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VOL. L. No. 90. NOME. ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. JULY^l, 1948 PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF
DAYTON, O., — (/P) —Picket
line resistance flared to4ay as
police threw in a flying wedge to
permit reopening of the strike
bound Univis Lens Co., plant.
Seven pickets, including one
arrested ir» disorders, yesterday
were hauled away in a police
wagon.
One non-striker was knocked
down while attempting to enter
the plant. He was treated at the
company clinic. The dress of a
woman non-striker was ripped.
Stench bombs again scented the
tense atmosphere.
MADRID, — (/P) —The govern
ment ordered into circulation to
day the first Spanish coin to car
ry the likeness of Generalissimo
Franco. It is one peseta and is
worth about 19 cents. It is in
scribed, “Francisco Franco, Au
dillo of Spain by the Grace of
God, 1947.”
SEATTLE, — (/P) —Robert S.
Burgess, deputy second assistant
postmaster general, arrived in Se
attle this week to start a sur
vey of Alaskan mail service.
Accompanied by A. D. Law
rence of Seattle, general super
intendant of the 13th railway mail
service division, and A. O. Wil
loughby, San Francisco, regional
air mail supervisor, Burgess will
spend a week visiting all major
Alaskan cities served by air mail.
Burgess came here from Wash
ington, D.C.
EDMONTON, Alberta, </P)—
R. W. Martin of Summer, 111. es
caped uninjured Monday when
a light airplane he was piloting
to Alaska crashed near High
^Prairie, Alta., 200 air-miles north
west of here. The plane was
wrecked.
No details of the crash were
available. There is no airport in
the High Prairie area.
Unconfirmed reports said Mar
tin was taking the single engine
aircraft from the United States
to Fairbanks, Alaska.
SEATTLE, f/P)—An estate es
timated at more than $110,000
was left by William Hinckley
Pursons, 84, Seattle banker and
^arly Alaskan businessman, pro
bate proceedings disclosed today.
Mrs. Allen B. Engle, a daugh
ter, and William Budd Parsons,
a son, are to share in the estate.
JUNEAU, </P)—Two federal of
ficials have ascended rugged Mt.
Tamgass on Annette Island in
search of evidence as to the prob
able cause of the crash of a Pan
^American DC-4 last Oct. 26 with
a loss of 18 lives.
The two are Fred B. Powell,
examiner for the civil aeronautics
board, and postal inspector Rob
ert Clifton.
Reports here said they had re
covered additional United States
mail.
FIRE DEPT. CALLED FOR
OVER HEATED STOVE
« The fire department was called
out a^ 2:00 p.|m. today to North
D Street. An overheated stove
and flue was the cause for the
alarm. No damage.
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
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UNDATED INTERNATIONAL
By the Associated Press
The Russians were reported by
German newspapers today to be
increasing substantially the fighter
plane strength near Berlin.
The dispatches said also that
large Soviet summary army man
euvers are taking place in the
Russian zone province of Thur
ingia. Great 62-ton Josef Stalin
III tanks, perhaps the heaviest in
the world, are taking part.
The U.S. too is inceasing its
air power in Germany.
BERLIN
Inside blockaded Berlin, the con
fused Germans had two police
chiefs. The city government fired
Paul Markgraf as “undemocratic,
un-German and uncooperative.”
The Russians ordered that his
anti-communist successor, Johan
nes Stumm, be dismissed.
Markgraf, schooled in Com
munist lore after surrendering at
Stalingrad, has fired several hun
dred Berlin policemen and been
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accused of conniving with the
Russians in the kidnapping of
over 5,000 Germans.
American and British actions
blocked rail traffic into and from
the Russian zone of Germany in
retaliation for the land blockade
the Russians imposed a month ago
on Berlin. A Netherlands govern- j
ment spokesman expressed regret.
LONDON
The Western Powers decided
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25-Year-Olds
Will Be First To
Be Drafted
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WASHINGTON, — </P) —Sel
ective Service director Lewis B.
Hershey announced today that
25 year old men will be drafted
first. Other age groups will be
taken in order of their registra
tion, he said.
Hershey made the announce
ment after-a conference with mem
bers of the Senate and House
armed Services committees.
Hershey conferred for more than
an hour with the members of the
two committees.
Later he told newsmen that ap
proximately 5,000,000 men will
be processed in the first six months
of the program, beginning with the
25-year-olds and working down
through those in the 22 year age
brackets.
Chairman Gurney <R-SD> of
the Senate Armed Services com
mittee said that the system es
tablished by the selective ser
vice board for the selection of
draftees is “fair and in accord
ance with the act.”
Chairman Andrews <R-NY> of
the House group concurred.
Draft headquarters estimated
last night that of the 578,000 non
veterans in the 23-to-25 group
only about 40,000 or 50,000 are
qualified for service. Since the
army is expected to call for some
30,000 a month it appeared the
bulk of inductees will come later
from the younger groups.
Truman Demands j
Price Control To
Avert Depression
By Ernest B. Vaccaro
WASHINGTON, — (/P) — Pres- j
ident Truman yesterday demand
ed limited price control and an ex
cess profits tax to help check the
rising cost of living and avert,
“another great depression.”
A depression, he said, would
scuttle “the world’s hope for a
lasting peace.”
The president coupled a re
iterated plea for power to hold
wages in line with his price con
trol recommendation. And he per
sonally confronted the politically
hostile 80th Congress with six
other proposed brakes on spend
ing—among them a return to cred
it restrictions and standby ration
ing authority.
“The Communists, both here
and abroad, are counting on our
present prosperity turning into
a depression,” the chief executive
declared.
“They do not believe that we
can—or will—put brakes on high
prices. They are counting on an
economic collapse in this country.”
That, he said, “would cut the.
ground from under the free na-'
tions of Europe.”
Mr. Truman addressed a joint
meeting of the Senate and House
on the second day of the Special
Session he called in the heat of
a presidential campaign year.
But his language was far more
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AIRCRAFT SPOTTERS AT TEMPLEHOFF
Berlin children have a new pastime these days as they gather on the
fences around Templehof airport watching the fleets of American planes
arrive with supplies for the city, now on short rations because of the land
and water blockade established by the Russians. An American four-en
gined transport flies overhead. (AP wirephoto)
B-29 Crashes Into
Sea Near Arabia;
One Survivor
ADEN, (/P)—An American B
29, one of three making a circuit
of the globe, crashed into the sea
last night after taking off from
this port on the south coast of
Arabia.
One survivor—identified only
as Sergeant Gustafson—was re
ported picked up by a local fish
erman, who brought him to shore.
He now is in the RAF hospital
and reported resting comfortably.
<Capt. Percy H. Kramer, public
information officer at Davis-Mon
than field in Tucson, Ariz., the
ship’s home field, issued a list of
i the men aboard the three planes
last Thursday night, which in
cluded M/Sgt. Sigyer R. Gustafa
son, Norwood, Mass.).
<Col. J. C. Selser, commandant
of Davis-Monthan field, said two
of the planes had 18 men aboard
and the other had 19).
The other two planes returned
to Aden.
The crash occurred about a mile
off shore.
The three big planes left the
air force base at Tucson, Arizona,
six days ago on what the air force
called a “routine long distance
training” flight. It was the first
round-the-world attempt for B
29s. One of the planned stops was
Elmendorf field, Anchorage.
Govt- Plans To
Develop Alaska
ANCHORAGE, I/P)—An interi
or department official declared
yesterday that neglect of Alaska
by the federal government has
ended. •
James P. Davis, director of
territories and insular possessions
made the observation in address
ing the Anchorage chamber of
commerce.
He outlined a federal program
for development of the Territory
through road construction, open
ing of new lands to settlement,
development of power, rehabili
tation of the Alaska Railroad and
other projects.
Davis said that the major part
of the trunk highway system to
the Territory will be hard sur
faced under a $40,000,000 appro
priation for Alaska roads.
He reported also that the bur
eau of reclamation is studying the
Eklutna hydro-electric system
with a view to developing all the
power required in the Anchorage
area.
Two colonization projects are
planned in Alaska, he said—one
on the Kenai Peninsula, the other
at Dunbar, north of Nenana.
“These projects have not taken
definite form yet,” Davis added.
“Legislation authorizing them has
been introduced in Congress.”
The government official said
the program for rehabilitation of
the Alaska Railroad would lead
to lower operating costs and, as
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