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VOL. XLIX. No. 95 NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 8, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
ALAMEDA, Calif. (/P) — The
scorekeeper got a workout Wed
nesday in the second of the navy’s
12-game Pacific Coast baseball
tournament. The Hellcats of Ala
meda Naval Air Station defeated
the Kodiak, Alaska, navy team, 26
to 16. Alameda met Bremerton
yesterday.
ANCHORAGE, (/Pi—Rep. Evan
Howell, CR.-I11.), who authored
airport legislation for Anchorage
and Fairbanks during the recent
Congressional session, said Wed
nesday he expects the measures to
be approved at the next session of
Congress. Howell arrived here
with a party of seven Congressmen
to inspect the site of a proposed
$8,000,000 airport. The party were
to be guests yesterday at a fishing
trip between inspections.
ANCHORAGE (/P) — Seventeen
B-29 Superfortresses set down on
Elmendorf Field Wednesday some
15 hours after taking off from,
Fort Worth, Tex., on a non-stop
flight to Anchorage. Col. Allen W.
Clark, commanding officer of the
seventh bombing group, termed
the flight a routine training mis
sion. The approximately 380 men
and officers will remain here from
1 live to seven days, he said.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—City Health
office Dr. James E. O’Malley gave
city residents his assurances yes
terday that four recent cases of
typhoid were “definitely not wa
terborne.” Laboratory studies are
being made, he said, to determine
their cause, The four patients con
fined at Providence hospital, were
said by O’Malley to be “progress
ing nicely.”
DETROIT. (/P>—Price increases '
on Nash automobiles ranging from|
$95 to $168.40 have been an-j
nounced by Nash-Kelvinator cor
poration president George W. Ma
son. The boosts, which went into1
effect at midnight Thursday, fol- i
lowed increases in recent days by
General Motors Corp., Packard
Motor Car Co., and Kaiser-Frazer
Corp.
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ANCHORAGE (A*)—Sen. Homer
E. Capeheart, (R.-Ind.), is sched
uled to arrive here Sept. 4 to con
duct a Senate interstate and for
eign commerce committee hearing
into the proposed Anchorage air
port legislation. The following day
he is scheduled to hold a hearing
in Fairbanks on a similar propos
al there.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., </P>— j
Governor Ernest Gruening of;
Alaska was to fly here in a sea-1
plane piloted by Mayor Bob Ellis;
of Ketchikan, to address the final;
convention dinner of the Central j
British Columbia boards of trade (
today. Governor Gruening today
announced his intention of attend-1
> ing the closing sessions after dele
gates representing the Alaska
Commerce Chambers proposed
that their organization be admit
ted to membership in the B. C. as
sociation.
’Round World !
Record Challenger.
Flight At Cairo
CAIRO. (/P) —Pilot William P.
Odom, a third of the way along on
his effort to set a new solo record
around the world, left Cairo today
at 6:39 p.m. (5:39 a.m.. Nome
time) for Karachi, India.
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CAIRO, (j^P)—A third of the way
around the world, pilot William P.1
Odom reached Cairo tonight at
5:44 p.m. <4:44 a.m.. Nome time*,
The Roslyn, N. Y., airman, fly
ing solo in a converted A-26 bomb
er, was 21 hours 51 minutes out of
Chicago, his starting point. He
hoped to complete the circumnav
igation feat in 90 hours, beating
the 186-hour solo record set by
Wiley Post in 1933.
Odom averaged about 315 miles
an hour on his flight from Paris,
where he set down earlier today
after an overseas hop from Gan
der, Newfoundland. Tail winds
were expected to help him on the
next leg, to Karachi, India.
The 6 foot 2 inch flier, 27 years 1
old, left Paris at 11:39 a.m., Cairo
time, after a stop of 91 minutes to
take on 2,000 gallons of gasoline.
He got 1,200 gallons of gasoline in
an hour’s stopover last night at
Gander, his first landing after
leaving Chicago at 12:53 p.m., yes
terday.
His flying time to Cairo was 18
hours 20 minutes. The trip here
covered about 6,500 miles of the
19,600-mile route he charted'
around the world. He flew around i
the world last April in 78 hours i
55l/fc minutes—but not alone. Mil
ton Reynolds and T. Carroll Salee.
accompanied him then in the same
plane.
Odom looked fresh as he climb
ed out of the cockpit at Farouk
Field here. He said he had aver-j
aged 285 miles an hour, including
time aground, since he left Chi-;
cago. |
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Dutch Reject Any
Compulsory U. N. j
Arbitration
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LAKE SUCCESS l/P), The Neth-!
erlands government was reported
ready today to reject any plan for (
compulsory arbitration of the In
donesian dispute.
Informed quarters described the
Dutch position as follows:
1. They already had agreed to
accept the “good offices” of the
United States to help settle the un
declared war.
2. They would have no objec
tions to a United Nations commis-!
sion to supervise the present truce.
3. They would accept no U. N.
commission either to mediate or
arbitrate the dispute.
The Netherlands views were
made known as the security coun-(
cil put the Indonesian question
aside until Tuesday afternoon to |
give the delegates a chance to |
study a new communication from l
the Indonesian government pro-;
posing creation of an aribtration,
commission. I
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Nome Turns Out
For General ‘’Ike’s’
Short Visit
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General Dwight E.senhower and
party were greeted Wednesday af
ternoon at four-thirty upon ar
rival from Barrow, by a large
crowd of Nomeites who had driven
to the airport to welcome him to
this part of Alaska. The official
military welcoming party, headed
by commanding officer, Col. John
Bodle. were as follows: Major
Darwin Swanson, Major Thomas
H. Schnebly, Major Hugh L. Turk,
Jr., Capt. William O. Stephenson,
Capt. Ed E. Graham, Capt. Sid
ney Schiff. Capt. Albert W. Darl
ing, Lt. Charles A. Lewis, Lt.
Melburn J. Smith.
General Eisenhower was accom
panied by the following officers:
Major General Howard A. Craig,
chief of the Alaska Command,
Major General Alfred M. Gruen
ther, assistant commandant of the
National War College; Brigadier
General Henry B. Saylor; Col. H.
J. Matchett, Col. J. B, Murphy, Lt.
Col. Frank A. Bogart, Lt. Col. J.
H. Michaelis, Lt. Col. C. W. Wells;
and Tech Sgt. John Moaney.
They were escorted to cars and
taken for a tour of army installa
tions and through Nome and King
Island village.
General Eisenhower expressed
a desire to go fishing as he had
heard of the wonderful trout and
greyling in Nomes streams. Col.
Bodle arranged for a party at Dex
ter after which a reception was
held in the officers 'club followed
by a formal dinner for officers,
wives and invited guests.
At the banquet, Col. Bodle
stated that he had promised Gen
eral Eisenhower that there would
be no speeches, however there was j
some business to attend to. He pre-1
sented S. David Mazen, postmaster
who represented the American Le
gion. The Nome Legionaires pre
sented General Eisenhower with a
beautiful ivory tusk on which was
mounted a carved dog team. Mr.
Mazen said, “In behalf of the
Americari Legion of Nome, I pre
sent you with this ivory tusk on
which is a dog team, a symbol of
a passing era—as you pass into
civilian garb may it be a symbol
of a passing era of war into an era
ot permanent peace. •
General Eisenhower responded
that he was grateful to the veter
ans who had remembered him and
stated that it was only men who
had gone through battle that knew
the business of war must stop.
Almqr Rydeen, president of the
Pioneers, said, “In behalf of the
Pioneers of Alaska, Iglo No. 1, as
a token of appreciation of Alas
kans, who have elected you unan
imously as an honorary member,
I present you with a membership
card and lapel button which
though small carries the wishes of
the Pioneers wherever you go.”
General Eisenhower responded,
“This day has been a day of firsts
for' me, my first trip to Nome, the
first chief of staff to visit Alaska,
the first time I have been made a
member of a group of outstanding
pioneers, my first meeting with
Sgt. Delfino “Poncho” Cantu, who
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30,000 Boy Scouts
At Jamboree
In France
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PARIS, (£>)—More than 1,100
Boy Scouts from the United States
and Alaska were scheduled to ar
rive at the wooded 1,500-acre site
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of the International Scout Jam
boree encampment 40 miles west
of here.
The boys—first-class, eagle and
life scouts—have spent four days
on excursions through the Nether
lands and Belgium after disem
barking at Antwerp. They are'
among some 30,000 boys from 39
countries expected for the jam
boree, which will start officially
Saturday and last through Aug 21.
For the occasion, the Paris tele
phone system has created a tem
porary “Jamboree" exchange, the
French National Railways have
opened a 17-track temporary sta
tion, a daily newspaper is being
issued for the scouts and the
French post office has put out a
short-term 5-franc postage stamp
bearing the word. “Jamboree.”
Each foreign troops is accom
panied by a French translator
scout. Every boy sleeps in his own
sleeping bag. Each group pitches
its own tent and does its own
cooking.
Two kinds of food supplies are
handed out at the commissary—
an “Anglo-Saxon menu” and a
“French Menu.’ In beverages, the
“Anglo-Saxon” boys get milk, the
others wine.
At the rate the boys were swap
ping their scout kerchiefs, belts,
insignia and what not yesterday,
it seemed there wouldn’t be a na
tional scout uniform left by the
time the scouts stage their parade
on the last day of the Jamboree.
CONGRESSIONAL PARTY TO
ARRIVE IN NOME SUNDAY
Sunday • afternoon a Congres- ,
sional party who are members of
the Interstate and Commerce Com
mittee will arrive at the local air
I
port and be met by a committee]
of the Army personnel headed by
Col. John Bodle and members of ;
the Northwestern Chamber of
Commerce. They will be taken to ;
the Bering Sea Club for luncheon,
followed by a tour of army instal
lations and what other places they
desire to visit.
The committee in charge is
working hard on a program to
present at that time as they will
only be here for a couple of hours, j
Cars are being arranged for the
sight seeing trip and for bringing
the party to town.
The group consists of the fol
lowing members:
Leonard Hall, of New York,
Hugh Scott of Philadelphia, Pa.,
Henderson Carson of Canton,
Ohio, Virgil Chapman of Ken
tucky, Lindley Beckworth of
Texas, Richard Harless of Ari
zone. Messrs Haley, Rogers and
Howell, whose first names and |
addresses were unobtainable.
Delegate Bartlett, Layton Tilton,
clerk of the committee; Stockbur
ger, Stevenson, Borchardt and
Parley who are the committee con
sultants; George Burgess, deputy
administrator for the C.A.A. and
Col. Charles Woolley.
Death Toll Mounts
In States Ileat As
Weather Eases
'By The Associated Press»
Thundershowers and cooling
breezes cut further into the mid
west’s worst heat wave of the year
yesterday after deaths from the
four days of 100-degree tempera
tures had risen to at least 69.
“The heat wave is definitely
broken at Chicago and all points
north and west and is being brok
en eastward,’ the weather bureau
said after a shower at Chicago
early yesterday tumbled the mer
cury from 81 to 72 within a few
minutes.
Elsewhere, though, the forecast
er said, continued high tempera
tures could be expected, particu
larly from southeastern Michigan
southward through Indiana, across
southern Illinois and throughout
the southern plains states.
At Joliet. 111., about 40 miles
south of Chicago, a brief but heavy
downpour was accompanied by
strong winds which blew down
many trees and disabled the city’s
power service. Some houses and
automobiles were damaged by the
falling trees.
Fatalities as a result of the heat,
including some drownings. includ
ed: Chicago 25, St. Louis 11, Wis
consin 11. Ohio 8, Iowa, Alabama
and Arkansas three each, Louis
ville, Ky.. two; Indiana, Pennsyl
vania and Tennessee one each.
A high reading'of 101 degrees
gave Chicago its hottest three-day
period since July 1911. On each of
the three days, the mercury climb
er to 100 or more.
Yuma, Ariz., reported the na
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Churchill Blasts
At New “Crisis
Powers” Bill
LONDON, i/P)—Britain’s social
ist-dominated House of Commons
approved today the government’s
sweeping “crisis powers” bill, de
scribed by Winston Churchill as
“a blank check for totalitarian
government.”
The House gave the bill a sec
ond reading—approving it in prin
ciple—without a record vote. The
government hoped to push the
measure through all remaining
parliamentary stages before the
Commons’ scheduled adjournment
next Wednesday.
An amendment to reject the
measure was defeated 251 to 148.
The socialist government says
the bill is necessary for effective
dealing with the British economic
crisis. It would empower the gov
ernment to tell men and women
where they must work and to take
over the management of firftis
considered to be operating ineffi
ciently.
Home secretary Chuter Ede,
backing the bill, said “We believe
that this is a crisis likely to move
forward with such rapidity that
we should have power to deal
drastically and swiftly with awk
ward situations that may arise.”
Churchill snapped:
“Hitler said that.”