Many Injured In
Idaho Restaurant i
Explosion
NAMPA, Idaho, (/P)—An inves
tigation was scheduled to begin
today to determine the cause of an
explosion which ripped apart a
restaurant-tavern building here
Saturday night, killing five and
injuring 50.
The Nampa city council and the
police and fire departments were
prepared to launch the investiga
tion of the disaster which earlier
had been tentatively attributed bv
fire chief L. T. Lessinger to an ex
plosion of a gas range in the res
taurant.
Canyon county coroner William
D. Talley said no immediate in
quest had been set.
Late yesterday, 26 persons re
mained in Nampa hospitals after
eight victims were released nur
ing the day.
Dead were Mrs. Gertrude Peter
son, Eugene E. Janssen, 28; Nampa
truck driver. William E. Grove, 45.
Pop Fong, and Kim H. Fong, who
recently returned from China.
No other dead had been listed
although hospital attendants re
ported five patients in critical ren
dition yesterday.
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IT IS NOT ONLY THE ELE
phants that remember. According
to the Encyclopdaedia Britannica,
the power of memory is present in
all branches of the animal king
dom, even in the tiny one-celled
protozoa.
Native Brother
hood Will Wage
Fight For “Rights”
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The ANB at Hydaburg severed
its connections with the Alaska
Marine Workers Union (AFL>.
Spokesmen for the Brotherhood
said its functions and by-laws
might be considered violations of
the Taft-Hartley labor law is they
engaged in direct union activities.
Ellary Gromoff, first delegate,
from the Pribilof Islands to attend
an ANB convention, told delegates
working conditions in the fur seal
operations were “substandard.”
Lewis Peters of the Alaska Na
tive Service reported that the Ter
ritory’s reindeer herds, decimated
by wolves and neglected during
the war, may be brought back to
normal numbers. The total count
now, he said, is about 50,000, of
which 30,000 are on Nunivak Is
land.
Dr. Howard C. Rufus, medical
director of the service, said An
chorage is expected to get a new
600 or 700 bed combined Alaska
Railroad and Alaska Native serv
ice hospital.
ARCTIC CLUB PARTY
The Arcliq Club of Nome will
hold its first party of the winter
season with a dance scheduled for
Saturday, November 22, at the
Pioneer Hall. The dance commit
tee, Neva Whaley and George Bea
com, promise a gay evening for all
members attending the party.
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Nov. 20 and every two weeks thereafter for
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December 10 for Yakutat, Ketchikan, Seattle.
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INTERNAL REVENUE
REPRSENTATIVE HERE
I Internal Revenue representative
James G. Manning is located for a
short period in the Federal Bldg.,
he states that all persons in Nome
and vicinity who are in business
or who have income from some
source not subject to withholding
tax must file an estimated income
tax return for the year 1947, those
who have not done so should call
at his office within the next few
days to secure assistance and ad
vice on this matter, in order to
avoid excessive penalty for failure
to file the return. Room 22 <for
merly Selective Service office* in
the Federal Bldg. Assistance or ad
| vice on other Federal tax matters
are welcomed.
Thwart Plan To
Kill Siamese King
BANGKOK, Siam, (fl*) — A
spokesman for the military regime,
which seized control of the Siam
ese government in a bloodless coup
last week warned today that a
would-be assassin is en route to
Lausanne, Switzerland, where;
King Phumpiphon is now study
ing.
The spokesman said an attempt
to assassinate the 19-year-old king
had been planned as part of a con
| spiracy to overthrow the monarch
! and set up a republic—a conspir
I acy which he declared the Nov. 9
coup forestalled.
The conspiracy was to have been
carried out on Nov. 30, he said.
Nome Voting Precinct
Democrats Attention
There will be a meeting held at
City Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 18. at
8:00 p.m., for the purpose of elect
ing a new Precinct Committee and
six Delegates to the Divisional
Convention which will be held
later. All Democrats who vote in
Nome Precinct are urged to attend.
Conrad Yenney.
Chairman.
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ATTENTION
ALL VETERANS
There will be a meeting Mon
day, 7:30 p.m., November 17th, at
the City Hall, Nome. Alaska, for
the purpose of installing the new
Bering Sea Post, 9569, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States.
The post charter is still open for
charier members. The installation
of officers will follow membership
: initiation.
All veterans who have already
signed the application for the char
! ter. and all veterans interested
are requested to be present.
Installation Officer,
• Don Coate.
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Battle of Newark
Harbor Still Rages
NEW YORK, (#*)—A new round
of verbal sparring in the off-again
on-again “battle of Newark" re
sulted Saturday in an armistice
before the war and a decision to
postpone moving the decommis
sioned battleship New Mexico
from New York harbor to Port
Newark until Tuesday.
Austin J. Tobin, executive di
rector of the Port of New York
Authority, announced after meet
ing at his office here with attor
neys for the salvage firm seeking
to scrap the superannuated dread
naught that he had received a
promise to delay movement of the
ship from her anchorage in
Gravesend Bay at least until Tues
day.
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Tobin said he also had received
a pledge from the attorneys,
Charles Milton and John L. Mann
ings, that the 30,000-ton New Mex
ico would not be moved “in any
event without ample notice to
Newark and the Port Authority.”
Memphis Likes
Margaret’s Coneert
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (A5)—An en
thusiastic audience of 1,800 warm
ly received Margaret Truman Fri
day night as the 23-year-old
daughter of the President sang in
Memphis.
Shortly after the first intermis
sion, Miss Truman, a coloratura
soprano, made five first calls and,
Gruening Calls
For Statehood On
Defense Grounds
LAWRENCE, Kas., </P)— Ernest
Gruening, governor of Alaska,
called Friday {or Alaskan state
hood on the grounds that adequate
defense for the strategic lands de
pends on economic development
which only statehood can bring.
Governor Greuning spoke at a
University of Kansas convocation.
He said Alaska’s growth is stale
mated by discrimination in all
fields of transportation, agricul
ture and use of its natural re
sources. The discrimination will
be ended only when Alaska has
votes in Congress, he said.
"Alaska has been unable to
build highways because it is ex
cluded from the federal highway
act,” declared Gruening. "But for
this omission Alaska would have
had $300,000,000 in the past 23
years.
Contrary to popular belief, Alas
kan agriculture can grow most of
the food needed. However, absen
tee administration has made land
hard to get and the farmer isn t
given the extension service to
which a state is entitled.”
Gruening said that across the
Bering Sea the Russians are ener
getically developing agriculture
and other natural resources.
at the end of the performance,
was returned to the stage for three
fncores.
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