FATHER "TOM" CUNNINGHAM
HERE FROM KING ISLAND
Father Tom Cunningham who
has spent the winter on King Is
land, returned to Nome yesterday
with several islanders. They came
it is reported ,by skinboat to Tel
ler, where they were picked up
by plane and brought to Nome.
Two other oomiaks from King
Island went to Wales to visit be
fore coming to Nome.
MOGG AND AMAROK BAG
SIX OOGRUK ONE SEAL
Sammy Mogg, manager of Po
let’s Fur Shop, took time out to
go oogruk hunting on Bering Sea
yesterday with Joe Amarok, well
known local laundry owner. They
brought back six oogruk and one
seal (the latter was shot by Sam
my Jr.).
MRS. ALPHA ENGLAND HERE
TO VISIT WITH DAUGHTER
Mrs. Alpha England arrived
from her home in the states to
be with her daughter Mrs. Larry
Johansen and her young grand
son.
She will go to Candle with the
family soon.
CAPT. JACK BULLOCK IS
MAKING TRIP SATURDAY
The M/S Kotzebue, with Cap
tain Jack Bullock as skipper, will
make the first trip of the sea
son down the coast late this af
ternoon or tomorrow morning.
MRS. DON CROSS AND
FAMILY RETURNED TODAY
Mrs .Don Cross and family, who
have been visiting in Anchorage
returned on the Alaska Airlines
today.
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UNEASY PEACE
IN HOLY LAND
AMID GUNFIRE
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for six minutes after the armis
tice hour. Jewish mortars drum
med the Arabs there for 70 min
utes before the truce.
Great Britain announced she
i would not recognize Israel dur
I ing the truce. A spokesman said
such recognition would be posi
I tive act of intervention favoring
1 one side.
Born in war, the first Jewish
nation since before the days of
Christ, had its first day of peace.
Both sides were frozen in their
, military positions. It was a day
i of burials of the slain, tending
I for the wounded and repairing of
; the havoc of war.
As peace decended, the Jews
! held their whole partition state
except parts of the Negeb Des
I ert in the south. In Arab Pales
tine they had Jaffa, a wedge be
tween Tel Aviv and Latrun, nearly
all of Modern Jerusalem and 1,200
square miles of western Galilee.
They claimed 200 Arab villages.
PALESTINE, — (JP) — An or
der to keep Arabs and Jews in
Palestine from killing .each other
became effective at 7 p.m. Thurs
day Nome Time.
i Only cautious optimism was ex
pressed around the United Na
tions that the four-week armis
tice and arms embargo would en
dure. There was even less hope
that, in four weeks of wrangling
on the Island of Rhodes, a form
ula for permanent peace would
i
i emerge.
It was difficult to see how the
basic issue of partition could be
resolved, short of armed inter
; vention by the U.N.—and that
• might lead to even greater, world
i wide conflict.
“We have achieved only the
first step,” Count Folke Berna
dotte, the U.N. mediator, com
j mented in Cairo on the uncon
ditional acceptances of the truce
by Israel and the seven warring
Arab states.
Irgun Zvai Leumi, once the
Jewish underground but now part
of Israel’s army, rebuked its own
government for accepting the
truce.
The outburst possibly is a pre
lude to Irgun defiance of the
truce. I
Cairo said Egyptian naval units
destroyed port installations at
Nahariya, 15 miles north of Haifa.
Egyptian land troops attacked
two settlements in south central
Palestine and planes bombed Re
hovot, 12 miles southeast of Tel
Aviv.
Girl Scout News
At our regular Wednesday ev
ening meeting we discussed our
going to camp. We were told
that the roads are muddy and that
there is still fifteen inches of snow
at our camp. We voted to find
out if we should go in June or
July. The majority voted for July.
We plan to go the second and
third weeks in July.
A committee consisting of four
girls was chosen to look over the
Boy Scouts sleeping bags.
We played games. Maureen
Hudert and Bonnie Burkhalter
demonstrated games toward their
second class badge.
We worked on our sewing badge.
We said our laws, motto, and
slogan.
We were dismissed .
Kay Coulthard, scribe.
Last Coal Strike
Now Being Felt
By Auto Industry
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down today. Ford officials said
their lay-off of some 30,000 men
was caused by lack of production
parts.
Pay raises were announced by
the Packard Motor Car Co. sim
ultaneously with price boosts of
$75 to $200 for all of its cars
effective June 14. The CIO-UAW
accepted a 13-cent hourly wage
increase. White collar workers at
Packard were given a nine per
cent raise with a ceiling of $20
monthly.
In Pittsburgh, CIO president
Philip Murray announced that the
CIO would support the planned
June 15 strike of five maritime
Two Juneauites
Fined $1,100 For
Illegal Fishing
JUNEAU, — UP) —Convicted
of illegal fishing, two Juneau men
were fined a total of $1,100 yes
terday in U. S. Commissioner's
court.
Capt. Andy Frederickson was
fined $700 and Ted Lammers
$400.
They were arrested by agents of
the Fish and Wildlife Service
with 29 pounds of halibut caught
in area two. Their vessel had been
cleared for area three, agents said.
unions to maintain the conditions
they have fought for and won in
recent years, including hiring hall
practices,” Murray said.
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