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VOL. XLIX. No. 120 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
# SEATTLE, (#*)—Alaska pilots
are used to unusual cargoes, but
one shipment to Nome via Alaska
Airlines surprised even veteran
airmen. It was a goldfish bowl,
with three tiny goldfish. The fish
went through in good condition.
* Cost: $4.80.
BERLIN, (>P)—Dr. Max Planck.
89-year-old German physicist and
Nobel prize winner, died Friday
night, the Goettingen University
• clinic announced today.
Dr. Planck, who originated the
‘quantum theory’ is 1900 after re
searches into the atomic structure
of radiation, ranked with Albert
Einstein as one of the world’s fore
most scientists. He won the Nobel
prize in 1918 and was an honored
member of learned societies on
both sides of the Atlantic.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. iff)—'The
oddest accident on record was
logged at South Charleston’s police
* headquarters Saturday—a steam
boat ran over a airplane and de
molished it.
The Maiscott Flying School re
ported that Frank Isaacs, piloting
‘ a seaplan, miscalculated the sha
dow of electric wires on the Kan
awha River and altered his course.
Result was that he crash landed
in the path of an joncoming ship.
Isaac was treated for cuts on the
t ear.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP)—A large
crowd of kids from six to 12 years
old, angered at an increase in the
price of ice cream cones, picketd
an ice cream shop in the Candle
stick Cove housing project.
Some 150 children jammed the
street in front of the shop carrying
signs reading “buy ice cream to
day and be broke tomorrow,” and
^‘unfair to kids.”
The price went up from five to
ten cents for a single dip cone.
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ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Plans are
being made here for christening of
a new million-dollar streamline
train of the Alaska Railroad on
October 18th . Alaska Day.
It is expected that celebrities
and high officials from Washing
ton will be here for the occasion,
during which the new blue and
* gold streamliner will pull into the
local depot accompanied* by the
first railroad engine used on the1
line.
f NEW YORK, (/P)—Spec Shea,
the Yankees’ sensational freshman,
won his second game of the series
with four hitters against Brooklyn
two to one, putting the Yankees
in front three games to two.
New york 2 runs, 5 hits, no errors.
Brooklyn 1 run, 4 hits, 1 error.
PARIS, France, (JP)—A mine det
onator exploded yesterday in the
garden next to premier Paul Ra
^ madier’s home in Decaseville and
broke some windows in the home,
the premier’s office said today.
Ramadier had left earlier by
# train to return to Paris.
A press attache said police were
Investigating. He said it was
first believed the explosive was
a K/MTifr nf trrAnad* tliaf had PWW
Save Food For
Europe, Asks
Pi •es. Truman
——
By Sterling F. Green
WASHINGTON, </P>—An un
precedented “sell-denial” offen
sive against hunger in Western
Europe was touched off today by
President Truman’s call for food
from all America, “contribution
to peace.”
Mr. Truman asked all citizens
to go without meat on Tuesdays,
without eggs and poultry Thurs
days, and to save a slice of bread
a day.
! He “demanded” of the grain ex
' changes the raising of the down
payment requirement on grain
' purchases to 33 and one-third per
cent to thwart what he called
! the inflationary operations of
' “gamblers in grain.”
If the exchanges refuse, he
| warned in a nationwide broadcast
| last night, the government may
step in and “limit the amount of
trading” in wheat and other
grains.
j A distiller described as a “bolt
from the blue” another drastic
1
1 White House request—that the
liquor industry shut down for
60 days “at the earliest possible
moment.” Two whiskeymakers
predicted the answer would be
i yes.
“The battle to sa^e food in the
United States,” said the president,
“is the battle to save our own
prosperity and to save the free
| countries of Europe. Our self-de
nial will serve us in good stead
in the years to come.”
Secretary of state Marshall un
derscored that thought. Food to
| day is foreign policy, he said, ad
ding:
“The connection between the
individual American and world,
affairs is unmistakably., clear—
our foreign policy has entered the
American home and taken a seat |
at the family table.”
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Vaccine Flown to
Egypt by U.S. Navy
CAIRO, Egypt, (^)—The U. S.
Embassy forwarded today to
Washington an Egyptian request
for 1,000,000 units of anti-cholera
vaccine, in addition to 1,600,000
units promised by the U. S. Navy.
The death toll in the two-week
old epidemic mounted to 268, with
53 additional fatalities reported
Friday by the health ministry.
In Moscow, Tass announced the
Soviet government was sending
1,000,000 vaccine applications to
Egypt.
An Air Transport Command
plane bringing the Navy’s dona
tion reached Cairo Sunday. It
will suffice to give 1,600,000 per
sons the first of two injections.
ALVIN POLET HERE FOR
SHORT BUSINESS TRIP
Alvin Polet, * Fairbenks mana
ger of the Alaska Airlines, made
a trip to Nome Saturday on busi
ness nnH returner! (h* cams ev.
Russia Unites All
Communists For
“Fight U.S. Plan”
By Thomas P. Whitney
MOSCOW, </P)—Leaders of a
new communist international or
ganization linking the Commun
ist parties of nine European na-;
tions rallid their followers today;
for a no compromise fight against
what they declared as United!
States—“imperialism.'1
Formation of the new organiz
ation—the first such group to be
supported by the Russians since
they declared the Comintern dead
in 1943—was disclosed yesterday
in a statement issued in its name.
In effect, the statement served
notice of the Communists1 inten
tion to wreck, if possible, the
Marshall plan for European aid
and the Truman doctrine to com
bat totalitarianism. It proclaimed
that the world had been divided
into two camps—led by the Sov
iet Union and the United States—
and called upon European com
munists to defend the “national
sovereignty of their peoples ag
ainst U. S. aggression.
Pravda, communist organ, said
| that formation of the new inter
national organization was corn
meeting in Warsaw last month,
! pleted at a hitherto unhearalded
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AVC Chairman
i Urges Alaska Be
Granted Statehood
WASHINGTON, (£>>—Chat Pat
terson, national chairman of the
American Veterans’ Committee,
today urged that Alaska be grant
ed statehood as an aid to settle
ment.
Commending the government’s!
offer of lands along the Alaskan |
Highway^ for veterans’ settlement,
Patterson said in a statement:
“I do not imagine that a vet- j
eran in Alaska relishes the pros- j
pect of taxation without repre
sentation. Let us offer to the'
men and women with the cour
age and resoursefulness to under
take the settlement of Alaska the
right to a voice in the Congress
of the United States by granting
the territory statehood.”
Russians In U.S.
Can’t Be Located
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WASHINGTON. </P>—Senator
Ferguson (R-Mich.) reported to
day that a number of Russians, ad
mitted to this country for techni
cal industrial training, have “dis- j
appeared.”
Ferguson said the Justice Dep
artment’s immigration service has
written him that' it does not know
where Russians admitted for train
ing by the Clark Equipment Co.,
at Buchanan, Mich., are now.
In the same letter, commissioner
of immigration Watson Miller told
Ferguson he is unable to learn im
mediately “the number of Russians
who have been admitted to the
Ilnlto^ Q+otoc onH urKn nmir in
Churchill Says
New Election
Is In Offing i
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BRIGHTON. Eng.. i/P>—Wins- |
ton Churchill told the annual con
ference of the conservative party!
to be ready for a new national,
election “at any time this year (
or next.”
“It does not rest with us when
a general election will take place, i
Churchill said in a speech deliv
ered to the convention, “but it is
quite certain that we should be
most imprudent not to be ready
for one at any time this year or
next.
“We have every reason to be
lieve that the Socialist govern
ment which, even in the hour of
its triumph, did not represent a
majority of the electcjrate, is now
a substantial minority, and is rul
ing without the support and
against the wishes of the large
part of the nation,” the former
prime minister declared.
Churchill declared that the ec
onomic crisis “will not be mas
! tered except by the election of a
\ new House of Commons."
j- He said the Labor government
“has no moral right to deny the
electorate a free expression of
their opinion at an early date.”
“Experience shows that when
governments or parties turn on
the downgrade they very rarely
recover by clinging to office.
“In the present circumstances,
when the consequences of* social
ist spite, folly and floundering are
about to fall upon every home
and business in every shape or
form, we can safely say that time
is on our side.”
Churchill, speaking as leader of
the conservative party, closed the
three-day annual conference at
which tories launched a drive for
a million-pound ($4,000,000* fight
ing fund, and called for the elec
tion of a new parliament to puli'
Britain out of its economic crisis. |
Pres. Proclaims
Employ Disabled
Week Oct. 5 -11
I, Harry S. Truman President of,
the United States of America, do
hereby call upon the people of the
United States to observe the week
of October 5-11, 1947, as National
Employ the Physically Handicap
ped Week. I also call upon the
governors of the States, mayors
of cities, and heads of other agen
cies of government and other pub
lic officials, as well as leaders of
industry, labor, and civic groups
to make every effort to enlist pub
lic support for a sustained pro
gram aimed at the employment
and full use of the capacities of
physically handicapped workers.”
Governor Ernest Gruening calls
the attention of the people of Al
aska to this proclamation of our
president and urges compliance
with the request made therin, and
requests that wide publicity be
given this proclamation, so that it
m*v mm# tn fh. attention of all
LL S. - Soviet Clash
In U.N. Assembly
m
Freedom of Press
LAKE SUCCESS, (/P>—A head
on Soviet-American clash over
freedom of the press shaped up
as a sharp initial test of the de
termined Soviet campaign tc get
the United Nations Assembly to
brand the United States as a hot
bed of anti-Russian “warmonger
ing.”
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
leading the American fight ag
ainst the Soviet drive, evidently
as part of a carefully planned
American delegation strategy to
present the issue as one of demo
cratic freedoms versus totalitar
ianism.
‘‘We cling to the right of criti
cism and disagreement” in the
United States Mrs. Roosevelt told
the United Nations Social Com
mittee in a terse statement Friday
night.
“In my country,” she said to the
other representatives of the U.N.’s
57 member nations, “we have cer
; tain documents, with which we
i hope every citizen is familiar, set
ting forth basic principles of free
dom and democracy.
“But we know that a free press
will inevitably interpret certain
principles of democracy in differ
ent ways, as will the people them
selves. We have, therefore, dif
ferences of opinion. Sometimes
the government and certain peo
ple disagree, but we cling to the
right of criticism and disagree
ment.
“It is the price one pays for
freedom and for democracy that
the government often has to wait
for the enlightenment of the peo
ple. Totalitarianism may move
faster, for good or ill, but we
believe democracy and free peo
ple stand on much firmer founda
tion.”
The Soviet proposal, which Mrs.
Roosevelt asked the U.N. Com
mittee to reject would, in effect,
call on a forthcoming U.N. con
ference on fredom of information
and of the press to seek to organize
the world press against “Fascism
and warmongers.”
JUMPER HITCH ARRIVED IN
THE ROADSTEAD SATURDAY
The Alaska Steamship Comp
any vessel, Jumper Hitch, arrived
in Nome roadstead from Seattle
Saturday, October 4th., one day
ahead of schedule.
A part of the cargo consists
of 13 new cars and trucks and
5 large tractors for the several
dealers in town.
MR. AND MRS. JIM FRYE TO
SPEND FEW DAYS ON TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Frye left on
the Pan American plane Friday
to spend a few days in Fairbanks
and Anchorage.
STORM WARNING
A provisional storm warning
was issuad today by tbs local of*
fice of tha U. S. Waathar Bur*
asu.
Incraasing southarly winds to
night with frash to strong winds
Tuasdav. axoactad to ra.ieh aula