OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. Llli No. 93 , NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1951 Per Copy—15?
Alaska Yukon
Pioneers Hold
Last Picnic
SEATTLE, — Tales of the
colorful and dramatic days of the
Alaska gold rush were recounted
o\er and over at Lower Woodland
Park yesterday at the final picnic
of the Alaska Yukon Pioneers.
Although the picnic was sched
uled as the last one to be held,
the light hearted story swapping
by men and women, who are still
rugged despite their years, showed
that the friendships which devel
oped during hardships more than
50 years ago are not going to end
for some time.
The oldest man present was
Nathan Kresge, 93, who now lives
in West Seattle. Kresge was
known as the “Yukon Kid” back
when he discovered Gold Hill at
Dawson. He first went north in
1897, and returned less than two
years later with $25,000.
Another old timer, Dr. Kristian
Falkenberg, who gets a bit cagey
when his age is asked, became
famous for opening the Edmunton
Trail.
There was Leonard Seppala, 74,
who was one of the champion dog
sledders in the frozen north. His
most famous exploit was a 240
mile day and night dog sled race
with serum during an epidemic.
Another man was Andy Nylen,
89, who roamed the Nome and
Kotzebue areas for 40 years.
One of the first men in Dawson
was Billy Huson, 89, now of Sum
ner. Wash., who went north four
years before gold was discovered.
He packed the first piano into
Dawrson for use in his hotel. He
r and Charles Cavey, 84', a baker
who spent 43 years in Dawson and
Nome, ignored gold for the most
part in favor of more practical
business.
British Polar Plane
Lands Back In England
After 4,128-Mile Flight
MANBY, England, I/P)—A four
engine Royal Air Force bomber
touched down here Saturday,
completing a 4,128-mile polar
flight from Fairbanks, Alaska, in
19 hours, 34 minutes.
The plane carried a crew* of 10,
all chosen from the RAF Flying
College here, and a British news
man.
The bomber had flown to
Alaska by way of Iceland last
week.
Its return was delayed by en
gine trouble and spare parts had
% to be flown to Fairbanks to en
able the crew to put the plane in
shape for the flight back home.
Notice To Fair Exhibitors
' SCHOOL WILL BE OPEN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7
and
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
Between the Hours of
10 to 12 A.M. and 1 to 4 P.M.
Please bring in Exhibits
During these hours.
Building will be open in evening
For convenience of those business
People having concessions.
Chinese Violate
Neutral Kaesong
TOKYO, Tuesday, (/P) — Word
that the stalled Korean armistice
from Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
talks will be resumed, was ex
pected at any time today, but
Wednesday appeared the earliest
likely date the Allied negotiators
could meet the Reds again at
Kaesong.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy and
three other members of the five
man United Nations delegation
flew to Tokyo late Monday and
conferred privately with General
Ridgway.
An aide said later* that General
Ridgway was preparing a message
of reply to the communist apology
for presence of armed troops in
Kaesong Saturday.
However, Admiral Joy was at
his home in Tokyo earlier today,
so any resumption of the Kaesong
meetings before Wednesday
seemed only dimly possible.
The Supreme Commander called
off the talks Sunday morning,
and charged the Reds with “fla
grant violation” of Kaesong’s neu
trality.
About 150 Chinese soldiers
marched within a few hundred
I yards of the U.N. staff house dur
| ing luncheon recess Saturday.
They carried rifles, machine guns
| and hand grenades.
Dismissal 90 West
Point Cadets Waste
Of Over $2 Million
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Edwin C. Johnson <D-Colo> said
today more than $2,000,000 would
be wasted through the mass dis
missal of 90 West Point cadets for
cheating on examinations. “But,”
he added, “It is worth it.”
“I think the Army is to be con
gratulated for stepping in and
cleaning up their own house, and
there is no need for a congres- j
sional investigation,” Johnson, a
former chairman o*f the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, told
a reporter.
Johnson said it costs an -average
of more than $30,000 for each
young man appointed to the West
Point military academy, and so,
he said, the mass dismissal could
waste -as much as $2,700,000.
At West Point, Harold J. Joeh
lein, captain-elect of the 1951
football team and president-elect
of the senior class, told newsmen
yesterday he was one of those to
be dismissed. He added:
“We are not culprits, not in
competents, and have not cor
rupted the nation’s morals.”
Frank and Ava Take
In Mexican Night Spots
ACAPULCO, Mexico, </P) —
Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
took in Acapulco night spots Fri
day night, their first in the tropi
cal Pacific Coast resort.
The vacationing couple put in
Ian early appearance at La Perla,
perched on the cliffs- overlooking
the sea at the Hotel Mirador. They
went to others with Hedy Lamarr
and her recently acquired hus
band, Teddy Strauffeg, who runs
La Perla.
Six Youthful Robbers
Break Into Nome Drug
Six youthful robbers, all under
the age of 12, broke into the Nome
Drug Store over the week-end.
Entrance was gained through a
trap door at the rear erf the
building. They carted away a
wide variety of small merchandise
such as cigarettes, candy bars, and
more valuable items as watches
and cigarette lighters. #
They were apprehended through
the alertness of Chief of Police
Glass and the U. S. Marshall’s
office. The boys revealed several
hiding places where they had
cached the merchandise, most of
which h-as been recovered. Two
valuable watches are still re
ported missing. One of the hiding
places was the breakwater.
The use of matches throughout
the robbery in all parts of the
building might have resulted in
a fire, it was reported.
Teen-Age Youth Shoots
Wealthy Father In Sleep
DALLAS, Tex., <7P)—A slender,
teen-age youth told police he shot
his wealthy father to death yes
terday because, “he kept after me
for staying out late at night.”
Slain was Walace E. Hawkins,
56, vice-president and general
counsel of the Magnolia Petroleum
Company. Detective Capt. Will
Fritz said 16-year-old John Mi
chael Hawkins admitted that he
shot his sleeping father in their
fashionable home.
The boy cannot be charged with
murder under Texas law.
The youth’s mother died nine
years ago.
_
General J. G. Sleese, president
of the Alaska Road Commission
1921 to 1927, during the con
struction of the highway be
tween Fairbanks and Circle
City which was named after
him, is shown embarking on
Alaska Steamship Co. steamer
Denali at Seattle just before
sailing for Alaska August 1.
During a part of the time that
he was president of the ARC,
General Steese also managed
the Alaska Railroad. That was
1 during the construction period.
Maurice King and
Two Passengers
Vanish July 27
JUNEAU, i/P) — An Air Force
C-47 rescued four persons from
the icy slopes of Mt. Hubbard
Saturday after they had been
marooned by the disappearance of
their own plane with three
aboard.
All were members of an Arc
*
tic Institute ice studies expedition.
The four reported rescued were
Walter A. Wood and his 20-year
old son, Peter, of Far Hills, N. J.,
Robert Bates, believed to be
from Boston, and Nicholas Clif
ford.
The three others who vanished
July 27 in the scientific expedi
tion’s Norseman plane were Pilot
Maurice King, Mrs. Wood and the
Wood’s daughter, Valerie.
Lt. Col. Wallace Walton, com
mander of the Tenth Rescue
Squadron’s Flight A, reported the
rescue by one of the flight’s ski
equipped C-47’s.
Colonel Walton said the rescue
plane was attracted by the word
“Norseman?” tramped in the
snow. The rescued four were
flown to Yakutat, and there was
no explanation here for the ques
tion mark after the word.
The rescue plane had been
making flights in connection with
the ice project until it entered the
search for the party’s missing
Norseman. It also has been help
ing in the search for a missing
Canadian Airlines Korea-bound
transport which vanished in the
area July 21 with 38 aboard.
House Approves
Record Peacetime
Military Budget
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A record
$56,062,405,890 peacetime military
budget was approved today by
the House Appropriations Com
mittee. It does not include $4,500,
000,000 for public works construc
tion to be considered later this
year. Neither does it include fin
ancing of the fighting in Korea
since June 30, the bill for that
to be footed in a later measure.
With that one exception, the
present measure is to finance the
Defense Department for the fiscal
year ending next June 30.
Accompanying the big money
bill to the House for debate start
ing Wednesday was a statement
by Rep. Mahon (D-Tex). It sharp
ly rebuked the military for waste
ful manpower and procurement
practices. Mahon is chairman of a
subcommittee that wrote the bill
after several months of hearings.
More than half the bill’s total
is for buying military “hardware”
—tanks, planes, guns, rockets,
weapons , and other supplies for a
military manpower force of three
and a half million.
About $15,000,000,000 is for air
craft and component parts to give
this country what the committee
called “the most powerful strik
ing force ever placed in the hands
of any nation.”
Crews Of Five
Boats Fined $8,175
For Illegal Fishing
JUNEAU, (JP) — Fines totaling
$8,175 were assessed Saturday on.
the crews of five fishing vessels
for illegal fishing.
Included in the 29 defendants
who felt the stiff penalties handed
out by U. S. Comissioner Gordon
Gray were Rep. Andrew Hope of
the Territorial Legsilature, and
William R. Waltcfn, chairman of
the Fisheries Board.
Hope and Walton, captains of
two of the vessels, paid $300 each,
as did the captains of two other
vessels for fishing in Tenakee
Inlet before opening time Monday
morning. Their crewmen paid
$225 each.
The fifth captain, Clyde Peter
son, paid $500 for fishing in
closed Rodman Bay. His crewmen
were assessed $250 each. All
pleaded guilty.
In addition to the monetary
penalties, all proceeds from the
fish illegally caught will revert
to the treasury. The amount from
this source is not yet known.
Pilot and Six
/
Loggers Missing In
Canadian Plane
VANCOUVER, B. C., (/P)—The
slim thread of hope for the safety
of seven persons aboard a missing
Queen Charlotte Airlines plane
hung today on the chance it may
have put down two days ago on
an isolated beach.
The chartered 'seaplane, carry
ing six loggers and the pilot, dis
appeared shortly before noon Sat
urday on a 75-mile flight from
Vancouver Island’s Muchalac Arm
to the settlement of Tofina, both
on the west coast. The Island lies
off the mainland of British Col
umbia.
Nearly a dozen Canadian and
American search planes criss
crossed the area yesterday but
found no trace of the Norseman
seaplane.
FAIR NOTES
By The Fair Reporter
FAIR FOOD SALE FRIDAY
Chairman for the Food Division
of the Fair, Adeline Ullrich, has
announced that food for the ex
hibit of baking will be accepted
on Friday from ten o’clock in the
morning until one o’clock in the
afternoon.
As has been announced, cakes,
pies, candies, cookies and bread
are being solicited for a food sale
for the benefit of the children’s
playfield as well as for competi
tion. All home bakers who have
not been contacted are asked to
help voluntarily in the project with
their food donations .
A beautiful 11th anniversary
cake for the 11th Fair is being
baked by Margaret r Russell and
will be given to some lucky per
son, it is reported. The cake will
be bell-shaped and decorated most
festively.
The food sale will be held at
the Fair from 1 to 5 p.m. on Fri
day, and prize-winning exhibits
after 7:30, Friday evening.