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VOL. L' No. 149 . NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
CHICAGO, (/Pi—Irvin Kapper,
49. was calm as three gunmen
took $773 from his cash reg;s*er
in his shoe store Friday.
Then they ordered Kapper to
open the store safe. Right then.
Kapper later told Marquette po
lice, he thought would be a con
venient time to “faint.” He
l promptly fell to the floor and a
customer screamed “Call a doc
tor!” The holdup men fled. Kap
per said $1,500 was in the safe.
NEW YORK. t/P) — Mrs. Elea
nor Roosevelt says a proposal that
President Truman make her sec
retary of stale if the ailing secre
tary George C. Marshall retired
"is too silly to comment on."
"However, she told newsmen
last night, "I hope secretary Mar
shall will not retire, for the good
9 of the country and the good of
the world."
CHICAGO, UP) — Pucker up,
girls. There’ll be plenty of mistle
toe for the Christmas holidays.
Supplies are the largest in
years, the Allied Florists assn,
said. But prospective purchasers
were urged not to wait for the last
minute to do their Christmas mis
tletoe shopping, mistletoe goes
fast, the association said.
NEW YORK UP)—Explorer Lin
coln Ellsworth arrived here by
chartered plane Friday for medi
cal treatment. There was no infor
mation available here or in Cali
fornia as to the nature of the 68
year-old explorer’s ailment. In his
home town, Monterey, Calif.,
friends said Ellsworth might be in
New York several months. He had
been in retirement at Monterey.
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The city
council has increased from $1 a
year to $10 the license fee for
bars, markets and restaurants. It
is expected to boost the city rev
enue to $3,000 from the present
$300.
The new health ordinance also j
requires hotels to provide rooms.
with adequate heat, light and ven-,
tilation and has stricter provisions
for bed sheets and pillow cases.
9 SEATTLE, (/P)—1The Rev. Clyde
L. Walker, retired Methodist min
ister who had served many pastor
ates in the Pacific Northwest and
Alaska, died Saturday.
He spent five years in Ketch
ikan.
SEATTLE, OP)—Thaddeus <Ted>
f B. McGrath, 58, who served as a
civilian employee of the United
States army engineers at Anchor
age for 23 years, died here Friday |
following a long illness.
McGrath had been in ill health
since returning to Seattle in 1942.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Charles C. Da
vis, a barber from Anchorage, told
police he was forced into an alley
* yesterday morning and robbed of
$92.
SEATTLE OP)—The coast guard
reported today the cutter Clover is
en route to Kodiak with a man j
stricken with appendicitis. He was I
picked up Sunday at Chignik on J
lnternation’l News
At A Glance —
Saturday, December 11, 1948
(By the Associated Press)
The Netherlands government
broke off United Nations-sponsor
ed negotiations with the Indone
sian republica today.
In an announcement from the
Hague it said it plans to proceed
with the formation of an tnterim
government for the other areas of1
Indonesia—a step the republic has
said would result in disaster.
The Dutch delegate in Batavia
has advised the U. N. good offices
committee that further talks with
the republic are useless unless the
republican government radically
alters its viewpoint.
A Duth communique said the
door would be held open for the
republic to take part later in the
interim regime. The bulletin did
not give a date for the institution
of the interim government. Previ
ous official statements said the
deadline would be Jan. 1.
The United Nations general as
sembly winds up its 12-week ses
sion in Paris tonight. It has called
on the people of the world to live
in peace, but has offered, little to
enforce peace.
The Palestine question was one
of the last major problems before
the session. The United States and
Britain agreed to drop any men
tion of partition or the report of
the assassinated mediator, Count
Folke Bernadotte, in the U. N.
' plan for a Palestine peace,
i Chinese government troops
i achieved a loca lsuccess in China’s
i
I civil war. A government relief
column forced Chinese commun
I ists encircling the 12th army
! group to give ground on the south, j
The relief force is fighting,
( north from the Hwai river line ;
and its anchor of Pengpu, 105
miles northwest of Nanking. I
There was no progress report on !
three other nationalist army'
groups trapped further north.
Communist pressure continued
in the over-all battle for North J
China. Resident sof Peiping were |
tqld to brace themselves for an j'
emergency as government troops j
prepared an escape route there.
Mme. Chiang Kti-Shek has had I
the conferences she sought in
Washington with President Tru
man and secretary of state Mar
shall. No one would say, however,
just what the talks accomplished
for hard-pressed nat i o n a 1 i s t
China. Nothing since he rarrival j
in the United States has indicated I
the Chinese government will re
ceive help on anything like the
scale needed to halt the commun
ists.
Washington officials seemed
confident a final defense pact link
ing the United States and Canada
with Britain, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg will
be ready for Senate action before
spring.
Negotiations for the western
European nations are expected to
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the Alaska Peninsula.
Rough weather prevented his
removal by plane. The vicitm was
unidentified.
‘Jake' Found Dead
This Morning
—
Curtis Jacobs, well-known pho
tographer, and owner of the Arc
tic Shop, who has been in Nome
since 1926, was found dead this
morning with a bullet in his head.
The coroner’s jury gave a ver
dict of suicide by self-inflicted
shot from a .22 revolver.
“Jake” came to Nome in 1926,
as photographer for the Lomen
i Drug Store, and later went into
business for himself. He also has
been the only undertaker in Nome
for several years.
Jack Lencer, who has leased
space in the Arctic Shop, remain
ed closed today, but will be open
as usual tomorrow, he states.
Committees, Grand
Jury Both Want
Same Witnesses
NEW YORK, (/P) —William W.
Pigman of Appleton, Wis., former
U. S. bureau of standards official,
appeared Saturday to testify be
fore the espionage-probing federal
grand jury.
He arrived at the federal build
ing shortly before the jurors be
gan an unusual Saturday session.
Pigman, one of several former
government officials subpoenaed,
said Friday while on his way here
he would “co-operate” in the in
’ quiry.
; Other principals in the investi
I gation, including one-time state
, department official Alger Hiss,
l were on hand for Saturday’s spe
cial session, which caused the
House un-American activit i e s
j committee to cancel a scheduled
(Continued on Page Eight)
Atlantic Alliance
Talks Cloaked
In Secrecy
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A secrecy
lid covered the Atlantic Alliance
talks Saturday but officials seem
•ed confident th& final defense pact
will be ready for Senate action be
for spring.
Negotiators from seven nations
are scheduled to get down to brass
tacks today when the western Eu
ropean representatives are expect
ed to presnt thir proposals for the
historic mutual aid agreement.
The diplomatic parleys, launch
ed lash July, were resumed late
Friday after a three-month recess.
Their aim is a North Atlantic
stronghold linking the United
States and Canada to the defense
ramparts being set up by -the west
ern European Union: Britain,
France, Belgium, The Netherlands
(Continued on Page Seven*
ATTENTION
Due to cancellation of today's
flight from Anchorage, George
Sundborg will not be here for the
dinner scheduled by the Chamber
of Commerce on Tuesday evening.
Dinner is postponed until Wed
nesday evening, pending his arri
val on Wednesday.
Chamber of Commerce
Pioneer Roof
Garden Activities
Notwithstanding the inclemency
of the wea'her, every member of
the various committees working on
the Roof Garden arrangements
was at her or his post when Jim
Wal.'h called the meeting to order
yesterday at Pioneer Hall.
All committee chairmen not
only reported progress, but ad
vised of new and special items not
originally intended. No effort or
expense is being spared to give the
people a rare evening of diversi
fied entertainment.
Gus. Steinwandel and his group
on the program committee are
having regular rehearsals and
are so enthusiastic about success
that they venture to state 'though
i timidly* that Nome will witness
j the best, most diversified program
j that it has seen in years. The sur
prise numbers (not listed) will
merit distinction.
Charlie Penny cook and his as
sistants on the Games and Amuse
ments have discovered some new
and appealing devices which they
are going to demonstrate. These
will be in addition to Faro, Rou
lette, Wheel of Fortune, Shooting
Gallery, Fish Pond, etc. One old
timer, after seeing the prizes of
fered, said: “If I’m lucky I can
bring home a grubstake .for the
winter.” I am certainly going to
try.”
Pete Olsen, in charge of the
Roadhouse, known from Sitka to
Barrow as the last word in mak
ing coffee that "strikes the spot,"
having earned this reputation long
before the days of the airplane,
when he made life look brighter
for many a prospector on the trail
says: “Between dances, relax, pat
ronize my roadhouse, order what
you desire—EVERYTHING FREE.
• Continued on Page Six'
Mission School
At Nenana Burns
FAIRBANKS, UP)—You States
side kids, have you ever wished
your school would burn down?
Then you should have watched
the faces of 35 Indian and Eskimo
youngsters as they stood shivering
in 35 below zero weather and
watched their St. Mark’s Mission
school at Nanana destroyed by
fire.
Each countenance mirrored un
happiness. To them it meant the
loss of the place where they re
ceived their training.
The one-story log school oper
ated by Episcopal missionaries
caught fire Friday morning about
the time the pupils were heading
for classes. Investigators said an
overheated furnace in the base
ment was the probable cause.
Volunteer fire fighters waged a
losing battle in the bitter cold to
save the building. They strung 100
yards of hose to the Tanana river
where they had to cut a hole in
the ice to reach water which was
pumped to the blaze with a primi
tive siphon-type rig.
The village’s only fire truck,
formerly owned by the Alaska
Railroad, is operated now by a
storekeeper .
Youth, IJi, Stows
A wav To Reach
Wife, 15,—Happy
DETROIT, </P)—Luther Harold
McCoy, 18, was secure with his
love Saturday. But it had taken a
3,000-mile flight from Anchorage,
part of it as a stowaway, to return
him to the arms of h:s bride of
three months. Lida Ruth, who is
13. Further, young McCoy re
nounced what he said was a
chance to make $45 a day driving
a taxicab in Anchorage.
“I’ll never leave her again,’’ Mc
Coy vowed.
After Idia wrote him that “love
had faded away” in the month of
his absence, McCoy sneaked
aboard a Northwest Airlines plane
■Continued on Page Eight)
S.U.P. Threaten
West Coast Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Harry
Lundeberg today pressed his AFL,
sailors’ demand for a wage boost
exceeding that won by CIO mari
time unions in the recent west
! coast strike.
Negotiators for the Pacific
American shipowners’ association
| were scheduled to give their ans
! wer to Lundeberg’s threat to pull
his men off the ships if agreement
is not reached in 60 days.
The AFL sailors union of the
Pacific did not participate in the
95-day strike but was idled by it.
The CIO seagoing unions won an
average $21 monthly increase.
Lundeberg, executive secretary
o fthe AFL union, is demanding
raises ranging from $20 to $60 a
month to a minimum of $190 for
ordinary seamen and $350 for
boatswains.
The AFL union’s demands and
a continuing controversy over pay
rates on coastwise steam schoon
ers hauling lumber held up a re
turn to complete maritime har
mony.
CHILDREN ENJOY ROLLER
SKATING IN GYM
Roller skating in the school au
ditorium is becoming increasing
ly popular every Friday evening.
The younger chlidren are privil
eged to skate from 7:00 to 8:00
and the older students later in the
evening.
Saturday evening the 8th grade
won a basketball game over the
ninth grade with a score of 35 to
23.
The Post played an All Star
town team with the army winning
by a score of 57-38.
|/| SHOPPING DAYS
■ 1/ mi Christmas