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NEWS IN BRIEF
DALLAS, OP) — Judge Penn
Jackson of Cleburne is rough on
citizens who evade jury duty.
Jackson fined 65 men who fail
ed to answer jury summons $50
each here Monday. Jackson,
serving a two-week period on a
special court bench, said, “It’s the
duty of every citizen to answer a
jury summons.”
HO-HO-KUS, N. J. (yp)—Albert
St. Peter sold his home—the buyer
was W. K. Sinn.
OSLO, Norway, (iP)—Scientists of
three nations met here yesterday
to plan a joint expedition next fall
to explore the Antarctic.
British, Norwegian and Swedish
scientists are conferring with Arc
tic specialists at the three-day par
ley to clarify technical phases of
the proposed expedition.
The party is scheduled to set
out in November to Queen Maud’s
land on the Antarctic continent.
They will return in 1952..
YAKIMA, Wash. (/P)—The ther
mometer read 95 degrees here at
3 p.m. Monday—hottest in the Pa
cific Northwest. It was only two
degrees short of Phoenix, Ariz.,
which took honors as the nation’s
hot spot.
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VANCOUVER, B. C. (JP) — One
person was killed and a second in
.jured Monday when a small Fleet;
Canuck airplane crashed 160 miles
northwest of Vancouver.
The victim was Lome McLean,
34. of Vancouver. Walter Lutz, pi
lot of the plane, owned by a Van
couver Aerial Taxi company, suf
fered a broken leg, nose and
.shock.
SEATTLE, (>P)—Pan American
Airways’ first charter flight of the
season with Alaska fishermen J
headed for southwestern Alaska
took off from Boeing Field Mon
day night.
In the first group were 47 fish
ermen going to Naknek. PAA ex-1
pects to carry several hundred j
fishermen a week on charter
flights, as well as many small
groups on scheduled flights.
JUNEAU, (/P)—1The chief en
gineer of a cold storage plant at
Pelican suffocated Monday when
overcome while attempting to
shut off a leak in an ammonia
pipe.
He was Arne Boe, whose sister,
Mr3. R. E. Bristad, lives in Taco
ma. Boe’s body was flown here
Monday to be placed aboard the
steamer Baranof to be taken to
Tacoma for burial.•
VERA CRUZ, Mex. <**) -r- One
hundred unwedded parents were
married here yesterday in a mass
ceremony celbrating Mothers Day.
Their 300 children attended the
weddings at the city hall.
One couple said they had lived
together for 43 years.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Cost of
living allowances amounting to 25
per cent of salaries has been
granted to the governors of Alas
ka, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands.
The civil service commission or
Battle On For
Hankow “Defense”
(By Fred Hampson
SHANGHAI, (/P) — A central
news agency dispatch from Han
kow yesterday said the battle for
the “defense” of that mid-Yangtze
industrial city started Monday.
The agency said 600 commun
ists drove into Liangkulow about
20 miles north of Hankow. The at-,
tackers suffered 100 casualties,
said the agency, but were rein
forced.
Another dispatch frojn Hankow
quoted a government army source
as saying a movement for a re
gional peace in the area was “in
full swing.”
Earlier a nationalist garrison
communique here claimed a “de
cisive victory” at Liuho, 30 miles
northwest of Shanghai.
A government counter-offensive
[ was started in that area Monday.
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CHARLES FAGERSTROM
CRITICALLY INJURED
Charles Fagerstrom of Nome, a
worker at the Marks Air Force
Base, was seriously injured when
an oil truck while backing, knock
ed him down and ran over him.
Witnesses stated that Fager
strom was standing back of the
truck when the driver started to
back his truck. The noise of other
equipment nearby is believed to
have kept Fagerstrom from hear
ing the on-coming oil truck.
The rear wheels of the heavy
truck were said to have passed
completely over Fagerstrom’s body
and it is feared internal injuries
might prove fatal. He was taken
to the Base hospital unconscious.
Fagerstrom was rushed to the,
base hospital and given immedi
ate examination. It was decided
he should not be moved, as at first i
planned, to Fairbanks or Anchor
age as the trip would be too} stren
uous in his condition.
A report from the Base hospital
this morning stated friefly that
Fagerstrom seems to be slightly
improved.
Fagerstrom is a resident of
Nome, residing on Second Ave.
West with his wife and children..
He is also a member of the Nome j
School Board.
JET FIGHTER IN MISHAP AT
MARKS AIR FORCE BASE
One of the new jet-propelled
fighter planes, stationed at the
Marks Air Force Base near Nome,
was damaged Monday when it ran
into a snow bank on the side of
the runway.
The plane was taxiing down the
field when a small ridge of snow
left by the snowplow caused the
wheel to pull to one side and the
plane swerved into the snowbank
at the side of the strip. The pilot
was unhurt and the plane was
only slightly damaged.
i dered they be included with gov
ernment employees in the Terri
tories, who receive a differential.
They now receive $10,000 a year.
A commission spokesman said the
differential will be discontinued if
Congress increases the salaries of
top-level federal employees, in
cluding Territorial Governors.
Berlin Preparing
For Lifting Of
Russian Blockade
(By Thomas A. Reedy)
BERLIN, <iP) — At one minute
past midnight Thursday flag-be
decked traffic will end the epic of
blockaded Berlin.
So far there hasn’t been a hitch
in final arrangements. Gen. V. I.
Chuikov, Soviet commander in
Germany, and the western powers
both have ordered that transport,
trade and communication services
between their zones resume at
that time.
Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviet’s won’t—or at
least say they won’t—demand
travel permits. They also say they !
will not try to search allied bag
gage.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin’s mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West German
republic be flown on street cars
and buses.
The Berlin flag will be draped
over the other buses which will
speed to the West German cities
of Hanover, Hamburg and Frank
furt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
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OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY
AT NEW HOSPITAL
In honor of Hospital Day, Dr.
Fred Langsam has announced
open house on Thursday afternoon
between the hours of 1:00 and
3:00 p.m. for visitors to see the
new Maynard-McDougall Memo
rial Hospital of Nome.
The hospital, recently complet
ed and occupied is a tribute to all
who were responsible in any way
for its being built.
Nome Girl Wins
Honors In Art
One Nome girl and a girl from
Shishmaref were among those
school children who received hon
orable mention in a contest to de
sign a master seal for the Alaska
Crippled Childrens’ Association.
They were Kay Coulthard, age
11, of Nome, Alaska, and Agnes
Kiyutelluk, age 14, Shishmaref.
The designs were chosen for
emotional appeal to create public
interest in the crippled children
of Alaska.
Winners in the contest were
Jeanette Fletcher, Unalaska; Law
rence Prevost Wright, Fairbanks;
and Florence James, Fairbanks.
The three prize winners will
participate in a national contest
at Chicago.
BULLETIN
(Special to Tha Nugget)
WASHINGTON, (£>) — Tha full
Senate appropriations committee
yesterday approved $701,000 for
Nome harbor under the army's
civil functions bill already ap
proved by the House.
Unions Start
Defense Pleas In
Damage Suit
JUNEAU (iP)—The internation
al longshoremen’s and warehouse
men’s union (CIO) started the pa
rade of defense witnesses yester
day in the $1,025,000 damage suit
against it.
The Juneau Spruce corporation
is suing for damages allegedly
suffered because of picketing. The j
picketing, as the result of juris-1
dictional dispute over barge load
ing by the international wood
workers of America (also CIO), has
kept the mill closed more than a
year.
Rival attorneys wrangled at
length during the day, with union
contracts as primary issue. They
disputed whether the labor con
tract of the Juneau Lumber Mills
had been continued by the Juneau
Spruce corporation after it took
over the plant in 1947.
Erland Peterson, president of
the Juneau local of the longshore
men’s union, testified that the
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Judge Folta Denies
Union Motions
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! JUNEAU, (/P) — Federal Judge
George W. Folta denied Monday a
defense motion for a directed ver- j
diet relieving the international or- I
ganization from responsibility for
damages allegedly incurred by the
Juneau Spruce corporation
through picketing by the interna
tional longshoremen’s and ware
housemen’s union. The suit is
against both the international and
its Juneau local. The picketing
came from a jurisdictional dispute.
The motion was made by
George Anderson, union attorney, j
after the corporation wound up j
testimony in its $1,025,000 dam- j
age action.
Anderson said the motion should ;
be granted on grounds that an !
agent can not bind his principal
without proven authorization.)
Judge Folta, however, denied his
request. The effect of Anderson’s
motion would have been to have 1
left the Juneau local alone as a
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Valuable Defense
Secrets Learned By
Arctic Soldiers
CHURCHILL, Manitoba, OP)—
In this winter wasteland U. S. and
Canadian soldiers have learned
secrets which could help protect
America from any possible inva
sion through the Canadian Arctic.
It is here—on the bleak, wind
whipped shores of Hudson Bay—
that a strategy is being prepared
so any invasion forces which
might gain a foothold on the far
northland would be wiped out.
Any sort of combat would pre
sent problems here where the
temperature dives to 70 below
zero. It is a land of muskeg quag
mires, of desolate barrens, of
mighty lakes and rivers—and of
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Success Of Big
Four Meeting Will
Depend On Russia
WASHINGTON, </P)—Secretary
of State Acheson indicated today
that success of the coming Big
Four conference on Germany will
hinge on how far the Russians will
go along with plans already laid
out by the western powers.
He told a news conference the
United States intends to demand
full guarantees of civil rights fOT
the German people and will not
accept any proposals which do not
j provide for such guarantees.
Whether solutions can be reach
ed, Acheson declared, depends on
whether the Russians will make
or consider proposals that will not
retard in any way the successful
I agreements already made by the
1 western powers for fitting Ger
! many into the family of free Euro
pean nations.
The meeting of the Big Four
foreign ministers opens at Paris
I May 23.
, In setting the limits of American
i maneuvers at Paris, Acheson went
further than any top American of
i ficial had gone to suggest public
ly that if major compromises are
to be made for agreement on Ger
many they will have to be made
by Russia.
Acheson praised to the limit the
accomplishments of the Berlin air
lift pilots and credited their ef
forts with defeat of the Soviet
blockade of Berlin.
Reds Tighten
Shanghai Noose
(By Fred Hampson)
SHANGHAI, (/P)—Chinese com
munists, apparently living off the
land, bore down swiftly today on
coastal Fukien province.
At the same time the Red noose
around Shanghai was tightened.
The nationalist garrison here
offically admitted these Red gains,
unofficial report indicated Han
kow, big Yangtze port in central
China, may be doomed. A three
pronged communist attack on
Hankow seemed to be gathering
momentum.
The Shanghai garrison commun
ique today gave this picture:
1. A Red force of 2,000 men has
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Dog Hero
Rescues Master
GILLESPIE, Pa. </P) — A little
mongrel dog was the toast of his
neighborhood today for perform
ing the greatest heroism of its kind
—saving his master.
The dog, Chubby, jumped into
the fray when he saw his master,
Jackie Strickler, 4, beilng mauled
by a larger dog. Chubby fought
the dog until family members res
cued the child. Jackie is in fair
condition at a hospital where at
taches said one ear was torn off
and a facial nerve paralyzed. The
boy’s grandmother said the large
dog suddenly attacked the boy
while the two were playing in the
yard.