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VOL. LI. No. 66 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
CANTON, (iP)—Chinese sources
said yesterday the Chinese-Rus
sian pact giving the Soviets virtu- j
ally exclusive commercial air,
rights in Sinkiang Province had
been extended five years.
The pact was signed in 1939 and
was to expire in September.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman yesterday signed an ex
* ecutive order returning more land
in Hawaii from military to Terri-!
torial jurisdiction.
The proclamation covered all,
land at Keaahala. Kaneohe and
Koolaupoko, Island of Oahu, j
which was set aside for military j
purpose Nov. 9, 1914, and became'
known as the Keaahala military
^ reservation.
LONDON, (7P> — Fifteen U. S.
air force jet fighters took off from
Greenland yesterday for Iceland,
second stop in their mass flight to
Germany, an air force official
said. The planes are F-80’s. They
left Bangor, Maine, May 26.
4 TEL AVIV. Israel, (TP)—Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., recently
elected to the U. S. Congress from
New York City, arrived here yes
terday for a brief visit He is a
guest of President Chaim Wiez
mann
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MANILA, i.P)—A love triangle
may have caused the mysterious
explosion of a C-47 transport
plane that killed 13 persons last
month.
National Bureau of investiga
k tior. agents said they have infor
mation a woman and her lover
had a time bomb placed aboard
the plane to kill her husband.
Dispatches from Daet in South
Luzon said the bureau was assem
bling the facts yesterday.
The plane, a Philippine Air
Lines transport, blew up in the
air on May 7 after taking off from
Daet for Manila.
SEATTLE, (/P)—'The estate of
Edna Rich Harris, wife of Seattle j
fish packer P. E. Harris, was ap
praised yesterday at $1,506,529 in
an inventory filed with the King
County clerk.
* She died Feb. 28, leaving the in-1
come from her estate equally to
her husband and daughter, Sarah
Harris Johnson. The inventory
listed $145,399 Cash, $23,328 in- j
come tax refund for 1948 and the
remainder in stock and bonds.
BERLIN, (/P) — The four mili
tary commanders of Berlin met
for three and a half hours today
• but came to no understanding on
the city’s crippling rail strike.
SALT LAKE CITY, <JP) — The
class of 1949 was graduated last
night from three Salt Lake City
high schools. It numbers 1,949.
BARCELONA, Spain, (/P)—'The
second bomb in 48 hours exploded
here today during Generalissimo I
Francisco Franco’s visit to this
Catalonian capital. No one was in
jured in either explosion.
The small bomb went off this
morning in the St. Pancras chapel
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Will Use Statement
Sworn By Eisler
In Bridges’ Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — A
sworn statement by figitive com
munist Gerhart Eisler will be used
in the trial of Harry Bridges, a
government attorney says.
Bridges, president of the CIO
ILWU, is under federal indictment
on charges of perjury and conspir- i
acv to defraud in obtaining his U. I
S. citizenship in 1945. He is ac-!
cused of testifying falsely he had j
never been a communist.
I
Eisler fled to the protection of
Soviet Germany after he had been
convicted in this country for per
jury.
F. Joseph Donohue, special as
sistant attorney general, said al
ter Wednesday’s grand jury ses
sion:
"A sworn statement that Eisler
made before an administrative
board in this country will be used
when Bridges comes to trial.’’
Bridges was in Portland, Ore..
Wednesday night, addres sing
Portland members of the ILWU.
The meeting was closed. The
Portland Oregonian said Bridges
admitted "Possibly I may have
been wrong concerning the Third
Farty. Wallace and the Marshall
Plan.” 'He supported Wallace and
the Third Party and opposed the
Marshall PlanJ
The grand jury Wednesday
heard three witnesses. Another
subpoenaed witness refused to tes
tify, however.
He was Frank Slaby of San
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Senate Eliminates
Housing Funds
Voted For Alaska
<</P) Special Washington Service'
WASHINGTON f/P)_Funds for
starting Alaska’s $15,000,000 hous
ing program were eliminated to
day from the second deficiency
appropriation bill.
The Senate today followed its
appropriations committee, which
reported it had not allowed the
money because within a few
weeks a report would be made by
a special investigating group now1
enroute to Alaska from the hous
ing and home finance agency.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told
a reporter the report is expected
within a short time and money
may be included in the third de
ficiency appropriation bill.
It is hoped, he added, that this
procedure will permit construc
tion to start this summer.
Senator Magnuson (D.-Wash.)
tried and failed to get the Senate
to vote the $15,000,000. His
amendment was rejected by a
standing vote.
Magnuson pleaded for even
$1,000,000, but chairman McKel
lar (D.-Tenn.) of the Senate ap
propriations committee refused to
make and compromise. McKellar
said the committee lacks the facts
on which to base an appropria
tion.
SEATTLE—A special dispatch
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Pilot Claim He
“Shot Down” B-36
PHIL ADELPHIA, f/P) — The
Philadelphia Inquirer said yester
day air force speed pilot Charles
Yeager has “made 50 out of 50
‘destructive passes’ ” at the re
p o r t edly “invulnerable” B-36
bomber.
The six-engine plane has been
the subject of a House armed
services committee investigation.
The newspaper in a story from
its Washington bureau, said this
information “was made available
to the Inquirer”:
A member of the House armed
services committee has in his pos- j
session a letter from one of cap
tain Yeager’s friends who claims
that the air force has secret films
of the tests which show that Yea
ger, flying a North-American F-86
high altitude fighter was able to
attack the bomber in simulated
combat missions.
The air force film showing how
Yeager was able to reach the B-36
is under lock and key, the In
quirer story said, but may be pro
duced and possibly shown to com
mittee members in executive ses
sion if the committee subpoenas it.
Air Force Is
Wrecking B-36
Bomber In Test
DAYTON, (/P) — Air force en
gineers yesterday continued their
six weeks job of wrecking a six
engine B-36 bomber.
The destructive project is not
just for fun. Engineers want to
determine how much weight our
largest air fortress can carry.
The tests were started Wednes
day by the air materiel command
at Wright-Patterson air base.
One of the tasks for workmen
was to twist or break one of the
230-foot wings. They began load
ing bags of lead on the silver sur-;
face to create thousands of pounds
of stress. Cables were attached tc
the underside of the wings and
secured tightly to the floor to ere-1
ate even more pressure.
William Miller, assistant pro
ject engineer, said it probably
would take six weeks to destroy
the huge bomber.
Engineers to Call
For Seawall Bids
SEATTLE, (/P)—U. S. Engineers
are planning to issue an invitation
for bids for construction of a sea
wall at Nome, Alaska, before July
1.
The project will be from 12 to
18 feet in height and 3,350 feet in
length, along the beach and ex
tending eastward from the east
jetty. Bids will be received on two
types of section, one a rock-mound
section with derrick stone armor,
and the other a steel-sheet pile
wall, backfilled with rock.
The contractor will be required
to begin operations during the
1949 construction season and com
plete the initial phase of the work
by September. 1950.
Chiefs Of Staff ]
Call Off Mock
■’Superiority" Duel
WASHINGTON UP)—The mock
duel in the sky between the air |
force’s mighty B-36 and the'
navy’s best Banshee jet fighters
suggested by Congress has been |
turned down by the joint chiefs of i
staff for security reasons.
The recommendation to call off
the public feud air battle was first
made known in a copyrighted j
story, in the Washington Times-!
Herald shortly after the House
armed services committee ordered
a full investigation of why the
B-36 came to be the heavyweight
darling of the air force.’
The possibility remained that
such a bang-you’re-dead test
might be conducted later in deep
.est secrecy.
I But the joint command, in a let
| ter forwarded to chairman Vinson
<D.-Ga.> of the committee by sec
retary of defense Johnson, said
such a battle between the two
best planes of the two rival serv
ices would divulge vital informa
tion.
The letter also said such an
event would serve no useful pur
pose.
The showdown sky fight was
first approved May 18 by the
armed services group to help set
tle conflicting claims by the navy
and the air force.
Flotilla Of Fleven
Navy Ships To
Make Trip North
SAN FRANCISCO, (/Pi—Eleven
U. S. navy ships will leave Seattle
late next month on an annual ex
pedition to deliver supplies to
Point Barrow and other stations
on the north coast of Alaska.
Rear Adm. B.' J. Rogers said
elements of the amphibious force
plus vessels from the naval trans
portation service and the service
force, Pacific, will be used.
About 45,000 tons of cargo will
be delivered. An exploratory unit,
navy petroleum reserve No. 4,
will be the principal recipient.
The unit operates in a 35,000
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Truman's “Must”
List Includes His
Whole Program
(By D. Harold Oliver)
WASHINGTON, <JP)—President
Truman repeated yesterday that
any “must” list for Congress
should include his whole program.
He also told a news conference
he will stay in Washington with
out any extended vacation as long
as Congress remains in session
and perhaps longer.
He said the idea of a train trip
across the country to take the is
sues to the people is on the shelf
now, for use if necessary. He once (
talked of such a tour.
The President, in response to
questions, agreed such a trip
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News of the World
At A Glance —
Thursday, June 2. 1949
<By The Associated Press*
Sympathy strikes continued to
spread in riot-torn Bolivia today.
The country’s rich tin mines re
mained shut but emergency armed
forces were reported to have re
stored order in the Patino mining
areas, where noting brought death
to 40 persons and injured 33 in
the past five days.
Rioting broke out over the
weekend after the government de
ported a number of labor leaders.
All the country’s rail lines have
been paralyzed by a sympathy
strike and Bolivia’s food supply is
threatened.
Settlement of the Berlin prob
, lem is bogged down over Russia’s
i insistence that the veto be part of
any future four-power adminis
trative policy. The western pow
ers and Russia split yesterday in
the foreign ministers conference
at Paris. The western powers pro
posed that the veto power be
limited. Russia’s Andrei Vishinski
said no. However, Vishinsky hint
ed that the Russians might agree
to trim the area of authority of
the Kommandatura 'Allied gov
erning body for Berlin*.
French sources said Vishinsky
agreed that the Kommandatura’s
functions might be re-examined.
His statement was interpreted to
mean that some authority might
be withdrawn from the Komman
datura -and delegated to local Ger
man administration. This avenue
of approach will now be explored
in the hope of reaching four
power agreement.
The Russian press lashed at
American insistence that the veto
¥
be curtailed. A Tass dispatch on
the four-power conference said
the U. S. delegation would accept
only a set-up “in which the deci
sive word will belong to the west
ern powers who hold the majority
of votes.”
American officials in Western
Germany are concerned over an
unemployment crisis which may
be faced soon. There are 1,200,000
jobless and the number is grow
ing monthly. The officials plan to
fight the serious unemployment
problem with public workers pro
jects.
In Nanking, semi-official sour
ces said that Chinese nationalist
army and navy forces are aban
doning the North China port of
Tsingtao. The port has been hem
med in tty communist forces for
some time. These sources said the
United States navy had already
bandoned Tsingtao. A Shanghai
U. S. navy source said the report
likely was true.
At Lake Success today the
United Nations outlined a plan for
spending $85,000,000 in two years
to develop backward areas of the
world. The plan is the U. N. re
sponse to President Truman’s call
for a “bold new program” to raise
the world’s standard of living.
Friday. June 3. 1949
There were signs tocmy that
both the western powers and Rus
sia intend to make concessions to
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