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VOL. L. No. 133NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1948PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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PITTSBURGH, {JP) — Federal
district judge R. M. Gibson, who
has served on the bench here more ,
than a quarter of a century, today
announced plans to retire after the
November term of court. Judge
Gibson was appointed in 1922 by
President Warren G. Harding. He '
had been an assistant U. S. attor
ney in 1911 and was assigned to,
prosecute bank cases in Alaska
Associated Press returns at 10'
a.m. (EST) Thursday from 122,349
of the country’s 135,864 voting
units showed the popular vote:
Truman .22,288,519
Dewey .’.20,420,065
Wallace . 1,030,781
Thurmond . 864,303
TOTAL .44,603,668
JUNEAU, {&)—'William R. Wal
ton, Sitka, was elected president
of the United Alaska Fishermen
and Cannery Workers Union at the
first annual convention of the
Southeast Alaska AFL-fish i n g
unions.
Patrick J. Paul, Angoon, was
elected vice president to represent
fishermen and Walter Austin, Pe
tersburg, vice president for can
nery workers. P. C. Nielsen, Sitka,
was named executive secretary, -j
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JUNEAU, (iP)—Wartime service
on the Okinawa radar “picket
line” has won Peter F. Gilmore,
Juneau office manager of the
Alaska salmon industry, a naval
unit commendation.
Lt. Gilmore commanded a naval
gunboat which took hold of one of
the 15 positions around the island
from April 1 to June 6, 1945. Dur
ing that time, over 100 ships on
similar duty were destroyed or
damaged.
TAMPA, <iP)—An airforce B-29
crashed on a takeoff from Lagen’s J
Field in the Azores Wednesday,
killing 18 of the 20 men aboard,
MacDill field reported yesterday.
One man was missing. Another
survived with major injuries,
Capt. George Byrnes, public in
formation officer at MacDill said.
The plane was one of a number
returning to the United States
from England.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—'The army
today identified the soldier shot
trying to enter the home of an el
derly woman here Monday night
as PFC. Willie Robinson, 21, Fort
Richardson.
Commissioner Rose Walsh or
dered an inquest into the soldier’s
death yesterday. The woman, Mrs.
Richard Herd, 5(f, reported he was
breaking down her door when she
fired.
TOKYO, (/P)—U. S. task force
38 will participate with the Far
East air forces for three days
starting Nov. 17, it was announc
ed today.
The task force, composed of two
carriers, two light cruisers and
eight destroyers is at Tsingtao,
China.
WASHINGTON, </P) — Alvin
Jake Powell, who rose from Wash
ington sandlots to big league base
ball fame, killed himself yester
day at police headquarters. He had
been arrested on bad check charges.
Aviatrix Lands On
Sheyma After
Rough Flight
SHEMYA, (IP) — Mrs. Richard
Morrow-Tait, British round-the
world flier, landed safely here
Wednesday on a 1,778-mile flight
from northern Japan despite
storms, a crippled radio and a
dwindling gas supply.
She and her navigator, Michael;
Townsend, had been unreported
for eight hours in their single-en
gine plane. They were to have
been escorted on the entire trip
from Chitose, Japan, by a B-17
air force rescue plane.
Nine hours out on the flight of
13 hours and 20 minutes, their ra
dio went dead in a storm and they
lost contact with the escort craft.
They landed here with only five
gallons of gasoline left in the
tanks.
Mrs. Tait said she and Townsend
will stay here about two days to
make repairs to the radio. As the
weather permits, they will make
their next hop by easy stages up
the Aleutian chain, to Anchorage,
1,453 miles away.
From there they will fly to
Whitehorse, Y. T., and then east
ward through Canada. Their plans
are to fly the North Atlantic back
to England, if the weather per
mits.
The flight from here to Anchor
age will be made with another
B-17 rescue craft as escort.
Arctic Indoctrina
tion School In 2nd
Year At Marks Base
The Alaskan Air Command an
nounced today that the Arctic In
doctrination school, located at
Marks Air Force Base, Nome, re
opened Saturday, October 30, for
its second year of training air
force members in Arctic survival
techniques. The campus of the
Arctic Indoctrination school is the
frozen tundra north of Nome and
the wind-swept ice pack which
crushes against the shoreline of
the Seward Peninsula to the west
and south. The Arctic indoctrina
tion school was established in
September, 1947, with its primary
mission the teaching of rated crew
members of the air force the neces
sary techniques for survival under
rigid Arctic winter conditions.
The course lasts one week, with
each class consisting of sixty stu
dents. Instruction for the students
is provided by a staff of survival
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ELECTION RETURNS FROM
MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
With the addition of Mountain
Village election returns which
have been received the total tally
on the election to date in the Sec
ond Division is as follows:
Bartltt 1129, Stock 495; Peterson
690, Williams 736; Boyle 766,
Goetz 566; MacDonald 684, Met
calf 615; C. D. Anderson 666, Ed
Anderson 812, Lyng 861, Wald
heim 708. Beltz 870; Degnan 686,
Ipalook 843, Johnson 864, Laws
683, Madsen 699, Mogg 578, Ry
deen 864.
Negro May Head
House Committee
(By Howard Dobson)
WASHINGTON, OF)—An out
right race issue confronts the new
Democratic majority of the House
—a Negro is in line to head a com- i
mittee of Congress.
He is Rep. William L. Dawson
of Illinois, Georgia-born Chicago
attorney who was re-elected Tues- j
day to his fourth term.
Dawson actually is only the sec
ond ranking Democrat on the ex
ecutive expenditures committee.
But the No. 1 man—Rep. John W. ■
McCormack of Massachusetts—is I
slated to return to his job of ma
jority floor leader. And the major
ity leader customarily does not
have any committee assignments;
he never has carried the burden of
a major chairmanship.
Democratic assignments in the
House are arranged by the party’s
members of the ways and means
committee. This group’s recom
mendations are submitted to a
caucus of all House Democrats,
then to the entire House.
The .ways and means members’
recommendations usually are ap
proved by the caucus, since they
are worked out with the party’s
leaders and committee chairmen.
Acceptance by the House is just a
formality.
Almost without exception,
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Maritime Strike
May End Soon
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
possibility of an end to the 64
day-old west coast maritime strike
was heightened today by these de
velopments:
1. President Almon E. Roth, of
the San Francisco employers’
council, said the council had
placed a formula “for early re
sumption of negotiations in the
hands of employers, local unions,
and national CIO officers.
2. Sources close to the strike
said shipper and union represen
tatives have been in contact by
telephone with national CIO pres
ident Philip Murray. In Washing
ton, Murray declined comment on
settlement prospects, but said he1
might have a statement soon. ,
3. Waterfront employers and
union sources conceded “some
thing is stirring.” A union spokes
man saying “You are safe in say
ing 4this thing looks like it is going
to be settled very soon.”
Striking CIO longshoremen an
nounced a union meeting Saturday
to discuss the situation.
THE NUGGET WILL PRINT
WXLN PROGRAM SCHEDULE
For the convenience of the read
ers of The Nugget, we have made
arrangements to print the daily
broadcast schedules of WXLN ra
dio studio, located at Marks Base.
On page eight of today’s paper
you will find the program for
Monday, November 8. Starting
Monday we will print the schedule
for Tuesday and Wednesday. Wed
nesday the Thursday and Friday
schedules will be printed. Friday
we will carry the schedules for
Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Three Planes
Missing In North
west Pacific
• By The Associated Press)
Three planes—one of them an
airliner—with a total of 30 or
more persons aboard were missing
today in the North Pacific area.
The planes were: *
A Pacific Alaska air express
non-scheduled airliner which van
ished yesterday on a flight from
Anchorage to Seattle. Figures on
the number aboard ranged from
11 to 15.
A navy long-range Neptune'
bomber with a crew of “seven or
nine” reported missing off the
Washington-British Columbia
coasts yesterday during army
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Internation’l News
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At A Glance —
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(By The Associated Press)
Thursday, November 4, 1948
Russia rejected completely to
day a western power plan for con
trol of atomic energy.
Her action was in the United
Nations, where the prediction was
widely made that the United
States role in world affairs will be
promptly strengthened as the re
sult of President Truman’s elec- j
tionT
The President’s foreign policy
appears certain to be dominated
by thi^great single issue: how
much more money and goods is
the United States willing and able
to throw into the cold war against
Russia?
The critical areas presently are
Western Europe, China and
Greece. Negotiation of a North
Atlantic military alliance is a top
agenda item. Under the proposal,
the United States is expected to
supply $2,000,000,000 and up per
year for lend-lease war equipment
for Britain, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg and
whatever other countries may ad
here.
The Greek aid program is ex
pected to be greater than the cur
rent $175,000,000 military aid out
pouring. The state department al
ready is reviewing its policy on
China, faced with immediate cri
sis.
Nationalist China drew her
lines closer to Nanking. Her lead
ers hoped for some miracle to save
the country from the threat of
Communist conquest. The cabinet
is trying to resign, economics are
in collapse, and Chiang Kai-Shek
appeared about to lose his numer
ical superiority over the commun
ists. The government has not yet
considered seriously a demand for
an end to the civil war and a coa
lition with the Reds.
An international military tri
bunal in Tokyo convicted 25 Japs
of waging aggressive war against
China, the United States, Russia,
Britain and other nations. Former
premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other
defendants, who soon will learn
their fates, looked sleepy as the
judgement was handed down.
The French government accused
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Truman Promises
To Carry Out His
Campaign Pledges
GOP Will Fight His
Promise Of Rebirth Of
The New Deal
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Republi
cans closed their shattered ranks
yesterday for a two-year fight in
Congress against a certain effort
by President Truman to modern
ize the New Deal.
Mr. Truman returns to Wash
ington and a welcome-home cele
bration today, the hottest article
in American politics, as the result
of his upset victory over Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey.
He will be off Sunday for a two
I week breathing spell at Key West,
| Fla.
When he comes back, it will be
time to shape up the legislative
program which he promised Wed
nesday night will be based on
Democratic party platform.
Mr. Truman told a home-town
victory celebration in Independ
ence, Mo., he wants every citizen
to help him carry out his “tre
mendous responsibility for the
peace and welfare of the world.
“I am going to do the very best
I can to carry out that Democratic
platform as I promised to do in
my speeches around the country/*
he said.
That is a large order.
Besides efforts toward winning
a lasting peace, the platform
pledged such things at home as (1)
curbs on “Republican inflation/*
(2) “comprehensive” housing leg
islation and <3) tax reduction
“whenever it is possible to do so
without unbalancing the nation’s
economy.”
The platform also called for (1>
repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, (2)
a 75-cent an hour minimum wage
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Ickes May Be Back
In Power Due To
Cabinet Shakeup
(By Francis M. LeMay)
WASHINGTON (JP)—'The name
of Harold L. Iickes, the “old cur
mudgeon” of the New Deal, crop
ped up today in widespread ru
mors of impending cabinet ap
pointments.
It is all strictly speculation, but
some people in high places are
whispering that they won’t be sur
prised if President Truman in
vites back into his official family
that master of invective who coin
ed the phrase: “Thomas Elusive
Dewey—the candidate in sneak
ers.” Mr. Trumna, returning tri
umphantly to Washington, to re
ceive one of the greatest ovations
ever bestowed on any President in
Washington, hasn’t said a word
about it, but the rumor mills are
working overtime about possible
shakeups.
A favorite of conversation for
weeks has been the degree of cam
paign activity on the part of the
various cabinet members — with
the exception of secretary of state
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