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VOL. LI. NoT 47NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1949Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SAN FRANCISCO </P)—William
J. Maloney, a native of Alaska,
and former Nome groceryman,
died here last Friday. The funeral
will be held today. He was a mem
ber of both the Alaska Pioneers
and the Alaska Sourdough associ
ation. His widow, Marjorie, and
daughter, Evelyn, survive him.
CHICAGO, (/P)—Raymond Mil
ler, 44, who flew here from An
chorage for treatment of a spinal
ailment, underwent a “highly suc
cessful” operation at Merch hos
pital Monday.
Attending doctors said it is too
early to say whether the opera
tion would restore him to active
life.
£ Miller, who was unable to walk
or sit up, arrived here last week.
Strapped to a stretcher, after a 26
hour flight from Alaska.
FOLKSETONE. England. I/P)—
The thrush sang to beat the band.
The bird perched on top of the
bandstand during a concert Mon
day and began singing with the
, band.
A thousand listeners, almost to
a man, turned their eyes on the
bird. The bandmaster gave the au
dience, “In A Monastery Garden”
—with instrumental bird calls.
The thrush gave them the real
thing.
It sang through every number.
The concert over, it flew away
to loud applause.
PARIS. i/P)—Paris police at
tempted to track down yesterday
a cagy thief who may have bitten
off more than he can chew.
Officers said someone broke
into a local circus yesterday morn
ing and stole a lion.
HAMBURG, Germany, i/P) —
“Lift your feet, please,” said a po
lite thief as he rolled up the rug
irt a doctor’s waiting room.
When the receptionist discov
ered the rug had been stolen she j
accepted the offer of a woman pa
tient who said she would catch the
thief if loaned a bicycle.
Net loss to the doctor: one rug
and one biclcle.
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VANCOUVER. B. C., (VP)—“Lit
tle peanut”—a tiny 17 Vfe ounce
twin girl born here Sunday—is
dead. The child, daughter of Mrs.
Alice Fordham of Vancouver, suc
cumbed last night after a 60-hour
fight by doctors to keep her alive.
Her twin sister, who weighed two |
pounds, four ounces, still lives.
The nickname “Little Peanut”
was given the baby by hospital j
^ nurses.
STROMBOLI, Italy, (/P) — Ro-;
berto Rossellini, producer-partner |
of Swedish actress Ingrid Berg
man, today refused to deny or
confirm reports linking them ro
mantically.
The 42-year-old Italian director
told a group of newspapermen, “I
cannot say anything yet” about
the reports he and Miss Bergman
planned to marry after divorcing
their present spouses.
Miss Bergman’s personal repre-1
sentative in Hollywood recently
described the reports as “ridicu
lous.”
New Regulations
Will Bankrupt
Independents
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WASHINGTON </P)—Independ
ent air lines protested yesterday
that new regulations laid down by
the civil aeronautics board will
knock them out of business.
Chairman James Fischgrund of
the National Independent Air Car
riers’ said the CAB’s action will
jeopardize the life savings of
“hundreds” of World War II vet
erans who turned their war flying
experience into profitable busi
nesses.
The CAB notified the large ir
regular carriers they will have to
obtain individual licenses to fly
after May 20. The board also said
licenses will be issued only where
it is demonstrated that a need for
irregular air service exists.
The irregulars use large-type
planes in contract or charter serv
ice and are authorized to fly only
on a non-scheduled basis, as dis
tinguished from the time-table
flight's of the regular air lines.
There are about 110 large irreg
ular companies. The CAB has said
some of them maintain such regu
lar flights as to put them in direct
competition with the scheduled
flight companies.
The CAB said “a substantial
number of large irregular carri
ers have attempted to comply”
with the present blanket-licensing
regluations. But it added that the
plan has served as a cloak for op
erations which are not within the
intent and purpose of the regula
tion.
The board said it is revoking
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Four Dogs Rescued
Two Weeks Ago
Tuesday, the 19th of April, the
PIO of the Marks Air Force Base
released the story of an incident
which occurred on April 7th.
It seems the air force rescued
four sled dogs which were ma
rooned on an ice floe off Cape
Darby, near Golovin.
The dogs were part of a team of
seven dogs driven by Edwin Pun
guk of Golovin on a hunting trip
on the ice. The outer ice broke
away leaving open water between
Punguk and the shore. He put
three of the dogs into his kayak
and paddled to the shore ice. He
was unable to return to the floe to
get the remaining four dogs on ac
count of the formation of new ice
and the heavy winds.
Returning to Golovin, Punguk
contacted Harry Strong, consult
ant for the Alaska Air Command’s
Arctic Indoctrination School, who
made the necessary arrangements
to get a plane from the MAF base
near Nome to search for the dogs.!
Lt. Carlos O. Beasley piloted the
plane which was dispatched to the
scene and Strong was the guide, j
The dogs were soon located on the
ice floe, gnawing on the seal and |
oogruk Punguk had shot before j
fore discovering he was on a J
broken ice cake. The dogs were
put into coal sacks and flown back
to Golovin.
Pilot Falls From ]
Plane At Annette
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SEATTLE, UP)—A pilot for the
Sourdough Air Transport of An
chorage fell to his death early to
day from a company plane short
ly after it took off from the An
nette Island airport, company rep
resentatives reported here.
The island is roughly 10 miles
from Ketchikan.
Fred Whitmire, manager of the
firm’s Seattle office, identified the
filer as Dave Huycke, third pilot
aboard the plane.
Whitmire said Capt. Ed Bren
ner, first pilot, reported by tele
phone from Annette that Huycke
was “sucked” from the plane as he
sought to check a draft around the
door.
Whitmire said the plane, a C-47
carrying 10 passengers, was about
four minutes out of Annette Is
land field enroute to Anchorage.
He estimated the plane’s altitude at
the time of the tragedy at possibly
4,000 feet.
The company reported the plane
returned to the Annette field after
the mishap.
High School
Presents Three
Act Comedy
Nome High School is presenting
“Boys About Bobbette,” tomor
row night at eight o’clock in the
high school gym. It is a hilarious
comedy about a tom-boy trying to
get out of modeling in a style
show. Her mother is a social climb
er and is trying to make her
daughter more feminine.
Bobbette has to kick goals for
her football team the same eve
ning of the style show and is try
ing to get her father to help her
out of it. Frieda Fish, niece of a
high society lady, breaks up every
thing with Socko, captain of the
football team and Bobbette.
Everything goes wrong for Mrs.
Baylock who is trying to make an
impression with the society wo
men. She finally gets to have the
style show at her home but Bob
bette doesn’t turn up. Everything
turns out all right by the third
act.
The Girl Scouts will “check”
babies. Bring along Junior and the
Girl Scouts will take care of him
for 25c during the play.
Earthquake
Rumblings
SEATTLE (/P)—The earthquake
is over. But its repercussions lin
ger on.
Because the Spokane St. bridge
was knocked out of line by the
disturbance, the span has been
closed to water traffic. So the S.S.
Diamond Cement was held up
Monday with a full load of lime
rock from Alaska.
The city engineer’s office said
there was no telling how long the
bridge might be out of commis
sion for shipping traffic. The sup
porting piers were badly twisted
out of line, jamming the span.
Meanwhile, the Diamond Ce
ment, which arrived from View
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Chinese Civil War
Breaks Out Again
(By Seymour Topping)
NANKING, (/P) — The dreaded
Chinese civil war exploded all
along the Yangtze river front to
night.
Communist attacks were started
at several points. Gunfire could be
heard and for the first time of the
war, seen from the Capital.
Pukow, across the river was un
der attack. Kiangpu. on the north
bank, seven miles southwest of
Nanking, was hit. Serious fighting
was reported by govern m e n t
sources opposite Wuhu, 60 miles
southeast of here. Hsiaokan, 35
miles north of Hankow, was the
focal point of the Red 43rd army.
A top ranking nationalist gen
eral expressed fear the Reds may
try a quick landing in this vicin
ity, trapping nationalist officials
in the capital.
The general feeling at the mo
ment is that Wuhu is the govern
ment’s weak point. The river
front there provides a good land
ing area.
Nationalist gunboats stood out
in the Yangtze off Nanking firing
upon communist troops attacking
Kiangpu and other north bank
points.
Severe fighting was reported by
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Internation’l News
At A Glance —
Tuesday, April 19, 1949
At Lake Success the United
| States turned thumbs down on a
: Cuban proposal for investigating
the trials of churchmen in Hun
gary and Bulgaria through a
United Nations inquiry mission.
A. U. S. delegation spokesman
said Americans condemn these
trials, of violating their peace
treaties is enough at the moment.
President Truman said in a
message last night that the Atlan
tic Pact puts “any would-be ag
gressor on solemn motive” that
the 12 nations allied under the
treaty would .“zealously guard"
against assault.
The message was read to the an
nual Congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution.
The Soviet Union has begun a
three-year plan for development
of livestock to bring a 50 percent
boost by 1951 in production of
[ meat, animal fat, butter, eggs.
[ leather and wool.
The plan calls for tens of thou
! sands of new warm buildings to
house additional livestock.
Romania today rejected the
United States and British notes of
April 2 charging violation of peace
treaty guarantees of human rights.
The reply said the rejection was
based on the principle of “non-in
tervention in Romania’s internal
affairs.”
The Greek general staff said
national troops have won another
victory in the Grammos moun
tains, routing Red rebels with
heavy losses. The communique
said 165 guerrillas were killed in
the action while the national
forces lost two men.
British Ship Hit
In Renewed
Chinese Civil War
(By Fred Hampsonl
SHANGHAI, (/P) — Communist
shore artillery today crippled the
British sloop Amethyst in the
Yangtze river and drove off the
destroyer consort before she could
help the smaller vessel.
The helpless Amethyst, with at
least 20 wounded or dead among
her crew of 148, was aground on
Rose Island 60 miles northeast of
Nanking tonight. Not far away
swirled the first attacks of the re
suming Chinese civil war.
The consort, fighting shore bat
teries for almost 50 miles, reached
Kiangyin tonight with 17 of her
crew wounded. She was joined by
, tire frigate Black Swan which had
doctors and medical supplies
. aboard.
The British cruiser London was
, expected to reach Kiangtyin at 9
p.m. Vice Adm. A. C. C. Madden,
second in command of the British
Far East station, is aboard the
London. British authorities here
said they were unable to contact
responsible communist quarters
and Admiral Madden would de
termine his course later.
Fliers out of Nanking witnessed
the running duel between the con
sort and Red shore batteries.
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Many Killed In
Chile Earthquake
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SANTIAGO, Chile. </P>—A se
vere earthquake hit south central
Chile last night. First reports said
36 were killed and more than 60
injured, and authorities expressed
fear the toll would be higher.
Heavy damage was reported in
the cities of Traiguen and Angol.
At Traiguen, believed to be the
center of the quake, about 30 per
sons were reported killed in the
collapse of a jail.
The newspaper El Commercio’s
corrospendent at Temuco said
some were killed at Angol and at
least one at Los Angeles. Concep
cion, Talca and Temuco also felt
the shock.
The government rushed aid to
the region. Where hundreds were
| reported homeless. A plane and
j a special train were on the way
with emergency supplies.
City officials said half the
houses in Angol had crumbled or
were badly damaged.
Easter Sunrise
Service At Pole
I
1 FAIRBANKS, (/P) — The first
Easter Sunrise Service over the
J North Pole wa^ claimed yesterday
by crewmen of a B-29 from the
375th reconnaissance squadron.
The Eielson air force base pub
lic information office said the su
perfortress crew dropped a palm
at the top of the world Sunday
while circling the pole on a rou
tine weather mission.
The palm was provided by the
Rev. Edmund Anable of the Fair
banks Catholic church.