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VOL. XLIX. No. 137 ' NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1947_PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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JUNEAU, IP)—Advisory hear
ings on Alaska salmon canneries
will be held here the week of Jan.
5, Henry Benson, Territorial com- ;
missioner of labor, said yesterday.
The hearings are preliminary to,
the formation of a safety and sani- j
tary core for canners which will
be drawn up with the cooperation j
of the Territorial department of
health, cannery unions and pack
ers.
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LONDON. (P)—Britain has de
cided against accepting, or sub
stantially sharing in, the Soviet- I
American plan for partitioning
Palestine, high Whitehall (govern
ment) sources said yesterday.
READING, Pa., (P) — Boseslaw
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Nieczslaw Moczydlowski has pe
titioned the Berks county courts
for permission to change his name
to avoid confusion.
The new name sought by the pe
tioner yesterday—William Mitchel
Moczydlowski.
RANGOON, Burma (/P)—An of
ficial report yesterday said 200 vil
lages with 30.000 inhabitants were
wiped out last week by a violent
gale which struck the Sinlun Hill
region in northern Burma. The
government is sending aid.
LON ANGELES, (/P)—Film pro
ducer Preston Sturges, 47, is free
from the wife who testified that
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“he didn’t want to be known as a
husband.” Mrs. Louise Sargent
Sturges, 38, obtained an uncontest
ed divorce Wednesday, telling the
court that Sturges, also a writer,
restauranteur and business man,
came home only on Sunday eve
nings for parties for friends dur
ing a two-year period.
HOLLYWOOD, (JP)—'The cham
9 ber of Commerce wants a tight lid
clamped on Hollywood night spots.!
John B. Kingsley, president of J
the chamber, told the Los Angeles
police commissioner that his or
ganization will attempt to have
every cafe, where there is dancing
and entertainment, closed by Jan.
1. Kingsley referred to what he
termed “notorious vice conditions
on Hollywood Boulevard,”
SPOKANE, (/P)—Brownie Wil
1 lard, Juneau, Alaska, Wednesday
was bound over to superior court
on first degree arson charges un
der $5,000 bond. Deputy prosecu
tor E. C. Richardson said Willard
was accused of leaning an iron
board against the door of a hotel
room and setting it afire after he
had been ejected from the room by
its occupants.
JUNEAU, (/P)—The coast guard
cutter Wachusett left late today
to search for a small boat which
left Haines Tuesday morning for
Juneau with four aboard. They
were Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Morgan,
James Trelford and Edward
Cheatman.
CANBERRA, (IP)—World War II
cost Australia a total of approxi
mately $8,819,000,000, Prime Min
ister and Treasurer Joseph B.
Chifley reported to Parliament in
Five Killed In
Flaming Crash
Of Superfortress
SPOKANE. Wash. (AM — Five;
men were killed last night in the
flaming crash of a B-29 Superfort
ress on Mount Spokane, but two
enlisted men survived the accident
when the tail section of the plane
was knocked loose by trees just
before the plane plowed into the
ground.
The two men are T/Sgl. Mar
shall F. Fine, who suffered a pos
sible neck fracture and cuts, and
Sgt. Truman W. Haley, who had
cuts and lacerations. The condi
tion of both was described as good.
Three deputy sheriffs suffered
severe facial burns two hours after
the crash when an explosion roar
ed out from the still burning
bomber.
Frank J. Dunton, superintend
ent of Mt. Spokane State Park,
said a terrific snowstorm was rag
ing on the mountain at the time of
the accident. He said the ship
struck about 800 feet from the top
of Bald Knob, a promontory on the
mountain. The tail section landed
300 feet away from the rest of the
ship.
He said the plane caromed along
the mountainside and came to a
stop only 100 feet from where
John Linder, accompanied by
Tom Kinsler, was operating a
snowplow along the park roads. If
the plane had plunged 100 feet
further, he said it would have hit
the twp men.
The two he said were “.scared to
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Gunmen Fire On
Communists In
French Strife
MARSEILLE, (IP)—Unidentified
gunmen fired on Communist party
headquarters here today while a
meeting was in progress and
troops were immediately alerted
to prevent bloody rioting such as i
occurred Wednesday.
There were no casualties from
the gunfire, but police feared it
might mark the beginning of a
war between Marseille’s under
world gangs, known as “Nervis,”
and the tough, hard-fighting Com- j
munists of the rugged Marseille
waterfront.
The shooting occurred as the;
Communists were completing
plans for a demonstration in con
nection with the funeral of a left
wing party member killed in Wed
nesday’s disorders.
The central labor council order
ed a general work stoppage during
the funeral, but did not issue a .
general strike call, which the
Communists have demanded. Af
ter a long session, the council
agreed that “only the (individual’
unions can decide” whether to join"
the spreading strike movement.
his budget for 1947-48.
Among the costs were $2,744,
000,000 for pay to servicemen;
$2,080,000,000 for “aircraft and
warlike stores and equipment;”
and $940,000,000 for reciprocal
lend-lease to United States forces.
U. S. Launches
Radio Blast
At Communists
BERLIN, i/Pi—Launching an of
ficial radio campaign against 1
(jommunism, a spokesman for the
American military government
told the German people last nigh,
that Communism now threaten.-, to
enslave them as Nazism once did.
He promised the Germans the
United States would agree to the
political unification of a partition
ed Germany only “in such a way
as to forever eliminiate the disre
gard of individual rights.”
‘'President Lincoln’s statement
that a nation cannot exist ‘half
l slave and half free’ is an applica
tion to modern Germany and to
! the modern world as it was to 19th
’ century America,” he said.
The speaker was Dr. Edward H.
' Litchfield, director of AMG's civil
i administration division. His ad
dress was the first of a series of
weekly broadcasts scheduled by
AMG in its anti-communism cam
paign entitled “Freedom versus
Totalitarianism.” He spoke over
the American-controlled station
! here and the American zone’s ra
dio network.
1 Litchfield, a former educator
from Lansing, Mich., told the Ger
1 mans that communism stood for
“the suppression of the individual
and the systematic denial of the
basic rights of free men.”
Without mentioning the Russians
or the administration of their oc
cupation zone of Germany direct
ly, he described “Communist
methodology” in the conduct of
elections, press control and perpe
tration of “government-sponsored
kidnapings.”
Litchfield said comm u n i s m
meant the suppression of free ex
pression and “that part of the
press which is opposed to the gov
ernment’s views” and a “one-party
domination.” •
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Forest Service Will
Fight To Block
Sale Of Timber
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(By Charles D. Watkins)
((<P) Spacial Washington Service'
WASHINGTON <>P)—Preparing
to fight the proposed sale by two
Alaskan Indian villages of $20,
000,000 worth of Tongass National
Forest timber, forest service offi
cials said today they were await
ing a report from the regional for
ester on the reported sale and con
tract terms.
Frank Heintzleman, regional
forester in Alaska, was asked for
an immediate report, the officials
said, and they expressed hope of
getting an answer in a day or two.
The forest service said yester
day it will go into the courts if
necessary to block the proposed
sale by the villages of Kake and
Kasaan, which was announced
here by the Congress of American
Indians, a private organization.
Forest service officials said the
sale will not be permitted and the
Indians will not be allowed to cut
the timber, much is in an area in
which the service is trying to get
a series of paper mills established.
Communists Trap
Two National
Chinese Regiments
NANKING, I/Pl — Remnants of
two Nationalist regiments trapped
in the heart of Shihkiachwang by
Chinese Communists who now
control the rail hub 172 miles
southwest of Peiping have been
given up for lost, a government of
ficial said yesterday.
Lt. Gen. Teng Wen-Yi, informa
tion director for the national de
fense ministry, said reinforce
ments rushing to the rescue of the
trapped men would be unable to
save them from sure death. He
said 100,000 communists under
Gen. Nieh Yung-Ching controlled
all strategic corners of the city and
had cut all possible routes of es
cape.'
; Teng told a news conference the
! main body of government forces
I was withdrawn from Shihkitich
■ wang a month ago “for strategical
i reasons,” leaving the city’s de
i fense in the hands of the two regi
ments, which originally totaled
i 10,000 men.
Earlier dispatches said the Reds
had smashed the last core of re
; sistance in the city and had begun
moving out their booty. Much of
the city was in ruins.
Teng said the Communists’ sixth
offensive in Manchuria had failed.
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In contrast, he said, it is the
American aim to give the Germans
freedom of expression and “free
dom from fear that they may be
snatched away from their homes
and families.”
“In a democratic society,” he
said, “men do not lie in constant
fear of the policeman who comes
without warning, fear of long pri
son terms without trials, fear of
systematic beatings without pro
vocation, fear of government
sponsored kidnapings.”
Timber Company
Will Fight Forest
Service In Courts
NEW YORK, (/P) — Richard G.
Green, attorney for the Timber
Development Corp., said today the
concern planned to go ahead with
its contract to purchase $20,000,000
worth of timber from two Alaskan
Indian villages.
Asked for comment on a forest j
service statement in Washington,
yesterday that the agency would
go into the courts if necessary to
block the deal, Green said:
“We believe the Indians’ title to
the timber lands is better than that
of the government. We’ll'fight it
out on that basis. As far as we are
concerned, our deal stands.”
C. M. Granger, assistant chief of
the foreign service, said yesterday
the Indians would not be permit
ted to cut the timber because the
service believes they have no right
to sell it.
The service does not believe a
1945 ruling secretary of the inter
ior Harold L. Ickes that the Indi
ans had established possessory
rights to some 300,000 acres of
land gives them possession of it,
Native Service
Starts “Aboriginal
Rights** Hearing
<I3y The Associated Press*
Officials of the Alaska Native
Service were to go to Hydaburg
today to discuss “ancestral rights”
with delegates attending the 34th
Alaska Native Brotherhood con
vention there.
The major subject this year is
the controversial “ancestral or ab
original rights” question under
which natives of Southeastern
Alaska are claiming title to a large
part of the land in the vast Ton
gass forest.
ine nrsi otnciai act ot tne oro
therhood was approval of a reso
lution calling the Tongass Timber
act unconstitutional because it did
, not provide “any manner for pay
ments to be made out of the fund
of parties concerned.” The act,
passed at the last session of Con
gress to enable the establishment
of pulp and paper mills in the Ter
ritory, provided that stumpage
payments go into an escrow fund
; until the aboriginal rights question
is finally settled.
Secretary of Alaska Lew Wil
liams passed through Ketchikan
last night on the way to Hvdaburg
to deliver a message to the bro
therhood from Governor Gruen
ing. He said his address would be
“mainly anti-reservation.”
Reports reaching here from the
convention said 100 delegates rep
resenting Indian villages from St.
Paul Island in the Bering Sea to
Metlakatla, south of Ketchikan,
were enthusiastic over a talk by
James Curry, Washington, D. C.,
attorney. He told them of the pres
ent status of land suits now in the
court of claims and discussed pres
ent and future proposals to estab
lish logging, lumbering and pulp
mills on reservations.
“We hope to obtain some real
prosperity for the people of our
communities,” he told an honorary
banquet.
Curry is leader of the Indian
aboriginal rights fight. He has al
ready held meetings with Hyda
burg councilmen and delegates of
nearly all the native villages.
Two years ago, the Alaska na- >
tive brotherhood went on record
opposing the establishment of res
ervations in Alaska, Secretary
Williams pointed out.
Meanwhile, Ketchikan business
leaders fear the present controver
sy will “scare” interested invest
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Granger added.
The government agency, under
recent legislation, is planning to
sell the timber rights in the Ton
gass national forest in Alaska to
firms wishing to establish large
pulp mills there.
Green asserted “for many years
the Indians in this country have
been robbed of valuable lands
with timber, oil and other re
sources. Now a group has come
along and dealt fairly with them,
giving them a contract to make
some money out of property that
we believe rightfully belongs to
them.”
The contract calls for the tim
ber to be cut by the Indians and
delivered over a five-year period.