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VU1. LI. No. 35 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 18. 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
CORDOVA, (/I*)—The Yakataga
Beach oil field, which is said to
have the world’s largest natural
seepage of oil, is being inspected
by an engineering party repre- |
senting New York and Texal oil
interests.
Test borings will be made by
the party under the direction of
A. I. Rodriguez. New York engin
eer. The field has a natural seep
age of 10 barrels daily and has a
large surface deposit of parafine.
Coal deposits at the Katalla coal
field some 30 miles from here will
also be surveyed for coking coal.
ROCKPORT, Texas, i/Pi — A
cloudburst dumped 7.6 inches of
rain on this Texas Gull coast
town early Saturday. The rain be
gan at 2 a.m., and was continuing
at mid-morning. Rockport is 26
miles northeast of Corpus Christi.
Severe lightning and thunder
accompanied the Rockport storm
—part of a weather siege which
has claimed two Texas lives.
SACRAMENTO. (/P>—'The stork
swooped down on the maternity
ward of a hospital Friday and left
a baby girl each for Mrs. Harold
Anderson and Mrs. Walter Ander
son.
The new mothers are sisters and
the lathers are twin brothers.
PHILADELPHIA. (/Pi — When
Robert H. Garrett’s little pigs go
to market, Garrett hopes they’ll
bring their weight in gold.
That would make up a little, he
reasoned today, for the $400 they
cost him to explore greener pas
tures on the other side of the
fence.
The state superior court set that
price for the corn and turnips
Garrett’s 26 pigs consumed in the
Lancaster County farm of Mr. and
Mrs. James Consylman.
HOLLYWOOD, (/?)—Betty Hut
ton and Ted Brisk in. her wealthy
camera manufacturer husband,
have parted.
Her studio disclosed last night
, that the dynamic blonde actress
has moved into a hotel while Bris
kin, member of a rich Chicago
family, remains at the couple’s
home.
Betty blamed herself for the
rift and added she had no plans
for divorce. They have two chil
dren.
STONINGTON, Conn., </P) —
Around-the-clock operations were
underway today at the American
Velvet company’s plant here, and
an official said they would con
tinue to operate on a 24-hour ba
sis until further notice.
Clarence A. Wimpfheimer, pres
ident of A. Wimpfheimer & Bro.,
Inc., owners of the mill, explained
only that “conditions warrant it.”
The company, which has won a
CIO-IWU award for its labor re
lations program, employs 300-odd
workers.
DARWIN, Australia, (/P) — Ed
ward Arnold, 54, is a little short
sighted, but he loves to swim.
He went for a dip in Darwin
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U. S. Claims Green
land Naval Base;
Denmark Denies
(By Ellon C. Fay)
WASHINGTON </P)—New indi
cations of quiet moves by the
United States to improve its mili
tary lookout in the Far North
were disclosed today in official
quarters.
Among the projects is work on
a small naval operating base lo
cated in a fiord at Grondal, near
the southwest tip of Greenland.
This little-known installation is
used to provide'limited repair and
1 general supply service to ships op
erating in that area, the navy says.
So far as is known, this is one of
the most northern of the navy’s
, secondary bases in the Atlantic
and Arctic regions.
Increasing emphasis is being
placed on the possibility of air at
tack on the United States across
the polar regions. Thus both the
navy and air force have been in
1 tensifying efforts to maintain pa
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Negro \\ itness Says
Paul Robeson
!“Sounds Silly**
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(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, UP) — Jackie
! Robinson said today that if singer
Paul Robeson “wants to sound sil
j ly” in public, “that’s his business.”
| The Brooklyn Dodgers’ slender
; second baseman, first Negro to
break into the major leagues, told
the House un-American activities
committee that Negro Americans
would fight for this country
“against Russia or any other en
emy.”
He was the last witness called
by the committee to refute a re
I cent statement by Robesoil, once a
famous athlete himself, that Ne
groes in the United States would
not fight in a war against Russia.
The committee’s small hearing
room was packed when Robinson
and his attractive wife arrived,
and a loud “amen” came from
somewhere in the crowd when he
finished reading a long prepared
statement.
The baseball star said he never
has had time to become an expert
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Marines “’Invade”
Island Of Crete
Aboard the U. S. Sixth Task
Fleet, Mediterranean Sea, (/P)—
Some 1,200 U. S. marines hit the
beach on the island of Crete Sat
urday—but the “invasion” is just
a training exercise, approved by
the Greek government.
Never before have the marines
made one of their famed landings
so far east of the United States.
The landing was the culmina
tion of a training operation of the
Sixth Task Fleet, which is sta
tioned in the Mediterranean. The
fleet’s commander, Vice Adm.
Forrest P. Sherman, conducts such
exercises nearly every month to
keep his force in fighting trim.
“Alaska Weak—
In Sorry Plight”
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<(/P) Special Washington Service' '
WASHINGTON, </P)—A Senate
committee was told last week that
“Alaska is weak” and “Uncle Sam
is asleep in the North again.”
The statements were made by
Fergus Hoffman, staff correspond
ent of the Seattle Post-Intelligen
cer, who said he was assigned to
make an investigation of the Ter
. itory's defenses by the Hearst
newspapers.
In prepared testimony for the
Senate appropriations sub-com
mittee handling funds for the
armed services, Hoffman said:
“Military men are not exactly
in the most favorable position to
tell the public the plain truth—
that Alaska is in sorry shape, that
defenses are not what they must
be to be what their name implies.”
Hoffman urged that Alaska’s
defenses be strengthened with
more military bases, the military
be given more money to provide
troops to defend the bases it now
holds, a rigid perimeter warning
system be immediately established
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Postpone Steel
Strike; Appoint
Fact-Finders
(By Harold W. Ward)
WASHINGTON. </P)—A Presi
, dential fact-finding board in the
: steel labor dispute took over one
1 of the nation’s biggest economic
questions today—should there be a
| “fourth round” of postwar wage
increases?
The three-man board was ap
pointed Friday night by President
Truman to end a tense 72 hours
speculation over whether the steel
industry, or a big part of it, would
shut down indefinitely Saturday.
The board’s recommendations
I on w ages, pensions and insurance
I issues in the steel dispute won’t
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Czech Manifesto
Calls For Church
“Liquidation”
(By Richard Kasischkeo)
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, UP)—
A Czech communist party mani
festo called Saturday for liquida
I tion of “our greatest enemy, the
church.”
The manifesto came on the
heels of a statement by Justice
Minister Alexei Cepicka that any
one who moves to put into effect
the excommunication of commun
ists decreed by the Vatican will
be arrested and treid for treason.
(A Vatican informant said ex
communication requires no en
forcement, that it acts upon the
guilty in the secrecy of their own
consciences).
The party manifesto declared it
was imperative to “liquidate the
enemy” in order to complete the
communization of the country.
This, it said did not mean liqui
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Great Falls W orks
To Achieve
Alaskan Trade
HELENA, Mont. <7P>—The Mon
tana chamber of commerce i.s pre- '
pared to ask that definite rates be I
placed on the Canadian lines doc
ket—a necessary step before put
ting into effect any rate changes
between Montana cities and Alas
ka through Alberta points.
L. F. Nichols, Great Falls cham
ber of commerce traffic committee ,
chairman, said all suggestions j
made at a meeting of traffic rep
resentatives here Friday will be
taken under advisement. He term
i ed discussion at the conference
I called by Gov. John W. Bonner
I “candid.”
, Although the meeting produced
I no definite rate measurement
j from which a schedule can be set
j up Nichols and others expressed
| confidence that a definite rate
j schedule will be prepared for sub
j mission.
Nichols was chairman.
Proponents of through rates for
| the Coutts-Sweetgrass gateway
sought to connect the southern cit
ies with Alaska and Canada by
. rail or rail-highway systems.
A petition prepared by the Mon
I tana chamber cited a need for
| more rail service in the “Rocky
| Mountain trench area — from
| Texas north to Dawson Creek, B.
• C.. and funelling through Coutts
Sweetgrass.
The petition sought to eliminate
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NOME FIGHT FANS
TURNED OUT EN-MASSE
TO WITNESS GOOD SHOW
Nome fight fans turned out in
full strength Saturday night and
j accorded enthusiastic reception to
the Walrus Club’s benefit fistic
program. Wesley Boyt, 148 lbs.,
Drumright, Okla., decis i o n e d
George Swanson, 155 lbs., Nome,
in the main event, a six-round
contest fought under professional
rules.
In preliminary matches, which
I followed the three-round route,
I Paul Ellis, 170 lbs., Hayward, Cal.,
i decisioned Jim Hcidinger, 180 lbs.,
San Rafael, Calif. Jimmy Maya
time, 116 lbs., took the nod over
Diego de la Guardia, 125 lbs.,
Philippines, and Bob Brown, 148
lbs., Cincinnati, Ohio, was award
ed tttfe decision over Curley Mil
ler, 145 lbs., Nome.
Alford Vallejo, 165 lbs., Denver.
Colo., won by a TKO over Robert
Godshell, 175, Chicago, III., Bill
Dagley, 155 lbs., Hollywood, Cal.,
decisioned Paul Sullivan, 163 lbs.,
Florida; Shirley Mott, 150 lbs.,
Canton, Miss., lost a decision to
Jim Callahan, 155 lbs., North
Adams, Mass.
The fights card held in the high
school, was one of a series being
currently staged by the Walrus
Club, assording to Wes Welsh,
president. Pugilistic talent from
Nome snd Marks Air Force Base
is being utilized.
Officials were Capt. Marion W.
Staudenmayer, Lt. James W. Rigg;
Bud Abbey, time keeper; and
Hank Miller, referee.
Plans are already under way for
another fight card for August 6.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Saturday, July 16, 1949
'By The Associated Press'
The British government called
in leaders of two waterfront un
ions today in an effort to settle a
strike that has dealt a crushing
blow to Britain’s trade. The labor
ministry’s top negotiator met with
executive committees of the light
ermen’s union and the dockers un
ion.
The government charges the
wildcat strike is a communist plot
to stifle international t»’ade and
bring Britain to her knees. More
than 14.000 stevedores are idle.
Troops are now manning the gov
ernment-seized docks.
The strike came at a time when
Britain is facing a staggering fi
nancial crisis and government
leaders have urged a greater flow
of British export goods for nation
al survival.
The national economy of one
British Dominion—Australia—on
die other side of the world is suf
fering a similar blow from what
the Austrlia government also calls
a c immunist plot. Communist
leaders in the miners’ union are
accused of engineering a strike of
24,000 miners called at the same
time as the British waterfront
strike. The strike 'has closed in
dustry after industry in Australia.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
became chairman of a new 12
man emergency council which is
virtually a supreme war cabinet.
It was created as part of the na
tionalist effort toward a hoped-for
comeback against the communists.
Chiang announced that South
ern Korea has joined the anti
communist Pacific Union advoca
ted by him and President Elpidio
Quirino of the Philippines.
Monday, July 18, 1949
Fighting flamed anew in. China
today after a two-month lull in
■ the civil war. Official dispatches
j reported several nationalist set
I backs. The engagements were in
; progress in Central China. Chang
isha, Hunan province capital and
| a nationalist strongpoint, appar
ently was an objective of Chinese
communist troops.
Four Red divisions were report
ed to have captured Ichang, Yang
tze river port 600 air miles west
of Shanghai and 200 miles north
of Changsha. A big battle also was
shaping up in western Kiangsi
province, directly above Kwang
tung where Canton is situated.
Chinese press reports in British
Hong Kong said the new commun
ist drive had caused fresh panic
among nationalist officials in
Canton.
Communist-held Shanghai was
beset by economic trouble. Rice
prices shot up more than 30 per
cent, and the communist dollar
was further inflated.
Europe’s attention rema i n e d
centered over the weekend on the
struggle between the communist
party and the Catholic church.
Czechoslovakia’s Catholic
priests spurned orders from the
communist government to desert
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