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VOL, LI. No. 153 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P)—Knut Telleff
son, 62, president of the Chatham
Strait Fish Company, was fatally
injured by an automobile here
last night.
He died two hours after being
struck down. The driver of the
car was booked at the city jail on
a negligent driving charge.
JUNEAU. (/P) —The starting
time for Alaska’s census has been
delayed from Feb. 1 to April 1.
The new date will conform with
the states.
Governor Gruening’s office was
notified of the change by Gene
Harris, the 11th area supervisor
of the bureau of census at Seattle.
The announcement listed several
drawbacks of an earlier Alaska
start. Travel conditions for cen
sus takers are bad during Febru
ary and March and many Alas
kans are in the states at that time.
PETERSBURG, Alaska f/P)—A
cabin cruiser believed to have
been one used by a missing trap
per has been found unmanned
near Coney Island at the mouth
of the Stikine river, it was repor
ted here today.
U.S. commissioner Dale H. Hirt
said he has been informed that
the craft was used by Arland
Breese, the missing Dry island
trapper. The cruiser was taken
to Wrangell.
Breese was due in Petersburg
this week. He has been living on
Dry Island with his wife, two
small children and two other men.
OAKLAND, Calif. (/P)—Otto G.
Tackle, 64, mail clerk who first
took mail to the Yukon in the
1899 gold rush, was buried in
Oakland yesterday.
Tackle was a railway mail clerk
aboard the first boat out of Seat
tle after discovery of gold taking
mail to Skagway and Dawson. He
retired in 1946.
Survivors include a niece, Mrs.
Lucille Wendling of Seattle.
PARIS (/P)—One of the four boy
quadruplets born Wednesday to
Madame Andree Sorel at Sailly
Saillisel, near Lille, died Thursday
night. The other three, kept in an
incubator, are reported in satis
factory health. They weigh about
two pounds each.
LAS VEGAS, Nev., (IP)—The
city commission has suspended
the gambling license of the Savoy
club after investigating reports
it failed to pay the manager of
another casino $47,000 of $67,000
won at the crap table.
Reports to the commision said
that Jack Durant, casino manager
at the Flamingo hotel, won $67,
000 in a 45-minute hot winning
streak last Sunday but was able
U. S. Will Oppose
Aggression Against
Yugoslavia
WASHINGTON. (TP) — From
President Truman to Marshal
1 Tito, a major target of Soviet
| threats: the United States is op
posed to aggression against any
nation.
; This is the word Mr. Truman
| has instructed George V. Allen,
! his new ambassador to Yugoslav
ia, to pass on to the Tito govern
ment. Allen is due to leave for
i Belgrade Dec. 28.
Tito has been under heavy pres
sure from the Russians since his
break with Moscow more than a
year ago. There has been specula
tion that sometime the Russians
might try to break his power by
means of guerrilla warfare.
1 The United States and other
western nations have given Tito
economic and political assistance
since he stormed out of the Sov
i iet camp. But there never has been
J any official statement of what this
1 country’s policy would be in the
event of a Soviet-communist at
tack on Yugoslavia.
Mr. Truman had a talk with Al
len, before his weekly news con
ference Thursday. He told Allen,
he said, to state this government’s
policy to the Tito government.
Then the President added that the
United States is opposed to aggres
! sion against any country no mat
i ter where it is situated.
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Moored
Burns Ai Boston
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BOSTON, f/P)—Squirming out
of portholes and struggling
through smoke-filled companion
ways, 40 crewmen and two stew
ardesses escaped in nightclothes
; early today as explosions and
(flames wrecked the midship
decks of the moored Norwegian
1 freighter, Fern Bay.
One crewman suffered burns
and the ship’s captain made his
! way over a cargo boom to safety i
■ in the 4 a.m. blaze which caused
loss estimated at “between $100,
000 and $500,000.”
Flames ate through the five
deck superstructure of the 10
months-old 8,000-ton vessel, out of
Oslo, Norway, which arrived here
recently from Port Said after a
voyage to Far Eastern ports. Her
cargo was crude rubber and tea.
Tugs and land apparatus battled
the flames.
to collect only $20,000 in cash.
The matter now goes before the
state tax commission, which is
sues gambling licenses subject to J
approval by local authorities.
Arthur M. Hartford
Dies In Seattle
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SEATTLE, (#*) — Arthur -M.
Hartford, widely known Alaska
mining man, died Wednesday in
Swedish Hospital after an illness
of four months.
He was born in North Platte,
Neb., 62 years ago and was en
gaged in the mining business for
i 40 years. He spent 27 years with
the United States Smelting. Min
; ing and Refining Company, the
| last 12 as manager of the com
pany’s Nome operation.
He was a veteran of World War
I, having served with Co. 3, 316
Engineers, 91st Division, in Bel
gium, France and Germany as a
Sergeant First Class. He was a
member of the I. O. O. F.
Through the years he main
tained the family home here.
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Edna M. Hartford; two
daughters, Helen June and Doro
thy, both born in Nome, and two
brothers, W. A. Hartford of Sac
ramento and Joseph P. Hartford,
Grass Valley, Calif.
TOM JENSEN. EX-NOMEITE
TAKES BRIDE IN STATES
Tom Jensen, former Nomeite
who has made his home at Flat for
the last several years has sur
prised his many friends here with
the announcement of his marriage
in Milwaukee a week ago.
Tom Jensen, who is 65, who has
been a widower since the death of
his wife in 1938, met his wife
through another Flat mining man
Harry Panter. The bride, who is
32. visited Flat last year in con
nection with her uncle Panther’s
estate, when she personally met
Tom Jensen, althought they had
corresponded in connection with
Panter’s estate.
The marriage took place in
Milwaukee where the couple will
spend the winter.
The divinity
of the season
is surpassed only
in the joy it brings
to the hearts
of men.
Merry Christmas.
The Staff of
THE NOME NUGGET
Question Is:
Will l ewis Call
Coal Strike Jan. I
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WASHINGTON, (Ah—President
Truman’s new refusal to step into
the coal dispute set off more talk
today of the possibility of a strike
or lock-out after Jan. 1.
John L. Lewis’ miners will
work only Tuesday and Wednes
d a y of the next two holiday
weeks. After that the big question
is whether Lewis will crack down
hard and close the mines entirely
in a real test of strength.
Those who argue that this is
| Lewis’ plan think he adopted the
three-day work week Dec. 1 just
to put some Christmas money into
the pockets of his hard-pressed
miners.
Having done that, some opera
tors reason, he may call the dig
i gers out and try the big squeeze.
This would permit operations only
by those employers who sign a
contract for a 35-cent tonnage
welfare royalty and $15 daily
I wage.
Even the three-day work week
is pinching the operators.
President Truman would not
i offer any opinion at his news con
ference yesterday on w'hether the
three day week was causing an
emergency.
He reiterated that if an emer
! gency develops he will take the
necessary action to halt it—pre
sumably by seeking an 80-day in
junction under the Taft-Hartley
act, which up to now he has
avoided.
Warn Captains Of
Sailing to Shanghai
WASHINGTON. (VP)—The gov
ernment warned American ship
! captains yesterday that they may
' lose their licenses if they take
! their ships into Shanghai waters.
The state department announc
ed that this warning has twice
I been give to the skipper of the Is
| brantsen Line’s Flying Arrow.
, The most recent warning was
from American officials at Pusan,
Korea, on Dec. 20.
A general warning was issued
by the United States on Decem
ber 17 to all shipping companies
and ship masters. This said the
port of Shanghai and its approach
es “constitute a zone of danger”
which is extremeyl' hazardous to
shipping because of the Chinese
Nationalist efforts to close the
port.
NOTICE
The Nugget will observe the le
gal holiday next Monday and re
main closed. There will be no pub
lication until Wednesday.
Pope Appeals For
United W.orld Front
Under Catholicism
(By Frank Bruilo)
VATICAN CITY, (JP) — Pope
Pius XII appealed yesterday to all
who believe in Jesus Christ to
unite under the Roman Catholic
church in a solid front against
militant advances of atheism.
The Pope’s address, his annual
| Christmas message, was addressed
to the whole world on the even of
, the 1950 Holy Year. There seemed
' little doubt that the address was
i an invitation to all those profess
! ing Protestant faiths to join with
, the Church of Rome.
This coming Holy Year, the Pon
; tiff said, “must be decisive, espe
cially for the longed-for religious
i renewal of the modern world.”
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“Oh that this Holy Year would
welcome also to the great return
to the one true church, awaited
over the centuries, of so many
who, though believing in Jesus
Christ, are for various reasons
separated from her,” he said.
“With unspeakable groanings,
the spirit, who is in the hearts of
good people, today cries out implor
ingly the same prayer of our Lord:
that they may be one.”
The Pope also expressed hope
that those who have been mem
bers of the Roman Catholic church
and have strayed away would re
turn to the fold like the prodigal
son.
Apparently the Pope, in refer
ring to militant atheism, meant
communism but apparently he re
ferred both to communism and to
the extremes of capitalism when
he said:
“In the social field, the coun
terfeiting of God’s plan has gone
to its very roots by deforming the
divine image of man. Instead of
his real, created nature with or
igin and destiny in God, there has
been substituted the false notion
of man whose conscience is a law
unto himself. ...”
COMMAND PERFORMANCE
OVER WXLN SUNDAY
Sunday evening from 8:00 to
10:00 p.m., a special two-hour
program of “Command Perform
ance” will be broadcast over
WXLN Radio Station.
As the name implies, Command
Performance is a program of
stars requested to appear on the
broadcast. But WXLN station
manager S/Sgt. Johnnie Mock,
states that the galaxy of stars
“commanded” to be present for
this broadcast would far outshine
the Northern Lights on the clear-*
est, coldest night possible.
Remember the time, Sunday,
Dec. 25, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.