters.
Eisenhower, surveying the cap
itals on their potentialities for a
United International armed front
against communism, told reporters
on his arrival in Reylavik he was
“greatly encouraged” by the de
termination he found among
Western Europeans to defend .
their way of life.
The Atlantic army chief was
greeted on his arrival by officials
of the Icelandic government.
Friday, January 26, 1951
Tank-led Allied columns sweep
north in West Korea reaching be
yond Suwon, 17 air miles from
Seoul. Also recapture Kumyang
jang in air-supported advance.
Allied intelligence officers say*
Red China may have pulled out
90,000 troops from Seoul area.
They contend large scale with
drawal is due to supply shortages
or political reasons—hoping for a
U. N. cease-fire order.
Sir Benegal N. Rau of India,
chief spokesman for the Arab
Asian group, demands priority for
seven-power conference proposal
in U. N. United States presses for
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Benefit Of *
MARCH OF DIMES FUND
MONDAY AT N. C. STORE
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Sponsored by March of Dimes Committee Wives
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