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VOL. LI. No. 60_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1949_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF ,
—
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. (/P)—A 79
year-old farmer who splits logs to
“blow off steam” yesterday be
came the “American Father of
1949.”
William Casper Peter of Nearby 1
Beech Creek, who has 18 children j
and 80 grandchildren, was selected ,
for that honor by the national fa
ther’s day committee.
JUNEAU, <>P) — Proposed ferry
system to link Prince Rupert, B.
C., with Southeastern Alaska
towns was under discussion yes-1
terday. John T. Danaher, vice
president of the American Presi
dent Lines, arrived to confer with
Col. John R. Noyes. Alaska road
commissioner on a survey for a
truck and passenger ferry service.
JUNEAU, (jP) — District judge
If George W. Folta yesterday set
June 6 as the date for a hearing to
test validity *of Alaska’s new non
resident fishermen’s tax of $50.
In an agreed statement of fact,
both parties asked for a legal deci
sion on the act which provides
that men fishing beyond the three
mile limit must obtain the license
before their catch can be sold in
^ Alaska.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Rep. Case
<R.-S. D.) has proposed that 50 per
cent of gross forest grazing re
ceipts for ten years beginning
next July 1 be earmarked for j
range improvements within the
national forests.
Other bills introduced yesterday
included:
By Delegate Bartlett (Alaska)—
To repeal the federal tax on trans
portation of persons.
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RICHLAND Wash. (/P)—Award
ing of long run term ground leases |
to four business men and concerns
for construction of buildings in I
this atomic city’s new. north busi- j
ness district was reported yester- j
day by General Electric company, j
The four include: Virgil McVic-!
ker of Anchorage, Alaska.
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SEATTLE, {i-P)—A coast guard j
PBY is awaiting clearing weather'
at Kodiak to fly to Port Moller,
Alaska, to evacuate a woman re
ported to be suffering from ap
pendices. She will be taken to Ko
diak. Coast guard headquarters
said the woman’s name and con
dition were unreported.
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Southern
California's rugged winter isn't
over yet, although it's mid-May.
It snowed last night in the San
Gabriel and San Bernar d i n o
Mountains, as much as three inch
es falling in Big Bear Valley (ele
vation 6,750 feet).
6 ATHENS, (i*P)—Archbishop Da
maskinos, former regent of Greece
died suddenly today. He was 58.
% The archbishop, who ruled
Greece as regent from 1944 to
1946, had been in poor health for
the past several months. He suf
fered from heart trouble.
LAS VEGAS, Ncv. (/P) — This
desert resort will think twice
about inviting the Jemez Indians
again for Helldorado Week.
During the parade last Thurs
day, the New Mexico tribe did a
CONGRESS
ROUNDUP
Thursday, May 19. 1949
(By Jack Rutledge)
WASHINGTON, (JP) —Brazilian
president Eurico Gaspar Dutra
told Congress today the friendship
of Brazil and the United States is
the major link in the strong chain
that binds the western hemisphere
together.
President Dutra, who arrived
here Wednesday for a 10-day visit
to ^his country, addressed a joint
session of Congress. President
Truman accompanied him to Cap
itol Hill.
Speaking in Portuguese from
the speaker’s rostrum of the
House, Dutra said the 120-year-old
ties between his nation and the U.
S. are “founded upon their iden
tity of purposes and harmony of
interests.” He predicted they will
become stronger in the years to
come. He spoke in high praise of
American democracy, which he
credited for the “high degree of
civilization which you have
achieved.”
Dutra said American respect for
the law and rights of others is a
‘ main factor” of democracy and
this nation’s strength.
The talk came in the middle of
a day crowded with activity.
The Senate studied a $1,465,000,
000 appropriation bill for the agri
culture department, already pass
ed by the House.
Economy advocates who want
to balance the budget by cutting
government spending rather than
by raising taxes sought to trim
this total, despite two previous
setbacks when they tried to re
duce other money bills.
Senator Fergusan (R.-Mich.) of
fered an amendment that would
reduce the funds by about $36,
000,000.
And Senator Byrd <D.-Va.-,
pleading anew for economy, call
ed on the Truman administration
to lop 500,000 employees off the
federal payroll. He said the num
ber of governm.ent workers is
growing daily and added: •
“It appears that the bureau- j
cracy is out of control with re- j
spect to personnel.”
On the other side of Capitol
Hill, economy advocates got out
their knives for a whack at the
multi-million dollar bill to raise
military pay. The measure went
on the House floor for four hours
of debate.
Backed solidly by the House
armed services committee, it
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rain dance ritual, guaranteed to!
bring rain. It has rained every day
since in this arid city which slo
gans “Fun in the Sun.”
NEW YORK <i^P)—A flying field
—which is so small it’s not even
called a field—has been opened on
crowded Manhattan Island.
Designated a heliport, it’s the
city’s first commercial terminal
for helicopters. ’The 60-by-161-foot
airport is located on an East River
pier.
LONDON, (JP)—Wembley’s po
lice station has the perfect interro
gation team: Constables Watt.
Wye and Howe.
U. S. Tells Russia !
To Stop Aiding
Greek Guerrillas
WASHINGTON, (/!') — United
States has told Russia that if it
wants peace in Greece it should
get the communist satellite States
to stop aiding the Greek guerrillas.
Until such help is ended this
government will not relax assist
ance to non-comrtumist Greece.
These two points were disclosed
in a lengthy statement issued by
the state department today. The
statement brought out that the de
partment has rejected Soviet ef
forts to get the Greek situation out
of the United Nations and into the
hands of the great powers for
what amounts to a compromise
setttlement. .
The statement declared: . “We
are prepared to discuss any mat
ter with the Soviet Union in the
proper forum—in the case of the
Greek government it is the United
Nations.”
The declaration on Greece was
I released as a result of a Tass re
port last night that Russia had
proposed informally at United Na
tions headquarters that the United
1 States and Britain join in a com
mon effort to settle the fighting.
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News of the World
At A Glance —
Thursday, May 19, 1949
<By The Associated Press)
Russia kept the western allies in
confusion today with a changing
pattern of restrictions on trans
port to and through Berlin.
Yesterday’s ban on some freight
laden trucks from West Germany
was reported lifted and the vehi
cles now will be allowed through
without permits.
On the other hand, the Russians
were demanding that any trucks
crossing the frontier bear permits.
Maj. Gen. George P. Hays, dep
uty U. S. military governor, call
ed the new Soviet demand “a vio
lation of the four-power agree
ment in New York for lifting all!
blockades.”
He said he would try to get the
Russians to drop it.
Chinese nationalists clung to the
vital Whangpoo river today in the
face of communist gunfire. The
communists, however, were re
ported to have seized several small
creek bridges only six miles from
the great city of Shanghai.
They kept up their pressure on
Pootung industrial and dock area
across from Shanghai’s bunch Na
tionalist planes maintained a
steady bombardment of commun
ist pockets in the! area.
In New York, the United Na
tions general assembly’s spring
session ended after the delegates
rejected a Polish move to debate
the case of Gerhart Eisler, com
munist fugitive.
Friday. June 20. 1949
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Acheson leaves today for the
Paris foreign ministers conference
on Germany. America, Britain
and France appear ready to face
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Must Quit Reds Or
Be Kicked Out
Says Murray’s CIO
WASHINGTON, (^P)—CIO left
wingers have been given five
months to break all ties with the
Russian-dominated world federa
tion of trade unions and quit de
fying the CIO leadership.
With that ultimatum the organ
ization’s 52-man executive bo,ard
prepared yesterday to end a fiery
three-day meeting, which ran a
day over schedule because the ar
guments lasted so long.
If the left-wing unions don’t
leave the WFTU, they may be
kicked out of the CIO.
President Philip Murray said
the board would declare itself on
wages. Big CIO unions already
have demanded a fourth round of
post-war wage raises, without
naming a precise figure.
Murray announced Wednesday
night that:
1. He had denounced Harry
; Bridges, left-wing president of the
CIO longshoremen, for “misrep
resentation” and other offenses,
and had told him his conduct
would be brought to the attention
of the Cleveland convention.
2. The board by a 38-9 vote for
mally withdrew the CIO from the
World Federation of Trade Un
ions. The CIO and the AFL have
agreed to take part in building a
new international union move
ment.
Navy Photographic
Squad To Be Here
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (/P)—Four
big Liberator planes of navy pho
tographic squadron 61 left here
yesterday for Nome, Alaska, to be
gin the navy’s largest aerial map
ping project.
The planes, under command of
Lt. Comdr. A. R. Barbee of Cor
onado, Calif., will make their first
stop at Great Falls, Mont. At
Nome an advanced operating base
will be set up.
The expedition will be gone j
about 4 months. Results of the j
project are expected to provide the 1
first accurate map ever made of
the entire Alaskan region.
Four navy Beechcraft planes,
with 28 officers and men, are
scheduled to leave here today for
Umiat, Alaska, where they will
assist U. S. geological survey per
sonnel in exploring the Brooks
Mountain region at the top. of
Alaska.
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SEATTLE C. OF C.
WILL VISIT ALASKA
SEATTLE, (£*)—Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce members will
board the S.S. Aleutian Saturday
for a 10-day tour of Alaska “to
find out what we can do to help
Alaska businessmen,” John H.
Perry, chairman of the chamber’s
Alaska Division announced Thurs
day.
The tour will include meetings
with Ketchikan, Wrangell, Peters
burg, Sitka, Juneau, Seward, An
chorage and Fairbanks chambers
of commerce and businessmen and
a visit to the Matanuska Valley.
Ft. Yukon Flooded.
Many Marooned
As Yukon Rises
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Some 180
Alaska natives clustered on a
shrinking point of high ground
astride the Arctic Circle today
while the ice-jammed Yukon
river, which flooded their Ft. Yu
kon homes, inched higher about
them.
At Ladd air force base, Fair
banks, 10th rescue squadron offi
cers plotted means of evacuating
the refugees should efforts fail to
reblast the stubborn Yukon ice
jam. The flooded area is about 140
miles northeast of here.
Four twin Mustangs, each car
rying two 500-pound bombs, will
try again to shatter the jam which
has formed anew after being freed
by air force bombs last night.
A following C-47 then dropped
| food and blankets to the natives,
l cut off from all sides by flood wa
! ters.
Rescue officials expressed fear
1 that the small knoll on which the
townspeople have taken refuge
might become inundated. A glider
or helicopter landing on the tree
studded crest appears impossible
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Ford Refuses To
Talk ’‘Contract”
DETROIT, </P)—Ford Motor Co.
today flatly refused to open simul
taneous union contract talks while
negotiations continue for settle
ment of the CIO UAW 16-day-old
strike.
The UAW threatened last night
to walk out on strike peace talks
unless the company agreed to be
gin consideration on a new con
tract by next Monday. The unions*
Ford contract expires July 15.
John S. Bugas, Ford vice-presi
dent, reaffirmed in a news con
ference today the company’s pre
vious stand that it would not con
sider starting contract talks before
June 1.
“The union is using this attempt
to double up on negotiatiins as a
means of confusing the issues in
this strike,” Bugas declared.
Bugas’ statement came as fed
eral mediator Arthur C. Viat in
tervened for the government in
across-the-table peace talks on
the 16th day of the Ford strike.
BACCALAUREATE
SERVICES
Baccalaureate services for the
1949 graduating class of the Nome
High School will be held at eight
o’clock, Sunday evening in the
High School Gymnasium.
Program scheduled as follows:
Prelude. Juanita Fagerstrom
Processional
Invocation... Rev. Neil Murphy SJ.
Anthem
High School Girls Glee Club
Baccalaureate Address
Rev. Neil Murphy SJ.
Solo—"Ave Maria” Jennie Sayer*
Benediction
Rev. Neil Murphy S.J.
Postlude.—..Juanita Fagerstronk