Nome Arniy Air
Base Sidelights
The 10th Rescue Sq. won their j
first basketball game of the season
Monday night. The win was from j
the 1883rd Eng. The final score
was 42 to 39. It was a long strug
gle, but we finally came out on
top at the end. High point man was
Kenny Bender. Sgt. Gale E. Ad
kisson won’t be with us very long,
for he is going back to the States.)
Pfc. Damm was promoted to Cpl.
Tuesday, so fellows, that means
coffee in bed Sunday morning.
The Hq. Det. Orderly room is
on the move again. At present, it’s
being moved from the first Day to
the space between the first and
second. As a result of this move,
T/Sgt. McKinney and S/Sgt. Bre
shack find themselves doubled up
in a very spacious ex-Orderly room.!
The telephones are now causing a
situation—what with 170 ringing i
for 39 and vice versa. The rifle
racks, too, have been moved, leav
ing lots of room outside the Order
ly room. Right now it serves as a
make-shift day room with a mess
table, cards and games for a few ;
lucky*?* insomniacs.
Wednesday, at 10:30, T/5 Joseph
D. Smith took off for home, after i
spending 18 months here in Nome.
He was going to leave last Friday j
but the weather closed in on him j
and he had to stay. He got up at'
4:30 a.m. almost every morning
for the past week because he
thought that he wouldn’t be ready
to go when they called for him,
and when they did call for him, he
was no where to be seen and he al
most had to wait to go home
Thursday. *
Four more Engineers have clear
ed the Field and are waiting for
transportation to Anchorage and
then to the States. Those who
cleared last Friday are 1st Sgt. Ed
ward Halecki, S/Sgt. William
Hoppenrath, Sgt. Donald Chase,
and T/4 Harold Berwolf. The En
gineer basketball team suffered
their second defeat in four starts,
B. B. MOZEE PROUD OF
NEW GRANDDAUGHTER
U. S. Marshal B. B. Mozee has
received word that he is grand
father to a baby girl born to his
daughter Mrs. J. D. Davidson, now
living in Hawaii. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Davidson are well known
here. This is their second child.
Nurse Bertha Leake
Announces Retirement
After twenty-five years in gov
ernment service, Miss Bertha
Leake, field nurse with the Alaska
Native Service for the past twenty
one, has announced her retirement
Nov. 7, when she plans to leave
for her own little farm in the
States.
‘‘I certainly am not sorry that I
came to Alaska and to the Indian
Service,” Nurse Leake declares, “I
have had a good life and I do hope
that all the new employees are as
happy as I have been.”
Widely known over the Terri
tory Nurse Leake first came to
Alaska in July, 1926. going first
to the Kuskokwim area and there
after serving as field and hospital
nurse at Sleitmut, Mountain Vil
lage, Nome, the St. Lawrence Is
lands, White Mountain and Wain
wright, as well as the Southeast
ern communities of Hoonah, Kake
and Klawock, the latter being her
station at the time of retirement.
RELATIVE TO THEIR RE
spective heights, short persons I
have larger heads and brains than
tall, according to the Encyclopae
dia Britannica.
Monday night when they were1
edged out 32 to 30 by the power- 1
ful Officer team.
With the Base becoming larger ^
in personnel, much shifting around
had to be done and is still going
on. A couple of the more import
ant offices have been mo^ed. The
Special Services Office is being
moved from the hangar to a place
in back of the Engineer Office.
The Quartermaster Office is being
moved to the other side of the
river, near Air Corps Supply.
The 761st MP's received a new
man this week, T/5 Samuel Ah
winona, and we wish him the best
of luck in his tour of duty here.
Sgt. Fiorani was added to the list
of men to represent this Base at
the Chess Tournament at Anchor
age which now makes three repre
sentatives from our organization.
Our basketball team fell victims to
| the strong 1883rd five this week
but all were satisfied with a game
well played.
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Armistice Day !
Services Held
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W. Hutton, of Excelsior, Minn., j
national president of the Legion
Auxiliary.
Secretary of the army Kenneth
C. Royall went to Philadelphia to
speak in Independence Hall, Lt.
Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, com
mander of the occupation army in
Japan, was featured speaker in
ceremonies at Cincinnati, and rear
admiral Oswald S. Colclough,
judge advocate of the navy, spoke
at Scranton, Pa.
Fleet admiral Chester W. Nim-:
j itz said in an Armistice Day1
statement that a “strong, well;
1 equipped army, navy and air
force” is necessary to assure
Americans “that the peace gained
for us by the heroic sacrifice of!
the men and women of both world I
wars is preserved in the ideals for !
which they fought.”
In Paris, meanwhile, the Com- J
munists made a political event of |
western Europe’s main celebration
of the armistice at the tomb of the 1
unknown soldier in Paris.
Communist party members were
summoned to a parade of “work
ers, Democrats and patriots” fol
lowing official ceremonies. The
avowed purpose of the Commun
ist demonstration was to show
“their unshaken will to defend
peace, democracy and the inde
pendence of France.”
President Vincent Auriol of
France headed the official cere
monies starting with a military
and war veterans’ parade. The
United States army in France
planned a ceremony at St. Ger- j
main Isle in the Seine river for
some 150 American soldiers of the
supply headquarters of the Amer
ican graves registration command.
In New York, parades were ^
scheduled by veterans’ and reserve
organizations, with major observ
ances on the Mall at Central Park
and before the Eternal Light in
Madison Square and in Union
Square.
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
charter 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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2 Indian Villages 1
Sell Timber Rights
For $20,000,000 I
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Indian and white lumberjacks—
with preference for Indians — at
regular union wage scales, and
will share in the profits of the en
terprise.
Mrs. Bronson said the contract
ing company has not disclosed its
plans for mill construction. Watts
estimated it would cost $30,000,000
or $35,000,000 to establish a South
eastern Alaska pulp and timber
plant on a commercially profitable
scale.
Mrs. Bronson said other Indian
municipalities in Alaska are nego
tiating agreements similar to those
of Kake arid Kassaan. There are
11 villages in the area, but the in
terior department has ruled on the
rights of only three.
D’Arcy McNickle, attorney for
the office of Indian affairs, said
former secretary of the interior
Ickes rules in 1945 that the neigh
boring tribal villages of Kake, Hy
daburg and Klawak owned slight
ly less than 300,000 acres in the
area out of 3,000,000 which they
had claimed by right of aboriginal
use and occupancy.
McNickle added that the agri
culture department has refused to
recognize this ruling by another
department.
“The Alaskan Indians wired sec
retary of the interior Krug a
month ago that they intended to
go ahead with the sale,” McNickle
said.
“The department wired back
RASMUS VS. CAREY
CASE BEGUN TODAY
In U. S. District Court % this
morning a case was brought by
Paul Rasmus against Alfred Carey
charging “trespassing” on mining
claims.
Rasmus stated that Carey has
deliberately used a bulldozer,
picks and shovels and other means
in an attempt to make a drainage
across claim No. 10 on Dahl Creek,
which claim was the property of
Rasmus. The adjoining Alaim, No.
11 on Dahl Creek is owned by A1
Carey.
The dispute arises over the fact
that Carey claims drainage rights
to his claim through the creekbed
and that he claims a verbal agree
ment between himself and George
Waldheim, who had a lease on the
property in question prior to 1940.
The case continues through this
afternoon.
Alaska’s fishing industry pro
vides employment for about 30,000
persons and produces products
vauled annually at $40,000,000.
asking them to withhold action
while we tried to work out a rea
sonable degree of protection of In
dian rights under the Tongass
act.”
McNickle said the interior de
partment has not yet seen the con
tracts nor been informed of the
sale. He said Indian villages have
negotiated contracts for canneries
and other developments, in the
past, but have never before ven
tured to sell timber on a large
scale.
| Kake and Kasaan have about
i 400 native inhabitants each.
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