VOL. LI. No. 11_NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDTY, JANUARY 26, 1943_Per Copy—15c
NEWS LN BRIEF
a JUNEAU, (/P)—A city committee
has raised $300,000 for a building
to house headquarters of the coast
guard when it is reestablished in
Alaska.
The building is to be completed
by July 1. Architect Harold Foss
now is in Washington conferring
with Coast Gurad officials on floor
plan-.
LEOPOLDVILLE. Belgian Con
go. • Pi—Tom-tom beaters in the
Belgian Congo are sadly packing
T away their instruments.
Their domain was invaded by
the white man’s tom-tom—radio.
The Belgian Congo radio started
this month. The service is staffed
almost exclusively by the Negfoes
themselves, including announcers
and technicians.
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CLEVELAND, (/P)—Dr. Samuel
A R Gordon, 36, isn’t a painless den
tist as far as one gunman is con
cerned.
Dr. Gordon subdued the would
be holdup man in a knock-down
drag-out battle in his office yes
terday.
Robert L. Hansen, 29, an unem
ployed painter, was attacked by
Dr. Gordon as Hansen laid down
his gun to count the money in the
dentist’s wallet. Hansen nursed
scalp lacerations in a central po
lice station cell after the battle.
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WASHINGTON, {/P)~Secretary
of the army Kenneth Royall, pre
viewed with President Truman
yesterday his coming trip to Ja
pan. He leaves Friday to discuss
military and economic problems
with Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Before returning next month, he
also will visit Alaska, Okinawa
^ and Guam.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Searchers
yesterday recovered the body of
an air force pilot from the wreck
age of his F-80 jet fighter beneath
Tanana river ice two miles west
of Minto, Alask^.
He disappeared last Wednesday
and the wreckage was spotted
Sunday but recovery of the body
was hampered by the fact the
plane had plunged through the
ice. His name was withheld.
SEATTLE, (£*) — Edward L.
? Sweeney, a native of Tacoma and
a University of Washington grad
uate, class of 1914, died Sunday
in Flagstaff, Ariz.
He spent most of his life with
mining interests in Arizona, but
also spent much time in the min
ing business in Alaska, Newfound
land, Australia and Turkey.
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THESSALON, Ont., (JP)—Police
chief Neil Montgomery has been
missing since Thursday without
explanation and this northern On
tario town of 1,300 was worried.
Today they did something about
it. The town council fired him for
neglecting his duties.
PRINCETON, Mo. (/P)~Want to
know how to keep sheep from
slipping in icy weather?
Put socks on them. -
Farmer Bill Cox found some of
► his sheep stranded in a ditch. He
put men’s work socks on them,
permitting them to climb up the
icy slope.
Grilening Says
Legislature Must
Balance Budget
JUNEAU (/}')—Governor Greun
ing told the Territorial legislature
yesterday an Alaska budget of rec
ord proportions “must be bal
anced.”
In an hour-long message pre
pared for the legislature’s joint
session, he described the $17,000,
000 budget as “modest” in view of
the Territory’s long-accumulated
needs and untapped revenue
sources.
He described it as $6,000,000
above the previous biennium but
in line with constantly increasing
budgets of States and other Terri
tories.
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Beyond costs outlined in the
budget, however, he suggested nu
merous other governmental pro
i jects and social services which he
said it would be advisable for the
legislature to consider.
Among them he included estab
lishment of a national guard; re
: vival of a financing plan for vet- j
eran’s aid; a continued drive for
statehood to bring Alaska a great
er share of federal aid funds; and
other benefits; to fill “the no man’s
land” gap in law enforcement* as a
counterpart of the Northwest
Mounties; creation of a fisheries
! commission to take over as much
1 control as federal regulations
would allow; remedial liquor con
! trol measures to meet the prob
lem where it has “-become out of
I hand”; a retirement system for
Territorial employees and open to
city employees; and the strength
ening of the workmen’s compen-1
; sation act with a wage collection
j law and equal pay for equal work
by women.
He admonished the legislators: i
“Your actions here will shape j
Alaska’s destiny for generations
to come.”
He lauded passage of the income!
tax measure and said the special1
session was valuable in laying
groundwork for other needed rev
| enue measures. The governor call
ed on the legislators to investigate
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Mrs. O’Leary Finds
States Chilly
SEATTLE, (A*) — Mrs. Eleanor
O’Leary, here for the first time in
23 years, wishes now she’d parked,
her parka instead of sending it1
back to Nome.
“Who would ever have thought
it would be so cold and snowy |
here,” she said.
Mrs. O’Leary flew here from
Nome on her first trip to the “Out
side” since 1925. Yesterday morn
ing as the mercury dipped to 14
above at the Boeing field weather
station Nome reported a balmy
minimum of 20 above.
She is en route to Honolulu
where she wtill make her home!
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with her daughter, Mrs. Rita Ta- j
vis. While here she spent a few |
days with a son and daughter-in
law, Mr. and Mrs. Chris O’Leary.
Two oth^r sons, Charlts O’
Leary and Gus Steinwandle, live:
in Nome.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
Tuesday, January 25. 1949
(By James Hutcheson)
JUNEAU, (/P)—The Democrat
controlled Territorial House re
ceived eight measures in rapid fire
order Monday afternoon after or
ganizing for the regular session.
The Senate finally organized its
committees by 5 p.m. after several
hours of inter-party wrangling
over their makeup.
The two Houses prepared to
meet in joint session yesterday to
hear the Governor’s ‘ State of the
Territory” message.
Three bills introduced in the
House were passed during the spe
cial session which ended Satur
day, but all died in the Senate. 1
They were the general property
tax, the quadrupled fish trap tax
and incresaed lobbyist fees bills.
To first attempts to rush
through measures without sending
them to committees, the House ap
plied roadblocks. One was that
same property tax bill it had
passed in the special session.
The other was a memorial to
Congress and federal officials for
immediate abolition of fish traps.
Both bills were held back and re
ferred to committees after several
members counselled slower treat
ment than some measures had re
ceived during the special session.
Measures were introduced to
make the maximum old age assist- j
ance $75 instead of $60 monthly,
by Almquist, Beltz, Owen and
Dale, and to pay a $50 bounty for
wolves, $30 for coyotes by Gun
dersen.
C. (Red )Carlson Cordova Demo
crat, introduced the memorial for
abolition of fish traps. The rules
were quickly suspended for a sec
ond reading, but on an attempt by
William Egan, Valdez Democrat,
to suspend for a third reading and
a vote of passage, Democrat War
ren Taylor of Fairbanks objected
to speedup tactics which he said,
had brought some criticism for
“steam rollering” during the spe
cial session.
Egan argued for speed, saying
it was needed to support Bart
lett’s bill in Congress, but Carlson
consented to sidetrack and sent the
memorial to the judiciary commit
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CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
The Chamber of Commerce held
a dinner meeting last night to dis
cuss hte tax problem of the Terri
tory and recommendations to the
legislators.
George Bodsi, Kougarok miner
opened the discussion with a sug
gestion that the present assessment
work law on mines be repealed
and a flat tax be put on every
claim in the Territory, stating
that there were over a million
claims, mai^ of them lying dor
mant for many years and this tax
would not only open up a lot of
mining ground and be a stimulant
to the miners but would provide
millions for the Territory. This
would be better he stated, than
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Demos Trying To
Wipe Out I Ft
Hartley Act
WASHINGTON, UP)—A bill to
repeal the Taft-Hartley labor law
sped yesterday toward stormy
Senate action, wi*h aroused Re
publicans threateneing to re-write
the whole measure on the floor.
Eight Democrats on the Senate
labor committee teamed up
against the five committee Repub
licans Monday to set a February
10 deadline for winding up hear
ings on the bill. The Democrats
apparently intend to replace Taft
Hartley with an “improved” Wag
ner act all in one step, with hear
ings starting Friday.
One of ‘.he out-voted Republi
cans, Senator Morse of Oregon,
who favors Taft-Hartley repeal
but only after longer hearings,
said the GOP will have its day
when the bill goes before the full
Senate.
“If we are not heard in the com
mittee,” he declared, “we’ll be
heard on the Senate floor.”
Another committee Republican,
Senator Taft of Ohio, has said
much the same thing.
Internationa News
At A Glance —
Tuesday, January 25, 1949
(By The Associated Press)
The Chinese government headed
southward from Nanking today a
few minutes after the communists
offered by radio to meet naitonal
peace envoys in Peiping.
A foreign office spokesman re
vealed the southward move with
out giving the government’s des
tination which, presumably will be
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Canton. Some ministries already
have left for Canton .
The government and communist
announcements both came as Red
patrols arrived on the north banks
of the Yangtze river not far from
the capital.
Removal of the seat of the gov
ernment was expected to be com
pleted by the middle of next
month, an official spokesman said.
The peace offer was broadcast
as the capital’s populace poured
out of the Red-periled city, which
was raped in 1937 by the Japan
ese.
A radio spokesman for the com
munists said the talks could be
held in Peiping as soon as that an
cient North China city, taken Sat
urday by the Reds, “is completely
liberated.”
The Red spokesman listed “cer
tain conditions” to which the gov
ernment must agree for the peace
talks to be held. Among them were
the eight points laid down by com
munist leader Mao Tze-Tung on
Jan. 14. Li already has said he
would accept them — and they
mean virtually total surrender.
The capital was being feverish
ly evacuated by many government
officials and citizens.
Fear-stricken thousands clogged
streets demanding tickets and
space to the south. Trains were
jammed. Even foot movement
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One Missing
Eskimo Rescued
Word has been received by the
air force at Marks Field that one
of the missing Eskimos lost off
King Island on Jan. 7, reached Ek
pick, north of Shishmaref on Jan.
17 with badly frozen hands and
feet. He was rescued by Arnold
Olana of Shishmaref and tells the
following story of the experiences
of these hunters who were caught
off shore by the storm and unable
to get back to land, drifting on the
ice in a northerly direction. The
message reads:
“Lawrence could not travel on
the fourth day and told us to go
on and he would pray for our saf
ety, his hands and feet were froz
en. We prayed for him and kept
going. Then Raphael froze his
hands and feet and told me to
keep going and he prayed that I
would make shore. I prayed for
him.”
It is estimated that the survivor
travelled about five hundred miles
on the drifting ice before reaching
shore.
Gregory Ayak, the survivor was
still at Ekpick thsi morning as he
was too badly frozen to travel in
a dog sled.
Gregory was brought in this
noon *by Mr. Brooks of the Wea
ther Bureau at Wales in his Cub
plane, and is at the M. C. Hospital
under the care of Dr. Paulson, who
reports that his condition is fair
both his feet are frozen and he is
also suffering from exposure.
While drifting the lost men saw
two of the rescue planes above
them but were unable to attract
their attention as they were dress
ed in white parkas for hunting.
Nome Becomes
Mid-Winter Port
For the first time in the history
of Nome a boat is offshore in mid
winter. Residents were surprised
to see the ice-breaker U.S.S. Bur
ton Island at anchor this morning
and to see its helicopter flying
around.
This craft, it is reported has
been about nineteen days enroute
to Nome from the Aleutians and
since entering the ice pack has av
eraged about five miles a day.
This ship was with the Navy force
that passed through Nome last
July enroute to Barrow, as flag
ship with Commander E. R. Mc
Donald.
Antonio Polet called to our at
tention a recommendation to Con
gress in 1903 by the Chamber of
Commerce for an ice breaker to
bring the mail from Dutch Harbor
to Nome by ice breaker.
The government did not con
sider it feasible at that time and
the only ice-breakers to come here
were Russian boats on two differ
ent occasions.
OFFICERS WIVES CLUB TO
ENTERTAIN GIRL SCOUTS
Tomorrow afternoon at four
o’clock the members of the Girl
Scout troop will be guests of the
Officers Wives Club at a tea. This
party is given so that the girls
may get acquainted with their
sponsors.