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VOL. L. No. 101 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1948 PER COPY~L5^
NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW, {/P)—U. S. Ambassa
dor Walter Bedell Smith, French
ambassador Yves Chataigneau,
and Frank Roberts, special Brit
ish envoy, conferred at the British
embassy late Saturday. Sources in
the U. S. embassy indicated there
was no meeting of the three with
foreign minister V. M. Molotov.
NEW YORK, (JP) — The federal
government Saturday obtained a
temporary injunction barring a
strike of 45.000 east coast dock
workers set for midpight Satur
day. Federal Judge Harold R. Me
dina issued the injunction against
the A FL international longsohre
men' sassociation. It will be ef
fective until August 31.
LOS ANGELES, f/P) — An ex
pectant mother and her unborn
child died Friday night in a res
pirator or “iron lung” in the in
fantile ward of the general hos
pital.
Mrs. Virginia Farlow, 24, who
had expected the baby within
three weeks, was admitted to the
hospital last Monday after she
was stricken with polio. Mrs. Far
low, who lived in Temple City, is
survived by her husband, How
ard.
MOSCOW. (JP) — Soviet papers
have not yet carried the news
that the U .S. state department
has asked for the recall of the
Soviet consul general in New
York, Jacob M. Lomakin.
SPOKANE, (/P) — The nation’s
leading advertising agency execu
tives see little likelihood of a
postwar depression in the United
States.
Their opinion was reported by
Philip Klein of Philadelphia,
spokesman for the affiliated ad
vertising agencies network which
ended a five-day convention here
Friday.
SPOKANE, (/P)—A six-weeks
old baby suffocated amid the bed
clothes in his crib last night. He
was Rich Sheridan Kruse, infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer S.
Kruse of Spokane.
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GUAM, (/P)—Three sailors were
listed today as killed and a fourth j
missing in a specatcular fire and
series of explosions at a navy gas- ,
oline tank farm Sunday.
The blaze was attributed unof- j
ficially to sparks from a jeep en- \
tering the area to rescue several
men overcome by fumes from an
overflowed gasoline tank. The
fire broke out about 1:15 a.m.,
and raged more than five hours.
PHILADELPHIA, f/P) — Mar
shall Chaney and his nephew
walked into the army’s recruiting
station here today and enlisted in
the regular army. Marshall is 17.
So is his nephew, Ronald Chaney.
SEATTLE, ftf*) — The coast
guard said today that Duane R.
Nicolai, ship’s cook, was drowned
yesterday when he fell overboard
from the cutter Winona off Ediz
Hook near Port Angeles.
The coast guardsman fell over
board when equipment broke as
a motorboat was being lowered
from the Winona.
One Third Down;
15 Months To Pay;
Is New Ruling
WASHINGTON. (,*>)—The gov
ernment Saturday pulled a brake
on free-wheeling credit.
New rules to stiffen “easy pay
ment” loans and purchases cover
ing most consumer goods costing
from $50 to $5,000, were posted
officially by the federal reserve
board. They take effect Sept. 20.
Businessmen were divided.
Some thought it “fair and reason
able.” One furniture executive
denounced it as “rationing the
poor.”
These are the terms—backed up
by criminal penalties and the
power of the federal reserve
board to put a violator out of the
anti-communist farm retreat, op
erated by countess Alexandra
Tolstoy.
After the teacher’s leap from
the consulate window, however,
police quoted her as saying she
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MANY TO ATTEND
CHAMBER MEETING
The promise of a large crowd
at the dinner-meeting of the NWA
Chamber of Commerce was an
nounced today by chamber presi
dent H. F. Harper, who is also
chairman of the arrangements
committee for the dinner.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Harper have
been busy for the past few days
on the committee preparations for
the dinner and meeting, getting
everything set for a successful
party.
Special speakers will talk on
several questions which are to be
discussed at length in the coming
weeks and other subjects which
have or will be reported upon by
board members relating to the ac
tivities of the chamber.
The dinner is scheduled for 7:00
p.m. Tuesday night in the Pioneer
Hall.
Soviet Consul
Books Passage
For Sweden
NEW YORK, <JP)—Soviet Con
sul general Jacob M. Lomakin,
whom the state department has
expelled, has booked passage
aboard the Swedish-Americ a n
liner Stockholm, sailing next Sat
urday.
The steamship line said that Lo
makin had made reservations for
himself and his wife and two
children. It said it could not dis
close when the discredited envoy
had booked his passage.
A line spokesman said, how
ever:
“We have no record of the
booking here. It was done in Eu
rope.”
The Stockholm plies between
New York and Gothenburg. Lo
makin’s return to Moscow pre
sumably will be made via Fin
land.
Lomakin, accused by the U. S.
of misrepresenting the facts in the
case of Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina,
has refused to comment on the U.
S. demand to the Soviet embassy
I in Washington that he be recalled
to Russia.
Lomakin had claimed he “res
cued” Mrs. Kasenkina from an
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NOME STORES WILL REMAIN
OPEN ONE EVENING A WEEK
Due to the inability of construc
tion workers on the new hospital,
and others, who are unable to
do their shopping during the reg
ular shopping hours most of the
stores in Nome have agreed to
remain open Monday evenings
until eight o’clock in order to ac
commodate these would-be shop-1
pers.
The merchants state they will
give the plan a trial, and if it 1
proves profitable will continue
the practice. They will start keep
ing open Monday evening, Aug
ust 30.
Four Killed In
Ore. Plane Crash
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. UP)—
Four Oregon Republican party
leaders—two Representatives and
two legislative nominees — were
killed in the crash of a private
plane yesterday at Lake of the
Woods in Northern Klamath
county.
The dead are Rep. John Snell
strom, 53, of Eugene; Rep. Earle
Johnson, 40, of Corvallis; William
H. Fluhrer, 49, Medford, Jackson
county senate nominee unopposed
for election, and H. H. Evans, 40,
Waldport, Lincoln county nom
inee for the House.
The tragedy occurred not many
miles from'the site where another
flying holiday claimed the lives
of Oregon’s top political Readers
last October. It was in adjoining
lake county that Oregon’s Gov.
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I
Soviets Release
Some Western
Zone Prisoners
| BERLIN, </P) — The Russians
j released today three U. S. military
government officials they had
'seized in blockaded Berlin and in
; southern Germany.
The British in turn set free
Franz Erdmann, head of the crim
inal division of the Russian-con
trolled eastern Berlin police. He
was arrested at a boxing match
Sunday and accused of abduction
of western Berlin police and
"presum ption of authority,”
charges that still will stand.
While tension was eased a little
by the cross-zone deliveries, Rus
sian soldiers crossed into the j
American .sector of Berlin and ar- •
Earl Snell, secretary of state Rob
ert S. Farrell, Jr., Senate presi
dent Marshall Cornett, and their
pilot crashed to their deaths on a
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Biulenz Talks Willi Chairman
Louis F. Budenz, former communisi editor, to its with Chairman Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) of
a Senate subcommittee in Washington. D. C.. bef re testifying that "the communist party of the
United States is a fifth column of Soviet Russia." Left to right: Budenz. Senators Irving lyes (R.
N. Y.). Edward Thye (R.-Minn.) and Ferguson. ' 1 lrep ° °
Longshoremen On
Another 24-Hour
Work Stoppage
. SAN FRANCISCO, </P) — CIO
longshoremen called another 24
hour waterfront work stoppage
today and went ahead with plans
for a coastwide strike on Sept. 2.
About 6,000 longshoremen are
dispatched daily through the hir
ing hall here.
The international longshore
men’s and warehousemen’s union
announces that 75 delegates from
Pacific coast ports had concluded
a caucus in San Francisco and
were returning to their home ports
“to speed preparations” for the
coastal walkout.
The CIO said delegates voted to
demand one full-24-hour day off
each week at San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Long Beach, Portland
and Seattle. They want the day
off to be uniform, with Sunday
preferred.
Longshoremen say they are
knocking off in San Francisco
from 6 p.m., tomorrow until 6
p.m., Wednesday so members of
the union can attend a meeting
called to discuss the deadlocked
maritime labor dispute.
Employers say the layoff was
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Seventeen Die In
B-29 Crash
RAPID CITY, S. D., ^—Sev
enteen men died late Friday when
a B-29 crashed and burned a few
seconds after taking off from a
[5th air force base near here.
A board of officers opened an
investigation Saturday in an at
tempt to determine the cause of
the crack-up, the first fatal crash
since the strategic bomber base
was reactivated in April, 1947.
Captain Thomas Siegler, base
public relations officer, said the
huge, four-engine bomber had
just cleared the field when one of
the left engines caught fire. The
engine was stopped and the plane,
short of* crucial take-off power,
banked to the left and nosed into
a wheat field a short distance
from the end of the runway.
Officei's and men of the base,
occupied by the 28th bomb wing,
worked into the night attempting
to identify the burned bodies,
many charred nearly beyond rec
ognition.
A number of metal identifica
tion tags were found in the
wreckage, but a check of dental
records was being made before
next of kin were notified.
CITY COUNCIL
WILL MEET TONIGHT
The Nome City Council will
meet tonight in the City Hall for
discussion of business held oVer
from the last meeting night be
cause of lack of a quorum, and
other very pertinent problems.
Some of the subjects to be dis
cussed are the condition of the
streets and alleys and the method
to be used in their repair. Liquor
problems will also be discussed,
relative to midnight closing and
the need for cooperation in con
trolling the various problems.