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VOL. LI. No. 136 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE (JP)—Walter J. Groh- j
nert, 41, son of Mi’s. Veda Johan
son of Seattle, died at his home at1
Laguna Beach, Calif., after a long
illness.
Born in Tacoma, he lived there
until 1940 when he went to Alas
ka. where he opened and operated
a night club in Anchorage.
He moved to Seattle 3 years ago
in ill health, and a year later
moved to Laguna Beach for his
health.
Besides his mother, he is sur
vived by his widow Eunice, and
three children.
Funeral services were held to
day at Tacoma.
COGAN STATION, Pa., (/P) —
Judge Bryon B. Harlan of the U.
S. tax court and former Demo
cratic Congressman from Ohio
died Friday of a heart attack at
the home of his son. He was 63.
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MOSCOW, (/P) — The Soviet
press accused the Western Big
Three foreign ministers Saturday
of outlining a policy to turn West
Germany into a base for carrying
out "aggressive imperialist plans.”
Speaking of the communique is
sued by the ministers after their
recent meeting in Paris, the Soviet
News Agency Tass said they also
had outlined a policy of ‘‘the di
vision of Germany.
HAMBURG, </P) — A British
Court Saturday found the owners
of Germany’s largest shipyard
guilty of illegally attempting to
evade dismantling.
Rudolf Blohm, senior partner of
Blohm and Voss, was ordered to |
pay a 5,000 mark fine <$1,250> or '
serve five months in prison.
His brother, Walter was ordered j
to pay 10,000 marks <$2,500) or!
serve 10 months.
Four other defendants found j
guilty were sentenced to prison, j
They were Otto Dalldorf, 12 '
months, Henrich Lorenzen, 12 ,
months, Max Andreac, 12 months I
and 2,000 marks <$500> fine or '
three months imprisonment; Karl
Heidenreich, nine months.
SALVADOR, Brazil, UP) — An
tonio Felix, a 50-year-old worker,
decided an evil spirit had taken
over his body and went to see a
female witch-doctor to get him
out. She tied him to a chair and j
beat him with a sword of ogum—
a tough leathery palm leaf shaped
like a sword.
Then she placed a pot full of
black powder under his nose and
told him. to look at a pretty little
thing inside. He looked. She drop
I>ed a lighted match in the pot to
blow the evil spirit back where he
came from.
He is now in a hospital serious
ly burned. She is in jail.
DAVIS, Calif. (/P)—Experiments
here have dashed hoped that sur- <
I plus potatoes could be used to fat
ten the large western turkey and ■
chicken crops.
Potatoes, both raw and dried,
have been fed to gobblers and
eacklers in extended experiments
at the University of California
College of Agriculture here. But
U. S. Steel (lorp.
Signs Pension
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PITTSBURGH. i/P» — The most
costly steel strike in American
history virtually ended Saturday
after the CIO United Steelworkers
signed the mammoth United States
Steel Corporation to a pension-in
surance pact.
Inland Steel corporation agreed
to a similar peace agreement on
the Bethlehem pattern three and
one-half hours after the big steel
settlement Friday night.
That left only 124,000 strikers
idle of about 513,000 steelwork
ers who walked off their jobs last
October 1 in support of demands
for company-paid pensions.
The end of the strike against big
steel, largest steel producers in
the world, gave 177,000 unionists
the “go back to work” high sign.
The agreement covers only 150,000
employees in six major operating
subsidies but the corporation said
the union agreed that all work
ers should return at once.
Union President Philip Murray
predicted 90 per cent of basic steel
—the plants which produce raw
steel—“will be signed to the new
Bethlehem type contract by to
day.”
The Bethlehem settlement, sign
October 31, provides $100 mini
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Missing Flier May ,
Have Left Trail
Blazing Markers
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ANCHORAGE, iff*) —Five blaze
marks cut in trees near the lonely
Susitna River cabin where Francis i
Brownfield rested after trekking
through wilderness for 80 miles in
one week—gave new impetur Sat
urday in the search for the flier
missing since Sept. 5.
The blaze marks were found by
trapper Oscar Vogel and Lt. Wil- ,
liam A. Weed. 10th Rescue Squad
ron helicopter pilot. They said the
marks were cut 30 to 40 feet apart
in the trees heading upstream
from the cabin where a note was
found in Brownfield’s handwrit
ing this week.
As a result of the new findings,
two Cessnas and a helicopter were
sent along the Susitna River to I
find signs of the man who now
has been missing 67 days.
Vogel and Weed reported after '
investigating the cabin that i
Brownfield took more than 120
pounds of food and supplies from 1
the trapline cabin.
Included in the supplies were a
bedroll, ax, socks, rope, water
bucket, frying pan, 40-50 pounds
of flour, canned vegetables and I
milk, dried fruits, coffee, 20-30 :
pounds of sugar, a large supply of j
matches, candles and other sup- 1
plies.
Weed said “those supplies!
should enable Brownfield to hold !
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the birds don’t respond, reports
poultry expert Frank Kratzer.
The trials were based on a tip
from Europe, where potatoes ar®
sometimes fed to chickens.
Truman's (iold
Pricr Drrluralion
NY ii! Hurl Mining
(By William E. Lowell)
WASHINGTON, (A3)—President
T r u m a n’s announcement that
there will be no change on the
value of gold during his adminis
tration doubtless was unhappy
news in Alaska and the western
United States.
Practically all the gold mined in
the United States is produced in
the 11 western state and in Alas
ka.
There are many small gold
mines, a few large ones, including
the famous Homestake of Lead, S.
Dak., and numerous placers, or
dredges.
While the immediate effect of
the President’s announcement was
a sharp drop in gold shares on the
stock exchanges, the long range
prospect is a further curtailment
of risk capital available for new
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Two Men Killed on
Freighter In Gale
ASTORIA, Ore. (/P)—'The West
port coast guard radio station re
ported a man overboard from the
freighter Calmar in a gale early
Saturday.
He was identified as Walter E.
Roberts, 3 Elliott St., Somerville,
Mass.
The coast guard reported that
the vessel radioed that its deck
load of lumber shifted and Rob
erts was thrown overboard some
45 miles west of the Columbia
River light ship at 2:30 a.m. Gale
winds of over 50 miles an hour
were blowing.
The vessel apparently was in no
serious difficulty, the coast guard
reported, and was heading for
Port Angeles, with arrival time
listed at 8 a.m. Sunday.
SEATTLE, (/P) — A Broo klyn
ship captain told today how gale
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COLUMBUS, O. </P>—An Ohio
State University student was shot
to death by a fraternity brother
Saturday after a homecoming par
ty at the Delta Tau Delta fratern
ity house.
The victim was Jack T. Mc
Keown, 23, of Norwood, a senior
and managing editor of the Ohio
State Lantern, student daily. Nor
wood is a suburb of Cincinnati.
James D. Heer, 20, of Euclid, a
first year veterinary student, was
taken into custody some time
time later at the Columbus sew
age disposal plant, 5 miles from
the fraternity house, after tele
phoning the state patrol. Euclid is
near Cleveland.
Detective Kenneth Anderson
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Coal Industry
Cold To Lewis’
Peace F eelers
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Both the
government and coal industry
leaders looked warily at John L.
Lewis’ peace feelers for a new
miners contract.
Neither showed any signs of
jumping at the union leader’s bid
to meet with federal mediation
chief Cyrus S. Ching “or anybody
else,” including the mine opera
tors.
Ching said he had no present
plans to call new coal peace meet
ings and the government contem
plated no new moves until today
at least.
The coal operators said there
seemed to be no use meeting with
Lewis again until he tailors down
his demands more to their liking.
They want an extension of the old
coal contract, the one that ex
pired last July 1. Also, they arc
demanding more assu ranees
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News of the World
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Saturday, November 12, 1949
• By The Associated Press'
Fresh from talks in Paris with
< eign ministers of Britain and
France, U. S. Secretary of State
Acheson lunched today with top
American military and diplomatic
officials at Heidelberg, ancient,
German university town.
The decisions arrived at in
Paris will not be apparent for
“weeks and months," Acheson said
on arrival at Frankfurt yesterday.
Ho is making a four-day tour
of West Germany following the
major decisions of German’s fu
ture reached by the Big Three.
At Bonn, capital of the West
German Republic, he will confer
tomorrow with Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer and President Theodore
Heuss.
The Germans are pressing for
more sovereign rights for their
government. They want the west
ern allies to stop dismantling Ger
man industry. They showed con
j siderable disappointment at the
vagueness of the announcements
■ at the end of the Big Three Pans
meeting.
German Socialist leader Kurt
Schumacher said:
“Adenauer will appear before
the German parliament on Tues
day wretched and with empty
hands.”
The debate on atomic control
continues in the United States.
White Russia was expected to fol
low the Soviet contention that
Russia will have enough atomic
bombs if war comes, but is u«ing
atomic power for peaceful con
struction.
U. S. assistant secretary of state
John Rickerson said yesteiday the
United States is both using and
sharing its atomic know-low with
medical and research laboratories
throughout the world. What atomic
knowledge are the Russians shar
ing for the benefit of mankind?
he asked.
He urged the adoption of the
majority control plan which Rus
sia opposes. This plan, he said,
provides for an international co
operative under U. N„ direction
that, through inspection and con
trol, will make such atomic power
is used for peaceful purposes only.
Monday, November 14, 1949
Secretary of State, Dean Ache
son, concluding his four-day visit
to the new West German Repub
lic, advised the Germans today
the United States will support
their right to liberty just as long
as they continue to fight for it.
Acheson made the statement in
West Berlin, an island in Soviet
occupied territory. He arrived
there by plane from Frankfort
and planned to leave by air for
Washington.
The Secretary of State told his
news conference in Berlin he had
been irritated by suggestions in
the United States that American
policy in China had failed.
“It was ot a failure of Ameri
can policy,” Acheson said. “It was
a failure of Chinese policy in Chi
na.”
Of both {Vie Chinese and Ger
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