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VOL. LI. No. 64 NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY, 30. 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
—
PORT MARNOCK, Ireland, </P),
Sam McCready of Ireland won the
British amateur golf champion- j
ship Saturday by defeating Willie
Turnesa of Elmsford, N. Y., 2 and
1, in the 36-hole final.
CHICAGO, —Montgomery,
Ward and Co. Saturday reported
a drop of nearly one-third in its
first quarter earnings this year as
compared with 1948.
Net earnings for the mail order
and retail merchandise firm in
the three months ended April 30,
1949, totaled $9,602,904 against
$14,307,818 in the same 1948
months.
The earnings this year were
equal to $1.42 a common share
compared with $2.15 a year ago.
WASHINGTON, </P»—President
Truman was cruising Saturday
aboard the Presidential yacht
Williamsburg.
Mr. Truman, with a party in
cluding fleet adm. William D.
Leahy, has former chief of staff,
left Friday for a weekend trip
along the Potomac River and up
Chesapeake Bay.
The President expected to at
tend religious services at the U. S.
naval academy in Annapolis on
Sunday. He was represented at
Memorial Day services here today
by military aides.
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—The nom
ination of Maj. Gen. Philip B.
Fleming to head the U. S. mari
time commission was approved by
the Senate Friday. Fleming is a
retired army officer who formerly
headed the federal works agency.
WASHINGTON, f/P)—President
Truman has signed legislation au
thorizing sale of less than one
acre of land to the Russian Ortho
dox church of South Naknek,
Alaska. The office of Delegate
Bartlett who introduced the bill,
said the church, which sought the
land for use with its present fa
cilities, paid “less than $10“ for
the property.
WASHIN GTON, UP) — The
House public lands committee has
approved a bill aimed at stimulat
ing homesteading in Alaska.
Under it, the departments of
Interior and agriculture would as
sist homesteaders with loans and
through development of specified
areas.
Homesteads up to 2,560 acres in
size would be permitted.
P O R TLAND, Me., </P) — Tiny
planes carrying 150 Oregon ama
teur airmen completed a 3,300
m 11 e Portland-to-Portland sky
tour Saturday. Festivities, includ
ing a huge clambake, were pre
pared for the fliers. Maine aero
nautics director John T. Clark,
called the flight, first of its kind,
“a great achievement” that should
“go a long way to promote private
aviation.”
NOME — Nome turned out en
masse today “in its shirtsleeves”
to witness the Memorial Day par
ade of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. The weatherman did him
self proud with temperatures so
warm the melting snows up the
Snake River came down in tor
Former Bridges’
Associate Testified
At Hearing
SAN FRANCISCO, (£>)—Harry;
Bridges, stormy labor lea d e r
charged with perjury and fraud
in connection with his citizenship 1
hearing, says the indictment is an
administration “smoke screen.”
The Austraian born Bridges,1
naturalized in 1945, posted bail ol
$5,000 Friday. Trial was set for;
June 9. Federal judge Louis Good
man refused to increase bail to j
$20,000 nor would he release;
Bridges on his own recognizance.
Bridges, head of the CIO long
shoremen’s union, twice defeated
government efforts to deport him,
i in 1939 and 1941.
Wednesday, he and two top
aides, J. R. Robertson and Henry
Schmidt, were indicted in con
nection with his naturalization
here in 1945. Bridges was accused
of swearing falsely that he was
not a communist. He, Schmidt and
Robertson were accused of con
spiring to defraud the govern
ment.
Schmidt and Robertson also
posted $5,000 bail each. Schmidt
j currently is directing the Hawa
I iian waterfront strike at Honolulu.
Bridges said “This is the result
of at least certain elements in the
administration connected with
and surrounding the President to
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Public Welfare
[Office To
Ii
Opened Here
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Howard Lyng, on his return
from Juneau, where he has been
for the past several weeks, when
interviewed by the Nugget said:
Mr. Robert Sheldon, director of
the unemployment compensation
commission for Alaska, has agreed
to send his assistant Mr. William
Meals to Nome next month, to,
make a survey of Nome and the
Second Division to determine
whether or not a full time branch |
office of the unemployment com- j
1 pensation commission should be
[set up in Nome.
Mr. Meals is the father of Mrs.
Alvin Polet, of Fairbanks. She,
was the former Louise Meals.
Just as soon as quarters can be
secured a Second Division office
of the department of public wel
fare will be set up at Nome. A
district worker and clerk-stenog
rapher will staff the office.
Mr. Ben Stewart, Territorial
commissioner of mines, was in-1
structed by the 19th Legislature
to construct of suitable building
at Nome to serve the Second Divi
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rents, washing out the roadway
leading from Nome to the Marks
Air Force Base, a few miles west
of town.
The parade bi'gan in front of
the V. F. W. Hall and proceeded
down Front Street for several
blocks, returned up the street and
continued on to the City Cemetery
on Belmont Point. There, grave
side services were held in honor
of the men and women who died
in the service of their country.
Alaska Steam Will
Welcome Investi
gation by Congress
SEATTLE, </P)—President Gil
bert W. Skinner of the Alaska
Steamship company said Saturday
his concern would “welcome” the
Congressional investigation pro
posed at Washington, D. C., by
Rep. Jackson (D.-Wash.).
He commented on Rep. Jack
son’s statement in the House that
its merchant marine committee
plans to look into the financial af
fairs of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
the Northland Transportation Co.,
and all Alaska steamship services.
Jackson said there was a differ
ence in the amount of profit re
ported by Alaska Steamship and I
that found by the maritime com
mission in an audit.
“We submitted regular quarter
ly reports to the maritime com
mission for the period in question
(May 1. 1947, to Dec. 31, 1948>,”
Skinner said.
“We went through a full rate
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COMMUNITY BIBLE SCHOOL
WELL ATTENDED
The Community Summer Bible
School got under way this morn
ing with the Federated Church
filled to capacity with the young
people of the community.
In order to handle all the chil
dren the different groups are be
ing divided and classes will be
held in the following places:
4 year olds to pre-school group,
under the direction of Mrs. Wal
lace Lelvor and Mrs. L. Hudgins
will have classes in the Nazarene
Club Rooms.
Primary department will be un
der the leadership of Mrs. A. Ner
land and Mrs. W. McCarthy and
classes will be in the Lavinia |
Wallace Young Mission Club
rooms.
The Junior department will be
in the Federated Church Recrea
tion Room with Mr. and Mrs. T.
McGrow and Mrs. N. Tveter in
charge.
Intermediate classes will be
held in the Nazarene Church with
Mrs. J. Jacobson, Mrs. Robert
Long and Rev. L. Hudgins as
leaders.
Any children who missed class
es today are invited to join the
group and report promptly at nine
o’clock tomorrow.
MEMORIAL DAY
This is the fourth Memorial Day
since the close of World War II.
The hearts of many are sad today
because the ending of the war did
not bring back loved ones who
gave their lives for their country.
This is the day all of us pay trib
ute to these fallen heroes, as well
•as to the memory of the heroes of
other wars.
There will be a special Memo
rial Day program over Radio Sta
tion WXLN this evening at 6:30
o’clock.
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Mrs. Wm. Camsron was called
to the States due to the illness of
her mother and will be gone for
an indefinite time.
News of the World,
At A Glance —
Saturday. May 28, 1949
<By The Associated Press'*
Foreign ministers of the three
western powers presented to Rus
sia today the western plan for a j
unified Germany.
Premier Robert Schuman of
France laid the proposal on a big
four conference table in Paris be
fore Soviet foreign minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky. The meeting'
ended almost immediately, pre-1
sumably to give the Russian dip
lomat time to study it.
While there was no immediate
official word, informed sources
said the plan calls for linking the
Soviet occupation zone of Ger
many with the three western
zones under the newly approved
Bonn Constitution.
A high American official in
Berlin said today that if Berlin’s
strike-implemented transpos-t
snarl isn’t untangled soon it may
go to the four-power conference
for solution. James W. Riddleber
ger, the U. S. State department’s
chief advisor in Germany, said,
“The Paris conference can, of
course, step in any time and take
action.’’
Brig. Gen. Frank Howley, U. S.
commander in the American sec
tor of Berlin said the communists
engineered the situation to help
Russian negotiators in Paris. The
Russians, on the other hand, con
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J. I. Andersen,
Lomen Co. Supt.,
Died Friday Night
Jacob I. Andersen, superintend
ent of the Lomen Commercial Co.
here, died Friday night. He. was
55 years old.
Mr. Andersen, a native of Nor
way, came to the United States as
a young man. In 1928 he joined
the Lomen company.
Mr. Andersen lived in Seattle
before moving to Kingston, Kit
sap County, Washington, ten
years ago. He spent part of each
year in Alaska. He was a member
of Anvil Lodge No. 140, F. & A.
M., here; the Alaska Consistory,
Juneau; Nile Temple of the
Shrine, and the Pioneers of Alas
ka.
Surviving are his wife, Loretta,
| a son, Ron Andersen of Kingston;
a sister, Mrs. Thorvald Svendsen
of British Columbia; two brothers,
Algar of Cathlamet, Wahkiakum
County, and Harold Andersen of
Seattle, and three sisters and a
brother in Norway.
The body was flown to Seattle
on an Alaska Airlines plane on
Saturday.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at 1 o’clock in Butter
worth’s chapel, with burial in
Evergreen.
The Fire Department was called
out this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock
to put out a roof fire at the home
l of George Marshall on D Street.
Little damage was reported.
Golden Anniversary, June 1 to Sept. 5
When the city of Nome begins its celebration for its
fiftieth anniversary of the GOLD RUSH it will be in
fact celebrating the birth of the community as well.
Part of the advertising campaign, which is being car
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ill i
ried out by a committee of the
Walrus Club of Nome, sponsoring
organization for the summer-long
celebration, includes “first day”
cover envelopes, which bear a
beautifully designed tri-color seal
or cachet. It is in red, blue and
gold and was designed for the oc
casion by Bill Boucher, publisher
of The Nome Nugget.
Joe Hunt, on the distribution
committee for the “cachet” said
today the number of first-day
covers which will go through the
Nome post-office for cancellation
will exceed one thousand. The
covers will be sent to collectors all
over the world. The envelopes
will be on sale in the Nome shops
shortly for local and tourist trade.
The main part of the celebra
tion will include special dances
given by the natives, visits to
gold dredges, mining camps, tours
of the city and pointing out of his
toric landmarks.
The program includes the dates
of June 1, through September 5,
1949. On June 4, a big Gold Rush
Dance will be held in the Nome
High School Auditorium and cos
tumes will depict those of fron
tier Nome when it was a strug
gling mining camp.
Other parts of the summer pro
gram will be announced from time
to time by the committee in
charge.